The change happened almost instantaneously.

First, Kang Zhu'er's Hai Dongqing was shot without warning, and then the war horses that rushed to the tent neighed and fell, and immediately the knights were caught off guard and many were thrown off their horses and fell heavily to the ground; More of them were crushed under the horses and kept screaming.

The knight behind suddenly changed and pulled the reins to stop the horse, but was bumped into by the knight further behind. For a while, more than 100 knights were in front of the camp and the hedgehogs formed a chaotic mess.

The miserable howl and the neighing of the horses resounded.

At the same moment, a man came out from behind the tent in the middle, a slender man with a bee's waist and ape arms, holding a bow in his hand, the arrow had been wound, and the arrow burst out of the air with a whoosh.

Almost instantly, Tian Lun made a judgment that there was an ambush! He turned around sharply, hit his horse and ran back, and at this moment, Gao Xianzhi's arrow suddenly came, hitting his big arm.

Tian Lun didn't care about the pain at all, stomped on the horse's belly, and fled the same way as if flying. Kang Zhu'er was completely stunned, and it wasn't until Tian Lun ran out of a hundred steps and shouted "Run" that he reacted, turned his horse's head, and fled.

At the same time, on both sides of the camp, fifty horsemen suddenly stabbed out diagonally, and slammed straight into the group of hedgehogs in front of the camp. Everywhere they passed, they were crushed with a single blow, like the wind and clouds, like boiling water melting snow.

Gao Xianzhi was still standing next to the main tent, drawing his bow and shooting. Each arrow was as if it had eyes, but if there was one arrow that dared to resist, or the middle door, or the throat, it was only ten breaths to shoot eight horse bandits.

The battle was soon over. The horse bandits of the brigade gathered in front of the camp in a mess. When the enemy is discovered, it is impossible to raise the speed of the horse if he wants to step forward to meet the enemy; If you want to turn around and run away, so many people and horses are crowded together, it is difficult to even turn around. I watched the knights of the Anxi Army whistling past him, one by one, with horizontal knives and horse lances harvesting life here like wheat straw.

After two rounds of harvesting, more than half of the bandits were killed on the spot, and the remaining remaining bandits were either injured and crushed under the horses and could not get up, or they knelt on the ground and begged, kowtowing like pounding garlic. Only a few dozen brave horse bandits struggled, fought hard, and fled along the original road, Duan Xiushi divided half of the guards to watch the prisoners, and personally led the other half to chase and kill.

Xiao Quzhi walked up to Gao Xianzhi and said a joke: "Zhongcheng, why did you shoot that thief bird to death?" ”

Gao Xianzhi was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that this Xiao Qu was sick, and the first sentence was not to show merit, nor to ask about the battle situation, but to open his mouth for a bird. He was stunned for two seconds, and decided not to respond to this idiot question: "Fuchen, this time thanks to you." ”

Xiao Quzhi smiled: "It's still good for Zhongcheng to strategize, how dare you take credit for going to illness." ”

Gao Xianzhi said: "Don't be too humble to the auxiliary ministers. If you hadn't discovered it earlier, we would have been attacked suddenly while we were still asleep. Even if you want to plan, you can't do it. ”

The little eunuch Wang Chengen also followed, his little face was pale, and he didn't know whether he was frozen or frightened. He raised his hand and said, "In this battle, both of them are the first to take the lead, so don't be modest." Then he paused, and then changed his words and asked, "Zhongcheng, who is the thief who dares to do this?" ”

Gao Xianzhi was silent, bypassing the thistles on the ground and coming to the prisoners kneeling in a row.

A guard had already shouted: "Zhongcheng, it's Jiuguo Hu." ”

"All the injured were killed, and the uninjured were tried one by one."

The results of the interrogation were not long in coming. The screams of the wounded bandits when they were mended sounded for a long time, and the captured bandits broke down in an instant. There were many who couldn't hold it at the time and peed their pants at once. When the cold horizontal knife was placed on the neck, almost all the captives were like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, lest the knife around the neck would be cut off if they were too slow.

