When Gai Wu saw Lao Sangtou, he knew that the elders who often appeared by his father's side were not doing well now.
Although "Ye Owl" is usually not tall, this uncle has always lived with his head upright, just like a real Ye Owl, unwilling to bow his head to anyone.
But now, his back is a little hunched because he has been bent over for a long time, and his face is wrinkled due to the sandstorm, which is dark and dry. Obviously, he is exposed to the sun or blown by the wind and sand for at least half a year.
What saddened Lunaruo the most was that three fingers of his right hand were cut off.
He didn't pay attention when they first met, but once he pulled and pulled, he would inevitably find this amazing change.
Old Sangtou's martial arts were taught by Gai Tiantai himself when he was in Xingcheng, in other words, he used Gai's swordsmanship.
How can a man with only two fingers in his right hand hold a knife? This is simply a question that doesn't need to be asked.
So in an instant, these Lu Shuihu people who had reunited after a long absence knew the reason why Lao Sangtou was unhappy now. No matter how powerful he was in the past, a crippled man from Lu Shuihu, illiterate and incapable of anything else, would make life more difficult.
"Old Sangtou, what's wrong with your hand!"
Lunaruo scolded angrily.
"It was cut by a horse thief." Lao Sangtou put away his hand lightly, avoiding the sympathetic, surprised or angry eyes of those clansmen, and only bowed to Gai Wu Fuxiong in front of him.
"Master Gai Wu, stay safe. You are taller than the leader now."
"Uncle Sang, don't be like this."
The old friend reunited, but it was like this again, Gai Wu's nose was sour, he couldn't help but stepped forward and hugged Lao Sang's head.
"This is not the place to talk. Let's follow the mission to the oasis first, and we'll talk in detail when we arrive at the oasis."
Lao Sang nodded his head. He didn't come here to catch up with the past, but Lu Naluo pulled him hard and he had to come.
For this man with high self-esteem, perhaps he would rather those former companions not see him.
"Where are you going? Come with us!"
Lunaruo nervously grabbed Old Sangtou's shoulder again.
"I'm hired by a caravan as a guide." Old Sangtou said to Lunaruo, "My employer is not dead yet, I have to go back to the caravan. I'll come back to you when I get there."
Seeing that Lao Sangtou insisted on leaving, Lunaruo could only let go of his hand and watched his companion, who was slightly hunched over his back, walk step by step towards the caravan of the rest of his life.
"Why has he become so..." Lunaruo gritted his teeth and picked out the word "dead or alive" from his poor vocabulary.
"He wasn't like this before!"
"Who has never been down?" Gai Wu remembered that he couldn't find a job in Pingcheng, and he couldn't get enough to eat when he was hungry. There were more than 300 people, except for Luertai, who still had some income from selling fish. day.
His father died, and the Tiantai army of Nuoda was scattered. Some people would rather live in a foreign country and be impoverished than return to the sad place in Xingcheng...
Is it his father's fault
Or is it his fault
If not, whose fault is it
The commotion of Gai Wu and Lushuihu people caught He Mulan's attention. After summoning Gai Wu to ask if he was an old friend of the Tiantai Army, He Mulan nodded sympathetically.
"It's not easy to meet our old friends in this troubled time. Daxingyi is dead. We also need a reliable guide for our reference. If your friend wants to stay, you can stay in your team. The guide hired him."
Gai Wu didn't expect He Mulan to say such a thing. After a while, he said uncomfortably, "He probably won't want to come. He is concerned about my father's death..."
Gai Wu touched the two knives on his waist, feeling a little melancholy for a while. "
"Very brooding."
Gaitiantai's swordsmanship is difficult to rival in the world. Even Queen Meng's father, Meng Bao, a swordsman master, once praised Gaitiantai, who was still in his prime, and may become a master of swordsmanship, which shows his extraordinary martial arts.
And the eldest grandson of Wei who "defeated" him in martial arts was only famous for his leadership, but his martial arts were not as terrifying as today's Hua Mulan.
If the one who defeated him at that time was Hua Mulan, whose fame spread all over the world, maybe so many Tiantai troops would not leave in resentment, and eventually lead to the fragmentation of the Tiantai army.
It's not that no wise person guessed that this was a concession that Gaitiantai had to make in order to allow the Lushui Hu people to survive under the iron hoofs of the Wei army.
Lao Sangtou was so angry that he ran away. He believed that building Tiantai violated the oath of the Tiantai Army to advance and retreat together. He would rather die in battle with Gaitiantai to resist the Wei army than to sacrifice the other party to "protect everyone".
