This part of the Polo River was the residence of the Sai people as early as in ancient times, and then the Sai people declined and differentiated, the Yueshi, Xiongnu, Wusun and other tribes were entrenched here, after the Han Empire in the east was strong, the whole ethnic group began to expand to the west, the Western Han government had set up the Western Regions Protectorate in this area to protect the silk trade route, the Polo River area was subordinate to the jurisdiction of the Western Regions Protectorate, and then the Han Empire declined after hundreds of years of chaos, and the Wusun, Xiongnu and other tribes also changed and deduced, and the Rouran people ruled this area, and to the Sui and Tang dynasties in the East, It was originally the territory of the Turks, but the Turks and the Tang lost their wrists and were finally forced to withdraw from this area, and the Tang people established a garrison control point here, which is considered to be a complementary part of the four towns of Anxi, called the Shuanghe Governor's Mansion, referring to the area through which the two rivers of the Polo River and the Jing River flow.

In the Song and Liao periods, the Han people in the east were powerless in the Western Regions, and in normal history, this area would have been controlled by the Qarakhanid Kingdom, the Huangtou Uighurs, the Dangxiang Li clan, and the Yelu Dashi who established the Western Liao, and more than 100 years later, Yelu Dashi would rush into the city of Polo here.

When the eastward return battalion led by Lao Luo arrived here, it was a period when the great powers of the East and Central Asia failed to touch this area, and the Shuanghe Governor's Mansion was directly called Polo City by the people here.

The Polo City, which was surrounded by Cheng Shouru's troops, was actually just an earthen enclosure with a radius of no more than four miles, and the rammed earth city wall was never more than four meters high, and it was also because of the disrepair that there were many gaps. In Lao Luo's eyes, it is very similar to the film and television sets of some western bandit films that he has seen in later generations, the difference is that it is not so dry and desolate, and there are even a lot of long-term farmland around, but the seedlings that are just a handful of them are trampled on very messy. To be honest, if it weren't for his intuition telling Lao Luo that this place was a little strange, he wouldn't have given Cheng Shou the following order to besiege the city.

"Lao Cheng, what's going on inside?" After returning to Cheng Shouru's general chest stroking ceremony, Lao Luo asked directly, he was in a hurry, and he hadn't even looked at the specific situation.

"General, there are a lot of Qarluqs hiding in this small city, and they have caught a lot of them at night, and many of them are hiding in it and refuse to come out, are they attacking it?" Cheng Shouru roughly explained the situation and asked respectfully.

Cheng Shouru is indeed a brave soldier, but he is also a soft-eared guy, oh, it's not soft-eared, but he lacks experience, and many times he is timid and can't stand firm on his own position, in fact, it is human nature, not everyone can be determined and far-sighted all of a sudden. A few days ago, Lao Luo knocked on him, and the man with the door panel woke up and no longer dared to laugh in front of Lao Luo as before.

Lao Luo didn't pay attention to his demeanor, just looked around at the situation, and when he saw that there was no movement, he asked, "Who are you caught?" Are there any residents of this small town? Are there Han Chinese? ”

"Most of the captured were Qarluq deserters, and some of them couldn't tell who they were, and they hadn't had time to interrogate them." Cheng Shouru actually didn't go to see the captured people at all, and he needed to be busy as the commander of the garrison camp, and he needed to pay attention to everything he needed to pay attention to when camping at night, collecting soldiers' corpses, and guarding prisoners.

"Well, where are the captives kept? Take me to see it! Lao Luo didn't bother to be verbose, although he cared about the details, but this kind of trivial matter was not what he paid attention to.

This kind of thing is very convenient, no matter where you dig a pit and insert a fence and wooden thorns, three or five people can watch a large group of captives. The people who came out of Polo City were all imprisoned separately, and it was difficult to see the difference between them, the soldiers of the Qarluqs were not very elite, and the residents of Polo City were not necessarily honest guys, and honest people could not survive in this kind of place these days.

The only difference is the clothing, how can the soldiers of the army be a little different in equipment, although the people of Polo City also have some fierce temperament, but compared to those who have experienced discipline - even those who have been tempered by rough discipline will be very different, with Lao Luo's eyesight, it is naturally easy to distinguish the general identity of the prisoner.

There were a total of thirty or forty people locked up in this small animal pen, divided into three small groups and huddled together dejectedly, Lao Luo pointed to one of the elderly men with a weathered face and a bun and said, "Lao Cheng, ask someone to bring that person out!" ”

"That...... Is it Han? Cheng Shouru muttered, but didn't say anything, just ordered someone to remove a gap in the beast pen and pull people up. It's not that he rejects his fellow tribe, it's really that there are guys dressed as Han people in the armies of the three departments, and they haven't had time to distinguish it yet.

