Compared with the Great Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom is more sparsely populated, even if it is near Nanjing, there are still not many towns to be seen, and the official roads are intermittent, and the caravan wants to rush to a place If you don't want to get lost, the best thing to do is to find the river and trace it up and down.

There is such a wide river not far from the official road to the west of Youzhou, and today there is a caravan selling horses slowly moving along the river. For example, the three strong Liao, Song and Xia stand side by side, although there are disputes from time to time, but the trade routes are not cut off, all kinds of exquisite goods of the Song people such as tea, silk and porcelain, etc., the horse fur of the Liao people, the green salt of the Xia people, etc., are the most sought-after goods in the eyes of merchants from all over the world, and they are also the main way for many businessmen who have the ability, vision and ambition to earn a lot of money.

However, because the Liaoxia and Xia countries were well aware of the disadvantage of the Song Dynasty in the scarcity of horses, they deliberately listed horses as prohibited items in the Song trade during the tripartite trade, just as the Song Dynasty also forbade the sale of strategic materials such as iron tools to these two countries. However, there was no ban on this between Liaoxia, so many horse-selling merchants in Liao also preferred to sell their horses to the west, and then exchange a large amount of green salt from Xixia, so that they could make a lot of money.

This team of horse merchants heading west is obviously also fighting this idea, there are hundreds of horses in the team, as long as they reach the Western Xia, it is enough for them to become the target of local merchants and wealthy families, after all, even the horses of the Western Xia are not comparable to the great Liao Xiongjun.

As the sky grew dark, the procession finally stopped with the shouts of the leader in front of them, and after some busyness, people lit bonfires and began to prepare for the night's food, while many men who were good at raising horses and herding horses untied the halters of the horses that had been firmly tied to them, and let them graze and drink water in the four corners. After all, the prolonged confinement will only make the horses tired and weak, and they still need to be relaxed.

Several horses of various sizes shook their heads and graze, and soon came to the river, where a few of them drank from the shore, and two of the smaller ones went straight into the water to rejoice.

At this moment, one of the foals who was enjoying the joy suddenly stopped, and found that something was coming towards him not far away, so he leaned up to take a look at it. Then it bit the thing with its mouth and dragged it to the shore with great difficulty.

Because of the heavy rain that had just fallen, and now the river was a little turbulent, and the pony was not strong enough to drag the thing ashore, so he could only take two steps forward to block the thing from going down, and at the same time his mouth was screaming.

When it screamed, several of its companions were also affected, and they all neighed together, and the movement of a dozen or so horses was really not small, which immediately attracted the attention of the people in the camp over there, and soon two or three men with knives and bows ran over with a vigilant face.

In addition to the difficult and dangerous journeys, these merchants who traveled far away also had to overcome all kinds of unexpected accidents, such as robbers who cut paths, and fierce beasts that roamed outside, which made them carry weapons for self-protection, bows, arrows, knives and guns, which were necessary.

At first, they thought that the horses by the river had encountered a tiger or a wolf, but when they ran over, they realized that it was a pony who had found something strange in the river. After a few people discussed it for a while, they quickly rushed over, wading through the river that was not around their waists, and soon came to the strange black "thing".

"This ...... Is this a person? After carefully examining the strange thing for a long time, someone muttered with a little surprise. Because it was dark, the "thing" was half-sinking and half-floating in the water, so they couldn't see it for a while, but now they finally have a judgment.

In fact, it is no wonder that they are not in charge, because this man's outfit is so unreasonable, and he doesn't know whether it is skin or clothing with a black layer on his body, and he also carries an even more strange black tube on his back, and there is a tube at the mouth of the tube that extends outward, leading to a mask that is fastened on the man's face, and this mask completely covers the man's face.

But after careful scrutiny, they still confirmed that this was a man who had fallen into the water, and there seemed to be several serious wounds on his body, and at this time he was completely unconscious, so he just hung his breath.

"What should I do?" Someone asked, and after a few other people hesitated for a while, they still suggested: "After all, it's a life, let's take it back to the shore first." So saying, they worked together to bring the rather heavy and strange fellow ashore and bring him to the camp.

At this time, other people in the camp were also paying attention to the situation, and seeing that they rescued such a strangely dressed guy, many people were uneasy for a while, and some people even directly proposed: "This person is unknown, so it's better to lose it......

"This is not good, it should be a person who has been killed from afar, since we have encountered it, how can we see death and not save it?" There are also objections: "Who doesn't have three disasters and six calamities when they go out, only by helping each other can we ensure everyone's safety......"

