The night was like paint, Xiao Quzhi and Gu Xiaojun rode on a small dirt slope and stretched their necks to look ahead, only to see one camp after another, quietly crouching in front, just blocking the road out of the valley.

This is a large canyon with a length of forty or fifty miles, only seven or eight miles at its widest point, and only three or four miles at its narrowest point. The camp of the big cannibals and the nine surnames of Zhaowu is located at the exit of this canyon, and from a distance, it stretches for a mile or two. This was only a small part of the vanguard, and when he had divided most of his assembled army and stationed it here, he feared that the camp would stretch for more than ten miles.

Xiao Quzhi had no doubt that within a few days, as soon as the army of Hepo Silin arrived, hundreds of wide and deep trenches would be dug here, and dozens or hundreds of camps would be erected, and the exit of this canyon would be built impermeable. Ever since the Battle of the Trenches more than a hundred years ago, the Great Cannibals have been particularly fond of defending trenches.

If the Anxi army wants to conquer Samad and build a city, it must pass through here, and if it adopts conventional methods, it must be fought through the camps one by one and filled in the trenches one by one. The Anxi army will attack far away, and it will inevitably be unable to attack for a long time, and there will be changes, and the big cannibals will take advantage of the chaos to attack or attack back and forth, and the Anxi army will be defeated. And Posilin chose the decisive battle site here, dug a trench and defended the wall, and it was really foolproof and sure to win.

It's a lot of brains to think about!

But these are all things for the future, and there is a more brain-intensive thing in front of us. There is only one passage, and it is nothing for fifteen people to rush over at night, one person and three horses, and the horse material is sufficient, and it is not difficult to run all the way back.

But the problem is that now I have to bring a group of women and children who are not very neat on horseback.

Originally, according to Xiao Quai's plan, he passed through this canyon overnight and went out of the middle Cao State to rob Butana before dawn. But when it was just about 11 o'clock in the middle of the night, the family members of King Kangguo shouted that they couldn't stand it anymore and had to rest and sleep. said that the ass was upside down, all the grinding blood, and said that he would rather be caught by the big cannibal than rush like this. The twelve-year-old boy looked more like he was about to cry at any moment.

There was no way, Xiao Quzhi had to order to find a hidden place, set up a tent, let them sleep and rest, and said that he would hurry tomorrow morning before dawn. Xiao Quai's illness asked Amir Jiang to take people to rest and stay in place, and he took Gu Xiaojun and the two to explore the way.

As a result, I saw this scene in front of me.

Xiao Qu fell ill and got off the horse, and his body jumped out like a big tanuki, disappearing into the darkness. Gu Xiaojun was already very sleepy, he couldn't help but marvel at Xiao Quai's ghost-like body, and he cheered up and waited for about a quarter of an hour, Xiao Qu's illness came back, and he had already investigated the previous situation clearly.

"Fortunately, they have just arrived here, and they haven't had time to dig trenches, build walls, and set up sentry posts, but they have only set up dozens of tents along the road."

"But it's still hard for us to get there, especially with a group of women and children."

Xiao Quzhi thought for a moment, "Is it okay to pretend to be a businessman?" ”

Gu Xiaojun shook his head and yawned, "No, one we don't have goods, and the other four of us Han people will be easily recognized soon." If we go separately, we won't be able to save them if they are caught. ”

Xiao Quzhi thought about it and felt that it was very risky, in case he couldn't get through, but he would fall into the net. He asked, "Then what do you say?" ”

Gu Xiaojun said: "Regardless of them, or just take Prince Kang, let's just rush over." ”

"......" Xiao Quzhi thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Let's go back and rest first, and then I'll think about whether there is a good way." ”

Xiao Quzhi understood what Gu Xiaojun meant, and there was no need to take risks for a few Sogdians. As long as you report the news you have found back to Zhongcheng, you will have completed the task. Zhongcheng planned with his heart, and the Anxi army was unparalleled in combat power, so he just fought all the way. The family members of these Kangguo kings did not play a very big role.

Xiao Quai's illness didn't think so, now the disparity between the enemy and our strength is really too big, and the Anxi Army is fighting away again, and there is also the unstable factor of Ge Lulu. The Anxi Army's chances of victory are really not very large, so if the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms can be able to turn against each other at a critical moment, the Great Food Army is very likely to be defeated in an instant like the Tang Army in another time and space.

Kang Guo is the suzerainty of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms, and the position of Kang Guo is often the position of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms. With King Kangguo's family, he can not only relieve King Kangguo's worries about defection, but also use him as a hostage, so that he does not dare to play tricks.

