Yang De immediately called people forward, and Li Shimin and Wei Chigong turned over their horses without hesitation, ready to meet the battle.

More than a dozen people who were still able to fight lined up in a position, and Li Shimin and Wei Chigong rode behind. Soon, shouts rang out, followed by the muffled sound of horses' hooves on the sand.

Everyone looked solemn, and did not dare to look at the sound of horses' hooves in the slightest.

Because the sky was dark, it was only when the distance was slightly closer that the faces of the people who came could be seen clearly by the moonlight.

There are more than 20 riders in total, wearing Tibetan costumes, combing Tibetan braided hair, and doing all the Tubo dress. There were several carriages behind him, and the things on them could not be seen very clearly due to the darkness of the night.

was ready for battle, but he didn't think that the other party would open his mouth, but it was the official language of the Tang Dynasty.

"We are the merchants of Datang!"

The first man turned over and dismounted, and after listening to him, the others dismounted with him. A few people walked up to the carriages and took a few steps forward.

"Dare to ask the military master, but my Tang Army in Anxi?"

Yang De didn't dare to be careless, and held the spear in his hand tightly.

The merchant didn't care if Yang De replied, his purpose was not to chat with people after all.

"This road is getting harder and harder." The merchant's tone was stunned, and after a moment of silence, he said to Yang De: "These two carts of grain and grass, please accept them!" ”

With that, the merchant bowed, bowed respectfully, and then turned on his horse.

"Take care!"

Yang De stuck the spear in his hand on the ground and saluted solemnly.

The merchant turned his horse's head and shouted at the sky: "The emperor still thinks that I am trapped in the world!" ”

After that, he beat the horses and left, leaving the two horses in place to pull the cart and snort.

Looking at Yang De's appearance, it seemed that he was already accustomed to this kind of thing, and he stood for a long time, as if he was sighing about the suffering of millions of people in several states.

After a long time, Yang Decai beckoned his soldiers to lead the carriage back to the camp.

With doubts, Li Shimin dismounted and tied the white hoof crow again, and walked over to ask Yang De.

Yang De sighed and said to Li Shimin: "Nearly half of the grain and grass in this cart were given by such righteous businessmen, in order to let my Anxi army kill a few more enemies. ”

Until he returned to the tent, Lao Li sighed.

As a result, when he walked into the tent, he saw Li Qing holding a mobile phone in his hand and smirking in the quilt, and he didn't even notice it when he walked in.

"Brother Xian, what are you doing?" Li Shimin leaned in curiously.

Li Qing swiped the phone down, pretended to be nothing, and said, "Chatting with people, it's nothing." ”

Li Shimin glanced at Li Qing suspiciously, can he be happy to chat like that?

He didn't go to find out, but leaned back on the bed, put his hands behind his head, and sighed: "Anxi righteous people, how many! It's the court that I'm sorry for them......"

"Then what else do you do? There are so many pits dug by the emperor in front, and Dezong Li Shi doesn't have you these two times. While editing the news, Li Qing said to Li Shimin intentionally or unintentionally: "Don't expect too much from your child, sometimes it's a good thing to learn to accept your child's mediocrity." ”

"Although this is the truth, sometimes I can't get over that hurdle in my heart." Li Shimin sighed: "Forget it, don't talk about this, but Ling, how is the matter between you and the third sister?" ”

Li Qing coughed twice and said as calmly as possible: "It's okay, that's it." ”

It's not that he doesn't want to tell the truth, it's just that he's embarrassed. It's so fragrant that it's too fast, and he's still a little concerned about face.

"Virtuous brother Teye's mother-in-law, mother-in-law, is not happy at all." Li Shimin said teasingly, and began to recall the eventful years of the past: "Can't you learn to be a brother?" I think when I saw your sister-in-law for the first time, I thought that she belonged to her in this life, and immediately asked Yang A-Niang to find someone to propose...... It's you, isn't it possible that you are still ready to let the third sister take the initiative as a girl? ”

Li Qing: ......

Why hasn't your sister taken the initiative yet? It almost made me realize what it means to "sit down and fight in the southeast".

He glanced down at his phone and couldn't help but giggle again.

Dog men and women in love are like this, even chatting with pink bubbles. Li Qing quite enjoys this feeling of being cared for, especially now that he is immune to Brother Li's dog food, which is really great.

After chatting with Li Xiuning for a while about the things he encountered in the past two days, he fell asleep. I don't know how long later, he suddenly felt someone shaking him around him, mixed with loud shouts of warning from outside the tent.

