A few days later, there was an accident. An envoy from a tribe in Xinggu County came to the county town of Qiqi to see Pang Tong. Pang Tong ordered someone to bring him into the church. The man was wearing leather armor and had many scars from the blades on his exposed arms. When he saw Pang Tong, he bowed his head respectfully and said, "I am Wen Duo, the envoy of the Ge clan. I wish the great cause of the great patriarch a magnificent and picturesque one. ”

Pang Tong smiled dryly: "You are quite good at talking." Let's talk about it. ”

"Our Ge people plan to take refuge in the Ren people."

Pang Tong nodded first, and then said loudly: "Someone." He came to his side from the moment and whispered a few words in his ear. After the waiter left, he quickly brought a piece of parchment. Pang Tong opened it and looked at it carefully, then spread it on his knees, and said to the envoy: "Xinggu County in the southwest, bordering my Qiqi County, isn't your tribe in the southeast of Xinggu County?" And it's a vassal tribe of the Kun people, the largest tribe in Xinggu County, why are you here to take refuge in me? ”

"It's not me who came to take refuge, it's the entire tribe under the leadership of our patriarch Goron, 60,000 people, 5,000 soldiers. All of them took refuge in the Great Patriarch. ”

Pang Tong took a deep breath, and he thought quietly for a moment. The messenger's eyes were filled with anxious looks.

"It should be ideal for you to be a vassal of the Kun tribe, why rebel?"

Wen Duo showed a difficult expression and said, "The Kun tribe is looting us more and more for the sake of war, and our people can't afford it. They don't pay attention to people from small tribes like us at all, and the smaller the tribes, the more serious the looting. My tribe has even starved to death. And we heard that the people of the Ren tribe were very rich, so we wanted to run away from them all. Hopefully, the Grand Patriarch will be able to contain it. ”

"In this way, I am familiar with the Duolun Clan, the second largest tribe in Xinggu County, and it will be safer for you to go to the Duolun Clan. Moreover, although the Duolun tribe also obeys the Kun people, they are a big tribe after all, and they dare to confront the Kun people in many ways. It's no problem to take refuge in them. ”

The envoy gasped and said, "Are you sure you can help with this?" ”

"I'm not going to break my word."

"Then it's trouble!"

After the envoy left, Xue Yue suddenly appeared behind Pang Tong and put her hands on his shoulders. Pang Tong's whole body trembled, and he smiled bitterly: "Auntie, what do you want to do?" ”

"I want to ask you, when did you know the Duolun tribe, you don't seem to have direct contact with this tribe, right?"

"There's business."

"Don't get off the hook, how can you fool a sincere person to take refuge in your own clan. If you do this, you will harm this tribe, and so many people will die! ”

Xueyue's hands grabbed Pang Tong's neck, but she didn't have much strength.

"I know."

Pang Tong showed an expression that seemed to be about to forcibly defend himself.

"Why deceive?"

Pang Tong's whole person was relieved, and he sighed and said, "Seek to be the best." This is a good time for our troops to enter Xinggu County. ”

"I really don't understand you man. Since you want to fight Xinggu County, why do you want to refuse people's kindness? ”

"Recently another batch of fruit has arrived, very upper, in the stove room."

"What are you!" Xue Yue angrily slammed Pang Tong's shoulders.

"It's so comfortable." Pang Tong closed his eyes and said. Xueyue stopped, and left Pang Tong with both hands. After a while, when Pang Tong turned to look, he was nowhere to be found.

Pang Tong did not know the Duolun tribe, but he concluded that the Duolun tribe would take in the Ge tribe. Because the Duolun people have always been dissatisfied with the rule of the Kun people, especially for this war against the Shu state, they are opposed. Moreover, a tribe joining itself can obviously increase its strength, and the current Duolun clan will definitely not refuse. Then, it will trigger a series of reactions that Pang Tong wants to see.

Half a month later, fighting broke out in Xinggu County. Due to the rebellion of the Ge tribe against the Kun people, they joined the Duolun tribe. The Kun people commanded 100,000 troops to raise the army and ask for the guilt. The Duolun tribe commanded 80,000 troops, and there were several fierce battles between the two sides, each with losses. Since the large forces of the Kun people were fighting with Shu on the front line, the war with the Duolun people did not have an absolute advantage. After learning about the war between the Kun and Duolun tribes, the members of the Duolun tribe and the vassal tribes who were originally fighting with the Kun tribe on the front line had a rebellious mood, but they were immediately suppressed by the coalition forces.

Because the war has depleted people's resources, many people have lost their lives. The Kun people demanded that as long as the Duolun tribe gave up protecting the Ge tribe, they would stop the conquest. After thinking about it, the Duolun people had the idea of giving up the Ge people, which made the Ge people very uneasy. The patriarch of the Ge tribe had a plan and sent an envoy pretending to be a Kun tribe to the Duolun patriarch to meet with him and negotiate whether to expel the Ge tribe. The Duolun tribe actually agreed to expel the Ge tribe, which made the Ge patriarch Ge Long very annoyed, and immediately led the tribe to escape from the Duolun tribe's earthen city at night. The Duolun did not chase after finding out, they were going to drive these people out, and now they can avoid conflict. The Ge tribe chose to flee suddenly because of a certain plan. In this way, the Kun people do not know when they fled, let alone their route, so they cannot pursue.

