The sudden riots not only gave Zhang a deeper understanding, but also made Jia Qu begin to examine himself, Huguan, and the situation of Shangdang.

If Shangdang is a lock, then Huguan is the key to this lock.

There is no doubt about this, but the lock is behind it?

Where does the door lead to and in which direction does the house lead to?

If Jia Qu just wanted to defend Huguan, the problem was not big.

But Cao Jun...

Is it necessary to trade? There will always be spies.

Even with so many monitoring equipment in later generations, there are still 500,000.

But even if there are spies in Huguan, you may not know how powerful the explosive weapon in Huguan is...

First of all, it was Huguan Pass. The non-commissioned officers in the military academy were basically old soldiers who followed the cavalry back then. Loyalty was not a problem. Most of the new recruits were from Bingzhou, Liangzhou. Even in Huguan City, there were many old soldiers who were retired, inspected, or served the people. With one order, they could immediately add to the expanded queue, and the total number of soldiers could reach 4,000 to 5,000.

Secondly, even if the Cao army sent spies, the secret method of Tibetan military forces among the people was only the core figures under the cavalry, and the prefect who followed Fei Qian in his early years, who knew it well, so it was generally impossible to understand it at all.

What's more, most of the people who are sent to be undercover and act as spies are some sub-group figures. The real core figures in Shandong dare not come to Guanzhong at all, for fear that if they are caught by Wensi, wouldn't they fall into the trap?

Therefore, even if there are spies in Huguan, the information conveyed by them is likely to be just superficial.

What's on the surface?

On the surface, Shangdang is not a big deal, but his troops are very scattered.

There are about 3,000 people in Huguan and Huguan Pass.

What a pity that the military camp at the gate...

Gaoping and Changping line include Changping Pass, so there are two small passes, with 2,300 people.

Then Zhang Ji led 1,500 cavalry to defenders in the area of ​​Wukouxing and Shigushan at Wukouxing Pass, totaling 2,800 people.

This is the number of soldiers on the surface of Shangdang.

If Le Jin or Cao's army wants to break through from Huguan alone, normally, at least Cao's army has to use 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers under Huguan, and the auxiliary soldiers and civilians will not be neglected.

So, will Cao's army really concentrate more than 30,000 troops and attack Huguan?

The sakurado is not that easy to walk on.

Isn’t Cao’s army worried about being raided by small troops on the Yangyan Sakura?

If it weren't for the large-scale attack on Huguan, why did Lejin be sent to raid the Yakou military camp? It's unreasonable to attack but not advance, and it's unreasonable to defend, so you must have to retreat.

If we really want to advance to Huguan in large numbers, if Huguan occupies more than 30,000 Cao's army's military strength, how many will be left in other places? Is the Cao army satisfied in order to seize Huguan?

The Taihang Mountains are difficult to capture the top and above. When Qin held the power of the Battle of Changping hostage, he wanted to conquer Handan in one fell swoop, but in the end they failed, let alone attacking the bottom. The mountain road is long and rugged. Even if he conquered the pass and entered the Shangdang Basin, he had to beware of being attacked by Zhang Ji's cavalry...

By the way, Zhang Ji...

Jia Qu narrowed his eyes, suddenly stood up, walked to the carriage hanging in the hall, and frowned and pondered.

People from Shandong and people from Guanzhong.

Shangdang, Taiyuan.

Yinshan, Northern Region...

Jia Qu suddenly glared, "Thief! He actually played a big game of chess!"

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Fukou Xing, which is located on Gushan in the north, Shenli Mountain in the south, and Pengcheng in the west. There are Tianjing Pass and Dongyang Pass along the way, and the Fuyang River in the east. The place where you exit Fukou is the Jizhou Plain.

The reason why the appearance of Wukouxing should be caused by being forced.

After Duke Zhou was weak and Jin State collapsed and the three families divided Jin, Han, Zhao and Wei not only divided the legacy of Jin State on the Shanxi Plateau, but also the population and territory on the Hebei Plain were divided without exception.

