Huang Quan still sent out his scouts, and the scouts swept around the mountains, but they didn't find any trace of the Jingzhou army.
This Shuchuan is really too big, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of people, even if there are more than one hundred thousand, you will not be able to find people if you hide deep in the mountains.
However, Huang Quan did not dare to relax at all, and even Jiangzhou's generals said, could it be that the soldiers and horses of Jingzhou left Yong'an County early and returned to Jingzhou
If Huang She's army really went back to Jingzhou, then Huang Quan could only wish for it.
But Huang Quan knew that this was impossible. How could Jingzhou give up
"Explore again!" Huang Quan could only deepen the exploration of soldiers and horses. Knowing yourself and the enemy can win every battle. If you don't even know where the enemy is, it is simply terrible.
Zhang Ren also went back to the mansion arranged by Huang Quan in Jiangzhou.
Zhang Ren didn't need Huang Quan to relax if he couldn't find the soldiers and horses in Jingzhou. He was the prefect of Yong'an County. The loss of Yong'an County was hard to blame.
Although Liu Zhang is a bit stupid, he will not destroy the city wall by himself, so after Yong'an County was breached over there, Zhang Ren, who had been waiting to accept the crime, was pardoned by Liu Zhang, and Liu Zhang even sent a letter to comfort Zhang Ren. Any time.
Now Zhang Ren became more benevolent and righteous. Although Liu Zhang was stupid, he treated him as a national scholar. Zhang Ren was originally a loyal person, but now he regards Yizhou as his own duty.
Huang Quan couldn't figure it out. Although Zhang Ren was talented, he was not much better than Huang Quan.
They could see that the Jingzhou army might have found a country road. Or a shortcut. The road to Shu is difficult. Not only is the road difficult for him, but it also has nine bends and eighteen bends. Some old people who have lived in the local area for a lifetime may not be able to find some hidden mountain roads.
The most famous battle was that of the great ancestor Liu Bang, who repaired the plank road and darkened Chencang.
The world depends on the first battle, and Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, was caught off guard.
"Old man, is there really no path to reach Jiangzhou from Yong'an County?" In Zhang Ren's mansion, some old people from Jiangzhou came. Each of them is a very old age.
Zhang Ren invited these old people back to let them find a shortcut from Yong'an County to Jiangzhou. No news.
"General, general! The general has your letter!" Zhang Ren's subordinates shouted at Zhang Ren.
"My letter?" Zhang Ren was taken aback for a moment, who would send Zhang Ren a letter at this time.
"Who sent the letter?" Zhang Ren took the letter again and asked the general over there.
"This subordinate doesn't know either! It was sent directly by a young man!" said the personal guard, shaking his head.
Zhang Ren opened the letter in his hand, and his eyes widened the more he looked at it.
The personal guard looked over from the side, only to realize that this was not just a letter with handwriting but also a pattern on it.
"Everyone, everybody. My old men, hurry up and take a look. Is this map my map of Shuchuan!"
Zhang Ren took out the map included in the letter and asked.
Several ancient and rare old men stepped forward and looked at the map carefully.
Several people were shaking their heads.
"Isn't this our map of Shuchuan?" Looking at the old man shaking his head, Zhang Ren thought it was not true. If this map is not real, then this letter cannot be real either.
Zhang Ren was about to destroy the letter.
The old man over there stopped him, "Isn't this our Pangu land?" An old man pointed to a place on the map and said.
"Pangu Land?" Someone looked over and saw that the terrain really looked like it.
"If this is Pangu Land, then this is Mount Hao!" Another old man pointed out the terrain over there.
"Mount Hao, this is Qixia Valley, and this is Luofengpo!" One by one, the old people came in an endless stream, and Zhang Ren over there quickly got a pen and ink, and began to outline bit by bit.
Soon a rich map is revealed.
"Why don't we know this road?" Zhang Ren looked at the sign revealed on the map. If this is true, then the distance from Yong'an County to Jiangzhou County will be shortened by half. It can be shortened to less than ten days, and it may even be shorter if the horse is accelerated.
But Zhang Ren didn't understand why so many people didn't know about such a shortcut
"General, you may not know that although such a road is short, it is covered with thorns and thorns. If you go all the way, you must build bridges when encountering water and open roads when encountering mountains. It will take a lot of manpower and material resources, so this road It was just abandoned!" an old man over there said to Zhang Ren.
"Manpower and material resources?" Zhang Ren smiled wryly. Indeed, if ordinary people want to go there, it must cost a lot of manpower and material resources. But for Jingzhou over there, this is not the case. At least one point is that there are hundreds of thousands of troops. It is really not a big deal to cut down all the way.
