"The preacher is dead!" "The wise man is dead!" "Revenge of the wise man!" "Martyrdom..." As soon as the explosion fell, a cry of despair sounded from the mountain road. More than a dozen large bandits took the initiative to climb over the stone wall and rushed towards the Tang army like crazy, like moths flying into fire.

Luo Huaizu ordered the arrow to be fired without hesitation. The veterans and the new soldiers greeted each other with bows and arrows and crossbows. In a blink of an eye, all the big eaters who rushed down were shot into hedgehogs.

The battle situation became clear in an instant, and there was no need to waste grenades. Luo Huaizu personally led the team and rushed forward along the mountain road. He crossed the obstacles that the big gangsters rushed to build, kicked away several incomplete corpses, and soon, they advanced to the top of the mountain.

The resistance encountered along the way was insignificant, and the remaining giant gangsters were either killed or captured. Luo Huaizu was cautious and scattered his brothers in groups, searching down the top of the mountain, searching the entire hill like a net. Until he was sure that no enemy troops had missed the net, he ordered people to press the prisoners to him for interrogation.

He thought that the bandits were so ignorant of their lives, and they must have protected a great man from the Shi Kingdom. Unexpectedly, the confession of several prisoners after being interrogated separately, after the explanation and comparison of the brothers who were temporarily translators, all expressed the same meaning: the preacher was killed and he did not want to live anymore. According to the scriptures, the suicide person was not allowed to ascend to heaven after death. Therefore, he would rather be executed.

"Aren't the preacher the monk Dashi? When did the monk Dashi become so deceiving that he could deceive so many people to die for him?!" Luo Huaizu was stunned, and his crescent sect elders in Chang'an, Luoyang and other places flashed in front of him in a kind look, and his questioning words blurted out.

"In the Western Regions, the monk Dashi has always been like this. No matter where he goes, he follows a group of followers from the Dashi. He often draws his sword from others and claims to be kind and kind." The brother who was temporarily a general translator worked as a vendor at Saiye for a while before Soge rebelled and was familiar with the local situation. After hearing Luo Huaizu's question, he immediately turned red and reported in a low voice.

"After Soge rebelled, he also followed a group of big cannibals around him. He got a lot of weapons, camels and hot turmeric oil. It is said that he gave him a lot of money." A Xiliu camp leader, also a local from Saiye, added indignation beside him.

"No wonder before leaving, he used Zhao's repeated orders to ask Ren Wu and I to find brothers who can speak big sacred words as a general translator! It turned out that he had known for a long time that Yi Hu was instigated!" Luo Huaizu suddenly realized and muttered softly. Then, he ordered the brothers who were temporarily translator, "Take them to identify the bodies, which one is the preacher?"

After hearing this, the translator immediately took the order and left. Soon after, he hurried back to report, "Ki Jianzhang, they have confessed, and the one who has lost his head is. It is said that Ali is from the capital of the Dashi Kingdom, and it is of high level in its country."

Luo Huaizu immediately lost interest and ordered casually. "Please Ali's body onto the horse's back and take it with you. The rest of the bodies were set on fire! As for the captives..."

After hesitating for a moment, he waved hard, "Give them a chance! Then burn them together!"

"Yes!" The brothers agreed and quickly executed the order. Soon, there were sounds of begging for mercy and crying on the mountain road. But soon, all the sounds disappeared. Everyone tied Ali's body on the horse's back with straw ropes, then jumped onto the mount again, and stepped on the moonlight to chase the brigade.

The excitement brought by victory made everyone forget their fatigue. Everyone kept changing their mounts along the way, and at the same time gathered the homeless animals abandoned by the enemy. That night, they drove more than a hundred miles. In the early morning of the next day, they gathered with a large group of people next to an unknown hill.

"Why are all stopped here? Is there some big man trapped on the mountain? Or is the guardian's other arrangement?" Luo Huaizu's public identity was the secretary under the tent of the guardian's tent, and his position was unparalleled. Therefore, when he saw that the large group of people were all staying at the foot of the mountain and not continuing to chase the enemy, he immediately asked Ren Liu, who came to greet him in a low voice.

"Yihu, Yihu is on the mountain. The guy escaped too slowly and was surrounded by us in the middle of the night yesterday. The guards made people worried that it was too dark and that the brothers were easily injured, so they ordered all intersections down the mountain to be blocked, asking everyone to recover their strength while waiting for dawn!" Ren Liu immediately responded with a roar.

