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The 500 cavalry brought by Xizhou were divided into two teams by Gao Jun and Guo Zhizhao, one left and one right, arranged ten miles north of the herd as the gateway. The Rangers, who are good at killing enemies from a distance in sports, are even further away.

As soon as the morning dawned, a team of about 300 Qiuzi patrol horses galloped out from the direction of Shaya City, heading straight for the herd, and judging from the smoke and dust rising behind them, the speed was very fast.

A cavalry squad of Guo Zhizhao immediately maintained a high degree of alert, with bows wound, knives, and arrows unsheathed. The leader of the squad turned around and looked at the West State flag in the camp, which had not moved—no instructions.

However, the shepherd team led by Duoduo and Su Tuoer rushed over from a distance first, and stuck in the middle of the Tang Army and the Guizi Horse Team. This is the meaning of Gao Jun, what is the matter with the shepherd team first.

The shepherds were not divided, but they were still united, with Sutol in charge of the long knife men and many more in charge of the crossbowmen. There were also 300 Qiuzi cavalry rushing over on the opposite side, and the shepherd team was also 300 people here, and the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, ten, five, and three miles...... Behind Duoduo, two small horse teams in Xizhou remained motionless.

Many, many shouted to the archers, "Shoot an arrow and ask them what they mean!" ”

Hearing this, a horse galloped out of the longbowmen's ranks, and one of the longbowmen ran to the front of the group and shot an arrow at the Shaya City horsemen.

There was no wind in the world, and the long arrow could be seen very clearly in the blue sky, drawing a high, fast arc, and plunging far into the sand as it fell.

And the horse team of Shaya City that rushed over didn't seem to see this long arrow, and at a distance of more than ten steps from the place where the arrow fell, they turned their horses around and turned in the direction of Kangli City. Many people pouted, "People said that they didn't come at us!" ”

The shepherd team is not as formal as Tang Jun, and after hearing a lot of words, they shouted, "I think they are pretending to be stupid!" You won't be able to see such a long arrow! ”

At noon, Gao Jun and Guo Zhizhao ordered a pot to cook and barbecue the game they had hunted, and the camp was filled with an attractive fragrance. At this time, another horse team from Kangli City went to Shaya City, Guo Zhizhao and Gao Jun threw down the roast rabbit leg they were gnawing on in their mouths, "Come and join in the fun if you have a meal!" Gao Jun ordered, "The herd is ten miles to the north!" ”

With a wave of the flag of Xizhou, the two teams of cavalry that were on guard in front moved north at the same time, while the horse team in Qiuzi City still galloped past at a distance of twenty miles. "It's a routine patrol. ”

Guo Zhizhao reminded Gao Jundao, "Brother, this may also be a commonly used method of confusion, and we must not slack off. ”

Gao Jun smiled, "Big brother, don't worry, my shepherd team is not so easy to deceive." It's just that they are all horses, and they can't compare to your regular cavalry. Don't you believe it, but there was a moment when they were tireless? ”

Guo Zhizhao put his hand on the pergola and looked over, and found that those herding teams were indeed more active than his own subordinates, except for the banner of Tianshan Shepherd in the team, all of whom were in a state of non-stop. Some galloped out to shoot hunting, and some ran back to pick up a piece of barbecue. But as soon as the flag moved, these people immediately returned to the team.

In the evening, the situation arose, in the darkening sky, the sand and the sky gradually became one, and on the sand road from west to east, there was a caravan of thirty or forty people walking at night, which was slowly approaching the herd of the Tianshan herd. They had many tents and wooden boxes full of scavengers, but there was very little cargo, no one to carry lights, no one to make a noise.

But a troop of thirty shepherds, fast crossbowmen, galloped in from somewhere in the darkness and stopped them. Subsequently, the camel team lit the lamp and was brought to Gao Jun and Guo Zhizhao.

The leader of the caravan was a man in his thirties, who said that his name was Gan Limu, and that he had taken these people to Chang'an. Gao Jun looked at his caravan and asked him what kind of business he was.

