Liu Bei naturally wouldn't really fall to the ground, someone would hold him up, but the doubts in Liu Bei's heart were really there, he really didn't understand, since he had already thought in advance that Liu Qi would send troops to attack the Meridian Valley, why would Liu Qi still succeed?

In fact, it's not just Liu Bei, doesn't Zhuge Liang have the same question in his heart? In his opinion, Liu Xiongming, who is specifically responsible for this matter, is not a simple person, this person made a living by collecting medicine and hunting when he was young, often lived under the mountain of overturned cars, and went in and out of the clouds and mist every day, but never got lost, when people said that he was good at swallowing clouds and spitting fog, he was very famous in the Guanzhong area, Li Dao, Guo Yan's rebellion, there were many people who went to take refuge in him, and later when Liu Bei entered the main pass, Liu Xiongming led the army to garrison Wuguan, and was the first to come to take refuge, plus Liu Xiongming himself was very cautious and careful, Therefore, it is very valued by Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang. ↖ Top ↖ Story ↖ ↖,

Of course, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang couldn't imagine that Liu Xiongming was indeed very attentive, but this time it was a team that he couldn't imagine, so that he didn't regard any of this team as Chu Jun from the beginning.

This is a mixed team composed of the women's army under Liu Qi and the passing army who are good at crossing mountains and mountains, with a total of 10,000 people, mainly 5,000 women's army, Lu Lingqi personally as the commander, plus 5,000 Bashu troops.

The team falsely claimed to be refugees from Chang'an to Hanzhong, but after arriving in Hanzhong, they were discriminated against by local officials to build defenses for Hanzhong, and even the women were spared. Because they couldn't stand Liu Qi's heavy labor oppression, they had to flee back to Chang'an from the Meridian Valley.

Due to the frequent wars at that time, the people of China fled to Hanzhong for refuge through the Meridian Valley, and this team was all disguised as ordinary people, plus this team was composed of men and women, no one thought it was a disguise. So he deceived Liu Xiongming's team.

This is the first dispatch of the Women's Army, and this mysterious team has always been treated as a vase-like decoration, no one expected that they would actually appear on the battlefield, but Liu Qi in order to be able to cause the effect of a surprise attack, as early as two years ago, this mysterious team secretly fell to the land of Bashu, and then let them train on the difficult mountain road.

Although the woman looks weak. But they tend to be more difficult than men, which may be one of the reasons why many sports are in decline today.

After two years of hard training, these female soldiers have long been able to walk like flying in the mountains, no worse than those sergeants in Bashu.

And because Liu Qi had eyes and ears in Guanzhong earlier, he naturally knew that Zhuge Liang had sent people to set up an ambush at the mouth of the Meridian Valley, so he decisively decided to use female soldiers and let the female soldiers and Bashu male soldiers all disguise themselves as ordinary people, and only bring the rations and a sharp iron knife they needed for this journey. A bow, a pot of arrows, not even armor.

On the one hand, it is to make them dress more like ordinary people, and on the other hand, it is also to dress lightly and reduce their burden on the march.

The long meridian road, more than 300 miles long, is rugged and difficult to navigate, even for the well-trained Bashu army and female soldiers. From the south exit of the meridian road, to the north exit of Duling in Jingzhaoyin. It also took at least ten days, and for the first few days, the army walked relatively smoothly, but from the fourth day onwards, it rained lightly, and the roads began to be muddy and difficult to walk. Fortunately, it is now October, and the rain is not heavy, but it is just a drizzle, which has just wet the ground, and it has not rained for half an hour.

Even so. The army also walked on the muddy and slippery roads for most of the day, delaying a lot of trips, but fortunately, everyone was used to walking mountain roads, and there was not much obstacle to the trip.

Ten days later, when the team came to the north entrance of Duling, they suddenly heard a drum sound, and then saw an army blocking the mountain pass, and then saw a general shouting: "Enemy, you have been seen through by us, and if you don't surrender obediently, when will you wait?" If you delay for a moment, don't blame us for being polite and kill you all. ”

That general is naturally Liu Xiongming. This army was ordered to guard the valley mouth to prevent the 3,000 army led by Liu Qi from sneaking attack.

In fact, Liu Xiongming did not think that the enemy army would be stupid enough to advance and attack Guanzhong from such a difficult road as the Meridian Valley, after all, the Chu army at that time had already gained advantages from all fronts, as long as they did not rush to expand the results, I believe that in three years at most, at least one year, they can occupy Guanzhong step by step. It is much more dangerous to pass from here, because the valley mouth is narrow, and as long as a team of thousands of people is laid down here, it can easily defeat tens of thousands of troops, which is really a bit more than worth the loss.

And more importantly, as early as four hundred years ago, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, took this road to take Guanzhong, and the lessons from the past are not far away, and his own side will definitely attach importance to the defense here, and the Chu army will definitely think of this, so the probability of sending troops can almost be said to be none.

