In April, the sun was mild, the wind passed through the mountains, and the green branches at the foot of the mountains swayed and caressed a flag, revealing the brown and yellow mountain walls and sparse trees, and countless crowds of people poured all over the mountains.

The mighty army of 17,000 troops, the cavalry as the main force out of the huge momentum of tens of thousands of soldiers, far away, hundreds of single horsemen, two people in a team of fast horses, constantly contact the nearby troops and horses, mountains and forests, between the roads are the figure of running scouts, most of them come from different parts of the state, this is the first cooperation since the division of the princes, from time to time to exchange information with each other, determine the route of advance, the name of the place in front, etc., and then convey the past to the rear of the main formation.

Liangzhou has a rugged terrain and the most mountainous areas, starting from the entry of Sanfu, the army of 17,000 people can no longer maintain a united formation, so they can only take their subordinates and divide them into several units, and spread towards the front with the same marching speed.

On the other side, the cities and counties that passed along the way also sent only soldiers, or hundreds, or more than a thousand people followed, to help take care of the grain and grass, to avoid being intercepted and robbed by the Qiang people in the mountains, which was also an order passed down by Liangzhou Thorn Shi Weiduan, to ensure the safety of the rear of the Western Expeditionary Army.

The march until noon, although the speed was not fast, still out of the mountains to reach Yuanwei, the county order in the city sent some wine and meat to the various armies, although not much, but also a goodwill signal of support, giving the resting Han army a respite from the day, and soon after, a group of scouts who went to search farther back rushed back, and the cavalry patrolling and alert went up to answer the questioning, and then let go, one of them straight towards the Chinese army.

“.…… Are you a scout under Zhang Ren? ”

The wind ran through from outside, and the big tent swelled and undulated, Xiahou Yuan looked at the half-kneeling figure below, put down the silk in his hand, and slowly got up and walked towards the other party.

This Cao Cao clan brother, from Chen Liu's army to the present, has been fighting in the south and north for many years, tall and tall, and very good at long-distance running, specializing in hitting the other party's surprise.

Although there is a name of 'five hundred miles in three days, and thousands of miles in six days', this general of the Cao army is also extremely tired, under the hard armor, there are old marks of arrows and knife wounds, which is so glorious for a leader, he looked at the scout for a moment, and waved his hand: "You go down to rest, and then go back to tell your family General Zhang, I will be there in a few days." ”

After sending the man away, Xiahou Yuan summoned his guards and ordered: "Go and invite all the generals to my big tent." In the voice, he sat back in the first place, carefully looked at the map of Liangzhou spread out on the desk, found the current location of the Yizhou army on it, and the marching route of the Gongsun Dudu, and calculated the time to meet the other party Zhangye.

After a while, the curtain of the tent moved, the light of the sky pierced in from the outside, shining on his face, several figures walked in, he stood up from his seat and bowed his hand to the comer: "Generals, please take a seat, the governor is not here at present, Yuan is temporarily supervising the army, and I hope you will obey the order." ”

"General Xiahou ordered it." The voice of the person who spoke was loud, and although his temples were white, he looked old, but his momentum was no better than that of everyone present.

Sun Ce sat on the right side, pressed his knees with his hands, and glanced at Xiahou Yuan, "So there's news coming?" ”

Over there, Xiahou Yuan handed over the silk to them for circulation, slowly walked out of the seat, the cloak slipped off and dragged it on the ground, came to the middle of the seats on both sides, and opened his mouth.

"Zhang Ren of the Yizhou army has sent someone to repair the book and contact, they are now in the Zhiyang area, and they will soon go out of the mountains to join us, and the letter also mentions a large Qin army of 3,000 people, reminding me to be careful of being ambushed."

He looked at the generals and smashed his fist in the palm of his hand: "The Great Qin people have traveled a long distance to come to the Han Dynasty, and they can even break Wuwei and Zhangye, and they are not idle people, and now they suddenly appeared, and they ran away after a battle, either a suspicious tactic, or set up an ambush and waited for us to throw ourselves into the net, two days ago, the Governor of Gongsun sent a letter to inform that the people of Daqin are now resting in Zhangye, let me wait and be careful, but I don't know that Yuan has long thought that these people will have the ability to kill people and plunder land in my Han land. ”

"What does General Xiahou mean, regardless of whether the other party is ambushed or not, directly fight hard? Or lure out an ambush and then counterattack the other side? "Sun Ce has been fighting horses for half his life, and he and Zhou Yu led two or three thousand people to dare to fight Jiangdong, and his bravery and courage are naturally much greater than ordinary people, after listening to Xiahou Yuan's words, he also indirectly expressed his thoughts in the rhetorical question.

Xiahou Yuan nodded.

"There's nothing to say, since you dare to come to the big Han to make trouble, leave them all. However, after all, there are many people on the other side, and you still need to do your best, and you must not underestimate the enemy and divide your own people. ”

At this time, there was no informal meeting of the troops, and after the explanation, everyone got up to say goodbye and left, and after a while, Xiahou Yuan called a big swarthy man who was about to go out, and stared at each other.

"Zhang Yide, my niece is okay."

At the beginning, the plague was rampant in Yuzhou, and the whole Xu was short of food to the extreme, Xiahou Yuan gave up his young son and fed the rations to support his dead brother and orphan daughter, but he didn't expect to be snatched away by this rough man with a leopard's head and eyes, and married in Runan.

"Hahaha......"

