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Knowing that the imperial army had settled in Nankang County, Chen Baxian quickly withdrew his troops, and dispatched Hou Andu and his nephew Chen Qian to lead troops to station in Shaoguan to resist the imperial army.

Then why didn't Liu Yishou raid Shaoguan before Chen Baxian could react and take advantage?
Because there was no way to sneak attack, the way for the army to advance was blocked, even if a small group of soldiers and horses barely conquered Shaoguan, it would be of no use!
Gan County of Nankang County is on the bank of the Gan River, and the waterway leads to Yuzhang County, which is connected to the Yangtze River through Poyang Lake. The grain and grass from Jiankang are continuously sent to Gan County. The barracks, as the base camp of the Southern Expedition!
However, the convenience of the waterway was cut off in the Annan area south of Gan County (the county was not established at this time). Liu Yishou took Hu Luxian and his scout team to personally go to Nanye County, which is the closest to Annan, and then his heart was cold. Halfway through!

When Qin Shihuang sent troops to conquer Lingnan, Qin built three passes in Wuling, namely Hengpu Pass, Yangshan Pass and Huangjigu Pass. Among them, Hengpu Pass is located here, also known as Dayuling "Qin Pass".

The pass road built in the Qin Dynasty has not undergone any formal or large-scale maintenance and repairs for more than 700 years, and it has been devastated by wars in the middle, and the old pass road is even more dilapidated.

Now it has become a "Lingdong Abandoned Road", encroached by jungles and impassable for several miles.There are huge boulders in the road, just like mountains and fields.

It's okay to pass a team of several people, but it's as difficult as the heavens to pass the luggage and large troops!
No wonder Chen Baxian dared to do things in Guangzhou with confidence, he was sure that the court would have nothing to do with him.

Even if they managed to pass through the Annan region, it would be as difficult as climbing the sky to attack Shaoguan!
Since I can't get out and you can't get in, why don't we just live in peace like this?
Capturing Shaoguan from Guangzhou and going south to Shaoguan from the north are two completely different difficulties.

"How can I go this way!"

At the entrance of the mountain road, Liu Yishou looked up at Dayu Ridge, which was not so tall, but extremely deep, and asked in a muttering voice.

Hu Luxian next to him was also dumbfounded. The man from the grassland had never seen this kind of mountain road. If his side was marching here, Chen Ba would lie in ambush inside.

The picture is so beautiful, I really dare not even think about it.

"My lord, there is still a land route and a water route to Guangzhou."

Wang Wei whispered calmly beside Liu Yishou.

"But it's not easy to go, is it?"

Liu Yishou asked angrily.If it is easy to leave, based on Wang Wei's calculations, can you not say it?
"My lord is right. As far as the waterway is concerned, the Lingqu (Xianggui Canal) must be dredged. Now the Lingqu is silted up and almost stopped flowing, so let's not mention it. The other road is from Xiangzhou to Hengyang and then to Bin County. After crossing the mountains You can also go south to Shaoguan.

It's just... that road is even more difficult to walk!On the contrary, it is not as good as Dayuling Ancient Road. "

Xiao Yan only cared about eating vegetarian food and reciting Buddha's name, so why would he cultivate ancient paths?If he worked hard, he would not be called "Xiao Bodhisattva" by others.

"It's a little tricky."

Liu Yishou nodded slightly and said, but his thoughts drifted far away. He remembered that when he traveled here, the mountains and plains were full of plum blossoms. At that time, this place was already called Meiguan Ancient Road.At that time, I only felt that the scenery here was beautiful and picturesque, but I didn't feel how dangerous it was.

After all, the altitude of Dayuling Mountains is not high. It is obviously not unreasonable to use this place as the gateway to break through the south of Lingnan since the Qin Dynasty.

"How long is this road?"

Liu Yishou asked curiously.

Wang Wei thought for a while and replied: "More than 30 miles to the south is the northernmost tip of Anyuan County, and more than a hundred miles to the south is Shaoguan."

