Defend the Tang Dynasty

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A group of believers were fascinated by the sound, and their pious eyes were confused.

At this time, a Sogdian merchant named Miphatai put down his cup, got up and squeezed into the crowd, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Not only did Cui Han feel the divinity of "Humu", he even sensed the call of Vulcan, and he didn't notice that Mifatai had left.

Shi Xianning could see clearly, and continued to translate, but there was a look of worry on his brows.

Miphatai did not leave the Fire Temple. He walked out of the main hall through the side door, and at the signal of a twelve or thirteen-year-old apprentice, he walked quickly and got into a carriage parked in front of the warehouse.

There was a strong Sogdian warrior sitting in the carriage, and when he saw him, he said: "Master, Ukun and the young eagle are not here, the camels, horses and goods are gone, and there are several bloodstains in the fort."

"There's blood, something happened to them?"

"I checked carefully inside and out, and found a lot of footprints and hoofprints, so I chased them for seven or eight miles at a stretch, until the hoofprints of the pack horses disappeared, so I had to find a caravan nearby to inquire about them. .”

"Did you meet a caravan?" Mifatai didn't expect to encounter such a thing, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

The samurai said, "Meet one."

"Have you heard anything?"

"The caravan guard said that he saw a few Turkic people from a distance in the morning. Those Turkic people were riding horses and leading a few camels. It seemed that the camels had goods tied to them. They didn't know the details of each other, so they didn't dare to get too close. Didn't dare to say hello."

"Turkic people...will they be wrong?"

"Probably not, master. The caravan is moving slowly. They should be able to reach the outside of the city in half an hour. If you don't believe me, you can ask the caravan guards later."

Could it be that Wu Kun and the others met a horse thief...

No, it should be the horse thief who happened to go to Xieerfeng. They were unlucky to be bumped into by the horse thief.

Fortunately, they are horse thieves, and they are a group of Turkic horse thieves...

Mifatai breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a gloomy face: "It seems that Wu Kun and the others are in danger, and nine out of ten have already died at the hands of the Turkic horse bandits."

"Master, there are already many horse thieves in Hanhai."

"It doesn't matter if Wu Kun is dead, but the matter of being loyal to others is entrusted by others. Now that even the young eagles are dead, let me...how can I explain to the guests."

"Master, why don't I look for it again."

"Hurry up and look for it. If you live, you want to see people, if you want to die, you want to see corpses!"

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At the same time, Han Shimei rode a horse, surrounded by four personal guards, and led a caravan of sixteen camels, heading for Baisha City calmly along the flat and gentle river valley.

The land here is more fertile than that of Juncheng and Tuncheng, and the river valley is full of weeds and shrubs.

The Chihe River, which flows slowly from Yele City, is very open, and the river beach to the north is a grassland. It is summer, and the grass is green as far as the eye can see.

There is only a small strip of grassland on the south side of the river beach. From north to south, it gradually becomes a rocky Gobi without a blade of grass, until four or five miles away, there is a barren hill that is as red as flames and stretches endlessly.

The prehistoric times mentioned in ancient books are nothing more than this, but mountains and rivers like this can be seen everywhere in the Western Regions.

Han Shimei didn't care about admiring the wonderful scene where the desert and the oasis intersect, looked around and asked, "Wang Hu, how far is it from Baisha City?"

"My lord, go three or four miles further to Langyafeng, and Langyafeng is about fifteen miles to Baisha City."

"It's still nearly twenty miles away. It seems that the lunch will not be in time."

"Your Excellency is really good at joking. I bet that the Governor is waiting for you. If you don't come to him, you will definitely not have the banquet."

As soon as Wang Hu finished speaking, the guard on the left couldn't help laughing and said: "My lord, I thought that the governor would not know how to hold a banquet, but he dared not."

"Shut up nonsense!"

Han Shimei straightened his face, turned around and scolded: "The chief governor of the Tang Dynasty is also the chief governor of our Tang Dynasty. He is regarded as a second-rank official. How could you and other guards be able to ridicule him!"

