Guo Shao and his group ran out of Binzhou, but no one came to chase him, so they gradually felt at ease. It was not that serious at this time. At least Zhe Congruan did not dare to take Guo Shao. What cannot be confirmed is Li Chuyun's situation... Because of the unfairness, the young master who bullies the man and the domineering woman was beaten up. If an imperial guard general was to be punished by the Jiedushi, Zhe Congruan would probably not be able to be the Jiedushi.

Is it worth it to have an unhappy relationship with Li Chuyun and Zhe Gong? Guo Shao and Zuo You both think it is worth it because they cannot win over generals of the same level as Zhe Gong. Only Li Chuyun is the candidate he should strive for.

Everyone rushed for a long time, and as soon as they left the quiet and difficult place to settle down, they immediately found a hotel to rest. I guess Zhe Chongzhen didn't have to wait until now.

The large inn within the Guannei is a small city with city walls and gates. Travelers can drive local commerce and markets usually emerge around. Li Chuyun's family and slaves have a total of about ten people, and Guo Shao and others have enough places to live.

The nanny of the Li family's wife also came with her. She was not originally from Binzhou, but she followed the Li family to Binzhou when Zhegong moved to the town. The nanny has been taking care of the Li family for more than ten years, and now she is almost the same as a member of the Li family. The nanny has self-reliance and often has to take care of Li's affairs. When she arrives at the post station, she will work hard and take the robe to wash, saying that it will be clean and roasted to others. The robe is the clothes of Guo Shao who is wrapped in Li's home.

Li refused to follow and didn't know how to explain. After thinking about it, he forced himself to argue: "I bake my clothes and wash them until Fengxiang settles down!"

As soon as the wet nurse left the room, Li took out the robe from her bag, looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but pick it up and put it in front of her nose. It seemed a little sweaty, and there was another smell, and it might not smell at all, but she was just thinking about it.

Just as he was stunned, the door suddenly creaked and pushed open again. Li hurriedly stuffed the clothes in his hand into the bag, shocked and embarrassed, and his face suddenly turned red.

...

The next morning, a civil servant from Fengxiang Town came to receive the reception, and asked Guo Shao to meet the governor Wang Jing again after he arrived at Fengxiang Mansion. According to this courtesy, Guo Shao speculated that Wang Pu's letter might have been received by Wang Jing.

Guo Shao felt even more relieved. When they settled in Fengxiang Mansion and met Wang Jing, they left Li Chuyun's family in Fengxiang and left the city to Chencang the next day to understand the terrain.

Zhang Zhao, the chief of the Fengxiang Town shogunate, personally accompanied him, went to Chencang with Guo Shao, and then traveled to Sanguan.

Everyone set out from Chencang early in the morning, and the group walked lightly and briefly. They walked about thirty or forty miles before reaching Sanguan in the afternoon. Along the way, they saw only high mountains and steep mountains and only one valley on the road, like a traffic pipeline between heavy mountains.

As soon as he arrived at Sanguan, Zhang Zhao said first: "Guo Duzhi cannot risk his escape from Sanguan. The territory controlled by the Shu army is ahead, and the terrain is complex, so there may be mistakes."

Seeing that the mountain was steep and people were locked in the valley as if they were locked in high walls, Guo Shao couldn't help but sigh: "This is the Shu Road? No wonder the poet Li Bai said that the Shu Road is difficult than the mountains and the sky."

Zhang Zhao smiled and said, "I did enter Shu Road, but the road from Chencang to Sanguan is still easy to walk. Aren't we riding a horse? This road is called Chencang Road. 'Building a plank road openly to cross Chencang secretly' is the road; the north end is in Chencang. There are several Shu Roads, and Chencang Road is the flattest."

Seeing that Sanguan Pass was steep and stuck in the middle of the valley, surrounded by steep mountains; apart from the valley road in the middle, it was not easy for a small group of people to cross the mountains, so he said, "Since Chen Cang Road is the flattest road, it will be difficult for the Shu army to enter Guanzhong... Is it easy for Longyou (Gansu) to enter the pass?"

Zhang Zhaodao: "That is, since ancient times, Longyou has been conquering Guanzhong, and Qinzhou has been in Longyou."

Zuo You could tell the truth about these general things, so Guo Shao didn't continue to talk about them. He just thought: Qinzhou is in Longyou, and the army would rush down and enter the Guanzhong plain; the imperial court was preparing to recover the several states occupied by Shu, and perhaps what he was most concerned about was the objective threat that Qinzhou had.

Guo Shao and others had never been to this place, nor did they walk through Shu Road. At this time, they could not see much except looking at the mountains. He thought for a while and felt that Zhang Zhao had been in Fengxiang for a long time, and might be at least familiar with the general place. He was going to have a paper mill to put it on the wallet with everyone, and then took out a wooden ruler from his luggage.

This level that must be fought for by military strategists seemed very quiet at this time. There were only some soldiers on duty on the wall, and even fewer travelers passed the pass.

Guo Shao looked at the direction of the sun for a while, then drew a circle on the paper and wrote the small words "Chen Cang". Then he took a ruler on the paper in the lower right corner and drew a short line, writing: Forty miles. He thought about the direction and drew a curved line, and wrote "Sanguan" at one end of the line.

