In the snowy night, about three hundred elite cavalry left the camp and headed for the northwest, and soon the news of the cavalry of this standard battalion came to Guo Leiming's ears as soon as they went out of the rear camp, he had sent people to keep an eye on them, just waiting for Pei Xiao to take people away.

"Meng Changan, I hope your life is big enough."

Guo Leiming looked at his own soldiers: "Go and report to the general." ”

When the pro-soldier team heard this, he knew what was going on, he had followed Guo Leiming for many years, and the general probably didn't hide anything from him, seeing the general's solemn face, the pro-soldier team was silent for a moment and couldn't help but ask: "Will something happen to Captain Meng?" ”

Guo Leiming's face changed: "You shouldn't ask." ”

The captain of the pro-soldier bowed his head, turned and walked out.

"If he dies, it will be an injustice of heaven."

He heard the general's voice coming from behind him.

"Heavenly injustice?"

The pro-soldier team has something to say but dare not say, Meng Changan's life and death, what is the matter with Tiandao.

At noon on the third day, Tie Liuli, who was eating, got the news that Pei Xiao had left the camp, he put down the dishes and chopsticks and pondered for a while, got up and went to the map hanging on the wall, looked up carefully for a long time, and then turned around and ordered: "Go and give Wu Xinyu an order!" ”

In the vast snow forest, Meng Changan squatted down and took two bites of snow, and looked back at the dozens of elites he brought out, all of whom were exhausted to the extreme.

"Dig a hole in the snow and stay here tonight."

Obviously, it was only afternoon, and the scouts were a little surprised, among them, the veteran who had been with Meng Changan for a while knew the temper of the captain best, how could he stop and rest so early? According to the planned itinerary, it will be at least five or six days away from the area they want to explore.

But the military order is the military order, everyone dismounted, began to dig out the snow hole with a horizontal knife, if the wind and snow in this bitter cold place come down, it will not be finished, only by hiding in the snow shell can you save your life.

"We've been out for a hundred and twenty miles."

Meng Changan opened his hand-drawn map and looked at it, this place has been walked once, and there is a small town of the Black Warriors less than twenty miles ahead, but the people there are all people of the Wolf Turk Clan, the largest ethnic group in the Black Warrior Country is called Ghost Warrior, and their totem is the moon, so they are also called the Black Warriors, the Ghost Moon People.

The status of the wolf Turks in the Heiwu country is very low, they used to be the nomads of the grassland in the Daning region, when the Chu army invaded the grassland in the north, the wolf Turks escaped from the grassland and submitted to the Heiwu.

At the beginning, the black warriors promised a lot of benefits, but when they arrived at this place, they found that they couldn't get what was promised at all, and even became low-class slaves.

At the beginning, nearly 700,000 wolf-Turks fled north into the black army, and now for more than 600 years, the wolf-Turks are only a little more than a million, and the population growth is so slow for so long, just because every few years, the black warriors will take away a group of young and middle-aged men of the wolf-fighting people, saying that they are laborers, but in fact they are all executed.

Suppressed by terror for hundreds of years, the werewolves have become numb, or they hide their hatred with numbness.

About a hundred years ago, the leader of the wolf Turk tribe, Keke Damu, secretly planned to lead the tribe south to Daning, and even sent people to contact the border army in the northern border of Daning, but accidentally leaked the news, and the emperor of the Heiwu State immediately ordered the slaughter of the wolf Turks for three days, and at least 400,000 wolf Turks died tragically in three days.

Since then, the Wolves have been divided, and one is a border slave in the bitter cold land of the southern frontier of the Black Warriors, who are responsible for providing food, cattle and sheep, and even women for the border troops of the Black Warriors.

The last time he went to that town, Meng Changan always felt that something was wrong, because he was in a hurry at the time, so he didn't have time to think about it, and after going back, he thought about it for a long time, and vaguely felt that he should have missed something.

"Qu Xiong."

Meng Changan turned around and shouted, and the scout team was Qu Xiong who walked up quickly, he was a man of about thirty years old, strong as a tiger and leopard, he had half of the blood of the wolf tribe, his father was Ning, and his mother was a wolf tribe, perhaps because of this, he always felt inferior in the army.

However, it is undeniable that Qu Xiong's ability can rank among the top of all the scout teams in Northern Xinjiang.

"What's the matter, Captain."

"Let's go all the way, you noticed those marks on the trees."

"Noticed, like a wolf script."

"Can you recognize it?"

"Can't...... The humble job has been learning the culture of Daning since childhood, not only the humble position, but now the entire wolf Turk people who stay on the grassland, there are not many people who can still recognize a few wolf Turks, since the Chu period, the wolf Turks have gradually adapted to the culture of the Central Plains, even the old people who are now highly respected in the clan are afraid that they can't recognize it all. ”

Meng Changan nodded: "Take your ten-person team up with me to take another look, the village I passed last time always felt that something was wrong." ”

Qu Xiong hurriedly beckoned his team of ten, each with equipment of almost two people and set off, the twenty-mile snow road was extremely difficult to walk, and when he arrived outside the town, the sky was already slightly dark.

Meng Changan took out the clairvoyance and looked to see which side, and after a while, he handed the clairvoyance to Qu Xiong and said in a low voice: "I finally figured out why something was wrong, did you find that there was something special in that town?" ”

"I didn't see it."

