Great Wei Nengchen

Xiao Yi leaned against the stone wall, his clothes were ragged, and the toe of his boots had a big hole, he was worse than a beggar. Xiao Hei's face was haggard, his upper and lower lips were dry and cracked, and he held half a bowl of water in his hand- Cloudy, pungent earthy smell!

Normally, livestock would not want to drink this kind of sewage, but now it is more precious than gold. Xiao Yi swallowed a few mouthfuls lightly, and handed it to the 'cabbage' next to him. The latter sucked it with his big tongue, and continued Make a grievous hiss!

When he was in Wuchouhou Mansion, 'Cabbage' lived in a spacious and elegant room, ate high-quality refined grain feed, drank sweet mountain spring water, and had hundreds of beautiful 'concubines'... When did he suffer so much? The body was tired and lost more than ten catties, and it was like a dirty mud monkey.

It has been 360 days since the army set off, and it has penetrated [-] miles into the Meridian Valley, advancing an average of [-] miles a day, which is far below the target. Not to mention, the soldiers are still extremely exhausted, and they are trapped in the predicament of lack of water and food.

The geographical environment of Meridian Valley is really evil to say the least. Although the first half of the journey is difficult and difficult, there are high mountains, dense forests, and rivers. There are a few heavy rainstorms.

The second half of the journey was even more difficult and difficult, not to mention that there was not a river along the way, and occasionally a few small springs were found to scoop up the mud soup, which was not enough for 8000 people to drink!

If you want to dig the ground to get water, there are stone mountains everywhere - sparse vegetation and hard soil. The soldiers spent a lot of effort to dig five or six feet deep, and there is no groundwater. Coal mines, gold mines, iron mines, etc. What's the use of finding several places in the mine?

God is also sincerely opposed, not to mention the rain, there is not even a dark cloud, and the sun is shining brightly for seven or eight days. Countless people fell to the ground...

Food is also a big problem. The original plan was to travel 22 miles a day and walk out of Meridian Valley in [-] days, and prepared relative dry food, [-] catties of fried noodles per person, plus two large pot helmets. Needless to say, dry food will also deteriorate and become inedible.

But the journey was too hard, the soldiers exhausted too much physical strength, and the food demand also increased sharply. Although hunting wild animals and picking wild fruits along the way supplemented some, the rest was only enough to eat for seven or eight days!

But judging from the current situation, let alone seven or eight days, even seventeen or eight days, they may not be able to get out of Ziwu Valley. The situation in the future is even worse, and it is even more difficult to find wild animals and wild fruits. In the middle, the consequences are disastrous!

"I would like to report to Master Sima, the soldiers have searched the surrounding mountain streams, but there is no water source, and they are too thirsty to walk!"

"Lack of water, lack of food, and exhaustion, if the people and horses continue to move forward, I'm afraid the future is unpredictable!"

"President Sima, please think twice, it's too late to turn around now!"

Dian Wei, Huang Zhong, the Four Beasts of Hell, and a dozen generals came over, all looking ashamed and exhausted, and then knelt down on one knee, with a lot of meaning in their words!

They are all Xiao Yi's old troops. They have followed the South and North Wars for many years. They have fought countless deadly battles, tough battles, and bloody battles. They have never retreated half a step. But in this situation, everyone really can't hold on!

During this march, rolling stones, rainstorms, poisonous snakes, beasts, diseases... Not to mention the hardships and hardships of the soldiers, there were more than a thousand casualties, and the accompanying horses were also damaged. Now food, water, and medicinal materials are all lacking. How to go three hundred miles?

"Brothers, get up, you need to think carefully about the situation in front of you!"

"No, thank you Da Sima for understanding the soldiers!"

Xiao Yi is not a person who will never turn back, let alone sacrifice the lives of his subordinates in vain for the sake of face, but let him give up halfway, really a bit unwilling!

The golden eagle brought news: the battle situation is very unfavorable for all parties, the Hanzhong army has a high ditch and deep fortifications, and they can't hold on. success!

Only Ma Liu made some progress. After leading his troops across Qishan Mountain, he dispatched surprise soldiers to take down Wudu and Jianwei. Now he is attacking Baima Pass, but he encountered fierce resistance from the enemy, and it will be difficult to conquer in the short term!

It is difficult to win on the frontal battlefield. If you want to quickly pacify Hanzhong, the only way is to send out the Ziwu Valley and sneak attack Nanzheng City. If you retreat halfway, the battle will be deadlocked, which is very unfavorable.

Cao Cao was plagued by old illnesses, so maybe he would go westward on a crane that day, and there would be great turmoil in the court, and maybe there would be violent turmoil; Liu Bei was eyeing the tiger, and he was also plotting the land of Yizhou, and sent envoys to Chengdu several times... Time is not on his side !

However, the army was trapped in Ziwu Valley, lacking in food and water... it was on the verge of collapse, if it continued to forcefully continue, it would either end up with the entire army wiped out, or lead to a mutiny...

At this point, Xiao Yi is at the end of his wits, and since his manpower has been exhausted, let's resign himself to fate - divination!

