The battle of Black Sand became more and more intense. The wounded beasts were even more ferocious, and the Turkic soldiers stationed in the Black Sand fought back wildly. Although the soldiers and horses of Xue Ne and Tang Xiujing were victorious, the price they paid was not small.

Compared to the Battle of the Black Sands, the battle to regain the Metropolitan Protectorate alone was much easier and simpler. The Turks did not have many soldiers and horses left, and Xenne only sent a light cavalry force to launch a night attack, and the battle was over.

Xue Shao personally came to the Shan Yu Dadu Protectorate to check the situation, mainly for the purpose of selecting a suitable site for the construction of the new city in Kancha terrain.

Dadu Hufu alone is one of the few cities on the grassland. But compared with its rank and title, the so-called "city" is too small and shabby, and it is far inferior to even a county town in the mainland. The so-called walled city is nothing more than a fence of rammed earth. As soon as Xue Shao kicked it, a large piece collapsed.

The city is even worse, there are no streets and no markets, but piles of cool cow dung and horse manure are very spectacular. Houses are rare, mostly tents. The former Imperial Protectorate has long since been burned to the ground, and now only some of the broken rammed earth courtyard walls can be seen.

Xue Shao's ox tendon riding boots creaked as they stepped on the ashes of the Duhu Mansion. Looking around, he saw an iron cage remaining in the ruins, quite eye-catching. So he asked, "What is that?" ”

A rescued Hannu told Xue Shao that the Duhufu had used that iron cage to detain Yuan Zhen a few years ago. At that time, Yuan Zhen was imprisoned for committing some things. Later, Gu Lulu got into trouble, and Yuan Zhen falsely said that he could go to persuade him to surrender, and the Duhufu sent him. Later, Yuan Zhen led the army to capture the capital palace, but left this iron cage, saying that it was a commemoration.

Xue Shao sneered when he heard this, "If you get Yuanzhen's corpse in the future, you will use this iron cage to bury him!" ”

At this time, the civil engineering official in charge of building the city came back from an inspection and told Xue Shao that the soil here was not too suitable for building a city. Even if you are reluctant to build it, it is difficult to build a tall and solid wall.

In fact, there is no need for them to report, Xue Shao also knows more or less in his heart. It is close to the desert, the land is more desertified, the foundation is not too stable, and there are no boulders nearby for mining. The foundation stones needed to build the castle walls were to be transferred from the south of the Great Wall Pass. If you really want to start working, it will be a waste of time and money.

This problem is a hard injury that is difficult to solve for the architects of the Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, after so many years, Shan Yuhufu would have changed its appearance and become a big city.

Xue Shao listened, but he just smiled indifferently and said, "I have my own way to avoid worrying about the cornerstone." Now, according to the standards of large military towns such as Shuofang and Yanmen, you will design the scale of the new capital protection mansion. After conquering Black Sand City, there was a nearby Black Mountain rich in good wood, so I had to send people to cut it down. I want you to pay special attention to the height and thickness of the wall, and I want it to be able to run in a carriage. The upper limit, as long as it does not exceed the specifications of Chang'an and Luoyang. ”

When the officials heard about it, they were all taken aback, and built a huge city wall on a piece of sand that was not inferior to Chang'an.

"Go for it!" Xue Shao let out a low sigh.

"Yes!" The civil engineering officials hurriedly complied.

The generals laughed, saying that these civil carpenters had never done such a thing in their lives. Of course, we haven't even heard of it!

You've heard of ghosts! Xue Shao felt funny, cement! That's high-tech, you know?

……

The war in Heisha and Nansha is full of soldiers, and the north is separated by a desert hundreds of miles away, but it is a scene of war and chaos.

Hearing that the Tang Dynasty sent Xue Shao to take command and led an army of 200,000 to the north, the Turkic Khan Gulu ordered that all the people in the Nanya area should move north.

In this day and age, population is the greatest resource. After losing thousands of accounts of Tongluo and the servants, Gu Lulu did not want to leave any of the tribes behind. After the order was issued, Gu Lulu also sent troops to enforce it strongly. As a result, all the nomadic population in the Black Sands, whether they were Turkic tribes or herdsmen from other tribes, were forcibly moved and driven north.

This is the Turkic version of "Fortified Clearing". This tactic was not the first of its kind, and for hundreds of years, the nomads of the north would use it to deal with the powerful crusades of the southern armies. As soon as they fled north with their people, cattle and sheep, the southern army could only get a grassland without living creatures, no matter how many and fierce the army of the south came. So this strategy, they repeatedly used it.

In the vast and chaotic migratory crowd, the carriage driven by an old woman seemed extremely small, as if it could be swallowed up by the chaotic crowd and the galloping sheep and horses at any time.

The steppe people moved very simply, packed tents, bedding, grain, cooking utensils and other things into a pile of wagons, and rode on horses to drive cattle and sheep and left. But this originally very simple thing was too difficult for the old woman who was driving the car, because she could only do these things alone. Her elderly husband had been lying quietly in a stone pile and could not help her.

There were young men running by on horseback, but no one looked at the old woman and no one came to help. Nowadays, the tradition of the grassland people is different from that of the Han family, they don't know how to respect the old and love the young, and they are not used to helping others, they only know how to follow the strong, and they will never have mercy on any poor person, even if this poor person was once a hero.

