Before the evening, Li Ang rushed to Li Cunzhi's place with the main force of 10,000 black cavalry to make the final repairs before the attack. In the tent, looking at the few Tubo soldiers tied up on the ground, Li Ang looked at Li Cunzhi, "You mean that our whereabouts may leak?" ”

"Yes, father-in-law." Li Cunzhi looked at a few Tubo soldiers on the ground, "Among the four tribes that were exterminated, some of them are in the camp under Yelu, and now it is autumn, they are all back to help with the horses, and a few of them are." ”

"That means there's a good chance there are other people like them." Li Ang glanced at the Tubo soldiers on the ground, frowned, and then said to Li Cunxiao beside him, "Order the whole army, after repairing tonight, we will launch an attack tomorrow." With a low response, Li Cunxiao hurriedly walked out of the tent, originally wanting the soldiers to repair for three days before launching an attack, but now he had to launch it in advance because of this unexpected factor.

"Take them down!" Li Ang waved Li Cunzhi away, and then remembered the battle tomorrow, going out from the canyon, twenty miles away was the main camp of the lower part of Ye Lu. All the way is an endless grassland, even if you march at the fastest speed, it will take almost half an hour, and the most troublesome thing is that the large battalion in the lower part of Yelu is not as unprepared as the ordinary Tibetan tribes, as a standing army, their permanent camp is very solid, it is not a problem for Li Ang to win this battle, it is rare how to win in the shortest possible time, but also to control the casualties to the minimum.

Before dawn, Leon walked out of his tent, followed by Obsidian, the tiger cub, who had been following him. It had been more than four months and it looked the size of a ferocious lynx, its topaz-like eyes glowing in the darkness, and it was quietly prostrate in Leon's footsteps, looking around warily.

"Your Excellency. You're up. Several black cavalry generals and staff officers looked at Li Ang, who was already outside the camp, and they were all stunned. Can't sleep, so come out and have a look. Leon turned his head and whispered to the obsidian who was roaring in a low voice, and then said to the generals and staff officers behind him.

"Get the soldiers up and ready to go." Leon quickly gave his own order, and since entering the plateau, he has been paying attention to the climate change on the plateau, and he has gradually gained something in the past ten days. His senses told him that the morning after dawn would fog up. It's good for them.

Hearing Leon's order, the black cavalry generals were stunned, but soon they answered loudly and trotted back to the barracks to carry out Leon's order. "Gone." Obsidian whispered to the ground at his feet, but Leon carried it back to his tent.

In the pre-dawn darkness, the soldiers of the Black Cavalry were awakened by the officers, and after a simple diet of some jerky and dry food, they put away their weapons and armor one last time, and then put away the tents for the march. led the war horse out of the canyon. For them. The distance of twenty miles was only a matter of more than half an hour, and they were unwilling to consume the strength of the War Horse Land in the next hurry.

The sky soon lit up. But at this time, the fog began to float between the heavens and the earth, and it became more and more thick, looking at this fog, those generals and staff officers of the Black Cavalry Army who had previously ordered the land admired Li Ang even more, of course they didn't think it was just luck, as they came out of the Great Qin Military Academy system, of course they understood that an excellent general, in addition to the art of war and strategy, must also have considerable attainments in astronomy and geography to be called excellent.

"With this kind of mist, we can sneak under the noses of the Tibetans without knowing it." Huang Yuan, who was traveling with Li Ang, said that this kind of weather is really suitable for launching a scout battle to see if he can steal the gate of the opponent's camp, as long as he can enter the camp of the Tubo people without losing the embankment, then this battle will be half of the victory first.

"If the other side is unprepared, we can use our troops boldly." Looking at Huang Yuan's expression, Li Ang said thoughtfully, if he was replaced as the commander of the Tubo people, he would undoubtedly strengthen the garrison in such weather, but the Tubo people had never had any strong enemies on the plateau before, and they might not be on alert. Thinking of this, Li Ang couldn't help but look at the white mist in front of him, and whispered to himself.

Equida led the way at the front of the entire team, and beside him was Li Cunzhi. "You're almost halfway there, aren't you?" Suddenly, Li Cunzhi asked beside him, Li Cunzhi didn't have any good feelings about this rebellious Tubo person, but he couldn't say anything bad about it.

"It's about eight miles away." Thinking of a boulder that he had just passed, Arquoa replied, thinking that the head of the lower part of Yelu, who had been invincible, was about to turn into a ghost under the sword, he couldn't help but feel a little sentimental in his heart, but he didn't regret what he had done, for the plateau Hu people who had not yet formed a national view, the country that relied on force to forcibly integrate the various tribes on the plateau and called it Tubo had little to do with them, but Tubo was the most powerful, and they had to surrender in order to survive, so as long as a more powerful conqueror came, They will not hesitate to abandon Tibet and submit to the new conquerors, this is the concept of survival that has penetrated into their bones, and the same is true of Equida.

Li Cunzhi sent someone to inform Li Ang of his current itinerary, and then he looked at Equida beside him, "Tell me about your family, this battle is over, we can take them out for you." Li Cunzhi had his usual smile on his face, but for Equida, this smile made him feel a kind of coldness, he knew that the man next to him was a really cold person, just like the general he was going to serve, they were not like the cruel nobles in the Tibetan people, who regarded killing as a kind of fun, on the contrary, they were not cruel at all, but as long as they thought that someone was in their way, then they would not hesitate to kill those people, without the slightest mercy, life was just a meaningless thing for them.

"I have three Tibetan wives and four children." Equida finally answered Li Cunzhi's question, thinking that maybe he just felt that someone asked him and felt that he was valued, so he responded like this.

