Chapter 16: The Ancient City of Jiaohe

There is no way to fight this battle, this is purely being beaten!

The horse thief, who had lost his leader, did not stop, but immediately fled away, leaving behind a large cloud of flying dust, as well as dozens of corpses and wandering horses.

After a moment of silence, there was the cry and laughter of a group of women:

"Woo...... The horse thief ran away, and we beat the horse thief away. ”

"Woo...... Elder, we are victorious. ”

Yun Mo looked at a group of women who were crying and laughing, and couldn't help but burst into tears. Yun Mo was hypnotized by that damn old way and sent to the Western Regions in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, almost unable to survive, the victory of this battle, at least Yun Mo saw hope for the future.

Now is not the time to celebrate, no one knows if these horse thieves will go and return, and it will not be good if they are happy and sad.

"Clean up the battlefield."

"You guys come with me to collect the horses."

Everyone immediately put away their tears and began to clean the battlefield quickly, these women cleaned the battlefield so thoroughly that Yun Mo couldn't bear to look at it directly.

The horse thieves who were shot to death were all stripped naked, except for a crotch cloth, and the rest was swept away by the woman who cleaned the battlefield.

The equipment and clothes of these horse thieves were of good quality, and they were indeed a very urgent treasure for a tribe that lacked food and clothing, but the stripped clothes had to be cooked for an hour before they could be used.

A horse thief is a job that licks blood at the edge of a knife, so ordinary horse thieves don't like to save money, but take money with them, and after cleaning the battlefield, Yun Mo and they got more than 8,000 taels of silver and more than 100 catties of jewelry.

These gold and silver jewels were definitely important to Yun Mo, and if there was not enough force, these gold and silver jewels could only be a talisman.

There are more than fifty war horses that have been collected, most of them are injured, although Yun Mo does not know medical skills, but there is no problem in cleaning the wounds of war horses with salt water, and the gold sore medicine carried by horse thieves can also be used to treat injured war horses.

There were more than a dozen horses that were shot dead, and horse meat is also meat! Of course, Yun Mo will not waste it, and cut it with a knife to quickly load it on the carriage, and the camel that cannot be loaded on the horse's back.

Half an hour later, after cleaning the battlefield, the dried meat cooked before was also cold, it was a good time to eat, after everyone hurriedly finished eating the jerky, they immediately led the horse, drove the carriage straight to the ancient city of Jiaohe.

Everyone involuntarily quickened their pace, and if their physical fitness was too poor, they rode away, and there were only more than a dozen horses that were not injured, and everyone took turns to ride, which would undoubtedly speed up the progress.

The afterglow is sprinkled on the ancient city of Jiaohe, shining this ancient city by the mountains and rivers with golden light, two small rivers around the city, and the whole city is like a flat boat, driving on the rippling river.

Several Hui soldiers guarding the city gate looked at Yun Mo and the others, their brows furrowed, and they stretched out three fingers to Yun Mo, Yun Mo was stunned for a moment, what does this mean?

"Master Jun, this is a small filial piety, please subordinates."

Chen Cang, who was beside Yun Mo, immediately stepped forward, and the silver ingots of five taels were placed in the hands of the leader of the soldiers.

The soldier immediately weighed the silver ingot in his hand with a smile:

"Yours, very good...... Release. ”

Those soldiers turned a blind eye to the weapons in Yun Mo's hands, and the dozens of war horses that were obviously stolen didn't ask a word, this was really a world where the strong were respected.

After Chen Cang smiled at Fan Bing and nodded, he asked everyone to hurry into the city, and Yun Mo and the others used five taels of silver to enter the ancient city of Jiaohe effortlessly.

The main road in the city is lined with high street walls, and there are no doors and windows on the street. Roughly north-south and east-west, vertical and horizontal streets and alleys divide the city's buildings into several small districts, similar to the squares of ancient cities in Chinese mainland.

This architectural layout is enough to show that the Jiaohe Ancient City underwent a planned rebuilding in the Tang Dynasty. From the perspective of urban layout, on the one hand, it is influenced by the traditional urban building regulations of the Central Plains, and it has unique local characteristics.

The transportation network, city gates, and other buildings with streets and alleys as the skeleton were all built with military defense as the guiding ideology of their construction, and the renovation of the ancient city was a huge military fortress, reflecting the fierce ethnic and social contradictions in this region in history.

The whole city is like a large fortress fortified layer by layer, outside the pedestrian wall, like in a deep ditch, it is impossible to get a glimpse of the situation inside the city wall, and inside the wall, it can be condescending, control the internal and external movements, and the city is also extremely tightly armed.

Yun Mo walked the streets of Jiaohe Ancient City with dozens of female soldiers, and he began to have ideas in his heart. This was once the earliest station of the highest military and political institution in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, the Anxi Protectorate, and if there is a chance, it must be taken down, which is too symbolic for uniting the Han people in the Western Regions.

Chen Cang was more familiar with Jiaohe City, he took everyone to enter the market of Jiaohe City, Chen Cang first found an inn to settle everyone down, and then drove a carriage loaded with green salt with Yun Mo to the market to exchange.

Yun Mo doesn't know the language of the barbarians, and he doesn't understand the market situation here, and Chen Cang is responsible for talking about exchanging green salt for supplies.

I heard that the Longchang grain store was opened by a Hui nobleman, so this Longchang grain store is the largest grain store in Jiaohe City, and the shopkeeper of the Longchang grain store is a middle-aged Hui man named Ya Likun.

When Yarikun looked at Yun Mo's green salt, he immediately flashed his greedy little eyes and asked:

"Where did you get your green salt?"

Chen Cang immediately nodded and reported:

"Master Yalikun, this green salt was snatched by the small ones, and for these hundreds of catties of green salt, the small tribe also lost more than ten people."

Yalikun's small eyes had an expression that Lao Tzu had known for a long time, and then he didn't ask. This place in the Western Regions is a world of robbers, and it is too normal to rob and kill people.

Now Yun Mo's strength is still very weak, and at this time, they must not leak the secret of Qingyan, otherwise it will attract countless jackals - the puppet is not guilty, and he is guilty.

Yarikun twisted the green salt crystal granules with his hand, put the green salt granules in his hand and tasted it in his mouth, and then nodded and praised:

"It's the best green salt, one pound of green salt and three pounds of grain."

Chen Cang hurriedly shouted:

"Master Yalikun, this is the best green salt, if it is transported to Qingtang, three or four catties of green salt can be exchanged for a yak, and one catty of green salt can be exchanged for three catties of grain, it is too little, please Yalikun Master is in Jiajia."

Yalikun's small eyes suddenly shone fiercely, and he shouted at Chen Cang without warning:

"That's Qingtang, you have the ability to transport these to Qingtang! I can guarantee that if you don't travel a hundred miles, you will be killed by horse thieves without a piece of armor left, and you will return food! Your life will be at risk. ”

Chen Cang is worthy of being an old man, and as soon as he saw his hand flip, he took out a piece of jade pendant from the horse thief from his arms:

"Master Yalikun, this is the villain's family heirloom, it is the best mutton fat jade, if you bring him, you will definitely be able to prolong your life."

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