The man who was pulled up had a pair of good eyes, and he didn't use other people's guidance, walked a few steps, and knelt down directly at Lao Luo, prostrate on the ground with both hands and kowtowed: "Honorable lord, the small ones are the Han people in Polo City, not the thieves in those armies." ”

Shaking his head to stop the soldiers who wanted to step forward to stop him, Lao Luo asked, "You said that you are a Han in the city, what proof do you have?" ”

"Proof?" Obviously, he didn't understand this word, and he also heard Lao Luo's accent very vaguely, but the man understood that this obviously the leader was willing to listen to his explanation, and he was puzzled for a moment, and he fell to the ground and appealed: "The little one is working for the ancient master of the bone protrusion in the city, there are still sixty old fathers in the family, and there is a young little sister, the old father has opened a wasteland outside the city to cultivate, because the army has been trampled a lot, this morning I heard that the war outside the city stopped, the old father ordered the little one to come out to visit, I don't want to ......"

"Bone protrusion?" Lao Luo is not so easily deceived, although he doesn't know this place in this era, he has the overwhelming power to face everything, so he doesn't have to worry about whether the other party is lying, "Get up and speak!" ”

The man just hesitated a little, and then stood up, but he still bowed his body, giving people a feeling that they could ignore the little people who didn't have to care about it at all, and of course his mouth was not idle, "Lord Xie, the small surname is Gan, the single name is a sea character, the family is big, everyone in the city is called the little Gan Dalang, since he was a child in this Polo City, if the adult wants to know something, the small one knows everything." ”

The man behaved very humblely, but Lao Luo saw at a glance that this guy was not a fuel-efficient lamp, at least not an honest farmer, he was very humble in his words, but he was a bending character, as for whether he could stretch, but he still had to wait and see, but a comment that knew how to observe words and colors and had a clever tongue was right, and he had the heart to test it again, Lao Luo thought about it for a while, this kind of place is not a place where honest people can survive for a long time, there is no need to get to the bottom of it, so he simply tried to find out, "Okay, Gan Dalang, what has been the movement in Polo City recently?" ”

"Back to my lord's words, because of the recent arrival of the Turkic, Qarluq, and Dangxiang departments, although the three departments have not sent troops to station, there are always soldiers entering the city, and the people in the city are panicking...... Yesterday, a large number of Qarluq people hid in the city, and the house of the ancient lord of Gutu was also occupied, and the daughters of each family did not dare to go out......" Gan Hai is indeed worthy of Lao Luo's comments, his tone is still humble, but his words are much more thorough.

"Massive? How many? Who is Osteophyllus? Lao Luo asked, although the humble man in front of him said a lot, but he didn't involve his own affairs at all, he seemed to be honest, but he had a peasant-like cunning, of course, what he had in his own house was not the target of Lao Luo's concern.

"......" Gan Hai hesitated, and then said calmly: "There should be no less than a thousand Qarluqs, and it is not clear how small they are, but their knives are inlaid with precious stones...... The ancient master of the bone protrusion is a native of the Quegas, and he is a big clan in the city...... My lord, please don't kill him, he is not your enemy......"

As he spoke, Gan Hai prostrated on the ground and kept prostrating.

"Lord, is Qadir Khan hiding in this small city?" Cheng Shouru, who had been listening for a long time, couldn't help it, stepped forward and asked.

"The Qarluqs have killed a lot, but yesterday there was no trace of him anywhere, that Qadir Khan can't grow wings and fly away, right? So......" Lao Luo explained casually.

"So in that small town of Kadir Khan?! Lord, let me lead someone to kill it and catch that son of a bitch! Cheng Shouru reacted immediately, and immediately asked for his life to fight, no matter what, it is always a great success to catch the leader of a clan.

With his words, many soldiers around him, including Lao Luo's own soldiers, showed eager expressions.

"Nonsense! Do you know what's going on in the city? What should I do if I am ambushed by the Qarluqs? The local residents have no grudge against us, what if we hurt them? "Lao Luo is very clear about urban combat, although it is only a cold weapon battle, but the battle in this situation is just as dangerous, even if the Polo City in front of him is just an inconspicuous small city.

"This ......" Cheng Shouru was stunned for a moment, "General, I can't manage so much, this small city has no defense, there are many of us, just press it over, only the people in the city...... It's not our people......"

The man on the door panel obviously didn't think about Lao Luo's problem and hesitated, and immediately reacted and began to say a solution, but when he saw Lao Luo's gaze, his voice became lower and lower.

Lao Luo glared at Cheng Shouru, but at the same time he also noticed the approving expressions of the people around him, and suddenly realized that there are no scruples about civilians in the battle of this era, the so-called "self or enemy" is what it says, no one can stand in the middle, especially civilians who have little ability to resist, and no one cares.

Gan Hai, the man who was crawling in front of Lao Luo, trembled even more, and didn't dare to make any moves.

Lao Luo also fell into deep thought, as Cheng Shouru said, it is easy to do, it is very simple to comprehensively push together with the residents here, but this method does not conform to his own concept. His idea was not a so-called moral code or anything like that, he never cared about civilian casualties when Herat attacked those rich Turkic merchants, and he hesitated only because he regarded this small city as his original territory, not to mention that the local Hugs were not much different from the Han Chinese, and there was really no need for unnecessary hatred.

But what if you don't use Cheng Shouru's approach?

At present, this team has not been specially trained in urban combat, and the only scout battalion that knows how to be flexible and flexible has been taken to the east by Alke There is no news, and the remaining Min Wenhou only retains less than 200 people, which is far from meeting the needs of the number of people fighting in this small city.

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