As soon as Mo Fengchu's feet touched the ground, a voice sounded from the caravan at the same time: "Don't worry, I'll take care of the rest!" ”

Lao Mo shook when he heard this, and hurriedly shouted: "Brothers, lie down!" As he spoke, he took the lead and threw himself on the ground with his head in his hands.

The rest of the guys also did the same, and quickly lay down with their backs to the sand and soil, and their movements were crisp and neat, as if they had practiced countless times.

This sudden and strange scene suddenly made the black-robed woman and her companions wonder, not knowing what was happening in front of them.

However, in an instant, they saw the clue: only half of the caravan had fallen to the ground, and a dozen or so guys were still standing still.

The woman in the black robe felt that the situation was wrong: "You ......"

Who knows, before she could finish speaking, a young man rushed forward, and at the same time shouted: "Move! ”

In an instant, the people standing showed their crossbows and short knives hidden in their clothes, and pounced like mad at the robbers with confused faces.

Long live our emperor!

The charging battle call of the Zhenjiang Protectorate suddenly shouted out from the mouths of those people, and instantly resounded throughout the entire wasteland.

The robbers, who were originally fierce and fierce, were completely stunned at this time.

A powerful bolt of crossbow arrows first overturned those with longbows, and then, like mad tigers, the shortsword men rushed to the other robbers and stabbed them wildly, leaving no room for them.

For a while, the screams came and went, and the bright red blood rain burst out!

The young guy who gave the order before was none other than Li Jiangyao, the junior colonel of the Pegasus Scout Battalion. At this moment, he didn't pay attention to the fierce battle behind him, stared at the black-robed woman, and flew away.

The woman's reaction was also extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, she pulled out the soft whip on her waist, like a poisonous snake, and went straight to Li Jiangyao's eyes.

Almost at the same time, Li Jiangyao seemed to be playing a trick, the long knife behind his back had already reached his hand, and he shook out a cloud of knife light against the soft whip.

The blade rises, and the stars fall.

This is the famous Chinese and foreign martial arts mastery - Star Falling Knife Technique!

I only heard a bang, and the light of the knife collided with the whip head. The black-robed woman trembled by the force of the backshock, and couldn't help but retreat half a step back, while Li Jiangyao sped up and came to her near in a blink of an eye.

Prancing Horse Milky Way, meteors flying.

Li Jiangyao's body was as fast as a meteor, and the blade was like a lightning flint, flying up and down around the black-robed woman without stopping.

Fortunately, the soft whip in the woman's hand was not extraordinary, and she danced desperately, so as not to be slashed by the starfall knife.

However, Rao was like this, her robe was still injured by Ling Yan's sword qi, and it gradually became tattered.

If she continues to fight like this, it won't take a moment to make the black-robed woman die under Li Jiangyao's knife.

Seeing that the situation was getting worse and worse, and her subordinates were about to be strangled by those mysterious soldiers, the woman turned her heart sideways, deliberately exposed a flaw, and Li Jiangyao used the tip of a knife to open the hood veil.

Unexpectedly, her appearance was beautiful, and when she showed her true face at first glance, Li Jiangyao couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

Taking advantage of this momentary opportunity, the black-robed woman shook her hand and threw out three cigarette bombs, then turned around and retreated, urging all her internal force to rush to the west.

Du Jian rushed to Li Jiangyao with a knife: "Boss, chase after it!" ”

Li Jiangyao raised his hand to stop him: "Forget it, with her light skills, she can't ride a horse in a short time." There is a town not far ahead, once you blend in with the crowd, where to find her? ”

Du Jian nodded: "This little girl's kung fu is really good." Li Tou'er, do you see her appearance clearly? Also Turkic? ”

Li Jiangyao bowed slightly, turned around and looked at the back: "!" All dead?! ”

Du Jian hehe: "There's no way, these Turkic cubs are very hard in their hands, and if the brothers don't use all their strength, they can't suppress them at all." There were still three or four seriously injured people who didn't die just now, but they all quietly committed suicide while we weren't paying attention. ”

Li Jiangyao frowned when he heard this, feeling that the reaction of these Turks was really a little unusual, he walked quickly to a corpse and picked open his clothes with the tip of his knife.

