Just when the two top generals met today, Li Xin had already gone north, along the control of the Jin court, bypassed Hanzhong, and prepared to move towards the spine.

He walked very carefully along the way.

In fact, it is unlikely that an army of more than 10,000 people will completely hide their own actions. Tens of thousands of people marched in a mighty manner, and it is impossible to completely hide their own actions.

Even if Li Xin carefully cleans up scouts along the way, the limit he can achieve is to try to blur where he is going and prevent the enemy from knowing exactly where he has gone.

However, the general scope of activity will be more or less a concept in the southwest.

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, they had to clean up the scouts, and the speed of the march was much slower. If they deliberately made some detours, the speed was even slower. They left Jingzhou for more than half a month before walking four or five hundred miles.

Li Xin was not in a hurry.

Ye Mao, the young master who was following him, was anxious. After a day of camping, the young master walked to Li Xin's handsome tent. After seeing Li Xin who was looking through the southern map of Zhao Jia, the young master was a little angry. He took two steps forward, clasped his fists and said, "General Li!"

Li Xin looked up at Ye Mao, then looked at the map again, and finally pointed to one part of the map, and said to Zhao Jia without any haste, "Brother You'an, in this area, you can ask someone to collect a more specific topographic map and try to figure out how these mountain roads can enter the mountains."

When Deng Ai walked this ancient Yinping Road, many of his subordinates died and injured. Although his main force had basically passed smoothly, Li Xin's ability to lead troops was still worse than Deng Ai, and he had to be fully prepared.

After hearing Li Xin's words, Zhao Jia nodded and whispered: "I'll do it now."

As he said that, he looked up at the angry young master Ye Mao, and then said with a smile: "The young master came a while earlier than the Marquis had expected."

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

After Zhao Jia left, there were no outsiders in the coach's tent. Ye Mao was anxious and clasped his fists and said, "Uncle Li, my father is going to beat Hanzhong in the next two days!"

Li Xin didn't raise his eyelids and said lightly: "What you can know, I, the general, have naturally known about it. The battle against Hanzhong was something that I and Senior Brother Ye decided early in the morning. What's there to panic?"

"But my father wants 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, "I have paid attention to the direction of our march during this period. We are heading northwest and getting further and further away from the southern border!"

Most people in this era cannot understand maps, and many people cannot even recognize the direction. However, Ye Mao came from a general, so he naturally knew these most basic things.

Li Xin's expression remained unchanged and he said slowly: "With Senior Brother Ye's military strength, it is not difficult to capture Hanzhong. What should we do, and why are you in a hurry?"

After a period of time, Li Xin has gradually figured out Ye Mao's temper. This young man is impatient and will do whatever he wants immediately when he thinks about it. He has no idea how to write the four words carefully. However, he still has the ability. He can do ordinary things very beautifully.

In short, there are talented people but not handsome people.

This is also the reason why both the Ye family and the son are worried about him.

The young master is still a little afraid of Li Xin, not because Li Xin is so powerful, and because Li Xin and his father and grandfather have a good relationship. As long as a light report, the young master will be beaten home.

After hearing Li Xin's words, he first glanced at Marquis Jing'an, then smiled bitterly and said, "Uncle Master always wants to tell me where we are going, right?"

"Your father asked you to listen to me."

Li Xin looked stern. He did not answer the young master's question, but asked, "I asked you to clean the tail behind you, how did you clean it?"

The young master scratched his head, feeling helpless.

"There are not many tails behind me recently. A battalion can catch seven or eight people in a day patrol. It's no point, I'll throw it to my subordinates to do it."

"Then stay honestly."

Li Xin slowly closed his eyes.

"As soon as the battle in Hanzhong begins, we will speed up the movement."

...

A very simple truth is that the southwest is now staring at Li Xin's division. For more than half a month, Li Xin can cut off many small tails behind him every day, which forces him to deliberately take detours to interfere with the Pingnan Army's sight.

However, if the Battle of Hanzhong was held together, the Pingnan Army would definitely be on Hanzhong. At that time, Li Xin would start to accelerate his movements and enter the vicinity of Yinping as soon as possible.

At this time, the Hanzhong War had begun.

Because Ye Ming's troops have reached the city of Hanzhong.

Hanzhong is the southwest gateway. Only by opening this gateway can you truly enter the southwest, so this is a war that has to be fought.

According to the rules, the royal army was to read the edict when they were seeking rebellion. Now Ye Ming's troops are imperial guards near the capital, and the righteous king army represented the justice. Therefore, Ye Ming first asked someone to read the imperial edict in front of the formation, denounced the treason of Hanzhong, and demanded that Hanzhong General Meng Qi and Hanzhong Prefect Chen Sheng surrender.

Of course no one pays attention to him.

So, on the third day after Ye Ming arrived in Hanzhong, the general who had been guarding Jimen Pass for more than ten years finally waved his hand and announced his siege.

It is naturally unlikely that the edict will be read for two days. In fact, during these two days, Ye Ming's troops have been busy building siege equipment, engineering vehicles, city hammers, etc., which have been created by the still elite imperial guards.

In fact, there is no technical content when siege, and there are generally three situations.

The first is to force yourself and start attacking the city directly. This situation is to use human lives to fill it up, and use human lives to eliminate the materials and equipment of the defender of the city. When the enemy is exhausted from ammunition or food, or if there is a powerful general who takes the lead, you can break the enemy city.

If you don’t want to use this stupid method, it’s better to siege the city. This method is to use materials to consume the enemy. Usually, if the city has finished its food in just one or two years, most of the time, they will be given to the city and surrendered.

The third type is to attack the aid of the points.

However, General Ye simply chose the first one. In any case, the momentum of this first battle must be fought.

The method of siege is very simple. Attack the city walls on all sides at the same time, with two thousand people on each side. Then choose one of the city walls to break through, and use a catapult to hit the city hammer to start siege fiercely.

According to Ye Ming's calculations, although many people will die after fighting this way, they should be able to take Hanzhong within one or two months.

The first team rushed to the city gate first, and some people were already preparing to hit the city gate with their city hammers in their arms.

At this moment...

The city gate opened itself!

Leading by the southwest general Li Yan, thousands of people rushed out of each of the four gates, and in one go, they entered the formation of Ye Ming's troops.

Li Yan rode on a big green horse, holding an iron spear, and took the lead and rushed into the imperial guards.

He swept across the horse's lance, and in just one moment, two or three imperial guards broke their bones and tendons.

The southwestern hero raised the iron spear in his hand and roared angrily.

"Brothers, the pseudo-emperor usurped the country and killed these rebellious troops. You and I are all from the Dragon Meritorious Officials!"
Chapter completed!