"Is this man crazy?" Cheng Yang almost didn't laugh out loud, and when he heard Tang Ning come back and tell him what was written in Ali Gu's letter, Cheng Yang felt that Ali Gu should have been ruthlessly beaten by reality and became delirious.

Tang Ning also wanted to laugh, Ali Gu actually dared to open his mouth to ask for weapons and armor from the Great Song Dynasty, isn't it bad to speak?

You want food, although we Song people are also hungry, but we are good neighbors, I tighten my belt, and it's nothing to share some with you.

If you want salt iron tea, no problem. We Song people are kind-hearted, and we are even more generous to our friends, as long as you open your mouth, I will send you some past.

But you want my big spoon for stir-frying and a kitchen knife for chopping vegetables, aren't you sincere in starving me? Your intentions are very vicious, and the two of us can only die......

"But think about it from another angle, is Ali Gu also broken and broken?" Tang Ning touched his chin and said, "My method was easy to use before, but it was very clumsy. Anyone with a little bit of brains can see that it's boring.

Although Ali Gu is a straw bale, less than one-tenth of his father and his grandfather's, he is also a king, and his brain is not enough, and his knowledge can make up for it.

I think he saw that we wanted to annex Qingtang, so he didn't feel the need to talk to us properly. ”

Cheng Yang shook his head and said, "Not really, if it is really what you said, he can directly make it clear in the letter, why bother to ask us for weapons and armor?" ”

Tang Ning shrugged his shoulders and said, "Probably because he doesn't want to completely tear his face, he still has the last glimmer of hope for us."

It may also be pretended, so that our army may not be taken lightly.

But these are my personal speculations, and I can't take them seriously. ”

Cheng Yang said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, the transfer envoy knows the Qingtang people better than us, and understands Ali Gu." He has been dealing with Qingtang people for decades, and those small calculations in their hearts should not escape the eyes of the transfer envoys. ”

What Cheng Yang said is really right, maybe there is no one who knows Qingtang people better than You Shixiong. That night, You Shixiong ordered the whole army to be on alert. He felt that outside the Jingyu Pass, there were ambushes of the Qingtang people.

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By the Huangshui River, the grass and trees are thick. The environment is very beautiful, and for a while people forget that this is Lanzhou in the northwest.

The water in the river is extremely clear, and a mischievous child, with a few playmates, is giggling and catching fish in the shallows of the river.

Where they didn't want to, several women chattered and squatted together to wash their clothes.

When the naughty child is tired of playing, he is ready to go ashore to rest. However, when he turned his head, he saw a knight in armor, not far away, riding on a horse, looking this way.

The knight's outfit didn't look like the knight's outfit he often saw. The child felt dazzled, so he rubbed his eyes.

When I looked again, the knight was gone.

Is it a hallucination? So thought to the child.

At night, the figure of the knight in the daytime always stays in the child's mind, lingering. The child's mother saw that the stinky boy was not sleeping well, tossing and turning, so she picked him up and spanked him.

At this point, the simple Qingtang people seem to be in line with the ideas of the Song people.

The child is disobedient? Beat it up and be honest.

The child cried, crying heartbreakingly. Of course, this is also his little cunning. As long as she cries loudly, her mother will feel sorry for herself and will not be ruthless.

And at night, my mother will also worry about affecting the people sleeping in other tents, so she will not beat herself anymore.

But the child was crying and crying, when suddenly he heard a dull rumbling sound.

The sound was not too loud for the child's mother to hear, but she could clearly feel the vibration of the ground.

The last time I felt this way was when Ali Bone's army came to quell the rebellion, and the knights he brought with him that made the earth tremble and killed all the men.

They were not the only ones who felt the vibration of the earth, the Qingtang tribe living on the edge of the Huangshui River, one torch after another lit up in the dark.

One by one, people stepped out of the tent and looked in the direction from which the dull sound came.

The voice was getting closer, clearer and clearer. The people of Qingtang scattered and fled, and they clearly knew that this sound was only made when the cavalry was running.

