"It's on fire, put out the fire, put out the fire!" In several yards near the city gate, dozens of Sogdian people rushed out of the house crying and carrying heavy wooden barrels to save themselves.

However, the well that seems to be accessible in just a few steps suddenly becomes extremely far away.

The streets suddenly became crowded, and there were figures carrying clay pots and wooden barrels everywhere along the way. Most of them were people, with only a few soldiers. Everyone's destination was either the well closest to them or their homes. Those who had already caught the water and those who were anxious to fetch the water pushed each other, and each of them was so anxious that their eyes were red.

In this era, even the most luxurious Chang'an City, which is known as the world's most luxurious city, is a small tiled house, not to mention Talas, the small town of the Western Regions! Most Sogdians, including some merchants and officials with poor family backgrounds, are covered with straw or thatch on the roof. The eight-shaped slope roof will not have any possibility of water accumulation. Even if it had rained rain the day before yesterday, after two consecutive days of exposure, the straw and thatch on the roof were dried up by 80%!

Eighty percent of the dried thatch and wheat straw will definitely not stop the flying sparks. The burning city gates and red walls will continue to send the rolling heat waves into the city like stoves.

In order to prevent Mars from igniting their houses, all the people living within thirty feet of the east gate of Talas rushed out of their houses and used all kinds of means to wet the straw or thatch on their roofs.

The sewage from the mud pit on the side of the road suddenly became extremely precious. No matter who could find a sewage puddle in front of the house, the owner of the house would want to kneel on the ground to thank God. These sewage puddles were quickly scooped away. People who did not grab the sewage puddles panted and rushed to the next source of water, and no one dared to delay for a moment.

"Help, kind people, help!"

"Put the fire, put out the fire!"

"My house is on fire, so let me fetch water first. Please, please!"

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Crying sounds echoed by every sewage puddle and well. The first few families who burned down put down thousands of basins and wooden barrels, begging the people who were robbing the water to give themselves a priority. However, no one dared to pay attention to him? Anyone who approached the water source forced themselves to be hardened and turned a deaf ear to the begging.

Everyone has only one house? Giving the opportunity to fetch water to others is equivalent to giving up their own home. Everyone is miserable, no one is qualified to be kind. What's more, the house that caught fire first must be very close to the city gate. Even if the owner takes the water back, it may not be able to alleviate the fire!

"Let go of the wheel? Don't rob, I'll come first!"

"Who stole my clay pot!"

"His grandma, I'm fighting with you."

"If you don't let me put out the fire, I won't let you save it? At worst, I'll die together!"

...

Soon? Someone started to beat the water source. At first, he fisted, and in a blink of an eye, he used stones and wooden sticks. However, no one of the neighbors around him tried to fight. They took the opportunity to occupy a favorable position and tried to get water early to go home.

The darkness of human nature broke out in the face of disasters in the blink of an eye. In order to protect their homes, most people began to do whatever they wanted.

In order to get the water first, some people secretly smashed the neighbor's tiles with stones. Some people took advantage of the neighbor's swinging wheels and stole half-full buckets. Some people even relied on their height to grab water. Or blocked the road and grabbed the water. The uncle who seemed friendly suddenly became a hideous face. The young man who usually laughed at people when he saw them suddenly became a evil star.

It started from a certain water source and quickly spread to a small half of the city.

Talas is close to the desert, there are no rivers outside the city, and there are not many wells in the city. When people start to turn against each other in order to compete for the well water, the speed of water fetching will undoubtedly become slower. When people forget to help each other, it is difficult for any family to put out the fire alone.

The fire head, along the city gate, soon began to spread into the city. The earliest houses that caught fire all became new sources of fire. The thatch and wheat straw on the roof were quickly burned out, and the beams and rafters became new wood.

The east wind carried the rolling heat waves and drove straight along the streets. Mars flew towards every roof within ten feet of the city gate.

These Mars are far less powerful than those that float down from the city gates and walls, but are far more than ten times the number of the former. After most of the Mars fall, a stream of blue smoke rises and becomes silent quickly. However, a small part of them still ignites a few thatchs or wheat straw before they are extinguished.

More than half of the ignited thatch and wheat straw gradually faded out due to the influence of moisture. However, the other half stubbornly insisted on burning, roasting more thatch and wheat straw around it to the point of green smoke.

As the east wind blows, Mars falls more and more.

Soon, under the blue smoke, clusters of flames rose. More houses began to catch fire and turned into new sources of fire.

When the owner of the house hurried back with a bucket and a tiled basin, it was too late. The water they had worked hard to grab was poured on the roof, which only weakened the fire a little bit, but was not enough to completely extinguish the fire. And before they called the next bucket of water, the whole house would definitely turn into a torch!

"Hu——" The east wind blew the heat waves and Mars, constantly aggravating the disaster.

Within five feet from the east gate of Talas, fires rose from all the buildings. Some houses had begun to collapse, and the owners of the house were burnt to pieces, but they couldn't bear to give up. While crying, they dug out the soil with their hands and threw it into the fire.

The soil could not put out the fire, but it created more thick smoke. The person who was trying to wet his roof in the distance was so smoked that he coughed while crying, his voice full of anger and despair.