"Tibetan wife?" Li Cunzhi was stunned for a moment by the word Equida, and then he hesitated for a moment before asking. "Do you mean you're not from Tibet?" Seeing that Li Cunzhi's eyes were flashing with doubt, Aquoa fell silent and after a while

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"Before the age of fifteen, I was not a Tibetan, I had my own parents and siblings. Later, the Tibetans annexed our tribe, and I became a Tibetan. The corners of Equida's eyes jumped when he spoke of the past, and he remembered the scene when the Tibetans conquered them, the women were insulted, the men who resisted were killed, and this is how his sisters conceived the children of the Tibetans.

"You don't hate them." Li Cunzhi was a little puzzled by the calm in Equida's eyes, he didn't understand what these people on the plateau were thinking in their heads. To those who conquer themselves, they appear to be quite submissive to peace. There is no hatred.

"If the tribe is not annexed, but only loses its parents and relatives, it will naturally retain its hatred and wait for revenge after it is strong." Arquota looked at Li Cunzhi beside him. smiled bitterly, "If you are annexed, you don't even have a chance for revenge, what's the use of hatred, for us, survival is the most important thing." So in your eyes. I am a dishonorable traitor. But for me, I surrender to your father. And it didn't go wrong. ”

"I used to learn the language of Daqin from the Futu monks, because I had heard those Futu monks and the old people of some tribes on the plateau tell the story of Daqin, and I longed for Daqin." Aquota thought of the Chinese books he had read, and muttered to himself.

"It looks like you're just like those foreigners who want to be the people of Great Qin." Regarding the yearning for the land of Daqin revealed in Equida's words, Li Cunzhi said quietly, yearning for the perfect country in the imagination is a common disease of these people who live in barbarism and yearn for civilization, they will always exaggerate what they yearn for in their hearts, I don't know if this is sad?

"Maybe, I don't have any big wishes, I just hope that after the general conquers the whole of Tibet, I can go to Daqin to settle down and live a quiet life." When Arquoa spoke of the future, there was a tender color in his eyes.

"Haven't you ever thought about staying and building your deeds?" Looking at Aquoa, who didn't look like a fake, Li Cunzhi thought about it before asking.

"At first, I thought about it that way." Arquoa looked at Li Cunzhi and replied seriously, "But later, I realized that people like me cannot be accepted by you, I don't know how to express it, maybe it is appropriate to say this, your morality makes you despise all those who do not abide by your morality, although you can't express it in words, but you will despise us from the bottom of your heart." ”

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"So I pinned my hope on my children, I think that when I live in Daqin for decades, my children, no, should be my grandchildren, they may become a 'Han people' who are truly accepted by you, and they can build a career for themselves like your children." Arquoa had thought of serving under Leon, but the eyes of the Black Cavalry generals and staff officers made him realize that no matter what, he was a betrayal alien in their eyes, they would not accept people like themselves, their future was long over, and what they could count on was a peaceful life for the rest of their lives and the future of their descendants.

"You're a smart guy." Li Cunzhi nodded, didn't say anything more, he remembered Chang'an, the capital of the Great Qin Emperor, known as the city of ten thousand cities, the foreigners living there don't just want to be recognized by the Han people and the empire, and become a real Great Qin person, not an outsider, but for most Han people, they still regard those people as outsiders in their hearts, and only after a few generations, after the blood of those foreigners is integrated into the Han people, they will be recognized, and the 'Han' character on their household registration is truly worthy of the name.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded behind them, and Leon arrived with the men, and he looked at Equida, "How far is it from their camp now?" "At this time, the fog is extremely thick, but it is difficult to see clearly after only a few dozen steps.

"There's still six miles or so, my lord." Arquota replied respectfully to Leon that the fate of him and his family depended on the powerful man in front of him.

"Stop when we're two miles old." Leon glanced at Equida and turned his horse's head, he needed to arrange the manpower of the scout war, this time God was helping him, if he didn't make good use of this day to fight a surprise attack, he was really sorry for such foggy weather.

After advancing four miles, the team stopped, and the Black Cavalry officers in front and behind began to count their ranks, and Li Ang had already gathered the scout officers of the entire Black Cavalry, and he planned to use the scouts to flatten the fortifications in front of the Tibetan camp and pave the way for the main attack of the Black Cavalry.

In this era of cold weapons, Daqin's scouts are equivalent to the elite scouts of the republic where he used to be, in layman's terms, special operations forces, and he was born as a major in the special forces of the republic, and it is this kind of combat command that he is best at.

Listening to Li Ang's analysis of the defects of the fortifications arranged in front of the Tubo camp, the more the scout officers listened, the more frightened they became, many of them were born in military and military families, and there were not a few people who had learned hundreds of theories from elementary school, among which they had also learned the geometry of the Mo family, but they never thought that they could use geometry to analyze the structure of those guard tower houses, and they were all a little fascinated by it for a while.

After arranging all the tasks, Li Ang looked at the scouts who were leaving, and suddenly looked at Li Cunxiao beside him, "Let the broken army guard prepare, and they will attack with me." ”

"Father-in-law, do you want to go in person?" Seeing that Li Ang planned to set off with those scouts, Li Cunxiao was a little surprised.

"Capture the thief and capture the king first." Li Ang smiled at Li Cunxiao, then waved him back, instructed Chen Baxian and Liu Yu about what happened after the scouts captured the Tubo camp, and then rode to the front of the team.

"Isn't that too risky?" Thinking of what Li Ang was going to do, Liu Yu looked at his friend beside him.

"The Lord's use of troops is impeccable, even the famous generals are just like that." Chen Baxian looked at the vague riding shadow in front of him, and replied in a deep voice, "But don't forget, the Lord is not only a famous general, but also a fierce general, if the Lord wants to leave, who in the world can keep it?" ”