After Orion shivered for a while and his narration was a bit inconsistent, Zhang Xi spent a long time and finally figured out what Orion meant by the mountain path.
There have been only two roads leading to Wuzhangyuan in Wugong County since ancient times.
Needless to say, the road is an official road. It was built with money from the government. It has a history of hundreds of years and there are basically no mistakes.
But the mountain trail is not the one Zhang Xi knows now, but another one.
That mountain road starts from the north gate of Wugong County, bypasses three mountains, and then leads to Dachangji.
However, this mountain road was overturned by an earthquake thirty years ago. That is, after the earthquake, most of it was blocked due to landslides and rock collapse. If it was to be dredged again, a lot of manpower and material resources would be needed.
After all, this is a mountain road. It was built and maintained by the people voluntarily to facilitate the access to Dachang Market for trading. It has nothing to do with the government. It is impossible for the government to send people to dredge this mountain road.
As for the people, under the leadership of the local family, they originally planned to use their leisure time to repair it. But people suddenly discovered that after the earth dragon turned over this time, a small passage suddenly appeared between the two mountains, which could be compared with that. A mountain road leads closer to Dachangji.
This is the mountain road that Zhang Xi knows now.
This mountain road no longer needs to go around three mountains, but leads to Dachangji in an almost straight line. If you have the money to dredge and repair the original mountain road that is far away, it is better to open a new mountain road to save time and effort.
In this way, as the mountain road was later opened, everyone could get closer to Dachangji. The originally blocked mountain road slowly disappeared from everyone's memory.
Today, more than thirty years later, people in Wugong County have almost forgotten that there is such a blocked old mountain road.
Even when Orion told him about the existence of this road, the slightly younger woodcutter still looked confused and had never heard of the existence of this mountain road.
But at this time, Zhang Xi's eyes lit up. If this mountain road really exists, then Zhang He's whereabouts can be explained.
But Zhang Xi was still not sure, fearing that Orion could not remember clearly, so he hurriedly asked someone to sneak the old man back.
The village elder is a little older than Orion. Orion may not remember clearly what happened thirty years ago, but the village elder definitely knows.
Then, Gao Xiang brought the old man back.
Zhang Xi said what Orion said and asked the village elder. The village elder suddenly remembered it.
"General, the villain is guilty. The guilty villain was so confused that he forgot about this matter." The village elder apologized with a pale face, but at the same time he did not forget to excuse himself and said, "However, although there is this mountain road, this mountain road It was blocked thirty years ago and has not been cleared or repaired for thirty years, so it is probably no longer possible for pedestrians."
Zhang Xi couldn't hold it back and rolled his eyes. Of course you people in Wugong County can't dredge and repair it, but that old boy Zhang He has an army in his hands! ! !
Besides, Zhang He only needs to ensure that his soldiers can pass temporarily, and he doesn't really want to build a road for you. There are many ways.
I didn't have the time to talk nonsense with the villager, so I quickly asked the villager to mark this mountain road on the map.
It's not that Zhang Xi trusts the village elders more, it's that Orion can't understand the march map at all. He can't mark it at all. At least the village elders are literate and can understand it to some extent.
After the village elder finished marking the map, Zhang Xi immediately called Gao Xiang and Liu Yin to discuss the next response plan.
As for the village elders, hunters, woodcutter and others, Zhang Xi continued to detain them in the army and entertained them with delicious food and drinks. If they really stopped Zhang He, they would naturally be rewarded heavily.
But now, we must first find a way to block Zhang He's actions.
Orion just said that although the old mountain road detours a little far, the final destination in the same direction is also Dachangji.
Zhang Xi's plan to lure Zhang He into the mountain road, then set up an ambush on the mountain road and burn Zhang He was now bankrupt.
Zhang He had already set off, and the mountain road was not the same, so there was no time to set up an ambush.
Therefore, the place to block Zhang He can only be placed at Dachangji at the exit of the mountain road.
Gao Xiang suggested that he immediately send someone to lead 500 troops and quickly march to Dachangji. He would follow up with 3,000 soldiers and strive to assemble in Dachang and completely block the path of Zhang He's army.
But Zhang Xi was worried.
That was Zhang He after all.
If Zhang He wants to take a detour and attack Wuzhangyuan, he will definitely bring a lot of troops. Gao Xiang only brings 3,500 men, so he may not be able to stop Zhang He.
Therefore, Zhang Xi decided to go to Dachangji himself to see the specific situation.
If Zhang He really went there, then Zhang Xi would be more certain to personally command his soldiers to block Zhang He at Dachangji.
If this is Zhang He's plan to invade the east and attack the west, and the goal is to control his own Chinese army camp, then even if Zhang Xi cannot return reinforcements and the camp is breached, at least there will still be some soldiers who can command and continue to hold back Zhang He's soldiers.
