Time was pressing, and King Hami held a military meeting late at night, and many sleepy-eyed civilian and military generals entered the palace overnight.

Di Lidar smiled slightly: "There are hundreds of merchants in Hami Chengzhong, and they carry no less than 3,000 followers, and it should not be a problem to select 2,000 elite cavalry from them. For the merchants, interests are more important than everything, and if Hami loses them, they will not escape death, and Hami is willing to share the spoils with them, and I am confident that they will be persuaded to fight. ”

King Hami and Xu Tianran nodded in unison, and gave a thumbs up to Di Lidar, it turned out that there was a cavalry army hidden under their noses, and they didn't know it, but how strong would this patchwork cavalry be?

The civil and military officials learned the news of the attack of the Huanxi Sect, and in an instant, the officials were silent, and the generals looked solemn. Fortunately, King Hami already has a countermeasure, otherwise relying on this group of wine bags and rice bags to come up with a way, it is estimated that the cavalry of the Huanxi Sect will reach the root of the wall.

In the early morning, the sky was bright.

King Hami first ordered General Zuo Yulin to lead his troops out of the city to move the residents outside the city into the city, and all those who could not be taken away were burned. General Yu Lin led a thousand cavalry troops to inspect the city, and all those who made trouble were killed.

The four major generals of Hami each led 1,000 foot soldiers to defend the four city gates, and the 1,000 foot soldiers were led by the general of the Chinese army, ready to support each gate at any time.

King Hami personally organized the pro-army to post a notice, calling on young and strong people to enlist in the army, and under the inspiration of protecting their families and defending the country, the people enlisted in the army one after another. Select the elite armor for the armor, and the rest for the auxiliary soldiers to carry the city defense equipment to the city.

Di Lidal took Xu Tianran straight to the Welcome Building, most of the big merchants who came and went to the Western Regions lived here, Her Royal Highness the Princess arrived, and the shopkeeper of the Welcome Building immediately went out to greet him.

Di Lidal got off the horse, looking at the huge welcome building is still sleeping, most of the merchants have a night of fun and sleep until three poles in the morning, where will they get up early, except for a few who are going out of the city today and are already ready to go, never thought that the Hami city gate is closed, not allowing anyone to enter or leave, the merchants are complaining.

When I came back, I happened to meet Di Lidal and Xu Tianran, where did Di Lidar have the patience to wake them up one by one, found a drum, and beat them heavily. Suddenly, the drums of the welcome building were noisy, and the building was full of the sound of merchants scolding.

Xu Tianran couldn't help but take a few steps away from Di Lidal, for fear that he would be thought that he was also a member of the party, and it was a great sin to make people dream.

The merchants gradually gathered in the hall, and the merchants of the welcome building were mainly divided into three waves, namely the merchants of the Central Plains, the Persian merchants and the merchants of the Western Regions. The person headed by the merchants of the Central Plains was Hu Xueyan, the person headed by the Persian merchants was Moore, and the person headed by the merchants of the Western Regions was Zhang Changlin, a wealthy merchant in the Western Regions.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Di Lidal immediately jumped lightly on the table, no longer holding the princess's reserve, and said eagerly: "I disturbed your dreams early in the morning, here I Di Lidar will pay a compensation first, but the situation is urgent, the cavalry of the Huanxi Sect is already on the way to attack Hami City, and it will arrive soon, the cavalry of Hami is insufficient, and I expect you to gather Hu Cong Guards to help Hami defend against the enemy together?"

A merchant who was not allowed to leave the city due to the lockdown complained: "This is the wishful thinking of the king of Hami, if he doesn't let us go, he wants to drag us to be buried with the Hami Kingdom?"

