Green Ridge is the most difficult and mysterious section of the Silk Road, most of the mountains are parallel from east to west, belong to the high-altitude area, the Tianshan Mountains, the Kunlun Mountains converge here, forming a number of mountains and valleys, basins, under the alpine climate, there is snow on the top of the mountain all year round, if it is from October to March of the next year, the whole plateau will be clothed in silver.

It's summer, and the sun is shining warmly through the wind-eroded hills, connecting the bare rocky creek below, where the vegetation is not luxuriant, and the occasional breeze blows through here, and a few clusters of sea buckthorn sway slightly. Then, a chewing mouth bit down, only the bare grass stalk remained, a fat sheep leisurely flapped its ears to disperse the flying insects that came up, and not far away, there were several sheep bowing their heads to nibble on the few grass quilts.

The shepherd of the sheep, not very old, dressed in an old leather jacket, with deep-set eyes, a high nose, under the fluffy hair, and his eyes are lightly closed, napping on a nearby rock. This afternoon, as usual, when the sheep had eaten their fill, they drove back to the sheepfold on the mountainside, when a voice sounded in the distance.

The sheep grazing a few tufts of artemisia grass raised their heads vigilantly, bleated a few times, and the sleeping shepherd suddenly turned up, thinking that it was a snow leopard or a wild wolf in the green mountains, he looked around, and then looked to the west, and the sound came from that side, and soon the voice became clearer.

It's the sound of splashing water—

"Drive!"

With a loud shout, several knights in leather armor and carrying bows and knives crossed the hill at the bend of the stream, and the horse's hooves rolled up the churning splash, and ran towards the place where the sheep were grazing here, the shepherd wiped his eyes, and saw that the other party's outfit was not the same as the army here, and his expression was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, he hurriedly jumped off the rock and ran to drive the sheep back.

"Another herdsman from Dawan."

"Kill him."

The two knights in front quickly exchanged words, and one of them drew his bow and arrow, and the arrow flew out with a whizz as his horse stepped onto the riverbank. The fattest sheep in the flock fell to the ground with a sudden bleat, and the shepherd on that side saw a feathered arrow stuck in his neck, turned away in fright, and ran away, and stopped caring about the sheep.

Another cavalryman scolded his archery companion in a mocking language, pulled out his horse's head and drew his scimitar and rushed towards the fleeing Dawan, and the panicked sheep also ran behind their master, and when the horse approached, they were scattered and ran away. The horse's hooves were sharp, and the cavalryman pulled the reins, turned slightly, and slashed down with a sharp sword.

The fleeing shepherd threw himself forward with a scream, and then rolled on the ground a few times, and blood flowed out of the cracks in the leather jacket, which was hard and old, and the knife cut it down, but it did not hurt the bones, but the great pain made him cry out, and he got up from the ground and continued to run forward, and the sound of horses' hooves behind him was getting closer and closer, accompanied by a playful laugh. As he was about to reach his back, the shepherd gritted his teeth, drew a crude short sword from his waist, and then turned sharply.

Then, the trajectory of the blade was reflected in his eyes.

The galloping cavalry stretched out its blades from the side and slashed from the bottom up.

Poof—

The emaciated body staggered a few steps and fell to the ground with a thud, and a round thing was thrown in the air, and then landed at the feet of the rushing sheep, and was kicked away and rolled into a pile of bushes.

The horses' hooves stopped a short distance away, glanced at the headless corpse, and then left their eyes on the scattered flock, and several of their companions followed after them, and cut the sheep under their swords, and the cavalry then took the booty and went back in the direction from which they came. Soon after, the other searching scouts converged, and through the needle-shaped leaves, over the hills, to meet a large army, and the long dragon spread out in their field of vision.

Countless crowds of people, the dust raised by the march of war horses.

……

The march of more than 100,000 people, stretching without seeing the end, Gongsun stopped walking in the Chinese army, and occasionally stopped to see if the whole army was out of touch in a nearby higher place, since the end of June to set foot on this place called the Pamir Plateau by later generations, accustomed to the Han soldiers in the Central Plains climate, the Central Plains, Jiangdong, Yizhou and other armies of the few soldiers will have altitude sickness, and he prepared the car in advance, pulled back to the city of Pantu to recuperate, such an era to overcome this reaction, it is almost impossible, but in addition to the water and soil adaptation, Fortunately, the temperature is pleasant, and there will be no large-scale attrition.

"Tell Sun Ce and Zhao Yun that they don't have to worry." Gongsun Zhi frowned, looked at the team passing in front of him below, and whispered to Li Ke next to him: "..... is not accustomed to water and soil, and as soon as you come up, you have already laid down, and the rest are able to adapt." ”

Because of the water and soil adaptation, although the number of soldiers with altitude sickness is not large, but there are also thousands, the fall of the companions, sent away, for the whole army can not be hidden, occasionally rest, everyone will talk in a whisper, but more than 100,000 people even if they are quiet, it is also a buzz.

