After putting away the letter and stuffing the porcelain bottle into his arms, Xu Mu stabilized his expression and turned his head solemnly.
"Eagle Guard, has anyone heard of it?"
"Little boss, this is a very big thing——"
"General Xu, I seem to have heard of you." A silver-haired old pawn rushed to catch up.
"How to say."
"The Eagle Guard is just like the eagle totem that Beidi Dog believes in. The brave men from each tribe are specially selected to form the elite guard of the royal court."
"How many people are there in total?"
"It is said that due to the harsh conditions, he will not leave the grassland easily with less than ten thousand horses, and his duty is to protect the royal court. But sometimes, he will be sent out by the royal court to kill the tribes who are disobedient."
Xu Mu took a deep breath and felt that the problem was a bit big.
Two thousand eagle guards were chasing them. The men were fierce and the horses were fast, and the attack was menacing.
If there were a larger number of people, Xu Mu would not be afraid, but now, the troops following him were already less than 3,000 men.
Fortunately, the unknown person who wrote the letter left a strategy.
"Does anyone...recognize this handwriting and this stamp?"
The letter was passed around again and again until it reached the hands of an old soldier. Suddenly, the old soldier burst into tears.
"Xu, General Xu, this is General Li's handwriting for conquering the north! I have served as a Guan soldier before, so I don't know much about other characters, but I can definitely see General Li's seal of command."
Xu Mudun was on the spot.
Thinking about it, Li Poshan was afraid that he wouldn't believe him, so he deliberately left the handsome seal.
"General Xu, I can't wait to find General Li!" Countless figures cried out sadly.
In the Daji period, there was a young marquis and a general named Li who conquered the north. They were both powerful, but they were both plotted by traitors.
"It's pity that I, a famous general of Daji, ended up like this."
Xu Mu also sighed silently. Under the current situation, it was impossible to spare time to look for Li Poshan.
Moreover, Li Poshan is unwilling to come forward, which means that he has no plans to return to the Central Plains. Perhaps he has his own plans to stay in the grassland.
"The whole army listens to the order and speeds up the march." Xu Mu gritted his teeth and thought deeply about General Li Zhengbei. He never expected that he would be contacted in this way.
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"The little boss has turned the grassland upside down. In the past two days, he also burned two market cities. The people of the grassland are very angry. I heard that even the prince was so angry that he personally brought two thousand people with him.
The Eagle Guards went to chase and kill him."
Listening to the scout's military report, Tuoba Zhao's face became heavy.
"Does the prince want to go after him personally? Does the Khan mean it?"
"It seems that the prince went there by himself."
For some reason, Tuoba Zhao felt inexplicably uneasy. It wasn't that he didn't believe in Yingwei's strength, but that he always felt that the little boss was a person who was good at creating miracles.
He never imagined that a group of three thousand Central Plains cavalry could make such a big noise on the grassland.
It happened to be as slippery as a loach, so it was impossible to catch it.
"Don't worry, Zuo Khan. Many tribes heard that people from the Central Plains were entering the grassland, and they immediately gathered their troops. The little boss has no way of escaping, and will definitely be trapped and die in the grassland."
Tuoba Zhao remained silent. To be honest, the Xiaodong family came from the front line of Hezhou to kill the grassland. An army of 300,000 people could not catch a small fish, and this small fish even made a big wave.
It's not bad that the city was burned. After all, the city can be rebuilt. If there is any earth-shattering accident, he, the left Khan on the front line, will definitely not be able to evade accountability.
Gritting his teeth, Tuoba Zhao raised his head and looked at the riddled Hezhou City in front of him, which was still standing firm, towering like a mountain amidst the smoke and collapsed rocks.
"The King of Yuzhou raised by a dog father."
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A lone army galloped wildly in the cool breeze of the grassland. The sound of horse hooves echoed under the sky from time to time.
Xu Mu held the reins in one hand and held a fist-sized porcelain bottle in the other.
The porcelain vase was given by General Li.
He only opened it once, and inside, there was an extremely smelly mist.
The letter said, this is called wolf-inducing incense.
But if we follow the road, we are already far away from Langshan Mountain. Unless they turn around again and run deeper into the grassland again.
After a moment of silence, Xu Mu put the scented wolf incense into his robe.
It has been more than six or seven days since the lone army entered the grassland. There is no need to worry about food and clean water, and plunder can be taken along the way. The most helpless thing is that the soldiers cannot drag the Di people on the grassland to join the army.
Occasionally, I saw some slaves raised in the Central Plains, but their bodies were tortured to the point of being so thin that they could not even ride a horse, so how could they gallop and conquer.
If one of the old brothers of the group dies, one will be missing.
Xu Mu took a deep breath, biting the painful tip of his tongue and forcing himself to calm down again. The method was taught by an old soldier. In this cavalry of nearly 3,000 people, even the youngest Wei Xiaowu bit his tongue until it was scarred.
"General Xu returns to his horse!"
Suddenly, two men and horses riding on the sentinel in front shouted urgently and angrily.
Xu Mu raised his head, his expression immediately frightened. To prevent falling into the Di people's trap, he would always send a few riders to scout out the distance of several miles in advance.
"Return to the horse——"
In the cold wind, an old pawn who had not finished shouting was shot in the head by dozens of exquisite horse arrows, and fell down from his horse.
The other rider tried to turn back in a roundabout way, but was cut off in half by a chopping knife.
"Enemy attack!" Xu Mu roared and raised his sword.
Behind him, nearly three thousand people on horseback lined up and stood ready.
Under the blue sky, a large group of figures covered in yellow armor slowly stepped out. Wearing yellow armor, their helmets were extremely weird, with half of them protruding, and at first glance they looked like eagles pecking them.
The leader was a young man in beast armor, with a face like an eagle and a wolf, holding a huge mace in one hand.
"Tenggri——"
Waves of roars resounded all around.
"General Xu is the eagle guard of Digou Royal Court!"
Eagle Guards, two thousand people.
As if between lightning and flint, the two thousand eagle guards blocking the road were a dense burst of horse bows.
"Raise your shield!"
The plundered Di people's small leather shields were shot to pieces by horse arrows one after another, and they were unable to block them. In the blink of an eye, many of their fellow riders were hit by flying arrows and fell under their horses.
"General Xu, if not, please take a roundabout way to avoid it."
"Can't avoid it." Xu Mu gritted his teeth. If he took a roundabout way at this time, he would be chased and shot to death one by one.
The elites of the Beidi Royal Court are not comparable to those ordinary Di people. Furthermore, if you take a roundabout route, you may encounter other encirclement and suppression armies.
God knows why these Eagle Guards are so fast.
"Raise the gun!"
"General Xu has an order, raise your gun and attack the enemy!"
"We have no way to retreat. We only hope that all of our colleagues will risk their lives and crush the enemy's army!"