In Chai Shao's big tent, Li Shentong, Li Jing, Chai Shao, and Zhang Zhongjian gathered together, and Zhang Zhongjian unfolded the parchment roll under the light.

Everyone was overjoyed, this is the hidden map of 300,000 pieces of armor, Li Jing knows the Turkic language, there is a record of getting armor, he pointed to a big mountain in the west and said: "This is Mount Kent, they have hidden the armor in Mount Kent, everyone see, there is a sign here." ”

There was a sword mark in the Kent Mountain Range, and Chai Shao frowned, "But the mountain range is thousands of miles, where can we find a place to hide the armor." ”

Li Jing smiled slightly, pointed to the Turkic text on it and said: "It is clearly written here, three hundred steps into the valley of the Aidang Pass, and there is a cave two feet away from the cliff, which should be the place where the armor is hidden." ”

"But where is the Aidang Pass?" Li Shentong asked puzzled.

At this time, Zhang Zhongjian, who had been silent, suddenly said: "I know where the Aidang Pass is, I have been there." ”

Everyone was overjoyed, and Chai Shao said excitedly: "Then without further ado, let's set off immediately, if Tule finds out that he has lost the map, it will be troublesome." ”

After half an hour, Chai Shao and his party left the Kulun Department on two horses and galloped towards the Kent Mountain, thousands of miles to the west.

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Two days later, Zhang Xuan and the other four walked out of the reckless forest, and in front of them was a narrow shallow tundra zone about 30 miles wide, which continued thousands of miles to the north, and across this tundra zone, was the sparkling Beihai.

Even though it was early summer, they could see a large area of snow-covered land, which had just begun to melt, and it was still very cold, and they were shivering with cold without their leather jackets, and the ground was covered with a thick layer of mud, which had swallowed up their leather boots in just a few steps.

"The land here is only melting on the surface, and the depths of the ground are forever frozen, harder than iron."

The wind was very strong, and Xin Yu's voice trembled, "Beware of the mud, don't fall into it!" ”

"Is there ice slag here?" Jang Hyun asked loudly.

"Yes! But not much, you have to look carefully, and the one that comes across purple is. ”

Yu Chigong explored the way with a wooden stick and walked forward step by step, and suddenly, he shouted, "I found it!" ”

Everyone rushed up together, only to see two purple insects intertwined and wriggling on a piece of ice and snow that had not yet melted, Zhang Xuan was overjoyed, and hurriedly took out the copper gourd, and gently picked it with a dagger, and the two small purple insects that were wrapped together were packed into the gourd.

Xin Yu was also very happy, "I found it so quickly, it seems that a lot of ice slag has been unearthed this year." ”

Although Wei Chigong soon found two purple insects, it did not mean that they could find them everywhere, they continued to walk westward with difficulty, through the tundra, and walked for more than ten miles before they found ten small insects.

Xin Yu saw that Zhang Xuan was a little disappointed, so he smiled and said: "It's already a lot, we had more than 20 people looking for three or four days to find 30 the year before last, and it was only a long time, there were ten." ”

Zhang Xuan looked around, and suddenly, he saw a small black dot a hundred paces away on the left, washed out by a stream formed by the freshly melted ice and snow, much like a small black bowl upside down on the ground, very conspicuous in the snow.

Zhang Xuan hesitated, thinking in his heart, do you want to take a look?

At this moment, Cheng Yanjin from the north shouted excitedly, "Come and see, what did I find?" ”

Everyone hurriedly walked over, and everyone was stunned, only to see that on the ice and soil in a square circle, there were dense purple insects, and there were as many as fifty or sixty.

Zhang Xuan was overjoyed, and his dissatisfaction with Cheng Biting Jin along the way suddenly disappeared, this guy deserves to be a lucky general, and he was really lucky, he actually found a worm nest.

He didn't have time to say more, he took out his dagger and carefully picked out the little purple worms into the copper gourd, although more than a dozen of them burrowed into the soil, he still had a good harvest, and he caught forty-eight purple worms at one time, together with the previous ten worms, there were fifty-eight purple worms in his hands, far more than he needed.

"Well done!"

Zhang Xuan carefully put the copper bottle into the leather bag, and smiled at everyone with satisfaction: "Go out for a night of rest first, and we will return to Julun Lake tomorrow." ”

The road had disappeared, and the snow was covered with trap-like swamps, and small bubbles appeared in many places from time to time, and if they were not careful, they would be destroyed, and everyone walked back slowly and cautiously with ropes.

At this time, Zhang Xuan saw the black object again, shining with a strange luster in the sunlight, only a few dozen steps away from him, he couldn't help it anymore, and said to everyone: "Wait for me!" ”

He untied the rope around his waist, explored his path with a long stick, and walked towards the black object step by step.

"Childe, that's just a black stone, forget it!" Cheng Yanjin shouted from behind.

It did look like a black stone, but the black stone would not have such a luster, and as Zhang Xuan approached, he found that there was a faint purple red on the black stone.

"Wait a minute, I'll be back in a minute!"

Although only a few dozen steps apart, the black stone was surrounded by swamps, and the swamp mud moved at an extremely slow speed, and the black stone seemed to be slowly squeezed out from under the mud.

