In the second year of Emperor Wu's longevity (693), Great Zhou, Hebei Province, Youzhou.

Around Juyong Pass, the mountains and forests are dense, and the ravines are vertical and horizontal. To the south of the pass, within the jurisdiction of Youzhou, a group of officers and cavalry was galloping along the Lushui River Valley, chasing several gray-clothed men with long faces, high noses, big eyes, and sharp blades.

Looking at its military flag, it was the soldier on the edge of the town of Dazhou, led by a young officer, with a black armor, handsome appearance, an indifferent expression, galloping on horseback, eyes like lightning, staring at the fugitives in front of him.

Step on the stirrup, clamp the horse's body with both legs, the body rises and falls, raise the bow and arrows, aim and cast, the action is done in one go, easy and freehand. With a "whoosh", the sharp arrow came instantly, directly into the vest of the farthest person, and fell to the ground and died.

The more anxious the pursuers, the more anxious the rest of the people fled, but unfortunately two legs could not outrun four legs after all, and the pursuing officers and soldiers were obviously the elite of the surrounding army, all of them were agile, but with a stick of incense, the rest of the people were surrounded by the river valley.

Faced with the dilemma, several gray-clothed men were captured without restraint, and they resisted, and in a short but fierce fight, they were captured and killed one by one. Several corpses, lying disorderly in pools of blood, were left alive and escorted to the young officer's horse.

There were several knife marks on his body, spilling blood, and although he was escorted by two soldiers, he stared at the officer fiercely with his head held high and his eyes, looking like he was not afraid of death.

"Say, what is the purpose of you putting on makeup and sneaking into Youzhou?" Met his gaze, the officer spoke, his voice surprisingly cold, in Turkic dialect.

glanced at the officer contemptuously, and his face was arrogant: "If you want to kill, you can kill, my Turkic man is not afraid of death!" ”

Seeing this, the officer did not blink his eyes, and suddenly pulled out the horizontal knife in front of the saddle, and the movement was extremely fast, and the blade slashed through his neck. His throat was slit, blood splattered, and the Turk died before he could scream.

Calmly looking at the fallen Turks from the hands of his soldiers, the young officer laughed: "If you want to die, I will fulfill you!" ”

"General, these Turks are really fierce, and the battle of trapped beasts has injured our three brothers!" On the side, a captain leaned in and bowed to the officer.

Glancing at the surrounding several soldiers who were being bandaged by their comrades, the officer frowned slightly, and ordered the captain beside him: "Send a few people and send them back to the customs for treatment first!" ”

Glancing at the corpses of the Turks, the officer's face was full of thought, he took a deep breath, and opened his mouth to say: "Behead these people, and burn the corpses!" ”

"We're patrolling in the direction of Changping!"

After resting for a moment by the river valley, a group of dozens of riders set off again, falling into the smoke and dust of the ground.

This young officer, named Yuan Hui, is a general of Juyongguan Town in Youzhou, and he is in the position of the sixth grade, but he is only twenty years old.

While galloping on the horse, Yuan Hui's handsome face was still calm, but there was a hint of confusion in those eagle-like eyes. He is a time-traveler, and now, he has traveled to this world for nearly ten years.

And this world, he knew it early on, this is the world of the TV series "Detective Di Renjie". Because he has an extremely powerful father, Yuan Qi, who is the king of Ying, who is the son of Emperor Wu Cao today, and the leader of the Iron Hand Regiment of the Jianghuai Killer Organization.

Yuan Qi, Iron Hand Regiment, Yangzhou ...... These familiar people and things have brought him a great impact.

When Fang Soul descended to the Tang Dynasty, it was in the period of Xu Jingye's rebellion, Yuan Hui watched Yuan Qi actively meet the Empress Dowager Wu who was in the dynasty at that time, and relied on the power of the Iron Hand Regiment to operate in Jianghuai for a hundred years, and took the initiative to cooperate with the imperial court to quell the rebellion and made great contributions.

After the fall of Xu Jingye, the court rewarded meritorious deeds, and the Wu family actually named Yuan Qi as the king of Ying, and Yuan Hui naturally became the prince of King Ying. Yuan Qi was able to become the most powerful commander in Yangzhou, but due to Xu Jingye's rebellion, Jianghuai forces were affected, and all parties suffered heavy losses. The Iron Hand took the opportunity to expand and fill the gap in the underground forces.

With the support of the officials, the Iron Hand Regiment has made great progress in the hands of Yuan Qi, and now, there are 20 halls all over the Jianghuai states, which can be described as in full swing.

As the son of Yuan Qi, the young master of the Iron Hand Regiment, he was deeply favored by Yuan Qi, from childhood to adulthood, Yuan Hui was clothed and fed, and his life was very chic.

As a killer organization that has been inherited for hundreds of years, the Iron Hand Regiment is like a cloud of masters in the gang and has great power, especially in the Jianghuai area. It's a pity that Yuan Hui doesn't mind political affairs for the Iron Hand Group, and only asks about the purpose of money, and he looks down on it.

Originally, according to Yuan Qi's meaning, he wanted to keep Yuan Hui by his side and train him to become the next leader of the Iron Hand Regiment. But as a traverser, Yuan Hui was naturally unwilling to stay in an underground organization like the Iron Hand Regiment forever, and he was even more unwilling to be confined to the Jianghuai region.

Yuan Hui's mind has always been very wild, and Datang is very big, so he wants to walk around and look everywhere. The most important thing is that he wants to taste power, and by Yuan Qi's side, he doesn't have this opportunity.

