Beizhen Castle is located near a hill about three miles south of the intersection between the Wahan Valley and the Tuduo River. After reaching the intersection, it is surrounded by large deserts covered with snow. Looking at it, the earth is vast. To the east, the top of the snow-capped mountain, which is more than 6,000 meters high, shines dazzling holy light in the early morning.

Although the vast land is covered with a shallow layer of snow, there are almost no traces of birds and beasts, not to mention humans. It is really rare to travel around. But who would have thought that Feng Changqing could still come to Beizhen Castle along the valley overnight?

"It snowed here yesterday, but why didn't Beizhen feel it? Well, it should have been after talking with Feng Changqing."

It was also deserted at the other end leading to the Wakhan Valley, but Sun Xiurong's eyes shone when he saw it.

Yang Cheng'en's face was solemn, but Yang Shouyu was eager to try. It seemed that the three of them must have discussed something before they set off.

After a while, Sun Xiurong closed his eyes and felt the extremely blue dome, the cold wind, and the empty fields, back to the middle of reality. He nodded to Yang Shouyu and said, "Forget it, I'll go there in person."

Yang Shouyu was about to refute when he heard this, but he still held back when he saw his father and several horses saluted him.

Sun Xiurong disassembled all the extra items on his horse on the horse given by Yu Wenjing and said, "You two continue walking north and wait for me in the shelter, and I will be back soon."

Yang Chengen looked at this boy with a worried and a little relieved look on his face. He suddenly remembered that he had a lot of things to say to him, but he thought, "This boy will never let him down. What's the difference between saying or not?"

After saying goodbye to Yang Chengen and his son, Sun Xiurong rode his fire dragon horse and ran away.

After leaving the Pamir Mountains to capture the city, the Fire Dragon Horse has always been a pack horse, and has not run away happily. How could he not act arbitrarily after finally getting the chance?

From the intersection to the southwest, about thirty miles away, there are desolate and lonely places. A valley about one mile wide in the middle leads to the distance. Sun Xiurong seems to be very familiar with this area and the valley, and the fire dragon horse is also familiar with it easily when running.

According to the rules of the Tang Dynasty's military soldiers, they cannot travel around the world freely. When they go anywhere, they must have posters issued by higher-level yamen. How did Sun Xiurong be so familiar with places dozens of miles away?

It turned out that in addition to 50 to 100 acres of duty-free land, the Tang Dynasty's military soldiers also had almost the same number of forests. If they were in the mainland, the forests were naturally not far from the fields, but in the distant Western Regions, especially in the Pamirs deep in the hinterland of the plateau, it would be more difficult to find suitable forests.

So the Protectorate adopted a system of letting the soldiers set out to find them themselves and then register them by the government. In this way, the mountains and forests were far away from their own fields, and some were even above a hundred miles.

The forests of the Sun family and Yang family are close to the west of Beizhen. It is also one of the few places on the Pamir Mountains where poplars, birches, and willows grow. Sun Xiurong's tiger gun rod, black cloud bow bow, and some of the materials for agricultural tools all come from here.

What we need to explain here is that this is also the place closest to the Pamir City, where there are trees near the Pamir City. If you want to find it, you have to go to Bohezhou City, the last place that Bian Lingcheng planned to go, which is still at the end of the Wahan Valley.

The entire Palacio Plateau is mostly barren land, with vegetation mainly consisting of various thatch and shrubs. It is really difficult to find large forests.

But the problem arises again. Since there are barren places everywhere, it is naturally not easy to find a hiding place. Finally, there is a large forest. How can humans let it go easily?

Although the forest occupied by the soldiers guarding the city of Pamir Mountain is not large, it is still hundreds of square kilometers. It takes some energy to hide it inside and find it easily.

So, this place became one of the nests of horse thieves.

When Sun Xiurong was fifteen years old, when he and Yang Shouyu came here to find suitable wood, he encountered a group of horse thieves.

Speaking of the Palacio horse thieves, most of them choose this place when they are desperate.

There are two major sources of this. One is naturally the Turkic tribe that was dispersed by the Tang Dynasty, and the other is the remnants of the Xiangxiong Kingdom mentioned above. A hundred years ago, the Xiangxiong Kingdom was a powerful tribe. According to historical records, there were 80,000 or 90,000 soldiers. It can be imagined that this is at least a large tribe with 80,000 or 90,000 tents. After being destroyed by Songtsen Gampo, the tribe's divination was greatly reduced, but there were at least 40,000 to 50,000 tents. Such a tribe has similar language and customs to Tubo, so Songtsen Gampo was naturally worried that they would continue to stay in their hometown.

