Maimati bought thousands of excellent furs this time and was preparing to make a fortune in Chang'an! This time he was very lucky. He met the team of Tang army escorting the envoys. He just needed to follow them with a camel caravan, and even saved money from hiring those Kucha warriors.

Who knew if those Kucha warriors were bandit spies? Their brother-in-law hired them to die inexplicably on the way to the Tang Dynasty! [bsp;   Damn sandstorm! It was about to reach Yumen Pass, but he encountered this ghost place in Loulan! These Tang soldiers are really barbaric. They are just sandstorms. They can pass by them safely by surrounding the camels. But this sandstorm is really big!

Let Maimat throw away the goods! Even if you kill Maimat, it is impossible! This is all your savings. If you lose them, what will happen to your wife and children? Oops, the camel caravan can't close it! That damn head...

Damn it! The sandstorm swallowed the camel's most expensive fur! Maimati rushed into the front of the sandstorm...

The scene in front of him scared Maimati to the ground, and groups of evil spirits that were invisible to the edge ran over the sand and dust! More than ten zombies rushing in front and pounced on their camels! The beast didn't even have time to roar, and in a flash, it was sucked into a flesh and blood by the dried zombies and shrank into a mummy.

I don't want to die! Maimati turned around and ran and shouted, wanting to remind the person in front of him to run quickly! But his feet were like lead, and he couldn't get rid of his steps. A terrifying soul rushed down, and smiled strangely at Maimati and plunged into his mouth and nose!

Maimati was quickly sucked into flesh and blood at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving only a skeleton wrapped with cracked skin, which fell to the ground, and then was blown away by the hurricane...

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Zhang Fan stood on the high ground outside the city, and used his telescope to watch the caravan that was caught up by the sandstorm, dragged into the sandstorm, sighed and rushed into the city...

"Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, follow my orders!" Zhang Fan shouted while running: "Form a defensive formation and protect the envoy!"

The commander immediately sent an order, and the Tang army immediately rushed the envoys and officials into the large building in the center of the city, and then let the caravans that had already run into the ancient city hide into the houses in the city. They raised their shields and defended themselves against the periphery.

A continuous piece of yellow light lit up from the Tang army that formed a formation, blocking several passages of the ancient city!

Zhang Fan was not at ease, so he recited the spells all the way, spreading layers of golden light, adding another layer of guarantee! He also relied on the ancient city to activate the newly learned war skill "City Defense Technique"! The defense of the Tang army in defense has been upgraded to a higher level!

Hundreds of spears emerged from the gaps in the shield. The Tang army's formation shone golden light, like a long dragon covered with scales, protecting the ancient city tightly!

There were business travelers who knew the reality of the sandstorm, left their goods and ran into the city desperately, and were accepted into the Tang army! But the sandstorm in the sky had approached the ancient city, and more than a hundred commercial travelers behind had no time to run into the city. Together with hundreds of camels and horses, in front of the Tang army, they were dragged into the sandstorm by the evil ghost zombies in the sandstorm, and turned into mummies in a blink of an eye!

After the formation, Tang Jun only saw that his slightest cleft and his forehead was bulging! His hands holding the shield turned white due to force.

The black and yellow sandstorm, mixed with terrifying hissings, swallowed the ancient city! It was like a huge thorn roller as if it were a mountain, crushing the ancient city! It was like a giant beast standing above the sky, biting the ancient city like a walnut in one bite, and was about to bite the walnut into pieces and taste the sweet flesh and blood inside!

Countless mummy skeletons screamed and collided with the Tang army formation, as if a black and gray wave hit the golden dam! But those mummy skeletons were washed away by the formation light and were actually dispersed into ashes! Under the solid defense of the Tang army, groups of mummy skeletons were unable to advance, and they all collided on the shield, turned into sand and dust again, and were swept into the sky!

There were even countless resentful souls flying in the sandstorm roaring down! But the defensive golden light that could not break through the Tang army formation was even screaming in the golden light and turned into blue smoke!

Zhang Fan’s “Six Paths of Vajra Mantra” has the ability to save evil ghosts!

The business travelers and officials who hid in the broken house in the city were already scared and trembled, huddled in the corner, praying endlessly.

Zhang Fan closed his eyes and silently recited the mantras. A ball of golden light pulsated from his body like breathing, spreading around! The golden Buddha light was stained with people, camels and horses, and even beams, pillars, shields and weapons, all dyed them a layer of golden color! When encountering mummies, skeletons in the sandstorm, evil ghosts and resentful souls, they were saved and turned into blue smoke and ashes!

Dust returns to dust, soil returns to earth!

But the sandstorm seemed to have endlessly covered the ancient city, and the evil ghosts and souls were endless, and they were corrupt one after another! The Tang army seemed to be numb, and the hissing sound gradually turned into a summoning, vaguely trying to summon them in...

Zhang Fan was also tired, and his willpower was scattered like sand in his hand. If he fell down, the morale of the Tang army would be lost, and his own skill blessing would also be dissipated. The lives of these thousands of people were like this ancient Loulan, drowned in the sea of ​​sand!

