However, these are Xiong Jing's speculations, and in my explanation, the relationship between Ba and Shu is far more complicated than he imagined. The people who lived in Badi alone were divided into at least eight branches, one of which had a close relationship with the state of Chu.

During the period of King Wu of the First Emperor, 'Bazi made Hanbok (wearing the clothes of the Zhou people) tell Chu, please be good with Deng. Chu Zi asked Dao Shuo to hire Ba Ke to Deng. Deng Nan despised the coins of the people of Yōu and killed the Dao Shuo and Ba Xing people', which was the cause of the Battle of Yan (703 BC). At least during the period of King Wu of the First Emperor, Chuba had formed a military alliance to deal with the countries surnamed Ji in the Hanshui Valley;

During the period of King Wen of the first monarch, the Chuba coalition army attacked Shen (Wancheng), King Wen disturbed the Ba division, and the later Ba division rebelled against Chu and attacked that place, and the two countries began to fight each other. In 677 years ago, King Wen was defeated by the Ba people in Yujin (now Zhijiang County), returned to Ying, heard that King Wen had suffered a defeat, refused to open the door, King Wen had to lead his division to cut down Huang, defeated Huang Shi in Jieling (now Huangchuan), returned to Ying. However, when he walked to Yicheng, Hubei, he died of illness.

During the period of King Zhuang of the first monarch, because of the internal power and elbows, the Yongren (now Zhushan, Hubei) rebelled and attacked Chu, and the Chu army was defeated in several battles. King Zhuang united the Ba people and the Qin people, and the Three Kingdoms destroyed Yong (611 BC). In the next few hundred years, the relationship between the two countries was good and bad, and during the period of King Hui, the son of King Zhao, the Ba Shi was defeated by the Chu army, and was expelled from the Hanshui Valley.

Later, this Ba people retreated to Yishui, Zongdi (now Fuling, Chongqing), and Chu fought on the Yishui line. Yingdu Wanggong Yuefu made a tiger seat bird drum, the phoenix was tall and lofty, proud of the sky, but the tiger was short and shrunk on the ground, symbolizing the comprehensive victory of the Chu people over the Ba people. It's a pity that immediately followed by Bai Qi, so Su Dai dissuaded King Yan Zhao and said: 'Chu got the fang and the country died, and Qi got the Song and the country died.' ’

This tribe of Ba people, who are closely related to the Chu State, is called the Ba of the Emperor of Dijun. Out of the upper reaches of the Han River, in fact, it is the Pu people. Don't say that the people of Langzhong Ba I am talking about are not the Ba of the Emperor. The Langzhongba people are actually the Peng people when King Wu was warning, that is, the people of the Qin Dynasty (賨, cong, a kind of tax in the southwest natives, the poll tax can be paid forty yuan a year), or called the Ban Yuman, extended to later generations, some of the Tujia people are their descendants, these people originally lived in the Langzhong canal area.

King Wu was the pawn of the Yong, Shu, Qiang, Ji, Wei, Lu, Peng, Pu and other tribes, among which the Ba (Peng) division was the most powerful. Legend has it that 'Ba Shi is brave and sharp, singing and dancing to Ling Yin, and the former disciples defected.' Ba Shishan sang and danced, and completely overwhelmed the Yin people in momentum, and then the Ba people slammed the Yin people's army formation, and the Yin people in the front row turned away.

The Qin people destroyed Bashu, and the Ba of the Emperor rebelled. 'When Qin Zhaoxiang was king, there was a white tiger,...... More than 1,000 people were harmed. King Zhao rerecruited those who could kill tigers in the country, rewarded thousands of families, and won 100,000 gold. At that time, there were people from Langzhongyi in Ba County, who could make a crossbow of white bamboo, and they went upstairs to shoot the white tiger. ’

The so-called White Tiger (廪君 died, and the soul of the world was a white tiger. Ba Shi drank human blood with tigers, and then used human ancestral shrines), but it was just a metaphor for the rebellion of the Lijunba people who did not submit to the rule of the Qin people, and the Langzhong Ba people were greedy for bounties and suppressed the rebellion of the Lijunba people for the Qin minions.

