To the south of Heli Mountain is Lanzhou, and to the north is the desert, and the geographical environment is very different.
However, the desert here is not completely uninhabited, there are more than 100 lakes of all sizes in the desert, some lakes are freshwater lakes, some lakes are saltwater lakes, and some lakes are saltwater lakes, but there are many springs in the saltwater lakes, gushing fresh water day and night.
This strange landform has made this desert area also have many tribes, attached to the lake to live.
The Sabah tribe is one of them.
Late at night, it was cold.
The undulating sand dunes are like hills, the high ones are more than 200 zhang, and the small ones are dozens of zhang to more than 100 zhang, and behind the sand dunes, there is a team quietly sneaking along the sand ridge towards the Sabah tribe.
The Sabah tribe lived near the lake, and behind it was a large sand dune nearly 200 zhang high, and the team stopped on the dune, and after a while, someone gave an order, and these people carried long knives on their backs, and rushed down the sand dunes one after another, and rushed down quickly towards the tribe under the sand dunes with the speed of rushing down.
"Boom" The sand mountain here is the sound of sand, nearly a thousand people rushed down the mountain, the huge roar caused by it, as if several giant bombers swept over the tribe, and like a dull and far-reaching thunder, the loudness can be heard for dozens of miles in this quiet night.
The people of the Sabah tribe were awakened, but they had no time to respond.
The cries of women and children, the barking of dogs and cows and horses, the clash of swords and swords, the clashing of swords and halberds, and the sounds of cursing and shouting were intertwined, turning the silent desert into a pot of porridge.
By the time the first rays of the dawn sun shone down on the earth, the tribe had fallen silent.
There were several corpses lying on the ground, blood flowing everywhere and frozen into red ice, and the whole tribe was regaining its calm.
Some were counting their belongings and food, taking away what was easy to take away, some burying their partners who had died in the last night's scuffle under the sand slopes, and others feeding the camels and horses they had looted with concentrated fodder such as beans and hay.
Still others are screening captured Burakuren.
These tribesmen were not all tribal freemen, and there were many slaves among them.
These slaves included the Tibetans, Han Chinese, Uighurs, Khitans, Murweis, and even the Turks, who were of the same tribe as the Sabah tribe, who were reduced to slavery because their tribes had lost inter-tribal battles.
These mysterious visitors freed the slaves, giving them money, food, weapons, and even women, and even the slaves, who were originally a little timid and did not dare to rebel against their old masters, suddenly had the courage to resist when they received the goods, weapons, and turned the former mistress into their own women.
What's more, many slaves who were abused by their old masters were just weak and didn't dare to resist in order to survive, but now they have turned over and become masters, and with these people as backers, they even want to be cruel to their old masters more than this team of unknown origin.
Soon, the freed slaves and the interned tribesmen figured out the origin of these people, two well-known horse bandits, one was the Han Chinese, and the other was the Turkic Black Whirlwind.
Xiao Fei and Black Spin Fei are both nicknames of the bandit leaders, and the horse bandits don't need to use any banners, and others use their leader's nickname to name them in order to distinguish them.
Xiao Fei has a special character in this team, that is, Yang Fan, who is still glued to the beard.
When he heard about the crisis in Shuofang, Longyou, and Hegu that day, Yang Fan suddenly thought that since his appearance was similar to that of Ashina Musi, he could make the Tubo people make a big mistake, so could he repeat the old trick and use this identity to find some trouble for the Turks As for how to make trouble for the Turks, he hasn't thought about it yet, he plans to act again after he arrives in the Turks, and it is impossible for a team of horse thieves to have any impact on the military actions to be taken by the Turks, who have nearly 300,000 men who control the strings, but if you add his identity as "Ashinamus", it is difficult to say.
The Turks, like the Tibetans, had serious internal contradictions, such as between the main tribe and the vassal tribes, and between the tribes and the tribes.
If the identity of Ashina Musi can be used to make the Turkic tribes suspicious of each other, and even provoke disputes between them, causing greater turmoil, the Turks will inevitably no longer be able to send troops to attack the Tang Dynasty under this situation of internal instability.
In this way, before they can settle their internal disputes, the Shuofang, Longyou, and Hexi militaries will be able to calmly respond to the situation, replenish their troops, adjust their deployments, and strengthen the city defenses, so that the information they get will be useless.
It's a risky plan, but it's tempting.
Especially after the success of the Tubo Royal City, Shen Mu also knows the marrow, if he can use a trick to stop hundreds of thousands of Turkic troops from going south, this risk is obviously worth taking.
So after careful consideration, Shen Mu decided to use Xiaofei to take Zhang Yi's horse thieves as the main trunk, and then seconded some elite horsemen from Wu Zhile to disguise themselves as a team of horse bandits to infiltrate the Turkic territory, and then they would act at the opportunity.
When you need to be a bandit, you need to be a bandit, and when you need to turn into a Turkic soldier, Yang Fan just tore off his beard.
Once the action is formulated, the biggest obstacle is that the chicken and bear that were originally used as decorations have opened the mountain.
Yang Fan didn't want to go through the military for this operation, first of all, Lou Shide might not agree to such a risky action, let him throw thousands of lone soldiers into the Turkic wolves to fend for himself, this responsibility is too big.
