Zhangshan North, Qiang tribe.

The tribe has just died, but the tribe of a thousand people has lost hundreds of people at once. Almost every household has a mourning voice, and they who are close to Han culture hang white flags outside their tents.

In the morning, three uninvited guests from the tribe arrived.

Scarface's young man ran around the tribe three times with a short knife and a spear in his hand, and the rest of the Qiang soldiers rushed out of the tent to gather in the tribe.

"Brothers, I am Ma Yue from Zhangshan Village, my brother and Brother Cheng Yin went to fight in Northern Xinjiang and none of them returned at this time, some people say that they died on the battlefield, but I don't believe it."

"Today, I will go to the north to look for them, and I will see people in life and corpses in death, and even if I die, I will let them go home. Wait, will anyone go with me? ”

After a short commotion, Qiang rode out of a sturdy man, "Brother Ma, my brother has also gone to the northern frontier, I will go with you." "This man's name is Cheng Huan, he is Cheng Yin's younger brother, and a few times he drove cattle and sheep to Ma Yue's house, and he is an old acquaintance.

"I'm going to find my daddy too."

"I'll go too!"

Ma Yue was not the only one who wanted to find his family, but after a while, more than 30 people rode out. At noon, Ma Yue and everyone had dinner in the tribe, and more than 30 horsemen left the tribe with knives and guns and embarked on the road of finding relatives in northern Xinjiang.

If the good family of the six counties is a good young man, then Ma Yue and his entourage are their antonyms, evil boys. The good men of the six counties have all gone to join the army, and the remaining young men in the county are either injured and unable to fight, or they are evil teenagers who have a criminal record in the county.

The horse has played in the northern Xinjiang many times, and he led the way and rode the horse in front, and the pedestrians hurriedly avoided it when they saw it along the way. No one dared to run into these murderous men with sabers and bows and arrows on their backs.

Because most of the Qiang people carried bows and arrows, and bows and crossbows were forbidden for ordinary people to equip in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Everyone hurried at night, and rested in the woods during the day to hunt some game to satisfy their hunger. Traveled 200 miles in one night. Three days out of Anding County, through Xihe County, Taiyuan County to Yanmen. This is the road that Ma Teng and they have walked, there are only a few passes in the north, this is the closest, and Ma Teng and they only have this way back.

It's a pity that along the way, I encountered several waves of small routs, among which there was no Ma Teng and others. After some talking, I only knew that Cheng Yin was the commander of Qu in the army, and there was no news of Ma Teng, so I thought that Ma Teng should be assigned to Cheng Yin. The defeated army, who also followed Zang Min on the expedition and knew each other with Cheng Yin, said that the last time they saw Cheng Yin's men and horses was at the edge of the curtain and was scattered by the Xianbei cavalry.

Arrived at the pass, Yanmen Pass was already under martial law at this time, the soldiers guarding the pass were all soldiers, and the city gate tower was tense. When the 30,000 army left the fortress, the banner covered the sky with great momentum, and less than 3,000 were returned. Now the three counties of Wuyuan, Shuofang, and Yunzhong outside the pass have been plundered by Xianbei, and thousands of remnants of the defeated soldiers are hiding in Tibet outside the pass, and they can't even come back to Yanmen Pass, who dares to go out?

Yanmen is too guarded, Ye Wang stood at the pass and looked at the north, wisps of wolf smoke could be seen with the naked eye outside the pass, but the young soldiers in the pass did not dare to go out of the pass, and secretly resented.

He knew that Tian Yan was an official fan, and after he was dismissed from his post before, he bribed the eunuch to get this position, and he wanted to earn some meritorious service with the lives of the soldiers. When the generals saw the lives of their soldiers and led their troops to rush forward, the battle was already lost.

Will not be a general, you are not a king. He had been completely discouraged by the decaying empire he had served for half his life, and he had a sense of seclusion in his heart, and before that he planned to do one last thing for the empire.

If Xianbei attacks the city, the city will be in the people, and the city will be destroyed and people will die!

