The word "security" never exists in the dictionary of an intelligence officer.

This aphorism is a truth that the instructor repeatedly instilled when he was undergoing special training, and it was not until this time that Liu Ji deeply understood its meaning, forever, including place and time and space.

Where, when, even a thousand years ago.

Liu Ji lowered his arms, a frightened expression on his face, but his mind was spinning rapidly.

Obviously, when he was standing by the river in a daze, he neglected to observe the surrounding environment, and this cavalry team of at least five people spotted him from a distance, so the three horsemen in front pretended to pass by, tricked him into climbing up by himself, and then the back road was blocked.

Of course, he could run down the valley again, it was April, the river had just thawed, the temperature was far below body temperature, and he would probably not be able to swim to the other side of the river, and he would fall unconscious from hypothermia.

The other direction is the dense jungle, if it is a later life, he will not hesitate to run up, with his ability to survive in the wild and his familiarity with the terrain, he is still sure that he will survive and get rid of the pursuers.

However, this is more than 1,200 years ago, tigers, leopards and other fierce beasts are far from endangered, with this 40-centimeter-long short knife in hand, the danger can be imagined.

What to do?

Liu Ji turned his body sideways, turned his back to the mountains and forests, kept the left and right directions in the field of vision, on the left, there were only two cavalrymen in the line of sight, one in front and one behind, his body was motionless, as if he was stunned, until the two horsemen galloped close, close enough to see the expression of the knight on the horse, and no other people appeared.

The good news was that there were only five cavalry, and two of the faster ones had already arrived.

And the bad news, the other three are approaching unhurriedly, and will soon be encircled.

So far, these people have not said a word, showing obvious hostility, their dress is just a businessman, what is the need to face a great enemy, to bully more and less, but also to play some clever.

The sound of the horse's hooves went from far to near, from fast to slow, he lowered his head and made a deferential appearance, watching the black shadow on the road slowly stop in front of him, and the breath from the horse's mouth almost hit his face, emitting an unpleasant smell.

"Who? Keep your head up. ”

Liu Ji's heart was shocked, he actually understood this sentence, judging from the pronunciation, it is a bit like the ancient language of the Xiqiang Autonomous Region in later generations, and there is a bit of the shadow of Balti language, combined with the previous discovery, these cavalry should be the one who ruled the vast area from Xiqiang to Qinghai in this era, and became the strongest opponent in the western border of the Tang Dynasty.

Tibetan people.

He looked up in horror, and a knight on a horse, half his body taller, was holding a javelin-like weapon in one hand, and his eyes were watching him warily, like the knight who led the way, this man was also wearing full armor, but the arms of both hands were not covered, except for the hand that held the spear, and a leather shield-like thing was tied to the other.

Liu Ji shook his head and spread his hands in disunderstanding, and the man pouted behind him, and a man in a Qiang-style robe with only a saber hanging from his waist jumped off his horse and walked towards him with a sly smile.

"I'm a legitimate businessman, I'm a legitimate businessman." Seeing this scene, Liu Ji threw down his stick, shook his hand and shouted again and again.

"Tang people?"

The knight on the horse muttered, but did not stop, but took his attention away from him and looked at the other three riders who came from the opposite side.

The man who dismounted snatched the package from Liu Ji's body, because the mouth was torn open, the contents fell out at once, and "grunt" rolled everywhere.

"Hu Cake, Golden Hu Cake!"

The man looked at the coins that were shining with various colors, his eyes were straight, and he jumped to his feet and shouted loudly, at this time, the three horsemen who were blocking the road had already come to the front, and the knight who was the leader frowned, and his eyes swept over Liu Ji's body.

"Hurry up, you have to hurry."

This sentence was also said in the Tubo language, Liu Ji knew it, and saw the knight at the head of the back road nodded, a trace of cruelty flashed in his exposed eyes, and he slowly raised the slender javelin in his hand above his head.

At the same time, the three horsemen in front had already begun to turn their horses' heads, and the knight at the head did not take a second look, Liu Ji noticed that the two people behind him, like the dismounted man, were only wearing robes and no armor.

Their companion was bending down excitedly to pick up the coins on the ground, and as for the frightened-looking Tang merchant, the outcome was already doomed.

Today's weather is good, the sun rises from the other side of the river valley, illuminating this mountain forest, Liu Ji's vision is blocked by the knight on the horse who is much taller than him, and he can only see a huge black shadow, the top of the black shadow is a protruding tip,

Immediately, the knight's eyes became more and more smiling, this way of killing was what he was best at, the spear in his hand, had taken the lives of countless enemies, the Tang, the Turks, the Sogdians, etc., nearly two steps long iron tip, when piercing the enemy's body, nailed them to the ground, the moment of struggling and slowly howling and dying, will soon be staged.

"Hmm."

The knight snorted sullenly in his visor, and the speed of his hand suddenly increased, swinging it fiercely from top to bottom, and the moment he hit the target, his eyes flashed, and the young Tang merchant suddenly disappeared.

With a "poof", the knight felt his hand tighten to loosen, which was the feedback of the spear tip piercing his body, which was all too familiar to him, but there was no trace of excitement in his eyes, because it was not his target who was nailed to the mud and kept screaming, but the man who dismounted to pick up the gold coins.

The knight suddenly felt a little second, his reaction was not unpleasant, he did not hesitate to let go of the spear in his hand, tried to pull out the saber at his waist, his fingers were about to touch the hilt, and he heard a mournful cry of the horse under his crotch, and his whole body suddenly lost his balance, and even the man and the horse fell to one side.

"Boom!" With a bang, large swaths of dust scattered in all directions, filling the entire mountain road.

The huge body of the centaur plus a heavy armor and equipment, with a total weight of more than six hundred catties, pressed on the man who was pierced through the body, interrupting his miserable howl at once.

The unprepared knight was thrown to pieces, and the Venus in front of him was rising, and he finally opened his eyes, but found that one of his legs was pressed by the horse's body, and he couldn't stand up at all, and the war horse that had followed him for many years let out one long neighing after another, and he saw clearly that the right front hoof raised by the war horse was cut off from the knee, leaving only the bloody small half.

The knight struggled to pull out his leg, but the light in front of him was blocked by a dark shadow, and the young Tang merchant was looking at him with a smiling expression, exactly the same as the one he had looked at him not long ago.

A prey with nowhere to run.

Liu Ji lifted his visor with one hand, and on the other hand holding the short knife, the tip of the knife, which was still stained with blood, quickly slashed across the bare neck, and his fingers made a downward pressing motion by the way, which was to prevent a large amount of blood from splashing on himself when the major artery rupture.

Then he leaped without stopping, and ran like a civet cat into the mountains and forests above, and when the three people in front heard the movement and turned around, they saw the knight covering his neck in vain, his eyes bulging, and he wanted to scream but couldn't scream.

Blood rushed out from between his fingers, like a spring on a holy mountain, brilliant.