Even so, Liu Xiongming still strictly carried out Zhuge Liang's orders, meticulously built military defenses, ordered people to visit the road every day, and never allowed a half-cent difference here.

His army relied on the geographical advantage to form a strong defense, piled with antlers at the mouth of the valley, behind the antlers was a strong line of shield men and pikemen, behind this line of defense were archers, these archers were full of bowstrings on standby, as long as the order was given, ten thousand arrows could be fired in unison, inflicting severe damage on the Chu army.

This time, in order to advance lightly, none of the soldiers of the Chu army wore armor, so bows and arrows became a deadly threat to them.

When they heard the shouts of the enemy generals, many soldiers couldn't help but change their color, even Lu Lingqi thought that their plot had been discovered, so she quietly touched the iron knife hidden in the baggage, ready to fight to the death with the enemy army.

At this time, Xin Xianying, who was beside her, quietly waved her hand, signaling her not to act rashly, and then came to the front of the battle, saluted the general, and said respectfully: "This military master, we are not an enemy army, but the people who defected to the Duke of Qin. ”

"Oh?" Liu Xiongming raised his eyes and found that there were many women in the team in the valley, and he couldn't help but believe the other party's words, because in his opinion, unless he really ran for his life, otherwise, how could so many women take such a narrow and rugged mountain road?

What's more, these people are all dressed as ordinary people, if they are all men, there is still the possibility of disguising themselves as ordinary people, but women account for almost half of them, which proves that it is impossible to be an army.

But after all, there are all young and middle-aged men and women, and there are old people and children in it, which doesn't look like people fleeing with their families, not to mention that the situation in Hanzhong is much more stable than Chang'an, and it is impossible for the people to flee from Hanzhong to Chang'an.

Therefore, Liu Xiongming's heart was still vigilant, and he asked in a deep voice: "Where are you waiting for the people?" Why don't you take the risk and escape to Guanzhong through the guò meridian road? Where are your old people and children? Don't say you don't have old people and children. ”

I saw the woman in front of me and said: "The military master doesn't know, we were the people who fled from Chang'an to Hanzhong, and we thought that we could live a stable and comfortable life there, in fact, during the period of Zhang Daozhu, most of us were five buckets of rice Taoists, and we could live some good lives, but since the Duke of Chu arrived in Hanzhong, he began to discriminate against us Taoists, and those local people in Hanzhong were better, but they stopped believing in them and concentrated on farming, and for us outsiders, they were arbitrarily bullied. Hanzhong was poor, and the magistrates forced us to help them transport grain and grass, build rivers and palaces, and if there were not enough men, they forcibly recruited women, and we women not only did heavy work, but also guarded the humiliation of those overseers......"

When the woman said this, she couldn't stop crying, sad and sad, and made people feel pitiful, and then saw the woman continue: "We saw that there was no way to live, so we secretly contacted the tens of thousands of people who served in the local area, and when the defenders of Hanzhong were busy escorting grain and grass and the overseers were not on guard, they secretly fled overnight, preparing to return to Chang'an through the Meridian Valley for refuge. Even so, there are still fifty or sixty thousand companions who were brutally killed by the pursuers, leaving only us poor people who were lucky enough to pick up a life, we are now desperate, I hope that the military master can be merciful and give us a way to live, we are willing to be cattle and horses. Repay the great kindness of the military master. ”

Liu Xiongming saw that the woman was crying very sadly, not as if she was fake, so he couldn't help but sigh and said slowly: "I thought that Duke Chu was a benevolent gentleman, but I didn't expect it to be so fierce and cruel, this is really as black as a crow in the world, but you are the people of Guanzhong, and you have suffered such a crime, but you still turned back to Guanzhong, and you can't even take care of the elderly and children in the family." It's just that now we have received an order from the upper peak to strictly guard the Meridian Valley here, and do not allow the enemy to pass through Guò, so we don't dare to let you go, so you might as well find another way to survive. ”

Then she saw the woman weeping and prostrating her head, saying, "Where do we have a way to live now?" The officers and soldiers of Hanzhong are guarding the valley mouth, if we turn around, there is only one way to die, please ask the military master to be merciful, give us a way to live, as long as we can save our lives, you can let us do anything. ”

"Oh? Can you really do anything? Liu Xiongming saw that there were a lot of women here, and he couldn't help but feel excited, and then asked slowly.

"Yes, you can do anything, even if you are the wife and concubine of the military masters, you can just want to be able to save your life." The woman lowered her head, with tears in her eyes, and said with a sad face.

"Even so, the general is not polite, to be honest, the general doesn't value women or anything, but most of the brothers under my command are not married, if you agree to be their women, the general will let you enter the customs, but those men can't make it, and no one can guarantee whether they are the spies of the Chu army." Liu Xiongming looked businesslike and said slowly. (To be continued......)