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A month later, flocks of wild yellow sheep gather by the riverside of the desert to drink.

Suddenly, the yellow sheep pricked up their ears and looked around in alarm, and the instinct of the animals told them that an unpredictable danger was approaching, and an unsettling signal echoed in the air.

In an instant, the earth roared and thunder erupted.

The yellow sheep ran for the road, and the birds fluttered beside the wetland.

A group of 1,000 Hun cavalry slowly appeared at the end of the field of vision, one of them was wearing leather armor on two horses, fully armed with swords and bows, and the leader of the thousand cavalry was wearing iron armor and holding sharp iron knives, so that the animals were frightened and fled from a long distance.

Batusen, the first-ranked thousand cavalry commander under the account of the Right Virtuous King, is eight feet five tall, and his body is burly and his strength is amazing.

At the age of twenty, as a rookie hundred horsemen, he challenged and defeated the head of the thousand horsemen, and then became famous as one of the many thousand horsemen under the account of the right virtuous king, and then in the next five years, Batusen defeated all the thousand cavalry commanders under the tent of the right virtuous king, and was arrogant to run to the tent of the Zuoxian king to challenge, and was abused by the ten thousand cavalry under the tent of the Zuoxian king.

His archery skills are not outstanding, and he can only rank in the top five among the thousand cavalry commanders under the account of King Youxian, and if the ranking is calculated in the entire Huns, he is afraid that he will not even be able to squeeze into the top 100. The main feature is that the melee combat is very strong, relying on the strength of the body, as long as it is close to him, it is difficult to escape his long knife, and many powerful archery thousand cavalry commanders have been put to the ground by him at close range.

"What do you say? The king of the chariot exchanged 5oo sturdy mares for 1ooo stone salt? Been away for a whole month? ”

The Hun warrior's face sank slightly.

From the Yinwu Valley at the foot of the Qilian Mountain, turn back to the Youxian Palace. Then he pursued from the Youxian Wang Tingbing, and it was delayed for a whole month back and forth.

If the other party escaped on light horse, it would not be easy to catch up with the caravan.

"How did they go so fast? Could it be that they all changed to war horses to advance. ”

"The previous informant reported that they were slow to move, and it took half a year to walk from Hexi to Yinwu, and it was a bit unusual to suddenly add it."

"It's easy to say, Shalil, the king of the Xiaoyue clan, is pointing behind his back. It is not surprising that they replaced their mounts with mares. ”

"It's the desert fox again! Since the Xiaoyue clan killed two kings in a row, and that cunning fox ascended the throne, he has been playing hide and seek with us for more than ten years. Last year, I was ridiculed by the bastards under King Zuo Xian's account at the Dragon City Conference, and I couldn't help but pinch that group of waste to death just thinking about it. ”

"Humph! What is the great thing about King Zuoxian, who has 120,000 horsemen but can't stand even the crippled Xianbei and Wuhuan, and the grassland of Gonglushui is harassed by the Wuhuan people every year. If I were King Zuoxian, I would have been killed by a headbutt. ”

As soon as Batusen raised his hand, he was immediately silenced. He is the absolute authority in the team, and a thousand people are the wolf dogs at his disposal, and they dominate the grassland desert for a while.

In ancient times, the most worshipping strong people were satisfied, and only the strong could lead the tribe to live.

Batusen is the rising star of the Huns, the most important warrior of the Right Xian King, and the 1,000-man team equipped with him is carefully selected to have extraordinary combat power and amazing momentum.

Whether it is training, equipment, morale or combat strength, it is necessary to throw off the ordinary Hun cavalry a few streets. Only this group of cavalry is worthy of the prestige of the elite of the Huns.

The Hun knights looked with awe at the strong man who was not yet thirty years old, and he had just touched the corner of the peak. With the most exquisite maintenance skills of the Xiongnu, he can maintain the peak period of at least fifteen years, and the more he hone his skills in the future, there are only a handful of people on the grassland who can fight him.

Batusen muttered: "Inform Wusun Kunmo, and tell him that the right sage king wants him to help intercept the traitors of the Xiongnu, we only need to take people, war horses and supplies to Wusun Kunmo, and be sure to catch people." ”

"Understood!"

"Catch up, capture them and bring them back to the royal court, King Youxian is very interested in that captain of ten thousand horses, remember that King Youxian ordered that he must be caught alive!"

"Yes!"

