After entering the Wusun Ancient Road along the White Horse River for about dozens of miles, a snow-capped mountain blocked their way, and the guide smiled at Guo Song: "This is the Ayantian Mountain, also known as the White Mountain, which is the sacred mountain of the country of Qiuzi, originally there was snow above the mountainside, and it has melted a lot over the years, leaving only the snow on the top of the mountain." ”

Guo Song nodded, he remembered this mountain deeply, he pointed to the mountain forest next to him with a horsewhip and said: "I remember going up the mountain from the side, through the pine forest, and then going around the ridge of another big mountain, and I had to spend the night on the top of the mountain." ”

The guide smiled slightly: "It used to be like this, but now it is not needed. ”

He pointed with his hand ahead, "Do you see the river ahead?" It turned out that there was none, and a flash flood broke out a new channel, and this small river was formed. ”

Guo Song saw that there was a river two miles away that flowed into the White Horse River flowing from the east, and he said happily: "I'm still worried that the camels won't be able to pass, and of course it's best to go through the river valley." ”

The army turned around and headed west, following the new small river, and soon they came into a rocky beach on the left side of the river, on which huge rocks were scattered and clogged, and which had been washed away by the flash flood, while the right side of the river was relatively flat enough for people to walk, and on either side were high cliffs.

The army walked all the way north along the river valley, there was no road in front, and the water needed to continue walking, the river was very shallow, below the knee, but the river was icy to the bone, at this time everyone was cautious, there were spies walking in the front, the most afraid of the flash flood, if the flash flood broke out, their army would be completely explained here.

From entering the valley in the early morning, until it was dark, they finally walked out of the valley, and in front of them appeared an open field, with a large grassland, extending from the gentle slope to the mountain, and on the mountain was a large pine forest, and the soldiers cheered and ran towards the meadow, and when Guo Song turned around, he found that the Ayantian Mountain was already behind them, and it was a day's journey that was saved than when they had climbed the mountain ten years ago.

Guo Song ordered the whole army to camp and rest on the spot, more than a dozen bonfires were lit, and the surrounding was crowded with soldiers, they sat on the grass, roasted the fire to keep warm, drank water and gnawed dry food, and soon, the roasted mutton was delivered, each person was given a piece, sprinkled with minced salt and ate it big, and the mouth was full of oil, and the soldiers were full of praise.

It was late at night, and there were sentries standing guard all around, and the soldiers were wrapped in blankets and sleeping soundly by the campfire.

Early the next morning, the army simply packed up and continued its departure towards the north of the valley.

On this morning, they walked out of a valley again, and their vision was open again, and there were large alpine pastures with abundant pastures everywhere, and Guo Song saw a sparkling lake from a distance, and Wusun Lake had finally arrived.

There are still more than 20 families of Wusun herdsmen living here, and at this time, the guide brought a gray-haired old herdsman, whom Guo Song recognized at a glance.

"You're Achak!" Guo Song said in surprise.

The old herdsman was stunned for a moment, looked at Guo Song, and he slowly remembered, "Are you ...... General Guo ten years ago. ”

"That's me!"

Both of them were very happy, hugged tightly, and Guo Song smiled: "The old man is over eighty!" ”

The old herdsman smiled, "Eighty-three, deaf and blind, just a little hunchbacked, ready to live to be a hundred years old!" ”

Everyone laughed, Guo Song hurriedly asked him to sit down, and the old herdsman Achak smiled and said, "It turned out to be a little general, but now he has become a big general." ”

Li Bing said on the side: "My envoy is now the protector of the Northwest Court of Anxi, and he has just recovered Anxi, and now he has gone north to clean up Shatuo." ”

Achak was startled, got up and knelt down, Guo Song helped him and forced him to sit down, "We are old friends, don't be so polite." ”

Achak sighed: "Not long ago, my grandson went to Tingzhou to sell sheep, they were looking forward to the arrival of the Tang Army, and their eyes were looking forward to it. ”

"Old man, how is the Hui army outside?"

"Now there are much fewer Hui troops on the Beiting side than before, I heard that their royal tent migrated to the Mobei grassland, and the army also passed, there are only a few thousand people in Beiting, mainly on the Huangcaobo side, Beiting is mainly Shatuo people, you go from the valley, and you will soon see the Shatuo people in the military city at the mouth of the valley."