Di Lidar looked directly into the eyes of the merchant and said calmly: "At this time, going out of the city is no different from sending them to death, the Northern Mastiff cavalry of the Huanxi Sect does not know where they have gone, and Hami has already moved all the surrounding people into the city, and the walls are clear, swearing to resist the Northern Mastiffs." Everyone knows that the Northern Mastiff people burn and loot everyone, they are thousands of miles away to sneak attack Hami in order to rob the property and plunder the population, we are all the meat of the mouth of the Huanxi Sect, we are all grasshoppers on a rope, if we are not the enemy at this time, join hands to retreat the enemy, once the city is broken, my Hami corpses are all over the field, and you are also empty of people and money. ”

Moore, a Persian merchant, glanced at Dilidar with contempt, "What does the enmity between the Northern Mastiff and Hami have to do with us merchants? We are just doing business, Hami is a small country, and the Northern Mastiffs can be bullied at will, but I, Persia, is a big country, and they dare not do anything to us, so why should we die defending Hami?"

As soon as this statement came out, there was a lot of discussion.

Di Lidal really glanced at these businessmen who regarded money as their lives, but he didn't expect that he was still making a small calculation in his heart between life and death, his face was flushed, and he was speechless.

Xu Tianran rose from the ground and said in a deep voice: "In business, if Hami is destroyed, not to mention whether you can escape from the hands of the Northern Mastiff, but from now on, your trade routes to the Central Plains and the Western Regions will be cut off, and what you will lose is white silver and golden gold." If you work together to defeat the Mastiff, Hami will share the spoils with you, and the Mastiff will rejoice

If the tens of thousands of horses of the sect are sold to the Central Plains, the Western Regions, and Persia, it is an astronomical amount of silver, don't you be tempted?"

Suddenly, the welcome building was silent, but Xu Tianran heard the crackling sound of the businessmen's hearts crackling through the sky.

Hu Xueyan, a merchant from the Central Plains with his hands on his sleeves, squinted, pondered for a long time, and said, "How to divide the spoils?"

Xu Tianran said calmly: "Take the head as a count." ”

Hu Xueyan slowly got up, paced back and forth more than ten times, stopped, looked up at the young Xu Tianran, and asked, "What are your chances of winning?"

Xu Tianran said calmly: "If there is no three-point chance of winning for the cavalry, if there is a six-point chance for the cavalry." ”

Hu Xueyan said in a deep voice: "Three points can give it a go, but six points is not a bet." Our Central Plains merchants can send 1,500 cavalry troops, but they need Hami to issue armor, otherwise even if they are masters of the rivers and lakes, they will suffer losses if they charge on the battlefield. ”

Xu Tianran bowed and said gratefully: "That's nature, you can't let the sons and daughters slip on the battlefield." As an aside, thank you Boss Hu for adding a bit of vitality to the people of the city. ”

Hu Xueyan said calmly: "It's just business, boy, we have entrusted our net worth and life to you, we must win." ”

Xu Tianran said goodbye: "Definitely." ”

Zhang Changlin, a merchant from the Western Regions, was originally from the Central Plains, and now settled in the Western Regions, and is a well-known wealthy businessman in the Western Regions. ”

Xu Tianran took a deep look and said, "Six points." ”

Moore, the leader of the Persian merchants, saw that the other two groups of merchants chose to send troops to protect Hami, and his subordinates also came to persuade him, but he kicked his subordinates away and scolded angrily: "You believe the nonsense of a yellow-mouthed child, the small Hami country can still beat the Northern Mastiff cavalry." Let's go out of the city before the Northern Mastiff cavalry arrives and hang the Persian flag, and the Northern Mastiff people dare not attack us, which is the best policy. ”

Although his subordinates were worried, they did not dare to speak again.

Moore's green eyes looked at Di Lidar coldly, and said with a smile: "Your Royal Highness Princess, I, the Persians, are determined to leave the city, can you let them go, otherwise we will make trouble in the city, and then I am afraid that Her Royal Highness the Princess will suffer from the enemy, and you can't complain about us." ”

Di Lidar's face was pale, there was such a shameless person in the world, Xu Tianran waved his hand and said: "I agreed for Her Royal Highness the princess, but the war horses of the Persian merchants must be left, Hami will provide silver compensation, if you want to transport the goods, we will provide you with camels, this is our only condition." ”

Moore thought for a long time and agreed. The Persian merchants had a thousand horses, and some merchants successively sacrificed their guards, Xu Tianran finally gathered 3,500 cavalry, plus 1,000 elite cavalry in Hami, and scraped together 4,500 cavalry, and gradually had the strength to fight.

