Three days later, Guo Song personally led 60,000 elite troops to the north, to Yunzhou, he appointed the commander Yao Jin and Li Bing as his left and right lieutenants, Ma Weijiang as the main general of the rear army, this expedition was also followed by Kang Bao, Wu Zhiyuan, Pei Xin, Liang Lingfeng, An Zhong, Li Tie, Yang Miao, Yang Xuanying and a group of fierce generals who bravely ran through the three armies.

The 60,000 troops all rode horses, and the logistics team consisted of 13,000 camels, which stretched for more than ten miles.

This day is the 18th day of June in the fourth year of Zhenyuan, which is the day of the great heat, the sky is falling on fire, and the heat is unbearable, but the 60,000 Jin troops still follow the king of Jin without hesitation.

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At present, the two major forces of the grassland, Sijie and Hui, are fighting against each other, and there are also some smaller Tiele tribes that have also divided one side, such as Dubo in the north, Huanggasi in the north, Guligan near Beihai, and then to the east, Bayegu and Murowei, etc.

The Hui and Sijie are bounded by the Oude Mountain, Sijie lives in the west of the Ude Mountain, and the Hui controls the east of the Ude Mountain, and several major water systems of the Mobei grassland are distributed in the territory of the Uighur, so that the Uighur controls the most fertile grassland and the most abundant pasture.

Wudeyuan Mountain is today's Hangai Mountain Range, stretching for thousands of miles, the mountains are towering, but after hundreds of millions of years of weathering, there are more than a dozen large and small canyon passages in the Wudeyuan Mountain Range, the large one is hundreds of miles wide, the small one is only 100 zhang, and the narrowest place is even a line of sky.

On this morning, a dusty procession was passing through a ravine, consisting of a dozen men, all ragged and tanned, leading more than two dozen horses, which were full of luggage, which looked old and dirty, and had not been washed for many years.

This is a typical team of gold diggers, there are many such gold diggers in the Mobei grassland, from various ethnic groups, Han Chinese, Tiele people, Khitan people and even Sogdians, among which Han people are the majority.

They moved around the steppe, had no supplies, and lived by stealing the herdsmen's sheep, and the herdsmen on the steppe hated them and were driven everywhere they went.

This gold panning team is the scout team led by Zhang Yun, pretending to be a gold panning team, they have been wandering in the grassland for nearly half a month, and they have almost become a professional gold panning team.

There is indeed an old gold guest in their team, named Liu Ting, a native of Daizhou, who claims to be a descendant of Liu Wuzhou, about fifty years old, almost thirty years of gold mining, with a warm and hearty personality, and a middle-aged man with a short head.

He is very famous in the grassland, and the grassland gold diggers call him Lao Ting, well-informed and experienced.

Of course, Liu Ting wanted to help the Jin army, and his only son served as a brigade commander in the Jin army.

"Guess what's the biggest threat to gold diggers? Let me tell you, not sick, steppe cavalry and the like, but wolves, half of the gold diggers were eaten by wolves, not even the bones and dregs left, so the gold diggers try to form a team, like us is the most than a dozen people, and try to walk against the mountain, encounter immediately flee to the mountain, although the wolves can also go up the mountain, but in the mountains, they are not as fast as the grassland, if you meet wolves on the grassland, everyone can not survive. ”

Liu Ting was very talkative, and gave them all kinds of experience in wild survival along the way, which benefited the scouts a lot, and Zhang Yun even decided that after going back, he would find someone to record Liu Ting's various experiences, which was too useful for the scouts.

"Lao Ting, it's getting dark, let's camp!" Zhang Yun said with a smile.

"It's okay here, light the bonfire, let's roast the yellow sheep!"

Today they hunted a yellow sheep, and everyone was hungry, so they waited for the roast in the dark.

The yellow sheep had been peeled and washed by the river, and the people had cut off the meat with knives and roasted it on the fire, and they drank milk wine in large gulps.

While eating on the head, Liu Ting suddenly shouted: "Everyone be quiet! ”

Everyone was quiet, and he listened carefully for a moment, and his face changed, "Not good! The wolves are coming, flee up the mountain, quickly! ”

"What about the horses?"

"Leave the horses alone, run away!"

The bonfire lit by the crowd was close to the rock, he drew his sword and cut the reins, and then climbed desperately up the mountain, and the horse neighed in horror, turned around and galloped, and in the blink of an eye, a pungent fishy wind rushed to his face, and he saw dense black dots galloping towards him, and everywhere was a green and faint patch.

There were more than a thousand wolves, and they rushed over the campfire, chasing a dozen horses, and then several of them were caught up, neighing, and then there was no sound.

