Chapter 15: Not a Thief
Salda was relieved to see them walking away, and hurriedly turned around and called out to everyone, "Let's go, everyone follow." ”
The camel team started slowly and continued to march south, Salda was very experienced, he knew that thirty miles away from the Bodaling Pass was the Sulou Fengshu Fort, where a toll had to be paid, which could replenish fresh water, and then go south for more than two hundred miles was Bahuan City, which belonged to the territory of Gumo Kingdom, and then walked about five or six hundred miles to the east, and arrived at Qiuzi Military Town, where the Anxi Protectorate was located.
According to the current speed, it is at least more than half a month to go to Qiuci, and the most difficult part of the road is more than 200 miles between Bodaling and Bahuan City, where the Gobi is vast and inaccessible, and sometimes there are turk cavalry from here to invade.
The team crossed the source of the Bahuan River and passed through a canyon, where huge stone mountains stood one by one on the vast Gobi Desert, the mountains were strange and hideous, as if they had been petrified by thousand-year-old trolls.
At this moment, on the top of a huge mountain, several Turk Shi cavalry suddenly appeared, and the leading officer stared gloomily at the ant-like camel caravan in the distance, this is a one-armed officer, he waved his hand slightly, and several Turk Shi turned around and left, quickly disappearing on the top of the mountain.
Salda was stunned, he stared blankly at the top of the mountain in the distance, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes, Shi Julan noticed his abnormality, and hurriedly asked, "Uncle, what's wrong?" ”
"I think I saw a couple of people on horseback just now."
"Is it the bandit Tang Army again?"
"It's not! It seems like... It's a Turgish. Salda's voice trembled with nervousness.
At this moment, the fierce sound of horses' hooves faintly came from the front of the canyon, and in an instant, the mouth of the valley was dusty, mixed with excited shouts.
"Not good! It's a Turgish. ”
Salda's face turned pale, and he waved his arms desperately and shouted: "Everyone turn around, run!" ”
The merchants turned the camels one after another, shouted desperately, and whipped the camels violently, Shi Julan was also frightened, and said in a trembling voice: "Uncle, if I disclose my identity, will they let us go?" ”
"Princess, don't be stupid, run!" Salda was so anxious that her eyes were bloodshot, and she whipped the camel desperately.
However, it was too late, and about 200 Turkish cavalry caught up with them in the blink of an eye, and when the first cavalry fired an arrow, one of the Hu merchants screamed and fell from his camel to the ground.
The Turgish cavalry did not greet any greetings, brandished their knives and pounced, their eyes flashing with hunger and excitement, as if the wolves had seen a lone prey, and a bearded cavalryman split open a wooden box with a knife, 'Wow! With a bang, a box full of rubies rolled to the ground, and several of the Turks were red-eyed, and they jumped off their horses and grabbed them.
"You bandits! This is my stuff. ”
The owner of the cargo cried and rushed up, but was killed by the bearded cavalry with a backhand, and dozens of other cavalrymen sneered and pounced on the orchid, and the girls screamed in fright, jumped off their camels and fled, but where could they outrun these big men on horseback, they were caught on the horse in an instant.
At this time, the leader of the Turgish people saw the beautiful Shi Julan at a glance, he smiled heheyin, urged the horse forward, and reached out to grab her.
"Du Luo Xian, it's you!" Shi Julan suddenly recognized the leader of the Turgish people.
The leader was stunned for a moment, he also recognized Shi Julan, and he smiled gloomily: "It turned out to be Princess Julan, great, I proposed to you last year and was rejected, and now you actually fall into my hands." ”
Shi Julan angrily rebuked, "I want to tell my father to let him sever all relations with your Tuqi Shi people. ”
A murderous intent flashed in Du Luo Xian's eyes, and he raised his head and laughed fiercely, "You dream!" When I've had enough of you, and then I'm going to kill you, who are you going to complain to? ”
He reached out and grabbed Shi Julan's towering chest, Shi Julan suddenly pulled out the short sword, Du Luo Xian was caught off guard, and a big hole was cut by the sword on his wrist, and the blood flowed like an infusion.
Du Luo Xian was furious, he actually dared to hurt his most precious arm, he drew his knife and shouted: "Strip her naked, everyone come, kill her!" ”
Shi Julan jumped off the camel and fled, and several turks also turned over and dismounted, surrounded from all sides, and Shi Julan stumbled and fell to the ground.
"I'll come first!"
The bearded Turk took off his shirt, and Yin smiled and lunged at her, seeing that Shi Julan was about to suffer misfortune, when suddenly, a wolf's tooth arrow shot like lightning, and an arrow pierced the back of the bearded Turk's head, nailing him to the ground.
"It's Tang Jun!"
The sudden change surprised the Tuqi Shiren, Du Luo Xian turned back suddenly, only to see a young Tang Army officer riding on a horse, pulling a bow like a full moon, the tip of the arrow was aimed at him coldly, before he could react, the long arrow roared, Du Luo Xian instinctively shrank his neck, the long arrow shot through his helmet against the scalp, and the helmet flew out more than three zhang away.
The scalp was in a hot pain, the blood flowed down the cheeks, this nightmarish feeling, Du Luoxian suddenly thought of something, he was so frightened that his soul was scattered, and he fled with his horse, at this time, more than 100 Tang soldiers rode horses to kill, and the Tuqi Shi people were frightened and frightened, and they jumped on their horses to flee for their lives, the Tang army's arrows were like rain, and dozens of turks with the girl orchid ran slowly, and were killed by the arrows of the Tang army one by one, and the Tang army saved the girls.
Li Qingan urged the horse to slowly come to Shi Julan, he jumped off the horse, squatted beside her and said softly: "Is your foot twisted?" ”
Tears welled up in Shi Julan's eyes, and she turned her head and said nothing.
He smiled, "My name is Li Qing'an, and I am a Tang Army scout, I'll help you look at your feet." ”
Saying that, he didn't care whether Shi Julan wanted to or not, gently lifted her foot and put it on his lap, and pressed it on the instep of her foot, "Does it hurt here?" ”
Shi Julan blushed and shook her head.
"It's okay, I didn't hurt my bones, but I twisted my hamstrings, and I can rest for a day."
Li Qingan didn't continue to treat her feet, took out a plaster from his arms, handed it to her, and said, "This is my own preparation, stick it for a day, and your feet should be fine." ”
"Thank you!" Shi Julan said in a low voice.
Li Qingan laughed and said: "Thank you, although I just admire your appearance, but if you are really stripped naked by the robbers, I am reluctant." ”
Shi Julan was ashamed and annoyed, and glared at him fiercely, but for some reason, she couldn't hate it.
At this time, Salda, who had been knocked unconscious, had already woken up, and he was very grateful in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward to thank Li Qing'an deeply, "Thank you General Li for your help, we are grateful." ”
Li Qingan waved his hand and said: "After receiving your wine money, I naturally want to help you once, but I remind you again that what you have encountered is only one of the inbound Turks, if you are left alone, you will definitely encounter them again, you should consider it yourself!" ”
Hu Shang was killed by seven people, and they were already frightened, and before Salda could reply, they shouted in unison: "We plead with the Tang army to escort them." ”
Li Qingan squinted his eyes and smiled, smiling like a fox.
"You are all businessmen, you should know that the price is on the market, now it's not two dollars, we each have twenty dollars, why don't we do it? If we don't do it, we'll go. ”
All the Hu merchants were stunned and looked at each other, and suddenly, they said in unison: "We are willing!" ”
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