On the third evening of the sixth month of the eighth year of Tianbao, on the mountains and forests in the north of Tuozhi City, the sunset has not yet dispersed, but a thin crescent moon has hung on the western sky.

Around the crescent moon, several extremely dazzling stars have been set in the beautiful sky like jewels.

In the mountains and forests, a group of more than 100 Anxi light horsemen is riding horses. The ranks of the light cavalry were wide and wide, and with their eagle-like eyes, they carefully examined every flower, stone, grass and tree in the mountains and forests, lest they miss anything unusual.

The four towns of Anxi made Gao Xianzhi govern the army strictly and march cautiously, which was quite the style of the famous general Cheng of the Han Dynasty. On the march north, even if it was just a night's stay, he would ask the Anxi army to build a well-defended barracks.

From Tuozhi City to the north of Talas, there are more than 100 miles of steep mountain roads. In terms of the art of war, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, which is a good place to set up ambushes.

Although he had already been the pioneer of the Qarluq tribe and sent a large number of scouts to reconnoiter around, Gao Xianzhi was still not at ease, so he dispatched 300 light cavalry to patrol the front, left and right sides of the army in brigades to give early warning and avoid being taken advantage of by the enemy.

Ma Lan's friend, Bai Xiaode, the commander of the Anxi Light Cavalry Brigade, was selected by Gao Xianzhi to inspect dozens of miles in front of the army.

Bai Xiaode is well aware of the heavy responsibility, so he is extremely strict with his subordinates, strictly ordering them to keep an eye on the wind and grass in the mountains and forests, and must not miss the slightest.

In the middle of the river at dusk, the summer has gone, and the mountain wind is gusting.

Trees such as spruce and pines swayed in the summer breeze make a hula sound, occasionally startling the attentive Anxi light cavalry.

Wei Boyu, the Anxi light cavalry who participated in the expedition for the first time, also made a few jokes. Several times he mistook the shadow of a swaying tree or a vine blown by the wind for an enemy, and immediately held a sword in his left hand and a sword in his right, and slashed left and right on his horse.

I have to say that Wei Boyu's movements are very agile, and he cut off a lot of branches and vines in three strokes and five by two.

However, instead of finding any trace of the enemy, Ye Luo was broken, but instead attracted a lot of good-natured ridicule.

Wei Boyu hatefully chopped down the trees with his sword, and shouted angrily: "Great Food Rebels, come quickly!" I'm in a hurry to compete with you! ”

"Wei Shiyilang, your two-handed swordsmanship is very handsome! Either I studied under a famous master or I have received guidance from a master, right? While commanding his subordinates to investigate carefully, Brigade Commander Bai Xiaode asked Wei Boyu with a smile.

"Brigade Marshal has good eyesight!" Wei Boyu was very proud of his martial arts: "When I was a child, I met a general with amazing swordsmanship, and he taught him a few swordsmanship. It's a pity that he didn't know his name, and he didn't have the opportunity to enter the house and worship him as a teacher. ”

"Did the general teach you a two-handed sword?" Bai Xiaode's best weapons are two short spears, and he is very interested in two-handed swordsmanship, thinking about which general in the Tang Dynasty is proficient in two-handed fighting.

"Nope." Wei Boyu shook his head and said, "The general only taught me swordsmanship. Wielding a sword in one hand and making a sword in the other hand is something I have figured out little by little. ”

"Amazing!" Bai Xiaode dipped in a pair of short spears, knowing that practicing the art of two-handed combat is not an easy task: "After defeating the Great Food Rebels, we will learn from each other. ”

"Don't dare! Please also give it to the brigade commander

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) to teach. Wei Boyu said politely, but there was a faint arrogance in his god.

Bai Xiaode smiled slightly, and did not reproach Wei Boyu for his youthful frivolity.

As a descendant of the Qiuci royal family, Bai Xiaode was also the most arrogant young man in Qiuci City, with fresh clothes and angry horses, wielding knives and dancing sticks, calling eagles and rabbits, and calling himself a young ranger.

When he took the initiative to join the Anxi Army, Bai Xiaode was conceited, skilled in bows and horses, extraordinary in martial arts, and also had nostrils facing the sky and thinking very highly of himself.

However, soon, the Long March athletes and horsemen from all over the Tang Dynasty in the Anxi Army let Bai Xiaode see what "there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are heavens outside the sky".

Bai Xiaode was originally quite proud of his archery skills, but after he saw Ma Lu's amazing archery skills, he was dumbfounded and stunned. At this time, he realized that he was just a poor frog at the bottom of a well, and he didn't know how high the sky was and how thick the ground was.

Therefore, after serving for many years in the strong Anxi Army, Bai Xiaode's son is calm. He has long been able to calmly recognize his own shortcomings and learn from the strengths of others with humility. Whether it is his boss or subordinates, as long as there is something stronger than himself, Bai Xiaode will take the initiative to get acquainted and humbly ask for advice.

Over the years, his main focus has been on a pair of short spears in his palm, and he has practiced diligently, gradually becoming famous and becoming a famous double spear general in the Anxi army.

Suddenly found that there was a young cavalryman under his command who was good at using a two-handed sword, Bai Xiaode inevitably saw that he was happy and wanted to have a fight.

Of course, he was only thinking about improving his skills, and he had no intention of competing.

When Ma Lan did not leave the Anxi Protectorate, Bai Xiaode often competed with him for a ride. Of course, the two know the roots, and they have always been based on each other, regardless of winning or losing.

