Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Luo Yanhuan and five people are in a place called Lishugou. Luo Yanhuan, two soldiers, plus one old and one young and two from the Luo family; the location of Lishugou is in the north of Tangcang Town; and Tangcang Town is in the Qinling mountain ditch on the west side of Shu Road, not in the thoroughfare Great road.

It has been almost a month since they arrived at the boundary of Fengzhou, and they also found the Luo family who had migrated from Hedong to Tangcang Town, Fengzhou many years ago. An old man and a half-year-old son accompanying them were the Luo family sent to send them out of the mountain.

On the road came a farmer driving a buffalo. The old man of the Luo family in front of Luo Yanhuan and his party greeted him in a very strong dialect: "Brother! Have you heard that the Maid Taoist live here?"

Unexpectedly, the farmer had actually heard of Taoist Mai, so he shouted in a long voice: "Taoist Mai? Brother must go to Mount Emei to see if he can."

Old man Luo had to follow Luo Yanhuan's words again: "I heard in Tangcang Town that he had been here recently, and someone even asked him to show him the picture, haven't you heard of it?"

"No, this kind of fairy-like person, one meal here and the other there, it's hard to find. Do you want to see him?" The farmer said slowly, cheerfully.

Old man Luo said: "The second kid has a strange disease. If I can find Taoist Mai, I want him to see it. The doctor doesn't work, I've seen many!"

After answering for a while, everyone brushed past the farmer. The farmer was holding a pear branch in his hand, and while driving the cow, he looked back at them for a few more times. Maybe Luo Yanhuan and other strong men were a little strange. The land in the Qinling Mountains is barren. Where can the people find tall and strong men such as Luo Yanhuan?

Because of this, Luo Yanhuan was almost caught in the Qinling Mountains in January. Today, a month later, they are still walking around in this mountain alive, not only because of good luck, but also because of the relatively lax defenses in the border town of Shu.

At that time, he didn't know the road, and was walking along the Shu Road "Chen Cang Road" road. Not long after he left Dasanguan, he met the Shu Army inspection scout and was immediately held. Luo Yanhuan lied that he was a businessman who went to Shannanxi Road to buy goods and bribed some copper coins. This was the luck to get rid of it. The accompanying soldiers Guo Shao proposed to abandon the trip, which was too risky. Luo Yanhuan was eager to continue his journey, and claimed that the people of Lao Luo's family were not far away, as long as they were accepted by the tribe.

But they didn't dare to take the road anymore, so they circled the valley trail to the west, but didn't know the way. Fortunately, they encountered a local settlement who was begging along the way, so Luo Yanhuan gave him dry food and asked him to be a guide to lead the way. Finally found the boundary of Tangcang Town, and found the Luo family in a village; this Mai Luo family took refuge in the mountains from Hedong, and when they encountered Taiping, they had occasional contacts with Luo Yanhuan’s hometown in Hedong.

Luo Yanhuan got help from acquaintances, and the old man accompanying him had been to Hedong twice. Now he has probably figured out the situation in the northern part of Fengxian County.

This road from Tangcang Town to the north was their route back to Guanzhong, and they really did not dare to take the Shu Road.

This road is very winding, just walking along the valley, but if you don't have someone who is familiar with the local guide, it is easy to follow the valley to a dead end. The valley was not created artificially. There is a road ahead. Maybe there are only big mountains left. If the big mountains in the Qinling Mountains go straight through the mountains, they will probably be exhausted in the forest.

Tangcang Town is located in the north of Fengzhou.

According to the Luo family, there are four main roads extending northward near Fengzhou City, two of which can pass through customs: one is the Shu Road along the Jialing River; the other is in the west, leading to the mountain on the west side of the Shu Road. Town of Tangcang.

There are three valley routes to the north of Tangcang Town, the left is towards Qinzhou; the two on the right can merge to the Jialing River Shu Road, and the meeting point is at Huanghua Valley. Luo Yanhuan and the others walked on the far right of Tangcang Town, but instead of going to Shu Road, they continued northward at the fork in the road, preparing to take a small road detour to Weishui, and then back to Chencang along Weishui... the road is more difficult to walk. , But generally will not encounter Shu army inspections and scouts.

These valleys and rugged roads, large and small, are the only way for traffic in the Qinling Mountains. There is no other choice. No one has the ability to turn over one mountain after another. This is completely different from the Central Plains that Luo Yanhuan and others are familiar with. Even if you don't take the main road in Central Plains, there are countless possibilities to take the small road between the croplands; the only thing that needs to be paid attention to is the direction.

Luo Yanhuan and his party had rough roads, but they were not far from Guanzhong and arrived in Fengxiang two days later. The guards who stayed behind in Fengxiang post told them that Guo Shao waited to go to Sanguan; Luo Yanhuan had to go back south again to find Guo Shao in Sanguan.

Guo Shao and others still live in Sanguan, they have been there for more than half a month.

Seeing Luo Yanhuan and listening to his description of the thrills along the way, Guo Shao immediately sighed: "The decisive battle is on the battlefield, but the decisive victory is not on the battlefield. Brother Luo, regardless of his life, figured out the terrain of Fengxiangbei, and I will do it for you in the future. "

Luo Yanhuan hurriedly said: "The final general is just doing his job!"