For the people of Wei who caused all this, it was difficult for Gai Wu to guarantee that he had no resentment, and he did not recommend He Mulan to use him as a guide for the entire army.
Even if he is an old friend, it has been so many years now, and no one knows what happened to him.
He Mulan would be willing to use Lao Sangtou to take care of her apprentice, and even Gai Wu felt that she could trust him, so she kept silent and didn't mention it.
Heqin's team led the caravan towards the oasis, but the scouts from the Iron Guard Battalion and the Hu Ben Army soon brought bad news.
There are already a lot of people stationed in the oasis. There are at least a thousand people in the oasis, and everyone is armed. At first glance, they are not ordinary travelers.
The river bank is full of war horses drinking water. It seems that this group of people has been stationed here for a long time.
"This is impossible. Although this place is remote, it is still on the road that the relatives will pass. In order to ensure the safety of the road, the king has already sent troops to clean up the road. In the short term, there will be no sand thieves and horse thieves. take the risk..."
Meng Yulong's face darkened when he heard the scout's words.
"Are you sure it's not a caravan?"
The scout of the Iron Guard Camp nodded affirmatively: "It should be the sand thieves. Only they don't set up tents and only sleep in blankets."
Because these people do not trust each other, in the dark night, the tent will cover up many crimes, it is normal for accomplices to eat in the dark, or to get up in the morning and die a few people.
Not all sand thieves cooperate sincerely, most of them gather little by little in order to attack larger caravans.
In this case, sand thieves who are looting outside usually do not camp and sleep, everyone is exposed to other people's noses, murders and thefts rarely happen, and once there is a little movement, everyone will be disturbed Awake.
"If the sand thieves occupied this place, it is no wonder that there is no news about Li Shijun and the few soldiers I left behind."
He Mulan sighed, presumably they were all dead.
"What should we do now?"
Meng Yulong asked He Mulan with a cold face.
"With so many of us, the sand thieves in the oasis probably already knew that we were here."
Even thieves have scouts.
Are there so many of them, the dust is not shallow, the other party should have already made preparations to meet the enemy.
"We've been walking all the way, and the boring bones are going to rust." Na Luohun looked at He Mulan with expectant eyes: "Every day, except to hurry, there is basically no danger, since Li Shijun may die at their hands. Here, we should avenge Li Shijun even more..."
His eyes stared at He Mulan.
"General, let's have a big fight!"
As soon as Luo Hun's words came out, everyone looked at He Mulan with bright eyes.
There are 5,000 elite Hu Ben army here, and the other party is only about 1,000 sand thieves, maybe a group of rabble. Sand thieves, horse thieves and the like are full of evil, and people with blood on their hands, even if they kill them, they are not killing innocents...
The most important thing is that Hu Benjun's spirit has been tense after such a boring journey all the time. If he doesn't vent, he may have problems.
Since He Mulan was a general, he naturally knew these hidden dangers of the Hu Ben army. She sent another team of scouts to spy on the front, and found that the sand thieves had found something wrong. After secretly starting to withdraw in batches, she immediately began to summon the Hu Ben army.
"Leave 3,000 brothers to protect the princess and the prince, and the 100-strong team from Hu Yi to Hu 20 will follow me to fight!"
He Mulan got off the horse, ordered people to lead Yueying, and continued to order the two thousand people who were called out of the team: "Change horses, everyone changes weapons!"
Of course, the horses used for the journey have no horsepower now. What is needed for charging is a vigorous warhorse. The cavalry usually prepares several horses to fight in turn in order to build up their horsepower.
Following He Mulan's order to prepare to attack, the two thousand tigers and armies changed their horses in unison, raised their long weapons, and followed He Mulan, who had already stepped over the shadows, to prepare to charge.
"Master, should we go too..."
Gai Wu rode his horse forward, but was stopped by He Mulan.
"You guys go look at the caravans that joined today. I'm worried that if any of them have any problems, there will be turmoil behind us."
There were also several hundred people in the caravan, so I was afraid that there was some conspiracy among them.
She always felt that Fomen and Juqu Muqian would not give up so easily, and she didn't know what was waiting for her.
"Alright then, Master, be careful."
Gai Wu nodded and ordered the Lushui Hu people to "protect" the safety of the good caravan.
Meng Yulong's first task was to protect the prince and princess, and of course he would not follow He Mulan to attack, so when the world-famous Hu Ben army started to charge, all bystanders were shocked by the shaking of the earth. blood boils.
