The army of Qin opened from Xianyang and ran to Shangjun and Hanzhong in the direction of Shangjun and Hanzhong in the north and south.

Wang Jing and Meng Shi led the army to Beidi County and Zhao Wuji's Northern Defense Army, a total of 53,000 troops, mainly cavalry, supplemented by infantry corps; Han Xin, who went south, met with Li Zuo's cavalry stationed at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, with a combined army of 81,000, except for the 3,000 cavalry of Han Xin's headquarters, all other foot soldiers.

The reason given by Qin Ziying, who proposed the allocation of troops this time, was that Shangjun was mostly plain, which was suitable for cavalry galloping, while Hanzhong was mostly mountainous and suitable for foot soldiers to play a role. Therefore, the elite of the Qin army was transferred to Wang Jing, including more than 30,000 elites of the Northern Army and more than 20,000 Yulin and Zhao Wuji's subordinates, while most of Han Xin's subordinates were recruited locally in Guanzhong.

Han Xin did not raise any objections in the court, in fact, he was also very much in favor of the deployment of troops in the north and south, to attack Hanzhong, it was necessary to cross the Qinling Mountains, and the cavalry here would not only be of no help to the siege of the city, but on the contrary, it would increase the burden on the army step by step.

Tian Shi was transferred out of Xianyang and transferred to Wang Qi, who was stationed at Hangu Pass, Wang Qi was reappointed as the guard commander in charge of Xianyang, and Tian Shi was stationed at Hangu Pass. Although this transfer is a level-level transfer, and there have been precedents before, anyone with a discerning eye can see that since the Qin State has no intention of sending troops to Guandong and secretly allied with Zhao Wei, the status of Hanguguan will naturally plummet.

Obviously, Ziying and the imperial court are sending a strong signal, that is, the gradual restriction of Han Xin's military power. In this regard, Han Xin was calm and did not react violently, on the contrary, he repeatedly restrained Zhao Wuji, Meng Shi and others to obey Wang Jing's military orders, and not to be disgruntled, delaying the Qin army's war.

Han Xin's concession also made Ziying and Meng Jian accept it when they saw it, and they did not press forward step by step without knowing each other. No one in the Qin State knows better than them about the current situation, and if the limited forces are consumed in internal strife, it will be more than worth the loss. Therefore, since Han Xin took a step back, they also stopped making no big moves for the time being, but concentrated on providing logistical supplies for the two major battles in the north and south.

After Wang Jing's army left Beidi County, it was as expected, and the Qin army, which had high morale with a great victory, marched all the way. The armies of Sima Xin and Dong Fei retreated one after another, and under the onslaught of the Qin army, they lost their armor all the way, and abandoned the cities along the way, and the whole army retreated into the city of Fushi, and defended the city with the help of the tall city walls. At the same time, he sent his henchmen to gallop to the grassland, expressing his willingness to bow down to Maudun and ask him to send troops to help.

Sima Xin and Dong Fei both knew very well in their hearts that Xiang Yu was no longer powerless to look west at this time, and now they were alone, and the only thing that could fight against the Qin army was the incomparably powerful place on the grassland. If you want to survive, you can only sell your dignity to the Huns as dogs, and in order to survive, the two have no scruples.

Wang Jing tried to storm the city several times, but because of the lack of siege equipment, the loss was not small, so he changed his strategy and turned to besiege the city without attacking, and at the same time sent people south to urgently urge Xianyang to send siege equipment to come.

Compared with the successive victories of the Northern Route Army, Han Xin's Southern Route Army was much more depressed.

After Han Xin arrived at the northern camp of the Qinling Mountains and joined Li Zuoche, he requisitioned tens of thousands of people to hurry up and lay the plank road. In the early stage, the Qin State had already started to rebuild the plank road in order to attack Hanzhong in the future, and most of it had been completed, so Han Xin was just speeding up the paving along the old road.

The Baoxie Road is about 500 miles long, starting from the mouth of the valley in Guanzhong in the north, reaching the mouth of the valley in Hanzhong in the south, traveling along the two rivers of the Baoxi, running through the two valleys of the Baoxie. More than 450 miles in the middle section of the pass are mountain trails, most of them are well preserved and have not been destroyed, only the more than 50 miles across the Qinling Mountains are carved out of the mountain wall, and the terrain is extremely steep, which is the key to the plank road.

