The twenty personal soldiers led by Ye Qing, plus the ten personal soldiers led by Mu Huali, added up to a team of thirty-two people, and when the night covered the entire grassland, it was considered to have successfully arrived near what the locals called Xiaoye River.

As they had analyzed, the river was clearly the source of water for the camp of the Khorezmian people, with broken clothes, some wooden nail leaves, and debris floating on the surface of the river from time to time, making people's eyes involuntarily look upstream.

At this time, they were obviously not suitable for fire, not to mention that they also brought their own Tatar wars, the most powerful weapons that could be eaten on horseback, dry food and mare's milk.

Thirty or so men gathered in three small piles, and the horses leisurely drank and grazed in the night, and if it were not for the fact that they were scouts, they would have looked like tourists who had come to the picnic.

Distinguishing the general direction with Mu Huali, discussing how to explore the camp next, and then how to know the three cities behind the Khorezm camp, the supply relationship between the camp and so on.

Seeing that the watch hands on his wrist gradually pointed to the direction of ten o'clock, after the hour entered Haizheng, Mu Huali's doubts in his heart finally murmured: "It's too late to get dark here, I always feel that this hour is not right." ”

Ye Qing smiled, looked at the western sky, and said, "There is almost an hour difference in the grassland compared to yours, so it is inevitable." What's more, this is summer, the days are long and the nights are short, there is not much time suitable for us, and the weather is hotter even at night, and there are more mosquitoes and flies, so we must be more careful for a while, even if we can't detect anything, it doesn't matter, but we must not startle the snakes and alarm them. ”

Mu Huali nodded, took a sip of mare's milk, which had long been accustomed to the smell of meat, and said, "Don't worry, my lord, you should be careful, we will meet here when the time comes." ”

As each found his horse, and then began to go up the river, a little light like a star began to appear in the distance, and as they continued on, the light gradually became clear, losing the mystery of looking at it from afar.

Temujin gave him three days to explore the camp, but it was only two nights and one day, and if you add the rest time and the two-day journey back and forth, they only had one day and one night to sneak into the enemy's hinterland.

So whether it's time or errands, for Ye Qing, it's very urgent.

But it was precisely because of the urgency of time that Ye Qing began to approach the camp in Khorezm, after avoiding some defensive scouts, he began to work in groups of two to ask them to report back the news they had inquired about.

Every two hours, Ye Qing would send two people back to Kegu City, so that he could ensure that in the shortest possible time, Temujin would get all the news one after another, and he would not have to wait for him to come back in Kegu City like a stupid wife and other men, so that he could go on the expedition immediately after there was seventy percent of the news.

No one knows this sentence, but if you can really understand this sentence, and even interpret the meaning of this sentence to the extreme, Temujin can definitely be regarded as one.

Temujin's strength, in addition to the characteristics of their nation on horseback, is that his excavation and exploitation of the combat power of the soldiers under his command has reached the extreme.

They move like the wind and walk like ghosts in the grasslands, and in addition to their characteristic agility and mobility, it is the characteristics of eating and sleeping on horseback that make them more powerful and give them the most fundamental reason for becoming victors.

In terms of time, speed, and efficiency, it is far superior to other troops, which makes the phrase "the speed of the soldiers" be brought into full play, so that they can always hit the enemy by surprise, and often before they have reacted and have not completely rested, Temujin's cavalry will appear in front of the enemy's eyes like divine soldiers descending from the sky, as if they appeared out of thin air.

After Ye Qing and the others left early in the morning, Temujin gave Mo Xiaobao, Qishilie Gods and Slaves, and Yeli Zhan a day to straighten out the soldiers and horses, and then when the sun set, Temujin had already begun to kill the green ox and slaughter the white horse to sacrifice according to the customs of the Great Liao Kingdom.

When the morning sun rose on the second day, with the first team of scouts sent back by Ye Qing, when they returned to Kegucheng, Temujin immediately ordered Mo Xiaobao's 5,000 men and his 5,000 men to march as the vanguard, and then only two hours later, Ye Li Zhan and Qishi Lie Gods and Slaves followed closely and marched westward.

This was the first agreement between him and Ye Qing, as the first team of scouts returned to the city, the large army immediately moved west, and the reason why he didn't even ask the scouts who came back from the first team was because it was impossible for the first team of scouts to know any useful information at all, and it was just a function as a pathfinder.

