At the end of November of the fifth year of Ji Han Zhangwu, Hanzhong Chen Cangdao.

In the late Qin and early Han dynasties, Chencang Road was a waterway, which was the upper reaches of the Jialing River, so it was also called Jialing Road.

During the Liu Bang period, Han Xinming repaired the plank road and secretly crossed Chencang, which was to transport grain and grass by land and water.

But perhaps God did not bless Ji Han, and the Wudu earthquake caused the Han River to be diverted, and the river was cut off and never existed.

As a result, although Chencang Road can still be walked, it has lost the convenience of water transportation, making it extremely difficult to transport grain.

Even if Chencang Road is still the safest and most spacious road in Hanzhong, because it goes around a very long distance, coupled with the high mountains of the Qinling Mountains, the road conditions for transporting grain and grass are extremely poor.

Shen Chen rode on horseback, and behind him was a continuous army of 30,000, and behind the army, there were about four or five thousand militia auxiliaries, pushing wooden oxen and slowly advancing.

On both sides, the mountains are high and towering, but the valley below stretches out a wide road that winds its way to the north.

"Governor Dadu, the front is Sanguan, and after the Sanguan, it is Chencang."

After nearly twenty days of trekking, the road became wider and wider as soon as possible, and Ma Dai rode on horseback and reported to Shen Chen.

Shen Chen looked into the distance, and saw that the originally wide road in front of him seemed to suddenly become narrow again, and the mountains on the left and right sides seemed to rise into the clouds, majestic and tall.

The reason why the rear position looks spacious is that there is a valley in which a bazaar is formed, a military camp is built, and there are some private houses, and the people and the army live together, forming a unique scene.

Chencang and Sanguan, including the exit Xieyu Pass of Bao Chuan Road, have actually been in the hands of Liu Bei's group all along, but it is unrealistic to garrison a large number of troops, so the outer passes are basically only stationed in hundreds or one or two thousand soldiers.

Now Cao Wei has fully shrunk the soldiers and horses in the pass back to Chang'an, and there are only a small number of troops stationed in Yixian, Wugong County, Huaili, and Juxian on the periphery. As a result, the Cao Wei group could hardly pose a threat to Hanzhong, and naturally there were not too many soldiers and horses stationed on both sides of the enemy.

"The Grand Duke!"

The generals of Sanguan hurried over.

Shen Chen nodded and said: "There is still grain and grass in the rear that will continue to be transported, and some of it will be hoarded in Sanguan, and you will be responsible for transporting it to Chencang at that time." ”

"Yes."

The generals should be under the order.

Zhuge Liang's streamlined operation inspired Shen Chen.

Chencang Road is indeed very long, but the road conditions are much stronger than the other three.

Therefore, Shen Chen built barracks along the line, transported grain to these barracks in batches, and passed it back and forth.

Although Yangping Pass is thousands of miles away from Chencang, as long as Chencang Road and Baochu Road transport grain and grass at the same time, then more than 600,000 stones can be sent in a month.

Moreover, the people of Chencang Road only used more than 12,000 people, and the people on the side of Baochuan Road used more than 21,000 people, and more than 30,000 people were able to transport so much grain and grass to supply 80,000 troops, which can be said to be very exaggerated.

This is Kong Ming's wisdom.

Soon.

The army marched on.

Before dark, I finally went out of Chencang Road and went to Chencang County, which is the later Baoji City.

The army slowly entered the city, and the grain and grass in the rear continued.

By the beginning of December, Shen Chen's army had already appeared near Yixian County, threatening Youfufeng.

In addition to Chen Cang's 30,000 horses, Huang Zhong took the slope and led 20,000 troops.

Previously, there were only about 60,000 soldiers in Liangzhou and Hanzhong, but Shen Chen has recruited troops in recent years and let Yu Ban train soldiers.

After a year of training, Zhao Yun Pang De led them to attack Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang and other counties, and the actual combat training was very good, so the army was now expanded to 100,000.

However, 100,000 horses naturally could not attack with the whole army, so in Liangzhou and Hanzhong, about 20,000 people remained, including 15,000 in Liangzhou, and Hanzhong was stationed in Fangling, Shangyong and other places to prevent the enemy's small forces from attacking Hanzhong from the meridian road and Fu Luo road.

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At present, among the 30,000 horses led by Shen Chen himself, 20,000 are cavalry, and after leaving Chencang Road, he asked the deputy generals Niu Dan, Yang Qun, Ma Yu, Jiang Yuan and others to lead the infantry to the east to wait for Huang Zhong at Xieyu Pass, and he himself raided Yixian.

On December 4, on the endless Guanzhong Plain. The banks of Weishui were supposed to be full of fields and villages, but at the moment they are deserted, the weeds are uncleaned, they all grow very tall, hares, elk, roe deer and other herbivores are overflowing, and there are even steppe wolves howling above the fertile fields.

