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September 16, flat pine forest, seven stars. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Qixingbo is composed of small lakes scattered between dense forests and plateau pastures, suitable for grazing and resting merchants, and the garrison of this area is one of the five tribes of the Xi people.

Living in the northwest region of Xidi, which was centered on the ghost side, the Humili royal tribe assumed the responsibility of garrisoning and also increased the income of the tribe by collecting "tolls" from merchants. Since it is necessary to collect the "tolls" of the merchants, of course, it is necessary to provide the necessary services, and the flat pine forest avenue is an important passage connecting the desert and the northeast, and there are more merchants and business opportunities, so there is a garrison camp every dozens of miles, and then it becomes a comprehensive camp that integrates many functions such as defense, information transmission, businessmen resting, living and grazing.

For the humiliating royal tribes, although the enemy they need to guard against the most is their suzerain, the Turks in the desert, but the most hated are the horse thieves and robbers hiding in the forest, which are repeatedly suppressed and cannot be prevented. Last month, the Xi people launched an attack on the Khitan, and the five main armies all went to the Tosuchen Water Battlefield, and the defensive strength of the flat pine forest avenue was suddenly weakened, and the horse thieves in the forest immediately heard the wind and roared out, plundering frequently. In the late autumn season, it is the time when the grassland tribes are hoarding winter materials, not only the trade volume between the north and the south has increased greatly, but the trade volume between different ethnic groups and tribes has also increased rapidly, so the safety of the flat pine forest road is very important to the Turks and the Xi people.

However, at the critical moment, the situation in Yanbei suddenly became tense, the pass of the Yanbei Great Wall was closed, and the trade of the border city of Yanbei was interrupted. This is good news for the Xi people who insulted the royal tribe, and they can make a lot of money on "tolls", of course, provided that they provide better services and invest more power to suppress thieves. At the same time, the horse thieves in the forest, in order to loot more goods, also banded together and united to fight the enemy.

Just when the two sides were going back and forth and fighting "hot", a Middle-earth rebel army suddenly broke out of the Great Wall and rushed straight to the Lightning River, seriously threatening the safety of the southeast Yaqi banner. This incident had a great impact on the Pingdi Pine Forest Avenue, the merchants who came and went on the avenue decreased rapidly, and the Turks who suppressed the thieves with the Xi people also retreated, resulting in a rapid subversion of the situation, and the horse thieves in the forest relied on the advantage of numbers to destroy the four garrisons of the Xi people in one go, and the Xi tribe humiliated the king because of the lack of defensive forces, so they had to shrink their defense, and concentrated most of the control strings in Qixingbo and its nearby camps to ensure the safety of the ghost side.

Of course, there is another important reason for the Xi people to swallow their anger, that is, the severance of this trade route, although it will make the humiliated royal department have a certain loss in the collection of "tolls", but at the critical moment when the king of Xi went out to conquer with the main force of the five armies, the greatest threat to Xi Di was the Turks in addition to the Middle-earthers, so in order to prevent accidents, the most basic defensive strength must be guaranteed on the front line of the flat pine forest, and the arrogance of the horse thieves is actually equivalent to helping the Xi people strengthen the defensive force in disguise. In addition, as far as the current situation is concerned, because of the interruption of trade in the border city of Yanbei, the Turks in the southeast of the Moraine are more dependent on the border city of the Great Wall of Gubeikou in Xidi, and this trade route is more important to the Turks, so as long as the situation on both sides of the Lightning River is restored to stability, the Turks will definitely open up this trade route and try their best to suppress the thieves, so that the Xi people can pick up a big bargain without much effort, why not?

Therefore, the Xi people paid close attention to the situation on both sides of the Lightning River, and the commander of the Seven Star Boshu Battalion insulted the king Meng Ba, considering that the king of Xi was outside, and the land of Xi was empty, and he especially paid attention to all the "wind and grass" at all times, and even sent out all the scouts and hunters who were good at reconnaissance and tracking in the tribe, and even used the "fine work" hidden in the horse thieves, for no other reason, that is, he was worried that the Turks would stab the knife in the back, treachery, and took advantage of the time when the Xi people and the Khitan people were fighting, and directly sent troops to annex the Xi people and capture the Xi land.

