Frozen City is located on the south bank of Rehai, north of Tianshan Mountains, less than 700 miles from Gumo Prefecture. It is separated from Suoye City, and Yezhi two fortresses and a large lake.

Strictly speaking, frozen city is not a city, but a huge prison.

After Soge took down Suoye City, in order to vent his dissatisfaction and to seize food and property for his own accelerated expansion, he adopted the strategy of paying money and grain to redeem all the people in the city. Anyone who could not pay two hang of money or one stone of rice and wheat to redeem himself, regardless of whether they were young or old, was cut to death on the spot.

Those who can pay two hang of money and one stone of rice and wheat will be treated differently. The Hu people who are pure in blood will be taken back to the Tuqi Shi tribe. The Hu Han mixed-race and the pure Han people all rushed to the frozen city and acted as the shepherd slaves of the Tuqi Shi elder.

The so-called herd slaves work is not limited to laying horses and raising sheep, scrambling irons, clay, cultivating, chopping wood, and fishing. As for the daily tasks, it depends on the mood of the owners sent by the elders.

The property, labor harvest, and future children belong to the elders of Tuqishi. The elders have noble identities, no time or mood, and deal with the inferior mother slaves, so they will send the owner to take charge of the mansion. According to Soge's permission, the owners of the mansion set up large areas of land, woods and pastures around the frozen city by relying on Rehai to create benefits for the elders. The specific workers are the mother slaves locked in the frozen city.

During the day, the muslims left the frozen city collectively and went out to work. After sunset, they were taken back to the city by the owner and elder tribes. If they were not serious about their work or could not satisfy the owner, the muslims could chop and kill them at will. If the muslims dared to escape, not only would he be sentenced to death after being captured, but all his relatives, including their neighbors, would be executed.

Although the walls of Frozen City are only more than two meters high, during the day, the city gates will be wide open and there are not many guards in the fields. However, for more than half a year, few herd slaves dare to escape secretly. Even if one or two brave alternatives occasionally appear, it is difficult to walk too far with an empty stomach in the vast wilderness.

Zai Boke, who guards the frozen city and his samurai warriors, once they hear the owner's report that a shepherd slave escapes, they will immediately chase them out. With the falcons and hounds in their hands, they can easily catch up with the escapee and drag them back with a rope and cut them into pieces in public! (Note: Burke, an intermediate official, political and military officer, and his level is equivalent to that of a county magistrate.)

After witnessing the seven or eight consecutive escapees being caught by the guards of Tuqishi, they were cut into pieces and implicated their neighbors whom they knew were close to. The herds and slaves in the frozen city all accepted their lives. In this huge prison, people died of hunger and fatigue almost every day, but they were getting harder to hear crying. Everyone was desperate and gradually became a tool for walking. There was no difference between death and continuing to live. Sometimes, death is actually a kind of relief.

A person's despair doesn't have much impact on the atmosphere around him. However, when more than 6,000 herd slaves in the entire "prison" turned into walking corpses, the atmosphere in the frozen city can be imagined! Not only the village head responsible for assigning tasks to the herd slaves, but the tribes who were in charge of the herd slaves were depressed every day, even Berkzai and his samurai were unable to be happy most of the time. Whenever the sun sets, they quickly close the city gate. Then they enter the house where the brazier is lit, and sleep with their heads covered.

The winter in Frozen City is very cold. On the long night, the dogs are so cold that they are reluctant to leave their nests. Occasionally, they just try to raise their heads and make a few "booms" like dealing with errands.

"Wow, wow, wow..." A string of dog barking sounded in the dark, making people feel upset.

"Why is the dog barking? Let's go out and see!" Xiao Jianmaigai, who was on duty, poked his head out of the quilt in annoyance and ordered to the outer room in a hoarse voice.

"Yes, go now, go now. I guess I saw a mouse or a night owl!" The warriors squeezed on the floor of the outer room agreed weakly. Then they picked up the lanterns and shrank and pushed open the wooden door of the enemy building.

