The person who organized the defense of Tianqian City was Shang Qixin'er's retainer Fu Qian.

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

Fu Qian didn't understand why Tang troops appeared near Tianqian City.

Did these Tang troops fly over the Qilian Mountains?

If this was not the case, why did the Tang army surround Tianqian City without receiving any news?

Fu Qian didn't understand, so he relied on the two thousand elite soldiers left by Shang Qixin'er to defend Tianqian City with difficulty.

He also paid to send dead soldiers to break out. In the past few days, he had also observed that there were not many truly elite Tang troops, and most of them were slaves with no clothes on.

These damn slaves actually rebelled with the Tang army!

When Da Lun comes back, we must pull out the intestines of these slaves!

Fortunately, this group of Tang soldiers were very amateur and allowed the dead soldiers to break out.

Dadou Bagong is only seven days away from Tianqian City. As long as the Tibetan army in Hexi sends some elite troops over, this group of rabble can be defeated.

The defeated troops on the front line had not yet fled back to Tianqian City. Fu Qian had no idea that the Tibetan army he had longed for no longer existed.

Bawu traveled for three days and finally arrived at his manor.

The closer he got to home, Bawu's heart, which had been cold for a long time, gradually began to beat.

I don’t know how my younger brothers and sisters are doing, and how is the highland barley growing at home?

But when Ba Wu arrived at 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 left for the battle, everything was obviously fine, right?

After drawing his strength like crazy, he rushed into the manor.

He found several burnt corpses and found the dagger he had given to his brother from one of the corpses.

Bawu cried loudly and after burying all the corpses, he found the owner of the nearby manor.

The owner of the manor, who was on good terms with Bawu, saw Bawu suddenly appear, as if he had seen a ghost.

He suddenly knelt on the ground and said: "My friend Bawu, has Changshengtian brought your soul back?"

Bawu sighed and said: "Sisi, I'm fine. I came back from the battlefield. What happened to my family!"

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The old warrior sighed and said, "He's a tax collector from Tianqian City. Your family can't afford food, so the tax collector wants to arrest your sister to pay off the debt."

"Your brother led his servants to resist and was burned alive by the damn tax collectors."

Bawu's eyes burst, he grabbed the old warrior and said:

"Where's my sister!?"

"Your sister has been captured and taken to Tianqian City. I don't know what she is doing now."

The old warrior sighed.

Bawu clenched his fists and said, "Didn't I say that the manor that was set out for the expedition was tax-free for one year, so why did Bao come and come again?"

The old warrior sighed and said: "After you joined the army, Tianqian City issued several orders to distribute the offerings to all the manor owners. This is money for the Buddhist temple, not taxes."

Ba Wu wanted to draw his sword and kill someone. The old warrior looked at Ba Wu and suddenly asked:

"Bawu, didn't you go out with Da Lun? Why are you back?"

The expression on the old warrior's face changed. Could it be that he had become a deserter?

According to Tubo law, deserters were punished by death, and everyone in the family was made into slaves.

Bawu sighed and said, "I didn't escape, but the army was defeated."

The old warrior looked at Ba Wu with wide eyes and muttered: "Defeated? All the 50,000 troops were defeated?"

Ba Wu briefly talked about the process of defeat, but of course he did not talk about the process of killing Da Lun.

The old warrior cried out in pain. An army of 50,000 people was the entire property of Tubo East!

Bawu no longer had any tears. He took the knife and said, "I want to go to Tianqian City."

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

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

Tianqian City!

Bawu rushed to Tianqian City, only to find that it was surrounded by Tang troops.

Tang Jun? Where did Tang Jun come from?

Ba Wu lay down in the grass and looked at the Tang Army's camp. He suddenly figured out something, took off his saber and armor, and walked towards the Tang Army's camp.

Qinchuan, who was preparing to attack the city, received a report from the soldiers that some Tibetans had surrendered to the Tang army and that they would offer a strategy to break the city?

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

"Is that you?" Yuantong recognized Ba Wu at a glance.

And Bawu also recognized Yuantong.

"It turns out you are a spy from the Tang Dynasty who infiltrated Tubo!"

Bawu suddenly understood a lot of things, why Yuantong liked to say incomprehensible things, why he liked to wander around, and why he liked to inquire about Tibetan affairs.

It turns out that Datang began to arrange undercover agents at that time!

Ba Wu took a breath, King Jianning was really scheming!

The Tang people planned Tubo in this way, no wonder Shang Qixin'er was so completely defeated!

When the old friends met, Qin Chuan did not speak, but asked Monk Yuantong and Ba Wu to ask questions.

Bawu said first: "I know a secret passage into Tianqian City."

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

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

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

Yuantong's mood couldn't help but darken.

For a warrior at the lowest level like Bawu, there were only a few slaves in a manor.

Bawu had brought two slaves to the battlefield earlier, but was killed by a higher-ranking Tibetan noble at Dangjin Mountain Pass.

Most of the farmland has to be cultivated by oneself. Once there is any natural or man-made disaster, one has to borrow money to pay taxes.

This is also the reason why Yuantong was able to quickly rally a team near Tianqian City. Now, in addition to the Han people, Xianbei and Qiang slaves, there are also many oppressed Tubo people who are following the Tang Dynasty to besiege Tianqian City.

Even the Tubo people were ruthless when exploited by tax collectors.

Monk Yuantong knew that Ba Wu's mother was forced to death by tax collectors. Now that there was such a big hatred, he naturally believed that Ba Wu was not a spy.

Ba Wu looked at Monk Yuantong and said: "I also know the layout of the military camp in Tianqian City. As long as three hundred elites enter with me through the secret passage, I guarantee that I can lead you to capture Tianqian City."

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

Bawu showed a painful expression and said: "I want to kill all the tax collectors in Tianqian City."

Yuantong shook his head and said: "You can leave, we Tang Jun will not help you avenge your personal revenge."

Bawu looked at Yuantong in confusion and said, "This secret passage is absolutely safe. Monk, you don't 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 are slaves and ordinary people, right?"

Bawu nodded.

Yuantong continued: "We attacked the Tubo East Road and besieged Tianqian City out of public outrage."

"Shang Qixin'er acted perversely in the Tubo East Road and preyed on the people. The liberation of the East Road was for the people."

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

"Our Tang people's army is the King's Division!"

"Wherever Wang Shi goes, he will never loot the city and massacre the defenders at will like the Tubo army."

"So you want to protect the tax collectors with your own hands, but I can't agree to it."

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

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

"I, Tang Jun, do not make deals with anyone! Today I took a shortcut to capture Tianqian City to vent my personal anger for you. Tomorrow there will be more shortcuts to take, and we will make more deals for the selfish interests of others."

"Can a Tang army like that still be called a king's master?"

"The people who follow us will also be separated, and the Tang Dynasty will also lose the popular support in the east of Tubo. Then even if we capture Tianqian City, what's the use?"

Ba Wu listened to Yuantong's inspiring words, but didn't know how to reply.
To be continued...