The prince of the Hu'an Mountain tribe of Ba country, Hu Menglong, and the main general of the boat division, Tu Tianqi, both understood quite well that if it were not for the urgency of the situation, the eighth prince Ba Yuan'an would not have ordered the Hu'an Mountain Boat Division, which was at a critical moment, to go to reinforcements as quickly as possible.

However, the two men did not know what was going on at this time. While the dream dragon and the heavenly ruler are on the road, make up for the major events that happened.

362 B.C. was an eventful year.

In the same year, Duke Wei Sheng died, and his son Wei Su ascended the throne as Marquis of Wei Cheng, Duke Yan Huan died, and his son ascended the throne as Duke Wen of Yan, and Marquis Han Zhao ascended the throne.

In the same year, Qin Xiangong died, and his son was enthroned as Qin Xiaogong, which was an even greater event in Chinese history, and the most famous trader of the Warring States, Shang Ying, came to the fore because of this, and would change history.

In that year, Wei Xianggong defeated the Zhao army and the Han army on the north bank of the Hushui River, captured the Zhao general Lezuo, and occupied the Zhao state of Pimu (northeast of present-day Yicheng, Shanxi Province).

In that year, Wei attacked the hinterland of Zhao again, taking Lieren (now the northeast of Feixiang, Hebei Province) and Fei (now the west of Feixiang, Hebei Province) and other cities, and forcing the Zhao capital Handan.

It was still this year that the Wei State, with Gongshu Acne as the commander, crusaded against the Qin State, and finally encountered a hard bone, Qin and Wei fought fiercely in Shaoliang, and the Wei army was defeated.

During the Warring States Period, when the world was in chaos, how many allies could there be? The more fierce the disputes between other countries, the more beneficial it would be to oneself.

At this time, Yang Ming, the lord of the Chu army, had become a pivotal figure in Chu's foreign expansion strategy. After years of preparation, Yang Ming believed that everything was ready for the big event of Vaba, and he only needed to do it, so he went to King Xuan of Chu a few months ago and advocated Vaba.

However, at that time, the war between Wei and Han, Zhao, and Qin was still ongoing, and King Xuan of Chu wanted to see the situation.

Nearly two months ago, Yang Ming found out that there was a monster in the Dan Fushui of Ba Guo, in the eyes of the people at that time, the demon in the country was a big ominous thing, and even had a sign of the death of the country, so Yang Ming once again went to the table of King Chu Xuan, advocating that the war machine should not be lost.

At this time, the war between Wei and Han, Zhao, and Qin has either ended, or is nearing the end, and the play that King Chu Xuan wants to watch has been watched, and he thinks that he should be the king of the largest country with the widest area, so he agreed to increase troops to Yicheng, launch a round of inevitable attacks on the Wujiang River valley of Baguo, and will personally go to Yicheng to sit in town.

The Chu army was divided into two routes, one was the Chu army's Yicheng commander Yang Ming, and the brave general Douying out of Qipo Mountain (Qiyue Mountain) and Duting Mountain (in present-day Lichuan, Hubei), and the other was the new deputy commander of Yicheng, Qu Rong, to attack Baguo Xiaoguan (now Xiaoguan, located in present-day Xuan'en County, Hubei).

This Qu Rong is none other than the Chu general Qu Rong, who was defeated by the famous general Ba Xiu in the battle of Guzhang (now Guzhang County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province).

Qu Rong is this person, which has already been mentioned earlier. This man later became an even more formidable opponent of the Wujiangba people than Yang Ming, and it is worth adding about him.

Qu Rong, a descendant of the ancient Yong monarch's family, has been smart since he was a child, outstanding in martial arts, and outstanding in intelligence. When he was young, his father saw that the state of Chu was already strong, and the dream of recovering his homeland was more difficult than picking the moon, so he changed his name and surname, and took his son Qu Rong to take refuge in the Qu family, the son of King Wu of Chu.

Qu Rong apprenticed to the master and studied the military books hard, and with the spirit of hanging the beam with his head and piercing the strands, he became successful in a few years.

After his father's death, Qu recommended him to the king of Chu as a general. After several years of fighting, there are many military achievements, but for various reasons the promotion is very slow, suddenly thought of a blood oath made when he was a child, since there is no hope of recovering the country, it is better to take the secret army and two tiger talismans as the road to promotion and development, so he reported to the king of Chu.

