More than ten miles away, Zhao Junsheng and the army only took twenty minutes to catch up, and when there were still a few miles away from the Rouran people, the scout team soldiers returned with horses and reported: "General, the Rouran people heard the movement of our army chasing them, and they have left the people and livestock and ran!" ”

Zhao Junsheng stopped and frowned: "All gone?" ”

The scout replied affirmatively, "Yes, we both ran away, we caught two Ranger Sentry of the Rouran, but we were both wounded by arrows!" ”

Zhao Junsheng immediately waved his hand: "Quickly bring people up!" ”

"Yes!"

Two Rouran ranger sentries who were wounded by arrows were escorted over, and Zhao Junsheng jumped off his horse and walked over and asked murderously: "Which tribe are you from, and who is the leader?" How many people are coming this time? ”

"Humph!" The Rouran captive snorted coldly and twisted his head to the side.

Zhao Junsheng asked another Rouran captive again, and the other party also turned his head and did not answer the question.

Zhao Junsheng instantly pulled out the dragon dagger from his waist and inserted it on the other party's shoulder, holding the handle of the dagger and turning it endlessly.

"Ahh

Zhao Junsheng pulled out a dagger and stabbed him in both arms, smashing more than a dozen blood holes, only to make him roll his eyes and faint.

Zhao Junsheng turned his head to look at the captive on the right with a spotless dagger, and the captive was terrified when he saw this, and immediately shouted when Zhao Junsheng's dagger was aimed at him: "Don't stab me, you promised not to kill me, let me go afterwards, I'll say!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Yes, I promise you!" Say! ”

The Rouran captive immediately said: "We are from the Rouran Mo Gu Division, and the leader is Mo Gu Zhengxiong, and this time there are more than 2,000 horsemen in total!" ”

"How many people do you have in the Mo Gu Division?"

"Our tribe is divided into two parts, the east and the west, and the one in the west is called Mo Gubu, and it is not clear how many people are in control of the strings, but it should not be less than five thousand; Our part is called Mo Gubu, there are more than 4,000 people who control the strings, half of them are here this time, our Mo Gubu and the western Mo Gubu are from the same clan! ”

Zhao Junsheng asked again: "You have come all the way to plunder, why are you willing to lose your captives and cattle and run away?" This doesn't match the style of your Rouran people! ”

The captive shook his head and said, "We were only ordered to find out your news, and I don't know why the chief ordered the prisoners and cattle to be discarded and the men and horses gone!" ”

"Take it down!" Zhao Junsheng waved his hand.

A few soldiers took the two captives down.

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and ordered Gao Xu: "You bring five hundred cavalry over to maintain order among the people, find some young adults from the people to help drive the livestock, and send people to the people to find my mother-in-law and brother-in-law, you must find them!" Send it over after finding it! ”

"Yes, General!" Gao Xu didn't understand why Zhao Junsheng didn't bring the army over, and only sent him to bring five hundred people over to meet those people, but he still carried out the order.

Gao Xu left with five hundred cavalry, and Huahai followed.

When they arrived on horseback, the people who had been taken away and abandoned in the middle of the way by the Rouran people were wondering and panicking, how kind would the Rouran people be? They didn't believe that the Rouran would have mercy and let them go.

Gao Xu Lema stopped and looked at the panicked people and shouted: "Don't be afraid, we are the generals of Wuchuan Town, and we are here to fight the Rouran people!" Now listen to me, men under forty years old and over eighteen years old come out, and each of them will ride a horse to drive the cattle back, and we will escort them back, quickly! ”

"Oh my God, we're saved!"

"Thank goodness God has opened his eyes!"

The people wept with joy.

"Mistress, Xiaoxiong!"

"Master, where are you, Xiaoxiong?"

Hua Hai shouted anxiously in the crowd with some soldiers, constantly searching.

After looking for a while and still not finding it, Huahai's voice was crying, and suddenly there was a shout: "Brother Hai, we are here, we are here!" ”

Hua Hai's spirit was shocked, and he immediately turned his head to look around, shouting: "Xiaoxiong, where are you?" ”

"Here, we're here, Brother Hai, we're here!"

Hua Hai followed the sound and saw a teenage half-grown man leading a woman to squeeze over here, he immediately rushed up to pick up the crowd and shouted: "Get out of the way, get out of the way!" ”

"Brother Hai!" "Sea of Flowers!"

"Xiaoxiong, the main mother!"

The three of them met again, and they both cried with joy, especially Hua Yuan and Xiaoxiong, who were captured by the Rouran people and escorted to the north on the way to see the Rouran people killing people with their own eyes, if anyone was the slightest disobedient and did not act according to their intentions, they would be killed immediately.

Since Hua Yuan's family fell into the hands of the Rouran people, she thought that this life was going to be over, and it didn't matter if she was finished, but her son was still young, and falling into the hands of the Rouran people was the life of a slave.

Now that he saw the soldiers and horses from Wuchuan Town, he couldn't help crying.

"Okay, okay, don't cry, my aunt is still waiting a few miles away!" Hua Hai hurriedly comforted.

