Within the territory of Tongzhou.

After the bruises on Li Rui's legs were pushed away by Master Jiang, he only rested for a day before starting to go on the road again.

Although Li Rui has never suffered since he was a child, let alone suffered, he is born with a resolute temperament, and if he wants to do one thing, he will grit his teeth and endure it, and he must persevere. Except for the first day, after he screamed because of leg twitching, he never complained of suffering or tiredness.

Li Rui and Mr. Du came to Tongzhou because the imperial envoy sent by Tongzhou to help the victims was Zhou Qing, the imperial historian of the Yushitai. The rebellion of the King of Qiyang back then was the clue that the imperial envoy saw, carefully verified, and found the clues later.

This person also jumped on the "Imperial History" by virtue of this incident, if it weren't for his background is really not high, and there is no help, I'm afraid that the current Imperial History Doctor is him.

This Lord Zhou has served as an official in the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, and is proficient in investigation and interrogation skills. Du Jin was in the imperial envoy team with the relationship of Li Mao, the Duke of Xinguo, and returned to his hometown together, and had a very good relationship with this Lord Zhou on the road, and both sides thought that the other party was a talented person, and they could agree on some points of view.

The most important thing is that this imperial envoy and Du Jin's wife are still fellow villagers.

When it comes to the nostalgia in the middle, the relationship is more intimate.

Although Li Rui's family is prominent, he is white, and there is no way to ask those officials and soldiers to help find out the news of his uncle. The Holy Lord will only send spies to investigate, but he does not want to make a big fuss, and there is no news of his uncle's disappearance leaking out at present, indicating that the Holy Lord is not willing to act rashly.

Li Rui could understand the thoughts of these people, but he couldn't accept the fact that he could only sit in the mansion and wait. That's why after asking Mr. Du, I took my family out of Beijing.

At the beginning, there was no internal and external report on his uncle's patrol, but he was temporarily ordered to leave Beijing in a hurry, and he was cautious along the way, but in this way, he was discovered and disappeared, which shows that there are indeed people who are watching the affairs of Fenzhou and Tongzhou, so they prevent the government from interfering. No one else in this world would dare to take a huge risk to kill his uncle, unless he wanted to rebel.

So they found Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing went to Tongzhou Mansion because the saint wanted to use his ability to peel off the cocoon to sort out the complicated relationship between the Tongzhou officials and the big clan behind him.

Unlike other disaster relief officials, he not only travels back and forth to various relief sites, but also frequently visits the residences and offices of some officials, and even visits from the private sector.

When Li Rui and Du Jin and his party came to Luxing, the capital of Tongzhou Prefecture, they pounced.

They waited at Zhou Qing's residence for a long time before finally waiting for Zhou Qing who came back.

Zhou Qing saw that he got along very well on the road, and agreed to meet his new friend Du Jin Du Dongsheng in the capital again, and asked to see him, in addition to being happy, he was also very puzzled.

This man also said goodbye to him when he returned to Beijing, and not long after, he came to Tongzhou again......

"Brother Dongsheng, obviously you have returned to Beijing, why did you return to your hometown again?" Zhou Qing greeted Du Jin in the hall of the post house with a smile, "Huh? This kid next to you looks so handsome, could it be that some of your nephews brought me to meet me? ”

Could it be that he sees that he has a good relationship with him, so he wants to take the opportunity to seek a future for his son and nephew, or ask himself to take him as an apprentice? If this is the case, then whether this Du Dongsheng still wants to make friends or not, you have to think about it again.

When Du Jin saw Zhou Qing say this, he knew that he had misunderstood him. But he didn't care, when they had been friends for many years and still had discord, not to mention that they just hit it off at first sight, and they couldn't talk about making friends.

Du Jin shook his head, "How dare I call this son's elder, this is one of my disciples......"

"Disciple?" Zhou Qing was taken aback.

Du Jin was teaching the children of the Xinguo Mansion in Beijing, so he came from Beijing and brought his disciples......

Du Jin saw that Zhou Qing couldn't stop looking at Li Rui, so he smiled and stroked his beard and said:

"Lord Zhou guessed right, this is Li Rui, the grandson of Old Guogong Li and the nephew of the current Guogong."

Zhou Qing looked at Li Rui in disbelief, not understanding what Du Jin was bringing this to Tongzhou, which was still causing trouble.

Li Rui saw that the introduction had also been introduced, and the greetings had also been greeted, so he couldn't help but walk out from Du Jin's side, gave Zhou Qing a junior salute, and said:

"Lord Zhou, the boy's uncle disappeared on the way to inspect the Fenzhou Racecourse, so the boy took the liberty to come and ask the adults for help."

