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Bordering with Shangcheng State is Baling State, a vassal state of Bashu State, which has a narrow strip of less than 100 miles wide on the side of the Li River, and now belongs to the Zongye State.

This is Xiao Chulong, one of the two cities in Jiangbei that he wants back from Baling Kingdom;

Jixi City is close to the Li River, which is more than 300 miles long from east to west, more than 100 miles wide from north to south, wide from west to east.

To the west is where the main city of Jixi City is located, close to the north city of Wuling.

In fact, this cross-river stone bridge belongs to Wuling City, after perennial war, the stone bridge lacks maintenance, when the flood broke out, it was washed away for a section, the bridge was broken, Wuling City was divided into two, Jiangnan is Wuling South City, Jiangbei is Wuling North City.

This stone bridge is a few years old.

Originally, there was a vassal state here, the Wuling Kingdom.

Wuling City is the capital of Wuling State, this stone bridge was built by Wuling State, and later Wuling State died and was occupied by Zongye State, and then it was divided by Wuwei State and Baling State, and now it is recovered by Zongye State.

The king of Zongye didn't want to go back to this place, they were all mountain people, good at fighting and not good at management, this area was a plain, there was no danger to defend, and there were enemies on three sides.

The population of Zongye is small, fierce and rude, and it is difficult to blend with the aborigines here, and they cannot get support, and the most important thing is because of the stone bridge, so this is a place where soldiers must fight.

Once the war breaks out, this place will definitely become a place of contention, there is a stone bridge across the Li River, north and south unblocked, how convenient.

Thinking about it, the demise of the Wuling Kingdom is definitely related to this stone bridge.

Zhang Xian instigated Xiao Chulong to take back these five cities, and its profound meaning is self-evident.

Now the more than 100 steps of this stone bridge have been picked up by Xiao Chulong, but not stone, but wood.

In addition, a bridge hole was reserved for medium-sized warships.

Originally, the bridge here could only be passed by boat.

The current Wuling City is stationed with a small number of elites of the Zongye State, and some of Zhang Yu's naval troops are also here to assist in the defense.

If you want to seize this stone bridge, you must first conquer the Baling Kingdom, but the Baling Kingdom is a vassal state of the Bashu Kingdom, and the Bashu Kingdom is the secular property of the Cheng family of the top ten families, and the Qin State does not dare to provoke easily, that is to say, it is not ready to deal with him.

The Cheng family and the Qin army are not eye-to-eye, the two families do not have any major conflicts on the surface, but they don't look at each other, and the secret fight is also very fierce.

The Bashu Kingdom was also afraid that the Qin army would take the opportunity to attack him, so after Zhang Xian sent someone to contact him, he also joined the coalition army, which was also related to Cheng Zong, who returned to the Bashu Kingdom.

Cheng Zong is Zhang Xian's grandfather, Zhang Ruibai's brother, a veteran master.

Zhang Rui, Liu Feng, Li Chong, Cheng Zong and Luo Chu were in trouble together, were rescued by Raleigh, and received selfless funding from Zhang Xian, not only recovering their cultivation, but also making progress.

The timber prepared by the Marquis of Jinyang was burned to the ground by a fire, and the materials for building the pontoon bridge were lost, and this matter was also very serious, and it was not so easy to raise it now, and time did not allow it.

So his henchmen gave him an idea, which was to surprise the army and seize the stone bridge.

The Bashu State would definitely not sit idly by and watch the Marquis of Jinyang attack the Baling Kingdom, and besides, there was a coalition army of the Zongye Kingdom, the Bashu Kingdom and the Baling Kingdom stationed there.

Their joint camp was lined up, stationed in a dangerous place from Niujiao Mountain to the Yakniu River for dozens of miles, commanded by Cheng Qian, a famous general of Baling State, and behind him there were Xiao Chulong, Zong Xi, Cheng Zong and other masters to press the formation, and the Marquis of Jinyang did not dare to touch it easily.

After all, he is not the coach now, he is just assisting Wu Yuehou.

There are some big things that need Wu Yuehou's approval to do.

Therefore, the Marquis of Jinyang decided to sneak through Jixi City, raid the northern city of Wuling, and seize the stone bridge.

The eastern part of Jixi City is a mountainous area, although the mountain is not very dangerous, it is really not easy to think that the large corps can pass through, so there are not many garrisons here in the coalition army, only a small number of people are stationed at a few checkpoints.

If the Qin army wants to pass through here, there are only two roads, one is to take the mountain road, but it must seize those checkpoints, and the other way is the water road.

Don't hope for the waterway, there is a Xia country water army, as long as the mountain road can unconsciously win those few levels, walk a hundred and ten miles of mountain road out of the mountain, it is a plain of Pingchuan.

Jixi City and Wuling North City are not far apart, send troops to surround Jixi City, and the rest will go straight to Wuling North City, as long as they occupy Wuling North City, and quickly occupy Wuling South City through the stone bridge, as long as they hold it, the follow-up troops arrive in time, then this passage will be opened.

When this passage is opened, it will not be in Wangjiang Xing, and the coalition army will be cut off with a knife, and the east and west cannot be connected, except for the original Xiye State and the Bashu State, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack, this remaining vassal state will all fall into the hands of Qin.

If this strategy is realized, it will be easy for the Qin army to sweep through the south of the Yangtze River, and the Xia State will be in danger.

In fact, Wu Yuehou is not unthinkable of this strategy, but it is almost impossible to realize it.

Because there are not many military talents in the coalition army, how can they not see this step, especially Zhang Xian, he attaches the most importance to this place, and orders the Yangwei army to go up the river to garrison here at all costs.

