At the same time, Bailiyan left the camp and went to Cupigon.

The camp was more than two hundred and eighty miles away from the hill in a straight line from the Khubigon Mountain, and it took only three days to ride a horse along the woods, but in fact it took five days and nearly a hundred miles around to avoid the sentry posts and patrols of the Jinxuedi.

Since the looting of their two construction sites last year, the 40,000-strong auxiliary legionaries of the Jinxuedi people have been patrolling back and forth between the construction sites for a long time, and they have increased their patrol efforts after stabbing the hornet's nest before, but there are traces of them on the main roads and small roads leading to Posong Province and even the mountains and forests.

Arriving at the Qiubigon Mountains, the vast forest is boundless, like falling mountains and sea stone forests, and it is difficult to distinguish the direction.

The mountain of Qiubigon is very ordinary, there is no Shenfeng, there is no precipitous cliff, from a distance it looks like an endless vast mountain, covering the primeval forest, Bailiyan doubts whether this place is the legendary Qiubigon Mountain, but the miner guide confirmed that this is undoubtedly the Qiubigon Mountain.

There are three entrances to the mountains of Khubigon, the closest to them is the sheep's intestine path on the east side, which is only wide enough for two people, and is flanked by winding slopes and woods, and the path was artificially cut down in the early years to enter the forest.

Bailiyan was not in a hurry to enter the mountain, so it took half a day to climb a mountain, and after looking through the telescope, he finally understood why the eagle was called Eagle's Eyeless.

As far as the eye can see, the mountains and forests are endless, but the strange thing is that all the mountains are about the same height, the surface is covered with forests, and there are almost no special landforms that can be recognized. Standing on the top of the mountain, it is not easy to distinguish with the help of a telescope, but it is conceivable that if one enters the mountain, all the mountains are about the same length, and the surface is covered with trees, and everyone will have to get dizzy.

Opening the compass, the geomagnetic anomaly that Bailiyan had been worried about did not appear, but it did not mean that there would be no geomagnetic anomaly after entering the mountain.

After careful consideration, he spent two days flattening all the trees on the top of the hill at his feet, leaving only the tallest single tree, all the branches of the tree were cut down, and a bare trunk stood on the top of the mountain, and at the top and two-thirds of the trunk, two bowl-thick logs, one long and one short, were tied horizontally.

The long wood faces north and south, and the short wood faces east and west, standing on the east, west, south, and north sides, all forming a cross and T-shape, which is used as a sign, with the help of a telescope, you can easily calibrate the general orientation by standing on a high place.

According to the relationship between the camp and Posong Province and from Khubigon to Posong Province, it can be roughly estimated that the east-west width of Khubigon is about 100 li, and it will only be less than more, because there are still nearly 150 miles of plains and primeval forests from the west of the Khubigon Mountains to the outer administrative boundary of Posong Province.

The road into the mountain is not easy to walk, the horse is more difficult than the man, after walking for four days on the mountain path, the road is getting narrower and narrower, which is only less than a hundred miles, and occasionally hunting and eating wild fruits on the way.

On the fifth day, Bailiyan decided to go over the mountain in a straight line, which did not require a detour, but it meant abandoning the horses, consuming more physical energy, and it was impossible to carry more rations, and it would not be more than a detour every day, but at least it would be able to quickly cross the mountains.

Forty people were left to take care of the horses, grain and grass on the spot, and Bailiyan personally took Jiang Jie and other ten people and eight days' rations to the west over the mountains.

There were road signs set up at the beginning as a reference, and after climbing the mountain, I found that the straight-line distance was less than thirty miles, which means that seventy miles of road was wasted on the winding mountain road, and three mountains were crossed in two consecutive days. On the fourth day, when we crossed the seventh mountain, the sun was just born, and the sea of misty clouds was as dazzling as waves under the morning light.

"My lord, this is the sea of clouds!"