"This guy has tattoos, go, see the others!"

Du Jian agreed and beckoned his subordinates to check one by one. The effort was not great, and he ran back excitedly: "Boss, hey! All wolf head tattoos! ”

Li Jiangyao was a little curious: "It seems that this is a sign of unification, but what does it mean?" ”

Mo Fengchu, who was standing next to him at this time, waiting to thank him for saving his life, interjected: "Lord Li, these are Turkic wolf guards. ”

"Wolf Guard?" When Li Jiangyao was studying in the imperial capital Yanwutang, he had also heard this name, and knew that it was the personal guard of the patriarch of the blood wolf clan.

He pondered for a moment and asked, "Didn't the Blood Wolf Clan abdicate?" I remember that the king of the Turks should be the Golden Clan, right? How did these wolf guards get here? ”

Mo Fengchu: "My lord, the old man knows a little about this. Two years ago, the Blood Wolf Clan broke out in the Wolf Guard Rebellion under internal and external troubles, and they killed Shandu Yimer, and supported Shandu Han to inherit the position of patriarch. Later, Shandu Han judged the situation, declared his allegiance to Ashina Zhijin, gave up the throne of the Great Khan, and then led his clansmen to leave the Flame Maple Forest City and return to the ancestral homeland. ”

Old Mork paused, and then said, "As far as I know, this wolf guard also followed the young master at that time. ”

"Where is the ancestral homeland of the Blood Wolf Clan?"

"North of the Yakobin Heath, the land of thousand-year-old permafrost." Mo Fengchu replied: "That ghost place, far away, separated from the Western Frontier by the entire Turkic Empire, should not appear here." ”

Li Jiangyao nodded and didn't say anything more. There must be some secrets in this that are not known to Sheng Tang, and since the information is asymmetrical, it is useless to guess.

He put away the Starfall Knife again, and Wen Yan comforted Mo Fengchu a few words, telling them to be careful on the road, try to stay away from the border between Western Xinjiang and the Turks, and make a detour from the Tatar city to Persia.

Mo Fengchu was quite grateful, and solemnly thanked the Pegasus Scout Camp for his help. When he learned that the young chief in front of him was actually the sworn brother of his young master Murong Xue, he couldn't help but add a little bit of warm friendship.

Ignoring the polite refusal of Li Jiangyao and others, he insisted on leaving one hundred taels of gold and two boxes of high-quality silk for the scouts, and then continued to set off according to others.

After sending away Rong Baozhai's caravan, Li Jiangyao ordered his subordinates to bring all the corpses of the wolf guards, and the whole team quickly returned to the garrison of the Pegasus scout camp - Yamon City, and reported the enemy situation to Zeng Xian, the scout commander.

After listening to Li Jiangyao's report, Zeng Xian was also keenly aware that there was a big mystery behind this matter, so he immediately decided to release the letter crow and report the whole story of the extermination of the Turkic wolf guard and the five caravan murders to the Zhenjiang Protectorate in Anxi.

However, what Zeng Xian and Li Jiangyao did not expect was that the governors of the Metropolitan Protectorate did not pay enough attention to their report.

Although Zhang Sanpi, the deputy protector, proposed that border patrols should be strengthened to ensure that the Shengtang caravan would not be attacked again, he and the other two deputy protectors, Cao Yongji and Guan Zhan, both thought that the Turkic wolf guards were just a coincidence and not worth making a fuss about.

In such an occasional incident, not only is there no need to send people to the Turkic territory to carry out investigations, but there is no need to solemnly report the matter to the imperial capital.

The ghost desert in Western Xinjiang has been subsiding for a full twenty years, and the Turkic Empire is also a mess, and everyone is living quietly and peacefully, isn't it good?

The Pegasus Scout Battalion received an official reply from the high-level Protectorate of Zhenjiang Prefecture, and temporarily put aside the matter of the Turkic blood guard. And Li Jiangyao was named and commended by the Metropolitan Protectorate for his meritorious work in capturing thieves, especially saving Rong Bao Zhai's silk goods worth three million taels of silver and the lives of more than a dozen guys.

