Wei Kun lowered his head and pondered for a while. Although the ransom offered by the horse thieves was a lot, it was still acceptable compared to his beloved daughter. The most important thing was to know that his daughter was kidnapped by the horse thieves and not by the Han army. He could use the ransom. It would be more acceptable to Wei Kun to have his daughter back.
So Wei Kun finally gritted his teeth and said: "Okay... I promise you, I will order people to prepare now, when will you send my daughter back?"
A glimmer of light flashed in the eyes of the horse thief leader, and he said with a smile: "I will go back now, and I can send Ling Qianjin here before dawn. This time is just enough for the leader to prepare..."
Wei Kun thought for a while and said: "Okay, you'd better not play any tricks. If anything happens to my daughter, I will kill all of you horse thieves even if I use all my strength to chase her to the end of the grassland." All,"
The leader of the horse thieves smiled and said: "Don't worry, leader, your daughter is doing very well...very well..." After saying that, he led his men to turn around and leave.
Wei Kun was still a little worried. He waved his hand to stop the horse thief leader and said: "The two people around you can go back, but you must stay as hostages. If you don't come back, who can I find?"
"Su Tou..." Zuo Zuo was startled when he heard this. He drew his weapon and refused, but was forcibly stopped by the horse thief leader. Seeing that he didn't think much, he smiled casually, blinked his eyes, and said with profound meaning: " Okay, I'll stay here so that the leader won't worry. You go back and ask the boss to bring the people over quickly. I'll just stay here to talk to the leader..."
"Su Tou, you..." A short and stocky horse thief next to him was still a little worried. The head of the horse thief who had always been smiling suddenly felt cold and said coldly: "Go back quickly... don't be so verbose,"
After being scolded by the leader, the two horse thieves could only leave with their heads hanging down. The leader, under the watchful eyes of hundreds of Xianbei knights with unkind expressions, followed Wei Kun to the Xianbei camp as if there was no one else around.
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I don’t know whether it was to pick up Weiheya earlier or to get away from the Han army earlier. It didn’t take Weikun much time to raise the ransom demanded by the horse thieves, so he waited until the fourth watch, but Weikun was no longer there. He urged patiently.
"Leader Su, it's almost dawn, why hasn't your boss come yet?"
"Don't worry, leader. Our mountain stronghold is dozens of miles away from here. How can we walk so fast? Besides, I'm still staying here," the horse thief leader wrote lightly.
Although he said it lightly, the leader of the horse thief also looked into the distance from time to time. In fact, he was probably more anxious than Wei Kun at the moment, but he had been hiding it very well.
"Why hasn't General Qu arrived at this time? Could it be that the manpower sent back has problems along the way?"
Wei Kun was pacing back and forth in a daze. Being under the eyes of the Han army was a frightening thing. The longer the time passed, the stronger the ominous premonition in Wei Kun's heart. Originally, Wei Kun was pacing back and forth in a daze. I was relieved to learn that my daughter was kidnapped by horse thieves. Now as time goes by, this ominous omen begins to become stronger again.
After a long time, Wei Kun finally couldn't suppress the anxiety in his heart, and gritted his teeth and said: "I can't care so much now. At dawn, if your head of household hasn't brought my daughter here yet, I will bring mine immediately." If the clan members leave, our deal will be forfeited,"
A trace of anxiety flashed in the eyes of the horse thief leader, and he forced himself to calm down and said: "Why, does the patriarch not intend to redeem your daughter?"
Wei Kun gritted his teeth and said with a venomous tone: "Humph, if anything happens to my daughter, I will pay for it with your life."
The leader of the horse thieves smiled meaningfully and said: "Sir, please think twice. If you kill me, you will not be able to take back your daughter's life. I promise, if you listen to me, I will give you a complete return." 's daughter,"
Wei Kun couldn't help but lower his head and think for a while after hearing the words. He had already decided to leave at dawn, but the words of the horse thief named Su made him less angry. Moreover, Wei Kun always felt that his words were unfathomable and seemed to have hidden meanings. contains other meanings.
Just when Wei Kun was in a dilemma, suddenly, a shrill horn sounded in the distance.
"Here we come," Wei Kun was overjoyed at first, but soon discovered something was wrong. The Xianbei people always used horns to convey messages. This shrill horn sound usually only contains several meanings. First, enemy attack, and second, The number of people coming was huge, and thirdly, some members of the tribe had already been killed or injured at the hands of the invading people.
But no matter what the situation is, blowing the horn of this rhythm means that the situation is critical.
Wei Kun looked pale and said: "What's going on? Send someone quickly to see what happened." It seemed that the ominous premonition in his heart had indeed come true. Although he didn't know what it was, he was already sure that it was absolutely Not a good thing.
The people sent out soon came back with the news. As Wei Kun had predicted, the bad news would have been bad if it didn't come. When it came, it was bad news that almost broke Wei Kun's heart. ""
"Sir, my lord, I'm sorry, the Han army is coming from the south, a large number of Han troops are coming from the south,"
"What, the Han army is coming?" Wei Kun was really afraid of what was coming. Hearing this, Wei Kun was shocked and staggered and almost fell to the ground. He calmed down and asked anxiously: "How many people are coming?"
"My lord, there are people everywhere in the dark night. It's hard to see how many people there are. But from the sound of shouting and the sound of horse hooves, the number of Han troops coming is at least a thousand,"
"Thousands of cavalry," Wei Kun's expression changed. The Han army has always been well-trained and well-equipped. Even if their riding skills are slightly inferior, they generally won't suffer against the Xianbei knights. Moreover, the strongest young men in the clan add up. However, the loss of seven to eight hundred men was definitely not what he, the clan leader, was willing to bear. What's more, according to reports from spies, the number of Han troops stationed at Fairy Lake was at least tens of thousands. Who knows if these more than a thousand Han troops were not responsible for launching the first attack? The vanguard of an attack.
Wei Kun could be said to have lost the courage to resist immediately, and immediately ordered the warriors of the clan: "Wei Sheng, you immediately protect the whole clan, old and young, and evacuate to the north. Wei Cheng, you lead three hundred warriors to cut off the rear, I don't care. Whatever method you use, you must stop the Han army for me,"
The two warriors took the order and left separately. The rest of the people were also busy preparing under the command of Wei Kun. In a blink of an eye, only Wei Kun and a few personal guards were left in the tent. Wei Kun raised his head and looked around, and saw the leader of the horse thieves at the entrance of the tent. Looking out, he couldn't help but feel angry. He was trembling with anger and said: "You... if it weren't for you, our tribe wouldn't be attacked by the Han army here. I... I'm going to kill you."