With the addition of the regular army, the fall of the Herahan bandits (which was the official name of the Bactrian kingdom) was a matter of laughter, but the 154th Regiment alone was not able to cope with the Uighur rebellion on the wider battlefield.

The twenty-eighth day of March in the year 2216 of the Confucian calendar is destined to be a day to be recorded in history. The front page of the new Shattered Leaf City carried a bombshell news that scared all the residents of the city:

Pathos! The Bloodshed of the Kingdom's Elite

To be sure, it was not that the soldiers of the 154th Regiment were unwilling to use their lives, nor was it that the commander of the regiment, Colonel Moffett, was incompetent, but that the 154th Regiment, which was scattered and attacked, was like a slap in the face, facing the surging Uighur tribes, and the regular army, which was inherently inferior in numbers, plus a small number of militia units, although they saved the last drop of blood for the country, but they were not able to strangle this rebellion in the cradle.

Although future military historians will be free to ask each other whether Colonel Moffett's proactive strategy was too reckless, or whether his tactics were suspected of underestimating the enemy, it is undeniable that by the time the calendar entered April, the kingdom had no military strength to suppress the rebellion at the junction of the provinces of Kachu and Ibo.

"The nearest garrison is a regiment guarding Samarkand in the province of Transoxiana, but it is clear that this regiment will not be transferred. As for the Praetorian Guard, they will not act rashly. At present, the fastest route of transfer was to transfer the 1st Cavalry Division from Tocharian Province and the 9th Cavalry Division from Yibo Province, and at the same time transfer several infantry regiments from Anxi to hold several mountain pass fortresses on the plateau. Huang Taiji gave a lesson to several "young" students in the library of Xinshaoye City: "To the east of Yibo Province is the Pamir Plateau, from which there are only a few dangerous mountain passes to enter the interior of Anxi. To the north is the vast Kazakh steppe, and to the south is the Tibetan Plateau and the Karakoram Mountains, which even eagles cannot fly. The 1st Cavalry Division came out of the Tocharian Basin and drove them to the north, and the 3rd Cavalry Division surrounded them from the east. As long as the superiority in power is maintained, this is just a one-sided massacre across the ages. There was no suspense. ”

Gulandam limped out of the room and brought tea and snacks to everyone—a lucky girl who had suffered only a few minor injuries in the war, but whose parents were still missing—and Wong Tai Ji found her in the hospital in Xinshaye, paid for her medical bills, and kept her with himself.

"Optimistically, this war was over at the beginning." Huang Taiji said: "The reason why I am still here is just to see how long it will take for the Xia people to react as an observer. ”

Huang Taiji's optimism contrasts with the panicked citizens of Shattered Leaf City. Ma Wei, the governor of Yibo Province, had to go to the Civic Square to give a speech to calm people's hearts, but even so, the phenomenon of looting materials and soaring prices in the market could not be stopped, and train tickets from Xinshaye to Samarkand were even more difficult to find. Those dignitaries and wealthy businessmen are all running away with gold, silver, softness, maids and concubines. Cheng Qi and the other three strangers can only stay in New Broken Leaf City to slowly admire the local characteristic architecture - now, the only good thing is that the price of the hotel in the city to entertain tourists has plummeted, and they only spent less than a quarter of the price on weekdays to charter a room on the first floor, which is really not too luxurious.

Now the city is in chaos, and the rich merchants can run out and hide in their mountain villas. But those landlords can't run away from the old wealth, their industries are all fertile land in the river valley, fruit trees, thousands of acres of fertile land, even if the city can hold on, their estates outside the city will suffer great losses. Therefore, day by day, they went to the governor's palace to petition, asking the governor to order the 155th Regiment stationed in the garrison to take the initiative to attack and annihilate the enemy abroad.

Carlo, the commander of the 155th Regiment, was a bearded man who looked like he was depicted in the commentary. But he was not a fool, and there was now news of the Uighurs everywhere, and even by the lowest estimates, there were at least two or three hundred thousand Uighurs who were taken into the rebellion, and even if only a tenth of them were armed, that was twenty or thirty thousand. Not to mention that after the failure of the 154th Regiment's sortie, the Uighurs successively occupied several garrison positions and captured a considerable amount of military equipment. Although Carlo believed that the Uighurs did not possess the strength to storm cities, the number of opposing forces in the wilderness was still a factor that a cautious commander had to consider.

There is also a high-sounding reason for Carlo's refusal to fight: through the military telegraph system, he has consulted the military headquarters of the Xia State, and the military department has given him instructions to wait for the military department to mobilize the field army to annihilate this group of shameless thieves in one fell swoop. Therefore, no matter how those people outside the Governor's Palace performed, Lieutenant Colonel Carlo could naturally sit firmly in the Diaoyutai area. There is even leisure to talk about two games with Huang Taiji's opponent.