"Have you trapped Yihu? This waste, you can't even escape. You dare to break Ye Cheng's idea!" Luo Huaizu spat on the ground and scolded him with disdain.

Yesterday, when the Shi Jun was about to collapse, he expected that Yi Hu might be doomed this time! However, he did not expect that Yi Hu had become a turtle in the jar so quickly! However, when thinking about Yi Hu's strength and the approximate time of sending troops, his heart was bright.

Such a small country, which is a 100-fold increase in its own strength, is itself a kind of death-seeking act. Yi Hu is not even a king. After being fooled by the monk Dashi, he dared to lead private soldiers to risk attacking Saiye. How could he be a smart person?

Since it is a fool who is stupid, it is normal to lose all his family and his life afterwards. It’s a pity that the soldiers of the Shi Kingdom were sent into a war that had no hope of winning. After his death, no one even restrained his bones.

Just as I was feeling moved, a low horn sound suddenly heard in my ears. Immediately afterwards, a large group of cavalry, led by Zhang Baosheng, rushed to the hillside not far away like lightning.

"Is it because Yihu was desperate and ready to fight to the death?" Luo Huaizu was stunned, raised his head instinctively, and looked at the point of the cavalry with his eyes. However, he was shocked to find that a small team of Sogdians were carrying a white gauze with a flagpole and stumbled towards the cavalry.

"Damn it, it's so embarrassing." Luo Huaizu immediately understood the Sogdians' purpose and couldn't help but spit on the ground again!

As the head of Qi Mo, although he was a little dark-hearted and liked to fool others into making trouble for himself, he had at least a big deal in his heart and had the awareness of not being able to do anything. He could not understand and accept this behavior of provoking a war without considering his strength and kneeling down immediately if he couldn't win.

Worried that Zhang Qian was soft-hearted, he easily let the enemy chief go. After scolding him, he quickly arranged two lieutenants to take the brothers to settle in the camp. Then, regardless of his fatigue, he packed his clothes and headed straight for the central army. After entering the central army tent, he heard Zhang Qian say softly to others: "Since Yi Hu Special Forces was deceived by others and made such a big mistake, I should indeed give him a chance to reform myself. However, the brothers worked hard, and I could not let them work in vain. In this way, you give Yi Hu a message and say that I allowed him to redeem himself. He himself had two thousand taels of gold, and his brothers under him wanted to take one away for twenty taels of gold. As long as he paid enough money, I would immediately ask the brothers to give up their way and let him go..."

"No!" Luo Huaizu was anxious and rushed to the front of the Shuai Case in three steps and yelled at him: "The guard commander, let him go for two thousand taels, isn't it too cheap for him?! Later, other small countries learned that invading Suye Town was so cheap. Even if they lost, they could get out by paying two thousand taels of gold. Wouldn't it be that if someone incited him, they would..."

"Please be careful, please be irritable!" Zhang Qian waved his hand with a smile and interrupted softly, "You are back just right. She Tuodagan, under Yihu's command, said that the reason they attacked Saiye was because they were deceived by the Dashi preacher. I remember leaving you behind was to capture a group of Dashi bandits. But I don't know if the preacher was also among them?"

"Here, I was blown up with a grenade, and only a headless corpse was left!" Luo Huaizu was stunned again and responded angrily, "I have brought the corpse here too. I am afraid that it will cause plague, so I have sent my brothers to deal with it with sulfur and salt!"

"Save him to do something, burn it, burn it quickly. Zhang Gui, go!" Zhang Qian waved his hand gently again, as if Ali, a wise man, was dead or alive, and it didn't matter.

"Yes!" Zhang Gui agreed and quickly stepped out of the tent. When he passed by Luo Huaizu, he quietly touched the latter's shoulder with his arm.

Luo Huaizu had already doubted Zhang Qian's performance, but he immediately understood it. However, he did not dare to change his attitude too quickly, and continued to pretend to be dissatisfied, and he gave his hands a reminder: "The guard commander, the Dashi preacher is dead, and of course Yihu can push any responsibility on his head! However, Yihu is the lord of Talas and the younger brother of the King of the Stone Kingdom. If he has no malicious intentions towards us, the Dashi preacher can still use sweat medicine to faint him, and then dispatch troops on his behalf and attack the territory of Saiye?"

"Yes, when he killed someone and set fire, why didn't he realize he was fooled and realized it if he lost the fight?"

"If he entered the Thunder Ye City at this moment, can he repent?"

"The secretary is right, the guards and the thieves are cunning, so don't believe their sweet words."

