Looking at Lu Buwei's confident look, Mao Sui was also a little curious.

You should know that Zhao Kuo's secret letter was opened yesterday, but they both opened it together, and the contents on the secret letter were also viewed and destroyed by the two of them.

So Mao Sui was very clear that Lu Buwei's action today should have been done based on the instructions of Zhao Kuo in the secret letter.

But the problem is that Mao Sui also read the secret letter, why didn’t he understand what Lu Buwei was doing this today?

Until the two of them got on the carriage side by side, Mao Sui still couldn't figure out the problem.

After all, Lu Buwei has been with Mao Sui for many years, so he obviously understood Mao Sui's doubts very much and said to Mao Sui with a smile: "Now you understand why the lord is very loyal, but you still have to send me to Qin, because you are indeed inferior to me in terms of wisdom."

Mao Sui shrugged and said nothing.

On the Lantian battlefield, a situation that Wang Jian was somewhat unexpected happened.

"Wu Xinjun didn't launch an attack. What's going on?"

Looking at the Zhao army camp, which had been arranged in the distance, but had not moved at all since three days ago, Wang Jian touched the beard that had just grown on his chin and fell into deep thought.

From common sense, since the Zhao army has already set up camp, it should launch an attack.

But Zhao Kuo did nothing in the past few days and just stayed quietly in the camp.

If it weren't for the Qin army's scouts that had never noticed that the Zhao army had sent troops in other directions on a large scale, Wang Jian would even wonder if these Zhao people suddenly disappeared overnight and ran to other places.

Meng Ao stood beside Wang Jian. At this moment, the veteran Qin State also had a solemn face and slowly spoke: "Wu Xinjun, this guy, has always been unexpected in his war. This time it seems that he is making some plans that we don't know."

Wang Jian nodded when he heard this, but this did not eliminate the anxiety and vigilance in his heart.

For Wang Jian, this fact that he was completely unaware of the enemy's situation and the enemy's strategy was very dangerous.

This means that Zhao Kuo may launch an attack from some places that Wang Jian couldn't figure out at any time.

Since Wang Jian didn't know where Zhao Kuo was going to launch an attack at all, even if Wang Jian wanted to be prepared, he had no way to be prepared.

At this moment, another Qin general around Wang Jian and Meng Ao proposed an idea.

"Maybe Zhao Kuo didn't want to launch an attack from other places, maybe he was just waiting for something to happen here."

After hearing this, Wang Jian seemed to be struck by lightning and was stunned for a moment.

A map of Qin slowly appeared in Wang Jian's mind.

In this map of Qin, the current Qin State mainly consists of three geographical units isolated by the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountains. From north to south, the Guanzhong Basin, the Hanzhong Basin and the Bashu Basin.

Although such a terrain is indeed quite easy to defend and difficult to attack, everything in the world has its advantages and disadvantages.

Once such a terrain is attacked by the enemy, it will be very difficult to counterattack and knock the enemy out, because the enemy can also use this terrain to defend tenaciously.

So the question is, among the three geographical units in Qin State, which one is the most vulnerable to attack and be compromised by the people of Zhao State?

When Wang Jian thought of this, he was shocked all over and blurted out.

"Hanzhong, Zhao Kuo's goal is Hanzhong!"

After Wang Jian said this, all the Qin generals present were stunned.

As the veteran with the most experienced presence, Meng Ao was also the first person to come back to his senses. He hurriedly said, "General Wang Jian, do you mean that the people of Zhao want to divide their troops to attack Hanzhong?"

Wang Jian nodded, but his heart was filled with setbacks.

Although Zhao Kuo's idea had been guessed, the problem was... Wang Jian sighed and said slowly: "I'm afraid that Li Mu had already invaded the Hanzhong Basin at this time, and it should be too late for us to do whatever we want."

By observing the banner of the Zhao army, Wang Jian had long discovered a fact, that is, one of the most famous generals under Zhao Kuo, the banner of the Zhao army, Li Mu, general Li Mu, did not appear in the Zhao army.

Now, Wang Jian finally understood where he went to Li Mu.

But as Wang Jian said at this moment, it was indeed too late.

Li Mu jumped off the boat and stood firmly on the land of the Hanzhong Basin with his feet.

