(Xie: I am the monthly pass of the three brothers of Pig Po, Ciwu, and Canghan Treasure Hunt.) Another: It is possible to take a day off tomorrow, and if it is not updated, it will be out of the house. ）

After dawn, the army quickly pulled out of the camp. Seventy or eighty of the wounded soldiers who were attacked last night saved their lives, and the rest did not survive, although Wang Yuan was annoyed, but he was helpless. In these years, I was bitten by a snake and could only rely on traditional Chinese medicine for detoxification, but there was no snake venom injection, and those who survived were already lucky.

An hour later, the army left the Pingchou Meadow and re-entered the mountains, struggling along the rugged mountain path below the Wutai Peak. According to the previous arrangement, a thousand strong soldiers were selected to open the way in front of them, and any obstacles were immediately removed. Liu Jun and another general each led 2,000 crossbowmen into the mountains and forests on both sides to search and move forward.

What is surprising is that although there are still a lot of obstacles along the way, I have never seen half of the Nanzhao barbarians again, which makes Liu Jun, who finally got the task of searching for barbarians in the mountains and forests, very disappointed. The barbarian soldiers seemed to know the intentions of the Jiannan Army, so they tolerated the Jiannan Army all the way into the country without any nuisance.

With proper scheduling and no more accidents, the day's itinerary was bumpy, but it was relatively smooth. Set off early in the morning, and in the evening, he connected the two peaks of Wutai Lotus and completed the request of Wang Yuan to walk thirty miles today. And when there was still more than an hour before sunset, he arrived at the open area between Lotus Peak and Baiyun Peak, the fifth peak of Cangshan.

It was a clearing, much wider than the previous one, called Huadian Dam. Walking on this flat land, you can see a field of flowers and greenery, and there are long grasses and unknown flowers growing on the flat land for more than ten miles. Mountain flowers don't know the season, and they only care about blooming arbitrarily. March has not yet arrived, and it is already full of spring.

However, when the soldiers and horses stepped on this land of grass and flowers, everyone suddenly found that the ground under their feet was actually full of water. The water is not deep, only to the ankles, and the ground is not soft, so it does not sink when you step on it. This large meadow is actually a large flooded meadow.

In fact, this is not unusual, the peaks of Cangshan are as high as thousands of feet, and the mountains are very different. Snow accumulates on the top of the mountain all year round, and even in the middle of summer, you can still see snow cover above the tree line. In the spring season, when the snow melts and the mountains rain, many mountain valleys are flooded. The waterfalls in the peaks of Cangshan are continuous all year round, and the eighteen famous streams are actually caused by the melting of snow on the mountain. This is actually the birthplace of the Erhe River, which is the largest tributary of the Erhai Lake.

In any case, it is still necessary to enter the grassland of Huadian Dam and camp in the open. Before the army waded in, Liu Jun and his people quickly surveyed a large area and discovered the reason why the grassland was flooded. It turned out that a relatively wide river passed through the middle of the great meadow, and the river was not deep, and the horse only reached the belly of the horse. Perhaps there are too many mountains and rivers, and the river overflows the embankment and fills the entire meadow with a thin layer of water, which leads to the current situation.

Liu Jun also found a dry plateau, about half a foot above the flooded ground, and there was an area of two or three miles in a radius, which was very suitable for camping. But this time, Wang Yuan didn't dare to camp here easily, last night's incident reminded Wang Yuan that it was impossible for Ge Luofeng to let the army go deep and be indifferent along the way, and he would definitely do something in secret.

Wang Yuan personally rode his horse from the mountain road to this dry area to check, but saw that the ground was covered with dense grass and unknown wildflowers blooming. The evening breeze blows, and it is refreshing, but it is a beautiful place. He and Gongsun Lan dismounted and walked around for a long time, but they didn't find anything unusual, and Gongsun Lan didn't smell any strange smells. Frogs and insects fly on the grass, butterflies dance, look around the surrounding peaks, the distance is very far, and there is no possibility of letting the Nanzhao barbarians sneak attack and survive, I really can't see anything wrong.

"Erlang, it seems that you can camp here, the surrounding grass is flooded, in fact, there are no rats living here, those snakes on the mountain are poisonous snakes that live on land, they don't like to wade in the water, and there will be no more attacks in the camp. What's more, I didn't smell the slightest hint of snake medicine. Gongsun Lan said softly.

Wang Yuan stood silently on the ground, looking at the flooded river in front of the dry ground and was silent.

"Does Jiro think there's anything wrong?"

