"Everyone, hurry up, you can leave everything except food!"
A long group of human dragons advanced towards the east. They were Ratan tribesmen and the bodyguards led by Raja Sri.
Among them, there was no Ratan Tata. He stayed in Ratan City with the last Ratan warriors.
In his words, someone must slow down the Arab army, otherwise these tribesmen will not be able to escape the pursuit of the Arab cavalry.
When every nation is living or dying, there will always be some people who stand up and become heroes.
"Is your body okay?" Raja Sri looked at the Tang Gui, the manager of Tang's Trading Company, beside him.
"It's okay. I will definitely stick to the mine and tell my boss what happened."
We don’t know when the Arab army will return to Ratan City again, and we don’t know how long Ratan Tata can defend it. Everyone can only speed up as much as possible.
Finally, one afternoon, they followed Raja Sri back to the mine.
This place is still under construction, and most of them are slave workers from Tianzhu, as well as some craftsmen and managers from Tang's Trading Company. They were stunned when they saw so many people like refugees coming.
"I am Tang Gui, the second-level manager of the Tang family. Who is in charge here?" Tang Gui was helped to the front and took out his work badge to prove his identity.
"Hello, Manager Tang. I am Wang Yuan, the third-level manager of the Ministry of Construction." A man also walked out from the mining area. After exchanging work badges with Tang Gui, his identity was confirmed.
"Manager Tang, what's wrong with you?" Wang Yuan looked at Tang Gui and then at the Tianzhu refugees behind him.
He came from Tang Dynasty by boat with Raja Sri. Of course he didn't know what happened in Tianzhu.
So Tang Gui roughly told what happened.
"What!" Wang Yuan exploded upon hearing this: "What kind of bullshit Arab empire has harmed more than five hundred of our brothers?"
Tang Gui nodded with tears on his face: "It's no longer safe here. We have to continue retreating and return to Datang."
Wang Yuan thought for a while and shook his head and said: "If we go back, a large part of the road will be plains, and it will be easy for the Arab army to catch up. Why don't we try our best to clean up the traces of your arrival, and we will hide in the mining area."
"You have also seen that the entrance to this mining area is narrow, and the large-scale Arab cavalry will be useless, and we
There are still four hundred guards coming, plus the guards of Queen Tianzhu, there is no problem in guarding for several days. "
Wang Yuan was originally a veteran in the army and an engineer. After he retired, he was recruited by Tang's Trading Company and became a manager in the Ministry of Construction.
"But, how many days later?" Raja Sri asked: "With so many people and not much food, we can't last long."
Wang Yuan pointed to the north and said: "Then we can only believe our boss. This time we brought fifty carrier pigeons and let them all carry the news. As long as one of them passes the news to the boss, the boss will definitely Find a way to save us.”
Raja Sri, his entourage and the new leader of the Ratan tribe looked at each other. If they evacuate towards the Tang Dynasty, because they don’t know the location of the Arab army, if they are blocked It means ten deaths and no life.
Instead, he stayed here, believing that Tang Ping had more hope of survival.
"Okay, then we will stick here and wait for Duke Ping!" Raja Sri was also a courageous person and gave the order decisively.
Everyone should go in and rest first, and then come out when you are able to work. We can also have some time to build some defensive offensives!
Wang Yuan, who originally thought he could live a stable life after retiring from the army, suddenly felt that his blood was getting hot again, as fighting had become far away from him.
He and Tang Gui arranged for everyone to enter the mining area to find a place to rest while flying carrier pigeons. Then they took the slave workers who were originally from the mine, some residents of Ratan City, and some guards of Raja Sri to start making arrangements based on the terrain. fortifications.
Fifty homing pigeons carrying everyone's hopes began to fly towards the north.
Ordinary homing pigeons can fly about 700 kilometers a day, and carefully fed homing pigeons like Tang's Trading Company can fly nearly a thousand kilometers a day.
Three days later, carrier pigeons landed in Tang's Trading Company one after another.
The expressions of all those who received the carrier pigeon changed drastically.
Tang's Trading Company has been established for so many years, so it is not that it has never encountered bandits and water bandits, but this is the first time that a caravan of 500 people has been massacred.
The news soon spread to Shanghe Village.
Tang Ping, who had just returned from a vacation in modern times, was lying on his chair eating fruit. When he heard the news, he even doubted whether he had heard it wrong.
"What? You mean us?
The caravan of Tang's Trading Company met the Arab Empire's army and were all killed? "
Tang Ping's eyes widened and he took a piece of cloth from a person who came to report, which was tied to the feet of the homing pigeon and brought back to Chang'an.
After reading it, Tang Ping crumpled the cloth into a ball.
"Go and tell your Majesty this matter personally. I'll go pick him up first!"
Tang Ping has never been to the jade mines in Myanmar, but he has been to Ratan City. He first wanted to visit Ratan City, but found that the portal could not be opened.
That can only mean one thing. The room he used to connect to the portal is no longer there.
Thinking about the situation there now, Latan City must have been destroyed, and the room was either burned or destroyed.
So he had no choice but to go to the Qiongzhou Naval Base, which was the closest.
"Ping Guo Gong?" The general at the naval base looked at Tang Ping who was alone and was a little surprised.
"All the boats and people that can move, come with me to pick up people!" Tang Ping was anxious. From here, the fastest ship would take about two days, and the slower ones would even take about five days.
The other party has an army of 50,000 people, and they don't know how long they can defend the mining area.
"Ping Guo Gong, do you have a military order from the Ministry of War to mobilize troops?" the general asked with some embarrassment.
If there were only a few boats out, then he would send them to Tang Ping without even asking. Even if someone asked afterward, no one would cause trouble for him.
Who doesn’t know that this navy was built thanks to Tang Ping?
But now Tang Ping has to mobilize the warships and combatants of the entire naval base without a military order, which means that the Qiongzhou Naval Base will become an airport.
Datang's current system is becoming more and more perfect. It is almost impossible even for Tang Ping to mobilize an entire base of people without military orders.
Only a diehard like Qian Laosan and Luo Laosi would follow Tang Ping regardless of anything.
But now both of them are outside with their fleet.
"There is no military order!" Tang Ping pulled the general over and looked at him: "Listen carefully, five hundred of our Tang people have been massacred in Tianzhu, and there are still about two people who have been slaughtered in Tianzhu. Don’s caravan and craftsmen are waiting for us.”
"As Duke Ping of the Tang Dynasty, I order you to send troops immediately. If there are any problems, I will take care of them!"