Calculating the time, he had only been in the Pegasus Scout Camp for only half a year, and in the blink of an eye, he was promoted to the rank of captain, which really made his comrades admire and admire.

Of course, behind this rapid promotion, Murong Xue and Xu Youchang are also indispensable for their contributions.

You must know that after Mo Fengchu's caravan left Xijiang safely, Rong Baozhai followed the instructions of the young master, and immediately secretly sent 10,000 taels of snowflake silver to each of the three deputy guards in the name of thanksgiving, while Xu Youchang was talking in front of Zhang Sanpi all day long, how Li Jiangyao was so meritorious and how hard he was.

With the help of these two good brothers, it is difficult for Li Jiangyao not to be promoted.

Time flies, time flies, and more than half a year has passed in a flash. During this period of time, Li Jiangyao still did everything as usual, except for leading troops to patrol the border and probe the enemy's situation every day, when he was free, he would find an excuse to sneak into the scout camp and rummage for information on Tieshi Mountain.

However, to his disappointment, it had been nearly a year of hard work, and after searching through all the information, he had never seen a single word about Ironstone Mountain.

Li Jiangyao once wondered if the documents of Guozijian were wrong, and those records about the ascension of the first saint to another world may be just strange talk about good deeds and nonsense.

As a result, his hope of returning to the modern world is becoming more and more slim.

The calm and monotonous life on the border silently polishes Li Jiangyao's heart. Occasionally, he would miss Xu Youchang and Murong Xue, reminiscing about the ridiculously happy good times when the three of them were in the imperial capital.

On this day, Li Jiangyao suddenly received a letter from two good brothers at the same time.

I don't know if it was a coincidence, or if the two of them had discussed it, Xu Youchang and Murong Xue were actually transferred out of the Zhenjiang Metropolitan Protectorate.

According to Xu Youchang, he left the Zhenjiang Army because his mother missed him. Because she felt sorry for her son's crime in Western Xinjiang, his mother cried and made trouble by pulling his father's beard all day long, saying that if she didn't get the child back, no one would want to live a good life. Xu Youchang's father was so helpless that he had to beg Old Man Xu, and through the relationship of the Ministry of War, he transferred Xu Youchang to serve in the Xuanjia Legion.

Li Jiangyao couldn't help but laugh as he held the letter. When he was in the imperial capital, he had learned how powerful Mrs. Xu was, and that guy made a fuss, and even Xu Changyou and his grandfather wanted to go out and hide for a few days.

Therefore, for the sake of family harmony, even if Xu Changyou is not happy, he must hurry back to comfort his mother.

As for Murong Xue's situation, it is not as simple as Lao Xu. Regarding the reason for the sudden transfer from the Metropolitan Protectorate, Murong Xue was ambiguous in her letter, and she felt quite secretive. He only said that it was the family that managed to dredge the joints in the palace, paving the way for his future, and let him take a false position in the tiger and leopard ride, and actually went to the prince's side as an errand.

Regarding this matter, Li Jiangyao was happy for Murong Xue from the bottom of his heart. Following the crown prince of Shengtang, is that a joke? In the coming day, the new emperor will ascend the throne, and Xiao Murong will have a rhythm of worshipping the prime minister.

However, before Li Jiangyao could finish his happiness, Murong Xue's words at the end of the letter made him a little uneasy.

Murong Xue mentioned one thing very vaguely at the end of the letter: because his family often had business contacts in the Western Continent, he arranged a lot of rumors and eyeliner. According to some unconfirmed information, something important is currently happening in the Turkic Empire, and it may soon affect the ghost desert of the western frontier.

Murong Xue reminded Li Jiangyao that although he was in the army and could not help himself, he should still think about everything in the long run, and remember not to be impulsive and put himself in danger.

This earnest exhortation, which was both serious and incomprehensible, Li Jiangyao looked at it and wanted to hit someone: Your sister, will you die if you speak more clearly?

Even if you want me to guard against danger, you have to tell me what the danger is!

However, what he didn't expect was that the puzzle left by Murong Xue would soon have an answer.

An answer that surprised the Scout Battalion, the Metropolitan Protectorate, and the Holy Tang Imperial Court:

The Turkic army is about to attack the western frontier.