Therefore, before the Yeli War and the Qishilie Divine Slave began to set off from Kegucheng, Temujin, who had already led the army on the road, encountered the second team of scouts sent back by Ye Qing.

"The size of the camp is the scale of 100,000 people, and it is not clear whether the food and grass prepared will be able to supply 100,000 people...... War horses and others are still ...... in the investigation. ”

Not long after Ye Lizhan and the begging gods began to advance westward, the third group of scouts had already connected with Temujin: "There is not enough food and grass to sustain 100,000 people in the camp for more than ten days...... There are probably less than 30,000 or 20,000 horses, or 30,000 or 40,000...... Both should be present on foot. ”

By the afternoon, Temujin did not know how many scouts he had seen, but when he gathered all the news, he would find that the Khwarazmian battalion was a large battalion of 100,000 people, but it was clear that there were not 100,000 troops in it, but the number should be between 50,000 and 60,000, and it was a mixed battalion of infantry and cavalry.

After passing through a meadow with traces of war, Temujin slowed down his westward advance and began to order his troops to set up camp, and similarly, half an hour later, the begging stone spirits and gods and slaves behind him also began to camp on the spot.

Mo Xiaobao looked at the Borshu and Zhong Silkworm in front of the simple tent, and then nodded, and was about to walk into the tent, when Temujin walked out of the tent, and said without waiting for Mo Xiaobao to speak: "I know that you are worried about Ye Qing's safety, and I really want to fly to Ye Qing's side immediately." But not yet, we only know the size of the Khorezm camp, but we still don't know anything about the three cities behind the camp, and continuing to advance rashly will only backfire. ”

"Ye Qing, because of the advantage of being small, they can avoid the scouts scattered by the Khorezmian people on the grassland, and it is difficult for us to avoid them. So if it's discovered by their scouts...... That's when it will hurt Ye Qing. You have also seen the two teams of scouts just now, and they did not bring back any useful news, which shows that Ye Qing and the others may be difficult to bypass the eight or nine inseparable battalions that have already been explored for a while, and detour behind the enemy to investigate the relationship between the distance between the three cities and the large battalion. Temujin didn't give Mo Xiaobao a chance to speak at all, and said calmly.

"The distance we traveled in a day is only half of the distance that Lord Ye traveled in a day, not to mention the scouts we sent out, and we didn't find the scouts of the Khorezmians, so wouldn't it be more advantageous if we pushed forward a little less?" Mo Xiaobao asked without giving up.

Temujin frowned and shook his head, then looked to the west and said, "No. That's too risky...... ”

Sitting down in front of the campfire, Temujin kept frowning, and said in a slow voice: "In addition to Ye Qing's safety, I not only have to consider the safety of us and the army behind me, but also the victory of this battle. So I won't venture until the enemy finds out about us, unless it's ...... When the enemy discovers us, I will attack immediately. ”

Temujin's cautiousness and seeking stability made Mo Xiaobao slightly puzzled, in his opinion, this was completely different from what Ye Qing said about Temujin, especially when he was fighting on the grassland, the Temujin who came and went like the wind and used troops quickly.

At the beginning, on the grassland, he could feel the army led by Temujin, and he was not yet able to fight them, but that fierce power had been able to make them really feel their scalps tingling and shuddering.

But now that the two are in the same army, Mo Xiaobao's impression of Temujin is a sense of timidity and prudence.

Obviously, he didn't know that Temujin had always been cautious in his use of troops, and only when he became his enemy could he feel his fierce offensive of seeking victory in danger and coming and going like the wind, and after becoming an alliance, obviously, after looking at it from an intuitive angle, he would find that Temujin's use of troops was more cumbersome in battle, so he Mo Xiaobao thought so.

Like a glamorous star in front of a person, we can only see his glamorous side, but we rarely know the same as the silent efforts behind him, and all the things he does.

Some things may not even have anything to do with his stardom, but they are an indispensable part of achieving the glamour of others.

The same is true of Temujin, Mo Xiaobao only knew that when Temujin was an enemy, Temujin was strong, and after becoming an ally, he found that it was actually because of the caution and meticulousness behind him.