Taoism has three skills: chanting mantras to catch ghosts, drawing talismans to make alchemy, and divination. The old Taoist master - Chu Chenzi is one of the masters. He is proficient in yarrow, copper coins, eight characters, and plum blossoms. Teach Xiao Yi this skill!

It's a pity that Xiao Yi has been in the mountains for several years, obsessed with martial arts, bow and horse riding and shooting. He didn't even memorize a few Taoist classics, let alone the three esoteric skills. In the end, he only learned a little bit!

If you do fortune telling for others, nine out of ten times it won't work, if you do it for yourself, ten times out of ten it won't work, so Xiao Yi has never divination for good or bad luck in the past [-] years since he came out of the mountain, and he often pretends to be a ghost. Do!

There is really no other way now, so I have to bite the bullet and do a divination to see what the heavens say, whether to let me continue walking, or turn around and go back?

"The army is marching south, trapped in the mountains, there is no food and grass inside, and no rescue soldiers outside, please bless the grandfather of the Chunyang sect, and show the disciples a way out!"

"People follow the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature - Kai Gua!"

Xiao Yi sat cross-legged, let himself calm down first, and silently prayed to the patriarchs, then took out six copper coins, shook them a few times and threw them on the ground, he couldn't help being surprised...

I saw that the six copper coins turned out to be facing upwards. This kind of hexagram is very rare, and it is one of the 64 money hexagrams of King Wen--'Drying is the hexagram of heaven, and the trapped dragon gets water! '

There is a poem that says: Long swims in the shallow water and idles on the beach, was once played by shrimps in the world,

The thunder and the storm have arrived, and the five lakes and the four seas are safe!

Judging from the hexagram image, this is the meaning of turning bad luck into good luck and bringing good fortune to disaster. If there is a thunderstorm, you can get out of trouble!

The auspicious hexagram is good, but it doesn't say how to get out of trouble. You can't just sit in the valley and wait for the rain.

Xiao Yi deduced it a few more times, and only came up with an instruction of 'earth begets gold, gold begets water', the rest is still unclear, it's not because of how difficult this hexagram is, it's because the little Taoist is not good at learning.

"Hey, what did you do when you slept in all day long? If you don't learn some real skills, you will be blind this time?"

"Soil produces gold, gold produces water, what is this omen, where will I go to get 'gold'?"

Xiao Yi rubbed his little black face and fell into deep remorse. At the same time, he secretly made up his mind that if he could escape this time, he must study the Taoist classics and learn the skills of divination, talisman drawing and alchemy!

In the midst of a dilemma, brothers Deng Ai, Sun Shao, and Xiao Xuan came over, all beaming, as if they had something happy to do, and they still carried a lot of things in their hands...

"To my lord father: We found another mass grave, and unearthed these things, including copper axes, copper hammers, copper pendants... as well as copper ink cartridges and copper pendants!"

"There are not many bones buried this time, only a few thousand, probably some skilled craftsmen!"

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Teenagers are curious and like to discover new things, especially looking for legendary treasures. Ever since the mass grave was dug in Snake Valley, these children have become addicted!

Walking along this road, they always took advantage of the breaks to dig and search around. Their energy was astonishing. Hunger, thirst, and exhaustion couldn't stop them, and they never really thought about digging things out.

"The mass grave is there. Take Weifu over there to have a look. Dian Wei and Huang Xu brought twenty soldiers with them, and the rest of them rested in place. As for whether to advance or retreat, we'll talk about it when I come back!"

"promise!"

After seeing the children's trophies, Xiao Yi's curiosity also aroused, and he decided to take a look for himself, maybe he might find something new!

Logically speaking, with the rise of the iron smelting industry at the end of the Warring States period, people began to use iron weapons and tools. Why were all the bronze tools excavated from the new mass graves?

In addition, the hexagram just now shows that earth produces gold, gold produces water, and from the Shang Dynasty to the Qin and Han Dynasties, people called copper "gold" and used it as the main currency. Is this a sign of relief?

Chapter 1470 Meridian Valley, Land of Life and Death ([-])

The second 'mass grave' is under a hillside, seven or eight miles away from the plank road. Because a large number of bones are buried underground, the vegetation here is extraordinarily lush, which is in sharp contrast with the surrounding barren hills, which arouses the children's curiosity. Note, exploratory digging was done...

Xiao Yi observed carefully, and found that this 'mass grave' was almost the same as the last one, both appeared more than 20 years ago, and the massacre methods were also exactly the same, it can be seen that it was done by the same group of executioners, and some bronze tools were dug up, all of which were It was used for the construction of large-scale projects, which confirmed the identities of the craftsmen of the victims.

It’s right to think about it, folks can only lay bridges and build roads, and do some clumsy and heavy physical work. Really difficult construction projects require these skilled craftsmen, and they know more secrets, so naturally they have to kill people .

"The hexagram shows that the soil produces gold, and the gold produces water. Now that the gold has been found, where is the water?"

"Grandfather bless you, my guess is correct, so eighteen thousand soldiers will be saved, and taking Hanzhong is just around the corner!"

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