In the night, Guo Wenbin stopped his mount, looked around at a daze, and looked a little panicked.

"What's wrong?" Liang Xiao urged the horse to walk to Guo Wenbin and asked in a low voice: "Are you lost?"

"Yeah... it's too dark and I can't see the road clearly." Guo Wenbin raised his arm and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with his sleeves, his voice a little hoarse.

Liang Xiao looked around. It was pitch black all around, and the mountains in the distance were submerged in the night, and there was no shadow at all. On this vast grassland, there was no signpost to refer to. After leaving the Hun herders, they had walked for a long road without a road, and were undoubtedly lost.

"It's okay, it's just a break." Liang Xiao reached out and patted Guo Wenbin on the shoulder. "As long as the direction is good, there will be no problem. You can go back to the right road as soon as tomorrow dawn."

Guo Wenbin nodded, but was still a little scared. He could see that the men's eyes were fierce and they meant to blame him.

Liang Xiao looked around and sneered: "What's wrong? Do you suspect Wenbin did it on purpose?"

Xu Yanshou turned his head over, and Li Dingguo lowered his head and rubbed the blood on his hands.

"Wenbin returned to the clouds with great difficulty. He was about to settle down in Chang'an. The comfortable young master didn't do it. He followed you to the grassland to endure hardships just to make fun of you?"

"Hehe, if this is the case, he will be even stupider than me." Pang Shuo laughed twice and placed the iron knife in his hand.

When Xu Yanshou and Li Dingguo saw him, they laughed awkwardly. They didn't suspect that Guo Wenbin was intentional, but the situation was dangerous now, and they were so angry that they had no place to speak. They thought that Guo Wenbin was the best to bully him. They just wanted to give him some expression. After hearing Liang Xiao's words, they realized that Guo Wenbin took much greater risks than them, and couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

Liang Xiao listened for a moment and pointed to the front of the left. "There is water there, let's go there to rest in the middle of the night. Let's go again at dawn."

When everyone heard this, they were all happy. After rushing for two days and two nights, not only did the horses not stand it, but they were also extremely tired. They walked less than a hundred steps towards the direction Liang Xiao pointed, and heard the sound of water, and walked fifty or sixty steps. A big river appeared in front of them.

"Sir, your realm has improved again. You can hear the sound of water at such a distance." Xu Yanshou said exaggeratedly.

"I was a little careful, could I live until now?" Liang Xiao said half-true.

Xu Yanshou was about to speak, when Guo Wu, who had already walked to the water, suddenly raised his hand and waved it twice. He whispered: "Shut up someone in front of me."

Liang Xiao listened with his ears, and he could surely hear the faint neighing of the horse. He estimated that it was at least more than 300 steps away. He couldn't help but wonder, Guo Wu's ears were so good?

"There is something in the water." Guo Wu raised a leather bag. Liang Xiao understood at a glance that this was often used by the Huns to hold water or wine. The lid was opened but it had not yet sunk, and the place where it fell into the water was bound to be not far away. Guo Wu was Xie Guanglong's most trusted subordinate. He often went out to the frontier to find out information and was experienced, so he recognized it at a glance.

"You guys wait. I'll go and see." Guo Wu said, and turned around and was about to leave. Liang Xiao grabbed him. "Let Niu'er go with you."

"Sir, it's okay, I can do it. It's important for the cow to stay and protect him."

"No, everyone is very important now." Liang Xiao said: "Two people take care of each other, don't show off. Do you know?"

Guo Wu nodded. Liang Xiao pulled out the short knife from his belt and handed it to Tu Niuer. He pushed it gently. Tu Niuer took the short knife and disappeared into the night with Guo Wu. Liang Xiao and others squatted down. They then tied the mouth of the horse with cloth, and then hugged the war horses with their arms to prevent them from neighing and exposing their traces.

They held their breath and waited patiently in the dark night. It was the enemy and friends, and no one knew how many people were. Life and death were uncertain, and misfortunes were unpredictable. At this moment, every second was so difficult.

Liang Xiao adjusted his breathing to the finest, listening to the movements around him. He not only had to pay attention to the front, but also to the back. Although most of the subordinates of Guluhu had been killed by them, who can guarantee that King Hunxie would not chase him at all costs?

I don’t know how long it took, maybe just a moment, maybe half an hour, a slight footsteps sounded, and Guo Wu and Tu Niuer sneaked back. Guo Wu walked to Liang Xiao, but did not speak to Liang Xiao, but reached out to grab Guo Wenbin.

"Does the Hu people you know call me..." He bit his tongue and made a long sound. Liang Xiao didn't understand, but Guo Wenbin frowned, pondered for a moment, and made a similar sound again, saying: "Is it a Hu people with a big beard with a big beard on his face, who looks over fifties, with a big left eye and a small right eye?"

"Yes, yes." Guo Wu nodded repeatedly. "I seem to have heard them talk about your father, Mr. Guo."

Guo Wenbin smiled. "This old guy is really moved." He turned around and said to Liang Xiao, "Sir, there may be a Daxia merchant I know in front of me. I'll go and see. If it were them, they might get some help."

