It is the early autumn when the water and grass are abundant, and from time to time you can see silly roe deer or hares, foxes, etc. in the dense woods by the roadside, and occasionally a small squirrel jumps over the treetops with a huge and full pine tower.

On some dry loess roads, huge caravans of several merchants are slowly moving, and without considering the dangers of this trip, then it is really a wonderful journey.

About 100 ox carts were carrying heavy goods, creaking and creaking slowly, and in front of and behind the ox carts, there were thousands of camels, also full of goods and supplies.

In other words, this is the standard configuration of the Silk Road.

The Huns are fierce, the Huns are evil, but the Huns also have to eat and drink.

Therefore, even though the relationship with the Han Empire has not been very friendly, the Huns still acquiesced to more than one trade route, and then these trade routes would converge, some like tributaries, all the way into the royal court of the Huns, and even reach the shore of Lake Baikal.

But the backbone of the most will definitely converge on the Silk Road that extends westward.

However, because of the Ma Yi conspiracy three years ago, the Xiongnu military minister Shan Yu was very annoyed, and officially opened a military confrontation with the Han Empire.

So in the past two years, the caravan from Mayi City has been somewhat affected, but fortunately, the Huns are also in urgent need of trade, so they can only endure it.

It was under such circumstances that Wei Qing sent more than 100 elite soldiers of the Xiaocai battalion to disguise themselves as caravan men and go to the area controlled by the Xiongnu to spy on the military situation.

Although the eunuch Yingzheng did not say it, Mu Shaoan estimated that the task of this trip was probably to spy on the military strength of the Huns, and then select the key positions that could be attacked.

After all, the Huns are living in pursuit of water and grass, if you want to attack, you have to find their vital point, and at this stage, the Han Empire has not thought about fighting with the main group army of the Huns for the time being, so it is very important to find a suitable and important place to attack.

However, Mu Shao'an didn't dare to say, let's go to the Dragon City of the Huns to worship the sky, it is very important there, and things are not so simple.

There are a total of five caravans out of the fortress this time, and I don't know how General Wei communicated, looking at the big shopkeepers of the five caravans, it seems that they don't know anything about this matter.

As for the fierce murderous spirit of Mu Shao'an and his gang, this is not a problem, after all, this is an ancient caravan, horse bandits, horse thieves, wolves, and even the Huns pretended to be robbers, so the guys hired by the caravan can't just have a handful of strength, they must all be tough, and in terms of combat effectiveness, they are not too weak than the regular army.

Walk all the way, and rest after walking dozens of miles every day.

For the first few days, the road was easy to walk, until the fourth day, the road became rough, with rolling hills on both sides, and a valley road in the middle, which was a battleground for soldiers.

Occasionally, Mu Shao'an could still see that there were still figures flickering in the dense woods on the mountain beam, in this place where the mountains were high and densely forested, it must be a bandit.

It's just that the five big shopkeepers, and many caravan guys don't look at it at all, this confidence is naturally not ordinary, their five caravans are united, there are thousands of people, all of them are murderous masters, just small thieves, I promise that you will not come back.

The road ahead was getting rougher and rougher, and this time, the shopkeepers and men with serene expressions finally had a little bit of caution.

Because, this is already the famous killing tiger's mouth.

There used to be a period of city walls and passes here in the Spring and Autumn Period, but since the Xiongnu were powerful, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's previous policy was mainly defense, so this place was abandoned.

As for the later overhaul of the Great Wall, the establishment of Xiongguan in this place, etc., but it will have to wait until the Ming Dynasty, as for the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty after the Han Dynasty, why did not overhaul the fortifications here, it was completely because there was no need for it, the Xiongnu of the Han Dynasty were completely wilted, and the Turks of the Tang Dynasty, uh, sorry, modestly said, we still don't need it.

As for the Song Dynasty, I wanted to repair it, but unfortunately I never had the opportunity.

Now there are no people here, so it is impossible for a large number of bandits to gather here, and the reason why those big treasurers and men are cautious is entirely because after this killing tiger's mouth, it is the prairie.

It's the territory of the Huns.

And the Huns are not monolithic, horse thieves and horse bandits, even a small tribe that can become horse thieves at any time, they all ride horses, archery skills are extraordinary, whistling, arrogant and gone, in this steppe, it is really difficult to deal with.

Therefore, in the mouth of the tiger, those big treasurers announced that they would rest here for a day, and by the way, they also released experienced scouts to explore the way.

Mu Shao'an and his more than 100 disguised guys were all dragged in the two caravans, so they didn't have to worry about anything, but when the caravans selected scouts, the bear-like battalion of their own family didn't know what to say to the big shopkeeper, so Mu Shaoan and another guy named Sheep Dan were selected and joined the fifteen scouts.

Sheep eggs, as the name suggests, have two meanings, one is sheep eggs, and the other is sheep dung eggs, but he is indeed a standard cavalryman, and when he walks, he limps around his legs, and the speed of getting on the horse is not exaggerated, but once the war horse trots up, hey, Mu Shaoan immediately feels that this is a master.

The other thirteen scouts were all veterans of the caravan, all of them with unshaven beards, stinking, lazy, and stupid, but the so-called dogs that didn't bark bitten people, and these wilting guys were definitely ruthless.

