The wind is howling, the city of Chang'an in the first month is covered with snow, and the Shangyuan Festival has just passed, and there is still a celebratory atmosphere everywhere.

In the Shili Pavilion outside Chang'an City, a group of people were looking forward to it. Protected in the middle by a group of guards are a few half-grown children, a few pink loli, a small Zhengtai and a huge fat man.

These are the brothers and sisters who came to see off Li Kuan, a few princesses who have a good relationship with Li Kuan led by Li Lizhen, and two princes, Li Tai, the king of Wei, and Li Zhi, the king of Jin. The wind and snow were kept out by the guards, and the red charcoal stove was burning in the pavilion. But wisps of cold wind still blew in, making the faces of several children freeze red. This time, it took these little guys to get Li Er's consent after grinding coquettishly for a long time, otherwise I'm afraid that only Li Tai can come, and the rest of the people don't have the right to leave the palace freely. But if Li Lizhen doesn't come, Li Tai probably won't come back.

In addition to a few princes and princesses, there are also Li Kuan's two maids, although these two people have already said goodbye in the early morning and morning dawn, but they still came with them at this time, and the two of them are most worried about Li Kuan.

Li Lizhi looked at a few sisters wrapped in thick cotton jackets, and then looked at the empty official road, feeling a little anxious and worried. Her relationship with Li Kuan is the best among all her siblings. This time Li Kuan went on the expedition, and she was also worried and hurried. It is impossible for Li Lizhen to know too much about military affairs, but she still guessed a lot of things from some subtleties because of Bing Xue's intelligence.

This time Li Kuan went on the expedition, but the court was quiet, and his uncle and eldest grandson Wuji were still arguing about whether to fight. This made a bad feeling spread in the heart of Her Royal Highness the princess, who had grown up: Wasn't it the father's will this time? But without the permission of his father, how could the second brother go on the expedition?

The worries in my heart have not been put down in the slightest. But the sound of the horse's hooves in the distance made her head lift slightly. Looking in that direction, at the end of the line of sight, a black torrent rolled in, rushing like a dark tide. Thousands of horses galloped like this, and the horses' hooves stepped on the earth like an earth dragon turned over, and the earth trembled.

At the front of the line, a young man was dressed in coarse linen clothes, but his body was full of energy, and a bright silver spear in his hand shone with a faint cold glow. Behind him the knight sat silently on his horse. They follow their leader, even if this time it will be a battlefield of life and death. The horses galloped, and the horses were abnormal, but they did not stop at all. Speeding past in front of the ten-mile pavilion, Li Kuan also saw the people in the pavilion on horseback, but he still didn't stop, because he knew that if he stopped, he would definitely be very sad by the tears of these little girls, so it was better to leave without pause.

"Why doesn't the second brother stop?" Yu Zhang was puzzled. She still wants to say goodbye to her second brother.

"It's better not to see each other than to see each other! Let's go, let's go back too! Li Li's speculation in her heart deepened, she really saw it just now, Li Kuan's group was not wearing armor, they were just wrapped in coarse linen clothes. How can such an army be a large army on the march of an enemy country? Even the bandits on the mountain have a leather armor. Could it be ...... Li Lizhen didn't dare to think about it anymore, she was frightened by what she guessed.

Li Lizhen, Li Tai and Red Sleeves, the three older boys and girls, saw that something was wrong, but the rest of the little guys didn't have such eyesight. They were all angry and came to see off the second brother themselves. The cold wind blew early in the morning, but it didn't stop and just left. So a few little guys muttered together to denounce the second brother who didn't appreciate it.

Li Kuan didn't know this, but he was very calm in his heart, and he had been looking forward to going to the battlefield this time for a long time. It's not that he's a murderer, but he's anxious to test the combat effectiveness of this half-finished army that he's trained with his own fumbling around. In this era of cold weapons, the battle relies on life fighting, swords and soldiers, and this army that has not been tested in actual combat can only be regarded as a semi-finished product. And for a country like a small tribe like Tuyuhun, as long as he doesn't fight hard with their main force, Li Kuan still has some confidence that he can take this army, which is now a bandit, to fight a dozen autumn winds.

The war horse galloped, and there was nothing to say all the way. It's just that this time without the support of the imperial court, all the logistics, grain and grass and the like have to be done by Li Kuan himself. But this qiē is not difficult for Li Kuan, because the number of troops he is leading now is not very large, and things like survival in the wilderness Li Kuan has also trained these people separately in the previous training, and Li Kuan also has the backing when there is really no way, food is not worth much in the system, as long as he survives this period of time, it is not easy to do it when he arrives in Tuyuhun? It's not difficult to find a small tribe and kill it, and get some food out of the troubled waters. Of course, these grains are not necessarily those primitive people who only know how to herd cattle and slaves and sheep.

But Li Kuan was thinking too simply, he didn't know that the troops stationed there on the border line were already in battle, not to conquer Tuyuhun, but to wait for Li Kuan and their wave of 'bandits'.

