Chapter 369: Coincidental encounter with Qingyang 'Mending 10/14'
three days later
I completely lost track of it...
Looking at the endless grassland of Sanchuan, Zhao Hongrun sighed secretly...
"What's wrong?"
Mi Jiang, who was riding her horse slowly beside her, noticed the frustration in Zhao Hongrun's eyes and asked in confusion.
"It's screwed up." Zhao Hongrun let out a long sigh.
"What broke?"
"I mean, I made a complete mistake." Zhao Hongrun said with an annoyed look on his face.
Indeed, he screwed up.
I remember that he swore three days ago that he could find the marching position of Sima An and the Dangshan Army. However, for three days, he could not even touch the hair of the Dangshan Army.
Just now, Zhao Hongrun thought over it carefully and realized his mistake.
It goes without saying that Sima An was loyal to the Emperor of Wei. Therefore, based on the assumption that the emperor was worried about the humiliation of his ministers, Zhao Hongrun concluded from the beginning that Sima An must also be heading towards the Jiejiao tribe.
Went to the tribal camp.
After all, during the Heshou talks, Bitatu, the leader of the Jiejiao tribe, repeatedly provoked and ridiculed Du You, the chief envoy of the Wei State and Minister of Rites, which not only angered Du You, but also made the Emperor of Wei very angry.
Therefore, as long as Sima An learns of this matter, both the Jiejiao tribe and its leader Bitatu will definitely be included in Sima An's list of people who must be killed with thunderous means.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun, who had lost the Dangshan Army at that time, chased in the direction of the Jiejiao Tribe camp marked on the Sanchuan map given to him by General Zhu Hai of Chenggaoguan Pass, because he concluded that the Jiejiao Tribe's camp was
It will be Sima An's primary target for eradication.
But the bad thing is that the relationship between Zhu Hai and Sima An, the general of Chenggao Pass, is like fire and water. Therefore, Zhu Hai only gave the Sanchuan map to Zhao Hongrun and did not give a copy to Sima An.
This means that Sima An has no idea where the Jiejiao tribe’s tribal camp is!
As expected, Sima An and the Dangshan Army led by him should be moving forward casually in the Sanchuan wilderness. While attacking the Yinrong tribe they encountered along the way, they also asked the people who were attacked to find out the identity of the Jiejiao tribe.
Location.
Under such circumstances, Zhao Hongrun followed the memory of the Sanchuan map in his mind to the tribal camp of the Jiejiao tribe. How could he find any trace of the Dangshan army?
This is a typical case of being clever but being misled by cleverness.
"Then what are you going to do next?"
After listening to Zhao Hongrun's explanation, Mi Jiang also understood and asked calmly.
Before Zhao Hongrun could speak, Zongwei Lu Mu intervened: "Your Highness, I feel that Your Highness should not go further into Sanchuan."
There is a basis for what Lu Mu said.
After all, as far as they know, the land of Sanchuan is close to Chenggao Pass. It is the residence of the Yi people and the Yi people. The tribes of these two races are relatively not aggressive, but as they go deep into the land of Sanchuan,
In the hinterland of the Jie people, they gradually set foot in the living areas of the Jie people, which means that the threat will gradually escalate.
Especially now, while the Dangshan Army is massacring the people of Sanchuan everywhere, once caught by the Jie tribe's army, Zhao Hongrun and his group of more than a hundred people will really have no choice but to die.
At this time, Zongwei Chief Shen Yu also advised: "Your Highness, I have been searching hard for three days but there is still no trace of the Dangshan Army. I think it is best to join the Shang Shui Army first."
Join the Shangshui Army? Give up searching for traces of the Dangshan Army? Continue to let the Dangshan Army wantonly massacre the people of Sanchuan?
Zhao Hongrun frowned subconsciously.
However, his reason made him understand that Shen Yu and Lu Mu's suggestions were correct. If more than a hundred of them continued to move forward, it would be very dangerous.
But now, how could he give up halfway?
Just think about it and know that during the time when he turned back to join the Shang Shui Army, I don't know how many people in Sanchuan would die under the butcher's knife of the Dangshan Army.
And just when Zhao Hongrun was hesitating, suddenly, Zongwei Mu Qing screamed: "No!"
Everyone turned back subconsciously, and then glanced in the direction Mu Qing pointed. Only then did they realize that there were three knights sizing them up from a distance on the higher ground in the grassland.
Judging from the other party's clothes, the three knights should be residents of the land of Sanchuan.
At the same time that Zhao Hongrun and others turned to look at the three knights, the three knights quickly turned their horses' heads in an attempt to escape.
This move can frighten Zhao Hongrun and his party.
You know, this means that their whereabouts have been exposed. Soon, the nearby Yinrong tribe will know that a Wei team of more than a hundred people has arrived near them. By then, God knows how many people will be sent out to hunt them down. them.
Precisely because they were aware of this threat, more than a hundred of King Su's guards mounted their horses and gave chase without the need for orders from Zhao Hongrun and the Zongwei.
These three knights cannot be kept!
Even Zhao Hongrun still holds this conclusion in his heart at this moment.
However, what Zhao Hongrun and his party did not expect was that when they chased over the higher slope, there were more than a thousand people resting in the distance.
From the side, there were about three to four hundred horses grazing on the grass nearby.
Too bad...
Zhao Hongrun and the others' hearts trembled.
Because they clearly saw that the three knights quickly returned to those people.
Just as they had predicted, the people of Sanchuan who had been resting just now showed signs of commotion. Almost in the blink of an eye, hundreds of people of Sanchuan got up from the ground and mounted their horses one after another.
"Go quickly, go quickly..."
Realizing that something was wrong, Zhao Hongrun immediately ordered an evacuation.