The old woman's cattle and sheep were constantly scattered by the chaotic crowd and mixed into other people's flocks. It was the only possession her husband had left her and the food she could live on. She was heartbroken, but she couldn't stop to chase back the cattle and sheep. While she was rushing to the car, she kept looking back into the carriage, her eyes full of anxiety and helplessness.

In the carriage, a man lay quietly, covered with a thick woolen futon. The few pots and pans were piled up at his feet, clattering with the wagon.

The man lay motionless, as if he were dead.

"Moneba, Moneba, are you thirsty?"

"Moneba, Moneba, are you asleep again?"

The old woman shouted several times in Turkic, but there was no response in the car. She was in a hurry, so she quickly stopped the carriage and climbed into the carriage with difficulty, shaking the man.

Still no response.

The old woman shook the man's body desperately and cried loudly. Some of them heard the cries and looked this way, but few people came to find out, let alone help.

Everyone is running for their lives.

A few horsemen came rushing towards this direction and stopped by the old woman's carriage. One of the leaders whipped the carport with a horsewhip and shouted, "Why don't you stop?" ”

"I'm a pound!!" The old woman cried loudly, "My son! …… My last son, dead! ”

Qi Jin is the official name of the Turks. The leader was Qi Jin, and he asked the people around him, "What's going on?" ”

The people around him replied that it was the widow of Yogro, an old herdsman of the Turkic tribe. They once had five sons, all of whom had joined the Dependent Wolf Riders under the command of the Great Khan. As a result, four of the five sons of Nuo Zhenshui died in the first battle, and only one old horse returned with a half-dead youngest son, Moneba. The old man, Jogero, was so grieved that he died on the spot, leaving only an old woman and his half-dead son, Yogro, 61 Moneba.

"I also have two sons and three nephews, who died in the ...... of Nuozhenshui," Tong Jin sighed lightly, and reached out to open the sheepskin shed of the carriage. Looking down, the young man lying in the car had a messy Turkic braid, a bloodless face, and black and gray lips, and it seemed that he was indeed dead.

"You guys, find a place to help her bury her son." Tong Jin said.

The entourage listened to the order and climbed into the car to carry Moneba's body. As soon as one of them reached over his hand, Moneba's eyes widened, and he grabbed the man's wrist with one hand like an iron pincer.

"Ahhh The entourage screamed in fright, and the others were so frightened that they fell out of the car.

Monepa had already sat up, his eyes were full of murderous energy, and he still looked like a dying man, clearly a terrible ghost who had just woken up from hell!

"Moneba, you cheat again!" The old woman screamed, "Your father was scared to death by you like this, and now you want to scare your mother to death!" ”

Tong Jin, who was riding on the horse, was also frightened, and almost fell off the horse without catching his breath. Looking at the appearance of Moneba who had come back from the corpse and was about to eat people, he drew his knife and shouted tremblingly: "You, you are a human, or, still a ghost!" …… Let go, let go of my entourage! ”

Moneba still clung to the wrist of the attendant, unable to pull out even if he had enough strength to feed. Hearing Qi Jin's voice, he slowly turned his face with a blank expression, looked at the tip of the knife pointed at him with blank eyes, and muttered, "Who am I?" Where am I? ”

"He's speaking Chinese!!" Tong Jin shouted loudly, "Come on, here are the spies of the Tang Army!" ”

The old woman was frightened, and hurriedly got out of the car and ran to the horse and shouted: "Qi Jin, my mother is Han, and everyone in our family can speak a few words of Chinese!" I was born in the steppe, grew up in the steppe, and finally married the steppe people of the Turkic Yogro family! Our family is a loyal part of the Bone Khan! All four of my sons died in Nuozhenshui, leaving only Meng Erba half-dead on horseback and returning home, how could he be a spy of the Tang Army? ”

Hearing the old woman say this, Tong Jin slowly put away the knife. The attendant in the carriage finally broke free and jumped out of the carriage, and ran back to Qi Jin's side in a panic. When I wiped my sleeve, I saw that my wrist was black and purple, and my bones were about to deform!

"He's so strong, like a ghost!" The injured entourage trembled, "Possessed by unjust ghosts, dead people deceive corpses!" But, terrible, terrible! ”

"The ghosts who deceive the corpse should be burned." Another said.

All other followers are attached.

"My son is obviously alive, how can he be dead!" The old woman hurriedly ran to the carriage, patted the cart and shouted to Moneba, "Moneba, you speak! Well said, in Turkic dialect! ”

Moneba looked at the old woman with a blank expression, and then at Tong Jin and his entourage, stunned for a pair of eyes and did not speak.

"Set fire to this goblin!" Tong Jin gave the order.

"No, you can't do that!" The old woman was so anxious that she screamed, rushed forward and threw herself in a pile of muddy water and kowtowed to Tong Jin, "He is my son, not a ghost!" ”

Mongerba, who was sitting in the carriage, still had a blank expression on his face. Seeing the attendants slowly approaching with torches, his hands began to grope around him, and his mouth began to mumble wildly.

"He's speaking Chinese again!" The attendant exclaimed.

Tong Jin frowned, "Your ghost son, what did you say?" ”

The old woman looked up and glanced back at Moneba, and said in a panic: "My son said, I am not a ghost, I am Yogro Moneba!" A valiant wolfrider under the command of the Great Khan of the Bone Tyrant! ”

"Did he really say that?"

"Really, really!" The old woman threw herself into the muddy water and kowtowed desperately.

Moneba looked at the old woman, her eyes, which were as stiff as a dead man, finally blinked, but she was still muttering: "Mine, where is Fang Tian's halberd?" ”