In other words, if Liu Yishou's current position was changed to Hebei, fighting Chen Baxian would only be a one-night cavalry raid, so it shouldn't be too fast.

In order to go south with the army to conquer Chen Baxian, Wang Wei did a lot of homework in advance and figured out the main marching routes.The difficulty of attacking Guangzhou lies in Shaoguan.The difficulty of attacking Shaoguan lies in the supply and transportation of large troops.

The difficulty of transportation is that the Dayuling Ancient Road has been in disrepair for a long time, and there is no other shortcut.

In other words, if you want to conquer Shaoguan smoothly, then getting through the Dayuling Ancient Road is the top priority and cannot be avoided.

"It's only a few tens of miles away. When we open a road in the mountains and build a bridge in the water, let's do something good. Let's repair the Dagengling ancient road, and then plant plum trees on both sides of the ancient road to do something good for future generations. Beautiful."

Liu Yishou looked at the barren mountain forest and ancient road, and said thoughtfully.

"My lord! We are going to fight. Is this broken road just to give Chen Ba the time to prepare first? Soldiers are expensive, and soldiers are expensive!"

Wang Wei remembers breaking out in cold sweat, he pulled Liu Yishou's cuff regardless of his posture and growled.

If Liu Yishou was not the lord but a subordinate, he wished he could give him a few slaps to wake him up!

We are here to fight, why don't you wait to build roads?When the road is repaired, the day lily will be cold, what a traitor!
"My lord, it is also possible for us to attack Guangzhou by surprise. There is no need to mobilize people to build this mountain road. Isn't it endless to build a road that is tens of miles long?"

Hu Luxian also spoke persuasively.Liu Yishou is usually wise and powerful, but this time his suggestion is really unreliable.

"Let's not only care about our own comfort when doing things, and leave those difficult problems to future generations. This is not the mentality of doing big things.

With the road repaired, not only our army can go, but in the future countless mountain people from southern Jiangxi will also be able to go south to Guangzhou to seek a living. The seafood from Guangzhou and the goods from foreign vassals traded can also be transported to the north through this road.

This is once and for all, merits in the present, benefit in the future.The predecessors had Qin Yidai who started it. For other things, I, Liu, may as well continue to do it.

I have made up my mind, no need to say more. "

Liu Yishou waved his hands.

"My lord, even though that's the case, it's still unknown how much work will be done to repair this road. Why don't you ask the locals in Nankang County, and you may gain something."

Wang Wei didn't know how to persuade him, so he could only continue talking about the donkey down the slope.

"That's fine, so let's ask first. But I think this place is at the northern end of the ancient road. Why not build a city here, and call it 'Wu Wangcheng'."

Liu Yishou came up with another "bad idea".

But this time Wang Wei and the others didn't say anything.

In all wars, bridgeheads must be built. Retreat can be used as an early warning outpost, and advance can be used as a repair base.It is also common practice to build a city at the entrance of the ancient road, so it is not surprising.

If Liu Yishou's order to repair the Dayuling Ancient Road is a bit whimsical, then the construction of the Wuwang City can still be regarded as a return to normal IQ.

Soon, Hu Luxian was ordered to find local elders and mountain people who were familiar with the situation on the mountain, and sent people to conduct on-the-spot investigations, and completed the ancient Dayuling trail that was tens of miles away.

After field investigation, it was found that there were a few huge broken rocks blocking the way on the ancient road. In other places, it was just trees blocking the route, and the former dirt road was buried due to landslides, causing the road to be rough.

As long as those few big rocks can be resolved, the rest is just to send some more strong men to build the road, and there is no technical obstacle.

At the same time, the construction of King Wu City is also underway. The gate of the city tower is facing the Dagengling Ancient Road. All people who come out of the ancient road must pass through the gate of the city tower.

