On the plateau, the temperature difference between day and night is very large, the temperature is fine during the day, and at night, the cold wind is howling, and the air is so thin that it is suffocating.

In this thick night sky, which is closer to heaven, the cold moon hangs high, the sky is dotted with stars, and only vague outlines are left in the majestic mountains, like ancient giant beasts lurking between heaven and earth.

Li Ang led fifty cavalrymen, all of them pincer horses, and wrapped the horses' hooves with cloth, and quietly walked through the red mountains. In the night, from time to time, wild beasts roared, and the sound was torn by the cold wind, and it was heard as a terrible ghost's cry.

A sturdy wolf, ghostly, with a faint form on a high ridge a mile or two in front of Leon and them, was Tinker Bell, the best scout for Leon.

With its powerful sense of hearing and smell, no one can hide it wherever it passes.

For this, dozens of Tang troops, including Hua Qiu, were all surprised, and some even suspected that Li Ang had divine power to command such a giant wolf.

Tinker Bell's existence invisibly gave Li Ang an extra layer of mystery in everyone's hearts, and his confidence in following him into Tibet doubled.

The Tibetan people call Chiling the Sun Moon Mountain, which is like a huge embankment that surrounds the east side of Qinghai Lake.

As the gateway to the plateau, the dividing line between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, in some important passes, the Tubo people sent troops to garrison, in addition to often sending scouts to patrol, especially in the western edge of the Chiling Ridge near the grassland, Li Ang They must be very careful so as not to expose their whereabouts.

In order to avoid the Tibetan patrol posts, in some places, Li Ang and they could only lead their horses through slowly. At the time of the third watch, I finally walked out of Chiling. Smoothly entered the grassland on the eastern shore of Qinghai Lake.

The cold moon disappeared into the clouds, and the northwesterly wind in the night became tighter and tighter. The whistling became more and more creepy in the silence of the night.

Murong Heshun said to Li Ang: "Li Bingcao, we must go deep as soon as possible. The pastures in this place are endless, which is not conducive to hiding, and the Tibetans have arranged a lot of rangers in this area. If we can't take advantage of the cover of night and cross this dangerous area, it will be easy to expose it as soon as the morning breaks. ”

Li Ang nodded and said, "Okay, then speed up and break into its rear as soon as possible." ”

Under the leadership of Murong Heshun, Li Ang and his party began to speed up, taking advantage of the strong wind to cover and gallop westward. By the time it was almost dawn. It has gone forty or fifty miles and crossed the most dangerous areas.

It's dawn.

Li Ang and the others stopped to rest in a ravine, the sun came out, the northwest wind gradually decreased, the sun sprinkled on the grass, all kinds of Jiling vegetables, white quinoa, ice grass, sickle spiny beans, and Song grass were stained with dewdrops, crystal clear, as far as the eye could see, the hillside was full of life. Flocks of birds flew through the sky, chirping in bursts.

Tinker Bell lay quietly on the hillside, nibbling on a leg of mutton while watching the early morning prairie alertly.

Everyone is tired. The horses were eating the tender grass sprouts in the ravines, and the soldiers were resting on the ground or munching on dry food with water bladders.

Li Ang, Wu Xuan, and Hua Qiu were lying on the top of the slope. Peek into the grasslands below the slopes. Seven or eight miles away by the small river, white tents are like mushrooms growing on the grass. Smoke rose between the tents, and herds of cattle and sheep spread out like clouds on the meadows.

Further north. It is the vast West Sea, with blue waves and sky.

"There are more than 100 households, too many, and even women in Tubo can shoot arrows immediately, and dozens of us may not be able to eat." Hua Qiu said while chewing on the grass stalks.

Li Ang nodded and said, "It's definitely not possible during the day, but if you launch a night attack at night, it's not a big problem." ”

Wu Xuan looked at the sheep in the distance and said: "It's too close, Lang Jun, if you wait here for a day, it is difficult to guarantee that no Tubo people will drive the sheep over, once it is exposed, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

Li Ang said calmly: "The Tibetans will not drive the sheep here. ”

"How do you know?" Wu Xuan and Hua Qiu couldn't help but ask in unison.

Li Ang glanced at the two of them like a fool and said: "The aquatic plants by the lake are much more lush than this, if it were you, would you put the abundant aquatic plants and drive the sheep to this hillside to gnaw on the sparse grass sprouts?" ”

Hua Qiu and Wu Xuan glanced at each other and were dumbfounded. I have to admit that this is the difference.

As Leon estimated, the Tibetans did not drive their cattle and sheep to this side.

However, at noon, there was a dangerous episode: a Tibetan man riding a horse suddenly bypassed the other side of the hill, and Li Ang and the others crouched cautiously in the ravine, listening to the sound of each other's horses' hooves.

For some reason, the sound of horses' hooves outside stopped for a moment, and then they ran up the hillside, and everyone's hearts couldn't help but rise, and the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer beat beat on everyone's hearts like a drumbeat.

"Li Bingcao, what should I do? Once the other party goes up to the top of the slope, we are exposed. Nie Feng said nervously.

"Bow and arrow ready!" Leon gave the order as he waved to Tinker Bell on the slope.

Tinker Bell saw it, swished, and disappeared on the other side of the slope.

Soon, the Tubo man ran to the top of the slope, he looked into the ditch, and was immediately stunned, dozens of Tang troops were hidden in the ditch, and cold arrows pointed at him.