Like the Central Plains dynasty, he implemented strategies such as differentiation and doping. When the Tubo people destroyed Tuyuhun and Dangxiang Qiang, the kingdom moved some Xiangxiong people to Qinghai, and some Dangxiang people and Tuyuhun people to Xiangxiong's former land (Ali area in later generations).

This is just one of the strategies. In the former Xiangxiong Kingdom, it was pushed up for three generations. At first, the king surnamed Nie Xu in the area was later seized by the Qiongbu clan. However, later Nie Xu clan came to power again. After the last Nie Xu clan came to power, they naturally hated the Qiongbu clan extremely. At this time, they were still in an extremely fierce and cruel primitive slave society. Every year, they would draw some people from the Qiongbu clan who stayed in the old place of Xiangxiong to perform a live sacrifice.

The live sacrifice is entirely based on the Bon rituals, so I will not elaborate on all kinds of bloody cruelty here.

When the Tubo people destroyed the Nie Xu Dynasty, the most happy one was naturally the Qiongbu family. The Tubo people were also happy to greatly enhance the status of the Qiongbu family, allowing them to take charge of Xiangxiong's former place with Tuyuhun and Dangxiang Qiang Chiefs. When the Qiongbu family took power, they would naturally take crazy revenge against the Nie Xu family. The bloody and cruelty are probably better than before.

In addition, when the Tubo people were in charge of a certain place, 60% of the cattle, sheep and horses in the area were harvested on the surface, and 60% of the land harvested by the major chiefs would be the central government. In addition, the Xiangxiong people, Tuyuhun people, and Dangxiang Qiang people on the plateau were in dire straits. This kind of exploitation would definitely not be able to withstand it. At this time, religious beliefs came out.

As a former royal family, Nie Xu would not stay in place and wait for the revenge of Qiongbu. Because the Ali area was very vast, they fled in all directions at the beginning, and the farthest one fled to Persia, the place where Bon religions began. As the Palacio Plateau in the middle, they naturally had their own figures.

Not only that, it is also the legitimate branch of the Nie Xu royal family.

The fire dragon foal spread its hooves and ran on the road to the Wahan Valley. Not long after, he came to the forest. Sun Xiurong looked around carefully and saw that there was no movement, so he pulled out three arrows from Hu Lu beside him.

"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!"

Three consecutive arrows shot towards the blue sky. When they landed, Sun Xiurong rode his horse to catch him.

At this moment, in the woods, a pair of gloomy eyes were staring at him.

After a while, with a stir in the woods, a group of people ran out from there. They all looked disheveled, with a typical Tubo face, wearing animal fur coats and riding a Tubo horse with thick hair. The most eye-catching one is the same color, a conical high hat, and a lotus embroidered in the middle of the high hat, and two swastikas on both sides of the lotus - swastikas, which are the symbols of Bon religion!

There were about seven or eight people, one of them had a slightly dark face, about the same age as Sun Xiurong. Perhaps he stayed on the plateau all year round, with a slightly black face with a bit of cracked red, a thin face, a medium figure, a slightly dark eye, and a hooked nose.

When Sun Xiurong saw these people, she was nervously on guard and was looking for the best way to run away if things were not good, but she smiled on her face.

"Prince Danxiang, it's been a long time since it's been lost"

He actually spoke fluent Xiangxiong's words!

In addition, he is also a little proficient in Sogdian. It seems that although this guy stayed in the Pamirs before he was eighteen years old, as a two-life traveler, he did not waste his time in these eighteen years. If he combined with his amazing skills that were different from his previous life, he would not only have not wasted it.

As soon as Sun Xiurong said this, the young man also squeezed a smile on his face.

"Brother Rong!"

The full name of this person is Nie Xu Danxiu. He is the direct descendant of the last king of Xiangxiong Kingdom. He speaks Chinese, and it seems that his ambition is not small.

That's right, when he was fifteen years old, Sun Xiurong and Yang Shouyu resisted the attack of a group of horse thieves, and finally they didn't fight or make a deal. They became brothers of the last king of the Xiangxiong Dynasty in front of him. Just so happened that Sun Xiurong was the oldest, followed by Danxiang, and Shouyu was the first, and then became the eldest brother, the second brother, and the third brother.

"Why did you come here alone?"

