"Meng Sima, don't look at the name of this county, but it actually has a connection with your ancestors."

Zhang Fen from the New Qinzhong told Mengze the origin of the city: "Legendly, my ancestor General Meng was ordered by Emperor Qin Shihuang to attack the Xiongnu in the north. He built the city here. Before starting the construction, he used a goblet to fill wine to worship. At this time, a quail bird flew over and stopped on the goblet. So according to this auspicious elephant, the city was built and named "Qili Goblet" (soul gū)."

Meng Ze, who was opposite him, said no, but was not interested in the allusions of this ancestor. He just sat in front of the stove and roasted the fire. He was quite bored. He reached out to pinch the little insect in his armpit and cursed:

"If I keep guarding this city, my armor will grow lice."

Let’s talk about the autumn, when Zhang Chun heard about the Fifth Reun’s affairs, he ran to the south to show his loyalty and obtained a marquis. After returning to the New Qinzhong, Old Zhang Chun called out his son Zhang Fen and went to the King of Wei to obey the order, which was equivalent to being a hostage, while Meng Ze was ordered to escort him south.

When the two and more than a hundred soldiers arrived in the northern region, they happened to catch up with the Longyou forces attacking Yuan She, so they could only follow the hero Yuan to flee south. After joining Geng Yan, they guarded the area of ​​Quegu together.

But now there is no auspiciousness of quails in this small town in winter, and they can't even drink wine. The Longyou cavalry cut off their roads with Guanzhong. The King of Wei believed that sending food to the north under this situation was purely a resource for the enemy, and only allowed them to persevere until spring.

The enemy situation was not as urgent as the fire. Several counties in the north, east and south of the Quegu were still controlled by the Wei army, blocking the enemy from all sides. Tens of thousands of soldiers from Longyou from the west also lost food after a few days of besieging them and returned to Anding County.

Logically speaking, Geng Yan only needs to sit quietly and guard several counties, and do not let Longyou take Xiaoguan Road and the northern county. However, this son is not as good as the King of Wei, and is active by nature.

"Mon Sima."

Geng Guo was ordered by his brother to call Mengze for military discussion, which made Mengze flattered and quickly arrived in a cave in Xiaoyi. Before he got into it, he heard Yuan Shuzai, who was named "Ranker General" by the fifth reunion, argued with Geng Yan.

"Qigu, Yiju, Niyang, and Qixian in the south. Several cities are supporting each other. The Longyou soldiers are not easy to attack the city in the twelfth lunar month. As long as you guard until the beginning of spring, you can wait for the King of Wei to send troops to help. Why should General Geng take the risk to attack?"

Compared to the call of wind and rain when he was a hero in Maoling, Yuan She is much older now, and he can't figure out Geng Yan's adventure choice.

Geng Yan said, "When Yuan Dahe was a hero who was a hero, the tyrants of the counties, states, Chang'an, and all the integrity of the Five Tombs all admired him. This is because Yuan Jun was able to be anxious about what others were anxious about, could not do what others could do, and dared not do what others dared not do. Therefore, Guanzhong attracted attention."

"Why is the dusk now?"

Yuan She was silent immediately. How did his ambition fall little by little? It was not yet a errand for the 2,000-stone errand awarded by Wang Mang!

Since last year, there was a great chaos in the east, and Wang Mang began to seek medical treatment in a hurry, asking the royal family to recommend more talents. So Yuan She was recommended. After Wang Mang summoned him, he thought he could be the servants to die, so he leniently forgiven him, and Wang Mang, the great minister of the Northern Land, was so bold to hire people.

But although Yuan She had been an official, she was just a county magistrate in the past, and it was fine to take all the black and white qualities. However, if he had to control a huge county, he was a little stretched and was soon defeated by the northern Fu and Gan Er family.

At the first few months, he could at least sway among the King of Wei and receive the seals of the two countries. However, when the decision came, the reason for his relationship with Wan Xiu was that he was inclined to join Wei. However, the local tyrants were interested in the benefits promised by the Wei family. The two sides fought in a melee, and his foreign powerful dragon could not suppress the local snake, so he was defeated.

After retreating all the way here, the old subordinates suffered heavy casualties, and Yuan She lost all his heroism. He just wanted to stay up until the beginning of spring and go back to Maoling to be a rich man. This chaotic era is not suitable for him.

But Geng Yan's mentality is completely opposite to his 21-year-old young man!

The two countries are fighting each other, and the focus of the competition is the cities on Xiaoguan Road. It is a very shameful and humiliating to ask him to wait for others to come to save him!

If you want to do it, just be the one who can turn the situation around in one fell swoop. Geng Yan believes that he has seen this possibility and has the ability.

"The Wei family wanted to siege our troops, and lured the King of Wei to send troops to help, one to destroy another!"

