Hearing Li Yan talk about the march route, Hao Guangming couldn't help but think about the map.

He also bought several copies of this map, so he asked Zhu Yu'ao to give one copy to Li Yan. He still had a few copies here, so he could take them for a look.

From the map, Yunyang is located in the northwest corner of Daming Huguang, adjacent to Xing'an Prefecture (Ankang) in Shaanxi, and Hanzhong is on the west side of Xing'an Prefecture.

If you choose this route, as Li Yan said, you only need to go straight to Henan, then enter Hubei, and then enter Shaanxi from Yunyang.

The advantage is that there will be almost no obstacles before leaving Henan, and Li Yan and the Red Lady's troops started in Henan. Once there, it is equivalent to arriving at their home field. It will be easier to march and raise food.

The disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the distance is obviously much longer than traveling through Shanshan.

In addition, although there are not many famous passes when traveling from Henan to Yunyang and from Yunyang to Xing'an Prefecture, the places we pass through are mountainous areas and even have large tracts of virgin forest, making the road very difficult to walk.

After entering Shaanxi, you also have to pass several passes before you can reach Hanzhong.

As for the other route, which crosses Shanshan and enters Hanzhong, the route is undoubtedly shorter and is much easier to walk in terms of road alone.

The key lies in whether we can deceive the shun troops at each pass to let them pass.

If not, even if they can break through one or two passes, they will easily be intercepted by Shanxi and Shanxi's subordinate troops.

Even if they are not blocked, they will be chased all the way, looking like a bereaved dog.

As for fighting, it wasn't that Hao Guangming didn't believe in the fighting strength of Red Lady's unit, it was because they had too few people, with only over 5,000 soldiers.

Dashun has been guarded by generals in Taiyuan and Xi'an.

Taiyuan is Jiang Xiang, a general who was surrendered by the Ming Dynasty. This is easy to say.

Xi'an is guarded by Tian Jianxiu - this is one of the top three generals in the army.

If the Hong Niangzi tribe fights the Shun army in Shan and Shaanxi, unless they win all the battles, they may be finished as a team if they lose just one battle.

After such an analysis, Hao Guangming felt that it was really difficult to choose which path to take.

However, considering the overall situation, Hao Guangming still feels that it is better to enter Sichuan as early as possible.

So he said through the Bluetooth headset: "Ask Li Yan, how did he originally plan to cross the passes between Shanxi and Shaanxi?"

There are many passes in Shanxi and Shaanxi, and in terms of marching, if you want to go from Shanshan to Sichuan, you must pass these passes, and they are not easy to bypass.

Unlike the Central Plains, many places are flat and flat. If you don't want to pass through a city, you can easily go around it.

Zhu Ailao also didn’t want to take the long way to Sichuan.

Although historically Zhang Xianzhong only conquered Chengdu in August, they could not wait until August to rush to Chengdu, otherwise it would be difficult to reverse the situation.

Now it is late April, and there is not much time left for them.

"Mr. Li, since you originally planned to cross the mountains and enter Sichuan, have you thought about how to pass the necessary passes?"

"Liar." Li Yan only said one word.

"cheat?"

Li Yan explained: "I plan to forge an edict from King Chuang, saying that we will go to Hanzhong on King Chuang's edict and prepare to go south to attack Sichuan.

However, there are no experts in our army who can imitate handwriting and forge seals, so I can only do it.

I'm not good at forging letters or seals, so I really don't know how sure I can be in deceiving the Shunjun garrison."

Hearing this, Zhu Yuyao couldn't help but frown deeply.

Because she thought it was quite unreliable.

In her opinion, letters and seals are not so easy to forge - if it were really easy, why hadn't she heard of so many people falsely spreading imperial edicts before?

Even though the anti-counterfeiting measures of Li Zicheng's edict are not as high as those of the Ming Dynasty's imperial edict, it is unlikely to be easily counterfeited.

On the other side, Hao Guangming's eyes lit up after hearing Li Yan's words, and he immediately said through the Bluetooth headset: "I can help you forge Li Zicheng's edict. On our side, as long as we are willing to spend money, it should be possible to make a fake one that can be mistaken for the real one.

question!"

Zhu Aelao was very surprised when she heard this and couldn't help but blurted out: "Really?!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she realized something was wrong. Sure enough, when she saw Li Yan, the red lady looked at her strangely.

Thinking about it, she felt that now that Li Yan and Lady Hong had left the capital with her, it was time to reveal some secrets to them.

