In early spring, the valley road is still a barren elephant.

With a "whoosh" arrow, the arrow left the string, and a wild man who drank water fell in response.

The two scouts poked out of their hiding place with their crossbows in their arms, and after making sure that there were no beasts around, they were relieved to come out and drag the body back.

"With this one, you can go back." A scout muttered to himself.

"It's a pity that after the winter, they all fell out." The other scout is a bit of a pity.

Heli put the wild horse on the mount, and the two horses had already hung a lot of prey, so they could only lead the horses back.

But the two of them don't mind, now that the war is over temporarily, compared to fighting with Cao Jun's scouts, at this time, leading the horses full of prey for a while, it is regarded as a walk.

"I see that there is still a little fat on this wild man's legs, and it should be good to roast."

"Don't think about it, I captured Cao Jun yesterday, I have 20,000 more mouths, and my busy feet don't touch the ground, how can I have time to roast wild legs with you."

"I thought Cao Bing should eat very well......

"Hey! The rich are all generals, what does it have to do with our soldiers? ”

"Uncle Huang and General Zhang still eat and live with me."

"Uncle Huang is different from Cao Thief......"

"It's different!"

One of the two scouts is an old pawn who is a new savage in Jingzhou, and a new pawn is a Yufu person in Yizhou, but the same exclamation brings out different feelings.

After a pause, the two changed their topic:

"I heard that the general of the Cao army and General Zhang have an unusual relationship!"

"Oh? Tell me? ”

"I know that General Zhang's wife's surname is Xiahou ......"

"Wow! Our battle is actually a son-in-law beating a father-in-law? ”

"Silence!"

"Hey, General Zhang is just Lei Gong's voice, not a tailwind ear, how can you hear it? Let's talk about it, I see that the two generals have never spared their hands. ”

"Why don't you keep your hand, I heard that if it weren't for Uncle Huang's stop, the person surnamed Xiahou would almost kill himself on the spot."

"Hah! This temper is the same as that of General Zhang. ”

"I can't say that General Zhang robbed someone's daughter."

"No wonder this Cao can't save face."

"It's miserable."

The two scouts walked together for a while, and they could already see the lively camp in the distance, but at this time the young scout remembered one thing:

"Now that this Cao soldier is destroyed, won't we still attack Chang'an?"

Participating in the siege of the city, surviving one in a hundred difficulties, is one of the lingering nightmares of the soldiers.

Now the siege of the city in cold spring is even more so, it is no different from sending it to death, and it is also the crux of Cao Bing's self-collapse so quickly.

After all, I have suffered in Linwei for almost a month, and the big guys are waiting to go back to Chencang to drink hot soup and sleep on the warm kang, but suddenly they know that they still want to attack the city?

Even so, simply voting for Uncle Liu Huang is not better than dying and struggling?

The old scout hesitated for a moment and said:

"Attacking Chang'an, I heard that it has little to do with us."

"How?"

"Uncle Huang laughed and talked with us at dinner last night, and said...... Let's look at Zhuge Junshi. ”

The young scout winked:

"Zhuge Junshi also wants to send Guizhi soup to the defenders of Chang'an?"

Of course, Kong Ming didn't need this.

After Zhao Zilong and Ma Chao joined forces to capture Chencang, the first thing he did was to send troops again and again to open the blockade of Chencang Road by the Cao army.

After the news was sent to Hanzhong, Kong Ming knew that the situation in Yongliang had been decided, and the final difference was to see how Shiyuan planned, how the lord decided, and how to exchange the minimum cost for the greatest result.

There is only one thing left in front of us:

Changan.

Compared with the battle situation in the valley, the situation in Guanzhong can be described as fast as thunder.

As soon as Zhao Yun and Ma Chao captured Chen Cang, Ma Chao was assigned by Zhao Yun to go out, focusing on Zhang He, who still had soldiers and horses in his hands.

