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The yellow clouds are all over the sky, the red cliffs are like a standing, and the camel bells are ringing, empty and far away.

A long procession of camels and horses, caravans not like caravans, travelers not like travelers, and horse thieves not like horse thieves, passing through the long and desolate Gobi Grand Canyon. Above the canyon, there are several horsemen in parallel with the team, and from time to time the knights leave the team, riding down and down the cliff along the slope to communicate news.

This strange team is the revenge team formed by Zhang Fang, his companions, and the eighteen guards.

The time was the twentieth day after they left Gyro Mountain.

If they had known that this task would be so time-consuming, difficult and dangerous, Deng Zhan and Tao Sheng would never follow their young master to do this, and even more so to prevent him from doing so.

Disobeying the orders of the young master will certainly be punished, but if they do not stop it and put the young master in danger, the consequences will be too serious for them to bear. Along the way, they almost begged the young master to return. The reply I got was always the sentence "One more ride, maybe it's just ahead." ”

After the Huns committed the earth-shattering bloody case, they did not return to Sanshui, but turned around and went north, around the western foot of Baiyu Mountain, through the Yanyan (now Ningxia Yanchi) out of the Great Wall, into the vast grassland.

This group of Huns is very cunning, this thousands of hectares of prairie, belonging to Beidi County, Shang County, Xihe County, Shuofang County and other four counties under the jurisdiction of the West, South, North, Hun Gui, Hun Huai all belong to the commanders, it is simply a place of five no care.

After this group of Huns entered the steppe, their whereabouts were erratic, appearing and disappearing, all the way to the northwest. After passing through the Dusitu River, crossing the Yellow River, spanning more than 300 miles, it actually passed out of the important town of Jilu in Shuofang and entered the desolate Gobi Desert.

Deng Zhan and Tao Sheng regretted that their intestines were blue: why didn't they turn around in the chicken deer? Unexpectedly, after a long conversation with the young master, the ghost sent the god to agree to get out of the plug, so that he can't get up or down now. While it is uncertain to move forward, it is equally difficult to make a U-turn.

These two Hou Mansion guards were not afraid of difficulties, but also of danger. After chasing them all the way, they already vaguely felt that this group of Huns was unusual - a group of Huns with swords and bows, who had taken dozens of Han people as slaves, were able to pass through two checkpoints in a row, one of which was Jilusai, an important border town of the Han Dynasty. So unimpeded, where does it look like an ordinary Hun? If Deng Zhan and Tao Sheng didn't have customs clearance documents on them, they were afraid that they would not even be able to get out of the plug, and in comparison, it would show that this group of Huns was not simple.

Deng Zhan and Tao Sheng almost walked all the way to persuade them, and swore that as long as the matter was handed over to them to deal with, the young master would return to Chang'an, and they would rescue people and bring the head of the bone-bearded man to see him.

Zhang Fang only glanced at them, and he didn't need to use hypnotic spying, he knew that they didn't have the slightest confidence in saying this, and whoever believed it was brainless.

It was under this entanglement that this team gradually approached Zhangye County on the Han border. At this time, it was more than 800 miles away from their starting place, Gyro Mountain......

At dusk, the group went down to the canyon, found a large crack, and camped at the tip.

The Gobi Desert is devastated by wind and sand, and the rocks are severely weathered, and faults and fissures formed by time abrasion and rock collapse can often be seen. These fissures range from small to large, with the small ones allowing only one man and one horse to pass sideways, and the large ones like caves, which are large enough to accommodate thousands of men and horses in the camp.

Zhang Fangxuan The cliff cave formed by the crack in this canyon is neither big nor small, and it is no problem to accommodate more than 100 people.

Because the Huns did not take a traditional trade route, they traveled all the way, and there were few travelers, which also made it easier for them to find the enemy's traces and have been closely following the Huns. It's just that the Huns traveled a day earlier than them, and the people in front of them could choose the route of travel as they wanted, while the people who chased them had to observe carefully and confirm repeatedly that the speed could not be fast if they wanted to. So much so that after chasing for nearly a thousand miles, although the distance between the two sides was shrinking, they still could not catch up.

Zhang Fang and his entourage, in addition to more than 20 horses, also have eight-peaked camels to transport supplies. These camels were bought before the chicken and deer stopped, and when walking in the Gobi Desert, camels are definitely more effective than horses. The eight-peaked camels were loaded with enough food, water, forage and tents for more than 20 people to support them for a month. As for the money for buying things, it was the funds that Deng Zhan and Tao Sheng received from the Hou Mansion - these two people have an important mission, how can they not bring enough money? Before leaving, the housewife gave a death order, and she couldn't find the young master, so she didn't want to enter the Hou Mansion again in this life. The two brothers have long been prepared to go out for a long time, and naturally they will not bring less money and goods, and there are still dozens of catties of gold and cloth.

The first thing to do is to drive piles, build tents, and then make a fire to cook. The diet is very simple, boil the water, boil the dry rice (the corn is cooked and then dried, the Han Dynasty convenience food, can be used as military rations and dry food for travel), pickled meat, pickles, and noodles into a kettle, boiled into a ball of rice paste, and then you can eat.