At the same time, the spies are really pervasive, according to the news received by Shen Mu, the two Turkic spies were able to escape with the help of the internal response in the army, so it seems that the tribe of Wuzhile and Zhang Yi's horse bandit gang are more pure.
But in this case, how to explain to Gao Sheji and Xiong Kaishan Zhang Yi offered the easiest way to do it: take them out This method really has no trouble, but Yang Fan can't do it, for the life and death of hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who may be saved, sacrifice two innocent people, this price seems to be worth it, but Yang Fan can't do it, he wants to persuade these two people to join his plan.
When passing through an oasis town, Yang Fan called them to his residence, saying that he had learned through the secret newspaper system of the imperial court that the Turkic spies had fled back to the Turks with important military information, and in order to prevent the possible raids of the Turks, he wanted to use his resemblance to Ashina Musi to infiltrate the Turks and cause turmoil.
In addition to the damage caused by the Turkic invasion, Yang Fan spared no effort to talk about how much future he could get once the matter was completed.
Gao Sheji and Xiong Kaishan are not stupid, from the time he rushed all the way to the Tuqi Shi Department, and then took people to Tubo for a turn, he collected enough information, knowing that he had other sources and forces to help, and the two of them were just decorations.
Years of scout career, they have developed their cautious and meticulous nature, they don't want to inquire about Yang Fan's secrets, they are not afraid of death, their home is in Longyou, Yang Fan's actions are beneficial to their parents and relatives, this is enough, not to mention, they also know what this adventure will mean once successful.
So, two sergeants, who had already taken adventures as their profession, reluctantly agreed to act with him.
After that, Shen Mu stopped in that town and sent his cronies back to the Tuqi Shi Department to extort men and horses from Wuzhi.
Even if there are spies in the Tuqishi department, it is impossible to form a powerful espionage system, and if there are only one or two eyes and ears, it is impossible for them to send any news on such a snowy day.
Unless he defects and never returns.
Rao is so, Shen Mu still made a full secret of this major action, he sent his cronies to meet Shen Mu to discuss the matter, only said that he was attacked by horse bandits on the way, so he needed to be protected by the Turk Shi Department, Wu Zhile personally selected the most brave and good at fighting, and the most trustworthy 1,500 henchmen and warriors, only the leader of the team knew the details, until 1,500 warriors arrived in the town, and then officially announced the task to them.
During this period, Shen Mu also informed the Huangshui side to send someone to pick him up, and his people came earlier than the 1,500 cavalry of the Tuqishi.
After the matter was properly arranged, Zhang Yi and Yang Fan led the horse thieves and the Turkish cavalry to divert to the Turks, while Shen Mu returned to Huangshui.
Yang Fan and Zhang Yi led 2,000 people to cross the Heli Mountain on foot and enter the desert.
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Zhang Yi has traveled all over the country in the past few years, and the most important thing is to find out information for Shen Mu, make contacts, and complete some tasks that are not suitable for officials.
He was friends with the leader of a gang of horse bandits in the Turkic territory, the Black Whirlwind.
Zhang Yi led people to find the station of the Black Whirlwind, originally wanted to buy some horses from him, but who knew that the Black Whirlwind heard that he led people to infiltrate the Turks this time to do a few big deals.
Zhang Yi secretly asked Yang Fan, Yang Fan sneaked into the Turks this time, eager to turn him upside down, how can there be no reason not to agree, and with the help of this local horse bandit, it is equivalent to an extra pair of eyes and ears, which will make his success rate higher, Zhang Yi agreed to the Black Whirlwind's request, and said very magnanimously: The robbed gold, silver and grain are added to the five, and the stolen cattle, sheep, horses, women and slaves are all owned by the Black Whirlwind, and the Black Whirlwind pats Zhang Yi's shoulder and calls his good brother.
As a result, a group of real horse bandits and a group of fake horse bandits began a sweep of the Turkic tribes in cooperation with each other.
"Hahahaha, hahahaha" The bearded Turkic man Black Whirlwind, carrying the three forks of the Heavenly Fork, laughed loudly at the herds of cattle and sheep that had passed in front of him, and in a blink of an eye, he saw the treasures and the beautiful women who had been found in the homes of the tribal chiefs, and he couldn't help but laugh heartily again.
Zhang Yi and Yang Fan, who had a beard almost comparable to a black whirlwind, stood not far away, whispering in a low voice.
Yang Fan said: "Brother Zhang, we have to fight to raise the war, this horse bandit still has to pretend, but always sweeping some small tribes in the border areas of the Turks, it is really useless, we have grabbed enough horses, we can go inside." ” Zhang Yi glanced at the black whirlwind who was smirking not far away, and asked, "What should he do?"
Yang Fan said: "He has a lot of manpower, it is still useful for the time being, and at the same time, it can also help us confuse the Turks, let's take them first, and when he feels that there is danger, there is no need for us to say, he himself will retreat, and then we will get rid of him and we will come by ourselves."
Zhang Yi nodded and walked towards the black whirlwind.
In a short time, some of the men of the Black Whirlwind were carrying the captured cattle and sheep women, and the newly joined horse bandits swept away the goods and drove towards their lair.
And the Black Whirlwind led the other horse bandits to dive along the edge of the desert along the edge of the desert with Zhang Yi, like a catfish rushing into a school of sardines, and began their journey of "stirring up".
To be continued: