Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 321 What an Inexplicable Thing

The exact number of the two barbarian tribes fighting each other in Luoxiao Mountain is not sure for a while, but the total number of people on both sides seems to be no less than ten thousand.

According to what Zhu Wei saw from the perspective of the scouts, each of these barbarians seemed to be strong and muscular men, and the images of the two barbarians were similar, so they might belong to the same barbarian tribe.

The heads of these barbarians seem to be cloth-wrapped hair, and pheasant feathers of different colors are inserted to distinguish their status.

Most of them also had necklaces made of various beast teeth around their necks. They were either shirtless, covered with beast fur, or looked like rattan armor.

But no matter what they were wearing, they still seemed to have used mud, tree sap, etc. to smear their skin, making them look like mountain mandrills and wild monsters, obviously with a bit of barbarian characteristics.

Hiding among the mountains and forests in their state, if Zhu Wei hadn't sent Shanyue's elite scouts who were also used to living in the mountains, it would be difficult to find them hiding in the mountains and forests.

Fortunately, most of the weapons in the hands of these barbarians are wooden guns, wooden spears, and private earthen bows, and some even primitive weapons such as stone axes and stone hammers. Only a few leaders seem to have metal weapons in their hands, which shows that their weapons The equipment is very crude.

In Zhu Wei's opinion, these barbarians seemed to be a little poorer than Shanyue in Jing County before, but they were also more barbaric.

However, although the weapons and equipment on them are very primitive and simple, they cannot be compared with Zhu Wei's regular soldiers armed with iron-inlaid leather armor, double arc hand shields, ring-shoulders, crossbows and other weapons and equipment, but they are now The Luo Xiao Mountains occupied some important roads and dangerous peaks, so these barbarians took advantage of the geographical advantage to block the way forward for Zhu Wei's army, which still made Zhu Wei feel a little headache.

If Zhu Wei wanted to pass through the Luo Xiao Mountains, he had to fight through the dangerous peaks that these barbarians occupied.

And these barbarians have a geographical advantage. Even if they don't have weapons, they can use traps, rocks, rolling logs, even earth bows, blowing arrows and other means to attack Zhu's guards condescendingly. The soldiers of the guards suffered unnecessary casualties.

Even though Zhu Wei's current troops are all Shanyue soldiers who are good at mountain warfare, they are still inferior to the actions of these barbarians in the mountains.

These barbarians grew up completely in the mountains, so they can run and walk freely among the mountains and trees like apes. Therefore, if the two sides really fight, they can scatter in all directions if they cannot fight.

And Zhu Wei's Shanyue soldiers may not be able to catch up with them in the mountains. At the same time, Zhu Wei's Shanyue soldiers dare not chase them easily.

If there were fewer people chasing up, they would be surrounded and killed by these barbarians in turn.

Therefore, encountering such a situation in the mountains was not in Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan's original plan. This would greatly delay Zhu Wei's original marching time. The most important problem is that this is completely inexplicable and unnecessary. Chaotic battle.

I don't know why these two barbarians fought against each other here, and after these barbarians discovered Zhu Wei's army, they were able to stop their disputes and united to deal with Zhu Wei. This foreign enemy.

What makes Zhu Wei feel helpless is that Zhu Wei wants to chat with these two barbarians. Wouldn't it be better for everyone to pass by without interfering with each other? When Zhu Wei's army is gone, you can kill yourself , and don't care about Zhu Wei's affairs.

However, these two barbarians completely ignored the people Zhu Wei sent to spread the message, and just blocked the way of Zhu Wei's army. Few people wanted to sneak into Zhu Wei's camp.

Fortunately, Zhu Wei had an early warning from the game map of the Three Kingdoms. Zhu Wei could detect the barbarians who came to attack in time. At the same time, Zhu Wei's army camp was already well-defended, so he didn't suffer from the barbarians' night attack. Instead, he shot and killed them. Some barbarians who came to attack at night were captured.

Then Zhu Wei checked the corpses of the barbarians who attacked at night. Zu Lang, Zu Shan, and Chen Pu, the three people who were born in the mountains, couldn't tell where these barbarians came from. They could only roughly judge that they were from Nanling and Jingnan Mountains Barbarians.