Xi Ren's suspicions are well-founded, and before that, the minister of the Tooth Tent Sect, Jiabitler Ashina Simo, and Shibi Khan's cronies and favorites, Tong Lifa Shishu Huxi, jointly rushed to the southeast Yaqi of the moraine, and the purpose was unknown; Then Shi Shu Hu Xi issued a warning to Xi Wang Ah Huizheng, saying that there was a possibility of attacking Xi Di in Middle-earth, and told him to withdraw immediately and defend it with heavy troops, which made people scratch their heads and inexplicable, because Xi people had their own private channels in Middle-earth, and the news from these private channels confirmed that there was no sign of attacking Xi Di in Middle Earth at all, so Shi Shu Hu Xi's abnormal move is worth pondering; Then the development of the situation is a little weird, there is an urgent report from the Yaqi, saying that the rebels of Middle-earth are attacking, the two wolves of the Lightning River are everywhere, the north and the south seem to be about to turn their faces, and the war between the north and the south is about to break out, but this is completely illogical, because Middle-earth has been on an expedition to Goguryeo for two consecutive years, and the expected goal has not been achieved for two years, and the troops are still in Liaodong, and they have not all returned, and winter is coming, the weather is extremely bad, and the people of Middle-earth are not used to fighting in bad weather, All kinds of facts prove that it is impossible and unconditional for Middle-earth to launch a war between the north and the south in the near future, even if it is impossible to send troops to attack Xidi, so even if this news is true, there must be an unknown secret hidden behind it, and this secret is not good for himself from the standpoint of Xi people.

For this reason, Xi Wang Ahui is warning the commander of the Ghost Garrison, the leader of the Humiliation Wang's department, and one of the five major Xi people's Humiliation Wang Yun, asking him to be cautious and keep a firm eye on the Turks, so as to prevent Ji Sheashina from taking him by surprise and attacking him unprepared, and catching the Xi people by surprise. Yun then warned his son Meng Ba that the Turks were an insatiable wolf, cunning and treacherous, vicious, despicable and shameless, capable of doing anything, and not negligent.

Meng Ba didn't dare to be negligent, but this time the forest horse thieves poured out of the nest, and plundered wildly, and even openly cut off the trade routes, recklessly offended the Turks and Xi people at the same time, and changed the caution of hiding in Tibet for the past two years, which still attracted Meng Ba's attention, making him suddenly have an association, and these connections made him involuntarily have a trace of ominous thoughts.

Two years ago, there was a thief named White Wolf who was active in the pine desert, and gathered all kinds of thieves to gather in the flat pine forest, for the disaster of the Northeast, once became the confidant of the three tribes in the Northeast, such as Xi, Xi and Khitan, among which Xi suffered the greatest loss and was the most seriously threatened, and the interests of the Northeast are closely related to the desert, so the Turks were invited by the Xi King A Huizheng to unite the three tribes in the Northeast to encircle and suppress the forest horse thieves on all sides, and finally destroyed this scourge.

Meng Ba participated in this encirclement and suppression, but he did not see the head of the white wolf with his own eyes, nor did he see the corpses of horse thieves all over the mountains, behind the joint encirclement and suppression of many forces is full of secret fighting, lies and conspiracies, and there are even rumors that the Turks deliberately created the white wolf and this horse thief in order to better control the northeast, in order to curb and weaken the three tribes in the northeast, and the Turkic thieves shouted to catch the thief, saying that these are the conspiracy of the Middle-earth, in short, no one knows the life or death of the white wolf, only that this group of horse thieves was not completely wiped out, After suffering heavy losses, they were reduced to pieces and hid in the deep mountains and forests, and the disaster could erupt at any time.

If the white wolf is still alive, if the Turks plan to take advantage of the disadvantage of the Middle Earth expedition to Goguryeo, when they are too busy to take care of themselves, send troops to sweep through the northeast, eat the three tribes in the northeast, and expand the territory to both sides of the weak Luoshui, then the white wolf and this group of horse thieves can come in handy.