Behind Li Mu, countless large ships were pulling the rich people very hard, slowly moving upstream and entering the Hanzhong Basin.

There were many corpses lying in the land under Li Mu's feet, and the corpses did not look rotten, and there was even a very strong smell of blood in the air.

It was obvious that just a while ago, an extremely fierce battle had just happened here.

"Where is Sima Shang, where did this guy go?

It won't die, right!"

Li Mu asked loudly at the soldiers of the Zhao army beside him.

Someone answered: "Report to the General Sima Shang is not dead, but he has led his army to pursue the remnants of the Qin people."

Li Mu couldn't help but shake his head and laughed and scolded.

"This guy still likes to compete for credit, and send someone to find him immediately and ask him to come back for this general and stop chasing him."

Half an hour later, Sima Shang, covered in blood, appeared in front of Li Mu panting.

"I've seen the General, this is a gift from the last General."

With a bang, Sima Shang threw a head in front of Li Mu.

This situation is of course a small scene for Li Mu, who has long been used to fighting thousands of troops. He raised the head with interest and looked at the other person's face.

"Who is this guy?

It's worth your journey dozens of miles to chase him."

Sima Shang smiled and said to Li Mu proudly: "This is the county magistrate of Hanzhong County, Qin State. I don't know what the name is. As soon as we landed here, he brought 5,000 Qin troops to ambush us, wanting to kill us completely.

It’s a pity that the army under his command is too weak and cannot defeat us at all. Instead, we killed them all."

Li Mu then said, nodding: "The Qin people have basically mobilized all the elites to Guanzhong to resist the attack of the lord. To put it bluntly, there are only 5,000 farmers. If you can beat you, you can die."

Li Mu's words seemed quite proud, but they were indeed the truth.

You know, in order to ensure the safety of the army's landing site, Li Mu gave Sima Shang a total of 2,000 of the most elite Chiyou army.

Although the Chiyou Army is most well-known for its combat effectiveness as a heavy-armored cavalry, Zhao Kuo has always trained the Chiyou Army in an all-round direction.

Therefore, in the daily practice subjects of Chiyou Army, in addition to riding horses and fighting, mountain combat and even water combat are common.

If the Chiyou army could not defeat 5,000 Qin farmers in 2000, Sima Shang really had no need to live.

Sima Shang curled his lips and said to Li Mu with some dissatisfaction: "General, it's boring for you to say this. At least we have cut off more than 2,000 heads. Anyway, I have taken this credit firmly and I am not guilty at all."

After hearing this, Li Mu couldn't help laughing and reached out and pointed Sima Shang's head in a false way.

"I know you, a kid, have already entered the credit book.

OK OK OK, stop talking nonsense, lead the way immediately.

I don’t want to spend the night in this damn wilderness tonight, at least I have to find a county town!”

If it were before this, it might be very difficult for Li Mu to conquer a county town within half a day.

But now this is no longer a problem for Li Mu.

In just half a day, Li Mu led his army to Xunyang City.

Looking at the very low city wall in front of him, Li Mu couldn't help laughing.

"It seems that the Chu people have never been able to fight here for so many years, which has also made these Qin people relax their vigilance."

During the reign of King Zhuang of Chu decades ago, Hanzhong was a place of fierce confrontation between the two countries of Qin and Chu.

Everyone knows the result later. Qin State won a great victory, and Chu State had to withdraw from Hanzhong and ceded all the eastern half of Hanzhong that he originally owned to Qin State.

Then Qin took advantage of the victory and continued to go south, gaining the entire Bashu, completely establishing the attitude of the overlord country.

But this happened decades ago, and there were probably not many people involved who could survive until now.

This low city wall shows that people have really only long-standing memories of that era of war.

But even so, Li Mu did not neglect at all and directly ordered the use of gunpowder.

Half an hour later, accompanied by a shocking sound, a small part of the city wall collapsed. The Zhao soldiers rushed forward and attacked the city, directly occupying the city.

Soon, Li Mu rode his horse around the crowd of followers and slowly entered the city.

Looking at the Qin officials and prisoners who were extremely frightened and kneeling down on the ground, Li Mu smiled.

"I have to say that you guys are actually quite lucky."

If it were a few years ago when Li Mu crossed Guanzhong, Qin State and burned cities everywhere, one of these 10 officials would be lucky.
Chapter completed!