A place away from the county, surrounded by mountains.
It borders Xiyi to the west, Nanyi to the south, intersects with Anling County to the northwest, and borders Yongchang County to the northeast and the entire east. All of these intersections are connected by continuous mountains.
The vast mountains are filled with wild beasts and monsters. On the one hand, these mountains and jungles are the best natural line of defense for Lijun when facing all directions. On the other hand, they have also become the biggest problem for Lijun in its external defense.
Surrounded by the mountains of Lijun, there are three major basins connected with each other by beautiful land and abundant water. They are the largest Lijun Basin, the Ganyuan Basin located in the north of Lijun, and the smallest Cangyuan Basin located in the west of Ganyuan. Yan Basin.
The two main roads that lead to Lijun from Zhongtu come from Yongchang County. The two main roads originate from two canyons, running along both sides of the Tianmen Mountains. One leads to the Ganyuan Basin, and the other leads directly to the hinterland of the Lijun Basin.
But few people know that there is a third path from Yongchang County to Lijun - the Lijun Ancient Road.
According to legend, after the founding of the Ding Dynasty, the First Emperor Mingzheng suppressed the army, and his military formations swept across the world. Demons and tribes all avoided his edge. He even defeated thirty-one counties in the middle of the country, but suffered a big loss in front of Li County, which is surrounded by mountains. After several consecutive attacks, they could not break through, so the First Emperor ordered people to secretly build the Lijun Ancient Road, cutting through mountains and walls, and forcibly opening a line of passage between Yongchang County and Lijun Basin!
Then there was the thirty-two counties of Dading.
The ancient road is as difficult as climbing to the sky.
When Dading was founded, people still occasionally crossed the ancient road. After Dading flourished for hundreds of years, spacious official roads had been built in the two canyons, and this ancient road fell into decline. With fewer people walking on it, beasts and monsters appeared. More and more, gradually there will no longer be any mortals passing by except for some teams of highly skilled and bold cultivators.
The ancient road has become an isolated road.
On this day, a group of pedestrians arrived deep in the ancient road. Among them were men and women, all wearing Taoist robes. The old man leading the group had half-white hair and a beard, and was carrying an iron sword. He was the old coachman of the Luochuan family. Jiang Bo.
Behind him were naturally Luo Chuan and the heroic woman Siqi, followed by a beautiful woman also wearing Taoist robes and two serious Taoist Wangchuan sword cultivators.
At this moment, a group of people are walking in a row on a cliff!
I saw thousands of walls standing on both sides of the canyon, and rapids surging at the bottom of the mountain valley. Except for some weeds that stubbornly grew in the cracks of the rocks, it seemed that even the birds had nowhere to stand.
But even in such a dangerous place, life has carved out a road embedded in it!
This section of the road is only one or two meters wide and two or three meters high. One side is a rugged mountain, and the other side is a cliff with no obstacles. In addition, the moss underfoot is very slippery, so people have to be careful and slow when walking along it. Move forward step by step.
"When we get here, we actually reach Lijun." The old coachman walking at the front waved his hand, and a small pool of gravel on the road ahead was swept down the cliff by a breeze, making a crackling sound, "Lijun and Yongchang The dividing line between counties on this ancient road is relatively vague. Generally speaking, it is bounded by Hidden Sword Peak. However, there are no villages within the range of several mountains near Hidden Sword Peak, and slowly there will be no more villages. Too many people are talking about it."
The old coachman moved forward all the way. After turning a detour, the group of people walked into the sunshine again. It was already afternoon, and the sun was hanging slanting in the sky. It would probably not take too long to set down the mountain. "Go further." You can walk down the cliff into the valley and continue walking on the mountain road for five or six miles to reach the sword pavilion." He looked back at Luo Chuan behind him and smiled, "The sword pavilion I told you about when you were a child."
Luo Chuan curled his lips, "There are no more than a hundred defenders in Jiange, and the leaders are mostly related people who went to the 'front line' to do military exploits. If we really want to spend the night here, these people might be too scared to stay. "
The old coachman glanced at Luochuan and said, "Your distant relatives are indispensable among them. You'd better not talk nonsense when you get there. Firstly, most of the elders of these people's families can still talk to each other in Licheng. Secondly, since Even if I am a descendant of a powerful family, I, Lijun Erlang, are much stronger than the second generation ancestor of Zhongjing City. Although Jiange is not a real front line, it is still a mountainous forest area surrounded by mountains. Even if there are not many monsters, snakes and insects There are still a lot of wild animals, so it’s pretty cold.”
Luo Chuan nodded, but couldn't help but look at the old coachman's back, and frowned slightly as he remembered what the old man said at Huaicheng Restaurant.
The sound of the roar of the river in the canyon gradually subsided, and a group of people walked down the cliff and entered the valley on one side. The green hills on both sides were lush with trees, the sound of gurgling creeks, the chirping of insects and birds, making people unconsciously feel a sense of tranquility.
Luochuan stepped on a raised stone on the ancient road and almost slipped, but the old coachman turned around and caught him.
"It's foggy," Luo Chuan stepped on the stone again and jumped up. He stood next to the old coachman and looked forward. He saw that the mountain road was winding all the way up. Most of the places on the so-called ancient road were covered with weeds. It was really different from There is not much difference between the wild roads in the mountains. “This ancient road probably hasn’t been walked on for many years.”
The old coachman continued to lead the way up, "These are difficult mountain roads. After passing Jiange, the road to our Li County is a little easier. After all, we have to provide logistics for several garrisons in the mountains, and Yongchang County is not good. Well, you should have seen along the way that they are really unwilling to spend more energy in such mountainous areas, and the main force of the army has already been piled up on the southern border."
Luo Chuan looked around and shook his head.
The sun has long been blocked by the mountains, and the sky has not yet darkened. The fog is gradually getting thicker. There is a damp and rotten smell from the forests on both sides of the mountain road, mixed with the smell of earth, which makes the Luochuan people who are accustomed to living in the city feel uncomfortable. .
"Didn't you say that Yicheng, the capital of Yongchang County, was attacked by Nanyi under the cover of the mountains more than ten years ago?" Luo Chuan asked as he walked forward with difficulty.
"That's why it is said that all the previous governors of Yongchang County were not smart," the old coachman said without looking back, "but that so-called attack was not a large army breaking through the city, but a sneak attack by a force from the Nanyi. The purpose was just to plunder a treasure, but after they attacked the city and escaped unscathed, Yongchang County still lost a lot of face. After that..."
Before the old coachman finished speaking, he suddenly stopped and stepped back in front of Luochuan. The beautiful woman who had been quietly following the team and listening to the conversation between the two people and the two Wangchuan sword cultivators also gathered up almost at the same time, looking wary.
"Whoosh!"
A stone was shot quickly, hitting a stone slab in front of everyone, smashing into pieces and flying in all directions.
None of the experts, including the old coachman, glanced at it. They just looked around intently, as if they could see through the thick fog.
"No," the beautiful woman who rarely spoke along the way, her face darkened, her hands quickly formed a complicated seal, and a light blue light flashed in front of her forehead and then fell into her body, "In this fog poisonous!!"
Everyone was shocked!
The old coachman quickly closed his eyes and opened them again. He frowned and took out six pills wrapped in paper from the luggage bag behind him and handed them to everyone, "These are the antidote pills that are special to my Lijun army. They are effective for most Nannan soldiers." The insect poison is effective." He distributed it while scanning the surroundings, and then lowered his voice and said to the beautiful woman, "Did you warn that the person has left?"
The beautiful woman looked at somewhere along the ancient road, shook her head and nodded, "Escaped..."
Everyone was shocked.
