Luo Yanhuan and his five people were in a place called Lishugou. Luo Yanhuan, two personal soldiers, plus two old and young people from the Luo family; Lishugou is located north of Tangcang Town; and Tangcang Town is in the Qinling Valley on the west side of Shu Road, not on the thoroughfare road.

They had been in Fengzhou for almost a month and found the Luo family members who had migrated from Hedong to Tangcang Town, Fengzhou many years ago. An old man and a half-old boy who were accompanying him were the Luo family members who were sent to send them out of the mountain.

On the way, a farmer driving a buffalo came towards him. The old man from Luo Yanhuan and his party greeted him in an extremely strong dialect tone: "Brother! Have you heard of Taoist Mayi recently beaten here?"

Unexpectedly, the farmer had heard of the Taoist Mayi, so he shouted in a long voice: "Taoist Mayi? Brother, I have to go to Mount Emei to see if it's there."

Old Man Luo had to reply again as Luo Yanhuan Sect said: "I heard that the old man has passed by here recently. Someone asked him to see the photos. Have you heard of them?"

"No, this kind of immortal-like person is here and there, it's hard to find him. Do you want to look for him?" The farmer said slowly, looking for him with anger.

Old Man Luo said, "The second boy has a strange disease. If he can find Taoist Ma Yi, he wants him to see it. The doctor doesn't work, he has seen many of them!"

After a while of the conversation, everyone passed by the farmer. The farmer was holding a pear branch in his hand. While driving the cows, he looked back at them. Maybe he thought that the strong men such as Luo Yanhuan were a little strange. The land in the Qinling Mountains was barren, so where could the people see tall and strong men such as Luo Yanhuan?

Because of this, Luo Yanhuan was almost arrested when he entered the Qinling Mountains a month ago. Today, a month later, they were still wandering around in the mountains. Not only were they lucky, but they were also because of the relatively lax prevention of border towns in the Shu army.

At that time, he didn't know the way and was following the "Chencang Road" road. Shortly after leaving Dasan Pass, he met the inspector and scout of the Shu army and was immediately taken away. Luo Yanhuan lied that he was a merchant who went to Shannan West Road to purchase goods and bribed some copper coins. He was lucky enough to get rid of it and was not forced to do so. Guo Shao's personal soldiers who accompanied him suggested giving up this trip, which was too risky; Luo Yanhuan was eager to make contributions and insisted on continuing to walk, claiming that the people of the Luo family were not far away here, and it would be easy as long as they were supported by the tribe.

However, they did not dare to walk the main road anymore, so they detoured the valley path to the west, but they didn't know the way. Fortunately, they met a local dilapidated house begging along the way, so Luo Yanhuan gave him dry food and asked him to be a guide to lead the way. Finally, they found the boundary of Tangcang Town and found the Luo family members in a village. The Luo family members of this lineage took refuge from Hedong to the mountains. When they encountered peace, they occasionally had contact with Luo Yanhuan's hometown in Hedong.

Luo Yanhuan received the help of his acquaintances, and the old man who accompanied him had been to Hedong twice. Now he had figured out the situation in the northern part of Feng County and did not dare to stay for too long. He quickly went back to avoid wasting all his previous efforts.

Going north from Tangcang Town is the route they return to Guanzhong, and they really dare not take the Shu Road.

This road is very circling, just walking along the valley, but if you don’t have the local people leading it, you can easily follow the valley to a dead end. The valley is not artificially opened, and there is a road ahead, and maybe there will be only mountains left as you walk. If you walk across mountains and rivers, you will probably die of exhaustion in the forest.

Tangcang Town is located in the north of Fengzhou.

According to the Luo family, there are four main roads extending northward near Fengzhou City, two in the middle that can pass through Guanzhong: one of them is the Shu Road along the Jialing River; the other one is in the west, which is Tangcang Town in the mountainous area on the west side of Shu Road.

There are three more valley routes to the north of Tangcang Town, which are towards Qinzhou on the left; both of them can meet the Jialing River Shu Road, and the convergence point is Huanghuan. Luo Yanhuan and others walked the farthest one on the right side of Tangcang Town, but they did not go to Shu Road, but continued north at the forks of the road, preparing to take a small road to the Wei River, and then go back to Chencang along the Wei River... The road is difficult to walk, but generally they will not encounter Shu army patrols and scouts.

These rugged roads of various sizes are the only way to transport in the Qinling area. There is no other choice. No one can stand the way to climb one mountain after another. This is completely different from the Central Plains Plain that Luo Yanhuan and others are familiar with. In the Central Plains, even if you don’t take the main road, there are countless possibilities for walking the small path between the crops; the only thing you need to pay attention to is the direction.

Luo Yanhuan and his party had a rough road, but they were not far from Guanzhong. They arrived at Fengxiang two days later. The personal soldiers left behind in Fengxiang Inn told them that Guo Shao and others had gone to Sanguan; Luo Yanhuan had to turn south and go to Sanguan to find Guo Shao.

Guo Shao and others still live in Sanguan, and they have been there for more than half a month.

Seeing Luo Yanhuan and listening to his narrative, Guo Shao immediately sighed: "The decisive battle is on the battlefield, but the decisive victory is not on the battlefield. Brother Luo, regardless of his life, find out the terrain of Fengxiang North, and I will show you my merits in the future."