Although he was a brother of a brother who was a brother who was a brother who was a brother who was married to the Tubo Kingdom again not long ago, Nie Xu Danxi's dream of using the battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo people to restore his homeland was dashed. However, he was not idle and continued to do the familiar things in the Pamirs. Although he was a brother of a brother who was a brother who was a brother who was a brother who was a brother who was a friend, Danxi was not completely relieved. Whether in the Tang Dynasty or in Tibet, there were endless things that brothers plotted against each other, let alone the righteous brothers?

If Sun Xiurong deceived him out, there were Tang troops nearby, and they would be ambushed and sent to Qiongbu, their ending would be extremely miserable, so he had to be careful.

"There is a deal for you"

"oh?"

"At most two days, you will pass by a team of people, up to thirty riders, carrying a lot of money and property, which is enough for you to spend a year or two, maybe more than a few more."

"Who is it?"

"You don't have to worry about this. Just kill it after you surround it, and then take their horses and leave their property. Remember, after the matter is finished, you will be hiding the traces, and then go to the Tocharo area to hide for one or two years."

"How can I believe you? What if these people are just bait and follow the army?"

Sun Xiurong seemed to have known that he would say these words long ago.

He rode his horse to Danxi, then approached him and said, "The person who came was Bian Lingcheng, the ambassador of the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty. His party had twenty guards, ten grooms, and at least ten camels, carrying the property he had plundered from all over the country."

Danxi's eyes lit up, but she said, "Has Bian Lingcheng got you?"

Sun Xiurong did not comment, "Believe me, I have transferred to Hunu Town, south of Yutian Town. I am rushing there now. I am taking the time to inform you. It is next to the old land of Xiangxiong Kingdom. If you believe me, you can not go to Tochar, but walk upstream along the Tuduo River. If you succeed, you will not have to do anything for at least two years. As far as I know, there is no one living place between Xiangxiong's homeland and Hunu Town, and the area around Aksaiqin Lake is not crowded. It is a de facto wasteland between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo people."

"You don't care if you go there. At that time, I will help you find people in Hunu Town."

"But now the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo people is very good!"

"well"

Sun Xiurong ignored him and looked at the sky because a roar of geese came from the sky at this time.

After a while, he turned around.

"Danxiang, as far as I know, Princess Jincheng is seriously ill... cough cough"

Danxiang's eyes lit up, but he still didn't let go.

"What are you going to Hunu Town? Could you be a general?"

"Haha, no, it's just a soldier, but don't worry, everything is under control."

After saying that, he turned his head and left. He knew that for Nie Xu Danxi, it was best to keep him and participate in the besiege of Bian Lingcheng, but they were not sure to do this, let alone Hu Nu Town and Aksai Chin's affairs?

Being able to linger in the Pamirs for many years has not been wiped out, which also shows the amazing strength of Nie Xu Danxi and his gang. When it comes to robbing Bian Lingcheng, they naturally have a complete set of appropriate methods, such as early investigation, advance arrangement, sudden attack, etc., naturally, it is no problem. Moreover, they are people who came out of Xiangxiong’s old land, and the environment there is even worse than that of Pamirs. For them, it is no problem to hide somewhere without eating or drinking for three days.

As for the result, it is not something Sun Xiurong can grasp.

But now the problem is, what if Danxi's people did not intercept Bian Lingcheng, but instead captured one or two of them and even entrusted Sun Xiurong out?

Such a thing is not impossible, but based on Sun Xiurong's contact with them and their strong beliefs, he believed that it would not be possible, let alone Aksai Chin's incident?

He left and left a series of footprints on the snow. He was prepared for this. At this time, he was riding a horse, with a large ball of thatched grass tied to the tip of the tiger gun in his hand. He waved the tiger gun and wiped his traces as he walked, until the intersection, the wind was very strong on the plateau, and the snow would soon return to its original state.

When he reached the intersection, he was thinking, "Can Hunu Town really become a place where he will make his fortune again? It is just a small place with 300 people. If you want to rely on this little power to deal with the old place of Xiangxiong, which still has tens of thousands of people, is it too inflated?"

But when he thought of Bian Lingcheng, he felt an indescribable disgust.

"In more than ten years, Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing will die at his hands. If he escapes from the attack of Xiangxiong people, he will be lucky. If he can't escape, I will think that I will do my best for the Tang Dynasty in advance."

"Things have never been perfect. I was eighteen years old. When I was in Nebchu, I could take the 300 horses of the 18 chariots at the age of fifteen. What's more, now? If people don't offend me, I won't offend me. If people offend me, I will double off the offend me!"
Chapter completed!