"Why are they holding the men of the board?" Hearing the bearded guest say this, Yang Shuang was a little puzzled.

Before the establishment of the dart bureau, the salt-selling team had already established good relations with many high-level leaders in Tuyuhun, Nanchen, and the Western Turks. After its establishment, it gave a lot of gifts to those princes and nobles.

It stands to reason that on the surface, the horse team that does not belong to any force and is only dedicated to business, except for thieves, generally no one will do it easily.

After all, a large number of treasures, money, and even good food and drink were all given priority to them, the regional masters.

If it is done to the merchants, who will dare to go to the area they are responsible for in the future?

The bearded guest waved his hand indifferently, "Hey, it's not because of a trivial matter!" The refined salt sold to the Turks half a year ago was mixed with a bit of coarse salt. They Ye Hu seemed to have eaten high-grade refined salt, and said that we deceived them and had to compensate, no, more than 300 brothers were detained! ”

Yang Shuang's face darkened, and he nodded quietly.

Ye Hu, who else but Tush?

When the old guy was in Dunhuang, in order to learn Turkic language, the two of them were together almost every day, and the food was naturally the same.

"Since it's nothing serious, then you can stay here with your brothers! Great work! Yang Shuang said, and gave a big hug to the bearded guest.

The bearded guest ran to pat Yang Shuang's back, but remembered those hideous wounds, and immediately separated and bowed and hugged his fists, and said in a deep voice: "Big brother, take care!" ”

Friendship between men, you don't need too much nonsense!

As for whether five thousand can stop ten thousand, Yang Shuang hardly needs to think about it.

That section of the blocked valley is not boasted of natural hazards.

If people don't need to eat, drink, or rest, and have unlimited strength, they can be completely able to do it in one place, and they can't open it!

Five thousand rangers participate in guarding the pass, and when they encounter a battle, there will definitely be no more than three people who can really engage in battle!

It's like an underground passage, it's too small!

Coupled with the guard tower that Yang Shuang secretly repaired, even if the Turks wanted to use a small elite to sneak attack, it was estimated that it would be in vain.

Of the 70,000 Turks, about 60,000 were eventually captured.

The part that disappeared was either killed in battle, starved to death, and some were eaten by their own people.

War is so bleak.

On the issue of the placement of prisoners, Yang Shuang didn't think much about it, and directly pointed his finger at Yanqi on the marching map.

First, where is it in the middle of Shule and Dunhuang, from here, the distance will not be too far, and the material consumption will not be too much.

Second, when the war at the North Daokou is over, the Western Regions will usher in a stage of development, located at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, near Bosten Lake, Yanqi, and Gaochang City, Turpan, and Shanshan City in the northern Turpan Basin, connecting the city in a straight line, will become the agricultural center of the Western Regions. After all, development in the desert depends on water sources.

Three, they are captives, and they need to work hard here to have children and hoard labor for the construction of the Grand Canal!

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"General Sui, the prairie only worships the strong, and you want to use me as a bargaining chip to make 200,000 warriors retreat, which is completely wishful thinking!" Datou, who was lying on horseback, unkempt and tattered, kept shouting in an almost hoarse voice.

Yang Shuang, who was galloping, shook his hand with a whip, and the other party suddenly became honest.

"Drive!"

He did not follow the escort of the captives to the north, but picked a few war horses and led ten sword and shield soldiers on the road in a hurry.

The war waits for no one, even if it drags on for half a day, maybe Shi Da and they will be lost.

The loss of the North Pass is equivalent to opening the door to the Western Regions again, and the good situation will be gone forever.

Passing through Yanqi and Gaochang, the North Road Pass is in sight.

Before he got closer, the earth-shattering cry had already reached his ears.

This is not the Sui army's shouting of killing, but a familiar and unfamiliar Turkic language.

"Report! General, the battle situation is critical, about hundreds of Turks have already poured into the wall! "The sword and shield soldiers who entered the pass one step ahead of time quickly returned.

Yang Shuang picked up his head in one hand and held the battle shield in the other, braving the dense feather arrows like rain.

There was no inner city in this hastily repaired pass, so most of the wounded soldiers lay under the inner corners, or in the cave of the city gate.

As for the soldiers lying on the ground in the pass, they have been dead for a long time.

The corpses with feathered arrows were densely packed and overlapped, so that the passage leading to the pass had no place to foot.

Among the corpses, there were sword and shield soldiers, Shanshan elites, and Turkic slaves, among which there were also Yiwu and Gaochang people.

Ascending the pass, Yang Shuang saw Shi Da and Liu Ling, who were fighting with injuries.

"Big brother!"

"General!"

Yang Shuang nodded, did not stop, but ran towards several Turks who climbed the wall.

"Stop, see who this is!!"

He wouldn't be stupid, right, he would light his head directly on the city gate tower, the distance was so far away, the Turks knew the Great Khan, and the arrows didn't know it.

Looking at the density of this arrow, it is estimated that as soon as Datou shows up, it will be shot into a sieve!

"Big ····· Sweat!!! ”

The Great Khan of the Turks was so different from the Emperor of the Central Plains.

They held various events, and the Great Khan would come out to show his face, or personally run to the various tribes to show his bravery.

Compared with the emperor who does not go out of the gate, does not come out of the second gate, and even some officials do not know the emperor, it is completely two concepts.

Therefore, seeing the unkempt and unkempt people clearly, several Turkic soldiers froze on the spot.

"Get down and tell Tush that if you don't retreat, Lao Tzu will hang your Great Khan on the city gate!"

Facing the corpses lying in the pass, Yang Shuang was eager to kill all the 60,000 captured Turks.

But he knew he couldn't!

The Turks are not the only Western Turks, not to mention that they have not yet split.

If all the prisoners are killed, even if the Turks are defeated in future battles, they will not surrender on the spot, but will desperately resist.

When the time comes, how will you get labor to dig the Grand Red Canal?

Hundreds of Turkic soldiers who rushed to the city wall, under the shouts of a commander, slowly retreated.

After a short time, the army that was tied outside the pass, and there was no edge in sight, also moved backwards.

After another moment, a familiar old man, with many strong men in armor, stopped three hundred meters away from the pass.

"Bed crossbow ready!"

Yang Shuang's eyes narrowed, if the elevation angle was 45 degrees for the projectile, relying on the number should be able to leave all the other party's group of people down!

"General, the bed crossbow is destroyed!" Liu Ling's face turned pale.

Yang Shuang nodded, "Let's go down and rest, in addition, arrange for the sentry to go to the horse to get lost, so that Aba, Lu Xiaobu, and Zhong Kui who stayed in Shanshan City, take all the wizards and Taoist priests, and rush to the North Daokou within three days and six days!" ”

"Yes, General!"

One go, one time, six days!

Three days each way is already the fastest speed to come from the horse lost.

And it is necessary to match more war horses, day and night.

Yang Shuang's eyes were full of tears, and he didn't know how many people would die again in another six days.

Tenka's life extension is not a one-time healing, but a continuous recovery skill, unless all the effects are blessed on one person.

But even so, those who have broken their stomachs and broken legs and feet cannot be recovered.

Because the principle of Tianxiang to continue life is to consume qi and blood to speed up the recovery of wounds, it is completely useless for people who have lost too much blood.

Yang Shuang, who was extremely uncomfortable in his heart, beat him up to the head.