In June, the season of gold and fire, Alata Mountain is extremely cool.

This Alata Mountain is not the Alata Mountain near Bortala, Xinjiang in later generations, but a large mountain west of the Yenisei River. It is about 800 miles long from north to south and about two or three hundred miles wide from east to west, and divides the Yenisei River Basin and the Echizes River Basin into two parts.

When crossing this mountain, except for the Qiulem River and the Tia River to the north, it is an ancient road on the mountain that was stepped out by the Jiankun people in ancient times. Other places are mountains and dense forests, and ordinary people will not easily walk.

Generally speaking, the lower the north side of the Altao Mountain is, it is easier to walk, and the closer it is to the south side of the Sayan Mountain, the higher the Sayan Mountains, the more difficult it is to walk.

The ancient Jiankun Road is located in the north. In the past, Xie Tiancai secretly marched to attack the Dulbert tribe west of Alata Mountain, which was the road that Su Dukui walked.

Apart from this ancient road, there is no better road to the Alatao Mountain, which is 800 miles long from north to south.

Is that true? Some people just don’t believe in evil.

Speaking of which, after the establishment of the Great Xia Empire, some people were happy and some were sad.

Of course, the people who are excited naturally occupy the majority. Except for the very few who are sad due to unspeakable reasons, the few people's sorrow has other reasons.

Luo Jizhi's sorrow is one of them.

As the second son of Haradala Rojin, the Luojia tribe who was popular in the empire, he had done a good job as the captain of the guard for Nikan, but he retreated in the middle and finally made Yang Tingdong, who was alone, get a bargain.

You should know that as the captain of Nikan's personal guards, he worked as the commander of a guard cavalry brigade for one or two years, and he could not escape.

However, Luo Jin didn't think so. He thought that his family was already expensive because of the only Han Han man, Haradha's Soren tribe and Luo Chengzhi's marriage to Nikan's sister Buyechuk. If Luo Jizhi was allowed to serve as Nikan's personal guard captain, it would inevitably lead to an imbalance in the power of the empire.

Therefore, he asked Luo Jizhi to retreat without hesitation, because he was too young.

Yes, Luo Jizhi was only seventeen years old when he became a personal guard, and only nineteen years old this year. As Nikan's personal guard captain, he is really young.

But this was just a reason, Nikan knew it very well, but he understood it. He and Luo Jin thought of going together.

After asking Luo Jizhi himself, Nikan was still very pleased to learn that he was going to study at the Jiuyuan Hanhai Infantry Officer School where Sun Chuanyu was the principal.

After going to Jiuyuan, Luo Jizhi did not choose the popular artillery department, nor the ergonomic department, nor the staff department. Instead, he chose the reconnaissance department that Sun Chuanyu was best at. The Ming Dynasty said that it was not to collect at night.

Due to this reason, Sun Chuanyu also admires Luo Jizhi very much. Within two years, he almost gave Luo Jizhi all his money. Two years later, Luo Jizhi did not disappoint Sun Chuanyu's hope. He is already one of the most outstanding talents in Jiuyuan Bing School and the most outstanding talents in the investigation department. None of them, the best heir to Sun Chuanyu's legacy.

After the establishment of the Daxia Empire, people like Luo Jizhi naturally had no chance to get titles, and in the visible future, the Daxia Empire seemed to have no sign of attacking the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty to the south.

However, Luo Jizhi, who was born alert, suddenly smelled something from Alin's action of "recovering" Yakutsk.

west!

That is the direction of combat in Dahan’s mind!

And to the west, in addition to the Russians, there are also Mongolians, Qiergis, and Kazakhs. Are there any opportunities here?

After graduation, Luo Jizhi immediately applied to be transferred to Guo Tiancai's Independent Cavalry Brigade and became a small leader of a scout. The large scout team he was in was: the Allato Operation Team, and he was one of the team leaders.

And it is the southern part of Alata Mountain with the highest mountain and the most difficult journey!

As the team leader, he only has ten people under him, and he only has eleven people.

"Scout?" Luo Jizhi disagreed with this novel name. He still liked the name of the team that Sun Chuanyu had worked in before.

No collection at night!

Hiding in the day and walking at night, joining wolves and nighthawks, this is the name that a powerful scout should have.

He led this reconnaissance team to patrol the eastern foot of the Alata Mountain for about a month, but still found nothing.

Until they met Arat.

Arat is a Matt hunter in his twenties. The Matt people in Arata Mountain are different from the Sayan Mountains. They are basically mixed with Turks and Qiergis, and their faces are more Caucasian.

Luo Jizhi and the others could see Arat because they gradually approached the highest peak at the southern end of Alata Mountain, which was a place where snow was not melted all year round.

As a forester, he is also an excellent forester. He is a must-have for proficiency in Soren, Mongolian and Chinese. People like Luo Jizhi learned Turkic in the two years he was in the Infantry School.

Arat also speaks Turkic, a Turkic language of age. Of course, it is naturally easier to understand than the Turkic language of the Yakuts.

Arat first tried to hide when he saw them, until one day Luo Jizhi and his friends found his home - a wooden house on the top of a mountain and treated his father with a medical bag he carried with him.

"Our clan believes in Zoroastrianism. In the end, the Qiergis did not accept us, the Turks did not accept us, and the Mongolians also discriminated against us, so we could only survive on the mountains."

