After another night of arduous marching, the reconnaissance detachment approached the predetermined area, but it was still difficult to determine that the mountain was Mount Pipa. The information they know is that "Liuzi Pass was named after Liuzi Mountain, but the exact location of Liuzi Pass is not under Liuzi Mountain, but near Biwa Mountain." "In addition, Mt. Biwa is named because it resembles a pipa.

However, Liuziguan has long been submerged in the dust of history, and the surrounding area is difficult to find, so it is difficult to find someone to inquire. Moreover, they are outsiders, and once they show up rashly to ask, they are likely to be reported by 'activists', so it is difficult to hide their whereabouts, so they can only run away quickly.

As for starting with the form, everyone knows the poem 'Horizontally seen as a peak on the side of the ridge, with different heights and heights from far and near', which fully shows that what is seen from different angles is completely different, and there are many far-fetched suspicions. Even if it's in the same position, you look like a lute, but in my eyes he's a pumpkin, and this clue is not very reliable.

Zhao Yu quickly gave up the idea of using this as a basis to find out, and started with the actual situation. I am looking for a place to use soldiers, whether it is called a cat or a dog! So they set out to search for important places that met the two conditions of 'controlling the mountain valley road and blocking the enemy from the south'.

This hill is relatively independent, and it is not tall, and a valley road that can be opened to cars and horses passes through its foot, and Zhao Yu estimates that this valley road is likely to be the old road of Tanxi, which became a road after silting up. This phenomenon is very common, and many mountain valley roads are streams during the rainy season, and major roads during the dry season. Another discovery is that there are not many Mengyuan garrisons here, and they are about three hundreds, two hundreds are stationed at the foot of the mountain, and one is stationed in the camp on the mountainside.

However, Zhao Yu was also quickly relieved, because the attack on Xiang has always broken through from the south, so the defenders will concentrate their forces in the southern mountains. The western part is used for narrow land, and it is difficult for large troops to deploy, so the soldiers of all generations will not choose to break through from the west, and the defenders will naturally not place their main forces here. It is not difficult to understand that there are fewer garrisons here.

In order to further understand the situation of this mountain, Zhao Yu took the risk to lead a group of people to climb up from the back mountain to reconnoitre, and also understood why Meng Yuan did not have many troops here, because this mountain was too difficult to climb. Because of the steepness of the mountain, woodcutters and hunters rarely come here, and there is no one to cultivate the land, which makes it even more barren, the vegetation remains intact, and the mountains are very rich in trees, covered with thorns, basically there is no road, and the climb is extremely difficult.

Therefore, if the enemy wants to occupy this mountain, the only way to attack from the front is to make a detour from the flank, and it will be blocked by the abundant vegetation, and it will be more difficult to deploy troops, and there is no need to worry about being attacked from many sides. The 300 troops occupy a favorable terrain, there are other fortresses around, and it is only a few miles away from Xiangyang City, as long as they block the enemy for a while, the surrounding troops can rush to reinforcements after receiving the alarm.

Several people finally climbed up the mountain with great effort, found a trail that could barely go up the mountain, and further confirmed the enemy's defense. It was finally confirmed that this was Mt. Biwa.

According to historical records, it is said that after the fall of Fuxi, he was buried in Da Hyeonshan Mountain in Xiangyang, Nam-gun. In order to commemorate the great emperor of ancient times, the world built the Fuxi temple built in stone on the Pipa Mountain in Xiangyang, there is a stone statue of Fuxi in the temple, there is a stone plaque in front of the temple, and the incense has been very prosperous until the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Later, due to frequent wars, the Sui and Tang dynasties were deserted.

The temple is now in ruins, but the stone statues, weathered, moss-covered and indistinct, are still there, and the plaques are still legible when they are broken and pieced together. This is a real hammer, and Zhao Yu thought that he owed another debt, and after recovering Xiangyang, he had to pay money to rebuild the temple, and then shape the golden body, and sacrifice at four o'clock, in order to show the respect for the ancestors and unite people's hearts.

After determining the location of Pipa Mountain, Zhao Hao secretly sighed that it was better to read more, especially in this place where culture is concentrated. Xiangyang is the birthplace of Jingchu culture, giving birth to Song Yu, the originator of Chu Fu, "Lower Riba people", "Yangchun White Snow", "Qu Gao and Widow" and other allusions. It left the relics of Chu customs such as the Piercing Heaven Festival, the Duangong Dance, the Hook Play, the Witch Sound, and the Bud Mao Shrinking Wine, as well as the relics of the Western Zhou Dynasty Dengcheng, Yicheng Chu Imperial City, and Nanzhang Chu Zhai Group.

Shi Dao'an, a senior monk of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, spent 15 years in Xiangyang, studying Buddhism, preaching and propagating the Dharma, unifying the Buddhist surname Shi, establishing the precepts of monks, initiating the Chinese monk system, compiling China's first Buddhist scripture catalog, laying the foundation for the sinicization of Indian Buddhism, and making significant contributions to the formation of the pattern of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in Chinese culture and even the development of the entire Han Buddhism, making Xiangyang once become the center of Buddhism in the country. Historian Xi Chiaoya's books such as "The Spring and Autumn Period of the Han and Jin Dynasties" and "The Old Records of Xiangyang" have had a profound impact on the development of Chinese historiography.

In the late Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin dynasties, in the Three Kingdoms period of nearly a hundred years of battles and storms, Xiangyang was a celebrity. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the war in the north was raging, Liu Biao led Jingzhou herdsmen, loved the people and raised soldiers, and calmly protected himself", and governed Xiangyang to economic prosperity and social stability, becoming an "oasis" of tranquility in the troubled times, and thousands of scholars came to Xiangyang one after another.

