They hunted their prey like wolves along the frozen banks of the Yellow River. Then it quickly disappeared into the darkness, swift as a wolf. No one knows where this team came from, and no one can predict where this team will be next again. Lai Da Sui Dynasty was covered by the remnants of the Great Sui Dynasty, and the Turkic wolf cavalry had not broken through the Great Wall for more than ten years, and this group of Xuanjia cavalry who suddenly rushed to the bank of the Yellow River scared the great and small Khan kings of Huining and Wuwei into a daze, and also frightened their gall and liver trembling vigorously, and they couldn't even sleep peacefully.

There are rumors that this is retribution, retribution sent down by the Immortal Heaven. The Hu and Han ethnic groups on the border have been safe and sound for many years. The Han people herded herd, milked horses, and boiled tea bricks like the Hu people. The Hu people, like the Han people, cultivated crops in the spring, and although the yield of millet was less than half of that of the Han people's crops, the milk tofu, felt, and cowhide in their hands were enough to exchange for food from the Han neighbors. When they are happy, the men of the two families will sit together and drink two bowls, although they can't understand what the other is saying, but the smiles on their faces are just as honest. If it weren't for someone deliberately provoking, everyone wouldn't mind who was Han, who was Qiang, and who was a party item. Unexpectedly, the Burke lords had to reproduce the glory of their ancestors, and in less than three months, everyone paid a huge price for the glory.

In less than a month, seven tribes were attacked. Four of them were destroyed, and all the men of the clan were killed in battle. There are also three more clever, and they didn't wait for the wolf flag to appear near their tribe, so they immediately put on the Lele car and moved up and down the clan. Anyway, the village they lived in was robbed by them, and it was not very distressing to lose it again. Otherwise, ......., remembering the fierceness of the Turkic wolf riding in their memory, the men didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

While sending an envoy to Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang who was sitting in the thirteen counties of Guanyou, the Khan of Hosana sent an envoy to report to Li Yuan, the prince of Tang, and at the same time united the three powerful tribes in an attempt to counterattack the wolf horseman. At this juncture, everyone no longer distinguishes whether they are Qiang people, party items or Tuyuhun, and the past grievances are put aside for the time being, and they have avoided the disaster in front of them. The four khans gathered 6,000 warriors, and before the command could be discussed, the wolf riders had already come to the door. The six thousand warriors who were not in a hurry to take precautions were crushed at the first touch, and the four large and small khans were chased by the winged wolf for more than 100 miles, and ran straight to the edge of Liangchuan City to escape with their lives. As a result, no one dared to mention the stubble of alliance self-preservation. had to gather the heavy gifts, and begged the Great Sui to send troops to maintain the place.

As more and more battles were fought, the might of the Flying Tiger Army gradually became apparent. Looking back, the current team is not at all like the spineless nest of two months ago, with the soldiers riding on horseback, one by one proudly holding their chests. By fighting, the men regained their dignity. They killed their former enemies and fled, and they avenged their own families with their own hands. Although the means of revenge were not dignified, the man at the front of the team promised that one day, he would let the group return with his battle flag held high and retake the lost homeland in the open.

The team that often wins battles also has a strong sense of honor, and the Flying Tigers kill opponents whose hands have been stained with the blood of their compatriots. But he rarely used butcher knives against the elderly, weak, women and children. But near the Celestial Vegetable Plains on the edge of the desert, the team broke the ring once. It was a once-thriving village that was overrun by a gang of Qiang people last autumn. Li Shimin led his army to rush in and killed all the men who dared to resist. As he ordered the brothers to evacuate, he suddenly saw two women among the captives widen in astonishment.

"They seem to understand what I'm saying?" Li Shimin paused for a moment and looked at Liu Hongji with an inquiring eye. Liu Hongji didn't see the second son's signal at all, and was busy beckoning the brothers to choose excellent foot strength from the trophies. The Frontier tribes all have good horses, and the Flying Tiger Army just chooses tall ones from among them to supplement the losses of the battle for several days.

To a degree that others could not perceive, Li Shimin frowned slightly, and then turned his gaze to Wu Shi Tong. However, he found that the samurai had already retreated with his brothers, and he had never turned his head back to this side.

He took his own guards and evacuated with the brigade worriedly. So far, no one knows that the Turkic wolf horsemen who have recently been disturbed on both sides of the Yellow River are disguised as private soldiers of the Li family. Even Li Yuan, who was far away in Honghua, didn't know that in the minds of the officials of the Tang Mansion and Honghua County, the second prince Shimin was tossing around in the military camp of Mingsha City with a few cronies at this time. Displaced people are displaced people, and those guys who are robbed of livestock and houses by others and don't know how to fight back, even if they have a long lance, they can't muster the slightest courage.

The team stopped for repairs in an oasis deep in the desert. With the guidance of the locally born soldiers, for more than a month, Li Shimin and others were surprised to find that in the desert where they originally thought there was no grass, there were actually many inaccessible but quiet oases like outdoor paradises. These oases dot the sea like stars in the night sky, turning the Sea of Death beneath your feet into a hiding place for wolves. After each sortie, Li Shimin would take his brothers into the desert, hiding his tracks on the one hand, and inspecting the team in the oasis on the other, discussing with the generals whether to return to Mingsha City to rest or continue to pounce on the next target.

I'm sure I'll have to go back to Mingsha City this time. The brothers were still physically strong and enthusiastic about fighting, but the Yellow River in the distance was already showing signs of thawing. In the event of a breakage of the ice, there would be no crossing at the edge of the desert for 2,000 men and horses. And those well-known ferries, wolf riders can't swagger to appear.