"Don't talk nonsense to them. I ordered the attack on the mountain, and I will be willing to be a pioneer!"

...

The generals present did not react slowly. They waved their arms one after another and shouted loudly, as if if Zhang Qian disagreed with everyone continuing to attack, they would launch a mutiny.

"Please listen to the explanation! Dear generals, please let me explain." When Shi Guodagan She Tuo, who came down the mountain to beg for mercy, heard it, he quickly repaid with a smile and bowed to the crowd. "Shi Guodas City Dagan She Tuo, has met the Secretary. The Secretary and the Generals don't know what it is. It is indeed an order from my special agent to dispatch troops to attack Saiye. However, my special agent is young and does not know that people's hearts are sinister, and unfortunately he has become a master of the great wise man Ali. That's why this person's deception made such a big mistake. My special agent knows that his crime is unforgivable. However, the Tang Dynasty is a country of the Celestial Empire and will not be as knowledgeable as us barbarians like foreigners. If the guards can let my special agent go a long way, not only will the Jiu surname of Zhaowu, but will praise the name of the kindness of the guards, my special agent is willing to give enough compensation to show his sincerity of repentance!"

"It's easy to say that barbarians can do whatever they want. Barbarians can do whatever they want. In this way, everyone will be barbarians! From now on, I will take people to your Shi Kingdom to kill and set fire, and I will also say that I will be barbarians without any restrictions!" Luo Huaizu curled his lips repeatedly when he heard this, but his voice was still much smaller than before.

"The chief secretary is a nobleman of the Heavenly Kingdom. How could he be a barbarian in foreign countries?!" The Shi Kingdom Da Gan She Tuo was also thick-skinned enough. In order to make Yi Hu live, he could say anything self-deprecating. "Only those who don't study and don't know what's wrong are barbarians. But we barbarians also know that the Tang Dynasty has always been generous to the surrounding countries. Therefore, after discovering that we made a big mistake, we asked the general of the Tang Dynasty for forgiveness with a trace of luck. Instead of choosing to resist to the end, fighting against the Tang Dynasty's soldiers, both sides were injured."

"You fight to see if you have the ability to fight for both sides?!" Ren Wu was furious when he heard this, frowned and shouted.

"You'd better fight and see how many you can fight!"

"Come on, come on, go back quickly and let your special service lead the team down, and both of them will be injured!"

...

Generals such as Zhang Gui, Shi Jin also spoke out one after another, disdaining the threat of Shi Guoda Gan She Tuo.

"I dare not, I dare not, I just don't want this situation to happen. My special agent is now incapable of hurting you all!" Shi Guoda She Tuo immediately realized that he had made a mistake and bowed decisively to apologize.

"Okay, he has given up. There is no need for everyone to refuse to forgive me!" Seeing that She Tuo's attitude was submissive, Zhang Qian was not very good at it, and smiled and waved his hand to stop everyone from "beating" the dog in the water.

"Yes!" The generals bowed and stood on both sides with their hands pressed on the hilt of the knife, one by one, looking at Shi Guodagan She Tuo's neck and eager to try.

She Tuo's scalp was numb when he saw it, and he quickly bowed with a wry smile: "Thank you for your magnanimity, thank you for your generals for your generous pride. After we return to Shiguo, we will definitely give you something to apologize to thank you for not killing today."

"I'll talk about the future. When you go back, tell Yihu that he himself has two thousand taels, and that no matter the level of his officers, all the soldiers under him, will be twenty taels per person. I want gold, or jewelry worth the same as gold. He wants to redeem any number of people he wants to leave. When will I hand him down the mountain and go home."

"Thank you, the commander! Thank you, the commander!" Shi Guoda She Tuo first knelt down on the ground, kowtowed to Zhang Qian with great gratitude, but refused to leave immediately. Instead, he smiled and bargained with a stern smile. "The commander Rong Bian, although there is not much gold for two thousand taels of gold, if my special agent goes down the mountain alone, he will definitely not be able to return to Talas alive. If he redeems for other soldiers, I will wait for the money, and I am afraid I won't be able to make up much money for a while."

"Twenty taels of gold per person, you still think it's expensive. Do you think you are worth twenty taels of gold?" Zhang Qian immediately frowned and slapped the table with his hands.

