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To be honest, he never believed that his eldest grandson, Xiangyu, would make that unfair bet.

You must know that the two agreed that if Xie An guessed the strategy used by the eldest grandson Xiangyu in the past forty days, then the eldest grandson Xiangyu would marry Xie An, and on the other hand, if Xie An didn't guess it, it would be over.

What does this mean?

Does this mean that the eldest grandson Xiangyu has a good impression of Xie An and deliberately agreed on this bet in order to marry Xie An?

Of course not!

This means that the eldest grandson Xiangyu didn't take Xie An in her eyes at all, she felt that Xie An couldn't guess the trick she used at all!

After figuring out the key, Xie An didn't have the initial surprise, and he was very unhappy.

But on the other hand, Xie An felt that this was a great opportunity, as long as he could figure out the strategy used by the eldest grandson Xiangyu before the end of October, this woman whose wisdom was comparable to that of a demon would have to keep her promise to marry him.

But can you really guess?

You must know that the method of the eldest grandson Xiangyu to attack Luoyang, he Xie An couldn't guess it in advance, and even, let alone guess it, he didn't even think about it.

Who would have thought that this woman would capture Luoyang with psychological warfare?

The next day, that is, on September 23, Xie An took Liao Li, the general of the guard, and a few dozen people, to the north side of the military camp to observe the geographical location of Qinhan Valley Pass.

To this end, he borrowed the monocular from his eldest grandson, Xiangyu.

The ancient famous sentence, [Tiankai Hangu Zhuang Guanzhong, Wangu Dust to the North Sky], I have to admit that Qinhan Valley Pass is worthy of its reputation as the first pass in the world, and it does have its uniqueness.

This ancient pass built by the Qin people more than 1,000 years ago is located in the throat of Cuihan, west of Hengling, east of the river, south of the Qinling Mountains, north of the Yellow River, how dangerous the terrain is.

Especially the Hangu Ancient Road in front of the pass, known as [the car is not square, the horse is not parallel], looking at the narrow and winding ancient road, Xie An finally understood why the eldest grandson Xiangyu wanted the army to stop here.

"My lord, where are these?"

Behind him, Liao Li pointed to the table and chair in the hands of the accompanying soldiers, and asked with a fist.

Xie An glanced around, chose a relatively empty location with a good view, and said, "It's here!" ”

"Yes!" The soldiers nodded, set up the table and chairs as Xie An had instructed, and then took out pen, ink, paper, inkstones, and a few handfuls of Xie An's homemade rulers from a large pocket.

Under Liao Li's surprised gaze, Xie An walked to the back of the table and sat down, picked up a homemade, engraved wooden ruler from the table, held it in his hand, and held it straight in the direction of Qin Guan, and then put down the ruler, wrote and drew on the paper, and then picked up the ruler again and made a comparison.

After repeating this more than ten times, Xie An picked up a brush, dipped it in ink, and drew a sketch of Qin Guan on the paper, and from time to time he muttered in fragments.

“…… Visually, the city wall of Qinguan is a right-angled trapezoid, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom...... It is more than 20 zhang high, and the width of the upper bottom is ...... Well, more than six zhang, the bottom ...... Tsk, about ten zhang...... Such a slope, was it designed by the Qin people in the first place to prevent someone from forcibly destroying the city wall with a rushing car? - Tsk! As he spoke, Xie An raised his head again, glanced into the distance, and then pointed to a few mountains on the south side of Qinguan and asked, "Liao Li, what are those mountains called?" ”

Liao Li was stunned, glanced a few times in the direction of Xie An's finger, and said with a fist, "The southeast side is Qinling, and the south side is called Funiu Mountain......"

"Hmm!" Xie An nodded, held the ruler in his hand and made calculations, then held the brush again, and while writing on the paper, he muttered to himself, "Visually inspect the length of Qin Guan...... It is roughly divided into three sections, the first section, starting from the Yellow River in the north and reaching the northwest side of the Kushan Mountain, counting one and a half miles; The second section, from the Kunshan Mountains to the north side of the Qinling Mountains, is roughly one mile, which is the goal of this attack; The third section, from the south side of the Qinling Mountains to Funiu Mountain, is roughly one mile, in this way, the length of the eastern city wall of the Qin Guandong is about three and a half miles, well, about 1,800 meters......"

