During the Anshi Rebellion, the frontier garrisons were transferred back to the Central Plains to fight, and the Tubo and Hui took the opportunity to send troops to occupy Anxi, Hehuang and most of the Hexi Corridor, which were empty.

The Tibetans and the Hui had been engaged in a protracted war for the vast Western Regions, and they had no time to take care of the lands of Longyou, Hehuang, and Hexi, so they handed them over to their agents.

The Tuyuhun people are the agents of the Tubo people, and they currently occupy the southern part of Longyou and the Hehuang region, while the five prefectures of Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou, Guazhou and Shazhou in the Hexi Corridor are occupied by the Shatuo people who have joined the Hui and belong to the sphere of influence of the Hui people.

Zhangye City was on the edge of the Shatuo people's sphere of influence, with 6,000 Tang troops stationed in the city, while the Shatuo people in the north were eyeing the fertile grasslands of southern Ganzhou and Liangzhou.

In late April, Ganzhou is still full of spring, the woods are covered with lush emerald green, and flocks of small birds happily fly over the grasslands and trees, enjoying the breath of spring and looking for a new home.

A bird of prey hovers in the sky, falling from time to time to prey on lone birds.

On the endless grassland, an official road is stretching straight into the distance, and from time to time there will be a convoy of horses and camels passing by on the official road, at this time, behind a carriage full of grain, Guo Song is sitting in a corner of the cart, looking at the vast grassland and the snow-capped Qilian Mountain in the distance.

He had been on the road for half a month, and it was easy for him to find food and water in the wilderness, so when he was tired of walking, he took a car to rest for a while.

From Liangzhou, there are fewer and fewer farmlands, more and more grasslands, and after entering Ganzhou, there are not many Han people, mainly grazing Qiang people, and only farmland can be seen near Zhangye City.

"Dao Chief, Zhangye Cheng continues to move forward, I'm going to Baitinghai, we've scored."

There is a fork in front, one to the north is to go to Xiutu Lake and Baitinghai, there is the Tang army guarding the military city, and the carriage is to go there to deliver grain.

If Guo Song wanted to go to Zhangye City, he had to continue westward along the official road.

Guo Song jumped out of the carriage, hugged his fists and saluted: "Old donor, thank you!" ”

When the old coachman saw that he was a monk and a monk, he reminded him: "The Taoist chief should try not to leave the official road, because there have been horse bandits on the grassland recently, and they are very ferocious."

"Are there a lot of bandits?"

"Not much, but if they encounter it, they will die, they generally do not come to the official road, for fear of bumping into officers and soldiers, and they generally haunt the grassland."

"Thanks for the reminder!"

The carriage left, Guo Song stretched out two fingers and whistled in his mouth, and the eaglet in the sky circled down and landed on his shoulder.

Guo Song smiled at Xiaoying: "It is said that the grassland is more dangerous, but we have to find food, and there is no way to do it, isn't it?" ”

The eaglet flapped its wings and flew towards a forest more than twenty miles away, where there seemed to be a small river.

Guo Song immediately cheered up and ran towards the woods more than 20 miles away.

It's a pine forest, and this season, there should be mushrooms, grouse, and even a herd of deer in the woods.

Guo Song's mind already had the scene of chicken stewing mushrooms and barbecue venison, which made him even hungrier.

As he approached the pine forest, he realized that it was a very large forest, covering at least hundreds of hectares, and that a clear river meandered from the forest.

Guo Song waved his hand to the eaglet above his head and plunged into the pine forest.

The light in the pine forest is relatively dark, and there is a thick layer of pine needles under his feet, he saw a Ganoderma lucidum at a glance, growing on the trunk of a big pine tree, this discovery immediately surprised and delighted him, he had picked Ganoderma lucidum several times in Kongtong Mountain, this dark red Ganoderma lucidum is at least fifty or sixty years old, and it is definitely a good thing to take it to the master to dispense medicine.

He drew the short dagger he had with him, which Gan Lei had given him, and it was very sharp and sharp, which he used to dig mushrooms and kill fish.

Guo Song carefully cut off the roots of the lingzhi and put it in his backpack, and he continued to walk along the river towards the depths of the pine forest, hoping to encounter another lingzhi.

At this moment, he suddenly heard the crying and pleading of a woman in front of him, Guo Song was stunned for a moment, his steps were light, he walked forward step by step, bypassing a bush, two horses appeared in front of him, there was a saddle on the horse's back, there were weapons, and then looked down, Guo Song suddenly saw a scene that made his eyes crack, there was a thick blanket on the ground, two men held down a woman who was doing animal things, just now this woman was crying.

Guo Song was furious, and the short dagger in his hand flew out, with great power, and the cold light flashed, 'Poof! The sound actually pierced through the forehead of the man opposite.

The man screamed and fell to the ground on his back, and the other bearded man was taken aback, and when he looked back and saw Guo Song, he threw away the woman, jumped up like a monkey, and threw himself naked towards the war horse.

At this time, Guo Song was in a trance, he just realized that he had killed someone, and the man was inserted into his forehead with his dagger just now, can he still live?

The man jumped on a horse, and Guo Song came to his senses, and immediately pulled out the long sword behind him and threw himself at the man.

