The land of Bashu is surrounded by mountains, and this mountain is not an ordinary hilly and low mountain, all of them are lofty mountains, since ancient times, there is a difficulty in Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky, from Jingzhou to the west to attack Yizhou, take the ancient road of Yiling, it is completely an upward attack, this difficulty is self-evident, as long as the other party occupies the dangerous pass, that is, a husband is a pass, ten thousand people do not open, want to seek a breakthrough from the front, even if it is a heavy price, it may not be able to do so.

Therefore, for Liu Ze, how to launch an attack on Yizhou is a problem that needs to be solved urgently in front of him. In history, how did Liu Bei take Xichuan, that was in the name of resisting Zhang Lu, after entering Xichuan, there was a central flowering, and the inside and outside were attacked, so that Yizhou was taken, Liu Bei took Xichuan, but it occupied the three major elements of the time, place and people, and there were Zhang Songfa Zheng These internal ghosts, Rao is so, this battle of Yizhou was still fought for three years, and Liu Bei also paid many costs such as Pang Tong's sacrifice to pacify Xichuan. For Liu Ze, this path obviously doesn't work.

First of all, Zhang Lu has not yet endangered Liu Zhang's safety, and Liu Zhang does not need to rely on external forces to defend against Zhang Lu; Secondly, Zhang Song, Fazheng, Meng Da and others have not yet communicated with Liu Ze, and now there is no one in Shu to respond; Third, and most importantly, Liu Ze doesn't need to play Liu Bei's dirty methods, if he wants to fight, he has to fight in an upright manner, and there is no need to play any conspiracy.

But if you want to attack Yizhou by force, it is not at all in line with Liu Ze's principles, this kind of price is definitely unbearable for him, so Liu Ze must find a new way, surprise, attack it unprepared, and achieve the greatest result with the smallest cost.

The Yiling Ancient Road winds for hundreds of miles, and it is difficult to travel, if you want to launch a surprise attack on Yizhou from here. It was almost impossible, but Liu Ze quickly thought of a new offensive path, that is, through Jiaozhou, detouring to Nanzhong, and attacking Yizhou from the southwest. But the biggest problem is how to hide from Yizhou's ears and eyes and go back to the back of Yizhou. This is what Liu Ze needs to think about and be familiar with.

If it is left in the descendants, it is not surprising at all to enter Sichuan from Guizhou, Yunnan, but in the Han Dynasty, the southern and central regions were full of miasma, the road was rugged and difficult to walk, and the southwest barbarians were guarded here, so this road was not only Liu Zhang and other Shu people did not think about it, even the people who were as wise as Zhuge Liang did not expect to take this road. If Liu Ze's plan can be realized, it can be completely unexpected.

In order to hide people's eyes, Liu Ze wantonly transferred troops and generals in Jingzhou, and transferred the three most elite corps to Jiangling, and the forward even pointed directly at Yiling, putting on a posture of preparing to enter Sichuan from the Yiling Ancient Road. Liu Ze did this, the main purpose was to attract the Sichuan soldiers to move the center of defense to the east, as long as the main force of the Sichuan soldiers was attracted to the area of White Emperor City. The defense in the southwest is bound to be much weaker. Sure enough, Liu Zhang quickly fell for it, and Yan Yan and Li Yan led the main force of the Sichuan army into White Emperor City. The defense of the entire Kawanaka region was empty.

At the same time as transferring troops to Jiangling, Liu Ze transferred the First Infantry Division, the First Cavalry Division and the 22nd Infantry Division from the First Army and the Eighth Army Corps respectively, which means that the First Army and the Eighth Army that arrived in Jiangling were not fully formed corps, but in the eyes of outsiders, they could not see any clues. The flags of the 1st and 8th Army Corps are still intact. The troops that were drawn out secretly marched into the Guangzhou area in a way that was broken into pieces. In addition to the three divisions from the 1st and 8th Army Corps, Liu Ze also specially transferred the 17th Infantry Division from the 6th Army Corps and the 7th Infantry Division from the 4th Army Corps. With the addition of some logistics troops, the total number of troops mobilized by Liu Ze this time reached 50,000, which was completely equivalent to a fully organized corps.

The movement of the troops itself is a normal thing, and Liu Ze adopted the method of breaking up the whole into pieces and advancing in a roundabout way, and successively transferred these troops to Guangzhou. When everyone's eyes focused on Jiangling, Liu Ze had already unknowingly completed the great shift, and a brand-new army was assembled in Guangzhou, which Liu Ze vividly called the special task force.