Outside the green pearl of Hami in the desert, wolf smoke was billowing out, and a fire burned down the homes of people in the suburbs, and tens of thousands of people poured into Hami City, uprooted and displaced. The people living outside the city of Hami were poor people, and they looked back at the burning of their homes and felt very sad, but the king promised to help them rebuild their homes in the future.

A huge caravan slowly left the city, loaded with goods from the Central Plains, hoisting the Persian flag and fluttering in the wind.

King Hami, Ayiguli, Dilidar and Xu Tianran stood at the head of Beicheng and watched the sunset.

A white shadow flashed in the distance of the vast desert, and Xu Tianran fixed his eyes to see that it was Yang Xiaobing, carrying a bloodstained woman on his back, and the imperial sword flew rapidly, followed by several Jindan Realm monks who were chasing and killing. Xu Tianran held Changping in his hand, and suddenly, a cyan flying rainbow rose from the ground, and handed a knife towards the monk who was chasing in the distance, like a knife of a black silk thread and went straight to the enemy.

Suddenly, one of the monks at the head of the monk flew out of the sheath, and with a bang, the monk at the head retreated violently, shouting, "Retreat." Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the devastation outside the city of Hami, the bright armor on the city walls, and the high morale.

Ayiguli took Wuriyati from Yang Xiaobing's hand, and a sword pierced directly through his chest, and the sword qi was still scurrying in his body, and he was extremely seriously injured. Ayiguli was helpless, if she allowed the sword qi to completely wrench her internal organs, she would really not be saved.

Xu Tianran collected the knife and returned, but he didn't chase after him, not to mention that he didn't know if there was an ambush behind him, Xu Tianran would never take risks easily.

The blood kept pouring out from the corners of Wuriyeti's mouth, and Dilidar was in tears, and she kept wiping the corners of her sister's mouth with a handkerchief, but she could not wipe the blood dry. Xu Tianran didn't say a word, he sacrificed Shu Dao, and the slender silk of the Shu Dao painting entered the body of Wu Ri Yati, and devoured the chaotic sword qi in Wu Ri Yati's body, and in the blink of an eye, Wu Ri Ye Ti no longer moaned in pain, Di Lidal cried: "Senior sister, wake up, don't sleep, wake up." ”

Xu Tianran held his breath and condensed, Shu Dao had a soul, and without Xu Tianran's divine sense, he automatically stitched up the wounds of Wu Ri Yati's internal organs, but in just a quarter of an hour, Shu Dao flew out of Wu Ri Yeti's body, hovering over Xu Tianran's eyebrows, babbling and showing off his merits. Xu Tianran patted Shu Dao's little head dotingly, and praised: "You are the best!"

Only then did Shu Dao return to Xu Tiantian's acupoint with satisfaction.

Finally, the corners of Wuriyeti's mouth no longer overflowed with blood, and the bloody wound seemed to have been stitched up and no longer bleed, Dilidar was ecstatic, she knew that it was Xu Tong who saved her senior sister, and she couldn't help but hug his head and kiss his cheek.

Suddenly, Xu Tian took dozens of steps back, covered his cheeks, and muttered: "There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south, color is emptiness, and emptiness is color." ”

This amused everyone. The little boy in white sat on the battlements and covered his mouth and snickered, the little earthworm didn't understand that the master looked very bold, how could he be afraid of being like this when he kissed him, could it be that the master was a dominatrix?

Xu Tianran hugged his fist at Yang Xiaobing, who was ignored by everyone, and said with a smile: "It's hard work." ”

Yang Xiaobing clasped his fists and saluted back: "Fortunately, I am not dishonored." ”