In the past, when Fan Sui built the plank road, he used hot fire to burn and then poured cold water to carve out stone cave stone piles on the stone, although more than 60 years have passed, it is still very strong. At the beginning, Liu Bang set fire to the plank road, but only burned the wooden planks on the road, and the cornerstone of the plank road was made of granite, which was extremely hard and not damaged by the fire. Therefore, what Qin Jun did was to lay wooden planks and build iron chains on stone piles, which was naturally not the same as the difficulty of building a plank road at the beginning.

Rao is like this, laying wooden planks on the cliff face is also extremely hard, and the slightest carelessness will fall off the cliff. The Qin people were busy for more than half a month, and finally completed most of the fifty-mile plank road, leaving less than three miles of land, and you could see the banner on the head of the Han army city on the opposite bank from a distance.

But this short distance of three miles is as difficult as the road to heaven. Zhou Bo was stationed in the stone fort at the northern foot of Baogukou, and constantly sent soldiers who were good at shooting to climb the mountain and condescendingly released cold arrows to kill the craftsmen of the Qin State. The incessant deaths and injuries made the craftsmen panic, and the Qin army had no choice but to send shield bearers to guard them, and the small ones on the stone piles could only accommodate two people, so there was no construction to talk about. As a result, the progress of the project was greatly slowed down, and three days later, the laying of the plank road only advanced less than 100 meters.

Zhou Bo was proudly watching the Qin craftsmen slowly climb on the stone piles on the other side of the cliff at this time, and he calculated carefully in his heart, according to this progress, if the Qin people want to pave the plank road to the cliff, it will be a month and a half later. Besides, even if the Qin people spread to the side of the cliff, what could they do, they only needed to send thousands of strong archers to shoot indiscriminately, and it would be impossible for the Qin army to move for half a minute.

This also made him more and more sure of Liu Bang's speculation about Han Xin's plan of 'cultivating the plank road in the open and Chen Cang in the dark'.

Han Xin is not a fool, no one knows this better than Zhou Bo in his heart. He is as cunning as a fox, swift as a poisonous snake, and always appears suddenly from the most unlikely place when the other party relaxes his vigilance. In the last battle, the entire 110,000 Liu Bang army was defeated by Han Xin's tricks, and Han Xin made his enemies understand a truth, and those who despised him would definitely pay the price.

Therefore, Zhou Bo expected that Han Xin would never send troops from this side of the plank road, and not far from the exit of Chencang's old road, Luoyang, which would be the place where the Qin and Han armies would fight a decisive battle. As for this plank road, it is too obvious, too dignified, this will never be Han Xin's style, if he is willing to slowly attack Hanzhong from the plank road so stubbornly, then he is not Han Xin.

Only stupid people can use stupid methods, Zhou Bo thinks so.

Although he had already determined that the Qin army on the other side was bluffing, Zhou Bo was still faintly relieved in his heart, and he carefully inspected the edge of the cliff several times to determine the loophole that was defenseless.

He also ordered the soldiers to find the local pavilion chief, and asked with a gentle face; "Uncle, are you a local who has lived here for generations?"

The pavilion chief was an old man of about sixty, and when he was born, the Qin State had just seized Hanzhong from the Chu State, so he didn't have much closeness to the Qin people, and when he saw Zhou Bo's gentle face, he grinned and replied; "Back to the general's words, the villain's ancestors have lived here for more than 200 years. If the general wants to ask me anything, just ask, and the villain will know everything. ”

Zhou Bo couldn't help but laugh dumbly, thinking that this old man was a good person, but how he could cooperate was a good thing, so he pointed to the mountain stream in front of him; "Uncle, do you see if there is any path that can be passed through this mountain stream?"

The pavilion chief thought about it, then shook his head affirmatively; "I've lived sixty-two years and I've never heard of any trails. This place is called the Flying Eagle Stream, which means that only the flying eagle in the sky can fly over, and below is the abyss, and there are countless poisonous insects and snakes. There were also some bold young queens in our village who went to collect medicinal herbs, but no one could come back alive, and that place was not something that people could climb through, if the general was worried that the Qin army would attack from here, then he could rest assured, the old man could bear a hundred guarantees. ”

Zhou Bo saw that the old man was so convincing, so he believed most of it, and summoned more than a dozen locals to ask, and the answers were not much different from what the pavilion chief said, so he put his mind at ease. He summoned the guards of the stone fort on the edge of the cliff and told him to keep an eye on the movements of the Qin army on the opposite side. He also sent soldiers who were good at climbing to patrol around the Qinling Mountains to prevent the Qin army from sending small groups of soldiers over the mountains to cross the Qinling Mountains.

