The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 42
So when Cheng Yuanzhi saw Zhang Yang, he was braving the severe cold, practicing soldiers and horses on the street.

Strictly speaking, very serious.

At this time, the situation in Bingzhou is not optimistic.

As mentioned earlier, currently in Bingzhou there are the Southern Huns, Wuhuan, part of the mighty Xianbei, and the Eastern Qiang.

They are slowly and steadily nibbling away at Bingzhou.

In Bingzhou, only two counties of Taiyuan and Shangdang are left in the areas where the Han people live.

The eastern Qiang people controlled the western part of Bingzhou, and the area around Shangjun was their territory. As for the Han people who originally lived here, they either moved inward or were driven out.

The sphere of influence of the Southern Xiongnu was in the central and western part of Bingzhou, centered on their royal court, Meiji County in Xihe County, and radiated to the three counties in the north and south.

Wuhuan's sphere of influence is in the north-central part of Bingzhou, with Yanmen, Shuofang, and Yunzhong counties as the most.

The Xianbei people occupy the remaining small part of the northern part of Bingzhou.

They are incompatible with each other, go their own way, looting places at every turn, and harming the people.

Once the imperial court sent troops to conquer, they would immediately kneel down and call Dad, yelling that they were wrong, wrong, and then waited for the imperial soldiers and horses to leave, and then returned to their old ways.

The capriciousness caused headaches for the imperial court and various local county guards.

Cheng Yuanzhi is well aware of the chaos and cruelty in Bingzhou at this time. The chaos is so chaotic that every talented person has to choose a power to protect himself or go south to make a living.

It is so cruel that everyone can't help themselves, racking their brains to survive.

According to the current situation in Bingzhou, before the Hu people openly rebelled, the imperial court and local county guards had no reason to attack them.

How could the emperor attack his own subjects when the imperial court was born without a name?
The local sheriffs couldn't beat them.

This makes the Hu people even more unscrupulous.

Before coming, Cheng Yuanzhi had already made up his mind, under the guise of the name of the Black Mountain Army, he would secretly go after them.

Then train a strong cavalry.

Seeing Cheng Yuanzhi appearing in front of him, Zhang Yang was overjoyed, and enthusiastically welcomed everyone to the prefect's mansion to talk.

For the past six months, he has lived like a year.

Thirty thousand soldiers and horses ate, drank and lazed, which almost killed him.

As a warrior, he is too unaccustomed to think about everything by himself.

He is used to living a life of obeying orders.

Although standing in front of the commander-in-chief, Zhang Yang unconsciously felt that he was inferior, but when he thought that he could finally take a rest, he couldn't help but smile from ear to ear.

Cheng Yuanzhi looked at Zhang Yang with relief, and felt that his efforts to eliminate Yang Chou, the second and fifth boy, for him were not in vain.

Zhang Yang is a simple-minded and loyal man, so Cheng Yuanzhi didn't intend to tell him the real reason for planning to kill Yang Chou.

But before looting the barbarians' planned action, a little accident happened first.

Although it was late winter at this time, the winter in Bingzhou was still very cold, especially in Shangdang, which is close to the mountainous area.

There are still dots of snow on the ground, and the river is covered with Bai Kaikai's ice layer, which freezes up and down, and the water jingles.

From time to time, injured animals rushed out of the mountains, seeking human help.

Most of these animals are herbivores, mostly sika deer, bison, wild donkey and roe deer.

Some of them were injured, some were not injured, they looked embarrassed, and their eyes were terrified.

It's like seeing the end of the world.

So Cheng Yuanzhi knew that there were many ferocious beasts coming from the nearby mountains.

Judging from the behavior of these herbivores that would rather seek help from the people hunting them rather than flee back to the mountains, these beasts are likely to be tigers or wolves.

Tigers mostly live in the northern part of the Taihang Mountains, as do wolves.

Unless they are driven and hunted on a large scale, they will not choose to migrate to the southern mountainous areas.

After hundreds of years of hunting and rounding up, the ferocious beasts have withdrawn from the southern mountainous area, acquiescing that this area belongs to human territory.

Therefore, they will not easily go back to the south, nor dare to come.

But they are here today.

This shows that a group of people or a tribe is hunting them from north to south on a large scale, and they can only migrate south to escape.During the migration, feed on these herbivores.

So herbivores can only bow their heads to humans.

Cheng Yuanzhi carefully observed an injured sika deer,
Its wound was not caused by a beast, it was pierced by a two-foot-long bamboo spear on its left rear thigh.

Even so, it still relied on the remaining three legs and quickly ran out of the mountains.

The speed is not slow at all.

This is something that two-legged humans cannot do, and this is the special escape skill of four-legged animals.

Seeing this bamboo spear, the figure of a barbarian woman appeared in front of Cheng Yuanzhi's eyes for no reason.

