Chapter 18 Bad Premonition

When he heard Mai Tiebang's inquiry, the caravan's guards looked incredible, and they looked at Mai Tiebang like they were looking at the local bun. It seemed as if it was a shame that he had never heard of the Red Wolf Rider.

Sun Zixin was far more stable than those guards, and quickly explained to Mai Tiebang: "My Lord Hui, the Red Wolf Cavalry is the most elite cavalry under the King of Hejian. Since its establishment, it has been invincible in the attack and invincible in the battle. Whether it is the Tuyuhun people in the west or the horse thieves wandering on the grassland, they have suffered great losses under this cavalry and are the guardian god of our caravan."

"The Caravan's Protector?" Yang Shi chewed this sentence and suddenly realized in his heart. No wonder the caravan's guards had such an expression.

Mai Tiebang snorted from his nose and disagreed with Sun Zixin's answer. As he spoke, the cavalry was getting closer and closer to the caravan. When the two sides were dozens of meters apart, the cavalry turned to the right, passed by the flank of the caravan, and slowly moved away as the horse's hooves flew away, and became a red cloud again in the eyes of everyone.

"Why, don't they check?" Yang Shi thought he had the opportunity to contact this cavalry, but he didn't expect that the cavalry ignored the caravan and left on his own.

"Sir, I don't know that the Red Wolf Cavalry is only responsible for attacking horse thieves and maintaining business roads. The Red Wolf Cavalry doesn't care about anything else," Sun Zixin explained patiently.

"So that's it." Looking at the Red Wolf Cavalry going away, Yang Shi felt thoughtful. The team was about one horse. It can be seen that these cavalry did not use too much speed. It was just the movement of hundreds of cavalry, but it gave people the feeling of thousands of troops. This feeling was very similar to the Xuanlong Army led by the prince for the first time.

"Why, are there many horse thieves here? Why didn't a family see any of them?" Mai Tiezhang asked in confusion. He was a robber, and later became Emperor Xuan of Chen, but he still did not change his true nature. He traveled a hundred miles at night to steal property. He had long wanted to see what the difference between the horse thieves on the grassland and the robbers in the south. Unfortunately, after leaving Xiaoguan, he didn't even encounter a team of horse thieves. This is of course a good thing for the caravan, but very depressed for Mai Tiezhang.

There are not many horse thieves, just look at the guards of the caravan. Judging from the guards of this caravan, at least the chance of encountering horse thieves is quite high. This time, Sun Batou couldn't help but say happily: "Sir, there were many horse thieves on the grassland, but over the years, our country's strength in the Sui Dynasty has become increasingly strong. With the Han King and Hejian King working together to encircle and suppress, and now even the Tuyuhun people dare not invade again. This caravan is much safer."

When the Red Wolf Rider left and was almost invisible, the caravan started to set off again. The tingling ringing ringed on the grassland again. Yang Shi was very interested in the Red Wolf Rider, and rode his horse to approach Sun Chatou and asked Sun Chatou about the deeds of the Red Wolf Rider.

In order to understand the people's conditions and the political achievements of officials in various places, the emperor often sent envoys to patrol the world. Sun Batou saw that Yang Shi and others seemed to be not officials, and liked to ask questions. He guessed that Yang Shi was probably the envoy sent by the emperor. He intended to make a name for the Red Wolf Cavalry, so he naturally said everything.

This Red Wolf Cavalry was formed nine years after Kaihuang. Before the Red Wolf Cavalry was formed, after crossing the Yellow River, there were as numerous horse thieves as a cow on the hundreds of miles of road from Jincheng County to Wuwei County. Almost no caravan would not encounter horse thieves. Fortunately, most horse thieves were for wealth and would not kill them all. Often, the caravan's property would have to be lost at least one-third of it before they could pass.

Many caravans fought with horse thieves because they were unwilling to make any losses, and all of them were bleeding. Some caravans even had all their goods looted, but all of them were killed. During that time, caravans leaving the frontier were almost tied to their waists to seek wealth. Some horse thieves were even more bold and even the military officers dared to rob.

After the establishment of the Red Wolf Cavalry, the largest horse thief on the grassland at that time, was launched in the first battle. At that time, there were more than 2,000 people in the grass flying unit, and everyone was proficient in riding and shooting, while the Red Wolf Cavalry had only 400 people. However, the Red Wolf Cavalry had no scruples and personally escorted a group of weapons and armor to Wuwei County from Xiaoguan to lure the grass flying to attack.

This batch of materials includes 2,000 armor, long swords, and strong bows. Everyone knows that if the food of weapons is very different from the Turks, Tuyuhun and other countries, let alone these horse thieves. If these materials fall into the hands of horse thieves, they can immediately form a strong army of 2,000 people, and their combat power is at least twice as strong as before.

After hearing about the escort of this batch of materials, Cao Shangfei was immediately moved and dispatched all his troops to intercept the Red Wolf Cavalry on the way. The two sides fought fiercely for a long time. The result of this battle was that Cao Shangfei, which had been rampant in the grassland for more than ten years, was completely destroyed. The 400 Red Wolf Cavalry was injured, and in the end, only 315 people were alive.