Before he could react, a low wolf howl suddenly came from behind him, and Tinker Bell's huge figure jumped directly onto the horse's back like an arrow from a string.

Frightened, the Tibetan mount suddenly rose to its feet with a scream, and then rushed down the ditch. The Tibetan man let out an exclamation, and was bitten by Tinker Bell's body, and he fell off his horse and rolled straight down.

"Shoot the horse to death, keep the man alive, quick!"

Sou! Sou! Sou! Several powerful arrows rang out, and the horse neighed again and fell to the ground. Wu Xuan's body was like lightning and pounced on the Tubo people who had fallen off the horse, and the big knife hit the Tubo people's necks and stepped on the opponent's chest.

"Tinker Bell, let go!" When Li Ang shouted, Tinker Bell stopped biting, and gathered around the Tubo people to roar from time to time, baring his fangs.

The Tubo people were bitten to the point of blood, but they were just put on their necks by the cold knife edge, and they didn't dare to make a sound again.

Li Ang instructed Murong Heshun: "Go and ask him what his origin is, what he is doing here, and if he has any partners behind." ”

Murong Heshun went over to interrogate, and came back and said to Li Ang: "Li Bingcao, this person's name is Narisong, and he is Dongdai, the headquarters of Tubo stationed in Moliyi, Dafeichuan, and Dongdai is the messenger of Qianhu and Songlingjun. On the other side of this slope is a branch of the sheep department, called the Lianshui Department, there are 140 households, more than 600 people, of which there are more than 170 people who can fight on horseback, that day Song was sent by Songling Jun to order the Lianshui Department to mobilize people and horses, and arrived at Mo Liyi within two days. ”

When Li Ang heard this, he asked, "What is Song Lingjun doing when he mobilizes people?" ”

"The subordinates asked, and that day Song didn't know, but the subordinates guessed that they were preparing to invade our army's defense area. The Tibetans have already learned the news of the conviction of Ambassador Huangfu, and it is likely that they want to take advantage of the unstable heart of our army to attack Longyou on a large scale. ”

Shi Chang Nie Feng said: "Li Bingcao, Tubo is going to invade on a large scale, this is important news, should we send someone to send the news back?" ”

Li Ang nodded and said, "Wait until evening, you choose a clever soldier, go back the same way, and send this news back to the Anren Army." ”

"Whoa!"

Himatsu was too badly bitten by Tinker Bell, and after interrogation, Leon gave him an order to give him a good time, and everyone waited until it was dark.

Tinker Bell howls on a high slope, attracting some friends to eat Na Himatsu's corpse, which looks like he was attacked by wolves on the way.

After Nie Feng selected a soldier to send the news back, everyone waited for Li Ang's order to prepare to attack the Yangtong tribe on the opposite side at night.

Seven or eight miles away, the Tubo tribe was completely delighted, and fifty Tang soldiers were eager to try.

At this time, Li Ang said: "Everyone, calm down, listen to me, the situation has changed, I decided to change my plan, temporarily give up the sneak attack on the Tubo people on the opposite side, immediately transfer, find a remote place to hide first." The Tubo people are gathering men and horses, preparing to invade our Longyou on a large scale, and there must be more than just the people of the same sheep and the same department on the opposite side;

Let's hide for another three days, and wait for the Tubo people to send troops, and then kill, when the time comes, in the various Tubo tribes, there are few young and strong left, mostly some old and weak women and children, hehe, at that time, we will be like entering a no-man's land, women, gold, cattle and sheep, how to rob how to rob, wouldn't it be happy? ”

"Li Bingcao is right, let's wait for three more days."

"But the dry food we bring is limited, I'm afraid we won't be able to support it for three days."

Li Angyi gritted his teeth and said: "If you have to endure hardship, you will be a master, everyone will endure it, it will only take two days, divide and bring the war horse of the Tubo people, even if it is to boil soup and drink, you must survive these two days first." After three days, you will be free to eat the cattle and sheep, you will be robbed of the gold, and the women will be left to sleep! ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but applaud in a low voice, and they all started to decompose the war horse that Risong had been shot to death, leaving no bones, and then transferred again at night, and found a mountain forest more than thirty miles away to hide.

In order to avoid being discovered by the Tibetans, Li Ang and his family did not dare to start a fire during the day, and only at night did they dare to build a small fire deep into the ravine and roast horse meat to eat.

During the day, Murong Heshun put on Na Risong's clothes and pretended to be a Tubo person to go out to reconnoitre, and found that there were indeed small groups of Tubo soldiers and horses rushing towards the direction of Moliyi.

In the evening, Murong and Shun brought back the news, and everyone was even more excited, and two days later, in the evening, someone couldn't wait to propose an attack. Li Ang was unmoved, and said to everyone: "Wait for another day, when the Tibetan soldiers and horses go away, we will go out again, lest they receive news halfway and rush back." ”

So, everyone waited for another day, but fortunately there was a war horse for food, and fifty people survived three days.

Three days later, at night, Leon gave an order, and fifty horsemen came out of the mountain like ghosts, and even Tinker Bell couldn't help but howl.

After an hour of running, the same Tubo sheep found three days ago was already close in front of him, and in the faint moonlight, one tent after another was quiet, only the shepherd dog began to bark after hearing the abnormal movement.

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PS: Thank you for the tips of Longyou Qianhai, Xiaoxiao Yuchen, Lin Xiqin, Sihuo and others, thank you!.

(To be continued.) )