"How many troops are there?"

"Not much, just about a hundred people, and then all the way over, there are many small military forts in Shatuo, but there are very few garrisons, dozens or more than a hundred, and the original territory of the Hui people has been given to them."

"Why are the Hui people so generous?" Next to him, Li Bing asked puzzledly.

Guo Song smiled and said: "Hui Hui needs Shatuo to resist the eastward expansion of the Qarluq people for it, plus their power has moved eastward to the Mobei grassland, so he will gradually hand over the Beiting area to the Shatuo people." ”

"The general is right, and the Hui people themselves said that they don't want to deal with Gelulu, so they should go back to the prairie and hand over Gelulu to the Shatuo people to deal with."

Achak said that the situation is basically the same as Guo Song expected, the retreat of Hui to Mobei, there will definitely be a war with Sijie for the Golden Grassland, which will inevitably affect the number of garrisons in Beiting, and the focus of the Shatuo army is in Hexi and the north, and the garrison west of Nating Prefecture will definitely not be too many.

Thanks to the old man Achak, Guo Song led the army to rest for a night, and only set off at noon the next day, and arrived at the exit of Wusun Road at dusk, and saw the military fort on the mountainside at the exit from a distance, according to the description of the old man Achak, the garrison became Shatuo people, the garrison was less than 100 people, but there was a beacon.

Zhang Yun, the commander of the scouts, stepped forward and reported: "It is impossible to determine how many people came forward, but they were on duty in detachments, each team was about twenty people, and the beacon was at the top, and there seemed to be two soldiers on it, and they had to completely annihilate the enemy before they could climb the beacon, or they could walk the stone wall, the stone wall was too steep, and the brothers could not go up." ”

Guo Song said angrily: "I'm the boss anyway, you can't let me go every time!" ”

"Incompetent!" Zhang Yun looked ashamed.

Guo Song waved his hand, "Forget it, it is estimated that they have also learned the lesson of ten years ago, I will go up, I will go up!" ”

He really regretted it at this time, he shouldn't let Li Chunlei go, otherwise he wouldn't have to do this kind of thing himself.

Guo Song turned around and ordered: "Order the whole army to camp and rest on the spot!" ”

He and Zhang Yun arranged their own division of labor, he was responsible for destroying the beacon guards, and Zhang Yun led the scout army to climb the castle.

At the beginning of the night, Guo Song changed into an off-white samurai uniform, with a bow and arrow and a black sword on his back, and three daggers in his boots.

At the time of the first watch, Guo Song touched the bottom of the cliff with the help of night cover, he had climbed it once before, and knew that the stone wall here was indeed very steep, and ordinary masters could not go up, let alone army scouts.

He took out two stainless steel spunlaces, jumped over, and accurately inserted them into a thin stone crack, and the other spun spun also inserted into a stone crack, he stabilized his body, and began to climb upwards in turns, and climbed for nearly a quarter of an hour, seeing that he was about to reach the peak, and found the dragon head stone, which was actually a protruding boulder, eight feet long, five feet in diameter, and about twenty zhang from the ground.

The herdsmen call it the dragon head stone, but Guo Song feels more like a knife handle, he jumped towards the dragon head stone, a gust of wind blew, flying sand and stones, he almost stepped on the air, Guo Song was shocked into a cold sweat.

He squatted down to stabilize his mind, and slowly looked down, the beacon was two feet down in front of him, the fire pit was piled up with dry firewood three feet high, and next to the beacon tower lay two Shatuo soldiers, both holding spears in their arms, were sleeping, and one of the soldiers was sitting on the wooden board at the entrance of the staircase.

Guo Song took out two daggers from his boots and threw them down at the same time, and the daggers drew two cold rays, 'Poof! Burst! In an instant, it fell into the eyebrows of the two soldiers, and the two soldiers were killed on the spot, without even screaming.

Guo Song jumped down, leaped down, and landed accurately in the flint, with two soldiers on his back, and there was no risk under this jump.

Guo Song waved his arm downward, and below, Zhang Yun faintly saw the boss waving his hand, and as soon as he gave an order, a hundred Tang army scouts put ropes around the battlements and began to climb up quickly.

At that moment, a guard suddenly spotted the rope that was trapped in the wall battlement, and he immediately shouted.