This choice highlights a close-quarters chase and fierce fight, aiming to allow Ma Chao to trap Zhang He's mobility to death with his superiority in strength.

Immediately, the elite was sent to the south, opened Chencang Road, and released Xi Zhen and more than 1,000 defenders guarding Chencang Road to the Guanzhong battlefield.

Xi Zhen carried the rejecting horses and other things needed to build the checkpoint, and there were similar materials in Chen Cangcheng, and under Zhao Yun's order, Xi Zhen could use them as much as possible.

And Xi Zhen's duty is also as Du Xi guessed, not to defend Chen Cang, but at the exit west of Hegu Road, set up a checkpoint to block Hegu Road, in order to prevent Xiahou Yuan from killing.

After everything was properly arranged, Zhao Yun did not stop, and led the elite to ride all the way east along the Weihe Valley, passing through Chencang and Beiyuan, and killing all the way to Wuzhangyuan.

And at the first time, he attacked Zhu Ling, who was defending here, and at the same time sent people to shout to disturb Zhu Lingjun's heart:

"Xiahou Yuan is dead! Zhang He has surrendered! Cao's army is defeated! ”

Huo Jun, who was defending the Xieyu Pass on the Bao Slope Road, did not hesitate to take command of the troops after seeing the movement, and waded through the water with a strong crossbow to echo.

Under the attack of the two sides, Zhu Ling held hard for half a day, and saw that the enemy army had a steady stream of reinforcements from Chencang and Xieyu Pass in the west to join the battlefield, and his own side had no news of reinforcements at all.

Looking at the soldiers who had no fighting spirit, in the end, Zhu Ling did not hesitate, and the strong man broke his wrist and led more than 2,000 troops to break through, formed a formation to resist Zhao Yun's cavalry, and slowly retreated to Chang'an.

At this point, the Shu Road from Hanzhong to Guanzhong was reopened.

Fa Zheng was once again appointed by Kong Ming to sit in Hanzhong, and then took Jiang Wei and the skillful army to cross the Baochuan Road and set foot in Guanzhong.

And on the Wuzhangyuan camp that had been burned to ruins, Huo Jun was full of nervousness, and carefully considered every word to tell Zhuge Military Master the ins and outs of this place:

"This Wuzhang was originally just a wasteland, and it took more than half a year to build a camp here and harass Cao's army at the suggestion of a military advisor."

"At the beginning of February, Cao's army sent troops to the west to invade Yongliang, and the enemy army was too strong to resist, so he had to retreat to Xieyu Pass and burn this camp to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy."

There should have been nothing to see about a pile of broken walls and ruins on a wasteland, but Kong Ming looked at it all carefully, and finally let out a long sigh.

"Zhong Miao, how far is this place from Chang'an?"

After several attacks, Huo Jun's geography of this place was already a treasure, and he didn't want to say it:

"If you take the river valley road, you can drive straight in, more than 240 miles away from Chang'an."

"If you take the road of Huaili Maoling, it will take more than 50 miles."

"If you drive a good horse, you can go back and forth for half a day."

There was a small lookout made of mud in the original camp of Wuzhang, and Kong Ming climbed up to look east:

"Half-day round trip ......"

The words are lonely, the aftertaste is long, and the words are gradually unheard.

"Master, umbrella!"

Xiao Jiang Wei couldn't understand the master's melancholy, but it didn't prevent him from noticing that it was beginning to drizzle in the sky at this time.

The rain was not heavy, but the first rain after the beginning of spring was like a fine needle, and it fell on the face and was cold and penetrating.

Jiang Wei trotted to ask for an umbrella and held it up for the master.

But Kong Ming was too tall, and Xiao Jiang Wei could barely cover his master's shoulders even if he tried to tiptoe with an umbrella.

In a hurry, little Jiang Wei saw the master bend down, took the umbrella from his hand and held it up, and took Jiang Wei to his side to shelter from the wind and rain together:

"You're still too young, let me be a teacher."

