Chapter Ninety-Six: The Contest
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"Divine doctor, Mi Liang and Mi Nu ask to see me." After Lu Chan entered the room, he turned to Yanli, his face was full of bitterness.
"Mi ......" Empress Dowager Zu has fallen, and the mission of leaving has been completed, and she is packing up her things and preparing to return to Chu. He was stunned when he heard this, there were all kinds of news in Xianyang these days, some said that the king died in battle, and some said that the king had fled into Hu and was ......killed by the Hu people, the news should not be believed, but the knights of the Zhao army who died in the south of Xianyang City were true, and these knights were all beheaded and piled up into Jingguan.
In addition, the news of Mi Xuan has also spread a lot, the most widely spread is that the king entered Qin for Mi Xuan, but Mi Xuan is already the wife and concubine of the king of Qin, and he does not want to meet him and leave Qin. Of course, Zhan Li knew about the relationship between the king and the princess, and he couldn't be sure of Mi Xuan's thoughts, and when he heard that she came to the door to ask to see him, he couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"Doctor Zhan......" Lu Qian didn't know why he was stunned, and called him again.
"Please, please...... Son-in-law. He dropped the things in his hand and was busy meeting in Mingtang.
"Mi Xuan has seen a miracle doctor." Mi Xuan on the Ming Hall was wearing a linen mourning dress. Although the Empress Dowager Zu loved her all her life, she was only her aunt, so she only wore linen and could not return for three months. "The divine doctor used to heal the grace of the past, and Mi Xuan is here to thank you."
Mi Xuan was at a loss for a while, and he didn't save Mi Thorn's life in the end. If you forget, maybe Mi Xuan has already entered Chu. "Lady Mi, please get up. Our medical skills were too weak and failed to save the Empress Dowager. ”
Mi Xuan's eyes were full of tears, but she was terminally ill, and immortal medicine could not save her aunt's life.
"The son-in-law came only for ......" Seeing that Mi Xuan wanted to cry, he quickly changed the topic, he felt that Mi Xuan had something else to do here.
"There is still one thing entrusted to the miracle doctor." After Mi Xuan finished speaking, she paused, and she quickly waved away the others who understood what she meant. "Please ask the divine doctor to bring this thing to Yingdu and hand it over to the king."
"No." What Mi Xuan took out from her bosom was a thin satin wrap. Yan Li solemnly took it, and when he wanted to ask something, Mi Xuan had already taken his leave. He didn't open it, and he didn't dare to open it, he only carefully placed it in the medicine box close to him, but unfortunately, before he left Xianyang, this package appeared on the desk of Zhao Zheng, the king of Qin.
"Please take a break from your meal." Inside the package is Chu paper full of words, each of which is the girl's love and longing, Zhao Zheng was unaware of Zhao Gao's voice, and only when Zhao Gao called him again did he react.
"Zhao Gao, you say... What is love? Zhao Zheng, who was dazed, asked.
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Qin is located in the northwest, and the Rongdi tribe in the northwest, only the Qiang people have never surrendered to Qin. The reason for this seems to be that their earliest chieftain, Wuyi Jian, was a fugitive slave of the Qin people. It is said that when the Qin people fled without a sword, they chased him very quickly, and the Qin people simply set a fire in the cave, which should have burned him, but they didn't expect him to be burned to death, and the Qiang people thought they were gods and were proud of it.
If you are in the Central Plains, it is enough to think about hundreds of miles, but if you are in the grassland, you must at least think of thousands of miles away. Draw a circle with a radius of 1,000 li centered on the meandering land, and only in the place where the Qiang people live, 3,000 people can get supplies and will not be betrayed. This is Xiong Jing's train of thought, and it is also something that Xin Sheng felt but did not expect.
Of course, this can't be said that Xin Sheng is too stupid, it can only be said that his eyes only look at the north and west of the meandering land, and do not see the south of the meandering land. The place where Xiong Jing asked to spend the winter was actually in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, near Xining in Qinghai in later generations. To use a place name that often appears in ancient books: Hehuang.