The personal guard was startled, and hurriedly said: "My lord, calm down, I don't dare to be humble."

Wang Hu didn't want to see his colleagues being punished, so he quickly asked without words: "My lord, the governor knows that you are going to celebrate his birthday today, so he should send someone to welcome him, why hasn't anyone come to welcome him until now. "

The short personal guard suddenly felt that something was wrong, and murmured: "Not only was there no one to greet him, but also there was no one on the way from Headache to here."

Wang Hu really didn't pay attention to this, and said with a smile: "Today is the Gahanbar Festival of the Hu people, maybe everyone is busy with the competition. Besides, this place is sparsely populated, so it's hard to see a few people even in normal times. .”

"What kind of competition is there, what is there to compete with, and there are six or seven competitions a year."

"It's a family holiday. Don't we celebrate the New Year, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Double Ninth Festival as well?"

The three guards chattered and chattered, but the short guard looked around.

Han Shimei looked suspicious in his eyes, and was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "Wang Hu, Zhang Cheng."

"I'm humble."

"You two go to the back of the palace and show me carefully, don't let them lose the congratulatory gift I prepared for the governor."

"promise!"

Wang Hu thought that the superintendent thought he was annoying, so he quickly grabbed the reins and turned the horse's head, and ran to the back of the camel team with the short guard Wei Zhangcheng.

Han Shimei looked back at the camel driver who was riding an old horse and leading the camel, and continued to ride the horse forward.

After walking for about a stick of incense, he smiled and asked, "Li Youwei, how many years have you been with me?"

The guard on the left hurriedly said: "Go back to your lord, I have followed you for five years in a humble position."

"How is my officer treating you?"

"My lord treats me like a family member, and being able to follow my lord is a blessing I have cultivated in my eight lifetimes."

"Huang Dafu, how many years have you been with me?"

"Three years."

"How is my officer treating you?"

"Humble staff can't speak, only know that adults treat humble staff well."

Han Shimei smiled, and asked again: "Have you ever been in battle?"

Li Youwei said without hesitation: "My lord, I have been in humble positions four times in battles, big and small."

The youngest personal guard, Huang Dafu, was embarrassed, and said with a bitter face: "I have never been in a battle in a humble position, and I have never fought in a war."

"Haven't been in battle before, right? Now the opportunity has come, aren't you afraid?"

"My lord, are you saying..."

"Stop talking nonsense, I will ask you if you are afraid."

"A humble job is not afraid."

"Okay, I will watch you kill the enemy later."

Huang Dafu was stunned, unable to believe it was true.

Although Li Youwei was taken aback, he soon regained his composure, holding the rein in one hand and the horizontal knife in the other, staring at the mottled red rocky mountains in the distance, frowning and asking: "My lord, are you worried about horse thieves? "

To the north is an endless pasture, where no one can hide.

There is still a river valley ahead, but the terrain is flat, and you can see several miles away at a glance, and you can't hide people.

The west is the direction when we came, and the frontier army garrisoned the Fengbao along the way, and the only place where soldiers can hide is the south.

Han Shimei looked at the direction where the enemy might appear, and asked back: "Are you afraid?"

"A humble job is not afraid, a humble job is only worried about adults."

"I don't need you to worry about it. I always see you bragging to others about your accuracy in shooting arrows, and that you can shoot through Yang with a hundred steps. I will see later whether your shooting is accurate or not."

"As long as the thieves dare to come, I will definitely not let you down."

Just as he was talking, the groom leading the camel suddenly said, "My lord, the thief is here."

Even though he had been prepared for a long time, Han Shimei's heart still skipped a beat, and he turned around and asked, "Where is the thief?"

"My lord, southeast direction."

"My lord, I also saw the humble job, there is dust, and there are many people watching!"

"How much is a lot?"

Li Youwei settled down, looked carefully for a while, and said nervously: "You can't see clearly in a lowly position."

"It's finally here, it really is for the old man." Han Shimei snorted coldly, and then sternly shouted: "Chen Lushuai, these thieves are handed over to you! Huang Dafu, go to the back and order Wang Huzhangcheng to listen to Chen Lushuai order."

