"Which tribe?"

In the oasis camp, under a date palm tree, King Xiao Yan interrogated a Turkic captive with two golden gourd hammers in his hand.

The man snorted coldly and refused to speak.

"Hehe, it's quite hard, I just don't know if your kneecaps are hard or your heavenly spirit is hard, but I believe it's not as hard as my hammer!"

After speaking, King Xiao Yan grinned, and his left hand hammer directly hit the thief's left knee.

Although it is only a short-handled melee hammer of several catties, it can be hit on the horse's head during the battle, and the horse's skull will be broken, let alone a human knee? The Turkic thief screamed, and the knee was broken, and the man was half-kneeling on the ground.

"I'll give you another chance, which tribe?"

"Phew!" The man was very tough.

"Admiration, I must respect a tough Turkic man like you." After speaking, the hammer in Xiao Yanwang's right hand was also swung out, but this time it smashed on the other knee of the man, and the man screamed again and knelt directly on the ground with his legs.

"Drag this tough thief aside."

"Give me a good time, give me a good time!" The man screamed again and again, and when he was dragged away, he did not forget to shout in stiff Chinese.

"It's a pity you don't have a chance." King Xiao Yan did not look back, but turned to another Turkic captive. "Tell me, do you want to break your left knee or your right knee first?"

The man swallowed.

"Don't say it?"

"I said, I said, we're in the Moon."

In the distance, a Turk yelled, "Phew, coward! ”

King Xiao Yan smiled, then stretched out his hand and pointed at the scolding Turk, "Drag him here." ”

The Turks were dragged over, and they were still struggling to resist, but they were tied by the patrol's ox tendon ropes, and the more they struggled, the tighter they became, this was specially tied up by the Qin army, how could it be so easy to break free. King Xiao Yan didn't talk to him politely at all, and went up directly to use it as two hammers, and scrapped this person's two kneecaps.

The kneecap is broken, and this man is almost finished, a wasted person, not even a slave, and almost all that awaits him is death.

"It's not your turn to speak, shut up."

The two patrolmen dragged the sweaty Turk down and threw him with him.

King Xiao Yan turned his head to the guy who confessed just now and said, "Now you can continue to talk, think about it and then say, don't lie to me, you know that there are so many people here, I ask one by one, if anyone is different from you, your fate will be worse than theirs, I will gouge out your eyeballs then, and then throw here to feed the wolves." ”

"I'm not lying, we're in the moon department."

"In the Moon Department? That is in the north of Gaochang, my emperor gave the head of the Yue Department as the Marquis of the Moon and the Taishou of Shatuo County, you and I don't know the geographical direction of the Western Regions? As he spoke, he lifted the hammer and slammed it down, and the man screamed.

The hammer didn't hammer his knee, but directly smashed his three toes.

"Say it well, make it clear."

"We are really in the Moon Division, and we swear to the Immortal Heaven!" The man cried out in pain.

Team Xiao was turning his head and discussing a few words with his subordinate Zhang Laosan and other fire chiefs, "Why did the Shatuo people over there in Gaochang come to Qiuzi?" ”

The Yuebu, also known as the Shatuo people, is a part of the tribe of the ten surnames of the West Turks, nomadic in the northwest of Gaochang, which was once under the jurisdiction of the Luntai set up in the Han Dynasty, and has a large sand dune in its place, so it is named Shatuo people.

After the Great Qin sent troops to defeat the Shekui Khan and set up the Dulu Khan, the ten surnames of the Western Turks and some other affiliated departments were basically attached to the Great Qin. They went to Luoyang to worship the Emperor of Great Qin, sent their children to study in Luoyang, or served as guards in the inner army.

The emperor demarcated the boundaries of the various ministries, set up counties and counties on their territory, divided the feudal states, and granted them the title of duke and marquis, which was regarded as incorporating them into the feudal system of the Great Qin.

In the past, the ten sets of Qi Jin and Si were also mostly divided into county dukes, and the rest of the leaders were mostly named marquis.

Most of their territory is a county.

In this way, together with the original Tianshan states such as Qiuci and Shule, as well as the Sogdian Zhaowu nine surnames in the river, as well as the Tocharian states, etc., an intricate system of Western Regions bondage was formed.

After the Great Qin Emperor destroyed the original Tu Emperor of the Western Regions, the power of the entire Western Regions was also redistributed, and the new Western Turkic Khan was actually just a puppet, and in fact could no longer truly command the tribes. The states that were controlled by the Western Turks in the past basically fell to Great Qin.

The Great Qin Emperor demarcated the territory boundaries for all the tribes, and the tribes were not allowed to cross the border easily, which was very important for the Great Qin to rule the Western Regions.

But now, this nearly 300 horsemen and horses say that they are the Zhuyue Department of Shatuo County in the northwest of Gaochang, isn't it strange?

"Maybe this guy is lying, let's ask someone else."

"I'm not lying, what I said is true, I swear to Immortal Heaven." The guy screamed in fright, even struggling to rip off his collar.

"On my chest, there's a sand wolf, which is the hallmark of our moon warriors."

Zhang Laosan took a knife to cut his clothes, and sure enough, he saw a wolf on his chest, and the characteristics of this wolf showed that it was a wolf infested in the desert.

"Then tell me, why did the people of the Chuyue Department of Shatuo Moraine appear near this Guizi Bachang City, and rob my Great Qin's caravan?"

I asked more than a dozen people, and the answers were all similar, they were indeed from Shatuo Moraine, and they were all Shatuo people in the Moon Department. However, these people did not follow the orders of their leader Zhu Xie Jinman to rob Qin Shang, on the contrary, Zhu Xie Jinman led 7,000 accounts to attach to Daqin, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Zhuyue and Shatuo County, which was very interesting, because he was Gaochang County of Daqin to the south, and Yili of Daqin to the west.

The tribe is already small in number, only 7,000 tents, and it is in a poor territory like Shatuo Moraine, so it has no strength to blow up thorns.

However, because of the poor environment of the Shatuo tribe, the people of the Shatuo tribe have been known for their bravery and good at fighting for a long time, and they often rely on war and looting to make a living.

Now that the Western Turks have declined, the Shatuo people have also been demarcated and cannot easily go out of the border, and the Western Regions tend to be stable under the rule of Daqin, and there is no war to fight, let alone no opportunity to plunder, and it is actually more difficult to live by grazing in the Shatuo moraine.

As a result, many Shatuo men left their homes and went to other places to be hired as mercenaries. Either for caravans, or for other tribes and feudal chieftains.

These 300 people were a group of Shatuo mercenaries who came out of the Shatuo moraine, and they came all the way to Qiuzi, accepted the employment of a nobleman from Qiuzi, and became the personal guard of this nobleman.

And then not long ago, they received a mission, and then, they ended up now.