Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 876 Uninvited Guest (2)

  The heavy rain has gradually turned into light rain, pattering and continuous, as if the sky cannot stop immediately after crying, but will continue to sob for a while.

  The rain soaked the road surface, and then the people and horses continued to step on it, turning the road surface into a messy mud pond, and every step of Sticky Chirp was sticking to the soles of his feet.

Zhang Liao led the remnant soldiers all the way to the north. When he left Chang'an, he didn't even have a war horse. He found a few horses in Jianzhang Palace, so he got a war horse to ride. But now he can't even ride a war horse. He can only dismount and follow the crowd. One step at a time of mud puddles heading north.

   It wasn't that Zhang Liao intended to share weal and woe with the soldiers, it was just because the muddy ground was very slippery and there were no riders on the horse's back. Sometimes the horse's hooves would slip. If Zhang Liao sat on it again, it would be difficult to walk.

Zhang Liao and others have all taken off their shoes and walked barefoot in the yellow mud. Although there may be a risk of cutting the soles of their feet by sharp stones, at least the yellow mud will not stick too much to the skin. If you don't wear shoes, if you step on it, the yellow mud will stick to the shoe, and when you pull it up, there is not one foot, but the yellow mud from the whole shoe. Even if the shoe is not damaged, more and more The yellow mud will make the whole shoe look like two huge weights...

   "Lieutenant Zhang..." A Qu Zhang stepped forward a few steps, while stepping on the muddy water, wiped the rainwater from his face, and said to Zhang Liao, "...How far do we have to go?"

  Zhang Liao looked up to the north, pointed to the front and said: "Turn over the mountain in front, and you can see it..."

Qu Chang did not doubt that he was there, nodded, then slowed down a few steps, and said to the soldiers following: "Lieutenant Zhang said, we can see the ground when we turn over that hill! Be strong! Don't fall behind!"

  Listening to Qu Chang giving encouragement to the ordinary soldiers behind him, Zhang Liao smiled slightly, and didn't turn around to say anything, but continued to lead the horse hard and walked forward.

  Does Zhang Liao really know how long it will take to get there?

   Don't know.

  But Zhang Liao knew he couldn't say that.

As a general, no matter whether there are many soldiers or few soldiers, you need to give your subordinates a clear goal. Even if you don't have such a goal for the time being, you still need to show that you are confident. The words of being clear and waiting will have no effect other than disturbing the morale of the army.

  The rain gradually became smaller and then stopped.

  Shangjun was abandoned for a long time when Zhang Liao joined the army.

Although Zhang Liao had been cruising in the north and practicing martial arts before, he was not very familiar with the area of ​​Shangjun, but he knew that this area was where the Qiang people gathered, but now, apart from encountering waves of refugees along the way, Besides, I don't seem to see any Qiang people...

  Where did these Qiang people go?

  When Zhang Liao was cruising in the north, he had contact with many border ethnic groups. I have to say that the Qiang people are a very strange ethnic group.

  "Ode to the Book of Songs" records: "In the past, there was Cheng Tang, since Di Qiang, no one dared not come to enjoy it, no one dared not come to the king..."

  Different from the Xiongnu and Xianbei, the Qiang people were relatively close to China from the very beginning. In ancient times, the Qiang people were even part of the Zhou Dynasty. "Jiang" is actually a branch of the Qiang people.

By the time of the former Qin Dynasty, the Qiang people who focused on grazing were increasingly out of touch with the farming social structure of the Qin Dynasty. However, at that time, the Qiang people even helped the former Qin Dynasty and fought together. It was not until the time of Qin Xiangong that they gradually differentiated into internal And the two major categories of outmigration…

   Moreover, compared with the Xiongnu and Xianbei, the Qiang people are a bit like the settled people among the nomads. After arriving in a place, if there are not too many changes, the Qiang people can even settle down for a long time for several years or even decades.

So Zhang Liao couldn't help but wonder why the scattered Qiang people in this area seem to have disappeared. He was worried that he would encounter a tribe of Qiang people on the road. added a lot of trouble...

