"Which tribe is from?"

At the oasis camp, under a sand date tree, King Xiao Yan asked a Turkic prisoner with two golden gourds in his hand.

The man snorted coldly and refused to say anything.

"Haha, it's quite hard. I just don't know if your kneecap is hard or your Tianling cap is hard, but I believe neither is as hard as my hammer!"

After saying that, King Xiao Yan grinned and hit the thief's left knee directly with a hammer.

Although it was just a few pounds of short-handled melee hammer, it would be a hole in the horse's head when fighting, and the horse's skull would be broken, let alone the human knee? The Turkic thief screamed, and the knee was broken and the human half-kneeled on the ground.

"Give you another chance, which tribe is from?"

"Ph!" The man was very tough.

"I admire you, I must respect you for a tough Turkic man like you." After saying that, King Xiao Yan swung the iron hammer with his right hand, but then it hit the man's other knee. The man screamed again and knelt on the ground with his legs.

"Train this tough thief aside."

"Give me some fun!" The man screamed repeatedly, and when he was dragged away, he still shouted in stiff Chinese words.

"It's a pity that you have no chance." King Xiao Yan didn't look back, but turned to another Turkic prisoner. "Tell me, do you want to break your left knee or your right knee first?"

The man swallowed.

"Don't say it?"

"I said, I said, we are from the Ministry of Joseon."

In the distance, a Turkic man cursed, "Bah, coward!"

King Xiao Yan smiled, then pointed at the swearing Turkic man, "Turn him over."

The Turkic people were dragged over and struggled to resist, but they were tied up by the patrol bulb ropes. The more they struggled, the tighter they became. This was specially tied up by the Qin army, so it was not so easy to break free. King Xiao Yan didn't politely with him at all, and came up directly with two hammers, destroying the man's kneecaps.

The kneecap was broken, and the man was almost finished. He was a useless man and could not even be a slave. He was almost the only one who waited for him to die.

"It's not your turn to talk, shut up."

The two patrol members dragged the Turkic people, who were sweating profusely and threw them together with the one just now.

King Xiao Yan turned to the guy who confessed just now and said, "Now you can continue talking. Let's talk about it before you think about it. Don't lie to me. You know there are so many people here. I asked one by one, who would have a different story from you, your fate would be worse than them. I will dig out your eyes and throw them here to feed the wolf."

"I didn't lie, we are from the Ministry of Joseon."

"Chuyue tribe? That's north of Gaochang. My emperor appointed the leader of Chuyue tribe as Chuyue Marquis and the prefect of Shatuo County. Do you think I don't know the geographical direction of the Western Regions?" As he said that, he raised the hammer and hit it directly, and the man screamed.

The hammer did not hammer his knees, but directly shattered his three toes.

"Speak well, make it clear."

"We are really from the Chuyue Department, and we swear to Changshengtian!" the man shouted in pain.

Team Xiao was turning around and discussing with his subordinate Zhang Laosan and others for a few words, "Why did the Shatuo people in Gaochang run to Kucha?"

Chuyue tribe, also known as Shatu people, is a tribe other than the ten tribes of the Western Turks. It was nomadic in the northwest of Gaochang. It was once under the jurisdiction of Luntai established in the Han Dynasty. It was named Shatu people because it had large sand dunes.

The Shatuo tribe took Zhu Xie as its clan. After the Qin Dynasty sent troops to attack and destroy the Khan of Shekui and established the Khan of Dulu, the ten Western Turkic surnames and other affiliated tribes basically surrendered to the Qin Dynasty. They went to Luoyang to pay homage to the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, sent their children to the Imperial College of Luoyang, or served as guards in the inner corps.

The emperor defined boundaries for each department, established counties and counties based on its territory, divided the fiefs of states, and granted them the title of Duke and Marquis, which was considered to have included them in the Qin Dynasty's system.

The ten prescriptions of Shi Jin and Chuo were mostly granted the titles of county dukes, while the other leaders of the tribes were mostly granted the titles of marquis.

Most of their territory are counties.

In this way, coupled with the original countries of Kucha, Shule and other Tianshan, as well as the nine surnames of Sogdian Zhaowu in the river, as well as the Tochar states, a complex Western Regions system was formed.

After the Emperor of Qin destroyed the original local emperor of the Western Regions, the power of the entire Western Regions was redistributed. The new Western Turkic Khan was actually just a puppet and could not actually command the tribes. The countries that were controlled by the Western Turkic in the past basically turned to the Qin Dynasty.

The Emperor of the Qin Dynasty marked the boundary of all the tribes, and the tribes were not allowed to cross the boundary easily. This is very important for the Qin Dynasty to rule the Western Regions.

But now, this nearly 300 horseman said that he was the Chuyue tribe in Shatuo County, northwest of Gaochang. Isn’t that very strange?

"Maybe this guy is lying, let's just ask."

"I didn't lie, everything I said is true. I swear to Changshengtian." The guy screamed in fear, and even struggled to pull his collar open.

"In my chest, there is a sand wolf, which is a sign that only our soldiers from the Chuyue tribe have."

Zhang Laosan cut his clothes with a knife, and indeed saw a wolf on his chest. The characteristics of this wolf could be seen as a wolf that appeared in the desert.

"Then tell me why the Chuyue tribe from Shatuochi appeared near Kucha Bachang City and even robbed and killed my Daqin caravan?"

After asking more than ten people, the answers received were almost the same. They were indeed from Shatuoji, and they were all Shatuo people from Chuyue tribe. However, these people did not follow the orders of their leader Zhu Xie Jinman to rob the Qin Shang. On the contrary, Zhu Xie Jinman led 7,000 tents to the Great Qin and was appointed as the Marquis of Chuyue and the prefect of Shatuo County. He was very sensible because to the south was Gaochang County of Daqin, and to the west were Yili and the 72 heroic officials of Daqin. He was caught in the middle and did not dare to do anything randomly.

The tribe is already short of people, only 7,000 tents, and is in a poor territory like Shatuochi, so it has no strength to blow up the thorns.

However, because the Shatu tribe is located in a poor environment, a long time ago, the Shatu tribe's people were famous for their bravery and good fighting, and they often make a living by fighting and looting.

Now that the Western Turks have fallen, the Shatuo people have been trapped and their territory cannot be easily left. The Western Regions have become stable under the rule of the Qin Dynasty, and there is no war to fight, and there is no chance to rob. It is actually quite difficult to live a life of grazing just by leaning on Shatuo Drizzaria.

As a result, many Shatu men left their hometowns and went to other places to receive employment and became mercenaries. They were either guarding caravans or guarding other tribes and leaders of the country.

These three hundred people were Shatuo mercenaries who came from Shatuochi. They came to Kucha, accepted the employment of a noble man from Kucha, and became the private guards of the noble man.
Chapter completed!