The Green Han's restraint is still useful. Tongguan and Yuguan must keep troops to defend. Wan Xiu's main force is confronting Wei Xiang across Chang'an City. The fifth reunion is also mainly defense in Wuling. After the newly recruited soldiers are trained, a counterattack will be launched in spring.

The fifth relationship is as unmoved as a mountain, but it is not as fooled as Longyou, but Geng Yan cannot be so leisurely.

"The King of Wei doesn't know that we have collected too many remnants and people who have defected. The food from several cities is probably not enough to last the spring."

So before the food is gone, it is better to take risks.

"My intention has been decided, please stay in this city with my brother."

"And I will transfer a thousand elites, bring five days of dry food, and attack lightly!"

Geng Yan set the tone and asked his younger brother to bring Meng Ze in: "I heard that the new Qin-zhong old soldiers you brought have all the strength of their feet? Can you walk on the mountain plateau?"

Meng Ze has been so tired that he has not only sat quietly in the quail goblet these days, but also to consider the old part of their fifth family, who were the first to be left on the frontier in the past few years. Now when he contacted the King of Wei again, he realized that they had missed too many wars and achievements and had been marginalized!

The others didn't care, but Meng Ze was unwilling to accept it. After hearing that General Xiao Geng often made contributions, he was quite excited at this time and said, "This terrain is similar to that of Xin Qinzhong. It is full of loess plateaus and ravines. We are like walking on flat ground!"

...

When Geng Yan took Meng Ze and a thousand carefully selected soldiers, wrapped in thick winter clothes, without armor, or riding a horse or walking, and was about to leave the small town of Quegu, Yuan She tried to give him the final advice.

"In the twelfth lunar month, you have to walk a two hundred miles of mountain road in the mountain plateau and gullies. Five days of dry food may not last until the general leads his troops to arrive in Fengxian County (Longxian). Isn't the general afraid of the soldiers being hungry?"

Geng Yan had already considered it: "There are some villages and villages in the mountains along the way. Because they are far away from the important roads, they don't even know the dispute between Han and Wei. Some are already deserted villages, and some are still homes. They have places to stay every day. They should rob them and rob them, so that they will not have no food."

Yuan She advised again: "A few days ago, although there were no soldiers at the Longyou city, the scouts were still circling nearby. Every move of the general was in his eyes. If Longyou discovered the general's intention and pursued him with his head, how would the general respond with few enemies?"

Geng Yan was confident: "The people I chose were all northern soldiers, especially more than a hundred people from the New Qin Dynasty. Everyone could ride horses. Niyang and Yiju were all transferred to make up hundreds of horses, but the cavalry could not be trained. Horse riding and infantry were enough. If you change to ride, your footsteps would not be slower than those of Longyou cavalry."

Yuan Shi said again: "Although the route chosen by the general is mostly streams and gullies, the last one has to cross thousands of mountains. Is it really possible?"

"The mountains in the north are not as good as those in the south." Geng Yan asked the guide: "Although the Qianshan Mountains are adjacent to Qixiu in the east and Longgang in the west, it is a watershed with Jingwei. However, the slope of the main ridge is flat, so it will not be difficult to abandon the pack horse and walk over it."

Yuan She had one last thing to worry about: "Longyou came out in full swing this time. Although the rear was empty, Fengxian County was the key point of Longguan Road. There were no less than a few hundred defenders. After the general arrived with exhausted soldiers, how should he seize the city when facing the strong city?"

Geng Yan smiled mysteriously: "I have my own concerns."

Finally, he looked at Harashi: "Zheng Yuan is so considerate, not like a hero, but like a civil servant."

"I'm old, old." Yuan She felt a little ashamed, and watched Geng Yan and more than a thousand people go away with the city leader. Looking at the disappearing figure, he only sighed:

"I was originally from the scene, but I was just a hero in the folk."

"But General Geng is a hero among the generals in the army and a hero of thousands of men!"

...

In front of Yuan She, although Geng Yan said it easily, he also knew very well: "If this battle is successful, I will turn the situation around and make great contributions; if I cannot, I will be ruined."

But this did not prevent him from taking risks. Geng Yan deliberately marched eastward, as if he was going to several other county towns. The Longyou Army from Anding would definitely step up the siege of Quegu when he learned that so many soldiers were withdrawing. He did not expect that he actually wanted to attack them from the rear!

Next, it’s a race against time!

After walking east for a long time, Geng Yan suddenly turned southwest and entered a gully called "Bailixi". The snow at the beginning of the moon had melted, and there was only some residual snow on the plateau. They were marching towards the rustling north wind, and their noses were frozen on their faces.

