Caicheng under the boundary of Huainan.

An army riding a tall horse, wearing a red robe and a snow-white feather on the helmet was slowly marching towards the city under the leadership of a silver-armored and white-robed general.

On both sides of the streets of Xia Cai City, there were people standing to greet the Qin army's tiger guards.

All the people of Xia Cai standing on both sides of the street looked forward to the army of Tiger Benwei marching along the bluestone paved roadside towards the city.

What was a little incompatible with the Tiger Benwei entering the city was that on both sides of the street, groups of heavily armed Huainan soldiers were blocking in front of the people.

When the tiger guards rode a tall horse and walked through the street, the Huainan army on the street watched their figures one by one, and from the eyes of the Huainan soldiers, they could even see a strong admiration.

As one of the three guards of the Qin army, although the Tiger Benwei did not undertake the task of lurking and assassinating like the Dragoon Guards, their equipment was exactly the same as that of the Dragoon Guards.

The brand-new armor glows red in the sunlight, and the simple knife in his hand reflects the sun's rays, and the eyes are bright and dazzling.

Especially the long sword on the waist of the Tiger Ben Guard, the scabbard alone is twice as wide as the scabbard of an ordinary long sword.

Not to mention the war horses under their crotches and the strong crossbows they carried behind them, they were not the conventional weapons that ordinary soldiers in the army would equip.

Zhao Yun's Hu Benwei was originally going to rest in Luoyang City for a period of time before going to the Huainan battlefield, but when the army arrived at Shouchun City, Liu Wei ordered Hu Benwei to go south, attack the city all the way, and ambush the cities around Huainan!

When he came to Xia Cai, Zhao Yun thought that there would be a tragic battle in Xia Cai, but he didn't expect that as soon as the army arrived at Xia Cai City, the city gate was opened, and Xia Cai Shou General took the initiative to sacrifice the city, and he had no intention of being an enemy of the Qin army at all.

In order to win Zhao Yun's trust, General Xia Cai ordered the whole army to go outside the city, leaving only a small number of troops to maintain stability in the city.

This move really surprised Zhao Yun and Tao Hu, and they also had a little less concern about Cai Toucheng.

The Huainan army in the city went out of the city, and General Xia Cai invited Zhao Yun to lead the army into the city to take over the defense of the Huainan army.

In Xia Cai City, there are a total of 5,000 defenders, and there are more than 4,000 Huainan troops out of the city, and only a few hundred people remain in the city at present.

Leading three thousand tiger guards into the city, Zhao Yun rode slowly along the street.

Before he finished walking a street, he saw more than a dozen Huainan generals standing in the middle of the street wearing the clothes and armor of the Huainan army generals in front of him.

The dozen or so Huainan generals who stopped in front of him were not very high-ranking officials, most of them were generals, and only one of them could barely be regarded as a goalkeeper.

Seeing Zhao Yun riding a horse and approaching them, more than a dozen Huainan generals hurriedly greeted them, clasped their fists and bowed to Zhao Yun in unison!

"I have heard that General Zhao is brave for a long time, and when I saw it today, it really deserved its name!" More than a dozen Huainan generals greeted him, Zhao Yun restrained the war horse, and before he had time to ask them questions, the leading Huainan general said to him: "We are the general of Xia Cai, the Qin King Heavenly Soldiers are here, and they dare not be enemies with the Heavenly Soldiers, so I surrender to the general!" ”

Riding on horseback, Zhao Yun did not dismount, but looked down at the more than ten Huainan generals standing in front of him, and after a while, he raised his hand towards them and said, "Generals don't have to be polite!" ”

Maintaining the posture of clenching his fists and bowing, before Zhao Yun asked them to excuse themselves, none of the more than ten Huainan Army generals dared to raise their heads.

It wasn't until Zhao Yun spoke that the more than a dozen people raised their heads.

"If Your Highness knows that everyone is sincere, you will be happy!" A faint smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, and Zhao Yun raised his hand again to the more than ten Huainan Army generals and said, "Generals, please get on your horse and lead General Ben to the barracks to take a look!" ”

"No!" After Zhao Yun's order, a group of Huainan army generals got on the war horses brought for them by the soldiers on the side, and surrounded Zhao Yun to the military camp in the city.

When the tiger guards entered the city, Zhao Yun did not completely relax his vigilance.

He led the team to the front, while Tao Hu, the deputy general of the Tiger Benwei, fell far behind the team, keeping his vigilance at all times.

Xia Cai is only dozens of miles away from the river, and the cavalry is fast and whipped, but it takes two hours to reach the water from Xia Cai.

When Zhao Yun led the army into Xia Cai, Gao Shun was already leading 5,000 Lin Wei across the river, all the way south, advancing in the direction of Luzhou.

After Gao Shun led Yu Linwei away, there were only a few dozen tents left on the shore of the river, where there were still many snow-white tents.

Since the Huainan army entered the tomb from the secret passage in the city and launched a surprise attack on the rear of the Qin army, Liu Wei ordered Deng Zhan to summon the dragoon guards to Huainan to listen to it.

The Yulinwei army has already moved south, and in the dozens of tents on the bank of the river, there are dragoon guards under the command of Deng Zhan.