Li Rui likes to listen to his grandmother talk about "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and those strategists and masters have always been straight to the point when they speak, and then slowly reveal the clues. He was greatly influenced by this, and he also spoke in a "surprising" style.

That Zhou Qing was really shocked, and asked in a detailed voice, Li Rui told Zhou Qing the news he heard from his grandmother one by one, including why his uncle went out of Beijing, more than 100 elite soldiers protected his uncle, but everyone disappeared in the border of Luliang, and a senator was detained in the racecourse, and there was a stalemate in the local area, etc.

Li Rui has entered a period of voice change, and he will think carefully in his heart before talking to others, so as not to make mistakes, and try to explain the topic concisely and concisely when speaking, just to avoid saying too many mistakes in the voice of this male duck, and do it again to make people laugh.

The more Zhou Qing listened, the more shocked he became, and the more he listened, the more he felt that there was a big conspiracy in it.

He has been in the Yushitai for almost ten years, so he naturally knows how complicated the situation of Dachu is now, the relationship between the original clan and the nobles and the current saints is slowly moving forward in a very dangerous balance, and now it involves rebellion, maybe the Great Chu, which was built up with great difficulty, will fall apart all of a sudden.

These clans don't care who is sitting on the throne, and whoever can bring the greatest benefit to the family behind them, they will help whomever they want.

Zhou Qing pressed the fear in his heart and looked at Li Rui carefully.

"Li Rui, are you the son of the late Li Meng, the political affairs of Pingzhang?"

"Yes, my father is Li Meng."

"How old are you?"

"The kid is just fourteen this year." Li Rui bowed, "For the sake of the Xinguo Mansion and the people of Dachu, please go to Fenzhou and carefully investigate the matter of the racecourse." ”

'In ancient times, there were 12 Ganluo as the phase, and now there is Li Rui 14 out of Beijing to save his uncle, and he is really a tiger father without a dog. Master Li has descendants, and if he knows about it, he will be greatly relieved. ’

Zhou Qing sighed in his heart. He was surprised to hear that Li Rui was only fourteen years old. When he saw the appearance of this son, he thought that he was at least sixteen years old, but when he asked, he had just reached the age of fourteen, and he was not an adult.

With such courage and eloquence at the age of fourteen, isn't it a tiger father without a dog?

He felt in his heart that the Xinguo Mansion was a heroic martyr, and he did not want to chill his descendants, and the Imperial Historical Observatory originally had the responsibility to supervise various places, so he had an unshirkable responsibility for this matter. So he said to Du Jin and Li Rui with a straight face:

"Li Rui, Brother Dongsheng, don't worry, when I make a little arrangement, I will immediately set off with the Chinese army and go to Lingyuan County to find out."

Zhou Qing looked at the surprised expressions of the two and smiled again:

"I went out of Beijing this time and brought a thousand Chinese troops, and the saint instructed me to act cheaply, originally because I was worried that the local clan would make a move, so it happened to be 'acting cheaply'."

Du Jin naturally knew about this, and he asked Li Rui to come to Zhou Qing, of course, not only for Zhou Qing's talent, but because he had a thousand Chinese troops behind him.

If it weren't for the 1,000 Chinese troops, how could these local officials be so happy to open warehouses and release grain, and so actively cooperate? A 'cheap act', if they disobey the order, Zhou Qing can be cut first and then played, and after returning to Beijing, at most, he will be questioned and fined for a few months.

Li Rui couldn't help but be greatly encouraged when he saw that the trip was so smooth.

This time out of Beijing is really right!

If he is anxious at home with his grandmother and younger brother, how can he help his uncle in the slightest? If it is said that it is to inquire about the news indiscriminately, it may attract the attention of people with a heart, and it will also cause trouble to the house.

You have to know that the person behind Mama Liu hasn't been found yet!

In addition, the spies who entered the Jiang Mansion that Wang Youzi said were also extremely suspicious. Jiang Mansion and Jin State Mansion have been very close, and since the old State Communion was sick and recuperating, the new Jin State Duke has made all kinds of difficulties for his uncle, obviously unwilling to have another person of the same weight as him in the court.

If these forces knew about his uncle's danger and took the opportunity to attack, I am afraid that his uncle would be in ten dangers, and he would have become twelve or fifteen points.

Li Rui saw that Zhou Qing agreed to investigate the matter, and gave Zhou Qing a big salute, and was about to take Du Jin to turn around and go out.

Zhou Qing was quite surprised to see that Li Rui did not go with him.