Extended to the Tujia family in later generations, the same Tujia family actually has two-for-tat beliefs: one is to respect the white tiger, and the other is to drive the white tiger. The former is naturally after the Emperor of Liao, and the latter is after the Langzhong Ba people. The reason why the Langzhong Ba people appeared in the land of Xiangxi and Western Hubei was that they lived here as minions of the Qin people, rather than integrating into the Ba of the Diaojun (Liu Bang's attack on the Three Qins and the Eastern Han Dynasty's peaceful Qiang Rebellion were also this Ba people).

Bashu seems to be another world, between Chu Qin and Bashu, between Zhuba and Shu people, between Shu people and Dian Yelang, there is an inexplicable and inexplicable intricate relationship. I have read the full report, and the Chu army has also snatched all the information from the Qin state, so I have only figured out a clue a little, but the long-term and more detailed content can still only rely on guesswork.

Xiong Jing listened to me and asked a lot of questions, and when Wang Zhou drove to the time of expectation, he roughly understood the ruling order of the Qin people in the Bashu region and the political situation of the Ba people and the Shu people. He suddenly had some doubts about the correctness of Li's strategy of advancing westward from the Han River. If you go up from the Han River, you will encounter the Langzhongba people who shoot the white tiger, and if you go west from Yishui, it will be the former ally of the Chu people. Although the state of Chu destroyed the state of Ba (fang), it now promised to help them restore the country.

"The Great King is also false." Xiong Jing's issue has long been discussed by the Operations Division. "The westward movement of the Han River into Yangyang or the westward expansion of the Yishui is confined to the season. Now it is July, and in another month, the Han River and Yishui will be shallow, and the boat will be impassable. The war is likely to drag on until next year. ”

"Next year?" Xiong Jing realized that time is indeed a factor to be fully considered.

"Yes, yes." Li said. "And the citrus land is not comparable with Hanzhong. From Guanzhong to Bashu, it is necessary to pass through Hanzhong, which is the center, and the right arm of Qin can be broken; The citrus land is the end of Bashu, and I know that I can only protect the old Ying. ”

Hanzhong County of the Qin people is sandwiched between the Qinling Bashan, the whole Hanzhong County is like an elongated gourd, the big gourd scoop at the bottom is the Hanzhong Basin, the small gourd scoop at the upper end is the Ankang Basin, and the gourd mouth is the Linpin where the Han water and the Dan water meet. Thinking that the Qin army had blocked the Han River, Xiong Jing asked, "The Han River has been blocked, what should our army do?" ”

"The Han River has been blocked, but the blocked section is only a few dozen miles, and the workers can pull it out." He replied. "Our army has a huge weapon and a pontoon tank for sinking boats, and we get twice the result with half the effort. Unfortunately, the gunpowder is insufficient, otherwise the reef of the tidal flat can be removed. ”

Danshui is a tributary of the Han River, and the Han River above the Danshui is not wide. Blockages that are difficult to clear must be large boats full of sediment, and most of the small rivers sink in small boats of less than ten tons. No matter how much this kind of ship sinks, it can be easily pulled up.

Li and the lack of gunpowder made Xiong Jing's expression darken, he was worried that there would be too many casualties among the soldiers in Bacheng, which was a loss that the Chu State could not afford at this time. What he didn't expect was that there was no shortage of smart generals in the Chu army, and as they became familiar with artillery and gunpowder, they became more and more adept at using this weapon.

A few days later......, under the city of Yunyang, in the rumble of a steam engine, Lu Gao walked to the artillery battalion to reveal his identity. Who knew that before he could say what he meant, the officer of the first ** battalion laughed.

"The foot is the Lu Gao where the king of Qin went west? Goodness, great goodness, if it is not a step, how can we make military merits? Haha's laughter, Lu Gao's face instantly turned red, and Lu Xuan, who accompanied him, became displeased.

Lu Gao was not punished for failing to stop King Qin from fleeing west because he was not aware of it, but he was embarrassed by the constant teasing of others.

