Sanchuan and Qinling are bordered, but in the past, there was no specific dividing line between the two. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, over the years, the two sides have gradually formed a tacit understanding that the eastern mountains of the Qinling Mountains are the boundary between the two places.

Note: The Qinling Mountains mentioned here refer to the Qinling Mountains in Guanzhong in the narrowest sense, not the Qinling Mountains in the broad sense, that is, excluding Huashan Mountain, Kuzhong Mountain, Bear's Ear Mountain, Kunshan Mountain, etc.

To be precise, the boundary between Sanchuan County and Qin is Huashan, also known as Taishan, Taihua Mountain, and so on.

Huashan is connected to the Qinling Mountains in the south and Huangwei in the north, with strange peaks and different rocks in the majority, it is reasonable to say that it is a place to fight, but in the concept of the nomads of Sanchuan, because there is no concept of fighting for every inch of land, so that the people of Sanchuan rarely approach this mountain that is not conducive to grazing.

In particular, Huayin, literally, refers to the northern part of Huashan, which is the land that is blocked by Huashan, so it is very barren, damp and muddy, and inaccessible, and the people of Sanchuan will hardly come here to graze, so that there are still traces left by the ancestors of the Zhao family of Wei for hundreds of years.

But in the southern part of Huashan, also known as Huayang, in that fertile land with plenty of sunlight and grass, it is one of the natural pastures on which the Qiang tribe depends.

If the Qin army really wanted to attack the Qian tribe, then the place where the former attacked was Huayang.

On October 17, Zhao Hongrun, together with several Zongwei including Lintao Jun Wei Ji, Lu Balon and Wei Jiao, rode to the Huayang area.

Don't think about crossing Huashan, because the mountains around Qinling and Huashan are not comparable to those mountains in Wei, and in front of the towering Huashan, what Anling and Yanling in Wei are at best just small slopes and low hills.

In order to save time, Zhao Hongrun chose the more adventurous route, bypassing this mountain range from the western part of Huashan, passing through the gap between Huashan and Qinling Mountains, and arriving at Huayang.

It is said to be a slit, but in fact, the gap between the Qinling Mountains and Huashan is enough to be called a plain, but at present, this is the battlefield where the Qin army and the Qian tribe are fighting, so if you want to pass through here, the danger is very high.

Fortunately, the goal of their team is small, and the attention of the Qin people should be focused on the Qian tribe at present, so that this journey is not thrilling or dangerous, and there is no figure in the journey of more than 100 miles.

However, when Zhao Hongrun and his party came to the Huayang area, the situation was very different.

First of all, on the plain close to the Qinling Mountains, they saw a group of camps that were rolling for dozens of miles, and Zhao Hongrun suspected that it was most likely the main camp of the Qin army.

However, he didn't dare to get closer, after all, there were chariots and cavalry in the Qin army, and there were only eight or nine people in their group, if they alarmed the Qin army, they really didn't even have a chance to escape.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun forcibly suppressed his desire to observe the main camp of the Qin army at close range, and drove his war horse to the southeast at a fast speed, because in the southeast direction, that was where the Qin tribe was located.

On the way, Zhao Hongrun ran into a cavalry duel in the wilderness, on one side was a cavalry in dark black armor, about twenty horses; On the other side were cavalrymen in sheepskin jackets, about twenty or thirty men.

Judging from the number of people on both sides, Zhao Hongrun believed that these two groups of cavalry should be the Qin army scouts and the Qin sentinel cavalry who happened to meet in the field.

He wanted to stop and observe the process of the two groups of cavalry fighting each other, but the two teams of knights invariably took out their horns and began to call friends and friends.

In the spirit of not wanting to be implicated and injured, Zhao Hongrun and his party left quickly.

However, before they could run a few miles, they ran into a sentry of the Qiang tribe who had come to their aid, and were surrounded by the opposing party.

Of course, Zhao Hongrun and his entourage would not choose to resist, after all, in front of them, there were nearly 100 Qian sentinels, and they were grassland warriors who were no less skilled in archers and horses than the Korean cavalry.

So, Zhao Hongrun and his entourage gave up resistance, Zongwei Changwei took out the flag of Wei from the bag of the war horse without saying a word, and held it high above his head, and Lu Balon also took out the banner of the Sichuan Alliance.

Seeing these two flags, those Qiang sentinels lifted their attacking posture, and immediately, a centurion who led the team came to Zhao Hongrun and the others with a little vigilance, and asked Zhao Hongrun and others in the Qiang language for the purpose of appearing here, and gestured while talking, probably considering that these Wei people may not understand the Qiang language.

It turned out that the centurion was too worried, because in Zhao Hongrun's team, Zhao Hongrun and Lu Balon were both proficient in the Zong language, and even the guards would speak a few words that were not very standard in the Zong language, such as hello, we are not enemies, etc.

After the two sides confessed their identities, the centurion of the Qiang Sentinel told Zhao Hongrun and the others that they were currently at war with the Qin, and in addition to the one that Zhao Hongrun knew of, that is, the battle in which 40,000 slave soldiers were killed, in fact, the Qin and the Qiang had fought more than a dozen times one after another.

Of course, these dozen or so encounters refer to relying on the action power of the Qin Sentinels to harass and attack the camp of the Qin camp.

