After Xiao Tienu retreated, Zhi Yanchong asked about his origin.

Di Yu said: "This man is a famous horse thief!" It is very famous in the northern boundary of Saikyo Road. I heard that his mother was a Han female slave in Mongolia, and after being raped by a warrior in Mongolia, she fled back to Song State and gave birth to this child in the area of Yan'an Province. ”

Yang Yingqi sighed: "The Song people are the strictest in etiquette, and the mother and son are only afraid that they will have a bad time in Yan'an Mansion." ”

Di Yu nodded: "His mother should have died when he was a child, but he didn't know how to find out his father's identity, a child in his early ten years old actually sneaked out of the border and went to Mongolia to find his father." It is said that he resembles his father, and it is not necessary to believe that he is the son of the Mongol warrior. He had grown up in that tribe for two or three years, defeating several older brothers who were years older than him, but his father still refused to recognize him. So in a fit of rage, he killed his father and his father's wife......"

Zhe Yanchong and the others all sighed when they heard this, only to hear Di Yu continue: "Then escaped from that tribe, and several of his brothers chased after him, but they all died under his hands. ”

Zhi Yanchong and the others were thrilled to hear it, and Yang Yingqi said: "What happened later? He's a horse thief in this area? ”

"Hmm." Di Yu said: "At that time, he was only fourteen years old, and he gathered a group of people to plunder at the border of Xijing Road and Shangjing Road, and in only two years, he made a big name. He didn't want to take his father's surname, and he didn't want to follow his mother's surname, so he took a surname, surnamed Xiao. This guy is young, but he is not easy to deal with. One of his thieves is as good as the two of us below! ”

Orihiko rushed: "How many people are under him?" ”

Di Yu said: "There are only about a hundred people." There were less than fifty of them that day, and I guess the others were going to distract the guard of the ranch, and I think he was about to attack the ranch, but we preempted it. ”

Ouyang Shi said: "Not bad. Mr. Di's trick to confuse the enemy last night must have played some role, otherwise they were afraid that it would have come sooner. Without this rest in the morning, our men would not even be able to stand steadily, and they would have to be dispersed. ”

Orihiko groaned: "The next time they come, they are afraid that they will fall out of the nest." According to Mr. Di's estimate, 100 of them are worth 200 of us! ”

Ouyang Shi said: "But there are five hundred of us." ”

Zhi Yan said: "Among the five hundred people, there are still dozens of people who are not very capable of fighting, like those women, at most they can help with daggers when they are in danger. And although we got horses, most of us were essentially infantry, and their mobility was not as strong as theirs. When you first come to the desert, there is no need to make a big enmity, so you can avoid them or avoid them. ”

They did not dare to stay, and after a little rectification, they set out again. Di Yu led the way in front, bypassing several strongholds of the Liao State. Along the way, those who could not ride horses grew rapidly in the threat of life and death, and the people led by Cao Guangbi gradually changed from infantry scouts to cavalry scouts. Sister-in-law Gu and several other clever women were able to operate needles on horses, using furs and other items seized from the pasture to keep adding clothes to the five hundred people. Fortunately, the weather is getting warmer and warmer, and the spring is getting stronger, which makes these 500 people feel much better.

Along the way, Zhi Yanchong, Di Yu and Cao Guangbi stepped up the training of the five hundred people, although the progress of everyone was very fast, but after all, time was limited, Di Yu and the others talked in private, and they all felt that these people under their hands were inferior to Xiao Tienu's subordinates - because they lacked the experience of licking blood on horses after all. But the foundation of those dozens of captains and vice-captains is excellent, and more than half of them can be called elite.

On this day, Di Yu pointed to a deserted earthen city in front of him and said, "After this earthen city, it is a desert. The desert is not long from north to south, and the terrain is not treacherous, so we can go there. Beyond this desert, six hundred miles north, you can see the shepherds of the Ugu tribe. However, it is not very far from Shangjing of the Liao State, and it is 800 miles east and through Yikunzhou, so you should be careful of the Khitan cavalry. Let's settle down in this earthen city tonight, and leave tomorrow. ”

Once a trading staging point, the earthen city flourished more than a hundred years ago, but is now in decline. Di Yu speculated that the reason for the decline may be that the original water source of the earthen city had been exhausted.

Tucheng is not big, but it is enough to garrison this group of people. The walls were low, made of sand and hay, and had two gates, the front door to the west and the back gate to the east, but there were also five or six breaks in the wall.

Cao Guangbi shook his head secretly: "This earthen city can't be used for defense at all, if you attack it with fire, it will be burned clean with a fire." ”

Di Yu smiled: "This is not a military and political fortress in the first place. It is presumably built by herders or traders for trading. There's a shelter from the elements. ”

There is no water in the city. Di Yu said: "We only have enough water to last two days, and there is a water source in the northwest, and I will take twenty men and fifty horses to fetch it. ”

Yang Yingqi rummaged around in the earth city, and Yang Kaiyuan said, "What are you looking for?" Can't you find the treasure? ”

Yang Yingqi said: "That may not be impossible. Mr. Di said that this place was originally a trade point, and maybe there were some century-old red goods left. ”

"Come on, you. Look at these traces, there are still many people who have come after the fall of this earthen city, there are really treasures, your turn? ”

Yang Yingqi did not give up and observed carefully, but the beams here are low and the walls are thin, and there is really no possibility of sandwiching the wall.

Ouyang Shi looked at it and said with a smile: "You'd better look underground, in this kind of place, the possibility of digging the basement is very high." ”

Yang Yingqi said happily: "That's right. I really knocked inch by inch, and I don't know how long I looked for it, and finally knocked out an abnormality in a very remote corner, and said with great joy: "It's here!" "Pry open the floor, and sure enough, there's a hole in the ground.

Yang Kaiyuan smiled: "I really let you find it." ”

Yang Yingqi stretched out his feet and was about to go down, but suddenly stopped and pulled his feet back. Ouyang Shi said: "What? Scared? ”

Yang Yingqi said: "No, no one has entered this kind of place for too long, I'm afraid that there will be ...... inside." That miasma, wait for him to dissipate for a while. Cao Guangbi nodded and said, "You are so young, but you know more than adults!" ”

Ouyang Shi said: "The inventory in his stomach is not limited to these, you will know it slowly." ”

After waiting for half an hour, Yang Yingqi walked down, and when he went down, he found that the inside was not very dark, it turned out that the basement had holes in some places, and the light from the outside could come in, and the people inside could also see some of the situation outside.

This basement is really not small, and the vacant place can probably squeeze out more than 100 people, with dozens of buckets on one side, Yang Yingqi shook it in the past, feeling a little heavy, and said happily: "Sure enough, there is something!" It seems to be a liquid, but it is wine? When he opened the mud seal with a lid with a knife, a foul smell came to his nose, and he said, "Is that the thing?" He thrust a knife into the barrel, pulled it out and covered the lid, went outside to look in the sun, and said, "It's oil!"

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