The original ignition grenade, which was only loaded with three taels of black powder, was actually very average in power. Even if Zhang Qian ordered the craftsmen to make the shells, he specially sawed out criss-crossing lines of different shades on the surface of the shells, and the fragments generated by the explosion of the grenade were usually difficult to exceed eight petals, and the effective killing range was only more than three meters.

However, with the same weapon, in Luo Huaizu's hands, the power can be doubled. This man is very powerful, his projectiles are far and accurate, and he is very bold. After lighting the grenade lead, it will always wait for a flick or two of your fingers before throwing it. As a result, the first grenade exploded in the air, and the heads of Ye Huzhitu and the two guards beside him disappeared, and a whole circle of people around him were also directly shocked to the ground by the air waves and sound waves generated by the explosion, convulsions and rolling in pain.

And Luo Huaizu, who was dressed as Ba Xibu Aijin, did not dare to show mercy to his subordinates. Decisively, he threw the second grenade at the top of Daganqu Li's head. The latter was so frightened that he ran towards the enemy tower with his head in his hands. With a "boom", the grenade exploded in the air five paces behind the man, and knocked down a small piece of the Turkey warrior who could not dodge.

Ren Wu, Liu Er, Fang Ming, and Shi Jin, who were in charge of carrying the stretcher, quickly pulled out the horizontal knife from under the stretcher. Cut down all the Turgish warriors who dared to approach the stretcher; The "Bashibu samurai", who were forced to enter the city with empty hands, drew daggers, short knives, and iron chains from their waists as if they were juggling, and quickly formed a formation with stretchers as the core. The rest of the "Baxibu warriors" outside the city who had not yet had time to enter the city picked up their weapons and rushed up, chopping all the Turks into meat paste from the gate hole and the city gate.

"Boom!" "Boom!" Thirdly, the fourth grenade exploded, knocking over four or five more of the Turkey warriors on the road. Most of the remaining samurai, who were lucky enough not to be affected by the explosion, fell to their knees in fright, holding their heads in their hands and begging for mercy. A small number of them turned and ran up the wall, and then fled along the wall to the north and south. No one mustered up the courage to face the fourth explosion head-on, let alone find Luo Huaizu, who was throwing grenades.

"Control the horse road, the enemy tower and the city gate, and those who surrender will not be killed!" Guo Jing and Ren Qi each led a group of brothers to rush in, waving spears in their hands, and stabbed the warriors who were blocking the road, whether they fled in panic or knelt on the ground and waited for death. The Tang army of the brigade followed behind with weapons in hand and began to clear the horse road leading to the head of the city. And the warrior of the Shinba Sibu who had just made a great achievement, under the leadership of the little arrow Ba Si Ula Drink, picked up the long weapon in his hand from the corpse and expanded the results of the battle into the city.

In order to avoid accidentally injuring his own people, Luo Huaizu could only temporarily stop throwing bombs and look around with his neck up. At this moment, a cold arrow suddenly volleyed into the air, and with a "dang" sound, it hit him in the chest.

Even though he was protected by iron plate armor, Luo Huaizu was also pushed. Neither did he hesitate or look at where the cold arrow came from, he decisively exerted his legs, leaned sideways, and in the blink of an eye, the person was half a foot away.

Two other cold arrows followed, shooting two holes in the stretcher where he had been staying. And Luo Huaizu finally saw clearly that the cold arrow was coming from the enemy building, and ran wildly towards the enemy building for more than ten steps, jumped up, and threw a grenade through the window.

"It's broken, forgot to light the fire!" The grenade flew out, and he also realized that he had made a mistake in his busyness, and slapped his helmet with his palm in frustration. However, a miracle happened at this moment, in the enemy tower, Dagan Quli rushed out with a few henchmen, and no one dared to stay inside and wait for death.

Wang Han, who had already walked on the horse road, stepped up and blocked the way of Daganquli with his lance. The Tang Dynasty athletes who followed Wang Han quickly formed a small three-talent formation and launched an attack on the cronies around Daganqu Li. Daganquli couldn't get the support of his cronies, and it was too late to escape, so he could only wave his knife and fight with Wang Han in one place. He is battle-hardened, agile and confident that he will be able to "earn" his capital before he dies. However, after two moves, he realized that he was really wrong.

