Big Stone Station.

Yicheng has been standing on the watchtower of the post gate, and he is restless this day.

"Yicheng, King Xiao Yan is out of the horse, what should be worried about are those bandits." The postman guarding the door turned his head to the post road behind the watchtower.

On their section of the Silk Road, the name of King Xiao Yan is passed on by word of mouth, everyone has long been accustomed to King Xiao Yan's mastery, and even King Xiao Yan and his team of thorn soldiers are there, and everyone sleeps much more soundly every night.

"You kid, the soldiers are in danger, I heard that there are three hundred Turkic horse thieves."

Fifty battles and three hundred, even if you can win the battle, I am afraid that you will kill three thousand enemies and injure yourself eight hundred. King Xiao Yan and his patrol cavalry, everyone is used to it, and it is sad which one is missing.

"It's coming, it's coming."

"Where, where." The postman looked left and right, but he didn't see anything.

"The reflection of the bright light armor."

At this time, the sunset in the western mountains, and the last line of afterglow, Xiao Yan King and they finally came back, just experienced a bloody battle, and learned that there was deeper water behind, and no one dared to camp in the wild, so they all hurried back.

Yicheng stood tall and looked far away, and was the first to see the returning team.

"Quick, open the post door, prepare to welcome the Xiao team and their triumph, and let the back kitchen hurry up to prepare meals and hot water."

Stepping on the last rays of sunset, Team Xiao was finally back.

Fifty horsemen when they went, and fifty horsemen when they returned, but nearly half of them were wounded, but fortunately many of them were not seriously injured, and the most serious one was a brother who had two fingers cut off by a Turkic knife.

The people who had returned were very tired.

The caravan that left in the morning was more than a hundred people, and by this time thirty-six were missing, and twenty-eight merchants and men died, as well as eight escorts.

Thirty-six corpses were lined up in the courtyard of the inn, and the heads of nearly 200 Turkic thieves were piled up next to them, as well as more than 120 Turkic captives tied in a string.

"Damn Turkic thieves."

Yi Cheng exclaimed.

Team Xiao was facing Yi Cheng's forked hand, "Old Ma, please help me send a letter to Commander Xu of Kubiluo City." ”

"No problem." The old horse said immediately.

The city of Kupila is northeast of the Great Stone Station, and it is still east of the Bunker. Coming out of the capital city of Qiuzi, crossing the White Horse River, and then one hundred and twenty miles to the west, is the city of Kupila, which should be on the north side of the Kupila moraine, hence the name.

In addition, it is a Great Qin military city, and the Xiao team is subordinate to the commander of Kupiluo City Xu, who has ten patrols and five hundred light cavalry.

After the old horse waited for Team Xiao to write the military situation, he personally selected Zhao San, the rider with the best riding skills in Yizhong, and then asked him to pick the best horse in the stable in Yizhong.

"Although it's dark, this military situation is very important, you don't have to send it to Kupila City Xu Commander as soon as possible, don't hand over at the post station along the way, and go straight to Kupira City."

Zhao San muttered that this was very hard, and then took the letter.

"Go quickly, I will give you a credit, and King Xiao Yan will also miss you."

Zhao San is worthy of being the best postman in Dashiyi, he galloped all night, and even did not rest all the way to Fengbao, and went straight to Kubiluo City.

In the middle of the night, it has been delivered.

The city of Kubiluo is built on the edge of the desert, between the capital city of Qiuzi and the important town of Bachang, guarding the middle line of the Silk Road, the north is the Baima River that originates at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and the south is the desert moraine.

A lonely city stands with red flags flying.

Zhao San knocked on the door in the middle of the night.

The commander's surname is Xu, and his name is Xu Monk, because he was indeed a monk before, he was a Shaolin monk, and later helped Daqin to capture Luoyang and other important cities in the Central Plains, and then stayed with the emperor and served as a guard with imperial weapons.

can be regarded as a person who has won the trust of the emperor, who has been by the emperor's side for a few years, and now he is appointed as a commander, in fact, he has come down to exercise.

In fact, he used to be the guard with a sword in front of the five products, and now he has come down to be a commander. The general infantry commander is only seven down, the cavalry commander is on the seventh grade, and the patrol light cavalry commander on the Anxi frontier is one level higher, but only from the sixth grade. But from the guard to the commander, this is indeed a real experience, and if the experience is good, the future will be broader.

Monk Xu went to Anxi for a year, commanded five hundred light cavalry, stationed in Kubiluo City, patrolling this section of the Silk Road between Kupiluo City and Qiuzi King City and Bachang City, this Xu monk has outstanding martial arts, cherishes the soldiers, and the performance is still good, and he is deeply respected by the following patrol riders.

Monk Xu, who had already fallen asleep, heard the news and got up in his clothes.

After he finished reading this report from King Xiao Yan, he couldn't help but look solemn.

"Immediately summon the officers above the head of the city squadron to come and discuss the matter."

In the middle of the night, the three watches called each other to discuss the matter, and the officers who stayed in the city did not dare to slack off.

There are ten patrols in Kupila City, and two or three patrols are usually kept at home to guard the city, and there are also military camps and some people outside the city, which are the families of the soldiers under this command.

"Commander, what's going on?"

"Xiao Jingang sent someone to report overnight, saying that today a 300-strong Shatuo cavalry attacked a caravan of more than 100 people and killed 36 people. Xiao Jin led the third patrol team to pursue, found a thief camp in a small oasis in the upper reaches of the Hulu River, and fought a bloody battle, killing 180 thieves, capturing 12 thieves, and successfully rescuing more than 100 caravans. ”

The officers were amazed.

"Xiao Jin can't be doing something, right? Where did the Shatuo Turks dare to cause trouble here? ”

"That's it, Shatuo is still on Gaochang's side."

Monk Xu coughed, and everyone was immediately silenced.

"I know Xiao Jin, he never causes trouble, and he doesn't deceive people, I believe him. Now the problem is not just the three hundred Turkic horsemen, but the confession of these Turkic captives, who were hired by Prince Qiuzi. ”

As soon as they heard this, the faces of the group of soldiers all became solemn.

I originally thought that a bold Turkic people who didn't know what to live came out of nowhere, but I didn't expect that it was actually Prince Qiuzi who was in command behind the scenes.

"Commander, if that's the case, this matter will be serious."

There are more than 70 large and small cities in Qiuci, with 50,000 or 60,000 troops, which is one of the best in the Western Regions.

Monk Xu snorted coldly, "There is nothing serious or serious, if you dare to provoke us, it is to find death." Xiao Jin's letter had already said that he had learned from the captives that the prince of Guizi was in the city of Dundo, fifty miles past the source of the Bachang River and the Bodaling Pass. ”

"Dondo City? Is this prince the son of King Qiuzi? It is quite good at choosing a place, here is one hundred and twenty miles away from Dashicheng in the south, more than 200 miles away from Bachang City, and you can go to Daqingchi (Atami) to the north, to reach Broken Leaf City, and enter the northern line of the Silk Road. ”

"Commander, Dundo City is already out of our jurisdiction."

The city of Dundo was located north of the Podaling Pass, north of the Tien Shan Mountains, so it could be said that the city was not only outside the jurisdiction of their Kupila city commander, but also not even within the jurisdiction of the patrol cavalry on the entire middle line of the Silk Road.

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