"This map is real, so this letter is also real!" Zhang Ren suddenly remembered that it was the child who delivered the letter.
"Where is that child?" Zhang Ren asked his guards.
"Go back to the general, that child is still in the front hall!" The guard also had an extra heart, watching a child come to deliver a letter, so he stayed behind temporarily.
Zhang Ren nodded, walked towards the front hall, and asked the child over there about the letter.
The child over there was unable to give Zhang Ren any answer, because he was also a stranger who gave him a few pennies and asked him to come and deliver it.
"Come on, give me a car, I'm going to Huang Taishou's mansion!" Zhang Ren said.
"Yes!" The people under him were about to go down to prepare the carriage.
"Forget it, no need!" Zhang Ren was in an emergency, so he signed a horse and galloped towards the prefect's mansion over there.
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"Is this true?" Huang Quan met our General Zhang Ren at his prefect's mansion. He opened his eyes wide and looked at the map in his hand.
"It's absolutely true!" Zhang Ren said to Huang Quanyan, "My lord, I found several old men in this Jiangzhou. They are all words. If you come from the direction of Yong'an, go to Pangudi, then pass through Qixigu, In the end, if you go to Luofengpo, you can directly bypass the official road and appear between my Chengdu mansion and Jiangzhou county!" Zhang Ren said to Huang Quan.
"What? Can you escape the official road and get between Jiangzhou and Chengdu?" Huang Quan over there was also stunned. If it is true that the exit of this road is between Chengdu and Jiangzhou, it will be really big. up.
Because of this. Everything that Huang Quan deployed on the official road from Yong'an to Jiangzhou was nothing but a waste of troops. Once the Jingzhou army appeared, as long as a group of soldiers and horses were sent out, they could directly attack Chengdu. Ah, if Chengdu Mansion was caught off guard, even giving Huang Quan a hundred heads would not be enough to kill him.
"Quick, quick, quickly send someone to inform the Chengdu mansion, so that the lord can prepare as soon as possible, just in case!" Huang Quan is about to send someone to the Chengdu mansion to report to Liu Zhang.
"Slow!" Zhang Ren stopped Huang Quan.
"General Huang Quan. Don't do this for now!" Zhang Ren shook his head at Huang Quan.
"Why? The Jingzhou soldiers and horses may appear in our Jiangzhou at any time! It doesn't matter if my Jiangzhou is destroyed, but the Lord's Chengdu Mansion cannot be destroyed!" Huang Quan over there turned to Zhang Ren Said.
"General Huang Quan. Zhang Ren sees the general's loyalty to the lord, but if we send troops to inform the Chengdu government at this time, the general, it will really panic the people of Chengdu! Those ghosts and snake spirits , I will inevitably jump out and embarrass the lord!" Although Zhang Ren is a general, his brain is not bad.
What do you mean by ghosts and snake gods? They are those gentry people who are on the wall. Originally, it would be fine if Liu Zhang was humming in his position of Yizhou state herdsman. Niu Gui came out as a snake.
Some people have already started practicing Zhao Wei from Yunnan and Zhang Lu from Hanzhong.
If this news spreads again, if it is true, it will be fine, and it can be prevented in case of accidents, but if it is false, it will be the fault of the two of them.
Morale will inevitably be drained, and people's hearts will inevitably be unstable.
"That's what to do!" Huang Quan also has no claim. It's not right to tell, and it's not right not to tell. What should we do
"General Huang Quan, and that letter!" Zhang Ren over there handed over the letter to Huang Quan over there.
The above is nothing else, it was someone who tipped her off, telling her that Zhang Ren, the Jingzhou army, would go to Luofengpo, and asked Zhang Ren to lie in ambush at Luofengpo with his soldiers and horses, waiting for the army and the middle army to pass by. in it.
"Is this credible?" Huang Quan didn't understand this letter, because the person who could send such a letter must be the high-level Jingzhou soldiers and horses, who must have been reused by Huang She, otherwise it would be impossible to know such news Yes, but how could such a person betray Huang She
"Isn't this a trick?" Huang Quan over there was puzzled. If they had ambushed at Luofengpo, instead of waiting for the army to arrive, the Jingzhou army appeared from another way, or directly appeared in the If it is above the official path, then Jiangzhou will really be unable to guard against it.
Also, if the Jingzhou soldiers and horses deliberately lured the king into the urn, and then ambushed in advance at the place where they ambush, then the Yizhou army will be wiped out in the end.
But unlike Huang Quan's disbelief, our general Zhang Ren has a little more trust than Huang Quan.
Because he suddenly remembered someone, and that was Zhang De who let him go.
This person has high martial arts skills and is already at the pinnacle of refining gods. Similarly, he is not as young as he just stepped into the pinnacle of refining gods. It is obvious that this person has been at the pinnacle of refining gods for a long time.