Even a fool knows that the hundreds of people riding Sanchuan on the opposite side are obviously preparing to attack them.
Sure enough, when Zhao Hongrun and his party fled in a hurry, the hundreds of Sanchuan cavalry were chasing after them. No matter how fast Zhao Hongrun and his party rode, they could not get away, as if they had some deep hatred.
Could it be that these guys are from the Jie tribe and they will kill Wei people on sight?
Zhao Hongrun was shocked and anxious.
He wanted to go back the way he came, but out of the corner of his eye he saw dozens of Sanchuan cavalry approaching from the side, so he had no choice but to flee north with his men and horses.
One group of people fled, and another group of people chased him. In the blink of an eye, they were chasing him for ten miles.
Just when Zhao Hongrun was secretly cursing why the guys behind him were chasing after him, he suddenly heard a sharp flute sound.
A very familiar flute sound.
Horn flute? The horn flute of the Yi people? Could these be the Yi people?
Just when Zhao Hongrun was secretly surprised, Shen Yu, not far away, suddenly raised his finger and pointed forward and shouted: "Your Highness, ahead!"
Zhao Hongrun looked up and realized that there was a large group of people walking slowly in the distance ahead.
Those people were driving immeasurable flocks, pulling carts loaded with things, and carrying heavy packages. They were dragging their families and their families, and they were slowly walking in this direction.
Looking around, the people of Sanchuan in the distance number in the thousands, as if they are an entire migrating tribe.
Just when Zhao Hongrun was wondering, the sharp warning horn sound of the Sheo people also sounded in the distance.
Immediately, each of the strong Sheang men came to the front of the tribal team holding weapons and put on a posture ready to face the enemy.
The target of these people to meet the enemy. Is it the cavalry behind me, or...can't it be me?
Zhao Hongrun's expression suddenly became strange.
After all, the place where such an unreasonable disaster occurred made Zhao Hongrun laugh and cry.
"Your Highness, what should I do?" Lu Mu shouted anxiously from the side.
At a critical moment, Zhao Hongrun made a decisive decision: "Rush past those people!"
Hearing this, the Zongwei and Suwangwei clenched their reins tightly with both hands, preparing to rush past the group of people suspected of being a tribe in the distance.
But just when they were about to break out of the encirclement, a clear shout suddenly came from the crowd in the distance who seemed to be a tribe of Sheo people.
"Ji Run, Ji Run"
Eh?
Zhao Hongrun was startled when he heard the sound, subconsciously reined in the reins and turned around to look.
Only then did he realize that in the crowd in the distance, a familiar-looking girl squeezed out of the crowd and was waving her hands vigorously towards him.
Oona?
Zhao Hongrun opened his eyes and took a closer look, and then he realized that the familiar-looking girl was none other than Oona, the girl from the Qingyang tribe of the Qingyang tribe with whom he had rolled a sheepskin rug a while ago.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun quickly responded loudly: "Is it Oona?"
After the girl in the distance heard these words, she was immediately surprised and shouted loudly in the Yi language to the tribesmen around her: "Stop! Stop everyone! That's my friend from the Qingyang tribe!"
The nearby Yi people looked at each other and put away their weapons one after another.
The group of Sanchuan cavalry who were desperately chasing Zhao Hongrun and others also slowed down their horses with a look of surprise after hearing Oona's shout.
At this time, Oona, a girl from the Qingyang tribe, ran quickly to Zhao Hongrun, jumped on the horseback quite neatly, and hugged him.
"..." Mi Jiang glanced at Oona lightly and closed her eyes to rest.
"Oona. Why are you here? Who are these people?" Zhao Hongrun turned his head and asked.
Oona giggled and said, "This is a member of my Qingyang tribe. We are migrating south. I didn't expect to meet you here." As she said that, she rubbed Zhao Hongrun's shoulder with her face, looking like a
The color of falling in love and being unable to extricate yourself.
At this time, the more than 300 Sanchuan cavalrymen who had just been chasing Zhao Hongrun and others were slowly approaching on their horses.
But what is different from just now is that these people have put away their weapons.
During this period, a middle-aged man who seemed to be the leader drove a horse to Zhao Hongrun and asked Oona in the Sheng dialect: "Oona, do you recognize these Wei people?"
Oona nodded vigorously and said: "Brother Wuwu, he is Ji Run, the nephew of Uncle Ji Li, and he is also a friend of our Qingyang tribe."
"Ji Li? Zhao Yuanli?" The man named Wu Wu was startled when he heard this. He scratched his head and said to Wu Na: "That's it... then you can apologize to him on behalf of my eldest brother. He thought they were those Wei people."
Unexpectedly, Oona smiled and said in the Shen dialect: "My Ji Run, he understands our Shen language." After that, he introduced to Zhao Hongrun: "Ji Run, he is my eldest brother, Wu
Wu.”
The son of the tribe leader, the young leader...
Zhao Hongrun was slightly startled and said in the language of the Yi people: "Hello, Chief Wuwushao."
"You really know how to speak the language of our Yi people..." Wu Wu muttered, then scratched his head and said honestly: "I'm sorry, I made a mistake. I thought you wanted to attack our tribe."
"In fact, we also misunderstood." Zhao Hongrun smiled bitterly, and then he asked seriously: "Young Patriarch, are those Wei people you just mentioned?"
After hearing this, Wu Wu looked at Zhao Hongrun with a much more complicated look.
"In the past two days, there was news circulating in Sanchuan. It is said that an army of your Wei people is killing us Sanchuan people. Several small tribes have been slaughtered..."
"That must be a lie!" Oona hugged Zhao Hongrun and immediately denied it.
"..."
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun became increasingly speechless. (To be continued.)