This battle made the Red Wolf Cavalry famous, and the other horse thieves retreated from afar when they saw the Red Wolf Cavalry. However, the Red Wolf Cavalry refused to let these horse thieves go. As long as the Red Wolf Cavalry finds traces, no matter how far or how long it is to pursue them, the Red Wolf Cavalry will not give up.

After extermination of five or six horse thieves in succession, all the horse thieves on the grassland were furious. Although the Red Wolf Cavalry represents the court, you cannot kill them all and not give others a way out. Moreover, because the Red Wolf Cavalry has too high requirements, there are only four or five hundred people. All the horse thieves on the grassland have no 100,000, and there are also 30,000 to 40,000, unless everyone has three heads and six arms, can they really be able to block a hundred?

With this idea, more than a dozen horse thieves quickly combined to form an army of nearly 10,000 people. This time, the Red Wolf Cavalry no longer lures the horse thieves to attack, but the Horse thieves lures the Red Wolf Cavalry to lie in. Nine thousand horse thieves surrounded the Red Wolf Cavalry with only more than 400 people. As a result, after a hard battle, the Red Wolf Cavalry not only broke through the siege of the horse thieves, but also killed the horse thieves to become defeated. Four thousand horse thieves died under the sword of the Red Wolf Cavalry, almost dyeing the entire grassland red. This time, the Red Wolf Cavalry only paid dozens of people.

After these two battles, the Red Wolf Cavalry confirmed its invincible reputation on the grassland. All the horse thieves had to escape when facing the Red Wolf Cavalry, and the caravan became safer. However, the number of the four hundred Red Wolf Cavalry was smaller. If there were four thousand people, all the horse thieves on the grassland would probably be wiped out.

"Do you know who the leader of the Red Wolf Cavalry is?" Yang Shi couldn't help asking after hearing so many deeds of the Red Wolf Cavalry.

"Sir, you saw it just now. The Red Wolf Cavalry is full of armor and even a mask on her face. Except for the King of Hejian, who can know who the leader of the Red Wolf Cavalry is?" Sun Zixin replied.

"Are these people wearing masks too?" Yang Shi asked unwillingly.

"I don't know this... I'll probably wear it too. I heard that the Red Wolf Cavalry's military camps are all set up separately, and ordinary people can't even see the military camps. Besides, unless they are attacked by horse thieves, the Red Wolf Cavalry will not deal with the caravan at all. I really can't tell."

Seeing that Sun Zixin could not answer, Yang Shi had to give up. However, after hearing the deeds of the Red Wolf Cavalry, Yang Shi felt something was wrong more and more. He seemed to have a big stone in his heart. He always felt that this Red Wolf Cavalry was related to Yang Xuangan.

In the ninth year of Kaihuang, it was when Yang Xuangan and his family were sent to Wuwei County. Moreover, the number of Red Wolf Cavalry had always been only four or five hundred. The Yang family and generals were sent to him. With the quality of Yang Su's personal soldiers, there should be no problem forming a 400 Red Wolf Cavalry.

If this is true, it would be a fantasy for twenty of them to kill the Yang brothers, so they could only rely on the power of the Hejian King. However, the Red Wolf Cavalry is the right-hand man of the Hejian King. Is the Hejian King willing to break his wings? Even if the Hejian King is willing, according to Sun Barbarian's head, without the Red Wolf Cavalry, wouldn't it be that the horse thieves on the grassland will be allowed to be rampant again? For a moment, Yang Shi fell into deep thought.

The closer we are to Wuwei County, there are more pedestrians on the road, most of which are caravans traveling south and north. Everyone can also see the fertile fields opened in some places. Now farmers have already gone to the fields to cultivate land.

"Sir, Wuwei County has arrived."

Yang Shi looked up and saw that Wuwei County was already close, with the majestic city walls standing across the eyes of everyone, and the three big words Wuwei County under the city gate were clearly visible.

Wuwei is derived from the power of Wugong. When Emperor Wu of Han opened up four counties in Hexi, namely Wuwei, Jiuquan, Zhangye, Dunhuang, Wuwei was the starting point of the four counties. This was the key pass of the Silk Road. Caravans in the Western Regions had to pass here. During the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao changed Wuwei to Liangzhou. During the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the capitals of the Former Liang, the Later Liang, the Southern Liang, and the Northern Liang were all established here. It was Wuwei so important that the Great Sui Dynasty not only garrisoned heavily here, but also released a prince here.

There was already a queue in front of me waiting to enter the city. It was a caravan that arrived first. This caravan was larger than Sun Bartou's caravan. Hundreds of caravans were lined up together and were being inspected one by one. Throughout the dynasties, the Central Plains dynasties had many things strictly prohibited from being imported from outside, and the Sui Dynasty was no exception. Every time the caravan passed here, they had to be strictly inspected.

Sun Batou immediately joined his convoy to the queue, and enthusiastically greeted the people in front of him. Although the road he was going out of the frontier was not necessarily the same, since he had met it, it was always right to get familiar with it.
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