Although Zhang Fang made an iron pot to stir-fry, he can only be simple because of his ugliness when he is on the journey, and he can't compare it with home. In fact, even if it is in the Dahan Fortress Restaurant and Wine Shop, this recipe is not much better. Diet in this era is so simple. What is fried and fried, sweet and sour, full of color and flavor, please go out and turn right, go to Daming or Daqing......

After dinner, Deng Zhan and Tao Sheng arranged the light and dark sentry posts, and laid a trap to prevent wild beasts at the entrance of the cave, and then walked to the main account of the young master together for a daily routine report.

The two guards talked to each other as they walked, their faces worried, and they had only one thing to worry about: weapons.

That's right, Zhang Fang's team has a total of twenty-three people, but there is a great shortage of weapons and equipment. There was no armor, and the weapons were only a hemp steel sword, five ring-headed knives, four bows, and fifteen ruler knives. Among them, the only weapons that can be called lethal are a sword, a bow and five knives.

The swords, knives and bows held by Zhang Fang, the Han brothers, and Qu Liang all have a certain lethality. Only the group of guards of the Hou Mansion, except for Deng Zhan and Tao Sheng, each wore a ring-headed knife, and the rest wore ruler knives, and the bows and arrows they carried were also soft bows for practice with an effective range of less than 20 zhang, and their lethality was very weak - this is not unusual, if they could bring excellent weapons out of the fortress, it would be strange.

There are regulations at the border gates of the Han Dynasty, but all long soldiers, standard bows and crossbows, armor shields, horses and iron weapons that exceed three feet are forbidden to leave the customs, and violators will be punished as collaborating with the enemy. Imagine how you can carry a large number of weapons out of the jam under such strict orders? Just bringing out Han Jun's standard bow and arrow took a lot of effort.

Out of the chicken and deer stop, it is already the edge of the Han army's power. Although the Hundred Years War between Han and Hungary ended with a complete victory for the Han Dynasty. The Southern Xiongnu were annexed, the Northern Xiongnu were far away, and there was no war on the border. There are no more ferocious enemies, but horse thieves and sand thieves, the Ronghu tribe and the wild beasts of the wilderness will never be eliminated. Once they run into these robbers and beasts, with the rudimentary weapons in their hands, it is difficult to kill the enemy and protect themselves. What's more, after tracking down all the way, it has been roughly figured out that there are about thirty or forty Huns in this group, and the weapons and equipment are not clear, but no matter what, it will not be worse than them.

The weapons and equipment are not under them, the number is doubled, is it you who kill people, or do people kill you?

During this period of time, Zheng and Tao were really responsible. Fortunately, this road is not an important trade route, robbers and horse thieves did not appear, but there were a few jackals and leopards, and when they saw that there were many of them, they did not dare to disturb. The worries did not appear, but the weapon problem was not solved for a day, and the two of them could not feel at ease for a day.

Before finding the young master, Deng Zhan and Tao Sheng brought a total of twenty guards. Two of the guards, one man and two horses, galloped to Chang'an to report safety. Two other guards were sent to Wuwei City southeast of Hutu Ze two days ago to see if they could get some weapons by taking advantage of the military-Chinese relations that Deng Zhan had built up in his early years when he was guarding the border of Wuwei Town.

Weapons, weapons! Even if you get seven or eight old bows!

In front of the white main tent, there stood two young men dressed in white linen clothes, with filial piety belts around their waists, and grim faces. Zheng and Tao recognized that this was the pair of Han brothers. Originally, the two arranged for a guard to protect and serve the young master, but gradually found that the young master obviously trusted the brothers more, and in the end they simply replaced the guard and became a guard. Zheng and Tao can say anything other than secretly sighing for the good luck of these mountain boys?

"Asher, please inform the young master, and escort Tao Sheng and Deng Zhan to come and return to life." Tao Sheng smiled and called Han Jun by his nickname, his expression was full of enthusiasm.

Han Nanjun nodded: "Wait." After making a report, he entered the tent, came out quickly, and nodded to Zheng and Tao, "Childe, please wait outside the tent." Since learning of Zhang Fang's identity, the Han brothers and others have changed their words to "Gongzi". It's just that they are not qualified to be called "young masters", unless they become naturalized in the Hou Mansion, judging from the current situation, I am afraid that it will be sooner or later.

Deng Zhan and Tao Sheng glanced at each other, seemed to be aware of it, and walked quickly to the front of the tent together. But when I saw the curtain hanging, I saw a young man dressed in a blue suit, with a short bun on his head, and a healthy bronze face, who was introverted and focused. Beside him was a girl with a man's hair in a bun and a filial piety robe, but it was not difficult to see that it was a woman.

Seeing what the young master and the girl named Qingyan were doing, Deng Zhan and Tao Sheng smiled bitterly at each other: Here we go again! They do this endlessly when it's time to rest...... Alas! I really don't know what the young master is doing with this thing?