Kou Yi successfully asked for a transfer order of 20,000 troops from Mo Yuanji, and also gave another 20,000 yuan. However, it was just a person, and Mo Yuanji did not even give out a grain of food.

However, Kou Yi didn't mind this. After all, he was mentally prepared for this matter and had made a response plan. So when the court's food and grass arrived, he immediately led a 40,000 army except Tianmen City. After all, the food and grass that were originally prepared only supplied 20,000 people. Now that the number of people has doubled, he will naturally have to fight and decide quickly.

In the grassland, after Kou Yi slaughtered several tribes, he stopped marching, but instead set up camps on the spot, as if waiting for something.

"Supervisor Kou, why don't you continue the march?"

In the Central Army camp, all four generals brought by Kou Yi were among them. At this time, the one who asked was one of the two generals Kou Yi had called before, Liu Yu.

"There are only six tribes, and this is not enough. Why should we stop here? Isn't it a problem to be surrounded?"

Not only Liu Yu, but the others were also confused about Kou Yi's camp here. According to the usual rules, the barbarians slaughtered seven towns, and they had to slaughter at least more than seven tribes in revenge.

But now after Kou Yi slaughtered six tribes, he suddenly stopped here and stopped leaving, which made them a little confused.

After all, the grassland is the territory of the barbarians. It is nothing to slaughter a few small tribes during the raid. However, if you have to wait any longer, and when the barbarians react and mobilize the army to come, it will be a little troublesome.

At that time, it was hard to say that they would fight the barbarians again. Although they had already fought with the barbarians and won the battle, the problem was that there were more than 200,000 people from the Tianmen Army that year, so even if their overall strength was not as good as the barbarians, under the leadership of Kou Yi, they dared to fight against the barbarians head-on.

But how many of them are there now? It's just 40,000, and only 40,000 people are really encircled and suppressed, which is a big trouble. After all, the individual barbarians are all astonishingly strong. If they don't have a numerical advantage, this battle will not be fought at all.

"Why, are you scared?"

Kou Yi looked at Liu Yu and smiled. At this time, he was no longer domineering in the Bei'an Palace, but was extremely easy-going. If he ignored his muscles that were stronger than young people, he would look no different from an ordinary old man.

He looked at Liu Yu and quipped, "I didn't expect that the young boy who dared to take five hundred cavalry to cut off the barbarian retreat, would be afraid when he was old."

"Who is afraid!"

Liu Yu is almost sixty years old now. Although he has cultivation, his hair is still half white. When he heard Kou Yi's teasing, he couldn't help but blush, and then he said with his neck in his arms: "It's just a group of uncivilized barbarians, I'm afraid of them."

"I just think that we have a small number of people, and it's not worth fighting with them. It's better to just fight back after the fight, so as to save the fight with them."

Kou Yi looked at Liu Yu's neck red with excitement, and a look of memories appeared on his face. When Liu Yu brought 500 people to attack the barbarians, he seemed to have this temper. It has been decades and it has not changed at all.

But when he heard Liu Yu's last words, he put away the look of memories on his face, shook his head gently, and said, "Go back? We may not be able to go back this time."

"Um?"

Hearing this, Liu Yu and the other four in the military tent were stunned. Didn’t they just come out to slaughter several barbarian tribes? Although there have been very few happenings in recent years, they have not been gone. Why can’t they go back suddenly?

Liu Yu was the first to react, and he asked in confusion: "Ship Kou, what does it mean to not be able to go back?"

Kou Yi shook his head, instead of answering his question, he said, "Actually, I originally planned to bring only Liu Yu and Sun Qing this time."

"Take us two?"

Sun Qing glanced at Liu Yu, and thought of Kou Yi's words just now. He moved a little in his heart and couldn't help but ask, "Ship Kou, why did he take us both?"

"Oh."

Kou Yi smiled, looked at Liu Yu and Sun Qing, and then asked, "You guys, do you still have any contact with Situ Yao?"

Kou Yi's words instantly made Liu Yu and Sun Qing's face pale. They stayed there for a long time. Liu Yu looked up at Kou Yi, his lips twitched, and wanted to defend something. In the end, he didn't say anything and knelt on the ground directly, "I'm guilty!"