The road is difficult to walk, and it is not a smooth road for a large group of people to move forward. Fortunately, there are indeed many villages along the way that allow them to live in the evening.

The next day, the army passed through Yinmi (Lingtai) county town. This small county town, which was far away from all passes in the mountains, seemed to be forgotten. It belonged to neither the Western Han Dynasty nor the Wei Dynasty. No one had ever come to promulgate in the past. When Geng Yan's army passed by, from the county magistrate to the people, he looked at them in shock.

Geng Yan remembered a poem: "The father of Gu Gong, who came to the court to take the horse. He led the Western Water Margin to Qixia."

"When the Shang Dynasty, the northwest Rongdi repeatedly invaded the land of Bin. The father of the Gugong, the father of the surname Ji, led two thousand cyclists of Zhou, followed the Qishui River and went to Zhouyuan at the foot of Qishan."

"It's similar to our route today."

It was just that the Zhou people migrated on the plains, while they marched in sparse valleys and gullies, so that they could avoid the eyes and ears of the Longyou scouts.

On the vast Loess Plateau, in the cold winter, the air turns into frost, and the cold wind is like a knife cutting. With the squeaking sound under your feet, the frozen dead grass is trampled into pieces by human feet and horse hooves.

Because there were not enough pack horses and there were still losses along the way, many people still had to walk. Today it was Geng Yan's turn to take the lead in walking, which made the people who complained and regretted had nothing to say.

But Geng Yan lived a good life since he was a child. He basically traveled and fought, not as hard as soldiers. He was not very comfortable as he walked. When he reached the next deserted village, he took off his boots and socks and found that his toes had blisters squeezed out of bloody blisters and his calf began to cramp, which was extremely painful, but Geng Yan only gritted his teeth and endured it.

"General Geng didn't walk far away." Meng Ze said with a smile. It could be seen that Geng Yan thought that the more boot pads you had, the more comfortable it would be when you walked. As a result, the boots were squeezed and the blood flow was not smooth. It would be strange if he sat on the ground and didn't get cramps. He pressed him for a while before he recovered.

There are many soldiers with the same symptoms. Fortunately, they can change to ride horses. The butt is worn out much better than the feet. Those who really can't walk and fall behind will stay in the local area for standby.

On the fourth day, it started snowing, with white snow falling and cold wind roaring. The wind was getting heavier and heavier. Although there were obstacles on both sides of the ravines, the snowflakes still drilled into the soldiers' cuffs and collars, and many people were trembling with coldness.

"Take your face sideways and don't face the wind!"

Geng Yan had experience this time and could laugh out loud in the cold wind: "This wind and this snow are far worse than the Shui Shanggu!"

"Yes, compared to Xin Qinzhong, what is this little snow?" Meng Ze responded behind and moved horizontally to a place with no wind behind the mountain to rest.

As the number of employees was reduced all the way, the fourth day was difficult to reach, and the east-west direction was the Thousand Mountains that stretched for hundreds of miles were right in front of you.

The mountain plateau is not very high and the slope is gentle, but the horses are never able to reach it. This is also a place where the Longyou cavalry would not come.

"Abandon the horse and turn it over!"

Geng Yan learned and used it. In the future, he learned the tricks of Xi. When he rode a horse and threw away his horse, he would go anywhere.

He used his hands and feet, took the lead in climbing up the plateau, looked up at the top, begging not to have any enemy ambush! Otherwise, the entire army would be wiped out!

The deserted valley and the snow was snowing yesterday. I don’t know if the Longyou Army didn’t catch up or noticed it at all. The army quietly penetrated into the middle of the two armies, which was not the main road of the march, and then entered the empty rear.

After climbing over a thousand plains on the top of the mountain, Geng Yan walked to the edge, and the world, hills, gullies, city walls, and fields were all white. Many soldiers suffered from snow blindness, their eyes were a little dry and they could not see clearly. Instead, Meng Ze taught him a method taught by the fifth reunion: to use black soil to blacken the nose below the eyes.

After looking for a while, Geng Yan pointed his finger at a small black dot outside the hill more than twenty miles away.

"That is Fengxian (now Longxian)!"

They spent four and a half days, walking more than 200 miles, crossing the valleys and ridges, and running from Xiaoguan Road to Longguan Road. To the west of Xian County is the towering Longshan Mountain, and Longguan is on the other end of the mountain, so it is not a place to take advantage of the situation.

The soldiers were already quite exhausted and could hardly move their legs. Is there a siege battle next?

"Put out the flag!"

With Geng Yan's order, a flag stretched out in the rustling cold wind.

It was a red flag with the word "陈" embroidered on it!

"I remember that we are not the Wei army who came to steal the attack."

"But the Western Han army in Longyou who rushed to the front line to rescue from west to east!"
Chapter completed!