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Chapter 11 Kucha City

After dawn, the sandstorm had subsided, and Hu Biao and others were about to follow Tang Jun back to the city.

But at this time, I realized that the wind and sand brought by the sandstorm last night covered everything in sight with gray, and when I walked, it would bring up Lao Gao's dust, which was quite choking.

Hu Biao could only imitate the appearance of Tang Jun, tearing off a piece of his dirty underwear, covering his mouth and nose.

In addition, even if some protection was done in advance last night, there were still more than [-] war horses who were suffocated to death after their mouths and noses were blocked by sand and dust; there were also some camels that broke free from their ropes and ran away when the wind and sand were at their peak.

In this way, everyone in the cave can't ride one by one.

The man with the scarred face frowned and thought for a moment, then shouted loudly to Hu Biao and the others:
"It fell into the hands of these Turkic horse bandits who are like bereaved dogs. You have suffered a lot these days.

So now I will give you a chance to take revenge and teach them a lesson. Some barbarian bastards dare to enslave me, Han Jiaerlang. "

While saying this, the man's tone was full of indescribable arrogance and determination.

It seems that this kind of thing is just and fair, and it should be so ordinary in the first place,
The voice in his mouth fell, and Hu Biao and others rushed towards those Turkic natives frantically, and began to punch and kick without holding back.

At this moment, he completely vented the grievances and fears he had suffered in the past few days.

The moment they stopped, there were a dozen or so Turkic natives lying curled up on the ground, with bruised noses and swollen faces, and many black footprints on their bodies.

Some people even had mottled blood on their bodies.

But with a feeling of gratitude after revenge, he looked at Tang Junshi who was watching.

Hu Biao and the others clearly saw that these Tang Jun's faces had complex expressions of disgust, helplessness, and annoyance, as if they were somewhat disappointed.

Without waiting for Hu Biao and the others to ask, what did they not do well.

After the man with the scar face waved his hand, another man opened his mouth, and the man with a bright front tooth led several people into action.

After pulling out the horizontal knife at his waist, he stabbed all the Turkic people to the ground in a blink of an eye.

When the last Turkic native bent into the shape of a prawn after being stabbed in the lower abdomen, the man with the scarred face scolded Hu Biao and others in a tone of hatred for iron and steel:

"A group of counselors see clearly, this is called a lesson, and such a lesson can convince them."

Amid the high-pitched scolding from Scarface, Hu Biao and the others looked at each other in blank dismay, unable to utter a single word; their chest and abdomen were even churning, and they almost vomited out the mutton soup they ate last night...

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'Devil~'

In the setting sun, after looking up at the two city names of "Kuicha" on the top of the city gate about six or seven meters high, Hu Biao instinctively read out such a sentence.

The voice is falling, and it is said that there are fellow villagers from Hunan Province from Xingcheng.

In the modern plane, he is a salesperson of prefabricated materials in the construction industry. It is said that Yang Dongli, who knows a little about everything because of his extensive research, immediately complained:

"Old Hu, was your Chinese taught by your physical education teacher? These two characters are called 'qiu ci'. It seems that we have really reached the border of the Western Regions during the Tang Dynasty."

Although he was complaining, it was obvious that Yang Dongli's mood was quite relaxed.

This is indeed the case, although Zhang Tiezhu and Tang Jun haven't fully believed them yet, whether they can stay in the safe city and hug Tang Jun's thigh still needs some kind of Guo Shuai to make a decision.

But their treatment is like coming to heaven from hell, with a completely new performance.

He said that they still had to be watched over, that is, they were not allowed to run around casually, and even the ropes tied to their hands and feet were loosened.

Even if the taste of the food is a little bit worse, it is always enough to eat and drink.

Even when they followed Tang Jun back to the city, they didn't have to keep walking along the way, and each of them got a war horse.

The only problem was that among the netizens present, none of them knew how to ride a horse; after being taught by several Tang Jun for a while, they groped for a while.

On the way back afterwards, riding on horseback was also trembling.

You can only let the horse walk slowly, and you can't gallop at all.

So much so that it slowed down the speed of Tang Jun's return to the city, which was not much faster than walking; it is said that the journey that could have been rushed back in half a day took a whole day.

When it was almost dark, the city of Kucha appeared in front of my eyes.

Qiuci City, this is a city built on a large oasis, and there is a big mountain twenty miles away.

According to the visual inspection of Hu Biao and others, the length and width of the city are about three to four kilometers, and the whole is an irregular quadrilateral; there is no modern plane, and a slightly larger town is as big as a street.

The city wall looks gray and lustrous, and it should only be piled up with soil.

The highest city gate is only six meters high, and the other places are a little shorter and only more than four meters high, which is the height of one floor in the modern plane.

Anyway, compared with the city walls made of masonry in Hu Biao's impression, they are far inferior in terms of appearance and function.

Fortunately, there is a moat seven or eight meters wide outside the city next to the city wall, which adds some defense.

And Xu is the reason why the sandstorm has just passed, and there are not many people in the city.

Except for some Tang army soldiers guarding the city gate and the city wall with their heads and faces exposed, only a pair of eyes exposed, there were not many people in the city at all.

Even these defenders, without exception, wrapped themselves up tightly, leaving only a pair of eyes outside.

