Chapter 206: Roadblock robbery

Three thousand horses and eight thousand sheep were driven south by hundreds of herders. The horses, sheep and herdsmen were accompanied by a cavalry of fifty men, who escorted cartloads of raw cowhides and other steppe specialties.

These things were paid tribute by the Turkic Jieli Khan to His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. The gift list has arrived in Chang'an with the first batch of envoys, and their second batch of envoys are specially to transport these gifts to Chang'an.

The leader of these envoys was called Buluyuan, who was a Tutun and a warrior under Jieli's tent. This time, he took fifty brave Turkic warriors south to pay tribute to the emperor of the Central Plains, and his heart was very reluctant.

In his opinion, the people of the Central Plains are synonymous with meanness and weakness. Looking at Zhao Deyan from the Central Plains, with a slender body and weak limbs, Bu Luyuan had no doubt that he could hit three people of this shape with one hand. and Zhao Deyan's despicable character. Whenever he saw Zhao Deyan's eyes flashing with a dark light muttering something in Jieli's ear, he always felt a surge of anger in his heart.

Damn, how could our great Turkic Khanate pay tribute to the Emperor of the Central Plains? Whenever he thought of this, Bu Luyuan's heart was filled with unspeakable anger.

But anger is anger, and the Khan's command he still has to do it. So now he was sitting on horseback, his right hand always closest to the handle of the scimitar, his eyes looking around vigilantly.

In front of it is the Great Wall, and after the Great Wall is the territory of the Han people.

Although he knew that horse thieves were rampant in the north and south of the Great Wall, Buluyuan did not think that those weak horse thieves would dare to provoke the ranks of the Turkic Khanate. Raising his head to look at the fluttering wolf flag, a sense of pride welled up in his heart.

However, what this Turkic Tutun didn't know was that on the dilapidated wall of the Great Wall, a man wearing khaki yellow armor and almost blending in with the Great Wall was lying on the wall, looking at the Turkic team that was slowly marching by. When he saw the vast herds of sheep and horses all over the mountains, he couldn't help but feel a sudden thought: This mission is not easy to do!

The cat walked slowly along the dilapidated ruins to a high platform. On the high platform was a tree that had just been cut down and was the thickness of an arm. The man glanced at the Turkic team in the distance, and carefully and slowly erected the tree, trying not to let the leaves on the tree fall off, ** in the pit that had already been dug next to it. Suddenly, a tree "grows" on the wall of the Great Wall.

Nearly a hundred zhang away from the Great Wall, there was a person who was looking at the high platform on the Great Wall, and he was slightly excited when he saw a tree erected. Is it really coming? But when he saw the dense leaves on the tree, he couldn't help frowning slightly. He also kept erecting a tree beside him, which was also full of leaves.

In this way, trees were erected from the Great Wall to a high slope ten miles south of the Great Wall.

On the high slope stood twenty or thirty men in black tattered clothes, all of whom looked fierce, and held in their hands horizontal knives that looked filthy with black mud on them. And beside the group, a man with a goatee and a thief's head looked at them in fear.

This person is a sheepbeard, and these people with a calm expression and a fierce aura are the soldiers of the first brigade of the Datang reconnaissance battalion. The leader is none other than Liu Cheng.

When a carrier pigeon flew into the investigation institute that day, everyone saw the three red lines tied to the pigeon's legs, and immediately knew that the situation was urgent, so they translated it and sent it to the palace.

When Li Shimin looked at this news, he couldn't help but cry and laugh. It was even written that His Majesty should send a reconnaissance battalion to exterminate the Turkic tribute missions, so that they could not pay tribute. Although this is a good suggestion, but is this what an emperor can do? Even if you want to do it, you can let the people below do it secretly. So Li Shimin asked people to send this note to the reconnaissance camp. As soon as Li Yang saw this note, he sent Liu Cheng to lead a hundred-man cavalry out that day.

While Liu Cheng was hurrying, he thought of a plan of action. He decided to go out in the name of a horse thief. But they didn't look like horse thieves horizontally or vertically, so he decided to raid the two horse thief strongholds and grab some people to use.

So Sheepbeard, and another horse thief named "Flying Knife" was killed by this group of soldiers, and two horse thief leaders and nearly a hundred fierce horse thieves were driven out by the reconnaissance battalion, ready to fight with the Turks.

The horse thieves held shoddy long knives in their hands, and nervously looked at the soldiers behind them.

Except for the high slope where Liu Cheng stood, there were soldiers and horse thieves in ambush everywhere. Usually ten soldiers and twenty horse thieves hide in one place.

The horse thieves did not want to resist, but when the leader was cut off by an ordinary soldier with a knife, all the horse thieves gave up on this idea. After splitting people, the soldier was still laughing with one person next to him. This method of killing people while talking and laughing made the horse thieves shudder, and from then on they meekly obeyed the words of these fierce and vicious soldiers.

"Look over there, there's news!" Wang Ke stood next to Liu Cheng and whispered as he pointed to the tree erected in the distance.

When Liu Cheng looked at it, he saw that the leaves on the tree were luxuriant, and he couldn't help frowning slightly. The leaves on the trees represent the number of the mission, and now looking at the posture, the number of Turks is probably more than 500. Liu Cheng turned his head, looked at the sheep's beard and Fei Yidao under the hillside, and immediately ordered: "Sheepbeard, you and Fei Yidao will lead people to attack first!" Seeing the sheepbeard's face change greatly, Liu Cheng smiled again, "As long as you don't die this time, I will let you go, and all the things you robbed this time are yours!" ”

The sheepbeard was very knowledgeable, and he knew that if he dared to say a "no", the smiling man in front of him would slash at him, so he swallowed his saliva with difficulty and nodded heavily.