After speaking, Xie An stood up again, looked at the north wall of Qinguan with a telescope, watched for a while, and muttered, "The north city wall is half a mile, roughly about two hundred meters, the height and width are similar to the east city wall, and there is a canal on the mountain...... Liao Li, what is that mountain and that canal called? ”

Liao Li glanced at Xie An suspiciously, and said truthfully, "This is Luliang Mountain, the canal at the foot of the mountain is the Qinguan Canal, and the water of the Yellow River can be used for drinking water and ...... the enemy."

"Defend against the enemy?" Xie An frowned and glanced at Liao Li.

Liao Li nodded and said, "According to legend, when Qin Man made this pass, in order to guard against the six countries in the east, for more than a thousand years, the six countries jointly attacked Qin and attacked this pass, and the Qin people dug the Qin Pass canal, released water to flood the Hangu Ancient Road, and drowned more than 100,000 ...... of the army of the Six Kingdoms."

"What?" Xie An looked shocked.

Seeing Xie An's shocked expression, Liao Li pointed to the winding path in front of Qin Pass and said, "My lord, look, this is the Hangu Ancient Road, the path is only two or three zhang wide, with dense forests on both sides, and on both sides, there are mountains and Qinling cliffs...... Qinguan is located at a high level, and our army's camp is located in a low-lying place, the difference between height is more than ten zhang, if our army rashly marches, the rebels in Qinguan dig the Qinguan canal, not only the soldiers in the Hangu Ancient Road are drowned......"

Xie An frowned when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "What about my military camp?" Will it be flooded? ”

"Well...... this Liao Li hugged his fists and said, "The location of the camp set up by the last general Guan Chang Sun Junshi is not completely in the low-lying part of the ancient road, but according to the camp on the north side of the Kuoshan Mountain, at present, our army's fifteen major armies, there are more than 100,000 or so placed in the high-potential of the Kuoshan Mountain, as for the low-lying place, only General Liu Yi 20,000 or 30,000 people, besides, there is no valuable thing in the low-lying place, even if Qinguan digs a canal to release water, as long as General Liu Yi and other 20,000 or 30,000 people run to the high place, the water potential will naturally flow along the ancient road to Hongnong Stream, and it will not be damaged in our army...... In other words, the Changsun military division should be on guard against the rebels in the Qin Pass digging ditches and releasing water, which is why they set up camp like this! ――Compared with digging a ditch and releasing water in Qinguan, the last general was more worried about his attack with fire! But for now, it seems that there is no need to worry......"

"Hmm......" Xie An frowned when he heard this, and followed Liao Li's gaze and looked in the direction of the Hangu Ancient Road.

You know, the east side of Qinguan is the Hangu Ancient Road, the ancient road is lined with woods, and the Zhou military camp is located in the mountains and forests, and it is now in the autumn season, the wind direction is northwest, once the Qinguan is set on fire, the consequences are unimaginable.

But now the Hangu Ancient Road in front of Xie An is bare, full of scorched earth and ashes, and it is obvious that there has been a fire there.

After returning to the barracks, Xie An asked Qi Hao, and he learned that as early as the first day when the eldest grandson Xiangyu arrived here, he asked Liu Yi, Qi Hao and others to clear a blank area in the forest connected by the Hangu Ancient Road and the forest near the Zhou military camp.

As a result, on the night of the third day, the rebels really set a fire on the west side of the Hangu Ancient Road, as Liao Li said, it is now the autumn season, and the wind direction is northwest and northerly, so that the fire on the Hangu Ancient Road quickly spread in the direction of the Zhou army camp.

According to Qi Hao, the 30,000 people in the Zhou army camp were shocked when they heard about this, but the eldest grandson Xiangyu calmly asked Liu Yi to set fire to the east side of the Hangu Ancient Road.

At that time, Qi Hao and the others were shocked, you must know that the location where the eldest grandson Xiangyu asked Liu Yi to set fire was the location where they placed the wood when they cut down the forest before, wouldn't this fire even burn the entire camp?

Although there is a blank area in the middle, even so, it can't stand the northwest wind spreading the fire.

But what Liu Yi, Qi Hao, Wu Peng and others couldn't understand was that when Liu Yi also set a fire on the east side of the Hangu Ancient Road, although the wind direction was still northwest and northerly, the fire on the Hangu Ancient Road did not spread in the direction of the Zhou military camp, but slowly retreated into the Hangu Ancient Road.

In this way, the fire of the Hangu Ancient Road burned for two days and two nights, turning the originally lush environment in the ancient road into a barren land.