"Hu——" A cold wind immediately rushed towards the face, causing everyone to stagger back, and the heat on their bodies disappeared instantly. Everyone shivered and sweared, and half of their bodies looked around with the starlight above their heads and the lanterns in their hands. There was no sign of anyone else except themselves.

The dog barking stopped abruptly. The three shepherd dogs who usually dared to rush up to fight when they saw wolves. Suddenly, they ran along the city toward the lanterns, pressed their bodies against the thighs of warriors, and made a series of grievances in their mouths.

"Damn, you actually know you're afraid of the cold!" The warriors suddenly realized, raised their legs and kicked each sheepdog gently, and turned back to the enemy building. The sheepdogs rushed into the enemy building before their master closed the door, and no longer wanted to stay in the cold wind outside to get frozen.

"Everyone is honest and lying down. Who dares to poop in the house? I will stew him tomorrow!"

"Let's go down, don't jump around, whoever is not honest, whoever is put into the soup pot."

"Let's go down, I'm missing a dog skin here!"

The samurai man is famous for loving dogs, including dog meat and dog skin mattresses. Seeing that the shepherd dog looked pitiful, the warriors smiled and cursed for a few words, and then let it go. Outside the enemy building, the tranquility quickly returned to the ground. Apart from the whistling of the cold wind, there was no sound anymore!

"Save a little bit! I have used up a lot of effort to collect this little tiger feces and urine. Don't use it all at once!" Luo Huaizu complained in a hoarse voice at the base of the frozen city wall, but his voice was very low, and he was covered by the howling sound of the cold wind, and he couldn't reach much.

"Hehe, hehe, hehe..." The brothers around him grinned, and their eyes and teeth shone under the starlight. After getting along for a long time, everyone had already figured out the temper of this uncle Luo and did not take his complaints seriously.

Luo Huaizu himself just habitually complained casually. Deep down, he was actually far more proud than annoyance. He quickly took back the bag of tiger feces and urine. He didn't even bother to wipe his hands, so he took out a bag of thin wooden strips from his breastplate and distributed them one by one to the hands of his brothers around him. "In this way, you learn from me. It's a bit hard, but refreshing!"

"Uh!" Everyone covered their mouths with disgust, but did not dare to disobey Luo Huaizu's orders. They suppressed the feeling of vomiting and bit the wooden strips between their upper and lower teeth one after another.

A strong bitter smell instantly rushed to everyone's door. Then, saliva overflowed and the tip of their tongue began to numb. 'It turned out to avoid making a sound, alarming the defenders in the city!' The organic man immediately understood Luo Huaizu's intention. He resisted the urge to spit out the wooden strips and continued to grit his teeth. However, Luo Huaizu himself did not explain to everyone, and quickly took the glass lantern wrapped in thick cloth from Ren Wu's hand, gently spread a gap to the far side, and then quickly closed it.

The light flashed, but from a distance, it was particularly clear. Hundreds of steps away, the sound of crows immediately sounded, "Wow, wow, wow..." In the cold night, it made people scalp suddenly.

Luo Huaizu emitted three flashes in succession, and not far away from the opposite side, he quickly responded three times with the sound of a crow. Immediately afterwards, Ren Qi and Guo Jing each led more than 100 brothers to touch the darkness and aimed the Zhang crossbow, which was already covered with strings, at the top of the city. Then, Zhang Qian also appeared with more than a thousand brothers, slowly lined up the city gate.

Luo Huaizu had no time to wait for Zhang Qian to arrange the attack formation and put down the contact lanterns, he waved behind him again. The two brothers quickly pushed a wheelbarrow up and quickly lifted the quilt on it, revealing a row of neat bamboo poles, wooden buckles and hemp ropes.

Luo Huaizu quickly grabbed four short and thick bamboo poles and placed them on the ground, then put them on the bamboo poles with wooden locks. Then, he stuffed two bamboo poles, which were as thick as arms, into the holes of the locks.

