Chapter 1173: Traces of the Ancient Road

Huangfu Chaobo didn't pay much attention to the war in the east. His attention was now on the direction of Hedong. When he patrolled Tianjing Pass, he received the intelligence from Hedong transferred from Luoyang: Hedong has discovered It is suspected that the ancient road of the Qin State, although it has now disappeared into the vast mountains, traces of the ancient road of the Qin Dynasty can indeed be vaguely seen in it. Now Hedong has begun to secretly send people to explore along the ancient road all the way east.

This news refreshed Huangfu Chaobo's spirits, and he immediately ordered the Hedong side to continue the investigation while paying attention to confidentiality. At the same time, he ordered the Tiebi Battalion to escort Guo Jia to Hedong to join him. He himself planned to go to Hedong as soon as possible after inspecting the situation in Inner Hanoi. It is estimated that when Guo Jia and others arrive in Hedong, A group of them had also arrived and happened to meet up with them.

Sure enough, when Huangfu Chaobo and his party entered Hedong through Jiguan, Guo Jia also arrived at Maojin under the escort of Dianwei and Tiebeiying. After the group landed in Maojin, they went directly to Dayang to cross the border. Zhongtiao Mountains, arrived at Anyi, the administrative seat of Hedong.

In the north of Anyi City, on the south bank of the Sushui River, in the Yingyang Army camp, Huangfu Chaobo was inspecting the newly recruited crossbowmen with General Anyi Tian Yu, the commander of the Yingyang camp. Looking at the five thousand crossbowmen, Huangfu Chaobo was satisfied. He nodded and said: "General Tian, ​​what is the current combat strength of the five thousand crossbowmen?"

"Back to the king, these five thousand crossbowmen are the five thousand soldiers carefully selected by the ministers from all over Hedong. Except for the one thousand elite crossbowmen among the infantry of each school, the rest of the elite crossbowmen who meet the conditions for crossbow soldier transfer have been selected here. Among the soldiers of the first school, all 5,000 crossbowmen are now in place. We only need to wait for the big yellow crossbow to be ready for training." Tian Yu replied from the side;

"How long will it take before all the One-stone Yellow Crossbows can be sent to Hedong?"

"The news from Luoyang is that all the big yellow crossbows have been sold. It is estimated that it will take one to two months to get all the one-stone big yellow crossbows for these five thousand crossbowmen, so now we can only use ordinary ones. Big Yellow Crossbow.”

When Huangfu Chaobo heard this, he was not in a hurry when he knew about this, because during the King Ceremony, he sold a large number of crossbows to several allies, and bought another batch of Langya's Tuberose. As a result, , and wiped out all the one-stone big yellow crossbows in Luoyang's arsenal. At that time, he never thought that he would form a school of five thousand crossbowmen.

Because the crossbow machine is not like other weapons and equipment, other preparations such as ring-headed knives, spears and other equipment. Generally, each army will have a sufficient number of spare equipment stored there, but under normal circumstances, the crossbow machine only has some parts. Damage, such small parts such as bow strings and machine braces, only need to be replaced. Each troop has a large number of replacement parts such as bow strings and braces, but the entire crossbow machine in each troop has a large number of replacement parts. The spare number is only about 20% of the number of crossbowmen, which is used to replace the normal wear and tear of the troops.

According to the requirements of the crossbowmen's weapons and equipment, if we want to form a crossbowmen of 5,000 people this time, we will need at least 6,000 one-stone yellow crossbows. How can Luoyang's arsenal provide so many crossbows at once? There are also many non-standard one-stone and two-stone rhubarb crossbows in the weapons workshop. These items were originally intended for sale to other forces and ordinary players. This time, they were handed over to Tian Yu's crossbowmen for training and use.

While the two were talking, suddenly a soldier from the Taishou Mansion came to report: "Your Majesty, General Wuwei has escorted Military Advisor Guo to the outside of the camp and is asking for a meeting outside the camp!"

When Huangfu Chaobo heard this, he quickly said: "Elai and Fengxiao are both here? Just in time, Gu Ye has finished his inspection. Let's return to Anyi City together, and we will discuss it later..."

With that said, he turned around and walked out of the camp. Now that the war in Xuzhou has ended, Huangfu Chaobo didn't care that various countries could spy on his whereabouts, so he simply appeared openly in the sight of everyone. Nowadays, Tie Ying Rui Shi and Yuan Rong Crossbowmen are still selecting suitable soldiers in Yuzhou and Yanzhou, while Hu Yandu simply led hundreds of personal guards to Yanbei County.

There was no way. The assault cavalry could only use Wuhuan or Xianbei people, so he had no choice but to go to Yanbei County to select suitable sources of troops.

When the group arrived at the gate of the camp, Dian Wei, Guo Jia and Shi A were already waiting outside. Seeing Huangfu Chaobo leading the people out, several people hurriedly stepped forward to greet the king: "Wei ministers, please pay your respects to the king." !”

"No courtesy! My dears, you have worked hard all the way. We will go back to the city first and we will talk about other things later!"

"I respect your orders!" Several people said quickly;

The group of people returned to Anyi City under the escort of thousands of soldiers. After returning to the city, Huangfu Chaobo arranged for Guo Jia and his group to rest for a night before convening everyone for discussion until the next day.

Regarding the ancient roads of the Qin State, only a few people among the officials of the Tang State knew about it, including Zhao Yun and the prefect Shiyi of Wei County, Tian Yu and Yang Feng of Hanoi, and the prefect Zhang Chao. Among the rest, there were Gao Shun and Pang Tong. , Guo Jia and Shi A.

After letting Guo Jia and others rest for a day, Huangfu Chaobo gathered everyone in a small hall of the Hanoi Prefecture to discuss matters. After everyone was seated, Huangfu Chaobo said to Tian Yu: "General Tian, ​​tell me about your investigation. situation."

Although Huangfu Chaobo arrived in Hedong a few days earlier than Guo Jia and others, he never had time to find Tian Yu to learn about the details of the ancient road. During the day, there were too many people talking, so he did not ask about it in front of everyone.

"Promise!" Tian Yu stood up and promised;

Then, he walked to the map of Hedong and Bingzhou in the small hall and explained to Huangfu Chaobo in detail the exploration of the ancient road by the personnel he secretly arranged during this period of time.

According to him, the personnel sent out did find several terrains suspected to be the ancient roads of the Qin State in the mountains at the northern foot of Wangwu Mountain east of Duanshi County. The reason for this is that although these locations are the entrances to several valleys, they are different from the entrances to other valleys. The terrain of these valley entrances clearly has traces of population excavation, and the trees on the mountain roads at the entrances of several valleys are obviously much younger than those on ordinary valley entrances.

In addition, among the various armies in Hedong and the county soldiers in various cities in Hedong, there are many soldiers of the Hedong Baibo Yellow Turban Army. After receiving the order from Huangfu Chaobo, Tian Yu asked Yang Feng to select several reliable soldiers from them. Tian Yu also carefully asked some old soldiers in the Baibo Army, and indeed someone found traces of roads in Huoda Mountain.

Looking at the locations pointed out by Tian Yu on the map, Huangfu Chaobo discovered that the Duanshi County mentioned by Tian Yu was just to the west of Xunshi County in Shangdang County. If the entrances of the valleys mentioned by Tian Yu were correct, they coincided with the route that the Qin army took from Hedong to Xunshi (which was Changping at the time).