"Brother Xian, wake up, there are horse thieves!"

Li Shimin saw that Li was sober, and after instructing him to stay in the tent, he strode out of the tent with a bow and arrow.

Li Qing immediately turned over, put on his shoes, and poked out of the tent with a long knife.

Looking at the moonlight, the horse thieves shouted in an incomprehensible language, and gathered around them in all directions.

Fortunately, there were only a few on horseback, and the rest were infantrymen, carrying a wide variety of weapons, from long knives to hammers.

After all, the horse thieves were no match for the regular army, and with the help of Li Shimin and Wei Chigong, there were not even casualties. As soon as several of the bandit leaders on horseback died, the rest of the bandits immediately scattered.

The bandits' guts are on the one hand, and on the other hand, the way Wei Chigong kills people is too scary, one of the horse bandit leaders was picked up to the sky by Yu Chigong and his horses, and he fell to the ground without knowing whether he was alive or dead. There was such a vivid example of Zhuyu in front of him, and the horse bandits shouted and ran away without a trace.

One of them panicked and rushed to Li Qing, only to have Li Qing slash him to the ground with a knife.

The feeling of killing people was amazing, and Li Qing thought that he would be excited by the adrenaline rush, or his heart would beat violently, or he would tremble. However, he was surprised to find that he was calm, as if he had just hacked a fly.

Maybe I really ate this bowl of rice? Li Qing couldn't help but have some self-doubt.

"Brother Xian has such skills?" Li Shimin walked over with a smile and patted Li Qing's shoulder.

Since there were no casualties, the atmosphere in the camp was not bad, and the veterans even talked and laughed together, as if they had just experienced not an enemy attack, but listened to the troupe sing a big show.

"It's easy to kill." Li Qing said, dragging the corpse and throwing it away.

"Qin ...... It turned out to be the first time to kill someone? Wei Chigong looked at Li Qing in surprise, he thought that Li Qing was an immortal, and if there was no one thousand, no matter how many human lives in his hands, there must be eight hundred.

However, what he didn't expect was that Li Qing didn't talk about people, and he hadn't even killed a few mosquitoes.

Those who use mosquito coils do not count.

"What's the matter, isn't the posture right?" Li Qing even had the heart to tell a joke, and he really didn't have a burden or something.

"No, it's just a bit of a surprise." Wei Chigong laughed.

"If you have killed someone, you can be considered a real man." Li Shimin looked at Li Qing with satisfaction and reached out to pat him on the shoulder.

Li Qing rolled his eyes, what kind of theory are you?

But that's right, in this kind of troubled times in ancient times, the old men didn't have a few lives on their hands, and they were embarrassed to say hello when they went out.

After a fierce battle, I didn't feel sleepy. Li Qing glanced at his watch, it was almost five o'clock.

Yang De ordered to rest for a while, and then set off after eating the morning cooking.

Li Qing sat in the tent, choking on a cake that was as hard as an armor-piercing baguette, and holding a mobile phone in the other hand, leaving a message for Li Xiuning about what had just happened.

also boasted to Li Xiuning that he had killed someone with a knife just now.

"How can you choke, good brother." Li Shimin walked in with two bowls and put one in front of Li Qing, "Eat the bubble broth again, otherwise this cheek raiser will be tired sooner or later." ”

This meat is still from yesterday's dead horse, and it was originally intended to be left for the sick number, but I never expected that two dead horses were added today.

The desert was overheated, and the meat couldn't be put away, so Yang De simply decided to divide all the meat and destroy it on the spot.

Horse meat is really hard to eat, but Li Qing felt that this meat was unpalatable and hungry for a night last night, and now his eyes are glowing green.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if he is given a piece of raw horse meat now, he may be able to speak directly.

"Don't worry, Brother Xian, I cooked the broth this time." Li Shimin sat on the ground and said with a smile: "This is still the time when I ran thousands of miles to attack the Wujiao Pass and learned from the Huotou Army. ”

Since it is Li Shimin's craft, Li Qing really has to give a face.

No matter how bad Brother Li's skills are, he has to be stronger than Yang De, right?

Probably so......

"I'm almost dislocated on my cheeks." He used a knife to cut the hard cakes into small pieces and soak them in the broth.

When the cake was completely soft, Li Qing started impatiently. When you're hungry, this broth isn't too unpalatable.

"It's so fishy......" Li Qing disgusted while eating.

Can it not be fishy? The horse was directly shot to death by the Tibetan cavalry, and there was not even blood.

