Zhao Qi looked at Xie Shence, thought for a while, and said, "Little Marquis, you may not be able to return to the Jin capital." ”

Xie Shence frowned and asked, "Why do you say this?" ”

Zhao Qidao: "Dashuai wants you to follow him to experience." Therefore, even if the peace fails this time, it is very likely that the little marquis will not return to the Jin capital with the mission. ”

Xie Shence thought for a while and asked, "I'm still a doctor of Taixue, how can I be in the northwest for a long time?" ”

Zhao Qi couldn't answer this question either. He had heard Xie Yi mean this, and now Duan Xianbei had unilaterally destroyed the harmony, so Zhao Qi felt that Xie Shence was really likely to stay in the northwest for a while. But this was also his guess, and he didn't count, so he still told Xie Shence without permission.

Xie Shence knew what Zhao Qi meant, and said, "You don't have to worry about this, even if the uncle knows, he won't blame you." But everything has to wait until I see the uncle, so I will go to the mountains and forests in the east to rest. Rest for the night and leave tomorrow. ”

In the evening, Xie Shence looked at the crackling and burning firewood, thought about some things that had happened recently, and sorted out his thoughts.

First of all, it was the emperor who conspired with Xianbei Da Danyu to suppress the restless Duan Department within Xianbei, and then exchanged it for certain benefits. It is now certain that war should be on the border soon. Once the war starts, Duan Xianbei will definitely be in a state of being attacked by the enemy on his back.

What Xie Shence has always remembered is what benefits Xianbei Da Shan Yu gave to Emperor Jin and let Emperor Jin participate in this husband and wife fight of other people's families. In Xie Shence's view, a Xianbei with internal contradictions is more suitable to be a neighbor than a Xianbei with a unified voice. So in this case, why did Emperor Jin help other people's families deal with internal affairs? What's more, even if Dajin can finally lay down some territory in the Duanbu, it will be chicken ribs. The pastures of the Xianbei people did not have any effect on the Jin Kingdom. What's the use of pushing the defense line of Huangsha Pass forward for three hundred miles? Could it be that the Jin people could still herd sheep on it?

And the most reassuring thing for Xie Shence is the Erli people in Daba City, Liusai Prefecture.

It was a group of unscrupulous madmen, and it was a killer organization that had a great enmity with the Xie family. The existence of this group of people made Xie Shence feel like a fish in his throat, which was very uncomfortable.

There are only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no thousand days to prevent thieves. If you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves. What Xie Shence wants to do most now is to get rid of the Erli people.

So Xie Shence really wants to know that since the harmony was destroyed this time, does the cooperation between the family and Tiqi still need to?

Don't say that Ti Qi doesn't know that He's relatives will be destroyed, Xie Shence is even sure that Duan Bu dares to do something to his own mission, maybe there is a shadow of Ti Qi behind him.

According to Xie Shence's current thinking habits, that is: there are always people who want to harm me!

All of this has left many unknowns and mysteries in Xie Shence's heart, which can only be solved when he meets Xie Yi.

Xie Shence was quickly interrupted by the sound of the two people arguing, watching Xie Shenwei and He Ruoque playing chess by the fire with the fire, Xie Shence was slightly stunned, these two people actually asked for the old Gu's Go!

Good...... Good courage. Mount Tai collapsed in front and the color remained unchanged, and the elk was on the left and the eyes were not instantaneous. Sure enough, there is calm in every major event.

Xie Shence tilted his head curiously, wanting to see how brilliant the chess skills of these two people were, and how they could quarrel to such a point.

It's just that Xie Shence watched the black and white pieces on the chessboard and then stopped the quarrel between the two, and almost didn't squirt out the blood in his heart: two stinky chess baskets! I almost fought for repentance......

Xie Shence sighed that extraordinary people must have extraordinary abilities and extraordinary winds. The chess battle between Xie Shenwei and He Ruoque is completely determined outside the chessboard, and the ability of the two to regret chess and steal is the biggest variable between victory and defeat.

On the second day, Zhao Qi commanded more than 3,000 people to begin evacuating eastward.

In the process of bypassing the branch of Taihang Mountain, the team discarded the injured and sick horses that could not be treated, traveled lightly, and put all the reserve war horses to use, the marching speed was fast, Xie Shence estimated that it would take three days to travel, but now it can be completed in two days at most, and the grain and grass carried at that time have just been consumed.

On the way, Xie Shence even took advantage of the situation to destroy two horse bandits with dozens of people. If nothing else, just because the horses of these two horse bandits have the heads of the Jin people hanging on them.

"There are a lot of rangers or Xianbei sentinels dressed as herdsmen or horse bandits, and this kind of action will not be too conspicuous, and it will be much more convenient." Xie Shenwei uncovered the bloody bamboo tube, and there was a piece of parchment inside.

The bamboo tube was recovered from the dead horse bandits.

Speaking of these two bandits, the luck of these two bandits is really not very good, the first horse bandit is a real horse bandit, at that time was robbing a small caravan, after killing all the people of this caraver, was carrying goods, was met by Xie Shence's outpost of two hundred people, and was killed in less than a quarter of an hour. The identities of these merchants and horse bandits can be confirmed by the relevant departments of the Northwest Army, and then a notice can be posted to alert the horse bandits and remind the merchants that these outpost cavalry can receive a bounty.

And the second horse bandit is the real Xianbei Sentinel Horseman. Although he ran fast, he was still surrounded and killed by the northwest cavalry of the brigade.

The parchment inside the bamboo tube briefly recorded the movements of the Northwest Army of the Jin State on the border.

"This war is about to start." Xie Shence looked at the gloomy sky road.