Due to the existence of Taihang natural danger, both Han, Zhao and Wei face the actual need to communicate the land on both sides of the east and west sides. Especially in Zhao, you need to take a detour to South Korea or Wei. You are charged a lot of tolls for free. You can tolerate this day and two days, one month or two months. Over time, no matter how good the friendship boat is, it can be overturned!

The State of Zhao inherited the two basins of Taiyuan and Xinding in Shanxi, and on the Hebei Plain, the land north of the Zhang River to south of the Daluze was divided. If we follow the old path before, we would connect through the Jaiguan Xing, Taihang Xing and Mengmen Xing, the main ways would have to pass through the Han and Wei countries, which was equivalent to being pinched by the Han and Wei countries. Therefore, the people of Zhao finally found a road across the Taihang Mountains. However, due to the existence of the Shangdang Highlands, they could not completely avoid the entanglement with South Korea, but it was also considered that it was the real road that belonged to Zhao, that is, Fukou Xing.

Judging from the capital relocation process of Zhao State, Jinyang and Handan are undoubtedly the central cities on both sides of the Taihang Mountains, and the main significance of Fukou Xing is to directly communicate these two strongholds.

If you start from Handan and go west, cross the Mount Fushan, you will enter the Taihang Mountains. Then, Fukou Xing is divided into two branches, north and south. The south road crosses the Zhuozhang River and enters the Changzhi Basin. Then you can enter the Taiyuan Basin in the northwest direction. The north road goes upstream along the Qingzhang River and then goes to the north of the Taiyuan Basin after a long mountain road.

In comparison with the two branches, the southern road with Changzhi Basin as the relay obviously has a greater advantage than the northern road that completely shuttles through the mountains. But it is also this situation that has led the brothers who have separated to attack each other.

For the Zhao people, ensuring control of the Changzhi Basin was a necessary condition to connect its two territories, but at the beginning of the division of Jin by the three families, South Korea obtained most of the cities in the Shangdang area, and Zhao only had a few towns in the northern part of Shangdang. Zhao State attempted to establish a forward stronghold "Xiangyuanyi" in the northern part of Shangdang. However, because South Korea and Wei State jointly fought, the defeat of Zhao State was inevitable. Xiangyuan County, which was built by the Zhao people, was finally in the hands of South Korea...

Zhang Ji is mainly responsible for the defense zone from Xiangyuan County to the intersection of the road from Fukou Xing. This entire line is the defense zone of Zhangji. That is, the defense zone from Fukou Xing to Changye Huguan area, and then to the southern Taiyuan Basin. As for the road from Fukou Xing to the north to Linming Pass in Fukou Xing, it is not within Zhangji's defense range, it belongs to Cui Jun's defense...

Of course, part of the reason is that Zhang Ji is on the South Road of Wukou Xing, and there is still an area where he can run horses. If it is replaced by the North Road, he will basically be circling in the mountains and he will not be able to run horses.

Zhang Ji, he is not young anymore.

In a sense, Zhang Ji is now considered a DINK person.

Zhang Ji defected to Dong Zhuo in his early years and fought for many years, so he had no children.

Of course, this DINK was passive. The environment at that time was like this. There was nothing to say. Not only Zhang Ji, but also the entire Xiliang Longyou, and even Guanzhong were in turmoil. Countless families collapsed, fled, and died...

What?

Zhang Xiu?

Zhang Xiu is just Zhang Ji's follower.

Just like the dead Zhang Tian, ​​he was just a member of Zhang Ji's hometown.

Zhang Ji originally had a wife, but now his wife is dead.

I died some time ago and died of illness.

Of course, his wife was not "Zou", but Xiliang's wife. However, because Zhang Ji had been away from home for too long and Xiliang was very chaotic, his wife naturally could not talk about being pampered and became ill after overwork. Even if Zhang Ji later took over Shangdang, she could not make up for it. After all, she couldn't stand it a while ago, so she left.

Zhang Ji was naturally sad, but he felt that it was his wife who died, but not his wife...

To be precise, it was not the wife in Zhang Ji's memory.

