In fact, for the local people, they have never seen such a thing. The city has been taken down, and now they are allowed to leave. This is simply unimaginable. According to some behaviors in their impression, even if the city has been taken down, they should continue to plunder, and all people are resources of the victor.
Especially some young and strong laborers, who are the top combat force for any army. Although they are not expected to go to the battlefield, some miscellaneous tasks can be taken out and left to these captured young and strong men.
For example, feeding horses and cleaning are very tiring jobs. If you don't have to do them yourself, you won't be able to rest well. However, the Tang Dynasty army has no such idea at all. They don't even allow local people to join the army. If you want to approach their army without orders, the musketeers may directly shoot you to death.
The local people didn't understand what was going on, but the Tang army knew it very well. Now the secret of gunpowder could no longer be hidden. The people of the Arab Empire also knew about it, so they tried every means to get it. However, the Tang army would not spread the gunpowder. Many soldiers had to find a way to destroy the gunpowder even when they were dying.
If you want to store something like gunpowder, it may not be that easy, but if you want to destroy it, it is still a very easy thing to do. Just a small flame will blow these things into ashes. Apart from smelling some smell on the spot, it is not easy to find some ashes. Of course, you can still find some ashes in a large-scale explosion.
It is said that people in the Arab Empire are also researching this thing, and they have even captured some prisoners from the Tang army in order to let them develop these things. Fortunately, Li Xiang strictly controlled this thing at the beginning. Except for the manufacturing institute in Chang'an City, other places did not know the formula of this thing. Although it can be slowly stabilized by trial and error, this time is too long, at least it will take several years or even more than ten years.
For these science and engineering experts in modern society, it is very easy to make the oldest gunpowder. All they need is a weighing device and find the raw materials.
But for people of that era, this was a huge project. If you wanted to make gunpowder, various attempts were necessary, and in the process of trying, you really don’t know how many people would die.
In fact, there are records in Chinese history that the development of gunpowder is a very dangerous activity. If you are not careful, human lives may be lost. The people of the Arab Empire only want to force things to happen, and have no theoretical basis at all. So if they want to develop it, it will probably be extremely difficult. This is what Li Xiang is not worried about.
In history, the Arab Empire did obtain some gunpowder, but it was from the Tang Dynasty. However, they did not develop it further. At that time, I still thought their scimitars were more useful. Unfortunately, now in front of the Tang Dynasty army, this so-called tactic is of no use at all.
Within three days, one-third of the people in the city left. Although the Tang army behaved very friendly and did not do anything to them, these people still felt that they should return to their own territory. Moreover, if the Tang army did not cause trouble for them now, it might be because of some specific reasons. When their large troops arrived, they might not be able to survive.
So these people did not delay at all. When the city gates opened, they took their families and left. Even if they lost their property, they could still earn it back. Moreover, these people also had very capable relatives and friends in other cities, so they could definitely make a comeback. But if you stay in this isolated city, it is hard to say what the future will be like, after all, this place has already belonged to the Tang Dynasty.
According to some people's observations, the Tang army was different from the Arab army. Whenever the Arab army captured a place, the first thing they would do was to rob the entire city, and then continue to attack the next city. If they were able to occupy the place, they would appoint officials to station troops there. If they were unable to occupy the place, they would burn it down after the looting. Anyway, anything they could not rule had to be burned down, just like a swarm of locusts.
But after the Tang army entered the city, they strictly prohibited anyone from destroying it, including the outer walls, which were all protected. It was obvious that the Tang people had an idea, which was to take the city for themselves. So if you continue to stay in this city, do you want to be their obedient subject? I'm afraid they don't need it.
After these people left, more houses became vacant in the city. Many Tang Dynasty soldiers could not find a place to live, and they did not want to continue living in tents. They had been on a long journey for one or two months, resting in tents every day. The tents were like their homes. Now that they lived in houses, they felt the comfort of houses.
First of all, you can no longer feel the whole house shaking. If you are in a tent, you will actually feel very insecure. The wind and sand in the desert are quite strong. When the strong wind comes, you are always afraid that your tent will be blown away. Once it is blown away, you will have to sleep outdoors, which is not a good thing for anyone.
The second thing is various snakes, insects and plagues. There are so many of these things. For ordinary soldiers, they are not afraid of dying on the battlefield. Fighting is commonplace for them. But if they are bitten by these poisonous insects, I really don’t know what to say. Is this the end of their lives? I guess many people are upset.
Nowadays, people living in cities say that the outside of the city is also very chaotic, with all kinds of poisonous insects everywhere, and they have to be careful when they go out. But it is different in the city. Human wisdom is endless, and poisonous insects will not choose places where humans gather, because they have fought with humans before, and ultimately lost more than they won. Therefore, in places with more people, especially in human cities, these poisonous insects are very rare.
Now living in the city, Tang soldiers can finally get rid of these things...
