There is a different kind of beauty in the northwest plateau in late autumn.

Although there are no scenes of cows and sheep being seen in the wind-blown grass, the vast sky and earth, the combination of plains and hills make people's minds become more open-minded.

However, before Li Kuan could fully enjoy this spectacular sight, Zhu Fuyu hurriedly got off the hot air balloon and ran over to report the urgent discovery to Li Kuan.

"Your Majesty, about ten miles ahead, we found a group of cavalry coming towards us!"

When leaving Chang'an, Li Kuan took all the more than 30 hot air balloons that he had finally built in a hurry.

These candidates to operate the hot air balloon are all young and strong men who are not afraid of heights selected from the escorts, and are trained one by one by Dai Quan.

As the first escort to ride a hot-air balloon, Zhu Fuyu was naturally appointed by Li Kuan as the captain of the hot-air balloon battalion.

Although the captain only had less than 200 people in the hot air balloon camp, Zhu Fuyu was very dedicated to his responsibilities.

Almost every day, he was soaking in a hot air balloon, following the large troops forward, while also taking into account the role of reconnaissance of the enemy.

Dai Quan and Zhu Fuyu are not the only ones who can skillfully operate a hot air balloon, but there are really not many people who can accurately detect and judge the enemy's situation on the heater.

Zhu Fuyu is talented in this area. No, he was the first to discover today's enemy situation.

"Approximately how many people are there?" Li Kuan frowned, not expecting to encounter such a situation at the last moment.

Although I am planning to leave the 20,000 troops of the Western Turks in Liangzhou, this is not the case.

If he really wants to fight like this, his thousand guards would probably be too much to fight against 20,000 Western Turkic elites, even against 1,000 people!

So Li Kuan's first reaction was to ask the other party how many people there were.

As for whether it is one of our own, this is basically not considered.

At this point in time, after Liangzhou City had lost thousands of cavalry, no military force of more than a hundred people appeared alone outside the city.

"I can't see clearly. Even if I use the treasure you gave me, Your Majesty, I can only roughly see that there are at least a hundred people on the other side."

"Xue Li, set up camp on the spot and surround the carriages loaded with those things. I'll go take a look."

Li Kuan has a master-level strategic bonus, which has really impressed everyone along the way.

Now, absolutely no one in the team would question his words.

In just a moment, Li Kuan and Zhu Fuyu appeared hundreds of meters in the air.

Following the direction of Zhu Fuyu's fingers, Li Kuan took out a very primitive monocular telescope from his arms. The brass body made it feel very heavy in his hand.

Originally, Li Kuan wanted the glass craftsmen to try making telescopes.

But after half a month of trying, not even a single qualified lens was produced, so I had to go to the system again to redeem it.

In the past six months, Li Kuan has gradually gained some understanding of the system.

For ready-made items such as telescopes that are beyond this era, the exchange price is very high. Even the lowest primitive monocular telescope gave Li Kuan a painful exchange.

It seems that in the future we should try to exchange for some raw materials, such as steel and white phosphorus. Although they are expensive, they are still acceptable.

Li Kuan had previously imagined that one day, he would be invincible if each of his guards were equipped with a submachine gun from the system.

Now it seems that this is simply impossible.

Whether the system can be redeemed for thermal weapons is still a big question mark.

Even if it can be exchanged, the price must be very high. It is impossible for Li Kuan to exchange a bunch of weapons.

It seems that we still have to rely on our own strength to change Datang's technological strength, so that we can improve the equipment level of our own guards on a large scale.

"What do these people seem to be chasing?" Li Kuan soon saw the cavalry Zhu Fuyu was talking about.

Although you can't see clearly, you can vaguely see that these cavalrymen form a fan shape.

This was obviously not a formation used on the road, and there were no other large-scale cavalry around, so the most likely possibility was that there were still small groups of targets they were chasing, and they just didn't notice it.

Zhu Fuyu: "The area around Liangzhou is already dominated by the Western Turks. Could it be that they are chasing spies sent by the Liangzhou City defenders?"

"No matter who we are chasing, they are the enemies of the Western Turks anyway. Land first, and we will set up an encirclement and eat these Western Turks."

Although he was not sure how many people there were on the other side, there should be no more than 200 people. Li Kuan thought about it and felt that he couldn't be intimidated by someone with less than 200 people who had over a thousand people, otherwise the momentum would be gone and the team would not be good.

Brought it.

Although the guards of Prince Chu's Mansion are not elite, fortunately they are not short of money, the equipment is very good, and the physical fitness of the selected personnel is not bad. Coupled with Xue Li's intensive training during this period, they can barely be regarded as a force.

Strong troops.

It is just a "strong army" that has not been on the battlefield. It cannot truly become an elite without seeing blood and winning big battles.

Li Kuan had no intention of rebelling, but his idea of ​​making his bodyguards the most elite personnel had never changed.

Soon, Xue Li took his guards and chose a valley surrounded by two mountains.

Although the hills on the left and right are not high, they are relatively wide. As long as you pass nearby, you will most likely choose to pass through the valley between the two mountains, otherwise it will cause a lot of trouble.

A thousand people seemed like a lot, but they were scattered in the valley and were inconspicuous at all.

Fortunately, there are less than 200 cavalrymen to ambush. As long as you don't mess up your position, you can win the battle no matter what.

After all, Li Kuan is surrounded by Xue Li and Wang Xuanwu, two capable masters. Not to mention more, it is no exaggeration for the two of them to fight against more than a dozen people.

It will be the courage of the soldiers!

With a strong general like Xue Li, there is no fear of failure in this ambush.

Ten miles seems to be a long distance, but judging from the speed of the cavalry and horses, it is actually only the time of a stick of incense.

"Your Majesty, the enemy is less than a mile away from us. About one hundred and fifty cavalry are chasing one person and will soon enter the valley."

In order to avoid scaring away the enemy, Zhu Fuyu had collected the hot air balloon early, but he was still actively responsible for investigating the enemy's situation.

"Chasing one person?" Li Kuan asked doubtfully, "More than a hundred people have been chasing for so long and yet they haven't caught up?"

Zhu Fufu explained, "It seems that the man in front has very good archery skills and is a master of using a bow. So far, I have seen at least three pursuers who were hit by arrows and fell from their horses!"

"Your Majesty, this is not strange. Unless the pursuers behind are fighting for casualties, they would not dare to chase too closely. To be honest, if I were in that kind of environment, as long as the arrow clusters are enough, I can really kill them in a short time.

Don't even try to catch up with me. I'll shoot whoever comes first. If I can draw a stronger bow, I can shoot farther."
Chapter completed!