So, no matter what, Xiao Qu is sick and has to give it a try. Take out the family of King Kangguo.

"What? You decided to mix in with the Zhaowu Nine ** team that went to assemble and let them take us there? "As soon as the day dawned, Xiao Qu's sick escape to the team went on the road. Xiao Qubing said the method that he had thought about all night, and Gu Xiaojun couldn't help but ask loudly, he felt that this idea was too risky.

"What? Is there a better way? Xiao Quzhi nodded, he looked around at everyone, Amir Jiang, Li Ergou, Prince Wumo, Cao Alanyan, and said: "Pretending to be a businessman, the other party will definitely check, it is difficult to fool the past: Chongying is definitely not good, a group of women and children; Only this method is the best, and they will not check if they hijack the army of the people surnamed Zhaowu who went to report on it, and mix it in. ”

Gu Xiaojun frowned and said, "But there are only fifteen of us, how can we hold an army hostage?" ”

Xiao Quzhi smiled and said, "If it's a big food army, it definitely won't work." If it's the Zhaowu Nine ** team, it should be fine. ”

"Are you sure?"

"It's up to you."

Xiao Qubing was lucky, and he didn't walk long, and when he was still more than ten miles away from the exit of the canyon, they met a grain transportation team from the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms. Xiao Quzhi shouted hello and rushed over with Amir Jiang and Prince Yama.

The three of them stopped in the middle of the road, and the other party apparently noticed that the three of them had bad intentions. Although it was strange, they didn't care, there were only three of them, just run away. The eight horsemen rushed out of the group, and when they were about to exit to drive away, Prince Yama on this side spoke first.

"Guys, don't be nervous, we have no ill will. Just want to make a deal with your boss? ”

There are only three of you, and we're nervous...... The soldiers of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu sneered in their hearts, and a knight who rushed out shouted, "What are you guys? What qualifications do you have to make a deal with our master? Get out of the way, or don't blame us for being rude! ”

Prince Yama was amused, and he smiled rather lightly: "How can you not be polite? ”

The knight was furious, as the prince of Yama said, the Sogdians surnamed Zhaowu were martial but not good at war. I don't have much ability, but my temper is as irritable as thunder. It's probably because I've been oppressed by too many cannibals, and I haven't vented my anger. I thought that the big cannibals would bully us, forget it, you three Turks who came out of nowhere (Yama is a Turkic, Amirjiang is similar to a Turk, Xiao Qubing is also regarded as a Turk when he is with them), and he also comes to oppress us?

"You're looking for death!" He said angrily, and before he could finish his sentence, he rushed over with seven other knights, and was about to stab the three Turkic men from their horses.

Prince Yama still looked at them with a smile and a smile on his face. When the other party rushed halfway, Amir Jiang and Xiao Quai, who were beside him, moved.

Amir drew four feathered arrows with the arrows removed, and the bow was divided into seven points, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, and fired four arrows in a row. The arrows without arrows were shot on the shoulders of the four Zhaowu nine cavalrymen, and the powerful impact still knocked them off their horses. The shoulder must have been injured and swollen as well, and I couldn't exert myself for at least a few months.

Xiao Qubing had already rushed out when he drew arrows in the Amir River, and with a flick of the spear in his hand, he shook the spears in the hands of the other four Sogdian cavalrymen. Then the spear was like a dragon, and it stabbed four shots quickly, and with a light pat on the shoulders of each of them, the four of them could no longer sit still on the horse, and fell off their horses with a crackle.

After that, Xiao Qu turned his horse's head violently, and without slowing down, made a small half-circle, and rode back to the prince of Yama. Whether it was Amir Jiang's magic shot, or Xiao Quai's rush out to knock the opponent off the horse, and then quickly turn around, the whole process did not take more than five seconds. The movements of the two were smooth and clean, and the other soldiers surnamed Zhaowu were stunned and stupid.

Prince Yama triumphantly, "Can you call your leader out now?" ”

Soon the leader of this grain transportation team, a Dehegan of the Central Cao State (a local land nobleman in the river), ran to the front of the team: "I don't know three warriors, look for me to make ......"

Before he could finish his sentence, he saw a handsome young man riding a sweaty horse rushing towards him with a spear, and the sharpshooter on the other side also began to bend his bow and arrows.

"Stop them!" The Dehgan shouted.

Because the other party made it clear that he just wanted to make a deal with their leader, otherwise he wouldn't have left his hand just now. Now that their leader came out to talk to each other, the soldiers surnamed Zhaowu Jiu also focused all their attention on the other party's next life bargain with their leader. Who knows, before the words were finished, the other party rushed over, and it was a single horse to attack hundreds of cavalry!

