ps: I went out for a hot pot with my family today, and the second chapter was only delivered at this time, I'm really sorry. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

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After a two-day voyage, Zhao Hongrun's fleet of 10 transport ships docked in the Huayin area in the west of Sanchuan County, and about 2,200 elite merchant and sailors from Ran Teng's 1,000-man team and Xiang Li's 1,000-man team disembarked from the ship, and the baggage, grain and grass carried on the ships were moved to the shore.

After going ashore, Lu Balon pointed to the south and said to Zhao Hongrun and Lintao Jun Wei Ji: "About five or six miles to the south, there is an abandoned earthen city, which should be a good garrison place to sort it out briefly. ”

Zhao Hongrun nodded when he heard this.

A moment later, Zhao Hongrun and more than 2,000 merchant and sail soldiers carried cartloads of baggage, grain and grass to the south, while the fleet returned to Xiangfu Port.

I have to say that Sanchuan County is very desolate at first glance, because the grassland here is not the kind of endless grassland, and some places are full of potholes and weeds, to be honest, it is not as beautiful as imagined.

But Lintao Jun Wei Ji was a little excited, after all, this land is the place where their brothers of the Wei clan in Longxi - the Zhao clan of Longzhong and the Zhao clan of Longyou have walked for hundreds of years, and the ancestors of the two Zhao clans have gone through a difficult trek after leaving Longxi, through the vast Sanchuan County, and finally arrived in the Central Plains.

Although Lintao Jun Wei Ji was born in the Lintao Wei family, this did not prevent him from admiring the Longzhong Zhao family and the Longyou Zhao family.

"What's wrong with you, Lord Wei Ji?"

Zhao Hongrun asked in some surprise as he noticed that Wei Ji's body seemed to be trembling.

At first, he thought that Wei Ji's discomfort was because he was not used to taking a boat, which led to some seasickness, but after asking, he realized that Wei Ji was actually lamenting the perseverance of the Zhao family.

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Seeing Wei Ji's excited appearance, Zhao Hongrun opened his mouth, and his expression was strange and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Because he has gradually discovered that Lintao Jun Wei Ji's personality is actually a little introverted and melancholy, and he is still a very emotional person.

To put it bluntly, it's sentimentality.

This character leads to Lintao Jun Wei Ji when making decisions about certain things, he generally follows his heart instead of focusing on interests.

Of course, it's not that Lintaojun Wei Ji really has no desires, it's just that what he wants is different from what ordinary people want.

For example, to take back the inheritance left by the ancestor of Longxi from the hands of the Qin people, so that after his death, he would have the face to face the ancestors of the Wei clan in Longxi.

This kind of person is generally very strong and entangled in his heart, so Zhao Hongrun wisely excused himself to stay away, so as not to disturb the remembrance of his ancestors by Lord Lintaojun, who is rich in feelings.

The distance of five or six miles is actually placed in other places, in fact, it is more than half an hour at most, but in the land of Sanchuan County, this time is far from enough, no, Zhao Hongrun's team of people stepped on the wet and muddy grass, and walked with difficulty for more than an hour, only then did they see the ruins of the ancient city in the mouth of Lu Balon.

Riding a horse and getting closer, Zhao Hongrun visually inspected the ruins of the ancient city and found that the ancient city was really small and unusually dilapidated.

Although there is a ring of city walls on the periphery of this ancient city, it is only an earthen wall more than one person high, and it has collapsed in many places, which is simply full of holes, which makes Zhao Hongrun, who is used to seeing stone city walls, very disappointed.

However, Zhao Hongrun can understand, after all, this is the western part of Sanchuan County, and it retains the abandoned city of Wei hundreds of years ago.

But as long as you continue to the east, towards the east of Sanchuan County, it is not difficult to find that the ancient city of Wei that may still be preserved along the way, which is larger than the other, all the way to the land, finally appeared stone city walls.

Therefore, it can be said that this Sanchuan County still retains the development process of the ancestors of the Zhao family, and is close to the Central Plains culture little by little.

If there is also a sensual person like Wei Ji of Lintao Jun in the Zhao clan, who walked from Longxi to the current Wei State, perhaps he would be moved beyond measure, because this road is the road that their ancestors of the Zhao family walked, and it is the thorny road that the Zhao family surnamed Ji gradually began to prosper.

However, Zhao Hongrun does not have this sensibility.

"Ran Teng and Xiang Li, tell the soldiers to settle down in this ancient city, and the two of you are in charge of command."

Zhao Hongrun summoned Ran Teng and Xiang Li, two thousand-person generals, and instructed them.

"Yes!" Ran Teng and Xiang Li hugged their fists to receive the order, and then stepped back to command the stationing.

They were responsible for many things, such as building military tents, deploying city defenses, and so on.

The deployment of city defenses here does not rely on the earthen walls of the ancient city in front of them, which are purely ornaments in siege warfare, and what Ran Teng and Xiang Li have to do is to strengthen and repair these earthen walls, and deploy the crossbows transported by ship - this is the biggest reliance.

In fact, there are houses and buildings in the city, but the decay is so great that throughout the entire ancient city, it is almost impossible to find a complete one, and there are broken walls everywhere.