"Not expensive, not expensive, absolutely worth absolute!" She Tuo was so scared that he crawled on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, "But, the guard commander, we were defeated too badly yesterday and lost all our supplies. If we can collect the ransom for the Special Service, we already need to search all the property on everyone on the mountain. It is impossible to collect more. If there are too few people who are protected, the Special Service makes a mistake on the way back home, which may affect the reputation of guarding you."

"So, I still have the responsibility to send Yihu Ping'an back to Talas?" Zhang Qian was angry and funny when he heard it, and he refused to curl his lips and questioned.

"I dare not, I dare not. But, in the Shi Kingdom, some people may not want the special agent to go back. If they do evil, they will definitely frame them randomly!" She Tuo's eloquence was indeed convenient, and she immediately cried and gave the latest explanation. "At that time, not only will my special agent not have the chance to reform themselves, but the guards will be truly reborn. The guards are obviously kind and righteous, but they will also bear a bad reputation. Therefore, please forgive me and let me pay less ransom first. After returning to Talas, I will try every means to make up for the guards!"

"So?" Zhang Qian was suspicious, frowned and thought for a moment, and finally nodded reluctantly, "Well, I allow your special agent to pay his own redemption fee and take a thousand confidants down the mountain to leave. Those thousand people can carry armor and weapons. I will not charge him a ransom. He owes me what he owes me, and you can write an IOU! The remaining Sogdians also come to buy them at any time after returning to Talas!"

This concession is huge enough. Immediately, Shi Guoda Gan She Tuo kowtowed with gratitude.

"But there must be interest for the debt!" Zhang Qian smiled and added with confidence. "And the interest, I have the final say!"

"That's nature, that's nature!" Shi Guoda Gan She Tuo was afraid that Zhang Qian would return, and repeatedly agreed, "Even if the guards said, we will never bargain."

Twenty thousand taels of gold are not a small amount for ordinary people. However, for a country's special service, it is a drop in the bucket. Therefore, in order to get out as soon as possible, he certainly dares to agree to any interest.

Zhang Qian wanted this sentence, smiled and said heartily: "I will put the conditions here. You can let Yihu think about it. If you are willing to agree, I will not force you. He will take 1,000 people away, which is considered as owing me 20,000 gold. From today on, the interest per day is twice the principal. From here to Talas, it will take no more than six days to go. Ten days later, if he can send the debt and principal to me to Ashibulai Castle, the crime of this invasion will be cancelled! If he agrees but fails to do so, I will ask the King of Shi Kingdom to claim the debt. No matter how many days it takes to get it, the interest will be the same!"

"Thank you, thank you for the garrison commander. I'll advise my special agent to agree. Let's go back now. Please wait for the garrison commander." Dagan Shetuo blinked for a long time, but hesitated to find out how much the 20,000 taels of gold would become in twelve days. Hesitantly bowed and asked Zhang Qian to allow him to go back and ask the special agent Yihu for advice.

"You can go, but within an hour, if I don't get any rewards, I will directly blow up the mountain!" Zhang Qian put away his smile and his face was as deep as water.

"Thank you, the guard commander, please wait a moment, the guard commander, please wait a moment!" Dagan She Tuo was so scared that his feet were weak and he rolled and crawled away. A burst of laughter was left behind.

"Will they agree? More than 90 million taels of gold will probably not be enough to sell the entire Shi Kingdom." After everyone's laughter subsided, Luo Huaizu walked to the Shuai Case and asked with gloating expressions.

"Hiss--" In the central army's tent, the sound of gasping in the air conditioner immediately turned into a group. The generals present only knew that Shi Guo would definitely pay a huge sum of money. However, they did not expect that 20,000 taels of gold would turn into more than 90,000 taels in twelve days, and they were all dumbfounded.

"He will definitely agree, but he will definitely not pay!" Zhang Qian had an answer in his heart, smiled and responded loudly.

"Will you let him go?" Luo Huaizu didn't understand Zhang Qian's meaning and frowned and continued to ask.

"Open it, of course you have to put it away!" Zhang Qian smiled again and patted the table gently, "If you can run away, you can't run away from the temple. If you don't let him go, who will I ask for money?!"

Indeed, the Tang Dynasty did not have enough population base to occupy the vast land west of the Pamir Mountains for a long time.

However, in another time and space, there is a small country with a population base far less than that of the Tang Dynasty, and established the Empire of Sun Never Set.

It is easy to learn how to play. As long as the people in the occupied areas are not regarded as their own citizens, and they can control a strong army ahead of the colonies.

And now, the broken Ye Jun in Zhang Qian's hands is exactly meeting the conditions!
Chapter completed!