Song Hu listened to Ye Feng's words, and the expression on his face obviously hesitated.

Since Brother Lan was the leader of the Shazhou Wei who pretended to be horse bandits and wanted to rob and kill Ye Feng and his party, now Ye Feng wanted to meet him alone, and he couldn't help but worry about Ye Feng's safety.

However, Song Hu looked at the resolute expression on Ye Feng's face, as well as the confident gaze in his eyes, and expected that with Ye Feng's cleverness, since he asked for this, he must have his own reasons.

So Song Hu waved his hand, and a cavalryman behind him immediately rushed over, jumped off the horse, and handed the reins in his hand to Ye Feng's hand.

Ye Feng smiled at Song Hu to show his gratitude, and then turned over and stepped onto the horse, urging the horse forward, all the way to the front of the horse bandit camp.

Seeing that Ye Feng came alone, the leader of the horse bandits also came out in line and greeted him.

Ye Feng rode on horseback, smiled at the leader of the horse bandits, and said, "I know that you are Brother Lan, and now you have to cover your face to hide your identity, is there any point?"

When the leader of the horse bandits heard his words, his whole body was shocked, he looked at Ye Feng with surprised eyes, was silent for a long time, and finally reached out and took off the black scarf covering his face.

This person is indeed the eldest son of the commander of Shazhou Wei, Brother Lan!

Song Hu, the little marquis who was staring at the situation here from outside the encirclement, couldn't help but snort lightly at this time, and said angrily: "Sure enough, it's Brother Nan!"

Brother Lan seemed to be a little confused, and asked Ye Feng, "How did you know my identity?"

At this moment, his identity was revealed, and his voice no longer had to deliberately pretend to be hoarse and low, but returned to normal.

Ye Feng smiled indifferently and explained: "I have seen the short knife on your waist at the banquet that night in Dunhuang, and I am very impressed. And yesterday, when my brother Zhang Fatzi attacked you, you pulled out a short knife, and I happened to recognize it. ”

Brother Lan nodded, I see.

He really didn't expect it.

When Zhang Fatzi attacked him yesterday, the sand slope he was standing on was actually a long distance away from the valley mouth where Ye Feng was, and when he drew his knife, he was still recognized by Ye Feng at a glance at that moment of lightning.

He couldn't help but praise from the bottom of his heart: "Good eyesight!"

Immediately, he asked again: "Ye Gongzi, since you have won the victory at this moment, but you came alone, you must have something to say to me?"

Ye Feng nodded and said, "When I first arrived here yesterday, it was you who came to meet me by name, but now, I want to talk to you alone. ”

Brother Lan nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay!"

He believed in Ye Feng's character, not to mention, in such a situation of being besieged by heavy troops, he had no other choice.

So the two of them drove straight to a small sandy slope outside the encirclement.

Brother Lan grabbed the reins of the horse, his face no longer had the cold and arrogant look of rejection thousands of miles away at the beginning, but he did not look depressed, but said calmly: "Ye Gongzi wants to know something, but it doesn't hurt to ask." ”

Ye Feng raised his head, stared at Brother Lan's eyes, and asked in a deep voice: "We have never known anything about our lives, it is definitely not your or your father's idea to rob and kill us by pretending to be horse bandits like this, who is the person behind the scenes?"

Brother Lan looked at Ye Feng, his eyes were obviously a little surprised, and he seemed to be very surprised that Ye Feng could guess the inner feelings.

After a while, he sighed and said: "Ye Gongzi's intelligence is really unparalleled in the world, yes, the reason why my father and I arranged for the Shazhou guard soldiers under my command to pretend to be desert horse bandits and rob and kill you is actually just to repay your kindness." ”

Ye Feng frowned: "Repay the favor, whose kindness?"

Brother Lan knew that since the matter had come to this point, there was nothing to hide, so he simply confessed it and said: "My father was originally a Mongolian nobleman in the Northern Yuan Dynasty, but the name of the Northern Yuan Dynasty is one, in fact, the tribes are independent of each other, scattered sand, attacking and plundering each other, extremely chaotic. ”

"Our tribe is relatively weak, especially between the most powerful Tatars and Warats in the steppe, and is often humiliated and plundered by their two tribes, and is coerced by their two tribes, involved in the war between them, and becomes their pawns in the front charge. ”

"In order to prevent their tribe from being oppressed and coerced by them, and even to become a victim of war between them, my father and the leader of another neighboring tribe decided to merge the two tribes and migrate westward to escape the control and oppression of the Tatars and Warats. ”

Feng nodded: "So you came to Dunhuang?"