This situation may be because Zhang Ji subconsciously avoided this fact, just like he would avoid thinking about his friends, compatriots, comrades and friends who had drunk with him and killed enemies together, but eventually had no bones left...

As long as he still lives in his memory, his wife will not die.

It will only forget.

It's a bit weird to say that, but that's the reality.

After Zhang Ji came back from picking up his wife, he basically had a respectful attitude with his wife, like a familiar stranger.

Well, it was just Zhang Ji's subconscious escape, because the love he was young seemed to be deeply engraved in his heart when he was apart, and he was unwilling to overlap the beautiful figure in his heart at the entrance of the village with the weak women at the moment...

Although Zhang Ji also knew that it was the same person.

However, it has been too long since separation, and the fault of memory is too deep.

Familiar people become strangers.

It was like a first love, but was eventually defeated by money, rice, oil and salt. I met again in more than ten years, and was speechless, leaving only a sigh like smoke.

You are still you, I am still me, but you are no longer the you back then, and I am not the me back then...

Zhang Ji just needed some time to adapt, but what he didn't expect was that before he could adapt, the person was gone.

Zhang Ji is not a saint, he is just a rough man.

He didn't even understand what warmth was. Even the expression of emotions was a kind of shame or a kind of shame, so...

He was sad, but he felt happy. On the one hand, his wife's illness was actually very painful. Death meant that she would no longer be tortured by illness. On the other hand, his wife, from then on, merged into one, completely living in his memory and in his heart. When it was late at night, Zhang Ji would still see the red figure that once was in the gray and yellow mountains, like a bright red blood, and the ever-turning love song still lingers in the depths of his soul...

This feeling made Zhang Ji very uncomfortable. He was not good at expressing himself and was even less used to lying about it.

He was like most Northwest men, keeping everything in his stomach.

So Zhang Ji took his men to practice, because he was more familiar with the military affairs than emotional pain, doubts and helplessness, so he left the atmosphere that made him feel uncomfortable.

From Xiangyuan to Shexian, there are three middle counties, two small counties, seven villages and towns, and some sporadic small villages. There are no big counties, and there are no later generations who have to get together if you have anything or not. They may build a pigeon cage that can be halfway through the cooing, so there is not a large population on this line of defense.

The soldiers Zhang Ji brought with him could not stay near a county town for a long time, otherwise the sudden increase in population would bring pressure to the county town that could not be resolved in a short period of time. Therefore, Zhang Ji would generally change his garrison location at most one month.

Outside Xiangyuan County, in Zhangji camp, soldiers were sorting out their baggage and preparing to change their base.

Zhang Ji sat alone, but some soldiers came from the camp gate, saying that there was "an old friend visiting".

"Old friend?" Zhang Ji frowned, "I left my hometown in my early years, so what other old friend is there?"

Although Zhang Ji said this, he still stood up and took a few guards to the camp gate. When he climbed up the high ground, he couldn't help but be stunned.

He is really an "old friend"!

Outside the camp gate, there was a man with a yellowish-brown hair and a look of a Hu man, but he spoke in Liangzhou Hanyin, "General Zhang! I haven't seen him for many years, are you okay?"

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Although Huguan is a city with more military functions than civil affairs, the streets are very clean and cleaned, which is in sharp contrast to some military fortresses that only manage military affairs and do not take into account people's livelihood.

Thanks to the sanitation system implemented by Feiqian in the early days, there are two large and small bathhouses in Huguan City, which are not expensive, so basically every family can afford it. When people are clean, they don’t like the surrounding environment to live too dirty, so garbage cannot be thrown around, and donkeys, horses and mules have to hang a bag of shit when they go out on the street.

There are no beggars all over Shangdang Taiyuan.

There are special shelter places in Shangdang, and there are also in Taiyuan. Once refugees enter the prefectures and counties, they will encounter patrol officers who strictly check their road and household registration. If they do not have these identity certificates, they will be forced to be sheltered and make arrangements after the investigation is made.