Although the name "Sajia" has become lighter and lighter in Datang. However, the training and resources that a child of the Taiyuan royal family received from Da Da were far from being comparable to a small nobleman of the Western Regions. And Wang Han is one of the top ten leaders among the children of the Wang family, and before coming to the Western Regions, he also received special training in the border army.

Therefore, the first move between the two sides was shaken, and Dagan Quli was shaken and lost his center of gravity. In the second move, he had to switch from offense to defense, but Wang Han used a lance blade to make a bloody cut on the left side of his face. The bright and flickering lance came again in a flash, and he parried with his horizontal knife, but he set up an air. He decisively opened his mouth, shouted "surrender", and was ready to be captured. But Wang Han had no time to stop. The icy lance pierced Daganquli's heart, provoking him upside down and throwing him off the city wall.

Hundreds of Tuqi warriors, led by a Tutun, suddenly jumped out from behind the houses on the side shouting, trying to kill the Tang army by surprise. Ren 5 and Ren 6 had already prepared and immediately led the brothers to seal the road with a crossbow. Three rows of bright crossbow arrows flew out in the light of the fire, like hail hitting the crops, knocking the Turgish warriors who rushed to the front row to the ground. The rest of the Turgish warriors were relieved, and the offensive immediately stalled. Luo Huaizu and Wang Zhihuan both threw grenades at the head of the Turgi warrior, blowing the latter on his back.

Before the smoke of the grenade dispersed, the chief of the Basid tribe, Basid, personally rushed over with his people. When they saw the Turgish warriors, regardless of whether they had been killed or were frightened, they all slashed their throats. Although they are both Turgish, after tonight, they have formed an undying blood feud with Suoge's headquarters. Therefore, if you kill one more follower of Suo Ge at this moment, the Baxi Department will be safer in the future.

Zhang Qian rode Sa Lu Zi and appeared behind the city gate. The soldiers in charge of guarding the city gate cheered and saluted him, and everyone's face was full of excitement and pride. The brothers who had already entered the city had no time to turn back, and continued to advance steadily towards the core area of Gumo City under the leadership of their respective captains and in accordance with the plan formulated before the war.

Even with the addition of the warriors of the Baxi tribe, the number of the Tang army is still far less than that of the Turgish warriors in the city. However, because Ye Huzhitu and Daganquli died in battle one after another, the Turks in the city made a pot of porridge.

The hardcore descendants who belong to Suo Ge, because they have participated in the slaughter of the city many times, and they know that they will not end well after defeating, so after surviving the initial panic, under the organization of the generals, they worked hard to launch a counterattack. The other warriors of the Turgish tribe who were forced by Suo Ge or carried the rebel Datang found that the situation was not good, but they all packed up the stolen and prepared to slip away.

With the loss of unified command and the lack of cooperation from the servant army, every counterattack of the Suo Ge Yan troops can be called tragic. The feather arrows they shot in a hurry couldn't even penetrate the iron vests on Zhang Qian's own soldiers, and they couldn't withstand the dazzling star armor in the slightest. And the Qingzhang crossbow in Tang Jun's hand can easily poke the cowhide armor on their bodies like poking paper.

After piercing the leather armor, the sharp crossbow cluster continued to pierce through the flesh, bones, and internal organs under the leather armor. Anyone who was shot fell to the ground screaming, and no one was spared. Whenever the counterattack of the Suo Ge clan was halted by crossbow arrows, improvised grenades would appear above their heads, completely blowing their ranks apart. And the Turgish warriors of the Baxi Department will take the opportunity to pounce on it and do the final bloody harvest!

The speed of the Tang army's advance was not fast, and it was pushed along the main street to the original position of the Gumo Prefecture, which was fixed and even a little rigid. Therefore, the Suo Ge lineage, who is unwilling to fail, can always find opportunities to launch large and small counterattacks. It's just that the result of each counterattack is the same, and there is nothing to gain but to show their courage and loyalty.

After several successive counterattacks were declared unsuccessful, Suo Ge's descendants chose to fight in the streets without a teacher. The Han people in the city have been slaughtered, and the vacated houses can become the protection of the Suo Ge lineage. The thick earthen wall can block the arrows fired by the crossbow for them. In order to protect against the cold, the windows in the Western Regions are very narrow, which can just be used as arrow holes by them.

