After sending Sun Simiao away, Su You began to prepare the things needed for the mission, probably with sufficient food and gifts for the king of Nanzhong.

At this time, it is the season of mid-June, and it is the hottest time in Shu County.

Su You and others were sent off by Fan Zhuo and other officials of Shu County, and went out of the south gate of Shu County again.

This time, because of the female dependents and baggage, the speed of the road slowed down significantly, and when I arrived at Linqiong County, it was noon two days later.

The Taishou of Linqiong County took Su You as promised, and Su You happily went, and sent people to Lushan to recall the guards who stayed behind to take care of the elderly in the local area.

Linqiong County is not the junction of the Great Sui and Nanzhong, but it is finally the largest city in the border area, and it took Su You another two days to make full preparations for the departure, including hiring a few guides and translators.

Reluctantly said goodbye to Linqiong County, Su You really embarked on the road of envoyship, but the next evening, the Dadu River was in front of them.

The Dadu River is the largest tributary of the Min River, and was called "Moshui" in ancient times.

Dadu River has two sources, Duoke River and Malke River, called Dajinchuan after confluence, called Dadu River after receiving Xiaojinchuan, turns east near Anshun Field in Linqiong, and joins Minjiang River in Leshan. Since the length and volume of the Dadu River exceed the Min River upstream of the Leshan confluence, some people believe that the source of the Min River system is the Dadu River, not the Min River.

The Taiping army led by Shi Dakai, the winged king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was surrounded and intercepted by the Qing army at Anshun Field by the Dadu River and the whole army was annihilated; During the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, it once forcibly crossed the Anshunchang Ferry in Shimian County, and finally captured the Luding Bridge on the Dadu River.

However, the legendary Luding Bridge could not be built until the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and now Su You is only facing a rolling river more than 30 zhang wide, and there is not even a rope on it.

As the saying goes, the water comes to cover the earth, and the soldiers come to block, in the face of the Dadu River without a bridge, all Su You can do is to repair the bridge.

After the order was handed down, the 800 guards began to cut down bamboo, and it took two days of busy work to build a temporary pontoon bridge.

The pontoon bridge would soon be washed away by the flowing water after a heavy rain, and Su You had this realization.

If crossing the Dadu River is a test, then the next test that Su You has to accept is like the second to eighty-first difficulties in the ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties experienced by Tang Seng on the road to learn scriptures in the west.

If you want to successfully reach Dali, you can actually choose two roads, one is the tea horse road, and the other is the Shu body poison road.

The latter road is closer than the tea horse road, but the road condition is even worse, and it is more troublesome to take which road, no one can say.

After some discussion, Su You finally made a decision to walk the tea horse road; After hitting the road, Su You found that the so-called easy walk was only relative.

In addition to the long journey and wind and rain, you will also have to pass through many sparsely populated grasslands, dense forests, vast plains, wading through raging rivers, towering snow-capped peaks, and climbing steep rock walls.

Men and horses must cling to the rock wall before they dare to pass the three-foot-wide road carved into the cliff, and the slightest mistake will fall off the cliff. If the two teams meet, there is no way out, so they have to negotiate a price, throw the emaciated horses under the hanging rock, and let the other horses pass through the guò.

You also have to be careful of the rocks rolling overhead, Su You and they have been attacked by falling rocks several times, more than a dozen guards were stoned to death on the spot, and dozens of people were injured.

In addition to natural hazards, there are also poisonous insect bites when passing through the dense forest. At this time, it was the height of summer, and swarms of mosquitoes were overwhelming, although Su You had already prepared sufficient miasma and mosquito repellent medicines, but there were still many guards who were poisoned and died on the way.

In addition to poisonous insects, there is a threat to people, and maybe the real threat can only come from people, right?

Su You brought eight hundred guards, but the barbarians in the mountains still wanted money and didn't want to die, thinking that it was a fat sheep coming.

After crossing the Dadu River, theoretically this is already the boundary of the south and the middle, but in fact it is a three-regardless zone. The barbarians entrenched here only recognize silver and do not recognize people, and the caravans that often take this line must be dotted on time every year in order to live in peace.

These barbarians didn't know Su You's guard of honor, and they didn't know how to weigh their own catties, and when they saw Su You's horse team with a baggage, they only had one word in their hearts - rob!

Su You's patience finally reached the limit, and when the third wave rushed forward, Su You nodded to Wang Bodang.

Again and again, after Wang Bodang and the others encountered several waves of brutality, they had almost choked back their internal injuries, and at this time, they got Su You's order, even if it was a triple shot.

"Duh! Duh! Duh! After three sounds, three ragged brutes rolled to the ground.

Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and others naturally did not relent, and with a wave of their big hands, nearly a hundred crossbowmen raised the hard crossbows in their hands, three-wheeled crossbows. After the arrow was fired, half of the barbarians who rushed forward lost their lives.

The guide hurriedly trotted to Su You's side and shouted loudly, "Su Yushi is so ruthless, aren't you afraid of their retaliation?" ”

"The truth is only within the range of the bow and arrow, and they have the courage to come." Su You replied lightly, before the words fell, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu had already slapped their horses and killed them, Su You hurriedly shouted at their backs, "Catch two alive!" ”

They were followed by eleven or twelve guards, all with spears, all at their sides.

