The military newspaper was sent from Dunhuang County.

The Dunhuang garrison found a large force of Rouran cavalry on the north bank of the Shule River, and it was roughly estimated that there were no less than 20,000 cavalry.

But the strange thing is that this Rouran army did not cross the river, and after wandering by the river for a long time, they returned to the south.

After reading the military report, Xin Er broke out in a cold sweat.

"Underestimate Pitan. He is clearly cultivating the plank road in the open, and Chen Cang in the dark. On the bright side, it is claimed to attack the West Sea and use the Wenshilan Department to contain our army; Secretly, its main direction of attack is Dunhuang. Xin Ergu said to Zhang Gui present, "Changling, what you worried about the day before yesterday has a root. Suspicious in his heart, he thought, "Pi Tan's main force is near Dunhuang in the west, how can Yuan Guang say that he is in the east of my Xihai City?" ”

Now is not the time to pursue this suspicion.

Xin Er groaned and said: "Pi Tan's plan has worked, at least until the arrival of the military report from Dunhuang, it has indeed deceived us and others." It's just that his main force has reached the north of Dunhuang, but why did he withdraw without a fight? Asked Zhang Gu and the others, "What do you think is the reason?" ”

Du Ya was also frightened, from the danger of Dunhuang being besieged by the main force of Rouran, and then thought of Xihai County, concerned about chaos, he was nervous, guessed randomly, and said boldly: "Could it be that the Rouran cavalry found in Dunhuang is actually a suspicious soldier?" Does Pi Tan want to coax our army to rush to aid Dunhuang, so that our West Sea will be empty and convenient for him to attack? ”

Koji Qiu said with a smile: "Soldier, although it is said to be deceitful, but with the foolish opinion of the ball, Du Fujun's concern seems to be redundant." ”

Duya asked, "Why?" ”

"The Dunhuang military newspaper said clearly that what was found was '20,000 captives'. Where would anyone take out 20,000 soldiers and horses as suspicious soldiers? ”

Duya thought for a moment and said, "What the Protector said is very true. ”

Zhang Gu opened his mouth and said: "General, the turtle thought that Pi Tan's strategy had worked, but he withdrew the army, and the reason was nothing more than two. ”

Xin Er asked, "Which two?" ”

"There has been a change in the country, one of them; There was an accident in the Pitan army, and there were two of them. ”

Beigong Yue hung his arms, bowed down, and said, "What Zhang Senjun said is right. The last general also believed that the withdrawal of Pitan must be due to one of the two. General, the main force of Pi Tan is in Dunhuang, that is to say, in my Xihai County, there is only the Hu Law Department under Wen Shilan's account, and the last general asked the general to give an order, begging for the general to pick Wen Shilan's head to offer! ”

Beigong Yue's nephew was shot by Wen Shilan's generals, Beigong Yue wanted to take revenge a long time ago, but he never had a chance, and now he had the opportunity to come impatiently to ask for battle.

Beigong Yue and Wen Shilan's grievances are known to Xin.

He thought in his heart: "The main force of Pi Tan has retreated, and Wen Shilan may have also withdrawn." Anyway, though, it's a rare fighter. If Wen Shilan hadn't withdrawn, she would have been able to get a share of the battle. ”

Xin Er thought of this and asked the two soldiers in the hall, namely Koji Qiu and Zhang Gui: "What do you discuss?" ”

Koji Qiu said: "Qiu is willing to fight Wen Shilan with General Beigong!" ”

Zhang Gu also agreed to attack.

Xin Er stood up, looked forward to everyone, pressed his sword and said: "Since I arrived in the West Sea, the enemy situation is unknown, and the officers and soldiers of the three armies are very suffocated. Today, the enemy situation is finally clear, and it is expected that all battalions will fight. General Beigong, your arm injury has not healed, and it is not good to ride a horse to fight, so you were wronged to cooperate with Du Fujun, and together with Fan Fujun and others, you guarded the city; Mingzong, I'll go out of the city with you to attack Wen Shilan! ”

Beigong Yue asked to fight again.

