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Qiming Khan pondered for a while, deeply felt that what Chen Ping said was reasonable, and said with a smile: "Yes, you have thought it through. This matter was thus decided, and Ben Khan immediately sent people to give an order to the Tiele tribes. Thinking about it, the old thief must be very willing to go south to Yongzhou to fight in the grass valley. ”

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Su Changqing also woke up early at dawn, and the war horse was standing by his side, and the iron spear was inserted beside him. The bow is not wound, but the crossbow is ready, just turn over and step on the crossbow. If you have a good crossbow string on your bow, you can fire it instantly.

After they crossed the Qilian Mountains, they still needed to continue southwest, through the vast West Sea, to reach the territory of Tuyuhun.

This is a vast wilderness and the Gobi Desert, and it takes great courage for an army of 3,000 people to cross this inaccessible place.

Jiang Mulang's eyes were red, just yesterday, he found that he was actually lost, and now he only knew that if his side wanted to reach Tuyuhun's lair, he could only go southwest.

Yesterday evening, he had already told Su Changqing and Li Xiang that he was responsible for leading the way but had lost the way, and the three of them discussed for a long time with gloomy faces, and then ordered the whole army to rest.

The dead grass beneath their feet was very sparse, and they could feel the terrain getting higher, but it would be a devastating mistake to take the wrong path in this place.

"Did you find the locals?"

Su Changqing drank gruel and asked lightly.

Jiang Mulang shook his head a little desperately and said, "No, it seems to be a dead place here, and there are no people." ”

"What did the Tuyuhun merchant we robbed on the road say?"

"They say they've never been here, and the place looks so similar that people who don't live here often can't tell the way."

Li Xiang, who had not spoken, suddenly shook his head and said, "Why don't we turn back!" ”

Su Changqing chuckled and said, "Xiangzi, this is not a joke, we have a military order, and we don't even see the face of the enemy, so you want us to turn back!" ”

Li Xiang sighed and said, "In the past few days, I have always felt that there is something wrong with that military order. And it seems that our connection with the general in those days has been cut off. ”

Su Changqing and Jiang Mulang glanced at each other, and then said with a wry smile: "I also thought of it, there are people who want to be unfavorable to our general, but with the general's means, we don't have to worry about his safety at all, what I'm worried about is that we fail to complete the military order, and people will talk about us, but cause trouble to the general." ”

Li Xiang thought for a moment, sighed, and said, "I understand, so even if we know that there is a problem with the military order, we must think of ways to complete this mission." ”

Jiang Mulang stood up and looked around: "If we knew in advance that there was this task, we could have sent a small group of scouts to explore the way in advance, and sketched out the map, but now we are in a hurry, and this ghost place is really strange, no matter which place you look at, it is the same." ”

Su Changqing said with a smile: "It can't be the same, there are always differences, it stands to reason that as long as we go in the southwest direction, we should go to the territory of the Tuyuhun people!" ”

Jiang Mulang's mouth moved, but he didn't say anything in the end.

Li Xiang frowned and said: "We know the southwest direction, but the problem is that if we take the wrong road and turn around, God knows where we will go."

Su Changqing regretfully took out a small wooden box from his arms, opened it and looked at it, pointed to the southwest, and said, "That's the southwest...... What a pity! ”

Li Xiang and Jiang Mulang came to Su Changqing's side to take a look at the exquisite wooden box in his hand, this thing was made by their general Wang Junlin himself, there were only two in Gaotai City, this time they brought out one, this was also the confidence that they dared to cross Qilian Mountain and go to the nest of the Tuyuhun people without exploring the route clearly.

However, there are some things that are one thing in theory, but in fact they are another, they thought that if they had a compass, they should not get lost, and as a result, Wang Junlin created this compass for them, and when they were training in the past, they never got lost at any time, thinking that they would never get lost again in this life, but in fact, they ......

"I suddenly remembered that the general once said that when we have a compass, we will still get lost, and that our understanding of the world is too superficial, and in some special places, even if we have a compass, it will not help or the direction of the compass will be wrong. Because we don't have what the General calls a standard map. ”

Jiang Mulang played with the compass, thinking that he could find some secrets from it and show them a clear way out.

Su Changqing finally sighed and said, "Today, send a hundred people to each of the south, west, and southwest directions, and let them search within a range of fifty miles, with the purpose of finding a living person, and then arrest them back, and use darkness as the time limit." The army will continue to repair here, and when we have determined the route, we will talk about going to the territory of the Tuyuhun people. ”

Jiang Mulang and Li Xiang immediately agreed, and soon the three of them each sent a hundred scouts, one person and three horses, to explore the way.

Seeing that the three hundred scouts scattered in a team of ten people and disappeared from view, Jiang Mulang couldn't help but sigh and said, "If the general is here, he must have something to do to find a way." ”

Su Changqing snorted coldly and said, "Nonsense, if the general is here, we will definitely not get lost." ”

After the scouts were removed, the 3,000-strong army continued to rest in place, and the wasteland of Nota was quiet again.

Suddenly, behind the hay not far north of the camp of the three thousand cavalry, a face appeared, and when he saw that the three hundred scouts had disappeared, he quickly hid his body, far from the camp, and there was a horse hidden in the col behind him, and he rode five miles east, and shouted: "Great boss, they still have not found the right way today...... Scouts were sent to explore the way, and the army was resting in its place. ”

The place chosen by Wu San is very hidden, in front of it is a mound that does not grow grass, next to it is a deep ditch washed out by the flood, between the mound and the deep ditch is a low-lying clearing, hiding here as long as there is no fire will not be discovered by the three thousand cavalry of Gaotai City.

Two thousand men with cold expressions each led two horses and scattered quietly in the open space, although they were clearly horse thieves from the point of view of their attire, but the discipline they showed was not much worse than the three thousand Gaotai City cavalry on the other side.

Wu San opened his eyes, looked at the scout coming back, and scolded with a smile: "Xiaoshizi, you bastard, you are also a special scout trained by the general himself, and he has been a horse thief in the past few months, and now he doesn't look like a soldier." ”

PS: It may be the reason for the lack of sleep for a long time, and I feel a headache when I code words for a long time, sorry, there are only three more tonight————

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