Murong Shun left with 5,000 cavalry, in addition to carrying him 10 days of dry food, as well as the strongholds of those horse thieves, Li Ke also gave him several places to replenish supplies, grain and grass, these places Li Ke would garrison personnel, and later it would develop into several small towns and become the main supply points on the southern route of the Silk Road.

"Go, let people prepare, with their progress, five days is enough time to exterminate these horse bandits, and they will be ready to act in five days." Looking at the back of Murong Shun and the people leaving, Li Ke said with a calm face.

"It's Your Highness!" Huo Gang behind him immediately saluted and prepared to decorate.

The horse bandit strongholds in Tuyuhun are not large horse bandits, and the largest wave may only have three or four hundred people, and with Murong Shun's strength, there will hardly be any casualties to exterminate these horse bandits.

In fact, Li Ke's guess was basically good, after Murong Shun led the team to leave, he studied the maps in his hands with several of his generals, and according to these maps, Murong Shun directly formulated the relevant cleaning plan.

It took a day first, and Murong Shun asked the 1,000 cavalrymen under his command who had learned the method of dragging the knife to hand over this method of battle to the others, saying that it was teaching, but in fact, it was a demonstration a few times, and after confirming that they all remembered and learned it, it would be over.

As for the rest, in the eyes of these people, how to learn to fight is a matter on the battlefield, and what is the use of merely teaching?

A few more fights will be.

After the study was completed, Murong Shun directly asked his generals to divide the five thousand cavalry into five teams according to one thousand each, and then directly swept over according to the target on the map.

According to His Highness's rules, no, it has nothing to do with His Highness, it is his Murong Shun's order! Except for the baby, not a single one is left! In fact, there are really few babies in these groups of horse bandits, as for whether they have other family strongholds or something, no one knows, even if they are, it doesn't matter, do they dare to seek revenge from the Tang army? Not to mention the Tang army, if they knew their identity as horse bandits, the surrounding tribes would dare to teach them how to behave.

These tribes are also deeply affected, among these strongholds that Murong Shun is currently exterminating, there are some women, and Murong Shun did not stay, the composition of these women is unknown, who knows what the disaster will be after staying? As for the murder, Murong Shun did not have any psychological burden.

However, what Murong Shun didn't know was that when he was cleaning up these horse bandit strongholds, Tuyuhun was close to Longyou Road, and in the Hanyang Pass area, a team of cavalry was arranging a place where the water and grass were not bad.

It was originally the seat of a small tribe, but that small tribe was relocated by His Highness.

"Hurry up, change their corpses into herdsmen's clothes, the corpses of those women, their clothes are torn and exposed."

"Here, the tent is chopped with a knife! Leave some horseshoe prints. ”

"Chief, the bodies of two horse thieves have been dragged over for a long time, and their faces have been dragged to pieces."

"What nonsense? Where is the corpse of a horse thief here? They are all herdsmen's corpses belonging to the Tang Dynasty! If it's broken, then you continue to drag the corpse around the camp twice to make a fun scene that drags people to death. ”

"Yes, yes, that's it, sprinkle more of those sheep's blood!"

"Has the route of the large caravan of several caravans been determined?"

"It's confirmed, our men have been following them from a distance, and in half a day, they will definitely be able to get here, because this is the only oasis and water replenishment place nearby."

"Good! After arranging, plant the flag of the Black Mountain thief, and we will withdraw. ”

"Yes!"

A group of cavalry finally planted a flag with black peaks painted on a white rag and a black letter written on it directly on the ground, then turned on their horses and quickly left the place in one direction, they would choose a hard ground Gobi Desert to ride around here, leaving no horseshoe footprints.

And the scene after a small tribe was sacked by the Black Mountain Bandits, the largest horse thief group in the Western Regions, appeared here.

It didn't take half a day, about four hours later, the four horseback scouts of this large caravan had already arrived here, and they saw the fluttering banner of the Black Mountain Thieves from a long distance, and when they saw that banner, the faces of the four scouts turned white in an instant.

