The thirteenth year of Jian'an, August. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The heat is even more frustrating in the west-northwest, as camels lick every piece of exposed sandstone and draw a meager amount of salt from it. The noon desert looks like smoke from afar, and a piece of land is called Wuhua, adjacent to the Yarkand River.

East from Longdu ...... Nine thousand miles.

It seems that the farther you go west, the sun is a few points bigger than Liangzhou, and the road is deserted, and you can't see a city for ten days and half a month.

This is the westernmost point of the Western Regions, only separated by a mountain, and is the territory of the Kushan Empire.

But that mountain, which was later called the Himalayas, is still difficult for humans to climb even 1,800 years later.

The horse did not travel 9,000 miles to cross the mountains with an army of 160,000, he just wanted to take the soldiers and horses to be stationed north of the mountain range for a year and a half, and give Guishan enough intimidation, that's all. Of course, this is not to say that the conditions offered by the Liang State for the countries of the Western Regions are just a piece of paper, the war is naturally to be fought, and any country that can compete with the Great Han or Xianbei cannot easily succumb to intimidation.

Only blood and fire can leave a deep enough imprint on the hearts of the ignorant.

An army of 160,000 without peasants. Most of the baggage was salt, grain, and forage, and there were gaps every few hundred miles in the distant mountains, allowing small armies to travel all the way to the Kushan border.

Because of this, Ma Yu stationed the camp on both sides of the Yarkand River, stretching for hundreds of miles. Every ten years, hundreds of small armies under their own command were sent out from the mountain roads to infiltrate the Kushan border, plundering, killing, and returning. At such a speed, the entire army can be thrown into the Kushan territory for training in two months...... Of course, people will die in battle, but in such a march, thousands of people will be lost in the desert, and some people will naturally die if they go deep into the enemy territory.

Ma Play is not responsible for those, he only sits in the Chinese army to celebrate the return of the warriors.

In the camp, Ma Wan and Su Ze had already set up a banquet, waiting for the return of the warriors from the Western Regions.

"What is the origin of this group of people who came back today, you seem to be quite close to them." Ma Yu looked at the map and thought about the follow-up battle plan, and asked Su Ze, "I think they seem to be from ...... Horse bandits and sand thieves. How do you value such people? ”

Su Ze was born in the Su clan of Liangzhou, which was a rare family in the early years of Liangzhou, and when he followed the horse into the Western Regions, he also became a young man and became a Taishou, although he was stained with a little bit of Liangzhou's civil strife and no one was able to use the light, but his background was there. Ma Dong couldn't figure out how Su Ze was willing to get involved with these horse bandits and sand thieves, and he still valued one of them very much, and mentioned this gang of bandits in front of Ma Yu more than once.

Looking at Su Ze's meaning, he wanted to return to the Western Regions and let Ma Play receive this rabble.

Su Ze looked intently at the map, which was drawn by five hundred soldiers and horses from the Liang Kingdom at the beginning of their stationing here, recording the approximate height of each mountain road gap and mountain range in the nearby hundreds of miles. Raising his hand, he picked up a stone and changed his position, and put it on the way to guard the wide mountain road, Su Zecai sighed and said: "It's not easy to meet an old Liangren in the Western Regions, let alone an old Liangren who has made some prestige in a group of people in the Western Regions...... Wei defeat is not easy, and there should be a chance. ”

"What you said about Wei defeat...... Is it a Liangzhou person? Ma Yu became interested, put down the stone in his hand, sat on the ground and asked: "Liangzhou people, he is not good to follow King Liang, what are you doing in the Western Regions, where birds don't shit?" Could it be that he had committed something in Liangzhou before, if he had committed something, it would be easy to say, to see if he had the ability, if he had the ability, Lao Tzu would send him to the Jizhou army, and he would be able to mix up in two years. ”

"I didn't ask in detail, but I guess not only did I commit something, but I may also have something to do with the ministry of Lao Liangzhou." Su Ze stroked his robe, got up and sat on the stool and said, "I didn't expect that Ma Zhengxi also values his background so much now?" ”

"Why do you ask?"

