Although the dazzling sun is no longer so blazing, it still makes the people who are in a hurry sweat, and on the shady grass in front of the foothills, a cavalry team of nearly 1,000 people is moving forward in an orderly manner.

"I have entered the border of the Khitan Department, and sixty or seventy miles ahead, there is a small tribe, and there is a stone city built in that valley, and many Khitan troops are stationed. ”

The commander made Huang Kejie return from the front and report the current position of the team to Zhao Ning.

"If we come here in a grand manner, will the Khitan Department block us?"

Zhao Xun looked at Zhao Ning, "Not to mention anything else, as long as they send a team of soldiers and horses to monitor our movements left and right under the guise of greeting and escorting, it will be difficult for us to find out anything." ”

In all fairness, Zhao Xun's worries are not unreasonable, but Zhao Ning has a different judgment, "No." ”

"Why?" Zhao Xun was very strange.

Zhao Ning said: "When will the Yanmen army patrol the grassland, when can it be tolerated to be watched? If the Khitan Ministry dares to do this, I will definitely be angry." ”

"How's the annoyance?"

"There is a possibility of conflict. ”

"The Khitan Ministry is already preparing for war, and is it still afraid of conflict with us?"

"It's because they're preparing for war that they can't clash with us. Once the conflict is out of control, I am furious, please move the Yanmen army out of the customs in a big way, delaying their war plan, who can afford this responsibility?"

Zhao Xun thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's true." The Khitan tribe and the Tianyuan tribe behind them don't know that we have a clear idea of their war plans. What they have to do at the moment is to cover this up in every possible way. ”

"Before the storm, what is needed is calm. ”

"What if they only send a few dignitaries and officials to greet them?"

"Then let them go. ”

"How about not rolling?"

"Hit them until they roll. ”

Zhao Xun laughed, stroked his palms and praised: "Brother Ning'er is very good!"

He didn't think there was anything wrong with Zhao Ning's words, the Yanmen Army was so domineering when it arrived on the grassland.

Glancing at the back of the team, seeing that Prince Dadan and the others were still far away, and they had no intention of coming forward, Zhao Xun asked a very important question:

"Although we know that the Khitan Ministry is deploying troops, but the grassland is vast, and our itinerary must have been mastered by the other party, if they intend to avoid us, where should we go to find evidence of their gathering of troops and horses?"

Zhao Ning shook his head, "I didn't plan to find the assembled soldiers and horses. ”

Zhao Xun was stunned, "Why?"

"The trick of catching a cat and a mouse takes too much time. The war is already imminent, it may break out in twenty days, or it may only take ten days, and we don't have that leisure. ”

"Then how do we convince Prince Dadan that the Khitan Ministry is preparing for war?"

"It's hard to find soldiers and horses, but it's easy to find tribes. ”

Zhao Xun understood what Zhao Ning meant, and suddenly said: "The Khitan Department has mobilized heavy troops, and there must be no young people left in each tribe, this is obvious evidence!"

"But that's not enough. ”

"Yes, in order to cover up the whereabouts of the Khitan Department, the tribes in the west near the Dadan Department should not have been transferred much. ”

"We need a simpler and more effective way to solve problems. ”

Zhao Xun heard the murderous aura in Zhao Ning's words.

He didn't ask much.

Because he had already understood what Zhao Ning meant.

Turning around, Zhao Xun glanced at Prince Dadan in the team.

I probably felt that this trip was completely in vain, and the Khitan Department would not have the possibility of starting a war at all.

A sneer crossed the corner of Zhao Xun's mouth.

This prince didn't know that he was about to come into disaster.

A moment later, Zhao Ning suddenly ordered the team to speed up, bypass the stone city sixty miles ahead, and go directly to the hinterland of the Khitan Department.

Prince Dadan was very puzzled by Zhao Ning's actions and wanted to come up to ask, but Zhao Ning had no intention of talking to him at all. Touching the gray Prince Dadan, he snorted coldly in annoyance, but he didn't dare to say anything.