Guo Shao stopped talking, and hurriedly asked him for details, and then made five drawings. From large to small, try to draw clearly.

After drawing the topography of the road, Guo Shao remembered the villagers who helped Luo Yanhuan, so he personally received him and rewarded him with a small cloth bag. Old man Luo carried his heavy pockets and was very happy for a while: "You have to buy a few mules! Thank you for the general's reward."

With an extremely friendly smile, Guo Shao asked in a friendly way: "Tangcang Town controls Shu Road in the west, it is the traffic hub on the west side, and the army must be stationed. The old man lives in Tangcang Town, know how many. Garrison?"

Old man Luo thought for a moment, and said: "There are a thousand people, maybe eight hundred? I know that Tangcang Town has a lot of Shu troops! There are also other places, except for Fengzhou City and Mighty City, where there are many soldiers. Zujunzhai, my fellow villagers and I went to sell goods on the Shu Road last month. What I saw with my own eyes could not be wrong. There are also several military villages in front of the mighty city, but I don’t know how many people there are. I must tell the general everything I know. "

Guo Shao said very kindly: "Old man, do you think it will work...I will send a few people back with you to do some business in Tangcang Town. You say you are a trader in partnership, take care of it, how about?" After that, he turned to look at Luo Yanhuan. Luo Yanhuan understood, and nodded slightly.

Guo Shao added another sentence: "In return, I will pay your family a thousand coppers a month, and the seller will give it to you on time."

Old man Luo thought for a while: "Success! Lao Er can do it alone."

Guo Shao rubbed the lines of the Shu Road on the drawing again with his palm, tapped his index finger twice on the left side of Tangcang Town, and couldn't help but open his mouth again: "On the east side of the Shu Road, there is a Maling Village? How many roads will meet the Shu Road trunk?"

Old man Luo frowned and said, "I haven't been there. I usually go out of the Qinling Mountains without taking the valley road on the west side, and I just walk on the Chencang Road. But I know that there is a road in Baijian called Xiegu, and the road on the east seems to go. From Malingzhai."

"Baijian? Where is it?" Guo Shao asked hurriedly.

Old man Luo is illiterate, so naturally he will not let him look at pictures and point to places, so he can only say in words: "Baijian is not far from the exit of Xiegu... On Chencang Road (Shu Road), it is thirty miles away from Fengzhou. ."

Although Guo Shao could guess the direction he said, he still asked carefully: "Thirty miles from Fengzhou, is it on Chencang Road north of Fengzhou?"

"Yes." Old man Luo nodded without hesitation.

Guo Shao hurriedly took another measurement on the map and added a new place: Baijian. And draw a line at a point below Baijian, and write "Slanting Valley".

After almost asking, Guo Shao asked him to leave because he couldn't get anything useful from the old man's mouth. Then Guo Shao retired irrelevant people, leaving Zuo You, Jingniang and a few generals, and said: "In the past half a month, we have not been able to figure out the terrain and roads to the north of Fengzhou. What do you say? "

Li Chuyun said: "From Sanguan to Fengzhou, Qinling is in the middle. Chencang Road (Shu Road) is the closest and the best way to go. The Shu army should block the checkpoints and fortify Chencang Road. The town and Malingzhai control the flanks and control the winding and complicated paths."

Guo Shao didn't talk much, he just nodded his head: "General Li has a big picture and it makes sense."

Luo Yanhuan hurriedly said: "Guo Du Shi should pay attention to the Yellow Flower Valley. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com This place is not well known, but several roads from Tangcang Town on the west are all exits from this place."

Guo Shao also praised: "General Luo is good at insight into subtleties."

Everyone continued to stay in Sanguan for several days, and finally waited until Jingniang's entourage returned. They were seven or eight days behind Luo Yanhuan.

There are four people in a party, two females are Jingniang's entourage, and two bald nuns. They all carried a kind of wooden frame luggage, and the wooden frame was extended upwards to form a sheltering tung tarpaulin, which could cover the sun and light rain, but saved the umbrella.

These women walked directly on the Chencang Road, passing by Sanguan and directly met Guo Shao Jingniang and others.

Guo Shao still met in person. Two women, a black and stout woman, and a woman in her early thirties with freckles on her face, Guo Shao knew, the Jingniang who had come all the way from the Central Plains followed; the other two bald nuns But I have never seen one. A middle-aged person seems to be only a teenager, and he looks very thin.

After greeting for a while, Guo Shao understood the situation. The female Taoist priests and the nuns brought back were almost never stranded on the Shu Road. The nuns have the salvation of the Shu Kingdom, plus they are women, so the sergeant will generally not embarrass them.

It's just that Taihe's Temple is in Qingniling, and it has passed Fengzhou and is further south, and the road is relatively long, so the Taoist priests spent more time visiting and staying than Luo Yanhuan and others.

The nuns who came with the trip were the nuns from Qingniling Taihe'an, who presided over the nuns who personally sent off. The local people believe that the nun's nunnery is not auspicious, so the incense of Taihe nunnery has been very poor. It is already in a situation where it is thrifty and unable to make a living. It seems that it is about to dismiss the nunnery; In Anzhong, she just got a generous amount of money from Madam Huarui of Shu, and she generously donated her money to help Taihean preside over. The Buddhist and Taoist prejudices were abandoned and a friendship was formed, which is really strange.