What did the Divine Crossbow Battalion do in this desert? Could it be that Xiao Feng also came to Western Xia? But if it was really Xiao Feng who came to Western Xia from Bianjing, she would never have come here, and it was the most reasonable route to go from Huanzhou to Lingzhou, although that route was also full of deserts.

Looking at the corpse on the ground, Bai Sheng was a little puzzled. Why did the people of the Liao Kingdom fight with the monks under Ba Xi Jingming? What happened to the horse bandits here?

He probed the body of the horse bandit, and it could be confirmed that he was killed by the palm of the monk, but those Liao people were killed by the sword and spear of the horse bandit, so he couldn't figure it out.

The Divine Crossbow Battalion kills the monks, the monks kill the horse bandits, and the horse bandits kill the Divine Crossbow Battalion, what is going on? It's a mess.

If you don't understand, he waved his hand and motioned for the Nori sisters to follow him and ride forward, intending to see what was going on.

After galloping only a mile, after crossing a sand dune, you can already see the scene ahead, and a black group of people and horses appear on the horizon.

Bai Sheng's eyesight is the best, and it can be seen that hundreds of war horses have formed an encirclement in front, and the people on the horses are naturally horse bandits, who are the horse bandits who escaped from him and Ma Kui.

The three of them slipped forward for another half mile, and stopped behind a small sand dune, and through the gap between the horses and bandits, it was faintly visible that there were two more circles in the encirclement, one middle and one small.

The five monks stood in a circle, facing the outside of the circle, and the cavalry of the Liao people also stood in a circle, and there was a luxurious carriage in the circle, and there was a circle of women riding horses around the carriage.

The small circle of the monks and the middle circle of the Liao people were separated by more than five zhang, and they were obviously hostile to each other, but they were obviously on guard against the horse bandits in the outermost encirclement at the same time.

The bandits had stopped their charge. The reason why they stopped charging was because Bai Sheng had heard the sound of them charging just now.

A voice was shouting: "Brothers, let's stop rushing, just surround them like this, and trap them until they surrender!"

Bai Sheng could hear that this voice was a master under Zeng Li, who once led half of Zeng Li's men to beat half of Ma Sankui's men and horses.

At this time, he was most concerned about nothing else, he was most concerned about Zhao Kai's whereabouts, but he couldn't see Zhao Kai in the circle of the five monks of Ba Xi Jingming.

So he instructed the Yeli sisters to hide behind the sand dunes and wait for news, and walked forward dozens of steps on foot, and then saw more clearly, Zhao Kai was really not in the hands of the monks, and he couldn't help but feel a sinking heart, could it be that they killed Zhao Kai?

Of course, if you think about it for the better, the monks may also leave Zhao Kai in the Xixia fortress on the edge of the desert, but everything can't always be thought of for the better, otherwise why would the word "backfire" come from?

The three parties in the encirclement were talking, and they only heard Ba Xijingming muttering, and then someone in the circle of the Liao people said something in a whisper, and they couldn't understand either language.

Suddenly, I heard someone among the horse bandits ask in Chinese, "Does anyone know what they are talking about?"

There are really people who can understand, and one of the bandits translated: "The monk spoke in Tubo, and he asked the Liao people why they killed his junior brother, and the Liao people spoke Khitan, which meant to ask the monk why he took the princess's friend as a hostage." ”

After listening to this Chinese translation, Bai Sheng thought with envy: I didn't expect that there were also language talents in the horse bandits, so from this point of view, no matter ancient or modern, it is always good to master a few more foreign languages.

As the bandit translated more than a dozen questions and answers between Ba Xi Jingming and the officials of the Liao State, the cause and effect of the matter gradually became clear.

It turned out that this group of Liao people went to Western Xia as an envoy, and the envoy's name was Yelu Moge, who was the privy envoy of the Southern Court of Nanjing, Liao, and it was the Liao princess Yelu Guyu who came to Western Xia with him.