A small city with a military role, the construction speed is extremely fast.Just after the winter solstice, the King Wu City was repaired.Liu Yishou swiped his pen and left a couplet at the gate of the city, "Come and drink the Qiannan water, and return to Xian and carry the Lingbei cloud".

All the people in Nankang County who could handle a hoe, no matter men, women, old or young, were mobilized to repair the Dayuling Ancient Road. The food and grass from Jiankang and the hard-to-find local materials were sent from Jiankang to Nankang County continuously. .

At the beginning, Xiao Bo and Li Qianshi plotted against Chen Baxian, but later Xiao Bo was killed by Chen Baxian and dedicated Nankang County to Jiankang Center.The impact of this incident is continuing to ferment with effects that the parties involved cannot imagine.

Liu Yishou took advantage of Nankang County presented by Xiao Bo, and turned it into a base camp for attacking Guangzhou and a general construction site for repairing the Dagengling Ancient Road.

As the Dayuling ancient road continued to be repaired and widened, the scouts sent by Hou Andu also noticed the movement of the Jiankang central court, and quickly sent people to Panyu City to inform Chen Baxian.

Sitting in Panyu City, Guangzhou, Chen Baxian, who had been wondering why the imperial court hadn't gone south, finally couldn't sit still!

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"Building roads? Liu Yishou actually wants to build roads? Doesn't he know that there is no way to repair the road at Dayuling?
When I went there last time, I was still feeling that it was a natural danger on earth! "

In the lobby of the Panyu City Government Office, Chen Baxian was like an ant on a hot pot, pacing back and forth, talking to himself while walking.As if bewitched.

He couldn't figure out why Liu Yishou had to spend so much time building the Dagengling Ancient Road, and he couldn't sleep or eat well.

At this moment, Chen Xiuxian, Chen Baxian's younger brother, walked into the government office in military uniform, and said to Chen Baxian: "Brother, something is wrong. Mrs. Xian issued a message in Yazhou, and united with Yazhou, Luozhou, and Hezhou. Military and civilians, denounce us and are determined to cooperate with the court to suppress the rebellion!"

These three states are the locations of Hainan Island and Leizhou Peninsula in Liu Yishou's previous life.Mrs. Xian's stance at such a critical moment was obviously to cooperate with Liu Yishou to contain Chen Baxian's flanks so that the main force did not dare to leave Guangzhou easily.

If Chen Ba attacked these three prefectures first, not to mention whether he could win the battle, even the hundreds of thousands of households under Mrs. Xian's command would not be fun once they rebelled!It doesn't mean that defeating Mrs. Xian can take hundreds of thousands of households for his own use!

Not to mention Liu Yishou hasn't made a move yet, who knows when he will come?
If Mrs. Xian was easy to deal with, Chen Baxian would have done it long ago.The other party is a slang chief, rooted in the local area, which is completely different from outsiders like Xiao Bo and Li Qianshi!
Feng Rong, governor of Luozhou, is Feng Bao's father, Feng Bao is Mrs. Xian's husband, and now he and his son are both officials in Jiankang. It can be said that this group of people has formed a top-to-bottom relationship network.

Now that they boarded Liu Yishou's boat again and hugged this thick leg, Mrs. Xian obviously had nothing to fear.

"Don't bother with them. As long as Mrs. Xian doesn't use troops against Guangzhou, the other territories can be given over to them. You take [-] troops to guard Gaozhou. There are still a lot of Li Qianshi's old troops left over there. You can take them and kill them. You don't have to keep them. hand.

If Mrs. Xian attacks Gaozhou, then she will withdraw to Xinning County and stick to it. Thinking that Madam Xian will not attack Xinning County, she will stop if she wins Gaozhou at most. "

The imperial court appointed Feng Bao as the governor of Gaozhou, but there was no way to implement it. Li Qianshi Lai stayed in Gaozhou and refused to leave.Now that Li Qianshi has been suppressed by Chen Baxian, it seems reasonable for Mrs. Xian to recover Gaozhou for her husband.