Liang Xiao was also very happy and asked Guo Wu and Tu Niuer to protect Guo Wenbin. Not long after, Guo Wu came back with a smile on his face. Liang Xiao smiled as soon as he saw that he had not figured out the situation and was still nervous.

"It seems that we are lucky, we can meet friends even if we get lost."

After hearing this, everyone let out a long sigh and couldn't help laughing.

They immediately stood up, followed Guo Wu, walked nearly four hundred steps along the river, and saw a group of Hu Shang. The leader was a big Hu man with a big beard and could not even see his mouth. His two eyes, with a big left eye and a small right eye, always looked like a grimace, and a natural smile.

He and Guo Wenbin were having a happy chat. As soon as he saw Liang Xiao and others, he just glanced at him, opened his arms, walked towards Liang Xiao, stood in front of Liang Xiao in two steps, put his hands together, bent down to salute, and said in half-baked Chinese: "The great Han Dynasty archer, Ashebius from Daxia, said hello to you."

When Liang Xiao heard this, he glanced at Guo Wenbin. Guo Wenbin smiled and nodded quietly. Liang Xiao understood and rewarded Ashebius for his favor. Ashebius invited them to the tent, set up a copper pot on the bonfire and roasted sheep. A beautiful Hu girl came over and invited Liang Xiao to take her seat.

Liang Xiao waved his hand, helped Xie Guanglong to Ashebius, and said earnestly: "My partner is injured. Can you lend him your tent to rest?"

Ashebius agreed and asked Hu to help Xie Guanglong enter the tent to rest. He just leaned on Hu's shoulder, and Xie Guanglong, who was originally depressed and as if only one breath was left, immediately became energetic, grinned, and laughed. However, the wound on his face was fuzzy and covered in dirt. This smile was really not very good-looking.

Liang Xiao sat down, washed his face and hands in the basin handed by Hu, and then took off the iron armor and put it aside. Then he started to make a noise with Ashebius. Ashebius taught limited Chinese language, in addition to greetings, most of them also rely on Guo Wenbin's translation.

From the chat, Liang Xiao learned about a situation. More than ten years ago, the Yuezhi people began to attack Daxia and occupied the place north of the Ushus River. The Daxia people were driven to Henan and continued to resist. The two sides were still in a stalemate. However, the Yuezhi people have become more and more people, and Daxia has been a little unable to resist. The Daxia king Helio Kris is preparing to give up all the territory of Daxia and retreat to the south of the Hindu Kush Mountain.

"In the future, if you do business, you will have another level and pay an extra tax." Ashebius shook his head repeatedly, feeling deeply.

"No." Liang Xiao smiled and said, "It won't take long before our Han Dynasty will repel the Huns. At that time, the trade routes on the grassland will be unobstructed, and there will be no horse thieves."

"Hahaha, I hope I have a chance to see this day." Ashebius obviously didn't believe Liang Xiao's words and called him haha.

"But you better be careful now. The Huns are chasing us and may bump into you head-on."

Ashebius believed this sentence very much and nodded repeatedly. Guo Wenbin had already told him the general situation and felt very lucky for his unexpected encounter with Guo Wenbin. If he continued to move forward tomorrow, he would probably meet King Hunxie. The Huns were already barbaric, and King Hunxie was in pain of losing his son. Who knew what crazy things he would do?

Liang Xiao and Ashebius chatted for a long time and learned a lot of things. Ashebius warmly entertained them to drink, and asked them to boil water to bathe them, and helped them deal with their wounds. While the dancers were dancing and entertaining guests, he saw a few rough men staring at the dancers' waist and hips and couldn't move their eyes, so he arranged for a few dancers to accompany them in the middle of the night.

The next morning, just as the sky was dawn, Liang Xiao pulled the guys out of Hu's slim arm, stepped onto the horse's back again, and waved goodbye to Ashebius. Ashebius did not dare to neglect, and set off early to avoid the evil ghost of Hunxie King.

Although it was only a romantic in the middle of the night, these rough men recovered a lot and were full of energy. Even Xie Guanglong, who was the worst injured, talked and laughed, as if he was reborn. Liang Xiao had to admit that these guys actually had no big pursuits. They thought they were paradise with meat, wine, and women to sleep with them. All the troubles could be left behind. Even if there was a dead end ahead, they could face them with a smile.

But Liang Xiao was not so relaxed.

Through chatting with Ashebius in the middle of the night, he realized that his task was even more difficult than he thought. Although the information of the Guo father and son was timely, it was not very accurate. Although the Yuezhi people were beaten to the point of being blue and swollen by the Huns, they were a bit invincible in Central Asia. Their main force easily captured the Daxia Kingdom and gained a foothold. Will they still be willing to return to the east of the Palacioles and fight to the death with the Huns Wusun people?

The fact that King Yuezhi was cut off from his head by the Huns as a wine vessel was already thirty or forty years ago. It was too late for the Han people to learn about this news.

Could it be that I could not change the historical trajectory when I arrived at the Yuezhi ten years earlier than Zhang Qian, and in the end I could only face the Huns alone, and devote the whole country to a big bet?

To be continued

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