Dunhuang, the big city of the Hexi Corridor, was the place where the Han Dynasty showed its martial arts to the Western Regions during the Han Empire, and now, it is the most prosperous city in the entire Hexi region. Walking on the street, Li Ang had no time to sigh at the glory of Dunhuang, and after asking a few pedestrians, he took Li Cunzhi directly to the largest horse market in Dunhuang City, where they rushed back from the river, and the several batches of horses changed on the road were already unbearable.

"I want the best horses, and the price is not a problem." Directly found the largest horse shop in the horse market, Li Ang talked to the shopkeeper about the business directly, "I remember that I want a good horse that can run a long road, just ordinary goods." ”

Looking at Li Ang, who was disguised as a middle-aged man, he was in charge with a smile, it is not common to have such a bold guest, "I don't know how many horses the guest officer wants?" "Ordinary riding horses, he has as many horses as he wants, but the kind of horses like the one Leon wants, it is obviously a good horse for light cavalry.

"Fifteen." Li Ang opened his mouth and replied, which startled the shopkeeper of the horse shop, fifteen light cavalry used good horses, this is not a small business, and now such horses belong to the horses requisitioned by the imperial court, and now they are no better than in the past, and the officials of the Legalist faction who have returned to power will not be as good at talking as the original Confucian officials, once they are discovered, this is not a light crime.

Looking at the shopkeeper's face, Li Ang frowned, he knew what the shopkeeper was thinking, Daqin is now expanding the army on a large scale, in addition to the horses in the military horse farm, he also buys a large number of good horses from private horse dealers, and they can do business with one or two horses in private, but the amount he wants is not small, if someone goes to sue the official. There is no plausible argument that Legalist officials will act mercilessly according to the law.

Li Ang groaned for a moment, took out the military badge from his sleeve, and said in a low voice, "We have secret military affairs on our side, and we can't delay it, so please do it as soon as possible." After speaking, Li Ang took back his military badge from the shopkeeper's hand.

"Yes, big... Sir. The shopkeeper's voice was a little weak. In the past six months, in order to buy horses, he has dealt with people in the army a lot, and naturally recognized Li Ang's military card as the Black Cavalry Army of Chang'an Metropolitan Protectorate, and he is also an adult of a thousand households.

"Don't worry, I won't lose you money, but the horse must not be bad." Li Ang took out a large ticket of 1,000 gold baht from his arms and put it on the counter, "I'll pick up the horse tomorrow." These rights are also counted as deposits. After speaking, he left with Li Cunzhi.

It wasn't until Li Ang and Li Cunzhi disappeared into the crowd that the shopkeeper came back to his senses and picked up the flying money left by Li Ang on the counter, the flying money issued by the Daqin ticket number, there are places to exchange it in big cities all over Daqin, the goods are genuine, and Tong Su is not deceived. After collecting the flying money, the shopkeeper ran into the horse shop, and he had to explain the matter to his owner.

In the inn in Dunhuang City, Li Ang met Cao Anmin. Half a month's rush has made the prince of Daqindi lose a lot of weight, but he seems more energetic. "How's it going?" Seeing Li Ang coming back, Cao Anmin raised his head and asked.

"It should be fine!" Leon replied that though he wanted a large number of horses, it was the size of the horse dealership. Fifteen light cavalry horses were not a difficult task, and he did not leave an address for contact.

"That's good." Cao Anmin nodded, and after Li Ang sat down, he couldn't help but look at his legs, "Am I too useless, but to this extent, I have been..."

"Your Highness is too demanding of yourself, and you can't hold on to it if you change ordinary people." Li Ang did not compliment Cao Anmin. For Cao Anmin, who usually only hunts on horseback and practices horse warfare, this kind of continuous horse march is not something that ordinary soldiers can withstand.

"Your Highness, let's rest well now, we have to hurry tomorrow." After helping Cao Anmin to bed, Li Ang walked outside the room, only to meet Gao Changgong, who had always seemed to avoid him since that night. But this time, Gao Changgong didn't avoid him.

"We have to trim. Your Highness, he is not like us. Gao Changgong looked at Li Ang and said quietly, "I don't care what you think, I just hope to stay in Dunhuang for a few more days." ”

"Nope." Li Ang rejected Gao Changgong, "We don't have time to repair, we must return to Chang'an before the assassination of His Majesty is launched, otherwise, His Highness's suffering these days will be meaningless." ”

"You." Looking at the cold Li Ang, Gao Changgong was speechless, he didn't know what Li Ang's heart was made of, no matter when he could be so calm, calm and annoying, but there was such a person, but it made people feel at ease, and they didn't have to worry about what to do.