Gan Limu said that they were a juggling team that went to Chang'an, performed all the way there, and when they came back, they used the money they earned to carry Chang'an's goods back to the Western Regions.

Gao Jundao, why don't you light the lamp?

"It's not that they don't light the lamps, but they don't dare to do so on this part of the road, because some people from the five cities of Qiuzi will come to collect the road tax after they find out," he said to Gao Jun and Guo Zhizhao, "We haven't earned any silver yet, and we don't have money to pay taxes." If you don't have any goods when you go, you don't have to pay the excise tax, you only have to pay it once when you come back. ”

Guo Zhizhao looked at these people, and sure enough, there were people of all ages, as well as young boys, girls, and old people.

Su Tuo'er said, "Don't be afraid, do you know who is in front of you?" It is Master Gao, the supervisor of the Tang Silk Road, and General Guo, the captain of Xizhou Zhenwei, who will pick up the lamp and walk your way! ”

Gan Limu was very happy to hear this, and said to these people, "Then, I will rest assured, and I will no longer be afraid of someone coming." But it's getting late, and we don't want to leave, so it's time to put on a show of our best for the two adults! ”

So, just in front of the Tianshan Pastoral Camp, these people unloaded the wooden boxes from the camelback, opened them, and a little monkey jumped out of them, with a bell hanging around his neck and squeaking, which was not very friendly to these people in front of him.

Then they took out more than a dozen wooden poles of different thicknesses from another large box, and the ends of the poles had tenons, which they quickly joined together and erected in the middle of the field, but they towered into the night sky, and a cover lamp was picked on the top of the pole, which kept shaking in the wind.

Then, the juggling began.

Guo Beizhao's cavalry was still ten miles away from afar, but Gao Jun's herding team whistled, and some of the dozens of people crowded over to watch the excitement, and Gao Jun didn't care about them, the spectators here were Guo Beizhao, dozens of herding teams, twenty-nine shepherds, and then those horses who stayed overnight.

First, there was a teenage boy who played the waist drum and directed the little monkey to perform, and he didn't know when he changed into his outfit, but it was the costume of a Tang official, and he also wore a black gauze on his head. It turned its heels, made a foreign appearance, and no one laughed.

The show ended hastily, and the monkey brought a plate to the rangers to please, but no one paid attention to it. The monkey was extremely unhappy, and the little face became redder and redder, squeaking and jumping defiantly.

The shepherds simply aimed their arrowed crossbows at it, and did not speak. Its little master was reprimanded by Ganlimu and hurriedly called it back.

Gao Jun took out a handful of copper coins from his pocket and threw them on the sand, and said with a smile, "Isn't it time to put on the Western Regions Hu Uniform as soon as you enter the Tang Dynasty?" ”

Ganlimu realized that it was the monkey's costume that made these people unhappy, and explained it in a row, and waved his hand to go down, and then, the second program began.

It was the little girl who was on the stage, looking like a teenager, with her hair tied up in a bunch on top. It turned out that she was going to show these people a balance kung fu on a high pole. First of all, her pole climbing technique is unexpected, too fast! A long pole two feet high, she climbed to the top of the pole in the blink of an eye with her hands and feet.

The people looked up one after another, and in the light of the windproof lamp at the top of the pole, they saw that she only bent one leg to clamp the wooden pole, and the other knee was supported, and her body leaned out, and she had already picked the lamp in her hand. The top of the pole was extremely thin, and it shook dramatically as she rotated.

Finally, the shepherds cheered up.

I saw that she hung up the lamp, turned over to the head of the pole, supported the head of the pole with one hand, and stood upside down.

Gao Jun also nodded secretly. Then I saw her body flip over at the head of the club, and her hand was disengaged, and the head of the club shook back and forth with the lamp. One of her feet found the top of the pole very accurately, and stepped on it steadily, the weight of her whole body was on that foot, and there was nowhere else to hold it, and it was still shaking.

There was a burst of applause from the crowd below. (To be continued.) )