Then she said with a slightly blushing face: "To be honest, my father has betrothed me to a future person, my consort, his surname is Hao and his name is Hao Guangming.

Just now he heard what Mr. Li said, saying that later generations would have a way to forge edicts, which should be enough to confuse the fake ones with the real ones."

The amount of information contained in these few sentences of Zhu Yurao was so great that even the big-hearted Red Lady could not recover her senses for a while.

After a while, the red lady's almond-shaped eyes shone brightly and she said: "Let me tell you, the princess will definitely have a helper in future generations, but I didn't expect that she turned out to be the prince-in-law.

Princess, what does the prince-in-law of this future generation look like? Is he as handsome as my husband?"

"Cough cough cough!" Li Yan on the side finally came to his senses and coughed crazily, hinting to the red lady not to talk nonsense.

The red lady understood, but didn't take it seriously. Instead, she pretended to be concerned and patted Li Yan on the back, saying, "What's wrong with my husband? Could it be that he is really infected with the plague?"

There is a type of plague that mainly focuses on the lungs, so infected people will cough or even suddenly cough up blood and die suddenly.

Therefore, when the red lady said this, Li Yan coughed even harder.

This time it was a real cough.

Infuriating.

The red lady actually said that he was going to die suddenly, how could he not be angry?

Zhu Yasuo smiled slightly and did not answer the red lady's question, but said: "If the edict can be fake, should we go to Shanxi? After all, it is necessary to get to Chengdu as early as possible."

Li Yan calmed down and said: "If the imperial edict can really deceive the Shun army guard, we can naturally go all over the place, but if we can't, we will get into trouble."

As he said that, Li Yan once again looked at the maps of the three chief secretaries of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan.

Soon he had an idea.

"Your Highness, I don't think it's better than this. Let's go straight south into Henan first, and then go west after reaching Luoyang to see if we can deceive the Tongguan guard with the edict.

Because of this, we only need to pass through Tongguan before entering Hanzhong.

Even if the edict fails to deceive the Tongguan garrison, we can turn south, either take Shangluo Mountain to Xing'an Prefecture, or continue to Nanyang to Yunyang, and then from Yunyang to Xing'an Prefecture."

After hearing this plan, Zhu Ailao couldn't help but nod.

On the other side, Hao Guangming also nodded.

This plan does not require a long detour, and leaves a way out for failing to deceive the Shunjun garrison. It should be the best choice at the moment.

"I think it's okay," Hao Guangming said.

Zhu Yusao immediately said: "Then let's follow this route."

Later, Li Yan studied the specific marching route in the big tent, while Zhu Aona asked the red lady to take her to the guard camp for inspection.

As for the other barracks, there is nothing wrong with the Red Lady, but it is still inconvenient for Zhu Aona to go there at this time.

At this time, the soldiers not only set up camp but also had dinner.

The female soldiers in the guard camp were either making beds or starching clothes. They did not fall asleep but were not idle either.

"In this long march, what skills do the Red Detachment of Women have on foot?" Seeing that the female soldiers were busy and there didn't seem to be many hot water to soak their feet, Zhu Aelao asked.

The red lady smiled and said: "What skills do you need? You'll get used to it as you walk.

I heard from my husband that the princess had walked a long way after leaving the capital. Finally, I couldn't bear it anymore and got into the carriage.

After all, the princess was precious in the past. The soles of her feet would definitely not be able to bear it at first and would cause blisters.

When I walk a lot in the future, the soles of my feet will grow thick old skin, and it will be fine after walking long distances."

Zhu Yuyao didn't care about the Red Lady's teasing, but said seriously: "I learned two tips from later generations that are helpful for marching long distances. They may be useful to the soldiers. I would like to ask the Red Lady to implement them during the march.

It will also help our army move faster."

"Skills from later generations?" The red lady's eyes lit up when she heard that they were from later generations, "Princess, please tell me!"

Zhu Yusao said with a smile: "The first one is big leggings. Look, they look like this on my legs."

Zhu Ailao said as she lifted up the hem of her shirt, and underneath she was wearing a pair of modern women's trousers, with leggings on the other side that she had tied with a cloth belt according to the online video.

Hao Guangming said that later generations no longer use cloth leggings, but instead use leggings-like pantyhose or special leggings.

Moreover, Hao Guangming has already bought several sets of outdoor hiking clothes and other equipment online, and the goods will arrive tomorrow.
Chapter completed!