Liu Ting didn't look back, just urged them to flee to the mountain, a dozen horses are not enough for the wolves to fill their teeth, they will definitely come back, they must cross the mountain before they come back, this is their only chance to live, the wolves will not go over the mountain, more than a dozen horses have bought them half an hour, it depends on whether they can seize this short opportunity.

They climbed all the way to the top of the hill before they stopped to catch their breath, at least five or six hundred feet from the valley.

"Do the wolves know we climb mountains?" Zhang Yun asked.

Liu Ting nodded, "Of course I know, the general listened, they have already returned." ”

Everyone held their breath and listened, only to see a low howl in the valley, and the bonfire they had lit had been extinguished.

"Old, how did they put out the campfire?" One of the scouts asked curiously.

"They're very smart, I've seen it with my own eyes, they leave a horse carcass, and they drag the horse's hooves over the campfire, and the horses put it out."

"Look! They're up the hill. A scout shouted as he pointed downward.

Under the moonlight, you can clearly see dense black dots rushing towards the mountain.

"Don't worry, it's not their territory to go over the mountain, they generally don't cross the line, let's go!"

The people crossed the ridge and walked to the other side of the mountain, and after walking for more than two hours, they finally descended from the east side of the mountain.

They had barely walked a mile when the sound of horses' hooves came out in the distance, followed by hundreds of black shadows, surrounding them.

"It's a Hui Ranger!"

Liu Ting hurriedly said to everyone: "They don't kill gold diggers, everyone calm down, I'll deal with it." ”

At this moment, a commander stepped forward and shouted, "Who are you? But the Tang army spies? ”

"Where are we spies, Tang Jun spies will not be as downtrodden as us, I am a gold digger, haven't you heard of it?"

Liu Ting spoke fluently in Huifu, and the commander looked them up and down, all of them were dark and thin, in tattered clothes, and they really didn't look like Tang Army scouts, just a group of gold diggers.

"Where's your horses?"

"We have met a wolf, and we have come over the mountain, and the horses should have been eaten by the wolf."

The commander smiled, "I also said how the wolves ran fast, it turned out to be you, yes, very experienced, it just so happened that our Khan was looking for some Han people, and it was your luck to meet you." ”

The commander ordered: "Take them to the tent!" ”

More than a dozen people were dragged onto their horses, surrounded by the Hui cavalry, and galloped to the east.

Zhang Yun never dreamed that he actually came to the royal court of the Hui people, and saw the legendary Hanerduo Bali City, the royal court of the Hui people is located on the bank of the Suolingshui River, surrounded by layers of camp tents, a radius of dozens of miles, the most central is the royal city, but the Hui Ya tent is not in the royal city, but next to the royal city, it is a certain egg-shaped white tent, covering an area of several acres, surrounded by countless cavalry guards.

'Woo-'

A low horn sounded, and a huge team was slowly approaching, and countless people ran out of the tent, prostrate on the ground.

The cavalry escorting Zhang Yun retreated one after another, their chests straightened, their spears clenched, their faces full of solemnity, and their eyes flashed with reverence.

Zhang Yun also guessed that this must be Hui Khan.

This is the new Khan of Hui, the loyal Khan, who has been on the throne for less than half a year.

The team walked in slowly, and neat groups of ironclad cavalry lined up, they were holding spears in their hands and wearing black iron armor, and they were murderous.

After walking through three thousand cavalry, the chariot of the Hui Khan finally appeared, which was a chariot with a wooden bottom, five zhang long and three zhang wide, with eight pairs of large wooden wheels underneath, and thirty war horses draped in gold in front of it.

The whole chariot was paved with gold and silver, and the whole body was covered with precious stones, shining brightly in the sun, very luxurious and dazzling, and on the ground floor stood ten gold-armored spear-wielding warriors, divided into three layers, and the Hui Khan sat on the highest seat.

The Uighur Khan, called Dorus, was about thirty years old, with a pale face, holding a golden wolf's head scepter, and his gaze was indifferent, like a sculpture, without any expression.

Not far behind him was an even more splendid chariot, only slightly smaller than the Khan's, covered with colorful satin, and topped by a light gauze tent, in which seemed to sit a woman.

"That's Princess Ye of Hui Hui, the granddaughter of the servant Gu Huai'en."

Liu Ting lowered his voice behind Zhang Yun and said: "This woman is extremely powerful in Hui Hui, and the alliance between Hui Hui and the Servant Bone Department depends on her to connect. ”

Zhang Yun nodded, just at this time, Hui Khan Doros saw Zhang Yun, and as soon as he raised his hand, the team slowly stopped.