Li Daozong frowned, when Li Jing and Hou Junji failed to enter the barracks, he was the head of these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and a large number of military affairs were waiting to be disposed of every day.

However, what he never expected was that Hou Poyu brought up such things in public at this time, he knew that Hou Poyu's temperament, the juniors were not accustomed to each other and competed with each other, whether malicious or benign, he was the head of the march, he didn't want to interfere, let the juniors compete with each other, but it was beneficial to their hearts, young people, especially the sons and daughters in the army, were afraid that they would lose this enthusiasm and momentum.

But after Xu Zhen knew Li Mingda's true identity, he didn't have any bad intentions, and after sending Li Mingda to him, a royal clansman, he didn't even ask for a visit, which shows that this son is not a person who admires fame and fortune, how can he make a move to defect to the enemy?

But this is the case in the military camp, since Hou Poyu has already put it forward, if he, the head of the march, does not deal with it, he will inevitably end up with a bad reputation of favoritism, so after a little silence, Li Daozong issued his own order, ordering Duan Zhan, the lieutenant of Guoyi in Zhongfu, to be the supervisor of the army, lead a thousand soldiers, inspect the border, and bring Xu Zhen back for interrogation.

Duan Zan is the eldest son of the general of Zuotun Wei, Duan Zhixuan, the Duke of Baoguo, and the deputy general of the Zhongfu Guoyi Army, who can be regarded as the general of the army, and now he is sent to arrest a small team.

Duan Zan acted calmly, did not have any complaints, and after ordering the soldiers and horses, he rumbled out of the Liangzhou camp.

Not long after Li Daozong returned to his camp, Li Dexuan came in to report that Her Royal Highness Princess Jinyang had come to see him, and Li Daozong hurriedly got up to greet him.

Li Mingda has been secretly practicing martial arts with Li Decheng these days, and his body is like a wicker lotus branch after the rain, and he actually has a bit of Tingting's posture, dressed as a son, heroic, and quite heroic.

This little Lori didn't talk to her uncle, and said bluntly: "That guy won't join the enemy." ”

"How so?"

"Although he is a hateful son who forgets his righteousness, he knows very well what he does and what he does not do."

Li Daozong heard Li Mingda defend Xu Zhen so calmly, although her words were not good, but in the end it revealed the meaning of care, the old general couldn't help but secretly admit himself, so he was relieved: "This son behaves in moderation, when he is righteous, the old man is not worried that he will defect to the enemy, sending troops to inspect is a strategy to appease the army's heart, Your Highness must not worry, besides, the situation in Chang'an is on the right, it is estimated that the matter of letting him go back to deliver the letter will also be delayed, and His Highness should stay in the army with peace of mind." ”

If it was before, Li Mingda would definitely be clamoring to go back to Chang'an, but these days, she has calmly analyzed her own situation and the situation in the temple, combined with the worries that the saint's father unintentionally revealed every day, she also understood three or four points, nodded immediately, and took Li De Award to remove the camp.

Li Daozong's heart was slightly stunned, and he secretly looked at Li Mingda's back, feeling that this little girl seemed to have grown up, and her heart became more and more heavy and far-reaching, revealing the unique royal dignity and prestige temperament.

The military camp settled down temporarily, and not long after leaving the camp, Duan Zan divided the soldiers and horses into three routes according to the information of Hou Polu's scouts, and pursued them in the direction of the Kubel grassland, and came to the meadow hillside as the scout said in just half a day.

There are indeed traces of buried fires on the leeward shade side of the slope, there are not many horseshoe prints, and they are not deserted, which confirms that what the scout said is true, Xu Zhen and the others did enter the hinterland of the Kubel grassland, and the direction did point to the depths of the Tuyuhun Murong Department.

According to Hou Poyu's report, Xu Zhen captured Murong Xiao, the commander of the Murong Department, in his hand, so that he could indeed speculate that he was suspected of defecting to the enemy, otherwise with his manpower, it would not be enough to deliver food to the wild captives of the Murong Department.

Duan Zan remembered Li Daozong's explanation before leaving, so he asked the deputy general to pass the order, and the three soldiers and horses converged here, and the scouts all scattered their eagles, and a thousand cavalry rushed out to sweep the grassland!

At this time, Xu Zhen had already gone deep into the hinterland of the grassland with his team, he didn't want to go deep behind the enemy, but the dozen or so of them were placed on the vast grassland, like a drop in the ocean, not unlucky to the end, and they would not encounter the enemy, and Murong Xiao was used as an intelligence source and guide, deliberately avoiding the wild captives patrolling the border.

In addition, Caesar gave him accurate information the night before, which strengthened his desire to rescue the Caesar people, because Caesar is not from Tianzhu Country, but the Rouran people who have been extinct for a long time!

She and the more than 200 tribesmen migrated from the remnants of Rouran in the north, except for the old and weak women and children, there are still seventy or eighty young and strong people, as long as these people are given a horse and a spear, they are brave heroes on the horse!

As one of the empires on horseback, Rouran has unrivaled warrior riding skills in the clan, which has added a lot of confidence to Xu Zhen, at this time, in his eyes, the value of these Rouran clansmen has long surpassed Murong Xiao's head!

If you can successfully save these Rouran people, the young and strong men and women can become brave and powerful when they get on the horse, and the old and weak women and children can be put into the rear nutrition horses and settle them in the barracks, not only will they not be cumbersome, but will bring great benefits to the Tang camp!

No matter how brave Murong Xiao is, he is a living person after all, after being tortured by Kaisa, he has also become honest, Zhou Cang, a group of martial arts masters, which one of them does not have some cruel tricks of torture?

