There are two roads from Datang to the Murwei Wuluo Protectorate, one starts from Youzhou, passes through Yuyang and Pingzhou to Yingzhou, and then enters the Songmo Governor's Mansion to arrive at the Murwei Uro Protectorate, the whole journey is more than 2,000 miles, passing through many states and counties and Detention Prefecture, it is relatively safe along the way, but there will be people checking when passing through the prefectures and counties, and it is impossible for a team of 600 people not to attract the attention of the government.

The other is the west road from Baiyang Town and Longmen County in Yanzhou, over the Yanshan Mountains into the Raole Governor's Mansion, over the north end of Yanshan into the Songmo Governor's Mansion, this route is more than 400 miles shorter than the east line, although there are horse thieves often haunted along the road, but there is less of the government's inventory and entanglement, very suitable for some business travelers who want to hide their whereabouts and rush to hurry.

Wang Peng and his entourage are just such a group of businessmen who are in a hurry and worried about revealing their whereabouts.

In the early spring, there are not many business travelers out of the customs, and some small business travelers can be seen scattered near the borderlands, and at this time going to the depths of the desert is basically looking for death, so Wang Peng's business travel team is particularly abrupt, and even when leaving the customs, they have been strictly checked.

The best time to leave the customs is in late spring and early summer, when there is an endless stream of caravans between the north and the interior, and a procession of four or five hundred people can often be seen, and such a large caravan will be warmly welcomed wherever it goes.

Herdsmen are also not stupid, early spring is the season when cattle and sheep begin to grow fat, at this time to trade is a loss, unless it is a necessary transaction, otherwise no one will choose to trade at this time. Herders are looking for pastures for spring, and countless cattle and sheep come out of the winter camps, grazing on the few grass that has just sprouted on the ground.

Six hundred people left the Tang Dynasty, which Wang Peng didn't dare to think about before, five hundred camels, two hundred war horses, and a mountain of goods, so that the officers and soldiers guarding the city couldn't help but want to make a cameo appearance as a horse thief. It was only expedient to go out of Baiyang Town and Longmen County respectively, tea, cloth and iron pots were just the goods on the surface of this caravan, and a large number of crossbow arrows, fierce fire oil and improvised explosives were packed under the massive silver money offensive, in exchange for a customs clearance document from the general guarding the pass, which made Wang Peng even more disappointed in the Tang army.

Zhen Sixteen and the others happily rode war horses on the vast grassland, leaving the bustling Tang Dynasty for the first time, and the desert Gobi could make these young eagles have the urge to spread their wings and fly.

There are a few white clouds floating in the clear blue sky, and the wind with a refreshing fragrance blows from the depths of the desert, with a slight chill, the spring cold is steep, and taking a deep breath is like drinking cold spring water in summer. The war horse stepped on the gravel, and from time to time startled the animal that had just woken up from hibernation, and a fox that was shedding its hair jumped out of the dead branches, and ran desperately into the distance, and several carved arrows were stuck in the grass behind him, and the feathers on the tail of the arrows trembled.

The wild geese returning from the south flew from the distant sky with their chirps, and then turned around in the sky and left, and a harrier eagle appeared above the caravan's head, casting a shadow on the ground, circling a few times before disappearing from everyone's sight.

"This harrier eagle followed us the day after we left the customs, and the horse thieves nearby should not be far from here!"

Wang Peng looked up at the harrier eagle who had gone away and said: "The number of horse thieves who can raise harrier eagles to track targets should not be small, could it be the horse thieves who have infested the Yanshan area in recent years, guess where they will do it?" ”

Walking forward with Wang Peng was a middle-aged man with white eyebrows and beard, his face looked very old, twenty years older than his actual age, the years left a deep mark on his face, his dead wood-like hands grasped the reins of the war horse, his eyes scanned the surroundings like an eagle falcon, his voice was like sand colliding together, and he said in a hoarse voice: "The horse thief on the desert comes and goes like the wind, since there is a harrier eagle, if we don't happen to enter the range of activities of the horse thief, we are targeted by the horse thief's eyeliner when we leave the customs, The latter possibility is very high, in this case, it is estimated that there will not be a small number of horse thieves coming this time, and there will be a fierce battle ...... next."

Wang Peng nodded, he had already anticipated the danger before leaving the customs, compared to taking the Liaodong Corridor, this road could better allow his guards to understand the cruelty of the desert before arriving at the Wuluo Protectorate, and only the guards who had seen blood could really grow up.

No matter how harsh the training is, it is only the tempering of the body and combat skills, and the will to fight can only be cultivated through fighting, and the five hundred guards are the most elite warriors in the wolf's den, and the swords and horses are proficient in martial arts.

Tanma has been placed ten miles away, and it is no longer realistic to go far, and there is no other way than to be vigilant at all times.

The clairvoyance ground out of the crystal in the wolf's den is not accurate enough, and it can see the scenery four or five miles away, which is far from the name of clairvoyance, and can only be used as a close observation of the enemy's situation, even so, the number of clairvoyants in the wolf's den is less than ten, and this time three were brought out at once.

Liu Bojin has twenty years of experience in desert business, such a person can become a treasure and be supported no matter where he is, if it weren't for falling off a horse and breaking a leg three years ago, the rest of his life can indeed pass comfortably, no one wants to raise a waste in the caravan, even if he has rich experience.

It was the wolf's den that installed a prosthetic leg for Liu Bojin, although he couldn't compare with normal people when he walked, but riding a horse was not a problem at all.

"I heard that there are many horse thieves in the Yanshan generation, and it seems that the number of horse thieves has suddenly decreased a lot over the years, some people say that there is a horse thief king among the horse thieves, is this possibility exist?"

Liu Bojin paused for a moment, thought for a moment and said: "This kind of thing generally doesn't happen, it's not impossible, but it can't." As long as the caravan has been trading on the steppe for more than five years, it has some dealings with horse thieves. According to my many years of understanding, if the number of horse thieves exceeds two or three thousand, they cannot be called horse thieves, and this is already a strength that can be compared with some small tribes, not to mention whether those tribes can tolerate it, even survival is a problem......

"The survival of horse thieves is completely dependent on the caravans on the grassland, the number of horse thieves is large, which means that the number of caravans is reduced, there is no caravan willing to do a loss-making business, there is no object of robbery, do horse thieves want to attack the herdsmen?"

Wang Peng quickly understood what Liu Bojin meant, this is the same as the number of troops supported by a country, if Zhen Qian hears this, he will definitely applaud, and the number of civil servants in later generations is a truth, the horse thief is purely a group that consumes resources, there is no production, and it survives by robbery, such a situation can be maintained with a small number of people, and if the number is too large, it will be like a cancer cell in the human body, and at the same time it will consume the spirit of the host, and its own demise will not be far away.

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