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In fact, these businessmen were simply lunatics. They were not afraid of death. They drove their camels and rushed forward crazily. However, their combat power was too poor and they were basically ordinary people.
War is a life-and-death killing field. When half of these merchants were dead, three thousand horse thieves came behind Wang Junlin. Amidst the crazy roars of Zhou Hu and other five hundred Sui troops, Wang Junlin was overwhelmed by the three thousand horse thieves.
With Wang Junlin's current strength, even if he faced five hundred horse thieves, he would have some confidence in escaping. However, facing three thousand horse thieves who were obviously extremely fierce, he had no chance at all. So when he killed more than a dozen horse thieves in one go,
When he discovered that these horse thieves did not want to kill him, but to capture him alive, he gave up the resistance without hesitation and allowed these people to capture him. Otherwise, he resisted fiercely, and the other party became red-blooded and changed the situation from capturing him alive to the ground.
If you kill him, he will die on the spot.
To his surprise, the three thousand horse thieves had no intention of helping the caravans after capturing him, and just took him along the way they came. It was as if they deliberately left these three hundred merchants behind.
He was ordered to be killed by five hundred Sui troops.
Zhou Hu and his 500 Sui troops had tried their best, but it still took a quarter of an hour to kill all the merchants. The strange thing was that during this process, even if the last person died, none of them ran away, let alone begged for mercy and surrender.
Zhou Hu originally wanted to keep him alive and torture him for some information, because they could no longer see the horse thieves and his general. But the survivors all committed suicide immediately.
However, these people were just ordinary people with little fighting power. Therefore, the Sui army suffered no casualties in this battle. Only seven soldiers were slightly injured. The remaining Sui army, led by Zhou Hu, followed the horse thieves and left.
The route pursued them, but they never saw the horse thief again, and even towards the end of the chase, the traces left by the horse thief became less and less.
When the three thousand horse thieves were three miles away from the battlefield, they began to split up and left one by one along the ravines or valleys on both sides. In the end, only 500 people were left. At this time, Wang Junlin, who had his hands and feet tied, discovered that this
The five hundred people were wearing black armor, and their faces showed no expression other than indifference. Even from the beginning to the end, Wang Junlin did not hear any sound or words from them.
Five hundred black-armored cavalry led Wang Junlin on horseback for less than ten miles. There was a carriage waiting. Wang Junlin and the little lynx were stuffed into the carriage. The cold wind in the Western Regions in the evening was biting, but the interior of the carriage was as warm as spring.
There were two charming and beautiful girls, prostrating themselves on the ground. Yingying Yanyan didn't know what they were talking about. Before Wang Junlin could say anything, they took off Wang Junlin's boots and stuffed Wang Junlin's cold feet into her arms.
Inside, the plump breast mounds were deformed by the pressure of the feet, and they were so smooth that Wang Junlin's heart shuddered even in this state.
At this time, Wang Junlin's wrists and ankles were still tied.
"Beauty, my feet are almost warm. Warm your hands now..." Wang Junlin knew that he would not be able to escape for a while, and he had no idea who the other party was or what he wanted to do. So he simply
He let go completely, and even used the title of teasing women in later generations.
The two beautiful women smiled and crawled over, sandwiched him between them, and began to use their bodies as a blanket for him. The little lynx crawled on Wang Junlin's belly and bared its teeth at the two girls in a threatening gesture.
, but it was too small now. The two girls were attracted by its cute appearance. They stretched out their hands to play with it, making bursts of laughter like silver bells. The little lynx had no power to resist.
The carriage turned around four hills and passed through a valley before stopping. A servant had already knelt and climbed beside the carriage as a low stool, waiting for the distinguished guest Wang Junlin to get off. At this time, two girls had already untied his wrists and feet.
At this time, Wang Junlin could not see any anger on his face. Instead, he got out of the carriage with a smile on his face. With the two women gently supporting each other, Wang Junlin hugged the little lynx without hesitation.
He stepped on the servant's back and got out of the car.
However, the next moment, when he saw the scene in his eyes clearly, he was stunned.
He saw a city, a camel city composed of camels. Thousands of camels were kneeling on the ground, connected by ropes to form a huge circle. Behind the camels was a city wall made of camel skins, with camel skins nailed to each other.
The huge log looks extremely solid. Although it is located in a valley in the Qilian Mountains, the mountains here are different from the mountains in the Central Plains and the South. They are bare with no trees at all. I don’t know where they came from.
Found so many logs.
Even with Wang Junlin's experience, he was a little distracted. This was the first time he had seen the Camel City in front of him.
"Distinguished guest, this is our master's villa. It is a bit crude and cannot compare with the prosperous scenery of the Sui Dynasty, which makes the distinguished guest laugh. However, this camel city is somewhat useful in this desolate land of the Western Regions.
The protection from wind and sand is excellent..."
The man who spoke to Wang Junlin was very handsome. Wang Junlin couldn't tell what race he was for a moment. He just felt that he looked like a mixed race, but he was definitely not Han, nor a cannibal, nor a Persian, nor a Turk.
