At dinner, Wang commented on the performance of the various armies today and pointed out the areas that need to be improved. Bai Qi never appeared, did not make any suggestions, let alone give orders, ate a few bites of fried millet, and fell asleep soundly in Wang Qi's tent.

At night, the patrol reported that a large number of troops appeared by the Zhangshui River, and it was possible to enter the city of the eldest son of Shangdang. Wang Yi was taken aback, and hurriedly reported that Bai Qi, and the two took the guards and hurried away.

After the Qin army occupied the valley, lookout posts were arranged along the commanding heights around the valley. The eldest son city is the county guard of the Shangdang County in South Korea, and now only a few old, weak, sick and disabled people are still living there. However, the fortified city still makes it an important offensive and defensive stronghold. At present, the eldest son is not a top priority for both Qin and Zhao, so no one has the spare strength to occupy it, but they have always kept an eye on it. So when the lookout reported that reinforcements had come from the city of the eldest son, Wang Yi immediately became vigilant. Bai Qi is also very familiar with the geographical environment around Changping, and naturally knows the importance of the eldest son. I heard that the eldest son was stationed in the Zhao army, and I was also a little nervous.

The king's tent was set up below the highest peak in the entire valley. On the highest peak, there is the main lookout post of the whole army, stationed with 500 people, who are specially responsible for the vigilance and lookout of the surrounding mountains, focusing on observing the activities of the Zhao army's camp in the eastern mountains and the movement in the north. From Wang Di's big tent to the main lookout post, it is necessary to walk more than ten miles of mountain roads. Although Bai Qi and Wang Yi and their entourage rode horses, they did not dare to walk quickly, and walked along the rugged mountain road for more than half an hour before reaching the camp. After coming up, I suddenly felt that the sky was high and the earth was wide, and my heart was open. The chief general here is a public doctor, and there is also an official doctor under him, who is in charge of the lookout from the north. The lookout post on the north side is about ten miles to the northeast, and the two places can see each other, but if you want to go over, you have to go down the mountain and go up again, so there is a separate lieutenant in charge.

You don't need to go to the sentry post in the north, under the half-round moonlight, you can see a group of people gathering on the main peak. The prince reported that he had spotted people there as early as sunset, but they were sparse and did not form a rank; At dusk, there were more and more people, so I reported to the mountain.

Wang Yi said: "This will come to help." If a surprise attack is made, it will be meritorious. ”

Bai Qi raised his eyebrows with great interest and said, "Do you have a way?" ”

Wang Ji pointed to the ridge and said: "This mountain is not steep, if hundreds of people or thousands of people do it, it will be possible!" ”

Bai Qi said: "Hundreds of thousands of people, there is no power. If ten thousand people come out, what will be done? ”

Wang Yi said: "If you get the ...... way"

The two seemed to have figured out something, and said at the same time: "Build the road!" ”

Bai Qi said: "Doctor Sima Zeng Zuo should build the road of the marquis, or use his skills, so that his master will be good." ”

Wang Di said: "The minister should let people investigate his way and wait for the doctor!" ”

Bai Qi said: "No! It is a strange soldier, but it is not enough to show the public. Thou angelica camp, according to the former state, frequently attacked and disturbed it. I should return to Anyi and discuss with Dr. Sima. If you can get through the party...... Zhao Kuo's children ......"

He suddenly seemed to think of something, and asked the doctor: "Is there a person in Zhao who has arrived?" ”

Doctor Gong said: "The minister is in charge of the post in June, and he has never seen it." ”

Bai Qi said: "Today's July is the hope, February is a loss, he ...... silently calculated in his heart for a moment, and said to the doctor: "You order the soldiers to observe their movements carefully, and those who can know the number of grain and straw they have lost are meritorious!" The doctor replied loudly.

After watching for a while, the fire gradually rose on the other side, and the figure stopped moving, apparently camping and preparing to spend the night. Bai Qi asked Wang Yi to go down the mountain and return to the camp, and he stayed at the sentry post to observe, and returned to Anyi directly from here tomorrow. Wang Yi was not at ease, and said in vain: "There are hundreds of people here, and the people are also in the place, so why hurt!" ”

After Wang Di left, Bai Qi and Doctor Gong chatted while looking at the eldest son city in the distance. Bai Qi listened with great interest to the doctor's account of the happy and bad things that happened among his subordinates, and asked him about his family situation. The mountain was high, there were not many mosquitoes, and the soldiers in the distance sat together, most of them already asleep. Bai Qi knew that they were all from Bashu and had been out for almost three hundred days. In the past three hundred days, they interacted with Guanzhong immigrants in Hedong, and interacted with Guanzhong generals, got along well, and could talk to each other in each other's native accents; But homesickness still swells up from time to time.

Bai Qi asked the doctor, "When will you enter Shu?" ”

Doctor Gong said: "The minister followed Sima into Shu by mistake, and he has been in Shu for more than ten years. ”

Bai Qi asked, "Have you ever returned to your hometown?" ”

Doctor Gong said: "My home is in Longxi, and I haven't returned." I heard that my father and brother in the family also have a lot of knights, but they are not as good as the ministers! Today's home is in Shu, and it is difficult to see it. ”

Bai Qi said: "I heard that Shu is also mountainous, how is it better than now?" ”

Doctor Gong said: "Shu is mountainous, but Shu people live by the river for many generations, eat more fish, and occasionally live in the mountains, and they are widowed. The mountains of Shu are all male, high into the clouds, which is not comparable to this mountain. ”

Bai Qi pointed to the surrounding mountains and said, "If the mountains are high, they can't be matched?" ”

Doctor Gong said: "The mountain of Shudong, or with it; The mountain of Shuxi, when there is no top, is covered by clouds and mist. ”

Bai Qi said: "Where the clouds and mist are born, or are there immortals?" ”

Doctor Gong said: "I have heard a lot, but I have not seen anything." ”

Bai Qi said: "If I untie my armor, I should go to Shu to find it!" ”

The doctor said: "The minister should sweep the room and welcome him!" ”

Bai Qi asked about the situation of the official doctor assigned to the north to preside over the sentry post. Doctor Gong said that the two of them were in a similar situation, and they were both soldiers who entered Shu by mistake with Sima and participated in the Pingchu War. Accumulate merit and rise to this position.