Brother Lan smiled bitterly, and then said, "Where is it so easy? When the Tatars and Warat learned that we were moving west, they thought we were betraying, so they both sent their troops to hunt us down all the way. ”

"In order to escape their pursuit, in desperation, our tribe panicked and had to flee into the desert Gobi. We were not familiar with the desert, and we got lost and trapped in the desert. ”

"Just when we were running out of water and food, and we couldn't get out of this endless desert, thinking that we were going to die, a group of people suddenly appeared in front of us!"

Ye Feng faintly felt that the people mentioned by Brother Mu must be related to today's events, so he asked, "Who are they?"

Brother Lan shook his head and said, "I don't know, there are more than ten or twenty of them, all of them are wearing black cloaks, and their clothes are embroidered with the pattern of a flying eagle. It was they who, in our most critical moments, gave us water and food, and saved the lives of our entire people. ”

Then they led us out of the desert and took us to the ancient town of Dunhuang in Shazhou. Under their guidance, my father and the chief of the purchase jointly wrote to the Ming court to beg for surrender, expressing their willingness to leave the Northern Yuan Dynasty and obey the orders of the Ming court. ”

"Unexpectedly, the imperial court quickly issued a decree, canonizing us as Shazhou Wei on the spot, my father and the head of the purchase are both commanders, subordinate to the Suzhou Wei Station, and allow our tribe to stay in the town to guard the border of Shazhou. ”

"We finally have a justifiable imperial court establishment and our own territory, so we are naturally overjoyed. At this time, those people with flying eagles embroidered on their clothes appeared, and they taught us basic farming techniques, so that we could really settle down in Shazhou for a long time. ”

Ye Feng nodded and said, "So, they are kind to your clan. ”

Brother Lan said: "Yes, if it weren't for them, we would have been trapped in the desert a long time ago, without them, there would be no later Shazhou Wei, and there would be no peace and contentment of our tribe over the years, they have the grace of reinvention for us!"

Ye Feng frowned and asked, "So, it was they who let you rob us?"

Brother Lan sighed and nodded, "A few days ago, my father received a letter from His Royal Highness King Su of Lanzhou City, saying that Ye Gongzi and your party were about to pass through Dunhuang and asked us to take care of them. ”

"When we first arrived in Shazhou, we had no money and no food, but His Royal Highness King Su, who was still in Suzhou at that time, often helped us and provided us with farming tools and seeds free of charge, so that we could survive the initial difficult time. ”

"His Royal Highness King Su is also kind to us, and naturally we will not dare to neglect what he has entrusted us. At this time, I received a letter from my boss, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Northwest Frontier Guards, Song Hu, who also asked us to ensure the safety of Ye Gongzi. ”

"Even His Royal Highness King Su and Song Xiaohou attach so much importance to Ye Gongzi, we naturally don't dare to be sloppy in the slightest, but at this moment, things have changed, and those people with flying eagles embroidered on their clothes have appeared again!"

"We have been looking for them all these years and repaying their kindness. But since then, it was as if they had vanished from the world, vanished, and were never heard from again. Unexpectedly, on the night I received the letter, I suddenly appeared in front of my father again. ”

Ye Feng didn't speak at this time, he already had a premonition in his heart, and he had basically guessed the intention of this group of mysterious people to come when they were looking for sleep.

Sure enough, I only heard Brother Lan continue: "That night, a man wearing a black cloak and embroidering a flying eagle on his clothes suddenly appeared in front of my father, and asked my father to repay the grace of his life that year, and the condition of repayment is to get rid of Ye Gongzi and your group!"

Ye Feng snorted coldly and asked, "Why did he get rid of us?"

Brother Lan shook his head and said, "As for the reason, he didn't say it, and he didn't let us ask more." My father and the chief of the house had made a solemn oath to repay the favor, but we did not disobey whatever they commanded. Now that the chief of the house has died, my father must not break his oath and bring shame on the deceased. So, in desperation, my father had no choice but to agree. ”

"But if you kill Ye Gongzi and your party according to what he said, you will undoubtedly live up to the trust of His Royal Highness King Su, who is also kind to us, and will offend Song Xiaohou who has a heavy army. ”

"Plus Ye Gongzi, you are either descendants of high-ranking officials in the court, or you are the leading wealthy knights in the rivers and lakes, once you are here