But when the camels stepped on the sand and passed on the main road, Hu Biao and the others could see the low houses on the side of the road.

Between the gaps between the doors and windows, there are pairs of eyes looking at them nervously, as if they are worried about something.

It was precisely such a situation that made Hu Biao and others feel relieved not long ago, and cast a shadow...

After entering the city, Hu Biao and the others were quickly taken to a military camp in the west of the city, and placed in a large earthen house. After Zhang Tiezhu's team told them not to run around, they hurried away. .

Thinking of the soldiers of the Tang army with swords at the gate of the barracks, Hu Biao and the others also cut off other thoughts of taking a stroll.

After eating a little bit of food called Hubing, it should be made of flour.

These people lay on the beds made of licorice one by one. Because of the bumps caused by horseback riding during the day, and the tension was finally relieved, they quickly fell asleep.

I didn't even take a shower, let alone brush my teeth.

So, the insomnia and inability to fall asleep before midnight are just because these things from the modern plane are not tired enough.

Or maybe it's a bad habit that comes from a good living environment.

Another point that needs to be explained is that in this shabby room, each person is actually assigned a quilt.

Among them, either linen is used as the quilt, and the quilt is stuffed with reed catkins, or it is directly some large leather quilts sewn with many sheepskins.

Whether it's linen quilt or sheepskin, it looks like it's been a while.

It can be seen from this that the logistics supplies of the Tang army seem to be not very rich.

It's just that after a lapse of several days, I was finally able to live in a decent house, and it was a safe and shocking decent house, and all the netizens couldn't care less about it...

At the same time, in the room filled with the strong smell of sweat and feet, loud snoring and teeth grinding, Hu Biao and his group of 21 people slept until the dark.

In the largest city lord's mansion in Qiuci City, Guo Xin, the king of Wuwei County of the Tang Dynasty, the governor of Anxi, and the Jiedu of the four towns, looked at a map on the table and frowned.

It seems that he has maintained this appearance and has not spoken for a long time.

In the position of his lower head, all the subordinates of the Great Tang Anxi Army, including Changshi, Sima, Canjun, Duwei, Xiaowei, etc., did not have any intention of speaking.

Kneeling and sitting together in the large hall with dignified expressions made the atmosphere look extremely dead.

no way!The last thousands of soldiers of their Anxi army are facing a huge crisis at this moment.

According to the latest news they received, the Tubo side had an army of [-], together with Tuyuhun, Sogdians, Turks and many other Huren forces in the Western Regions.

A total of more than 20 people, a so-called [-] army, is currently killing all the way towards Qiucha City.

It only takes four or five days at most to appear outside the city.

With the troops and weapons in the city, it is absolutely impossible to defend this Kucha city; but if you don't defend the city, where can everyone retreat.

The road back to Chang'an has been cut off by the Tibetans for many years since the fall of Hexi.

Going to Chang'an is thousands of miles away, and it is impossible to fight all the way back.

Moreover!In the past, the cities controlled by the powerful Anxi Duhufu and Beiting Duhufu, which were controlled by the Tang army, have now taken down the last city of Kucha.

Once the city of Kucha is lost, the vast Western Regions will no longer have a foothold for Tang people like them.

Without the emperor's order, they dare not and cannot withdraw.

How to do?Faced with such an almost unsolvable problem, they have discussed it several times since they received the news on the Internet yesterday. Guo Xin and others have not discussed a slightly better solution until now.

No matter how they plan, there is no trace of life for their Anxi army.

Finally, when it was late at night, Guo Xin sighed and said:

"Forget it! Since there is no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth, then let's fight to the death in this city of Kucha. We want to take the city and let the Tubo people exchange enough lives for it.

Let them know that there is no coward in our Tang Dynasty.

Immediately mobilize all the people in the city to help repair the city wall, prepare wood, rolling stones and gold juice, and the soldiers of the whole army also sharpen their weapons and prepare for a deadly battle.

Let these people from the Western Regions a hundred years later still remember that Tang people are not so easy to mess with. "

The voice fell, and everyone in Cheng took orders one after another. Just as they were about to go down and do their own work, a personal guard of Guo Xin came in.

Reported to Zhang Tiezhu, the leader of the team, who encountered and brought back Hu Biao and others when he went out to inspect the city, and asked for instructions on how to arrange them.

If it was changed to normal times, Guo Xin might still be very interested in why these strange people appear here.

People will check carefully to prevent them from being tricked by the Tubo people.

The problem is that the existence of the entire Anxi Army has now entered the countdown, and Guo Xin doesn't care about many things anymore.

After pondering for a while, Guo Xin made arrangements: "The Tubo army is so powerful that it can easily take down Kucha City without any tricks, and it would not be necessary to resort to such superfluous means.

Besides, they couldn't find so many Tang people with accents in Guanzhong and other places in Guanzhong.

So their identities from the Tang Dynasty are probably true. As for why they appeared here, I don't bother to care about it at this time.

Keep it, and just join Zhang Tiezhu's cavalry team directly.

No matter what, they are always the men of our Han family, and we can take care of them as soon as we can; even if our situation is extremely bad, we can always live a few more days than them alone. "

After the personal guard heard the words, he immediately went down and handed over the handling opinion to Zhang Tiezhu who was waiting outside.

(End of this chapter)