Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 29 The dark tide is surging
As the setting sun slanted, flames soaring into the sky ignited in Qi Xiahu's cottage, and several small wooden houses were gradually reduced to ashes. What is this fire for?
Now that Qi Xiahu's cottage has been found, and the whereabouts of San Niangzi and the Zhang family's Erlang Jun have been confirmed, we must continue to search west to find Ge Duo's lair. Anyway, there are still five or six wounded in this cottage. The Uighur horse thief should be able to find a place.

If you don't choose this one, you should recharge your energy and lay in ambush halfway, although Zhang Erlang has one enemy against a hundred, and Zhang Erlang has recovered Ge Tuoma thief, so it sounds like nonsense.

But whether it was the Uighur horse thief who forced Mr. Zhang Erlang to become their leader, or whether Zhang Erlang colluded with the Uighur horse thief, there were less than a hundred people in total, and they didn't even have many armors. The ambush is all done, and the third lady is successfully rescued.

What kind of house are you burning!Just to hear a few ignorant women and children cry?
'Hey!hey yo! At the gate of the cottage, several yamen soldiers tied the gate of the cottage with thick ropes, preparing to pull it down.

Ma Yaozi couldn't bear it anymore, he walked quickly to Lord Fourteen, and was about to speak, when Lord Fourteen's scolding came first.

"You farmer's slave, you dare to say such absurd words because you are old. Believe it or not, I will drag you to the front of the Shouchang County Yamen to show the public!" The Fourteenth Lang beat an old man with a whip All it takes is a flick.

"Mr. Lang, it's not the servant who made the absurd words. The people in the cottage saw the golden armor bestowed by the Grand Protector with their own eyes. There is absolutely no falsehood! If you want this servant to change his words, I dare not. It's better than being killed by lightning!"

Ma Yaozi was speechless for a while, this old man is also a stubborn man, you can just change your mouth and say it again, how about it, if Mr. Taibao really has the supernatural powers, why didn't he show his holiness when the Cao family took over Zhang Zhang twenty years ago?
"Mr. Fourteenth, why should you be angry with these country folks? Those generations of farm slaves often exaggerated their words. You have already burned their houses. Don't destroy this cottage gate. It is also good to prevent wild animals and thieves .”

Hearing Ma Yaozi's words, the old man standing in front of Mr. Fourteen had a look of indignation, and was about to refute, but the people behind quickly covered his mouth and pushed him down to the ground.

"Since we have found this cottage, if we don't demolish the gate and houses, why should we let them stay here? The villages near Shouchang are sparsely populated, so how can we accommodate them?" Lord Fourteen turned his head. He looked at Ma Yaozi with a half-smile.

Ma Yaozi's face suddenly sank, and for the first time he looked at the Fourteenth Prince in front of him without fear.

"Cao Dutou, Qi Xiahu and his group are the descendants of Qi Jiarun and his subordinates who resisted King Tuoxi in the past. They are exiled to the west of Shouchang. They are not allowed to return without orders. This is the order of the Jiedu Yamen. Please forgive me and others. Don't dare to violate it!"

The title Dutou was the title of the commander-in-chief of an army in the mid-Tang Dynasty, but now it has become a kind of honorary title. The Fourteenth Langjun is a descendant of the Cao family, and there is a senior official who is Jiedu Dutou.

Ma Yaozi also has a title, which is of course far inferior to Jiedu Dutou, but it sounds the same, so Ma Yaozi does not call Shisi Langjun but Cao Dutou, the meaning he wants to express is very clear, obviously Also very angry.

"Oh? It turns out that your Shouchang Town Army is still following the orders of the Jiedu Yamen! So, a town official came to report ten days ago that your Shouchang Town has placed hundreds of Tuyuhuns from Zhongyun in Hongze Township. Is there no need for the minions?"

The face of the fourteenth prince of the Cao family also sank. Shouchang is next to Dunhuang, and the hands of the Murong family in Guazhou must have stretched too long!

Ma Yaozi broke out in a cold sweat. He never expected that Mr. Fourteen would make trouble in this matter. No wonder he said that he wanted to find the third lady, but he turned east and west in Shouchang without haste. It's for this matter.