It took Zhang Xuan nearly half an hour to get close to the black stone, and at this time, Xin Yu also followed, and she threw a roll of leather rope to Zhang Xuan, "Tie it to your waist!" ”

Jang Hyun tied the leather rope around his waist, slowly crawled over almost from a hard shell of a swamp, and grabbed the black stone, he immediately found that this was not an ordinary black stone, but a black metal, only a corner of the surface was exposed, and the main part was below.

Zhang Xuan untied the leather cord around his waist and tied it firmly to the black object, he climbed back again, he and Xin Yu pulled hard, and the black object was slowly dragged out, dragging it in front of them little by little.

The black object is covered with silt, the shape is very much like a huge peanut, one foot long, the whole body is black and red, it looks very heavy, Zhang Xuan tried to lift it, and couldn't help but secretly speak, if it is a piece of pig iron, it is at most thirty or forty catties so big, but this piece of black metal weighs at least **ten catties, what will it be?

At this time, Yu Chigong and Cheng Yanjin also walked over, Yu Chigong had been a blacksmith in Mayi County for twenty years, and had seen many rare items in the grassland, and when he saw this piece of black and red metal, he was stunned.

In the middle of the sound, he slowly squatted down and gently stroked the piece of metal, and there was a look of intoxication in his eyes.

"Captain, is this thing valuable?" Cheng Yanjin also squatted down and asked.

"It's worth more than money!"

Yu Chigong sighed deeply, "I've seen this thing, and there is a fist-sized piece in my master's blacksmith shop, which is the treasure of his town, and I am never allowed to touch it." ”

"What is this?" Zhang Xuan asked with a curious smile.

Wei Chigong stood up and asked Zhang Xuan respectfully, "Has Gongzi heard of Huangjiasi?" ”

"Like a steppe tribe?"

Yu Chigong nodded, "The Central Plains call them the bones, the Turks call them the Qiangsi, they live in the far north, and are famous for making the most well-made swords, it's funny to say, their forging skills are too far worse than the Central Plains, but the swords they make are better than the Central Plains, and that's why." ”

Yu Chigong pointed to the black and red metal on the ground, "This is their secret, it is called Gasha, when it rains, it will fall from the sky, generally only the size of a soybean or a finger, only in the far north, our blacksmith in Mayi County calls it Gasha Xuantie, and the blacksmith of Mayi County can forge a sword by adding it to pig iron, and I heard from the master that there is also a piece of Gasha the size of a courgette, which is a sacred relic of their tribe." ”

Zhang Xuan understood what he meant, this is a piece of meteorite iron outside the sky, no wonder it is so heavy, it seems that God treats him well, not only let him find the purple insect jade chrysalis, but also gave him a grassland holy relic Jiasha Xuantie.

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A hundred miles to the south, in the Black Forest, a long journey was rapidly advancing in the direction of the Great Lake.

This team consisted of more than 100 people, dressed in black, holding spears and knives, all of them burly, strong and good at fighting.

This team is the cavalry who went north from the town of Mokou, although they entered the grassland from the border of Youzhou, but they were not the Sui army, but a rebel army from Qinghe County, Hebei, led by the middle-aged man, who was the leader of the rebel army, Dou Jiande.

After Dou Jiande rebelled in Qinghe County, he received the support of the Bohai Society of the Northern Qi Dynasty and grew rapidly, but the lack of armor was still their biggest weakness.

A few months ago, Dou Jiande received news from the Bohai Society that a batch of armor delivered to the Turks by Goguryeo had gone missing in the area of Kulun Lake, and the number was as high as hundreds of thousands.

This made Dou Jiande very excited, and after he entrusted the army to his younger brother Liu Heimin, he personally led a hundred elite cavalry north to the grassland to find this batch of armor.

Dou Jiande had a very close trade relationship with the Servant Bone Department of the Grassland, and the Great Servant Bone Chieftain Teren revealed a secret to him, this batch of soldiers and armor was most likely hidden somewhere in Beihai, but the Servant Bone Department did not know the specific hiding place.

Although Beihai was very far away and extremely risky, but inspired by hundreds of thousands of armor, Dou Jiande resolutely decided to go north, if he could find these armor, and then get the help of the Servant Bone Department to transport them back to the Central Plains, then he could quickly become the largest force in Hebei, with hundreds of thousands of powerful troops.

Dou Jiande led a hundred of his subordinates to rush to an open space covering an area of more than ten acres, and the surroundings suddenly became very empty, and they had reached the edge of the forest.

At this time, everyone looked at Gao Yan, the strategist of the team, Gao Yan was a child of the Bohai Gao clan, who was very thin and weak, but he was good at astronomy and geography, especially the celestial phenomena.

Night had quietly fallen, and Gao Yan looked up at the constellations in the canopy to determine their position at this time.

Dou Jiande was a little uneasy, he felt that there was a trace of murderous aura hidden around him, he looked around vigilantly, and at this time, he suddenly found that the shadow of a war horse appeared in a cluster of bushes.

He was taken aback and shouted sharply: "There is an ambush! ”

But it was too late, and the trumpets in the forest suddenly sounded, the men and horses swayed, and a dense stream of arrows came at them from all directions.

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[Note: Regarding the Gaza Xuantie, it is recorded in the New Tang Dynasty book: Huangjiasi, Gujian Kunguo also..... Every time it rains, the vulgar will get iron, and the name of Gasha will be sharp, and the soldiers will be extremely sharp, and they will often lose to the Turks. 】

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