"Some of them are good to eat, but in the most bitter days, I even ate rats and cowhides for my brother." Li Shimin swallowed the horse meat steamed bun in the bowl, "I couldn't ask for this back then." ”

This bowl of broth, without any seasoning, is basically boiled in plain water. Li Qing ate a bowl and felt that his whole brain was about to explode.

After a little bit of food in my stomach, I began to dislike this fishy broth.

"Another bowl?" Li Shimin asked with a smile.

"Okay, okay." Li Qing waved his hand, and suddenly changed his words when he realized that something was wrong: "I was frozen by this broth, one bowl is enough, and another bowl is afraid that half a life will be gone, count the ball." ”

"Hahahaha......" Li Shimin smiled and pointed at Li Qing.

It's not that Li Qing doesn't want to eat something good, but this kind of environment is not good after all, and besides, he also wants to temper his will - how much he takes off his pants and farts.

After eating and drinking, they rested until dawn, and the group once again embarked on the road to Qiuzi City.

In this year, the Western Regions were not completely covered by yellow sand as in later generations, but there were also many barren beaches and grasslands without desertification. But speaking of which, this barren beach is not as good as sand, at least the sand is soft and fluttering, not as awkward as the barren beach.

If we really have to wait for the desertification of the Western Regions, we will have to wait until the global climate cools down in a few hundred years.

After the climate became colder, Tibet gradually declined, and even completely withdrew from the stage of regional hegemony.

Every time you pass through an oasis, you stop to resupply your water. In these years, I have not had the habit of drinking boiled water, and I basically drink it directly after taking water, which is clean and hygienic.

Li Qing couldn't drink raw water at all, and whenever he stopped to bury the pot to make food, he had to boil the water before drinking, which seemed so incompatible with the whole team.

Not to mention these Anxi troops, even Li Shimin, the emperor, is a little unable to understand Li Qing's habits.

How can Li Qingneng say that there are germs in this water? Who will believe it?

If you really have to wait until the whole people develop the habit of drinking hot water, you still have to develop it in the fifties of the last century in order to fight against mildewy bacteriological warfare.

There are some habits that are difficult to change once they are formed, such as this habit of drinking hot water.

During the day, I met several groups of merchants, and like the merchants last night, some came to donate grain and grass, some came to donate herbs, and even some came directly to deliver weapons and bows and arrows.

Yang De did not refuse the kindness of the merchants, and after thanking them, he watched them beat their horses and leave.

In the evening, everyone was about to bury the pot to make rice, but suddenly noticed that something was wrong, and the smoke was faintly visible in the distance.

"Check it out." Yang De turned around and said to Li Erhan.

Li Erhan was ordered to go, he turned over the hill in front of him, looked down, and immediately came back to report the situation.

"The team is right, there is a village in front, and the Tubo people are burning and looting in the village!"

"Damn, Tubo cub!" Yang De gritted his teeth and scolded. When he looked around, he found that there were only a dozen or so soldiers who could fight with him.

"How many of them are there?" Li Shimin suddenly asked.

"It has become a common practice to loot in Tibet, and hundreds of people will be dispatched every time." Yang De spat angrily, "Every time I rob, all the old and weak in the village are killed, and Ding Zhuangla goes to be a slave to sell!" ”

As he spoke, Yang De suddenly turned to Li Shimin and said with his hands crossed: "Li Zhuangshi." ”

"I, the brother who wrote about the serious wounded, and these grains and grass supplies, I will entrust them to you." Yang De said in a deep voice: "When you arrive in Qiuzi City, the county king will be grateful!" ”

"What are you?" Li Shimin suddenly had a bad premonition.

"As a soldier of the Tang Dynasty, I must not sit idly by and watch the suffering of my father and fellow villagers." Yang De said, putting on his helmet.

"But there are only a dozen of you ......," Li Shimin frowned.

Yang De looked back at his soldiers: "Brothers, there are only more than ten of us, and there are hundreds of Tubo dogs on the opposite side, tell me, are you afraid?" ”

"I'm afraid of him!" Li Erhan spat out, "Anxi's father is willing to risk his life to help my Anxi army, and I naturally can't be a soft egg!" They are the Lord of Yama, and Lao Tzu has to pull a few beards from him! ”

"Good!" Yang De praised it, turned to Li Shimin and said, "Li Zhuangshi, please!" ”

"But aren't you going to die?" Wei Chigong asked incomprehensibly.

"Before you die, you can also buy time for your parents and fellow villagers to escape, it's worth it!" Yang De spat viciously!

"That's right! It's worth it! Others responded.

(End of chapter)