"Things don't go well, things don't go well......"

Li Shun was chattering all the way, and after arriving at Shaqi City, Li Shun and the others found that it was already overcrowded, and tens of thousands of fleeing Daxia people had squeezed this city like a sardine like a county town in Daqin.

Because it was a hot summer day, and there had just been a rainstorm, the humidity was steaming under the sun, and there were countless mixed cattle, sheep and horses, and the smell of human manure was flowing everywhere, and the whole city of Shaqi was completely like a big latrine.

Shaqi City has a two-zhang high city wall, the style is similar to the Far East City, it is also made of huge stones, it should still be a castle left after Alexander the Great's expedition to the east, and then it was occupied by the locals, the manager of the city is a prince of Great Xia, named Thuram, there are two thousand soldiers under his command, it is said that it is a soldier, in fact, it is a civilian on weekdays, and the real warriors are only Thuram's personal guards are still elite, equipped with complete weapons, armor and war horses, but the number is only two or three hundred.

Because there were too many people fleeing, Shaqi City could no longer accommodate it, but the city administrator refused to let go of this opportunity to make a fortune, and arranged for soldiers to guard at the city gate to collect money, and anyone who wanted to take refuge in the city paid two silver coins per person, so a large number of rich people paid money to enter the city, and found a random place to curl up and wait in the dirty city, and those who had no money could only block the city gate and cry loudly.

Cattle, sheep, horses, and llamas are in groups, people are stinking with feces, women, children, and children are caught in the middle of the refugees, crying helplessly, and the whole scene is more chaotic and chaotic, and how miserable and miserable it is.

"My lord, I'm afraid this ruined city can't be saved, it's so chaotic, once the enemy kills it, it will be lost!" Standing on a small hill two or three miles outside the city, looking at such a chaotic and crowded scene in Shaqi City with a telescope, the leader of the forbidden army reminded Li Shun in fear.

"We have to find a place to understand the most detailed situation, and see who came to this ghost place from thousands of miles away, could it be that the collective rebellion of the countries of the Western Regions was beaten by the army sent by His Majesty? And we have to find a place to repair and replenish dry food, and we also have to find out the movements of the resting people, and go to the city to visit their city lord and say, go~" Li Shun knocked his horse's belly and led the way to Shaqi City.

As the head of the mission, over the years, Li Shun has changed from a young scholar who was not diligent in his limbs and grains to a decisive Qin Chongqing, and this time he went to the West, he shouldered the heavy responsibility of Daqin to understand the West, not only for friendly trade, but also for the future of Daqin's strategy to collect all the most detailed information possible.

The Great Xia Kingdom, which had already decided to trade with Great Qin, suddenly said that it was gone, which made him feel very passive and anxious.

It's nothing if the Great Xia Kingdom is gone, and you have to figure out who is killing the Great Xia.

There is also how to avoid the pursuit of the rest of the people and escape back to Daqin safely, and send back the Western intelligence collected, which is not worth the hard work of this two-year trip.

Traveling to such a distant place, everything is unfamiliar, and those who have not experienced it firsthand will never know the difficulties.

"Woo~~" When Li Shun's mission approached Shaqi City, the soldiers in charge of observation in the city discovered this mighty and strict forbidden army and the Great Qin Dragon Banner that hunted and hunted.

Soon the refugees who were surrounded at the city gate in the direction of Li Shun began to cry and scream and spread out in all directions, like a flock of chickens blowing up their nests, and at the same time a group of soldiers with weapons poured out of the city, and soon the two sides were separated by less than a hundred feet, and both sides were facing each other with bows and arrows.

"Don't be impatient, Bajira, go and tell their leader that we are the Great Qin delegation passing through here, and we want to enter the city to repair and meet the city lord, and there is no hostility!" Li Shun commanded by pressing the long sword on his waist.

"Yes, sir!" Bagjira rode out of the column on a camel, first explained a few words loudly to the opposite side, and then slowly walked over after seeing the leader on the opposite side also began to appease the soldiers, after a moment of communication, the other party had soldiers enter the city to report, and it dragged on for half an hour, there was a horn horn sounded on the head of the city, and after half a quarter, I saw a middle-aged man in a robe and black and fat riding a horse, under the protection of more than two hundred soldiers wearing leather armor and helmets.

"Thuram, they are indeed Great Qin's envoys, I saw them in Lan City last year!" When the two sides met, a middle-aged man dressed as an official of the Great Xia Kingdom beside the black fat man said with a surprised face.

"That's good, I'm scared to death, since it's the Great Qin Mission, let them enter the city, and the enemy who attacked my Great Xia heard that they also came from the east, by the way, you can ask them about the origin of the enemy......"

Under Thuram's greeting, the nervous soldiers all put away their weapons, and after a short exchange between the two sides, Li Shun and others were allowed to enter the city for repairs, and because of their special status, Thuram also specially placed the Daqin mission in the post house, and a group of people such as Althea and Bajira were also placed together as mission personnel.

After settling down, Li Shun and the others went to visit the city lord Thuram after a simple wash, eat and rest.

Thuram is just a very inconspicuous prince of the Great Xia Kingdom, although he occupies Shaqi City, but his jurisdiction cannot take care of the area within a radius of three or five hundred miles, and the total population under his jurisdiction is less than 50,000 people, and because of his location close to Banjirad, the closest state to the Poison Country, he is not valued by the Great Xia monarch.

