CHAPTER XXXIV
After a while, Tian Xiao killed all five of his opponent's horses, and injured two of them. Seeing that the situation was not good, the other three wanted to escape while it was dark, but they heard the opponent shout: "Whoever escapes will die." Suddenly frightened, his feet couldn't take a step, and he didn't dare to move on the spot. Tianxiao ignored these people, and first went to check the injuries of the horse thieves, and saw that four were dead, and the others were seriously injured. When he saw that Phil and the thief had arrived, he said, "These thieves are seriously wounded, and if they stay here, they will die." Fei'er, I want to take them back to the camp to heal, what do you think?" Unexpectedly, Fei'er smiled: "You are my master." You said you would bring it back to camp, and ask me what I was doing. Only then did Tianxiao feel at ease and said to the five opponents: "I don't want to kill you either." It's just that I want to know who you are and why are you here to grab food?" One of them said: "We are from Taiyuan Weipeng Dart Bureau." My name is Huo Qiu, and I am the head of the Wei Peng Dart Bureau. This girl's name is Guo Jian, and she is my young lady. We took a big dart and escorted it to Yarkand, and on the way back we were besieged and killed by several horse thieves, led by a wild camel with a tall peak. In this battle, all the guys were gone, and eight dart masters died. The five of us escaped wounded, and ran for three days and three nights, hungry and thirsty, and saw that there was a cart of horse meat here, so we consulted with them. But they didn't give it to death, so they did it. We didn't mean anything, we just wanted to ask for something to eat. ”
Tianxiao didn't say anything when he heard this, gave the gun to Fei'er, first took a large piece of horse meat from the carriage, tore it into five parts with his hands and gave it to the people of Weipeng Dart Bureau, and asked Huo Qiu. "Tell me, who are you?" Huo Qiu hurriedly replied, "It's my mentor." I am the third apprentice of his old man. Boy in Jinyi, do you know the family teacher?" Tian Xiao smiled: "Come on." You are still my third senior brother. The Ice Monster is also my master. Hey, I didn't expect to meet here, and I'm really sorry for this misunderstanding. Since he is a senior brother, there are many words, Guo Jian found an opportunity to interject and come in. "Boy in brocade, the ice monster is my uncle. Before he died, he screamed in his mouth until he breathed. If you know Na Xiao'er, please tell him. He said that his master was dead. Let him go to Taiyuan and go to his master's grave to burn some paper and say something. My uncle is still thinking about him when he is dying, and he should fulfill this filial piety. This is very unpleasant to hear. This heart moved. Tears also came out. Fortunately, no one paid attention at night. But he is Emperor Longqing, and he has too many big things to do, and he can't go to Taiyuan if he wants to. But Guo Jian's words are also correct. He is the apprentice of the Ice Monster, and he should be filial piety. "Alas. He looked up and sighed and said to Guo Jian: "To tell you the truth, I am the Xiao'er called by your uncle." But this is not the place to speak, and you all come with me back to the camp and have something to say tomorrow. So he threw all the beef in the carriage on the ground, and let the horse thief squeeze into the carriage, and he came to catch the carriage, and Phil rode a BMW to protect him. The horses of the Weipeng Dart Bureau were all killed by the boy in brocade, and he could only support his injured companion and follow behind the carriage.
Four or five days later, the food was almost gone, the injured were no longer able to ride on horses, and the people of the Weipeng Dart Bureau also wanted to go back to Taiyuan. After breakfast, Tian Xiao took out a letter and handed it to Huo Qiu and said, "Third Senior Brother, after handling the family affairs, go to Dali as soon as possible, and let Jian Mei go to see me Uncle Zhong with the letter, he will properly arrange your residence, and will also choose a site for you to revitalize the Weipeng Dart Bureau." Huo Qiu nodded, put the letter in his arms, and Tianxiao picked five horses and gave them and sent them out of the camp for a mile. "Little junior brother, don't send it, we'll see you in Dali Mansion. Huo Qiu said a word, beckoned his companion to get on the horse, patted the horse and left, like an arrow.