At the beginning, this person used a long weapon, but later he did change to a sword. Generals like Zhang Ren, although the sword is also very easy to use, but it is still not as good as using a long spear.
In this way, once the sword is used, at most 80% of the combat power can be exerted.
Zhang De, who used a long spear at the beginning, did change to a broadsword halfway through, which inevitably made Zhang Ren feel strange. This Zhang De deliberately let his own size go.
If Zhang Ren still wondered why Zhang De let him go before, now he knows the answer.
"This Zhang De wants to kill the lord?" Zhang Ren's eyes widened and he couldn't imagine his guess.
"General Zhang Ren? General Zhang Ren? What's wrong with you?" Huang Quan called Zhang Ren over there. Hope to wake him up.
Zhang Ren shook his head and recovered from that fugue state.
"General Zhang Ren. Are you okay!" Huang Quan asked Zhang Ren over there with concern.
"It's okay. It's okay!" Zhang Ren shook his head and said.
"General Huang Quan, do you trust me?" Zhang Ren asked Huang Quan over there.
"What's the matter, General Zhang Ren?" Huang Quan looked at Zhang Ren suspiciously.
"General Huang Quan, if the general trusts me Zhang Ren, then I, Zhang Ren, ask the general to give me 3,000 people, but 800 people will be enough!" Zhang Ren over there said to Huang Quan.
But unlike Huang Quan's disbelief, our general Zhang Ren has a little more trust than Huang Quan.
Because he suddenly remembered someone, and that was Zhang De who let him go.
This man is highly skilled in martial arts. He is already at the peak of refining gods, and he is not as young as he just stepped into the peak of refining gods. It is obvious that this person has been at the peak of refining gods for a long time.
At the beginning, this person used a long weapon, but later he did change to a sword. Generals like Zhang Ren, although the sword is also very easy to use, but it is still not as good as using a long spear.
In this way, once the sword is used, at most 80% of the combat power can be exerted.
Zhang De, who used a long spear at the beginning, did change to a broadsword halfway through, which made Zhang Ren feel strange. This Zhang De deliberately gave up his own size.
If Zhang Ren still wondered why Zhang De let him go before, now he knows the answer.
"This Zhang De wants to kill the lord?" Zhang Ren's eyes widened and he couldn't imagine his guess.
"General Zhang Ren? General Zhang Ren? What's wrong with you?" Huang Quan called Zhang Ren over there. Hope to wake him up.
Zhang Ren shook his head and recovered from that fugue state.
"General Zhang Ren, are you okay!" Huang Quan asked Zhang Ren over there with concern.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Zhang Ren said, shaking his head.
"General Huang Quan, do you trust me?" Zhang Ren asked Huang Quan over there.
"What's the matter, General Zhang Ren?" Huang Quan looked at Zhang Ren suspiciously.
"General Huang Quan, if the general trusts me Zhang Ren, then I, Zhang Ren, ask the general to give me 3,000 people, but 800 people will be enough!" Zhang Ren over there said to Huang Quan.
Because he suddenly remembered someone, and that was Zhang De who let him go.
This person has high martial arts skills and is already at the pinnacle of refining gods. Similarly, he is not as young as he just stepped into the pinnacle of refining gods. It is obvious that this person has been at the pinnacle of refining gods for a long time.
At the beginning, this person used a long weapon, but later he did change to a sword. Generals like Zhang Ren, although the sword is also very easy to use, but it is still not as good as using a long spear.
In this way, once the sword is used, at most 80% of the combat power can be exerted.
Zhang De, who used a long spear at the beginning, did change to a broadsword halfway through, which inevitably made Zhang Ren feel strange. This Zhang De deliberately let his own size go.
If Zhang Ren still wondered why Zhang De let him go before, now he knows the answer.
"This Zhang De wants to kill the lord?" Zhang Ren's eyes widened and he couldn't imagine his guess.
"General Zhang Ren? General Zhang Ren? What's wrong with you?" Huang Quan called out to Zhang Ren, hoping to wake him up.
Zhang Ren shook his head and recovered from that fugue state.
"General Zhang Ren, are you okay!" Huang Quan asked Zhang Ren over there with concern.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Zhang Ren said, shaking his head.
"General Huang Quan, do you trust me?" Zhang Ren asked Huang Quan over there.
"What's the matter, General Zhang Ren?" Huang Quan looked at Zhang Ren suspiciously.
"General Huang Quan, if the general trusts me Zhang Ren, then I, Zhang Ren, ask the general to give me 3,000 people, but 800 people will be enough!" Zhang Ren over there said to Huang Quan.
"(To be continued...)