It was Shang Qixin'er's retainer Fu Qian who organized the defense of Tianzhu City.

Fu Qian is a veteran of Shang Qi Xin'er's family, because she was old, she was not taken to the front line by Shang Qi Xin'er.

Fu Qian couldn't understand why Tang Jun appeared near Tianzhu City.

Did these Tang troops fly over Qilian Mountain?
If this is not the case, why did Tang Jun surround Tianzhu City without receiving any news?

Fu Qian didn't understand, relying on the [-] elite soldiers left behind by Shang Qi Xin'er, he guarded Tianzhu City with difficulty.

He also sent dead soldiers to break through the siege after paying the money. He also observed in the past few days that there were not many real elite Tang troops, and most of them were slaves in scanty clothes.

These damned slaves actually rebelled with Tang Jun!

When Da Lun comes back, the intestines of these slaves must be pulled out!
Fortunately, this group of Tang soldiers were very amateur, and they let the dead soldiers break out of the siege.

Dadou Bagu is only seven days away from Tianzhu City. As long as the Tubo army in Hexi sends some elites, they can defeat this group of mobs.

Before the defeated soldiers on the front line fled back to Tianzhu City, Fu Qian didn't know that the Tubo army he was thinking about no longer existed.

Bawu has been on the road for three days in a row, and finally he is about to arrive at his manor.

The closer he got to home, the heart that had been cold for a long time began to beat gradually.

I don't know how my younger siblings are doing, how is the barley growing at home?
But when Bawu came to the manor, he was stunned.

The adobe manor has been burned to ashes, and the highland barley fields are overgrown with weeds.

Ba Wu was completely dumbfounded. Before he went out to fight, everything was fine, right?
Bawu went crazy and rushed into the manor.

He found several charred corpses, and from one corpse he touched the dagger he had given to his younger brother.

After Bawu wailed and buried all the corpses, he found the owner of the nearby manor.

The owner of the manor, who had a good relationship with Bawu, saw Bawu who suddenly appeared, as if he had seen a ghost.

He knelt on the ground and said, "My friend Bawu, did Changshengtian bring your soul back?"

Bawu sighed and said, "Cersi, I'm fine, I'm back from the battlefield, what happened to my family!!!"

The old warrior sighed and said, "It's the tax collector from Tianzhu City. Your family can't get enough food, and the tax collector wants to arrest your sister to pay off the debt."

"Your brother led the servants to revolt and was burned alive by the damned tax collector."

Bawu's eye sockets were cracked, he grabbed the old warrior and said:
"Where's my sister!?"

"Your sister has been arrested in Tianzhu City, and I don't know what's going on now."

The old warrior sighed.

Bawu clenched his fists, and he said, "Didn't you say that, the manors that went on expedition were exempted from tax for one year, why did the tax collectors come again?"

The old warrior sighed and said, "After you joined the army, Tianzhu City issued several orders to distribute the offerings to all the manor owners. This is the money offered to the Buddhist temple, not a tax."

Bawu wished he could draw out his knife to kill someone, the old warrior looked at Bawu and asked suddenly:

"Bawu, didn't you go out with Dalun? Why did you come back?"

The old samurai's expression changed, did Bawu become a deserter?

According to the laws of Tubo, being a deserter was punishable by lingering death, and all members of the family were sent as slaves.

Ba Wu sighed and said, "I didn't escape, the army was defeated."

The old warrior stared at Bawu with wide eyes, and murmured, "Defeated? The fifty thousand army has been defeated?"

Bawu briefly talked about the process of defeat, but of course he didn't talk about the process of killing Dalun himself.

The old warrior cried out in pain, the [-] army, this is all the possessions of the Tubo host!

Bawu no longer had any tears, he held a knife and said, "I'm going to Tianzhu City."

The old warrior immediately grabbed him and said, "Bawu, you can't be impulsive!"

Bawu just nodded, and walked out of the old warrior's manor with a knife.

Tianzhu City!
Bawu rushed to Tianzhu City, but found that it was surrounded by Tang Jun.

Tang Jun?Where did Tang Jun come from?

Ba Wu was lying in the grass, looking at Tang Jun's camp, he suddenly understood something, took off his saber and armor, and walked towards Tang Jun's camp.

Qin Chuan, who was preparing to attack the city, received a report from the soldiers, saying that some Tubo people surrendered to the Tang army, saying that they would offer a plan to break the city?

Qin Chuan and Yuantong looked at each other, and immediately asked the soldiers to bring the Tubo man up.

"It's you?" Yuan Tong recognized Ba Wu at a glance.

And Bawu also recognized Yuantong.

"It turns out that you are Datang's spy who infiltrated Tubo!"

Bawu suddenly understood many things, why Yuantong likes to say some inexplicable things, why he likes to wander around, why he likes to inquire about Tubo.

It turns out that Datang started to deploy undercover agents at that time!

Bawu took a deep breath, King Jianning's scheming is really deep!
It's no wonder that Shang Qi's heart was defeated so thoroughly when the people of Tang planned Tubo in such a way!

When the old friends met, Qin Chuan didn't speak, but asked Monk Yuantong and Bawu to question him.

Ba Wu said first, "I know a secret way into Tianzhu City."

Monk Yuantong looked at Bawu and asked, "How do I know that you are not a spy from Tianzhu City?"

