As soon as Mo Fengchu's feet touched the ground, a voice sounded from the caravan at the same time: "Don't worry, leave the rest to me!"
Lao Mo trembled when he heard the words, and shouted sternly: "Brothers, get down!" As he said that, he took the lead and threw himself on the ground with his head in his hands.
The rest of the guys followed suit and quickly lay down on their backs facing the sand. Their movements were crisp and neat, as if they had practiced it countless times.
This sudden and strange scene immediately made the black-robed woman and her companions confused as to what was happening in front of them.
However, in an instant, they saw the clues: those lying on the ground only accounted for half of the caravan, and there were more than a dozen guys who were still standing in the same place without moving.
The woman in black robe felt something was wrong: "You..."
Unexpectedly, before she finished speaking, a young waiter suddenly rushed forward and shouted at the same time: "Move!"
In an instant, the people standing took out their crossbows and short knives hidden in their clothes and rushed towards the confused robbers like crazy.
Long live our emperor!
The charge war cry of the Zhenjiang Protectorate was suddenly shouted from the mouths of those people, and it instantly resounded throughout the entire wilderness.
The originally ruthless and fierce robber was now completely stunned.
A series of powerful crossbow arrows first knocked down those holding long bows. Then, like crazy tigers, the short swordsmen rushed to the other robbers and slashed and stabbed without leaving any room.
For a moment, screams came one after another, and bright red blood rained out!
The young man who gave the order before was none other than Li Jiangyao, the primary school commander of the Pegasus Scout Battalion. At this moment, he ignored the fierce battle behind him, stared at the black-robed woman, and flew towards her.
The woman's reaction was also very fast. In the blink of an eye, she pulled out the soft whip from her waist, like a poisonous snake, and struck Li Jiangyao's eyes directly.
Almost at the same time, Li Jiangyao seemed to be doing magic. The long knife behind his back was already in his hand, shaking out a ball of knife light against the soft whip.
The blade rises and the stars fall.
This is the famous secret skill in martial arts at home and abroad - the Starfall Sword Technique!
Just a bang was heard, and the light of the sword and the head of the whip collided. The woman in black robe shuddered from the force of the repulsion and couldn't help but take half a step back. Li Jiangyao speeded forward and was close to her in a blink of an eye.
Horses leap across the Milky Way, meteors fly across.
Li Jiangyao's movement was as fast as a meteor, and his blade was like lightning, flying up and down around the black-robed woman without stopping at all.
Fortunately, the soft whip in the woman's hand was not an extraordinary thing. She danced with all her strength, but was unexpectedly cut into pieces by the Xingluo Knife.
However, despite this, her robe was still damaged by the sharp sword energy and gradually became dilapidated.
If the fight continues like this, the woman in black robe will be killed by Li Jiangyao's knife in just a moment.
Seeing that the situation was getting worse, and her men were about to be strangled by those mysterious soldiers, the woman suddenly became worried and deliberately exposed a flaw. Li Jiangyao used the tip of a knife to lift the hood veil.
Unexpectedly, she was so beautiful that when she showed her true face, Li Jiangyao couldn't help but be slightly stunned.
Taking advantage of this fleeting opportunity, the woman in black robe shook her hands and threw out three cigarette bombs. She immediately turned around and retreated, using all her internal strength to fly towards the west.
Du Jian rushed to Li Jiangyao with his sword in hand: "Boss, chase him quickly!"
Li Jiangyao raised his hand to stop him: "Forget it, with her Qinggong and body skills, she won't be able to catch her on horseback in a short time. There is a town not far ahead. Once she blends into the crowd, where will she be found?"
Du Jian nodded: "This little girl's kung fu is really good. Boss Li, have you seen her appearance clearly? Is she also a Turk?"
Li Jiangyao nodded slightly, turned around and looked behind him: "Fuck! Are they all dead?!"
Du Jian laughed and said, "There is no way. These Turkic brats are very tough. If the brothers don't use all their strength, they won't be able to suppress them. There were still three or four people who were seriously injured but not dead. While we were not paying attention, she quietly committed suicide."
Li Jiangyao frowned when he heard this. He felt that the reaction of these Turks was really unusual. He walked quickly to a corpse and opened the clothes with the tip of a knife.