Suddenly, a soldier rushed to his knees and knelt down, "Report! Dozens of people in the customs are asked to get out of the customs under the leadership of a teenager! ”

Ye Wang is more than half a hundred years old, and his beard is white. The old man frowned and said, "Is there such a thing? ”

After that, he took the guards down the city tower, and when he went to the pass, he saw that sure enough, a scar-faced young man led more than 30 tattooed and broken hair alien horses stationed here, and the group of people carried bows and arrows on their waists.

Although everyone was carrying dozens of bows, at this moment, no one cared about the dozens of contraband.

Ma Yue saw the old man wearing the official uniform of the Taishou and came down from the railing, and hurriedly turned over and dismounted and bowed down: "The grass people Ma Yue meet the adult." ”

Ye Wang saw that Ma Yue had a fierce face, not to mention that he was a little unhappy with a group of aliens, but when he saw that Ma Yue knew the number of etiquette, he said: "What do you want to bring a group of aliens to attack the pass?" ”

"Adults know that the kid is not an impact level. The more he fought with a group of Qiang brothers and his family in northern Xinjiang, the more he heard that the Han army was defeated in northern Xinjiang, and his brother did not return and wanted to go out to meet his brother. ”

As soon as he heard that it was a relative of the soldiers, the expression of rejection on Ye Wang's face gradually disappeared, and the expression on his face when he looked at more than thirty people softened a lot, and he said, "The young man got up and spoke first." Don't go out of the pass, this battle is a big defeat for our dynasty and the three counties outside the Xianbei Pass were invaded by Xianbei. At this time, when he went out of the customs, he didn't say whether he could find the corpses of his relatives, even if he found them, he would be eaten by the Xianbei army and lose his life. ”

Ma Yue didn't get up, and kowtowed to Ye Wang heavily. He didn't know that the three counties outside the Guanwai had fallen, but he didn't believe that his two heroic brothers would really die on the battlefield in Northern Xinjiang, so he said: "I hope that Lord Switch, even if it is just a corpse, I will bring my brother back." ”

Ye Wang sighed and persuaded: "It's not that the old man is not allowed to switch it on, if Xianbei comes to attack Yanmen Pass, the troops may not be able to defend it, and you and others are not satisfied with the uneven armor of the soldiers, and it is difficult to escape death when you get out of the fortress."

The Qiang people behind him had also knelt on the ground at this time, kowtowed and said, "I hope the Lord will switch and let him go!" ”

Seeing that the dissuasion failed, Ye Wang waved his hand and said: "Okay, I'll wait for the switch for you, be careful in everything, and don't be reckless in everything to save your life." It's just that I don't know if this Yanmen Pass is still there when you come back, if the Yanmen is trapped, you can travel thousands of miles west from the north to Jiuquan. ”

"Thank you, my lord, if I can't find my brother, I won't come back, killing one is enough to kill two and earn one."

"Good posterity, if my Han is like this, why worry about being humble and immortal, come here! Fetch thirty pairs of leather armor! Young man, what do you say is your name? Who? ”

"Back to my lord, the boy Ma Yue, a native of Longxian County, Liangzhou."

Ye Wang gave Ma Yue and others thirty pairs of leather armor, originally he and Guan Yu and a few Qiang people had leather armor, but now almost all the team members have leather armor, and the chance of survival outside the pass is also greater.

The heavy gates of the city were opened, and the outside of the fortress was desolate, and the horses galloped for hundreds of miles without a human being. The village has become a deserted village, and months of war have caused the residents to pack their bags and hide inside the gates, and there is silence outside the city except for the horses' hooves under the crotches of the people.

After leaving the customs, it is different from the pass, thirty miles out of the pass, Ma Yue asked everyone to take the sword out of the sheath and wind the bow, they have entered the place where the Xianbei army haunts, and they may encounter danger at any time.

The area outside the customs is vast, and only the three counties are thousands of miles away, and it is no less difficult to find dozens of Han troops in a land of thousands of miles. Ma Yue's goal is very clear, where there is war and wolf smoke, they will go there, run when they encounter a large army of Xianbei, and kill them when they encounter a small force!