She used iron spears, but her barbarian tribesmen hunted with bamboo spears.

In other words, the barbarian tribes started large-scale hunting in the winter.

After living in the barbarian tribe for half a year, Cheng Yuanzhi knew that due to the lack of food, the beasts in winter were very ferocious, and they were in a state of being untouchable, and they would fight desperately when they saw people.

Therefore, the barbarians generally choose to hunt in spring, summer and autumn, store food for the winter, and then wait for the coming year.

But this is not the point.

The point is that the barbarian tribes are five or six hundred miles away from Shangdang, and they are all mountain roads.

In other words, if it was a barbarian tribe hunting in the nearby mountains, it meant that the barbarian tribe was in irresistible danger, and they had to move to avoid disaster.

Cheng Yuanzhi suddenly felt a little excited and a little expectant.

Looking forward to seeing Savage.

A year ago, when he left the barbarians, Cheng Yuanzhi once said "I will definitely come back", but everyone knew that it was just a white lie.

He will not go back.

He felt that he had no nostalgia for the barbarians.

But what happened to the sudden strong expectation in my heart now?

This confused Cheng Yuanzhi, logically speaking, he shouldn't have any nostalgia for the half-year life of a tool man.

Could it be that the one-day husband and wife, one hundred days of grace, are really causing trouble?
The truth quickly verified Cheng Yuanzhi's guess. When it was almost dusk, dense numbers of beasts came from outside the eldest son's city.

There were some wolves, but also leopards, many wild boars, and even two large, colorful tigers.

At a glance, there are at least a few hundred of them.

These animals, which were supposed to hunt each other, were peacefully staying on the open ground outside the city at this moment, neither making noise nor making noise, quietly, with helpless and dazed eyes.

Cheng Yuanzhi knew that the reason why they could get along peacefully was that one was not hungry and the other was that there were stronger enemies by their side.

Therefore, they can't take care of hunting.

The gates of the city had been closed long ago, and so many wild beasts had gathered under the city, making the people very disturbed.


Cheng Yuanzhi looked around the mountains and fields for a long time, but did not see any barbarian tribesmen appearing.

So I was a little disappointed.

When it was completely dark, the sky suddenly began to snow.

In the night, dark white snow covered the entire world, and soon covered the ground with a thin layer.

Outside the city, the beasts did not leave.

The mountains are not safe, they have nowhere to go.

At this time, there were faint shouts and shouts of human beings, coming from the mountain where the beasts came out, like the sound of death from hell.

The beasts suddenly became uneasy, and the wolves scratched the ground with their paws, and quickly ran towards the center of the human gathering place.

Other animals also fled in panic, including two tigers, which followed the direction where the wolves left and went straight to the hinterland of Shangdang.

Although the snow-covered world made the beasts a little confused, they couldn't tell the east, west, north, south.

But they die if they don't go.

When they are gone, the people will die.

Seeing the beasts go away in an instant, Cheng Yuanzhi has nothing to do about it, he can only hope that the people under Shangdang County will have better luck and less deaths.

I will avenge you, he thought.

……

The people of the whole city spent the night in fear. When the next day dawned, the snow was still flying all over the sky, and the temperature was actually much warmer than before the snow fell.

Standing on the tower, Cheng Yuanzhi didn't feel the slightest chill.Zhang Xiaoyu was wearing a fur coat made of mink fur, her little face was flushed red from the cold.

Her whole body was shaking, trembling from time to time, precarious.

So Cheng Yuanzhi asked her to go back, and stared at the vast land alone in a daze.

Originally, today was the day to lead the crowd to attack the Hu people.

But now the plan has been shelved.

I'm afraid I won't be able to get away for a while, and I won't even be able to travel far in the whole spring, because I have to rescue the people under the raging beast tide.

The people are the foundation of a power. If the people are killed or injured too much, Shangdang County will become a disabled county.

It has been stagnant ever since.

He didn't find it surprising that such an accident happened. Ever since he came to Dahan, he had been accompanied by various accidents.

For a person who has experienced death four times, what is there to hate?

As long as you are alive, everything can be saved.

It was at this time that the barbarian woman suddenly appeared in Cheng Yuanzhi's eyes without any warning.

From a distance of three hundred steps, she looked over from a distance, her beautiful eyes were full of joy, bright as bright stars.

Behind her, hundreds of majestic tribesmen held their javelins high, shouting and jumping excitedly.

Happy for the reunion of the second leader and her Liba.

Cheng Yuanzhi stretched out his hand, and greeted him implicitly. The past and the past quickly flashed through his mind, and suddenly he felt that only one part of his body was stubborn.

The rest of the parts have a sour and soft feeling.

He knew that it was a muscle memory engraved deep in his soul.


(End of this chapter)