I am the cook, but I am Li Er's son-in-law

There are no people on the city wall.

Xu Fangjing could see that there was a head protruding from the city wall, holding a lantern, as if trying to see what happened to the city gate with all his strength.

Like Xu Fangjing, they don't know what's going on now.

The rangers walked in swaggeringly.

Xu Fangjing and his group were a little hesitant. The situation was so unexpected that they felt a sense of confusion and absurdity.

What about siege?
Didn't you come to attack the city?

If it weren't for the fact that it was night and late at night, he would have even thought that these rangers were simply here to travel and relax.

He dared not go in.

Instead, wait outside the city.

He hoped to hear gunshots, see fighting and blood, and smell gunpowder smoke, but in front of him, the city just across the bridge was quiet, without any movement.

The 400 people who entered just now seemed to be swallowed up by the night.

Until the sun rose in the east, the morning sun walked over from the other side of the mountain, and the river was rippling golden. Xu Fangjing noticed that someone went to the gate of the city, pulled down the flag of Ningyuan Kingdom, and then... planted the Dragon Flag of the Tang Dynasty on it.

what does this mean?
It means that this city has changed its owner, and it has been taken down by Xue Rengui, and it has been given the prefix of Datang.

But... when did you take it down?
Xu Fangjing looked bewildered.

They stared at the tents of the rangers for two days, and last night for the whole night. There was obviously no movement at all. If there is a strange thing to say, the city suddenly opened its doors last night to welcome the four hundred rangers. .

Can…

Why did the city gates open, and why didn't the city's defenders resist?
Countless reasons filled his mind.

"General, General!" The person next to him tugged at his sleeve, and then pulled him out of this nightmare of thinking.

"What's wrong?" Xu Fangjing asked suspiciously.

The soldier next to him sighed and pointed to the Tang flag: "Now the city has hung the Tang flag. If we want to enter the city, that man from County Xue should have taken it."

Xu Fangjing hesitated, then nodded.

Also...

After entering the city, he might know what happened under his nose during this period of time.

They fetched some water from the river, and the river was a little smelly, but...the cold touch after winter made them wake up a lot, and they crossed the bridge and entered the city.

There were no people on the streets in the city, and they were not surprised. It would be strange if there were people after the war.

Can walk slowly.

They found that the reason why there were no people in this city was not because of the war they took for granted when they first entered the city, but because of poverty.

The city is much poorer than they thought.

Occasionally, I would see some people passing by carrying wooden or stone hoes and agricultural tools. When I saw them, people from the Tang Dynasty, I shrank my head and immediately hid aside.

Xu Fangjing and the others were a little confused at first.

It was only later that they realized that their demeanor was far worse than that of these ordinary people, and these people probably regarded them as nobles in the city.

Although it is ridiculous.

But... It is normal for common people to avoid these nobles.

They were like... no, Xu Fangjing used his clumsy Western Region dialect to talk to some courageous commoners, and they didn't even know that the city had changed owners.

war?

That makes them even more confused.

Those people like Xu Fangjing who open and close their mouths are war and war are extremely unpleasant in the eyes of these ordinary people. Although life is a bit bitter now, it is better than the chaos of war.

What's the matter with everyone looking forward to the outbreak of war?

They can't afford to mess with these nobles.

But hiding is always possible.

Xu Fangjing was even more at a loss. Why... people in the city know less than people outside the city?

They groped and walked to the gate of the City Lord's Mansion. The gate of this glamorous mansion was open, and some rangers could be seen walking inside and outside.

Xu Fangjing hesitated for a while, but went in anyway, bowed to a ranger and said, "This strong man, dare to ask where Mr. Xue is?"

The rangers all know him.

This idiot who was caught by himself as soon as he left Kucha.

Seeing him appearing here, he was not too nervous, just smiled slightly: "You guys are here, why did you delay for so long? Xue Lang is waiting for you inside."

Waiting for yourself?

Xu Fangjing was stunned for a moment, followed You Xia'er inside, and saw Xue Rengui sitting in the front hall, holding a booklet, as if he was counting something.

"Xue Lang, this idiot...I brought this general here for you." You Xia almost bit his tongue.

Xu Fangjing looked back at the ranger, and he always felt that... it was not a good word to induce the ranger to bite his tongue.

Xue Rengui didn't give him too much time to think. He grabbed his hand and walked towards the table: "You counted it, why did you come here during the day?"

Xu Fangjing grunted, and honestly explained the reason: "I...we didn't dare to come in last night."

It's so fucking unreal.

"Oh, that's it." Xue Rengui responded calmly, pointing to a few documents on the table, "Does your staff know Western Regions?"

Xu Fangjing nodded, and agreed: "I know everything."

Xue Rengui breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great, you leave a few people here to sort out the things we confiscated, and maintain order in the lower city by the way."

"Notify Datang again, and send someone over quickly to take these things back..."

Xue Rengui ordered to clean up the battlefield.

These are very trivial and troublesome things. With 400 people busy all night, they only dealt with less than one-fifth of them.

Xu Fangjing responded one by one. The group of them came here. Apart from the most important task of "surveillance", helping to deal with the funeral is also one of the tasks.

Wait for Xue Rengui to finish talking.

Xu Fangjing couldn't hold back, and asked, "I don't know something, and I hope Mr. Xue can give me advice."

"Huh?" Xue Rengui made a nasal sound.

Xu Fangjing felt itchy: "How on earth did you take this city down?"

Xue Rengui chuckled, feeling a little complacent: "The left and right are just... solving all these city lords and generals."

Pretty much what he imagined.

After the four hundred rangers entered the city, they carried the city lord and held the heads of those people, and once again showed their identities as Datang people, these troops guarding the city lost their morale to fight.

There are also those who dare to resist.

But... after the shot broke the man's head, the group became more peaceful.

Victory in the strategic sense exists.

Xu Fangjing was stunned, pondering over this sentence - it sounds quite simple and natural.

But how?