No one introduced each other, there was no so-called mission goal, and there was no indication of how many miles to be sentified, those scouts didn't look at Mu Shao'an and the two, each urged the war horse, and ran out with a sigh of law, basically a team of two or three people, and a team of one person.

This arrogance is enough.

But his companion, the boy boots called Sheep Eggs, was even more proud, and Mu Shaoan still wanted to cooperate with him, but people didn't even look at him, his legs were slightly slightly, and the war horse rushed out as if he was not carrying a person.

As soon as the connoisseur makes a move, he will know if there is one.

Although Mu Shaoan had subdued the moon-stepping BMW in the most domineering way before, at this moment, it was really heaven and earth.

Bared his teeth, grinned, and finally blinked his eyes, so Mu Shaoan also went on the road, he is not rare, isn't he just a sentry, a trivial matter.

The war horse under his crotch is owned by the caravan, and it looks like a miracle horse, but it is far from the BMW stepping on the moon, so he is not in a hurry to urge the war horse, just trotting, while observing the direction where other reconnaissance teams or individuals are going, and then he also picked a direction, believing in the reins of the horse, in this green prairie, it is really refreshing.

Of course, he didn't really regard this as tourism, and after trotting out more than ten miles away, he released his spiritual power, pricked up his ears, and watched all directions.

The effect, basically no effect, the prairie is empty, and because the laws of war are too strong, the upper limit of his spiritual power exploration has been forcibly reduced to five kilometers in diameter.

But it was really quiet, except for the occasional flock of wild ducks, and wild swans flew out of the swampy sea, and not even a wolf could be seen.

Safe, really safe.

When this thought flashed through his mind, Mu Shaoan had already run a distance of about thirty miles in one go, and there were no other scouts around him.

Do you want to continue?

Forget it, this place has just come out of the tiger's mouth, where is the luck to meet horse bandits?

"Haha, that's a bit like a flag. ”

Mu Shao'an laughed by himself, then dismounted, shot a few pheasants that came out of the headless and brainless, and cleaned up a pond with skillful plucking and bloodletting, and then took out all kinds of spices in the territory stone space, set up a fire, and roasted them with relish.

As for such a thing as a flag, he couldn't ask for it.

Lao Tzu doesn't go to do things, you still come to do things for me?

After eating and drinking, Mu Shaoan slept beautifully, but unfortunately, nothing happened.

Seeing the sky, he rode on a war horse that was also well fed and drunk, and hurried back with a smoke.

Just looking at the tiger in front of him, the hairs on his body suddenly exploded, not that someone was chasing or intercepting him, but that the caravan that was supposed to rest in place for a day was actually missing.

What do you mean?

Didn't Lao Tzu just go out and sleep?

Hurry up, Mu Shao'an rushed into the temporary camp where there were clear traces, there was no blood, no traces of battle, and there was not even a trace of the enemy, because there were footprints and ruts everywhere, and he was not a white-haired detective, so he couldn't see any clues from this dense trace.

"No, this can't be a prank, the only possibility is that the sentinels in other directions should have found some important information, and then urgently reported it when they fell asleep, and then the caravan would change its original plan and set off quickly. ”

Mu Shaoan smiled bitterly.

But he wasn't too worried, and even reconnoitred the surroundings, and then chased along the traces left by the caravan, which was nothing at all, that caravan didn't travel more than a hundred miles a day, and now he couldn't catch up with his eyes closed.

HUH, IT LOOKS LIKE I ACCIDENTALLY SET UP A FLAG AGAIN.

Why do you keep having such strange thoughts in your head today? Isn't it a whim, something big is about to happen?

Mu Shao'an was excited, and was just about to switch the Netherworld Grim Reaper mode and open the talent of the Grim Reaper Vision to check the future, but suddenly his heart moved, and he dismounted lightly, pressing his war horse into the grass with one hand, covering his mouth and nose.

The horse was well-trained, and it was not alarmed.

If it was dark today, and the grass was also lush, Mu Shao'an was even more trying to reconnoiter the surroundings, and he was far away from the caravan's route, so his action immediately disappeared from view.

It was not until about ten minutes had passed, that the sound of hurried hooves sounded from the direction of the horse's mouth, and there were not many, twenty horsemen in all, and rushed through the mouth of the tiger like a whirlwind, and after staying for a while in the place where the caravan had been stationed, five more horsemen came out to catch up, followed closely, and the remaining fifteen horsemen were divided into two and swept in the other two directions.

From beginning to end, they didn't speak, and looking at their clothes and weapons, etc., it seemed that they were also dressed as merchant men.

They didn't find Mu Shao'an either.

However, such a strange behavior really made Mu Shao's peace of mind alarmed.

There's a problem, there's a problem.

I don't know which forces are doing something.

But the strange place is here, at present, this is the Han Empire, not in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the eight wealthy merchants in Shanxi invested in the Manchu Dynasty.

The current Han Empire is really not suitable for the emergence of that kind of blatant traitor.

And the Huns really couldn't cultivate a leading party in Han land.

Therefore, I am afraid that this matter has nothing to do with the Huns.

And I believe that with Wei Qing's prudence, he will never leave any hidden dangers, isn't that a joke?

Therefore, these sneaky guys may not be coming for the Xiaoqi camp.

It's a secret, after all.

So, is it coming for a caravan?

But this is even more unreliable, these five caravans represent the five wealthy merchants, except for the Han Dynasty that can clean them up, other forces are really not enough.

So, who are these guys coming for?