In the hot weather, Mu Huali's armor was draped on both sides of the horse's back, and the whole person was wearing thin clothes, and he was in the river of the canyon, brushing the war horse, and Ye Qing, who was not far away, also looked tired and exhausted.

And now, there are only four people left around him, from the original thirty people.

"What now? It's hard to rush out, we've been hiding here for an hour, and even if we want to run at night, I'm afraid it will attract the attention of their scouts. Mu Huali picked up the strip of cloth and tied his wet hair behind his head and asked.

"Keman City is not to be feared, Malhan is not to be feared, but Ifa City, we didn't expect that their sun god Fars would be in Ifah." Ye Qing lay directly on the shore, and his lower body was still immersed in the water and muttered.

No one expected that after he and Mu Huali finally met up at noon, after letting the scouts start to escape the Khwarazmian camp's defenses, they would be targeted on the way to Ifa City.

At first, I thought it was the camp scouts of the Khorezm people who discovered them, but I didn't expect that it was the guards who protected the so-called Zoroastrian sun god who found them suspicious, and then chased the six of them all the way, and they had no choice but to turn around and start running in the direction of the royal city of the Khorezmian people, and finally hid in this small canyon.

"We can't sit still, my lord." Mu Huali waded through the water and walked up to Ye Qing, frowning and said.

"Of course you can't sit still." Ye Qing looked at the blue sky, and occasionally a few white clouds floated idly in the air, and continued to lie on the shore and said: "It is impossible to continue to flee westward, not to mention that we don't know what the situation is in Ifa City, so why did the sun god appear in Ifa City at this time?" So...... It would be easier for us to escape back into Temujin's army than to enter the city of Ifa. ”

"Do you want to see the sun god in Epha City? Why did he go to the city of Ephah? Mu Huali asked ponderingly.

"It's just one thing, and the other is ...... The Khwarazmians are not fools, and we can see that when the sun god came to the city of Ifa, including the camp of the Khwarazmians, they were extremely cautious, so at this time, my fear is that they will inform the camp of the Khwarazmians and start to investigate and search for us. In this way, even if we can completely get rid of those guards, we will not be able to pass through the Khorezm camp smoothly, so it is better to go directly to the city of Ifa to see what their Zoroastrian sun god is doing in the city of Ifah, and then find a chance to return to the camp. Ye Qing sat up from the shore, washed up again, and began to signal them and the others to take off their armor, throw away their weapons, and enter Ifa City disguised as a robbed merchant.

Mu Huali frowned, leaving his scimitar behind, and then all items that were in touch with the soldiers, including armor, were also thrown into the valley along with the other four.

"Go downstream in the direction of the valley and go up again." Ye Qing got up and led the war horse as he began to move forward and said: "I remember that before joining you, there should be a herd of camels not far ahead, if we are lucky enough to meet it, we will replace the war horse with camels, so that we will not be suspicious." ”

Mu Huali silently followed the other four people, walking downstream behind Ye Qing, looking ahead from time to time, now he is basically about to lose his way, and once the sun sets, he is really worried that they will lose their sense of direction in the vast grassland and Gobi area, like headless flies, and they don't know if they can reach Yifa City.

The murmuring sound of the river valley, as the night gradually fell, seemed to be a lot quieter, six people and six war horses, in the potholes, chaotic times in the river valley, completely unable to ride on horseback, can only lead the war horse deep foot shallow foot forward slowly.

But it was also because of their slow speed that the sound of camels seemed faintly heard from a distance overhead as each other's figures began to blur in the night.

"Your Excellency......." Mu Huali happily reminded Ye Qing in a low voice.

"I hear you. Start looking for a path from the front to climb up, and if the horse can't go up, ....... Ye Qing's figure paused, and then continued to walk forward.

Mu Huali behind him was stunned for a moment, looking at Ye Qing's figure, the unfinished words, of course he understood what they meant, that is, to kill the war horse to solve the problem.

Silently stroking the war horse beside him, the Tatars love horses even more than themselves, but at this time, Mu Huali also knows that if he wants to live and not be captured alive, the only way to do this is to kill the war horse.

After all, everyone knows that if they are left to fend for themselves in the river valley, once they are found by the Khorezmians, with the spirituality of these war horses, they are likely to become free hounds in the hands of the Khorezmian people, and even be able to find their traces effortlessly.