If something happens, I'm afraid it will bring endless disasters to our tribe. My father was in a dilemma. ”

So, when my father was in a dilemma, I came up with a plan. I pretended to escort you out of the country, but in fact, I secretly mobilized the elite of Shazhou Wei, pretended to be desert horse bandits, captured you alive, and then handed you over to Engong to settle down on his own. ”

"In this way, not only have you repaid the kindness of the Engong back then, but your life and death are naturally irresponsible to us, so it will not be considered a violation of the trust of His Royal Highness King Su and the Marquis of Song, and it will not bring disaster to my clan. ”

It was only then that Ye Feng finally understood why in the attack the day before, these Shazhou guard sergeants dressed as horse bandits would show mercy to themselves and a few people around them.

It turned out that they were afraid that they would injure the lives of these people and bring disaster to the whole clan, so they were bent on capturing them alive.

He couldn't help but sneer and said, "It's a good strategy!"

Brother Lan's face seemed to be a little ashamed, and he sighed and said: "Originally, I thought that you were only more than ten people, neither soldiers nor battlefield experience, and you should be able to easily capture them, but I didn't expect that in the end I still underestimated you." ”

"When I chose to escort the sergeants, I deliberately chose some older bearded soldiers, who looked old and weak, but in fact they were experienced veterans. And the hundreds of cavalrymen who secretly followed behind and dressed as horse bandits were all the elite of the Shazhou guard. ”

"I didn't expect you to change your route and retreat to the Devil's City to take advantage of the location to defend it, so that we attacked for a whole day yesterday, losing more than 100 people, and we couldn't take you down, which really surprised me. ”

"And early this morning, Song Xiaohou suddenly led so many Suzhou cavalry to arrive, causing my plan to fail, which was really much beyond my expectations. ”

"There's only one thing I don't understand," Brother Lan looked at Ye Feng with a puzzled face, "When and where were you, and how did you notify Song Xiaohou Ye to lead the army to come to the rescue?"

Ye Feng did not answer.

Brother Lan couldn't figure it out, but he seemed to understand something in his heart.

Why did he send a message for help to the sleepy flying pigeon, and in the end it inexplicably fell into the hands of Song Hu, the little marquis who was far away in Ganzhou?

All this can only be because of one person, sleepiness will come!

Xie Zhenliang once mentioned that the pigeon ankle ring that night was strangely engraved with the word "Gan", which was because this carrier pigeon was not a carrier pigeon in the Shazhou Guard at all, but a Ganzhou guard!

This carrier pigeon will not fly back to Dunhuang after being released, but will fly directly to Ganzhou to deliver the letter!

This should have been a plan that had been thought of for a long time.

He must have already figured out that robbing and killing Ye Feng and his party would definitely bring great disasters to himself and even his clan, but he was forced to be coerced by a mysterious person wearing a black cloak because of his oath back then, and in desperation, he came up with this plan.

He pretended to give Ye Feng their carrier pigeons, so that he could report to himself in a critical situation, but in fact, he secretly changed the carrier pigeons to the carrier pigeons in the Ganzhou army, and once they were released, they would fly back to Ganzhou directly for help.

The little marquis Song Hu is in Ganzhou.

Since the little marquis values Ye Feng and them so much, once he receives the news, he will inevitably lead the army to rescue them in the starry night.

The only thing that took the risk was whether Ye Feng and they could hold out until the reinforcements came, the so-called plan is in the people, and the success is in the sky, in desperation, he can only gamble.

It seems that he won the bet.

As long as Ye Feng and the others don't die, there will be no trouble with his clan, and he can be regarded as having an explanation for the mysterious man in the black cloak.

What made Ye Feng feel extremely shocked at this moment was that this plan that was about to come from sleepiness had been hidden from his son Brother Lan from beginning to end!

He must have known that once Song Xiaohou Ye led the army to help, he would inevitably collide with the group of Shazhou guard sergeants dressed as desert horse bandits led by Brother Lan.

Once the two sides fought, how could these few hundred Shazhou guard sergeants be able to defeat the well-equipped and numerous reinforcements? When the time comes, not only these hundreds of sergeants, but I am afraid that even the leading Brother Lan will be in danger of his life.

Could it be that he was ready from the beginning, in order to save himself, in order to protect the whole clan, he not only had to sacrifice these hundreds of lives, but even his own son?

Ye Feng looked up at Brother Mu who looked puzzled, and remembered the kind and kind smile that came from sleepiness in his mind, and suddenly felt a chill from the bottom of his heart!