"Why don't you come with me, if you're going to look for your uncle? It's too dangerous for a teenager to go out with only a few generals. ”

Li Rui saw that Master Zhou cared about him, and he was grateful, and replied seriously:

"My lord, it's not that the kid doesn't trust the adult, but there is speculation that my uncle may have been captured by the nomadic tribe of the grassland outside Fenzhou and demanded a ransom from Dachu. Although this speculation is not convincing, even if there is even the slightest possibility, the kid must always try his best to investigate. ”

"The boy's brother-in-law served in the border pass of Liangzhou, and was familiar with the situation of the Hu people in Liangzhou and Fenzhou, so the boy wanted to borrow some soldiers who were proficient in Hu from his uncle and inquire carefully among the herdsmen in Fenzhou. If he is really captured by the Hu people, he will ask for a ransom, and the boy will give him a ransom, and he will ask for other things, and the boy will consult with them again. ”

"Anyway, always try."

Li Rui's face was full of determination, and he was now running around on his own, all with a sulk in his heart.

It was as if they had offended a god in the heavens, and every time they saw that they were going to prosper, there was always a pair of invisible hands that extinguished everyone's hopes.

First his grandfather suffered a stroke and was bedridden, and then his father was poisoned by an arrow, and now the only family member is about to gradually establish himself in the court of Da Chu, but he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead.

If the sky is really unkind, he will have to spell it out more and more. No matter how God suppresses the Li family, they will not fall easily. Grandfather went and father, father went and uncle, if the uncle is also unlucky, the Li family still has him, there is a younger brother, unless God wants to destroy their whole house, otherwise they must break this fate!

Li Ruizhi said that he would never be a weak person in his life.

Because he was not willing, he did not want to be mediocre, and he could not slack off.

If Zhou Qing only admired him when he saw him before, now he listens to his determination again, it is already admiration.

When Li Rui said that he wanted to go to the grassland to find the traces of Xinguo Gong, Zhou Qing felt a sharp momentum from this young man.

It was the momentum of the sword coming out, chopping the wind and cutting the waves.

Zhou Qing stared at Li Rui for a moment and applauded.

"Okay, good, at such a young age, with such a great determination, Zhou admires it very much. You are determined to save your relatives, I won't stop you, but you are just going on the road with your bare hands, which is inevitably a little dangerous. ”

He paused, finally made up his mind, and said in one go:

"The Chinese army that escorted me out of Beijing was equipped with fifty sharp weapons of the Ministry of Industry's 'Shenji Crossbow', which could fire five crossbow arrows in a row each time, which was extremely powerful and quickly loaded, and it was an artifact for self-defense and killing. I will go back to the lord without permission, go to the Nalang general, and ask them to lend you ten of these magic crossbows, and then equip you with crossbow arrows. You don't have an official position, and you're not a hunter, so you can't bring bows and arrows into the city, these crossbows are easy to hide, and it's best to defend yourself......"

Zhou Qing's words made Li Rui overjoyed, and he thanked him repeatedly, even Du Jin didn't expect such an unexpected surprise.

The crossbow is the country's heavy weapon, the crossbow arrow is not like the bow and arrow, it can be quickly started without long-term training, and it is easy to carry, if it is not for the complexity of the crossbow machine production, the cost is too high, if the whole army is equipped with such an artifact, why worry about the border pass?

Zhou Qing took Li Rui's hand and led their generals to the camp of the Chinese army.

It is also a coincidence that Yu Wei of the old prince is still there, and this time it is Li Rui who came, and the trip went very smoothly.

The Chinese army was once the most elite unit led by Li Laoguogong, and later Li Laoguo handed over the military power and handed these elites into the hands of the first emperor, which became the most relied on strength of the two generations of emperors of the Chu family.

The general Lang of the Chinese army who went out of Beijing this time was also the old department of Li Laoguogong, and when he heard that he wanted to use a crossbow machine to protect Li Rui's safety, he only hesitated slightly, and readily agreed.

He even unloaded his magic crossbow and put it on Li Rui's left arm, teaching him how to load the crossbow arrow, how to aim, how to turn off the engine, and how to fire it without using the other hand. He taught carefully, and the people listened carefully, and for a while there was only the voice of the general in the camp who spoke.

The generals of the Xinguo Mansion couldn't help but rejoice in their hearts.

They are all veterans on the battlefield, who only retired after the world was calmed down, and they also looked down on the battlefield back then, stabbing countless enemies. Now that they are grateful for their old kindness, they have become the generals of the Li Mansion, and they are protecting the grandson of the old lord when they go out of Beijing, so they naturally dare not relax.

It's just that they only brought soft swords and short blades, and they didn't even have a chopping weapon, and if they were attacked, they were afraid that the little master would have a chance.