"This year's spring hunt is over!" While Liu Hongji and Wu Shitong were busy leading the brothers to kill cattle and prepare dry food for the army, the eldest grandson Wuji came to the fire where Li Shimin was and asked tentatively. After a few months of military life, his body was much stronger, and the shadow illuminated by the fire was like a sandstone that had experienced thousands of years of wind and frost, revealing three points of hideousness beyond the hardness.

"It's over, Junji just suggested to me that everyone will return to the east early tomorrow morning. This attack is aimed at refining our troops, and now the Flying Tiger Army has become an elite! Li Shimin turned his head proudly and glanced at the oasis behind him. On the oasis, hundreds of bonfires are lit large and small. At each campfire sat a dozen tall men, hard as stone. Having experienced death and revenge, they have now completely turned into a knife, and the handle of this sharp blade is in their hands.

Even compared to Brother Zhong Jian's heroic battalion, the Flying Tiger Army is not inferior. Looking at the brothers who were drinking wine and eating meat by the fire, Li Shimin's eyes were not without pride. Brother Zhong Jian's Xiongwu Xiaoguo Battalion finally cheapened the Yuwen family, but this Flying Tiger Army was a team created by the Li family and can always be firmly held in their hands. But will the eldest brother be red-eyed? In addition to being proud, he had a faint worry in his heart. But that fear soon became apparent.

The eldest brother will not look down on this mere 3,000 people, but there are hundreds of his staff. Besides, Xiaohou will not be pulled away by him, and Brother Wu will not get along with him! Thinking like this, he turned his gaze to Liu Hongji again, and then turned back to the eldest grandson Wuji. Liu Hongji is older than Li Jiancheng, and he is an old man in the Tang Mansion, so even if he can't completely make him loyal to himself, Li Shimin is not worried that this person will be pulled over by his brother Li Jiancheng. As for the eldest grandson Wuji, he is the henchman of Li Shimin's henchmen, or another of his doppelgangers. Since the two families had in-laws, many things that Li Shimin was inconvenient to come forward to do, and the eldest grandson Wuji rushed to help him do it. The two did not clearly explain the division of labor between each other, but they cooperated tacitly and tacitly.

"The Khan of Hosana has asked for help from Honghua County for the third time this month, and it is said that he has prepared more than a dozen carts of generous gifts this time. Tang Gong and the following officials have one each! Eldest Sun Wuji smiled and continued.

The Khan of Hosana was so thick-skinned that it was unreasonable. Last autumn, he took the lead in driving out the Han people in the border counties, and his arrogance was unparalleled. Tang Duke Li Yuan wrote a letter in the name of staying in the thirteen counties of the Great Sui Pass to ask him to restrain his behavior, but he relied on the support of the Turkic nobles behind him, and pulled Pei Ju as a big backer in the imperial court, and ignored the messenger sent by Tang Duke Li Yuan.

And this spring, when he found out that he had been punished for his barbaric actions. The attitude immediately came to a huge turn like the waterway of the Yellow River, not only repeatedly showing himself to the imperial court that he was a vassal and a vassal of the Great Sui, but also doing everything possible to establish a relationship with Li Yuan, demanding that the other party see the face of the same Great Sui courtier, and must send troops to help the suffering. "The Ashina family is ambitious, Tang Gong must remind the imperial court to be on guard!" In order to show his attitude, the envoys of the Hosana Khan even revealed the conspiracy of the Ashina family to try to get involved in the Central Plains. But he forgot to compare his Hosana family with the Ashina family to see who was more ambitious.

"If he knew that the so-called wolf rider was sent by the Li family to punish him, I don't know how the old guy would react!" Li Shimin shrugged his shoulders and responded with a smile.

"The old guy is going to go crazy with rage!" Hou Junji, who has become the Marquis of Zuo Yu of the Flying Tiger Army, laughed. While being beaten, you give a gift to the person who beat yourself, and please do justice to the host. This kind of joke can only be made by an uncivilized barbarian like Hosana.

"Yes, but can you not let him know, or don't let him know well!" The eldest grandson Wuji also smiled, laughing enough, he turned his head sideways, looked at the dancing flames, and said in a low voice, "Junji, in the tribe we passed by this afternoon, there are a few women who may have been robbed of Han people, or Hu people, but they can understand Chinese!" ”

"Really?" Hou Junji was taken aback and quickly stood up. "It's getting late, I have to arrange a few scouts to explore the way!" He explained to the people around him, and then quickly walked into the darkness.

"I'm going to check if the brothers have prepared the bacon, and it's going to be a whole day's journey tomorrow!" Seeing Hou Junji walking away, the eldest grandson Wuji also stood up and said goodbye to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin didn't say anything, his eyes stared directly at the fire in front of him. He knew Hou Junji's character better than anyone else, and he also understood that what Eldest Sun Wuji suddenly said was deliberate. "What will Zhong Jian do when he encounters such a situation?" He thought hard and tried to raise his head several times to call Hou Junji and Changsun Wuji back, but in the end he chose to remain silent.

Zhong Jian lost the Xiongwu camp because he made a mistake, and Li Shimin did not want to repeat the same mistake. In the darkness, he cracked his mouth and smiled, illuminated by the firelight for a neat row of white teeth.

Alcoholic's note: Regarding the provocation of Li Yuan to pretend to be Turkic to deal with the Turks, it is found in the history books, not apocryphal.

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