Every trip can enhance the unique feeling of life, which is now Cao Zhang's experience is dripping, which is completely different from the desert yellow sand in the Western Regions, the oasis nectar, the endless desolate Gobi on the plateau, the towering snow-capped mountains, the connection between water and sky, the spectacular and moving Great Salt Lake, these natural magics, all give this first traveler in the Three Kingdoms period of the late Han Dynasty a different sense.

What moved Cao Zhang even more was that the plateau, where it was so hard to even boil water and headaches every day, still had human beings living on the plateau, and there were quite a few of them.

This is the result of three years of exploration by the Storm Legion, and the advance team found dozens of ancient Qiang tribes that migrated as early as the Xia and Shang periods and lived near the Yarlung Zangbo River and the Lhasa River, and also established diplomatic relations and trade relations with the Yalong tribe, the most powerful local six yaks, and exchanged iron and cotton cloth for barley and military support they planted.

In later generations, even the car on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the lack of oxygen environment is facing the problem of poor power, not to mention people, even in Liangzhou selection, long-trained Kansai Han, on the plateau has also become Daiyu type, a little strenuous exercise for a while, panting old face suffocated red, plus every height on the height, will be in the forward camp for a few days, to reach the Yalong River Valley located in the Shannan region, a month of food just left.

At this point, Cao Zhang, as well as Wei Yan, who was actually the leader, were just able to replenish a large number of yak jerky, cheese, barley flour, and a delicacy that had emerged because Wang Hou initiated trade.

Butter tea!

In the plateau area, the temperature difference between day and night is very large, and it is really a pleasant enjoyment to get up early in the morning and drink a bowl of butter tea with extremely high calories and tea leaves to relieve greasy.

At this time, the leader of the Yalong tribe has established the hereditary system of the chieftain of the slave tribe, and for the Wei State, a large civilization country from the direction of Qinghai, the contemporary Zampu obviously attaches great importance to it, in addition to supplementing the food here, even Zampu has also recruited more than 3,000 strong feudal soldiers for the Wei army, as a servant force, following the footsteps of the Storm Legion to the east, in terms of strength, Cao Zhang is a big increase.

However, although this trip to the plateau is beautiful and spectacular and novel, after the Yalong River Valley replenishes the supply troops, he still can't wait to wave the army south, after all, the plateau is really beautiful and dangerous at the same time, only this long-distance march of non-combat attrition has reached four or five hundred, Cao Zhang still misses the Central Plains land below one thousand meters above sea level, and the yellow sand of the Western Regions.

This is really the last part of the journey, along the Dadu River that was wiped out by Shi Dakai's army in the later generations, all the way south, but also to experience a handful of climbing snow mountains, crossing the hardships of grassland, trekking for 58 days, the Storm Army in the early 9,000s finally arrived safely in the Sichuan Basin, Hanjia County of Shu Han, and the famous Luding in later generations!

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This military operation is simply a feat, even in history, such a large-scale force through the plateau no man's land, it was not until the Qing Dynasty did not appear, the prosperous Tang Dynasty was only in Qinghai, the Western Regions and the Tubo Empire clashed, the Tang army never really set foot on the snowy plateau, and finally came down from this endless mountain alive, looking eastward, although the weather is the country of abundance is always rainy and rainy, but the endless plain still makes every sergeant excited.

Even Cao Zhang himself was like a madman, and he excitedly pulled out the short fire gun pinned to his waist and shot twice into the sky.

It's a pity, this is a big army after all, and the execution of military tasks is still its main purpose, just in the cheers of the sergeants who rushed down the mountain, a burst of moving military drums suddenly sounded loudly, after all, after a long period of training, the discipline is almost engraved in the bones, so that even the jubilant storm regiment can't help but stiffen, and immediately under the orders of their respective officers, they quickly reorganized into formation.

After the three-way drum was completed, a neat and majestic mixed infantry and cavalry army formation appeared on the ground at one time, seeing these soldiers with a straight face, sternly holding weapons in a phalanx, even Cao Zhang, who had led the troops for a long time, saw this scene with his own eyes, and couldn't help but stare in surprise.

Now there are a lot of troops under his command, the Central Plains troops of the Bafu under the command of the veteran Zhang He, the cavalry of the old capital under the command of Wang Shuang, in order to rule the more and more extensive territory, last year Cao Zhang also transferred capable and strong men from the migrating Wancheng immigrants and the Hu tribes in the Western Regions, and formed an Anxi army of up to 20,000 people, and the combat effectiveness is particularly strong.

When the war to destroy Shu is over, the mission of this storm army will be completed, and when Lao Tzu will send them to the Western Regions, it will not be in vain!

It's really called the fat who is close to the pig and the black who is close to the ink, and after following Wang Hou, a profiteer, for a long time, the third young master Cao has also become treacherous, pinching his chin and looking at the army, most of the protectors of the Western Regions are yin and thought.

Unaware that his legion was being targeted by an unscrupulous leader, Wei Yan, who had been supervising the rear army, rode a tall Dawan horse, and rode to the forefront of the army with extraordinary majesty under the command of dozens of guards cavalry.

That unsmiling face has not changed in the slightest even if it has been in Liaodong for so many years, at this time it is still rigid as iron, and his eyes are sharp as patrolling his troops, but compared to the talented subordinate who was like walking shit luck when he first came to Liaodong, he has become a qualified general over the years, and his eyes have been sharp and patrolling around his subordinates, although the iron face remains unchanged, Wei Yan's voice has become overflowing, and he roared loudly and inspiringly.

"Brethren, behind you are a hundred thousand mountains! Even in the violent Qin era, the Qin army that swept through the six countries did not conquer here, but you relied on a pair of feet, braved the cold and mountain disease, and came over hard, each of you is good, even if the Daxingtai is here, you will definitely be proud of you! ”

Wei Yan actually praised people, these words came out of the mouth of this iron-blooded and serious general, it was even more unusual than the blossoming of the iron tree, and when he heard it, those soldiers in the front row couldn't help but stare in amazement, and turned their heads and ears, sometimes, language must be even more inspiring than the reward of gold and silver, especially from the mouth of Wei Yan, who rarely praises people, it made the military heart of the army happy.

"But! Now is not the time to celebrate, Ben and his brothers have suffered for three years on this barren and dead plateau, not for the cold in the morning and the summer in the afternoon, to eat this bite of dried barley noodles from yaks! The capital of the Shu thief country is in the north, waiting for us to conquer! ”

"So, first seal this pride in your heart, follow the general, and break Shu in one fell swoop! After the city of Chengdu falls, Ben will make contributions with all the brothers, and then cheer and celebrate, drink heartily, and when the time comes, Ben will personally drink and talk with the brothers, and he will not get drunk and return! ”

It will be the soul of the soldier, and this is true! With Wei Yan's roar, the entire Storm Legion boiled like a fire cooking oil, and countless soldiers excitedly smashed the heavy spear pole in their hands to the ground, roaring from the heart, the military heart has been mobilized to the limit, looking at his army, Wei Yan nodded with satisfaction, and then finally raised the flag and roared.

"Destroy Shu and march into !!"

The crackling snare drum sounded once again thunderous and noisy, and the neat troops were like a stream of iron, heading straight to the northeast with murderous spirit!

Chengdu Mansion!