The man took out his horse sword, turned the horse's head and slashed at Guo Song, but he slashed the air with a knife, Guo Song dodged and pierced the man's thigh with a sword, the man screamed, and galloped with the horse.

The man's equestrian skills were amazing, and when Guo Song jumped high and was about to slash him off the horse with a sword, he found that the man was gone.

Guo Song was stunned for a moment, watching the war horse gallop away, and then he saw that the man was naked under the horse's belly, no wonder he didn't see it.

After the war horse had galloped more than twenty paces, the man turned around and returned to the horse, and as soon as he urged the war horse, the war horse jumped high over the river and ran out of the forest.

Guo Song couldn't take care of him for the time being, turned to look at another person, the other person fell to the ground on his back, his eyes were round, his mouth was wide open, he looked at the sky blankly, a dagger was stuck in his forehead, Guo Song touched his snort, and he was already exhausted.

Guo Song panicked in his heart, although the man who was killed had a high nose and deep eyes, and he was not a Han from the Central Plains by looking at his appearance, but after all, he was very young, and he was actually killed by himself in anger, who is he?

Guo Song only felt that his heart was entangled in panic, and as soon as he turned around, a young woman was standing behind him, her coarse cloth dress had been hastily worn, her face was bloody, her hair was scattered, and her hands were ...... He was carrying a knife, and his eyes were full of grief and indignation.

Guo Song was so frightened that he hurriedly stood up and shouted, "I'm not with them, I'm just passing by here." ”

The woman suddenly pounced, but the target was the man on the ground, and she slashed and slashed with her sword, screaming like madness. Guo Song suddenly realized that this woman was not Han, she should be a local Qiang person, and she spoke the language of the Qiang people.

The woman cut off the man's head, and then slashed the man's lower body to pieces, so that she could not sit on the ground and wept aloud.

Guo Song was quite sympathetic in his heart, seeing that she was about twenty-six or seventeen years old, with rough palms, slightly dark skin, wearing coarse cloth dresses, and her family should not be wealthy, it is likely that she was taken by these two men here to vent her animal desires when she was grazing.

After a while, she got up and saluted Guo Song, saying something excitedly, as if she was thanking, but as if she was letting herself go quickly.

Guo Song suddenly woke up, did they still have accomplices, but they escaped one just now.

He hurriedly took the horse and let the woman get on it, and the woman turned over and pointed behind her, telling him to ride it too.

Although Guo Song had never ridden a horse, his balance was unparalleled in the world, and he jumped lightly on the horse, clamped the horse's hips between his legs, and grasped the saddle with his hands.

The woman urged the horse to run out of the woods, and ran out of the woods to the south, Guo Song almost fell off the horse several times, but he was steady.

At this moment, a low horn sound was suddenly heard in the distance, and I saw a dozen men in black on horseback approaching this side, and they were extremely fast, and soon they were less than three hundred paces away from them.

This can't be done, neither of them can escape, Guo Song jumped off the horse, and the woman hurriedly grabbed the reins and looked at the man in black who was getting closer and closer in horror.

"You go!"

Guo Song shouted at her and pointed to the forest again, "I went to the forest, they couldn't catch up!" ”

The woman understood what he meant, bit her lip, and urged the horse to gallop violently, and without Guo Song's drag, the horse's speed became extremely fast, and soon it ran away.

Guo Song turned around and ran wildly towards the forest, and more than a dozen men in black didn't care about the woman, all of them came from all directions to chase and kill Guo Song.

At this time, Guo Song felt the sound of wind behind his head, and on the side of his head, an arrow grazed his ear and hit the ground, and he felt a hot pain in his ear.

This is a big loss that he has never suffered, Guo Song was furious in his heart, pulled out his long sword, suddenly felt that something was wrong, and immediately jumped up, and two arrows shot from under his feet.

At this moment, another arrow came at his face with great force, and he swung his sword and split it, and the force of this arrow was so great that it shook his wrist with a faint pain.

More than a dozen men in black were like hunting a rabbit, constantly running with bows and arrows, shooting at him, the arrows were accurate, and the arrows hit him to the vital point.

Guo Song split more than a dozen arrows in a row, and as soon as he got close to a person, he immediately urged the horse to run away, not giving him a chance to fight, he picked up an arrow, but the other party was forty or fifty steps away, not within the range of his hidden weapon.

Guo Song had never been so passive as he was today, he was getting more and more depressed in his heart, and he suddenly shouted, "I won't play with you anymore!" ”

He rolled in the air and ran wildly towards the forest more than thirty paces away.

The man in black waved his hand to stop shooting, he changed his bow, pulled out a big feathered wolf's tooth arrow, the war horse ran gently, he pulled the bow suddenly, aiming at Guo Song's heart, with this bow, he never missed.

At this moment, a black shadow fell in the sky, and the iron claw grabbed him on the forehead, and the man in black led by an arrow missed, screaming, and blood flowed on his forehead.

All the black-clothed people were taken aback, and they all pointed to the goshawk in the air and shouted, seizing this gap, Guo Song threw a milk swallow into the forest, and his body disappeared in the forest.