Because he did not have an accurate map, he could only roughly judge where there was more than 1,000 li from the meandering land, but in fact it was more than 1,300 li, and it took more than 20 days to walk 50 li a day. And the way to go, this is the easiest, the reason why the river is called the river is because it is at the intersection of the Yellow River and the Huangshui, so you just need to go up the frozen Yellow River. As for the thawing of the Yellow River in February next spring, it is simpler, build a boat in the winter, and go down the Yellow River after the flood.
It's that simple to plan. If you don't want to risk the Qin army's interception and killing, and don't want to try the strange cold of minus 20 or 30 degrees on the Mongolian plateau north of Yinshan, the only place to go is Hehuang. There are more than 100,000 Qiang people there, and they know that farming, accumulating grain in winter, and feeding 3,000 people is not a problem, so they don't know if they can feed more than 2,000 cattle and horses.
After the news of the fall of Jiuyuan County came, there was no hesitation, Li Bo, Li Qi, and other Zhao people were willing to follow Xiong Jing to the winter land. After the group managed to make some traces of going north, they followed the Yellow River southward to the northwest of Didao, the westernmost part of Beidi County of Qin, that is, Lanzhou in later generations, and more than 3,000 people began to turn to Huangshui, a tributary of the Yellow River.
As soon as I turned into Huangshui, I met more and more Qiang people, most of whom lived on the banks of the Huangshui River, with vague villages, low wooden houses, and jagged Qianmo ......, which was a gratifying situation for the team with few remaining grains.
Of course, there are also things that are worrying, that is, even if the Qiang people shout for contact, they have not made effective contact with the tribes here. As soon as all the Qiang people saw the team of more than 3,000 people, they hurriedly avoided and disappeared without a trace.
"Rong people avoid me and don't see me, what can I do?" The wind and snow became more and more intense, and more and more cattle and horses froze to death, and Li Bo, who finally lived in the wooden house, was a little worried. He felt that if he continued like this, a war would eventually break out between them.
"The ancestors of the Qiang people have been afraid of Qin for a long time. We are the Chu people, and our distant ancestors were related to the Qiang people. Yi Tong explained. Sun Tzu Ren, who had no sword, was worried about the attack of the Qin people, so he led his people to migrate, some into Sichuan, some into Tibet, and some into Xinjiang, and the Tibetans were descendants of the Qiang people. The relationship between the Chu people and the Qiang people is that the ancestors of the Chu people married a woman from the Qiang tribe, which is similar to the Zhou people.
However, the Qiang people before the Yin Shang Dynasty and the Qiang people in the Warring States Period were of different races, and they could only be regarded as distant relatives in comparison - the Qiang people in the Yin period had participated in the battle of Muye with the Zhou people, and then divided the Central Plains, and their civilization level was naturally higher than that of the Qiang people on both sides of the Huangshui, but it was this distant relationship that also made the Qiang people in the land of the river meanders voluntarily lead the way. I don't know if the Qiang people at the meanders of the river are because the Chu people and the Qiang people are distant relatives leading the way, or because the Chu people and the Qin people are enemies leading the way.
"Is there still a geometry of grain?" Xiong Jing was not worried at all about not being able to contact the Qiang people, he only cared about when.
"Not much." They have done everything they can to carry the grain on their backs. Even the amount of Longma beans and wheat has been greatly reduced, and Dima and the cattle can only eat grass. The team travels only forty miles a day, and the rest of the time is spent mowing grass everywhere.
"Not much geometry?" Xiong Jing asked. He now restrained the soldiers of Chu and Zhao and prevented them from robbing the Qiang. If you really want to run out of food, you have to rob it if you don't rob it.
"Ten days." Yi Tong said a number, "If there is no more grain in ten days......