The king of Chu was skeptical, but he still felt his loyalty to the state of Chu, and also knew that his martial arts and military skills were good, so he promoted him to Zhongzhu State, that is, a general.

He felt that the King of Chu's trust in him was not enough, so he searched for the tiger talisman in many ways, in order to let the King of Chu see the treasure with his own eyes, and he would inevitably trust and reuse it more.

When he found that Wu Zhen (that is, the father of Wucheng and Ruyan) may have half of the Yongguo Tiger Talisman in his hand through investigation and analysis of historical materials, he made a special trip to meet Wu Zhen and persuaded him to sacrifice the Tiger Talisman and seek development together.

Qu Rong held a grudge, and also wanted to use the coercion of the king of Chu to force Wu Zhen to submit, and framed Wu Zhen to the king of Chu, causing Wu Zhen to leave the state of Chu and enter the country of Ba, and was later beaten by the Ba people into the first dangerous sinkhole of Dan Fushui - this is the previous word (see Chapter 56 of this book "Uprooted").

This time, Bachu started the war and fought again, because Qu Rong had repeatedly proposed to the king of Chu a strategy to crusade against Ba, and the king of Chu ordered him to go to Yicheng to assist in raising Ming Poba. The monarchs and ministers of the Chu State, including the famous minister Zhao Xixi, believed that with the cooperation of the two "Pakistani State Links," the affairs of Pakistan would be much easier to solve.

The high-level of Pakistan, in view of the situation in the world that year, had ideological preparations for the large-scale attack of the Chu State, and spent most of the year in tension, but the people of the Chu State did not move at all.

Finding the arrival of the two armies of Chu State, the lord of Ba ordered the eighth prince Ba Yuanan to lead the people to resist the enemy, and the Jiangzhou Tiger Division participated in the battle, and all tribes in the country urgently reinforced.

For the two-way army of the Chu State, the commander of the Ba army, the eighth prince Ba Yuan'an and the lieutenant general Ba Xiu, after urgent discussion, believed that the combination of Yangming and Douying, a pair of strong generals, must be the main direction of attack of the Chu army, and Duting Mountain is also a place where soldiers must fight, and Qu Rong, the general of the defeated army, was demoted to Yicheng to serve as Yangming's deputy, and the purpose of attacking Xiaoguan and directly threatening Yushui Yanquan was to contain the main force of the Pakistani army.

Based on the above judgment, the main general of the Pakistani army, Ba Yuan'an, and the lieutenant general Ba Xiuti, entered the Duting Mountain to fight a decisive battle with the Chu army;

The main force of the Pakistani army had just arrived at Duting Mountain, and the Chu army took advantage of the unstable foothold of the Pakistani army and immediately launched a major battle, killing flesh and blood.

This battle was later called the "Battle of Duting Mountain".

Duting Mountain, is a famous mountain, but also a holy mountain for the Ba people, but not because there was a great battle of Bachu, but because the greatest hero in the history of Ba Manzi, and the only one in the history of the record of the name of the hero Ba Manzi buried on this mountain, "Ming Yi Tongzhi" has a record: "Manzi killed himself, with the head of Chu, Ba State buried his body in Duting Mountain." The "Lichuan County Chronicles" in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty said: "The general of Pakistan Manzi killed himself and buried him in Duting Mountain."

Later generations of famous generals Shi Dakai, Liu Bocheng have fought fiercely in this mountain, stationed, it is enough to see that this mountain is an important place for soldiers, its South Puxiong Pass and the nearby Tongluo Pass, Sanyang Pass are all famous and dangerous passes on the Chu Road of Ba (Shu), and the soldiers must fight for the place.

In the battle of Duting Mountain, in the face of the bloody Ba people, the Chu army, which was in an absolute advantage in strength, did not take advantage of the obvious advantage, and then fought a few more battles, each with its own victory and defeat, and turned to a stalemate.

However, in view of the huge gap in the overall strength of the two sides, on the premise of not occupying a clear topographical advantage, the two armies are facing each other head-on, and the ones who do more harm than good belong to the Palestinians.

While Ba Yuan'an, the eighth prince, and Ba Xiu, the lieutenant general, were thinking hard about the countermeasures for a quick victory, the messenger of Ba Peng, the second son of Yuhou and the lord of Shicheng, rushed to report the news that a high-ranking member of the Pakistani army regretted his misjudgment and vomited blood.