The words of the latter man were even more popular, so they finally agreed to bring the man into the camp and treat him in a tent. Under the light of the fire, everyone finally confirmed that this guy was just dressed strangely, and after stripping off the black layer of clothes on his body that was more intimate than water, his body was no different from ordinary people, and there were arrows inserted in his back and shoulders that were completely submerged in the flesh.

It was a real trouble to remove the mask that was fastened to his face, which was so tightly fastened that it took a lot of hands and feet for everyone to remove the mask, revealing a young face with almost no blood. There is no big surprise to everyone, no matter who is hit by a few arrows and soaked in the river for a short time, it is a fate to not die.

At the same time, these people couldn't help but admire this man's strength, and they could see that those arrows originally had arrow shafts, but they were actually broken by his bare hands, so that they could naturally wear that strange set of clothes. This kind of cruel approach to oneself will never be possible for everyone present to ask themselves.

The next thing they had to do was to help people take out the arrows on their bodies, and just after these people pushed each other, someone proposed: "Let the emperor come, he is a good hand at raising horses and doctors, and he must be similar to doctors." ”

When the others heard this, they also felt that there was some truth, and immediately someone ran out of the tent and called into the tent a strong man with a yellow and red beard who was still taking care of the horses outside, this person was the Huangfu Duan who had a deal with Sun Tu and them in the sheep and horse market in Youzhou City before!

It turned out that after Sun Tu made a scene in the city that day, Huangfu Duan knew that he would be implicated. So at that time, he immediately made a decision, quickly paid for the soldiers guarding the gate, and escaped from Nanjing City. Later, he stayed for a while in an inconspicuous town outside the city.

It wasn't until he was convinced that the government had no intention of making trouble for him anymore that he reappeared. However, Huangfuduan didn't dare to return to Nanjing this time, after all, he offended too many people that day, who knows if others will arrest him as an accomplice of the Song people? Even if he really isn't, it's hard to say whether those officials will impose the charges of Tong Song on themselves in order to extort money.

So after thinking about it, Huangfu Duan planned to leave this place. And with his skills such as horses, coupled with the white horse that had not yet been sold, he really formed a companionship with a team of horse merchants who were about to go west to the Xia Kingdom, and walked with him.

Huangfu Duan, who was deliberately low-key, even if he knew that a person had been salvaged by the river today, he didn't go over to see what was going on like everyone else. It wasn't until someone went out to invite him that he reluctantly entered the account. After a few polite words with everyone, he approached the unconscious man, and before he could see the wound on this person's body, his eyes had already fallen on the other party's face, and then his body suddenly shook: "How can it be...... It's him! ”

Although it was only a one-sided relationship, the two sides didn't say much, but after all, the time between them was not long, and it was all thanks to this person that he had fallen to this point today, and Huangfu naturally recognized this person's identity at a glance - the general Sun in the Song State Mission!

Sun Tu! This was rescued by a group of horse dealers from the river, and it was Sun Tu who had broken through the previous few battles, and was finally chased by Xiao Yanping, and dived into the water without a trace after being hit by an arrow!

This place is dozens of miles west of the bank of the river where he fell into the water, but I don't know how he can actually come down the river with such a serious injury and waiting for death.

When the surrounding businessmen saw that Huangfu was suddenly stunned and changed color, they all asked curiously: "What, Huangfu, do you recognize this person?" ”

Huangfu quickly turned around in his heart, and after weighing the pros and cons, he immediately shook his head and said, "Naturally, I don't recognize it." I was just surprised that he was so badly injured, and he could still survive, this person's physique is really strong, and the desire to survive is much stronger than ordinary people. ”

Everyone was relieved, and when they thought about it, everyone here was shocked when they saw this person's injury, and it was reasonable for the emperor who knew some medical skills to have this reaction.

"Then heal him quickly, and think about removing the arrow from his body first." Someone else suggested. This time, Huangfu didn't say anything more, and after nodding his head in agreement, he asked people to get a knife and prepare to take arrows for Sun Tu......

At this time, hundreds of miles upstream of the river, a group of men and horses were still carefully searching for and salvaging Sun Tu's whereabouts. But no matter how they searched, they still found nothing, which made Xiao Yanping frown even more: "This guy should have hit me with several arrows, even if he doesn't die, he can't escape too far, how can he never be missing?" ”

He could never have imagined that Sun Tu would escape from this area by means far beyond this era......

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