The night was like ink, a lonely moon hung above the sky, and under the miserable white moonlight, a black shadow had swept across the long street at a very fast speed, and disappeared into a private house. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

There was a mutton fat oil lamp burning in the house, and the dim light emitted flickering lights, and a masked man was sitting proudly according to the case, and the light of the surrounding lights was unreachable, and there was a faint light of weapons in the surrounding light, obviously there were guards in the rain and darkness.

As soon as the black shadow entered the room, he knelt on the ground, clenched his fists and said, "The villain has seen the general." ”

The masked man's cold gaze fell on the man in black, and he said coldly, "Have you ever held it?" ”

The black-clothed man trembled in his heart, and said in a low voice: "In the past few days, the wind in the city has been tight, and the thieves have sent additional people in the city, and the brothers really have nowhere to start. ”

"Guaranteed to get the job done? What guarantees do you take? The masked man's cold eyes flashed a fierce color, "It's because you waste leaked the news that it aroused the vigilance of the thieves~"

"General Rao,,,,"

Suddenly, a cold light suddenly swept through the darkness, blood splashed, and the head of the man in black had already rolled down to the cold ground. There was still warm blood splashed on the masked man's face covered with black cloth, and the hollow eyes of the rolling head stared coldly at the person who did it, and he didn't bat at death~

"Waste~" The masked man tore off the black cloth stained with red blood, and his white face showed a hideous color, "Tell the brothers that the thieves have become vigilant, and everyone is hibernating." ”

A man stepped forward and said softly, "General Xiahou, what about the brother who has leaked?" ”

Xiahou Bo's eyes were murderous, and Sen Ran said: "Since it has been exposed, the thieves will be able to find us sooner or later." Don't you know how? ”

The man's expression was grim, and he said quickly: "The last general understands." ”

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Jixian County, Zhang Bao's mansion.

Although it has been three poles in the sun, Zhang Bao still did not get up on the embroidered couch of Mihuan, his rough big hands are gently rubbing the skin that Mihuan can be broken by blowing, Mihuan has his eyes closed, and his handsome little face is covered with redness~

"My lord."

Zhang Bao was about to make the next move, and Dian Wei's thunderous voice sounded very inopportunely outside the boudoir, "My lord, Mr. Gongze is in a hurry to see you." ”

"Rules?"

A wry smile flashed across Zhang Bao's face, a rare trace of leisure, he originally planned to lead Wanrou, Liu Tong, Mihuan, Da Qiao, and Xiao Qiao to have a good stroll today, but he didn't want to be entangled by Guo Tu again.

Mi Huan said softly with affection: "When Mr. Gongze comes to see, there must be something important to report." General, let's go quickly~"

Zhang Bao reluctantly kissed Mihuan's bright lips, and kissed Mihuan so much that Mihuan was so distracted that he sat up unsatisfied, turned around and shouted outside the house: "I know, General Ben will get up." ”

After the tea, Zhang Baocai came to the living room in a hurry.

Guo Tu hurriedly stepped forward and said, "See the lord." ”

"Well, the public is exempt!" Zhang Bao bowed his head lightly and asked, "What's the matter with the prince coming so early?" ”

Guo Tu took out a pocket parchment scroll from his sleeve and handed it to Zhang Baodao: "Lord, this is the secret guard eight hundred miles urgent, and the Western Regions have been pacified!" ”

"Oh?" Zhang Bao's face turned happy when he heard this, "Fa Zheng has already pacified the Western Regions?" ”

"Exactly." Guo Tu said, "Although this Fa Zheng is young, he is extremely old-fashioned, and as soon as he arrived in the Western Regions, he pretended to make peace, and took advantage of the opportunity to kill the prime minister of Yanqi and the left general of Khotandu, and tied Wusun and some small Western Regions countries that were only Wusun to the chariot of our army. ”

"Not bad." Zhang Bao nodded while reading the parchment letter, "This hand is ruthless enough." ”

Guo Tu said happily: "With the strong support of the Wusun State, Fazheng quickly suppressed the rebellion of the Yanqi State and the Khotanese Capital State, wiped out the royal families of the two countries, and then selected pro-Han nobles from the two countries to govern, and now the situation in the Western Regions has stabilized, and there are no worries about Xiliang, Guanzhong, and Beidi." ”

"Well, well done." Zhang Bao rolled up the parchment scroll and said to Guo Tu, "The public can reply to Fa Zheng and ask him to weaken the strength of the Wusun Kingdom as much as possible, at the moment our army is not able to make a large-scale westward expedition, it is not a good thing for the Wusun family to be dominant, only a divided and balanced Western Regions is in our interests." ”

Guo Tu said: "Grant orders." ”

Seeing that Guo Tu didn't leave after finishing speaking, Zhang Bao couldn't help asking, "Is there anything else to do?" ”

Guo Tu once again took out a pocket parchment scroll from his arms, and said in a condensed voice: "Jixian County ordered Zhou Ang to report that the old and young members of the Bingcao family and more than 100 members of the Zhao family in the western suburbs all died tragically. Tu felt that this matter was strange, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he came to send the news to the lord. ”

Zhang Bao's thick eyebrows frowned, and he said in a condensed voice: "What is the background of this soldier Cao and the Zhao family, have you checked?" ”

Guo Tu said in a deep voice: "As soon as the incident happened, Tu had already sent someone to investigate. The Bing Cao family and the Zhao family moved from Jizhou, the name of the soldier Cao was Cao Yuan, originally Bohai County, and was later forced to Jizhou by our army. As for the ancestral home of the Zhao family, it is also Bohai County, and they have always made a living by selling smuggled salt. These two families have a good reputation, but for some reason they all died tragically overnight. ”

"Bohai people?" A cold light flashed in Zhang Bao's slightly narrowed eyes, and he said coldly: "Who is really deep in this Bohai Sea, does General Ben remember that the Bohai Sea was occupied by Yuan Shao and Liu Bei before, right?" ”

"What the lord said is good!" Guo Tu said in a deep voice, "Yuan Shao used to be the Taishou of the Bohai Sea, and later Liu Bei took advantage of the fact that our army had no time to take care of it, but the two of them did not stay for long. The lord thinks that the people behind the scenes may be these two people? ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Bao bowed his head slightly, "Yuan Shao is of noble birth, he has always looked down on the white body, and he has an excellent face, this person will definitely not act like this." In addition, Liu Bei is left~ This person has a thick face and a black heart, the city government is very deep, and he is good at pretending to buy people's hearts. is even more fond of intrigue and trickery, and the mastermind behind this must be Liu Bei. ”

Zhang Bao said this and asked, "By the way, has Liu Bei's whereabouts been found?" ”

Guo Tu shook his head and said: "I haven't found it yet, Liu Bei has disappeared without a trace since the end of the war." It's been nearly a year, and there is no news about it, so I'm very worried! ”

"Huh!?" Zhang Baodao, "What is there to worry about? ”

Guo Tu said: "Open guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to defend, whether it is Cao Cao or Yuan Shu, even if they have millions of soldiers, what does it matter?" As long as our army is recuperated, it will be able to fight sooner or later. It's just that this Liu Bei is hiding in the shadows, nowhere to be seen, and in the dark he is like a poisonous tongue, waiting for an opportunity to move, so sooner or later it will be a trouble~"

"Isn't it sooner or later~ Didn't you do it to General Ben's Ru'er a few days ago?" Zhang Bao said coldly, "So we must increase our efforts to find out these dog things for General Ben!" ”

Guo Tu said: "Tu, obey orders!" ”

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Mobei steppe.

The chariots and horses roared, and three hundred iron horsemen escorted three carriages were slowly driving towards the grassland Zhoucang tribe, the grassland in February was still icy and snowy, and the endless wasteland was still white and snowy, and it was dizzy! If an inexperienced southerner appears on this snowfield for the first time, he is likely to go blind because of his novelty and curiosity!

The window of a simple carriage in the middle suddenly opened a corner, revealing a slightly thin little face, only a pair of black eyes on the face looked full of aura, and the round black eyes looked around, but at a glance, in addition to the miserable white snow, it was still miserable white snow.

At that moment, a bright wrist reached over and gently closed the curtain of the carriage.

A pleasant voice sounded in the carriage at the same time: "Tuo'er, don't look at this snowfield for too long, otherwise you will get snow blindness." ”

Sitting in the carriage was Wan Rou and Zhang Tuo.

"Mother, what is snow blindness?"

A slightly immature voice asked.

"Snow blindness is the fact that if you look at the white of the snow field for a long time, your eyes will be blind."

"After looking at the white of the snowfield for a long time, why do people's eyes go blind?"

"Because the human eye can't stand it."

"Why can't human eyes stand it?"

"Tuo'er, you're asking too much."

"Mother, can we not go to Uncle Zhou Cang's tribe?"

"This is your father's decision, and my mother can't change it."

"Mother, does the father not like the child, so he wants to send the child away? Is this out of sight and out of mind? ”

"You kid, how can you think like that? You forgot that your father was hit by several arrows last time to save you, and if it weren't for the golden silk clothes woven by your aunt, your father would have been seriously injured. Don't look at your father's usual coldness and don't smile harshly, but he loves you the most in his heart. ”

"But my father always scolds the child, and I don't see my father a few times a year, and I have to be beaten when I do."

