"Fire, fire!"

The housekeeper's face turned pale with fright, and Du Qianyun also looked at the north solemnly, he was only afraid that the big cannibals would do some tricks, so he discussed with Qin Yan and delayed entering the city.

Qin Yan didn't say a word, and ordered his troops to suspend their march, but to keep watch on the spot. At the same time, hundreds of scouts went out, and without finding out the exact information of this cloud of black smoke, they would not order to take another step towards the city of Dudta.

Du Qianyun felt that the current Qin Yan was not smiling, and he really didn't know it, who would have thought that this calm and calm leader was the little slave of the Qin Mansion many years ago?

He came to the steward again and asked:

Could it be that the big cannibals are coming?"

The butler gritted his teeth with hatred, apparently disgusted with the Great Cannibal to the extreme.

"If the big cannibal wants to enter the city of Dutuo in a big way, he can only take the pass guarded by General Zheng, otherwise he can only detour for half a month, and Iprasin's stupid donkey is afraid that he will not have this patience!"

Carried away by anger and hatred, the butler said that some of the donkey's lips were not in the horse's mouth, but Du Qianyun also understood that this fire was probably set by the big cannibal himself.

"So, the big cannibal set fire to the mountain, is he trying to take a shortcut?"

The area where Tocharian meets the area of the river is densely forested with mountains, and the idea that the great cannibals plan to burn the trees on the mountains and then bypass the pass guarded by Zheng Xianli is not wrong. However, if you want to realize it, I'm afraid it's a dream.

However, after all, Du Qianyun is not good at military affairs, and what the final situation will be, he still has to wait for the return of Tanma.

The housekeeper stood anxiously, he was worried about the city, after all, Zheng Xianli took away most of the Tang soldiers, and only a few hundred people were left in the city, plus the hundreds of people organized in the city, it was also difficult to face a strong enemy, and it was a fool's dream.

Qin Yan and his subordinates gathered around everything alone, and spread out the map of the northern part of Tocharo, although it was only some rough lines and circles, but it was enough to clearly mark the mountains, rivers and cities in this land of thousands of miles.

These were all bought from merchants, and although they were far less detailed and accurate than the Shenwu Army's own markings, they were sufficient.

It was past noon that the first group of horses returned, and the news they brought back was quite good, and the big cannibal did not appear. Except for the billowing smoke from the wildfires, which caused some panic among the local population, everything was quiet and normal, and there was no sign of a big cannibal.

However, after confirming that it was indeed a mountain fire, Du Qianyun frowned worriedly, many years ago, in order to block Sun Xiaozhe's footsteps in the west of Tongguan, Qin Jin set fire to Kunshan Mountain, and the fire burned for several months, burning a mountain in the good end into a bare white ground.

Over the years, he has run to Luoyang many times through Yuzhou, and every time he passes by, he can't help but sigh when he sees the bare mountains in sight, and it will take hundreds of years for these trees to recover the entire mountain.

Now the big cannibals are actually setting fire to the mountain, but they may not realize that what they have released in their hands is the devil!

When the fire burned down Kunshan Mountain, Qin Yan was still young, and he was still a slave who committed crimes in the future, so he was not impressed.

But after Du Qianyun's reminder, he immediately realized that once the big cannibal set fire, his purpose was to destroy the city of Dutuo.

After all, the northern part of the city is densely forested, and when the fires burn and the vegetation turns to ashes, many seasonal rivers dry up, and the end result is likely to destroy the centuries-old town in an instant.

Without the advantages of water and transportation hubs, the town nestled in the mountains is really not very attractive.

After figuring out the trick, Du Qianyun scolded:

"This is very, even ,,,,,, is not strained, it is really spicy!"

Qin Yan thought about it and understood that this Ipraxin should be a dog jumping off the wall in a hurry, but it was not a black heart. Zheng Xianli's methods may not be enough to deal with Yusuf, but according to various previous intelligence, this Iprahim is just a fledgling fledgling, how can he be the opponent of a veteran on the battlefield?

After another hour, the scouts sent out came back one after another, and the actual situation was really similar to what they had guessed, except that the fire had been a day or two ago since Iplasin was released, and the smoke of the fire could be seen in Dudtado.

Based on Qin Yan's speculation, presumably Zheng Xianli would react soon.

At least send a letter back!

In fact, the manpower of this era was limited, and there was almost no effective way to spread the fire in the mountains except for dry staring. Unless God opens his eyes and the next rain dooms the fire.

But as far as common sense goes, once the fire has formed a scale, there will never be a drop of rain in the sky above the fire except for the billowing smoke.

The messenger who had arrived from the city of Dima brought similar news, and it was indeed a false alarm.

Du Ganyun laughed, feeling that this day was really ups and downs, thinking that he would face a big battle just after entering Tocharo, who knew that this was just a turn of peaks and loops, and the big cannibals were still far from Dutuo.

It was precisely because the big cannibal couldn't be beaten that he set a fire and let out a vicious anger.

"All the troops are out and enter the city before sunset!"

It was half a day later than planned, but I was able to enter the city before dark to eat a hot meal, soak in a hot soup, and slowly get tired.

Qin Yan's cavalry was well-trained, and said that he arrived at the city gate of the city before sunset.

However, because of the episode of the big cannibal arson, the welcome ceremony that should have been solemn seems a little sloppy.

This is also understandable, after all, the enemy is at present, and if he engages in these false texts, it is really not far from destruction.

After entering the city, Du Ganyun was the first to visit the "sick" old city lord Zamas.

At first, he thought that Zamas was just a little ill and that he couldn't leave the city under the pretext. But it wasn't until I met Zamas himself that this old man was really sick, and it wasn't light. The sunken cheeks, the gray face, the trembling body, and the hands that are as thin as firewood cannot be pretended.

"Zamas meets, meets the special envoy of the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty......"

Zamas got off the bed with a strong support, intending to learn the etiquette of the Han people and hit the ground, Du Qianyun hurriedly held him with both hands, this old arm and old leg, I am afraid that if one of them goes down, it may have to fall apart.

"The old city lord doesn't have to be rigid and polite, it's good to recuperate, the prime minister entrusted me to greet on my behalf, I don't know if the old city lord is okay with everything......"

Outside the night deep into the water, the candle flame in the house crackled and jumped, and the two of them entered the main topic of today's discussion in the greetings. At this point, almost no one in the city knew that their lord was about to make a shocking decision.