"Report ——!" There was a news from outside the wooden house, it was Xiang Chao's voice. "Tell the king, the Qiang people are coming."
"Come?" Xiong Jing was puzzled. "Is the Qiang man coming?"
The Chu people call the leader proud, and the Qiang people also call the leader proud, which makes Xiong Jing kind, after all, they are relatives.
"Definitely!" Xiang Chao was outside the door, and it was snowing heavily outside the door, so he stood in the snow. "It's the army of the Qiang people coming."
"The army of the Qiang?" A room full of people was amazed. Xiong Jing got up and said, "How many miles?" ”
"The minister saw that it was thirty miles away, and he didn't know how many miles it traveled in half an hour." Xiang Chao said. Three thousand men marched up the frozen Yellow River, and scouts had to be sent everywhere, and the same was true for turning into Huangshui. And in the distance, he saw the Qiang people gathered together.
"Do you want to fight me?" Xiong Jing asked.
"When the ministers saw that Peter was armed with soldiers, they seemed to want to fight me." Xiang Chao returned.
"Where's the lice?" Yi Tong asked the leader of the Qiang people in Hequ, who was called lice and knew Qin language.
"The lice want to talk to them, but they have been captured." Xiang Chaodao. "The king once ordered us not to kill or injure the Qiang, so the ministers immediately turned back."
"Prepare the horses!" It is indeed inappropriate to bring more than 3,000 people to people's homes uninvited. Why don't you go to someone's house and spend the winter by yourself in the ice and snow? Xiong Jing only shouted to prepare the horse, and after a while he put on his riding boots and put on a sheep's fur and went out to mount the horse.
He didn't feel it in the wooden house, but as soon as he went out, he only felt that the cold had penetrated into his bones. Jujia didn't dare to touch it at all, and when he touched it, he would lose a layer of skin. There is also the 'radish' that he only had when he was in elementary school, and several of his fingers were frozen into 'radish' very early, stinging when it was cold and itching when it was warm.
"Drive!" Holding his breath against the cold was not enough, he took a heavy breath to get himself used to the cold before riding his horse forward. More than 200 knights, including Zhuang Quji, Fei Jing, Xiang Chao, and Cheng Kui, followed closely and ran under the fluttering royal banner of hunting. At this time, the Zhao general Li Qi also led his troops to come, and Zhao Zhao rode the last more than 400 war horses and traveled west with the Chu army.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and the horse's hooves nailed with huge iron horseshoe stepped on the ice of Huangshui, leaving only a shallow mark. More than 700 horsemen ran less than ten miles before they saw the Qiang army coming upstream along the Huangshui. To the point, the Qiang people's armor is really not very good, some even only have clubs, as for the armor, except for a few people who look like leaders have a pair of Qin-style leather armor, the rest of the people have no armor at all, they only wear a fur coat, and they are bracketed collars. The only thing that moves people is that there are many people, and both sides of the Huangshui are full of Qiang people.
"There are more than 20,000 people." Li Qi's eyes were poisonous, and he gave a more accurate judgment after a glance. "The minister thinks that our army should strike first and attack the chariots of its army with heavy cavalry."
Through the military formation of the Qiang people, if it is considered a military formation, Li Qi saw that there was a chariot with a flag behind the Chinese army, which should be the great man of the Qiang people.
"Not necessarily. You wait and don't stop there. Xiong Jing said.
"The king must not!" Fei Jing said urgently. More than 20,000 Qiang people were coming, but the king wanted to stop himself, and only one Qiang man stepped forward. Fei Jing wanted to step forward but was stopped by Yi Tong. The Qiang man suddenly shouted, uttering a series of rapid syllables. Huangshui is sandwiched between the two mountains, and the echo of the valley allows more than 20,000 Qiang people to hear his words clearly. Soon they stopped and looked at the great man on the chariot of the Chinese army, with whom the king from the east was about to engage in a contest between warriors.
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