Several clever brothers took the initiative to help, picked up more bamboo poles and wooden buckles of different lengths from the car and handed them to Luo Huaizu. The latter methodically combined the bamboo poles and wooden buckles. In a blink of an eye, a slender and sturdy bamboo ladder appeared under the city wall.

More bamboo poles and wooden buckles were installed on the bamboo ladder. After just over twenty breaths, the bamboo ladder extended to three and a half meters long. Luo Huaizu grabbed the rope, put one end of the rope around the beam on the top of the bamboo ladder, and wrapped the other end of the rope around the wheel at the bottom of the bamboo ladder. A brother bent down and quickly shook the wooden handle with one hand. With the thin "squeaking" sound, the bamboo ladder was pulled up by the rope, and the top quickly rose above the wall.

The four brothers worked together to push and turn the base of the bamboo ladder and tie the hook on the top of the bamboo ladder with the city wall. Luo Huaizu nodded to everyone, then pulled out the horizontal knife, stepped on the bamboo ladder and headed straight to the city.

Ren Yong carried the weapon and repeated the same movements as Luo Huaizu. Immediately afterwards, more than fifty carefully selected brothers. One by one, they had a flexible body and a quick movement. In a blink of an eye, they had reached the top of the city wall one after another.

The cold wind blew the smell of tiger feces and urine into the city. No dog dared to yell. In the silence, Luo Huaizu led his brothers to line up at the top of the city, and waved gently to the bottom.

The more than fifty brothers who were waiting for the city first were automatically divided into two teams. One team went left and the other team went right, each occupying a section of the city wall to make room for the other brothers. Then, Wang Han also led more than fifty brothers to climb to the top of the wall silently on the bamboo ladder.

The starlight suddenly became extremely bright, which could clearly see every fast moving figure. The cold wind suddenly became even more bitter, making people's face feel as if it was cut by a knife.

Ren Qi and Guo Jing, who were standing under the city wall, were so nervous that they could hardly breathe. They looked at Luo Huaizu without blinking, Ren Yong and Wang Han, with their brothers, met on the city wall. Then they watched the brothers lean down and touch the enemy building quietly. They watched the brothers get closer and closer to the enemy building. The horn above their heads reflect the starlight. The horizontal knife in their hands is dazzling and cold!

Guo Jing and others held up the arms of Zhang's crossbow, which were already sore and numb. The fingers that everyone held on the machine were already frozen and lost their feelings. However, no one wanted to pull the crossbow!

Faster, faster, and never pull the crossbow machine. Kill the defenders in the enemy building in their sleep. If the thunderbolts in the city are unconscious, it is better to open the city gate. God, please open your eyes and don’t let the thunderbolts in the enemy building suddenly regain your vigilance. Don’t let the dogs in the city barge barge make noises.

Maybe the thunder cavalry in the city was full of evil deeds, maybe God really opened his eyes and heard everyone's call. Tonight, luck was shrouded on Luo Huaizu, Wang Han and others from beginning to end. Until they touched the enemy building and closed the door with a knife, the thunder cavalry inside was still unaware of it!

Wang Han did not hesitate and ran down the horse road with his brothers. Luo Huaizu grabbed a grenade, ignited the lead with a fire snatch, and stuffed it directly into the window of the enemy building. "Boom!" There was a loud bang, and the silence was no longer there. In the enemy building, fire flashed, and dozens of figures stumbled inside.

The second, third, and fourth grenades were ignited and quickly stuffed into different windows. "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" The explosions were connected in a series, and the enemy building was shaken. The wooden door was pushed open from inside, and several thunder cavalry warriors stumbled out of the door with blood on their faces.

Ren Yong, who had been waiting at the door for a long time, led his brothers to swing their swords quickly and chopped the rushing cavalry Shi on the ground. The rest of the rush cavalry, who were lucky enough to be killed by grenades, did not dare to rush out from the door again, and changed to a window where grenades had never been thrown into, and rushed to climb outward.

