The sky is slightly bright.

Xu Dalang, a young man in the caravan, woke up early, took the fodder and put it in a cloth bag to feed the camels, checked the goods, and waited for the camels to eat and drink well, and then loaded the goods onto the camels again.

After all this, the sky was just dawning, and Grandpa just woke up.

At this time, the people of the caravan were almost ready to set off, and they ate some cakes with the mutton soup left over from yesterday, and everyone said goodbye to the Xiao team in the Bachang Fort.

"Thank you Team Xiao for sending you all the way, and let me camp here last night and have a good night's sleep."

Team Xiao crossed his hands, "Patrol the Silk Road and protect the caravan, this is also our responsibility, you have a good journey, there are thousands of miles to Kangju, but as long as you don't deviate from the main road, there will be my Daqin patrol cavalry." ”

Continue on the road.

Without the red flag, without the shining Qin army light cavalry, everyone's laughter and laughter were much less, and the guards of the caravan were also in good spirits.

After walking for most of the day, I passed a post station, although it was only a small earthen enclosure, but seeing the red flag, everyone settled down a lot, but everyone did not stop, and continued to move forward after saying hello. At the door of the post station, the post man took the post man to salute them with his hands crossed and gave them a blessing for the wind.

continued to move forward for about twenty miles, but there was no more Qin cavalry patrolling.

"Why don't you see Qin Qi anymore?"

"Yesterday, Team Xiao Zheng also said that the three Silk Roads, each with a thousand riders, all started from Dunhuang. Think about it, from the middle of Dunhuang to the Persian border Mulu, the north road to the Aral Sea, the south road to the city of Tocharo, which road is not thousands of miles, all the way is only a thousand light horsemen, with a team of 50 people patrolling, a team of 100 miles or even farther. ”

"Yes, but it's really amazing that our Great Qin cavalry can patrol and protect merchants thousands of miles away." The young man exclaimed.

As he spoke.

The captain of the caravan guard suddenly jumped off his camel, put his quiver on the ground, and put his ear to listen. Seeing this, the old man's face couldn't help but become solemn.

"Grandpa, what's wrong?"

"When a big team of horses arrives."

"It must be my Great Qin patrol cavalry here."

The old man stared at the captain of the guard and shook his head, "Looking at the look of Zhang Tou, it doesn't look like my Great Qin patrol cavalry." ”

"Can you hear that?"

"Those who came out to roam have some ability to press the bottom of the box, and Team Zhang is also an old experience, and he can accurately identify how many horses the horse team has, whether it is a soldier or a bandit."

The leader of the caravan also nervously came.

The head of the escort team stood up, "If you are in trouble, it will not be a cavalry, let alone a Qin cavalry, it will be a horse team of the Turks." ”

The young man didn't believe it, "Even the Turks can hear it?" ”

"Xu Dalang, if I don't have this certainty, I won't talk nonsense. Everyone get ready, I guess it's not good, I listen, there are hundreds of riders. ”

The leader of the caravan seemed to trust him very much, and did not have the slightest suspicion at all, but immediately ordered everyone to circle the caravan and get ready.

"We can't rely on our people, we have to send someone to the post station behind us to report the news, the postman there has a fast horse and good riding skills, ask them to go to the city to find the Xiao team to save them."

The caravan leader hesitated, "Okay." ”

The old man came out at this time and said to the leader of the caravan, "Gong Li, can you let my son report the news, he has good riding skills, he is young, and he runs fast." ”

The leader of the caravan glanced at the old man, and there was pleading in the old man's eyes.

The leader of the caravan, known as Li Gong, thought for a moment, "Zhang Tou, you send someone to take the Xu family Lang to the post station to report the news." ”

The young man didn't want to leave yet, "Grandpa, if I stay with you, I may not really be a Turk, and even if it is a Turk, they may not be here to rob." ”

"Da Lang, be obedient, hurry up."

The young man was reluctantly driven away by the old man.

Watching the two horses gallop away, the old man said to the leader of the caravan, "Thank you Gong Li." ”

"It's nothing, no one knows what the situation will be for a while, Da Lang is still young."

A large team of horses arrived in the blink of an eye, raising a long stretch of yellow sand.

In the distance, the horses scattered in all directions, and they were whistling with swords.

The guard opened his head and squinted his eyes, and shouted when he saw this, "Copy guy, the other party wants to kill and rob goods!" ”

directly showed the knife, and it was still such a scattered and outflanked formation, which was obviously not good.

Those who dared to run such a long-distance trade route were also bold people, and there were many horizontal knives around them to protect themselves.

"Zhang Tou, the big guy's life is in your hands." The caravan leader said.

"Don't worry, let's keep it first, if we can talk, it's best to break some money, if we can't talk, let's fight, rest assured, I, Zhang Shigui, will definitely fight to the end."

After Zhang Shigui finished speaking, he took out the bow and wound it unhurriedly.

This is an unusual bow, different from the bows carried by ordinary merchants, this bow is thicker, longer, and more hideous, and at a glance you know that it is a strong bow used in military battle formations.

He drew the arrow from Hululi and plunged it directly into the ground in front of him.

The rest of the guards also took out their bows and wound them up, ready to go.

These guards all have bows, and all of them are good hands, which is undoubtedly more reassuring than the horizontal knives of the merchants. But in the face of a large group of Turkic horses running from afar, everyone still has no bottom.

At a glance, there were no more than two or three hundred horsemen, and these people were roaring and galloping, and had already surrounded them, and began to circle around them, obviously already treating them as meat on their lips.

"Gong Li, what's the origin of this head, it's not easy to look at his bow."

The leader of the caravan is surnamed Li, who is the steward of the Li family in Longxi, although now the five surnames and seven sects are not as good as before, and they have been greatly suppressed, but the emaciated camel is also bigger than the horse, and the Li family is still very strong in Guanlong.

"It's not a secret, this Zhang Tou is also contacted by our head of the family, and he does have a great background, his ancestral home is Hedong, he has learned martial arts since he was a child, he is good at riding and shooting, his strength is outstanding, he bends his bow one hundred and fifty pounds, and there is no space to shoot left and right."

"So powerful?"

"That is, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it was also an anti-king who rose up and gathered people to revolt, and later attached to Li Yuan, and was awarded the right Guanglu doctor, and then he also made many military exploits, and was awarded the history of assassination, and then became Li Shimin's head of the horse army, and was knighted as the Duke of Qiu."

The old man was stunned.

He never thought that the man in front of him, who was dressed in a bearded robe, had a cold face and sharp eyes, and actually had such a remarkable experience.

"But it's all in the past, after all, it's my Great Qin who finally won the world, Li Yuan died by fire in Taiji Palace, and Li Shimin was also demoted to Annan, I heard that it is now Nantang County? This pseudo-Tang prince was naturally beaten back to his original form. ”

"No matter how bad it is, it won't be reduced to a caravan guard, right?"

"Normally, it really won't, but who told him that he was involved in the rebellion case of Li Youliang and others, so he was assigned to Dunhuang Tuntian, which also came out to take over the work of guarding the caravan after the autumn harvest. Hey, it's all just for life. Li said.