Xin Er soothed him and said, "General Beigong, I know your grudge against Wen Shilan. You just have to sit in the city, in this battle, as long as Wen Shilan does not withdraw, I will capture him alive and hand him over to you to vent as you please! ”

Although I haven't met Xin Er a few times, Xin Er treats people kindly, handles things fairly, and usually Xihai County needs military funds, as long as Beigong Yue reports to him, Xin Er never deducts, and sometimes overgives, because Beigong Yue still respects Xin Er.

Seeing that Xin Er took care of his own injuries and was not allowed to fight by himself, Beigong Yue had no choice but to give up.

Xin Er and Koji Qiu respectively ordered the cavalry of Yan Raid, Lan Baozhang and Bing Bo, Qu Nan Jianri, Zhang Jingwei and other cavalry, totaling about three or four thousand cavalry, and left the city in the afternoon of the same day. Cross the river and head straight north to find the chryspar orchid.

Wen Shilan's location changed from time to time, and the places where the scouts had been before were now empty.

I went around on the desert for two days, but I found nothing.

The border is vast, with many deserts and grasslands, especially Hujing, and almost no cities, which is completely different from fighting in the interior of the Central Plains.

To fight a war in the interior, it is enough to attack the fortresses. To fight a war on the desert, you must first find the enemy's traces, and if the enemy's traces cannot be found, it will be in vain.

In the original time and space, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing went deep into the desert and broke the Huns, and when I read it in the book, I felt that it was just the hard work of eating some wind and food, staying in the wilderness, and marching hard.

Standing in the yellow sand, looking at the blue sky, in the distance, several lines of geese fly in a herringbone shape.

A goose suddenly fell from the queue.

The cavalry in front shouted for joy, and I vaguely heard them shouting "Protector Divine Shooting"!

Needless to say, this must have been the koji ball with the bow to shoot, and the wild goose was shot by him.

Yuan Guang was in the army.

Xin Er beckoned him to come closer, and asked with a smile: "Yuanguang, you Hu people are good at riding and archery, compared to the archery skills of the Koji Guard, how are yours?" ”

Yuan Guang said with a smile: "Xiao Hu admires the virtuous saints of the Tang people, and often regrets that he was born in Huzhong, and he had to study since he was a child. ”

"Really?" Xin Er looked at him meaningfully.

Yuan Guang subconsciously wanted to bow his head, reacted in time, restrained his movements, met Xin Er's gaze, tried his best to make a calm appearance, and said, "Yes." ”

Xin Er didn't say anything more and smiled.

I searched for another day on the desert, but I still found nothing.

On the morning of this day, Koji Qiu came to the Chinese army from the front, saw Xin Er, and said: "General, it's not a way to turn around like this." ”

"What do you do?"

"We scattered the scouts, and after looking for three days, we didn't find Wen Shilan, maybe Wen Shilan has already run away."

Xin Er nodded and said, "Yes, there is a possibility." ”

"Thousands of us rode out of the city, and we went back empty-handed, which is not very good-looking. I see, if you don't do it, you don't stop doing it, just give up Wen Shilan, and don't look for him anymore, it's better to go straight to the border of the North Captivity, break a few of its beards, and capture some herdsmen, sheep and horses, which can be regarded as a harvest. ”

Xin Er said in his heart: "Xiao Koji's words, there is a good comparison, and the thief is not disappointed." "I think so.

The two hit it off, so they no longer looked for the trace of Wen Shilan, and passed north to Juyanze, traveled less than two hundred miles, and entered the border of Rouran.

The Huluo in the border land of Rouran are mainly other tribes and affiliated tribes of Rouran.

Previously, when Pi Tan summoned the Hu soldiers of his subordinate departments, these border Hu Luo also produced a lot of strong men.