Xiao Jiang Wei let out an ignorant "ah", and felt the hand holding his shoulder be retracted, and Ma Jun, who had been silent behind him, was also supported by the master with an umbrella.

Such an umbrella is not enough, Kong Ming was wet with rain in some places, looking down at Jiang Wei's worried gaze, he smiled with relief and stuffed the feather fan into Jiang Wei's hand.

Then he held Liu Bei's saber at his waist, and then shouted in a deep voice:

"The Lord Sword is here, Zilong!"

"The last general!"

Kong Ming held an umbrella in one hand, and pulled out the sword at his waist with the other:

"Tomorrow, when the day comes, pull out the camp Wuzhang Plain!"

"Rape and murder, Xinghan Room, soldiers sent to Chang'an!"

Xiao Jiang Wei hugged the feather fan with admiration on his face, he felt that this familiar and unfamiliar master was extremely tall at the moment!

Huo Jun wondered in his heart, the place where the army is stationed now is strictly speaking Yixian, and Wuzhang Plain is all in ruins, where did the "camp Wuzhang Plain" come from?

But over there, Zhao Yun didn't realize it, and said loudly:

"The last will be ordered!"

"Adulterer, Xinghan Room!"

"Soldiers send Chang'an!"

That night, Huo Jun hurriedly asked to see Kong Ming once.

It's just that before Huo Jun could speak, Kong Ming preemptively said:

"I already know that Zhong Miao is coming, and attacking Chang'an is not a temporary intention, and I will watch it."

So Huo Jun could only leave again with suspicion.

In Huo Jun's opinion, the troops stationed in Yixian County are very mixed.

There are more than 2,000 elite cavalry of Zhao Yun, more than 3,000 Qiang cavalry left by Ma Mengqi, and more than 2,000 infantry troops and more than 1,000 crossbowmen led by Huo Jun.

Zhuge only brought more than 1,000 people from Hanzhong, and the rest were thousands of people who were constantly transporting baggage and could not fight.

There are only more than 8,000 soldiers in battle, and half of them are cavalry used to attack the city, how can Chang'an go down?

Seeing Huo Jun leaving, Kong Ming continued to fiddle with the model in his hand with Jiang Wei and Ma Jun:

"Boyo, Deheng, let's continue to talk about the balance in this counterweight trebuchet."

Ma Jun's face was full of interest, and although Xiao Jiang Wei had a hard time understanding, he was also hungry for learning.

Because in the afternoon, the master said that the method of breaking the city is in this weighing principle.

In order to facilitate the demonstration, the master also brought a small model to demonstrate, and called it a counterweight trebuchet.

The model demonstration, coupled with the explanation of the pictures prepared by the master, Jiang Wei quickly understood the principle, but soon ushered in more painful arithmetic.

The reason is very simple, how many stones this counterweight trebuchet has, how long the pole needs to be, how many stones can be thrown, and how far it can be thrown.

All kinds of problems, you need to understand what is the standard and what is important, and after learning the "Mojia Hengzhong Formula" summarized by the master, rely on arithmetic to solve them.

Jiang Wei, who had already counted them, was sweating profusely, but Ma Jun was already discussing with his master with great interest:

If the two ends of this mill (lever) are twisted, folded, and bent, how do they need to be calculated?

Immediately, the two drew a lot of ink on the paper, Jiang Wei felt outrageous when he saw it, and discussed it with great interest.

Xiao Jiang Wei vaguely remembers that he asked Master Pang Tong what he needed to know if he wanted to be a world-famous general?

At that time, Master Pang struggled for a while and told him that he needed to "read people's hearts".

He also asked this question to Master Zhuge in front of him, and then this master gave him a "Ninety-Nine Song" without saying a word.

He is required to memorize everything from "ninety-nine-eighty-one" to "two-and-a-half and one", and now he has to study the more difficult "principle of weight".

Before going to bed, Xiao Jiang Wei couldn't help sighing: It's really difficult to be a famous general.

(End of chapter)