The altitude of the West Sea is relatively high, and the northwest wind blows particularly strongly in winter.

However, the wide lake covered in silver gives people a fairyland-like feeling.

From time to time, swans fly in the air, making people forget about the harsh environment here.

"Fish, lots of fish!"

Xi Junmai couldn't help but scream.

And Wang Xuance covered his crotch and found that the attack on him was actually a fish weighing at least seven or eight catties, and he was speechless for a while.

Eating you at night is considered revenge.

"Lord Wang, this ...... It's amazing! Why do these fish jump out on their own? ”

Su Lie was also shocked, feeling that following Li Kuan on the expedition, he was constantly being refreshed every day.

And since the forward battalion cleanly won the cow heart pile, Su Lie has been convinced.

"Pass the order, let each team go and smash a hole by themselves, and everyone will eat fish tonight."

The Tuyuhun people do not eat fish, and the respective fish in the West Sea have been bred for thousands of years, although there are swans and other birds to catch, but the richness is definitely beyond everyone's imagination.

The West Sea has been freezing for three months since November, and the fish in the water have been in an extremely oxygen-deprived environment for so long, and now a few holes have popped up, and all of them are scrambling to drill into the holes.

Soon, the forward battalion caught several thousand fish, enough to eat for several days.

As night fell, the whole camp was filled with the smell of fish.

Grilled fish, or boiled fish.

Some soldiers who grew up in the north even ate fish for the first time in their lives, which can be regarded as a good addiction.

For the next two days, the entire forward battalion was around the edge of the West Sea towards Fu Qi City, and every day it was delicious fish and meat, and it was eaten directly until everyone didn't want to eat it.

"Lord Wang, twenty miles ahead is Fu Qi City, and the soldiers and horses of the Tuyuhun people were found not far outside the city."

Although Fu Yun fled westward, if there was no resistance at all, it would be very unfavorable to the morale of the army, and Fu Qi City was the capital after all, so he still left 10,000 soldiers and horses to snipe the Tang army outside the city.

The grassland people are not good at defending the city, although they learned to build the city with the Han people, but the city of Fu Qicheng is no more than two zhang high, or it is made of yellow clay, and it can't resist any attacks at all, so they don't think about resisting the Tang army on the city wall at all.

"Send someone to inform the Grand Governor, and we will go around from the side and directly pursue Fu Yun's army."

Li Kuan thought about it and felt that with 10,000 people, the forward battalion would be under a lot of pressure if it had to eat, and this kind of frontal combat could not give full play to the forward battalion's strengths.

Besides, after all, Fu Qi City is the capital city of Tugu Hun, and the political significance of capturing this city is still very great.

He has already won several victories one after another, and if he continues to grab war merits like this, it is difficult to guarantee that some generals will be unconvinced, and when the time comes, he will stumble on himself.

"Yesterday, the scout came to report that the chief personally led an army of 30,000 to follow us, the difference is two days' journey, do you consider joining forces with the army to destroy this team?"

Although Xue Li is Li Kuan's head of guards, the scouts of the forward battalion this time are also under his management, including the hot air team, which is also used as scouts.

"No, even if the army defeats this group of soldiers and horses, it will be delayed for at least a few days in Fu Qi City, and then Fu Yun will run away, we can't give him time to let him gather the surrounding tribes, let him fully feel the sense of crisis behind the chasing army, and let his strategic retreat turn into a rout."

Li Kuan was not worried that he would be attacked back and forth after bypassing Fu Qi City.

With Li Jing's military ability, even if he can't eat all of them, there is no problem in defeating them.

Where do these defeated armies still have the guts to take the initiative to provoke the forward battalions?

……

In the city of Liangzhou, Da Fei personally sent back a batch of captives and cattle, sheep and horses, and sold them to the Northwest Trade.

And Ma Zhou is also very powerful, and directly according to Li Kuan's instructions, he gave 30% of the income to Dafei.

In just one month, the worst members of the slave hunting team received more than 100 yuan.

This money is something that many people can't earn in their lifetime, and even some people have never seen so much money since they were young.

Thousands of troops buy horse bones.

Dafei is also arrogant, he didn't keep a penny, and distributed it all to his subordinates, in order to recruit more people as quickly as possible.

The prince has said it, but as long as the Tuyuhun people and the Tuyuhun tribes, the slave catchers can attack at will, and all the consequences will be counted on his head.

The Northwest Trade would underwrite all the slave catchers' spoils.

Originally, some young people in the tribe who were still watching saw that the members of the slave catching team had lived a earth-shaking life in just one month, and immediately signed up.

Dafei pulled up a team of more than a thousand people at once.

The composition of these people is very complicated, there are Xue Yantuo people, there are Turkic people, there are Dangxiang people, there are horse thieves, there are traders, and even some Tang rangers.

Along the route of the Tang Army's expedition, these slave hunters followed quickly behind, sweeping up the results like wolves.

……

Daming Palace Xuanzheng Palace.

Li Shimin looked at the twists and turns in front of him with a serious face.

This Li Kuan, don't you want to die?

He was alone and didn't pay attention to his own safety at all.

"Your Majesty, there is another piece of news, the Hundred Horsemen Secret Report that His Royal Highness the King of Chu supported the Hu people in Liangzhou to form a slave catching team, and it is said that this slave catching team is very active near Liangzhou."

Li Zhong cautiously added.

"Slave catchers?"

Li Shimin's face changed, although the slave trade is not illegal in Datang, there are even special provisions in Datang Law to protect the legitimate rights and interests of buyers.

However, the nobles will never touch it on the surface, and even secretly rarely touch it.

This is a typical lower-ninth-rate profession.

"Yes, but Your Majesty rest assured, this slave hunting team belongs to Xue Yantuo on the surface, and the leader is also a Xue Yantuo, but His Royal Highness the King of Chu is actually in control."

"Good manner, what is he doing with this slave hunting team?"

Li Shimin didn't think that Li Kuan was going to set up a slave hunting team for money, and his son was not such a short-sighted person, otherwise it would not be worth investing so much energy to pay attention to his affairs.

"It is said that these slave catchers are all active in the territory of Tuyuhun, and after the forward battalion captures a tribe, all the cleaning work is handed over to the slave catchers, and the Northwest Trade also buys all the slaves brought back by the slave catchers."

"What does Northwest Trade want to do? What do you want so many slaves for? ”

Li Shimin had a puzzled expression on his face.

"I heard that the cement workshop in Chang'an, the palace of the king of Chu, sent a lot of craftsmen to Liangzhou, and my subordinates guessed that His Royal Highness the king of Chu should build a cement workshop in Liangzhou City."

"Let the Baiqi Division increase the investigation in the direction of Liangzhou, and report to me at any time if there is a situation."

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