When we came to the Western Regions, the team marched slowly and for a long time, but when we returned, it was very fast. Half a month later, the team arrived in Liangzhou.

That morning, the team had just entered the territory of Liangzhou, and more than a dozen knights came in front of him. The leader was Zhong Kui. He took the Dou family's Ruyi Ling first, contacted the Dou family's ranch, and learned about the situation in Liangzhou.

Behind Zhong Kui is a middle-aged man. He stepped forward to salute Li Xiu. Zhong Kui introduced: "He is the chief manager of Dou Family Ranch, Dou Xianling!"

When Li Xiu set out from Chang'an, he heard Dou Yanqing say that the Dou family ranch was operated between Ganzhou and Liangzhou, and often dealt with the horse thief Liu Feiteng. Before that, time was rushed, but although Liu Feiteng was severely defeated, he was unable to completely annihilate him.

This time, Li Xiu received an oral order from Emperor Li Longji and asked him to find an excuse to arrest Yuan Jin. The best excuse was Liu Feiteng.

"These troubles are in charge of the matter!"

Dou Xianling was also a member of the Dou family. Although he was a concubine's son, he was very smart and capable.

"Please go to the ranch first to talk to you!"

“How far is it?”

“It’s about eighty miles away.”

"Everyone go to the ranch and have a good rest!"

Everyone left the official road and followed Dou Xianling to the south.

When it was almost dark, they finally arrived at the core area of ​​the ranch. In fact, the ranch arrived in the afternoon, but the ranch was too big and there were thousands of hectares of grassland.

The core area is a Qiang tribe with hundreds of large tents and thousands of Qiang people living. They all make a living by grazing the Dou family. In addition to the Qiang people, there are also two deputy managers and more than 100 Dou family warriors.

To welcome Li Xiu and his party, the ranch prepared hundreds of big tents, killed hundreds of sheep, and took out hundreds of bags of horse milk wine. That night, the Qiang tribe held a grand bonfire party to entertain distinguished guests from afar.

Dozens of bonfires lit up raging fires, and everyone sat around the bonfires, drinking and eating meat, laughing and clamoring, and a group of Qiang girls danced in front of the bonfire.

Li Xiu sat in the middle, with Qiang chief Hei Wuli on the left, and Dou Xianling on the right. Everyone was in high spirits, and the horse milk wine was extremely mellow and easy to taste. They unknowingly drank a few more bowls.

"Will Liu Feiteng take the opportunity to attack us?" Li Xiu asked with a smile.

Dou Xianling laughed, "We hope that he can attack them in a sneak attack and catch them all in one go. Since His Highness severely injured them last time, they have only dozens of people left and they will never dare to mess around again."

"Can you find him? Just cut him out." Li Xiu asked with a smile.

Dou Xianling pointed to the chief next to him, "The chief can find them!"

Li Xiu was overjoyed and hurriedly asked the chief Hei Wuli, "How to find them?"

Hei Wuli picked up a large bowl of horse milk wine and said with a smile: "Your Highness finished drinking this bowl of wine, I'll take you to find him!"

.............

Li Xiu was drunk and didn't wake up until noon the next day. He washed up a little, sat in the tent and drank a sip of ginger tea made by Xiaomei for her. Then he let out a long sigh, "This horse milk wine has too much energy to drink it in the future."

"Young Master, the chief manager and the chief are here!"

"Please come in!"

As soon as the curtain was lifted, Zhong Kui accompanied Dou Xianling and the chief Hei Wuli in.

"I'm disturbing your highness to rest!"

"It's okay, please sit down for two!"

The two sat down at the small table, Li Xiu winked at Zhong Kui and asked him to sit down too.

Hei Wuli took out a roll of sheepskin and slowly spread it on the table. There was a map on the sheepskin.

"Your Highness, this is the southern pasture map of Liangzhou and Ganzhou. This is Qilian Mountains..."

Hei Wuli pointed to a mountain-shaped black line in the distance, and pointed to a black round hole pattern not far away. "This is Dadubagu, the only passage from the Hexi Corridor to Hehuang. The old lair of Liu Feiteng, who was determined to annihilate, was hidden in Dadubagu."

"How did the chief know that his lair is here?"

"How could I not know?"

Hei Wuli smiled bitterly, "Many of his subordinates are my tribe members. I went to his lair a few years ago to negotiate the return of my tribe members, but it was left unresolved."

Li Xiu apologized, "Then the last time I ambushed Liu Feiteng's subordinates, I should have hurt many of your tribe members!"

"I asked them to come back because I didn't want their tribe members to be horse bandits, but they didn't want to come back. They said that being horse bandits made a lot of money and lived a happy life. They actually regarded doing evil as business. I had nothing to say, and they were responsible for their own faults when they died!"

