Thin Feng Minda urged the horse forward with difficulty in the wind and snow, and secretly cursed in his heart this ghost weather that froze to death and that hateful son Tuoba Guangxing. This time, they were ordered to investigate the military situation, and their group of two people set up tents in a leeward col north of Luzi Pass for people and horses to rest and keep warm. According to the rules, the two of them took turns to go to Luziguan to check, the day before yesterday and yesterday I had been here to investigate for two days in a row, how could it be Tuoba Guangxing's turn, but the kid was unreasonable to hide in the tent all day long and drink spirits, and did not hesitate to order himself to take his place again. With such a heavy snowstorm, he should have stayed indoors to avoid the winter like other clansmen, but now he has to ride a horse all day long to perform duties that do not belong to him, and all of this is thanks to the shameless Tuoba Guangxing.

If it weren't for his greed for merit and flattery, he took the initiative to ask the higher authorities to come out to carry out the task, and he wouldn't have had to come. When he came here, he became his slave, and he spent his days in his tent drunken and dreaming of death, but he sent himself to suffer this sin. It is conceivable that when he went back this time, all the credit was his, and in addition to suffering and suffering, he would never have his share of the livestock and property rewarded from above. If it weren't for the stinky boy's surname, he would have pulled out his knife and duel with him a long time ago. There's no way, who will let the family name Tuoba.

The surname Tuoba is the most powerful and prominent of the eight major tribes of the party, it is said that the ancestors of this surname once established a powerful dynasty on the territory of the Han people in the Central Plains, and the people of the Tuoba family have the blood of the Northern Wei royal family in their bodies, and one of the branches of the descendants of this surname later became the out-and-out Han people. According to the old people in the clan, the first empress of the fantastic Tang Dynasty established hundreds of years ago in the Central Plains (actually the second, but because the wife of the first emperor had died before he became the emperor, he did not set up an empress after he ascended the throne in order to commemorate his wife, but posthumously crowned his deceased wife as the empress, so his daughter-in-law, the titular second empress, became the de facto first empress. His Majesty the Heavenly Khan's favorite wife, who was so famous and respected by all the tribes and subjects of the world, was a descendant of the Tuoba family.

Because of the woman who changed her surname to the eldest grandson, because of the woman who was posthumously crowned as the Empress Wende by Tian Khan, and because of the woman who raised generations of new Tian Khan, the Tuoba family stood out among the eight major tribes of the party and became the most favored and preferential party tribe in the Tang Dynasty. The Han dynasty in the Central Plains never discriminated against them and did not regard them as outsiders, all of which was due to the great Tuoba woman.

And what about their own people? When the gentle and intelligent daughter of the Tuoba family was officially canonized as the queen by the first Tian Khan in the palace of Chang'an, and when the first son she gave birth to for the Tian Khan was officially established as the prince of the Tang Dynasty, the clansmen of the Xifeng family were still living in the rugged terrain of the southwest road and the barren mountainous area In the northern mountainous area of the place, Xiang Xiang Dou Rail, the governor of Yizhou, who ruled this vast land on behalf of the Heavenly Khan, was attached to Cheng, and pitifully obtained the title of "Rail Prefecture Assassin History".

At that time, in addition to a large area of high mountains and mountains with steep conditions and no roads to pass, there were many rivers with winding and turbulent waters, and cliffs on both sides, as well as large meadows with abundant water and grass but also rich swamps...... In a word, there is everything here, but there is no suitable place for human habitation.

If that land could really support the people of the Xifeng clan to thrive and live, I wouldn't be here today.

Perhaps his own tribe will take root in that place, and also get the title of a certain military envoy from the last heavenly khans who were dumb and unforeseen in the last days of the dream dynasty.

However, none of this happened, and the grandparents of Xifeng Minda could not bear the treacherous natural environment and the exploitation and oppression of the greedy Han officials, and resolutely abandoned the poor mountains and rivers that had lived for hundreds of years many years many years ago, and came to the rich Guanzhong Plain, came to Xiazhou and Suizhou, and finally made the descendants of the tribe live a relatively prosperous and peaceful life under the generous acceptance of Tuoba Sigong, the head of the Tuoba family, who guarded Pingxia......

However, the price paid is also heavy, Changxing four years, 50,000 Han army approached Suizhou and Xiazhou, the master of the Dingyan army at that time, the younger brother of the current Tuoba tribe chief Tuoba Yi Yin, Tuoba Yi Chao issued a ****** to the Dangxiang people of the tribes, all the young and middle-aged men of the fine seal family were called to participate in this war against the Han people in the Central Plains, that time, there were nearly 300 soldiers of the fine seal family died heroically under the city of Xiazhou, including the father of the fine seal Minda, the fine seal Ji Ke.

And his mother was taken captive in a sneak attack on the tribal camp by the Han army, and has not been heard from since, probably long gone......

Since he was more than ten years old, he was given to the Tuoba family as a slave by the elders of the tribe, so many years of hard work and brave fighting, with his extraordinary will and extraordinary martial arts, he was finally promoted to the scout of the army, and got a pair of pure metal "harrier" stirrups, and finally no longer discriminated against, and finally able to get enough food on weekdays, enough wine to keep out the cold.

However, all this does not change his status as a slave of the Tuoba family, although the parents and tribal elders of the Tuoba family are very good to people, but at least these benevolent and kind people do not include this hateful Tuoba Guangxing, and his status as a slave makes him have no place to appeal, and he can only work hard and be willing to be driven and enslaved by this incompetent fellow.

May you die on the battlefield next time...... Thin Seal Minda cursed secretly in her heart.

The snow was so windy that it was hard to make out the road, and he sat on his horse, letting his mount slip forward with great difficulty. He would never have struck a horse in such weather, it was a foolish act of wasting horsepower, and no experienced harrier would do that, except of course the idiot and fool, who had been galloping wildly two days earlier and had caused his favorite three-year-old horse to run off his strength, and had finally collapsed on his way back to the camp from Luzi Pass yesterday.

Walking slowly like this will put your body a little colder, but it will lighten the load on your mount. For a harrier, the mount is half of his life, and a harrier who does not cherish the mount is unlikely to survive the war.

He looked at his horse, which had not fed properly for two days, and looked a little listless at the moment, and the one that followed it in small steps was not much better, but it seemed that although they were a little tired, there was still some brightness in their dark and bright eyes, and they should not die on the way back.

There was a raised snowdrift on the road ahead, and at a glance, he knew that he was not going the wrong way, this was the place where the horse fell yesterday, and the raised snowdrift was the body of the horse.

He touched the horse's belly lightly with his legs, and the mount came to a humane halt. He moved his stiff waist on his horse, rolled over and jumped off the horse, stepping on knee-high snow to the snowdrift.

He pulled out the saber he wore at his waist and gently swept the snow off the corpse with the back of the knife, revealing the belly of the horse on one side.

He gently stroked the frozen cold and stiff corpse with his hand, and a sour feeling surged in his heart......

Suddenly, his brow furrowed—

With a few strokes of his hand, he brushed away the snow that had piled up on both sides of the corpse, and his eyes were fixed on the exposed part......

The part of the horse's body that touched the ground had been cut off unevenly with sharp things, and the blood vessels and tendons that had been frozen by the cold were so bare in the wind and snow, looking at the muscle faults that had been frozen and blue, a boundless anger swelled up in the chest of Fine Seal Minda, and then a sense of professional vigilance as a harrier arose.

Who is so cruel that he does not spare the corpse of a beloved horse?

His initial anger was quickly overshadowed by his professional sensibilities, and he soon realized that such an act could not have been committed by unarmed ordinary Han Chinese.

This is an age when everything is scarce, the population is scarce, food is scarce, resources are scarce, and weapons are even more scarce. Nowadays, ordinary iron weapons have long become a scarce strategic resource for major feudal towns and tribes, subject to extremely strict control and trade bans, and even the Han army in Yanzhou uses most of the wooden weapons, and it is impossible to get the horse corpse that has been frozen in the snow for a while.

Judging by the smoothness of the incision, Hososeal Minda thought that what cut through the horse's body should be a fairly sharp weapon, and if his guess was right, it should be a short knife or something like that.

It is impossible for ordinary people to have these things......

The people who did this were by no means ordinary Han people......

Could it be that there are really Han Chinese troops operating nearby?

Thin Seal Minda frowned......

With his understanding of the Zhangwu Army in Yanzhou, this army definitely did not have the courage to run so far out of the state city, and it didn't dare when the climate was warm, let alone in such a cold weather today.

So if it's not Zhangwu Army, who can it be?

Could it be that there is a new Han army stationed in Yanzhou?

After thinking for a while, Xifeng Minda figured it out - things can't be guessed by guessing, you must lean in, see with your own eyes, listen with your own ears, and even, the best way is to catch a live enemy and come back for interrogation.

Well, where is the enemy now?

He hesitantly raised his head and glanced in the direction of Luziguan - would it be there?

His gaze returned to the body of his beloved horse, and his mind raced to the ground.

Why would the enemy destroy the body of his beloved horse? What are they doing this for?

The answer is easy to come up with, they cut off the flesh of their horses, it must be to satisfy their hunger, that is, they are short of food in the army......

If they didn't even carry basic rations, then the enemy army must not have carried tents, which are the necessities of survival in the wilderness......

