Shang Mi is the former state of Yan, if Tong Ruo (or 箬), if Ao is the same as Zhao and Zhuang, with Yi as the surname. Yi is the custom of the Zhou people, and the Chu people are used to calling the strong Ao. The ancestor of Ruo Ao was buried outside the capital of Hunan, so it was called Ruo Ao.

After unplugging the merchant secret yesterday, and even before pulling out the merchant secret, Chengtong and Douchang were preparing for the sacrifice of their ancestors. Early in the morning, the 11 follow-up divisions of the Northern Route Army, as well as the subordinate baggage troops, were setting off from Linpin and heading for Shangmi; The road leading to the tomb of King Ruoao outside the city was being cleared, and a piece of news that could not be said whether it was good or bad came from the north: the retinue led by Ruoao Duxing had pulled out the Jingzi Pass.

"This is also reckless!" Cheng Tong was surprised at first, and then his face was full of anger.

"It's a big deal, I thought it should be reported to the king." Dou Chang also shook his head again and again. He was worried that he would lose the village with his teacher, and he was also worried that his teacher would really pull out the Jingzi Pass. Now that the result is the latter, it can only be reported to Wancheng.

"Repay the king, and the king will be angry." Chengtong is not without worries. "Do you know where the Qin army is going?"

"Yesterday's announcement, the former army of the Qin army has arrived in Anyi." Dou Chang thought about it and talked about Qin Jun's itinerary. "In the degree of his travel, today he should go south from Yuban Road and cross the great river at Maojin."

The Qin army set off late and didn't go fast. The journey north of the Great River is estimated to be 1,070 li in Dasimafu, and 970 li to Anyi. These 970 miles were traveled for 14 days, and they advanced about 70 miles a day.

This speed is higher than the previous estimate of 60 li per day, but most of these 970 li are plains, and the section from Yuan County (now Yuanqu County) to Zhouyang (now Wenxi County) needs to be climbed over the mountains. The Yuban Road in the south of Anyi, and the hundreds of miles out of the mountain after crossing the river, are all mountain roads. In these places, cities are scarce, roads are narrow, and in some areas it is difficult to walk 30 miles a day.

After Dou Chang finished speaking, he saw that Chengtong's face was too bad, and he couldn't help but say: "It's okay for Zigu to take Jingzi Pass, the Qin people blocked Danshui for more than ten miles, and it will take time for our army to clear the congestion and open to navigation." ”

"He's acting recklessly!" Chengtong didn't want to listen to Dou Chang's explanation. There were other reasons why the westward march did not depart until the 19th day late. Even on the nineteenth day, the requirements of the Great Sima Mansion were advanced step by step, not so quickly. The purpose of this is, of course, to buy more time.

The Qin army galloped to the aid of Nanyang from Gongyi, only out of Kunsai and into Yingchuan County, which was the farthest away from Xianyang when it was still four or five hundred miles away from Wancheng. If the Qin army wanted to rush to the aid of Xianyang, they had to return the same way, enter Kunsai and go west, a journey of more than 1,000 miles. Now the Qin army has only arrived in Anyi, which is only 700 miles away from Xianyang.

Not to mention three hundred miles less, the Qin army is far from tired. Now galloping to Xianyang, the Qin army's journey is only more than 1,700 miles, but when the Qin army goes out of Kunsai and arrives in Yingchuan County to aid Xianyang, the journey may exceed 2,400 miles. And such a passive rush, especially on the way back, morale will inevitably plummet. The recklessness of the reckless follower is likely to alert Xianyang in advance. Some are tolerable, some are not.

"Hurry up to the king, our army has gone down to Jingzi Pass." Cheng Tong did not explain the reason, but only told the current situation. After he finished speaking, he said, "Someone! Prepare the boat. ”

When Chengtong gave Ruo Ao the aftermath of his reckless actions, Xiong Jing was still asleep. His mentality was also the same as that of the Chu soldiers inside and outside Wancheng, disliking the Qin army for running too slowly. According to the progress of the Qin army, he estimated that he would not be able to leave Wancheng until the 25th and enter Lantian in the west. The wait in the war was extremely difficult, but fortunately, Mi Xuan was on his way to Wancheng. Calculating the itinerary, he could probably linger with her for two or even three days. How to spend these two or three days is a question.