After that, the eldest grandson Xiangyu began to ask Wu Peng, Liu Yi, Qi Hao and others to dig tunnels to Qinguan......

Looking at Qi Hao's self-deprecating and ashamed expression, Xie An thoughtfully glanced at the direction of the tent of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, and was slightly surprised in his heart.

Just like that time in Luoyang, this woman really applied the common sense she told her to the battlefield......

Hmm, deliberately......

Thinking about it this way, she set the camp in the woods just to deliberately induce the rebels in Qinguan to set fire?

In this way, her purpose is to take the opportunity to clean up the woods on both sides of the Hangu Ancient Road, and expand the Hangu Ancient Road, which is only two zhang wide, to dozens of zhang, which is conducive to the army attacking Qin Pass?

Is this what it looks like?

Xie An was unsure, he always felt that there must be some of the most critical reasons why Changsun Xiangyu set up camp in a low-lying place, instead of relying on the Kunshan Mountain, and not just to burn down the woods in the Hangu Ancient Road by borrowing the hands of the rebels in Qinguan.

"Your Excellency......" Liao Li brought Xie An a cup of strong tea.

"Hmm," Xie An took the teacup and took a sip, then put it down, frowning and looking at the geographical map of Qinguan he had drawn, his heart was like thousands of ants crawling over, uncomfortably tight.

"I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out!" Xie An frantically grabbed his hair with both hands.

Looking at Xie An's anxious appearance, Liao Li hesitated for a moment and said, "It's only the first day, adults really don't need to be so impatient...... The last general thought that the adults would definitely think of the tactics used by the military advisor! ”

Glancing back at Liao Li in dismay, Xie An said suspiciously, "Liao Li, do you want this official to win?" ”

What Xie An was referring to was the gambling contract between him and his eldest grandson Xiangyu, after all, the two of them had agreed in front of dozens of generals in the tent yesterday, and those generals heard it clearly.

Even today, almost the whole army is talking about the bet between [Xie Da joins the army] and [Changsun Junshi], after all, the bet agreed by the two is Changsun Junshi himself......

Such an interesting thing naturally spread to ten, ten to hundred, and in one day it spread to an army of 150,000.

Seeing Xie An's question, Liao Li nodded, clenched his fists and said, "This is natural!" ――Not only the last general, but also General Zhang Dong and General Tang Hao, but all the officers and soldiers of our second army hope that the adults can win the military division! ”

"Oh? Is there such a thing? Seeing that he was so expected, Xie An was vaguely flattered.

Liao Li nodded, and said with a straight face, "Although the lord has married the famous [Four Ji] heads, [Yanhu Ji] Liangqiu Dance Liangqiu General as his wife, if he can marry the eldest grandson military advisor again, the lord will be even more powerful!" ”

"......" Xie An opened his mouth and said strangely, "You mean, if this official wins this gamble and marries that woman, in this way, the eldest grandson family will definitely help this official, so this official will return to Jijing in the future and plead with His Majesty on your behalf, and it will have a better chance of winning, right?" ”

"Not bad!" Liao Li said without concealment.

"......" Xie An rolled his eyes and said speechlessly, "It's really realistic for you to wait......" As he said, he shook his head and sighed, "But then again, what exactly does this woman want to do, the official really can't guess......

Liao Li frowned slightly when he heard this, clasped his fists and said, "If the adults don't give up, the last general is willing to share his worries with the adults!" ”

Where could Xie An not understand Liao Li's thoughts, and he didn't say anything when he heard the words, after all, although Liao Li [had bad intentions], in the final analysis, he just wanted to make the soldiers of his second army more secure.

Thinking of this, Xie An nodded, pointed to the map he had drawn, and said, "Then you should think about it for the official, why did that woman set up camp in a low-lying place!" ――Even you know that the Qin people once dug the Qin Guan Canal here and flooded the Sixth Army, how could that woman not know? ”

"Hmm......" Liao Li nodded approvingly when he heard this, frowned and said, "Indeed, it stands to reason that the military division should occupy a high position and set up a camp on the mountain to ......."

"This is the second question that this official can't figure out!"

"Huh?" Liao Li was stunned when he heard this, and asked in surprise, "General Shu Mo dares to dare to ask the first one?" ”

Xie An pursed his lips and said angrily, "What can that be?" ――Why do you insist on digging a tunnel knowing that Qin Guan has a listening urn! ”

Liao Li was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, and after frowning and thinking for a moment, he suddenly whispered, "My lord, why don't I wait for Su Xin, Li Jing, Zhang Dong, Tang Hao and other generals to ask?" ”

Xie An frowned slightly, and his heart fluttered.