It doesn't matter if they die, if even Li Rui is lost, he really can't even die.

This magic crossbow is the work of the Ministry of Industry for ten years of research and improvement, and it has taken countless people's painstaking efforts, and this kind of equipment can now be lent to them for use, and there is a little more guarantee in safety, not to mention that these warlike people can use this legendary weapon with their own hands, how can they not be overjoyed?

Li Rui and his entourage exchanged shotguns in Tongzhou, so they said goodbye to Zhou Qing, the general of the Chinese army, and others, turned around and headed northwest, and went straight to Liangzhou.

Fenzhou grassland.

Li Mao followed a group of people to gallop south desperately, not daring to slack off in the slightest.

When he really got out of the tent group of the Qianren, Li Mao realized how ridiculous what he said before. If he really gave him a horse to return to the Han by himself, I am afraid that he would have lost his way on the first day and walked into the encirclement of the enemy.

In this vast grassland, the left and right look are almost the same, the sky is so vast, the earth is so wide, and there is usually not a single landmark to be found on the empty horizon. If it weren't for the sun in the sky, he wouldn't be able to tell the direction at all. But what if it happens to be cloudy? He was afraid that he would not even be able to walk.

"Why do you go to the south, the fewer herdsmen you meet?" Li Mao shouted loudly on the horse and asked Suluk beside him.

"Because the Han people encircled the pastures, they drove the herdsmen to the west and north!" Suluk also shouted and said: "The sight of ten thousand horses galloping is really terrifying, if you don't dodge, the horses will trample people and tents together, and then even your life will be gone, it is better to migrate!" ”

Li Mao listened to Suluk's explanation and nodded.

They drove the people away, not only for the purpose of enclosing the racecourse, but also for the fear that they would find out that the racecourse was not right, and inadvertently leak out of the racecourse. The farther away they are from the Han people, the less they will come into contact with the Han Chinese, and the less they can speak the language, the secret will be kept secret.

Han Chinese don't haunt the grasslands very often.

"Chief, there is a Han squad of about fifty people in front of three hundred horses!" A young man stood on a horse, made a roof of his hand, and reported to Suluk in the Karma language.

Suluk turned his horse's head, "Everyone go northeast to dodge, and then change direction to the south!" ”

They changed direction and avoided this group of Chu soldiers, only to find that there were more Chu soldiers to the south. They gathered together, patrolling on all sides, seeing that there was no way to avoid it.

Li Mao's heart was cold.

He estimated that these people knew that he was definitely not dead, and thought of a way to return to Fenzhou, so he simply blocked the passage to the south, and as long as there were people who went to the south, he would carefully investigate.

Unless he can fly away, he will definitely be able to find out.

There were only about five hundred people chasing him, but now on this grassland, the number of people he saw was far more than five hundred, not counting the nearly fifty people they had killed before.

Who the hell are these people? How many troops are there? What do you want to do?

Da Chu is now peaceful in all directions, even if they want to start a war, even if they have tens of thousands of troops, it is the fate of being suppressed in an instant, why did they choose such a place as Fenzhou Racecourse as a stronghold?

Li Mao's mind was full of suspicions, which almost interfered with his normal longitudinal horse, and several times he almost crashed into the horse of the young man in front of him.

Seeing that Li Mao was so depressed, Suluk thought that he was worried that he would not be able to return to the south, so he comforted him repeatedly: "Don't worry, Lord Li, it's really not good, just fight a bloody way!" The Han people do not understand the grassland as we do, and they are not necessarily our opponents! ”

Li Mao saw that Suluk was not afraid at all, and he was a little ashamed in his heart.

Even these people who escorted him put life and death out of the question, how could hesitation, as a protected person?

Li Mao nodded heavily at the moment and said sharply: "Okay!" Since they want to block us, then we will fight our way out. Suluk, just work hard to kill the enemy, don't worry about my safety, although I am not skilled in martial arts, but I still have the ability to defend myself. ”

He patted the crossbow on his arm. "With this thing in hand, I can protect myself, you can give it a go."

Seeing that Li Mao was so confident, Suluk let out a long roar, pointed to the hundreds of Chu troops in front of him, and shouted in Chinese language: "Children, we have been expelled by the Han people of these horse farms for too long, and we have almost forgotten the bloody ...... in our hearts."

"Now is the time to regain your dignity! Let them see that the people are not cattle and sheep that can be driven at will! ”

"Yo oh oh oh!"