  But where did these Qiang people go?

   Just as Zhang Liao was walking forward with doubts, he had just turned through a forest, and suddenly saw a dozen tents of Qiang people suddenly appearing on the **** ahead!

A few Qiang people were busy in front of the tent. At the same time Zhang Liao saw the Qiang people, some Qiang people also discovered Zhang Liao's small army. Suddenly, the sound of horns sounded, and dozens of people rushed out of the tent. The famous Qiang people pulled out their war horses from the tents one after another, turned over and rode on, and galloped here!

  Damn it!

Because of the heavy rain and the difficult road, Zhang Liao sent a few people to serve as scouts at first, but because they were not soldiers under Zhang Liao's command for a long time, the soldiers he released could only be seen going out, but almost no one turned back. After a few times, Zhang Liao also The so-called "scouts" were no longer sent out, but unexpectedly encountered such a situation!

   The soldiers following Zhang Liao were also dumbfounded. They heard Zhang Liao say that they could see the destination by turning over the hill ahead, but they didn't expect to see a group of Qiang people!

   "Don't mess around! Don't run! Can you outrun four legs if you run again!" Zhang Liao immediately turned his head and ordered loudly, "Form up, get ready to fight! I'm with you! Line up! Hurry up!"

Even though he said so, Zhang Liao felt a little cold in his heart. They ran all the way, even if they had bows and arrows, the bow strings were soaked in the rain, and there was no way to use them unless they were dried in the sun. Moreover, most of the soldiers did not carry shields. , the Qiang people hid in the tents, and the bowstrings and arrows were at least dry. In this way, if they really fought, their side would definitely suffer a big loss!

   Zhang Liao's soldiers gathered together reluctantly, but their morale was completely gone.

  Think about it too, braving the rain, trekking with one foot deep and one foot shallow, no matter whether it is physical strength or energy, it is almost exhausted, but at this moment, I met the Qiang people who are waiting for work!

  At this moment, Zhang Liao suddenly saw that the Qiang man in the lead looked familiar, and he couldn't help shouting loudly: "Baishi God is on top! The one in front is Brother Maza!?"

  The leading Qiang man frowned, stretched out his hand to signal, slowed down the speed of the sprinting horse, and then shouted to Zhang Liao, who was covered in yellow mud, "Who are you?"

"Brother Mazha! I am Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan!" Zhang Liao shouted, "Have you forgotten? Five years ago, it was also raining heavily that day! I also fought against your Chi Musa and drank with you !"

  When Zhang Liao was traveling in the Northland, he also met the Baishiqiang tribe on a rainy day, and then exchanged ideas with the brave Chimusa in the Baishiqiang tribe and the tribe.

"Zhang Liao...um..." Mazha reined in the horse, carefully identified it and thought about it, and seemed to have a little impression, and then asked: "Look at you, you can't even recognize it...Then what are you here for? "

"..." Zhang Liao thought about it for a while. He had never heard of any conflict between Feiqian and the Qiang people, and when he was in Anyi, he saw Feiqian recruiting some Qiang cavalry, so he thought about it. Thinking about it, Zhang Liao felt that he should tell the truth. "...We're going to go to the Huxiong Zhonglang..."

"You guys... want to go to Hun Zhonglang?" Maza looked at Zhang Liao, and suddenly laughed loudly, "Hahaha, did you say that earlier! Come, come with us, there is a stone field at the bottom of the slope. It's clean, you can rest your feet first... I'll send a few people to the front to inform you..."

  Zhang Liao obviously breathed a sigh of relief, but he still asked, "Could it be that Mazar is also under Zhonglang's command? I don't know what position you hold?"

"Hahaha... I don't have any position, and I'm not Zhonglang's subordinate, but our leader has a good relationship with Zhonglang... Don't worry, if you really want to do something, it's just because you are idle. Is there any need to waste this matter? Come on... come all over..."

  (end of this chapter)