According to his meaning, Yuan Qi has the identity of King Ying, not to mention that he will be the prime minister of the dynasty, and he will be a thorn and governor in the local area, it is no big problem. But he was willing to nest in Yangzhou, focusing on money, and he was too "self-motivated".

When he was young, Yuan Hui didn't dare to have any disobedience to Yuan Qi, after all, he had to rely on this father to eat, so he could only study and practice martial arts in front of his noble son.

But when he was older, this thought became lively, and despite Yuan Qi's dissuasion, he insisted on entering the office, becoming an official, and escaping from Yangzhou.

In the imperial examination, he had no ability or heart to take the exam, so he decisively went north to join the army. Yuan Qi is a very controlling figure, even if it is his son. For the choice of Yuan Hui, he was very dissatisfied.

But after all, it was his son, who let Yuan Hui break through, and did not give him the slightest support in the official face, wanting him to retreat in the face of difficulties.

Who expected that after Yuan Hui went north, he started from a defense ding, when the situation was turbulent, and during the critical period of Tang Jianzhou in the Virgin Emperor Wu Cao Dynasty, there were changes in the border of foreign races. When there is a war, for people like Yuan Hui, it is an opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

With a body of martial arts, a flexible mind, and a natural identity advantage, Yuan Hui rose quickly. Traveling to the northern Xinjiang, Ling, Dai, Liang, and Secluded, fighting Tibetan, Turkic, and Khitan people, in less than three years, he was promoted to the rank of Governor of a Prefecture.

At the end of last year, he also followed Wang Xiaojie and Ashina Zhongjie to conquer Tibet and subjugate the four towns of Anxi. After returning, he was promoted to the general of Juyongguan with his brave combat and good command.

Yuan Hui was young, worked hard in the army for three years, and wanted to get rid of Yuan Qi's "constraints". However, to this day, in fact, Yuan Qi still has a great influence on him.

Otherwise, with his age, even if he has some military merits, where can he rise so fast.

In the shadows, there are also some subordinates of the Iron Hand Group, protecting the Yuan Emblem and listening to its use. Under his command, there are also several soldiers who are elite killers of the Iron Hand Regiment.

It has been nearly half a year since Yuan Hui was transferred to Youzhou, and in the past two or three years since Empress Wu Cao became emperor, the situation of the Great Zhou State has gradually stabilized, and the movements of the Turks in the north have been much smaller.

Some time ago, suffering from years of war and invasion between the two sides, the border was restless, and the people's livelihood withered, so the two countries gave up and made peace. The Great Zhou general Li Qingxia, the daughter of the King of Changle, and the pro-Turkic, the Turkic Khan Jili, sent a delegation into the Zhou, but they were intercepted and killed.

As soon as this incident broke out, the atmosphere in the northern Xinjiang of the Great Zhou Dynasty suddenly became tense again, and the troops and horses of the two sides were mobilized, gearing up, and the war was about to break out again.

The emperor sent a message to the northern states and ordered the border troops to be on strict guard to prevent the Turks from sneaking attack. Lingzhi Juyong Pass, as a town general, Yuan Hui was decisively on guard and led people to patrol the surroundings of the pass.

In addition to guarding against the Turks, there are also the Khitans who are becoming more and more unstable, and Zhao Wenhui, the governor of Yingzhou in the northeast, can squeeze the Khitan, Xi and other alien races in his territory miserably.

Originally, even if it was more than ten years, Yuan Hui still had some memories in his mind, he knew that there was a "Youzhou case", but some details were not very clear.

At the beginning, when I learned that the name of Youzhou Thorn was Fang Qian, I had a strong sense of "familiarity", and I also sent someone to investigate. The history of the thorn is indeed a problematic.

And since learning about the "mission case", Yuan Hui has understood that the snake spirit and the county lord of Yiyang have already started to do things. The turmoil in Youzhou is about to rise, and it is not far from him, and it is likely to affect him.

led his subordinates to search carefully in the south, trying to find the Turks who had infiltrated the territory of Youzhou, but unfortunately found nothing.

"Li Jian, if you have anything to say, just say it!" led people slowly north to Juyong Pass, and Yuan Hui faced the captain beside him.

"The town general! This is the third group of Turks we have found since the next month, and these people are extraordinary and extremely powerful, and they are by no means ordinary Turks! ”

Yuan Hui listened silently, and seeing that he was silent, Li Jian continued, with some nervousness in his tone: "The imperial court is strictly ordered, and there are guards everywhere, it looks like a big war is about to start." The Turks have repeatedly lurked in the shadows, will it ......"

"Could it be anything?" Yuan Hui asked directly.

"Could it be that the Turks have targeted their attack on Youzhou again this time?" Li Jian boldly guessed: "These Turks are here to investigate the situation in my Youzhou? ”

looked at Li Jian with some surprise: "I didn't expect that you are a small team leader, and you have such insight!" ”

Sighing, Li Jian's mood looked a little heavy: "Licking blood on the knife edge, fighting together, I don't know how many comrades have stained the battlefield with blood......"

After several years of military career, Yuan Hui knew the suffering of these frontier soldiers, and their bloody bravery, but every time they fought, there were always a lot of casualties. All because the commander is weak and the army is uncertain.

Since the black tooth Changzhi, there has not been a commander in northern Xinjiang who can defend the border, of course, the premise is that the emperor can be trusted. Wang Xiaojie and Tang Xiujing have strategic martial arts, but they are still placed in the west.

"There are still Yanzhou in the west, as well as the Guangbian Army and the Qingyi Army, if the Turks make any changes, they will definitely notice it, and we have enough time to react! Moreover, it is still unknown whether this war can break out......" casually comforted the captain beside him.

However, while he was buried in his head, his sword eyebrows frowned slightly, and his eyes were full of thought.