A group of more than a dozen people lightly armed and rode horses for a long time, and finally came to a meadow, the terrain in front of it was suddenly concave, it was a small basin on the grassland, a small lake in the middle was as clear as a blue moon, dozens of tents of large and small sizes were set up nearby, and a low fence was erected with tree branches around it, and a small village was actually formed.

The wild cavalry with swords and bows roamed around, and the dark sentry on the high slope had already been cleaned by Xu Zhen and others, and they would attack when night fell!

Of course, Xu Zhen is not confident enough to use a dozen people to level a small village, because according to Murong Xiao's confession, there are nearly two hundred Murong soldiers stationed here, both cavalry and infantry, all of which are the combat power that he has painstakingly managed, excluding Murong Xiao's exaggerated elements, and these soldiers are far from being able to deal with Xu Zhen's dozen knives.

If you can't attack by force, you can only outwit it, Xu Zhen really doesn't have much research on marching and fighting, and this kind of thing is naturally handed over to Zhang Jiunian, the chief think tank.

After everyone discussed, they ate some dried meat and wild fruits, and after eating and drinking, they asked the brothers to put on all the Tiance red armor and put on the long cloak of the Murong Department, and then they spread around, not riding horses, but taking advantage of the night, to sneak into the village in front of them!

Li Deqian was depressed, although he was not strong enough, but along the way he continued to show his life skills, as well as all kinds of whimsy, so that he won the respect of everyone, but seeing the brothers go to the battlefield in a big way, he hid on the high slope behind to watch the horse, somewhat behind, but he remembered that Xu Zhen secretly confessed to himself before leaving, and his heart suddenly surged again.

Murong Xiao's hands and feet were tied, and Zhou Cang's footcloth was stuffed in his mouth, the smell of the rags made him cry, and after seeing that Li Deqian stayed behind, his meek eyes once again flashed with fierce and cunning light.

However, it didn't take long for the tent on the left side of the small lake down the slope to suddenly burst into flames, and the people in the village suddenly shouted and neighed, and all of them galloped to the south of the village!

At this time, Xu Zhen and Kaisa took advantage of the chaos created by Zhang Jiunian and others to sneak into the east of the village, and the distance was far away during the day, and it was not until now that they approached the big fence of the trapped clansmen that their hearts were violently touched.

In the low fence with a radius of more than ten zhang, nearly two hundred ragged prisoners are like pigs and dogs, the fence is muddy, and the clansmen are holding each other in groups of three or five, resisting the cold air of the grassland night, except for the extremely suppressed cough, no one is crying, which shows the iron will of the warriors of this clan!

Even the eyes of those half-grown children revealed a fierce color like a lion, and the wild captives outside the fence felt a chill in their hearts, and from time to time they drew their scimitars to wave them in shock.

Xu Zhen was dumbfounded, looking at these people, he seemed to think of the Spartan warriors he had seen, the strong nation that threw away the weak babies and kept the strongest warriors only for his own race!

Seeing the suffering of his people, Caesar felt sad in his heart, and regardless of Xu Zhen's previous agreement, he walked seventeen, eighteen, and nine steps in the night, crossed with two knives in his hands, and twisted it, and the head of a wild captive outside the fence fell to the ground, and the blood column sprayed in the air!

"What a savage woman who can't be raised!" Xu Zhen covered his forehead with his hand and scolded helplessly, but he was not idle in his hand, he shot at the same time, left and right, and three or four or five flying knives shot out, and those wild captives who didn't even have leather armor immediately fell to the ground!

Thirty or forty wild guards outside the fence were still roasting meat by the fire, attracted by the fire to the south, and were hesitating to let go of these slaves and go to the rescue, after all, these slaves were fierce, but they were unarmed, and they brought the old and the young with the weak and the disabled, and there was nothing to fear.

However, Xu Zhen and Caesar shot like a lightning stone, and the Rouran slaves in the fence seemed to be in a state of preparing for battle at all times, and after finding that the wild captives fell to the ground, the slave crowd suddenly erupted, regardless of men, women, and children, rushed out together, and the clattering and clattered the fence to collapse, among which the burly and heroic man even snatched the blade of the wild captives, and almost in the blink of an eye, more than 30 wild captives outside the fence were cleaned up, and even the heads were trampled like big watermelons!

If it is on weekdays, once you try to riot, the other wild captives will definitely come to the rescue as soon as possible, but at this time, the south is attacked by fire, shouting to kill the sky, it seems to be ** trampling, where is there anyone to rescue!

Caesar restrained the clansmen, and everyone was silent, just like a wild leopard foraging in the night forest, the eyes of these soft warriors, even Xu Zhen was a little afraid.

According to Murong Xiao's information, Xu Zhen and Kaisa took these seventy or eighty people to the big tent in the center of the village, where swords, bows and blades were stored, while the others quietly sneaked to the pasture behind the village, and in a short time they controlled all the horses in the camp of the Murong Department!

The Rouran warriors who have won the soldiers and horses are like tigers, and the hatred for the Murong tribe has already ignited their blood, and the torn clothes can't stop their craggy and skinny bones, but when they get on the horse and catch the knife, they are like a hungry skinny tiger out of the cage, sweeping the entire village!

Xu Zhen originally wanted to use his might, so as to deter these Rouran warriors, and wanted to verify the sword experience obtained by Zhou Cang, but after a few charges, he couldn't pick up half of the wild captives' heads!

Murong Xiao, who was waiting for an opportunity on the high slope and waiting for an opportunity to escape, looked at the villages around the low-lying lake at this time, listening to the familiar Turkic dialect and weeping, his heart was like ashes.

(Note: Rouran, is one of the ancient ethnic groups active in the vast areas of the north and south of the Chinese desert and the northwest after the Xiongnu and Xianbei from the end of the 4th century to the middle of the 6th century AD, and a fighting nation that can fight to Europe. ）