Guo Qi led his brothers to block the enemy and swung his sword to slash at the Tukhashi Warrior Shi. Although the latter was so scared that he was panicked, he refused to give up his resistance and screamed and raised his sword to fight. The training level between the two sides was very different, and the armor protection power on his body was completely different. In a blink of an eye, the Tukhashi Warrior Shi who jumped out of the window fell to the ground. However, the iron vests on Guo Qi and others were cut out by only a few dents.

"Wool, wool..." A shepherd dog with its tail broken roared out of the door. Ren Yong slashed over and cut the dog's body into two sections. The Tukhashi Samurai, who was following the dog, cried and tried to go forward and fight to the death. The brothers slashed in a row, and the brothers slashed into the enemy's building with their blood, searching for the Tukhashi Samurai one by one, killing them one by one. Several smart Tukhashi Samurai ran to the second floor and blocked the stairs with scimitars and bows. Ren Yong found a torch and threw it at the entrance of the stairs, and pulled off the bedding and straw under the mattress of Tukhashi, and quickly piled it on the stairs.

The flames ignited the wheat straw, lit the bedding, and quickly rose high. The smoke rolled up along the stairs. The heat waves roasted the wooden beams and pillars into thick rosin. The samurai Shi, the Tuqiu, screamed loudly, pushed open the window, and tried to jump out of the window to survive. Guo Jing and others, standing outside the city, saw it clearly. A row of crossbow arrows shot over, and there was no more figures at the window.

The pine wood building structured the enemy tower soon turned into a huge torch, making the city gate bright as daylight. The city gate was opened by Wang Han and his brothers from the inside, and Zhang Qian led his troops into the city. All the thugs in the city were alarmed and launched a crazily counterattack under the command of Berkzai. They were brave, but extremely stupid. The Tang army, who fought in formation, first used a strong bow and crossbow to turn them over one-third. Then rushed forward, surrounded them, divided them, like cutting melons and cutting vegetables,

After not persisting for a while, the Turkic warriors' counterattack was declared unsuccessful. Most of the warriors were killed, and a small number of warriors protected Zaiboke and retreated to the center of the city in panic. Several owners were awakened in their sleep, thinking that it was the collective rebellion of the herds and slaves, so they rushed to the streets with their tribes. They accidentally met Tang Jun.

In the blink of an eye, several tribes under his command were swallowed up by the sword. The Tang army, who had already come out of power, advanced along the street along the street to the city under the leadership of Wang Han, Wang Zhihuan, Guo Jing, Ren Qi and others. It was like a galloping carriage, crushing any resistance along the way.

Several owners of the manor were still unwilling to fail and hid in the dark with their clans to shoot cold arrows. However, the cold arrows were either shot in a crooked manner or blocked by the iron armor on the Tang army and made no achievements. The angry Tang army surrounded them with torches and removed the attackers from a large amount of pieces.

It is very easy to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy. All the houses in the city that were slightly decent were from the village heads and clans. The Tang Dynasty soldiers smashed open the gate and caught the prisoners directly. Some clans and clans, seeing that the situation was not good, tried to escape into the slaves' house to hide. However, their clothes, dress, temperament and temperament were too obvious, and soon they were distinguished by the Tang army and bound them to detain them.

When the Tang army advanced below the city wall on the north side of the frozen city, the actual controller of the frozen city, Berkzai, with his fat butt sticking out, was trying to climb up the city wall. In order to avoid the escape of the herds and slaves in the city, only one south gate was left in the frozen city. After this gate was captured by the Tang army, Zai Boke became a turtle in a jar. He ran around like a headless fly, but could not find a place to hide, so he had to try to jump over the wall from the farthest position from the Tang army to survive. However, his body was too fat and his movements were too slow. When Wang Han caught up, his fingers had not yet touched the upper edge of the city wall.