"This guy has tattoos, go and look at other people's tattoos!"
Du Jian agreed and called his subordinates to check one by one. With little effort, he ran back happily: "Boss, they all have wolf head tattoos!"
Li Jiangyao was a little curious: "It seems that this is a sign of unity, but what does it mean?"
Mo Fengchu, who was standing nearby and waiting to thank him for saving his life, interrupted: "Master Li, these are Turkic wolf guards."
"Wolf Guard?" Li Jiangyao had heard this name when he was studying in the Imperial Capital's martial arts hall, and knew that it was the personal bodyguard of the leader of the Blood Wolf Clan. When Shandu Yimo was still the Great Khan of the Turks, the Wolf Guard The legion was invincible in almost all of the Western Continent and was known as the jewel on the scepter of the Turkic emperor.
He pondered for a moment and asked: "Didn't the Blood Wolf Clan abdicate? I remember that the current king of the Turks should be the Golden Clan, right? Why are these wolf guards here?"
Mo Fengchu: "Sir, I know a thing or two about this. Two years ago, the Blood Wolf Clan was facing internal and external troubles, and the Wolf Guard Rebellion broke out. They killed Shandu Yimo and supported Shanduhan to inherit the position of clan leader. . Later, Shandu Han assessed the situation, declared his allegiance to Ashina Zhijin, gave up the throne of the Great Khan, and then led his tribe to leave Flame Maple Forest City and return to the homeland of his ancestors."
Old Mo paused and continued: "As far as I know, the Wolf Guards also left with the young master."
"Where is the ancestral homeland of the Blood Wolf Clan?"
"It's north of the Yakobin Wasteland, a land of thousands of years of frozen soil." Mo Fengchu replied: "That ghost place is so far away, separated from the Western Xinjiang by the entire Turkic Empire, so it shouldn't appear here."
Li Jiangyao nodded and said nothing more. There must be some secrets unknown to Shengtang. Since the information is asymmetric, guessing is useless.
He put away the Xingluo Knife again, gave Mo Fengchu a few words of comfort, and told them to be careful on the road, try to stay away from the border area between Western Xinjiang and the Turks, and take a detour from the Tatar city to Persia.
Mo Fengchu was very grateful and solemnly thanked the Pegasus Scout Battalion for their help. When he learned that the young officer in front of him was actually the sworn brother of his young master Murong Xue, he couldn't help but feel even more passionate.
Regardless of the polite refusals of Li Jiangyao and others, he left one hundred taels of gold and two boxes of fine silks to the scouts, and then reluctantly said goodbye and continued on his journey.
After seeing off Rong Baozhai's caravan, Li Jiangyao ordered his men to take the corpses of all the Wolf Guards with them, and the whole team quickly returned to Yamen City, where the Pegasus Scout Camp was based, and reported the enemy situation to the Scout Captain Zeng Xian. .
After listening to Li Jiangyao's report, Zeng Xian was also keenly aware that there was something fishy behind the matter, so he immediately decided to release the messenger crow and report the whole story of the annihilation of the Turkic Wolf Guards and the five caravan murders. Zhenjiang Protectorate located in Anxi.
However, what Zeng Xian and Li Jiangyao did not expect was that the chiefs of the Protectorate did not pay enough attention to their report.
Although Deputy Governor Zhang Sanpi proposed that border patrols should be strengthened to ensure that the Shengtang caravan would no longer be attacked, he and the other two Deputy Governors Cao Yongji and Guan Zhan believed that the Turkic Wolf Guards were just a coincidence and not worth making a fuss about. .
For an incident like this, not only was there no need to send people to conduct investigations in Turkic territory, but there was no need to report the incident seriously to the imperial capital.
The Ghost Desert in Western Xinjiang has been quiet for twenty years, and the Turkic Empire is also in a mess. Everyone is living peacefully and peacefully, isn't it great?
The Pegasus Scout Battalion received an official reply from the top management of the Zhenjiang Protectorate and put aside the matter of the Turkic Blood Guard for the time being. Li Jiangyao was named and commended by the Governor's Office for his meritorious service in catching thieves, especially saving Rongbaozhai's silk goods worth three million taels of silver and the lives of more than a dozen clerks, and was promoted to the rank of school captain.