It's unthinkable!

The little red horse's hooves flew like flying, and the soldiers surnamed Zhaowu were caught off guard, and it was not until Xiao Qubing rushed to half the distance that they reacted, half of them pulled their bows and arrows, and half of them held their spears to meet the enemy. Xiao Qu's illness did not dodge or avoid, and he slammed the horse's belly, and the little red horse was also fearless, like a red lightning bolt forward. Those soft feathered arrows all shot into the air, and the spears swung out, knocking off the weapons of a dozen or so people with nine surnames, and in an instant, they had rushed to the Dehgan.

Several of the Tuojie around him had already been knocked off their horses by the arrows of the Amir River. Xiao Qu's illness shot the dehgan in the shoulder, knocking him so that he couldn't stand up straight on his horse. The little red horse took a step forward and approached, and when the two horses intersected, Xiao Quai's left hand had already grabbed the other's belt, and he lifted him upwards with force, and he was captured alive.

Nadkhgan was suddenly frightened, dancing and shouting. Xiao Quzhi didn't hesitate anymore, so he held him high all the way, but whenever there were any soldiers surnamed Zhaowu Jiu who wanted to shoot arrows or block him, he would be put in front as a shield, Shi Shiran ran all the way back, leaving only hundreds of Zhaowu Jiuguo soldiers at a loss.

Xiao Qubing came to Yama's side and put the Dehgan who was holding his left hand high on the ground, but his legs were trembling and he couldn't stand anymore, so he had to hold his back with his hand and say to Prince Yama: "Tell him to order his men not to move, otherwise they will kill him." ”

Nadhgan did so, and he looked at the house mill with a sad face, and pleaded: "What do you want, this nobleman?" Looting food, or trying to collect a ransom? I can give it to you, just don't kill me!" ”

Prince Yama glanced at Xiao Quai, and after receiving the instructions, he said with a smile, "Didn't I tell you a long time ago?" Just want to do a business with you! You see, we didn't hurt you. ”

"Business? What business? ”

"Well, it's you who do one thing for us, and then we set you free. That's what we want to do and do. ”

With the cover of this Zhaowu Jiu surnamed Dehegan and these hundreds of Zhaowu Jiu surnamed soldiers, it became much easier for Xiao Quai's group to get through the camp in front. Xiao Quai's four Han people pretended to be his own soldiers, and followed them with their heads down, which was not conspicuous and could beware of his tricks. The family of the King of Kangguo also became the family of this Dehgan nobleman, and he was sent back to his mother's house along the way.

When they came to the barracks at the mouth of the canyon, as Xiao Qu thought about it, the soldiers who arrived first had already begun to dig trenches, erect walled walls, and set up sentry posts along the way. The Dehgan and a few hundred of his soldiers had come here to report, and with the paperwork in hand, they easily passed the checkpoint and reached the rear of the camp.

The Dehgan presented a bag of gold dinars to a large food officer, saying that he was going to send a dozen soldiers to escort his family back to his mother's house, and asked him to make it easier. Looking at the heavy gold coins, the big food officer suddenly smiled so much that he couldn't see his teeth, and without saying a word, he issued a road slip, and the road was smooth all the way.

The Great Food Officer would never have thought that these gold coins were collected from the Great Food Cavalry that Xiao Qu had killed. He would never have imagined that a few days later he would die because of these gold coins and his whole family would be killed. At this moment, he only had Huang Cancan's gold coin in his eyes, and he couldn't see anything else.

The Dehegan sent Xiao Quzhi and the others all the way outside the city of Zaobutana, and asked nervously: "I have already sent myself out, can the antidote be given to me?" ”

Xiao Quzhi smiled and took out an old mud pill from Gu Xiaojun's arms and threw it to him, forcing him to hold back a smile: "If you eat it, you'll be fine." ”

Na Dehegan stretched out his hand to take it, and immediately took it, sour, astringent, and the taste was not very good, but he couldn't take care of it. At this time, he also saw that Xiao Qubing was the head of this group of people, and he looked at Xiao Qubing with some hesitation and said, "You are Tang?" ”

"That's right, go back and tell your king that the Anxi army is coming here soon, and tell them to think of a way out earlier. Let me tell you the truth, in the Anxi army, there are more than 20,000 people who are more powerful than me, all of them can fight one enemy hundred, killing people like cutting grass, and when they meet, they will surrender quickly, don't blame me for not reminding you when they die. ”

After Prince Yama translated Xiao Qu's words, a group of people escorted the family members of the King of Kangguo to leave on horseback, and ran less than two miles, Gu Xiaojun couldn't help but shout: "You are too bad!" ”