After the heavy arrangements were in place, Zhou Bo returned to the big camp five miles away and sat in the center.

The army brought by Zhou Bo this time was 10,000 people, and it was impossible to accommodate so many people at the narrow entrance of the cliff, so Zhou Bo only sent 2,000 people to stay at the cliff side stone fortress, and he himself took 8,000 troops to live in a large camp not far away, and he could rescue at any time once there was a police.

The terrain where Zhou Bo camped was fierce, and it was also fifty miles away from the nearest county seat in Baozhong, so the conditions were very simple. In order to curry favor with Zhou Bo, a celebrity under the Han King's account, the Baozhong County Commander tried his best to collect two beauties and present them to Zhou Bo to solve the 'lack of conquest'.

Zhou Bo is cautious, but he has the same problem as his lord Liu Bang, that is, he likes women very much. Zhou Boru, who got these two coquettish beauties, has long forgotten the precept of 'no overnight women in the army', and closed the account all day long and had sex with the two daughters at night @ Huan, eating the marrow and knowing the taste. When the other generals saw that the master was like this, they also knew and no longer bothered Zhou Bo, but just reported to him every day.

In the middle of the night, the wind is high and the moon is dark.

The camp in Hanzhong on the opposite side was brightly lit, and the patrolling Han soldiers held torches and patrolled the edge of the cliff from time to time. Further ahead is the pitch-black bottom of the flying eagle stream, and from time to time there are unknown insects and birds making terrible strange calls, which makes people creepy.

It was a dark moonlit night, and the dark clouds that covered the sky completely covered the moonlight, and except for the sporadic fires in the camp, it was completely pitch black outside the tent.

At the end of the dark plank road, there were more than a thousand Qin soldiers standing neatly, all dressed in light black clothes, with swords and blades tied behind their shoulders.

Han Xin's gaze slowly swept over the faces of the thirty people at the front, these people's outfits were no different from the army behind them, but the ropes behind their backs were not weapons and were wrapped in layers, which were always connected to the ground.

"Serve the wine." Han Xin roared in a low voice. Dozens of bowls of spirits were soon served, with Han Xin picking up one of them, and the others each picking up a bowl.

"To you." Han Xin raised the wine bowl high above his head, and then drank it all, "Everyone, please rest assured, even if I sacrifice my life for the country, Han Xin will definitely fulfill today's promise, if you violate the oath, it will be like this bowl." ”

After speaking, the wine bowl was smashed on the ground, and the thirty people all learned to drink it all and smashed the wine bowl down.

A flame suddenly rose in his chest, and a big man shouted loudly in a rough voice; "General, please rest assured, we are all light barracks of the Qin army, and that is the dead soldiers. What a dead soldier is, no one knows better than us, the general actually treated us so politely, he has already made the brothers grateful, and there are such generous conditions for the family, what else do we have to say. ”

"My father and mother gave birth to me once, it's just a big deal to be rich and rich with my life!"

After speaking, the big man tied his mouth with a strip of cloth, jumped off the relatively gentle cliff next to the plank road, and slowly climbed towards the bottom of the cliff with his hands and feet, and the long rope behind him was slowly stretched.

The reason why he wrapped his mouth with strips of cloth was because he was afraid that he would alarm the Han army on the other side by screaming before the temporary period. Since it is a place of nine deaths and one life, there must be many people who will lose their lives, and everyone understands this truth.

The rope stopped moving after the big man went down for a while, Han Xin silently looked at the immovable rope, knowing that the big man who was still jumping around just now was dead, maybe he died from the mouth of a poisonous snake, maybe he fell off the cliff and fell to pieces, but there was no difference.

"Next." The muffled voice sounded again, and the man in second place climbed down the cliff in silence, and soon his rope stopped moving.

