"Girl, are you picking medicine here? It should be dangerous to come to the mountains alone, right? Liu Zhang watched the soldiers slide down one by one, and asked the girl casually.

The herb picker pointed to the bottom of the snow on the top of the mountain: "I'm going to pick a herb there, I came to see it last time, and I know it's ripe now, but now I don't need to, I'll take you out of the mountain first, and I'll pick it in a few days." ”

"It must be dangerous to come to this deep mountain alone, Rong'er, help the girl pick the medicine."

Xiao Furong nodded, and before the medicine girl could speak, several soldiers of the White Pole Army arrived at the foot of the mountain, took out various mountaineering tools, and climbed up skillfully, seeing that the medicine girl was dumbfounded.

In fact, the mountaineering skills of the medicine girl are no worse than those of the white pole soldiers, but they lack many tools, so it seems that the white pole soldiers are much more proficient.

Seeing that the White Pole Army quickly picked a medicinal herb and came down, the medicine picker girl hurriedly thanked Liu Zhang, but when the White Pole Army soldiers approached, the face of the medicine picker girl was difficult to see.

"This ...... This is a snow lotus, and I want to pick the three snow cordyceps above. The herb-picking girl looked at the herb in the hand of the white pole army, and looked a little struggling.

"Three snow cordyceps?" Liu Zhang suddenly remembered Huang Yueying's illness and Huang Yueying, but immediately shook his head, knowing that now was not the time to think about this, and said to the medicine picking girl: "Shouldn't Snow Lotus be more expensive than Sanxue Cordyceps?" ”

Although Sanxue Cordyceps cured Huang Yueying's disease, it was just the right medicine, and the value was definitely not as high as Snow Lotus.

"This snow lotus didn't bloom."

The herb girl spoke, and seemed a little lonely, and slid down the cliff along the rope. Only then did Liu Zhang know that the girl who picked the medicine was sorry that the snow lotus was picked before it was ripe. Look at the girl, wait until the three snow cordyceps are ripe and then go into the mountain alone. In fact, the people who collect the herbs are very fond of wild medicines.

Liu Zhang didn't want the medicine girl to come to the mountains next time, anyway, with a lot of effort, people picked the three snow cordyceps again, and also slid down the cliff.

Sure enough, there was a karst cave below, from time to time an open-air hole penetrated the light, a team of soldiers explored the way in front, Liu Zhang gave the three snow cordyceps to the girl, and the girl accepted it after expressing her gratitude. It still looks sad for that snow lotus.

"I don't know if transplanting the ice room can make it bloom." The medicine girl said.

Liu Zhang, Xiao Furong, Qu Lingchen and other Sichuan soldiers walked in the cave, the cave was very long, and some places were completely closed, but because of the condensed crystals, they were translucent.

When I talked to the medicine girl, I learned that she came from a very small country in the southern vein of the Tianshan Mountains, called the Eastern Night Country.

The Eastern Night Kingdom used to be the same country as the Western Night Kingdom in the southwest of the Western Regions, but later because the Western Night Kingdom was attacked by Shache, the people of the Eastern Night Kingdom fled to settle in the southern veins of the Tianshan Mountains. A new small country was formed.

The population of the country is less than 3,000 people.

Liu Zhang remembered that when Ban Chao attacked Shache, it was because of Shache's inflated ambitions. Attacking neighboring countries, including the small country of the West Night Country, it turns out that the East Night Country came here at that time.

At the beginning, the Han army had a big battle with Shache because of the small country that was attacked, so it is no wonder that this girl from the Eastern Night Kingdom was familiar with the Han people and the weapons of the Han Dynasty.

After careful questioning, Liu Zhang was surprised to know that this medicine girl turned out to be the sister of the queen of the Eastern Night Kingdom, and the queen's sister actually wanted to come to the mountains to collect medicine, which was too big a gap with Princess Yu Yao and other princesses.

The medicine picking girl's expression did not fluctuate, and she said casually: "General, the people of our Eastern Night Country are different from people from other countries, the place where we live is very poor, and everyone needs to work, otherwise they won't have enough to eat."

When we escaped from the West Night Country, the combined forces of Shache and Qiuzi pursued and killed us, and all our men died, and after coming to the current East Night, women accounted for the vast majority, and there were very few men, so women also had to bear more responsibilities, and we were now working for the whole people.

Even the queen's sister has to work herself to eat, not to mention me, we occupy other people's land in the east night, although it is very barren, and those houses and fields are all cultivated by ourselves.

But after all, it is occupied, and over the years it has been exploited by big countries such as Cheshi Qianguo and Yanqi State, and life is becoming more and more difficult, this Sanxue Cordyceps can be exchanged for a lot of food, thank you. ”

After listening to the words of the medicine girl, I knew the hardships of life in the Western Regions, but at the same time, I also admired the royal family of the Eastern Night, no matter how poor other countries were, the royal family was also alive and well, but I didn't expect that the royal family of the Eastern Night was equal to the commoners.

Even if he knows that this kind of politics is primitive politics and immature, but after all, everyone yearns for beauty and equality, Liu Zhang has a little good impression of Dongye Kingdom.

Liu Zhang also asked the medicine girl about the situation in the southern vein of the Tianshan Mountain, it should be that the Han army helped attack Shache at the beginning, so the medicine girl had a good impression of the Han army and knew everything.

Now there are many countries in the southern vein of the Tianshan Mountains, but there are only three big countries, Yanqi country, Cheshi Qianguo, Gaochang country, among which Yanqi country is the largest, the south contains the Peacock River, the Peacock River is further south, along the Shanshan border to the west, you can reach the end of the country.

Moreover, the city of the last king is the city where the Sichuan army can cut off the retreat of Shache.

The second largest is the former country of Cheshi, although the former country of Cheshi is the second, but it is much smaller than the first Yanqi country, and it is the first to attach to Shache among the countries in the southern veins of the Tianshan Mountains.

The third largest is Gaochang State, Gaochang Country's territory is much smaller than that of Cheshi Country, but because it is the former Wuji Captain Station, the soldiers' equipment and tactics are better than the former Cheshi Country, and it is more than self-preservation to defend Gaochang State.

Of these three countries, Yanqi was beaten by Shache once and attached, the former country of the Cheshi took the initiative to attach to Shache, Gao Changguo protected himself, and did not express his position, and Shache did not have time to attack the little Gao Changguo.

Some of the other small countries have surrendered to Shache with the former country of Cheshi, some of them have not expressed their position, and Dongye is also among the countries that have not taken a position, but according to the medicine girl, she and her sister have no intention of attaching themselves to Shache at all.

At the beginning, he was able to escape from the Western Night Country to the current Eastern Night Kingdom, and now the Eastern Night Country would rather cross the Tianshan Mountains, even if he can't escape, he would rather be a broken jade than a complete tile.

After basically getting acquainted with the situation in the southern veins of the Tianshan Mountains, Liu Zhang also roughly formulated a plan, the former country of the Cheshi must fight, and it must be fought quickly, because the news of the Grand Ceremony of the former country of the Cheshi will definitely spread, although the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains are rarely communicated, but it is impossible to cover it for too long.

The Shache Kingdom would soon know that the Han army had come down from the Tianshan Mountains, so Liu Zhang had to arrive at the end of the country before the Shache Kingdom could react.

As for the big country Yanqi, this country was subdued by Shache, so it is not really convincing, if it can be wooed, it will be wooed, Liu Zhang has no time to rub with Yanqi now. (To be continued......)