Zhang Fei didn't mind the other party's unkind eyes, rubbed his palms, but laughed a little embarrassedly: "Don't worry, my father-in-law is fine, I was pregnant before leaving, and when I go back, I will invite my father-in-law to drink at home together." ”

"You ....." Xiahou Yuan looked at this black man who was five big and three thick, the other party was about the same age as himself, and he was called his father-in-law, the corners of his mouth twitched, he closed his eyes, and waved his hand in a rather complicated mood: "You go down, it's about to pull out the camp......"

Zhang Fei arched his hand, nodded, turned around and was about to step out of the big tent, when Xiahou Yuan's voice behind him slowly sounded: "After you go back, treat her well." ”

The figure at the entrance of the tent stopped, turned his head slightly, and smiled with a black face: "That's my Zhang Fei's wife, so naturally I want to treat her well." ”

"Hmm!"

The curtain rolled and swayed, then fell silent. The next day, the sun rose above the clouds, and soon after, the trumpet of pulling the camp sounded over the camp, and a group of soldiers led their horses to gather, Sun Ce dragged his cloak and galloped on horseback: "Let's go——"

17,000 men rose up from the camp, minus logistics, and rushed lightly to speed up the march to the north, while at the foot of the mountain on their left, the Yizhou army of more than 10,000 people trekked through mountains and rivers, and was echoing the coalition forces outside the mountains through the mountains and rivers, surging towards Zhangye!

As the situation intensified, the atmosphere became more and more tense, and Guo Yan, who was sitting in Zhangye, read the message that had just come from his hand, which was sent by Gongsun Zhi, and the news outside one by one gathered into a simple and easy-to-understand content: It is time for the golden cicada to come out of its shell.

He got up and walked out of the humble house, and through the gap, he saw that outside the barracks, the Qiang people had pulled away the last three chariots, and the heavy armor and weapons of the Great Qin people collided in the car body, making an eye-catching sound, echoing in his ears like a talisman. Guo Yan sat in the room and was silent for a moment, then turned to the adjutant general beside him and ordered: "Tell the brothers, it is time to retreat to Wuwei, and bring the news to Marcus, the delivery has been completed, let them run quickly, don't be caught and killed by our Han army." ”

The news of the retreat was surging in the camp with the eagle flag, and when the last chariot of the Qiang people left, these Xiliang soldiers who were originally disguised had already quietly left after exchanging the armor and weapons of the Great Qin people on their bodies to the Qiang people, and an important part of the whole plan was completed on this day.

And it's time for the blood to come to fruition.

At this time, near Cangsong Mountain, the Qiang tribes of the Qiang Qiang Union are gathering in the wilderness, and the carts are stuck in the mud to this side, a large number of iron armor and weapons have caused a little confusion in countless eyes, most of the eyes are greedy to look at more than ten carts of weapons and armor, although the Qiang people in Liangzhou are brave and ruthless, but the weapons in their hands are indeed scarce, and the armor that can arm more than 10,000 people in front of them is heard that there are still behind and are on the way.

"Since Burning Dangqiang wants us to contribute, how much will be distributed to the warriors of my clan."

"Otherwise, kill them all!"

"...... to fight Liangzhou, there are weapons and armor, first repel the Han soldiers and then talk to Cheriji."

Several chieftains from other tribes were talking to each other over there. Cheriji, who came with a big knife, looked solemn, and swept over this group of people with his head slightly raised, last year he lowered his posture in order to unite the various ministries, gave away a lot of cattle and sheep, and even gave his wife Xiangda Minzhu as a gift to several of them to sleep for a few days, and only after showing such sincerity did he persuade the other party to bring the warriors of the clan over.

"The Han people have a saying that is good, in order to achieve the goal, do everything......" Looking at these Qiang chiefs from all sides who were persuaded by him, this is his first step in laying Liangzhou, if he can achieve such a goal, what kind of means, he is willing to use, and the woman who can instigate himself to kill his father, what to do? After conquering Liangzhou and unifying the entire Qiang people, he was willing to marry a few Han princesses....... which is also known from the stories of the Xiongnu and the Han people, and they are used to doing so.

"Dip cloth, let all the warriors of our clan put on these armors, and don't let the other tribes keep worrying." After glancing at the picture of someone reaching out to stroke the car over there, he gave an order to the henchman next to him, and then turned around and went to another cart and held a Daqin helmet in his hand.

"...... the helmet of the man on the west side is too ugly, pull out the cockscomb-like thing on it, and insert the big finch feather to be majestic, take a few and let the skilled warriors change it, and then send it to the other chiefs." He said with a smile, and pressed the bronze helmet in his hand on his head.

Far and near, thousands of people took off their wrapped animal skins and wooden armor in this bustling skylight, and their dark and strong bodies put these armors on their bodies clumsily, laughing and joking with each other in Qiang, and a little farther away, on the hills, the woods and fields squirted, and the sky light shone into the gaps in the woods, and the light spots moved on the moving figures, and the figures of the cavalry were clearly exposed.

Down the mountain, on flat terrain.

Seeing more and more warriors in the clan wearing the delicate and heavy armor of the Great Qin people, Cheriji laughed: "Help me put it on too." ”

As he spoke, the afterglow of his vision, the light refracted by the sunlight in the sky, made his eyes narrow, and vaguely, he heard the sound of horses, frowned, and subconsciously turned his head to look in that direction.

A figure riding a war horse reflected the bright skylight, standing on the hill, the red cloak hunting in the soft wind, the moment the long white whisker stroked, the horse stood up and neighed.

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