Li Siye sat cross-legged on the sheep felt and asked leisurely: "When I entered the city just now, the person chasing me was Su Ke's creditor, why didn't you tell me in advance." Is it deliberately concealed and wanted to wipe me out at the gate of the city?"

"Wronged, Captain, Giza has no such intention. Most of the captains and centurions in the city like to gamble and drink, and it is common for them to owe each other debts. Su Ke has a lot of creditors, and I can't tell who is who, so I can't predict it. ”

Li Siye asked again: "Since you know that he has a creditor, why didn't you tell me outside the city?"

"Captain, you didn't ask, Giza really forgot."

Tian Zhen sneered: "Forgot? To put it so lightly, Captain Li, I don't think it's better to give him a result with a knife, so as not to cause another incident. ”

Li Siye shook his head decisively: "No, you still have to keep him, and he still needs to negotiate the affairs outside."

There was a gurgling sound outside, Bai Xiaode vigilantly drew his knife, stood at the door and poked his head out to peek, but saw three Turks walking into the courtyard side by side, and shouted in a loud voice: "What a grunt."

Bai Xiaode turned around with a smile and teased at Li Siye: "Captain Su Ke, your creditor is here."

Li Siye waved his hand at Tian Zhen, Tian Zhen had no choice but to put away the knife on Giza's neck, and Li Siye instructed Giza: "Find a way to get these people out, just use the excuse just now, saying that Su Ke and the gang had eaten bad stomachs outside."

"The others draw their knives and prepare to do it, if Giza can't persuade these three to go, let them in and slaughter them first."

They stood on the left and right sides of the door against the wall, each holding a dagger in his hand. Giza folded his hands and whispered the blessing of the Buddha, reached out and wiped his face before swaggering out.

Giza stood in the courtyard, entangled with these creditors for a long time, and the muttering might have said good things, and these men shouted a few empty words, and turned away.

Everyone breathed a long sigh of relief, put the knife back into its sheath, and sat around with Li Siye. The creditor's matter is indeed an accident, who would have thought that the dead Turkic gang leader was actually a gambler, from entering the city to now only an hour, there were almost two accidents in a row, and tomorrow there is a whole day, want to survive without being discovered, it is too much of a test of acting skills and IQ.

Li Siye relieved everyone and said: "Don't worry too much about tomorrow, General Fumeng will come to the city with a large army tonight, and start attacking the city early tomorrow morning, when the city is definitely in chaos, no one will doubt and care about us."

He beckoned to Giza, who was standing at the door watching the wind, called him to him and asked, "You can take a good look at the relationships of our gang for me, in addition to creditors, there are other people who need to be guarded against, such as bosses."

Gisa thought for a moment before nodding and saying, "Excluding Su Ke's creditors, only our centurion bones are left, and Grier Jin. He was fat, responsible for all forage and livestock, cruel by nature, and liked to beat his subordinates and abuse the herdsmen. The khan forbade the city to house his dependents, but he secretly hid the three Kangju women in a tent and enjoyed themselves every day. ”

Li Siye didn't care much about this, and said to the soldiers: "Tomorrow, as long as you try to avoid these two people, don't act out of anger and impulsiveness, and wait until tomorrow night, when the inside and outside open the city gates, and then the whole city will be trampled under our feet."

Bai Xiaode leaned on the scimitar and asked eagerly, "What if we are found to be exposed?"

Li Siye's voice was as cold as a piece of iron: "If we are discovered, we will move in advance, rush to the forage field, take out weapons, incite the herdsmen, and take the east gate of the city, this is the only goal, and the only hope, even if the last person is dead, we must open the city gate."

He looked around at the soldiers, there was no hesitation in their eyes, when they made the decision the night before, they had already put life and death aside, whether it was to serve the country with blood, whether it was meritorious or wealthy, whether it was in danger or not, regardless of the motive, it was also worthy of praise and praise.

"According to the law of the activities of the Tuqi Shi people, if our Tang army does not attack the city for a long time, will we escort Qingzhuang to cut grass outside the city tomorrow?"

"That's right." Giza nodded.

"That's it, everyone will rest at night, and tomorrow morning, according to the custom, go to the forage field, escort the herdsmen out of the city to cut the grass, until the siege of our army begins, and then the camera acts."

They blew out the oil lamps on the wall, and took turns to sleep at night, two of them stood with knives, and the rest lay down side by side on sheep felt, and although they were in the enemy camp in high spirits, they soon snored from exhaustion.

