When Murong Yong, Murong Fuyun, and the Turkic generals rushed up, Yang Shuang felt that it was time for him to run away.

What kind of husband is not open, it is just a momentary bravery, he needs to eat, he needs to rest.

Moreover, his main force has been going west for a long time, and the task of attracting and holding back the Turkic and Tuyuhun armies has been completed, so there is no need for him to waste time here.

As the saying goes, the night is long and there are many dreams, if there is a mistake, a clever enemy soldier detours to the rear of the first line of heaven, blocks him in the first line of sky, and smokes and fires, it will be a tragedy.

Thinking of this, Yang Shuang turned his head and drilled into the first line of heaven, and at the same time pulled the rope connecting the two sides, tearing off all kinds of soil and stones that had been prepared long ago, blocking the entrance.

Running in the narrow passage, the shouting of killing behind gradually faded away, Yang Shuang thought carefully about Apo's true thoughts.

Snatch back the princess?

It's just a woman, could it be that the barbarians on the grassland have also become fond of it?

What are you kidding, they are so cruel that even their parents and relatives can eat them.

Could it be that Apo wants to avenge being captured?

Then there is no need to risk the annihilation of the entire army, break through the defense line of the Sui army, and go south to Tuyuhun!

Can't figure it out!

Yang Shuang shook his head and sighed, and quickened his pace again.

After a while, several torches appeared in front of them, and two sword and shield soldiers led several war horses, one left and one right, guarding the exit of the first line of heaven.

"General!"

"Let's go, let's go!" Yang Shuang took the reins and turned over on the horse.

The two sword and shield soldiers hurriedly drove their horses forward, the ropes behind them were tight, and a large amount of earth and stones fell off, and the exit of the first line of heaven was also blocked.

I don't know if the Turkic and Tuyuhun armies will cry when they see the blocked exit when they finally clean up the entrance and enter the first-line sky side by side.

The entrance can be cleaned by multiple people, and the exit can be cleaned, and only the person who walks in the front can do it!

The horse's hooves galloped and the speed was fast.

Yang Shuang and his entourage hurried slowly, and finally caught up with their main force heading west along the River Styx before dawn.

As for the enemy soldiers, it is estimated that they have not yet broken away from the bison ditch.

Three days later, the soldiers and horses of the Western Regions broke away from the Styx River Valley and entered the upper reaches of the Dang River.

For another two days, we entered the southern part of the Longmen Desert.

Passing through the old site of Lujiatun and bypassing Mingsha Mountain, the dusty crowd arrived at Yangguan.

A sentinel informed in advance that Shi Da had already transferred the Yumen Pass and the Yiwu garrison, that is, the elite of the two thousand who were ready to go north and fuse the soul of the soldiers.

At this point, with 500 sword and shield soldiers, 2,000 bandits, and more than 3,000 laborers who moved over with the elite to operate the equipment, the total strength of Yangguan exceeded the 8,000 mark.

On the rebuilt majestic city wall, flags are dense, hunting sounds, bed crossbows are lined up, ready to go.

Behind the pass, nearly 100 trebuchets were being installed in a nervous and orderly manner, and a large number of head-sized rolling stones were transported by wheelbarrows from the Yangguan Ancient Road.

The city gate was half-concealed, and countless sentinels ran back and forth, spreading the movements of the Turkic and Tuyuhun armies to the pass.

Yang Shuang couldn't take a break, and after counting the baggage hoarded in Yang Pass, he divided the two thousand five hundred elites blessed by the system into several arms.

1,000 swords and shields defend the city, 1,000 archers attack, and another 500 elites who return from the Central Plains, after resting, serve as a reserve army.

The bandits led by Qi Guoyuan seem to have never seen such a strict posture, and after entering the Yangguan camp, they are no longer active before, and they are watching all this dumbfounded, and they don't know what to do.

Yang Shuang, Shi Da, and Lu Xiaobu were busy defending the pass, so they naturally didn't notice this.

At night, the enemy did not arrive.

Qi Guoyuan summoned Liu Wei, Li Du and others, and discussed: "The strength of the Grand Governor seems to be a little tight!" ”

"I heard that the main force of the Western Regions wants to guard against the western Datou, and there is a large army of the imperial court stationed in Dunhuang, and the governor of the capital does not leave many troops here!" A yellow face withered and bald.