"Well, it's a sea of clouds. There is a sea of clouds in the mountains, and there must be rivers and lakes. Let's go, go down the mountain! ”

The sea of clouds only appears in the clouds in the high mountains, and the sea of clouds appears in the low-altitude mountains, but it is not actually the sea of clouds, but the clouds formed by the liquefaction of water vapor rising to a certain height under the transpiration of heat, and the phenomenon of cloud transpiration on the ground and cold airflow on the top of the mountain under the irradiation of sunlight.

As the sun continues to rise, the wonders of the sea of clouds are rapidly dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the grass and trees are filled with dew on the way down, as if after a heavy rain.

When you arrive at the bottom of the mountain, the sunlight pierces the clouds and penetrates into the valley floor, sprinkled on the magnificent lake, reflecting the sparkling and beautiful scenery, which is really refreshing and pleasant, and the long-suppressed mood disappears in an instant.

"Lakes, lakes, and herds of deer and wild boars!"

Jiang Jie was extremely excited, still shouting like a child.

Bailiyan looked around and found that there was a river in the southwest of the lake, and it was not known whether the river flowed into the lake or the lake water entered the river and flowed outward. If it flows from the outward to the lake, then there should be another tributary flowing outward, or there is an underground water system at the bottom of the lake, through an underground river, to the rest of the mountain, so that the water level on both sides can be balanced, otherwise the valley will inevitably be flooded by the constant flow of water.

But if there is an underground river, the lake may also flow out of the lake to share the water squeezed by the underground water system elsewhere.

"Let's go, take a look around the lake!"

"No!"

The surface of the lake is very wide, irregular, the widest part of the east and west reaches seven or eight miles, the widest part of the north and south is slightly narrower and the widest part also reaches about six miles, the whole lake only has a small river flowing from the southwest to the northeast, which means that the lake is the source of the small river, part of the water source of the lake comes from the water storage of the mountains, and part of it is supplemented by the underground water system through other higher water sources.

The area around the lake is full of woods and meadows, there are fish in the water, wild ducks on the water surface, wild boars, wild sheep, deer herds in groups of three or five, and even black pheasants that are larger than the wolf pheasant and can fly.

"What a great place!"

Bai Liyan was full of emotion, and then Jiang Jie said:

"My lord, I'm afraid it's no problem for more than 100,000 people to live in this place!"

"It's okay to live in 100,000 people and 200,000 people, but it's hard to feed them. Even if all the trees were cut down, there would not be enough land to grow enough food to feed 30,000 people. ”

"But we only have more than 10,000 people now, which should be enough."

"It's enough now, but it will definitely not be enough in the future, and when there are more people, everyone's land will become smaller, and if there is not enough food and grass, it will be impossible to continue to maintain a long-term livelihood.

Therefore, it is necessary to find a way that can lead to the outside world and is easy to walk. Let's go hunting first, and then we'll go out tomorrow along the river in the northeast and see where we can go! ”

The wildlife at the bottom of the valley is quite abundant, but it is obviously not enough to supply the long-term expenses of 10,000 or 20,000 people, or even tens of thousands of people, and sooner or later they will be killed and exterminated.

A wild boar was killed that night, and it was more than enough for twelve people to eat, and there was a lot left over as rations. The next day, I found the traces of the river and groped in the northeast direction.

The terrain of the small river is relatively flat, the woods through which the small river flows are denser, there is a slight slope, the river is five or six zhang wide, the narrowest place is two zhang, the water quality is clear, the small river is constantly diverted and intersected along the way and then diverted, both sides of the river are the mountains are endless, the width between the two mountains is two hundred steps to four hundred steps, it is the typical terrain of two mountains and one water.

I couldn't understand why the two mountains were flat between them, and if the forest was cut down as long as it was a road to the valley, no one would find it from the outside, or the exit would be blocked by the mountains and the view would be blocked.