After the information was summarized and sorted, it was sent to Gao Xianzhi here, and it was the girl pickle master named Li Ergou who made the report: "Qi Yu Zhongcheng, the interrogation is clear." This group of thieves was originally a horse bandit on the Silk Road in this area, specializing in robbing merchants on the road. More than a year ago, they were integrated by a large force and became the largest horse bandit on the Silk Road. Their big leader, the Divine Dragon, has not seen the head but the tail, and many people have not seen it. They are currently led by a man named 'Shari Leopard' Cao Alanyan. This time, it was a white-faced boy from outside who led the team and ran away at the beginning. The deputy, one of Cao's subordinates named Angaza, had already been shot dead. ”

"Aren't they horse bandits? How dare to attack the officers and soldiers. ”

"Asked. said that he didn't know that it was an official army before this, but he thought that it was the same as usual, sneaking up on the new horse bandits or caravans in the middle of the night. Li Ergou replied cautiously.

Gao Xianzhi waved his hand and said, "Escort those little leaders to a certain tent, interrogate them personally, tie the rest with ropes, send a few people to guard, and the others go to rest, don't remove their armor." ”

Gao Xianzhi looked coldly at the two horse bandit leaders kneeling on the ground, and his tone was not high: "At least one of the two of you will die, and the one who doesn't die may not be fine." In short, what you ask, what you answer, if the answer is slow or the answer is not satisfactory, it will be recorded once, and when the question is finished, the one with poor performance will be dragged out and hacked to death. ”

He just said in a flat tone, but the shock to the two horse bandits was huge, they looked at each other, their faces showed great panic, and one of them said: "We have said everything we know......

"You're recorded once. Now for a formal question. Gao Xianzhi interrupted him calmly.

"Do you know who so-and-so is?" Gao Xianzhi asked the first question.

"I don't know!" "I don't know!" The two spoke almost in unison.

"Second question, where is your lair?"

"A hundred miles north of Yamansu." A horse bandit took the lead.

"How many people are there?"

"Six hundred, one hundred and fifteen for this sortie, and four hundred and five for the camp." The other is not to be outdone.

"Very good, you are not satisfied with your answer, and you each have a reason not to kill you." Gao Xianzhi played a scoundrel.

The scene was silent for two seconds, one was still stunned, and the other preemptively said: "I know, someone has paid 500,000 yuan to kill you." About half a month ago, just half a month ago, a masked man came to our camp with nine bearded people......"

"Good." Gao Xianzhi pointed to the one that was still on the ground: "Drag this out and cut it." ”

Sure enough, if you don't force it, you can't open your mind, the horse bandit was originally the leader of the lowest minion, and the news from the top level is actually unknown. Under the tremendous pressure of being killed, he automatically connected some of the details he usually saw, and gave an answer that was not much different from the truth.

After carefully questioning the bandit, the situation quickly became clear. There was a powerful force that integrated all the horse bandits on this section of the Silk Road half a year ago, and they collected protection money from passing caravans, intercepting and killing disobedient caravans, intending to control the entire Silk Road. At the same time, it also does some other business, such as kidnapping, assassination, etc., just like an underground underworld kingdom on the Silk Road. And this time the sneak attack on the Anxi Army squad was bought by a mysterious person, and the purpose was to intercept and kill Gao Xianzhi.

Gao Xianzhi's face sank, and his eyebrows wrinkled into a Sichuan character. What was it that integrated the horse bandits on the Silk Road? And who will take his own life? Before this, he didn't know anything about it, he couldn't control the situation, and he didn't even know who the opponent was, which made him feel like a fish in his throat and a man's back. The anger in my heart gathered at once.

Soon after, Duan Xiushi came back and reported back, chasing and killing eight, and four more, because he didn't dare to chase too far, let them run. Gao Xianzhi told him the information he had gotten, and Duan Xiushi was also very shocked.

After a few moments, the two made a decision, packed up, and set off.

Outside the tent, Xiao Qubing saw Gu Xiaojun who was chasing the horse bandits back to the camp. He raised his head at him and smiled, "How many to catch?" ”

"Only chase one, kill."

"Do you admire me now?"

"Huh?" Gu Xiaojun hesitated, a little incomprehensible.

"My instinct, I'll just say that the thief eagle is spying on me. You still don't believe it, what's the matter, I'm right? Tell me, do you admire me very much! Xiao Quzhi said very seriously.

