Chapter 477: The End of the Barren Land (Second Update)
"Don't make a noise, you will lead the way in front of me, and everything will be talked about later!"
Lu Jia is still very cautious, he knows that once he gives hope to the soldiers behind him, and then disappoints them, how big a blow will be to their morale, so Lu Jia did not say anything, although his heart is also pounding, wanting to reach this historic moment quickly, but he is afraid that after arriving and finding that it is just a small mountain bag.
Under such a tangled and contradictory psychology, Lu Jia and the others walked for nearly three hours, and finally, they vaguely saw the scouts who were exploring everywhere in front of them, and they were all quite excited when they saw Lu Jia arrive with a large army, and hurriedly surrounded Lu Jia, reporting the situation of their investigation around here in the previous few hours.
As Yinggao said before, from here, there are not a few individual peaks in front of you, but a series of mountain ranges, how far this mountain range stretches, no one can see, which is enough to show that after this mountain range is another world.
"Order, set up camp in the open space under the mountain here, wait for this time after the snowstorm, and then explore the terrain."
Lu Jia stepped forward to suppress the joy in his heart, he did not rush to write a letter to Yinggao, but wanted to wait for the wind and snow to pass and find a place with a good vision to investigate all the surrounding situations before speaking, after all, if this letter is returned, Yinggao may set off another storm in the entire Great Qin, so he must be cautious.
After setting up camp, Lu Jia almost didn't sleep all night, he stared at the wind and snow outside the big tent, and when the sky was slightly brighter the next day, the wind and snow finally stopped, and Lu Jia couldn't wait to get out of the big tent, wanting to take a good look at the true face of this large mountain range.
When he came to a high ground, and then looked into the distance, even Lu Jia, who had a certain amount of psychological preparation for this place, couldn't help but gasp.
What was in front of him was indeed a large mountain range, and this mountain range had snow-white peaks, which symbolized the very low temperature on it, and what shocked Lu Jia even more was that the length of this mountain range was like a natural danger, separating the space between this barren land and the end of the mountain range, so at a glance, Lu Jia did not find any gaps within the range of his eyes.
After observing for nearly half an hour, Lu Jia almost imprinted the landform he saw in his mind, and then returned to his big tent.
After a brief record, Lu Jia summoned all the heads and brains of the people who came with him this time, this mountain range in front of them, everyone had already seen it, and they all knew what such a situation might mean to them.
"After months of hardship, we finally live up to the trust of the king and the Xiongnu, and arrive at the boundary of this land separated by only one mountain and river from the Peacock Dynasty, according to the guidance of the king, the opposite side of that mountain range is the common goal of Daqin and the Xiongnu, the Peacock Dynasty!"
After Lu Jia settled this matter, the people in front of him let out a burst of cheers, they knew the hardships of their journey, and now, a rare dawn finally appeared in the fog before, they knew that they were very close to their true goal.
"But as we have seen, if you want to lead to the Peacock Dynasty, you must find a gap in this mountain range, and today I have just investigated, this gap is not easy to find, it can be said that we have a long way to go to succeed in the distance, so from this time on, we will take this place as the center, along this mountain range to both sides, once we can find a place that can be opened, even if it is only able to pass one person and one ride, it is a great credit!"
After this mobilization, the rest of the people are all full of energy, they have basically adapted to the environment and climate of this place, the most fatal thing before is basically to rush day and night, and now they finally don't have to rush anymore, in other words, their life safety is basically guaranteed, not only that, once they find the passage to the Peacock Dynasty, they are also a great achievement.
When he was on the road before, Lu Jia had already revealed to some of the soldiers of Great Qin that when this large barren land really found the Mauryan Dynasty, half of the place would be from Great Qin, and the other half would be the Xiongnu.
It is this half of the land of Great Qin, and when the emperor of Great Qin is planning, he will definitely not forget these people who followed him, the observer of the Western Regions, to open up the wasteland, in other words, when it becomes some counties of Great Qin, these people will become officials of all sizes, which makes their hearts full of motivation.
At this time, it was also time for Lu Jia to report his first stage results to Yinggao, he silently wrote a letter to Yinggao, and did not make a big fanfare, but silently sent a reliable subordinate to Yinggao to send him back.
When this letter arrived in Yinggao's hands, Yinggao had already spent two months of boredom in Xianyang City, there was no news from Xiangjun, and Hu Hai suddenly disappeared when Yinggao went out to patrol Nanhai County, and the news of his disappearance had spread almost throughout Daqin, and there was no progress in the navigation chart, which made Yinggao's heart a little depressed, but the arrival of Lu Jia's letter let Yinggao know what it meant to relieve worries.
When he saw Lu Jia claiming that the other side of the mountain range was the Peacock Dynasty, he almost jumped off his dragon chair in excitement.
There was a sense of pride between Lu Jia's words, but he still used the greatest amount of space to suggest that Yinggao should take advantage of this time to send some more people to those contact points he set up, in the name of assisting in the exploration of the mountain range, first occupy those contact points, and then when they find the road to the Peacock Dynasty, basically close to Bashu to the Peacock Dynasty, these boundaries will automatically become the half of Great Qin.
In this way, it will be a smooth expansion of Daqin's territory, and more importantly, when Daqin will grasp the transportation arteries to the Mauryan Empire, it will be an invisible clamp for the Huns.
Seeing these things, Ying Gao felt that he had really used Lu Jia as the so-called observer of the Western Regions, and through Lu Jia, Ying Gao gradually realized a problem, that is, these talented people, if you let him stand in the court, he may be able to play a big role, but most of the time it is still on paper.