You must know that after yesterday's banquet, Xie An handed over all the military power in his hands to Changsun Xiangyu, in other words, Changsun Xiangyu will definitely send those generals to do something, so they can only find out what this woman told them to do, Xie An can naturally follow the vine and think of what Changsun Xiangyu planned.

Merely......

"That's not good......" Xie An shook his head with a wry smile.

"Why?" Liao Li was puzzled and said, "Su Xin and General Li Jing are the henchmen of adults, and the top and bottom of our two armies are all looking forward to the heads of adults and horses, and the last general thinks that as long as the adults ask, those generals must know everything!" ”

"That's what the official meant," Xie An shook his head when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "Since the gambling contract has been made, the official can't use the side door to say the left way, besides, ......" Speaking of this, she smiled bitterly and said embarrassedly, "Besides, do you think she wouldn't have thought of it?" According to the official, before she uses generals such as Su Xin, Li Jing, Zhang Dong, and Tang Hao, she will definitely intimidate and forbid the generals to convey anything about her layout to the official...... Don't forget, this woman is a ruthless character! ”

Liao Li's face froze when he heard this, and he couldn't help but recall the scene when the eldest grandson Xiangyu attacked Luoyang, and nodded solemnly.

"So, it's better for the official to think about it himself......" As he spoke, Xie An shook his head with a wry smile, picked up the geographical map of the area around Qinguan that he had drawn, looked at the detailed terrain and various annotations on it, and fell into deep thought.

In his mind, the best way to find out what the eldest grandson Xiangyu was doing was to come up with a few ways to capture Qin Pass, and then eliminate them one by one according to the character of the eldest grandson Xiangyu.

Although this is quite cumbersome, it is more secure than guessing without a clue.

But unfortunately, he meditated for a day, but he still had no clue.

The only idea that came to mind was to build a catapult to destroy the Qinguan city wall, but the problem was that the Qinguan East City Wall, which is a right-angle trapezoidal shape with a narrow top and a wide bottom, the bricks and stones on the entire city wall are all made of rammed earth, built in a zigzag shape, and the gaps are filled with mud, which is extremely strong, not to mention that the outer wall is still a slope, I am afraid that even if the catapult hits for several months, it may not be able to destroy the most magnificent Xiongguan in history.

More crucially, where are catapults in the army?

Sun Xiangyu, the head of the family, didn't ask anyone to build a catapult at all!

Suddenly, Xie An had an idea.

Could it be that the woman of the eldest grandson Xiangyu also wants to follow his example and use [Wenhua] to deal with the defenders on the Qin Pass?

Xie An pondered it carefully, but in the end, he still denied it.

After all, the eldest grandson Xiangyu did not call someone to go to Qin Pass to shout and persuade the defenders of Qin Pass to surrender, and besides, even if she did this, I am afraid it would not have any effect.

You must know that according to Zhang Dong and Tang Hao, Kang Cheng, the rebel general above Qin Pass, is also the confidant of Wang Bao, the leader of the rebel army, well, it should be said that since Qin Pass, and then Tongguan and so on, they are all close generals of the rebel leader Wang Bao, to put it simply, like Qin Wei, who intends to take advantage of this chaos to soar, or who has received Wang Bao's favor, and intends to repay his kindness.

It's hard to imagine that these people would surrender without a fight.

"Sure enough, the key is still in digging tunnels......" Looking at the geographical map of Qinguan with full attention, Xie An thoughtfully tapped his fingers on the table.

On September 24, the weather was fine, and Liu Yi and Qi Hao were still busy digging pits in the barracks until they reached the foot of the Qinguan city wall.

Even, even the Qu Department under the command of generals such as Su Xin, Li Jing, Fei Guo, Zhang Dong, and Tang Hao also joined the great cause of digging tunnels, and under the noses of the rebels in Qin Pass, tens of thousands of people were digging the ground in full swing.

However, as Fei Guo and others said, the rebels in the Qin Pass are not stupid, and when they saw the Zhou army digging a hole in the camp, how could they not have thought that the Zhou army was planning to dig a tunnel to attack the pass?

As Liu Yi said, they also dug a circle along the city wall, and also dug in the direction of the Zhou army, and even dug a face with the soldiers of Wupeng's Qubu.

The result?

As a result, the water from the Qinguan Canal was poured into the tunnel, and it almost made Wupeng's curved part go and never returned.