The north wind is howling, there is no snow in Guanzhong this year, the cold wind is bleak, the withered yellow grass is blown away in the wind, a lone elk wanders back in the forest in the north of Yixian County, it walks slowly, lowers its head and nibbles on the grass between the leaves, its ears keep shaking, listening to the sound.

Not far from a tree, an arrow stretched out, the sharp arrow radiated a cold glow in the white winter sun, as the owner of the arrow slowly pulled the bow away, and then with a "buzz", the feathered arrow cut through the void like lightning and shot at the elk.

"Poof!"

The arrow passed through the deer's head, and the elk fell silently without even letting out a wail.

"The general is good at archery."

Yixian Gongcao said again and again.

Next to him is Deng Xuan, the protector of Yixian County, who has led 3,000 people to garrison Yixian for three years.

Three years and three years, he said that he would change his guard once a year, but because Deng Xuan had no background, others gave Xiahou Mao money, and he could only carry this drudgery on his back all the time.

In his spare time, Deng Xuan likes to hunt the most.

After all, there are no people in Yixian County, no other entertainment facilities, not even a sow, so naturally you have to get some game to adjust the boring life.

On the other side is Sima Zhang Jing of Yixian County, in history, this unlucky guy followed Sima Yi to fight and was beheaded by Sima Yi for violating military discipline.

He looked at the sky and said to Deng Xuan: "General, it's not early, hurry back." ”

"What's the hurry, it's just a deer."

Deng Xuan said with a smile: "Now there are deer herds everywhere in Guanzhong, even wild horse herds and bison herds, when the time comes, I will kill another deer, and I can eat more meat for a few more days when I go back." ”

Zhang Jing persuaded: "But recently, the imperial court has been saying that the south may have to send troops to fight, so you should be careful." ”

Deng Xuan waved his hand and said: "Don't be afraid, you forgot that we have a sentry post in Xieyu Pass, once there is a change in the south, the fast horse will soon be able to come back to report the news, do you think the enemy's speed can be faster than our Tanma?" ”

"This ......"

Zhang Jing thought about it, since they knew that the south might have to go on a northern expedition, they were indeed much more cautious, and set up a lot of horse exploration posts on the periphery to prevent the enemy from sneaking out of Xieyu Pass.

As for the Chencang Road, it is too far away, although there is no sentry, but there are some beacon towers on the bank of the Weishui River, which were guarded against Xirong in the Qin period. If there is an enemy in Chen Cangdao, the beacon tower will also report as soon as possible.

Therefore, they did not believe that the enemy could rush so quickly and with lightning speed.

How about they also have maneuver time.

"Shh

At this time, there was a sudden movement not far away.

Deng Xuan motioned for the soldiers behind him to resist the deer first, and he himself walked forward dozens of meters to see through the grass.

I saw that in the bushes to the north, dozens of deer jumped over for some reason.

It's a herd of deer!

Deng Xuan was overjoyed, and immediately bent his bow and arrows, ready to shoot a few more.

However, I heard the sound of "Dong Dong Dong".

At first, Deng Xuan thought it was the sound of a herd of deer running, but when he listened carefully, the sound became louder and louder.

Although the deer has a sound when it runs, it is more like the feeling of a sheep's hoof, and the volume is smaller, and it is far away or even inaudible.

The sound was like iron pounding on the earth, and it was clearly some kind of much larger creature.

"General, it seems to be a war horse!"

Zhang Jing hurriedly came over and warned Deng Xuan.

Deng Xuan said: "It's not like a war horse, it's more like a herd of wild horses!" ”

He suddenly rejoiced: "It must be a herd of wild horses, come with me, I want to catch a BMW." ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and the soldier behind him immediately led the horse and handed it over.

Deng Xuan turned on his horse, the soldiers also got on their horses, and dozens of cavalry went all the way to the depths of the forest in the north.

The forest was not very large, and in less than two quarters of an hour they had reached the outer edge of the north.

The sound of the horse's hooves was becoming clearer and clearer, and Deng Xuan quickened his pace, wanting to catch up.

Soon he was to the north, and he thought that when he came out of the forest and saw the vast grassland, he would see countless wild horses galloping.

If it was in the past, this would probably only be seen in Bingzhou or Liangzhou in the north.

But over the years, Guanzhong has been deserted, and the vast plains have changed from pastoral to pastures, attracting a large number of wild horses from the north to come and inhabit, so now Guanzhong can occasionally see such a grand occasion.

However, when Deng Xuan happily walked out of the forest and wanted to catch a BMW, the smile on his face froze.

On the land less than a mile away from him, ten thousand horses galloped.

A large number of light cavalry wearing red Han army uniforms and leather armor rushed through like a tide, galloping towards the city of Yixian in the distance.

One of the Han army squads seemed to have discovered someone in the forest, and they roared, and immediately several groups of cavalry rushed towards them, so frightened that Deng Xuan and them were so busy that they turned their horses and wanted to escape.

