The continuous drizzle soon turned into a downpour, and Yunmengze, which was more than 400 miles long from east to west and more than 200 miles wide from north to south, turned into a lake overnight. The Chu army set off from the upper bend of the Yangtze River 'S' shape, and the journey to Jingling did not exceed 230 miles, but as soon as it entered the cloud dream, most of the road signs made earlier were missing, and Jingling, which could have been reached overnight, did not see any trace in the morning. If it weren't for the fact that the Chu army had a magnetic compass, I am afraid that at this time, it would be impossible to distinguish between east and west, north and south.

In the morning, the rain stopped a little, and then it fell again, and Xiong Jing on the pawn wing warboat looked gloomy. Getting lost thought that it would only happen at sea, but he didn't expect that Yun Mengze, who was only a few hundred miles long and wide, would also get lost.

"Don't worry, the king has ordered Zhou Ji to explore everywhere." Zhuang Wudi's sadness was even worse, and the army was lost, which was the responsibility of his army Sima.

"Tell the king," a large wing came in a hurry, "our army is over!" ”

"What's the matter?" Standing on the war boat is Wu Zhiheng, and he is extremely accurate in navigation on the grassland, so he also accompanied the army this time. Xiong Jing looked at him and suddenly looked back behind him, there was nothing behind him, only a vast white expanse of water and a mighty boat fleet.

"Our army has passed the latitude of Jingling." Only Xiong Jing can understand Wu Jing's words. The latitude of Jingling has long been recorded, and the latitude of the boat team at this time can be measured with the sun stone and a sextant, and the error can be about several kilometers.

"How much has passed?" Xiong Jing hurriedly asked, now it seems that the only thing that can determine the direction is latitude.

"Twelve arc seconds, fifty-three miles." No one dared to believe the number that Wu Jiheng said, and he actually crossed the Jingling Tomb fifty-three miles.

"Impossible." The commander of the Dongcheng Division, Yang Yu, shook his head again and again. "The deviation is as much as fifty-three miles, and my master ...... pawn"

"Where are our troops?" Xiong Jing ignored him, but looked at Zhuang Wudi.

"When he was in the ......" Zhuang Wudi was familiar with the map near Jingling, and while sweating, he finally remembered a possibility, and the only possibility. Our army should be above the water and the mountains. ”

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Yunmengze was very large, and in the Warring States Period, it was reduced into three pieces because of artificial reclamation: one is the place where the Han River and the old Ying-Jingling Canal are sandwiched between the south of the Jingling Canal and the Yangtze River; the other is north of the Han River, sandwiched by the south of Anlu; The last piece is the old Ying-Jingling Canal and the Jinglingze north of the canal, among the three, the Yangtze River is the largest.

The only explanation for the warship to cross Jingling can only be to reach Jinglingze north of the canal, otherwise it is impossible for the waterway to cross Jingling. It is likely that the land between the waters was inundated by the torrential rains, so that the whole army could reach the north of the canal.

"The tomb is in the southeast." Direction is the most important, mileage is secondary, and the sextant already has an error of several nautical miles.

"Urgent, turn southeast!" The cultivator didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly turned the warboat.

"Urgent, turn southeast!" The rain stopped for a while, and it was already visible for several miles, and under the wave of the flag, hundreds of warships turned to the southeast one after another.

*

The earliest city of Jingling was Yun, which was the result of the relocation of the office after the fall of the Yun Kingdom of Anlu, to be exact, Yuncheng or Yunxiang. In the battle of Wu and Chu, the city of Yuncheng was broken, and the Yun people who were worried about fighting again moved to the northwest to Yunxian in later generations. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Yunxian was the state of hanging, and when King Wu of Chu was king, Qu Fang led his division to defeat the allied forces of Sui, hanging, Zhou, Tate, and Yun in Pusao. The Yun State was defeated, and a part of the Yun division retreated to the Hangdi with the Hangan Army, so there were Yunxian and Yunguan in later generations.

