Liu Zhang stepped on the steps, turned around, pulled out his sword and pierced the sky, and shouted to the leaders of the Qiang people: "Qiang does not rebel against the Han, I, Liu Zhang, am the eternal friend of the Qiang people, may the great god of Baishi bless us, the people of Xiqiang, continue to prosper, from generation to generation, the friendship between the Qiang people and the Sichuan army, everlasting." ”

"Sichuan-Qiang Alliance, bless Xiqiang."

"Sichuan-Qiang Alliance, bless Xiqiang." The cavalry of the Sichuan army raised their guns and roared in unison.

Soon the Qiang people also joined in the roar, "Woo woo. "The horse's hooves are kicking, the neighing is endless, the whole grassland is boiling, Liu Zhang stands under the statue of the god, watched by tens of millions of Qiang people, at this moment, Liu Zhang, like Ma Teng Han Sui, has established prestige in Xiqiang, and with the deepening of the soft offensive strategy, this prestige will inevitably continue to grow.

At the end of the alliance meeting, Liu Zhang rubbed his frozen red hands back to the wooden house and said to Wang Xu: "Sir, I am going back to Chengdu, please sir." ”

"Don't worry, my lord, now Xiliang is going to be in chaos, there shouldn't be many wars in Xiqiang, I will focus on three things, absorb other tribes in Xiqiang to join East Tsing Yi, the tribal system is not strict, often the tribesmen will also choose to migrate to other tribes, as long as we pay attention to storage, we will definitely be able to increase the population of East Tsing Yi."

The subordinates of the Qiang people in the Xiliang area will also pay attention to absorption, and at the same time control the population of Dongqingyi without losing the population, but the lord, Xiqiang is a bitter cold place, I am afraid that there will not be enough food every year, and it will be allocated in Shuzhong. ”

"I understand this, in order to conquer Xiliang in the future, I will not be reluctant to give up that bit of food."

At this time, a soldier came to report: "Report, Guanzhong battle report." ”

"Speak."

"Shicheng Liu Bei united with Xiliang Ma Chao and entered Guanzhong. It successively annexed several warlords who suffered heavy losses in Hanzhong. Now the number of troops has reached 30,000. Guanzhong is in chaos. ”

"Liu Bei attacked Guanzhong?" Liu Zhang groaned.

Wang Xu said: "When I was in Longxi, I saw and heard that this Liu Bei is used to winning the hearts of the people, and there are fierce generals such as Zhang Zhao under his command, and the lord should not be underestimated." ”

"How dare I underestimate this big ear, I only hate that my Jing Yi's foundation has been beaten weakly, otherwise I will wave my army to kill Guanzhong now."

Liu Zhang said hatefully, but he just thought about it if the Sichuan army arrived in Guanzhong. Even if it is a thousand people, it will cause Cao Cao to panic greatly, you must know that Xuchang can be in the east of the Guandong, Cao Cao will inevitably pour his main force to deal with it, and the war will continue.

"Go down." Liu Zhang waved at the soldier.

The soldier didn't go down, and said: "Lord, in addition to Liu Bei, there is also a character in Guanzhong. ”

"What character?"

"The wanted criminal Wu Jun personally ordered by the lord, it is said that after our army put down the rebellion, many children of the exiled clan went to follow Wu Jun. After the defeat of Wu Junjiangzhou, his strength increased instead of decreasing. But he didn't dare to act in Jingyi, this time the Guanzhong warlords came to attack my Sichuan, Wu Jun took advantage of the weakness to attack Guanzhong, and also defeated several Guanzhong warlords, with nearly 20,000 troops. ”

"Wu Jun?" Liu Zhang groaned and remembered Qu Lingchen, that time Qu Lingchen came to Chengdu to say goodbye to him, and he didn't know where he was now, how he was doing, whether he was crazy with Wu Jun.

A small person like Wu Jun can also make such a big battle, Liu Zhang was silent for a while and said coldly: "Isn't he bent on avenging Benhou for his fiancée Ma Xiaolian?" Why did you run into Guanzhong? ”

"Wu Jun's banner is to annex Guanzhong and go south to Jingyi."

"It's not a small tone." Liu Zhang said disdainfully.

Wang Xu interjected: "Lord, I'm afraid it's not so simple, I feel that this Wu Jun is under the guise of revenge, uniting people's hearts, gathering our hostile forces, and achieving his personal cause, the nature of this person has changed." ”

"Daye, hahahaha." Liu Zhang laughed: "Liu Bei has gone to Guanzhong, Wu Jun, the tiger's mouth to grab food, if he can really defeat Zhuge Liang Pang Tong, Zhao Guan, Zhang Chen and other brave generals, then I really have to thank him." ”

Wang Xu nodded, with Liu Bei here, Cao Cao does not return to the division, and it is impossible for Guanzhong to fall into the hands of the second person.

…………

"Are you feeling better?" Liu Zhang sat on the stone steps, rubbed a snowball and played with it, and asked as he looked at the girl from the Western Regions who was supported by two barbarian female soldiers.

The girl from the Western Regions let go of the support of the two barbarian girls, tried to take two steps in the snow, and said happily: "Okay, it's all right, hahaha." The girl jumped and jumped happily in the snow, two white velvet tails bouncing over her shoulders.

But suddenly, the girl covered her chest in pain, gritted her silver teeth and said, "It hurts a little." ”

The barbarian doctor told Liu Zhang: "This girl has a strange poison in her body, and it is a fluke that she can survive, and I am afraid that this residual poison will remain in the girl's body forever." ”

"What's the impact?"

"The onset of the disease from time to time will be very painful, and with the increase of age, the pain will also increase, and it is inevitable, and the life span will be short."