Wang Yuan frowned and said: "I always feel that something is wrong, this place is good, but the good is a bit too much." ”

Gongsun Lan sneered and said, "You, you, you're about to become a frightened bird." Yesterday's events seem to have worried you. ”

Wang Yuan said: "I can't help but worry, the lives of 45,000 soldiers and horses are in my hands, if I don't be more careful, there will be many people who will die for me." It was their fate to die on the battlefield, and it would not be my foolishness to die under conspiracy. ”

"That's not your fault, so let's talk about what's wrong here, and I'll help you refer to it." Gongsun Lan sensed that Wang Yuan felt guilty about the hundreds of soldiers who had been bitten to death by snakes yesterday, so she comforted him softly.

Wang Yuan said: "Cousin, don't you think it's strange? The flat land where the army camped last night was much smaller than here, and it seemed a lot barren, and it was close to my Tang Yaozhou Mansion, but there were villages of the people of Nanzhao. And the area here is vast, the land is also fertile, and it is far away from Yaozhou, so there should be villages as well. But isn't it strange that there are traces of no one living here? ”

Gongsun Lan frowned and thought for a while: "The water here is flooded with grassland, it seems that it is not suitable for farming, and this is probably the reason why the mountain people do not live here." ”

Wang Yuan shook his head and said, "This is not the reason. The river is so shallow that it has clearly not been dredged. If the river channel is dredged and dug deeply, how can the river overflow? This vast expanse of land was all suitable for cultivation. The Nanzhao barbarians had very little land suitable for cultivation, so how could they give up such a convenient and fertile land for water conservancy? ”

Gongsun Lan tilted his head and said, "What do you mean?" Will there be a quirk here? So the Nanzhao barbarians can't live here? ”

Wang Yuan shook his head and said, "I don't know, I just think it's strange." ”

Gongsun Lan said: "When you say that, I also think it's weird. ”

Wang Yuan turned over his horse and said to Gongsun Lan: "Let's take a walk again, take a closer look, if we don't find any suspicious points, we can only be stationed here tonight, and we can't stop on the mountain road, wouldn't it be even more dangerous." ”

Gongsun Lan nodded and turned over on her horse. The two horses galloped down the dry ground and waded wildly, galloping southeast along the river, which meandered and flowed straight to the valley under the Baiyun Peak in front of them. The river narrows further and further, and the floodwaters on both sides of the river get deeper and deeper, barely reaching the belly of the horse.

When he reached the mouth of the valley where the river entered the valley, Wang Yuan suddenly pointed to the exit of the river and said, "Cousin, you see, the river here is all blocked by driftwood. I wondered why the water was flowing so slowly, it turned out that the downstream was blocked. ”

Gongsun Lan frowned and looked at the chaotic trees soaked in the water in the river, and suddenly said: "These are not driftwood, look at this broken new and cutting, this is a cut of trees." It looks like it was deliberately placed here to block the river. ”

Wang Yuan was startled, and when he looked closely, he saw that the trees in the river were all artificially cut trees, lying across the waterway, blocking the flow of the river. Immediately, his brows furrowed tightly, and he said in a deep voice: "Cousin, I think I know Ge Luofeng's tricks." ”

Gongsun Lan nodded and said, "I also understand a little, it seems that we need to go upstream to take a look." ”

Wang Yuan nodded silently, turned the horse's head, and urged the black horse to rush towards the northeast quickly, and Gongsun Lanjiao rode the horse to follow.

The sunset fell inch by inch down the mountain, Wang Yuan was anxious, the sky passed, if he couldn't set up camp, it would be very dangerous. So he urged the snow-kicking black horse to gallop on the grass. The horses' hooves stepped on the shallow water under the grass, and the water splashed everywhere. But after a while, the speed of the black horse increased, and the splash became smaller, as if the horse was galloping on the tip of the grass, leaving Gongsun Lan far behind.

From the southwest to the northeast, across the entire Huadian Dam of the flat land, nearly ten miles away, it only took the time of the pillar incense. The terrain is getting higher and higher, and the water of the river is getting shallower and shallower, and when we reach the northeast pass, the river channel is still wide, but the silt on the riverbed is exposed, and only a thin layer of water is left on the riverbed.

Wang Yuan stopped his horse, looked at the direction of the misty valley above where the river leads, and pondered quietly for a while, then suddenly turned his horse's head and turned back and ran.

Gongsun Lan chased after him and asked loudly, "What's wrong?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "Don't look at it, everything is already clear." ”