Luo Yanhuan hurriedly said, "The last thing is to do is just a matter of duty!"

Guo Shao stopped talking and hurriedly asked him about the details, and then made five pictures. The range was from large to small, and they tried to draw them clearly.

After drawing the terrain of the road, Guo Shao remembered the villagers who helped Luo Yanhuan again, so he personally received the money and rewarded a small cloth bag. Old man Luo carried his heavy pocket and was very happy for a moment: "I have to buy a few mules! Thank you for the reward of the general."

Guo Shao smiled extremely friendly and asked kindly: "Tangcang Town controls Shu Road on the west side, and is a transportation branch hub on the west side. It must have been stationed in the army. The old man lives in Tangcang Town. Do you know how many troops there are?"

Old man Luo thought for a moment and said, "There are a thousand people, maybe eight hundred? The old man knows that Tangcang Town has many Shu troops stationed! There are also other places, except for Fengzhou City and Weiwu City, there are many soldiers, and there is a military camp in Huanghua Valley. Last month, I and my fellow villagers took the Shu road to sell goods, and I could not see it wrong with it. There are also several military camps in front of Weiwu City, but I don't know much about how many people there are. I must tell the general everything I know."

Guo Shao said kindly again: "Old man, do you think it's okay... I'll send a few people to go back with you and do some business in Tangcang Town. You just say you are a businessman who sells goods in partnership. Take care of him, how about it?" After that, he turned to look at Luo Yanhuan. Luo Yanhuan understood and nodded slightly.

Guo Shao added another sentence: "In return, I will pay your family one thousand copper coins every month, and the person who sells the goods will give it to you on time."

Old Man Luo thought for a while: "As long as you carry it alone."

Guo Shao rubbed the lines of Shu Road on the drawing with his palm again, knocked his index finger at the Tangcang Town on the left twice, then moved to the right, and couldn't help but speak again: "There is a Maling Village on the east side of Shu Road? How many roads and Shu Road trunk lines are there on the Maling Village?"

Old Man Luo frowned and said, "I haven't been there. Usually, if you leave the Qinling Mountains and don't walk the road to the west, you can walk the Chencang Road. But I know one thing, there is a road called Xigu in Baijian, which is the road to the east."

"White Jian? Where is it?" Guo Shao asked hurriedly.

Old Man Luo was illiterate, so he naturally would not let him look at the pictures and pointed to the place. He had to say in words: "Baijian is not far north of the exit of the Xigu... on Chencang Road (Shu Road), it is thirty miles from Fengzhou."

Although Guo Shao could guess the direction he was talking about, he still asked carefully: "Is it thirty miles away from Fengzhou? Is it on Chencang Road north of Fengzhou?"

"Yes." Old man Luo nodded without hesitation.

Guo Shao hurriedly measured it on the picture and added another place: Baijian. He also drew a line at a point below Baijian and wrote "Shaped Valley".

After almost the question was complete, Guo Shao could no longer get useful things from the old man's mouth, so he asked him to leave. Then Guo Shao stepped back from the irrelevant people, leaving Zuo You, Jing Niang and several military generals, and said: "In the past half month, we have found out the terrain and roads in the north of Fengzhou. What do you think of it?"

Li Chuyun said: "From Sanguan to Fengzhou, there is Qinling Mountains in the middle, Chencang Road (Shu Road) is the closest, so it is best to walk on the road. The Shu army should focus on blocking the barriers and defending the Chencang Road; then on the left and right wings, Tangcang Town and Maling Village control the flanks and block the winding and complex paths."

Guo Shao didn't say much, just nodded and said: "General Li has a view of the overall situation, which makes sense."

Luo Yanhuan hurriedly said, "The envoy of Guodu should pay attention to Huanghua Valley. The name of this place is unknown, but several roads from Tangcang Town on the west side are at the exit of this place."

Guo Shao also praised: "General Luo is good at understanding the subtleties."

Everyone continued to stay in Sanguan for several days, and finally waited for Jingniang's entourage to return. However, they were seven or eight days later than Luo Yanhuan.

There were four people in the group, two female Taoists were the followers of Jing Niang, and two bald nuns. They all carried a kind of wooden rack bag, and the wooden rack was spread upward to form a tung oil cloth that could cover the sun and light rain, but they saved the hand of holding an umbrella.

These women walked directly on Chencang Road, and passed by Sanguan and met Guo Shaojingniang and others.

Guo Shao still met with him personally. Two women said, one was a sturdy and thick woman, and the other was a woman in her early thirties with freckles on her face. Guo Shao knew both of them, and Jingniang's entourage who came from the Central Plains all the way. But he had never seen the other two bald nuns. One was middle-aged and the other seemed to be in his teens and was very thin.

After a while of greeting, Guo Shao understood the situation. The female Taoist priest and the nun brought back were almost not stranded on the Shu Road. The nun had a certificate of Shu Kingdom, and he was a woman, so the soldiers would not make things difficult for them.

However, Taihe Temple is in Qingniling, and has passed Fengzhou, and is further south. The road is relatively far, so the Taoist nuns spend more time staying between Luo Yanhuan and others.
Chapter completed!