Dozens of feathered arrows shot out of the house, shooting seven or eight of the Bashi warriors who were busy slitting the throats of the enemy. The remaining Basibu warriors panicked and shouted and retreated. The Tang Dynasty warriors rushed forward against the arrows, first drove the Baxi warriors back to the battlefield, and then lit the linen cloth wrapped in butter with torches, and threw it through the window into the house where Suo Ge was hiding.

Butter is not only edible, but in this era, it is also a material for making low-priced candles. In the room where the owner had been lost, the furniture soon caught fire, and the samurai of Suoge's lineage were roasted to the point that they could not stand on their feet, and they fled from their hiding places one after another. Tang Jun, who was holding a crossbow, had been waiting outside the door for a long time, and immediately pulled the trigger. In the next instant, Suo Ge's descendants were shot down one by one, screaming and rolling in a pool of blood.

The battlefield continued to move methodically in the direction of the state government, and along the way, all those who dared to launch a surprise attack were killed. The warriors of the Baxi tribe, killing their own clan, were far more cruel than the Tang army, and they resolutely did not let go of a living enemy. Because of the support of the Tang Army, soon, after they encountered a sneak attack, they were no longer afraid. While raising the door panels, shields and other objects to resist the feather arrows, he followed the example of the Tang Army, threw combustibles to the enemy's hiding place, forced the opponent out of the house, and then chopped them into meat paste one by one.

The resistance quickly weakened, and it was discovered that the counterattack was equivalent to the loss of fighting spirit after sending even the bravest warriors of the Suga clan to death. Once again, he was self-taught, he scavenged the money around him, and under the cover of night, he quickly ran to the east gate of Gumo City. And the east gate of Gumo City, I don't know when it has been opened, the nobles and warriors of the various tribes who fled first, along the way, the relatively heavy iron pots, copper basins, porcelain bowls and other things, all over the ground.

When Guo Jing and Ren Qi each took their brothers, they cleaned up the city wall they were responsible for, and reunited on the enemy tower on the east side of the city. The fighting in the city is almost over. Most of the warriors of the Turgish tribe who were not descendants fled into the wilderness with the tribal nobles, and from then on, at least until the Tang army and Suo Ge were divided, they had absolutely no courage to return to the battlefield. As for Suo Ge's descendants, thousands of people died in the city, and the remaining hundreds fled to Axiyan City, less than fifty miles away from Gumo, before the Tang army closed the city gate, and the bad news of the loss of Gumo Prefecture and the Baxi troops fell to the Tang army, and at the same time spread to the east.

The ordinary tribal herdsmen, the Turkish nobles, and a dozen merchants of various tribes who had made war profits did not have time to escape, decisively chose to surrender to the victors. According to past experience, the officials of the Tang Dynasty were more merciful than any tribal chieftain. After victory, they will be kind to the captured nobles, to the ordinary shepherds, and not too cruel to the exploitation of the traders.

However, this time they made the wrong bet. The Tang army does not need to shepherd slaves, and the news of the slaughter of the city that has spread has also filled the hearts of Tang Jian'er with anger. Therefore, Zhang Qian ordered that the Turgish people who were blocked in the city and did not have time to escape, except for the nobles of the various tribes, were all deprived of their property and rewarded to the Ba Xi Ministry. Bathid, on the other hand, is an authentic Turgish chieftain. According to the rules of tribal fighting, he would beat all captives into herdsmen, and anyone who dared to resist would be killed on the spot, leaving no hidden dangers.

"Among you, all those who took in the people of the Tang Dynasty when Suo Ge slaughtered the city, stand up!" When Ba Side took Zhang Qian's warrant and thanked him to search for the herdsmen in the city, Zhang Qian turned his eyes to a dozen merchants who had made war money, and commanded with a blushing face.

"I, I, under the ......" the vendors scrambled forward, as if each had become a great good man. However, Zhang Qian's next sentence pushed them all into the ice hole of despair.