Qi Guoyuan nodded, "But the thieves of our Dragon King Temple are not idle people, and if they want to eat and drink spicy food with the governor of the capital in the future, they will worship the general, and they need to kill the enemy bravely!" ”

"Lao Qi is right, but our sons and daughters are not fully armoured, and there are no war horses, how can we fight with Tuyuhun? Moreover, the sentinel cavalry has just reported that there are 50,000 Turkic iron cavalry behind them! Liu Wei was a little discouraged.

Qi Guoyuan smiled, "Who said we don't have war horses?" Lao Tzu is in the south of the Dragon King Temple, and there are thousands of good horses in the depths of Datong Mountain! Although some of them are old and weak, they are not a problem to ride and kill! ”

The bandits in the circle were all stunned, and Li Du couldn't help but ask: "Your family of eight hundred people, sometimes you can't even eat, where did you get so many war horses?" And how to feed it? ”

Speaking of this, Qi Guoyuan's face was full of mystery, and he seemed to be proud of defecting to the officers and soldiers, and said with his head held high and relished: "In the autumn of the previous year, Lao Tzu took his son to disguise himself as a refugee, and was ready to go to Longyou to fight the autumn wind, but halfway through he met a stupid horse dealer with fake compassion, it was five hundred Turkic horses."

"So, in order to avoid those masters from chasing and killing, you secretly hid the war horse in the depths of Datong Mountain, in the middle and upper reaches of the Datong River?" The bald and wilted fat man said curiously.

"More than that!" Qi Guoyuan's little follower suddenly jumped out, cheering with pride: "My eldest brother's wish is to be a ringing horse, in ancient times there were three thousand Yuejia to swallow Wu, and now there are two thousand ringing horses of my eldest brother coming and going like the wind, roaring the nine states of the Central Plains!" ”

"What a spirit!"

"That is, I don't want to be a thief for the rest of my life, I want to restore my father's heroism of the ringing horse!" Qi Guoyuan was coaxing.

"No, Lao Qi, this is only five hundred war horses, where did the other five hundred come from?"

"It's still that stupid horse dealer, I don't know where to get a group of bantam horses from Qi country, it seems that they are going to be shipped to Longxi to be sold, I pretend to be wine dealers with the small ones, and I put some sweat medicine on the wine, and we met by chance."

"Haha, that horse dealer is such a fool!" The room was full of laughter.

Yang Shuang, who was about to look for Qi Guoyuan, was just about to enter the camp when he suddenly stopped.

At this moment, he finally understood where the five hundred war horses that could not find a trace of life or death had gone.

At that time, the bearded guest was not a green forest bearer, but a junior brother who had just learned his art!

Uncle's!

Do you want to tell him this truth?

Yang Shuang's face was as entangled as constipation, after all, Qi Guoyuan was sincere in his refuge, if the bearded guest broke out and beat him up, wouldn't it chill people's hearts of retribution?

But seeing that Green Forest was going farther and farther on the road to solving the case, Yang Shuang was a little unbearable.

In order to "fish", the bantam horses of the Qi Kingdom spent a lot of money to transport them from the mountains to the Guanlong area, and they never imagined that they would capsize in the gutter again.

If Ma Lao Er hadn't told him quietly about this last time, it is estimated that he would not have known.

Yang Shuang stopped outside the camp tent, and the people around him who imitated the patrols of the regular army would not be idle.

"I've seen the Grand Duke!"

"Yikes!" Qi Guoyuan, who was boasting about himself in the camp tent, hurriedly came out to greet everyone with everyone, "I've seen the Metropolitan Governor!" ”

Yang Shuang, who was fully armed and carrying a sword and shield on his back, stared at the strong man in front of him, and suddenly felt that he might be very pitiful one day in the future, so he couldn't help but pat his shoulder and beckoned behind him, "The governor of Pontus saw that your clothes and armor were shabby, so he specially transferred two thousand pairs of armor from it, and several instructors, and Wang'er and others trained hard, don't be lazy!" ”

The horse thieves, who had long been looking forward to the well-dressed soldiers and horses of the Western Regions, cheered and learned to kneel on one knee as they learned to sentry, clasped their fists and shouted: "Governor Xie, we are willing to serve our lives!" ”