Bai Sunizhi and Zeluo had already turned pale at this moment. The moonlight was scattered on the banks of the Peacock River, and a one-sided massacre was going on on the banks of the Peacock River.
A thousand cavalrymen actually defeated the camel team until they were unable to fight back. Screams kept coming and going. From the moment they were hit by crossbows to the moment when the two sides were in close combat, it never stopped. It was like a hell on earth.
"Zero, you must get to the gate of Loulan City before the sun comes up tomorrow." Li Hong's face was also filled with a murderous aura, and he stared coldly at the pale-faced Zeluo.
After finishing speaking, Li Hong suddenly pulled the reins. The food stamps under his crotch seemed to be watching the same kind of people having fun there. He was already a little impatient and wanted to join in. He patted his neck with the reins empathetically and immediately felt like leaving the string. Like an arrow, he neighed happily and disappeared in front of Zeluo who looked frightened.
"Leave a hundred people to take over the work, and the others will follow me immediately." Li Hong was protected by two hundred personal guards in the middle. As he passed the battlefield of the camel team, he shouted coldly with enough energy in his Dantian.
"Yes, the Great Protector." Although Wu Wen and Wu Tian were still fighting in the camel caravan, after hearing Li Hong's voice, they immediately pulled the reins and retreated from the sparse camel caravan.
Just like Li Hong's order, the entire Tiefu Tu's 1,000 people cooperated tacitly. In the lawless and brief order, the 100 people who were originally on guard immediately joined the battle group.
The remaining 900 people immediately turned around, abandoned the scattered active forces in the camel caravan, and began to leave quickly with Lawless.
Suddenly the sound of horse hooves sounded everywhere, and the night seemed to tremble with it. Together with Li Hong's 200-man personal guard, the total of more than 1,100 cavalry was even more shocking than the impact of the camel caravan just now.
Bai Sunizhi and Zeluo turned pale. He had already noticed that these cavalry were extraordinary, but he never expected that they would be so orderly.
The cavalry raised up choking dust like a tornado, and with a rumbling sound, the cavalry ran away, leaving only a hundred people behind them to clean the battlefield.
At its peak, the population of Loulan City was only 20,000 to 30,000 people. Late at night, there were not many people stationed on the tower of Loulan City except for the sentries waiting for the camel team's triumphant return.
The ground was shaking, and as the deafening hoofbeats of the cavalry got closer and closer, the entire Loulan City seemed to be caught in an earthquake.
"So fast? The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are getting weaker and weaker."
"The Tang Dynasty is full of old, weak, sick and disabled people. It would be good if we can hold on now."
"No, the Western Region is now in their hands. I'm afraid it's already shaky and precarious. Sooner or later, it will be occupied by the powerful Tibet."
The sentry on the city tower listened to the rumbling and sweet vibrations, and joked easily about the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty's cavalry.
"No, this is not the camel caravan, this is the sound of horse hooves. The camel caravan's hoofbeats are not so dense." A man who looked like a leader suddenly got up from the watchtower and walked to the city tower after listening to the slowing sound of iron hoofbeats. Look outside.
Outside the city tower, the sound of horse hooves that gradually slowed down was not very far away from Loulan City. The cavalry, like a tidal wave, formed a fan shape and were slowly approaching the city wall.
The silent murderous aura rushed towards the face like mercury leaking from the ground, carrying the cold wind and blowing up to the top of the city. The silent killing aura made the leader who was watching on the top of the city tremble with fear, letting go of the cold wind. His neck had been cut like a knife, and he sat down on the ground in fear.
"The cavalry of the Great Tang Dynasty." The leader's legs became weak and he stammered.
"What kind of cavalry from the Tang Dynasty?" Another soldier asked strangely, hearing the fire chief's stuttering and frightened voice.
"The Tang Dynasty's cavalry troops are approaching the city." Huo Chang trembled and pointed outside the city.
As soon as the fire chief finished speaking, he heard a cold voice coming from below the city tower: "Open the city gate immediately, the Anxi Protectorate is here."
"Ah... what should I do?" The soldier hurriedly helped the fire chief and asked with a pale face.
The fire chief carefully looked over the battlements, and after thinking for a long time, he realized that it would be best to report first, so he looked at the soldiers and said, "Go and report to the guard, I'll wait here."
After the fire chief finished speaking, he immediately stood close to the city head and shouted to the sky: "Please wait a moment, Lord Protector, for the Lord Protector to arrive, and then I will open the city gate for you."
Li Hong looked calm and looked at the city wall made of solid loess. Under the moonlight, the entire city wall seemed to be covered with a layer of silver armor, giving people an unpredictable feeling.
"Attack the city." Li Hong said calmly as a breath of hot breath came out of his mouth.
"Yes, the Great Protector." Lawless and the two immediately set up their crossbows, and the soldiers behind them also followed Lawless's movements and immediately set up their crossbows.
Li Hong picked up the crossbow on the right side of his horse. Xiaoxue immediately stretched out her little hand and helped put a ringing arrow on it.
Without looking, Li Hong raised the crossbow in his hand and fired it into the sky. A scream pierced the night sky and resounded throughout the sky above Loulan City.