Although the barracks are not big, the bright red armor on the dragoon guards and the golden feathers on the helmets make them a little more powerful than ordinary Qin soldiers, and it also invisibly makes this barracks, which can almost be described as small, give people an unapproachable sense of coercion.

The dragoons' barracks were set up next to the river, and the outermost tents were on the bank of the river.

Standing straight on the bank of the river, Deng Zhan pressed the hilt of his sword with his hand, and his eyes stared at the direction of Shouchun.

"General!" Just as he was looking at the mountains in the direction of Shouchun, Huang Sheng came behind him and greeted him with a fist and bowed.

Hearing Huang Sheng speak, Deng Zhan turned his head and asked, "What?" Can it be detected? ”

"Return to the general!" Maintaining a fist-hugging posture, Huang Sheng said to Deng Zhan: "We have searched several hills in Xiangling, but we have not found the secret exit of the Huainan Army?" ”

The dragoon guard entered Huainan on the order of Liu Wei, and it has been a few days, since the day he entered Huainan, Deng Zhan gave an order to let the dragoon guard explore the exit of the Huainan army's secret passage.

Although the Huainan army fought in the dark passage for the first time and was thwarted by the Qin army, it can be known that if there is a secret passage, the Huainan army can appear behind the Qin army at any time.

Liu Wei asked the dragoon guards to come to Huainan in order to deal with the secret path of the Huainan army.

As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves!

The army was stationed outside Shouchun City, and it was necessary to guard against the Huainan army suddenly coming out from behind all day, and in the long run, once the Qin army was less vigilant one day, it might suffer extremely heavy losses.

The dragoon guards, who are good at stealing and assassinating, are naturally more professional in finding the exit to hide in the shadows than ordinary Qin troops.

Since the dragoon guards were stationed on the shore of the river, Deng Zhan would send them all out of the city every day to investigate the surrounding mountains.

But for several days in a row, the Dragoon Guard, a team that is good at searching, has not been able to find the secret exit of the Huainan Army located in the Tomb.

Knowing from Huang Sheng's mouth that he had not yet found the secret exit, Deng Zhan frowned tightly, his eyes narrowed slightly, raised his hand to the northeast and southeast, and said to Huang Sheng: "The area of Jiazi Mountain and Rushan Mountain, search carefully, especially Rushan, the ravines between the two peaks are quite deep, suitable for hiding the exit of the cave......"

"Rushan ......" When Deng Zhan said that he wanted to step up the search for the Rushan area, Huang Sheng was stunned for a moment, blinked his eyes twice, and said to Deng Zhan with a stunned face: "If it weren't for the general's mention, my subordinates would have made a big mistake!" ”

Huang Sheng suddenly said such a sentence, Deng Zhan turned his head to look at him, and asked with some confusion: "What is the big deal, is it worth it?" ”

"Return to the general!" Holding his fists and bowing to Deng Zhan, Huang Sheng said to Deng Zhan: "At noon today, my subordinates led two soldiers through Rushan, and found a ravine in the depression between Rushan. The ravines are different from ordinary ravines, there are hardly any weeds in them, and the trees are ......."

"Quickly pass the order, and all the soldiers will go to Rushan with General Ben!" Before Huang Sheng's words were finished, Deng Zhan hurriedly interrupted him and gave him an order.

After receiving Deng Zhan's order, Huang Sheng hurriedly responded and conveyed the order to all the dragoon guards to go to Rushan.

When passing through Rushan, Huang Sheng may not have noticed anything unusual about the ravine he found, at most he felt a little strange at the time.

If Deng Zhan hadn't specifically pointed it out, I'm afraid he wouldn't have remembered the scene he had seen with his own eyes.

Deng Zhan, who is much more experienced than Huang Sheng, has already learned a lot of skills about assassination, infiltration, and intelligence search from Liu Wei.

Regarding the subtleties, Deng Zhan's ability to grasp the subtleties is far from being comparable to Huang Sheng and others.

When Huang Sheng said that there was a ravine in Rushan with very few weeds and no trees at all, Deng Zhan immediately made a judgment that the secret passage dug by the Huainan Army was located in Rushan.

Rushan, in fact, is two relatively round hills.

The two mountains are connected, and in the middle is a deep depression, and from a distance, these two mountains look like a woman's breast peak, hence the name.

In the whole mountain system, the mountains are relatively gentle, and there are very few cliffs.

Although the mountain is not precipitous, but the water and soil of Xiangling are unusually fertile, and on the continuous mountain, there are precious medicinal materials such as Ganoderma lucidum and Poria cocos everywhere.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, many people, including most of the wounded doctors, may not recognize many medicinal materials, but Liu Wei, who once lived two thousand years later and also studied Chinese herbal medicine, knew that if he got Huainan, just the mountains of Xiangling would be enough to provide millions of needed wound medicines.

Like most mountains, Rushan also grows many precious medicinal herbs, and there are also some wolves, insects, tigers and leopards and other fierce beasts in the mountain.

However, because its terrain is slightly different from the other mountains, the valley between the two mountains is suitable for not only growing herbs and beasts, but also suitable for hiding or even exceeding 100,000 troops.

Determined that the secret exit of the Huainan Army was in Rushan, Deng Zhan did not delay much, and even led all the more than 500 dragoon guards, rode on war horses, and quickly ran towards Rushan.