In Stone City, there were the powerful people of the Khitan Department who greeted Zhao Ning's team - to be precise, the officials of the Tianyuan Department, who had already laid down their support and waited for Zhao Ning to bring Prince Dadan over.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Ning directly led the team around.

The officials were surprised to hear the news.

"The king asked us to wait here for the arrival of the Yanmen army and Prince Dadan, but why did they suddenly make a detour?" Among the two leading officials, an elderly Khitan asked the Tianyuan man beside him in some puzzlement.

This Yuan Shen Realm powerhouse of the Tian Yuan tribe Nadu is a close confidant of King Zuo Xian of the Tian Yuan Dynasty. At present, sitting in the Khitan royal court, in fact, presiding over military and political affairs, it is King Zuo Xian of the Tianyuan royal court.

As a confidant of King Zuo Xian, Nadu had already known the purpose of Zhao Ning and Prince Dadan coming over from the other party. According to King Zuoxian's instructions, he was going to meet the counterparties here and send them to the royal court with all respect.

Of course, it will be the Khitan magnates next to him who will come forward, just in case. He also needed to pretend that he didn't know that Prince Dadan was in the ranks.

Because he knew that Zhao Ning and Prince Dadan came here to form an alliance with the Khitan Ministry, he was not worried about his errand being ruined, and he also thought that the other party had no reason not to accept the greeting.

But now, the other party not only bypassed Stone Town, but also accelerated around it.

This made Nadu feel bad in his heart.

Others don't know, but he knows that in the central area of the Khitan Department, many soldiers and horses have been secretly assembled, and most of the young men of several core tribes have disappeared.

Now the Khitan Ministry is restricting the flow of people, the caravans have been temporarily detained by various departments, and various masters are secretly patrolling everywhere to prevent news from leaking.

After the fifteenth, the army will launch a surprise attack on the Dadan Department with the force of thunder.

The traces of war cannot be erased, and when the grassland royal court launches a war, it is necessary to mobilize young and strong people from the major tribes, and it is not enough to rely on the soldiers and horses of the royal court alone.

This time, in order to ensure the suddenness of the war and the elite of the army, the Khitan Department only drew young and strong combat strength from a few large tribes in the central rich areas.

In the final analysis, they didn't need to defeat the Dadan Tribes on their own, the Tian Yuan army was the key force.

Under normal circumstances, the time of about fifteen days is enough for the Khitan Department to be prepared, and the Dadan Department is caught off guard. Even if the Dadan Department gets the news three or five days in advance, the soldiers and horses that can be assembled are limited.

Now Zhao Ning took Prince Dadan and suddenly went straight to the hinterland of the Khitan tribe, if it was an unintentional move, if it was an unintentional move, if it was intentional to explore something, then with the eyes of the Yanmen army, the traces of war would inevitably be discovered!

However, the news that Zhao Ning and Prince Dadan came to form an alliance with the Khitan Ministry was passed down by the Tianyuan Royal Court, and King Zuo Xian and Na were convinced of this, which led to the fact that at the moment they had no measures to prevent the other party from messing around!

"You continue to stay here, and I'll go back and report to King Zuoxian!"

He had the cultivation of the late stage of the Yuan Shen Realm, and he ran all the way, and his speed was not comparable to that of a war horse, and he soon arrived at the Khitan royal court.

The current Khitan royal court is already in name only, and he didn't go to the king's tent, the Khitan Khan there was just a cover to deal with outsiders, and he went directly to the big tent of King Zuoxian.

After reporting the news to King Zuoxian, he received the latest order: lead an elite army to drag Zhao Ning's team, and be sure to find out their true intentions!

When necessary, you can let the elite soldiers pretend to be horse thieves and attack the Yanmen army! Zhao Ning's team around him and left is less than a thousand horsemen, and being surrounded by a powerful horse thief is not something that must not make sense.