When the Yun people left Jingling, the old Ying-Jingling Canal built during the period of King Chuzhuang had been dug for more than 100 years, as the key point of the north-south and east-west waterways, and the prosperity of the city was not lower than that of Yan and Ying. After Bai Qi pulled out Ying, Yan, Ying, Jingling, Yan, Lu ......, and the important cities on the Han River line moved the Chu people in the city and moved into the forgiven sinners of the Qin State.

More than forty years have passed, and the former lowly sinners have become the citizens of the prosperous city. The rich Jianghan Plain is also at an important trade node, as long as the sinners who occupy the Chu people's mansions are not too lazy, the previous dishes and shabby have long disappeared, and the degree of food and clothing has gradually become exquisite, only a Qin dialect can not be changed or changed - in the Nanjun full of Chu Yin, a standard Guanzhong Qin dialect is a symbol of the identity of the old Qiantou.

In the rainy morning, when it is time to open the door, the gate of the city is wide open, but most of the people who go out of the city rarely enter the city. This is not surprising, it has been raining since noon yesterday, and it is too late for the business travelers on the road to hide from the rain, how can they brave the rain to hurry? At least until noon, there will be business travelers entering the city to stay and eat.

The county ordered Lu Xi to get up very early. At the age of thirty-three, he became the county commander of Jingling County, which is an incredible thing in the eyes of others, especially his name was mentioned by Prime Minister Xiong Qi, saying that this person is young and promising, and he can be of great use, but the prime minister must start from the state department, and the fierce general must be sent to the army, so he has to have more experience in the local area, and soon, he made the Jingling County Order.

There have been too many changes in life, even if eight years have passed, Lu Xi still sighs when he thinks of all this. In addition to thinking of Sima Pengzong of the Chu army who saved him from time to time, he also thought of a few words to persuade him to know the Hou Spy, and the conversation between the two at that time was very brief, only a few sentences:

"When the coffin is put into the grave, can the grass horse be thrown on the coffin?" Hou Spy asked.

"What do you mean?" Lu Xi was very surprised at the time, he didn't hear it clearly, but he was very surprised.

"Really?" Hou Spy asked again, looking at him with a pair of eyes.

"Yes." When his father's coffin was put into the tomb, Lu Xi personally threw grass and horses on his coffin.

"You are not a Chu person, let alone a Qin person, you are a Lu Hun Rong person. Throwing grass horses at the coffin is a custom of burial of the martyred horse. Hou said.

Lu Xi, who didn't have any family affairs, thought he was a Qin person, but later learned that he was a Chu person. A few words from the Hou spy subverted the imagination that he was a Chu person, he was not a Qin person or a Chu person, but a Rong person.

It is difficult to see the slip in Qindi, and Lu Xi later learned that Lu Hun Rong originally built Lu Hun State, about two hundred years ago Lu Hun was destroyed by the Jin State, Lu Hun Zhijun ran to Chu State with the remnants of soldiers, and the King of Chu Ping placed him in the old Yun State, and the Old Yun State was called An Lu.

Lu Xi stood under the eaves of the corridor and looked at the rain outside the eaves, and before it was time to go to the office, the servant with the umbrella behind him was silent, and stood quietly behind him. When he heard the sound of the county ya, he quickly entered the yagong through the back door, and at this time, the county magistrate, the county lieutenant, the Cao, and the officials all arrived.

"Tell Shangguan that the county government came to hear the day before yesterday that the county died today or to Jingling." After the county lieutenant Jia bowed, he talked about today's major event: the county magistrate who went south along the Han River wanted to pass through Jingling, which was notified a few days ago.

"Is there enough food?" Lu Xi was out of breath when he spoke. As soon as he received the news of the county soldier's southward departure, he spread it out, and he had been waiting for the Chu army, hoping that the Chu army could reach Jingling before the county soldier, but he didn't expect the county soldier to arrive, and the Chu army still hadn't arrived.

"There is already enough grain to be prepared." Ku Cao said. "The county guard only stayed for a day, and he didn't consume much food."

