The original ignition grenade, which was only filled with three or two black gunpowder, was actually very powerful. Even when Zhang Qian ordered the craftsmen to make the shell, he sawed a cross-section of patterns on the surface of the shell with different depths. The fragments generated by the grenade explosion were usually difficult to exceed eight petals, and the effective killing range was only more than three meters.

However, the same weapon could double the power in Luo Huaizu's hands. This person had a very powerful body, his grenade was far and accurate, and he was extremely brave. After igniting the grenade lead, he would always wait for a blink of an eye to throw it. As a result, the first grenade exploded in the air, and Ye Hutu and the two guards around him disappeared. The entire circle of people around him were also shocked to the ground by the air waves and sound waves generated by the explosion, twitching and rolling in pain.

Luo Huaizu, dressed as Bashibu Ajin, did not dare to show mercy at all. He decisively threw the second grenade above Daganquli's head. The latter was so scared that he was so heartbroken that he ran towards the enemy building with his hands in his arms. With a "boom", the grenade exploded in the air five steps behind this person, and he knocked down a small piece of Tukhashi Shi, who could not dodge.

Ren Wu, Liu Er, Fang Ming and Shi Jin, who were responsible for carrying the stretcher, quickly pulled out the horizontal sword from under the stretcher. He cut all the Tukhashi Shi warriors who dared to approach the stretcher; the "Bashibu warriors" who were forced to enter the city with empty hands, pulled out daggers, short swords and iron chains from their waists like magic tricks, and quickly formed a formation with the stretcher as the core. Before he had time to enter the city outside the city, the other "Bashibu warriors" picked up their weapons, rushed up, and chopped all the Tukhashi people near the gate into meat paste.

"Boom!" "Boom!" Third, the fourth grenade exploded, and four or five more cavalry warriors on the horse path were released. Most of the other warriors who were lucky enough to beg for fear, holding their heads with their hands and begging for mercy. A small number turned around and ran up the city wall, and then fled in panic along the city wall to the north and south sides. No one could pluck up the courage to face the fourth explosion, and he had no courage to fight to the death of Luo Huaizu, who was throwing grenades around.

"Control the horse road, enemy tower and city gate, and the surrenderers will not be killed!" Guo Jing and Ren Qi each led a group of brothers in, wielding spears in their hands, and slamming the samurai warriors who stood in the road, whether they fled in panic or were kneeling to die, they would stab them all over. The brigade of Tang troops followed him with weapons in hand and began to clean up the horse road leading to the city. The samurai warriors who had just made great contributions, led by Xiaojianbasiwula, picked up a handful of long weapons from the corpse and expanded their results into the city.

In order to avoid accidentally hurting his own people, Luo Huaizu had to temporarily stop dropping bombs and look around with his neck. At this moment, a cold arrow suddenly came into the air, and with a "defying" sound, it hit his chest.

Even with the protection of the iron plate armor, Luo Huaizu was pushed and staggered. He neither hesitated nor saw where the cold arrow came from. He decisively exerted force with his legs, and turned sideways and in the blink of an eye, he was half a foot away.

Two other cold arrows followed one after another, and two holes were shot out on the stretcher where he was originally staying. Luo Huaizu finally saw clearly that the cold arrow came from the enemy building, ran towards the enemy building for more than ten steps, jumped up, and threw a grenade through the window.

"It's broken, I forgot to light the fire!" The grenade flew out, and he also noticed that he had made a mistake in his busy schedule, and slapped his helmet with his palm in annoyance. However, a miracle happened at this moment. In the enemy building, Dagan Quli and several confidants ran out wildly, and no one dared to stay inside and wait for death.

Wang Han, who had already embarked on the horse road, raised his spear and blocked Dagan Quli's way with the spear. The Tang Dynasty athletes who followed Wang Han quickly formed a formation of mistresses and attacked the confidants around Dagan Quli. Dagan Quli did not get the support of his confidants and had no time to escape, so he could only bite the bullet and wave his sword and fight with Wang Han. He has been through the battlefield for a long time, is flexible, and is confident that he can "earn" back his capital before he dies. However, after two moves, he realized that he was wrong so much.