"Will there be a road running through the mountains to the other side of the mountains?"

Seeing Arat hesitating, Luo Jizhi smiled and said, "I'm afraid you know that on the east side of the mountain, the Yenisei River Basin is already the Great Xia Empire, oh, that is, the territory of Aslan Khan. By the way, the title of the Great Khan has now become the Bogda Chechen Khan, and on the other side of the mountain is the Mongolian Dulbert tribe that is attached to the Bogda Khan."

"Although there are roads to walk on the northern section of the mountain, Alata Mountain is more than 800 miles long. It would be too troublesome to pass through the north of everything, not to mention that the provincial capital set up in the Yenisei River Basin in our country is in the south..."

Arat stared at Luo Jizhi for a long time, and then said for a while: "Are you serious? There are not Mongolians across the mountain?"

"ah?"

Luo Jizhi was shocked when he heard this.

Isn’t the pasture of Su Dukui and Lama Zabu, the two sons of the Dulbert tribe Dataijigaledang? Did the Choros tribe in the south start invading again?

But he was not talking about "Mongols". What was going on?

"It's not like this," Arat said leisurely.

"In the past, in the Yenisei River Basin you mentioned, there was a powerful country called Altaysar, and the king called Ishun."

"The current Qiulem River Basin, including the two parts of Aqin and Qiulem, was originally the territory of Altaysar. Aqin and Qiulem were just attached to Altaysar, and the same was true for Daurs and Abakan in the south."

"After the rise of Russians, Ishun was naturally not happy. He once gathered troops to attack Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk..."

"Wait," Luo Jizhi suddenly interrupted him. These words were obviously not something that a "hunter" like him could know, let alone a hunter who was in the depths of the mountains and was almost isolated from the world.

Arat's face turned slightly red and his mouth moved for a long time.

"Oh, I won't hide it from you. I was originally the personal guard of Yelianak, the only son of His Highness Ishin, the king of Altaysar. Don't worry, wait, wait for me to finish my words first."

"At the beginning, the Altaysar country and the Russians had a victory or defeat, but when the Russians completely built the two cities, Altaysar was no match. Just one year before your Aslan Khan entered the Yenisei River Basin, the two sides fought another battle near Achin, and Ishin was defeated."

"The Cossack cavalry chased after him. They rushed into the Alata Mountain in a hurry and came to the Temi River Basin..."

"Wait," Luo Jizhi interrupted him again, "The Temi River you are talking about is the big river flowing next to the west of Alata Mountain?"

"Yes," Arat glanced at Luo Jizhi meaningfully, "This Temi River has a lot to do with what you want, listen to me and talk about it slowly."

"Ishin led the rest of his troops to continue to retreat southward, preparing to cross the canyon in the southwest corner of Little Alata Mountain and enter the Ezis River Basin, and go to the main tribe that moved to the Qihe River Basin many years ago."

Luo Jizhi nodded. In this section, he had heard Nikan say, "Most of Qiergis has moved to the Qihe Basin or even south. Now they all believe in the Tianfang Sect, and only a few people stay in the Yenisei River Basin."

"On the way, I sneaked away. I am a Matt and don't want to live on the grassland. Mountains, snow peaks, condors, snow leopards, goats. That's what Matt people are familiar with."

Speaking of this, Arat's eyes lit up.

"I don't know what happened in the future. Perhaps it was because of the obstruction of the Junggar Mongols, His Highness Itish is back anyway."

"?", Luo Jizhi's eyebrows couldn't help but tighten, "Why didn't Su Dukui report this to the Khan?!"

"This is also the case in the past two months. A month ago, ahem, I crossed the mountain from the secret passage and found this on the other side of the mountain."

“How many people are there in the Altaysal tribe?”

"There were tens of thousands of tents, and after several wars with the Russians, about half of them remained, but it was still possible to dispatch 5,000 cavalrymen."

"The Qiergis tribes you met, haha, are all the remaining Qiergis tribes. The real Qiergis tribe is the Ishin tribe. They claim to be the former King Li Ling of Jiankun, and know how to smel up gold, silver, copper and iron, and grow food. They were originally the most powerful tribes in the Yenisei River basin."

Luo Jizhi did not listen to what he said after that.

He became more and more excited.

"Follow King Jiankun", "Strong Tribe", "Russians' Great Revenge", this is simply a gift from God. If the Khan wants to manage the west, this is the first step!

Before entering the mountain, he begged his father to name him.

"Second, you're right. The glory of our Luo family cannot be achieved entirely by your elder brother, but by your own hands. There is great potential in the west. In history books, there are two people who are fathers who are extremely admired."

"One is Zhang Qian, who communicates with the Western Regions and sets a precedent for the Han Dynasty to manage the Western Regions."

"The second is Ban Chao. Compared with Zhang Qian, his father admired him even more. He only had more than 30 people under his command, and he was domineering among the countries of the Western Regions. He did not spend any soldiers or soldiers on the Han Dynasty to suppress the countries, expel the Huns, and maintain stability in the Western Regions for decades. He is truly a fascinating generation of talents and talents."

"This person was later named 'Dingyuan Marquis'. Jizhi, you are eighteen years old, so you should have a word, so you use 'Dingyuan' as the word, how about it?"
Chapter completed!