"I will send my brothers to your respective homes to check with you. Even if you are a slave, as long as you have taken in a Han Chinese, you will be spared for your whole family. And if not, I'll let you know what life is better than death! ”

"Spare your life—" A Sogdian merchant knelt on his knees and kowtowed repeatedly, "General, Suo Ge is too cruel, it's not that we don't want to take in the people of the Tang Dynasty, but we don't dare, we don't dare!" ”

"Spare your life, General, we are innocent, innocent!"

"Spare your life, the general from the Tang Dynasty! It's not that we don't want to, it's that we don't dare to ......."

"Spare my life, General, I am willing to pay money to atone for my sins!"

……

The rest of the merchants fell to their knees and kowtowed like pounding garlic. rushed to accuse Suo Ge of cruelty, and at the same time stated his helplessness.

"Take them to the courtyard and let the rescued people of Datang identify them. Anyone who follows Suo Ge and harms the Tang Dynasty soldiers and people will be punished as a crime of treason. Zhang Qian sighed and commanded in a deep voice. Immediately, he quickly added, "Search the whole city, and all the nobles who are caught will also be dealt with accordingly." Those who have protected the Tang people, even if they take the Tang people at home as slaves, can be regarded as my benefactor Zhang Qian. On the contrary, there is no mercy for killing! ”

"Spare your life, the general spare your life!"

"General, we are forced, forced!"

"Spare your life—"

……

The sound of begging for mercy rang out again. A few of them didn't have time to escape, and they had already been escorted by the Tang army to the yamen to see Zhang Qian's tribal nobles, paralyzed on the ground, begging bitterly.

Guo Jing walked in with his own soldiers and walked away one by one the paralyzed Tirchashi nobles. Some people knew that evil would be rewarded, so they silently lowered their heads and let Tang Jian'er deal with them. Someone peed his pants in fright, dragging his legs and struggling desperately. Others craned their necks and shouted, "It's not fair." Mr. Guo would never treat us like this. We are also forced to follow Suo Ge out of desperation. You treat us like this, no tribe will dare to surrender in the future......"

"When you wait to kill the Han people in the Western Regions, can you consider giving them a fair?" Zhang Qian's eyes suddenly began to redden, and he sneered and asked loudly, "When you take refuge in Suo Ge as a tiger, have you considered the kindness of Manager Guo?" When you were forced to follow Suo Ge in desperation, when you robbed the Han family's shops and burned down the Han family's house, who forced you? As for the future, as long as Zhang is still in the Western Regions for a day, the rule is that whoever kills the men and women of my Han family will pay with blood. Accomplices, the same crime! ”

The tribal nobles were speechless and continued to cry and beg for mercy. Guo Jing, Ren Qi and other Tang Dynasty athletes raised their eyebrows one by one, dragged the former to the open space outside the state government like a pig, and beheaded them one by one after asking about the attitude of the rescued Tang people.

And those rescued Datang craftsmen, Langzhong, veterinarians and craftsmen kept raising their hands and biting the backs of their hands with their teeth. I couldn't believe that I was seeing the truth and not dreaming.

The people of the Central Plains were reluctant to come to the Western Regions to seek a living, on the one hand, because it was difficult to leave their homeland. On the other hand, the key factor that is more difficult to leave than the homeland is that in order to maintain the apparent peace, the government rarely or even does not make decisions for the people of the Han family.

Once there is a conflict between the Han people and the local tribes and herdsmen, the government will definitely ask the Han people to swallow their anger. And the people of the Han family were bullied by the other party, but they had nowhere to redress their grievances. Even sometimes being beaten to death by tribal nobles can only consider themselves unlucky. As long as there is no one in the family who is an official, the government will never turn a blind eye.

In addition, in the event of a major change, such as the Suo Ge rebellion, the Han people were the target of beheading and looting. Later, even if the imperial court sent troops to quell the rebellion, as long as the tribal leaders and nobles chose to surrender, they would usually be blamed for the past. The men and women of the Han family who died at the hands of the tribal leaders and nobles were all forgotten by the government, as if they had never existed in this world.

Therefore, to be rescued tonight, these people of the Central Plains are already overjoyed. I never expected that the group of wicked people who ruined their own families would have to pay for their debts with blood! And when everyone bit the back of their hands and found that what was really happening in front of them, rather than dreaming, for a while, the impact in their hearts can be imagined.