Calculating the time, he had only been in the Pegasus Scout Camp for half a year, and he had been promoted to captain in the blink of an eye, which really impressed all his colleagues.
Of course, behind this rapid promotion, the contributions of Murong Xue and Xu Youchang are indispensable.
You know, after Mo Fengchu's caravan safely left Western Xinjiang, Rongbaozhai Company, in accordance with the young master's instructions, immediately secretly gave 10,000 taels of snowflake silver to each of the three deputy governors in the name of gratitude. Xu Youchang, on the other hand, kept talking in front of Zhang Sanpi all day about how successful Li Jiangyao was and how hard he worked.
With the help of these two good brothers, it would be difficult for Li Jiangyao not to be promoted.
Time flies, time flies, and more than half a year has passed in a flash. During this period of time, Li Jiangyao continued everything as usual. In addition to leading troops to patrol the border and detect the enemy's situation every day, whenever he had free time, he would find excuses to sneak into the scout camp's library and look for information on Tieshi Mountain.
However, what disappointed him was that it had been almost a year since he had searched through all the information, but he had never seen a single word about Tieshi Mountain.
Li Jiangyao once suspected that the documents of the Imperial College were mistaken. Those records about the sages' ascension to other worlds might just be fabricated and fabricated by meddlesome people.
And as a result, his hope of returning to the modern world has become increasingly slim.
The calm and monotonous life of guarding the border silently polished Li Jiangyao's character. Occasionally, he would miss Xu Youchang and Murong Xue, recalling the ridiculous and joyful good times when the three of them were in the imperial capital.
On this day, Li Jiangyao suddenly received letters from two good brothers at the same time.
Whether it was a coincidence or an agreement between the two guys, Xu Youchang and Murong Xue were actually transferred out of the Zhenjiang Protectorate.
According to Xu Youchang, he left the Zhenjiang Army because his mother missed him. Because she felt sorry for her son who was suffering in Western Xinjiang, his mother grabbed his father's beard and cried and made trouble all day long, saying that if he didn't get the child back, no one would be able to live a good life. Xu Youchang's father was so punished that he had no choice but to ask Mr. Xu to transfer Xu Youchang to serve in the Xuanjia Corps through the relationship with the Ministry of War.
Li Jiangyao couldn't help laughing while holding the letter. When he was in the imperial capital, he had experienced how powerful Mrs. Xu was. The guy started making a scene, and even Xu Changyou and his grandfather wanted to go out and hide for a few days.
Therefore, for the sake of family harmony, even if Xu Changyou is not happy, he must go back to comfort his mother quickly.
As for Murong Xue's situation, it is not as simple as that of Lao Xu. Regarding the reason for the sudden transfer from the Protectorate, Murong Xue was vague in her letter, and it felt like she was keeping something secret. He only said that his family had managed to unblock the connections in the palace and paved the way for his future, allowing him to take a false position in the Hawpar Cavalry. In fact, he was working as an errand for the prince.
Regarding this matter, Li Jiangyao was happy for Murong Xue from the bottom of his heart. Is it a joke to hang out with the crown prince of Shengtang? When the new emperor ascends the throne in the future, little Murong will be able to complete the process of conferring titles and worshiping the prime minister.
However, before Li Jiangyao could finish being happy, Murong Xue's words at the end of the letter made him slightly uneasy.
Murong Xue mentioned one thing in a very subtle way at the end of the letter: because his family often had business dealings in the Western Continent, they had a lot of spy spies arranged. According to some unconfirmed news, some major events are currently happening in the Turkic Empire, which may soon affect the Ghost Desert in Western Xinjiang.
Murong Xue reminded Li Jiangyao that although people are in the military and cannot help themselves, everything should be considered in the long term and remember not to be impulsive and put yourself in danger.
These sincere instructions were both serious and far-fetched. Li Jiangyao wanted to hit him when he saw them: Damn, will you die if you speak more clearly?
Even if you want me to guard against danger, you have to tell me what the danger is first!
However, what he didn't expect was that the answer to the puzzle left by Murong Xue would soon be found.
An answer that surprised the Scout Camp, the Protectorate and the Holy Tang Court:
The Turkic army is about to attack Western Xinjiang.