Xie Shenwei casually put the parchment into the chain hanging on the war horse, and said casually: "Fight, fight, sooner or later, we will fight, whether it is Xianbei's internal demand for reunification or my Great Jin wants to consolidate the northwest frontier and then free up my hands to use troops against Beiyan, the restless and honest Duan is the first to be unlucky." According to your speculation, this is a conspiracy between His Majesty and the Tuoba Department, and I think this is what His Majesty has wanted to do for a long time, but it lacks a suitable excuse. Northern Yan has always been a major disaster in the north of my Great Jin, and its harm is worse than that of Xianbei, if the defense line of the Northern Army can be further advanced north to Youzhou and Fanyang, then my Northern Jin can take a breather. ”

Xie Shence said with a smile: "Youzhou and Fanyang are two military towns, but they are important towns that Northern Yan relies on to guard the country, known as 200,000 iron cavalry, and the Northern Army may not be able to eat it." ”

He Ruoque said: "If the Tuoba Department succeeds in suppressing the Duan Department this time, then it will be able to further integrate Xianbei, and at that time, you Jin people may be able to unite with Xianbei people and jointly create trouble for Northern Yan." If it really succeeds, your Northern Army may not be able to eat Youzhou and Fanyang. ”

Xie Shence thought for a while and said, "This is all empty words, the idea is good, but I estimate that it will be even more likely that the Xianbei people and the Yan people will join forces to go south at that time." But in any case, if you can cripple Duan this time, maybe it may not be impossible as you said. ”

The next day, the sky cleared up, the sun began to shine, and the air became a little warmer and wetter. It is expected that we should be able to reach the copper furnace by this evening.

Just when Xie Shence was in a slightly better mood, the outpost came to report that thirty miles to the west had found a camp of Xianbei people. A conservative estimate is around 2,000.

The cavalry of the Duan Department has actually arrived at the Tonglu Pass?!

To the west is a predetermined route, as long as you go west, you can reach the copper furnace pass after another eighty miles. However, fifty miles east of Tonglu Pass, there were actually Xianbei cavalry camped, Xie Shence's heart tightened, could it be that Huangsha Pass was lost?

The team came to an emergency halt, and Xie Shence sat on the grass and held an emergency meeting with several generals.

A cavalry captain said: "In my opinion, the appearance of Xianbei cavalry east of Tonglu Pass does not mean that Huangsha Pass has fallen. According to the intelligence two days ago, Duan Pishan only sent out 20,000 light cavalry and did not carry any siege equipment, so even if he arrived at Huangsha Pass yesterday, it would be impossible to defeat it. And the appearance of the Duan cavalry here is precisely the one that shows that Huangsha Pass is still in the hands of our northwest. ”

Another cavalry lieutenant agreed: "Maybe it is the method of encircling the point to send reinforcements, young marshal, the last general suggests that this cavalry be defeated first, solve the urgent need and then hurry back to Tonglu Pass to understand the latest situation." ”

Xie Shence said: "The biggest question now is whether Huangsha Pass is still in my northwest hands. It's easy to eat this cavalry, but what worries me the most is whether there are any other cavalry in this area besides this cavalry. The Xianbei cavalry never advances in battle, at least two roads will advance in parallel to take care of each other. I'm afraid of startling the snake. ”

Xie Shenwei looked at the map and said: "What the second brother said is reasonable, the two levels of Huangsha and Tonglu are not far apart, and they can also be used as horns on my northwest border. And the Duan Division's deployment of troops this time was too hasty, not to mention the siege equipment, even the grain and grass were estimated to be not much, and it was impossible to support it for a long time. And retreat ten miles further, and then make plans after all the sentinels have returned. ”

Xie Shence also did not agree with the strategy of attacking lightly, so the army retreated ten miles, waiting for the latest situation brought back by the sentry cavalry.

In the evening, all four sentry cavalry had returned, and one of the sentry cavalry should have obviously made contact with the enemy sentry horse, and more than 60 people were killed or wounded. According to the captain of the sentry team, all the enemy sentry horses had been annihilated, and not a single person was spared. At this time, the cavalry about forty miles west of the camp had indeed been alone, and there was not much food and grass left, and it could only last for a day.

That is, tonight that cavalry will retreat!

A godsend. Xie Shence and Xie Shenwei made a decision at the moment and determined the night attack plan.

So, not long after the sun set, Xie Shenwei took the remaining 1,700 cavalry to attack the camp directly, and Xie Shence, He Ruoque and Zhao Qi took a thousand Mo sword troops to the north to intercept them.

In addition to the war horses replaced by the cavalry, the soldiers of the Modao Army also rode on horses, and the speed was extremely fast. Xie Shence has nothing else in his hands now, but there are plenty of horses. There were thousands of war horses, hundreds of various horses and mules, so he could easily allocate more than a thousand war horses for the march of the Modao Army, and use another two hundred horses to carry armor and weapons.

The Modao Army is covered with full-body armor, which is different from the half-body armor or leather armor of ordinary infantry, the full-body armor of the Modao Army weighs thirty catties! The Mo knife hand itself is a person with great length and strength, plus a big Mo knife and a short knife, an ordinary war horse can't bear to run for dozens of miles. So when Xie Shence used the precious horse like this, Zhao Qi's face showed a deep pain: It's a loser, do you know how much money the handsome has put into it for your safety? Do you think that these four thousand horses are a small number? Even a horse carrying armor is very valuable, right?

Of course, Xie Shence didn't know the cry in Zhao Qi's heart. At this time, it was the time of day, and the night was dark and the wind was high, just to kill.

Xie Shenwei quietly approached the camp of the Duan cavalry with 1,700 cavalry, but after sending someone to investigate, Xie Shenwei's heart tightened.

There is no one in the camp!