With a bang, the sturdy ironwood table was almost shattered, and Wu Yingying's eyes were cracked, and he roared hoarsely: "Why don't you bring my soldiers back!"

Yu Furen's face was full of scruffy beard, and his body was covered with the smell of sweat, horse manure and dust, and Kang Ketian stood beside him, his white robe turned black and yellow, and the hem of his clothes was only half left. Both of them stood in embarrassment at the bottom of the hall, they had never seen Wu Yingying so angry, they didn't dare to speak, and waited at each other with their faces in wait. After the two of them led two hundred cavalry to break through, they hurried day and night, did not dare to stay at all, and even slept on the horse, and finally arrived at Lanzhou City two days later, and before they had time to drink a sip of hot tea, they immediately came to report to Wu Yingying. At this moment, facing the thunderous power of the commander, the sweat on his back couldn't stop coming out, and Yu Furenliang even envied Xin Gu who was defending on the spot.

Wu Yingying kept walking back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back, and the anger rising in his chest seemed to burn the entire room to ashes. There are 500 soldiers, all of them are the elite of the two battalions of the Ya Army and Jinfan, and most of them are die-hard soldiers who followed when the Jiangnan army was raised, and if it is only based on loyalty, everyone is qualified to be a centurion! "I want to set foot in Xiazhou and chop off Cai Jiqian's head!" Like a wounded beast, Wu Yingying pulled out the horizontal knife at his waist and said fiercely.

"Lord Wu," Kang Ke saw that Wu Yingying was gradually calming down, and only then did he dare to whisper, "The grassland tribes plundered the caravans, and they were cruel and easy to kill, but the habit of the party members was to capture people alive and sell them as slaves as much as possible. ”

"That's right," Wu Yingying turned around and stared at him, as if Cai Jiqian and the tribal leader were in front of him, and Kang Ketian's heart was furious, "All the tribes that participated in the attack on my Lanzhou caravan will be punished, and I want them to pay with blood!" He shouted to the tooth army guarding the gate: "Quickly order the captains of each battalion to come to discuss the matter, release the hammer, and prepare for battle in all the sergeant battalions to block the whole city." Then he said to Kang Khotan: "Kang Jun, please send your subordinates to find out which tribes have attacked our army this time, and in addition, please draw a detailed map for our army to get out of the fortress, and let the Sogdian caravan send a guide to show our army the road outside the fortress." Under the pressure of Wu Yingying, Kang Ke Khotan agreed, and said: "I will send a small caravan to enter the enemy tribe in advance in the name of doing business, find out the situation, and facilitate the actions of the army." ”

After a while, the captains of the battalions who hurriedly heard the news rushed to the main hall of the command embassy to discuss the matter, and after listening to the situation reported by Yu Fu Renliang, everyone was heavy-faced, and Chase Ace, the captain of the Ya Military Academy, immediately opposed Wu Yingying to lead the army out of the fortress.

"My lord, the art of war is cloudy, and I will not raise troops with anger," Chase said, "If we lead the army out of the fortress in a hurry, our army is not familiar with the roads, the food and salary are not enough, and although the grassland tribe has no control, but after all, it is the land of the Liao country, and our side will make a big move, in case the Liao people are provoked to cut off my back road, or rush to attack Lanzhou, the consequences are unimaginable!" Chase stared at Wu Yingying's angry eyes unceremoniously, and the only one who dared to speak out on top of Wu Yingying's anger was this henchman captain who commanded the Tooth Army, and although the rest of the generals agreed with him, they did not dare to speak out.

Wu Yingying's face sank like water, and said: "The westbound trade route is very important, and the thief succeeds once, if he does not punish him with all his might, it will fuel his arrogance." Chase was about to refute, Wu Yingying waved his hand to stop him from speaking, and continued: "It is my fault that the caravan out of the fortress this time is not enough to escort troops, hundreds of soldiers have traveled thousands of miles with me, fallen into the hands of the enemy, we must attack as soon as possible, and rescue the thieves before they can resell their slaves, and I will never give up every brother." He stood up and said loudly to the generals: "I have made up my mind, but when the enemy's situation is clear, the army will not set out on the army, and it will surely set foot on the den of thieves." It is a matter of confidentiality, and from now on, no one is allowed to enter or leave Lanzhou City, regardless of whether it is a military or civilian. Everyone, go back to the camp and fight hard. ”

The generals replied with a bang, Wu Yingying saw the back of them hurriedly returning to the camp, but there was only one missing, and he secretly gritted his teeth in his heart and said: "Lao Xin, if something happens to you, I will slaughter the thieves to avenge this!"

Xin Gu was groggy, as if he had been dragged behind a galloping horse, his body seemed to be torn apart, he fainted in pain, and he seemed to be placed and staggered away immediately. When he awoke, in the darkness, as if someone had been feeding him water, he opened his eyes with all his strength, and saw that he was in a vault, and a woman with a blue headcarf around him called out happily and ran out of the tent.

Xingu shook his head, trying to wake up from his stupor, recalling the final battle of the Lanzhou caravan, at the last moment, he ordered to set fire to all the goods, the boundless enemy cavalry poured up, the arrows were exhausted, the soldiers fought the enemy with their bows, the knives broke, they rushed over and bit with their teeth, he stabbed three or four people to death with a lance, he was accidentally stuck in the leg from behind by a spear, and then he was shot in the chest by an arrow, thinking of this, Xingu looked down, the wound had been wrapped in strips of cloth, and the arrow was dug out。 It looks like he's been saved.