The morale of the Hun knights was greatly boosted.

It doesn't matter if he is a month or two months apart, a thousand miles apart or two thousand miles, under the wolf banner of the Great Huns, even if he escapes to the ends of the earth, he must capture the target back.

The Huns are a people on horseback, they can eat, sleep and even have sex on horseback, needless to say that the elite cavalry has no pressure on the non-stop pursuit day and night, and ordinary Hun herdsmen can also travel 15o miles in a day and night.

More than 1,000 elite Hun cavalry rested for a while, and then went straight to the southwest along the ancient road of the Cheshi in pursuit.

At the same time, the sandy Gobi Desert, which is the most famous area on the edge of the Sea of Death, was called the Taklamakan Desert 2,000 years later, and the river that crosses the desert is the Tarim River, which is now called the river.

On the edge of the border of Wensu (Aksu), more than 300 knights drove 2ooo war horses, and more than 1oo wolf dogs slowly advanced on the desert.

"Phew! What the hell is this, the strange wind is wrapped in sand and drilled into my mouth. Lu Heng squinted his eyes and scolded angrily.

"Knowing that there is sand and still talking, Lu Tou's head is in the water, right? Hey hey ......"

"You kid is not smart, Lao Tzu drinks wind sand, you kid doesn't drink wind sand? A bastard with water in the head. ”

The two mocked each other at each other's wolf appearances, and except for a few energetic people, few of them were willing to say a word, and the pain of a long trek on the edge of the desert had exhausted their strength.

Rising temperatures bring not only dry heat and high temperatures, but also the nasty southeast monsoon and even the more nasty wind and sand, and even at the edge of the desert you have to endure a huge temperature difference between day and night, and the cold close to freezing every night is still painful.

The quiet arrival of spring means that the desert has entered the desert storm for many seasons, and cyclones can also be seen flying all over the sky with wind and sand on the edge of the desert. The most terrible sandstorms don't appear on the fringes, but the occasional gust of wind wrapped in sand and gravel is still a great torment, and some mounts are accidentally injured by the sand and gravel that is carried by the strong wind. It is also necessary to carry out simple treatment, and it is very inconvenient to dare to go up and down.

In order to avoid the wind and sand, all the staff changed into linen clothes produced in the Western Regions, and wore small round hats to resist the strong wind and sand that blows from time to time.

Gan's father's beard was messed up, so he had to tie a cloth to his cheeks, and turned his head to encourage the tired team members: "In a few days, the wind and sand will not be so bad, everyone will endure it a little longer." ”

Walk forward for half an hour. The scout horses hanging in front of them rushed back.

Zhao Shun laughed and said, "Brothers, listen, I tell you a good news and a bad news!" Which news would you like to hear? ”

"Good news!"

"Bad news!"

Zhao Shun smiled: "The bad news is that there are a large number of horse thieves moving closer to us in front, and this horse thief has been following us for more than half a month and is finally going to start." This is an increase from the three hundred riders of the previous days, and it is estimated that there are at least five hundred riders! The good news is that the brothers can go on a killing spree again! ”

"Haha, Lao Tzu has long wanted to cut off a few heads to vent his anger, and the brothers are ready to cut off the heads of the barbarians."

More than 300 horsemen marched quickly. Two quarters of an hour to the battlefield that the scouts had explored. This is a grassland with a flat terrain and a wide view, and the wild animals see the large groups of horses scattering and fleeing, and several leaders command their subordinates to form a team on the spot and prepare for battle.

The cavalry lined up in close columns.

"Horn bow wind! The scimitar and quiver are all tied to the saddle, and a white cloth is tied on the head to mark the identity, don't cut your teammates as enemies when you rush into battle, and don't blame the military law for hurting your teammates by mistake! ”

More than 300 horsemen took out their bowstrings and skillfully wound them, and encountered similar battles hundreds of times along the way. The large and small scars on the body are military medals.

Most of the horses were driven into the nearby woods, and the shepherd wolfdog was in charge of the tame mares.

Waited patiently for nearly half an hour. At the end of the field of vision, there is a large black spot, which is the horse thieves of the Western Regions roaming near the desert, they have a notorious name, sand pirates.

Sand thieves are not the name of a group of horse thieves, but a large group of horse thieves roaming the edge of the desert, like jackals who like to scavenge around, sneaking around to rob lone merchants, and only a few large sand thieves will do the business of robbing large merchant groups without capital.