"Mother! Mother! The child hugged the old lady who had just beaten his ass and cried heartbreakingly.

The mother also held her son and wept silently, her family had no horses, and the only thing she could do was to hide the child, and she herself went to attract the attention of these cavalrymen, so as to create a chance for her son to escape......

The silence of the night by the Huangshui River was broken, and a dark shadow suddenly burst out of the woods. Immediately afterward, one black shadow after another kept coming out of the woods.

The last dense black shadow burst out of the dark woods, like the end of the horizon, swallowing up the darkness of the light.

The armor on their bodies reflected the light of the moon. The moonlight, which should have been soft, seemed cold and merciless to them......

"General Chu, catch a small one!"

Chu Dong was the commander of the horse army under You Shixiong, and this time the entire 3,000 cavalry that came with the army was under his control alone.

The task assigned to him by You Shixiong was to move along the Huangshui River, clear all the Qingtang forces along the Huangshui River, and rely on the mobility of the cavalry to attract the attention of the Qingtang people, so as to help the advance of the army.

Chu Dong turned his head to look at the child who was tied with his mouth tied and his body was still trembling, with a complicated expression.

Half a month ago, the army set out from Jingyu Pass. According to the original plan, the army went to Qingtang City step by step.

After all, the reason why the Song army entered Qingtang was to help Ali Gu quell the rebellion, not to pacify Ali Gu.

However, before that, the Song people had to take over Ba Jincheng first, so as to ensure that the retreat was worry-free. Otherwise, go straight to Qingtang City, as long as the Qingtang people send troops to cut off the back road, these 60,000 people will become their pockets.

It was in the city of Bajin that the first battle broke out.

And the initiator of this battle was none other than the eight-year-old son of the city lord of Bajin City.

When the city lord of Bajin City entertained You Shixiong, his eight-year-old son inadvertently told the conspiracy of the city lord of Bajin City, and was heard by You Shixiong on the spot.

Seeing this, the city lord of Bajin City smashed the cup, and the sword and axe hands who had been ambushed poured out together.

However, You Shixiong had already taken precautions, and what poured out was not the sword and axe hand of the city lord of Bajin City, but the sword and axe hand of You Shixiong.

"It's such a coincidence, you also smashed the cup......" This was the last sentence of the city lord of Bajin City before being chopped to death with an axe.

Truth be told, very few people would be wary of an eight-year-old kid. Therefore, when the child took out a dagger and stabbed at You Shixiong, no one reacted immediately.

Fortunately, this child is relatively short, and You Shixiong is relatively tall. He stood on tiptoe and stabbed the dagger into You Shixiong's ass.

With Tang Ning, as long as it is a traumatic injury, nothing will happen. After eliminating the poison and bandaging the wound, You Shixiong is no longer in serious trouble.

It's just that the old man is old, he bleeds a lot, and he is a little weak. In addition, although the little cub stabbed his ass, it hurt his heart, so You Shixiong has been recuperating in Bajin City.

Now it is the Shaanxi Road Strategy, Chen Qing, who is under the command of the army.

Because of this incident, the Song people had a reason to officially declare war on Qingtang. In the letter that Ali Gu received, the Song people scolded you Qingtang people for being wild and untamable.

That eight-year-old kid didn't hurt the butt of the transfer envoy, but the face of our official family, and we must get this account back for the official family.

With the events of the past half month, when Chu Dong saw this young child again, he couldn't help but feel a sense of vigilance.

"Forget it." Chu Dong looked at the child for a long time, and pointed to the woman who was unconscious outside the tent: "Is this your mother?" ”

The child couldn't understand, so there were Qiang people to help translate.

The child nodded again and again, and Chu Dong waved his hand and said, "Take it away together." ”

The soldiers answered, and then took the child and carried the woman away from the messy riverside tribe.

Blood irrigated the grass that had just sprouted, and slowly flowed all the way into the crystal clear Huangshui River.

This small riverside tribe, except for the mother and son, was not spared......