Zhao Yun was the last to arrive with his troops, and before arriving in Guangzhou, Zhao Yun pretended to be sick on the Jiangling front, handed over the command of the First Army to Xu Rong, the deputy governor, and returned to Wuchang to recuperate, and then quietly disguised himself and arrived in Guangzhou secretly. The arrival of Zhao Yun, the commander of the corps, indicated that the army had completed the final deployment, and before that, Chen Zhi, the deputy governor of the Fourth Legion, had arrived in Guangzhou with the Seventh Division, and Chen Zhi would serve as the deputy governor of the task force.

Zhuge Liang had roughly guessed Liu Ze's intentions, but he was still a little worried about Liu Ze's plan to return to Nanzhong to attack Yizhou. "The terrain in Nanzhong is complicated, the roads are bumpy, the smoke is heavy, there is no map and no guide, and walking this road is almost a life and death." Zhuge Liang has always been known for his prudence, and he does not approve of such a bold and risky move as Liu Ze.

Liu Ze was already confident, took out the map of Jiaozhou and Nanzhong drawn by the Jinying Wei secret agent in the early years, and said: "Military advisor, rest assured, I have already sent someone to explore this road, although it is difficult and dangerous, but it is not impassable, as long as you detour to Nanzhong and enter Yizhou, you will definitely be able to hit Liu Zhang by surprise, surprise, unpreparedness, it is worth taking this risk." ”

"Nanzhong is the place where the barbarians in the southwest live, if the lord's army wants to pass through Nanzhong, it will inevitably clash with the barbarian tribes, has the lord thought of a countermeasure?"

Liu Ze looked at Zhuge Liang with a smile, isn't the seven captures of Meng Shu your forte? "The leader of the southwest barbarians is called Meng Huo, although this person has a rude temperament, but I heard that he is also a man who values faith and righteousness, this time we are just borrowing Nanzhong, not coveting his homeland, promising it to benefit, maybe it is not difficult to pass through Nanzhong along the way. Even if Meng Shu doesn't know the current affairs, I have my own tricks to deal with him. ”

Zhuge Liang saw that Liu Ze had made up his mind, and he didn't want to say anything, so he obeyed the order. That night, I talked in detail in the Thorn History Mansion for a night, and I didn't rest for a while until the rooster crowed three times, and after dawn, Liu Ze Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun immediately rushed to the military camp and prepared to leave.

Before leaving, Liu Ze specially called Zhao Feng to come, and mentioned his face to face, Guangzhou is in the southernmost part of the Celestial Empire, and the war cannot affect this place, Liu Ze transferred Zhao Feng to come here, which is to focus on the economy, especially the Maritime Silk Road, as long as the business is good, this is a continuous road to make money, which can completely alleviate the tension of military spending, and compete for hegemony in the world, but it is really inseparable from money, Liu Ze is not good at drying up and fishing, squeezing the people to maintain the formation of the army, Therefore, foreign trade was listed as the first economic priority by Liu Ze.

After arriving at the barracks, the deputy governor Chen Zhi had been waiting here for a long time, and Liu Ze finished ordering the troops to march west immediately.

Leaving Guangzhou, along the Yushui westward, walking through the cangwu, Yulin, through the vast 100,000 mountains, for Zhuge Liang, this road is not unfamiliar, a few years ago when he went out to Jiaozhou to crusade against Shixie, Zhuge Liang had been deep into the barren, led the army to drive in, and finally pacified the land of Jiaozhou. In view of the mountainous nature of Yizhou, the cavalry can not be used most of the time, so this time Liu Ze only brought the first cavalry division of Guanhai and did not bring more cavalry, but in the selection of soldiers, Liu Ze instructed each regiment to select veterans who can fight habitually, and give priority to selecting soldiers who are good at mountain warfare, so this special task force can be said to be the most elite and excellent troops in the Jing army.

After arriving in Jiaozhi County, Jiaozhou Thorn Shi Wu Ju personally rushed to greet him, the soldiers and horses did not move, the grain and grass went first, this time into the Sichuan operation, logistics support is extremely important, the required baggage materials, Liu Ze has already allocated the battle in advance, Wu Ju's role this time, not only to serve as the post of Jiaozhou Thorn History, but also to be the logistics chief of the Jing Army Special Task Force, responsible for the task of providing support to the army in Sichuan. (To be continued......)