"Ma Dutou, please go and inform Luo Yishi that Mr. Zhang Erlang and my third sister were taken away by Qi Xiahu's collusion with Uighur horse thieves. The Chinese escorted them to Shouchang two days later."

Ma Yaozi was pinched again, he could only cross his hands in a disheveled salute, then quickly turned around and got on his horse and ran towards Shouchang.

Seeing Ma Yaozi running away with a few Shouchang Town Army members, Mr. Fourteenth Lang hurriedly waved his hand to stop the soldiers who were tearing down the gate of the village.

There was a weird smile on the corner of his mouth, the Grand Protector showed his holiness, ha ha!It's quite interesting, it seems that this second cousin of the Zhang family is also a master who is unwilling to be lonely!I can make such a play for myself.

"Mr. Lang, the people from the Shouchang Town Army have left, so what shall we do? Have a rest overnight and plan to ambush Mr. Zhang Erlang and the others?" An officer in brocade robes came over to ask for instructions.

"Ambush? What is there to ambush!" Mr. Fourteenth Lang waved his hand.

"Lieutenant Kang, let the sons escort the people in this village to Shijiazhuang. I don't want to ambush my second uncle. If there is a slight mistake and he is injured, I am afraid that other people with ulterior motives will return to Shijiazhuang. I don't know how to organize our Cao family!"

Captain Kang nodded in agreement, but then frowned again, "If we go back to Shijiazhuang, what will San Niangzi do?"

Shijiazhuang is the nearest village inhabited by Sogdians, and it is also close to Shouchang, but if you go to Shijiazhuang, you will lose the ability to grasp the whereabouts of Mr. Zhang Erlang and others.

"Then leave that old man and a few young men here, and let them tell Mr. Zhang Erlang that I have moved all the people in the village to Shijiazhuang. If I want to save people, I must let my third sister come back unscathed!" Mr. Fourteenth Lang pointed to the old man who firmly believed that there was a grand lord of the Taibao.

But after he finished speaking, he couldn't help touching his chin, "My third sister looks like a beauty, but in fact she is more thoughtful and scheming than a man. Mr. Zhang Erlang respects her a lot. Into the urn without knowing it?"

. . . .

With the assistance of Bai Congxin and Qiong Re Duojin, Zhang Zhaozheng counted the population of the cottage and arranged the way out for Ge Duo Shanzhai.

He couldn't hold on to this cottage, because according to Bai Congxin, the Tubo rule in Chaidan and even the entire Qiangtang had collapsed, and the Kucha Uighurs had completely controlled it.

Moreover, the upper echelons of the Kucha Uighurs have already recognized the Hue Khan of the Ganzhou Uyghurs as their own Khan.

Ge Tuo was a Uyghur from Kucha, and was born in the Uyghur royal family of Kucha. Although he had already become a poor and settled family, the Uyghurs in Kucha recognized him as the ruler of this village and the surrounding four or five hundred shepherds of various ethnic groups.

But Zhang Zhao is a Han from the side of the Guiyi Army. It is probably a dream come true to want to be a Dagan in the territory of the Uyghurs in Kucha.

Of course, it should be no problem for Bai Congxin to rule here, but Zhang Zhao will definitely not do it. If he doesn’t have his own team and goes to Khotan alone, that cheap uncle Li Shengtian will think highly of him. Unknown.

Therefore, Zhang Zhao has already decided to move all the shepherds who are willing to go with him to Qi Xiahu's cottage. Living together, it is very easy to assimilate.

This is also a little capital he left to Qi Xiahu. If there are four or five hundred people, Qi Xiahu's cottage can stand on its own as a village without having to be relocated or split up.

"Mr. Erlang! My wife has made some side dishes, and I would like to invite you over to try them out!" After dealing with the affairs of the cottage in a daze, the little girl Shanniang trotted over, smiling so hard that her eyes narrowed into lines.

"Okay! Then lead the way!" Zhang Zhao patted the little girl's bun and said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)