Tibet

Black Spear was overjoyed. He had been holding it back for a long time. He took out his iron mace, flipped the latch, and opened the door with a creak. Li Ye led the war horse over and said to Zhang Xiaohuan: "We are going to kill the enemy. You come here and lock the door." !”

Zhang Xiaohuan asked in horror: "Are you coming back?"

"Nonsense, we don't know the road, come here and close the door!"

Zhang Xiaohuan climbed out tremblingly, and Li Ye led the horse out.

Black Spear covered the poisonous arrows with more than twenty headless corpses. The two of them got on their horses, jumped their horses, and rushed towards the twenty horse bandits not far away.

At this time, Tuoba Changshun was also in a huge dilemma. In one attack, more than 70 people were killed. Including the initial casualties, the horse bandits had already lost more than 100 people, nearly 40% of them died. Especially the last brutal killing by the opponent frightened all the horse bandits, and no one wanted to continue the fight.

Although Tuoba Changshun was a little timid, the huge temptation of a hundred thousand old sheepskins made him a little bit unable to let go. Moreover, he was always in the distance and did not see the fierce killing of the other party.

At this moment, screams were heard in the distance, and several horse bandits rushed over, shouting: "They came out and the young chief was killed!"

The young chief is Tuoba Xiu, the son of Tuoba Changshun. He is only seventeen years old and has no experience at all. This is his first time hunting fat sheep with his father.

Unexpectedly, what they encountered was not a fat sheep, but a ferocious tiger. When Tuoba Changshun heard that his son had been killed, his whole chest was about to explode. Veins popped out on his forehead, and he looked up to the sky and roared like a wild beast.

"Get on my horse with me and cut them to pieces!"

The horse bandits mounted their horses one after another and followed the chief to fight.

Tuoba Changshun's son Tuoba Xiu was shot through the throat by a flying knife from a black spear. A dozen people around him were all killed by Li Ye, and only two or three people escaped.

Li Ye urged his horse to go faster, and a crowd of dark knights appeared in front of them. The leader was wearing an iron helmet and armor. This was the only one among them wearing armor, and he should be their leader.

The two of them were getting closer and closer. Tuoba Changshun's eyes were filled with anger. His face was distorted by the extreme anger. He was holding a mace in his hand and wanted to beat the opponent to pieces with one blow.

It's a pity that he has no chance to take revenge. He is just an experienced horse bandit, not an experienced general. Suddenly a cold light flashed in Tuoba Changshun's eyes. Before he could react, there was a sharp pain in his throat. He clearly felt something thrust into his eyes. After entering his throat, all the strength in his body immediately dissipated.

Tuoba Changshun finally began to feel fear. He finally realized the fear of countless merchants who had been killed by him in the past twenty years. It was a fear of death and an incomparable nostalgia for life. How much he wanted to live again.

Countless innocent businessmen who were killed by him, as well as the women who were insulted and killed by him, all wanted to live, but he didn't give them a chance, and now it was finally his turn.

A bigger cold light flashed, and Tuoba Changshun's head flew up, flying more than ten feet away, and the headless body fell down.

Many people did not see the death of the leader. The horse bandits were still yelling that they would cut each other into pieces. Li Ye charged into the crowd like a tiger.

Immediately, heads flew up and blood splashed everywhere. Li Ye slashed left and right, killing these weak horse bandits like he was chopping melons and vegetables. There were stumps and broken arms everywhere he passed, and cries and screams came one after another.

The black spear cooperated tacitly. He went around behind the horse bandit, cut off the opponent's retreat, and wielded the elephant trunk knife to kill the horse bandit from behind. He was not as fierce and cruel as Li Ye, and basically did not chop the opponent's neck.

His main task was to intercept the other party's escape, and killing was secondary. Black Spear killed more than a dozen horse bandits trying to escape.

Li Ye was surrounded by corpses and rivers of blood. Many horse bandits who turned around and fled were shot through the back of the neck by him with a flying knife.

The remaining dozens of horse bandits split into two directions and fled for their lives, riding horses as hard as they could. Li Ye chased the largest group of horse bandits from behind. He kept shooting the horse bandits off their horses with his bow and arrows, and chased them for nearly twenty miles in one breath. The group of horse bandits he killed was eventually slaughtered by him, and no one survived. However, another group of horse bandits who fled to the northwest had a lucky escape.

The duty of eradicating evil is done, and if these horse bandits are not exterminated, they will continue to kill more innocent people.

In this night battle, only 17 of the more than 230 horse bandits escaped, and the rest were all killed, including the bandit leader Tuoba Changshun and his son.

