readx;     In Chai Shao’s tent, Li Shentong, Li Jing, Chai Shao and Zhang Zhongjian gathered together, and Zhang Zhongjian unfolded the pampered scroll under the light.

Everyone was very happy. This was the hidden map of 300,000 pieces of soldier armor. Li Jing knew the Turkic text and there was a record of obtaining the soldier armor. He pointed to a mountain to the west and said, "This is Kent Mountain. They hid the soldier armor in Kent Mountain. Look, there are signs here."

There is a sword sign in the Kent Mountains, and Chai Shao frowned, "But the mountains are thousands of miles long, where can we find the places where we can hide our soldiers."

Li Jing smiled slightly and pointed to the Turkic text above and said, "It is written very clearly here. There is a cave two feet above the cliff, which should be the place where soldiers and armor are hidden."

"But where is Aidang Mountain Pass?" Li Shentong asked in confusion.

At this time, Zhang Zhongjian, who had been silent, suddenly said: "I know where Aidang Mountain Pass is, I have been there."

Everyone was overjoyed, and Chai Shao said excitedly: "Then it's not time to go, we set off immediately. If Tule finds out that the map is lost, it will be troublesome."

Everyone discussed for a while and determined various details. Half an hour later, Chai Shao and his group rode their two horses away from the club and rushed towards Kent Mountain thousands of miles away from the west.

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Two days later, Zhang Xuan and four others walked out of the vast forest. In front of them was a narrow and shallow frozen land area about 30 miles wide, which continued thousands of miles away from the north. Crossing this frozen land area was the vast North Sea.

Although it was early summer, they could still see large areas of ice and snow-covered land that had just begun to melt and the weather was still very cold. They were not wearing fur coats and were trembling with cold. The ground was covered with a thick layer of mud. They swallowed their leather boots just after walking a few steps.

"The land here only melts the surface, and the depths of the ground are always frozen, harder than iron."

The wind was very strong, and Xin Yu was trembling as he spoke, "Be careful of the mud and don't fall into it!"

"Is there any ice slag here?" Zhang Xuan asked loudly.

"Yes! But not many, you need to look carefully, you will see that the purple one will be."

Yuchi Gong used a wooden stick to explore the way and walked forward step by step. Suddenly, he shouted, "I found it!"

Everyone ran up together and saw two purple insects tangling and squirming on an unmelted ice and snow. Zhang Xuan was overjoyed and quickly took out the copper gourd and gently picked it up with a dagger. The two small purple insects wrapped in a ball were loaded into the gourd.

Xin Yu was also very happy, "I discovered it so soon. It seems that many ice slags were unearthed this year."

Although Yuchi Gong quickly found two purple insects, it did not mean that they could find them everywhere. They continued to walk west with difficulty, crossing the frozen land, and after walking more than ten miles, they found ten small insects.

Seeing that Zhang Xuan was a little disappointed, Xin Yu smiled and said, "There are already quite a lot. We searched for more than 20 people two days ago to find thirty items. It took only a few days before, and there were ten items."

Zhang Xuan looked around and suddenly, he saw a small black dot a hundred steps away from the left, washed out by a stream formed by melting ice and snow. It looked like a small black bowl was pressed upside down on the ground, very conspicuous in the snow.

Zhang Xuan hesitated for a moment and thought to himself, should he go and take a look?

At this moment, Cheng Yaojin from the north shouted excitedly, "Come and see, what did I find?"

Everyone hurried over, and everyone was stunned. They saw that there were dense purple insects on the ice soil that were ten feet apart, with as many as fifty or sixty.

Zhang Xuan was extremely happy, and his dissatisfaction with Cheng Yaojin along the way suddenly disappeared. This guy is worthy of being a lucky general, and his luck is really good. He actually discovered the insect nest.

Without any time to say anything, he pulled out a dagger and carefully led the little purple worms into the copper gourd. Although more than a dozen were drilled into the soil, he still had a lot of harvest. He grabbed forty-eight purple worms at one time. Along with the previous ten worms, fifty-eight purple worms were obtained, which far exceeded his needs.

"The achievements are perfect!"

Zhang Xuan carefully put the copper bottle into the skin, and smiled at everyone with satisfaction, "Go out for a night of rest first, and we will return to Kulun Lake tomorrow."

The way I came here has disappeared, the snow was covered with trap-like swamps, and bubbles popped up from time to time in many places. If you are not careful, you will encounter a catastrophe. Everyone uses ropes to lead them back and walk slowly.

At this time, Zhang Xuan saw the black object again, flashing with a strange luster under the sunlight, only a few dozen steps away from him, and he could no longer help but say to everyone: "Wait for me!"

He untied the rope around his waist, explored the way with a long wooden stick, and walked towards the black object step by step.

"Young master, that's just a black stone, forget it!" Cheng Yaojin shouted from behind.

It does look very much like a black stone, but the black stone will not have such luster. As Zhang Xuan approached, he found that there was still a faint purple-red color on the black stone.

"Wait a moment, I'll be back soon!"

Although it is only a few dozen steps apart, the black stone is covered with swamps. These swamp mud moves at an extremely slow speed. The black stone seems to be slowly squeezed out from under the mud.