But if you are like Lu Jia, let these talented people out and let them do what they like, then you may get unexpected results.
Lu Jia didn't regard this Western Regions observation position as a burden at all, and once Yinggao used someone he didn't want to go, then at least he wouldn't find that large mountain range as steadily and ruthlessly as Lu Jia.
In the next step, it is certain to reuse Lu Jia, Yinggao secretly made up his mind, and he found that Lu Jia was very willing to explore unknown areas, and it just so happened that exploring a barren place was just the beginning of Yinggao's exploration road, and there were many places to be explored in the future.
Happy to be happy, in the letter, Lu Jia also reminded Yinggao that finding the entrance seems simple, but any result can happen, once the place where manpower can reach is a heavy mountain, and the Huns' cavalry naturally can't climb over such a high mountain, this matter is difficult to do.
Although there is a saying that the mountains open the way in this era, after all, no one knows how thick such a mountain range is, if you choose a place by feeling, because it will take a long time for the manpower of Daqin and Xiongnu to transport to this place, and the climate of this place is very harsh, it is possible to open it artificially for a year or two.
At this time, it was obviously a turning point, Yinggao played his usual kindness, and sent someone to tell Xiang Yu about this matter directly, on the one hand, to tell him the progress made in this matter, on the other hand, it was also to inform Xiang Yu that in the matter of opening up the mountain range, of course, the Huns could not sit idly by, once the matter came to this point, Yinggao would help Xiang Yu to explore the road from the Huns to the mountain range, but the real excavation of the mountain range had to be completed by the Huns and the Great Qin people.
After informing Xiang Yu, Yinggao finally summoned Han Xin to him, and he knew that it was time for Han Xin to come out.
"Your Majesty, so once Lu Jia finds the entrance to the Peacock Dynasty on that mountain range, the cavalry of my Great Qin and the Huns can attack the Peacock Dynasty at any time?"
"In principle, this is the case, but I think this matter is not so simple, you should prepare first, select the 20,000 most elite among the cavalry of Daqin, and lead them to Bashu County, all of the 20,000 cavalry should be raised by the two counties of Bashu, and then you can go to the nearest contact point to Daqin to have a look, so that my soldiers of Daqin can familiarize themselves with the climate and environment there, so as to rush to the Peacock Dynasty at any time."
Han Xin knew what Yinggao meant as soon as he heard it, and he knew that he had been preparing for this expedition for a long time, and it was finally time to really prepare for war.
In fact, when he knew that Yinggao would let him lead 20,000 cavalry to cooperate with Xiang Yu, he had already selected the 20,000 people he was going to take away.
After the two discussed, Han Xin almost wanted to hurry up and prepare with a light in his eyes, but when he was about to turn around, he was stopped by Yinggao angrily.
"I don't know what else the king commands?"
"If you go to attack the Peacock Dynasty this time, it is very likely that it will take years to return to Great Qin, you have to let Yang Zi know about this, so that she will not start to quarrel with me in this Xianyang Palace when she finds out that you have not returned for several months."
Hearing that Yinggao told him that it was this matter, Han Xin scratched his head embarrassedly, and said in his heart that this time he really couldn't push this matter to Yinggao again.
Indeed, several times when Yang Zi asked himself, he said that it was because the emperor sent him what happened. The consequence of this is that when he doesn't return to Xianyang City for a long time, Yang Zi almost every time he goes to Xianyang Palace to find Yinggao and cry and make trouble, but after Han Xin came back, he smiled slightly, hiding his merit and fame.
Now it seems that his behavior has obviously been seen through by Yinggao, and if he does this again this time, it will be unsophisticated.
After agreeing to this with a hippie smile, Han Xin was finally able to get out, looking at his back, Yinggao knew that this guy might really have to explain to his wife Yang Zi, because this expedition is completely different from the previous ones, there are a lot of dangers, and there are also a lot of opportunities.
In addition to informing Han Xin of this matter, Yinggao did not publicize it widely in the court of Great Qin, although such progress is gratifying, but in the eyes of those officials who don't know the way, it is not like that.
Although there was nothing to hide in the attack on the Mauryan Dynasty within the scope of Great Qin and even the Xiongnu, Yinggao still didn't want to broadcast it live to some irrelevant people and officials before it was time to set off.
Only three days later, Han Xin silently rushed to the direction of Bashu with 20,000 Great Qin cavalry, and his destination was the first contact point set up by Lu Jia in the barren land.
According to Han Xin's idea, he wants to train there to adapt to the climate and terrain of the barren land, after all, according to the news that Lu Jia passed back to Yinggao, the situation there is not good, and the road to the Peacock Dynasty is such a virtue, it is difficult to guarantee that the road in the Peacock Dynasty is also such a virtue, isn't it?
In the past few days, the news has also been passed to Xiang Yu's ears word for word.
"That team has really reached the end of the barren land in the space of a few months, on the other side of the mountain is the territory of the Mauryan Empire? Could it be that the emperor of Great Qin didn't want to give all the barren land to us Xiongnu, so he deliberately said this? ”
As soon as the news arrived, Xiang Yu didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly found his cronies and a weighty leader of the Huns, and began to discuss how to deal with this matter, after all, the 80,000 elite soldiers of the Huns came from various tribes, and no one dared to guarantee what the outcome of such a war would be, so it was necessary to explain it to them in advance.
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