Bachang Fort is near Bachang City, and Bachang City is Gumo Country in ancient times, which is an important town of Qiuci and is also a pearl. There is also another name here, Whitewater Castle, a city through which the clear river flows.

The Hulu River (Wushi River) and the Bachang River (Nalun River) meet here to form the Sihun River, and then flow eastward to merge with several other rivers to form the Chihe River (Tarim River), the largest river in the southern Tianshan Mountains.

Bachang City is located in the south of the Tianshan Mountains, behind which is a large desert (Taklamakan Desert) that is about 2,000 miles long from east to west and about 1,000 miles wide from north to south.

Bachang City and its surroundings are located here, it is a rare huge oasis, the climate is pleasant, the terrain is flat, the land is fertile, the water source is abundant, and the light period is long, the frost-free period is also long, suitable for the growth of all kinds of crops, with hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated land, as well as millions of acres of grassland, hundreds of thousands of acres of mountains and forests.

It can be said that this place is very consistent with its reputation of plugging up the south of the Yangtze River.

After the Silk Road was reopened, it also became the middle road of the Tianshan Mountains, the most important station, the commercial trade of the city is prosperous, there are countless business trips passing through every day, and there are countless commodities gathered and transferred here.

"Team Xiao, do you think these Turks are here to trade and do a business without capital, or are they just soldiers of the Qiuzi Kingdom?"

"It's hard to say yet, so hurry up."

Three hundred Turkic horse troops, and that caravan he had ever seen, only about twenty guards, more than a hundred merchants, really encountered these horse thieves, it was difficult to resist at all.

The fast horse galloped into the big stone post.

"What about the caravan people?"

The young man surnamed Xu and the guard had been waiting here for a long time, and hurriedly ran out.

Team Xiao glanced at the young man, "It's you?" Tell me, how's it going? ”

The young man said of the situation, "Maybe it's just that the guards misheard, but I still bother Team Xiao to go and take a look with us." ”

Team Xiao was nodding, "Lead the way, hurry up on the horse." ”

The two of them had eaten and drunk enough and rested for a long time, and then the horse was also rested, and then they rode on the horse to lead the way.

When the murderous patrol cavalry arrived at the attack site not far from the Hulu River, it was already sunset in the west.

Far away, before I got close, I could already smell a strong smell of blood.

Team Xiao frowned.

The other team members all showed excitement on their faces, "Damn, it smells so bloody, it's really alive." ”

"Big job!"

Team Xiao glanced at the depressed young man, just now he said that he might just have heard it wrong, and he was more relaxed along the way, but at this time, the young man's face turned pale.

Team Xiao was urging the horses to speed up, and when they got closer, they saw a flock of vultures having a feast there.

"Grandpa!"

The young man rolled off his horse at once, unable to believe what was happening in front of him.

Camels that were shot, corpses that were abandoned.

The feathered arrows confiscated from the ground, and the scattered footprints, and pools of black blood.

Team Xiao was dismounting with the team members and carefully inspecting them.

"Team Xiao, there is no one alive, they are all dead."

"Count the numbers and find out if there are any Turkic corpses!"

In the end, I searched and found twenty-seven Qin corpses and more than a dozen dead camels, but only empty camels and no goods.

There are no corpses of Turkic people.

There was not a single one, but some of the missing arrows and damaged weapons could be seen to be the usual things of the Turks.

"Xu Jialang, don't cry in a hurry, help identify the twenty-seven corpses and see who they are."

The young man sat on the ground, not daring to come forward to identify it, he was afraid to see Grandpa's body.

"Grandpa said that this is the last trip to trade, after this trip, coming back from Kangju, we will no longer come out to run, we will be a small landlord at home, and then buy a shop in the county to sell some groceries·······"

Team Xiao patted the young man on the shoulder and sighed.

The guard from Dunhuang stepped forward to carefully check and identify, and finally found that among the twenty-seven people who died, there were six escort companions, and there were twenty-one merchants in the caravan, and the grandfather of the Xu family was not included.

"Six guards, that's a dozen more."

Team Xiao was thinking for a while, "It seems that Zhang Tou is not as powerful as you say." ”

"The third child!"

"Team Xiao." The third man with a crossbow stepped forward.

"Third child, you are the best at identifying footprints, you see, where the Turks have withdrawn, let's chase." When he said this, Team Xiao's face was full of murderous energy, daring to rob Daqin's caravan and kill Daqin's people, this is really looking for death, or on this section of the Silk Road where they are responsible for patrolling.

"Order!" The third fire elder walked away with his crossbow.

"Let's collect the corpses of these compatriots, don't let these beasts eat them, first simply dig a pit and bury them, and make a mark."

The eldest man of the Xu family finally looked at the corpses, and saw that there were familiar uncles of the Wang family, and some unfamiliar ones, but he finally didn't see grandpa, which made him breathe a sigh of relief, "Team Xiao, please don't have to rescue my grandpa and them." ”

"Don't worry, it's my duty to be a patrol officer."

About a quarter of an hour later, the third child came back and brought back one person.

"Open your head?"

The guards were pleasantly surprised to see their leader.

Zhang Shigui was injured and had one arm bandaged. Seeing that Team Xiao was right with them, he immediately said, "Team Xiao, I know where those damn Turks are going, they are carrying goods and merchants, they can't go fast, and they can catch up." ”

Team Xiao was looking at Zhang Shigui, "You escaped alone?" ”

Zhang Shigui shook his head.

"The leader of the caravan, Steward Li, originally wanted to buy some goods and money for those Turks, but as soon as those people came, they attacked strongly, and although I resisted desperately with my escort companions, I only killed about twenty Turks. Later, the Turks attacked the caravan and killed more than 20 people, and we were outnumbered. ”

"I killed a Turk and stole his horse and escaped, and the Turks sent five men after me, and I led them into a willow forest, and at last I shot them all, and then secretly followed the direction in which the Turks had withdrawn, and I saw that when they came to a camp, they came back here, and I knew you would come and check them out."

The third child said beside him, "Team Xiao, I went to that willow forest with this Zhang Tou, where there were indeed five Turkic horses and five corpses of Turks, all of whom were shot by arrows. ”

Team Xiao believed it now, and couldn't help but be solemn.

"It's disrespectful."

Zhang Shigui shook his head and sighed, "There's nothing to say, I'm just a first-class person from Dunhuang, who came out to be a guard, but he didn't protect the proprietor thoroughly, and he was derelict in his duties." ”

"Three hundred Turkic horse thieves, there are only more than 20 of you, not a crime of war." Team Xiao patted Zhang Shigui and had a great impression of this person, he was really brave and strategic, he was able to escape from the three hundred Turkic thieves, and he also killed five pursuing Turkic thieves, which was indeed amazing.

"Third child, help Team Zhang re-bandage the wounds, and the brothers hurry up to eat some dry food and prepare for work."