It was unrealistic to tear down and clean up all of them, because the soldiers and soldiers of the merchant navy did not have so much work and energy, so they set up tents on the basis of those broken walls, and made full use of the still solid walls of the houses.

After all, it is now early winter, and the weather has already gradually become colder, and the terrain around Sanchuan County is flat and the air is humid, so the cold wind is especially strong.

While the soldiers were busy, the guards had already lit a bonfire in front of the first tent built in the center of the ancient city.

I have to say that in the territory of Sanchuan County, it is more difficult to build a bonfire, because there is almost no forest in this area, at most there are some dwarf trees, the branches are thin and damp, if you are inexperienced, I am afraid that you will not even be able to build a bonfire.

Fortunately, there are Lu Balon and his tribe's warriors, all of whom are natives of Sanchuan, and it is a breeze for them to find suitable firewood to light a bonfire.

Under the guidance of Lu Balon, the Shang Shui soldiers quickly built piles of bonfires, and then Lu Baron led about three or four hundred Shang Shui soldiers to search for water sources.

Yes, look for water.

Don't look at the pits and puddles on the Sanchuan grassland, as if the water source is very abundant, but in fact, at least more than half of the water in this grassland is inedible.

Because it is stagnant water that does not flow, there are even some animal bones that can be fished out in some ponds, which pollute the otherwise edible ponds.

And what Lu Baron led the soldiers of Shang Shui to look for was the kind of flowing streams, even if some streams looked small, only the width of a palm, and two knuckles shallow, even if some streams seemed to be a little muddy after flowing into a small pond, but in fact, these were edible.

However, unless it is a Qian, Qian, or Huang people who have lived in the Sanchuan grassland for many years, it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish whether the water source in this area can be drunk.

Of course, whether it can be drunk here does not mean that some water sources are poisonous, but to be precise, there should be germs, or even epidemic bacteria, which will make people who drink it by mistake have a fever and get sick, vomit and diarrhea, and then die in a few days.

When Lu Balon was in charge of finding a source of drinking water, Lintao Jun Wei Ji had already visited the entire ancient city, and when he returned, he told Zhao Hongrun that there might have been an ancient county in this ancient city.

In this regard, Zhao Hongrun laughed at it.

About half an hour later, Lu Balon returned, and the soldiers and soldiers of the merchant sailors carried wooden barrels full of water, and after simply straining them with gauze, they set the wooden barrels on the campfire and boiled them.

This is also the experience summed up by the people of Sanchuan: the water in the Sanchuan grassland, even if it is drinkable, must be boiled before it can be drunk.

While waiting for the boiling water to cook rice, Zongwei Changwei Jiao took out the map of the Sanchuan area in a timely manner and spread it on the ground, Zhao Hongrun, Lintaojun Wei Ji, Lu Balon and others sat on the ground, analyzed the current situation, and made plans for the next few days.

“…… We are now here (Huayin), and we are very close to the Qinling Mountains, so when we are on the boat, I suggest that Your Highness dock in this area, and if you get any closer, it will be very dangerous. …… In addition, if I am not mistaken, the current army of the Qin State is either about a hundred miles to the west of us, or it is to the southwest of us. Pointing to the location on the map, Lu Balon introduced to Zhao Hongrun and Lintaojun Wei Ji.

Zhao Hongrun nodded when he heard this, he naturally understood why Lu Baron put forward two hypotheses about the location of the Qin army, because it depended on the Qin army's response to the Qin people - if the Qin army decided to eradicate the threat of the Qin tribe first, then they would march against the Qin tribe located in the southwest; Conversely, if the Qin army's main strategy was to quickly seize the land of Sanchuan County, then they might have ignored the threat posed by the Qian tribe.

"It should be in the southwest direction." After thinking for a while, Lintao Jun Wei Ji said in a deep voice: "With my understanding of the Qin army, the Qin army will not sit idly by and watch the existence of the Qiang tribe, if those Qiang tribes are really as powerful as His Royal Highness King Su said, then the army of the Qin State will be the first to attack the Qiang tribe." ”

Zhao Hongrun nodded when he heard this, he also hoped so, otherwise, they would have to evacuate eastward, after all, with only more than 2,000 soldiers and soldiers of the merchant army, they were unable to compete with the Qin army.

After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun turned his head to Lu Balon and said: "Lu Balon, this king needs the warriors of your tribe to quickly get in touch with the Qian tribe in the southwest, if they are ready to counterattack the Qin army, this king hopes to be able to wait and see from a distance to see the strength of the Qin army." ”

Hearing this, Lu Balon said with a smile: "Your Royal Highness King Su, don't worry, when I went to look for water just now, I had already sent a warrior to contact the people of the Qian tribe with the token of my Sichuan Alliance, and I believe that by tomorrow evening at the latest, the warriors of my tribe will bring back the news." …… In addition, I also sent people to find out the location of the Qin army. ”

"Good." Zhao Hongrun nodded with satisfaction.

Sure enough, the next evening, the warriors of the Lun tribe brought back a reply from the Qiang tribe in the southwest, saying that they had gathered tens of thousands of slaves and were ready to fight the Qin army in two days.

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun only took Lintao Jun Wei Ji, Lu Balon and a few Zongwei to the southwest overnight, preparing to go to the battlefield in person to watch the war between the Qin tribe and the Qin army. (To be continued.) )