Immediately, a hail of arrows shot towards the city gate with a piercing sound, and screams echoed on the city tower.
After several rounds of arrow rain, bursts of footsteps suddenly came from the city wall, accompanied by a faint groan. At this time, the city gate suddenly made a creaking sound and slowly opened.
"Wutian is going straight to the inner city. According to the portrait in your hands, we must find this person." After Li Hong finished speaking, he tucked his horse under his belly and was the first to walk towards the city gate.
Several people slowly appeared at the city gate. The torches illuminated the city gate and also illuminated the few people holding torches. They were Jingzhe and Cheetah.
"I have seen you, sir." The two of them saluted with a few people around them, holding torches.
"Jingzhe takes Wutian to the mansion in Shenpan, Anmo. We must capture Garsirruo alive. You and I will stay in the outer city to prevent him from escaping. If we are unable to take over the defenders, we will start to defend the city." At this time, Li Hong's face changed. There was a hint of solemnity.
"Yes, Master."
As Wu Wen and Wu Tian each left with a thousand men, Li Hong looked at Cheetah, with a faint smile on his lips: "You have done a good job this time. If Garsir comes here this time, you will definitely do it." It’s about how to erode our land in the Tang Dynasty next year.”
Most of the cities in the Western Region are divided into inner and outer cities, and due to the vast territory, their cities are relatively larger than the small cities in the Central Plains.
Naturally, the people living in the outer city are ordinary people, including some nobles whose lands are surrounded by the outer city.
The inner city is a city of residence. The further in, the higher the status of the people living there, and the further out, the lower the status.
In this era, Loulan, which was once one of the seven powerful countries in the Western Region, occupies the geographical advantage of the undiverted Kongque River. It wanted to gather all the people under its rule into one city.
Therefore, in the outer city of Loulan City where Li Hong was walking now, except for the torches just lit by the guards, he didn't see any house with lights on on the road.
Li Hong rode on horseback and walked slowly on the road between the outer city and the inner city. Except for the forty people around him, the rest of the guards behind him had long since become a column and began to patrol to see if anyone was coming from behind. Escape from the inner city.
"Where is Hengqiao now? Why did you two be sent here?" Li Hong tightened the fur that Xiaoxue gave him to put on his armor and asked.
"As for me, the Prime Minister of Tubo, Gardongzan (Ludongzan), returned to his hometown of Gayu after his eldest son set off for Loulan. Hengqiao was afraid of changes, so he followed him secretly, and ordered We are here to meet you," Cheetah said, also riding on a war horse.
"Yes, the old guy Lu Dongzan is still alive. It was his idea to embezzle Tuyuhun. Tubo Zampo Songtsen Gampo has been dead for more than ten years, and he has been in power for more than ten years, so As soon as Songtsan Gampo died, his first goal was to capture his hometown of Tuyuhun. Now I am afraid that in Tuyuhun and his hometown of Gayu, he can already be called the Tuyuhun Emperor." Li Hong braved the cold wind. He let out a white breath and said depressedly.
The Jiabu and Gayu areas of Tuyuhun are now all the fiefdoms of Lu Dongzan. Since the fall of Tuyuhun, Lu Dongzan moved the Tang Dynasty to rescue troops and restore the country in order to prevent King Nuohebo and Princess Honghua of Tuyuhun.
Therefore, he has been guarding Tuyuhun, and everything about Tubo has been completely handed over to his eldest son, who is now trapped in Loulan City.
Li Hong came to rescue Bai Suni after getting the news about Jingzhe and Cheetah. The main purpose was naturally Gar Xiruo in Loulan City.
Lu Dongzan was such a good person that Li Hong even felt that in this world, he was the only one who could surpass Lu Dongzan in intrigues and intrigues.
The marriage plan was the most significant contribution Lu Dongzan had made in Tubo over the years, and it was also the proud work of his life.
At that time, the small country of Nibala was killed by Lu Dongzan. He used his unshakable tongue three times to convince the king of Nibala to marry his princess Chizun to Songtsen Gampo, and then did it. The country was subjugated.
Then he persuaded the imperial grandfather Li Shimin to marry Princess Wencheng to Songtsen Gampo, but fortunately, the Tang Dynasty was not destroyed by his scheme.
But the prosperity of Tubo is absolutely related to the too many advanced agricultural technologies and too many manual techniques brought by Princess Wencheng.
If she hadn't married Princess Wencheng, Tubo would still be grazing on the plateau right now.
Thinking of this, Li Hong wished he had been born decades earlier, if only he could prevent the emperor's grandfather Li Shimin from marrying Princess Wencheng.
Having tasted the benefits of marriage, Tubo seems to be good at it. A few years ago, he made a request to his father, hoping to marry another princess. Fortunately, his father refused.
"You're in your thirties, how embarrassed are you to get out of a dog hole?" Li Hong looked at an inner city wall surrounded by guards. Under the care of torches, seven or eight people were coming out of there one after another. He joked in the tone of Xinjiang mutton skewers from his previous life.
(End of chapter)