Chengxin kept comforting himself, telling himself that there was a reason for Cheng Chumo to do this, but he couldn't get over this hurdle in his heart, so he couldn't help but ask on the way: "Cheng Chumo, why did you kill that boss, knock him out and leave him money, is it different if we take the horses away first?" ”

Cheng Chumo turned his head to look at Chengxin, took a deep breath and patiently explained: "He has seen our team, it is very likely that his information will be exposed, and it may push us into the abyss!" ”

Satisfying or incomprehensible, is it such a simple thing to kill people casually in his eyes?

Cheng Chumo naturally saw that he didn't understand, and then said: "I'll tell you a story, this story was told to me by my father, I hope you can understand me after telling you this story!" ”

Satisfactory nodded, rode to Cheng Chumo's side, Cheng Chumo's small eyes turned and said: "This story was told to me by my father, the story happened when my father was young, when my father claimed to be a hero in the green forest, and pulled a group of brothers in the mountains and forests to intercept the caravan to make a living, at that time, the actions of the emperor of the previous dynasty led to the instability of the people, the people's hearts were panicked, and there were more and more rebels, and the business of robbing roads in the mountains and forests could not continue. ”

Satisfied with listening to the cloud mountain fog cover, but still patiently continued to listen, Cheng Chu paused and then said: "Later, my father went to Wagangzhai, when they decided to set up their own door in Wagangzhai, so they wanted to get the support of nearby residents and merchants, so they were very polite and polite to these people, so these people told the people of the previous dynasty about their self-establishment in Wagangzhai, attracting the imperial court to send troops to attack!" ”

Cheng Xin nodded, and said Cheng Chumo This means that these people have their own calculations, so don't be merciful for the big things we want to do, right?

Cheng Chumo continued: "The ending of the story is naturally good, although my father and they were not broken up by the imperial court, but my father told me since he was a child that when marching and fighting, if anyone has any behavior that will hinder or cause problems in your march, then you must be decisive, and don't leave any hidden dangers, otherwise the unlucky person in the end will follow your brother!" ”

Cheng Chumo looked at his eyes and said, "Do you understand this time?" ”

He nodded with deep satisfaction, and persuaded himself in his heart, the boss didn't kill himself, what are you tangled in, ancient people had their own code of conduct, and it didn't make sense to be entangled by yourself.

Uncle Tuesday patted the horse and walked over, and said to Cheng Chumo with a smile: "Is there such a thing?" How I haven't heard of it! ”

Cheng Chumo looked at the satisfaction who was still thinking, turned his head and said to Uncle Tuesday: "Tease the child, otherwise he won't kill me with ink!" ”

Although the voice was not loud, he still heard it, patted his horse and caught up with Cheng Chumo, and said with some anger: "Did you just make up a story to lie to me?" ”

Cheng Chumo looked at the reluctant satisfaction, and said helplessly: "This old man is a person from King Wu, I saw him before when I was guarding the city in Chang'an, how can you think that I am a person who kills people indiscriminately?" Congratulations, I'm so disappointed in you! ”

Xiangxin was stunned when he heard this, and then he believed what Cheng Chumo said, firstly, because he understood Cheng Chumo's personality, and he knew that one of King Wu's people would not be wronged even if he killed one of them.

This time, he didn't ask Cheng Chumo whether this matter was true or not, maybe it didn't matter if it was true or false for him, after all, he couldn't change it.

All the way, he was silent, watching Cheng Chumo put the knife on the neck of one horse dealer boss after another, and then threw them a stack of silver tickets, and then left them only some old horses and ponies, and took the rest away.

Little by little, the team grew stronger, and a group of people drove a group of horses to gallop across the plateau, and the road traveled by the horses' hooves left a deep imprint.

Li Chengqian walked with the soldiers on the top of the mountain, but the closer he got to the direction of Jingzhou City, the more nervous Li Chengqian became, on the one hand, he didn't see the traces of Xiangxin and others riding horses, on the other hand, his own people on the top of the mountain were a little too big, and on the other hand, Li Chengqian saw that the soldiers were a little unable to hold on, so it was better to go down the mountain to find some prey to give the soldiers a tooth sacrifice.

So Li Chengqian ordered before the last mountain: "Everyone prepare, go down the mountain in advance, and then leave what you can catch when you pass by, eat what you catch at night, and take care of the people in your team!" ”

The soldiers also laughed happily when they heard this, they have been eating cold steamed buns with salty white porridge for the past few days, although they taste good, but these people have not cut off their meat when they were training in the camp, and they are naturally unwilling to have no oil and water when they come to this wilderness. After hearing Li Chengqian's words, they all began to look at their surroundings, for fear of missing any prey.

Li Chengqian and Xiangxin were rushing to the meeting point step by step, and Cheng Yanjin also saw Li Chengqian's secret letter, and under the token given by Cheng Chumo, the messengers walked all the way to Cheng Yanjin unimpeded.