Fortunately, Wu Peng had already instructed his subordinates to retreat immediately once they accidentally connected with the tunnel dug by the rebels in Qinguan, which allowed more than 3,000 people under his command to avoid being killed.

However, there were still hundreds of Zhou soldiers who did not have time to get out and were drowned alive in the ground.

But what made Xie An extremely incomprehensible was that the eldest grandson Xiangyu, who had broken once, did not learn a lesson, and asked the generals to change positions and continue to dig tunnels towards Qinguan.

As a result, three days later, Su Xin's Qu Department collided with the Qin Pass defenders again, but fortunately, Su Xin's subordinates fled quickly this time, and escaped back before the Qin Pass defenders led the water of the Qin Pass Canal into the underground tunnel again, and there was no big loss.

I thought that the eldest grandson Xiangyu would learn a lesson this time, but the next day, that is, on September 28, the eldest grandson Xiangyu not only did not mean to give up, but intensified his efforts, and asked the generals in the army to lead their troops and horses at the same time, and at the same time dig in the direction of the Qinguan city wall.

And this time the Qinguan defenders were even more desperate, so they simply dug the Qinguan canal and introduced the water of the Yellow River into the ground, but the result was good, due to the poor terrain, the water of the Yellow River poured along the underground tunnel, making the entire Western Expedition Zhou army camp like a large fountain, full of water.

Fortunately, Liu Yi, Su Xin, Li Jing and other generals were not chaotic in the face of danger, and immediately organized people to dig a drainage canal in the barracks to lead the water of the Yellow River to Hongnong Stream.

This drainage canal was dug for three days and three nights, and when the drainage canal was completed on October 1, the water in the barracks was almost waistless, and many soldiers had to flee to the mountains and camp there.

Even a few days after the completion of the drain, the barracks were still knee-water.

Even from a long distance, Xie An seemed to be able to hear the smug and arrogant ridicule of the rebels on Qin Pass.

At that time, Xie An couldn't help it, rolled up his trouser legs, and came to the military tent of the eldest grandson Xiangyu with stagnant water, but saw this woman wearing extremely thin clothes sitting on the bed that was a few feet high, holding a book and reading with interest.

Looking at her with a leisurely expression, Xie An was angry, walked to the bed with standing water, snatched the scroll in the hand of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, and said angrily, "The water almost flooded my barracks, are you still in the mood to read?" ――What exactly do you want to do? ”

The eldest grandson, Xiangyu, looked at Xie An with interest and stood in the stagnant water with a depressed face, and chuckled, "Don't worry, in a few days, this water will recede...... Are you standing in the water like this? Don't you come up? ”

"......" Seeing the eldest Sun Xiangyu's smiling and groaning look, Xie An was angry, threw off his shoes, and climbed onto the bed.

"Hey, wipe it first, don't wet the ......bedding of your military division," he said, and the eldest grandson Xiangyu handed over a dry towel.

"......" Xie An glanced at the eldest grandson Xiangyu angrily, lying on the bed with his head on his back, and after glancing at the woman beside him, he said in a deep voice, "Hey, Xiangyu, thanks to you, the rebels on Qinguan have not cut off the water of Qinguan Canal these days, they are going to drown us here!" - You don't know?! ”

"Of course this military division knows...... You don't really think that this water can drown me, do you? ”

"Yes, you can't, but didn't you hear the ridicule of those rebels on Qin Guan? -- Before the war began, it was so embarrassed and the morale of the whole army plummeted. ”

"If you want to take it, you must give it first!" Eldest Sun Xiangyu chuckled when he heard this, glanced at Xie An, and said lightly, "Besides, who said that the war hasn't started yet?" -- Qin Guan's chess game, this army division has already played to the middle game! ”

"...... you" Xie An looked at the eldest grandson Xiangyu in astonishment when he heard this, and asked in disbelief, "Your so-called layouts have already been made?" ”

"Yes!" The eldest grandson Xiangyu glanced at Xie An proudly and chuckled, "Then what about you, did you guess?" ”

"......" Xie An opened his mouth, speechless.

Glancing at Xie An, the eldest grandson Xiangyu took his folding fan, opened it with a snap, and said lightly, "The plan is in the people, the success is in the sky, whether the layout of this army and division can be rewarded, it will come to the next more than 20 days, and the deadline for you is only left for more than 20 days......"

"......" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to 138 to read books and register members to recommend this work, your support is my biggest motivation. )