"Looking at his appearance, I can't wait to fly straight over at once." Qu Tutong stroked his long white beard and sighed softly. "Then Wang Shichong has gone too far."

I bowed slightly, my brow furrowed. "Yang Tong, the king of Yue, is in danger, if he knows that Wang Shichong is such a cruel and murderous person, at that time, let that generation of kings stay in Chang'an, at least he will not experience today's suffering."

"If someone else says such things, the old man will not believe it, but what you say is said by the virtuous nephew, the old man will believe it." Qu Tutong turned his head and smiled lightly at my chin. "By the way, nephew, now that the autumn harvest has passed, it is almost September, when will we start in Shuzhong?"

I raised my hand and motioned for Na Qu Tutong to sit down, and then said, "Uncle, don't worry, wait a little longer, wait until tomorrow at the turn of spring and summer, and then march south." Now, the cement straight road from Chang'an to Hanzhong County has been repaired nearly halfway, and by the turn of spring and summer next year, it must have been able to pass through the whole line. "Speaking of which, I instructed Sister Qingxia to call Li Jing from the General Staff to come over.

Hearing this, Qu Tutong couldn't help but be moved: "So fast? This cement straight road is good, if you can really march along the cement straight road, the speed is extremely fast, as long as you get out of the chessboard pass, it will be Shudi. If we can get out of the chessboard and seize Guangyuan, then we can be equivalent to gaining a firm foothold in Shuzhong. ”

Qipan Pass, on the Qipanling between the northeast of Guangyuan in Sichuan and Ningqiang in Shaanxi in later generations, is located at the throat of the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi (the boundary line between Huangbayi Township of Ningqiang in Shaanxi and Guangyuan Zhuandou Township in Sichuan), and is known as the first pass of Western Qin.

It is the only road hub in Sichuan connecting the northeast, north China, the Central Plains and the northwest north of the Qinling Mountains. Since ancient times, Qipanguan is an important pass at the junction of northern Sichuan and Shaanxi, and it is known as the four famous passes of northern Shu together with Baishui Pass, Jiameng Pass and Jianmen Pass.

Not long after, Li Jing had already arrived, and when I heard me talk about the southward advance, I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows: "The lord wants to wait for the cement straight road to be repaired, it is indeed a good idea, and when the time comes, the army will move from Chang'an to Hanzhong Qipanguan, and it will only be more than ten days. ”

I nodded, took a map and spread it out, called the two people forward and nodded Shu and said: "That's right, but I think we don't just take down a small Guangyuan, but we want to go down the whole Shu in one go, and at that time, we can go down the river, and both sides of the long river are in my control." ”

"Deshu, if you go to the southeast, you can take Jiaozhi, if you go east, it is easy to take the land of Jingxiang......" Qu Tutong couldn't help but be overjoyed, and his fingers followed the Yangtze River, and finally settled in the land south of the Yangtze River that is now occupied by Xiao Milling.

Li Jing stroked the long beard under his chin, his eyes were tight, his essence flickered, and he said in a deep voice after a while: "The Central Plains is erosive, and the heroes are contending, so we don't need to join in this excitement at this time." When the Central Plains divides the winners and losers, most of the world is under my control, and the winner of the Central Plains will hardly have the power to return to the sky. Shu is now a plate of scattered sand, since the fall of the Son of Heaven, competing to kill, but there is no one who can be a hero, my army goes straight in, should be careful of all the people in Shu unanimously to me. ”

I shook my head, and my fingers circled the entire Shu land: "It's okay, these officials and family lords in Shu are fighting each other, and they have already made the whole Shu angry and resentful, and as early as the end of last year, I have sent a large number of people to sneak into Shu to lobby those people, that is, it is necessary to make them unable to work together and ...... to the outside world."

Hearing my words, General Qu Tu and Li Jing couldn't help but glance at me, and they must have expressed their admiration for Ben Gongzi's behavior of taking one step and seeing ten steps.

Without raising my head, I clicked on the silk cloth and said, "What we need to do is to do the same as we did in Guanzhong, not to disturb the people, but also to appease the local people and let them know that we are not to loot their money and food, but to bring them a peaceful living environment and lower taxes......

At that, I couldn't help but frown. Now there is a great shortage of capable officials, and if they are like Fang Xuanling and others, if they are placed in Shuzhong, it is too big to be of little use, and more importantly, they can't get rid of the affairs in their hands now. The territory that Ben Gongzi occupies now is too big, and the talent gap under his hands is too big.

"Then you have to send a capable official to appease the people and govern the people's livelihood, which is really not the head of the old man." Qu Tutong stroked his beard for a long time, his eyes narrowed, and he smiled sneeringly as I said. "Moreover, the old man happens to have a candidate."

"Oh? Please also ask my uncle to make it clear. "I couldn't help but be surprised when I saw this old guy looking ghostly.

"It's the emperor who has no escape." Qu Tutong said to me: "The old man intersected with him, knowing that he was upright and cautious, and in the past, he worshiped Juanyang Taishou, and he was very capable of the name of a good official, and he was praised by hundreds of officials. Then he became a general of Wuwei, who governed the army rigorously, won the hearts of the army, and served all the soldiers, whether it was governing the army or the people, he was an expert. And in the new stronghold, it is important to govern the people, but it is also necessary to govern the army, so the old man recommended the emperor to Wuyi. ”

"Well, thank you uncle for reminding me, I'm afraid that my uncle will need to come forward when the time comes." Hearing this, I nodded and replied. "After all, the Huangfu military has undergone great changes, if Wuji says it, I'm afraid it will be ......."