Zhuge Liang was only ten miles away from Longzhong, where Liu Bei looked at the thatched cottage and Zhuge Liang planned "Longzhong Pair", and Xiangyang also became the source of the formation of the pattern of the Three Kingdoms; Marked by Yanghu's strategy of guarding Xiangyang and Du pre-exterminating Wu, Xiangyang became the source of Jin to destroy Wu and complete the great cause of unification. There are also Sima Hui, Pang Degong, Pang Tong, Xu Shu, Cui Zhouping, a group of strategic elites, economist Song Zhong, writer Wang Cang, calligrapher Liang Hu, musician Du Kui and a number of outstanding figures gathered in Xiangyang.

Zhao Yu often uses "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a teaching material, teaching the place of soldiers, a book of one hundred and twenty times, and thirty-two of the stories take place in Xiangyang, Sima Jianxian, Sangu Thatched House, Ma Yuetanxi, Flooding the Seventh Army, scraping bones to cure poison and other stories of the Three Kingdoms that occurred in Xiangyang. And Zhuge Liang's spirit and character of "quiet self-cultivation, thrift to cultivate virtue", "indifferent and bright-minded, quiet and far-reaching", and "bow to the best and die after death" also influenced his ministers.

With these introductions, when Zhao Yu and his party were looking for Guishan on the third day, when they saw the cliff carvings of Ji Gongming when Li Zengbo of this dynasty recovered Xiangfan, they were undoubted. When the Song Dynasty Jinghu system made Li Zengbo to commend the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers for the outstanding merits of recovering the two cities of Xiangfan and engraved on the cliff, the word of Douda is engraved on the cliff wall of Zhangwugao is still very eye-catching.

Here Zhao Yu also saw that it was said to be the place of Liu Bei's 'Ma Yue Tan Creek', and the river channel less than two zhang wide at this time really made him unable to combine it with the scene of 'Lu Ma suddenly rising from the water, jumping three zhang and flying onto the west bank, Xuan De was like ...... from the clouds', if it wasn't for the 'Ma Yue Tanxi Land' sign engraved on the stone ridge, he really missed it.

Turtle Mountain according to Xiangyang City is only two miles, lying in the southwest of Xiangyang City, this is the last barrier to protect the west of the city, the mountain is like rolling up in the abruptness, compared to the Pipa Mountain is not tall, Zhao Yu still did not see that this mountain resembles a turtle. The height of the distant peaks and ridges is different, looking at the east foothills, a line of blades, high and up to the sky; The view of the western slope is lush, and the forest is rustling; In the area of Nanshan, the mountains are undulating, the water is wide and the sky is wide, and the central corner is sharp. Walking into the narrow valley road, the brown stone is ridged, standing and looking up, the wall is standing thousands of miles, and it is about to collapse.

Zhao Hao's mood was a little heavy when he saw it, Xiangyang City was clearly in sight here, and due to the terrain restrictions, they could not use a large army to attack. This requires them to conquer Turtle Mountain with lightning speed and advance to a relatively open area, otherwise they will be blocked in the mountain and unable to advance or retreat. What is even more difficult is that when the battle against Bipashan begins, Guishan will inevitably receive an early warning, and Xiangyang City will send reinforcements, so the battle will be even more difficult, or even fall short, and you will have to reconsider marching from the south.

"Fifth brother, take a break!" Turning back to the meeting place, Niu Laifu saw that His Majesty was not in a good mood, thinking that he had marched last night and carried out reconnaissance during the day, and his body could not bear it.

"It's good!" Zhao Yu nodded, but his eyes did not leave the nearby Turtle Mountain, "You say, how can we conquer Turtle Mountain before the enemy reinforcements from Xiangyang City arrive when we attack Pipa Mountain!" ”

Niu Laifu was stunned when he heard His Majesty's questioning, it turned out that he didn't listen to what he said just now, and thought about it: "It's difficult, Pipa Mountain and Turtle Mountain are about two miles apart, and Turtle Mountain and Xiangyang City are also about two miles away. Even if we can conquer Mt. Biwa in a very short period of time, and then rush to Mt. Kameyama to fight, I am afraid it will be difficult to do so. After all, we took the mountain road, while the enemy reinforcements took the road, and the marching speed was much faster than ours. ”

"We can send an elite army to bypass Pipa Mountain and go to Turtle Mountain in advance, and fight in both places at the same time!" Liu Tong suggested.

"It's difficult, we have all seen the terrain here, the mountains and forests are dense, the ditches are crisscrossed, and it is very difficult for our small team to get around lightly. The attacking troops will have to carry a large amount of weapons and ammunition, and the speed of the march will be more difficult. Moreover, the defender of Guishan should be a thousand-man team, and there should be at least 700 people, and our troops are small, which is not enough to attack; And sending a large army to attack, it is difficult not to be detected by the enemy during the march. Zhao Yu said.

"What the fifth brother said is that even if we are equal in strength with the enemy and occupy favorable terrain, it will be difficult to end the battle in half an hour. In half an hour, the enemy troops stationed outside the western city of Xiangyang had enough time to complete the assembly and quickly rushed to the battlefield. Niu Laifu sighed.

"Well, even if we can sneak into the enemy camp and launch a surprise attack, and we can quickly annihilate the enemy troops on the mountain, it will be difficult to break through the pass stuck in the mountain pass, unless there is a weapon that can blow them all up!" Liu Tongyan said.

"Hehe, you're dreaming!" Niu Laifu said with a smile, "The surprise attack troops are all lightly armed and cannot carry heavy artillery, and the power of mortars is limited, so it is difficult to defeat the enemy army in a short time, and it is difficult to blow up the gate of the village." ”

"Well, this is also an idea, you can think of a way when you go back!" Zhao Hao listened thoughtfully......