I only heard the messenger say: "General Cheng, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a secret letter to hand over to you!" ”

Cheng Biting Jin turned out to be a secret letter, opened it and looked carefully, at this time Cheng Biting Jin was on the horse, leading the team to walk towards Yizhou little by little, although the road was calm, but Cheng Biting Jin still decided to lead the troops to Yizhou first.

When I opened the secret letter, I saw that it was written what happened in the city of Yizhou, and there was a secret text on the letter that I was going to lead troops to Jingzhou, but the specific reason was not explained in detail, but it was only said that it was speculated that the Turks might attack from Jingzhou to open up the situation, and the attack on Yizhou was just a pretense.

Wei Chigong looked at Cheng Yanjin and looked at the secret letter a little distracted, snatched the secret letter in Cheng Yanjin's hand, looked at the circle and round things drawn on it, and said with some surprise: "Is this the secret letter written by the prince?" Except for the first one, which has Braille written on it, what is the rest! ”

Cheng bit the golden glanced at him, pointed to the circle above and said: "The prince is saying that they have already led troops to Jingzhou City, and said that the Turks may want to attack Jingzhou!" ”

Wei Chigong took out the map from his arms, pointed to Ermeng Mountain and said: "How is it possible, Jingzhou City is close to Ermeng Mountain, and there is Gaochang Kingdom over there, how can you let the Turks cross their territory to attack our Tang Dynasty!" ”

Speaking of this, Wei Chigong was even more convinced of his statement and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not confused, how can he have such an idea!" ”

Cheng Yanjin stared at the map a little distracted, as if he thought of something, he looked at Wei Chigong on the side and said, "Is there a transfer of troops over there in Jingzhou to fight?" ”

Wei Chigong took out the fold of the troop transfer, looked at it carefully, and then shook his head and said: "No, Jingzhou's location is relatively critical, so there is no transfer of Jingzhou's troops!" ”

Cheng Yanjin nodded, at this time, he could rest assured to think about it, but he suddenly remembered that Jingzhou was the chassis of the King of Shu, and the King of Shu was in Chang'an at this time, and patted his thigh and said: "It's a little wrong, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not a reckless person, if there is no tangible evidence, how could he go to Jingzhou with his 1,000 people for no reason, I really shouldn't let them act without permission, didn't I tell them to camp on the outskirts of Yizhou and wait for us to come over!" ”

As he spoke, he summoned the spies who had passed on the secret message and asked, "What have you been doing in the past few days, tell me quickly!" ”

The spies didn't dare to hide it, and told a rough story about their return after camping outside Yizhou.

Cheng Biting Jin only knew, it turned out that he came back and took Li Chengqian and others away, and fell into thinking again, if the Turks were honest and started a war with the Tang Dynasty, then after capturing Yizhou City, they should continue to attack the rest of the cities, but they led their troops over and found no trace of the Turks along the way, and people who passed by many villages didn't even know that Yizhou was attacked by the Turks.

Cheng Yanjin always felt that something was wrong, but only then did he know what was wrong, looking at the location of Jingzhou on the map, as well as the location of Gao Changguo and Ermeng Mountain, Cheng Yanjin said in disbelief: "Gao Changguo may have betrayed us, Ermeng Mountain is no longer a natural barrier!" ”

Wei Chigong still didn't believe Cheng Yanjin's judgment, but he knew that there was no trace of the Turks in Yizhou City at this time, and they didn't know whether to go to Yizhou City at this time, Cheng Yanjin gritted his teeth and said: "All the soldiers obeyed the order, and divided half of the men and horses to follow me to Jingzhou, and the remaining half followed General Wei Chi to Yizhou!" ”

As he spoke, he found a few more spies and gave them the secret letter he had just written: "You must send this secret letter to General Hou Junji, his soldiers are a little faster than ours, and they should have arrived in Yizhou soon, don't rest for the next two days, don't send it to General Hou!" ”

So these tens of thousands of horses were completely separated, and they went in two directions.

Here Xiangxin had already arrived at the meeting place that had been agreed before, and was a little anxiously waiting for Li Chengqian's appearance, but it had been half a day, and Li Chengqian's figure had not yet appeared, so Xiangxin looked at the map and said a little anxiously: "Is this the place we agreed before?" We can't be mistaken! ”

Cheng Chumo looked at it with an anxious look and said with a smile: "Why are you so anxious, just wait with peace of mind, it's nothing for us to have less than a hundred people driving nearly three hundred horses, and now their team of more than nine hundred people, can we still worry about it!" ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw a few figures coming out from behind the big stone in the distance, it seemed that it should be someone from the prince's mansion, and the people behind him also appeared little by little, everyone was relieved, and hurriedly went over to greet them, seeing that although they were a little embarrassed, they were all safe and sound before they put their minds at ease.

He was a little angry and said to Li Chengqian: "Why did you come so slowly, half a day late!" ”