Those horse thieves had already realized that something was wrong from the moment the sound of the hoofs came out. All the people still in the oasis got on the horses in a hurry, completely disregarding the belongings around them or the spoils of women and so on, and desperately moved towards the opposite of the sound of the hoofs. direction wild.
"Heaven Comes"
However, they were pursued by one of the most elite cavalry of the Wei State, and facing the enemy face to face was not an opponent, let alone giving them their backs.
Under the leadership of He Mulan, the cavalry and archery teams from Hu Shi to Hu Shi Shi immediately drew their long bows. He Mulan uttered the arrows, and hundreds of arrows scattered forward as if they had eyes. .
That battle was really heart-wrenching. The black arrows kept hitting the target with the first blasting arrow, like dumplings. Many thieves fell from the horses running in front, and then they were caught The fleeing companions behind him stepped on the soil, and occasionally some unlucky ones were tripped over by the fallen companions and fell to the ground together.
Except for the cavalry and archers, the knights waved their long weapons to speed up their pursuit. Due to the soft ground, the place where the Tiger Ben army passed along the road was a depression. This hellish depression extended all the way to the back of the horse thief, like a real fierce god, one after another. The fleeing horse thief devoured it.
The iron cavalry swirled furiously, wrapping the people in the oasis who had no time to escape. The Tiger Ben army also had a cruel side. The long-suppressed marching on the road had made these thieves eager for a real battle, but these horse thieves were obviously just some rabble who bullied the soft and feared the hard. Therefore, the tigers and armies who did not have a good fight were teasing these people like a cat and a mouse.
They sometimes let go of a gap, or chased in other directions in twos and threes, but when these horse thieves thought they had the opportunity to escape, the gap closed mercilessly...
These sand thieves have probably not encountered such a situation for a long time. After the fleeing team was eroded by this violent cavalry, it completely collapsed.
Many nearly hit the point of the gun and the hoof of the horse themselves.
He Mulan was at the forefront of the team, leading the Hu Ben army to smash through thorns, screaming across the shadows, leaving no armor behind wherever she went, and countless sand thieves who died in her hands. Now, the faces of the Iron Guard Battalion and the others who were looking at the formation not far away changed greatly.
At this time, the Tiger Ben army playing with the sand thieves was no longer an army, but a storm.
"vomit..."
Princess Xingping looked at the scene where the blood flowed into the river in front of her, and couldn't help but vomit in front of the horse.
Juqu Bodhi had never seen such a battle before, and his face was as pale as if it was covered in flour.
Meng Yulong estimated in his heart whether he would have such a record with this team. In the end, he could only reluctantly admit that he might be able to win, but not so beautifully or so cruelly.
He Mulan's purpose was indeed to break the psychological defenses of these horse thieves, because she needed to obtain information on these horse thieves in the desert through them.
One or two horse thieves may not matter to her, but once more and more horse thieves receive news of the return of the relatives, no one knows whether they will take risks for the huge wealth and eventually unite.
After the thunderous battle, the Tiger Ben army cut off the enemy's head with joy, and shouted back to the midst of their comrades.
And those who are watching all this, no matter what kind of mentality they have to watch, can't help but be dumbfounded at this moment, dumbfounded like a stone man.
Covered in blood, He Mulan rushed to the front of the battle in distress, and said to Juqu Bodhi and Meng Yulong, "About 200 people have run away, I need you to ask these undead horse thieves about this. Information about sand thieves on the road, I'm not very good at this..."
Before waiting for a proper response, He Mulan stopped her words and looked at the two strangely: "What happened to you??"
"No no no nothing..." Juqu Bodhi was so frightened that he hid behind Meng Yulong. "You, you, you don't wash first..."
"You mean this?"
He Mulan shook her head indifferently, and the enemy's blood beads fell off her hair along with her hair.
"It's a small matter, we'll deal with it later."
Bodhi swallowed and shrank inward.
Meng Yulong cupped his hands in admiration, and said from the bottom of his heart: "The general is mighty, and I am willing to serve you."
After speaking, he pushed Bodhi out behind him, sighed in his heart and pushed him to He Mulan.
"The prince is timid and lacks exercise. General Lao will take care of him for a while."
Poor Bodhi was inexplicably lifted to the front of He Mulan, who was covered in blood. He could smell the terrible blood and rust from his nose. Before he was ready to say "I, I, I, I'll go back to the team by myself" or something like that. As an excuse, he saw He Mulan grinning at Bodhi with a "loving" smile.
"No problem at all."
However, in Bodhi's eyes, He Mulan at this moment opened a bloody mouth, and that "kindness" expression also seemed to be saying to him:
"Of course, he must be delicious."
Mother!
Come and save me!