Duan Xiushi's situation was much more severe, it was dark tonight, and they were wearing pointed hats made of grass, and their heads were hidden inside. But if you go out to work in this way tomorrow morning, you will surely be recognized by the Turgish.

Although the appearance cannot be changed, the hairstyle can still be changed, and the biggest difference between the Tang people and the Turks and Sogdia is that one wears a curtain and a straw rope in the braided hair. As Turkic dependents, they inherited the Turkic tradition, with long hair tied in knots and braided hair hanging down the back of their heads.

In the dark nest, Duan Xiushi and the others untied their heads and groped for a tie around their waists. They untied their long hair tied on top of their heads and began to fumble with their braids, while the herdsmen around them helped them to braid them.

At dawn, a few veterans who had been drunk in the liquor shop staggered back to the hay field, looked up at the sky, took out the key, went down to the ground, opened the chains, and opened the wooden gate.

"Dogs! Don't be lazy, get up and cut grass and fetch water, there are still tens of thousands of animals waiting to eat and drink today!"

The herdsmen streamed out of their nests with their heads bowed, and the veterans simply counted the number of people, not caring if there were any new faces among them, as if the sheep herders never paid attention to what their sheep looked like.

At this moment, the sky was just slightly drunk, Duan Xiushi and everyone came to the west end of the forage field, began to divide the division of labor to fetch water, cut the grass, and then held the chopped grass, filled the ten-zhang long forage trough, and poured the trough one by one.

By the time the day dawned, Li Siye and the others were still asleep, and there were already herdsmen driving yaks and sheep to feed, and there were also herdsmen who had been forced to slave to lead the officers' horses. At this time, the whole forage field seems to be busier than the market, and the young herdsmen have also entered the most intense labor, dozens of people take turns to cut the grass, the guillotine opens and closes up and down, and the body is sweating.

The forage fields were the most despicable and worst places for the local herders who had been reduced to military slavery. The herdsmen who raise cattle and sheep only need to take care of the livestock, shear the sheep, and slaughter them for the Tuqi soldiers surnamed Hei. Horse herders only need to wash their horse's mane and take good care of the horses for their owners. They who provide fodder, but they have to squeeze their physical strength clean.

Duan Xiushi's back was bare with hot air on his head, his arms were numb and sore, and he couldn't imagine how the herdsmen had survived these days.

Speaking of which, the Tang army was also one of the makers of the herdsmen's misery, if they hadn't attacked the Hei surname on a large scale, Erwei Khan would not have collected all the nearby cattle and encircled them in the city, let alone driven away the old, weak, women and children of the merchant travelers in order to prolong the holding time.

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Li Siye and the others had already woken up with their cheeks rubbed, and began to pack their outfits, silently waiting for time, estimating when the Tang army would start attacking the city, and the army had many siege equipment, and the movement caused should not be small.

There was no time to delay, so they had to cover their faces with stains in various ways, and then they went out with their knives and led their horses to the hay field.

The trough at the western end of the hay field was still crowded, with all kinds of livestock crowding next to each other to occupy the field, and the soldiers surnamed black shouted and scolded the herdsmen to open their horsewhips and lead their horses forward. But he saw another lowly herdsman standing in front of him, and was about to wave his whip, but he found that the shepherd slave was holding a certain ejin's mount, so he had to stop and obediently follow behind. Although the shepherd slave has a lowly status, he cannot easily suffer from a master with a status.

The soldier looked at the fat horse with envy, with fat hips and brown and red coat, it must be a precious breed, and the horse's head reached into the hay trough domineeringly and ate the forage, and if the other horses dared to stretch in, it turned its head and bit them.

Suddenly, the horse snorted incessantly, raised its head, and poured white foam out of the horse's mouth, then rolled over and fell to the side, and its body began to twitch.

The shepherd was frightened, and fell to his knees with a thud, holding the horse by the neck and weeping bitterly.

The surrounding herdsmen have led their cattle out of the trough, for fear that they will be contaminated with this evil fruit and cause misfortune.

"Ha," the soldier surnamed Hei was in schadenfreude, and finally found a reason to whip him, and whipped the slave with a whip, and shouted and scolded: "The dog thing, it actually fed the horse of Greejin!" Hurry up and inform Ejin! Someone fed his horse to death, go!"