"Talking beasts, running stones, singing dunes, solidified rivers."
Ren Hong's later generations had the privilege of listening to this mysterious ballad of the Great Northwest, and its special charm is still hovering in his mind.The beast that speaks is the black lama who has changed the color of the northwestern provinces in modern times, the stone that runs is Yadan on the Black Gobi, and the sand dunes that sing are the big sand sea rustling in the howling wind of the Western Regions after crossing the Star Gorge.In late August, when they saw the snow-white peaks of the East Tianshan Mountains in the distance, the "frozen river" arrived.In later generations, the land at the southern foot of the East Tianshan Mountains was called "Hami", and now it is called Yiwulu, and after Ren Hong and them arrived here, the soldiers who traveled for half a moon were able to drink the clear snow water of the Tianshan Mountains.The herdsmen who came to greet them also offered some wild melons, which were pronounced as "vaults".Ren Hong weighed a melon in his hand, but he saw that it was round and long, with two sharp ends, or blue and white strips between them, faintly with petals, and it was very soft to press, and he was sure in his heart."
This is the cantaloupe of the future!"
There is a proverb in Xinjiang: the grapes of Turpan, the melons of Hami, the horses of Ili, and the girls of Kuqa are as beautiful as flowers.Turpan is now a country of Cheshi, and it is a hardcore ally of the Huns.Kuqa is Qiuzi, and Ren Hong, the girl of Qiuzi, didn't look carefully, but those guys who like to grow long hair are indeed as beautiful as flowers.As for Ili, that is, the horses of Wusun.Ren Hong has already ridden two horses.And Yang Yun has never seen the melons and fruits in Xinjiang, and in this hot day, the pu fan fanned the sweat on his face, and his mouth was still chattering: "Can it be better than Donglin melon?"
”Donglin melon is a thin-skinned melon, at least in the Spring and Autumn Period in the Central Plains, and the most famous melon is the Tanglin Marquis Shaoping after the death of Qin, the old Qin widow opened a melon field in the southeast of Chang'an Bacheng Gate, the melon is very sweet."
It's as big as a bucket, it tastes like honey, and it's thin."
Although the aventurine melon is very expensive, Yang Yun, as the son of the prime minister, can naturally afford to eat it, and at the moment he watched the sergeants cut the melon with disgust and tasted it, and his mouth kept stopping: "Look at the melons in the Western Regions, the skin is really thick, and the melons with thick skin are not delicious.""
This is what he doesn't understand, aventurine melon is a thin-skinned melon, while cantaloupe is a thick-skinned melon, it is not a variety, and a forcible comparison is a hooligan.Ren Hong ignored him, but saw that after cutting it open, the melon flesh was orange, so he took a petal and stuffed it into Yang Dazui's mouth.Yang Yun covered his mouth and chewed, and was stunned for a while, not knowing how to say it.The fragrance is as soft as mud, sweet between cane honey, refreshing but not greasy, because it has just been soaked in snow water, swallowing it only feels extremely thirsty.After eating three petals in a row, Yang Yun found a chance to speak, licked his face and said: "This Yiwu melon and Donglin melon do have their own merits, Ren Duwei, let me eat another petal, okay?"
”Ren Hong laughed: "In the future, I will have more respect for the melons and fruits in the Western Regions." ”And he also showed great respect to the Pu people who came out of the valley and sang and danced to welcome the Han army, and asked the translator who knew Pu to thank him on his behalf, and asked about the movements of the Xiongnu Right Xian Wang.Ren Hong has heard the tragic story of the Pu country, this state settled in the vicinity of the Pu Sea a hundred years ago, originally a vassal state of the Yue Clan, after the Yue Clan was driven away by the Xiongnu, the military minister Shan Yu conquered the Pu Class, and took more than 6,000 Pu people as slaves, and took them to the right of the Evil Land, and gave the Pu Sea to the Right Xian King as the royal court.Pu died in the country, only the old, weak, sick and disabled who hid in the Dongtian Valley, nomadic migration in the valleys of the Tianshan Mountains for a living, hiding the Huns everywhere, called "Pu Houguo", it is not easy to survive to this day, all ragged, poor or poor, but extremely enthusiastic.The leader of the Pu people bowed down to Chen, saying that he had met the Han army more than 20 years ago and had been a guide for him, calculating the time, it was probably the battle of Tianshan that Zhao Chongguo had participated in, so in this way, the lord of Zhao Tang had also eaten cantaloupe?
It's a pity that this kind of melon only grows well in the Western Regions, and transplanting it in Guanzhong is a problem for future generations.He also said that the Pu people had recently been nomadic to the valley north of Yiwulu, and found that the Huns who had stayed here had evacuated in a hurry, and soon after the Han army arrived, the Pu people saw the familiar red and yellow banner, and only then did they come to greet them.Ren Hong asked the translator to tell the Pu people: "We are only the forward, there are tens of thousands of troops in the rear, and the general is called General Pu. ”With a wave of his hand, he drew another big cake: "I want to drive away the Huns and help the Pu people restore the country!"
”The Pu people cheered, holding melons and lambs to reward the Han army, and the leader of the Pu people was willing to be Ren Hong's guide, leading him over the valley and attacking the court of Youxian."
After the mountain, it is the sea of pus, which song will be the striker later?"
Ren Hong looked up at the majestic East Tianshan Mountain, and when he turned his head, the four Qu Chang were eager to try, even if Han Dang, who was high again, did not want to admit it.But outside the four songs, another man wearing a deer antler helmet stood up and asked for battle in stiff Chinese."
Junhou, please let the Xiaoyue clan be the striker."
But he didn't find a chance to make meritorious service along the way, and the wolf surnamed Xiaoyue, this time, how could the wolf have a reason to be a pioneer."