"Attention, they've already shown us!"

They didn't expect the reaction of the fat sheep, and the leaders exchanged doubts for a while, and seemed to discuss a countermeasure and send a sand thief to slowly ride over.

The sand thief looked arrogant: "The noble king of your said that he is in a very happy mood today, and he allows you to return to the country of Wensu alive, and restricts you to dismount and leave on foot at once, the patience of the warriors is limited, and if you slow down, the sharp butcher's knife will cut off your head." ”

Gan Father laughed, Pugma smiled, and Gahuro laughed, they were not laughing at the innocence and arrogance of the sand pirates, the seemingly stupid means were exactly what the cunning sand pirates were best at.

Sand thieves are a group of bullies who are afraid of the hard, of course, the small caravan is not left behind until the light is killed, they will avoid the hard stubble that is not easy to provoke, and when they encounter a caravan that is swallowed with six or seven points of certainty, they will change to a clumsy persuasion method.

The seemingly clumsy method of persuasion often works wonders when used in a caravan who suddenly encounters sand pirates, and the subconscious reaction of the six gods and ownerless caravans is to give up resistance in exchange for a chance to survive, and when they really dismount and leave on foot as requested, what awaits them will be a real massacre.

The cunning and ferocious sand thieves will kill all those who resist, capture the docile merchants as slaves, they will rob money and sell people, and when necessary, they will make cameo appearances to eat black, and their treachery is what they are best at.

They are one of the most disgusting things on the grassland, far more angry and annoyed than encountering the wolves, tigers, leopards, poisonous insects and beasts of the desert, when they choose a target, they will haunt you, hang you not far away, until the opportunity to kill the killer, a typical carnivore hunting routine, savage and cunning but has a very high success rate.

"What is King your? A lamb to the slaughter? Unashamedly asked us to leave on foot. ”

"You go back and tell that old fellow, we are in a good mood today, and all the sand thieves should immediately dismount and leave on foot, and our butcher's knife will cut off the head of your king's dog in a slower way."

The sand pirates never expected that. This caravan is not an ordinary merchant at all, the Han people in the team are fierce horse thief rangers, and the Shengrong Qiang people are the best in the Qiangtang of the plateau. The people of the Shurong Xiaoyue clan are all warriors with extraordinary skills, and there is no merchant blood inside and outside the caravan, saying that they are caravans is better than a group of fierce horse thieves, but this group of horse thieves does not rob the caravan to make money, but specializes in robbing the horse thieves who rob the house.

Under the laughter and ridicule of the crowd, the sand thief hurriedly turned back with anger and puzzlement, and was shot in the back of the neck by a sharp arrow just a few steps. He fell off his horse with his head tilted, and died before he could scream.

The war bow in Feng Shou's hand was still trembling slightly, and the bowstring struggled a few times before it stopped rebounding. The Han people reacted to this, as if they had killed an insignificant hare, not an emissary sent by the sand thieves.

Pugma and Gahuro looked at each other and said in astonishment, "He has turned away. Why did you kill him? Don't you know that killing the messenger is a very bad act? ”

"After he finished what he had to say, there was no need to live after the mission was completed, and killing him early would save our people the danger of being injured, and besides, did I say I wouldn't kill him? Do I admit that he is the messenger of the sand pirates? In my eyes, they are just a herd of walking animals, and if they are killed, they will be killed. Feng Shou smiled as lightly as eating and drinking.

"It's good to kill, I wanted to kill him just now, what do you mean by looking at my face?" Zhidamu touched his cheek and didn't seem to have anything dirty, and when he looked back, he saw that his fellow Qiang people looked ignorant and ignorant. His head was suddenly a little confused, and Sheng Rong still calculated the changes year after year based on the withering of plants and trees. Compared with the Xiaoyue clan, who had a civilization early, I don't know how much worse.

Father Gan frowned: "Kill it, kill it!" This group of sand thieves should have died, we don't talk about etiquette with the despicable and ignorant barbarians, only people with the same civilization are worthy of etiquette, don't be distracted! The Sand Pirates are ready to attack. ”

Everyone stared back with bated breath, and after a dozen breaths, their mood was calm.

The leader of the sand thieves jumped like thunder, roared and led more than 300 sand thieves to rush over like crazy, and the sand thieves on the left and right wings hesitated and immediately followed, and the five hundred horsemen moved and suddenly the hoofs rumbled and the dust was flying, and the timid people saw this formation to have sore hands and feet, which was another unique skill of the sand thieves.