With the other party's cautious personality, in order to prevent being used by the court, Madam Xian will definitely stop Chen Baxian when he hits Gaozhou with the help of scumbags, which can be regarded as an explanation to Liu Yishou.

Only when Chen Baxian's main force went north to Shaoguan to fight Liu Yishou for a decisive battle, Madam Xian would set off from Gaozhou to attack Guangzhou and break Chen Baxian's way back.

Many unspoken rules on the battlefield can only be understood by those who are well versed in the rules of political games.When the army advances and retreats, when to attack and when to defend, sometimes it is not just about military operations.

Sure enough, just as Chen Baxian expected, Wang Sengbian and Wang Lin's troops who came from the sea landed from Yazhou. With the cooperation of Mrs. Xian, a local snake, they launched an attack on Gaozhou.

Wang Sengbian wanted to continue to attack Qi'an County in the northeast, but Mrs. Xian politely declined.

Mrs. Xian explained: It's not that she doesn't want to attack Qi'an County, but that the people there are completely different from those in Yazhou, Luozhou and other places, and even hostile to the slang people in the three states on her side.

If she led troops to attack there, not only would the locals not obey the imperial court's order to encircle and suppress Chen Baxian, but they would fight desperately because they were worried that the locals would grab the land and fight for the river.

This kind of truth can be understood only by looking at the nearby villages in the upper and lower reaches of the river. During the dry season, they will fight for water.

Wang Seng refused to listen to the argument, thinking that Mrs. Xian was just making excuses for self-protection and disregarding court affairs.In order to make meritorious service, he led his troops to attack Qi'an County.

Sure enough, before Wang Sengbian began to attack Bolin City, the county seat of Xinning County, he was defeated by Chen Xiuxian, the third brother of Chen Baxian, and fled back to Gaozhou with the remnants of his troops, never mentioning the attack on Guangzhou again.

Wang Sengbian and others jointly signed a letter with Madam Xian to Liu Yishou, saying that they had conquered Gaozhou, but Chen Ba's first troops were brave and good at fighting, were familiar with the local environment, and had a certain degree of support from the local people, so they should not act rashly.

They were worried that the lone army would go deep, so they did not attack Guangzhou alone. After waiting for the imperial army to break through Shaoguan, they could attack Guangzhou from the west and north together and encircle and suppress Chen Baxian.
A letter was sent to Nankang County and handed over to Liu Yishou.At this time Liu Yishou was also looking at the boulders on Dayuling and worried, not knowing how to get rid of those few stones.

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A boulder three feet high lay across in front of him, Liu Yishou frowned into the word "Chuan", not knowing what to do.

"Your Highness, this rock cannot be shaken by manpower. From the perspective of old people, it is better to keep piling up the soil to form a mound, and then slowly build it into a slope."

A local old man with a gray beard saluted Liu Yishou and said sincerely.

It is of course a good thing for the imperial court to take them to build the Dagengling Ancient Road. Does it matter who is most beneficial?
However, such a thing, not all problems can be solved by local people with high enthusiasm.Even if the locals are enthusiastic about building roads, there is no way to dispose of the "masterpiece of nature".

"How about blasting a hole out of this boulder?"

Liu Yishou asked Wang Wei in a low voice.

"My lord, those explosives are reserved for Panyu City! If they are used now, what will Chen Ba do if he sticks to Panyu and pretends to be a tortoise that won't come out!"

Wang Wei vetoed eagerly, obviously not interested in Liu Yishou's bad idea at all.

"The Guangzhou area is rich but has inconvenient transportation. If things go on like this, it will be inconvenient for pedestrians to travel from south to north. In the future, it will become a country within a country.

Compared with attacking Panyu City, it is more important to restore the Dagengling Ancient Road.Send an order to blast the stones. I'm afraid of the noise, so stay away. You can figure it out, and prepare it today. "

Liu Yishou waved his hand and said, turned around and left, obviously not giving Wang Wei a chance to argue.