The horse bandits active on the Gansu-Shaanxi border disappeared from then on. Xie Di, the governor of Huizhou, wrote a special memorial and handed it to the court. The memorial was transferred to the imperial court of Emperor Li Longji. Li Longji thought for a long time before approving the memorial. A line of words, "Abolition of bandits and peace of mind, benefiting one party, and meritorious service to the country, Li Ye is promoted to General Ningyuan!"

At dawn the next day, Li Ye and his party went on the road again. They captured the opponent's war horses and obtained 20,000 taels of silver and more than 800 taels of gold as loot, as well as a large number of gems and jade. In addition, there were more than 200 war horses and ten camel.

Although Black Spear was not quick enough to kill people and had too many worries, he was very effective in handling the funeral affairs. He roped in Zhang Xiaohuan to help him, piled more than two hundred corpses together, cut down a large number of dead branches and shrubs, and cut the corpses together. Burn the fire.

After walking for dozens of miles, I also saw black smoke burning in the distance.

"Sir, this is not the way to go! Those bounty hunters are unscrupulous and unpredictable. How about we change our name, put on makeup, go to the Xue tribe, kill their chief, provoke civil strife among them, and the bounty issue will naturally be over. Of."

Li Ye also had a big head. This matter was not so easy to solve. Moreover, they were still far away from Xuebu. Even if they reached Xuebu's territory, it would be even more difficult to find the chief's tooth tent.

"Let's take one step at a time! When I come back from Anxi and the reward is still there, I will think of a way to solve it. There is no chance now."

The three of them speeded up. A few days later, they passed through a canyon and entered the Lishui River Valley, also known as the Wushaoling Canyon. Once there, they no longer needed a guide.

Zhang Xiaohuan also made a lot of money as a guide on this trip. Li Ye recognized his contribution in collecting the corpses and taking care of the horses, so he gave him twenty horses, five camels and one thousand guan of money. Zhang Xiaohuan was so happy that he said goodbye and went back happily.

Zhang Xiaohuan immediately reported to the government after he returned. This was what Li Ye had repeatedly told him. He must report to the government immediately after returning. The governor and the county magistrate immediately came with a large group of people. What they saw was that it had been torn apart by wolves. of corpses.

Coincidentally, just after Zhang Xiaohuan left, Li Ye met a Sogdian caravan heading to Chang'an in the Lishui Valley. They were very interested in Li Ye's two hundred horses.

The two parties quickly negotiated a price, and Li Ye sold 200 horses to the Sogdian caravan at half the market price for ten gold dinars per horse.

Li Ye received two thousand dinar gold coins for the first time, which was equivalent to two thousand gold coins of the Tang Dynasty.

Without the encumbrance of their horses, Li Ye continued westward and arrived in Guzang County, Liangzhou eight days later.

They stayed in Liangzhou for several days. After resting and replenishing supplies, the two continued northward, passing through the entire Liangzhou and half of Ganzhou, and arrived at Zhangye City five days later.

Li Ye was riding on a camel. He found that riding a camel was much more comfortable than riding a horse during a long journey. The camel's back was very wide. He didn't need to use his legs like riding a horse. Instead, he could relax and lie down comfortably on a bed. Mounted on a Sogdian ottoman between the front and rear humps.

This is also the secret why Sogdian merchants are able to travel thousands of miles. They try not to be so tired.

Li Ye and the others have ten camels, and the other five camels are also trophies. They carry a large amount of dry biscuits and water, which are supplies for the horse bandits.

In the morning, the two entered Zhangye City. Li Ye encountered a dilemma. Should he go to see his grandparents and their family?

To be honest, he didn't want to go. He had never met his grandparents' family, and he didn't have any tokens. More importantly, his grandfather had kicked his mother out for fourteen years, which made him resentful.

"Sir, let's find an inn to stay at. You'd better go and meet us! Out of etiquette, you should go, otherwise your mother will be sad."

Li Ye thought of his mother. Black Spear was right, even for his mother's sake, he should go.

Li Ye nodded, "Let's stay here first!"

The two found a large inn to settle down. Li Ye took a good bath and changed his clothes. He wore a green shirt, a gauze hat on his head, and a leather belt around his waist. He looked elegant and elegant, and returned to his normal state in Taixue. temperament.

Li Ye inquired about it, and soon arrived at Pei's house. He walked up the steps and looked inside the door.

Suddenly a crisp voice came from behind, "Who are you looking for?"

It seemed to be a little girl. When Li Ye turned around, a few steps behind him stood an eleven or twelve-year-old girl with a double-ringed bun and a light yellow half-sleeved skirt. She had picturesque features. Delicate and pretty.

Li Ye smiled and said: "I come from Chang'an, my surname is Li, and my mother used to live here."