Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Great Camp
Neishi County, including the current capital Xianyang, is the axis part of the homeland of the old Qin State, while the hometown of Guanzhong is the foundation of the old Qin State.
After the First Emperor unified the world and divided the counties into counties, the homeland of the old Qin State was divided into Jiuyuan County, Shang County, Beidi County, Longxi County, Neishi County, Hanzhong County, Ba County, and Shu County from north to south, a total of eight counties.
There are a total of twelve official roads leading from Neishi County to the counties of the hometown of the old Qin State. These 12 official roads do not include gallop and straight roads. They are: Jing Shui Road, Wei Shui Road, Wei Shui Road, Meridian Road, Yan Water Road, Bao Slope Road, Chen Cang Road, Jinniu Shu Road, Bashan Road, Baishui Road, Pujin Road, Wuguan Road.
These 12 avenues are all the exit avenues that connect the world in Guanzhong's hometown. Among them, the Meridian Road is the passage chosen by Wei Yan, the general of the Three Kingdoms of Shu in later generations, who advocated going north out of the Meridian Valley to attack Chang'an.
Originally, four or five years later, Liu Bang adopted the strategy of "repairing the plank road in the open and crossing the Chencang in secret", and the Chencang is now the Chencang Road.
Among them, Pujin Road and Wuguan Road are two avenues leading from Guanzhong to Hedong and Southeast respectively.
Pujin Road, the old capital of the Qin State, Liyang, is a war-torn ancient road, and it is a battlefield where the old Qin State and the old Wei State have been tug-of-war for a long time.
Wuguan Road, Wuguan is the gateway to the southeast of the old Qin State, and it is the fortress of the old Qin State that has been fighting against the Chu State for a long time.
The starting point of the Wuguan Ancient Road is the Lantian Plateau where the support foundation of the old Qin army is located, enter the Lantian Plateau through any road in Guanzhong, pass through the Lantian Valley, go out of the southeast mountain through Wuguan, and arrive at Nanyang County and the old Chu Jingxiang area, becoming the largest exit from Guanzhong to the southeast.
In addition to these two avenues, the gateway to the east of Great Qin is Hangu Pass.
Hangu Pass was the gateway to the northeast of the old Qin State. During the reign of Qin Xiaogong, the national strength of the old Qin State was weakened, and in order to negotiate a peace and truce with the Wei State, a large area of fertile land of the Qin State such as Qindong and Hanguguan was ceded to the Wei State.
Later, after Shang Ying changed into pharaoh Qin and seized Hangu Pass from Wei again, he deliberately built a road from Xianyang to Hangu Pass, which was the central passage from Guanzhong's hometown to Wei, Hanqi and other countries.
After the unification of the first emperor, the Qin army in Guanzhong either garrisoned the border, or marched south to Baiyue, or was sent to Huaibei and Huainan.
The big camp in Bashang was gradually hollowed out, and now in Huhai, there are only more than 1,000 soldiers stationed in this huge military camp east of Xianyang, responsible for guarding and repairing this grand camp that witnessed the unification of the world by the old Qin Dong's letter to Guguan.
Now the camp of Bashang has regained the light of the past, and the entry of more than 400,000 convicts and slaves and 200,000 forbidden troops has made this grand camp suddenly lively, and people everywhere are full of voices, full of vitality.
The forbidden army, which was originally in charge of Xianyang's security, also followed to the Bashang camp when the prisoners were transferred.
Bagong is not too far from the Bashang camp, and in less than an hour, Hu Hai and others came to the Bashang camp.
At this moment, the Bashang camp has been completely garrisoned by 200,000 forbidden troops to prevent the escape of the prisoners and cause chaos. Because it was night, the forbidden army guarding the gate of the camp did not find out until Hu Hai and his party were less than fifty meters away from the camp gate.
With a "bang", a feather arrow was firmly inserted into the road where the carriage was going, stopping the carriage from moving forward.
The sudden appearance of the feather arrow made Zhang Han, who was driving, hurriedly stop the carriage, and the twelve guards next to him also unsheathed their swords, rode their horses around the carriage, and looked around nervously.
Feeling that the carriage stopped suddenly, Hu Hai opened the window and asked, "Why did you stop Zhang Aiqing?" ”
Zhang Han opened his mouth and was about to speak, when a loud shout came from the gate of the camp.