Once Zhang Xi left like this, there had to be a general who stayed to guard the Chinese army camp, and this responsibility belonged to Gao Xiang.
Although Liu Yin's ability can do it, Liu Yin's time in the army is too short after all, and his qualifications and achievements are insufficient. It is not as safe as Gao Xiang to stay.
After careful consideration, Zhang Xi ordered Liu Yin as the vanguard and led a thousand troops to attack Dachangji. He followed with 5,000 soldiers. In the camp, Gao Xiang led 7,000 soldiers to stay behind and The day after Zhang Xi left, he immediately launched an attack on Wugong County.
We must capture Wugong County, completely cut off Zhang He's return route, and block Zhang He in the mountains.
In short, the plan was such a plan. Once it was settled, Zhang Xi did not waste any time and immediately asked Liu Yin to select troops and horses, and set off immediately the next morning.
Regarding Zhang Xi's plan, Liu Yin and Gao Xiang had nothing to say, and they went to prepare for battle.
But after nightfall, Gao Xiang still went to find Liu Yin.
The purpose was just one - to put the three hundred people under Feng Xi's command into Liu Yin's vanguard team.
Gao Xiang is really taking care of Feng Xi.
Once the battle begins tomorrow, Gao Xiang will stay in the camp and preside over the siege of Wugong County.
But in Wugong County, without Zhang He in charge and with only more than a thousand troops, Gao Xiang really didn't think it was difficult to attack.
Conquering Wugong County is not a great achievement. Failure to conquer Wugong County is a problem.
Letting Feng Xi follow him to attack Wugong County here is really not enough for Feng Xi to establish enough meritorious deeds to prove himself again and be reinstated.
On the contrary, Zhang Xi led his troops to block Zhang He. That was the place where people were really needed and where they could make contributions.
Therefore, for the sake of his good brother, Gao Xiang had no choice but to ask Liu Yin, hoping that Liu Yin would give Feng Xi such a chance.
And Liu Yin, to be honest, Liu Yin himself didn’t want to refuse.
In today's Han army, the Jingzhou faction still occupies an absolute advantage, followed by the Dongzhou faction, such as Wu Yi, Li Yan, Meng Da, Fazheng and others, also occupy a considerable position.
Except for Huang Quan, not many of the Yizhou natives hold high positions in the army.
Since Liu Yin decided to carve out a position in the army, Zhang Xi's respect alone was not enough.
Now that Gao Xiang, the general of the Jingzhou faction, has been dragged to his side, Liu Yin is obviously not stupid enough to extrapolate. After all, the influence of the Jingzhou faction in the military is too great.
Another thing is that although Liu Yin and Feng Xi don't have much contact, Liu Yin probably has some understanding of this person's abilities. Leading an army alone may not be interesting, but when a captain charges into battle, Feng Xi is definitely qualified.
Therefore, Liu Yin not only agreed to Gao Xiang's request and transferred Feng Xi to his own account, but also assigned Feng Xi 200 soldiers, allowing Feng Xi to mobilize 500 troops.
This favor is very big. You must know that the military power Zhang Xi gave Liu Yin was only a front vanguard of a thousand men. Liu Yin had already given half of the troops to Feng Xi to command.
After that, Liu Yin went to see Zhang Xi overnight and reported the matter.
Liu Yin is not stupid either.
As a middle-level general in the army, there is really no need to alert the commander of the first army to transfer a captain. Gao Xiang and Liu Yin can only discuss this matter.
They both have this right, and there is no problem with the procedure.
But after all, Feng Xi is a person on Zhang Xi's side, and he has just been punished. Now Liu Yin has taken Feng Xi over for favors and entrusted him with important tasks. He must tell Zhang Xi. .
Zhang Xi's reaction to this matter was no reaction.
Zhang Xi doesn't hate Feng Xi and wants to beat Feng Xi to death with a stick. Zhang Xi just thinks that Feng Xi's ability is not enough for him to lead an army alone.
But if he was just a captain in charge of 500 people in Liuyin Camp, Zhang Xi didn't think that Feng Xilian didn't have this ability.
As for what Gao Xiang and Liu Yin are thinking, Zhang Xi also knows.
Although Zhang Xi also feels that there are too many generals from Jingzhou in the army today, and there should not be such factional relations in the army, but there is no way. Liu Bei has been in Yizhou for less than ten years. Military power is something else. Speaking of Liu Bei, even Zhang Xi wouldn't dare to give it to someone he didn't trust.
So, how is love, this matter will have a headache in the future, and you shouldn't have a headache yourself. That is a headache for Zhuge Liang, the Zhongshu Ling, and Guan Yu, the general.
(End of chapter)