Xiong Jing in his sleep hugged his bedclothes, and his head and face were all covered in his bedclothes, as if this soft bedclothes were Mi Xuan. In the dream, he asked Mi Xuan to lean against the wall to make the jade leg horse into a standard word, and then looked at her beautiful eyes, from the top of the small ankle faintly through the vein began to kiss and play, after the ankle kissed then kissed the creamy calf, then kissed the knee and the sensitive popliteal ......, when he kissed the root of the thigh and thigh, the beauty closed her eyes shyly, but was woken up.

"What's the matter?!" The good spring dream was interrupted, and Xiong Jing was very displeased.

"Big, big king......" Even Changjiang was also startled, and he was a little stammered.

"What?" Xiong Jing was angry for a while, and asked again. He didn't get up quickly because it was inconvenient to get up.

"Tell the king, Chengtong is urgent." Outside was the sound of Li, and he didn't dare to enter the room, for fear that there would be a woman on the bed indoors.

"What's the matter with him?" Xiong Jing got up, but just sat on the side of the bed, not up.

"Cheng Tongyan, the teacher has gone down to Jingzi Pass." Outside, Li Ji hesitated for a moment before saying this news that made Xiong Jing unhappy.

"What do you mean?!" Xiong Jing was shocked and no longer cared about any etiquette, and stood up and let the lower part stand upright. "Why did he pull out the Jing Zi Pass? The previous strategy was to attack Jingzi Pass three or four days later, otherwise the Qin army would return to Xianyang early. ”

"Definitely. Ran Chengtong reported urgently, and the teacher had gone down to Jingzi Pass. "The recklessness and helplessness of the teacher disrupted the whole plan.

Attacking Shangmi only means that the Chu army has the intention of advancing westward, and if it does not advance westward immediately after pulling out Shangmi, Xianyang will have a fluke mentality - Nanjun, Nanyang, and Hanzhong (Shun Hanshui can go straight to Hanzhong), and Hanzhong is related to Bashu and Qianzhong. If the Qin State really wants to cede Nanjun and Nanyang County, it is equivalent to the loss of the entire south.

As long as the intention of the Chu army to advance westward was not obvious, more precisely, as long as Wuguan remained, the Qin army would continue to move south in order to recapture Nanyang County and Nanjun and remove the threat from Hanzhong. Although the follower did not break the martial pass, he broke the Jingzi pass. Jingzi Pass is equivalent to half of Wuguan, as long as Su Danshui travels another two hundred miles to break through Zhulin Pass, then Wuguan will be useless.

One hundred and twenty miles to the north of Zhulin Pass, it is Shangyi (now Danfeng County). Shangyi was the former fief of Shang Ying, which was eighty miles behind Wuguan. If the Chu army arrives here, there is no need for the military pass to guard or not.

Shangyi is the southeast end of the Shangluo (now Shangluo) Shangyi Basin, and the Qinling Mountains are to the northwest. Danshui comes from the south of the Qinling Mountains, and Bashui comes from the north of the Qinling Mountains. Although Shangluo used to go to Lantian and there was a pass (now Mu Huguan), but the pass was not a steep pass. After a martial pass, the next step is basically to go straight to Lantian.

The attendant helped Xiong Jing get dressed, and he no longer had the slightest thought of spring dreams in his heart. "What if?" He asked.

The annoyance of the "......ministers" is annoyance, but it is a fait accompli that Jingzi Pass can be removed. He is a rational person, and since it is a fact, he can only be wrong. "The minister thought that since this was the case, he could only pull out the bamboo forest pass in one go.

