Three hundred miles, a fast horse can be reached in one day, but the normal march took six days.

So when Gao Zhan saw Shache City in the wind and sand, the city gate was already closed, and there was no sound above the city, if it weren't for the figures swaying on it from time to time, Gao Zhan almost thought that he had arrived in a dead city.

"Someone, surround this city for me, a radius of fifty miles, clear the field!" After watching it for a long time, Gao Zhan decided that he was still very moving, and it was really not a problem to always watch from below.

Since the battle of the 'Fangs' team in the autumn of the second year of Zhenguan, what they have done has always been the matter of 'clearing the field', whether it is in the grassland or later in the Western Regions, so Gao Zhan does not need to make detailed arrangements at all, more than 1,000 people are left in the blink of an eye, and the rest are all scattered.

"Respected General Datang, this is Shachecheng in Khotan, we have no intention of being your enemy, please don't attack us." After the 'clearing' people dispersed, the defenders in Shache City were visibly more nervous, and their voices trembled a little.

As the so-called connoisseur stretched out his hand, he knew if there was any, everyone was eating in the Western Regions, and the defenders in Shache City saw the posture of the 'fangs' when they spread out, and they immediately understood that the army outside was not the army they imagined that they were not familiar with the Western Regions.

According to the posture of the knights on the horses and the cooperation between their actions, it can be seen that the cooperation between these people is very tacit, and the kung fu on horseback is not weaker than those knights in the Western Regions.

"Let your city lord come out, what qualifications does your little guard have to talk to someone." Although Gao Zhan's status is not high, for the turtles of the Western Regions, the captain of Zhichong Mansion is already a very big official position, and he can command more than 1,200 soldiers, which is already comparable to the generals of some small countries in the Western Regions.

"I, I'm the supreme governor here, the city, the city lord has run away." The guards at the head of the city bared half of their heads and shouted at the top of their voices, with an indescribable grievance in their voices.

"Ran away?" Gao Zhan glanced at the sixth squadron leader beside him, and couldn't help but smile contemptuously.

"them, don't you?" The leader of the sixth squadron looked at Shachecheng, which was not very high, and the smell of blood had begun to permeate his body.

"What? We don't know how many people there are in the city, so it's no good to rush out, so let's wait until the army arrives. Although Gao Zhan looked down on these turtles in the Western Regions, years of experience still told him that the more times like this, the more cautious he must be.

Although the bastards in the city said that the city lord had run away, no one knew if it was true or not, if the most elite army of the Tang Dynasty was used to make a senseless temptation, even Xue Rengui would not do such a luxurious thing here.

"Ah......" A miserable scream faintly came, attracting the attention of Gao Zhan and others.

"Dear General Datang, those outside are innocent Khotanese people, please be merciful to your subordinates, and your subordinates will be merciful." The defending generals at the head of the city also heard the scream and couldn't help but speak again.

On one occasion, though, he didn't receive any answer from Gao Zhan, and the killing of the 'fangs' continued.

At this moment, there would be no innocent people in the vicinity of Yarkand City except for spies, and even if there were, it would not be a big deal to kill one or two by mistake on the battlefield.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in the slaughter of the city, but there is no international law, and there is no convention here, if you wander on the edge of the battlefield, you will be killed if you are killed, and there is no place to find reason.

The defenders of Shache City, who were intimidated by the thousand 'fangs' brought by Gao Zhan, did not dare to really show their heads in the end, and after letting them clean up the outside of the city, they shrank back without saying a word.

Time passed, and three days later the army arrived, and more than 15,000 troops blocked all four gates of Shache City.

"Pauling, how about getting him a guy tomorrow? It's been three days, and the brothers are holding back their strength, just waiting for your order. During the evening party, Gao Zhan came to Yu Chi Baolin's side and muttered in a low voice.

After being together for a long time, these guys have a very good relationship in private, and they don't need to be called by the general.

But before the expedition, Wei Chi Baolin, who was still determined to win, rolled his eyes at this time and said, "What are you doing? What to do now? Without an order from above, you dare to go to war without permission? ”

"Huh? Don't fight? Why are we here if you don't fight? Gao Zhan's face was bitter, and he said with a little dissatisfaction.

"It's called deterrence, you know? The local saying is to scare people. Yu Chi Baolin said: "If we don't make an offensive gesture, what will the other countries think of us?" Will they also not pay military funds? If we don't hand over anyone, will we have to go to war with the entire Western Regions at the same time? "Although Yu Chi Baolin is simple, he is not stupid, and he still has some of the long's eyes.

"So we're going to be around here?" Gao Zhan asked a little depressedly.

"Who said that? We can do a drill and bring out our latest weapons for these turtles to see. Dong Jiansen raised his eyebrows and gave Gao Zhan a look, without asking, he knew that this product was thinking about the later batch of rocket troops.

What are the consequences of a group of young people with strong backers coming together? You don't need to ask about the situation, but at dawn the next day, a row of five bamboo tubes about one meter long was placed outside the east gate of Shache City.

"Hey, Lao Dong, what's in those bamboo tubes?" Looking at the dozen or so so-called soldiers of the Rocket Army busy in front of him, Gao Zhan asked inexplicably.

"You ask me, who do I ask? Ever since they were snatched out of the caravan on the way, the guys have mysteriously not shown up, and the devil knows what they were doing. Dong Jiansen rolled his eyes and looked at the five bamboo tubes in front of him again.

In fact, not only Gao Zhan and Dong Jiansen were curious, but the Khotanese defenders in the city were also very curious, and they all looked at the dozen or so people outside the city who were busy there.

"Are you ready? Lao Tzu's head is going to be blown up by the sun, don't tell Lao Tzu to wait. Yu Chi Baolin had already circled around the bamboo tube for more than twenty years, and was basked by the April sun in the desert, and the armor on his body was faintly hot.

"It's already done." Yu Ning, the commander of the Rocket Army, said slowly after checking all the bamboo tubes unhurriedly, as for Yu Chi Baolin's anxious appearance, it seemed that he didn't see it at all.

The firearms unit is equivalent to a modern missile unit for the Tang Dynasty, so the generals of the firearms unit can be regarded as high-level intellectuals, and there is every reason to despise Wei Chi Baolin and other turtles who can't read a frame.

(End of chapter)