The Turkic mission drove sheep and horses across the Great Wall and gradually approached. Behind them, the soldiers in charge of erecting the trees were smiling coldly in the direction of the Turkic mission. In addition to reconnaissance, they were also tasked with cleaning up the Turks who were trying to flee north.

When the huge Turkic mission slowly approached, Liu Cheng couldn't help but shrink his pupils, only to see that the mountains were crowded with white flocks of sheep and horses, and hundreds of herdsmen holding long horse whips to drive the sheep forward. Behind the flock, fifty fierce Turkic warriors marched slowly in four wagons.

I measured the number of people on my side, although there were more than the Turks, but these flocks and horses were a very troublesome thing, and with their obstacles, it was difficult to kill all the Turks at once.

"Aren't these Turkic?" The goatee let out a low snort.

Liu Cheng turned his head and looked at the sheepbeard expressionlessly: "You, go down and do the first round of attacks!" ”

Sheepbeard was glared at by Liu Cheng's gaze, so he had to go to the bottom of the hill to meet the twenty horse thieves, and then slowly walked out, standing in the middle of the road, looking at the Turkic mission that was gradually approaching.

Closer, closer...... The sheep bleated past them, the horses passed slowly, and the Turks slowly passed......

The sheepbeard turned around, looked at the back of the Turks in the distance, and finally used all his strength to roar: "Robbery! ”

The Turk turned and looked in amazement at the twenty men who had just been submerged in the flock, and after a moment, burst into laughter.

Liu Cheng patted his head, he couldn't figure it out, with the sheepbeard's performance today, how could he still make a name for himself in the north and south of the Great Wall?

There was no way, Liu Cheng slowly rode to the bottom of the hillside and grew a beard to meet a place, and the rest of the soldiers slowly came out with a flying knife and a lot of horse thieves. In a matter of moments, nearly two hundred people stood on the official road.

The Turkic suddenly stopped smiling, Bu Luyuan looked at the group of horse thieves in tattered clothes in front of him and holding inferior long knives in his hands, and his heart was very angry, he couldn't imagine that even the little horse thieves would blatantly rob the embassy of the Khanate, which was really bold.

Thinking of this, Bu Luyuan drew his scimitar and yelled at the fifty Turkic warriors: "Kill all these horse thieves!" ”

In an instant, all the Turkic warriors drew their scimitars and rushed towards Sheepbeard and the others. And those Turkic herdsmen, seeing the battle behind them, also turned around and watched their heroic Turkic warriors kill the enemy.

Liu Cheng looked at the Turkic herdsmen not far ahead, and whispered to Song Yi on the side: "You take thirty people to outflank those herdsmen, be careful not to let one go." ”

The slightly fat team looked at the Turkic herdsmen in front of him, and with a light blow to the horse's buttocks, the horse roared away.

And at this time, fifty Turkic warriors were about to rush in front of everyone.

Liu Cheng and the rest of the reconnaissance battalion soldiers glanced at each other, and then raised their horizontal knives, but they didn't make any moves. By this time, the Turkic warriors had already become a clash with the horse thieves.

It was almost two horse thieves attacking a Turk, but compared to the Turks, not only were they not only inferior in individual combat ability, but they also did not cooperate with each other, and there was no order at all.

Sheepbeard looked at a horse thief next to him and grabbed a Turk's scimitar, glanced at the gap, stabbed the Turk's waist, and then hurriedly took two steps back. Another knife slashed diagonally, and slashed the thief with the knife off his horse.

In the beginning, the horse thieves also killed more than a dozen Turks, although the number of dead was three times that number. But then the Turks entered the state and slaughtered the remaining horse thieves to pieces, causing heavy losses.

Seeing the remaining team of horse thieves of less than twenty people and more than twenty Turkic warriors, Liu Cheng snorted lightly: "Wang Ke, take twenty people to attack!" ”

Wang Ke beside him didn't talk nonsense, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and he took twenty soldiers to kill the Turks.

These Turks also thought that Wang Ke and the others were just as vulnerable as those horse thieves, but when they fought, they suddenly found that something was wrong.

As soon as Wang Ke slashed down, he cut the scimitar in the hand of one of the Turkic soldiers, and the blade fell and slashed at the Turk's neck.

Twenty scout battalion soldiers swept away the remaining Turks with a strong wind and swept away the leaves.

Bu Luyuan helplessly watched his own soldiers being killed one by one, and secretly scolded the despicability of the Central Plains people in his heart. The twenty cavalrymen who rushed up later were highly skilled in martial arts, closely coordinated, and killed with swords, which was clearly a trick used in the army. These Central Plains people dare to pretend to be horse thieves to attack the envoys of the Khanate, it is really an unforgivable crime, and when I go back, I must report to the Great Khan and send troops to attack the Central Plains.

Thinking of this, Bu Luyuan suddenly rushed north.

And on his way to the north, Liu Cheng and others were blocking his way. He controlled the horses and tried to avoid Liu Cheng and the others.

However, Liu Cheng smiled coldly, looked at the Turkic who wanted to escape, took out a steel crossbow from his back, aimed at Buluyuan, and pulled the trigger.

The galloping knight slammed his horse and fell off his horse.

On the herdsmen's side, Song Yi had already killed most of the herdsmen, and the remaining herdsmen were scattered and fled. The herds of sheep and horses that covered the mountains became the best shield.