Just when the two of today's top generals met, Li Xin had already gone all the way north, along the control of the Great Jin court, bypassing Hanzhong, and preparing to advance towards the spine road.

Along the way, he walked very carefully.

In fact, it is impossible for an army of more than 10,000 people to completely hide their whereabouts, and tens of thousands of troops march mightily, and it is impossible to completely hide their whereabouts.

Even if Li Xin carefully cleared the scouts along the way, the limit of what he could do was to blur his whereabouts as much as possible, so that the enemy would not know exactly where he had gone.

However, the general range of activities, the southwest will have some ideas more or less.

Therefore, while Li Xin pays attention to cleaning the tail behind him, he sometimes deliberately makes some detours to interfere with the enemy's judgment.

Originally, when they cleaned up the scouts, the marching speed was much slower, and then there were some deliberate detours, and the speed was even slower, and they left Jingzhou for more than half a month, and only walked four or five hundred miles.

Li Xin was not in a hurry.

And the little grandfather Ye Mao who was following him was in a hurry, after a day of camping, the little grandfather walked to Li Xin's handsome tent, and after seeing Li Xin who was looking at the map of southern Xinjiang with Zhao Jia, the little grandfather was a little angry, took two steps forward, hugged his fists and said: "General Li!" ”

Li Xin glanced up at Ye Mao, then put his eyes back on the map, and finally pointed to one part of the map, and said to Zhao Jia unhurriedly: "Brother You'an, in this area, you go and let people collect specific topographic maps, and try to figure out how these mountain roads enter the mountains." ”

At the beginning, Deng Ai walked this Yinping ancient road, and his subordinates suffered many casualties, although his main force basically passed smoothly, but Li Xin's ability to lead the troops was still worse than Deng Ai, and he had to be fully prepared.

After listening to Li Xin's words, Zhao Jia nodded and said in a low voice: "My subordinates will do it." ”

As he spoke, he looked up at the angry little grandfather Ye Mao, and then said with a smile: "The little grandfather came a little earlier than the Hou Ye expected. ”

With that, he walked out of Li Xin's handsome tent.

After Zhao Jia left, there were no outsiders in the tent, Ye Mao was anxious, hugged his fists and said: "Uncle Li, my father is going to fight Hanzhong in the next two days!" ”

Li Xin didn't raise his eyelids, and said lightly: "What you can know, I, the main general, naturally already know, the fight in Hanzhong is something that I and Senior Brother Ye decided early on, what is there to be worried about?" ”

"But my father has to fight hard in Hanzhong, so we can't do nothing!"

Ye Mao first glanced at Li Xin, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "During this time, I have paid attention to the direction of our march, we are heading northwest, and we are getting farther and farther away from southern Xinjiang!" ”

Most of the people in this era can't read the map, and even many people can't even recognize the direction, but Ye Mao was born in Jiangmen, and he naturally knows these most basic things.

Li Xin's face remained unchanged, and he said slowly: "With Senior Brother Ye's strength, it is not difficult to take Hanzhong, what should we do, what are you in a hurry?" ”

After getting along for a period of time, Li Xin has gradually figured out Ye Mao's temper, this little grandfather is impatient, he will do anything when he thinks of it, he doesn't know how to write four words thoughtfully, but he still has the ability, and he can do ordinary things for him, and he can do it very beautifully.

In short, there are generals but no handsome talents.

This is also the reason why the father and son of the Ye family are very worried about him.

The little grandfather is still a little afraid of Li Xin, not because of how powerful Li Xin is, but because Li Xin has a good relationship with his father and ancestors, as long as a fluttering little report will let the little grandfather go home and be beaten.

After listening to Li Xin's words, he first glanced at Jing Anhou, and then said with a wry smile: "Uncle Shi always has to tell me, where are we going?" ”

"Your father told you to listen to me."

Li Xin's face turned pale, and he didn't answer the little grandfather's question, but asked, "Let you clean up the tail behind you, how did you clean up?" ”

The little grandfather scratched his head, a little helpless.

"Recently, there are not many tails behind me, and a battalion of cavalry can catch seven or eight people in a day patrolling behind, which is not interesting, I left it to my subordinates to do."

"Then stay honest."

Li Xin slowly closed his eyes.

"As soon as the battle in Hanzhong starts, we will speed up our actions."

……

It's very simple, now the southwest side is staring at Li Xin's division of troops, and for more than half a month, Li Xin can cut off a lot of small tails behind him every day, so that he has to deliberately take a detour to interfere with the army's sight.

But if the battle of Hanzhong is together, the army's eyes will inevitably be on Hanzhong, and at that time, Li Xin will start to speed up his movements and enter the vicinity of Yinping as soon as possible.

At this time, the Hanzhong War had begun.

Because Ye Ming's nearly 100,000 people have arrived at the city of Hanzhong.

Hanzhong is the gateway to the southwest, and only by knocking on this gateway can you really enter the southwest, so this is a war that has to be fought.

According to the rules, the edict of the king is to read out the edict, and now Ye Ming's department is the forbidden army near the capital, and the one who is representing justice is the king master, so Ye Ming first asked people to read out the edict of the imperial court in front of the battle, denounced the treason of Hanzhong, and asked the Hanzhong general Meng Qi and the Hanzhong prefect Chen Sheng to open the city gate and surrender.

Naturally, no one paid attention to him.

So, on the third day of Ye Mingbing's arrival in Hanzhong, the general, who had guarded Jimen Pass for more than ten years, finally waved his hand fiercely and announced the siege of the city.

Reading the edict, it is naturally unlikely to be read for two days, in fact, in the past two days, Ye Ming's department has been in full swing to build siege equipment, engineering vehicles, ramming rams, etc., all of which have been made by the elite forbidden army.

Siege, in fact, is very untechnical, and generally there are three situations.

The first is to come hard, directly start the siege, this situation is purely to fill with human lives, use human lives to consume the materials and equipment of the defending side, and wait until the enemy runs out of ammunition and food, or they really have the kind of fierce general brother who climbs first, and they can break the enemy city.

If you don't want to use this stupid method, then it is better to besiege the city, this method is to use supplies to consume the enemy, under normal circumstances, as long as a year and a half, the city has run out of food, and most of them will surrender the city.

The third is to encircle the point and send reinforcements.

However, General Ye simply chose the first option, no matter what, the momentum of this first battle must be fought.

The siege method is very simple, attack the four walls at the same time, 2,000 men on each side, and then choose one of the walls to focus on breaking through, and use the catapult to hit the city hammer to start a fierce siege.

According to Ye Ming's calculations, although many people will die if they are defeated like this, they should be able to take Hanzhong within a month or two.

The first team of people rushed to the city gate first, and some people were already preparing to hit the city gate with a ram.

It was at this time......

The gates opened on their own!

Led by Li Yan, a fierce general in the southwest, thousands of people poured out from each of the four gates, and they rushed into the formation of Ye Ming's department in one go.

Li Yan rode on a big green horse, holding an iron lance, and rushed into the forbidden army.

He swept with a horse lance, and in just one moment, two or three forbidden soldiers were smashed by him and broke their bones.

The Southwest warrior raised his iron lance high and roared angrily.

"Brothers, the puppet emperor usurped the country and killed these rebels, you and I are all heroes from the dragon!"

"Kill!"