"them!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

Suluk galloped forward with more than 100 people behind him, they turned over on the side of the horse, let their bodies cling to the horses, hid their figures, controlled the horses with their legs, tightened the bowstrings, tightly clasped the long arrows in their hands, and drove the horses to the Chu army in front.

This team of the Han people is the "Wind Department" where Feng Si Feng Wu is located, and they are a team of 12 people, with a total of 50 teams, a total of 600 people. Feng Si was the elite of the first team, but he died in the hands of the people for no reason, and then three or four squads were sent out one after another, and there was no trace, and he didn't dare to disperse the team more.

They also thought that Li Mao was sheltered by the Hu people, but they didn't know which Hu people Lu Dao was, and they didn't dare to provoke every tribe, so they could only block in the south, hoping to wait for the rabbit and catch Li Mao's "fat rabbit".

The wind part is patrolled day and night, and these 300 of them are the ones who patrol during the day, and there are brothers from the "rain department" and "thunder department" patrolling further south and west, and it is difficult to fly with the wings of Li Mao.

A soldier in the wind department pointed to a pile of horses in front of him and shouted, "Look, what is that?" ”

The scout of the wind department raised his head, squinted and looked at it carefully, and said with a smile: "It's a group of wild horses galloping, and there is no one right away." ”

The soldiers of the Wind Department were very happy to hear this, and the wild horses in this grassland are rare, especially in winter.

Are these horses trying to go south for the winter?

If they catch these wild horses, they will be able to have hundreds more horses, and even if they don't keep them for their own use, they can sell them for money or give them to the generals.

Thinking of this, these people's eyes lit up, and a few of them immediately unbuckled their belts, wrapped several belts into a ferrule, and said with a smile: "Brothers, the time has come to get rich!" Let's go and set up the horse! ”

As soon as he said this, everyone unbuckled their trouser belts and prepared to make rings, but as soon as they untied their trouser belts, they began to realize that something was wrong.

This horse did not avoid people, but ran straight at them!

The force of the wild horse collision is terrifying, these people have also been training in the grassland for a long time, and they are not rookies who know nothing about the grassland, and immediately the belt of the trousers is not untied, and the pants are not mentioned, and they have to change the direction to avoid pulling the reins of the horse.

Before their reins could shake off, a multitude of figures suddenly appeared above the wild horses, dressed in fur garments and holding longbows......

"It's a Karma! Raid! ”

At this time, it was too late to shout again, and the sharp arrows of the Qiang people had already been shot out at close range, and the arrows of the Qiang people were extremely accurate, and countless soldiers of the Chu army were shot off their horses. After shooting only one arrow, they threw their longbows under their horses, drew their scimitars and other weapons, and continued to charge at the galloping horses.

The scimitar carried the tremendous momentum of the horses and struck at the remaining men on the opponent's horses. These men were either split in half or their heads cut off, and the Qianren who passed through the ranks of the Chu army wiped out three hundred cavalry like lightning, without even a single casualty.

The horses of the Karma trampled over the corpses left behind, trampling them into fleshy corpses, and the resentment that had been pent up in their breasts for a long time was finally vented through this killing!

Suluk laughed loudly at the sky, and the laughter was so relaxed and joyful, so heroic, that the young men of the Karma people heard the big laugh of the leader, and their original worries and fears were swept away, and they all laughed with the big man.

When Li Mao drove his horse to the place where the two sides had fought, what appeared in front of him was the scene of this group of people riding horses, stepping on the corpses of the Chu army, and laughing loudly at the sky.

For some reason, Li Mao not only did not feel a trace of relief, but instead felt a strong uneasiness in his heart.

These people are so good at fighting, so good at fighting that people are jaw-dropping.

Seeing their hideous and ferocious appearance, Li Mao subconsciously drove his horse back a few feet, trying his best to observe them from a distance.

In the past, they were oppressed by the Han people because the Han people were powerful, but now in this war, they have realized that although there are many Han people, they are not terrible.

If Da Chu can't find a way to domesticate them, who knows that these people won't be another chaotic Hu people in the coming year?

The catastrophe brought about by the invasion of the Central Plains by the Hu people in the previous dynasty has already exceeded all the deaths of the Han people during the change of dynasties in the past few hundred years, and the entire land of Shenzhou has not completely recovered to life.

No, it can't be like this, he can't let out another tiger.

Whether it is to woo, divide, or intermarry, even if it is to give them land so that they can live in the pass......

These people must not be allowed to grow on the grassland in the future!

The author has something to say: Therefore, the existence of Gu Qing once again changed the history of the Han people.

Small Theatre:

After the people left, the people of the rain department found the dead colleagues while patrolling.

Forget that the death is terrible, the point is ......

What is the bare ass for? What about the waistband?