Peng Lin held the reins of the horse, stopped, and said to Tu Anping, the deputy commander beside him: "There are several rivers converging in front of him, and their status is extremely important. The commander ordered us to station here and wait for the order. You take the twenty soldiers to the south to see if there are any other houses. Here are reeds and swamps, it is difficult to see what happened. You must check them around."

Tu An agreed with his hands, ticked twenty soldiers, and headed the horse to the south. There were large swamps on the road, and occasionally there were traces of the road. If you didn't observe carefully, you wouldn't see any traces.

Tong Erlang picked up the bucket from the well and was about to carry it home when he suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves. He felt strange in his heart, so he put down the bucket and looked at the place where the sound of horse hooves came. The terrain here is remote and few people have always come, so how could there be the sound of horse hooves?

After a while, dozens of people rode horses and turned out from behind a reed. The red armor they wore was different from what they had seen before, which was very strange. Those people were watching around and watching someone here, and then walked over together.

Tong Erlang looked back at the residence. There was no one outside. Everyone went to the big water next to him to catch fish, and they didn't know what to do for a moment.

Tu Anping and his men saw a well in front of him, and there was a boy who was fetching water standing beside the well. He looked like he was seven or eight years old, and was quietly watching his people. He took his subordinates over with his horse's reins.

When he arrived, Tu Anping got off his horse and said to Tong Erlang: "Little brother, which tribe are you from? Can you speak Chinese?"

Tong Erlang said: "I am a Han Chinese, so I can speak Chinese naturally. There are few people here, so who are you? What are you here for?"

Tu Anping was overjoyed when he heard this: "We are soldiers, wearing armor? By the way, they are soldiers from the Song Dynasty who come to the Western Regions to regain their hometowns."

Tong Erlang couldn't help but frown when he heard this: "What is the Song Dynasty? I haven't heard of it. In recent years, all I heard of is Hei Khan and Gaochang. Even the Kingdom of Khotan has been destroyed for decades."

Tu Anping said: "The Song Dynasty is the current Central Plains court, just like the Tang Dynasty before."

Tong Erlang was surprised: "You are soldiers from the Central Plains, why did you get here? This place is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains. I have never seen soldiers from the Central Plains for hundreds of years. I tell you that from here to the south is the road to the Kingdom of Khotan, but it has been abandoned for a long time. The families here were all garrisons nearby when the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, and later they were wandering and hiding here."

Tu Anping said to the soldiers behind him: "I didn't expect that we were so lucky to meet the descendants of the Tang army back then! With them, the surrounding terrain would be clear. Although this child is not fluent in Chinese, he has a straightforward word and can't make mistakes!"

After saying that, Tu Anping said to Tong Erlang: "Which one is your home? Go home and find you lords."

Tong Erlang said: "All our adults have gone out, but there are only women and children left at home, but it is a bit inconvenient. If you want to find someone, you have to wait here. The surroundings are sparsely populated, and there are reed swamps everywhere, making it difficult to walk around."

Tu Anping smiled and said, "If you find you, everything will be fine. OK, we are waiting by the well, and you go and tell the people here."

Tong Erlang promised, and did not carry water. He ran home quickly and reported to the women at home.

After a while, several women came out and stood at the door of their house to watch Tu Anping and others. After a while, two women in their forties and fifties came over and saluted, "I wonder where the officials came from? What are they going to do when they come to this remote countryside?"

Tu An crossed his hands: "After the servants, they were soldiers of the imperial court, who followed the commander of Jie to enter the Western Regions. After receiving the order of the superiors, they came here to check the station and wait for the army to come. The two sisters-in-law, don't know where this is?"

A woman said, "This is Aige, I don't know what it means, I only heard those other people call it. You are the soldiers of the court. Let me ask you, who is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty today?"

Tu Anping smiled and said, "Sister-in-law is joking. The Tang Dynasty has been dead for two hundred years. Now the Central Plains is the Song Dynasty."

After hearing this, the two women gathered together and whispered in a low voice, not knowing what to say. After a while, the previous woman said, "But I don't know that the Tang Dynasty has long been destroyed. There is nothing. We have been hiding in this remote place for generations. What is the difference between dying and not dying? I wonder if you brothers, what are the situations you have followed in the Western Regions? "

Tu Anping said: "The court has ordered Gaochang, defeated Hei Khan, and entered Shule. Now the Western Regions have re-entered the imperial court."

Both women were surprised and said, "Since the Song Dynasty was so powerful, why didn't you hear it before? Why did you take it back to the Western Regions in an instant? Are you true? Even though we are remote people, it is not easy to cheat."

Tu Anping ordered to take his own flag and point to the words on it and said, "Isn't this the word "Song"? We came to this area with military orders. I heard that it was a key road before, but I don't know the truth."

The woman said, "Where can we recognize words from women? Since that's the case, you can wait here for a moment. Let's find a parent to come."

After saying that, the two women went back and brought some fruits and hot water for the soldiers to enjoy. They sent someone to find someone who went out to fish. They thought they were worried about Tu Anping and others and dared not call everyone back.

Not long after waiting, a man came back, wearing a bun, but wearing a Hu suit, dressed in an inappropriate manner. However, from Dangxiang to Zhucheng in the Western Regions, there were many people dressing like this, and Tu Anping was not surprised.

The man came to Tu Anping and bowed, "I heard from my family that some soldiers in the Central Plains have arrived here and come to meet me. The young man is named Tong Chengle. Who do you guys?"

Tu Anping was patient and said, "We are under the command of Hequlu Road in the Song Dynasty. We followed Jieshou to the Western Regions. A month ago, we defeated the Black Khan army in Budouer and arrived here along the Tarim River. I heard that the rivers gather here are important places, so we brought troops to guard it. Who would have thought that there are swamps everywhere and even the rivers can't be distinguished, and we are searching everywhere."

Tong Chengle nodded, looked at Tu Anping and others carefully, and after a while, he said: "Looking at your appearance, it is different from the Hei Khan army, but there are some shadows of the Central Plains. To be honest, there has been no Central Plains army in the Western Regions for nearly three hundred years, so he is confused."

Tu Anping said, "It's okay. Since you are descendants of the Tang Dynasty's soldiers, it's nothing to be cautious. Let me ask you, where is the intersection here to Yutian? Although the Black Khan army was defeated, the Imperial Court of the Khotan court has not sent troops to go. We need to defend it so that their soldiers will not escape."

Tong Chengle lowered his head and thought for a while before saying, "To be honest, this is the intersection to Yutian. It's just that the river is diverted, and the roads in the past have been flooded, and it has become like this. As long as you cut down the reeds on the road, you will naturally show your way out."

Tu Anping was overjoyed and bowed, "Since that's the case, I'll thank you. Since this is the intersection of Yutian, our army can be stationed here. You don't need to panic. The court's laws are strict and I will not beat you up."
Chapter completed!