"Three hundred steps, two hundred and forty steps, one hundred and eighty steps...... Shoot the arrows! ”

The galloping sand thief was caught off guard and fell off the horse, and was immediately trampled to death by the later war horse, the sand thief took out the bow and arrow without fear of death, and few people fell on the opposite side after two rounds of arrow rain, and he had lost more than 30 people and horses.

The sand thieves were in a hurry, put away their bows and arrows and wanted to plunge into the dense horse formation, but they didn't expect that when they were less than fifty paces apart, the caravan's horse formation suddenly separated from the left and right, and let go of the open space in the middle to let the sand thieves rush over, and the sand thieves who rushed over were dumbfounded, and wasted a lot of time by reducing the circle, during which dozens of sand thieves died under the rain of arrows.

Before they could regroup and charge again, the formation of the Sand Thieves was gradually crumbling outward, and no matter how hard the Sand Bandit Leader tried to maintain it, it was useless.

They are cunning and ferocious horse thieves, despicable and shameless human traffickers, untrustworthy merchants, but not brave and strong warriors, morale is accumulated by taking advantage of plundering again and again, when they meet the real warriors on the grassland, like a group of lost dogs without the power to parry, the cumulative losses of the sand thieves on the battlefield have exceeded 10%, and the morale of the diving all the way is almost broken.

"The sand thieves are going to escape! Pursue it now! ”

The horse team turned the horse's head and started a round of charge, and the sand thieves immediately showed signs of the caravan's attack, and the formation that was gradually disintegrating completely collapsed, and the sand thieves frantically drove the horses to flee without their lives.

Seeing that the general trend was gone, the sand thieves hurriedly turned their horses and fled, but before they could escape far, they were shot in the back by an arrow, and they fell off their horses and died with a snort.

The sand thieves who lost their collar ran faster, but how could they run compared with the caravan, and after waiting for a long time, they were at their peak, and the caravan was divided into several ways to chase the defeated sand thieves, chasing them for dozens of miles and killing most of them, and only a few dozen fish escaped from the net, and they were insignificant.

After two hours, the pursuing troops continued to return, and Zhao Shun reported the battle damage and harvest: "26 people were wounded, no one died, 12 horses were wounded, no horses were lost, 31o healthy horses were captured, 13o horses were wounded, and the gold and silver of weapons were not counted for the time being." ”

Father Gan thought for a moment and decided: "Divide the gold and silver among the brothers, and be happy!" Pick out some good weapons and pack them up, and the rest are divided according to their wishes, pick out the injured horses that are easy to recover and keep them, and dispose of the seriously injured ones as much as possible, pay attention to cleaning the battlefield and don't leave traces, we should take a break after walking for so long, camp on the spot and continue to move forward tomorrow. ”

The simple camp was set up with firewood to make a fire and boil water, and there were countless battles and small battles along the way, everyone knew how to deal with the wounded, and the wounded people gritted their teeth and cleaned their wounds with hot water, and the hot plant ashes were applied to stop the bleeding.

Sima Tan dealt with the sundries and asked casually: "I saw that there are many sand thieves captive, what should I do with those injured sand thieves?" ”

Feng Shou smiled and gestured on his neck to cut his throat, and made a simple mouth shape in his mouth: "Kill!" ”

On the other side, Zhang Qian squatted in front of the dying war horse and sighed, the skills of the sand thieves are not great, but the quality of the war horses is not bad at all, many good horses are comparable to the mounts of the kings of small countries in the Western Regions, and the dead war horse belongs to a certain sand thief leader who was killed.

"I'll go see if the injured horse can be cured, and if it can't be cured, there's no hurry to deal with it, take this opportunity to collect some plant seeds, and tell me immediately if there's something fresh."

Zhang Qian never forgot his mission, as a Han envoy, he was responsible for contacting the Dayue clan to fight against the Xiongnu, collecting the seeds of the humanities and customs of the Western Regions, recording what the eyes saw and heard with the ears, and the ultimate goal was to go to a country that was not yet known, and his heart was uneasy and hopeful.

"I must complete my mission, and I must complete all the tasks in my diary." Zhang Qian pressed the diary hidden in his chest, as well as the wrapped atlas, which was more important than his life. (To be continued!)

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