Starting from the northern frontier of Great Xia, crossing the five hundred miles of desert Hanhai, you will arrive at the territory of Nanyuan Ranger. It's just that this year's blizzard has not happened for a thousand years, and it has completely turned the entire Northern Wilderness into a pure snow resort. Between heaven and earth, in addition to snow or snow, there is naturally no scenery of cattle and sheep on the Nanyuan grassland in the past.

The eldest prince took off and took the remnants of his remaining more than 40,000 southern expeditionary grain cavalry, and hurried on such a snowstormed wasteland. It's just that his face is even more gloomy than the hazy sky at the moment - the Southern Expeditionary Grain Rider lost nearly 10,000 people in his hands, and because of his greed, he was almost dragged to death in the northern part of Great Xia by Chang Po's Chang Sheng's army.

Although he was able to escape in the end, the grain and grass that had been captured before, as well as the men and girls of Great Xia, were also killed, wounded, fled, and exhausted in the final battle. This makes Totoku want to go back to Great Xia again, and fight to the death with Chang Poyu.

In order to keep the 100 virgins he had captured, the White Bone Master persuaded Tokh to return north as soon as possible and rectify the rear on the grounds that it was not appropriate to over-consume the strength in his hands.

And Iron Arrow Tucker and several other captains, concerned about the snow disaster in the Northern Wilderness, strongly persuaded Tokhtar to return north as soon as possible with some remaining rations, so as not to suffer from unwarranted natural disasters for those women and children in the family.

Such a choice made the always fiery Toktoku feel helpless, but he had to return to his hometown according to everyone's wishes.

However, the detachment brigade carried a lot of baggage, and after entering the snow, the movement became even slower, and the eldest prince was inevitably upset when he saw the men and horses who had no fighting spirit and kept falling, and from time to time he would lash his retinue to vent his anger.

Tucker, however, had his own worries. He is not only the best archer in Hasuyari, but also the eyeliner favored by the grassland lord Liang Mu Ha, Liang Mu Ha this time against public opinion, handed over almost all the elite to the eldest prince to get off, in addition to being mad because of the madness of the nest other Taiwan, there is another reason, that is, with Tucker here, Liang Mu Ha feels that he has the bottom in his heart.

No one knows that this grassland archer who seems to be obsessed with archery is actually Liang Muha's eyeliner. Even the White Bone Master, who had always been cautious, did not pay special attention to the captain of the guard, who claimed to be the eldest prince.

However, Tucker, through his role as the chief of the guard, noticed this strange white bone master from the beginning. Because this so-called guru relied on witchcraft in front of the eldest prince Tokhtar to bewitch, and often did some misdeeds in his own tent.

The spies sent by Tucker reported that although they didn't know what the White Bone Master was doing in his tent, he saw that he would pick out some young and beautiful Daxia women from the captives, and he didn't know what to do in the tent.

"Those Golden Horde envoys sent by King Liangmuha were probably also disposed of by the master in this way. The brothers who inquired brought Tucker to this conclusion.

Tucker once privately reminded Tokhtar, "Our ranger ancestors set a precept when they founded the country, and the ranger warriors conquered the world with fast horses and swords. ”

Tokhtar waved his big hand with satisfaction, "Alas, of course I remember the rules of the ancestors, but Tucker, you can't be too sensitive, this master has some skills, I can just use it, rest assured, in my hands, he doesn't dare to have bad intentions." ”

Tucker knew that according to the temper of the eldest prince, if he insisted on persuading, it would inevitably lead to the opposite effect, and at that time, he was afraid that his own head would be cut off by the eldest prince as a gift to please his master.

After the army stumbled, they finally approached the tribe of Talga, and the eldest prince specially made an appointment with his master to come to the tent to discuss the next action.

"Master, this time we are only returning with these grains, can it be considered a success?"

"This depends on what the eldest prince thinks, the eldest prince's bravery, turned the northern frontier of Great Xia upside down, not only captured a lot of grain and grass, but also captured five cities one after another, such a record is comparable to any general after the founding of the ranger. ”

This sycophant is not public, the eldest prince is very useful, but his real intention is not just for these few compliments,

"Our southern expedition this time is mainly to raise grain, but you have also seen it, the city, although we have captured five, and we have also searched for 10,000 quintals of fine grain, but now it has been secretly calculated by the insidious Great Xia, the grain is less than 5,000 quintals, and the men and horses have also lost a lot. ”

To this day, the eldest prince is still acting in front of the master, although the white bone master thinks it is a little ridiculous, but it is not easy to debunk, so he has to humbly ask for advice,

"Then according to the strategy of the eldest prince, what should we do? ”

"The Southern Expedition Grain Cavalry was originally a coalition army that did not distinguish between the North and South Gardens, regardless of each other, and the Southern Yuan Grain Cavalry fled back to our Northern Wilderness early, leaving me, the Beiyuan Grain Cavalry, to drag the pursuers of Great Xia, Master, look at this ......"