All in all, news of the war must not be leaked! Once the Dadan Department and the Yanmen Army are prepared in advance, the impact will be too great, and no one can afford to bear this responsibility.

Afterwards, the Khitan royal court "destroyed" the horse thief and rescued Zhao Ning. As long as Zhao Ning did not suffer a catastrophe, the death of some Yanmen troops was not a problem that could not be solved with compensation.

Coming out of the big tent, the face was like the bottom of the pot, and before leaving, he said to his friends around him: "If Zhao Ning really has other thoughts, I have to besiege and kill the Yanmen army, but I am afraid that the war will have to be launched in a hurry in advance!"

The horse thieves besieged and killed the Yanmen army, but they couldn't surround it for fifteen days, and the Khitan royal court had not yet gone to support.

"They obviously came to discuss the alliance with the Khitan Ministry, how could this kind of change happen?

The Tianyuan master also looked depressed, he didn't say much to Nadu, and hurriedly rushed to the north.

He needed to inform the Tian Yuan Royal Court of this news in time.

That all took the military order, mobilized the troops and horses of the headquarters, and went to intercept Zhao Ning overnight.

He certainly wasn't going to Stone Town again. The worst case scenario was that Zhao Ning sensed something and went straight to the core tribes in the Khitan hinterland. All you have to do is go there and keep Zhao Ning's team out.

The best situation is that Zhao Ning's abnormal movements have nothing to do with the preparation of the Khitan Department, and his actions are not fast, and he did not go straight to the big tribes that have been transferred a large number of young and strong soldiers and horses.

If so, then you don't even have to do anything to Zhao Ning. Everything is a false alarm, and everyone should just assume that nothing happened.

Of course, Zhao Ning didn't go deep into the Khitan hinterland, so he didn't think about the core tribes of the Khitan tribe. After running for two days, they stopped outside a small tribe.

This is a tribe with only about 100 tents, and it can be seen that it is quite poor, many of the felt tents are dilapidated, some are surprisingly small, and there are few cattle and sheep.

Some of the herders' sheepskin jackets can be described as ragged.

In addition to resting and drinking horses, there was almost no stop along the way, and Prince Dadan, who had not closed his eyes for two days and two nights, was not lightly broken. Along the way, he told Zhao Ning several times that he wanted to rest, but Zhao Ning directly ignored him, accumulating a stomach full of resentment.

He has always been pampered and pampered, and he has been calling for wind and rain in the royal court, how has he ever experienced such fatigue and suffered such treatment?

Seeing that Zhao Ning finally had the intention of stopping, Prince Dadan breathed a sigh of relief and complained to his cronies:

"Zhao Ning, this guy is simply not a son of man, he has been crazy endlessly, running so far for no reason, and he can't be reincarnated? I think he just deliberately tortured me, it's really hateful!"

At this time, Zhao Xun walked up from behind and said to Prince Dadan with a smile: "What is the prince talking about?"

"It's nothing, it's just that I can finally get a good night's sleep. Prince Dadan sneered.

No matter how much he has a grudge against Zhao Ning in his heart, he will never dare to show it, and if he offends the first person in the future military of Daqi, he will not benefit at all - unless he can't bear it anymore.

Zhao Xun didn't expose Prince Dadan's lies, but just glanced at him meaningfully and walked away.

In his heart, Prince Dadan is no different from a dead man, no matter what the other party says, he is willing to be generous.

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About 5.5 Break Section: I'm not a victim of TX or a new contract, but as an author, we are all in the same environment of online articles, and I can't help but speak out when I encounter this kind of thing.

The oppression, exploitation and embezzlement of wealth by the capital elites on the common people have never had a bottom line. It's not about you, and this way of the world will eventually make all the laborers kneel.

I hope that Zongheng will get better and better, and I hope that Guo Jia can uphold justice for the people.