Bai Qi said: "The people of Shu are difficult to convince and easy to rebel, why not?" ”

Doctor Gong said: "Shu is difficult to pass, the river overflows in spring and summer, and it is often difficult to obtain in autumn, so the people are often poor." Therefore, it is easy to rebel and difficult to obey. ”

Bai Qi said: "Captain Li Bing, the county captain, is very familiar with water conservancy, or it may be helpful!" Suddenly remembered that Li Bing had also served as a captain in Hedong and was also a doctor. I don't know if he was requisitioned to Hedong this time.

In the middle of the night, Bai Qi lay down on the spot in the tent of the doctor, and he told the doctor and his entourage that they would set off after a while, and they would fall on their heads.

When the rooster crowed, Bai woke up. He called his retinue and asked the prince to send a man to lead the way, and he came down the hill to the sentry post to the north. Here closer to the eldest son, more details can be observed. Coming down from the mountain, Bai Qi unexpectedly found that there was a small stream flowing through the mountain, and he resisted the ecstasy in his heart, and followed the military envoy to the northern outpost more than ten miles away, which was just upstream of the stream. The envoy walked lightly, and crossed the ditch as if he were walking on flat ground. Although Bai Qi and the others were riding horses, they could only be cautious, but they couldn't pull him down.

After matching the password, Bai Qi went to the sentry post in the north. The main reason why Doctor Gong was respectful to Bai Qi was that Wang Yi was respectful to Bai Qi, which made Doctor Gong feel that the status of this elder was not low. This time, the military envoy who led the way simply told the official doctor that this elder was the general's elder! The official doctor saw that Bai Qi did not wear the crown of the king's symbol, and only tied his hair back with a cloth belt; His body was also a simple garment; It should be a white body without a title. But even the entourage has horses to ride and have titles, and some of the entourages are still wearing doctors' crown clothes, showing that this old man is extraordinary. The official doctor politely invited Bai Qi into the account.

Bai Qi did not enter the account, but asked the official doctor to take him to the lookout post. The official doctor quietly remembered that the military envoy just now said that this person was the general's military advisor, and he must be the one who gave advice to the general. Thinking of this, his face became more respectful, and he ran to the top to bring Bai Qi to the position of the lookout post. Bai Qi asked him, what is the movement of the people who come from afar at night? He replied, "But when he saw the fire, he saw nothing."

By this time it was dawn. When he arrived here, the first thing Bai Qi saw was the Zhao army fortress on the opposite side of Zhu Danling, which seemed to be closer than the sentry post just now. Bai Qi subconsciously prostrated himself to avoid the other party's observation. The official doctor smiled and said: "Don't worry, sir, I am in a high mountain and the grass grows, but he sees his shape, but he does not see his person." ”

Bai Qi looked at the situation in Zhao Jun's camp with great interest. It's a place he hasn't been to before, and may have only been opened up as a lookout post in recent months. Here you can observe the camp of the Zhao army in the valley, which is indeed crowded. It should have been time for the army, and the battalions were assembled in their own camps, and there was no place in front of the camp.

Bai Qi looked at the sky, and although the firelight was not so dazzling in the morning light, it was still clearly visible. It is clear that the troops there do not have the usual system of counting troops in the morning.

Bai Qi was very satisfied with the location here, and decided to steal another day of leisure and take a good look at Zhao Jun's dynamics. He sat down leaning against a rock, looking through the grass to observe Zhao Jun in the distance and in the distance.

For a whole day, the Qin army was training to charge here or there. Correspondingly, Zhao Jun is also conducting defensive combat training. To the south, the generals there were very active, constantly sending one team after another out of the ramparts. And the Qin army in the south was also full of spirit and resolutely faced the battle. The two sides advance and retreat near the hill bag, and are sparring with each other. The foot of the hill that stretched from the opposite side blocked the view, and it was impossible to see the situation inside the southern camp.

When the front-line battle in Danshui was in a hurry, Bai Qi unexpectedly found a huge army behind the mountain, about twenty or thirty thousand people. This made Bai Qi startled, he didn't expect that when the battle on the Danshui front line was in full swing, there was such a huge force hidden behind the mountain. But then he sneered in his heart: "Put the army in a useless place, and I don't know how to know the soldiers!" "Originally, there was not enough food to eat, and I had to feed idlers, isn't this even worse! However, due to the obstruction of Danzhuling, he could not observe most of the movement routes of this force. But it is clear that these people are pulling a lot of carts and should be here to transport.

Bai Qi called the official doctor and said, "How many cars can you count?" ”

The official doctor looked into the distance and said, "It should be rough." ”

Bai Qi said: "Those who can get a few are meritorious!" ”

The official doctor immediately called a few people and ordered them to observe the number of cars, and the two took turns to report the number, and the two took turns to record.