Meng Ba had to stare at the Turks with one eye and the forest horse thieves with the other, and then the bad news kept coming, it was difficult for the Xi people to cross the peach water, and the scouts or hunters who crossed the peach water basically had no return, as for whether someone was lucky enough to go deep into the enemy's rear and find out the exact news, it was also unknown, so they could only wait helplessly.

Finally, this morning, the exact news came, but it was also bad news, the forest horse thieves suddenly crossed the peach water on a large scale and rushed to the direction of Qixingbo, because the number of horse thieves was large, and the Xi people in the camp controlled too few strings to be unable to resist, and the horse thieves were invincible all the way. At this attack speed, the horse thieves will be able to kill Qixingbo before dusk.

This sudden bad situation, Meng Ba has been prepared before, not afraid of 10,000, just in case, the necessary preparations still have to be made, once attacked by a strong enemy, the one who should give up resolutely give up, and concentrate the limited defensive forces on Qishuibo to intercept, so as to win more time for the ghost side to respond.

Meng Ba's current concern is not whether Qishuibo can be defended, but desperately wants to know who his enemy is. If you don't even know about the enemy, this battle is still like this? If the enemy is really a forest horse thief, that is, the horse thieves want to kill and take revenge, then the crisis is not serious, even if Qishui Bo can't stop it, there is also the support of the ghost side, no matter how bad it is, you can still ask for help from Xi Wangfu, in short, the horse thief is a disaster, there is no need to worry. However, if the enemy is a Turkic, and there is a large group of Turks behind the horse thief, then the crisis is serious, it is a matter of life and death for the Xi people, and the ghost party and the Xi Wangfu must join forces to block the enemy, block the Turks under the ghost city at any cost, and wait for the king of Xi to lead the army to retreat, and then fight to the death.

At noon, the scouts reported that the enemy who attacked all the way was indeed a forest horse thief, but the number of horse thieves was relatively large, estimated to be three or four thousand people, of which the horse army galloped and outflanked the two wings, while the infantry army attacked head-on, step by step, in addition to the unexpected number of horse thieves, there was also the horse thief's weapon was very sharp, and the scout even saw heavy soldiers such as horse lances, longbows and crossbows. And these heavy soldiers are only equipped with the guards of the Xi Wangfu, although the five armies of the Xi nationality also have them, but there are very few, after all, these heavy soldiers can only be mass-produced in Middle-earth, and it is strictly forbidden to sell, and the Xi people are because they captured Anzhou and grabbed some middle-earth craftsmen, which can barely make some, even so, it has greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Xi army.

In addition to the mass production of heavy troops in Middle-earth, the Turks can also manufacture in small quantities, the main reason is also to find some craftsmen from Middle-earth, so Meng Ba naturally believes that the heavy soldiers in the hands of the forest horse thieves come from the Turks, or those horse thieves with heavy troops are disguised by the Turks, but this evidence alone does not prove that the Turks are attacking, and the Turks are the enemy.

Meng Ba also needs more evidence, at this moment, the "fine work" hidden in the team of horse thieves sent a secret report, the white wolf returned, the white wolf came back with tens of thousands of Middle-earth troops, the forest horse thieves regrouped under the call of the white wolf to his banner, the white wolf made a comeback, and the primary target of attack was Xidi.

Meng Ba was taken aback, but after thinking about it carefully, this news was full of loopholes, could not withstand scrutiny, and its authenticity was not high. Even if the white wolf didn't die and came back, in just two years, what method would he use to pull tens of thousands of troops out of Central Earth? What's more, the tens of thousands of troops of the white wolf rushed to both sides of the Lightning River, could it be that the Turks turned a blind eye, heard and ignored it, and let it cross the lightning plain and swagger into the flat pine forest?

Meng Ba was puzzled, who was the enemy? However, one thing is certain, Xi Di has been attacked by a strong enemy, Qishuibo may not be able to hold it, and the ghost side may be in danger of falling, so it is necessary to ask the ghost side to prepare for 100,000 urgently.

"Urgently report the ghost." Meng Ba categorically ordered, "Order the military battalions to prepare for evacuation, and once the enemy is strong, evacuate quickly, and preserve their strength to hold on to the ghost side." ”

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