"I ......" Gu Xiaojun was speechless for a while, he couldn't keep up with the rhythm of Xiao Quai, after thinking about it for a while, it was indeed worth admiring, a few miles away, he could hear it, Gu Xiaojun laughed: "Okay, you are very powerful." ”

"Ha......" Xiao Qubing was about to say something more, when he heard the order to gather and prepare to leave, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "I haven't slept yet!" ”

Under the miserable white moonlight, the guards of more than fifty people were busy, and after some busyness, the Anxi guards embarked on the journey again. Because of the contribution of the horse bandits, there were nearly a hundred more good horses in the team. The captured horse bandits had their legs broken and left them to fend for themselves, and only the little minion named Kang Shifen was escorted to the army.

Xiao Quzhi rode on a captured blue-black high-headed horse, holding the reins with one hand and the saddle with the other, his body rose and fell slightly with the movement of the war horse under his crotch, his head hung down little by little, and he was already asleep.

The speed of the horse team is not considered fast. There are three reasons: first, the road in the Gobi is not easy to walk, and it looks smooth, but in fact it is potholed and undulating; Second, the road is full of gravel, and it is easy to cut the horse's hooves, so I don't dare to mention the horse's speed at all; Three nights only have moonlit roads.

Fortunately, the morale of all the knights was still quite high, and they whistled loudly, laughed and scolded, and scolded the horses and bandits for not being a thing, disturbing people's dreams. Kang Shifen was escorted by two Anxi soldiers at the back of the line, and when he heard the various verbal greetings of the knights in front of him, he only bowed his head and hurried away, but he couldn't hear it.

Gao Xianzhi rode his horse and walked in the middle of the team, his expression solemn, his brows still furrowed, and he was silent. Duan Xiushi also had a solemn face, he walked beside Gao Xianzhi and whispered: "Who does Zhongcheng think is the one who buys the murderer?" ”

Gao Xianzhi thought for a while before saying: "I don't know, but I don't know if I want to come to the court, there is no enemy, and the one who buys the murderer can only be a foreign enemy." ”

Duan Xiushi nodded and said, "According to a certain point of view, our foreign enemies should have the surname Huang Tuqishi, Jiuguo Hu, and Tubo. I just don't know which side it is. ”

"Do you think it could be the prince of Shi, Yuanen?"

"Prince Shi has this thought, but he has fled to Dashi alone, how can he know Zhongcheng's whereabouts?"

"That's right, this time I went back to Anxi secretly, and that guy was prepared half a month ago." Gao Xianzhi thought for a moment, shook his hand, and said, "I'm very curious, which force integrated the horse bandits and thieves on this Silk Road?" ”

Duan Xiushi was stunned for a moment, of course he was also very curious about this mysterious force. Integrate the horse bandits, collect caravan protection fees, intercept and kill uncooperative caravans, and intend to control the entire Silk Road, the plan is not small. What he couldn't figure out was whether the other party was purely for profit, or did he have other intentions? In this operation, did the other party simply collect money to do things or cooperate with each other, and hit it off?

"Fortunately, this night attack was discovered by Xiao Langjun in advance, otherwise I really dare not imagine it." Duan Xiushi glanced at Xiao Quzhi in front of him, "He put it upside down, and at this time, he actually fell asleep." ”

Gao Xianzhi looked up, and sure enough, Xiao went to the head of the illness little by little, as if he was dozing off. He smiled and said, "Chenggong, do you say that this son is really sent down by God to help so-and-so?" ”

"Well, it should be." Duan Xiushi smiled bitterly, frowning slightly: "At least for now, there is nothing he is not doing. It's just that this thing is too unbelievable to say, but the ball of light, the big pit, and the eight-scene glass lamp are really in front of people who have to believe it. ”

Gao Xianzhi nodded, with a complicated expression on his face: "I think so too, it's just too incredible." ”

The two talked about stopping, and by this time the moon had set in the west, and gradually disappeared, and a yellow star hung in the eastern sky, and it was already the darkest hour before dawn. The march was slower and more careful.

Also at this moment, Xiao Quai, who was said to be too incredible by Gao Xianzhi, opened his eyes, beat his horse to Gao Xianzhi's side, and whispered: "Zhongcheng, there is a large group of people and horses in front, there are hundreds of horses, and they are coming towards us. ”