At first, he didn't take this "military observer of the Great Liao Empire" seriously, and even felt that the military department was a bit of a snake - why should a foreign staff officer be observed in the civil strife in his country, isn't this a leak of national defense secrets! But the military department did not explain much about this, and Huang Taiji repeatedly patted his chest and assured that he was definitely only observing and not a staff officer, and these days Huang Taiji and Huang Staff Officer are indeed following his word, spending most of his time in the library and museum, and Lieutenant Colonel Carlo's attitude towards him is also much more polite.

But on the sixth day of March, the atmosphere became tense again. Carlo received a report from the scouts he had sent out, and the Uighurs were heading for New Shattered Leaf after slaughtering villages and towns along the way.

"Although the local garrison has done their best to help civilians evacuate, it is really sad that there are still people who have unfortunately lost their lives." Lieutenant Colonel Carlo, with a heavy face, reported the news to Governor Ma Wei. The Governor also had a heavy face: "The land of the ancestors, the people of the ancestors. Today is a martyr for the country, and tomorrow it should be sacrificed by the country. ”

"The top priority now is to get a good grasp of the city's defense work." Lieutenant Colonel Carlo cheered up: "All the officers and men of our 155th Regiment vow to live and die with the new Broken Leaf City. ”

"This officer doesn't understand military affairs, so I ask all the officers and men of the 155th Regiment to do this." Ma Wei said: "Is there any shortage of city defense materials?" If necessary, even if you open your mouth to the official, it is the duty of the official whether it is an important person or a thing. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Carlo, of course, was not polite, and he asked Governor Ma Wei for 2,000 men, as well as a number of supplies necessary to defend the city, as well as cash that was said to fill a warehouse to be used as cash to motivate the soldiers.

Governor Ma Wei readily agreed, and immediately ordered the officials of the Governor's Mansion to go and handle the delivery. He also said to Lieutenant Colonel Carlo: "The big battle is imminent, and this officer has the heart to invite all the officers of the 155th Regiment to have a dinner, thinking that you are strong and strong. I wonder what Lieutenant Colonel Carlo thinks? ”

Carlo naturally agreed, and on the evening of the second day, he brought all the officers of the regiment to the governor's palace for a banquet. The officers' war is imminent, and they will naturally not let go of such an opportunity to drink and have fun. And the governor Ma Wei, who was willing to work hard, not only generously invited the rich and rich people who had taken refuge in the city to come together, but also sent hundreds of beautiful warblers and dancers in the banquet, and the entire governor's palace was like a heavenly and earthly warbler in an instant.

And in the city defense camp, the governor of the governor's palace also came to treat the soldiers with wine and food.

"The best wine! And roast whole lamb! The governor of the Governor's Mansion vigorously beckoned the soldiers: "It's all made by the best chef in the city, fruit roast chicken!" Grilled ribs! Potato salad! How much to get! How many! ”

Suddenly, the barracks also became a huge open-air barbecue place, and the military salaries of ordinary soldiers were limited, and they had no money to go to the most upscale restaurant in Broken Leaf City to have a banquet on weekdays, but they didn't expect Governor Ma to be so considerate that he actually invited the chefs to the barracks to cook for the soldiers on the spot. It really moved the big guys to tears.

When the bell tower in the center of Shattered Leaf City rang, fireworks soared into the square outside the Doge's Palace. Lieutenant Colonel Carlo, who was already seven or eight points drunk, grabbed the slender waist of a dancing girl, and said to Governor Ma Wei: "There is also a fireworks show arranged...... Haha, the Governor is really bothered. ”

Ma Wei smiled: "Yes, I really put a lot of thought into it for today!" ”

Before the words fell, Lieutenant Colonel Carlo suddenly felt a pain in his heart, and the entertaining dancing girl pulled out a dagger out of nowhere and plunged it straight into his heart!

At the same time, the deputy regimental officers, staff officers, commanders and adjutants of each battalion and company of the 155th Regiment, as well as those rich people who were invited by Governor Ma Wei to attend the meeting, none of them were spared! After the tenth bell rang, the luxurious hall of the Governor's Palace was already a mountain of blood and corpses.

Ma Wei looked at the officers who fell at his feet, and let out a seeping smirk in the pool of blood. And the assassins who were lurking and disguised as dancers and attendants also knelt in front of him, shouting the slogan they had hidden for many years: "Kill the Han and destroy the Buddha, kill the Han and destroy the Buddha!" ”