"How many people are there under Liu Feiteng's men now?"

"There are about fifty people!"

Li Xiu thought about it and immediately made a decision: "The night is long and the dreams are too long. We will set off for Dadoubagu in the afternoon!"

............

It was early autumn and August, and the north wind in the Hexi corridor was quite cold and there was a bit of coolness.

The one who led the way to Li Xiu's army was Hei Wuli's eldest son Hei Jinta. He was tall and burly and dark, and he really looked like a half-black tower.

Heijinta led his tribe to Jiuqu’s salt lake every year, and he had to pass through Dadubagu. He knew Dadubagu well and had also been to Liu Feiteng’s nest twice.

They walked along the Qilian Mountains for a night. At five o'clock in the morning, the group finally arrived at the entrance of the Dadouba Valley.

Walking into the Dadouba Valley and walking along a valley dozens of feet wide for several miles, my eyes suddenly lit up. A huge grassland appeared in front of them. This grassland had hundreds of hectares.

"That's it over there!"

The Black Golden Tower waved his hand back, and everyone stopped. He pointed to a forest in the distance and said to Li Xiu: "Your Highness, when you pass through the forest, there is a lake with hundreds of acres over there, and there is a tent by the lake, which is the bandit's nest."

"Will any spies discover us?" Li Xiu looked at the forest in the distance and said.

"There is a possibility, but now the spy can't see us, your highness comes with me!"

The Black Golden Tower led everyone back and headed towards a narrow stone valley next to it. The narrowest part of this stone valley could only accommodate one person and one horse. Through the stone valley, they actually entered the forest and walked along the edge of the forest.

In this way, if they do not appear on the grassland, they will naturally not be discovered by the bandits' secret whistle. This is why Qiang people who are familiar with the terrain know how to deal with it. If any army is replaced, they will be discovered by the secret whistle.

Through the forest, a shimmering lake appeared in front of them. There were snow-capped mountains in the distance, and there were lush grasslands on both sides. A lake water was embedded in the green grassland like sapphires, with extremely beautiful scenery.

Unfortunately, such a beautiful scenery has been occupied by the horse bandits. There are dozens of large tents on the shore, which are Liu Feiteng and his subordinates' tents, and more than a dozen young women are washing laundry by the lake.

A middle-aged man was sitting by the lake fishing. The black gold tower pointed at the fishing man and said, "That person is Liu Feiteng, the real Liu Feiteng!"

At this time, Pei Min came back and said, "The secret whistle outside has been killed!"

Liu Xiu nodded and said to Zi Linfeng: "You lead thirty warriors around the east shore of the lake to block their escape route!"

"Abide by the orders!"

Zi Linfeng bowed and took thirty warriors to the east.

Li Xiu said to Pei Min again: "You bring two hundred cavalry to kick the battalion. No need to capture them alive. All of them will be killed. I want Liu Feiteng's head!"

Pei Min bowed his fists and waved his hand, "First team and second team come with me!"

Two hundred cavalrymen followed Pei Min out of the forest and rushed towards the tent two miles away. Li Xiu personally led one hundred cavalry to deploy on the edge of the forest, cutting off the final escape of the horse bandits.

The cavalry led by Pei Min was seen by the laundry women. They were panicked, but none of them ran to report the news.

At this time, Liu Feiteng, who was fishing, also saw the cavalry coming. He was shocked and jumped up and ran towards the tent.

Pei Min took the lead, locking Liu Feiteng with his eyes, and leaving the other bandits to his subordinates, he was responsible for catching or killing Liu Feiteng.

Liu Feiteng ran into the tent, picked up a sword and ran towards the horse-tie stake not far away. Seeing that he was about to reach the war horse, a cold light flashed and a sword flew towards him.

‘Puff!’ The long sword pierced Liu Feiteng’s calves and nailed him to the ground. Liu Feiteng fell to the ground and screamed in pain. At this time, no one came to save him. The horse bandits were killed by Tang soldiers and fled in scattered.

Liu Feiteng struggled to get up, and a sharp spear pressed against his neck. Pei Min said coldly: "If you dare to move, pierce your neck!"

Liu Feiteng closed his eyes in pain and crossed the Hexi Corridor for more than ten years, but he didn't expect to end up falling.

Dozens of horse bandits were killed, and several horse bandits who fled east met Zi Linfeng and his party, and could not escape and die.

Liu Feiteng was tied up and put into the prison car. More than a dozen young women were plundered from all over Liangzhou. When they got together, they would be taken to Guzang County and distributed some property before they could go home.

"Your Highness, read these letters!"

Pei Min handed several letters to Li Xiu, and there was indeed something Li Xiu wanted, and Yuan Jin wrote a handwritten letter to Liu Feiteng.
Chapter completed!