"Well, who made you the firstborn, you will inherit your father's inheritance when you grow up, and of course your father will be stricter with you than with his other younger siblings. Tuo'er, when you grow up in the future, you will understand your father's hard work, he is all for your good, if you have no ability, no prestige, how can you shock your father's old troops who have made outstanding achievements? ”

"Oh."

In the carriage, Zhang Tuo sighed softly and then fell silent.

At this time, there was a sudden undulating hilly hill on the endless snowfield in front of him, and a horse thief appeared on the top of the mountain like a lone wolf, flashed and disappeared without a trace, and the convoy continued to move forward for less than ten miles, and hundreds of Mobei horse thieves suddenly appeared on the hills on both sides.

"Woo~~"

In the desolate horn, the horse thieves began to slowly approach the convoy.

Liao Chen's expression was clear, and a thunderous roar crossed the sky: "Leave two hundred cavalry brothers to form a circle, protect the son and his wife in the array, and kill the enemy with bows and arrows, and the remaining hundred brothers will come with a certain one to defeat the hairy thieves in front first, these hairy thieves who don't have long eyes dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head, it's just tired!" ”

In just a few moments, Liao Chen had gathered more than three hundred horse thieves in front of him, and they were brandishing the scimitar in his hand and rushing towards the convoy.

The two armies advanced against each other, and in less than a moment they had already rushed to the range of the cavalry bow, and after a rain of arrows, each side fell more than a dozen horsemen, and this battle was evenly divided! This gang of horse thieves is very good at kung fu on the horse, but the three hundred iron horsemen of the Yellow Turban are also a hundred battle elite horses, and their riding skills and archery skills are not inferior to the people on horseback, especially the existence of fierce people like Liao Chen~

Although Liao Chen's one hundred iron cavalry is at a disadvantage in numbers, it can be well-equipped and well-trained, and a group of three is combined into a sharp arrow assault array, covering each other, cooperating tacitly, and every ten small formations form a large assault array, and the three large sharp arrow formations are headed by Liao Chen, just like three sharp boning knives fiercely pierced into the horse thief team, and the horse thief team that rushed in without discipline suddenly turned over on their backs and was in chaos.

The more than 300 horse thieves in front of them were quickly smashed by Liao Chen's 100 iron horses.

The other four or five hundred horse thieves who swarmed from the other three directions were also met by the other two hundred iron horsemen, and both charges ended in failure, but dozens of corpses were left on the periphery of the convoy, and more than a dozen horse thieves were lying on their backs on the snow struggling and wailing, but the horse thieves in the distance did not dare to come to the rescue.

The horse thief who failed in the raid quickly changed his tactics, no longer attacking but retreating into the distance like a wolf dotted with the convoy, Liao Chen was worried about the safety of Wanrou's mother and son, and did not dare to attack rashly, so he had to escort the convoy to the north, fortunately, this is already the hinterland of the grassland, and it is only more than two hundred miles away from the tribe of Zhoucang.

A cavalryman approached Liao Chen and said in a low voice, "General, this group of horse thieves doesn't seem to be ordinary horse thieves." ”

"Oh?" Liao Chen's heart sank and asked, "Tell me your opinion." ”

The cavalryman said: "A few years ago, when the money village was not opened, the merchants of Guanzhong went to Mobei to buy leather goods and livestock, and they often hired troops to protect the convoy for safety. ”

"Because the target of the horse thieves in the brigade is too big, it is easy to recruit the cavalry team of the two generals Zhou Cang and Guan Hai to chase and suppress! Therefore, the number of horse thieves active in the Mobei area generally does not exceed three hundred, but this group of horse thieves has seven or eight hundred people, the scale is very large, it stands to reason that such a brigade of horse thieves should have been exterminated by the cavalry of the two generals a long time ago. ”

"Hmm." Liao Chen nodded, and said in a deep voice, "To let you say this, General Ben has also found some flaws, this group of horse thieves seems to have been trained, but the training is very rough, and even the charging formation is not well maintained!" But that's enough to prove that they're not ordinary horse thieves, and judging by the current situation, they should be waiting for reinforcements! ”

The cavalryman exclaimed, "So there is a large group of horse thieves coming this way?" ”

"That's how it should be!" Liao Chen said in a deep voice, "The safety of Mrs. and Son-in-law is very important, and there must be no room for mistakes!" Now you immediately lead thirty brothers to break away from the brigade and rush to the Zhoucang tribe to report the news, asking General Zhoucang to quickly send a large army to rescue, remember, 100,000 urgent! ”

"Yes!"

The cavalry clenched his fists sonorously, and picked up the thirty cavalry to break away from the brigade and quickly disappeared into the snowfield, almost at the same time that the thirty iron cavalry had just left the brigade, the horse thieves team far behind the convoy also divided more than a hundred miles, and chased after them, Liao Chen became more and more convinced that this group of horse thieves had a great background.