"Put the fire, quickly organize your brothers to help the people put out the fire!" Dagan She Tuo suddenly appeared beside Little Berksulder with a burnt hair, shaking it hard, "Don't worry about the city gate, if the fire is not extinguished, the Tang army will not be able to kill in. Hurry up and call people to put out the fire, otherwise the city of Talas will be gone."

"Save, put out the fire!" Sullard looked at the city gate that had begun to collapse but was still burning, and repeated mechanically. However, he did not issue any orders to the surrounding Sogdian soldiers.

Most of the Sogdian soldiers around were like Sullard, staring at the "melt" wall fifteen or sixteen feet away, at a loss.

The city gate towers and walls built with rammed earth can be ignited by fire. The facts that are happening in front of them have far exceeded their cognition! They cannot help but suspect that their opponents have received the help of the devil, or that the opponents themselves are devils.

Can human power fight against the devil? The answer is definitely no! After the city gate completely collapses, the devil will come to them. At that time, what awaits them will be iron thunder that explodes upon landing, demon water that is stained with, and poisonous smoke that can directly smoke people!

"Put the fire, go and help put out the fire! Otherwise, the fire will spread and none of us will survive!" Dagan She Tuo's eyes were so anxious that they turned black, jumped up, and slapped Sulede hard. "The city gates are blocked, and no one can escape. If we don't put out the fire, we will all burn them to death in the city!"

"Save, put out the fire. Send my orders quickly, everyone will go to put out the fire, otherwise we will all die!" Sullard was pulled in place for half a circle, but he recovered from his sanity. He grabbed the confidants beside him and whispered, "Go quickly, send the orders, everyone will get water to put out the fire. First save the house that caught fire, and don't care about the city gates and walls!"

"Fight out the fire, fire out, Burke has orders, everyone will help put out the fire!" The confidant was stunned, and instantly came back to his senses, jumped up and shouted loudly.

"Put the fire, hurry up and put out the fire. Burke has orders, regardless of the city gate or wall. Put out the fire quickly!"

"Fight the fire..."

The trustees around them all opened their voices and spread the orders everywhere. The helpless Sogdian soldiers around them agreed in a mess and turned their heads and ran to the well closest to them in groups.

However, before they could disperse the people who fought together from the well, there was a sudden sound of horse hooves on the street in the distance. Immediately afterwards, Yihu, a special agent, appeared in everyone's sight, raised his scimitar in his hand: "Why are you standing there? Go and tear down the houses near the city gate. Wet the thatch, drag the wood and furniture to the tax surveillance nearby for later use."

"Demolition of the house?" The Sogdian soldiers around the well stopped their hands in a daze, at a loss.

They could understand Berksulder's orders. The Tang army said that there were injustices and debts, and they came to collect debts from Yihu. Based on the experience provided by those who were captives, even if the Tang army conquered Talas, they would not do anything to everyone.

But they couldn't understand the orders of the Special Forces Yihu. The fires were burning on the streets. They didn't go to put out the fires, but they went to demolish the houses of the people. They also had to drag all the wood and furniture to the tax supervision?

Could it be that if you sell all the wood and furniture, you can repay Yi Hu's debt? If that were the case, he would have paid back the debt to Tang Jun long ago. Why do you have to deceive everyone and provoke the devils outside the city with him!

"Drop the house and cut off the fire!" I really couldn't stand Yi Hu's stupidity. Hafez, a wise man from the big food, took more than a hundred crazy believers to appear in person. "Everyone, following the orders of Yi Hu's Special Forces, demolished all the houses within twenty feet of the East City Gate to cut off the fire."

"Everyone, following the orders of Special Forces Yihu, demolished the house within twenty feet of the East City Gate to block the fire." The crazy believers armed to the teeth all shouted and repeated, as if they were all soulless mud dolls, relying on Hafez's brain to think.

"First of demolishing the place next to Yihu Teqin, don't demolish the ones that have already caught fire. From here, we will demolish them all the way to the city gates and cut off the fire!" Hafez was indeed smart, and he quickly looked around and immediately gave the specific implementation details.

"First demolish it from the special service, don't demolish it that has already caught fire. From here, we will demolish it to the city gate and cut off the fire!" The crazy believers repeated again in unison, not thinking about whether the houses have owners.

"Drop the house, demolish the house, and it can still be built if the house is gone. If the person is gone, there will be nothing left!" Dagan She Tuo was the first to respond, pick up a spear thrown from the ground, rushed to a house facing the street, and smashed it into the doors and windows.

"Drop the house, demolish the house! Demolition of the house and divide the fire!" Sulled was stunned again, and then responded loudly. He led his confidants around him to rush to another house. Regardless of the owner's plea, he demolished the door and smashed the window.

"Demolition the house, demolish the house! Demolition the house to block the fire!" Many Sogdian soldiers around him found their backbone again and rushed to different houses in groups. The owners of the house tried to stop them, but they all knocked to the ground!

If part of the house had to be demolished, they should not hesitate to prevent the entire city of Talas from falling into the sea of ​​fire.

First of all, the house is not theirs.

Secondly, the houses near the city gate are definitely not living in officials or rich people...
Chapter completed!