"On that day, the king of Qin turned into a soldier of our army and carried canned grain and straw on the big house, how can people know that he is the king of Qin." I helped King Qin that day and didn't find King Qin, and Lu Gao hated himself in private.

"What does this thief Jinghua have to do with me." Lu Chan's voice was straightforward, he was not at the scene at the time, and the person he hated the most was Jing Hua. According to the Qin people, without Jinghua's proposal, King Qin, who wanted to wait until dark to run, would have been arrested long ago.

"The thieves are hateful!" The officers were not smiling, they hated Jinghua as much as Lu Chan.

"I came here today to ......" Lu Gao came to the artillery camp for something, "it is for the siege of the city." ”

"The siege?" The artillery officer looked at Lu Gao with some puzzlement, and looked at Lu Gao a few times again. "Under the orders of General Dou?"

"Definitely." Lu Gao did not hold a feather in his hand.

"That's on the orders of General Cheng?" The artillery officer asked again, and had some doubts about Lu Gao. The artillery battalion has a very high level of secrecy, and it is very strange that a person suddenly came over and said that it was for the siege of the city.

"Not really." Lu Gao sensed the suspicion of the other party, and he could only dispel their doubts by expressing his opinion directly. "Bad people think that the old law is stupid to break the city. Digging up the soil and burying the medicine, igniting the fire and blowing it up, is time-consuming, and it is still possible to ......"

Hearing Lu Gao talk about the specific details of the city, the officer couldn't listen to what he said. Thinking that he didn't notice the King of Qin and let him cross the Fengshui to the west, he immediately shouted: "Someone!" This Qin man is also a spy, and he is quickly tied up. ”

Lu Gao came to offer advice, but he didn't expect the artillery battalion officer to arrest someone before he finished speaking, and Lu Gao behind him drew his sword and shouted: "Dare!" ”

The two honorable men, followed by the two servants, heard the commander shouting in the artillery camp, and rushed out of the camp, and surrounded Lu Gao and Lu Xue at the gate of the artillery camp. In addition to the simple artillery soldiers, the artillery battalion also has spearmen who specialize in guarding the artillery battalion. Seeing the cold light flashing and hundreds of spears aimed at him, even Lu Chan, who was ready to fight desperately, felt a chill in his heart.

"How can the cheater be a Hou Spy, ...... you wait" Lu Gao explained in a hurry, not wanting the spearman to shout: "Will you descend?" To drop or not to fall? ”

"Fight!" Lu Chan leaned sideways, he regretted not bringing a shield.

"Down, down." Before Lu Gao's words fell, Lu Gao threw the sword in his hand and descended. Following him, the two servants also abandoned their swords, but Lu Chan looked at him puzzled.

"What is the shame of surrendering to your own army?" He knocked out Lu Chan's sword without finishing a word, and at this time, several soldiers rushed out of the spear pawns, and tied up a cadre with three strikes and two blows.

"Yu Shi Lu Gao and Lu Yu are suspected of being Qin people's Hou spies, and now they have been detained by the military officials, but the general can prove his innocence." An hour later, Fei Jing in the cavalry camp saw a military guard, and the military soldier looked at Fei Jing with some suspicion, as soon as he opened his mouth, he said that Lu Gao was arrested for spying on the secrets of the artillery camp, and his eyes stared at him, paying attention to his every expression.

"How could he be a spy of the Qin people!" Last year, it was all up to Lu Gao's plan to get out of Qin, and Fei Jing knew him well.

"If General Concubine can guarantee him, the gendarme will release him immediately." The soldier's suspicion quickly disappeared, and Fei Jing could not be a Hou Spy.

"Why did he get to the barracks?" Fei Jing was still straightening things out, but she had already taken out her seal from her arms. Everyone has a private seal, which is a personal certificate, and everything important is based on the seal.

The pawn took the seal of Concubine Jing with both hands, and after stamping it upright on the Chu paper coated with sealing mud, he returned the seal to Concubine Jing with both hands. He said: "The military officer will release the two immediately, and ask the general to ask them personally." ”

"Yes. Bring it here. Fei Jing didn't bother much with the Xian Guard, he was very curious about what happened to Lu Gao.