He was a native of Tuyuhun. But this man spoke better Sui Mandarin than Wang Junlin. He also quoted scriptures from time to time to remember the scenic spots in various places in the Sui Dynasty. Some of the famous scenic spots and beautiful scenery were only heard of by Wang Junlin for the first time.
Wang Junlin had ridden on something like this, or something similar to it, at a tourist attraction in Thailand in later generations, but he never expected to sit on it again here.
He sat on it and was carried by four beautiful girls. It was much more stable than the shoulder carts carried by later generations of Thai men. He didn't feel any bumps, only a feeling of floating forward, and the beauty in Yishui looked like a
A pleasing feeling.
Looking at these people in front of him, from their appearance, hair, and eye color, Wang Junlin suddenly thought of a legendary nation in the Western Regions - the Nine Surnames of Zhaowu.
The word "Zhaowu" was first found in Zhaowu County, Zhangye County, which belongs to "Geography" in "Hanshu". The etymology of the word "Zhaowu" is from Kang, An, Cao, Shi, Mi, He, Huoxun, Wudi, Shi.
There were nine surnames in Zhaowu, and with Dong'an, Bi, and Dian, and Nasebo attached to them, Cao's country was divided into three countries: East, West, and Middle.
According to the "Book of Sui", the nine surnames of Zhaowu were originally from the Yuezhi people. They used to live in Zhaowu City in the north of the Qilian Mountains (today's Linze, Gansu Province). Because it was destroyed by the Huns in the Han Dynasty and crossed Congling in the west, the tribes and common people were divided into kings and took Zhaowu as their surname.
The residents mainly engaged in farming and animal husbandry. Chinese historical records stated that they were originally from Zhaowu City in the north of the Qilian Mountains. They were driven away by the Xiongnu and moved westward to the Hezhong area in Central Asia. The branches and common people were divided into kings, including Kang, An, Cao, Shi, Mi, and Shi.
, He, Mu and other nine surnames all have the surname Zhaowu, so they are called the nine surnames Zhaowu.
Wang Junlin remembered that the activities of the nine Zhaowu surnames made them play an important role in cultural exchanges between the East and the West. The introduction of Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Nestorianism, Central Asian music, dance, and calendars to the Central Plains, and the introduction of Chinese silk and papermaking technology
When it spread to the West, the Nine Surnames of Zhaowu were undoubtedly an important medium.
They also played a large role in the development of the political, economic and cultural life of the nomadic khanates around the Central Plains, especially in bringing Sogdian script into the Turks, Uighurs, Tuyuhun and other ethnic groups. Their influence affected the Uyghur script.
, Mongolian and Manchu can all be traced back to the Sogdian alphabet.
However, after the nine surnames of Zhaowu were almost exterminated by the Xiongnu during the Han Dynasty, their bloodlines began to become confusing. They had all kinds of hair colors and eye colors. From a genetic point of view, mixed-race people were mostly
The man is handsome and the woman is beautiful, which is very consistent with what Wang Junlin sees now.
But even if he guessed the identities of these people, Wang Junlin still couldn't figure out why they invited him here in such a strange way.
The ground in Camel City was specially tamped, making it quite smooth, with no dust flying around, and no weeds to be seen. In later generations, this could be done by one person and a roller in half an hour, but in this era it took several people.
It takes thousands of people several days to complete something.
In the middle of the camel city is a tent. Wang Junlin could swear that this is the largest tent he has ever seen. It is made of finely sewn white yak hide and covers an area of two acres. This is already a tent palace.
Wang Junlin knows that even in this era, except for sheep, white yaks, white camels, white wolves, and even white horses, as long as they are white, they are very rare in the ethnic group and are extremely precious. And such a giant white tent requires at least two
It takes the skins of thousands of white yaks to be sewn into it. This is obviously a different kind of luxury.
The camel city just now surprised him, and the white yak tent in front of him also amazed him.
A camel team of more than three hundred people was used to die, and three thousand horse thieves captured him alone. Two stunning young women warmed his feet with their breasts. The camel city covered an area of fifty acres, a shoulder cart inlaid with gems, and two thousand white heads.
The tents sewn from yak hide all show that the owner here is powerful in the Western Regions and is very rich, enough to rival other countries. However, in the history that Wang Junlin knows, he has never heard of the nine surnames of Zhaowu.
Powerful and so rich.
This huge white tent has four doors. Wang Junlin was carried to one of the tent doors. He didn't pay attention at a distance. When he got closer, he found nine brackets on the ground, and something seemed to be tied to them. Just as he was getting ready
When he took a closer look, the nine brackets suddenly stood up. Wang Junlin couldn't help but shrink his pupils after seeing clearly what was on the nine brackets.
"The nine surnames of Zhaowu and the nine corpses are welcome!" Wang Junlin murmured to himself, secretly cursing the owner here that he must be a lunatic.
The Corpse King has seen a lot. During last year's war, he even saw with his own eyes the large corpse pit where tens of thousands of corpses were piled up. But the nine corpses in front of him were a little special.
These nine people had obviously been dead for a long time, and the flesh and blood on their bodies had begun to wither and rot. However, they were deliberately put on strange smiling faces.
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