"Who's coming? Wait for the speed to leave! Hugh has to move forward and approach the forbidden army camp, and violators will be killed! ”
Hearing this shout, everyone knew what was going on with the feathered arrow just now.
Zhang Han was even more furious, if this sudden feather arrow frightened the horses, the consequences would be unimaginable. Hu Hai smiled slightly when he heard the words of the guards at the gate of the camp.
"Zhang Han, you let this talking soldier come over and I want to see him."
"Your Majesty, this soldier is not disrespectful, and he even uses arrows to intend to mistreat His Majesty, and he should be severely punished." Zhang Han said urgently.
"They don't know that it is me, and that they can be so faithful to their duties, so why should they be punished severely. There you go. ”
Zhang Han was helpless, and got out of the carriage with a "whoosh" and walked towards the gate of the camp alone.
"Boom" three arrows, accompanied by a loud roar, "If you take one more step, this arrow will not fall to the ground." Speed away! ”
After the voice, before Zhang Han could react, the three feather arrows were neatly arranged at Zhang Han's feet in a straight line.
This time, Hu Hai saw it clearly, at a distance of nearly fifty meters, he could shoot arrows so accurately at night, so the soldier's archery skills can be seen.
"Good archery!"
Hu Hai got out of the carriage and stood behind Zhang Han and cheered.
"Of course! Wait for the speed to leave! ”
The soldiers who spoke at the gate of the camp obviously heard Hu Hai's applause, but they were not humble at all, but they still did not forget their duties.
Hearing this soldier's shameless words, Hu Hai couldn't help but be overjoyed, it seems that this guy is not only excellent in archery, but also a very interesting person.
Zhang Han, who was originally angry by this series of arrows, suddenly laughed angrily and shouted: "Wu Na pawn, I am the commander of Lang Zhongling, Shaofu Zhang Han, I have to serve His Majesty's order to come to the camp. Hurry up and report to Wang Qian. ”
Hearing Zhang Han's words, the forbidden soldiers who spoke at the door were obviously stunned for a moment, and only shouted after a while: "You said that you are Lord Zhang Han, do you have a token?" The tone was obviously a little softer, but it was still holding on.
Tokens, Zhang Han definitely didn't have them. The sigils are all in his own house, how can he carry them with him. Seeing Hu Hai's inquiring eyes, Zhang Han shook his head helplessly.
Seeing that Zhang Han didn't answer, the soldier continued: "No tokens? Hmph, you know, then you said that you were ordered by His Majesty, but you have His Majesty's edict in hand? Obviously, when he saw that Zhang Han didn't answer, he thought that these people were weak-hearted, and his tone suddenly changed again.
Zhang Han was completely lost temper by this soldier, and wanted to go directly, but he was worried that this stunned guy would kill himself directly with two arrows, and then he would die of grievance.
"Master Zhang, indeed, because he came in a hurry today, he didn't bring the sigil with him. I don't know if you know Master Zhang, if you do, you can get closer to see if it's Lord Zhang, or please go and inform General Wang Qian to come to the camp gate to see him? Hu Hai said with a smile.
"Yes, yes, yes! Since you are a soldier of the forbidden army, you should know the old man, and you can come out to identify it! Zhang Han hurriedly continued.
"Well, then, you take twenty steps forward, and I'll take a look at the light." The soldier hesitated for a moment but agreed.
When Zhang Han heard his big camp, he hurriedly strode forward twenty steps, and he was already very close to the gate of the camp, and the soldiers at the gate of the camp could clearly see Zhang Han's face with the torches on the camp.
"See Master Zhang!" The soldiers at the gate of the camp immediately bowed down.
The soldier who spoke before trembled, looked frightened, and forgot to worship.
Zhang Han knew that Hu Hai was very interested in this soldier, and it was not easy to deal with him, so he snorted coldly and said, "Open the camp gate and go and inform General Wang Qian to come to see me." ”
At this time, Hu Hai saw that these soldiers had recognized Zhang Han and also walked over. He didn't care about Zhang Han, came to the soldier who was still immersed in panic, patted him on the shoulder and said, "What's your name?" Did you shoot the arrows? ”