In Gaochang City, Su Dingfang was wearing iron armor and holding a long spear in his hand. His slender body sat straight on the horse's back, and his eyes were also looking at the movements around him like an eagle. Behind him was a Tang cavalry full of armor, each of them was full of murderous intent. It seemed that as long as there was any abnormal movement, they would be ruthlessly attacked by them.

Compared to a month ago, Gaochang City is now in a panic. No one can see anybody on the bustling streets again. Occasionally, someone secretly peeks out through the cracks in the door. When they see Tang Jun coming, they immediately close the doors and windows, and dare not make any noise. Some children even cried and were covered with their mouths halfway through crying. Even if the child struggled, they would not let go.

Looking at the familiar and unfamiliar street in front of him, Su Dingfang's face was serious, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He remembered that this place was once a vegetable market, and half of the street was filled with vendors selling beef and mutton. He passed by here when he was inspecting it, and liked to buy a few kilograms of mutton and take them back to eat hot pot. The vendors here also welcomed them, Tang Jun, because they used the authentic Kaiyuan Tongbao to buy things, which is the hardest currency in the Western Regions. Some vendors were reluctant to spend it after accepting it.

However, the street that was very lively a month ago is now extremely desolate, and even there are dark and brown stains left on the ground of the street. They are traces left by the blood drying up. There are also some marks of knife-cutting on the walls on both sides. These marks seem to be like characters, recording a fierce battle on this street.

In fact, Su Dingfang also participated in the fight that happened on this street. To be precise, he commanded a Tang army to encircle and suppress the rebellion. In the end, all the Gaochang people involved in the rebellion were blocked on this street and then massacred by the Tang army. Since then, the people in Gaochang City have been extremely afraid of the Tang army and no one dares to do business again.

In just one month, the huge Gaochang City had such a big change. The main reason was that Hou Junji had been greedy for the wealth in the Gaochang Palace and embezzled the wealth, the Tang army generals below were also unwilling to accept it.

After all, they are all soldiers in the army. Even if Hou Junji is the main general, you must let the people below drink some soup when you eat meat. However, Hou Junji is fine. Except for a few major generals such as Su Dingfang, the property he got from the palace was not distributed to other people, which made the people below feel unfair. So, with the leadership of some bold people, these unwilling soldiers began to take the initiative to find opportunities to make money.

The Tang army was definitely considered strict in discipline, especially in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, disturbing the people was a death sentence, but when fighting abroad, the military discipline would be relaxed accordingly. After all, the Tang army was mainly the government soldiers, and they usually rely on external combat to earn some extra money. Otherwise, with the characteristics of the government soldiers, no one would be willing to fight.

However, even if the Tang army's military discipline is not strict outside the country, it is only compared with the Tang army in the territory. Compared with the army of other countries in this era, the Tang army's military discipline can definitely be called strict discipline. Even when attacking the enemy country, as long as the enemy country resists not too strongly, the Tang army generally will not loot after occupying it. However, if the enemy dares to resist stubbornly, the Tang army will immediately transform into Shura, and the city massacre will also happen from time to time. This is actually to enhance the deterrence of the Tang Dynasty and reduce the possibility of the enemy's stubborn resistance.

This time, the Tang army attacked Gaochang. Although the other side resisted in the early stage, they later surrendered. In addition, Gaochang was also the bridgehead for the Tang Dynasty to march into the Western Regions. Li Shimin even planned to set up the Anxi Protectorate here. Therefore, when Hou Junji first entered Gaochang, he also ordered that the people were not allowed to disturb the people. This was also the fact that when Su Dingfang and his friends were inspecting Gaochang before, there were Gaochang people doing business everywhere on the streets, without any influence.

However, just after Hou Junji embezzled the property in the palace, the soldiers in the Tang army also began to look for opportunities to make money, so some people set their sights on the Gaochang nobles in Gaochang City. After all, although the palace was banned, these nobles had surrendered voluntarily because they saw the opportunity, so they were not implicated, but they all lived a very comfortable life.

But I don’t know who started the first one. Suddenly one night, a Gaochang nobleman was suddenly charged with rebellion, and then a group of Tang troops rushed in and searched the house. Not only was the family wealth searched, but all the family members were also sent to prison. The first one was the second one, and then more and more Gaochang nobles began to be searched for their homes without charges.

Originally, Hou Junji was the main general, if he could come forward to stop his soldiers at this time, he could also save Gaochang's situation. However, Hou Junji was greedy for money first, so he would not make money by himself. If he stopped his soldiers from getting rich at this time, he would probably have to rebel. Even if Hou Junji could suppress him, he was afraid that someone would go back to complain, so he simply adopted a tacit attitude towards this situation and even personally determined the crimes of the Gaochang nobles.

The soldiers below saw that Hou Junji did not dare to care, and even accused them of robbing the nobles in Gaochang City. Now everyone couldn't sit still, so Tang troops arrested the nobles everywhere in Gaochang City. Of course, arresting people was just a cover, but the real purpose was the property of these nobles.

The Gaochang nobles were indeed very afraid of the Tang army, so they chose to surrender before. However, now the Tang army plundered their property everywhere, which made them unable to save themselves at all. Since the left and right were dead, it would be better to do a big battle. So many Gaochang nobles united to rebel. For a time, rebellions broke out in Gaochang City, and the Tang army could only put out the flames of the rebellion everywhere.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that over the past month, Su Dingfang, who was in charge of the city's security, has been busy and has led his soldiers to quell the rebellion everywhere. Although the rebels organized by the Gaochang nobles in the city were all a group of mobs, because of the large number of people and the familiarity with the terrain in the city, it still caused certain casualties to the Tang army, which made Su Dingfang angry and he no longer knew how many times he had cursed Hou Junji.

However, it is useless to scold Hou Junji again. Moreover, their army is alone, and Hou Junji is the local emperor in the army, so Su Dingfang dares not offend him too much. After all, Hou Junji is a ruthless man and narrow-minded person, and he is doing things under his hands. It is not a wise move to offend him now.

"Ga~" Just as Su Dingfang was thinking about what happened in Gaochang City, he suddenly heard a burst of rapid horse hooves, followed by a knight in the brocade clothes rushing towards him. When he saw him, he immediately shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has an order, Hou Junji, Su Dingfang is here to receive the order quickly!"
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