At this moment, the Buddha light emitted by Zhang Fan's body spread in the ancient city, but it dyed a building in the east of the city. It was a pile of conical buildings more than ten meters high, with some paint remaining on it, but it was a long time ago and was eroded by wind and sand and was no longer visible.

But just after Zhang Fan's Buddha light invaded, the huge cone building actually emitted a golden Buddha light, and it pulsated with Zhang Fan's breathing! The already damaged painted patterns became clear and outlined golden lines. Those patterns were actually images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Vajra Flying Sky!

This building turned out to be a pagoda! It paints the totem of faith worshipped by ancient Loulan residents!

The golden Buddha light that was stimulated from the pagoda went back to Zhang Fan and poured into Zhang Fan's body, which immediately replenished his vows. The pagoda itself emitted a thousand-foot Buddha light, soaring into the sky!

The Buddha light soared into the sky broke through the dark sandstorm sky in one fell swoop, and the entire ancient city was painted with a layer of gold. The Tang soldiers suddenly became clear and their morale was greatly boosted.

He shouted in unison: "The Tang Dynasty will win!" The blood-red light of the hundred battle formations emitted from the Tang army's body, and in cooperation with the Buddha's light, the resentful souls of the evil ghosts and the skeleton mummy in front of him turned into ashes!

From a distance, I saw a golden light suddenly shining in the black and yellow sandstorm, as if the walnut in the mouth of a giant beast turned into a huge grenade, exploding a golden shock wave, blowing up the sandstorm made of the ghost!

This sandstorm comes and goes faster. In the blink of an eye, the sky is clear and the sunset is slanting, as if everything was a nightmare just now! But the hundreds of mummies of merchants and camels and horses outside the city clearly remind everyone how terrifying this land of Loulan is!

The soldiers and businessmen who survived the disaster all breathed a sigh of relief. Under the order of Zhang Fan, the leader of the army began to set up defenses in the ancient city to prevent possible strange attacks.

And those merchants, timid and crying, were also brave, and they looked out of the city and began to clean up the goods blown away by the sandstorm, as well as food and water bags.

Zhang Fan sent three hundred Tang troops to help the business and travelers collect supplies, which is indispensable in the desert. He ordered them to return to the city before the sun sets! I don’t know what else would appear in this strange ruin of the ancient city!

Zhang Fan contacted Akan and Green Wing, but there was no news. Although he was anxious, he was not confused because his public space had not shrunk, which means that the two partners were not dead!

So Zhang Fan came to the pagoda in the east of the city, prayed and worshiped. He ordered a team of Tang soldiers to clean the pagoda and guard it here. Except for Buddhists who can come to worship, idle people are not allowed to harass them!

Then, Zhang Fan walked around the city and measured the length and width of the ancient city. He knew that this ruin was the lost ancient city of Loulan. It was just that it is the Tang Dynasty, and it is more than 1,200 years old, so it is relatively well preserved!

Zhang Fan stood at the top of the city, looking at the business and Tang soldiers who had returned from packing up the scattered goods and supplies, and sighed in his heart. It seemed that tonight was a sleepless night!

"From the business trip, select the strong ones and let them help guard the ancient city!" Zhang Fan ordered his personal soldiers.

"Here!" A personal guard took the order.

For a moment, the city became chaotic. The merchants were very scared, worried that the Tang army would use them as cannon fodder, and even more afraid of those immortal ghosts and terrifying injuries! However, there were lieutenants who were good at boosting morale and said the great things. If everyone did not work hard, the Tang army would not be able to defend the ancient city, and the casualties would be even more difficult to avoid. Zhang Fan also used Buddhism to soothe everyone's emotions.

The recruitment work went smoothly. These Hu merchants and entourages in the Western Regions were both used to long journeys, had good physical fitness, and had some self-defense skills. Some Hu merchants were originally retired soldiers and good bandits!

Now is an extraordinary moment, and there are not so many pretentious men in the Western Regions. Those who can have some martial arts are all on the scene! They selected more than a thousand elites and assigned them to the Tang army infantry, assigned weapons, and rotated on duty to rest. Fortunately, some people sold Western Regions steel knives in the caravan, and some entourages were carrying weapons. In addition, the Tang army soldiers were equipped with several weapons, and some spears were evened out to match these civilian armed forces.

Half of these civilian armed forces and Tang army shield soldiers blocked the two gaps in the north and south city walls, while the other half went up to the wide city walls and cooperated with archers to defend the city. Tang army cavalry lies in the city, waiting for an opportunity to attack!

These zombie skeletons in the sandstorm do not seem to have strong combat power, but they are too many! And it seems that they mainly rely on biting and sucking the flesh and blood of the spirit, and there are not many methods. But just now, under the protection of the formation, everyone was not injured. If there were any strange attacks tonight, it would be difficult to guarantee that there would be no other kinds of ghosts or other attacks.

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Chapter completed!