They knew that Rouran was going to attack the West Sea, one moment, they were still invaders, and the next moment, they became invaders.

Xin Er and Koji Qiu were bold and enterprising, fought carefully, entered the border of Rouran, did not immediately move troops, and sent the sentinels to scatter to inquire about the situation of the Hu tribes along the border. Soon, the intelligence of the sentinels was gathered at Xiner and Kojiqiu.

"I said that Pi Tan's plan had worked, but how could he withdraw his troops in a hurry, it turned out that the Khan of Rouran had died!"

The Rouran Khan acted perversely, did many evils, killed important ministers, and finally led to a rebellion in the country.

A few days ago, several "adults" of the Rouran royal court conspired together to poison him to death, and then embraced the town marshal of Rouran in the east to become the new khan.

The reason why Pi Tan hastily withdrew his troops was because he learned of this news.

Pi Tan fought Dunhuang, it was to compete for the position of Khan, it is unknown, a mountain is higher than a mountain, but the town commander of the eastern Rouran colluded with the important ministers of the royal court, and took advantage of the opportunity for him to lead the troops to the south, leading the troops to the royal court, and succeeded to the position of the Khan.

The town marshal of Rouran in the east is Pi Tan's uncle, and the two are a family.

A family belongs to a family, and there is only one position for the Khan.

After hearing the news, he not only immediately withdrew his troops and gave up the completed plan, but also immediately raised the "banner of righteousness" to reprimand his uncle for plotting against the usurpation of the throne, and led his troops to the royal court to "suppress the chaos".

Xin Er and Koji Qiu looked at each other, and the two of them laughed out loud.

Koji Qiu smiled: "People are not as good as heaven." The chief of Pitan is cunning, but God helps me to set the west! Rouran civil strife, not only the danger of Dunhuang will be solved, but also the general and I will be able to return home this time! ”

Pi Tan was bent on competing with his uncle for the throne and power, and it was impossible to do without enough soldiers and horses, so none of the troops he had assembled before were repatriated, and he took them all to the royal court.

- Let's say, didn't Pi Tan think that he led his troops to the royal court to compete for the throne, if it was spread to Xihai County, was it very likely that Xihai County would go north to the border? Of course he thought of it. Wen Shilan also thought of it. Therefore, Wen Shilan once suggested that it was best to leave an elite army to guard the border to prevent captivity from the West Sea and the North. But this suggestion was rejected by Pitan.

Anyway, the Hu tribes in the border areas of Rouran are all other tribes and affiliated tribes, and they are not the headquarters of Rouran, and their life and death are not as important as competing for the throne. In this way, most of the beards in the Rouran border area are only the old and weak, women and children.

How can the old, weak, women and children be able to compete with the tiger and wolf division under Xin Er and Koji Ball?

For more than half a month in the next half month, Xin Er and Koji Qiu soldiers divided into two routes, one to the west and the other to the east, plundering the Rouran border.

At the beginning of September, the two met in the division of troops, calculated the capture, more than 10,000 people, hundreds of thousands of sheep and horses.

Although it is said that this is a weak entry, and there is no hard battle, and with this "result", it is enough to make a great achievement.

Loaded on.

Back in Xihai County, Xin Erben stayed here to let the troops rest for a few days, and as soon as he entered the city, Huang Rong, who stayed in the county, presented him with two letters. A letter with a signature was written by Cao Fei; One letter was not signed, only tightly sealed.

Xin Er opened Cao Fei's letter first, rode on the horse, and read as he walked.

Seeing the line, Xin Er's expression changed sharply.

Cao Fei is not very literate, his past letters, often ghostwritten by his staff, this one is written by his own hand, the handwriting is ugly, the tone is vulgar, the letter reads: "Agua! Big things are not good. The day before yesterday, the king shot hunting, fell off his horse, and has not woken up in a coma! ”

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