Looking at Liu Yu who knelt down to apologize, Sun Qing sighed. Liu Yu's apology completely fulfilled his charge, but Kou Yi's personality was not sure. He would not say such words, and even if they quibble, it would be useless.

So Sun Qing didn't say much, and knelt down with Liu Yu, "The last general, I'm guilty."

"Okay, get up."

Kou Yi did not ask the two of them for their willingness to follow Situ Yao, nor did he blame them, but persuaded them: "After all, he is the military advisor of the Tianmen Army. It is normal for you to follow him."

"What's more, the Tianmen Army has been disbanded now, what else do you have to do with any crime?"

"Ship Kou..."

Hearing this, Liu Yu and Sun Qing knelt down and were immediately excited, "No matter what the Tianmen Army is, we are all..."

"Okay, OK."

Before the two of them finished speaking, they were interrupted by Kou Yi, "This man is old and cannot hear sensational words, so you can keep these words in your heart, and you don't need to say them."

"The reason I want you to come out with me is actually mainly because not only I know about this, but Mo Yuanji must have noticed it."

"Now, he sharpened his knife and wanted to take back the throne he had lost. At that time, you two will not be under his control and are suspected by him. At that time, you can only be used as cannon fodder and will be used until he dies."

"If you don't want to do this, then you will probably have to fight with each other and point your sword at your former comrades."

"However, even if you fight, you have no chance of winning even if you fight."

Speaking of this, Kou Yi sighed and said with a little apology in his tone: "So I thought, instead of dying at the hands of our own people, you might as well come with me to the barbarians, so that even if you die, you can have a good reputation."

"What I didn't expect was that in addition to you two, Sun Xing and Hu Ran were also on his list, so I hesitated for a moment and brought you two too."

“This is not surprising.”

There was no surprise on Hu Ran's face. He shook his head and said, "Sun Xing and I were the same disciples as the late emperor in the early years, so we got closer."

"In addition, when Mo Yuanji was in charge of power in recent years, we rejected the two of us, and the people he sent were thrown to the edge by us, and we did not give him a chance to intervene, which made him even more afraid. It would be strange if we were not on his list."

"Hu Ran is right, this is indeed normal."

When Sun Xing heard Hu Ran say this, he laughed, but judging from his expression, he obviously didn't take this matter to heart. Compared with it, what made him more concerned was what Kou Yi said about the inability to go back and good reputation meant.

"Ship Kou, can you tell me why you brought us to the barbarians this time?"

Before coming, he thought Kou Yi was planning to slaughter several barbarian tribes, so he warned the barbarians and left, but judging from his current meaning, it was obvious that this was not the plan.

Otherwise, the camp would not have been built in this location. It is close to water sources, easy to defend but difficult to attack. Moreover, after camping, Kou Yi also asked the soldiers to build a lot of fortifications, which is obviously planning to stick to here.

But the problem is that if there are no reinforcements, it is completely meaningless to stick to this place except for the barbarians who are killed or injured when attacking the camp.

After all, this is a grassland and the territory of the barbarians. They have an endless stream of people here. Unless they can kill the barbarians, they will sooner or later be submerged by the barbarians.

"At this time, there is nothing to say."

Kou Yi put away the kind smile on his face, looked at the four people with a serious expression, and asked, "Have you paid attention to the barbarians recently?"

"I know a little."

Sun Xing nodded when he heard this, and said with a serious expression: "A man named Wulianghe has emerged from the barbarians, who is unifying the grassland."

"According to the information I have collected, this person claims to be the wolf king and has ambitions. In this winter, he relies on the strength of the barbarians and is not afraid of the cold, and he will fight around the grassland with his elite troops."

Speaking of this, Sun Xing suddenly showed a sarcastic smile on his face, "To be honest, we have to thank him. If he hadn't started a war on the grassland, this winter, I would not have survived this year, and I would have been plundering the Great Zhou Dynasty, which would have been more than those ordinary small tribes."

"I had a deal with this guy, Gulianghe, a few years ago."