Thinking of his friend Ma Lan, a resentment rose in Bai Xiaode's heart: "Damn Ma Shisanlang, you obviously have more than a hundred Beiting Ya soldiers, why don't you send a few brothers to keep in touch with the army in the rear?" Could it be that after you arrived in the North Garden, you ignored Anthy's brother? ”

There are many complaints in his heart, but in fact, Bai Xiaode also knows that Ma Lu is eight out of ten. Nine is too worried about the battle situation under the city of Talas, and only thinks about transmitting the news of Anxi's reinforcements to the north back to the city of Talas as soon as possible, so he can't care about contacting the rear.

"Hmph, after the end of the war, you must settle this account well! I have to let this kid ask me to have a good tooth sacrifice in Broken Leaf City. Bai Xiaode quietly made a note in his heart.

When Bai Xiaode was slandering Ma Lan, there was a sudden fluttering sound from the side. As soon as he grabbed two short spears, Wei Boyu, who was in a hurry, had already drawn his sword and drove his horse towards the source of the sound.

"So young! Hand fast! Bai Xiaode deliberately commented on Wei Boyu in an old-fashioned tone, ignoring that he was only twenty-five years old.

Looking at the birds hovering in panic over the woods, Bai Xiaode frowned, and clenched the short spear in his hand: "Brothers, if the birds are frightened, there will be movement in the forest." Pick up the guys and beware of ambushes. ”

The Anxi light cavalry raised their bows and raised their lances as ordered, and surrounded the place where the forest birds flew. The young and vigorous Wei Boyu took the lead, and he couldn't wait for a few enemies to jump out of front to test his knife.

"We are Qarluq scouts, who are they? Stop! Otherwise we're welcome!

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page)" When Wei Boyu, who rushed to the front, vaguely found the "enemy trace" in the twilight, the other party also saw him.

If it were other Anxi light cavalry, the other party should be able to recognize the armor and clothing of the Tang Army at a glance. However, Wei Boyu was different from others, he wore two layers of armor, wearing a light leather armor on the inside, and the Mingguang armor of the Anxi light cavalry on the outside.

Wei Boyu was already tall and big, and after wearing two layers of armor, he looked at it from a distance, and he was unusually burly. Metaphysically, it is less like a light cavalry known for its agility and agility, but more like a strange sword hand or a heavy cavalry.

The other party asked questions in Turkic language, but Wei Boyu was still shallow when he came to Anxi to protect the palace, and his language talent was very limited, so he was not familiar with Turkic at all. To him, the "enemy" had been screaming for a long time, and he seemed to be very weak-hearted.

"The light cavalry was basically useless in the attack on Tuozhi City, and now there is finally prey colliding with it." Wei Boyu, who was eager for meritorious service, didn't care about the other party's threat at all, and rushed over with his sword.

"Daredevil, stop!" Bai Xiaode heard the other party report to his home, and hurriedly stopped Wei Boyu in a loud voice.

However, before the blood-boiling Wei Boyu heard Bai Xiaode's order, there was a dense sound of breaking the air in front of him.

"Great! Sure enough, it's the enemy, and he can finally get military merit! Wei Boyu was overjoyed in his heart, and his swords swung together, dancing two light shields in front of him, and seven or eight feather arrows flew with a clang.

"Kill!" Taking advantage of the gap in the rain of arrows on the other side, Wei Boyu jumped up from the saddle and fell from the sky like a tiger hunting prey, slashing at an enemy horseman.

The Qarluq cavalryman had just put down his curved bow before he could draw his sword to block. Wei Boyu's left and right sword crossed, and he cut a huge horse's head to the ground.

Wei Boyu flickered deftly, dodging the hot horse blood gushing out.

The Qarluq cavalry was stunned, and the headless war horse under the crotch fell to the ground in response, slamming the cavalry to the ground.

When the long sword in Wei Boyu's right hand stabbed towards the throat of the Qarlu cavalry, a short spear came quickly, and it was lightly picked on top of the sword, defusing Wei Boyu's attack.

Wei Boyu originally used a horizontal knife to chop the short spear, but he found that it was the brigade commander who intervened to stop him, so he quickly stopped the offensive and retreated behind Bai Xiaode's horse.

"Are you under the tent of the Guardian of the Leaf or under the account of Prince Sihan? We are the light cavalry of the Anzai Protectorate! I'm Brigade Marshal Bai Xiaode! After Bai Xiaode stopped Wei Boyu's reckless behavior, he asked loudly in fluent Turkic.

"I've seen the White Brigade Shuai! We are scouts under Ye Hu's tent, and we are being ordered to patrol the roads for your army to the north. We just found a clouded leopard in the forest, and we were about to kill it and hunt for its fur. But somehow I clashed with your army, I'm really sorry! A centurion-looking Qarluq general stopped the Qarluq cavalry who were trying to attack Wei Boyu, drove his horse to Bai Xiaode, and respectfully bowed his hand.

"It's rare that you have such strict etiquette, just like Prince Sihan." Bai Xiaode replied casually.

The centurion's face tightened, and he hurriedly smiled: "Prince Sihan's heroic posture and demeanor, we vulgar martial artists will never be able to learn. ”

Although Wei Boyu, who put away his sword, couldn't understand what Bai Xiaode and the other party were talking about, he noticed that the other party's expression and tone were a little inexplicably nervous.

(End of chapter)