After all, Zu Lang and the others used to be active in the Jing County area of ​​Jiangdong, and they didn't even have much contact with the Guyue Yi tribe in the land of Guyue to the south of the Wuyi Mountains. Naturally, it is even more impossible to know the information about the barbarians in the mountains in Jingnan.

As for the barbarians captured by Zhu Wei, nothing could be found during interrogation.

The words they spoke were barbarian dialects, and no one on Zhu Wei's side could understand them, and they didn't seem to understand the official dialect of the Han people outside the mountains, so the two sides were talking like chickens and ducks, which didn't make any sense.

Zhu Wei could only analyze from the performance of these captives. They seemed to be very hostile to Zhu Wei, the Han people from outside the mountains. It means killing them directly.

On the contrary, Pang Tong saw their performance, and after thinking about it for a while, he felt that these barbarians would join forces to attack Zhu Wei, probably thinking that Zhu Wei had invaded their territory.

These barbarians originally fought here, probably to compete for territory.

Of course, they may also have an appointment here for other things. It's only because Zhu Wei's army came so coincidentally that they just ran into them, so they naturally have to join forces to deal with outsiders.

Now it seems that there is nothing to say, only one hit.

However, this can be regarded as a lesson for Zhu Wei. If you want to travel through such a mountain area in the future, in addition to sending people to explore the way in the mountains, it is best to inquire about the situation in the mountains to see if there is anything here. The territory of the barbarian tribes, or is there some stronghold occupied by Shanyue sect thieves.

In fact, this vast area of ​​Jingnan Huguang was originally the place where the so-called Nine Li, Three Miao and Six Barbarians were entrenched.

It can be said that the imperial court of the Eastern Han Dynasty did not have much actual control over the mountainous area like a hundred thousand mountains here. The officials of the Han Dynasty only opened up some official roads among the mountains, and then found suitable areas around the official roads to set up some counties. Even if this area is controlled.

But in fact, in the deep mountains and mountains, there are still many mountains and barbarians who act on their own and do not obey the rules.

In particular, the Shanyue and barbarian tribes hiding in the mountains are actually far stronger in number and strength than the Han tribes and powerful forces in those places who migrated to settle here.

Of course, some of these barbarian tribes who originally lived in the mountains may have been in contact with the outside world, and thus have connections with the gentry and powerful forces outside the mountains, which can be regarded as existences known to outsiders.

But more barbarian tribes hid in the mountains and never came out of the mountains. People outside the mountains may not know their existence, or they may directly regard them as savage mountain monsters or something.

In fact, in the original history, the barbarian forces in the southwest to which Meng Huo belonged were familiar barbarians who were connected with the local gentry and powerful families outside the mountains, and it was only when barbarian tribes like them started to make trouble that they could easily make trouble. Out of the scale of tens of thousands of people.

And those savages who have never been in contact with the outside of the mountains are even more unaware of how many hide in the mountains and coexist with wild beasts.

Perhaps this is also the reason why the four Jingnan counties were not fully developed in the history of the Three Kingdoms like Jiangdong. Because the mountains are dangerous and difficult to navigate, the barbarian tribes in the mountains are really not easy to subdue.

As far as the direction of the mountains in Jingnan is concerned, the east can reach the land of Guyue, the south extends to the boundary of Jiaozhou, and the west connects to the land of Shu. Therefore, in the south of Jingnan, Luoxiao Mountain, Nanling Mountain, Hengshan Mountain, Wuling Mountain and other mountains In the mountains formed, the unknown barbarian tribes really do not know how many are hidden.

Now that Zhu Wei has entered the Luoxiao Mountains, he has indeed invaded the territory of these barbarian tribes hiding in the mountains, because now the Han Chinese forces in the four counties of Jingnan are mostly only on the outskirts of the mountains and the official roads that run through the mountains.

But now that this is the case, Zhu Wei seems to have to accept Pang Tong's suggestion and fight all the way through the mountains...

(End of this chapter)