"When the scouts come back in a while, if the enemy's location is confirmed, send someone to the beacon and tell them to let the enemy in." Huo Gang commanded again.

"Yes!"

Just as Huo Gang guessed, the scouts sent by Gongsun Lin quickly determined the location of these horse thieves, and few people on the Gobi rushed forward at night, because it was too easy to get lost, even if they were horse thieves, the Turks, who had lived in the Gobi for a long time, rarely traveled at night.

And the night of the people of this era is the biggest protective color, and the Black Mountain thieves have been very careful, to be precise, they have also sent their own sentinels in the direction of Yangguan.

However, the scouts sent by Gongsun Lin were professional, and it was easy to bypass the enemy's sentry positions, and Gongsun Lin and their people did not have the night blindness that most people in this era had.

In the middle of the night, the sentinels who had already returned, and after determining the enemy's location, they directly notified the old pawns hidden on the nearby Han Dynasty beacons, telling them not to light the fire when they encountered the enemy, and to let the enemy in.

When the east of the sky was white, the bright red dots in the spirit of the Jade Gate in Huo Gang's mind began to move directly, and Huo Gang's men and horses also moved quickly.

Gongsun Lin had already led a large army to completely hide, and if the enemy rushed all the way to them, there was only one way to go, so it was still easy to avoid their sight.

......The crisp and melodious sound of the horn echoed in the early morning, and everyone acted quickly, not only Huo Gang and Huo Zheng, a hundred elite cavalry, but also most of the more than 100 ordinary people grazing here quickly turned over and got on their horses.

They were also armed with rudimentary bows and arrows, but they were not needed for battle, and their task was simple: to mislead the enemy.

And at this moment, the caravan in the camp was also awakened, and everyone took action one after another, including Zheng Ning and others, looking at Huo Gang and others who were moving quickly around them, Zheng Ning and they didn't know what was happening, but Zheng Ning still let the caravan form a defensive formation as soon as possible.

They had been trading on the Gobi Desert for many years, and they had a lot of experience in what kind of formation was suitable for defending the cavalry, as long as the enemy was not allowed to rush into their formation and cut them apart, then a small group of cavalry or horse thieves would not have much to do with them.

Huo Gang glanced at Zheng Ning's caravan, they formed the outermost line of defense with the shelves of goods loaded and unloaded at night, and then a circle of caravan guards holding shields in the second circle, and the third circle was the camel lying down, the camel's special earmuffs and eye patches were already covered, so that the camel was not afraid of sudden fright.

It is difficult for such a circular formation cavalry to break into it directly, of course, bows and arrows have a certain effect, but the wooden shields in these caravan guards can block most of the arrows with the goods, as for the camels, there is no way, they can only use some goods to prevent the vital parts of the camels.

After all, they are caravans, not armies.

At this time, Huo just found out that half of Zheng Ning's caravan was actually Hu people, and these people looked very much like Arabs or something.

Huo Gang ignored them, but turned around and faced the position to the west, they were half a high ground here, and Zheng Ning and them were more than two hundred meters on Huo Gang's side.

"Zheng Tou'er, what are they going to do?" On Zheng Ning's side, the leader of the caravan guard came over.

"I don't know, it doesn't look like it's defending us." Zheng Ning shook his head slightly, but his face was not relaxed at all.

He had seen Gongsun Lin and them yesterday, although there were not many people, only about a few dozen people, but all of them were white horses and white armor, and all of them were Mingguang armor, Zheng Ning was already very surprised at that time.

But today he was even more surprised, because the hundred horses in front of him were the same as yesterday, but the only difference was that the hundred horses in front of him looked more elite, all of them were covered in black horse and black armor, and everyone was equipped with a horse lance, a long knife, a bow and arrows, and even the horse body was covered with a thick layer of cowhide armor.

Although there were only about a hundred horsemen, all of them were in a neat formation, the whole was solemn, there was no sound, and everyone was quiet as if they were alone! Including the horses under their crotches, they were all lined up in a neat formation, except for the occasional sneeze of the horses, the entire cavalry formation actually did not make any sound!

What kind of force is this! This army is too elite, isn't it?! Zheng Ning had never seen such an elite cavalry in the Tang army in the Western Regions!

Huo Gang's gaze just looked ahead, and above the phantom of the Spirit of the Jade Gate in his mind, the red dot was constantly approaching.

Huo Gang suddenly thought of something, and whispered a few words to Huo Zheng beside him, Huo Zheng immediately turned around and explained a few times, and then Zheng Ning and the others saw that in the other party's queue, the soldier carrying a big flag with the character Huo directly broke away from the queue and rushed in their direction quickly.

Zheng Ning was a little surprised, but he was not nervous, because there was only one cavalry coming over.

This cavalryman rushed in front of Zheng Ning and them, and he didn't see how he moved, and the horse under his crotch stopped his steps accurately.

"Turning to the general, Leader Zheng, are you sure you are willing to pay the tariff?" When the cavalryman came, he asked in a loud voice with a blank face.

Most of the people in the caravan heard it, and everyone looked at each other, not knowing what the other party meant, but Zheng Ning said very simply: "Yes, we are willing to pay the customs duties." ”

Zheng Ning knows the term tariff, but this title was proposed by the other party, and Zheng Ning naturally will not be entangled with the other party because of a name.

"Well, since you are willing to pay the duties, then the general said, plant this flag in the center of your caravan." The cavalryman directly handed over the flagpole in his hand.

Zheng Ning and the others were stunned for a moment, but after hesitating, Zheng Ning immediately shook his head and signaled: "Lao Wu, go." ”

"Yes!" The man next to him, known as Lao Wu, immediately came over and took over the flagpole from the cavalryman.

After giving the flagpole to the other party, the soldier didn't talk nonsense, directly turned the horse's head, and quickly returned to the queue.

"Zheng Tou'er, what do they mean by this?" Lao Wu looked at the "Huo" banner in his hand with some astonishment and asked.

"I don't know, but listen to them first, and stick this flagpole on the cargo box over there." Zheng Ning shook his head and pointed to the cargo box next to him.

Lao Wu walked over and planted the big flag of Huo on their cargo box, whirring with the wind along with the flag of their caravan next to him.

Just when Lao Wu had just planted the flagpole, suddenly the ground trembled slightly, and there was a faint sound of horses' hooves in the distance.

A few seconds later, Lao Wu jumped up directly from the ground, and his face changed greatly: "Zheng Tou'er, it's a cavalry, at least a few hundred horses!" ”

Zheng Ning's face also changed instantly.

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