More than a dozen people rushed into the chaotic barbarian array, as if they were in a no-man's land, and finally captured two leaders wearing fur hats and cloaks and captured them.

Su You lifted the collar of one of the barbarian leaders and said coldly, "If you want to live, hurry up and let your people get out, as for the two of you, you have to accompany us to Dali." ”

Of course, Fan Man couldn't understand Su You's Da Sui Mandarin, but fortunately, there was a general judgment that had been prepared a long time ago, and after chattering for a while, the man snorted, and wanted to say a few cruel words when he was dying.

But when he saw the cold light flashing in front of him, he only felt a cold in his ears, and saw one of his ears fall to the ground.

Su You stood in front of him playfully and sneered, "You only have this choice." ”

Seeing Su You's ruthlessness, he immediately knelt down, and the other person was also stunned.

After Su You's sword, the Fanman commander turned into a hairy sheep, and immediately shouted at the Fanman who was lucky to survive just now, and those people got the order and had to retreat slowly.

However, the lesson of blood can often only warn a small number of people, and there are still people who want to make money on the way to the next road.

In the next few days, Su You and the others repelled two more attacks.

The crossbows of the Sui army still have lethal power at a distance of a hundred paces, but the bows and arrows in the hands of those barbarians only have a range of thirty or fifty paces; If they want to hurt Su You and the others, they have to advance fifty or sixty steps with a crossbow, and they can see at a glance which one is stronger and which is weak.

They are just robbing, and the more people who fail, the greater the fame of Su You and others.

In the end, Su You was like the king of Hades, and the little ghosts along the way fled when they saw it.

In this way, he marched during the day, went down to the village at night, and walked only thirty or fifty miles a day, and walked on the road for more than a month, and the season gradually reached the middle of August.

On this day, when he suddenly walked to a dangerous pass, Su You looked up at the words on the pass, and finally smiled, "Hard-working people, the sky is worth it." ”

Before the words fell, troops full of mountains and fields suddenly appeared on the slopes of the two mountains, and one of them was a big banner with the word "Nanzhong" written on it.

Suddenly seeing many enemies, Lu Sheng immediately turned his head to look at Su You, "Sir, what should I do?" ”

Lu Sheng's question is also the question of Wang Bodang, Su Yunfan and others, they are now quietly setting up bows and arrows, just waiting for Su You's order.

"It's just a bluff, if they want to attack us, why expose it early?" Su You smiled, and said to Zhang Long and Zhao Hu, "Raise our banner too!" ”

Immediately, a banner was slowly erected, and it was written "Emperor Qin of the Great Sui Dynasty ordered to send an envoy to the South, Central and Soviet Union"!

Along the way, those barbarians didn't know this flag, but they knew the goods here, and after Su You's guard of honor was raised, an officer walked out of the pass with three or five guards.

The officers wore leather armor and copper helmets with hairpins, while the soldiers wore short-sleeved half-body leather armor and iron helmets on their heads.

The officer walked with a large number of men and horses, although the wolf bèi, but the well-equipped and majestic temperament of the army, finally approached Su You in front of the three zhang, and finally clasped his fists on the horse and saluted, "Your Excellency is really the envoy of the kingdom?" ”

The officer spoke Chinese and practiced Chinese etiquette, so that Su You, who was accustomed to hearing the 'Uluwara' bird language along the way, suddenly felt that it was called a cordial.

"Exactly." Su You stepped forward, informed the officer of his name, and showed the envoy and official certificate.

Although the officer didn't get the news of the mission sent by the Great Sui, Su You's temperament was there, and he had nothing to doubt, so he immediately ordered the people to open and close the door and let the angels of the country enter the customs. However, for the sake of safety, they were still asked to bring only 100 guards, and the rest were tied outside the gate, and their own food and drink were served.

Su You took the more than 70 people who went to Lushan to plant pox with him last time and now entered the Beiguan of this town, -- there were a total of 85 people who went to Lushan at that time, but among these people, who couldn't even help smallpox, died in the miasma along the way.

More than 600 people, including Zhang Long and Zhao Hu, who were left behind, all returned to Yanbei to command, and as for the two barbarian leaders caught on the road, they were released and returned to the mountain.

After resting for more than ten days in the north pass of this town, the body and energy of the guards were almost restored, and the officials sent by Nanzhong to greet them also arrived.

In the past ten days, Su You has also felt the pattern of the land of Yunnan.

Originally, the people of southern China, mainly composed of the two surnames of Wuman and Baiman, from the end of the Three Kingdoms, the Fu clan entered Yunnan, and the Fu Chen was called the king in Kunchuan (now Qujing), and the Fu clan has ruled Nanzhong for nearly 300 years.

The Fu clan is divided into two parts, east and west, roughly bounded by Qujing to Jianshui, the east is dominated by Wuman, and the west is dominated by Baiman, that is, "Dongfu" and "Xifu".

In fact, in the land of Yunnan, there is also a third-party force - the Duan clan.

The Duan clan has both the blood of the White Barbarian and the Wuman, so they are both flattered and neither side is pleased, and their current sphere of influence is in the southeast of Yunnan.

In the land of Yunnan, Nanzhong is the only one, but there is a trend of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

But whether the Three Kingdoms return to Jin, or the three families divide into Jin, probably the arrival of Su You will make some interesting stories happen in this land.