Although the name "arist family" has become increasingly lighter in the Tang Dynasty. However, the training and resources that a child of the Wang family in Taiyuan received from the beginning and the resources that he could access were far beyond the comparison of a small nobleman of a tribe in the Western Regions. Wang Han was the top ten of the Wang family's children. Before coming to the Western Regions, he had received special training in the border army.

Therefore, the first move between the two sides, Dagan Quli was shaken and lost its center of gravity. The second move he had to turn attack into defense, but Wang Han used his spear blade to pull out a bloody hole on his left face. The bright spear blade came again in a flash, and he attacked him with a knife, but he made a fuse. He opened his mouth decisively, shouted "Surrender", and was about to surrender. However, Wang Han had no time to stop. The cold spear blade pierced Dagan Quli's heart, picked him upside down, and threw him off the city wall directly.

Hundreds of Tukhashi warriors suddenly shouted and shouted the house on the side, trying to catch the Tang army off guard. Ren Wu and Ren Liu were prepared and immediately led their brothers to block the road with crossbows. Three rows of shaky crossbow arrows flew out in the light of fire, like hail to hit crops, shooting the Tukhashi warriors who rushed in the front row to the ground. The rest of the Tukhashi warriors were stunned and the offensive immediately stopped. Luo Huaizu and Wang Zhihuan both threw grenades at the head of Tukhashi warriors, blowing the latter up and overturning the horse.

Before the grenade smoke dissipated, Baside, the chief of the Baside tribe, rushed over with his tribe. When he saw the Tukkishi warrior, whether he had been killed or frightened, he cut off his throat with one knife. Although they were both Tukkishi, after tonight, they had formed an endless blood feud with Soge's headquarters. Therefore, if you kill another Soge's follower at this moment, Baside tribe will be safer in the future.

Zhang Qian rode Saluzi behind the city gate. The soldiers who were in charge of guarding the city gate cheered and saluted him, and everyone's faces were full of excitement and pride. However, the brothers who had entered the city had no time to turn around and continue to steadily advance to the core area of ​​Gumo City under the leadership of their respective lieutenants in accordance with the plan formulated before the war.

Even with the addition of the warriors of the Basi clan, the number of Tang troops was still far less than that of the Tukhashi in the city. However, because Ye Hushoutu and Daganquli died one after another, the Tukhashi people in the city made a mess of porridge.

The hard-core direct line of Soge, who participated in the massacre of the city many times, knew that the clan would not end well after the failure, so after surviving the initial panic, he worked hard to launch a counterattack under the organization of the generals. However, by Soge or carrying other Tukshi tribe warriors who rebeled against the Tang Dynasty, they found that the situation was not good, but they all packed up the snatched soft and prepared to leave.

Without unified command and without the cooperation of the servants, every counterattack of the Soge's direct troops was tragic. The feather arrows they shot in haste could not even penetrate the iron vests on Zhang Qian's personal soldiers, and they could not withstand the slightest star armor. However, the Zhang crossbow in the Tang army could easily poke the cowhide armor on their bodies like poking paper.

After the sharp crossbow cluster penetrated the leather armor, the remaining momentum was not over, and it continued to poke the flesh, bones, and internal organs under the leather armor. Anyone who was shot screamed and fell to the ground, and no one could escape. Whenever the counterattack of the Soge line was curbed by the crossbow arrows, simple grenades would appear on their heads and completely blow up their team. And the samurai of the Basi tribe would take the opportunity to pounce on it and do the final bloody harvest!

The Tang army was not advancing quickly, and it was pushed along the main street to the original Gumo Prefecture Office, which was fixed and even a bit rigid. Therefore, the Soge direct descendants, who were unwilling to fail, always found opportunities to launch counterattacks of all sizes. However, the result of each counterattack was the same, and there was nothing else to gain except to show their courage and loyalty.