This question was finally answered on the third day, and the outlet of the river was another lake, which corroded the junction of the mountains on both sides from north to south, and the width of the lake reached five or six miles from east to west.

"My lord, the two mountains in the distance to the east of this lake seem to be familiar!" Jiang Jie suddenly realized that the lake in front of him was very familiar.

"It's familiar, when we came, we passed by ten miles east of the lake, and the opposite shore was full of swamps, and the two mountains in the distance were more than 300 zhang. It is really difficult to enter the valley from the outside. Moreover, we came by a small road, and the brigade rarely passed through this place.

We must have a hundred miles of land all the way out of the valley. ”

"Almost, there is no one hundred and twenty miles, there must be one hundred miles." Jiang Jie affirmed.

"That's right, if we take the same road we took when we entered the mountain, we would have walked two or three hundred miles of the wrong road, to say the least. If a large army of men and horses walked from the valley, they could only walk twenty miles a day at best, and they would starve to death on the road. ”

"But how can you cross this lake without a boat right now?"

Jiang Jie asked again, Bai Liyan looked around at the woods and said:

"You can cross the river on a raft, and as for the swamp, you can bury a road with hay, soil, and branches."

"So what do we do now?"

"Returning the same way, I thought, our people are on the other side of the mountain, and you can see it when you climb over the mountain."

The inner lake in the valley leads through a small river between the wooded paths to the outer lake outside the valley, and the water from the outer lake seeps into the swamp through the ground, infiltrates the underground water system, and finally flows elsewhere.

Walking back fifty miles along the same road, four mountains to the south, to the east found the benchmark that had been erected, and to the west also found forty people roasting game.

The width of the northeast side of the entire Chubigon mountain area is much narrower than expected, and the previously discovered road into the mountain is a sheep intestine trail that goes around the mountain. Walking a long distance, in fact, the straight-line distance is very short.

In fact, the straight-line distance on the map may only be ten kilometers, but the highway cannot go to the top of the mountain, and can only be repaired around the mountain, so the highway has to be repaired for 100 kilometers.

After converging the people and horses, the speed of getting out of the mountain is much faster, and the mood is very different from when I came. There was as much rain in the south as in the north in the spring, and on the way back, it rained heavily, and I was drenched all over.

"My lord, it's raining too much, let's hide first." Jiang Jie said, his rain-soaked face faintly revealing a man's masculine temperament.

Bailiyan grabbed the reins of the horse and looked around privately, and there was really no place to hide from the rain in the wilderness.

"In this hellish place, there is no tile on the top, and there is no place for the cone below, so let's hurry."

Urging the horse to continue on his way, as soon as he walked out of a mile, Bailiyan suddenly stopped the horse's reins and shouted:

"Woohoo...... Stop moving forward! ”

"What's wrong, sir!"

"Look!"

Baili Yan pointed to the stones on the ground in a small circle, and there were faint remnants of some charcoal inside, which was a campfire left by the Jin Xuedi people when they camped.

"There is a large group of people camping here, everyone be careful, get off the horse and investigate the scene!"

The crowd dismounted and searched, and found a total of 60 piles of stones:

"My lord, there are three thousand of them!" Jiang Jie affirmed.

"Well, there are clear hoof prints and footprints, and the human and animal manure is very fresh, which means that they walked not long before we arrived here, heading south."

"This is less than two days to the east from our camp, and they are going south, so close to us, have they discovered our army and are encircling us in a roundabout way?" Jiang Jie boldly guessed.

"There is such a possibility, but if we are discovered, it is not tactically meaningful to make a detour to the south, unless the enemy general is a fool, as long as he stays here, he can hold the way for our army to flee westward. It seems to me that they are passing through this place with a major military move.

Unless it's ...... Unless it's their reinforcements who have escorted supplies and are on their way to the front, they need auxiliaries to clear the surrounding rebels. When we entered the hill of Khubigon, they must have encircled and suppressed.

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