"Listen, our root is His Highness, if His Highness has not returned to Chang'an, he will collapse first, and we will really lose more than we gain." Gao Changgong stopped in front of Li Ang and said in a deep voice, "To be honest, I did hate you at first when I was so suspicious of you that night, but calm down, I know that if I was in your position at that time, I would do the same, so I don't want to destroy the comradeship between us because of that incident, I hope you can consider my suggestion just now." After speaking, Gao Changgong turned around and went back to his room.

"If I could, I would like Your Highness to rest more, but we don't have much time left." Li Ang looked at Gao Changgong's back and spoke, and then he didn't speak again, turned around and left the inn.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Ang took Li Cunzhi to the horse shop, and they saw the shopkeeper from afar, and seemed to be waiting for them. "Guest officer, the horse you want is ready." When the shopkeeper saw Li Ang, he smiled and let people lead out the horses, each of which was smooth and fat, suitable for hurrying.

"How much is missing?" Li Ang didn't know the market of the horse market, and said directly, anyway, he had no intention of bargaining, as long as the price was not too outrageous, he didn't care, in fact, he believed that after he showed his military card, the shopkeeper didn't dare to fool him.

"According to the market price, these are good horses with 100 gold baht, and the guest officer only needs to pay another 500 gold baht." The shopkeeper said with a smile, since the owner has spoken, he has nothing to worry about if this business is accepted.

After paying the balance. Li Ang didn't say much, and Li Cunzhi led the horse back to the inn directly, he didn't listen to Gao Changgong, and asked Cao Anmin to rest for a few more days. "Your Highness, please wear it." Before Cao Anmin got on the horse, Li Ang took out a pair of soft pads tied to the inner thighs, which could minimize the friction of the inner thighs of the horsemen.

"Thank you." Cao Anmin looked at Li Ang and took the leggings handed by Li Ang. He strapped himself to the inner thighs and turned over on his horse.

"You went out last night to get this thing?" Gao Changgong walked to Li Ang's side, looked at Cao Anmin who was not far away and asked. Li Ang didn't answer, just glanced at him, turned over and got on his horse, "It's important to hurry." And when he had said that, he rode his horse to the city gate.

"What a guy with the wrong mouth!" Gao Changgong laughed to himself, and some of the resentment against Li Ang in his heart disappeared without a trace. Turning over on his horse, Gao Changgong hit his horse and chased after Li Ang and them.

More than half a month later, Li Ang finally returned to Chang'an with Cao Anmin, looking at the magnificent city wall in the distance, Li Ang looked at Cao Anmin beside him with a worried face and said, "Your Highness, don't worry too much, I think we will definitely be able to return to the palace before the rebellion." ”

"Along the way, none of us have the whereabouts of the fake prince, which is very worrying." Cao Anmin looked at Chang'an City and frowned.

Half an hour later, the group entered Chang'an City. Since they couldn't ride horses in the city, Li Ang and the others had to dismount and walk, and the group walked in the direction where the imperial city was located.

In front of the imperial city, Li Ang left Yuan Luoshen and Li Cunzhi and Li Cunxiao and took them to a secluded place. "If I don't send someone out before dark, you go outside the city immediately and tell Yan Zong to let him take you away and go abroad, whether it's Rome or Afriya Africa, don't stay in Daqin."

The three of them, "Father-in-law" Li Cunxiao, looked at Li Ang, and then they were frightened by Li Ang's solemn face. They had never seen Leon look like this before, and under that threatening gaze, they finally nodded.

Seeing that Yuan Luoshen and they nodded, Li Ang smiled and walked towards Cao Anmin, "Let His Highness see and smile, the minister just cares too much about his family." ”

"I understand." Cao Anmin didn't know what to say, he just patted Li Ang on the shoulder in the end, and then walked to the palace gate. Looking at the three people who came by. The soldiers guarding the palace gate stopped them, "Stop. ”

Leon ripped off his cloak. Revealing a black military uniform, he took out his military badge and threw it to the soldiers guarding the palace gate, reporting his name, "Black Lance Dragon Xiang Wei Qianhu Li Ang." ”

"They are?" After checking Li Ang's military card, the soldiers at the gate of the palace looked at Gao Changgong and Cao Anmin beside him, as a protégé of the Son of Heaven, the black lance dragon Xiangwei could enter the palace at any time to ask to see the emperor, but the others couldn't.