After several consecutive counterattacks were declared unsuccessful, Soge's direct subordinates chose street fighting without any guidance. The Han people in the city had been massacred, and the empty houses could become the protection of Soge's direct descendants. The thick earth walls could block the arrows shot by Qing Zhang's crossbow for them. In order to prevent the cold, the windows in the Western Regions were very narrow and could be regarded as arrow holes by them.

Dozens of feather arrows shot out from the room, shooting seven or eight Bashibu warriors who were busy slicing the enemy's throats. The remaining Bashibu warriors panicked and shouted and retreated. The Tang Dynasty athletes rushed forward with arrows, first drove the Bashibu warriors back to the battlefield, then lit the linen wrapped in butter with a torch, and threw them into the house where the Soge tribe was hidden from the window.

Butter is not only eaten, but also a material for low-priced candles in this era. In the room where the owner lost, the furniture quickly caught fire. Soge's direct warriors were so baked that they could not gain a foothold and escaped from their hiding place. Tang Jun, holding a crossbow, had been waiting outside the door for a long time, and immediately pulled the trigger. The next moment, Soge's direct troops were shot down one by one, screaming and rolling around in a pool of blood.

The battlefield continued to move towards the state government in an orderly manner. Along the way, all those who dared to launch a raid were killed. The warriors of the Basi tribe were far more cruel than the Tang army to kill their fellow tribes, and they refused to let go of a living enemy. Because of the support of the Tang army, they soon became no longer afraid after being attacked. While raising the door panel, shields and other objects to resist feather arrows, they imitated the Tang army and threw combustible objects into the enemy's hiding place, forcing the other party out of the house, and then chopped them into meat paste one by one.

The resistance quickly weakened, and found that counterattack was equivalent to the fighting spirit that even the bravest samurai, the warriors of Soge, lost after death. Once again, he plundered the money around him and rushed to the east gate of Gumo City under the cover of the night. The east gate of Gumo City was unknown when the four opened wide. The nobles and warriors who escaped first threw relatively heavy iron pots, copper basins, porcelain bowls and other items along the way.

When Guo Jing and Ren Qi, with their brothers, cleaned up the city walls they were responsible for and reunited on the enemy building on the east side of the city. The battle in the city had basically ended. Most of the warriors of the Tukshi tribe who were not direct-line, fled into the wilderness with the tribe nobles. From then on, at least before the Tang army and Soge decided to decide, they had absolutely no courage to return to the battlefield. Thousands of people from Soge's direct-lines died in the city, and hundreds of people left fled to Axiyan City, which was less than fifty miles away from Gumo, and the bad news that Gumo State had fallen and Basi's troops were turned to the Tang army, and spread to the east.

Those ordinary tribal herders who had no time to escape, the Tuqi Nobles, and more than a dozen merchants of various races who made money from war decisively chose to surrender to the winners. According to past experience, the officials of the Tang Dynasty were more merciful than any tribal chief. After winning, they would treat the captured nobles and ordinary herders well, and would not be too cruel to exploit the vendors.

However, this time they bet the wrong treasure. The Tang army did not need Mu Nu, and the news of the massacre of the city that had spread also made Tang Jianer full of anger. Therefore, Zhang Qian ordered that the Tuqi Shiren, who were blocked in the city and did not have time to escape, were deprived of property except for the nobles of each tribe, and were rewarded to the Basi tribe. However, Baside was the authentic Tuqi Chief Shi. According to the rules of fighting between tribes, he would defeat all prisoners into Mu Nu Nu. Anyone who dared to resist would be killed on the spot, and he would definitely not leave any hidden dangers.

"Among you, whoever took in the people of the Tang Dynasty when Soge massacred the city, stand up!" When Basilde took Zhang Qian's order and thanked him for his sincere gratitude, Zhang Qian turned his eyes to more than a dozen vendors who made money in the war and gave orders with a slight face.

"I, I, are down..." The vendors rushed forward, as if they had become great charitable people. However, Zhang Qian's next words pushed them all into the ice hole of despair.

"I will send my brothers to your respective homes to check. Even if it is a slave, I will forgive your whole family as long as I have taken in a Han man. If not, I will let you know what life is worse than death!"