It wasn't until there was no figure that Tianxiao walked back to the camp, met Fei'er at the camp gate, and gave him a word when they met. "Xiao'er, I think Guo Jian is very cute, why do you always avoid her. Tianxiao smiled and didn't respond, and saw that Aunt Lan was demolishing the camp with a dozen brothers, so she went to the camel to get a roll of sheep mattress and spread it on the carriage, and said in front of Aunt Yun: "Come, Aunt Yun, lie down on the carriage quickly." So she stretched out her hand to help, and Aunt Yun just wanted to say, "I'm fine", Fei'er came over and said with a grin: "You just lie down on the carriage obediently." Otherwise, he'll be angry with me again. Aunt Yun had no choice but to get into the carriage and lie down.
After demolishing the camp, Fei'er waved her hand, and everyone got on the horse and just wanted to beckon Tianxiao to leave, but saw the eight horse thieves "hula" and knelt in front of Tianxiao. It's just that you treat people very well, and you never guard us as outsiders, annoy us as wicked, and save our lives. Tianxiao didn't seem surprised, and said with a smile: "Then what are you doing kneeling, hurry up and get on the horse." Fei'er smiled: "You emperor even want a horse thief, be careful that the ministers talk about you." Then he sent out four horsemen to fight the front station, and Aunt Lan drove the carriage, and the rest of the people protected the camels and supplies, and rode in front with Tianxiao.
Along the way, Tianxiao would always take a walk and rest, take out the "Longqing Town Territory Map", or ask Fei'er or the horse thief, point around, and then point to the map to say something. Phil or the horse thief would also point around, and then point to the map to give the general direction. "It should be here. Whenever this happens, Tianxiao will laugh happily and say, "Then there will be a village of seventy or eighty households here." Then he took out the pen and ink he had brought with him and marked it on the map.
Jiao Jiwen and Zhao Zhilan, the guards of the pavilion, are both old people from Tianbo Mansion, and they are really not worried about the safety of the emperor's journey, and Geng Biao also explained before leaving, and selected fifty people from his own soldiers to standby, saying that they were the emperor's temporary guards. In this way, the team is huge and safe, but there are one hundred and fifty more "outsiders" and eighteen carriages transporting grain and grass, which makes Fei'er feel uncomfortable, so she asked Aunt Lan to spread the word and let these "outsiders" open the way in front, otherwise she can't lie in the arms of her sweetheart and be coquettish, and she is afraid that the whispers will make the "outsiders" listen. But Longqing's guards were all loyal ministers, and when passing through Qamdo, Zheng Ba and Zhu Cong also gave the emperor a hundred personal soldiers and fifteen carriages full of grain and grass, which made Fei'er worried. "Xiao'er, I just squeaked away and came again, I'm going crazy. Her mouth was muttered, and when she saw Tianxiao, she asked Aunt Lan to pass the word, and let the Qamdo soldiers follow from a distance of more than 100 zhang, she was happy, and she lay in her sweetheart's arms and said witty words.
But this kind of happiness is only fourteen or fifteen days, and when it comes to Lingzang, the main general of the defenders, Murong Youcheng, sues the emperor. "Recently, horse thieves have been very rampant, and the day before yesterday, at the foot of Mabili Chiba Mountain, they joined forces to attack an ambush by Wei Qingshuang's thief department, killing and wounding more than 1,000 people, and losing 80 carts of grain and grass. Then he knelt on the ground and admonished him, and he had to ask the emperor to bring Sun Gan, Liu Qi, Zhao Shan, three generals and eight hundred elite soldiers, and one hundred and twenty carts of grain and grass. Otherwise, the emperor will not be allowed to leave. This time, Fei'er didn't make trouble, but persuaded Tianxiao to bring Lingzang's eight hundred soldiers and horses, and asked Murong Youcheng for five hundred bows and ten thousand arrows.