Lanzhou, close to the border of Tuyuhun, is home to a border army of the Tang Dynasty, led by an unknown young general, Zhou Chuang. This is a rugged man like all the killers in the army, although he has been promoted to Captain Zhenwei all the way through his military exploits over the years, and he can be regarded as a seventh grade, but he has always been running with others, coming out to train every morning. Then go to the defensive line to swing around, or go out of the city to the barren grassland to kill the natives of Tuyuhun. After the Tang army had stirrups and horseshoes, it began to advance by leaps and bounds in the short board of cavalry warfare, and now those alien races who have been fighting on horseback since childhood cannot take advantage of the salvo. Therefore, Li Kuan, the king of Chu who invented these two things in the border army, has a lot of admirers, perhaps for those soldiers in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, they just feel convenient for these two things. But in the border army, how many soldiers' lives can be saved by such a thing? Therefore, Li Kuan's reputation in the border army is definitely no worse than that of those veterans on the battlefield, even if these people have not seen His Royal Highness the King of Chu of the Tang Dynasty.

Now Zhou Chuang has received an order from above, that is, in the recent period of time, a horse thief will escape from Guanzhong, the strength of this horse thief should not be underestimated, after they committed several crimes in Guanzhong, they fled thousands of miles to prepare to escape from Datang, to the surrounding small countries hostile to Datang, and now Tuyuhun is the biggest suspect target who is rubbing between Datang. So Zhou Chuang and their border troops not only had to guard against Tuyuhun's surprise attack, but also to prevent this horse thief from escaping from the Tang Dynasty.

After receiving this order, Zhou Chuang was extremely angry, not only at this daring horse thief, but also at those comrades who had lived in a peaceful environment in Guanzhong for a long time. Now even a horse thief can't do anything about it, it's really enough. These border soldiers not only have to face foreign enemies, but also wipe the butts of these incompetent guys. On this day, the amount of training in the army was doubled, and all the soldiers could only practice desperately when they saw the gloomy face of the commander who could drip water, and anyone who dared to touch the mold at this time was really impatient.

"What do we do now? Tuyuhun's army of about 5,000 people is still cruising in the wilderness outside the city, and now Guanzhong has actually broken out so many horse thieves, are those government soldiers eating? How could these people rob the war horses in the army? Could it be that my Datang government soldiers are really so vulnerable? Zhou Chuang said fiercely to a few colleagues in the barracks.

"Those old soldiers? Ha ha...... Do you really want to laugh my big teeth off? was robbed by a horse thief, and the court couldn't stop it? An elegant lieutenant raised his hand slightly and stroked the beard on his chin.

"Lao Chen, you have always had a lot of ghost ideas, look at the ...... of them" Zhou Chuang looked at the elegant lieutenant and asked out loud, this lieutenant's name is Chen Gongtai, but he has the same name as a famous strategist in the Three Kingdoms period, and he is quite strategic. In this border army of more than 3,000 people, he has always played the role of a think tank.

"Of course, there must be something wrong with this! No matter who gives the order from above, those who can order our border troops to go out to intercept must be at the level of generals, no matter who they are, but they are always at the rank of five or above. Such a character would actually have a headache for being a horse thief all the time? This is obviously impossible, and although the government soldiers are not like us as full-time soldiers, they should not be underestimated, plus how can so many war horses be snatched all at once? There are many doubts! Chen Gongtai analyzed. I have to say that this guy has a bit of a brain.

"And, Brother Zhou Chuang, have you found out where those horse thieves committed the crime? Didn't you? And in Guanzhong, where are the places where there can be thousands of war horses? These are the places that a horse thief can breach? The more he analyzed, the more Chen Gongtai felt that this matter was complicated, so he finally said: "So Brother Zhou Chuang, these things are still up to you, the supreme official, to decide!" To be honest, I can't see through this! ”

Chen Gongtai didn't say anything more, he had already said it clearly enough, if Zhou Chuang still didn't understand, then it could only mean that this guy's head was really not open. But although Zhou Chuang is a martial artist, it doesn't mean that he has no brains at all. There are thousands of war horses in Guanzhong, which is undoubtedly the horse farm of a large military camp like Sixteen Guards, where to snatch the war horses? Not to mention the bandits, even the Tuyuhun army on the opposite side may not be able to retreat in their entirety. Therefore, these bandits must not be real, and the reason why they want to intercept them is to do a full set of tricks, send these 'horse thieves' a ride, and 'hunt them down' to Tuyuhun'!

"It must be like this!" After Zhou Chuang thought about the key clearly, he settled down: "Come here, go to the direction of Qinzhou, set up a pass in the direction of Qizhou, there is a horse thief in the pass, and they actually want to take refuge in Tuyuhun, we have to stop them!" Zhou Chuang shouted loudly, and then a group of soldiers went outside to set up things such as horse rejection and horse pits, and then waited for them. (To be continued......)