The Ancient Tea Horse Road, a road with a long history. Baidu search purple pavilion .

The southern climate of the Chinese continent is temperate, the mountainous areas are very suitable for the growth of tea trees, and the products are of excellent quality, and the nomadic people in the northwest are mainly based on practical beef and mutton and dairy products every day, and lack of green vegetables, tea is very important to them.

Tea can not only relieve the oiliness of meat, but also contain a variety of trace elements required by the human body, which is an indispensable daily necessities for nomadic people.

Thousands of years ago, tea merchants from the south traveled north to sell tea, and when they returned, they would bring horses from the north, thus forming the ancient tea horse road.

Tea brought huge profits to the merchants, and later the northern merchants also joined the ranks of profit-seeking, so several trading border towns were formed in the border areas, and the ancient tea horse road was abandoned.

Generally, the tea transported to the northwest is fermented tea such as black tea and black tea, not because nomads do not like green tea with better taste, but mainly because green tea is very time-sensitive, and it is not easy to preserve, and it will deteriorate if you are not careful or stored for too long.

Black tea and black tea can be processed into more portable tea bricks and tea cakes, which are more suitable for the cooking habits of nomadic people.

Xiao Chen and Medina walked on the badly damaged Ancient Tea Horse Road, the sun was setting in the west.

Growing up, Medina rarely came out to contact her sister outside, but her loving parents instilled in her a lot of knowledge and made her read a lot of books, many of which mentioned the Ancient Tea Horse Road.

"Brother Chen, a hundred miles further on, there will be an ancient battlefield. She pointed straight ahead.

"Ancient battlefield?" asked the little marquis.

She smiled and said, "That's right, it's an ancient battlefield." However, that war was only 100 years ago, and it was not the Great Chu Dynasty that ruled your Central Plains region at that time, but the former dynasty in your mouth. The emperor of the former dynasty gathered millions of troops to conquer the grasslands, and the king of the grasslands responded with less than one-third of the enemy's troops, and led the enemy into the valley with a battle and retreat, gathering and annihilating them, and finally won a great victory. ”

The little marquis remembered the books he had read before, and said: "I know that in that great battle, the defeated side began to collapse from that time, and the emperor died of depression because of it, although his heir vowed to work hard, but there was nothing to recover." Historians say that the failure of that defeat directly led to the collapse of the previous dynasty in less than forty years, and then there was the current Great Chu Dynasty. ”

"Yes, exactly. Martina nodded.

Whoa......

A flock of flying birds appeared in front, and the little marquis frowned: "Nana, there is danger ahead." ”

"Oh, let's be careful, then. She put away her smile.

The road ahead was full of potholes, and the speed of the war horse was greatly affected, Xiao Chen walked in front and told her: "You must follow my footsteps, remember?"

"Understood!"

Half an hour passed, and Medina didn't see any danger, so she couldn't help but ask, "Brother Chen, do you feel wrong?"

He smiled back and picked up the stones on the side of the road with his gentian gun, and the watermelon-sized stone fell a meter away from her, and a hole was smashed into the seemingly flat ground, revealing bamboo chips under a thin layer of soil.

Below the round hole was a three-meter-deep earth pit, full of sharp bamboo, and her eyes widened: "It's a trap?"

"That's right!" Xiao Chen replied, "The road we walked on just now was full of such traps, and it was obviously not just dug up, and it was difficult for ordinary people to see the clues from the surface. ”

Martina gasped, such a deep trap, coupled with the dense spikes inside, if you fall into it, there is no chance that both people and horses will survive.

Xiao Hou Ye then explained: "I think this should be the masterpiece of the bandits, when they encounter a large number of pursuers, they can lead the enemy here, and those who don't know the inside story will definitely suffer a big loss." ”

Princess Bingxue was smart, and the key to thinking directly was: "You mean, these traps are related to the bandit Gurus?"

"Quite possibly. ”

On the dirt slope not far away, Gurus and a few of his men lay on the ground, holding binoculars and taking a closer look.

One of his subordinates was puzzled and said, "How is it possible, their luck is too good, they have not fallen into a trap for so long." ”

The other chimed in, "Yes, except for a few of us, no one knows the mystery of the trap, how can they successfully dodge it again and again?"

Gurus snorted: "It's just luck, the trap doesn't work, so we greet the guests with crossbow arrows, and no one can dodge a salvo of crossbow arrows." ”

"Then if you come, the beauty will also die. ”

"Revenge is important, what is a woman, even if she is captured alive, it will not be your turn to enjoy, why pity the fragrance and cherish the jade. He was a little angry and said, "Get ready, brothers, and wind up your crossbow!"

Behind the dirt slope, more than 200 bandits gathered, and they all moved in unison to prepare their crossbows, just waiting for the leader's order.

The two walked out of the trap area, Xiao Chen stopped on his horse, and Medina, who didn't know why, also stopped.

At this time, Gurus shouted in a deep voice: "Release the arrow!"

More than two hundred crossbow arrows rose into the air, covering them two hundred meters away.

"Huh?" Medina was startled, Xiao Chen waved his right arm unhurriedly, and more than a dozen shields appeared out of thin air in an instant, plus many large gold and silver utensils.

The gold and silver vessels fell first to the ground, then to the shields, forming an impermeable wall.

Jingle ......

The bolts struck the shields with a crisp sound, and those who missed their heads stuck in the grass, and a rain of arrows did not pose any threat to them.

Gurus's eyes widened: "How can this be?"

The subordinate said: "Chief, the brethren are already preparing for the second salvo, is it ......?"

"Don't you see that there are so many shields in front of the enemy, why waste arrows and order everyone to charge!" he gritted his teeth and said: "We adopt the tactics of crowds, and we don't believe that he can resist with his own strength!"

"Yes!"

More than 200 people turned over at the same time, and Gurus adhered to the practice of having a brave man under a heavy reward: "Whoever can kill the Great Chu people, this leader will reward him with one hundred taels of gold!"

The bandits wielded scimitars and rushed down the dirt slope like a tide.

The little marquis smiled and said to Medina: "You are responsible for releasing the cold arrow, and I am responsible for charging into battle, no problem, right?"

The princess took out the purple gold crossbow and shook it, and said, "There is no problem, I must have killed more than you today...... Martial souls can't be counted. ”

"Haha, if you don't count, you won't count, when the battle is over, we'll each report the number of kills. "The little marquis slapped his horse and went to meet the enemy.

Whoosh ......

Ye Ziwu's martial soul first shot a round of flying needles, and then turned into four rays of light and flew into the enemy formation, and the bandits fell one after another.

Gurus rushed with his subordinates, located in the middle of the team, thinking that his subordinates could entangle Xiao Chen, and he had a chance to hack him to death with an axe, but as a result, no one could get close to the range of three meters in front of Xiao Chen.

Occasionally, someone rushed in front of him and was stabbed to death with a single shot.

Looking at his subordinates who kept falling to the ground and dying, he felt a trace of regret in his heart, and at the same time really understood why his cousin Gu Lilen would say goodbye without saying goodbye, the opponent in front of him was too powerful.