It's been a hundred years, since it was destroyed by the Huns and scattered, no one from the Yue clan has returned to the Yue royal court by the Pu Sea!"
The farther you go into the mountains, the cooler the weather becomes, and the Xiaoyue people will also put the fur fur around their waists back on their bodies, which is the custom of the Hehuang Qiang people, and after living in that land for a hundred years, the Xiaoyue clan has been Qiang.The branch surnamed Xiaoyue almost regarded himself as a native of Hehuang, assisted the Han army to drive away the Marquis of Xianlingqiang, and obtained the pasture in Huangbei from the Han people, and has lived happily there ever since.But Wolf He always remembered the story his father had told him in front of the campfire."
On the other side of the snow-capped mountains, on the other side of the desert, there is a vast big lake, and by the lake is the ancient royal court of the Yueshi people, with a warm climate, sunshine, and pasture grass in all seasons."
The four seasons are warm, which is extremely desirable for the wandering Xiaoyue people on the plateau, although they can adapt to the climate of the plateau, but after all, it is too harsh.The desire to return to his hometown lingers in the hearts of every generation of leaders surnamed Wolf, even if he can't go back to Pu Shihai, he can go back to the rich Hexi.During the period when the Xiongnu were strong, they did not hesitate to force themselves to forget the shame of the two generations of Yueshi kings being beheaded by the Xiongnu to make wine vessels, and took refuge in Shan Yu to communicate with Xiqiang for him, hoping that after the Xiongnu recaptured Hexi, they could give the wolf surname a piece of land.But the wolf was not optimistic about the Huns, he chose to break with the past and surrender to the Han people: Whose dog is not to be done?
Naturally, it is the service of the owner of the bones.Let the people of the Xiaoyue clan return to the Pu Sea, Ren Hong's promise, why can't the wolf refuse.The Pu people I met yesterday made the wolf think of the Yue people, who were also wandering, the Pu people only circled in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, but the Yue people went far, far away, the Xiao Yue people ran thousands of miles away, and their distant relatives Da Yue Clan five departments have come to thousands of miles.But today, he finally has the opportunity to become the first Yueshi person to return to his hometown after the collapse of the Yue Clan for a hundred years, and he keeps looking up at the majestic Tianshan Mountain, and his eyes can't wait to penetrate it.But Wolf He's subordinates, perhaps because they don't hear much about the stories around the campfire, are not so eager to return home."
There's nothing wrong with Hehuang, although it's colder, the terrain is high, and it's not warm for a few months a year."
They followed the Han army from Jiuquan, passed through the barren Black Gobi, and after crossing the Xingxing Gorge, it was a dry sea of sand, even if they reached the oasis at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains moistened by snow water, it was not enough to feed tens of thousands of people surnamed Wubu.The road to Pu Shihai, coincides with the "Haba Expressway" in later generations, and it is necessary to turn over a mountain ravine called "Huancai Ditch", mixed with colorful pebbles, and after the horse's hooves are difficult to walk, it is a continuous uphill road, and the surrounding scenery is like the Hehuang Plateau, and the people of Xiaoyue are even more disappointed.If the hometown that you have worked so hard to return to is not much different from the area where you live now, what is the point of migrating at the cost of losing nearly half of your troops and having to face the revenge and plunder of the Huns?
These doubts slowly built up as the slope elevated, reaching their peak when they reached Sakada, which had been covered with a layer of frost and snow.Then, they followed the wolf He's finger that pointed into the distance excitedly, and saw everything that their ancestors and fathers had repeatedly missed around the campfire!
The summit of the East Tien Shan Mountains is covered with snow all year round, the summit is not steep, as if it has been cut horizontally by a knife, it is long and flat, and the top of the mountain seems to be connected with the clouds, and many glacial rivers flow down from the top of the mountain, forming a vast grassland.Originally it was a multicolored forest, the coniferous forest was green rather than yellow, and the rest of the broad leaves were red or red, and the color was not inferior to the Huancai ditch that had passed before.Outside the forest, the vast grassland that the Xiaoyue people have never seen in Hehuang has also faded to green and yellow, and the grassland at the end of August is missing waist-high grass, and there is no beautiful scenery of wind-blown grass and cattle and sheep, but the herds of wild beasts everywhere also make people look excited.The big lake in the distance, which curved like a crescent moon, seemed to beckon to them, telling the people of the Xiaoyue clan to go home quickly.This is the rich land that the people of the Xiaoyue clan have never imagined on the bitter cold plateau, and the suspicion of the leader is completely gone, and the Xiaoyue clan will be able to prosper and grow when they return to this residence.But the premise is that you must help the Han army and defeat the Xiongnu!
When marching to the foot of the mountain, Wolf He even found a typical Yueshi style rock painting, which is the scene of ancestors raising cattle and sheep, catching bighorn deer, and sacrificing to the god of Baishan.The people of the Xiaoyue clan followed the wolf and worshiped the relics of these ancestors, many of them were already in tears, but after crying, they cheered, according to the customs of the Yueshi people, picked up the stone and added it to the rock wall into the scene of the Xiaoyue clan's return to their hometown.But Ren Hong, who arrived at the Pu Sea Prairie after the Xiaoyue clan, had a very dignified face.Because it should be bustling with people and animals, and there are felt tents everywhere, the court of Youxian Wang is empty at the moment!
King Youxian didn't even leave a sheep for the Han army."
This battle is hard to fight."
Yang Yun, who has always been wise, stood beside Ren Hong, and he was at a loss.This was a situation that the warmasters of the Warring States would never have encountered during the Zhuxia Civil War."
If Sun Bin and Tian Ji arrive at the city of Daliang and find that it is empty, and the Wei people have moved the whole country, then how can the Qi army force Pang Juan to give up Handan, which is at his fingertips?"