In Gaochang City, Su Dingfang was wearing iron armor, holding a long lance across the horse, his slender body sat straight on horseback, and a pair of eyes were like eagles looking at the surrounding movements, and behind him was a fully armored Tang cavalry, all of which were also murderous, and it seemed that as long as there was any abnormal movement, they would be ruthlessly attacked.

Compared with a month ago, the current Gaochang City is a rumor, and there is no more than half a figure on the street that was very lively, occasionally someone peeks out from the crack in the door, and when he sees the arrival of the Tang Army, he immediately closes the doors and windows, and does not dare to make any sound, and even when a child cries, he is covered with his mouth just halfway through the cry, even if the child struggles and does not dare to let go.

Looking at the familiar and unfamiliar street in front of him, although Su Dingfang had a serious expression on his face, he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, he remembered that this was once a vegetable market, and half of the street was full of vendors selling beef and mutton.

However, the street that was bustling with activity a month ago is now extremely depressed, and even on the ground of the street there are still patches of black-brown stains, which are left after the blood has dried up, and there are some marks on the walls on both sides, which seem to be like characters, recording that a tragic battle once took place on this street.

In fact, Su Dingfang also participated in the fight that happened on this street, to be precise, he commanded a Tang army to encircle and suppress the rebellious Gaochang people, and finally all the Gaochang people who participated in the rebellion were blocked on this street, and then slaughtered by the Tang army, since then, the people in Gaochang City are also extremely afraid of the Tang army, and no one dares to come out to do business anymore.

In just one month, the huge Gaochang City has undergone such a big change, and the main reason is that Hou Junji has coveted the property in the Gaochang Palace, and after he embezzled these goods, the Tang army generals below are also unwilling.

After all, they are also soldiers in the army, even if Hou Junji is the main general, but you have to let the people below drink some soup when you eat meat, but Hou Junji is good, except for a few major generals such as Su Dingfang, the property he got from the palace was not distributed to other people, which made the people below also feel unhappy, so under the leadership of some bold people, these unwilling soldiers began to take the initiative to find opportunities to make a fortune.

The Tang army can definitely be regarded as strictly disciplined, especially in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, disturbing the people is a capital crime, but when fighting abroad, military discipline will be relaxed accordingly, after all, the army of the Tang Dynasty is mainly government soldiers, and they usually rely on foreign operations to earn some extra money, otherwise with the characteristics of government soldiers, I am afraid that no one is willing to fight at all.

However, even if the military discipline of the Tang army outside the territory is not strict, but it is only relative to the Tang army in the territory, compared with the armies of other countries in this era, the military discipline of the Tang army can definitely be called strict discipline, even when attacking the enemy country, as long as the enemy resistance is not too strong, the Tang army will generally not plunder after occupation, but if the enemy dares to resist, then the Tang army will immediately turn into Shura, and the slaughter of the city also happens from time to time, which is actually to enhance the deterrence of the Tang Dynasty and reduce the possibility of the enemy's stubborn resistance.

This time the Tang army attacked Gaochang, although the other party resisted in the early stage, but later took the initiative to surrender, plus Gaochang is also the bridgehead of the Tang Dynasty to enter the Western Regions, Li Shimin plans to set up the Anxi Protectorate here, so Hou Junji when he first entered Gaochang, he also ordered not to disturb the people, which is also when Su Dingfang inspected Gaochang before, the streets were full of Gaochang people doing business, and they were not affected at all.

However, after Hou Junji embezzled the property in the palace, the soldiers in the Tang army also began to look for opportunities to make a fortune, so some people targeted those Gaochang nobles in Gaochang City, after all, although the palace was copied, but these nobles also took the initiative to surrender before because they saw the opportunity, so they were not implicated, but they all lived very nourishingly.

But I don't know who started first, suddenly one night, a Gaochang nobleman was suddenly charged with rebellion, and then was rushed in by a group of Tang soldiers to raid the house, not only the family property was confiscated, all the family members were also put in prison, and with the first there was a second, and then more and more Gaochang nobles began to be copied by unnecessary charges.

Originally, Hou Junji was the main general, if he could come forward to stop his soldiers at this time, he could also save the situation in Gaochang, but Hou Junji was greedy for money first, and he would make a fortune himself, if he stopped his soldiers from getting rich at this time, I am afraid that these soldiers would have to rebel, even if Hou Junji could suppress it, he was afraid that someone would go back to complain, so he simply took a tacit attitude towards this situation, and even personally determined the charges of those Gaochang nobles.

The soldiers below saw that Hou Junji didn't dare to care, and even acquiesced to them robbing the nobles in Gaochang City, and everyone couldn't sit still, so the Tang army went around in Gaochang City to arrest the Gaochang nobles, of course, arresting people was just a pretense, but the real purpose was the property of these nobles.

The Gaochang nobles were indeed very afraid of the Tang army, so they chose to surrender before, but now the Tang army looted their belongings everywhere, so that they could not protect themselves at all, since the left and right were dead, it was better to do a vigorous fight, so many Gaochang nobles united to rebel, and for a time there were rebellions in the city of Gaochang, and the Tang army could only extinguish the flames of rebellion everywhere.

It is precisely because of the above reasons, so in the past month, Su Dingfang, who is in charge of public security in the city, is also busy with his feet on the ground, leading his soldiers to quell the rebellion everywhere, although the rebels organized by the Gaochang nobles in the city are a rabble, but because of the large number of people, coupled with the familiarity with the terrain in the city, it still brought certain casualties to the Tang army, which also made Su Dingfang angry, and he didn't know how many times he cursed Hou Junji in his heart.

But it's useless to scold Hou Junji again, and their army is alone, Hou Junji is the emperor of the army, so Su Dingfang didn't dare to offend the other party too much, after all, Hou Junji is ruthless and narrow-minded, and he is doing things under him, so it is really not wise to offend him now.

"Driving~" Just when Su Dingfang was thinking about the things in Gaochang City, he suddenly heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves, and then a knight in brocade rushed over, and when he saw him, he immediately shouted: "Your Majesty has a decree, Hou Junji and Su Dingfang quickly come to receive the decree!" ”