"The old man is naturally obligated to do this." Qu Tutong laughed loudly. "Virtuous nephew, although you can rest assured, Huangfu Wuyi will definitely be able to distinguish the weight."

While speaking, Du Ruhui walked into the hall quickly with a piece of paper, bowed deeply to me, and handed over the paper full of paper. "Lord, news of General Wei."

I took it in my hand and took a closer look, and I couldn't help but be stunned. According to the letter, Xue Ju had previously led a large army to attack Li Rail in Hexi, but he fell ill and died in the middle of the march, so he had to retreat and return to Qinzhou, so that Wei Yunqi could take the entire territory of Hexi without much effort.

And Xue Rengao (also known as Xue Renguo) naturally succeeded to the throne as emperor, but compared to Xue Ju, Xue Renguo is really too far behind.

Xue Ren has courage and is good at riding and shooting, and is known as the enemy of 10,000 people in the army. However, he was greedy and cruel by nature, and he had a thirst for killing, so he killed many people, especially those who surrendered, and tortured those prisoners of war by cutting off their tongues and cutting off their noses, and drinking and having fun while watching the execution.

Xue Renguo once captured Yu Li, the son of the famous literary master Yu Xin, because Yu Li refused to surrender to him, in a fit of rage, he actually roasted Yu Li to death, and then cut his flesh little by little for the soldiers to eat.

When conquering Qinzhou, Xue Renguo summoned all the local wealthy, poured their noses with vinegar and hung them upside down to force them to take out their belongings.

And this guy is not good at caring for soldiers, and his subordinates hate and fear his cruelty and killing, and they stay away. Therefore, Xue Ju, who knew what kind of virtue his son was, often admonished him. Your talents and strategies are enough to accomplish things, but you are cruel and cruel by nature, and you cannot show kindness to people, and in the long run, you will eventually overthrow my family and my country.

Xue Renguo returned to Qinzhou to succeed to the throne, but when this guy was the prince in the past, he had contradictions with most of the generals, and after he succeeded to the throne, the generals were even more suspicious and uneasy, and Hao Ming, who was trusted by Xue Ju's father and son, was too sad because of Xue Ju's death, resulting in a sickness.

Originally, Hao Ying was the mastermind of Xue Ju's father and son, quite talented and strategic, and good at adjusting the relationship, at that time, Xue Renguo finally under his persuasion, did not have a conflict with his subordinates, and Hao Ying was seriously ill in bed, difficult to govern, Xue Renguo, who was violent and murderous, finally showed his original form.

At the beginning of August, despite Hao Ming's persuasion when he was seriously ill, Xue Renguo decided to take advantage of the unstable foothold of our army in Hexi and lead a large army to attack. Raided Jingzhou, which is located in the north of Jingchuan, Xue Renguo led 30,000 troops and surrounded Jingzhou, and in Jingzhou City, only the Second Division of the Hexi Army defended it.

Xue Renguo ordered the siege of the city on the same day, and although the Second Division of the Hexi Army was far less numerous than Xue Renguo's troops, they were well-equipped, and the soldiers were even more well-trained soldiers. In addition, Wei Yunqi expected at the beginning that Xue Renguo, who had a violent temperament, would definitely not be willing to be taken by me, so he arranged heavy troops in Jingzhou and other places bordering the territory of Xue Ju's father and son, and also stockpiled enough grain and grass.

On the first day of the attack, Xue Renguo lost nearly 1,000 people, and Xue Renguo, who had tasted the might, had no choice but to order a siege of the city, intending to trap the people of Jingzhou City and the soldiers of the second division to death and starve to death.

Then it is to occasionally engage in night raids, sneak attacks, digging tunnels and other ways to harass the soldiers of Jingzhou, but the soldiers of the Second Division and the people of Jingzhou all know what this cruel and murderous Xue Renguo, who likes to torture and kill prisoners for fun, will do after breaking the city.

Therefore, the soldiers and the people worked together to defend Jingzhou, and the sound of food shortages was heard in the city from time to time, and every time, Xue Renguo expected it to be true, and was determined to continue to wait patiently for the people in the city to starve to death. As a result, a month passed.

Although the people and soldiers above the city look a little weaker, they are not malnourished at all, and the people should be caused by lack of sleep, and finally understand that the defenders in the city will not die of hunger, and if they wait, maybe Xue Renguo, who will run out of food first, made up his mind and began to attack the city with his life.

After a day of fierce attack, he didn't even attack the head of the city, and on the night after the fierce battle, Wei Yunqi, who had already been ambushed on the periphery of Jingzhou, ordered an attack, and 10,000 elite horsemen came like the wind, killing the 30,000 Xue troops besieging Jingzhou City.

Xue Renguo fled alone, while Chang Zhongxing was captured alive, with an army of 30,000, 5,000 captured, and the rest scattered, and finally Xue Renguo collected less than 10,000 remnants of the army.