"Cooking smoke."

Meng Chang'an said: "How can there be a reason that all the families in a town cook at the same time, just like lighting firewood at the same time at the agreed time, the common people naturally will not eat at a fixed time, who do you think will be like this?" ”

Qu Xiong's face changed: "Soldier! ”

He lifted a thousand miles to look at the town for a while, and sure enough, as the captain said, everyone's chimneys were smoking, which was indeed unreasonable.

"The captain is saying that there is an army of black warriors hidden in that village?"

"How different is the Black Warrior from what we think? Daning's soldiers dream of one day breaking through the black army, and the people of the black warrior country are eager to take the splendid rivers and mountains of Daning immediately, the Tibetan army on the border, the black warriors are not unable to do it, and the Tibetan army has only two purposes, the first is to prepare for battle, and the second is to prepare for attack. ”

"We have no plans to march."

Qu Xiong's eyes widened suddenly: "The black warriors want to use force against Daning?" ”

"I'll take you to draw a map on the territory of the Black Warriors, I'm afraid that the Black Warriors are also doing the same, although we patrol the border strictly, it is inevitable that there will be ...... slip through the net."

Meng Changan pondered for a while: "Give me your black line knife, and give me a few more crossbow boxes." ”

"Captain, you want to go alone?!"

"The ten-man goal is too big."

Meng Changan checked the equipment, held a black line knife on his back, hung up two repeating crossbows, brought twice as many crossbow boxes, lowered his body and rushed out: "Wait for my signal." ”

Meng Changan cautiously approached the outermost row of houses in the town, which was built unconventionally, which was also one of the doubts...... He crept close to the door, pried open the door with a black wire knife and dodged in, the main room was very quiet, and the sound of someone talking in the side room was so low that perhaps the people in the room needed to be very close to hear each other.

Meng Changan saw that the door of the wing room was empty, he leaned over and pushed the crack of the door slightly wider, and could see two wolf tribe women, an old man and a young man, who were cooking, there was a smell of blood in the room, and a young man of the wolf tribe who looked strong was sharpening his knife, it should be a new sheep.

Meng Changan noticed that the young man was muttering these things, but the speed of his speech was too fast to understand, he had deliberately learned a few words of the wolf clan, but this would make no sense.

Suddenly, the young man threw the knife in his hand aside, ran over quickly, grabbed a piece of meat and bone from the hot pot, and bit it desperately, and the two women were so frightened that their faces were bloodless for a moment, and they rushed over to fight with him, and not far away an old Turkic man who was collecting sheepskin also rushed over to grab it.

Intermittently, Meng Changan heard a few words.

"We raised sheep, so why don't we eat a mouthful?"

"Do you want to die?"

The old wolf woman finally snatched the meat and bone back, and found that it was already missing, so she didn't dare to put it back in the pot, and the old man came over and used a knife to cut off the bite marks on the meat and bones, and then put the meat and bones back.

The scraps that had fallen on the ground were picked up by the young man and stuffed into his mouth, as if he was angry.

The strange thing is that when the four of them were arguing, they didn't dare to speak loudly, even if they were already blushing, their voices were still deliberately very low.

Meng Changan vaguely guessed something, took a deep breath and suddenly pushed the door in, the four people were suddenly startled, the young man opened his arms to protect his family behind him, and muttered a lot in his mouth.

"Shh

Meng Changan put the black line knife aside and signaled that he would not hurt them.

"Ning...... Ningren? ”

Just when Meng Changan couldn't think of how to communicate, the old man of the wolf tribe suddenly said a sentence in the Central Plains, although the tone was strange, but he heard it clearly.

"Yes."

Meng Changan breathed a sigh of relief and turned around and closed the door: "Is there an army of black warriors hidden in your town?" ”

Before the old man could speak, the young man jumped up and grabbed Meng Changan's arm with both hands and said a lot excitedly, but Meng Changan still didn't understand a word, he said it too fast.

"Let's go."

The old man suddenly knelt down: "You will kill our family." ”

Meng Changan stretched out his hand to help him up: "Maybe I can save you...... Tell me what's going on in the town. ”

The old man subconsciously looked at the side of the main house, but his gaze was very low, not looking inside the house, but more like looking at the bottom of the house......

Meng Changan suddenly reacted: "There is a cellar under the main house? Inside are the soldiers of the Black Warriors? ”

The old man nodded: "Let's go, Ningren, we don't want to die." ”

"How many?"

Meng Changan asked.

The old man trembled and replied, "Twelve...... Every household is pretty much the same. ”

Meng Changan gasped, this small town has no less than two thousand soldiers of the Black Martial Kingdom, if there are Tibetan troops in these nearby towns, the total strength should not be less than forty or fifty thousand, if Daning's border army marches according to the map he drew before, it will definitely suffer.

He glanced back at the main room, and then at the pot of meat: "Do you want to go back to live on the Daning grassland?" There is meat in the ton. ”

The young man looked at his father, the old man trembled and translated, and the young man knelt in front of Meng Changan and kowtowed, and his eyes were full of tears when he raised his head.

Meng Changan helped him up: "Do me a favor, I'll take you home." ”