The time goes back to late October, and after receiving an order from the king of Qin, the Qin general Ying Yi led his army from Yangquan to Lantian . Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Qin Guoying's surname, after the continuation of hundreds of years ago, appeared before and after Gaoyang's, Zhao's, Wang's, Gongsun's, Huang's, Miao's and other more than a dozen clan branches, but the orthodox Gaoyang family has declined, and the current Qin royal family surnamed Zhao is said to be the heir of the marriage between the surname Gaoyang and the surname Zhao.

Of course, this is just hearsay, and no one knows what the truth is. But it is undeniable that this argument cannot be completely denied, after all, even in today's Qin State, there are still descendants of the Ji surname Zhao, and they are still the Qin State clan with strong roots.

In the past 20 years, when the Qin State decided to expand the focus of national development to the 800-mile Qinling Mountains (in the broad sense), there were still some scattered Rong people around the 800-mile Qinling Mountains.

At the same time, he forced the Sanchuan Qiang tribe back to Sanchuan, and forced the Hexi Qianghu back to Hexi, confirming the hegemony of the Qin State in the area of the Qinling Mountains in the 800 li.

It can be said that although Yangquan Jun Yingyi did not participate in the Qin State's war to destroy Longxi, it cannot be denied that he was also a famous general of the Qin State.

However, later, because of illness on the way to the joint campaign with the Wubian tribe and other Hexi alliances, the king of Qin asked Shaoshang to make Wang Yu to replace Yingyi and start a war with the Wubian tribe, and since then, Yangquan Jun Yingyi returned to Yangquan to recuperate with peace of mind, until recently the king of Qin received a warning letter from Gongsun Qi, the Marquis of Wuxin, suspecting that the Wei general Sima An might cross the Bear's Ear Mountain to attack Qin's Lantian State, so he asked Yangquan Jun Yingyi to lead the army to move to Lantian to guard against Sima An.

There are not many soldiers under the command of Yangquan Jun, only about four or five thousand people, of course, this refers to the regular army, if he wants, he can pull up a tens of thousands of militia at any time - even after being defeated once by Wei Gongzirun, the people of Qin are still very eager for war, after all, for the people at the bottom of the country, establishing meritorious deeds on the battlefield in exchange for meritorious service and improving social status may be their only chance to become nobles.

Speaking of aristocracy, in fact, the definition of nobility in the Qin State is very vague, not as simple and clear as the great nobility.

The so-called big nobles, that is, the old nobles with the surname Win and the surname Ji that have lasted for hundreds or even hundreds of years, such as Wuxin Marquis Gongsun Qi, Changxin Marquis Wang Jian, Yangquan Jun Win Cymbal, etc., belong to the great nobles of Qin, also known as the Gong family; And the aristocracy, with the flourishing development of the military merit system, has gradually become ordinary, as long as you have military merits, even if you are from a dark background, you can become a nobleman.

In this regard, Qin's policy was much more enlightened than that of Wei and other Central Plains countries, after all, in Wei, even if they were highly meritorious generals such as Wu Ji, Qu Cheng, Yan Mo, and Zhai Huang, even if they received honorable rewards, they might not be able to integrate into the aristocratic circle of Wei, and this was also true in the rest of the Central Plains countries - the more civilized the country, the more difficult it was for the lower to be promoted to the higher.

At the end of October, Yangquan Jun Yingyi led the army to Lantian and met Lantian Jun Yingqi.

Lantian Jun is the half-brother of King Qin, so he can be mediocre, but because he is from the Ying family, he was canonized as Lantian Jun by the previous King of Qin, and he was able to guard the treasure land of Lantian.

Don't look at Lantian is located at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, but it is close to the rich city of Fenghao, and Lantian is rich in beautiful jade, so that I don't know how many nobles in Qin are red at this land that is not rich, and Lantian Jun is also relying on the harvest of jade to live a comfortable and luxurious life.

At least his life was much more comfortable than that of most aristocratic families in the Qin State.

And when he heard that the Wei general Sima An was very likely to lead the Wei army to attack Lantian through the Bears Ears Mountain, Lantian Jun Yingqi was really frightened, don't think that the Qin people are not afraid of death, at least Lantian Jun Yingqi, who has never participated in the war, is a timid guy, so when Yangquan Jun Yingyi asked to temporarily take over Lantian, Lantian Jun agreed to the request of this side cousin without saying a word.

It's just that Wei General Sima An will really go through Bears Ears Mountain to attack Lantian?

In all fairness, even if it was Yangquan Jun Yingyi, he didn't have a bottom in his heart, after all, it was approaching November at the moment, the heavy snow closed the road, and the temperature plummeted, Yangquan Jun Yingyi couldn't imagine that the Wei army would continue to fight in this harsh winter.

However, he did not dare to underestimate the enemy, after all, he also understood that the Wei army was currently in a situation of fighting on its back—if he could not defeat the Qin state and make his Qin army withdraw from this war, the Wei army would not be able to return to its homeland.

Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine that the Wei army at this moment should be the most terrifying.

In the last two days of the end of October, Yangquan Jun Yingyi recruited about 1,000 miners in the jade mining mine of Lantian Junyingqi, and at the same time recruited some black noodles and ordinary civilians in Lantian to gather about 2,000 people, let these people carry dry food to climb Bears Ears Mountain, and repair the sentry boxes and beacon towers on Bears Ears Mountain.

On Bear's Ears Mountain, there were originally some sentry boxes and beacon towers, which were set up by the Qin State when it was at war with the Sanchuan Qiang people, but later when the Qin State destroyed Longxi, the available troops increased greatly, and the Qiang people in Sanchuan did not dare to harass the Qin border anymore, so these sentry boxes and beacon towers on the Bears Ears Mountain were abandoned, leaving only one-tenth and twelve still in use from time to time.