Finding that he was desperate, Berkzai jumped decisively from the shoulders of his confidant, raised his scimitar and rushed towards Wang Han. The long spear in Wang Han's hand pierced his throat without hesitation. Zai Boke dropped the knife and widened his eyes to see clearly. What is the difference between Wang Han and his slaves, who are also Tangren, and his eyes are the same. His vision is quickly blurred and his breathing is unsustainable. A stream of plasma emerges from his mouth, and he dies with his face facing the sky.

The battle ended at that moment, half an hour earlier than Zhang Qian expected. More than 300 thunder cavalry warriors, more than 20 sects and more than 200 clans in the city were killed 70% of them, while the remaining 30% were captured alive and tied up in the open space in front of the county government waiting to fall.

Zhang Qian transferred the new soldiers who had just joined the army in Gumo City into the city, and they accompanied Wang Zhihuan to clear the remaining enemies in the city to avoid missing fish. At the same time, he ordered them to summon the Tang people in the city to go to the county government office to participate in the trial and disposal of the prisoners.

The recruits themselves have experienced these things and are familiar with everything. They have been slaves and know how to communicate with slaves in the city.

However, when they were carrying out their mission, they were very unsuccessful. Unlike the craftsmen in Gumo City, the Tang people in the frozen city were detained for too long. Many people were desperate to see the king's army not coming, and they were already desperate. Even if they saw the Zhuangtou and the clans tied up by ropes, they couldn't believe that the young Zhang Jian mentioned by the new recruits would really make the decision for everyone.

Some particularly mature and persistent people refused to even go out of the house. They decided that if Soge led a large group of troops back, the Tang army would definitely not be the opponent. At that time, they would definitely be abandoned by the Tang army and then chased and killed by the Tuqi Shiren. It would be better to die in the frozen city, and at least save the pain of shattering hope again.

"I said earlier that it is not difficult to break the city. The difficult thing is to take these people away safely!" As if I had expected that Zhang Qian's rescue plan would have problems during the implementation. Luo Huaizu rubbed his frostbite ears while sneering, "The surroundings are so empty and bloody. I tried to escape a few months ago. Even if I didn't succeed, I would just die at worst. And those who stayed to survive were all bloodless! They refused to save themselves, and you can't carry them away."

"I don't believe that some people are born to like slaves!" Zhang Qian's thoughts were never as extreme as Luo Huaizu. He smiled and shook his head gently. "It won't take too long! They all have eyes and brains, and they can see and think about it themselves."

"Then we have to have time. The food in the frozen city has been transported to the broken leaves long ago. The shopkeepers are worried that everyone will have the strength to resist after eating, and each family will only send two taels of corn a day!" Luo Huaizu frowned and continued to whisper. "Besides, Soge can never have thought that we would kill to his nest. If he returns to his army regardless of everything..."

All he said was true. When he left Gumo, in order to ensure the speed of the march, the brothers only brought their own dry food for twenty days. If they distributed the dry food to more than 6,000 people in the city, everyone would go hungry. And Soge could not find everyone along the Sihun River for a long time, and sooner or later they would lead their troops back to their nests. If Soge came back and before they could take them to evacuate, the two armies would have to collide head-on!

"I know where there is food!" Zhang Qian looked around and suddenly suppressed his voice very low. "There is also a way to cheer up these people in the city as soon as possible and follow us to advance and retreat together. Uncle Master, can you help me again..."

"I owe you what I owe you?" Before Zhang Qian finished speaking, Luo Huaizu jumped up as if he had been stepped on his tail and protested loudly. However, there was not much anger on his face, "It's not enough to help you take down the frozen city? You actually want to break Ye's idea. It's not frozen city, and the city wall is twice as high as here! Although there are not many defenders, it is definitely not less than our brothers here! There are two fortresses between frozen city and Shaoye, between He Lie and Ye Zhi. When you chew one by one, the thunder cavalry and Shi Ye in Shaoye City have been prepared for a long time, and Sa Ge should have killed you!"
Chapter completed!