Zhang Zhao and Zuo You both watched Guo Shao play this thing with great interest. Because the operation is simple and rough, they understood it, but they thought Guo Shao's approach was a bit strange.

Guo Shao asked again: "Qinzhou is west of Chencang, northward? Do you remember how far is Zhang Changshi?"

Zhang Zhaodao: "The direction should indeed be northerly, about five hundred miles away."

Guo Shao measured the distance according to his words and marked Qinzhou at a place far away from Chencang.

During the Q&A, Zhang Zhao was indeed knowledgeable. He could answer the general direction as long as it was a slightly famous place. So Guo Shao drew in one stick of incense and drew larger towns such as Fengzhou, Chengzhou, Jiezhou, Xiongshengjunguzhen, Xingzhou, Shannan West Road (Hanzhong) and other large towns... Among them, Qin, Feng, Cheng, Jiezhou should be the territory of Shu that the imperial court was preparing to capture.

Cheng, Feng is the east-west line, located south of Chencang. Fengzhou is closest to Chencang, and is more than 200 miles southwest of Chencang; Chengzhou is three hundred miles west of Fengzhou. The Shu army’s Xiongsheng army is in the town of Cheng, and Feng... The stairs are the farthest, nearly 300 miles southwest of Chengzhou.

Other places are not too far away, but Guo Shao seems to be outside the scope of this battle, including Xingzhou and Shannan West Road (Hanzhong). Xingzhou is located directly south of Guzhen, just west of the Hanzhong Plain; from Xingzhou to the east, it enters the Hanzhong Plain, namely Xingyuan Prefecture, the governor of Shannan West Road.

Guo Shao knew about the rough direction and drew a rough schematic diagram. However, the road terrain between these prefectures and towns is still unclear. Guo Shao thought for a while and knew that the marching route could not be just a straight line distance... For example, the Qinling Mountains on the Sanguan in front of him were difficult to run rampant unless they were flying.

Guo Shao looked at the schematic diagram in his hand and said that when he had a point, he had to have wires before he could form a surface. So he asked about the river first, there should be four rivers.

The northernmost part of the Wei River, the river from Qinzhou to Chencang is the Wei River; the ancient road water, which connects the Jialing River, flows roughly the "Chencang Road" in the Shu Road, flowing from Chencang, Fengzhou and Xingzhou to the north and south; the Qiang River flows eastward through Jiezhou and into the Jialing River; and the Han River passing through Shannan West Road.

Beyond the rivers, there is the road. Zhang Zhao can't remember it clearly, so he can only explain the Shu Road, that is, the "Chen Cang Road" here.

However, the rough terrain is the road from Chencang to Qinzhou along the Wei River, which is relatively easy to walk, but the distance is very far. Qinzhou goes south and detours eastward to Cheng, and the Feng line is also very flat, so the road is even further... If you go to Chencangrao Qinzhou, you will be at least a thousand miles away from Fengzhou.

From Chencang to Cheng (west) and Feng (east), you have to cross the Qinling Mountains; in fact, the southern part of the Wei River line of Chencang and Qinzhou are both Qinling Mountains with high mountains and steep roads, and complex roads to travel south.

Guo Shao's trip was quite rewarding, and he at least understood that the purpose of the imperial court's battle was to control the Qinling line and eliminate Longyou's threat to Guanzhong.

When he was staying in Tokyo before, no one would tell him this, and it was impossible for the Queen, Wang Pu and others to teach him in detail. Zuo You, who had some knowledge, also had limited knowledge of these things, and Zuo You was mainly familiar with the Tokyo officialdom.

Guo Shao obtained the military power of the 6,000 elite soldiers of the Guards, and should be a strong force in the upcoming battle against Shu. If the main general knows nothing, if the battle is unfavorable, the court will pursue it and ask questions and answer only by listening to Wang Jing and Xiang Xun's arrangements. How can we explain it?

Moreover, Guo Shao’s idea is to fight hard and hope to fight quickly.

For a time, Guo Shao was a little grateful that he was still a person who lived in modern society and had always had knowledge. Otherwise, if an ordinary lower-level school would have soared in several months, commanding operations. For example, Guo Shao, who has almost no convenient source of information, would be really unaware of it.

Then Guo Shao settled down in Sanguan, and did not return to Chen Cang and Fengxiang. While he was waiting for Luo Yanhuan and the other two to be sent out, he made friends with the generals guarding the pass and inquire about the nearby terrain and the deployment of the Shu army.

In order to prevent the Shu army from attacking... Although the Shu army basically did not provoke wars in normal times, it was necessary for the Zhou army guards to send scouts to move nearby, and sometimes they would bring back a few guides.

In the past, Cheng, Feng and other places belonged to "China", but now they belong to Shu. The local people do not care who ruled them at all. They are almost the same anyway, and there is no concept of righteousness. Fighting around is a civil war. As long as they are given certain benefits, they are willing to lead the way.

Based on this, Guo Shao drew several terrain and road maps with smaller ranges. His geography knowledge came from the middle school entrance exams. He forgot most of them, but he still remembered some methods of using the density of coils to indicate the same height. But it was not useful. Who would have such a complicated drawing? As long as there is no road to go, no matter how high the mountain is? The scale was learned and used by him.

When Zhang Zhao and Zuo You first saw Guo Shao’s paintings, they were all amazed.
Chapter completed!