"It's better for our people, we're used to running on the grassland, and we can still hold up here." Dian Wei also had a slight reaction to the symptoms, his chest was stuffy, and it was difficult to breathe, but fortunately he was still able to move, "But Xianbei people are as cheerful as fish, lord, we have to be careful." ”

"Crow's beak!" Li Ke sent the herald away, and when he replied to the giant man, there was a sudden commotion behind the marching team, Xia Houlan rushed over with a cavalry, and the commotion did not come to the front, but in the advancing team, there were still people who couldn't help but look back.

"What's going on over there?" Gongsun Zhi also noticed that the team behind him stopped, and opened a little distance from the army in front, "Li Ke, you bring someone over to ask what's going on." ”

Over there, Li Ke had just turned his horse's head and was about to leave, when a fast horse galloped over: "Dudu, the old general Gongsun fell off his horse and fainted." ”

"I'll take a look, Dian Wei, you spy on the army!" After speaking, Gongsun Zhi took Li Ke and his guards cavalry down the hillside, against the long dragon, the stagnant team restored order and continued to move forward, when he passed, Gongsun Yue had already woken up, leaning on a rock and drinking water.

“.…… People are old, some useless, just now I was riding a horse, suddenly my eyes appeared Venus, and then it was dark, and I didn't remember anything. ”

Seeing his proud nephew dismount and come over, the old man's face was still a little pale, but there was a little blood, he patted a stone beside him, and Gongsun Zhi sat down straight: "Can you still hold up your body?" I'll send someone to send you back, and I'll raise you for a while in Shule first. ”

"Don't go back!" Gongsun Yue, who was holding the water bag, looked at the figures of the soldiers who passed by one by one, and smiled on his wrinkled face: "...... The old man is in good health, when I followed the eldest brother and the second brother to cross the block, killing Xianbei and Wuhuan holding the head of the rat, how majestic it was, the Wuhuan woman saw the old man, and was so frightened that she got out of the tent with her bare buttocks, screaming and running around. ”

Gongsun Zhi laughed with him, and Li Ke next to him also giggled.

"Now I finally have the opportunity to go farther away, look at the place where Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went on an expedition back then, if I go back like this, the old man will not be blind to death in the future, and I will go down to see the two brothers, and I will probably be scolded to ......death."

He said angrily, and looked into the distance in a slightly slow tone: "...... such a grand event, if my brother is still here, he will run even if he is on crutches....... but unfortunately he doesn't have this life....."

The three brothers of Beiping Gongsun crisscrossed the north many years ago, at this time he sat there against the rock, when he was in the prime of life, his head was already gray, and the three brothers had gone to two, leaving him alone. At the beginning of Gongsun Zhi's foundation, he tried his best to reconcile the proud generals in Youzhou, took the initiative to retreat to the second line, and even lowered his stature to teach Gongsun Xu not to cause trouble with his brother.

After all, this is the hope of his grandson's family, if the family can be good, he can do anything.

"...... okay, there are still many things to be busy with the march of the three armies, you go and get busy, you don't have to take care of me as an old man." Gongsun Yue patted the mud crumbs on his hands, rested for a while, and looked full of energy.

Gongsun Zhi nodded: "I asked someone to come out with an empty cart, and when I was tired from riding, I went up for a while." Then, a few more people were summoned to tell them to take care of the old man, and only then did he get on the horse and leave, and behind him, Gongsun Yue's voice slowly sounded: "Nephew, your father will be proud of you, and so will I." ”

The horse's hooves stopped in front of him, and Gongsun Zhilema looked back at the old man, and then galloped towards the front of the army, the sound echoing through the valley.

"Hurry up and march, tell the three departments of Wuhuan, Xianbei, and Xiongnu, clear all the people you see along the way, and cut off the ears and eyes of Dawanguo, this time we are not here with etiquette, but with a blade ......."

"..... target Yucheng City in the eastern border of Dawan, and allow them to slaughter the city for three days."

The cavalry carrying the order galloped along the way.

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In mid-July, it was cloudy in the foothills west of Green Ridge.

Yuchengcheng is located in the widest area of the valley, the extended city wall encloses the market, residential houses, and fortresses, this Greek-style city has been attacked again and again under the Han soldiers, many years have passed, it has become old, and the traces of fierce battles are still mottled on it.

The thick walls of the city were silent in the sunlight of the day, the fields between the roads, the peasants were busy with their work, and a little farther away in the fields were the vineyards that had been erected.

Two months ago, news came from the east that the Han people had re-entered the Western Regions, and Tu Wu, the king of Yuchengcheng, increased patrols outside the city, which were much stricter than in the past.

But that afternoon, it was still peaceful, and in the wheat field more than 20 miles away from the city, a peasant heard a different sound, raised his head, and in the distant woods, someone and a horse drilled out, at first I thought it was a traveler, but after a while, there were hundreds of cavalry gathered, consciousness was wrong, and there was a warning cry.

The trumpet sounded.

The people who were busy working in the large fields looked up, and hundreds of cavalry burst out with a savage shout, stepped down the hillside, rushed into the wheat fields like a torrent, and killed them directly.

Blood and corpses were laid out.

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