"The county guard had an order yesterday, and the tomb is the throat of the southern county, and the county guards should not carefully check the order when they come, and those who do not have the order must not enter the city." For the meticulous people of the officials, Lu Xi, who has thought a lot in the past few days, fabricated a county guard's order, and the Cao officials really thought that the county guard had given an order, and they did not doubt him for a while.

Soon his fears came. Near noon, the county magistrate told the county guard that the advance had arrived at the east gate, but because the order was still behind, he could not enter the city. At this time, the head of the city suddenly sounded, and the county lieutenant ran down the city wall to urgently inform the Jing people of the attack.

The old Ying-Jingling Canal meets the Han River in the south of the Jingling Tomb, and the Jingling is in the west of the Han River. Although the war boat could reach the south gate of Jingling, after sailing out of Daze, the cavalry of the Chu army abandoned the boat and landed on the shore and went straight to Jingling, which was more than 20 miles away. Xiang Chao has returned to the Xiang Division, and the first cavalry division and heavy cavalry led by Concubine Jing belonged to the Chu army on the northern front, and now it is only the third cavalry division that has abandoned its heels that is rushing to Jingling City.

Thousands of cavalry galloped in, the banner of Chu characters was waving in the wind in the drizzle, and the Qin soldiers at the head of the city were suddenly frightened, and the drums of warning resounded throughout the city. In the county magistrate's mansion, as soon as the county lieutenant rushed in, he shouted: "Please allow the county commander to enter the city." ”

"If you don't see the county guard's order, you can't enter the city!" Cao also said urgently.

"The county pawn is my Qin pawn, how can it be fake!" Wei Cao Jia was furious, he had seen the five hundred lords who led the troops, and it was impossible to be fake.

"It's not a Qin pawn." Clerk Cao Dao. "Why did the two armies come by such coincidence? There should be a deception. Ask the officer to lift the suspension bridge quickly. ”

As soon as the drum was beaten in the city and the Jing people were attacked, the doorkeepers desperately closed the door like crazy, forgetting to touch the mud on the copper nails, and only more than a thousand county guards were left outside the city gate. Now the magistrate Cao suggested that the drawbridge be hoisted, and the county guards would be driven out of the moat.

The county lieutenant couldn't hold back any longer, he pointed at the official Cao and scolded: "This marquis of the Jing people is also." Come! Quickly ...... it"

"Presumptuous!" Lu Xi drank. "If you don't see the order, and the Jing people are coming, how can they enter the city?"

"This is the Marquis of Jingren, why is Shangguan ......" The county lieutenant pointed his finger at Lu Xi.

"To be on the safe side, use it as a suspension bridge." Lu Xi looked at him and the rest of the Cao, "If the county government punishes the crime, this government will be the fault of one person." ”

When the officials Cao heard that Lu Xi wanted to bear it alone, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and the county lieutenant wanted to say more, but saw that the officials Cao and the county commander looked at each other. He was alert in his heart, but he didn't say anything, so he hurriedly took his leave and went out to arrange defense. After all, Jingling is a fortified city, and he doesn't believe that he can pull it out with a few thousand Chu troops. When the Chu army retreated, he must write to the county lieutenant to accuse the officials Cao and the county of collaborating with the enemy.

The drawbridge outside the city gate was slowly hoisted, and the county guards outside the moat scolded. Cursing was useless, and an even greater crisis ensued - a thousand cavalry of the Chu army bypassed Jingling City and suddenly appeared to the south of them. More than 1,000 people are just the vanguard of the county soldiers, and the army is still two miles later, and they can't enter the city and have no time to join the rear army, so the county soldiers can only line up in a panic.

The county lieutenant in the city almost burst out his eyes when he saw this scene, but he didn't expect that something had happened: those Chu army knights just swept past the more than 1,000 county soldiers who were in an irregular array, and quickly rushed towards the army of county soldiers who were arrayed two miles away. For a while, he was in a trance, could it be that the thousand people in the city were really the county guards pretended to be by the Jing people?