As for the frontal battlefield, the Qiang tribe, which lost more than 40,000 slaves a while ago, did not have the confidence to let the warriors of this tribe fight to the death with the Qin army regardless of the casualties.

Because he had to rush to support, the centurion didn't talk to Zhao Hongrun and the others for long, and after pointing out the direction of their Qianren tribe's landing, he hurriedly left with his warriors.

"Your Highness, are you going to the tribe of the Qiang people?" After the group of Qiang sentinels left, Lu Balon asked Zhao Hongrun.

To be honest, Zhao Hongrun actually didn't want to go to the tribe of the Qiang people, even if the relationship between the Qiang people and the Wei people warmed up after the Battle of Sanchuan, but in the final analysis, this relationship is still only a paid cooperation under the premise of mutual non-interference, which does not mean that the positions of the two are the same.

It's just that now that I'm on the territory of the Qiang tribe, if I don't visit the owner here, it's a little unreasonable.

However, if you go, safety is another issue, after all, there are not a few people among the people who are still hostile to the Wei State.

After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun still shook his head and refused: "Forget it, anyway, I've already greeted the Qiang tribe, so I won't go for the time being." ”

Lubaron nodded, not saying anything more.

In the final analysis, Lu Balon is a member of the Qiang people, and his impression of the Qiang people is not good.

In the evening, several warriors from the Lun tribe found Zhao Hongrun and his party, not to mention, although there were only a few people, Zhao Hongrun was much more relieved.

After all, the current situation in this land is not peaceful, even if there is one more warrior of the Lun tribe by his side, this is also a guarantee of safety.

That night, Zhao Hongrun and his party stayed at the foot of Huashan Mountain, because this place was very close to the battlefield, therefore, Zhao Hongrun and his party did not dare to make a fire to barbecue, just ate a few mouthfuls of dry food with water, and then went to sleep in the tent early.

Because they were afraid that the war horses would freeze to death in the cold weather at night, everyone specially set up two tents for the war horses, and the rest of the people were crowded in the other two tents, except for the two Lun warriors who were on guard.

The next day, Zhao Hongrun and his entourage began to climb Mount Huashan, hoping to find a suitable lookout point halfway up the mountain, so as to observe the war between the Qin people and the Qian tribes.

To their surprise, they found an abandoned stone watchtower halfway up Mount Huashan.

This watchtower has three floors, the bottom two floors may have been used to live or pile up grain, and the top floor is a lookout, which is about seven or eight zhang square, which is a very decent watchtower.

This was an unexpected discovery, and even Lubaron was very surprised, after all, the Qiang tribe had almost no habit of monitoring a place on a regular basis, and they were more accustomed to using a mobile way of monitoring, that is, sending out sentinels.

“…… This doesn't look like what I left behind in the old days. ”

Zhao Hongrun carefully observed this watchtower, judging from the completeness of those stones, he felt that this was not like it was left by the ancestors of the Zhao clan of their Wei State hundreds of years ago, and it should be further back.

In the end, Zhao Hongrun made a guess: this may be decades or hundreds of years ago, shortly after the Qin people came to Sanchuan, when there was a conflict with the Qin people, the Qin people built a watchtower here for the purpose of monitoring the Qin people on the Huayang Plain.

Regardless of the truth, Zhao Hongrun and his party were very happy because they found a place to shelter from the wind and rain. What's more, the view of this watchtower is very superior, not only can you vaguely see the Qin army camps, but even the tribal camps of the Qian people, not to mention the battlefield between the two.

So, Zhao Hongrun asked several warriors of the Lun tribe to guard the war horses at the foot of the mountain, and he himself moved to this watchtower with Lintao Jun Wei Ji, Lu Balon and Zong Wei and others, and waited on the lookout every day for the war between the Qin army and the Qian tribe.

After waiting for two days, the Qin army and the Qian tribe finally made a move.

In the early morning of October 20, when Zhao Hongrun was tightly wrapped in a woolen blanket and fell asleep against the wall on the second floor of the watchtower, Zongwei Lu Mu hurriedly ran down from the lookout on the third floor, and woke up the people resting on the second floor with a word: "Let's fight, let's fight, the Qin army and the people of the Qi tribe are going to fight." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun didn't say a word, lifted the sheepskin blanket and ran down the stone steps to the third floor, holding on to the wall and looking at the battlefield in the distance.

Sure enough, I saw that on the flat land that was empty a few days ago, today there are black crowds everywhere.

Due to the long distance, Zhao Hongrun could not estimate the specific number of Qin's troops, but the seemingly overwhelming crowd still made him gasp.

And just when Zhao Hongrun was looking at the military momentum of the Qin army in the distance, at the foot of Huashan Mountain, a group of people were slowly coming in the direction of this watchtower.

In the team, there is a familiar face that Zhao Hongrun is not unfamiliar with, that is Qin Shaojun, who met in Daliang of Wei State a few days ago.

I saw that Qin Shaojun sometimes looked at the map in his hand, and sometimes carefully searched the halfway point of Mount Hua with his eyes, and there were words in his mouth.

"Strange...... There should be a watchtower built by my Great Qin a hundred years ago, why can't I find it? Was it destroyed by the Karma? ”

I don't know how long later, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he put the map in his hand back into the words.

“…… Got it! (To be continued.) )