Because of different races, Daxia and the poison people have fought with each other for hundreds of years for the vast plains of Punjab suitable for farming, and there will be wars on both sides all year round, but since Ashoka hanged, many city-states in the north of the poisonous country conquered by Ashoka began to make independent splits, and several states in the south did not submit to the rule of the Mauryan Dynasty. The Mauryan Empire has effectively existed in name only.

At present, the relationship between Daxia and the country of body poison is relatively peaceful, last year when Li Shun passed by the country of body poison, he wanted to go to the country of body poison, but he heard that several states in the northwest of the country of body poison are fighting for independence, and the country of Daxia also wants to take the opportunity to seize Punjab, the two sides fought a melee, and neither side took any advantage, but in the blink of an eye, it was artificial, and Daxia was suddenly gone.

The gifts carried by the mission had been delivered, and Li Shun gave Thuram the enamel military kettle he had with him, and this exquisite kettle made Thuram very happy, and arranged to find some wealthy people from all over the country who had fled and some of his vassals to tell Li Shun all the information he had received carefully.

And Li Shun stayed for a long time after listening.

Based on the news of these people, it seems that the enemy who attacked Daxia was very powerful, and there were more than 20,000 warriors equipped with stirrups and saddles, although the weapons were not sharp, but the battle was extremely fierce, and the burning and looting were extremely brutal everywhere they went, as a peace-loving farming civilization, Daxia was almost powerless in the face of the impact of this nomad, and soon many cities were lost one after another, and the capital Lan City was also broken by the enemy half a month ago, the king of Daxia and many princes and ministers were killed, and Daxia has existed in name only, Only a few small city-states in the outlying areas remained.

And the composition of this enemy is very complicated, there are Kangju people, there are Western Regions people, because the enemy appeared too quickly, and the people who escaped first did not figure out the specific identity of the enemy at all.

Li Shun was very disappointed, Nima was about to destroy the country, and he hadn't even figured out the identity of the enemy, and this Great Xia Kingdom was too sad.

The current situation is that a large number of Bactria refugees and retreating officials and soldiers are pouring from the northwest to the border of the Toxin State in the southeast, which will inevitably provoke fierce opposition from neighboring Banjilard, and may cause a scuffle between the two sides.

The location of Shaqi City is very special, a large number of refugees do not dare to continue to go deep into the body poison, carrying gold and silver goods pouring in, which may attract the enemy.

Therefore, after asking about the path to the poisonous country, Li Xin kindly reminded Thuram to hurry up and end the current chaos in Shaqi City, otherwise when the enemy arrives, Shaqi City will inevitably bleed.

Li Xin's reminder was superfluous in Thuram's opinion, and he smiled and said that the enemy would never come to Shaqi City, because he had heard five days ago that the enemy had stopped in the high annex city, and it should have occupied a wide enough territory, and he heard that the enemy was beginning to be chaotic, and many tribes had begun to fight each other for control of the city and population, but under Li Xin's repeated persuasion, Thuram decided to arrange for people to close the city gates every night to prevent an enemy from sneaking attack.

Li Xin cheekily took Bagjira and a few interpreters back to the post house, and after informing the delegation of the news he had obtained, he ordered to speed up the purchase of food and dry rations, and left Shaqi City early the day after tomorrow to continue south, temporarily going to the poisonous country to avoid the scourge of the war, and then make plans after the war has completely subsided.

There is no sense of security in the eyes of the mission, the city that can only accommodate one or two hundred thousand people is stuffed with nearly 50,000 people, and there are more people outside the city who have no money to enter the city or can't squeeze in at all, the most terrible thing is that all the people who fled are with their belongings, and there are more than 100,000 cows, horses, alpacas and other cows, horses, and alpacas that surround the city, so the current Shaqi City is not only short of food but also lacks clean drinking water, coupled with such a hot weather, snakes, rats, insects and ants are rampant, and the plague may break out at any time, Even if the enemy doesn't kill him, Shaqi City won't last long, and it will completely collapse in half a month at most.

The next day, the mission arranged for the interpreter and Bagjira and others to continue to inquire around the city, and Li Shun visited Thuram again to get a more detailed map, and purchased enough jerky and food for the mission to eat and drink for a month.

All preparations were put to a halt, and the mission began to pack up and prepare to leave Shaqi early the next morning and set off for Peshawar, the capital of the poisonous city-state of Bangerad.

The force of the body poison is much stronger than that of Great Xia, because the body poison country has a large number of huge trained war elephants, the original body poison people relied on war elephants to block Alexander the Great's attempt to conquer the entire body poison, Alexander the Great thus only occupied part of the Indus Valley in northwest India, and retreated after the establishment of a governor in Punjab, and the current Bangillad is independent from the original Punjab Province, nominally still belonging to the Mauryan Empire, but in fact it has been in a semi-independent state.

The area of the poison country is vast, the territory is humid and rainy, the rivers are dense, and there are lush primeval forests everywhere, and the nomads who are accustomed to fighting in the northwest desert will definitely not be able to continue to conquer the poison in the south, and I heard that this enemy only has more than 20,000 soldiers, plus the tribes have begun to grab the territory and fight infighting, they will definitely not attack the poison in a short time, and Shaqi City may be the end of their conquest.