This place east of Luoshui and west of the Yellow River is the Hexi land in the mouth of the Qin people.

In the early Warring States Period, Wei State once defeated Qin and occupied the place, and set it as Xihe County. Therefore, the Wei people called this place Xihedi.

Whether it is Xihe or Hexi, this place is a very important place for the former Wei and Qin.

After Wei occupied this place at that time, Guanzhong of Qin was a girl with her thighs spread to Wei, completely letting Wei ask for it.

After Hexi was occupied by Wei, Qin was once on the verge of destruction.

Fortunately, with the death of a generation of overlord Wei Wenhou, the successor Wei Wuhou turned his focus to the Central Plains, which made the Qin people take a breath.

It was also in this context that Qin State welcomed Shang Yang, the great savior who was famous in history.

After Shang Yang's reform, Qin State became stronger. With the victory of the Battle of Diaoyin and diplomatic oppression, he finally successfully recovered Hexidi and Shangjun.

It was from here that the Qin State sounded the horn of counterattack step by step, and continued to lay down Hedong County to the east, and then opened up the Guhan Pass, occupied all the land in the western part of Wei State, and laid the foundation for the subsequent further eastward attack on Yiyang, Han, the Ye Wang and even Shangdang.

If there are those two cities in Hexi that are the most important, of course, Shaoliang City in the north and Yinjin City in the south.

Shaoliang City was built by Wei Wenhou, the founding monarch of Wei. The purpose is to use this place as a starting point to gradually suppress and eliminate Qin. It is also the largest city in Hexi today with the largest population and largest area.

But if measured from a military perspective, Yin Jincheng is much better than Shaoliangcheng.

Yinjincheng is located south of the Wei River north of the Qinling Mountains, and at the same time corresponds to the west exit of the Wuhan Passage. It is stuck in such a narrow throat passage, and its geographical location is extremely important.

Under the premise that Hangu Pass is lost, if the enemy appears from the Wuhan Pass, either choose to cross the Wei River and Luo River continuously, otherwise you can only take down Yinjin City and continue to march towards Guanzhong.

Once Yin Jincheng is taken down, there will be no obstacles in the entire Guanzhong and it will be said to be smooth.

It is precisely because this city is so important that whether it is Qin or Zhao, it regards this place as a military city. In layman's terms, it is a military fortress.

A military fortress the size of a city.

It is now dusk, and the brilliance of the sunset shines on the entire earth, dyeing the thick blue-black walls of Yinjin City into golden yellow, making this already tall and majestic city more and more majestic.

In a forest several miles away, Li Mu looked at the city quietly, with a somewhat complicated expression on his face.

To be honest, after seeing with his own eyes how strong this military fortress is, Li Mu had no idea at all.

For such a city, even if it is dispatched to deploy an army of 100,000 or even 200,000 infantry, it will take a year and a half to completely conquer it.

If you only rely on the 30,000 cavalrymen who did not have any siege equipment in Li Mu's hand to attack head-on... I'm afraid you can only think about how to break the city in your dream.

After a long time, Li Mu spoke, "This city... can really be broken?"

Li Mu did not talk to himself, but to the people around him.

Beside Li Mu, in addition to his deputy Zhao Kuo and several personal guards, there was also a thirty-year-old man wearing a Qin army uniform. The man was thin and his eyes were flashing, and he looked very smart and capable.

The man smiled and said to Li Mu: "The general must have seen how strong this city is. If it were normal, it would be impossible to break with the general's strength."

Speaking of this, the man deliberately paused and observed the expression on Li Mu's face.

Li Mu looked at the man very calmly.

The man smiled awkwardly and continued, "But if you use a trick, then the situation will be different."

"Use a plan?" Li Mu raised his brow slightly and said to the man: "You tell me what kind of plan you are going to use."

The man smiled and said, "Since the general comes from the west, he must have known Zhengcheng."

Li Mu nodded and said, "Of course I know."

The man continued: "According to information, a batch of food and grass was set off from Zhengcheng yesterday morning. Calculation time should arrive in Yinjincheng before sunset tomorrow."

What a smart person Li Mu was, he could be said to be clear at a glance. He immediately said, "What do you mean is to let me ambush this grain transport team first, and then pretend to be a grain transport team and trick Yinjin City Gate?"

The man bowed to Li Mu and smiled and said, "The general is indeed very insightful."

Li Mu laughed and suddenly said, "I understand, this is why you asked your subordinates to bypass Zheng Cheng in advance, right?"

The man smiled and nodded, then said seriously: "There are five hundred soldiers responsible for protecting the food and grass. The civilians who transported the food should have about three to four thousand,000, which is enough."

Li Mu calculated and said, "If you follow your statement, then time seems to be a little hurry."

In just half a day, Li Mu had to set up an ambush to defeat the Qin people, and then seize as much clothing as possible from the Qin people, and then escort the grain and grass to Yinjin City to trick the city gate. It can be said that he was very rushed.

The man smiled and said, "This is what the general needs to worry about."

Li Mu hummed and suddenly said, "By the way, how many people are there in Yinjin City?"

The man replied: "Originally there were 20,000, but now there are only 4,000. The rest have been transferred to the battlefield in Hedong County."

Li Mu nodded, finally relieved.

If the four thousand people were used to defend the city, it would be more than enough to rely on the city defense of Yinjin City, but once Li Mu's 30,000 cavalry rushed into the city, these four thousand people were really not enough for Li Mu to get stuck in the gap between his teeth.

More importantly, as long as Yin Jincheng is taken down, Li Mu will be able to contact Hangu Pass, which is still under the control of Zhao State, and get rid of the embarrassing situation of fighting behind enemy lines.

Li Mu thought for a while and looked up at Zhao Kuo beside him.

After confirming my eyes, I thought the same.

Li Mu stretched out his hand, patted the man in front of him on the shoulder, and said, "Then I'm sure I'll start an attack at sunset tomorrow!"

The man nodded, gave a standard Zhao State military salute to Li Mu and the others, then walked out of the woods and rode away on horseback.

Zhao Kuo looked at the man's figure as he left, and suddenly spoke, "General, do you think that the people of Hu Yiwei are so terrifying that they even have so many backgrounds in the Qin army? Do you think there are spies from Qin in our army?"

Li Mu's face changed slightly as he said this, and he said at any time: "It's really not impossible... It seems that you need to pay attention."

In fact, what Li Mu and Zhao Kuo didn't know was that the reason why Hu Yiwei could penetrate Qin so much was all because of the Qin prime minister Lu Buwei, who was in the Qin camp and in the heart of Zhao.

Otherwise, with the strict household registration system of Qin State, how could these spies from Hu Yiwei take advantage of the loopholes?

Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "General, do you say that if the Qin people knew that Yin Jin was taken down by our army, they would probably retreat from Hedong, right?"

Li Mu thought for a while and said, "It's not impossible... But the Qin people and Shaoliang City as their base may not necessarily retreat. However, once Yin Jin took it, the Qin people must be restrained in Hedong. We have made great contributions. Okay, it's getting late, so let's go back to the camp."
Chapter completed!