"Give me your life--" A Sogdian businessman knelt on his knees and kowtowed repeatedly, "General, Soge is too cruel. We don't want to take in the people of the Tang Dynasty, we dare not, we dare!"

"Give me your life, General, we are innocent, innocent!"

"Give me your life, the general from the Tang Dynasty! We don't want to, we dare not..."

"Give me your life, General, I am willing to pay for my sins!"

...

The other merchants knelt on the ground, kowtowing like pounding garlic, scrambling to accuse Soge of his cruelty and at the same time expressing his helplessness.

"Take them into the yard and let the rescued Tang people identify them. Anyone who follows Soge and hurt the Tang soldiers and people will be punished as a crime of treason." Zhang Qian sighed and ordered in a deep voice. Then, he quickly added, "Search the whole city, and all the nobles captured by the various departments will be dealt with accordingly. Those who have protected the Tang people, even if they keep the Tang people at home and become slaves, can be regarded as my benefactor of Zhang Qian. Otherwise, killing will be unpardoned!"

"Give me your life, General!"

"General, we were forced, we were forced!"

"Give me your life—"

...

The sound of begging for mercy sounded again. Before the Tang army could escape, several tribal nobles who had been taken to the yamen by the Tang army to see Zhang Qian's tribal nobles sank on the ground and begging hard.

Guo Jing walked in with his personal soldiers and drove the Tuqi nobles who were paralyzed into a group one by one. Some knew that evil would be retribution, so they silently lowered their heads and allowed the Tang Dynasty to deal with it. Some were scared to pee their pants and struggled desperately with their legs. Some were tampering with their necks and protesting loudly, "This is unfair. General Manager Guo never treats us like this. We are forced to follow Soge. If you treat us like this, no tribe dares to surrender in the future..."

"When you kill the Han people in the Western Regions, can you consider giving them a fair?" Zhang Qian's eyes suddenly began to turn red, and he sneered and asked loudly, "When you surrender to Soge as accomplice to the tiger, have you considered the kindness of General Manager Guo? When you follow Soge, you are forced to rob the Han shops and burn the Han houses, who will force you? As for the future, as long as Zhang is still in the Western Regions for one day, the rule is that anyone who kills our Han men and women will have to pay their blood debts. The accomplices will be punished together!"

The nobles of the tribe were speechless and continued to cry and beg for mercy. Guo Jing, Ren Qi and other Tang Dynasty athletes were all proud and dragged the former to the open space outside the state yamen like a pig. After asking about the attitude of the rescue of the people of the Tang Dynasty, they beheaded one by one.

The rescued Tang craftsmen, doctors, veterinarians and craftsmen kept raising their hands and biting the back of their hands with their teeth. They could not believe that what they saw was the facts, not dreaming.

The people of the Central Plains were unwilling to come to the Western Regions to make a living, on the one hand, because they were difficult to leave their hometowns. On the other hand, the more critical factor than the difficult homelands was because the government rarely and even did not make decisions for the Han people in order to maintain superficial peace.

Once the Han people have a conflict with local tribe herders, the government will definitely ask the Han people to swallow their anger. However, the Han people are bullied by the other party, but they have nowhere to seek justice. Sometimes they are even beaten to death by tribal nobles, and they can only admit that they are unlucky. As long as there is no one in the family to be an official, the government will never ignore it.

In addition, once a major change occurs, such as the rebellion of Soge, the Han people are the targets of beheading and robbery. Later, even if the imperial court sends troops to quell the rebellion, as long as the tribe heads and nobles choose to surrender, they will usually leave the blame. The Han men and women who died at the hands of tribe heads and nobles are all forgotten by the government, as if they have never existed in this world.

Therefore, the people of Central Plains were overjoyed to be rescued tonight. They had never expected that the group of evil people who had ruined their families would have to pay their blood! When everyone bit the back of their hands and bite them, they found that what was happening in front of them was really happening, not dreaming, for a moment, the impact in their hearts could be imagined.

