Tiele gestured to the surrounding tents in laughter: "I just moved here and haven't had time to clean it up yet. So it's a little messy."
Ren Ning was not surprised either. He smiled and looked around: "Okay, it's better than I imagined."
This place is close to the Desert of No Return, and neither pasture nor drinking water is sufficient to support too many livestock, so the herdsmen need to move camps from time to time.
In other words, they became nomads again.
The guests and hosts sat down separately, and Tie Le poured a cup of milk tea for Ren Ning, "Brother-in-law, why don't you find this place? The people from Luoxi in the west told you about it, right?"
Luoxi tribe?
Ren Ning was startled and suddenly thought of the small tribe destroyed by the Langston people in the mountain nest to the west.
only……
He was a little confused, "Why did Luo Xi move to the vicinity of the Desert of No Return?"
Ren Ning had worked as a scout for a long time in the Yancheng Fortress, so Ren Ning knew some of the more famous tribes in Xiliang.
For example, the Luoxi tribe is about the same size as the Kailun tribe.
There are too many such small and medium-sized tribes in the vast grassland, and they are usually insignificant.
Moreover, the Luoxi tribe is too far away from Yunchui, so Ren Ning doesn't know much about them.
But Luoxi happened to be on the trade road in the middle of the Xiliang Prairie, and caravans coming and going would pass by, so he occasionally heard about it.
It is said that the girls of this tribe are extremely beautiful...
Apart from this, Ren Ning knew nothing.
But what he was sure of was that Luoxi's location was far away from the Desert of No Return to the north. Unless something happened, it would be impossible for her to appear here.
"It's like this..." Tie Le and others explained, and then Ren Ning understood what happened.
It can be summed up in three sentences.
Luoxi was forced to escort the Xiliang army to carry grain and medicinal materials to Yunchui, but was intercepted by an unknown army on the way.
They can't afford the compensation.
Ximo, who was leading the team, had no choice but to flee here with some of the Luoxi people.
cough!
Ren Ning suddenly realized and coughed lightly.
After meeting up with Gu Datou and his entourage, he once carefully boasted to Ren Ning about his experience after riding two hundred heroes from the Eighth Battalion into the grassland.
And it was them who robbed Luo Xi.
After thinking for a moment, Ren Ning said, "It's a pity. This group of Luoxi people may be in danger now."
Tie Le and others were startled, and stood up in unison: "What's going on?"
"Yes." Yang Lan's face was the most anxious: "Half a month ago, Ximo came to visit us with his sister."
As she spoke, she glanced at Tie Le.
At that time, Ximo's sister was flirting with Tie Le.
And since Yingpan went to Yunchui, Yanglan had no other female friends.
Finally, I met a girl of similar age and similar interests, and the two soon became good friends and besties who talked about everything.
When Ren Ning said this, she couldn't help but become anxious.
Ren Ning told what he had seen and heard in the past few days, "I saw with my own eyes that the mountain nest has been occupied by people from the Langston Principality. There are nearly two hundred heads hanging on the ruins."
Several people's faces turned pale in an instant, and the tent became deathly silent.
After a long while, Yang Lan fell down on the chair and covered her face tightly.
"Run away, run away!" She burst into tears, "We fled thousands of miles from our hometown to get here."
"I thought that although the land here was a little barren, it was deserted and uncontested. I always thought that my brothers had finally found a place where we could live peacefully in troubled times."
"did not expect……"
The more she talked, the sadder she became, and finally she walked out of the tent crying.
boom!
Tie Le punched the table in front of him hard.
They were all small tribes who had migrated thousands of miles here to avoid the war. Now Luoxi, who lived next to each other, might have been brutally murdered. They were so close to each other, and they couldn't help but feel sad about it.
Ren Ning didn't say anything, just took out a letter from home and handed it over.
Tie Le suppressed his anger and sat down again: "What is this?"
"When I passed by the Kailun tribe, I saw Tai and Canglang. They knew I was coming here, so they wrote a letter to you."
Uncle Santai and the letter written by Canglang?
Allen and the others next to him were all in high spirits.
"Sir..." They stretched their necks in unison.
"Let me take a look first." Tie Le nodded and asked casually: "Is our hometown okay now?"
He didn't wait for Ren Ning's reply and couldn't wait to open the letter home.
Wow.
After reading a few lines, he suddenly stood up again, his hands trembling and he almost tore the letter paper.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
"Sir, what's going on?" Allen and others were shocked and quickly took the letter.
After a while, they all fell back on their chairs with gray faces.
One by one they buried their heads deeply.
The Kailun tribe of more than 30,000 people was wiped out and turned into ruins like Luoxi in the small mountain nest to the west.
After a while, Tiele came back to his senses and read the letter again.
"Brother-in-law," he asked hoarsely, "Where are Uncle Santai and the others now?"
"There has been a war north of Kailun, so I asked them to go south..." Ren Ning explained in detail everything that happened after he and Lei Er arrived at the Kailun tribe.
Allen unconsciously covered his face and choked up: "I told them to leave with us."
"It's better now!" He burst into tears, "Stay there, you have to eat and sleep, and you are hunted down by the Benlu tribe every day."
I don't know how long they can last.
snort!
Youmeng snorted coldly, "Do you think they are a bachelor like you? They are old and young, so it is normal that they were unwilling to leave with us at the beginning."
"Besides, will it be safe to move to this barren land?"
Luoxi, who lives in peace with the world in the west, was just killed by the Langston Duke of Beixiong!
"Brother-in-law, how many days have the Duke of Langston been here?" Tiele suddenly said.
Allen and others were startled, and shouted out loud: "Young Master?"
"There is not much south of the No Return Desert. If Luoxi is destroyed, we will probably be the next one." Tie Le's face was full of murderous intent, "It seems that there is no way to escape. Yun Chui often said that the first step is to strike first."
If you are strong, you will suffer disaster if you attack later."
"Let's go do what he brewed."
Besides, after arriving in the Desert of No Return, they didn't just stay in the pastoral, they also trained a team.
It's time for them to come out sticky and bloody.
"Yes." Allen stared at the letter on the table, "I will take people back to destroy the Benlu tribe in the future, and even..."
Xiliang Royal Court.
Ren Ning nodded, not too surprised.
"We captured a few tongues. According to their confessions, Langston's vanguard force was about 2,000 strong and brought more than 200 camels. Judging from the looks in the eyes of those beasts, they should not be war cavalry, but just pure caravan camels.
"
"As for the subsequent large army, it is said that they are hidden in an oasis called Mingzhu, and their number is estimated to be more than 50,000."
"Pearl Oasis?" Simon said dumbly, "I went to this place. The oasis is very big, but it is unlikely to be able to accommodate 50,000 people."
Ren Ning nodded, "Then the tongue I caught is lying."
Presumably, Grand Duke Langston was forced to flee after a neighboring country invaded the city.
It's amazing that he could bring all his family members and guards with him in such a hurry. There can't be too many people.