Haji said: "In the past, the water in the mountains could still flow to the villages on the sandbank, but now it cannot flow out of the royal city. The villages are next to the trade roads, so there are still some people who are willing to walk more than ten miles to fetch water. In a few years, it is estimated that
Had to move somewhere else.”
After the team of 700 people turned a bend in the river at a large angle, they finally stopped in front of a pile of earth and rocks dozens of feet high. The collapsed river bank completely blocked the river channel.
Heji said: "This place is far away from the commercial roads. No one will find it. My people will take you to the south gate of the royal city. You can walk there in half an hour! You will form a team three miles away from the city. If you look
Go to the top of the city and turn the torch three times, then you can charge."
"Great! We must capture that queen alive!" Urna said excitedly.
"Let's choose the people who will enter the city now," Haji said.
"Yes! I want to go!" Urna was the first to sign up. On the way, he repeatedly said it to the leader of this mixed team, Urhan.
"No problem!" Haji said.
There were actually many people who wanted to enter the city, but in the end, not many people succeeded because they were pretending to be Hu businessmen. Except for the Urhan brother and sister who looked a bit close to Hu people, the only other people who looked like Hu people were good. Fortunately, in the city
Hu Shang's team has nearly a thousand people, enough to select hundreds of trustworthy experts.
Finally, sixteen people were selected to enter the city: Urhan and Urna; Hu Shang selected the eight strongest guards; Haji took five more Kangche soldiers. All of Hu Shang's eight people were almost five-lineage
With the above strength, everyone reviewed the action plan after entering the city and felt that the possibility of success was very high. Those Persians were half-officials and half-businessmen, greedy for money, and most of them were people who had seen the world.
They have close relationships, most of them have high morale, and they want to overthrow the queen and open trade routes.
Before leaving, Haji, who seemed to be the leader of the group of Kangche cavalry, summoned more than fifty of the king's guards he had selected and gave them instructions in Kangche language.
He Qizhou, Xu Mu and others didn't know what he was talking about. In the team, there were many foreigners and Tuyuhun people who could understand Kangche dialect. Urna, who was already dressed as a foreigner, enthusiastically translated sentence by sentence:
"You must be extremely alert. This is a decisive battle of life and death. Do not light a fire at night. The guards of the royal city will patrol the surroundings from time to time. Later, you will all guard the river bend to the east. If anyone comes, say it is the king.
The tasks assigned to you must not let anyone discover the secrets in the river valley. When the time is up, you will lead everyone to the south gate of the royal city and take the lead in fighting! Don't be afraid of death, you are all the best soldiers in the kingdom!"
He Qizhou listened to Urna's translation, whispered a few words to her, and then watched the sixteen riders leave from the depths of the valley. The location they were currently in was about one mile long and five feet wide, and the two sides were at least sixty feet apart.
A high cliff. The Kangche soldiers who stayed in the valley were neatly arranged on the east side. Because the river had a turning point there, people coming along the river could not clearly see what was going on in the valley.
Outside the east gate of King Kangche City, Urna's heart gradually became anxious. Haji had discussed with the guards at the city gate for a long time, but they, the "barbarians" who wanted to go home, were still not allowed to let go. Haji
They were even taken into the inner city, and the loud quarrels were clearly heard by the "barbarians" outside the door.
Not long after, Haji came out with a smile and said to everyone: "Now is the war period. The city gates are very strictly guarded. The east gate is the most stringent. I am afraid that Tu Yuhun and people from Qi will mix in."
Entering the city. But it didn’t say that merchants can’t pass through. We just need to show the gatekeeper the stamp from when we crossed the border.”
The road guide in Urna's hand belonged to a Persian maid. She passed by this place when she came. Of course it had the seal of the Kingdom of Kangche on it. Sixteen people entered the city without any danger.
The royal city is built on a high ground, and you can see the snow-capped mountains dozens of miles away in the north. Most of the houses and walls in the city are made of mud. Only the palace at the top is made of bricks. Most of the palace buildings are built of bricks.
There are domes, and the large and small domes are covered with blue colored glass, which shines in the sunset.
Haji and everyone had already agreed on the road: Hu merchants would gather reliable experts from the city within an hour, and all of them would gather at the Nestorian temple near the south gate after dark, and then wait for his notice before starting to take action. Haji sent
I asked four people to follow Hu Shang so that they could be contacted easily if anything happened, while I went to inquire about the guards at the palace and the south gate.
Kangche State has a population of 300,000, which is already considered a big country among the dozens of countries in the Western Regions. Hu merchants live in more than ten inns in the city, the largest ones are Persian merchants, and most of them are concentrated in the three inns in the east and south of the city.
In the big inn, the Urna brother and sister stayed in the largest one. The leader of the Hu merchants each sent two people to the other two inns to summon experts. The four Kangche soldiers were worried about their safety on the road, so they also divided into two groups.
Go with the person notified.
Apart from the gathering of more foreign merchants, the entire royal city has no other special features. Most of the people do not know that the kingdom has sent half of its army to fight. In the evening, there are more pedestrians on the streets. Passers-by,
Especially for women, almost everyone will cover their faces with a piece of gauze, not because they are ugly, nor because they are shy, but because the sun is too poisonous, the air is too dry, and the dust is too heavy! Even when the sun sets, most pedestrians still cover their faces.