When Hua Yuan heard this, he immediately stopped crying, but he was very angry: "Zhao Junsheng? Where is he? Why didn't he come and pick up the old man back? ”

Hua Hai didn't know why Zhao Junsheng didn't come to meet Hua Yuan when everyone arrived, and said embarrassedly: "Uncle may not have the idea and reason to come, the master mother and the little master should go over with me and join my uncle quickly!" ”

Hua Yuan wanted to lose his temper, but when he thought about it, it would not be long before the Rouran people drove away, what if they returned? Won't they be taken away again? So he immediately took Hua Xiong and followed Hua Hai and others out of the crowd.

Hua Hai found two horses, respectively let Hua Yuan and Hua Xiong ride, the Hua family itself is a horse breeder, everyone in the fort can ride horses, under the left and right escort of Hua Hai and others, Hua Yuan and Hua Xiong respectively rode horses and quickly ran out of a few miles to complete the convergence with Zhao Junsheng.

"The son-in-law visited his mother-in-law, and the son-in-law was late, which frightened the mother-in-law and Xiaoxiong!" Zhao Junsheng saw Hua Hai and the others escorting a woman and a half-sized man running over on horseback, and knew that he had found Hua Yuan and Hua Xiong, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and immediately got off the horse and stepped forward to pay a visit.

Hua Yuan's horse stopped, looked at Zhao Junsheng with a cold snort and said, "Hmph, Junsheng, now that you are a general, you have a high status, and you refuse to come to see my old woman in person?" ”

Zhao Junsheng was stunned for a moment, knowing that Hua Yuan's family had misunderstood, and hurriedly said with a smile: "My mother-in-law misunderstood, how can my son-in-law be this kind of person?" No matter how high the status of the son-in-law is, it is also your son-in-law, isn't it? The Rouran people suddenly left the captives and cattle and ran away, which did not fit their style, and the son-in-law was worried that they would kill the horse pistol, so he did not bring a large group of men and horses over, and only let the generals bring a small number of soldiers over just in case! ”

Hua Yuan looked at Zhao Junsheng's expression but didn't believe it, and insisted in his heart that he was holding the shelf and didn't dwell on it, but just said: "I've eaten two bowls of mare's milk in the past two days, and Xiong'er is so hungry that he can't walk, you can get him something to eat!" ”

Zhao Junsheng immediately said: "Come on, come and bring dry food!" ”

Soon someone brought dry food and water bags, and Zhao Junsheng said to Hua Yuan with a smile: "Mother-in-law, the son-in-law is worried about the safety of you and Xiaoxiong, so he hurriedly chased after him with soldiers and horses, and he didn't bring anything to eat, so please take care of you and Xiaoxiong, eat some dry food first, and then order someone to kill cattle and sheep after the son-in-law is sure that the Rouran people are gone."

Hua Yuan's mother and son were indeed hungry, and they took the dry food handed over by the soldiers next to them and gnawed on it, and when they choked on it, they opened the water bag to drink water, and Hua Yuan's was a little reserved with the identity of his mother-in-law, but Hua Xiong was gobbling up for a while, and only after eating the dry food for two people did he burp.

Zhao Junsheng asked Huahai: "Did Gao Xu come over to protect the people?" ”

"I have already gone this way, and the young and strong among the people have been singled out to drive the cattle and sheep, and they will come over soon!"

Zhao Junsheng raised his eyes and looked to the north, and some dense black spots appeared at the end of the sky, it should be Gao Xu who escorted the people.

He immediately ordered: "Someone, send an order to each soldier to take out two dry rations, gather them and send them to the people, and give them to fill their stomachs first!" ”

"Yes, General!"

Soon, the dry food was distributed to every citizen, and the people tearfully thanked and thanked the generals one by one.

"Bring me the map!" Zhao Junsheng commanded loudly.

A personal soldier took a map, which was drawn by Zhao Junsheng himself after traveling hundreds of miles around the area, and the mountains, rivers, hills, hills, forests, and lakes were all drawn in great detail.

He found the location of himself and the others on the map, and then carefully examined the terrain around the map.

"What would they have done if the men and horses of Mo Gu's tribe had not really given up on the people and cattle that had been captured? Where are they hiding now? Zhao Junsheng asked himself in his heart while looking at the map.

After a long time, Zhao Junsheng shouted: "Come on, go and call the scout captain!" ”

After a while, the scout captain rushed over, "What does the general command?" ”

Zhao Junsheng beckoned, and then he pointed to several locations on the map and said: "Send people to the small lake twenty miles northwest away, cross the river to the poplar forest fifteen miles northeast, cross the river to the small hill ten miles east to explore, and go back and forth for more than an hour and a half, if there are scouts who have not returned for more than an hour and a half, come and report immediately!" ”

"Yes!"

After waiting for the scout captain to leave, Zhao Junsheng immediately ordered without waiting for Gao Xu to lead people to escort the people to converge: "The whole army is advancing west!" Li Bao, send someone to tell Gao Xu that if the scout captain sends someone to report the enemy's situation, and asks him to send someone to go ten miles west to report, the main force of the army will follow them and retreat south ten miles away! ”

"Yes, General!"

Zhao Junsheng originally wanted to send someone to send Hua Yuan and Hua Xiong back to Wuchuan City first, but he was worried that they would encounter the Rouran people on the way back, so after thinking about it, he decided to take them with him safer.

In the afternoon, Zhao Junsheng was retreating south with his soldiers and horses to keep a distance of ten miles from the people, and a scout galloped to report it.

"General Qiyu, none of the scouts sent out have returned!"

"Oh?" Zhao Junsheng was taken aback when he heard the report.

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