Ba Wu said: "My two younger brothers were killed by the tax collectors in Tianzhu City, and my sister was arrested by the tax collectors. Why should I be a spy?"

Yuantong thought of Bawu's two younger brothers who were fighting to do farm work in Bawu's manor, and the girl who often brought him water.

Yuantong's mood couldn't help but darken.

For the most low-level warriors like Bawu, there are not many slaves in a manor.

Bawu took two slaves to the battlefield earlier, and was killed by a more senior Tubo nobleman at Dangjin Pass.

Most of the farmland has to be cultivated by itself. In case of any natural or man-made disasters, it is necessary to borrow money to pay taxes.

This is also the reason why Yuantong was able to quickly pull up a team near Tianzhu City. Now, besides the slaves of the Han, Xianbei and Qiang people, there are also many oppressed Tubo people who follow the Tang Dynasty to besiege Tianzhu City.

Even if they were Tibetans, the tax collectors were merciless in exploiting them.

Monk Yuantong knew that Bawu's mother was forced to death by tax collectors, and now that he had such a big enmity, he naturally believed that Bawu was not a spy.

Ba Wu looked at Monk Yuantong and said: "I also know the layout of the barracks in Tianzhu City. As long as three hundred elites enter through the secret path with me, I promise to lead you to take Tianzhu City."

Yuantong nodded and said, "Then what do you want?"

Ba Wu showed a painful expression and said, "I will kill all the tax collectors in Tianzhu City."

Yuantong shook his head and said, "You go, we Tang Jun will not avenge you."

Bawu looked at Yuantong suspiciously and said, "This secret path is absolutely safe, monk, don't you believe me?"

Yuantong shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't believe you. You saw that many of the people besieging the city were slaves and ordinary people, right?"

Bawu nodded.

Yuantong continued: "We attacked Tubo East Road and besieged Tianzhu City for public outrage."

"Shang Qixin'er went against the grain in the Tubo East, taking advantage of the common people, and liberating the East is for the common people."

"The Tubo army invaded Hexi and plundered the people of our Tang Dynasty. King Jianning destroyed the Tubo army for the sake of justice."

"The army of our Tang people is the master of the king!"

"Where the master Wang goes, he will never loot the city like the Tubo army and slaughter the defenders at will."

"So you have to take care of the tax collectors, I can't promise you."

Ba Wu held the handle of the knife and said, "Shouldn't these tax collectors be killed?"

Yuantong said: "It should be killed, but it must be executed according to the canonical punishment. Whether it should be killed or not depends on Tang Law."

"I, Tang Jun, don't make deals with anyone! Today, to vent your personal anger, I took a shortcut to capture Tianzhu City. Tomorrow, there will be more shortcuts I can take, and I will make more deals for the self-interest of others."

"Can such a Tang Jun still be called Wang Shi?"

"The people who followed us will also disperse, and the Tang Dynasty will lose the popular support in Tubo, so what's the use of taking Tianzhu City?"

Ba Wu heard Yuantong's deafening words, but he didn't know how to answer.

Ba Wu said: "Then the Tang army is going to let these tax collectors go?"

Yuantong shook his head and said, "Of course not. Such a heinous person will naturally have a public trial. As long as someone proves it and the evidence is solid, Master Wang will never let a bad person go."

Ba Wu immediately said: "Okay, I am willing to be the guide for Master Wang, offering secret ways to conquer Tianzhu City as soon as possible!"

Yuantong and Qin Chuan looked at each other, and Yuantong said to Qin Chuan through the communicator:

"Bawu should be trustworthy."

Only then did Qin Chuan say: "I'll order three hundred elites to follow you into Tianzhu City!"

That night, Bawu led three hundred elites into Tianzhu City through the secret passage under the Great Buddha Temple in Tianzhu City.

Under the leadership of Qin Chuan, three hundred Tang army elites went straight to the Tubo barracks.

While setting fire to the military camp, Qin Chuan blew up the gate of Tianzhu City with explosives.

The Tang army outside the city led an army composed of slaves and common people, and rushed into Tianzhu City at once.

When Tianzhu City fell at dawn, Qin Chuan and Yuantong looked at the resplendent and resplendent Great Buddha Temple. Qin Chuan said:
"Shang Qixin'er actually left a secret path in the Buddhist temple, and the exit of the secret path is under the Buddha statue. It's really black humor."

But Yuantong said: "Actually, it's quite reasonable. If there is any change in Tianzhu City, Buddhist affairs are his last hope."

"I didn't expect that the secret path that was intended to save lives and escape became a shortcut for us to capture Tianzhu City."

Qin Chuan only felt that the huge Buddha statue was mocking.

He asked again suspiciously: "Why did Shang Qixiner want to build a secret road in the city?"

Yuantong said: "Tubo's great theory has also been forced by the subordinates, and there are not a few who were killed by the generals."

"Shang Qi's heart is getting old, and her son is growing up, so she naturally wants to leave a way out for herself, but I didn't expect that he didn't use this secret way, and it was used by us."

Qin Chuan said: "How else can you say that Tubo is a barbarian, talking about oppressing the castle owner, the castle owner oppressing the manor owner, and the system established with authority will eventually collapse due to the decline of authority."

Qin Chuan said in the player channel:

"Tell my brothers, public trial of criminals, counting of prisoners, hurry up, let's go back to Longyou for the Mid-Autumn Festival!"

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