From Li Xin to Jingzhou City, a short period of time has passed, but because there are no major events during this time, both sides are just Chen Bing's wait-and-see reasons, so Ye Shaobao's side has not made much action, even if he wants to talk to Li Xin about things, he will come over during the day, and there will be no urgency.

This time, it was the first time he sent someone to look for Li Xin in the middle of the night.

In terms of the positions of both sides, Ye Ming is the general manager of the southwest march this time, and Li Xin is assisting him as the general of the forbidden army, in this kind of wartime, what Ye Ming said is a military order, although this Ye Shaobao will not worry about these things with Li Xin, but what he says Li Xin should still listen to.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Xin couldn't think of any clue, he went back to the house to change his clothes, and under the escort of several Yulin guards, he went out of the house in the middle of the night.

Jingzhou City at midnight is quieter than the capital, except for the early summer insects and sporadic dog barking, no sound can be heard.

Li Xin was riding on a horse, and he had no time to take care of the night view of Jingzhou City, because it was not too far from the State Pastoral Mansion, and the group only took a pillar of incense to reach the State Pastoral Mansion.

At the gate of the State Pastoral Mansion, a family member of the Ye family had been waiting for Li Xin for a long time, and when he saw Li Xin coming, he immediately helped Li Xin lead the horse, and then bowed his head and said, "Master Li, the general is waiting for you." ”

Li Xin nodded: "Take me to see Senior Brother." ”

As he spoke, Li Xin turned over and dismounted, the Ye family threw the reins to the people around them, and then led Li Xin all the way to the back hall of the State Pastoral Mansion, in the study, Li Xin saw Ye Shaobao, who had taken on a huge responsibility this time.

This General Ye has not been able to sleep well in the past few months, firstly, to ponder the situation in the southwest, and secondly, to take into account the interests of the court, in just half a year, his sideburns have become a lot more white, and he looks a little older.

Because of the reason that he got married earlier in this era, Ye Ming is actually not much younger than his father Ye Sheng, Ye Sheng should be seventy-three years old this year, and this General Ye is already fifty-six years old this year.

Fifty-six years old may not be a big deal in later generations, but in this era, especially among soldiers, it is considered an advanced age, and it is generally not enough to live to this age.

When Li Zhijie, the first generation of Pingnan Hou, died of illness more than ten years ago, he was about the same age as Ye Ming now.

Like Ye Sheng, an old man in his seventies who is still in good health, is an outlier in this era, and he is also a birthday star.

After seeing Ye Ming, Li Xin bent down slightly, hugged his fists and said, "Senior brother looking for me?" ”

Ye Ming was originally looking at the map of the southwest, but after hearing Li Xin's words, he woke up like a dream, he stood up, stretched out his hand and pulled Li Xin to sit down, and sighed slightly.

"Disturbing in the middle of the night, disturbing Chang'an's dream."

Li Xin smiled and shook his head: "Senior brother is the main general, whatever orders are due, besides, the junior brother has some things today, and he hasn't slept yet." ”

Ye Ming nodded slightly, he pulled Li Xin to sit down next to the table in the study, and then bowed his head slightly and said: "Chang'an, you see, this is the southwest Kanyu map that I got for my brother, which was drawn by a scholar doctor in the old Southern Han Dynasty for decades, in terms of refinement, it can be called the best in the world. ”

When he said this, even Ye Ming's city government was slightly proud.

In this era of extremely difficult surveying and mapping, it is very difficult to have an accurate map, and the general general fights a war, relying on one or two extremely rudimentary maps, basically relying on the locals to lead the way, otherwise it will be easy to lose his way.

Li Xin's flying general, Li Guang, was lost many times.

And the reason why Ye Ming stopped in Jingzhou Mansion and refused to enter Shu was because the terrain in the 100,000 mountains was extremely complicated, and even the locals sometimes couldn't touch it, and he didn't dare to enter Sichuan before he was completely sure.

Li Xin took a serious look at this map, and then compared it with the country of abundance in the later generations in his mind, and finally shook his head slightly.

I don't know if there is something wrong with this map, the Bashu on the map has a lot of differences with the Bashu of his world, maybe because this is a completely different world, but it is similar to another world.

Maybe it's because of this map...... It's too rough.

"Senior brother, I can't understand this picture, if you have anything to say, what the little brother can do, do your best."

A smile appeared on Ye Ming's face.

"Brother Wei thought of a way to break Shu, if this method can be successful, we don't have to spend it with Li Shen here, if the plan goes well, at the end of the year, we can enter Jincheng!"

Li was stunned.

A large part of the reason why this southern Xinjiang is not easy to deal with is because of the terrain, not to mention the mountainous area, and there are many places that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if the two sides have equal forces, it is difficult to completely defeat them, this General Ye has only been in Jingzhou for half a year, and he can solve the problem that the Great Jin Dynasty has had a headache for 30 years?

Ye Ming didn't see Li Xin's surprised look, but pointed at the map with his hand.

"Chang'an, look, this is the Sword Pavilion."

Ye Shaobao said in a deep voice: "More than thirty years ago, Marquis Li Zhijie fought from Hanzhong to the Sword Pavilion, and then was blocked by this Sword Gate for more than five years, and finally gnawed the Sword Pavilion down, so that he was able to break through Mianyang and enter Jincheng. ”

There are a total of several feudal screens in the southwest, the outermost is Hanzhong and Jingzhou, and then the inside is the Jianmen Pass of the Sword Pavilion, if the Jianmen Pass is lost, the enemy can go straight into Mianyang Hanzhou, and then reach the city of Jincheng.

At the same time, because the emperor of Nanshu at that time, Li Shi, was too disobedient and changed generals many times, so Li Zhijie broke the Jianmen Pass and entered Jincheng all the way.

Ye Ming continued: "This is how the Pingnan Army entered Shu at the beginning, so in the two places of Hanzhong and Jianmen Pass, Li Shen has arranged heavy troops, if we are like Li Zhijie for more than five years, the court will give money to people, and most of them will be able to gnaw down." ”

"But at that time, the losses were too great."

Ye Ming gestured on the map as he spoke.

"There are only 140,000 people in the right battalion of the entire forbidden army, and we are not allowed to gnaw at the Sword Gate Pass like Li Zhijie, so we have to find another way."

"Originally, Brother Wei couldn't think of any good way, but some time ago, a Shu man told Brother Wei that in addition to Jianmen Pass, there is another way to enter Shu."

As he spoke, he pointed his finger at a hill west of the Sword Pavilion, his expression excited.

"According to the local mountain people, there is a long mountain road here, which can cross the Jianmen Pass and go directly to Fu County."

Ye Ming took a deep breath and said: "So Brother Wei Wei is ready to lead people to attack the Sword Gate Pass from Hanzhong, but someone else has to lead people to attack Jincheng from here, so Li Shen is unprepared, at most at the end of the year, the situation in the southwest will be decided!" ”

He looked at Li Xin with blazing eyes.

"Chang'an, are you willing to lead troops to make a surprise attack?"

Li Xin's gaze stayed on Ye Ming's fingers, and he was speechless for a long time.

This road is clearly the Yinping Ancient Road......

This Senior Brother Ye wants to make himself Deng Ai!

However, I heard that this road is extremely difficult to walk, and there are six or seven hundred miles of mountain roads.

What's more, there is no Adou in Jincheng who surrenders every minute......