Although the Bashu Kingdom joined the coalition against the Qin army, they did not have a major conflict with the Qin army so far, and only played a defensive and counterproductive state.

The main targets of the Qin army were Wuwei State, Suli State and Xia State, strictly speaking, Wuwei State and Suli State were implicated by Xia State, because to attack Xia State, it was necessary to pass through these two countries, and they were separated in the middle.

In fact, there is still a Sushan country, but the Sushan country is northern, and the Qin army does not pay much attention to him, otherwise the weakest Sushan country, the Qin army will destroy him as soon as he leaves.

The main purpose is to attack or exterminate the Xia State, so the Qin State still tries not to conflict with the Bashu State, and the Qin State cannot afford to fight on multiple fronts.

This is also the reason why Wu Yuehou did not put the main goal of crossing the river on the stone bridge.

If the army wants to take the stone bridge unimpeded, it must first destroy half of the Baling Kingdom and the Zongye Kingdom, but in that case, the battle will be bigger, and it will directly tear apart the Baling Kingdom.

Don't underestimate the country of Bashu, it is the country of the mountains, the country is strong, the strength is strong, provoked the southwest tiger, he out of Qishan 800 miles a horse Pingchuan, can directly attack Jianye City.

The tiger descended unstoppably.

The Marquis of Jinyang was now forced to take this step, but he still bypassed Balingguo.

But if he really succeeds, Emperor Qin and Wu Yuehou may change their strategy, postpone the attack on Xia as the main purpose, and turn to seize this strategic passage, then Qin and Bashu will clash head-on, and in that case, there will be a protracted war between the two countries.

In a short-term strategic sense, the Qin State lost more than it gained, and also established a strong enemy, so it had to let the Xia State gradually become stronger.

In the long run, the gains outweigh the losses.

Because of this strategic passage, the Qin army, which was not good at water warfare, no longer had to worry about crossing the Li River.

After smoothing out the strong offensive of the Bashu State and solving the affairs of the northern and eastern frontiers, it will be much easier to deal with the Xia State.

At that time, Wu Weiguo couldn't resist if he wanted to.

After destroying the Wuwei Kingdom, he will face the Xia Kingdom.

Through the stone bridge, a large number of soldiers and horses came across the river, and a large number of materials were unimpeded, who could still stop the iron hooves of the Qin army.

If this situation is really formed, then the coalition army will collapse.

As long as the Qin State does not target the Suli State and the crisis of the Suli State is resolved, he will inevitably withdraw from the coalition army, because he does not want to be an enemy of the Qin State.

How can the Zongye Kingdom retreat to the mountains, the Baling Kingdom is destroyed, and the Bashu Kingdom can unite with the Xia Kingdom, but they can only fight on their own, after all, they are separated by others, and they can only respond to each other.

The more Jinyang Hou thought about it, the more he felt that this plan was feasible.

So he secretly mobilized soldiers and horses, preparing to surprise troops to capture Wuling City.

But such a big military operation must be reported to the commander-in-chief, that is, it must be approved by Wu Yuehou, but the Marquis of Jinyang knows that if he wants to report, Wu Yuehou will definitely not agree.

This was not in line with the established strategic intent of the Qin Emperor.

He had this thought, but he couldn't suppress it, but acting privately would be against military regulations, and if he disrespected the order by privately mobilizing troops, he would be exterminated.

He was defeated last time, although Emperor Qin did not reprimand him too much, nor did he cut him marquis, but this shame made him breathless, and if he wanted to regain Emperor Qin's attention and restore his reputation, he had to get miraculous achievements.

So at the instigation of his henchmen, he decided to take a risk.

Once successful, in his capacity, not only will he not be punished, but he will also be rewarded.

If that fails、、、、

The Marquis of Jin Yang didn't dare to think about it.

The Marquis of Jinyang still has more than 200,000 horses in his hands, plus what was later added to him, he can gather millions of people.

As a surprise soldier, naturally there are not millions of people, but follow-up is a must.

So he led less than 100,000 elites to quietly leave the camp in one night.

Originally, he wanted to take his confidant Li Chaoyang with him, but Li Chaoyang suggested that he stay and pretend to be the Marquis of Jinyang, so that even the spies of the coalition army did not know the details, and a Marquis of Jinyang was still in the camp, and in addition, once the Marquis of Jinyang succeeded, he also commanded the men and horses to follow up.

The Marquis of Jinyang is right to think about it, his more than 200,000 horses, in addition to him, can also be commanded by Chaoyang.

These more than 200,000 horses are the only remaining old subordinates of the Marquis of Jinyang, but there are only a few of the original generals who died, and it was Li Bei who swore allegiance to him after the generals who guaranteed him to break out of the siege, and he ordered these generals to take over the command of these soldiers and horses.

Later, Wu Yuehou added a lot of men and horses to him, and these horses were disorganized and distributed to these generals.

The dozen or so former Li Beifeng's fierce generals who desperately protected the Marquis of Jinyang and fled to Jiangbei have now become generals who lead more than 100,000 horses.

However, it was not the original team of the Marquis of Jinyang who was added after all, if it weren't for his more than 200,000 people who faintly suppressed them, the Marquis of Jinyang doubted whether he could command them.

The Marquis of Jinyang took away 100,000 people, and among these 100,000 people, there were only more than 10,000 people from his original team, but they were all elites, and the people who came over were also carefully selected.

Li Chaoyang is the deputy general of the Jinyang Hou's confidant, and only he can lead his original team to suppress those who come after.

Li Chaoyang stayed, so that he could command these people to follow up、、、