The bamboo forest is two hundred miles away from Jingzi Pass, and the middle section of the waterway is close to Wuguan, and Wuguan water is also in this Huidan water. If the Wuguan Qin army moves south, guards the mouth of the river, or blocks the waterway, it will be very disadvantageous to us. Only by pulling out the Shangyi quickly with one blow can the army be dismissed. ”

"Bastard!" The washing water brought by the temple people was too hot, and Xiong Jing scolded hotly. The water is hot, and more because the entire war plan has to be adjusted because of this. "He made ......"

It is very difficult to accept the ready-made facts. Xiong Jing, who had no intention of washing, sat down and began to calmly consider the effects of pulling out Jing Ziguan in advance and how to remedy it. "How many days does it take to get from Shangmi to Shangyi?" He asked.

"Now that the Danshui is full, once the beacon lighthouse is set up, it will only take one and a half days to travel day and night, and it will take three days to march only during the day." Li replied, and after speaking, he said: "Even if there is no navigation beacon lighthouse, it will only take five days to attack the Zhulin Pass from Jingzi Pass to Shangyi for 350 miles. Our cavalry has cut off the main waterway, and the Qin army of Wuguan knows that Jingzi Pass is lost, or five days later.

Xianyang needs to wait for our army to pull out Shangyi, only to know that our army has gone around to the back of Wuguan. Wait for the Xianyang monarch's order to pass to Li Xinjun, or eight or nine days later. At this time, the Qin army had already left the fortress and entered Korea. ”

Under the fait accompli, Li He strongly advocated taking advantage of the situation, so he said that Qin Jun's reaction time was very long. Jingzi Pass to Wuguan is only one hundred and fifty miles, and the scouts can be reached in one day, and the scouts can be reached in two days by taking the mountain road. The Qin army has a flying message, although the transmission of news is a little small, but for such a big thing as the loss of Wuguan, there will definitely be a specific transmission symbol.

It can be said that as long as it is confirmed that the Chu army has captured Jingzi Pass, Xianyang will immediately know within an hour, make a decision on the second day at most, and then use the flying message to order the Qin army to turn. The whole process only takes three days and will not take more than four days.

The advent of Feixun, even the emergence of a copycat version of Feixun, had a revolutionary impact on the war. Chu Jun enjoyed the benefits brought by Feixun, but also suffered the consequences of Feixun.

Once the Qin army turned, the situation would turn into a race between the Qin and Chu armies: the Qin army set out from Sanchuan County and marched west to rescue Xianyang. Because the Qin army was marching from north to south in the past few days, it was impossible to be more than 800 li away from Xianyang when it received the order to turn, and at most it was more than 700 li. This journey, even if it is an overland march, is only twelve or three days;

The Chu army set out from Shangyi (provided that within three or four days, the Chu army could flank the front and rear to annihilate the tens of thousands of Qin troops stationed at Wuguan), traveled 100 miles to Shangluo, and then marched north from Shangluo, walking 150 miles by land to Lantian, during which it also had to break through the pass.

Lantian was the place of great war, and at least 200,000 Qin troops would gather in Lantian to stop the Chu army. To defeat these more than 200,000 Qin troops, it is necessary to set up sheepskin raft pontoon bridges on Bashui and Weishui under the threat of the Qin army's boat division, and walk another 150 miles to reach Xianyang City.

It only takes one day for Shangyi to travel 100 miles from Shangluo to Shangluozhou; Shangluo to Lantian is more than 150 miles of mountain roads, and the march will take four days, plus the breakthrough, assuming five days; Lantian fought for another day; With artillery to cover the sappers to build bridges in Bashui and Weishui, it took three days to reach Xianyang for 150 miles. That's already ten days, and then use the last remaining two to three days to pull out Xianyang?

Wancheng Shogunate, Xiong Jing, who had finished estimating the time, looked at Dou Yu Pheasant, Li Ji, Zhuang Wudi, Nao Xin and others, and said, "What do you think, what should this be?" ”