Yelu Bone Desire is a girl who likes to travel. His reason for coming to Western Xia was to visit her cousin Yelu Nanxian, who was the wife of the current Western Xia emperor Li Qianshun.

Originally, they had completed their mission in Western Xia and embarked on their return journey, intending to cross the desert to the north and cross the Yellow River to return to Nanjing from the Hetao Plain, but just as they were turning from west to north, they saw nine monks coming from east to west.

It's nothing to see the monk, but at this time, Yelu Gu wanted to open the curtain of the carriage and saw Zhao Kai, who was held hostage by Ba Xijingming.

Yelu Gu wants to know Zhao Kai. Because Yelu Guyi was thirteen years old, he once followed Yelu Dashi to Bianliang, and became a playmate with Zhao Kai of the same age, although he couldn't talk about childhood sweethearts, but he always formed a friendship.

Originally, she couldn't recognize Zhao Kai who had grown into an adult at a glance in the carriage, but how could she not know Zhao Kai's Song Dynasty prince costume?

So she recognized people through her clothes, and the moment she recognized them, she ordered the crossbow camp to rob people, and no matter what the way these monks came from, she would snatch the children back to her side first.

Speaking of Ba Xi Jingming, the nine monks are also very unlucky, they asked for ten war horses in the border village of Western Xia, and when they went to the desert to look for water, six of the ten horses accidentally drank the poisonous lake water and died on the spot, and in the next journey, they could only ride two people, and a monk who was vacated took Zhao Kai to trek on foot.

Of course, their whereabouts also fell into the eyes of the horse bandits, the horse bandits roared, intending to kill people, rob money and rob horses, the monks on horseback can only be at most two people and joint efforts, in the extremely mobile horse bandits light cavalry harassment helpless, so they have to dismount to form a circle to resist.

This formed a circle, and the combined force of the nine people suddenly became powerful, and killed several horse bandits in an instant, and the horse bandits saw that the opportunity was not good, so they took their four horses and roared away.

Although the horse bandits suffered losses in this encounter, the nine people of Ba Xi Jingming also completely lost their means of transportation, and neither side was left behind.

After the nine of them escorted Zhao Kai to trek in the desert for a day, they met Yelu Moge and Yelu Guyi's Liao State horse team.

The horse team of the Liao State has a banner, and when they recognized it as the Liao people, they were very happy for a while, because they knew that the two countries of Liaoxia were good neighbors and friendly, so they planned to borrow a few horses from the horse team of the Liao State for use.

Four monks were shot dead in an instant, and if it weren't for the fear of hurting the hostages, no more than three of the nine of them would have been spared.

At the same time as the four of them fell, the elite of the Divine Crossbow Battalion on war horses rushed into their queue and took Zhao Kai captive.

Ba Xi Jingming was very depressed, because they were afraid of provoking a dispute between the two countries of Liaoxia, so they did not dare to kill the Liao, so they could only watch Zhao Kai being taken away, and could only express their protests, but because of the language barrier between the two sides, it was difficult to obtain communication and understanding for a while.

At this moment, the horse bandits who were integrated by a master and fled from Bai Sheng and Ma Kui arrived at the scene, and the first thing the horse bandits saw was not a monk, but dozens of beautiful women who followed around the carriage, and immediately rushed up to rob people.

These horse bandits were full of anger under the hands of more than 1,000 Ma Kui, and after fleeing in embarrassment, they needed to rob some women to vent, and seeing that the men and women of the Liao State horse team added up to only more than 100 people, of course they would not take it seriously, and immediately launched a charge.

When Ba Xi Jingming and the other five monks were indignant, they saw that these horse bandits suddenly had a goal to vent, and without saying much, they directly formed a small formation of five people and knocked down all the horse bandits who rushed past them.

The combination of the internal forces of the five people is also not weak, at least equivalent to the skill of an ordinary martial artist for two hundred years, and the big handprint issued by the air splitting is enough to kill the horse bandits within two zhang of the surrounding horses.