At the same time, Yangquan Jun Yingyi led his 5,000 soldiers and about 1,000 private soldiers of Lantian Jun Yingyu to garrison the mountain pass that could pass through the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains and the west of Sanchuan for 800 miles.

While garrisoning the pass, Yangquan Jun Yingyi also recruited some of the Qiang tribesmen who had fled from the Nan Basin Valley to the Qinling Mountains, and learned that the Qiang tribe had been almost wiped out by the Wei general Sima An.

At the beginning of October, the Wei general Sima An led more than 10,000 soldiers to the area of Yaoguan with difficulty. At this time, Yangquan Jun Yingyi had already laid layers of defense on Bear's Ears Mountain, with sentry posts and beacon towers readily available, so that the vanguard infantry sent by Sima An was detected by the Qin soldiers guarding the mountain and could not advance.

At this time, there were only two choices in front of Sima An: either attack the pass, as long as this mountain pass is captured, then the next road for his Wei army will be very easy; Either that, or continue over Bears Ears Mountain.

But it was obvious that no matter what choice he made, General Qin and Yang Quanjun would not let him cross the border easily.

On the second day of October, Sima An tried to storm the pass.

It is said that it is a strong attack on the pass, but in fact, it is to take the soldiers and horses to the front of the pass, on the one hand, to see if there are any defensive loopholes in this mountain pass, and on the other hand, to make the Qin army timid by showing off their strength.

But it's a pity that Yangquan Jun is not a fledgling who has set foot on the battlefield for the first time, and he is not afraid of Sima An's intimidation by force, and immediately ordered the crossbowmen in the army to counterattack, so that the Wei army led by Sima An did not achieve the goal of deterring the Qin army, and sacrificed dozens of soldiers in vain.

In the next day or two, Sima An tried again, either to attack the pass or to attack the hills on both sides of the pass, but unfortunately, because the Qin army set up beacon towers on the mountains on both sides of the pass, the aid of Yangquan Jun Yingyi could come to support in time every time, so that the Wei army had to retreat temporarily.

During the period, Sima An didn't care much about the loss of troops, after all, on the way he led the army across the Bear's Ears Mountain, there were more than this number of soldiers lost along the way, some accidentally slipped off the cliff and fell to death, some were frozen to death at night, and some were taken away by hungry jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains.

I believe that the Dangshan soldiers under his command will not be afraid to die on the battlefield for the sake of the country.

The problem is that Yangquan Jun Yingyi guarded the area around the pass as impregnable, which made Sima An a headache.

At this time, Sima An didn't know that Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, had used a horse-drawn sleigh chariot to throw off the army of Wuxin Marquis Gongsun Qi in Taolin, and created the feat of running 700 miles in ten days and capturing the three cities of Qin, and he also hoped that he could break the deadlock in this war.

After thinking about it carefully, Sima An came up with an idea.

That night, he asked his general, Bai Fangming, to lead 3,000 infantry and carry torches over the hills on the north side of the pass.

Three thousand Wei soldiers, holding torches in the dark night, climbed over the hills on the north side of the pass, and the Qin army on the north side of the hill was not blind, how could they not see.

As a result, the beacon tower on the hill on the north side quickly ignited.

Yangquan Jun Yingyi did not doubt him, so he immediately led his troops to support.

But after climbing the hill on the north side of the pass, the 3,000 Wei soldiers holding torches in the White Fang Ming Department suddenly disappeared into the dark night—the 3,000 Wei soldiers pressed the torches in their hands to the snow and extinguished them.

At this time, on the hill southwest of Yaoguan, there was a sound of fighting.

It turned out that it was Pang Meng, a general under Sima An, who led three thousand Wei soldiers to discredit and attack the southwest hills.

Seeing this, Yangquan Jun immediately realized that he had been hit by Sima An's voice, and secretly screamed in his heart: Oops, it's a trick!

Therefore, he immediately led his army to support the hills southwest of Yaoguan.

As a result, as soon as he left, the 3,000 Wei troops of the White Fang Naruto launched a surprise attack on the northern hills, and conquered the hills in one fell swoop.

It turned out that the three thousand Wei pawns of the Bai Fang Ming Department just pressed the torches in their hands to the snow and extinguished them, but the soldiers themselves did not move, just waiting for Yangquan Jun to launch a surprise attack after leaving - it was not a sound to attack the west, in fact, the northern hills were what Sima An really wanted to attack, and the southwest hills that Wei General Pang attacked were the covers.

After Wei general Bai Fangming captured the northern hills of Yaoguan, Sima An immediately sent reinforcements to seize the mountain, but because he lost the opportunity, Yangquan Jun Yingyi organized several attacks in an attempt to recapture the mountain, but in the end he still failed to succeed.

After the northern hills of the pass were captured, Sima An ignored the pass, and let the soldiers climb over the hill in an attempt to attack Lantian County.

Seeing this, Yangquan Jun could only retreat to Lantian County and surrender the pass to the Wei army.

On the fifth day of the first month of November, the Wei general Sima An used the pass as a stronghold to besiege Lantian County, but due to the lack of siege equipment, the Wei army tried to attack the county for two days, but failed to conquer the county seat after all.

By the seventh day of the 11th month, Sima An changed his mind and decided to adopt the tactics of besieging the city and sending reinforcements, and attacked the Qin army that had come to support Lantian.

However, after waiting for two or three days, he did not wait for the Qin State to send a Qin army to support Lantian County, but waited for reinforcements from his side, the Wei army sent by Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, to support him.

When they saw the reinforcements holding the Wei character, Sima An and his generals were shocked, as if they had seen a ghost in the daytime.

What the hell! Didn't you say that our army is the vanguard army?