Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1168 Xiao Yan Wang

Fifty Qin cavalry mounted their horses quickly and galloped back to Bachang Castle like the wind.

In less than half an hour, they traveled thirty miles and returned to Patchang Castle.

"Old Xu, two torches of blue smoke, what's going on?"

Far away, still far away from the gate of the fort, Captain Xiao was shouting loudly.

Seeing the patrolling cavalry return so quickly, Xu Feng led someone to put down the suspension bridge immediately.

He trotted to the outside of the fort, "Captain Xiao, I've met you. The merchant group that came back with you last night set off this morning. Just after passing Dashiyi, they encountered horse thieves near the south bank of the Bahuan River. The team sent two people to Dashi Station to report a message for help. Over there, Lao Zhang sent Zhao San to pass the message, and as soon as I received the letter, I immediately sent smoke to the team."

"Horse thief? Where are the horse thieves? How many are there?"

"About three hundred thieves, Turkic people. But it's not sure, because when the two men ran back to report the news, they hadn't seen the horse thieves yet."

"What letter did you report?"

"The two people who came back, one of them was the guard of the caravan. He said that the leader of their team heard the vibrations in the ground, so he judged that it was a horse team with no less than [-] riders, and they were Turkic. He also said that the other party must be a horse thief, isn't it? Caravans or others passing by."

Captain Xiao frowned. Of course, he believed in people with this ability to recognize sounds. Some excellent scouts have this ability, and even some generals can tell how many troops there are just by the smoke and dust they raise. Step and ride.

But these came from the mouth of a caravan guard, which made people a little suspicious.

"Forget it, it's better to believe it than to believe it. It was fate to meet that caravan yesterday. They are also good people. They even gave us two sheep. We eat their sheep and we have to repay them." Just a moment. I’ll take my brothers for a trip, it’s not too far anyway, and it’s only an hour or two from here.”

"Team Xiao takes the brothers into the castle to drink some water first, it is best to change horses."

Xiao Dui was looking at his brother, and it was true that the horse was tired and dusty.So he nodded and led his people into Fengbao. The Fengzi over there hurried up to help them change horses.In Fengbao, the soldiers are infantry, while the patrols are cavalry, and the cavalry of these patrols are all carefully selected, all of them have high ranks and ranks, and usually the cavalry will guide the soldiers Their martial arts, everyone has a good relationship.

"Captain Xiao, if you really run into Turkic horse thieves, after killing these wolf cubs, remember to bring me some Turkic things, so I can bring them back to brag about in the future."

Captain Xiao was drinking the sweet well water with a gourd ladle, drank until he was full, and handed the empty ladle to Fengzi, "You boy, it is a serious matter to practice martial arts well. When you have enough skills, when the time comes There is also a chance to join our patrol, and then you can pick up the spoils yourself."

"Captain Xiao, just help me get a Turkic bone or bone arrow or something." Fengzi laughed.

"Okay, remember to bring you two."

After taking a short rest, Lao Xu had already brought the Fengzi to help change the horse, and also reinstalled and checked the equipment.

"Old Xu, I'll go for a run. You take someone to look after the house, and don't let the Turkic wolf cubs raid the house."

"Don't worry, although I, Old Xu, don't have the cavalry and archery skills like Team Xiao's, but I also made meritorious service on the Hedong battlefield back then. I exchanged three thieves for my rate, not bought it. Yes, there are some unsightly Turkic brats who dare to come up with ideas, the bow in my hand is not a vegetarian, I have to keep a few of them, and maybe they can be promoted to lieutenants by then."

Captain Xiao turned his head on his horse, confessed a few more words, and left the castle with fifty brothers.

"Old Xu, if I don't return at the end of the day, remember to send someone over to check it out. If I'm broken by Lao Xiao, remember to report to Commander Xu immediately!"

"Bah, Crow's mouth, in this Western Region, who can accept you Xiao Yanwang, we cook mutton in a water basin at night, and mutton boiled in mutton tail oil, remember to come back early to eat hot food, late, those little bastards, but I won't leave it to you."

"Ok."

Captain Xiao waved his head and rode his horse to speed up.

"Xu rate, where are the three hundred Turks? Is fifty for the Xiao team enough?"

Old Xu turned around and patted Fengzi on the shoulder, "Xiao Liu, you are new to our castle, so you don't know our situation here, our Xiao team, don't look like a big bastard, But the family is originally from the Lanling Xiao family, do you know the Lanling Xiao family? The Sui and Ming emperors and queens, the Xiao family, are the Lanling Xiao family, and the Southern Dynasties of Liang and Southern Dynasties were all of the Lanling Xiao family, and they were the emperors of two dynasties."

"Unexpectedly, the Xiao team is actually the Lanling Xiao family, but why did he come to this western region to be a patrolling cavalry?"

"It's a long story here. Our Xiao Duizheng's father is a concubine of the Xiao family in Lanling, and he himself is the son of a maidservant. Do you understand?"

The more powerful the family, the more attention is paid to the distinction between concubines and concubines. The concubine is not valued at all. It is better if the concubine is born to a noble concubine, but if the concubine is still a lowly concubine, such as a concubine, a prostitute, etc., the status is even lower. And if the mother is a slave, it is a slave who gives birth to a child. Their status is the lowest, and they are even inferior to some higher-level servants at home.

"We, Team Xiao, want to make a career and earn fame, so that we can give our birth mother a court order in the future."

Old Xu lamented that Captain Xiao was not well received in the mansion, but he came from a famous family after all, but he joined the army for five years and experienced many wars in the Central Plains, so he was forced to be promoted to the captain by himself.

He also took the initiative to ask to be transferred to the Western Regions as a patrol cavalry.

"Do you know that our captain Xiao still has a name, Xiao Yanluo, although Captain Xiao is usually very talkative, but when it comes to war, he is more terrifying than Hades. Just the fifty cavalry under him, originally Most of them are thorns from the battalions of Anxi Road, and they are not easy to discipline, but our team leader Xiao took the initiative to come here. In less than a year, we tamed all these thorns, and now they are all little Hades, fighting It’s all screaming, last month, they wiped out the lifeless horse thieves in an oasis, and they beat them beautifully, without any casualties, and wiped out more than 30 horse thieves.”

"Three hundred Turks are nothing. They are unlucky to meet our Xiao team. Boy, hurry up and clean up the sheep. You are in charge of cooking today, and you can cook mutton in a water basin?"

The newcomer, Xiao Liu, nodded quickly, "I've eaten it, but I haven't cooked it."

"Hey, you kid, if you don't know how to do it, then learn. Go ask Liu, your brother, he is doing well, ask him to teach."

Old Xu walked away with his hands behind his back, shaking his head as he walked.

"Hey, if I hadn't been born with horse-sickness, I would be a cavalry patrol like Lao Xiao now. I can't say that I am chasing and killing Turkic wolf cubs at this moment. It's a pity."

Xiao Liu muttered, "I've heard of people getting seasick, but I haven't heard of people getting sick of horses."

Da Liu, who was walking by, smiled and said softly to him, "Let's Xu Sui, let the horse get off the horse once every time we ride a horse, and once not only get off the horse, but also sit on the horse's buttocks, from now on, When you see a horse, you get dizzy, so it's called horse fainting."

(End of this chapter)