Liu Zhang frowned: "Didn't you say that lark grass can detoxify?" ”

"The lord doesn't know." The barbarian doctor was embarrassed and said: "It is true that lark grass can detoxify, but lark grass is a kind of clover, and all the mountains in this Qiang land are clover, there are many types, and the shape is similar.

There are very few larks in clover, originally distinguished by the color of the leaves, but now it is the middle of winter, the snow is covered, the grass and trees are withered and yellow in the snow, where can you tell what color, and if you wait until the beginning of spring and the snow melts, then there is no way to remove it. ”

Liu Zhang glanced at the girl who was squatting down in pain, and said to the barbarian doctor, "Then there is no other way?" ”

"Unless anyone knows the withered lark."

…………

In the evening, he was going to go on the expedition tomorrow, Liu Zhang had nothing to do, and went to visit the girl, the girl was lying on the bed, and immediately showed a sweet smile when she saw Liu Zhang's arrival.

"Does it still hurt?"

The girl shook her head.

"You said you liked me?"

The girl was stunned and looked at Liu Zhang, Liu Zhang had a serious expression, the girl hesitated for a moment, then nodded, and said innocently: "Yes." ”

"I like you too, you can sleep tonight, and I will marry you when I return to Chengdu." Liu Zhang looked at the girl, and at the same time grabbed the girl's cold little hand, and obviously felt the girl's hand tremble.

In any case, marrying a princess of Shache will not suffer.

Liu Zhang lifted the quilt in the girl's wide eyes, grabbed the girl's round shoulders, lifted the girl's body a little, and kissed the girl's lips, and at the same time his hand began to penetrate the thin clothes, restlessly invading the girl's towering chest little by little, and the girl stared at him with wide eyes.

At the moment when Liu Zhang's stroking hand was about to touch the bulging obstacle, the girl let out an "ouch", a painful expression appeared on her face, and she covered her chest at once.

"Ouch, it's poisonous, it hurts, it hurts." The girl's sweat was rolling in pain.

Liu Zhang let go of her, hurriedly called the doctor in, and it took a while to calm down, but this time it seemed that the poison was very bad, and after the drug restrained the toxicity, the girl was weak.

Liu Zhang said: "It's not a matter for you to go on like this, do you know who knows the withered lark grass?" ”

"There are a lot of larks in our Shache country, not to mention withering, even if they are scorched, I know them all."

"Really? That's great. Liu Zhang said happily, the girl looked at Liu Zhang's happy look, stunned, and the smile was a little unreal on Liu Zhang's face.

"You rest tonight, and tomorrow you work hard and go with the doctor to collect lark grass, okay?"

"Yes." The girl nodded, watching Liu Zhang leave, this time she didn't secretly snicker, Liu Zhang's fake smile just now has been haunting her mind.

On the second day, the girl and the Qiang barbarians collected larks together, turned over the snow, and rummaged in the places where larks often grow, but the proportion of larks in the clover was too small, and they couldn't find it for a long time, and finally on a high mountain, the girl and a barbarian and a Qiang saw a clump of clover on a bare cliff platform.

The girl pointed to the clover and said, "Look, that's the lark." ”

The Qiang barbarians are all happy, but the platform is suspended in the air, can not be collected, can only hang the rope ladder down, the two went down to the platform, has not collected the lark grass, suddenly saw the rope ladder was ripped away, looked up, it was the Western Regions girl, the Western Regions girl smiled proudly at the two: "You just stay there, wait for Liu Zhang to save you." ”

After the girl finished speaking, she threw the rope ladder to the cliff, and it was Liu Zhang who was watching with people under the cliff, and the girl made a trumpet shape with her palms, and shouted at the bottom of the mountain: "Liu Zhang, you big fool, big bastard, you finally have a plan for this girl, this girl is going to leave now, and she wants to threaten her father with me, no way." ”

When the girl had finished speaking, she ran happily from behind the cliff like a sparrow.

"How can it be?" Liu Zhang scolded hatefully, and Wang Xu said, "Do you want to pursue?" ”

"Can you catch up?" Liu Zhang said: "The mountains behind the old camp of Lingqiang are all over the place, leading directly to the Western Regions, and it is inconvenient for even the infantry to pass, let alone the cavalry, go, collect the troops and return to the camp, how can this be reasonable." ”

Looking at Liu Zhang's back, Sang Ye smiled at Xiao Furong and said, "I didn't expect adults to be fooled." ”

"It's strange, he did it on purpose." Xiao Furong said dissatisfiedly, and looked back at the cliff where the girl disappeared, feeling a little angry, anyway, how uncomfortable the girl was to look at herself, not to mention pretending to be poisoned to deceive everyone, and now she was deliberately released by Liu Zhang, Xiao Furong was even more angry.

Liu Zhang and Wang Xu returned to the camp, and after explaining the matter, they were ready to return to Hanzhong, Wang Xu smiled at Liu Zhang: "The lord deliberately let go of the princess of the Shache Kingdom, right?" ”

"Sir, too?"

Wang Xu smiled and said, "Why didn't the lord leave her behind, did he have plans for the Western Regions?" ”

"The Western Regions, it's too far away, I don't want to think about it."

"But the lord can't help but think about it, the Western Regions, although with our current strength, can't move it yet, but it doesn't mean that it will never be moved, and the Western Regions is a sensitive place, it's good to formulate a policy and strategy early, and it can be modified in the future, at least when the time comes, it won't be rushed to deal with it, and the trouble caused cannot be repaired.

What Wang Xu didn't understand was that taking the children of the Western Regions as hostages was a tradition of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, and the lord seemed to have given up, why? (To be continued.) )

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