But there are no cavalry in the vicinity, they hesitated, or quickly rode here, when they saw this extremely miserable, after being slaughtered, everyone was a little numb, all said that the Black Mountain thieves were cruel, today they are also the first time to see, the four scouts did not dare to hesitate, decisively rode back to report to the caravan.

When they returned to the caravan, the scout directly found several shopkeepers of the caravan and reported what they had seen to the shopkeeper.

"What should I do?" The faces of several shopkeepers are also a little pale, the Black Mountain Thieves are the largest group of horse thieves on the Silk Road, they have been murdering the Western Regions for decades, it is said that there are thousands of cavalry, no one dares to offend the Black Mountain Thieves, and those who offend the Black Mountain Thieves have been exterminated, and even the baby is not spared.

But as long as you don't mess with them, the caravan can't offend them, whatever they want, they will obediently give them it, and the other party generally doesn't do anything.

And these black mountain thieves are generally not excessive, as long as a small part of the property, they will not be wiped out, obviously they also know very well that they can't dry up and fish.

Therefore, the Black Mountain thief has always been synonymous with cruelty and rules in the Western Regions, and almost all caravans traveling to and from the Western Regions know it.

But they didn't expect the Black Mountain thieves to appear here either.

"Didn't you hear the garrison there where we walked before? His Royal Highness the King of Qin has spoken, but anyone who encounters any abnormalities in the territory of Xizhou must report to the garrison! This is now the territory of Datang! A shopkeeper in his forties said coldly.

"But...... If we report it, will we be retaliated against? The other shopkeeper said worriedly.

"What are you afraid of, the Black Mountain thieves know who reported it? Besides, you're afraid of the Black Mountain thieves, not His Royal Highness King Qin, right? A young shopkeeper added at this time.

"Uh...... Then let the scouts go to the army now and report to His Royal Highness the King of Qin. The shopkeeper decisively changed his tune.

At that moment, everyone had no objection, and the two scouts rushed directly to the direction they came from overnight.

However, what these caravans didn't know was that at the same time as they went to report, a piece of news had begun to spread to the entire Western Regions through the Yuelai Trading House, and in the Xizhou Territory, which had just become the territory of the Tang Dynasty, a small tribe composed of five or six herdsmen was slaughtered by a group of horse thieves!

As for the question of the timing of this news, Li Ke doesn't care at all, this is not more than a thousand years later, the time before and after the appearance of this kind of news cannot be verified in this world at all!

"Go, send someone to give an order to Murong Shun, I want all the Black Mountain thieves to die! No matter how big or small, don't leave a single one, cut off the head, pile up the Jingguan, just near the main official road near there! Order Xue Wanche, Qi Bi He Li to transfer 5,000 elite cavalry to guard the periphery, not to escape alone! Li Ke gave this order with a calm face.

"Yes!" The herald agreed, turned and went straight out of the tent, turned over and rode away!

When Li Ke gave the order, Li Jing was beside him, and even from the beginning to the end of this matter, Li Ke did not hide it from Li Jing, and Li Jing knew everything.

"Your Highness...... There are more than a thousand Black Mountain thieves with cavalry alone, I don't doubt that Murong Shun and them can't defeat them, that is, the station of these Black Mountain Thieves is actually in the Black Mountain Range dozens of miles west of Hanyang Pass, but there must be family members of Black Mountain thieves there, and there must be many women and babies in them. This is detrimental to your reputation, Your Highness. Li Jing said with some concern.

"Are they horse thieves?"

"Yes."

"Did they slaughter other tribes?"

"Yes."

"In this case, if he dares to slaughter the tribe of my Tang people today, then I, Li Ke, will do what he says, and those who dare to offend my Tang Tianwei will be killed! As for reputation, whatever they think of the people in the Western Regions, the butcher will be the butcher, as long as I, the people of the Tang Dynasty, approve of me. Li Ke's face was calm, as if the "slaughtered" tribe was not arranged by him.