Thirty crossbowmen from the crossbow battalion under Yelu Mogo also set up a dense formation around the carriage to cast crossbow arrows, and another forty spearmen guarded the crossbowmen in front of the crossbowmen to prevent the onslaught of the cavalry.

However, thirty crossbowmen could not stop the charge of more than 300 horse bandits, so the horse bandits charged down in waves, and although they were shot dead and more than 20 wounded, they also rushed the formation of 70 Liao warriors to a scattered ground and killed more than a dozen of them.

This is the origin of the monks killed the horse bandits that Bai Sheng saw, the horse bandits killed the Liao army, and the Liao army killed the monks.

After the chaotic battle between the three parties, all sides have re-evaluated and judged this encounter.

The leader of the horse bandits believed that in the case of the Fan monk and the Liao State horse team forming their own formations, launching a charge was a lose-lose way of playing, so he chose the strategy of encircling but not rushing, no matter where these two groups of people went, his three hundred horsemen always formed a big encirclement around them.

Ba Xi Jingming's side believed that in order to avoid losing his life in this chaotic battle, he must first clear up the misunderstanding with the Liao people, so he started a dialogue with the Liao envoy in the encirclement.

After some communication, Yelu Moge also knew the origin of the monk, and it turned out to be a disciple of the Western Xia national teacher Songba, so he hurriedly apologized to Ba Xi Jingming, but Yelu Guyu said that he had to take away Zhao Kai, who was already sitting in her carriage.

Ba Xi Jingming did not insist on asking for Zhao Kai, because his original intention of kidnapping Zhao Kai was just to save his life, and it was better to bring Zhao Kai back to Xingqing Mansion and hand it over to the military, but at this time, without the pursuit and encirclement of the Song army, it didn't matter if he lost Zhao Kai.

At this point, the monks and the Liao army completely formed a united front, and the two sides discussed and decided to unite and go to Xingqing Mansion. As long as they approached Xingqing Mansion, these horse bandits naturally did not dare to continue to watch and follow.

Yelu Moge and Yelu Guyu were also very annoyed by the encounter with horse bandits, and wanted to go back to Xingqing Mansion to ask the Western Xia Emperor for an explanation, and the security of this desert was also poor!

When they came to Xingqingfu, they were escorted by 5,000 cavalry, and when they arrived in Xingqingfu, these 5,000 cavalry returned to their homeland, because the battle between Liaojin and Jin was too fierce.

When they said goodbye to the Western Xia Emperor and proposed to return to China, the Western Xia Emperor did not send elite soldiers to escort them for some reason, but only kept them for a longer period of time, and they insisted on returning immediately, so there was this encounter in the desert.

Judging from the current situation, it was impossible for them to continue north, so they could only return to Xingqing Mansion and wait for the emperor to send Western Xia elite soldiers to provide protection.

At that moment, Ba Xi Jingming took four junior disciples and the Liao State horse team together and marched together in the direction of Xingqing Mansion. It is only two days away from this location to Xingqing Mansion, and it only takes one day to survive, and it is basically safe.

The bandits were a little helpless about this result, they knew very well that the two groups of people together were like a hedgehog, and it was impossible to know what to do.

No matter how many people charged, as long as they entered within a hundred steps of the Liao State horse team, they would enter the range of crossbow arrows, and at least half of them would die, and the remaining half would have to die under the palm of these five monks even if they rushed to the horse team.

Therefore, the leader of the horse bandits decided to follow for another day, and if they caught up with a sandstorm or a dry tornado or something, they could take advantage of it, and if they really couldn't find a chance to attack, it would not be too late to retreat.

As a result, the encirclement that commanded the horse bandits also began to move westward, and the encirclement posture was always maintained.

Seeing this result, Bai Sheng felt very unhappy, you don't fight, right? If you don't fight, I'll fight!