Immediately, someone rushed to the side of the turkey warrior Shi Guizhou, who had not yet been killed, and beat and bitten. Others knelt in pools of blood, dipped their hands in the blood of their enemies, and laughed maniacally. What's more, he simply took the initiative to rush to the front of the team, pointed at a certain cavalry nobleman, and accused this 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 a wave of people's hearts. Instead, seize the time and deal with the series of trivial matters at hand.

Most of Suage's grain and grass, as well as the looting since the second uprising, were stored in Gumo City. Only a small fraction of these things were immediately available to Sogdian merchants for realization. Most of the rest take a long time to digest clean. According to everyone's judgment, after Suo Ge learned that Gumo Prefecture was lost, he would definitely give up the continued attack on Qiuzi and turn around desperately.

With more than 3,000 Tang Jian'er alone, they will definitely not be able to defend Gumo City, even if they insist until Niu Shi Award and Zhou Yiyi lead their troops to support. And the Niu Shi Award can use 10,000 soldiers and horses at most, defend the city reluctantly, and fight with Suo Ge in the wild, basically has no chance of winning.

"Ji Ling, you go and give me an order, tonight the brothers will seize it, hand it over, and keep it for yourself. Tell the guys not to leave anything too heavy so as not to delay the march! "After thinking about it, the only example that can be used for reference is the Hunan army. Zhang Qian grabbed the arrow and began to arrange the task.

"Yes!" Wang Zhihuan took the arrow without hesitation and left quickly. He did not ask Zhang Qian why he arranged it this way, nor did he question the distribution ratio of the spoils.

Since he came to the Western Regions, he found that he had completely changed his way of life, and he was living happily day by day. So, simply put yourself in the position of an apprentice and accept everything new or unfamiliar with humility.

"Ziyu, I have to trouble you to make a trip and send a message to the Sogdian merchants who are following us. Everything in the city, including grain and grass, I gave them three days to move it. Let them send someone and give me an estimate of the total price of what can be moved, except for weapons and forage. After that, they pay as much as they can. If you can't pay it, you can make an IOU and pay it back to me slowly in the future. ”

"Yes!" Wang Han also didn't ask, promised to take the arrow, turned around and left.

"Young Eunuch Zhang, those Sogdian merchants can't go far, you sell the grain to them, and when you turn around, the grain will have to go back to Suo Ge!" Guo Hong, who had been silent before, suddenly spoke, reminding Zhang Qian to be careful of letting the enemy take advantage.

"Suo Ge won't pay them, I will!" Zhang Qian smiled at him, his young face full of confidence. And they, after being robbed by Suoge, must have wanted Suo Ge to die immediately. At that time, I am the only one who can help them realize this wish! ”

"This ......" Guo Hongleng paused, his eyes blinked for a long time, and finally figured out the truth, and his face suddenly turned red again.

His father, Guo Yuanzhen, had never done this. He didn't teach him that he could still use this method when dealing with foreign races. And now, what Zhang Qian does is completely different from his father, and even diametrically opposite in some places.

As a son, he was reluctant to admit that his father was wrong, however, he could see that the brothers seemed to be reborn under Zhang Qian's command. He could also feel the brothers' heartfelt admiration and respect for Zhang Qian. In addition, the high morale and strong combat effectiveness of the brothers were something he had never seen in the Jinshan Army before.

"Uncle Shi!" Zhang Qian grabbed another 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 want to continue to take revenge, follow me." And I gave each of them a knife, a horse, and a pair of leather armor, men, women, and children. If they don't want to take revenge anymore, I will give each of them a horse, 200 catties of grain and 100 yuan, and ask them to go to Shule as soon as possible, or return to the Central Plains. You can't stay here for long! ”

"Good!" Luo Huaizu thought for a moment and stretched out his hand to take the arrow. Immediately, he frowned and asked, "Are you going to abandon the city?" That's right, losing land and saving people is the best policy. Although the fighting spirit of our army is strong, compared with the opponent, the number is too thin after all. ”

"I'm going to surprise Suoge!" Zhang Qian smiled at him, and his smile suddenly carried a bit of mystery.