Immediately, someone rushed to the side of the Tuqin Guizhou, who had not been killed, and beat and bit him. Some people knelt in a pool of blood, dipped their hands with their enemies' blood, and laughed wildly. What's worse, they simply rushed to the front of the team, pointed at a Tuqin Guizhou, and accused the person of his crimes, with blood and tears.

Zhang Qian did not accept Luo Huaizu's suggestion and took the opportunity to go out of the yamen to buy people's hearts. Instead, he seized the time and dealt with a series of trivial matters at hand.

Most of Soge's food, grass and supplies, as well as the robbery gains since the second uprising, were all contained in Gumo City. These things can be handed over to Sogdian merchants immediately to cash in. Only a small part of them can be made. The rest of the most will take a long time to digest them. According to everyone's judgment, after learning that Gumo State was lost, Soge would definitely give up on the continued attack on Kucha and turn around and turn back regardless of everything.

With more than 3,000 Tang soldiers alone, they would definitely not be able to defend Gumo City. Even if they persisted, Niu Shizhu and Zhou Yiti led their troops to support them, Niu Shizhu could only use ten thousand soldiers and horses. They could barely defend the city and fight Soge in the wild, and basically had no chance of winning.

"Ji Ling, go and pass the orders for me. The brothers seized them tonight, 50% of them are handed over and 50% are left for themselves. Tell everyone not to leave too heavy things to avoid delaying the march!" After thinking about it, the only example that can be learned from was the Hunan Army. Zhang Qian grabbed the order arrow and began to assign tasks.

"Yes!" Wang Zhihuan took the order without hesitation and left quickly. He neither asked why Zhang Qian had made such arrangements nor did he question the distribution ratio of the spoils.

Since he arrived in the Western Regions, he found that he had completely changed his lifestyle and lived a happy life day by day. So he simply put himself in an apprenticeship and humbly accepted everything new or strange.

"Ziyu, I have to ask you to travel and send a message to the Sogdian merchants who are following us. I will give them three days to move everything in the city, including food and supplies. Let them send people to estimate the total price of the things that can be moved, except weapons and materials. In the future, they will pay as much as they can. If they can't pay, they can write an IOU and then return it to me slowly in the future."

"As for the order!" Wang Han also asked without asking, agreed to take the order arrow, turned around and left.

"Zhang Shaojian, those Sogdian merchants can't go far. If you sell the food to them, you have to go back to Soge's hands!" Guo Hong, who had been silent before, suddenly spoke, reminding Zhang Qian to be careful to let the enemy take advantage.

"Soge won't pay them money, I will!" Zhang Qian smiled at him, his young face full of confidence. "And after they were robbed by Soge, they would definitely wish that Soge would die immediately. At that time, I will only help them realize this wish!"

"This..." Guo Hong was stunned for a while, blinking for a while, and finally figured out the truth, and his face suddenly turned red again.

His father Guo Yuanzhen had never done this before. He had never taught him that he could use this method when dealing with foreign races. But now, what Zhang Qian did is completely different from his father, and even in some places it is completely opposite.

As a son, he was unwilling to admit that his father was wrong. However, he could see that all the brothers under Zhang Qian's command seemed to be reborn. He could also feel that the brothers' heartfelt worship and respect for Zhang Qian. In addition, the brothers' high morale and strong combat power were something he had never seen in the Kingsoft Army in the past.

"Uncle Master!" Zhang Qian grabbed another command arrow and handed it to Luo Huaizu, the number one hero who broke the city tonight. "You go and tell the rescued people outside that if you still want to continue to take revenge, follow me. I will give each of them a knife, a horse and a pair of leather armor, regardless of men, women, old and young. If you don't want to take revenge anymore, I will give each of them a horse, two hundred kilograms of grain and one hundred money, and ask them to go to Shule quickly, or return to the Central Plains. This place cannot be kept for a long time!"

"Okay!" Luo Huaizu thought for a while and reached out to take the order arrow. Then, he frowned and asked, "Are you going to abandon the city? That's right, losing the land and saving people is the best strategy. Although our army's fighting spirit is strong, the number of people is too thin compared to the opponent."
Chapter completed!