There are no superfluous words, and they are destined to be forgotten by posterity, no one will remember their names, and even their families will soon forget them after receiving a rich reward. A full twenty-two people lost their lives at the bottom of the cliff, and it was not until the twenty-third person that he was lucky enough to swim across the deep stream at the bottom of the cliff, climbed to a high place on the opposite bank, and skillfully found a dead end from the perspective of the Han army's patrol.

Han Xin breathed a long sigh of relief, and this depressing feeling of death made him almost breathless. Li Zuoche beside him was keenly aware of the change in his expression, and looked at him with a smile and said; "You don't seem to be a qualified general, a real celebrity general can completely ignore the life and death of his subordinates, and a general who is easily emotional can easily affect his decision-making on the battlefield because of emotional fluctuations, which is a big taboo."

Han Xin snorted softly, and said without looking over, "This is the difference between me and you ancients, but this will not affect my decision-making and judgment, you can rest assured." ”

Li Zuoche was stunned for a moment, obviously not understanding the meaning of 'ancient people' in Han Xin's words, but he couldn't help but didn't ask.

At this time, a signal had already been sent from the other side, and the rope that he had carried in the past was slowly straightened, becoming a flying lock in the air. It was a month of meticulous craftsmanship by skilled craftsmen in Xianyang according to Han Shin's request, which was not only light but also tough enough to bear the weight of several people, so that it is used today.

Although the end of the plank road is three miles away from the Han army on the opposite side, it is the distance calculated by the old plank road coiling around the cliff, if it is a straight straight line distance, it is only more than 300 zhang away from the opposite bank, less than two miles and kilometers. Once the locks were successfully built, the first group of light soldiers slowly climbed along the ropes, all of them were agile and skilled warriors who drove the dead, and these tricks were obviously not up to them.

There were more and more people in the past, and more than ten flying locks were also built one after another, and the speed of the Qin army crossing the stream gradually accelerated. Yingbu mixed in with the third group of people who crossed the stream and climbed to the other side. Over there, he will be in full charge of everything on the other side as the chief general of the Qin army.

Originally, according to Han Xin's meaning, he wanted to personally cross the river to command this light soldier who died, and he couldn't rest assured of the others. You must know that there is only one chance for this sneak attack, and if it fails, there is only one way left to attack.

But Li Zuoche persuaded him to the death with the reason of 'the coach is not in danger', and never agreed to let him go on an adventure in person. The analysis he gave was that even if the sneak attack failed, the Qin army still had other ways to win, but it took more time. But once something happens to Han Xin himself, the collapse of the fragile system of the Qin State will not be far away. It is clear which is more important at a glance.

Being dissuaded by Li Zuoche for a while, Han Xin finally dispelled the idea of going in person, but he couldn't find a suitable general. To take on this important task, you must be a strong and experienced general in martial arts, and you must not be afraid of life and death. You must know that the Qin army that crossed the river is only a thousand people, and they are all lightly armed, even if they can sneak attack and take the stone fort, they have to face ten times the crazy attack of the Han army, which is really nine deaths.

Yingbu unexpectedly stood up and said that he was willing to go, which surprised Han Xin a little.

Yingbu has been passive and slacking off since he was deceived into submitting to Han Xin, although he followed Han Xin to conquer the northern land, but it was only perfunctory, far less brave than following Xiang Yu at the beginning. Han Xin also guessed what he was thinking, so he didn't force him to do the thing of charging into battle, he just wanted to wait for a long time and then slowly subdue his heart.

So this time, Yingbu's initiative to ask for Ying Ying surprised Han Xin very much, and he looked at him with some puzzlement on the spot.

Yingbu saw Han Xin's surprise and said truthfully; "General, I know you don't trust me, and it's no wonder that I'm wary of you too. Now I have figured it out, since Xiang Yu can no longer tolerate me, this world is so big, it seems that you are the only one left who is worthy of my Yingbu to follow, and the others are all nameless rats, where is it worthy of me Yingbu to follow. ”

"When I first crossed the river, there was a rule in the cottage that if a person with strong martial arts came to join there, he had to hand over his name first, such as killing an enemy of the cottage and so on. In this way, it can represent that this person has completely drawn a line with the enemy, and we will see him as our own brother. I think I, Yingbu, want to enter the eyes of the general, I must also hand over a letter of resignation, so how about I die for you today? ”

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