"promise!"

While speaking, the dust splashed by the horseshoes in the southeast direction was clearly visible, as if a gray cloud was rapidly drifting towards this side.

The "camel drivers" leading the camels in the back were obviously prepared, and before Chen Lvshuai gave an order, they pulled out their short knives and cut the ropes that bound the "gifts".

I saw spears, knives, and shields rolling to the ground from the "gifts" tied to the camel.

What made Wang Hu and other personal guards even more unbelievable and at the same time ecstatic was that there were more than [-] sacks containing neither congratulatory gifts nor weapons, and about [-] big living men in armor crawled out of them. !

"Zhang Si, you guys take your shields and protect your lord."

"Second boy, what are you dawdling about, hurry up and get the hay and cow dung over there."

"Lao Luo, put on the iron chain quickly, if the camel runs away, if the camel line is loose, I will be the first to cut off your head!"

"Your name is Wang Hu, right? Sir Siyu doesn't need you to care. You two stay here, don't run around, and don't let horse thieves rush in, otherwise I will want your heads!"

Chen Lvshuai held the Mo Dao, rode his horse forward and back, and gave orders frequently.

The previous grooms all took off their coats, exposed their armor, and got busy under Chen Lvshuai's orders.

In a blink of an eye, sixteen camels were connected end to end and tied with iron chains, forming a small camel city with a radius of about thirty paces.

The Superintendent did not stand in the middle of the camel city, but squatted behind a camel, and three "camel drivers" stood by his side holding horizontal knives and shields.

Not far away, the wolf smoke has been piled up.

Fearing that it might not be lit later, a sturdy barbarian "Tuofu" was pouring oil on the grass that ignited the fire.

In the camel city, a small bonfire was also lit. A guard who got out of the sackcloth dipped an arrow tied with a kindling cloth with kerosene, and put it on the bow, ready to light it at any time.

Wang Hu and Zhang Cheng were a little confused, squatting at the place where the two camels were connected end to end under Chen Lvshuai's scolding, feeling that all this was so unreal.

The sound of hooves came faintly, like countless drumsticks beating heavily on a muffled drum.

The palpitating gray battle cloud is getting closer and closer, and a row of black dots rushing forward can already be vaguely seen.

"The thief is about two miles away from me. If the armor is loose, fasten it to Lao Tzu. If you are thirsty, drink water quickly, and if you are hungry, eat a few mouthfuls of dry food!"

"If you want to pee, pee quickly."

Following a "hunchback" gag, everyone burst into laughter.

Chen Lvshuai rode his horse over, stretched out his knife and knocked the "hunchback" on the head, and cursed: "Liu Er, do you want to die, and you don't wear a helmet, so hurry up and put it on for me!" superior!"

"Chen Shuai, this helmet is in the way..."

"Stop the fucking nonsense! Let me hear everything clearly, let me take care of it first, don't frighten the horse thief away from me. Listen to my order later, let me stand up and get up again, let me pick up the spear and then pick up the spear !"

Chen Lvshuai got off his horse, put the reins on the iron hook under the neck of a camel, turned over and climbed into the camel city, and said: "Ding Gui, hold on for me, wait for the horse thief to kill me before lighting the wolf smoke, the same sentence , don’t f**king scare away the horse thief for me.”

"promise!"

Han Shimei couldn't help but laugh out loud because he couldn't do without "Lao Tzu" and "Fucking Mother".Seeing him mentioning the wolf smoke, he couldn't help poking his head out and asking: "Chen Lvshuai, can the beacon son of Langyafeng see the dust brought up by the horse thieves?"

Chen Lvshuai didn't dare to "fuck it" with the superintendent "Lao Tzu", he looked up at the blue sky and white clouds, and then at the direction of Langyafeng.

"My lord, they should be able to see it, they will definitely be able to see it, but they haven't seen the beacon fire until now, fortunately we have been prepared."

"Understood, prepare to defend against the enemy."

"promise!"

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PS: I haven't decided whether to hold Datang or not, whether to initiate a vote or not.

(End of this chapter)