From here, along the main road to the south, a previously intact post station has been destroyed by the military operation of a few months ago, and there is only one nearby place to shelter from the wind and snow and fires......

Luziguan –

So, what is the situation of the enemy's troops, how many people are there, what is the equipment, is there cavalry?

Judging by the tools used to harvest horse meat, the enemy's equipment does not seem to be as bad as that of the average Zhangwu army.

Judging from the amount of horse meat that was cut off, it seems that the number of people in this army is not much, otherwise the entire horse corpse would have been cut down to a bare skeleton......

A small army of enemy troops, with decent equipment, came to this border place in such weather, but did not carry enough food and supplies with the army......

The more I thought about it, the clearer it became, but the more confused Minda became......

Enemy...... What the hell are you doing here?

If it is an enemy army stationed at Luzi Pass, it is impossible to come with only such a small number of people, this little force is simply not enough to defend such a large and important pass, and even if it is to garrison, it is even more impossible not to carry any military rations and materials, no matter where the army comes from, it must eat, and it is impossible for an army without food and hunger to stay for a long time.

If it is the scout of the other party, then it should be here to carry out the task of detecting military intelligence.

It's just that now in this cold and snowy world, what is there to investigate?

Even a fool knows that a large army that is determined to be difficult in this weather cannot be mobilized in a big way......

Besides, the scouts of the Zhangwu army are generally ten miles away from the city, even if they have the courage, and they go out of the city eighty miles to Luzi Pass to reconnoitre, and such enemy scouts have really never encountered them.

If it is said that a new garrison army came from Yanzhou and sent scouts to Luziguan, it is not that it is impossible, but even if it is reconnaissance, it will not even bring enough rations, and you need to temporarily cut horse meat to satisfy hunger, right?

The hostility seems to be clear, but things are getting more and more confusing......

As a scout, generally speaking, it is almost rewarding to grasp the enemy's situation to this extent. But as a harrier, Fine-sealed Minda is by no means satisfied with such a vague and ambiguous harvest.

The enemy's number is not clear, the purpose of coming here is not clear, and the Suizhou side will not be satisfied with the results of such an investigation, although when the time comes, it will be Tuoba Jixing who will report and be scolded, but as a member of the Dingyan Army, Xifeng Minda still knows what the overall situation is, although his current situation in this collective is not very satisfactory, but if this group is gone, then he will become a rootless weed, and there will be no future.

In this era of war and chaos, without the big tree of the Dingyan Army, any individual will be crushed and swallowed by the cruel and ruthless torrent of the times, and only under the shade of this big tree can all ethnic groups and tribes of the party have hope for survival and development.

You have to lean up to see what is going on, no matter who the enemy is or what he wants to do, you must figure out these things and then report back.

Analyze and judge, it is the duty of the tribal leaders and elders, and he is a harrier, and he only needs to have sharp eyes and a hard clawed beak......

He turned his face to look at the two horses shivering in the cold storm and snow, gritted his teeth, took out a bag of dry food from his bosom, and poured the salt-fried powdered noodles in his palm and brought it to the horse's mouth.

Seeing the horse greedily gnawing on the rations in his hands, Xifeng Minda smiled helplessly - this was originally his ration today, but if the enemy has an advantage in numbers, he will fight for a while, and the fast galloping maneuvers of his two horses will ensure the advantage, if the horse loses strength at that time, I don't know if he can successfully catch the prisoner, but he will definitely die an ugly death.

Eat! Eat! When you're full, you have to run faster......

The cold wind was still carrying the snowflakes and violently pouring into the neck of the fine seal Minda, but he didn't notice it at all, while carefully feeding the war horse and combing the horse's mane lovingly, his eyes were so gentle that he seemed to be looking at a long-lost lover.

When the Han people in the Central Plains were dominant, they used to use very few troops to defeat the surrounding ethnic groups and tribes who could not raise their heads.

Therefore, "Tian Khan" will always be the patent of the Han people.

It was an era when the four Yi monarchs all ran to Chang'an to stand guard and guard the gate for the Han emperor.

At that time, the Han people, whether they were cavalry or infantry, were ridiculously strong......

Starting from the Evil Yang Ridge, to Baidao, to Xihai, to Dafeichuan, to Anshi, and to Nuozhenshui, the image of Han soldiers charging with spears and arrows has become a lingering nightmare in the memory of countless nationalities......

Thankfully, that's all gone......

Thankfully, all of this is now legendary......

Today's Han people have long lost the courage and tenacity of their ancestors......

Therefore, there is no longer a Tian Khan among the Han people today......

Therefore, now the Han people will only crawl under our iron hooves and tremble......

The soldiers of the Han people, no matter how many they come, they are very fragile soldiers, and I am a harrier!

Minda thought earnestly......