Speaking of Wulianghe, Liu Yu, who had just stood up from the ground, made a little bit of fear in his words, "A few years ago, the military advisor sent me a message saying that a merchant's goods were robbed on the grassland. The military advisor wanted me to help him."

"Although I don't like to get involved in these things, after all, it was the military advisor who spoke, so I couldn't refuse, so I led my troops out of seclusion and wanted to go to that tribe to bring the goods back."

"So, at that time, Urya's tribe robbed the goods?"

When Sun Xing heard this, he became a little interested and asked Liu Yu curiously, and said, "Did you fight him? How strong is he?"

“It’s not.”

Liu Yu took a breath and said, "At that time, when I led my troops to the tribe that plundered goods, that tribe had been slaughtered by Wulianghe."

"I thought it was just a coincidence that I encountered a war between barbarian tribes. Unexpectedly, after seeing my army, Urage actually sent someone to negotiate. When I learned that my purpose was also the goods, I said directly that these goods were sold to him, so he wanted to bring them back to his tribe, but he asked me to give the merchant a sentence."

"What he said was that it was his fault that the goods were robbed on the grassland this time, so in order to compensate the merchant, if the merchant was willing to sell these goods to him, he would buy them at a double price."

"If the merchant thinks that he doesn't believe it, he just needs to send someone to send a letter. He will not move all of these goods and will be sent outside Tianmen Pass and let the merchant take them away by himself."

"This man is still a bit of courage, so the merchant who is the military advisor is the dealer?"

Sun Xing was not surprised that Situ Yao would do business with the barbarians. After all, this was something they and the border troops occasionally did. Basically, except for some things that were prohibited from being sold to the barbarians, there was no big problem with selling them. The court also knew about this, and it was also considered a semi-argument.

As long as you don't do too much, the court will not intervene. After all, the Tianmen Army is an elite. With the court's military pay alone, the Tianmen Army had long been starved to death, so this is also a hidden benefit that the old emperor promised to the Tianmen Army.

"But if he doesn't give those goods, you won't get them back by yourself?"

When Sun Xing said this, he suddenly looked at Liu Yu with some suspicion. As far as he knew, Liu Yu's firecracker was not of this temper. "You dared to take away the goods you wanted in front of you, but you didn't kill him. Isn't this like you?"

"I can't destroy it, I have too few people."

Liu Yu smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "I didn't think it was a big deal at that time, so I took San Qian to ride over, and it was no match for him at all."

"There are quite a few three thousand riders."

In this way, not only Sun Xing, but even Kou Yi turned to Liu Yu with a surprised look. You must know that the cavalry of the Tianmen Army are all elite soldiers, otherwise Liu Yu would not have taken five hundred cavalry to cut off the barbarian retreat.

But now, Liu Yu actually said that the three thousand cavalry were a little small, which made the few people a little puzzled. Sun Xing even asked directly: "As far as I say, the Taichiwu tribe was not a particularly large tribe. How many people can there be in Wulianghe?"

Generally speaking, the small barbarian tribes on the grassland range from hundreds to thousands of people, the medium-sized tribes have tens of thousands of people, and the large tribes have only tens of thousands of people. Only particularly large tribes can have more than tens of thousands of people, but there are very few tribes of that kind.

Moreover, these people are counted as old, young, women and children. If Uryu is just an ordinary large tribe, he can only have 10,000 or 20,000 young and strong people at most. And so many young and strong people cannot form an army, so in Sun Xing's opinion, it would be good if Uryu has an army of thousands of people.

As for thousands to thousands, Liu Yu would actually say that he was not his opponent, which was obviously a bit wrong.

Liu Yu knew what Sun Xing was thinking, so he shook his head and said, "The army of Wulianghe is indeed not many, only five thousand people, but these five thousand people are obviously a little different."

"Although his battle formation formed by five thousand people looks loose, it gives me the feeling of being a pack of wolves, and I can basically do so."

"Although their weapons and equipment are weaker than our Tianmen Army's cavalry, you know the individual strength of the barbarians. Each one is much stronger than our soldiers. So after this, the strength of the two sides is not much worse, so I am really not sure to take them down."
Chapter completed!