Jin Yi's words finally had some convincing power, and the Qiang people really didn't know the benefits and disadvantages with Xiong Jing's cognition, but when they thought of the stalker next to Dahao Ying, Xiong Jing couldn't make up his mind. The stalker was a Qin man, and with his understanding of the Qin State, he knew the characteristics of the common people of the Qin State, and under the right conditions, it was not necessary to persuade the Qiang people to help the Qin army fight.

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 poured in, but the king wanted to stop here himself, and only brought one Qiang man forward. Fei Jing wanted to step forward but was stopped by Yi Tong. The Qiang man shouted at this time, and uttered a series of rapid syllables. When more than 20,000 Qiang people heard this, they all stopped and looked at the great man on the Chinese army's chariot - the king from the east was going to have a contest between warriors with him.

Under Yi Tong's explanation, everyone knew that the king was going to have a warrior and warrior competition with Qiang Dahao, and they looked at each other for a while, and Xiang Chao, who was as keen on the competition as his son Xiang Yu, wanted to come forward to help, but was stopped by Yi Tong again - with the ancient method, he could only step forward to collect Xiong Jing's body, or welcome Xiong Jing's victory, otherwise it would be an insult to the warriors.

The Chu people were like this, and the Zhao general Li Qi didn't even look at each other, and shook his head directly, he felt that Xiong Jing would be shot to death by the Qiang people. Of course, this is true in the Central Plains, the gift of the teacher existed in the Spring and Autumn Period, and only a fool would challenge the teacher in the Warring States. But in the Hehuang Valley, for the Qiang people who 'died in battle as auspicious, and died as an unknown illness', it was a shame that the enemy did not dare to fight.

Moreover, the habit of the Qiang people is to 'take strength as the hero', and the Wuyi sword was pushed to the great hao because it was burned and did not die, and his descendants still wanted to be the great heroes of the Qiang people, so they had to deal with the challenges from the chieftains of various tribes and even their own brothers. If they refuse to accept the challenge of others, the legitimacy of the Dahao's rule will be questioned by the tribes.

This was the case before the founding of the Chu people and for a long time after the founding of the country, which was a tribal tradition. However, when Xiong Jing was confident that the Qiang people on the chariot would definitely face the battle, this person spit out a Qiang language, and the Qiang people immediately laughed.

"What do you mean?" Xiong Jing's pupils tightened, he was now only fifty steps away from the Qiang, and even closer to the Qiang people on both sides of the valley, as long as they fired arrows, he would definitely die.

"The king, the king, the king has no need on his face, but ...... It's a woman, too. "The Qiang people around him are the sons of Qiang lice, according to the law of Qiang people's naming, the father and son names must be Solitaire, and the father is called Qiang lice, so he is called lice. Lice Duo also looked at Xiong Jing's face when he spoke, and his expression became a little weird, and he wanted to laugh too.

"Woman?" Men in this era are beautiful with many beards, and Xiong Jing is just a teenager, although he is tall, he has no beard. In the laughter, he unwillingly drew his sword, pointed at the big man on the car, and made a throat-cutting gesture. As he moved, the Qiang laughter immediately disappeared - in the Qiang logic, challenges should be respected regardless of success or failure, but provocations are not. Xiong Jing is provoking.