Thinking that after leaving Lingzang, in addition to the small city of Naquka, it was difficult to meet villages and towns that could be replenished until Liqiangtang and Kunlun Mountain. Fei'er put one hundred and fifty carriages together as a squadron, escorted by Liu Qi and eight hundred Ling Tibetan soldiers. After Zhao Shan led a hundred Qamdo soldiers to open the way, and Sun Qian led one hundred and fifty Guanjue soldiers to break off, she changed back into black clothes and her own family, and eight horse thieves guarded Tianxiao. "Everyone. She greeted her loudly and said, "I'm afraid there won't be enough grain and grass for us to eat." I thought, might as well go hunting every three or five days. It can be filled with food, but also can be changed for taste, how about you take a look?" Sun Qian exclaimed: "This is a very good idea. Liu Qi also said: "Niangniang really knows how to find a way and surrenders." ”
Tianxiao did not have leisure to play on this journey, and from time to time he took out the "Longqing Town Territory Map" on this road, and marked the approximate location of the river tributaries, small lakes and ponds, hills and slopes, swampy wetlands, fertile grasslands, Yibi deserts, and where to build cities and towns and put some villages along the road. Sometimes, he would also take Fei'er and eight horse thieves into the mountains to check the terrain and find water, which was very difficult. And every time he hunts, he is not inferior to others, there is always a harvest from this hidden weapon, but unlike Liu Qi, they can always use bows and arrows to round up and shoot large prey. And the delicate Fei'er, who once used medicine and arrows to numb a big bison, is really a bit of a woman who doesn't let her eyebrows go.
It was dusk at the foot of Kunlun Mountain on this day. Everyone found a place with a river and began to set up camp and bury pots to cook. Tian Xiao couldn't intervene in these things, so he went out of the village alone to wander around the nearby area, exploring the terrain, and unconsciously walked out of three or four miles. As he was walking, he suddenly heard a faint voice calling in the grass at the foot of the mountain: "Passing merchant, help." When Tianxiao heard the sound, he hurriedly dodged over, and went into the weeds more than half a man high, and found seven or eight people covered in blood lying on the ground, and a foreign young woman sitting next to a big rock, and when he saw him, he said, "I have finally seen people." Do you have water, do you have enough to eat?" He examined the young woman's wounds, and saw that she had been stabbed three times in the thigh and back, and then he probed the nostrils of the seven or eight men who were lying on the ground, and when he saw that they were all breathing, he said, "I have come out for a walk, and I have not brought water or dry food." But our camp is not far away. I'll carry you first, and then I'll come with my companions to save them. After saying that, he picked up the young woman and left, and the wind at his feet came in the blink of an eye, and he almost knocked down Fei'er and the eight horse thieves who had just come out of the camp and wanted to find him. Fei'er saw that he came back with a young woman who was half covered in blood, and in her surprise, she understood that someone had bumped into the horse thief, so she asked, "Is there anyone else?" Tianxiao gave the young woman to Aunt Lan and called out to the camp: "Come with me another dozen or twenty people." Then he took Fei'er by the hand and ran away, and the eight horse thieves and the rest of the men got on their horses and came to the grass at the foot of the mountain.
"Li Da. "This is the name that Tianxiao gave to the eight horse thieves after teaching them kung fu, and this Li Da is the oldest of the eight. "You carry them all back to the camp to heal your wounds. Then he shouted to the others, "Spread out and look around, see if there is anything alive? After he and Fei'er ran four or five miles away, they found that there were more than a dozen large tents staggered around Zhaling Lake, and sixty or seventy people were lying on the ground. "It must have been a horse thief. Fei'er said a word, and Tianxiao stretched out his hand to probe the sixty or seventy people on the ground, and the result was that all of them were dead. They went into a dozen or so tents to look, and the people inside were all corpses. Fei'er shook her head and sighed lightly, and beckoned: "Xiao'er, let's go back quickly, I'm afraid those horse thieves are still nearby." (To be continued......)