It took Zhang Xuan nearly half an hour to get close to the black stone. At this time, Xin Yu also walked over. She threw a roll of leather rope to Zhang Xuan, "Tie it to her waist!"

Zhang Xuan tied the leather rope to his waist, almost slowly crawled over a hard shell of a mud, and grabbed the black stone. He immediately found that this was not an ordinary black stone, but a kind of black metal. Only a corner was exposed on the surface, and the main part was below.

Zhang Xuan took off the skin rope between his waist and tied it firmly to the black object. He crawled back again. He and Xin Yu pulled it hard together. The black object was slowly dragged out and dragged it to them little by little.

The black object was covered with mud, and it looked like a huge peanut. It was one foot long and was black-red all over. It looked very heavy. Zhang Xuan tried to lift it, and couldn't help but be shocked. If it was a piece of pig iron, it would be only thirty or forty kilograms at most, but this piece of black metal weighed at least ten kilograms. What would this be?

At this time, Yuchi Gong and Cheng Yaojin also came over. Yuchi Gong worked as a blacksmith in Mayi County for twenty years and had seen many rare items on the grassland. When he saw this piece of black and red metal, he was stunned.

After a while, he slowly squatted down and gently stroked the metal, and his eyes showed a look of intoxication.

"Old lieutenant, is this thing very valuable?" Cheng Yaojin also squatted down and asked.

“It’s more than just valuable!”

Yuchi Gong sighed deeply, "I have seen this thing. My master's blacksmith shop has a big fist. It is his treasure of the shop. I never allow me to touch it."

"What is this?" Zhang Xuan asked curiously with a smile.

Yuchi Gong stood up and asked Zhang Xuan respectfully: "Have you heard of Kias?"

"It seems like a grassland tribe?"

Yuchi Gong nodded, "The Central Plains called them Hegu, and the Turks called them Xiagas. They lived in the far north and were famous for their most exquisite swords. It is funny to say that their forging skills are far worse than those of the Central Plains, but the swords they made are better than those of the Central Plains, and this is the reason."

Yuchi Gong pointed to the black and red metal on the ground, "This is their secret. Xia Qis called it Kasha. When it rains, it will fall from the sky. It is usually only the size of a soybean or finger, and only in the extreme north. Our blacksmith in Mayi County called it Kasha Black Iron. Xia Qis added it to pig iron and could forge a sharp sword. I heard from my master that Xia Qis also had a bay-sized piece of Kasha, which was the holy object of their tribe."

Zhang Xuan understood what he meant. This was a piece of meteorite from the sky. No wonder it was so heavy. It seemed that God treated him well. Not only did he find the purple insect jade pupa, but he also gave him a saint of grassland, Gasha Black Iron.

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In the Black Forest a hundred miles south, a long-distance team is advancing quickly towards the Great Lakes.

The team was about a hundred people, dressed in black, holding spears and swords. They were all tall and strong, capable and good at fighting.

This team was the cavalry from the north of Jikou Town. Although they entered the grassland from the Youzhou border, they were not the Sui army, but a rebel army from Qinghe County, Hebei Province. The middle-aged Han Dynasty led by him was Dou Jiande, the leader of the rebel army.

After Dou Jiande rebelled in Qinghe County, he received support from the Northern Qi Bohai Association and grew rapidly, but insufficient military and armor were still their biggest weakness.

A few months ago, Dou Jiande received news from the Bohai Association that Goguryeo transported a batch of soldiers to the Turks missing in the area of ​​Julun Lake, with a total of hundreds of thousands of pieces.

This made Dou Jiande extremely excited. After he entrusted his army to his brother Liu Heita, he personally led a hundred elite cavalry to the grassland north to find the army.

Dou Jiande and the Grassland Pugu tribe had a very close trade relationship. The chief of Pugu tribe Teren revealed a secret to him that this group of soldiers was most likely hidden somewhere in the North Sea, but the Pugu tribe did not know the specific hiding place.

Although the North Sea was very far away and extremely risky, Dou Jiande resolutely decided to go north by hundreds of thousands of soldiers. If he could find these soldiers and get the help of the servants and the transport them back to the Central Plains, he would quickly become the largest force in Hebei and have hundreds of thousands of powerful troops.

Dou Jiande led a hundred subordinates to a vacant land covering an area of ​​more than ten acres. The surroundings suddenly became very empty, and they had reached the edge of the forest.

At this time, everyone looked at Gao Yan, a counselor with the team. Gao Yan was a child of the Gao family in Bohai. He was very thin, but he was proficient in astronomy and geography, and was especially good at observing astronomy and phenomena.

Night had quietly come, Gao Yan looked up at the constellations in the sky to determine their location at this time.

Dou Jiande was a little uneasy. He felt a trace of murderous aura hidden around him. He observed around him vigilantly. At this time, he suddenly found that the shadow of war horses appeared in a cluster of bushes.

He was shocked and shouted loudly: "There is an ambush!"

But it was too late, the sound of horns suddenly sounded in the forest, the people swayed, and dense arrows shot from all directions.

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[Note: Regarding the black iron of Gasha, there is a record in the New Tang Dynasty: The Kias, the ancient Kankun Kingdom... Every time the rain, the common people must get iron, and the name is Gasha. They are extremely sharp and often lose to the Turks.]
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