He looked at the dome in which he was located, with a rudimentary stove in the middle, a woolen felt blanket on the ground that had been torn, and a bow hanging on the wall was very good, it seemed that it was the tent of an ordinary tribal herdsman, and while he was thinking about it, there was the sound of hurried footsteps outside, and a large man came in with a round hat, a shabby brown robe, leather boots, and a horn knife pinned to his waist. When he saw Xin Gu looking at him, he smiled and said, "Thank you for Changshengtian, you finally woke up." ”

Xingu, who had wandered in the steppe for several years, heard him speak Mongolian, so he replied in Mongolian: "Thank you for saving me, and how are my brothers now?"

This shepherd was none other than Amur, and on that day he followed the chief's son Su He into the Han chariot formation, and the caravan's goods and prisoners had already been divided. Amur found that Xingu was still angry, he had participated in many battles, and he had been wounded several times, and he was familiar with the physical treatment of war wounds, so he untied Xingu's armor and dug up the arrows for him, and he also lost that Xingu was as strong as an ox, and survived in a coma. Su He, seeing that there was a living one, asked Amur to bring Xingu back to his own tent, and once he woke up, he sent the Han man to the chief's tent as a slave, and if the Han man died or ran away, then let Amur pay for it, either himself or his wife Qiqige would be given to the head man as a slave. In the past few days that Xingu has been in a coma, Amur and Qiqige have fed him cow and goat milk and milk tea day and night.

Listening to Amur's somewhat uneasy explanation, Xingu nodded and said in a hoarse voice: "You saved me, if there is a chance, I will definitely repay you heavily." At this time, Amur's wife Qiqige also smiled and brought a bowl of hot milk tea, Xin Gu took it and took a sip, closed his eyes, the salty milk tea was still piping hot, which made Qiqige exclaim. After Xin Gu drank it, he only felt the heat steaming all over his body, and his body seemed to be half better, and he couldn't help but praise again: "Good tea." Qiqige smiled and took the wooden bowl, the grassland people were very hospitable, and they were praised by the guests, and their hearts were also very happy.

Seeing the hesitation on Amur's face in a blink of an eye, Xingu's heart moved, and he said, "Now that I have woken up, will you immediately hand me over to the chief's tabernacle?" He said this to Amur's mind, but these days he has been taking care of Xingu day and night, but he does not want to send him to death immediately, so he waved his hand and said: "Warrior, you see that your injuries have not yet healed, if you are handed over to the leader, you may be tortured to death in a few days, stay with me for a while longer, and your body will grow, and it will not be too late to go to work as a cow and a horse." After saying this, he sighed, his family was very poor, and if Xingu had been lying in the tent and eating for a while, there would be no food left.

Xin Gu knew the difficulties of the grassland people's life, and reached into his arms to find some broken silver, but it was empty. Amur said: "Everything on your body has been searched and handed over to the chief. Xingu smiled and nodded, just like this, he recuperated his injuries in Amur's house, and planned to grab a horse and flee back to Lanzhou once the injury healed, although Amur would be pulled as a slave by the leader for the time being, he would let him be ransomed after returning to Lanzhou, and this life-saving grace must be repaid.

He was stout and wounded, and his injuries were healing very quickly, but the wounds on his legs were still in the way, and he could barely walk with a cane, and when he had nothing to do, he sat on the bed and pulled the big bow that Amur hung in the vault, and the Amur tended sheep during the day, and sometimes hunted some meat such as steppe rats and hares, and he took care of the housework and spun wool yarn with wool, and from their mouths Xingu learned that this tribe was called Alatan Ullah, and that there were more than a thousand men, women, and children in the tribe, most of whom were ordinary shepherds like Amur, and a few were nobles like the head man Agudam, who had more than 200 slaves, 200 horses, more than 3,000 sheep, and more than 50 cattleAmur's family only has two horses and more than 40 sheep, and Amur has to pay 10 lambs to the head every year, as well as an indefinite amount of wool, cheese, and ghee as the public property of the clan, and the wool and blankets woven by the Amur family can only be sold to the Agudam's family, and if anyone in the clan dares to do business with outsiders privately, it is a betrayal of the tribe, and the tent will be collected by Agudam, and the whole family will be punished as slaves.

"It's just a poor, small Mongolian tribe in the steppe. Xingu sighed in his heart, adding a little more confidence to the smooth escape, he pretended that his leg injury had not healed, but in fact he was preparing to escape, and he had nothing to do in the evening, chatting casually with Amur, Amur is also a good archery and wrestling player in the clan, but Xingu is better than him, although he can't really fight, but the guidance is real, so that Amur admires.

In the evening, Amur and his wife slept in the same tent with him, the Mongols were poor, not only did the family have only one tent, but the guests came, and there was not even a curtain to cover their shame in the middle, and several times in the dead of night, hearing the irrepressible wheezing sound from the side, Xingu couldn't help but think that there was a woman waiting for him in the city of Lanzhou, and his heart was hot.