In particular, the combination of inspection and the local Fangding Baojia system makes it very difficult to get involved. After all, Huguan is a military town and is completely different from the commercial city of Sanfu in Chang'an.

Wherever you go to Chang'an, you can also use the reasons of visiting relatives and friends, purchasing goods, registering for imperial examinations, etc. to create a temporary road guide. What if you come to Huguan? In Huguan, whether the migrant population rents a house, does business or works, you must have local military households as guarantors. If you find any problem and the owner does not report it, not only the landlord, but also the neighbors around you will be punished. In this case, if you had not settled in a early years, it would be impossible to want spies who have just gotten in.

Ye Chuan has been in Huguan for three years.

He runs a small tavern.

The diner was opened two years ago. At that time, he didn't have enough capital and borrowed money from the government. The interest rate was not high, only half a share of the profit. Unlike Shandong who always demanded one or two cents of interest, he paid back some money every month, and now there is still a little left. So the happiest thing about him is that in a few months, maybe the business will be better this year and you can pay off the loan, and then the diner can be completely considered his own private property!

It’s a pity that something unhappy has come.

As the news of Cao's arrival spread, the city naturally started to move around military affairs.

Not only did the original soldiers increase their vigilance, but the soldiers who retired or returned home were also mobilized...

In the restaurant, some soldiers who were about to return to the team gathered in the restaurant and their voices became louder, "... Everyone! What was our hard training for before?! What was the purpose of today! After eating today's meal, all the members will return to the team tomorrow! Although we can't drink today, after defeating Cao's army, we will drink and celebrate the achievements again! We will stop drunk when we are drunk!"

"Yes! I followed General of the Cavalry and fought from Pingyang to Yinshan, which made the Xianbei run away!" An older soldier shouted loudly, and the scars on his face seemed to be shining with glory. "In my team, there are only heroes who died in the Yingling Temple, and there are no cowards who escaped in the last battle!"

『Military merit! Military merit is everything! My mother always urges me to marry, but I tell my mother no rush!』 The other man also smiled, 『With military merit, we men walking on the street, which big girl and little wife don’t take a high look? If we can get promotion, the threshold will be broken by the matchmaker! I am short of military merit now! With military merit, I cannot choose what kind of woman!』

The soldiers sitting around laughed together.

The old soldier also said: "Yes! I was so poor back then that I couldn't even eat a bite of food! But now you see, I have fields and my wife at home. I gave birth to a baby two years ago! With the cavalry, I had food today and my wife and children! Not to mention that the envoy ordered the conscript today, even if I didn't order it, I would go! I have a merit field, but the little boy has not yet! I want to save a few acres of merit field for the little boy!"

"Yes! Killing the bandits in the mountains, looking at the bad face of the military officials, it's not considered a head-level merit after a long time! Now that Cao's army is here, it's different! If there is armor, even if there is a head, I'm just one! I think about it now, and I feel itchy when I think about it!"

Everyone laughed again.

Amid the laughter, the old man raised his arms high, "I'm a cavalry!"

Everyone responded, "Attack is impossible! Invincible!"

『General of the Cavalry!』

『Wan Sheng!』

"Cabin Army!"

"mighty!"

All the soldiers patted their chests, with a fanatical expression on their faces. At the end, they shouted almost at the top of their lungs, "My cavalry army, can defeat everything! Invincible! Invincible! Invincible! Invincible!

Rhythmic shouts sounded, attracting the attention of the people around them.

Ye Chuan is naturally among them.

Looking at these cheering soldiers, Ye Chuan felt an unspeakable force that seemed to be rushing towards him. This force made people afraid and terrified.

This is a completely different feeling from being in Shandong, and this feeling has not been relieved or disappeared over time, but has become stronger. The high fighting spirit of these soldiers is not visible to the Cao army in Shandong, no, even in the previous Han army...

Ye Chuan naturally didn't know why this happened, but when he faced such a situation, he felt like a stone was stuffed into his heart, heavy and inescapable of excluding it.

Cao Jun...

Can you win?

If I can't win, what should I do?
Chapter completed!