The two sides chased in the forest, Deng Xuan, Zhang Jing and others were chased by hundreds of light horses, panicked, hurriedly walked through the forest, and ran towards the direction of Yixian Chengchi in the north.

Because this forest is in the northwest of Yixian, and the enemy is coming from the west, it is necessary to bypass the forest before attacking the city of Yixian.

Therefore, Deng Xuan thought that as long as he walked through the forest and took a step back to Yixian, he might be able to save the situation and immediately pass the defensive city wall to stop the enemy's cavalry outside.

But when he hurried out of the forest, he had already seen a scene that shocked him greatly.

The enemy's speed was too fast, and the periphery was densely packed with cavalry, and then the city head of Yixian County was replaced with the banner of the Han army, and I don't know if the people inside surrendered, or they didn't have time to close the city gate.

"Buzz!"

A feather arrow pierced through the void and hit the ground in front of Deng Xuan.

Deng Xuan hurriedly turned around, he was shocked to find that the enemy could actually shoot arrows on a horse, just now because it was in the forest, so it was not easy to perform, but now the pursuers behind were riding horses and pulling bows.

"Surrender or die!"

The Han army shouted.

At this time, Deng Xuan and the others were still galloping blindly, Yixian was occupied, and they instinctively wanted to run in the direction of martial arts in the east.

The next moment, the melodious sound of the horn sounded for a long time.

The cavalry outside the city of Yixian City rolled up the stormy waves again like a torrent and rushed towards the east.

Even the cavalry closest to Deng Xuan and them was less than two miles, and they glanced at them from a distance, and saw that there were people chasing after them, so they divided several groups of people to come and intercept them.

In desperation, Deng Xuan and the others could only roar, go to the northeast and stagger the pursuers behind them, and then burrow into the forest.

But then dozens of arrows came, and Deng Xuan's guards fell to the ground one after another.

Soon after, Deng Xuan and Zhang Jing chose to surrender.

At this time, Shen Chen naturally didn't know that the guards of Yixian happened to be hunting outside, he only knew that Yixian was easily captured, and the enemy had no time to react, and he didn't even have time to close the city gate.

After capturing Yixian, Shen Chen did not stop, because the southwest of Yixian County was the Xiegu Valley, and Huang Zhong's troops in the rear would immediately follow up.

Grain and grass will also be sent to Yixian County quickly.

Therefore, Shen Chen planned to take advantage of the fact that the enemy did not expect that he would launch a surprise attack, and directly capture all the cities along the line.

The galloping cavalry was scattered over the wilderness, and the sound of horses' hooves shook for miles, rolling up dust.

By noon, Shen Chen saw a small county town next to Weishui on the horizon in the distance.

The three counties of Yixian, Wugong and Huaili are actually north of Weishui.

Chencang is also north of Weishui.

Shen Chen crossed the river in Chencang, and went a little farther to the north, and the beacon tower on the bank of the Weishui River could not be detected at all, and Yixian County had already been taken.

After that, he went straight to Wugong and ordered the former army to put on the clothes of Cao Jun, who had been captured from Yixian, and rode more than 1,000 iron to the outside of Wugong City.

The defenders of Wugong did not suspect him, and did not close the city gates, so the soldiers rushed into the city with a swagger, and soon took control of the city, and Wugong was also captured.

When I arrived at Huaili, it was a little troublesome, because the Huaili guards would not open the city gate.

Shen Chen didn't bother to entangle with him, leaving 5,000 cavalry to surround Huaili City, there was another roar, a melodious horn sounded, and more than 10,000 cavalry crisscrossed the wilderness, slowly moving towards the east.

Yixian is very close to Chang'an, only one hundred and twenty kilometers, Shen Chen set off from Wuzhangyuan in the morning, successively captured Yixian and Wugong, and surrounded Huaili in the afternoon.

By the time it was nearly dark, he was less than twenty miles away from Chang'an City.

As the sun sets, the sunset hangs brilliant fiery clouds in the western sky, the birds in the sky return to the forest, the north wind blows, and the cavalry regiment composed of tens of thousands of knights, whether it is a man or a horse, is already covered in sweat.

When passing through Haojing, Shen Chen ordered to drink Ma Fengshui Kunming Pool, on the distant horizon, it was already wolf smoke billowing at this moment, and before Huaili was surrounded, a beacon fire had been lit.

"Let's go!"

After the men and horses had rested for a while, Shen Chen gave another order, and the galloping light cavalry shouted and howled like wolves, heading towards the northeast.

In less than half an hour, the vast city could already be seen on the horizon in the distance.

The city was densely packed with people who were waiting for him.

They looked afar as if they were facing a great enemy.

Shen Chen found a hillside, Le immediately went up, looked at the closed city gate in the distance, and smiled.

The light cavalry spanned 300 miles, and the soldiers came to Chang'an City in one day.

Even though they had come from afar, they were quite tired, and there were only about 10,000 people. But the enemy in Chang'an City still didn't dare to open the door to fight, and he shrank like an old dog!