"It's confidential, and you have no right to know." Gao Changgong's military badge had already been searched by the dead Cao Shaoqin, and Cao Anmin had nothing else on his body that could prove his identity except for a lieutenant military badge of the White Tiger Festival Hall.

Li Ang ignored the inquiries of the soldiers at the gate of the palace, and directly took Cao Anmin and Gao Changgong into the palace. "I'm sorry, it's our duty to let the two of them into the palace." The soldiers guarding the palace gate surrounded Li Ang and them.

Looking at Yu Linwei, who was holding the halberd and surrounding him, Li Ang said in a deep voice, "You passed on General Guo Nu of the Black Cavalry Battalion for me, and said that I have something important to see Your Majesty." Li Ang knew that if he broke through, there was only one way to die, and the Yulin Guards guarding the palace gate were not ordinary soldiers.

"We're going to be miserable, please wait, Lord Li." Seeing that Li Ang didn't break through in the end, the lieutenant in charge of Yulinwei also breathed a sigh of relief, and directly sent soldiers to the inner palace to report to Guo Nu.

Waiting in place, Li Ang looked at the Yulin Lieutenant and asked, "Have there been people you don't know entering the palace in the past few days?" ”

"Just now a team of people entered the palace, and it was the prince's honor guard." The lieutenant of the forest guard replied that he was also a little strange about the group, but they were all sealed, and he didn't pay much attention to it.

"Let Lone in, Lone is the prince." Hearing that the fake prince had already entered the palace, Cao Anmin became anxious and was about to break in desperately.

"Your Highness, please bear with me." Li Ang and Gao Changgong held down Cao Anmin at the same time, and those Yu Linwei looked at them vigilantly, after all, the prince's honor guard had just entered the palace just now, and now a person who claimed to be lonely appeared, which was really suspicious.

Just when Yu Linwei was about to capture Li Ang and the others, the sound of horses' hooves behind them sounded, and it was Guo Nu who came, he saw Li Ang's military card, and knew that something was wrong, Li Ang should be in the river now, how could he suddenly return to Chang'an, so he immediately rushed over.

Seeing Guo Nu, Li Ang breathed a sigh of relief, at this time Guo Nu had already arrived in front of them, jumped off the horse, he saw Cao Anmin, stunned, he came back to his senses, and immediately saluted, "I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince." Then he looked at Leon.

"It's the fake prince who just entered the palace, and he wants to assassinate His Majesty." Li Ang didn't have time to elaborate, but only said the most important thing, "Take us to Your Majesty quickly." ”

When Guo Nu heard this, his expression changed drastically, and he immediately shouted to the people behind him, "The three of you dismount, and the others immediately go to General Gao, and ask him to immediately lead the troops to the imperial study, and you go to ring the Jingyang bell." ”

Turning over the black knight's horse, Li Ang and the three of them followed Guo Nu straight into the inner palace, and at this time, the Jingyang bell rang by Yu Linwei behind them.

In the imperial study, the emperor looked at his son who was kneeling on the ground, heard the bell ringing outside the hall, and couldn't help frowning, at this time, the fake prince kneeling on the ground suddenly burst up, and the knife in his sleeve flashed with a faint blue light and stabbed at the emperor.

"You!" Caught off guard, the emperor's hand was cut by the blade, and the two close attendants who had been hiding in the shadows behind the emperor blocked in front of the emperor. ”

"Catch it alive." In the study, the emperor looked at Xu Man, who made a move, and the two generals who had guarded him for thirty years shouted, the moment the fake prince made a move, he knew that this person was not his son.

However, to the emperor's surprise, the fake prince stabbed himself in the throat with the knife he held in his hand at the moment when Xu Man and Dian Han made a move, and committed suicide, at this time the door of the imperial study was slammed open, and Cao Anmin and Li Ang rushed in.

"Father." Seeing the emperor covering his hands, Cao Anmin's face changed suddenly, "The knife is poisonous, hurry up and announce the imperial doctor, hurry!" Cao Anmin roared.