The lama stroked his three-lock goatee and smiled silently, but in fact he secretly scolded in his heart, "They all like to compare greed to animal desires, but this human being is greedy, much more shameless than wild beasts, and they want to rob it, and they have to find a high-sounding reason for their greed." ”

Seeing that the master didn't speak, Tokh had to take it on his own, "I happened to be passing by Talga in Nanyuan, I plan to discuss it with the leader of Nanyuan, the county lord of Zhaojin, to recount the current harvest, and then divide it according to the proportion of their respective troops." ”

The lama still squinted his eyes, noncommittal. Tucker, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but interject, "The eldest prince, by all means, our grain should barely survive the winter, but if we go to Talga to grab food, I'm afraid that the Northern Wilderness Ranger will fall apart. ”

"How can you see through the general trend of the world with the courage of a puppet who wields a knife and a stick?" Tucker tried not to provoke the eldest prince, and the eldest prince also valued Tucker's prestige in the army, and tried to be tactful, but still reminded Tucker to understand the position of dignity and inferiority.

It was only at this time that the White Bone Master stroked his goatee and expressed his opinion complacently, "What the eldest prince said is extremely true, the Ranger Country is the same spirit, and the eldest prince also thought of the friendship of his compatriots so he took the responsibility of breaking off the road alone, and let the Nanyuan Ranger return first. ”

This time, Tokhtar finally nodded with satisfaction, and said to the others, "What the White Bone Master said is extremely true, we should love Nanyuan in the spirit of friendship with our fellow women, and only keep some money and food, and cut off the matter for them, which is the unshirkable responsibility of our Beiyuan elite cavalry. ”

Tucker's persuasion was fruitless, and seeing that Toto's face was getting more and more ugly, he gave up the idea of persuading the eldest prince to give up requisitioning grain and grass from Talga.

When the messenger arrived in Talga, Wobetai had just been in the official post by Zhemushen Software for two days, and he had not had time to meet Zhaojin to have a good talk.

Zhao Jin no longer seems to be in a hurry to seek revenge for his father, and has been hanging the nest on the platform, but has strengthened the guards who take care of the post house.

When Zhemushen saw the envoy from the eldest prince, he immediately felt that the situation was serious, and reported it to King Zhaojin as soon as possible.

Zhao Jin was a little puzzled and wanted to ask his uncle Zhemushen why he was so nervous.

This old man, who is dedicated to assisting Zhao Jin, took this opportunity to once again educate the new king of Nanyuan that he single-handedly supported.

"My lord, the fact that the two brothers have come to our camp one after another, and they do not know each other's whereabouts, shows that they have begun to have a grudge. The second prince said that he wanted to borrow some grain and grass to extend the lives of the people of Hasuyabu who had run out of food. This should be true, and if it weren't, he wouldn't risk his life to ask for help. And the eldest prince's mind is even more unpredictable, it stands to reason that he should not have imagined the situation that Hasselblad wanted, and there were also his father and mother there, but he did not return directly to Beiyuan with his baggage, but took our Nanyuan Talgar Department. I'm afraid that there will be cattiness. ”

The head of Zhemushen's analysis is Dao, and Zhao Jin finally understood what Zhemushen wanted to say, "Brothers kill each other, I just hope that it won't hurt the pond fish." ”

"They're happy to eat dogs, so let them bite, just don't let them know that we're in our camp in Talga. Zhao Jin quickly found the crux of the problem.

But Zhemushen had to remind Zhao Jin, "The envoy of the eldest prince, with a special message from the eldest prince, it is not good for us to refuse directly." ”

So, Zhao Jin had no choice but to summon the envoy of the eldest prince and listen patiently to what he had to say.

"According to the message, the eldest prince hopes to borrow 1,000 quintals of grain from Nanyuan to solve our urgent needs. ”

"Oh, you have twice as many men and horses as us, and the time to collect grain has been delayed for nearly a month longer than ours, why do you come back at this time, but you still have to snatch food from our Nanyuan grain cavalry?"

The arrogance of the envoy made Zhao Jin dissatisfied, and it was even more difficult for Zhao Jin to accept such a shameless request, but seeing that Zhemu Shen on the side was trying to make a look at himself, this forced the anger in his heart, and when the messenger finished his message, Zhao Jin used a sentence "I'll think about it again." "Prevarication.

The soldiers and horses of Tokhtar had already set up camp five miles from the Talgar tribe. But he couldn't afford to spend time, after all, the cost of marching and fighting was much more than usual.

Totoku thought that Nanyuan would bargain with himself because of the conditions he proposed. After the messenger was driven back, the gate of the Talgar tribe was never opened.

Tokhtar didn't know what was going on in the Nanyuan tribe, so he couldn't wait, so he took his master and Tucker and prepared to visit him in person. He didn't expect that his own brother Wo Beitai was also under house arrest in the Talgar camp at the moment.