They fled by night, and a few days later came to the border between the county and the county of Xinggu, and sent messengers to the county town. Pang Tong saw Wen Duo again in the mansion. Pang Tong had already grasped the surrounding situation, but he still pretended to know nothing and said, "Why are you here again?" ”

"Thank you for your kindness. But the Duolun tribe abandoned us because they couldn't defeat the Kun tribe, so we had to escape. Now the clansmen are staying in the area between the two counties, and it is precarious. Please take us in. ”

Pang Tong got up and said, "There is still such a thing." Why don't you go and call everyone over! ”

Wen Duo was overjoyed when he heard this, turned around and left.

Pang Tong looked at his back and chuckled, "Xinggu County, I'm here." ”

After the Ge tribe broke away from the Duolun tribe, the Kun tribe withdrew troops. But the hatred between the two clans is indelible. The current mood of the Duolun people is very bad. If the war in the north stops, I am afraid that I will be destroyed. Just as he was thinking about whether to flee to the territory of Jiaozhou in the east, the patriarch Lun'er received a letter from the Ren tribe of Qiqi County.

"I am Pang Tong, the chief of the Ren clan of Qiqi County, and I learned that the Kun tribe and the Duolun tribe have a festival, and I am afraid that there will be unfortunate things in the future. I now invite the nobles to join our Ren clan and share the wealth in the future. ”

Lun Er breathed a sigh of relief when he received the letter, he was worried that his tribe had nowhere to go. He had a good impression of the Ren people, especially the handicrafts, which can be seen from the jewelry that this is a developed tribe. And the reputation of the distance is also very good, which is a rare evaluation for a newly developed and growing tribe. In his eyes, the development of this Ren clan is too fast, a little astonishingly fast. Now, it would be better if the people were willing to accept it.

Immediately, it was convenient to prepare for a long journey within three days, but unexpectedly, the news leaked before leaving the city gate. The Kun army pressed outside the city, did not attack the city, and did not let them out. Lun Er immediately sent a document to Pang Tong for help, but the spies were captured by the Kun cavalry on the way.

However, the soldiers are coming to the city, which is something that everyone can see, and it seems too difficult to seal the news. Moreover, after the siege of the city, business could not be done, and those caravans of the Ren tribe saw it from afar and hurried back.

Six days later, Pang Tong received information about the Kun siege.

He immediately ordered 30,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry and marched towards Xinggu County.

The Kun people are not stupid, and after knowing that the Duolun people want to take refuge in the Ren people, they sent a distress document to Jianning County in the north. The largest tribe in Jianning County, that is, the Liaoman tribe with the head of the Taishou Liaoduo, immediately responded, and united with 50,000 cavalry from other tribes in the county to march towards Xinggu County, trying to join forces with the Kun people. If the Ren tribe comes, and defeats the Ren tribe in one fell swoop, then conquer the Qi County. If the Ren tribe does not come, they will conquer the Duolun tribe and then crusade against the Qiqi County. Their abacus is also a normal routine. 、

After Pang Tong's army arrived at the town and town of Xinggu County, the spies reported that tens of thousands of Liaoman troops in Jianning County were already on the plain west of the mountain.

Pang Tong immediately came up with a plan and bought off a clansman from a small tribe called Rufei at the foot of the mountain. He led 50,000 horsemen himself, went up the mountain through the path and went down the plain, and attacked the Dazhai of the Liaoman tribe, striving to burn all the grain and grass.

The journey was fairly smooth, but because I chose the night time when I went up the mountain, I relied on the guidance of the guide, otherwise I would have to get lost.

"I'm afraid it's a little higher, and it's hard for the horse to walk."

Xue Yue reminded.

Pang Tong immediately said: "I know, the locals have said that the location of the mountainside should not be ridden." ”

Sure enough, when I got to the mountainside, the terrain was dangerous, and if it weren't for the help of torches, I am afraid that I would not know if I was walking on the edge of the cliff. Pang Tong walked tightly against the wall, and on one side was the abyss a hundred feet high. He sighed and walked cautiously, the stones at his feet sometimes slipping with a kick. The leader is ahead. But Pang Tong was already walking fast, how did he find that the pace of the leader was getting faster and faster. Since he did not dare to go fast, the leader had already disappeared into the darkness.

"Hey! Come back! ”

Pang Tong shouted, but no one responded to him. He called out a few more words. After a wave, Xue Yue behind him said, "I'm afraid that person fell down." Or maybe you've been tricked. ”

Pang Tong shook his head coldly and said, "How is it possible, how can there be such a bold person, I have given a lot of gold." ”

"A person who is greedy for money will never think that there is much gold, and a person who is not greedy for money will not take gold in his eyes at all."

When she said this, Pang Tong's heart sank. He asked everyone to stop against the wall, thinking about whether to go back, and he was afraid that the terrain ahead would be more difficult to walk, and it might also be a trap. At this moment, something happened at the back, and some soldiers said that the back road was blocked by stones, and it seemed that someone had deliberately pushed it down from above. Pang Tong quickly deduced that the tribe of the leader must be afraid or loyal to the Kun, so he planned to trap them and ask for a reward or shelter. Pang Tong immediately ordered someone to follow him, he touched the wall with one hand, held a torch in the other, and cautiously observed the ground under his feet.

They came to the location of a slope and went up the slope to the wide road. But the road does not seem to branch down the mountain, but goes higher and higher. The road was relatively steep, Pang Tong looked up at the moon, and sighed in his heart: "Lao Tzu was also pitted." ”

They seemed to be walking around the mountain, and their position was already on the north side of the mountain. If you go down this direction, you will likely reach the top of the mountain, and it is more likely that you will not reach your destination. The air was a little colder than during the day, but Pang Tongyi, who was sweating all over his body and had sticky skin, gritted his teeth when he remembered the honest leader on the surface.