And go.
Because of the drought, all the wells and water tanks in the city have lids, and even the horse-feeding troughs have wooden lids. In the entire city, there is only one place where the water surface has no lid, and that is the lotus pond on the hillside garden of the palace.
There is an acre of precious melted snow-capped mountain water in the lotus pond, which is continuously poured into the pond to cope with the rapid evaporation of water.
The lotus leaves cover about half of the water surface. Lotus flowers of various colors have entered the peak flowering period. The red, yellow, white and purple flowers lie gently on the green lotus leaves, which is very pleasing to the eye. This is absolutely beautiful in the thousands of miles of Chidi Desert.
It can be called a beautiful scenery.
Of course, the beautiful scenery does not stop there. In the pavilions around the pool, a dozen plump women wearing only thin veils all took off their gauze and enjoyed the evening coolness by the pool. There were even two women who were doing it unscrupulously.
Playing in the water, her body clings to the gauze, emerging from the water from time to time, appearing exquisitely.
Under the largest pavilion, a lady wearing a golden gauze was lying on the couch. She was in her thirties and her appearance was acceptable, but she was far from the other women here. In the woman's hands
Holding half a white lotus, the glazed floor tiles under the pavilion are already covered with petals.
…
After Haji separated from Hu Shang, he continued his mission and ran towards the palace. No one stopped or questioned him outside the palace. Haji ran all the way up and into the harem unimpeded. At this time every day, the queen must
over there!
"Stop!" the maid at the entrance of the garden shouted and ordered Haji to stop.
"Go away!" Haji ignored him, dodged the obstruction of the two maids, and rushed into the gourd-shaped garden door.
"Ah..." There was a lotus pond inside the door, and the concubines who were only wearing silk hair suddenly screamed in surprise.
"Why did you break in? Are you in such a hurry?" the woman with golden gauze frowned.
"Did you send troops?" Haji asked.
Several women clutched their chests and were still screaming.
"Everyone get in!" The noble lady with gold gauze shouted, and everyone rushed to the palace behind the pool. The two women who were playing in the water didn't even bother to put on their shoes, and hurriedly climbed out of the pool, walking with tiny steps all the way to the palace.
They ran inside. The two of them were covered in the clear water gifted by the snow-capped mountains. They firmly caught Haji's eyes, and Pingping curled up until they disappeared.
"Have you seen enough? Aren't you in a hurry?" The young woman waved away the two maids who rushed in from the door, and intentionally or unintentionally lifted up the lined silk dress. Although the matter was urgent, she could not lose the dignity of the queen.
"My subordinates deserve to die. Princess, please send troops as soon as possible, the better!"
The queen threw away the half-torn lotus and said, "Is the king really dead?"
"The king is dead! The other party has a master in the wind control realm!" Haji asked. When he entered the city gate just now, someone had already secretly informed the queen.
"We are already gathering. We can send troops in a moment at most, and they can reach the top of the valley in half an hour. Do we really want to send so many people there? What should we do in the city?" asked the queen, who was the princess of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
"There are masters and elites there. No matter how many people are sent there, it is not safe!" Haji said: "On the contrary, there is no need to worry in the city. The Persian masters will all gather at the Nanmen Jing Temple. The temple walls there are high and thick. As long as
Send the palace guards to surround the temple, and they can easily be captured. If you don't want to survive, attack with fire!"
"Why don't we leave one thousand more people in the city and send three thousand people there? The valley is a dead place. After guarding the mouth of the valley, you can kill several people by throwing a big stone!" The queen was still a little worried.
"Princess! There are many masters from Qi State there! Any one of them can hit me two or three! We must not let any of them escape!" Haji shouted.
At this time, a palace maid at the door ran in again, shouting: "Queen, General Zha personally came to ask when the troops will be sent!"
"Send troops immediately! Tell him not to leave anyone behind!" the queen shouted sternly.
"Yes!" The palace maid turned around and ran out again.
"Wait a minute, I'll tell you in person." The queen walked out of the garden, and Haji hurriedly followed.
After some instructions and encouragement, the two watched General Zha take the order and leave. The queen sighed. "Even if these hundreds of people are killed, King Haijun's defeat is certain. They will definitely attack."
"So it's time to make all those Hu merchants! Let's sweep away the treasures of the royal city, and then bring all the Hu merchants' goods back to Dazhou." Haji made a gesture with his sword raised and lowered.
"What should I do about General Zha? He definitely doesn't want to take his men to Dazhou." The queen frowned slightly.
"After killing the people in the valley, ask him to go to Tianshan to rescue my two brothers, and then send back Hu Shang's 2,000 horses and 100 camels. After that, ask him to lead his troops directly for reinforcements.
If you check, take revenge for the king!" Haji said.
"Okay! You are really poisonous!" the queen chuckled.
"The subordinate has resigned. I'm going to see if Hu Shang's people have been gathered together. As long as all the masters in Hu Shang are killed in Jingmiao, if everything goes well, we can set off back to Dazhou tomorrow morning." Ha.
Ji smiled.
"I'm really tired of staying in this hellish place! Don't forget to kill all those old guys like Bert before you leave! If things go well, you can pick two of those sluts in the harem!"
"Thank you, Princess, for your gift. I will never give up even if I die!"