"If it weren't for the horse bandits, you should have taken him under your command." Su Ze smiled and counted the advantages of Wei's defeat and said: "Being able to lead the army, be able to fight, and do something unclean with hands and feet, isn't this exactly the person General Ma needs?" ”

Su Zeke knew that the horse played those bad deeds, burned Yan Wu, killed the little prince Li Zhan, and did nothing less than the black heart...... If he had such a general under him, he could at least teach him to be less infamous in his later years.

"This has nothing to do with background, when I was young, Lao Tzu didn't also make friends with horse bandits, and now which of the generals in Liangguo is clean? Back then, there was really no way, so I burned Yan Shiwu...... Ma's is in decline, and he can only rely on means to establish his authority, have you seen Ma have done ruthless things in the Western Regions for more than ten years? Ma Yu patted his leg leisurely and said: "That's no way, there are no soldiers and no armor, and you can't eat enough, is it really not possible to fight with the four surnames of Longdi?" ”

Su Ze's eyes were full of smiles, he felt that playing with horses was quibbling, and asked: "Yan Shi Wu can't help it, what about Zhang Jiachuan and Li Zhan?" At that time, there were soldiers and generals, and they were still their own people......"

"Li Zhan is not ......" Ma tilted his head and didn't speak for a long time. Su Ze has had a lifelong friendship with him for more than ten years, and if it wasn't for the two of them supporting each other in the first few years of the Western Regions, I am afraid that no one will be able to see the current cool and magnificent scene, but he still held back his heart and whispered after a long time: "Isn't that no way." ”

Su Ze chuckled, what can't be helped, those Chen Mazi rotten grains, what can kill people in these years? Isn't it just a profit...... After slaughtering Li Zhan, you have gained half of the county's land for horse play, why not? However, Su Ze also wondered why no one in the upper echelons of Liangzhou spoke at the time of Li Zhan's death. Did he not speak, or did he not know his identity?

In fact, Su Ze always felt that Ma Wan had raised troops into the Western Regions to atone for his sins, but he didn't think much about the situation later.

"Alright, don't think about it. If you are optimistic about the horse bandit named Wei Defeat, who has the life to survive this battle, I will arrange a good place for him to go back to Longdu. Ma Yu clapped his hands and got up, summoned the herald and asked, "Where have the returned soldiers and horses gone, and it is almost time to get there?" ”

The herald had just received the news, and hurriedly said that the soldiers and horses had walked out of the mountain col, and the whole army would be able to come back in half an hour.

"General Ma, this time you sent troops to bring those five hundred Liangguo armor, not your own soldiers."

"It's not nonsense, your son is in the army, you won't ask him? No matter how prestigious Ma Zhengxi is, he doesn't have the ability to take five hundred Longdu Academy with six-year sergeants as his own soldiers, and they will all be middle-level generals of the Liang Kingdom in the future. Ma Yu glanced at Su Ze angrily, raised his eyebrows and said, "You are right, I didn't deliberately bring your son out, but directly pulled out King Xiaoliang's five hundred pro-army." Set aside five hundred from my own subordinates to make up for King Xiaoliang. ”

Su looked at the horse with a smile on his face, and didn't speak, just waiting for him to say. Ma Yu shook his head, and then he said his full plan this time.

"This time I talked to Guishuang about the war, not only for Liangguo, but also for Ma himself, he has earned enough fame, and Ma will not come out when he returns to Longdu, and he will be a rich man with peace of mind." Ma Yu shook his head and said: "Changing Xiao Qing'er's personal soldiers is not coveting the elite left to him by his father, and his personal soldiers are definitely not the opponent of my five hundred soldiers who killed through the Western Regions." It's just to help him train his soldiers.

I've been settling the situation in the world for a few years. Xiao Qing'er has also reached the age when he should go to the battlefield, and he can definitely catch up with this matter, but his own soldiers can't do it without real experience. This time he entered the Western Regions, to help him train soldiers, so that these people's knowledge and experience can match the number, and become the real elite of the Liang Kingdom, so as to cope with the future situation in the world. ”

Sighing, Ma Yu said: "This is also a good fate for myself, King Liang will naturally treat Ma more closely, but in the future, I will also let Xiao Ma Qing take more care of my father and son, otherwise I will hand over the military power...... Ma is afraid of people's eyes. ”

"General Ma wants to hand over the right to the army?" Su Ze was surprised, such a general of the Liang State to conquer the West, with the merits of the Western Regions twice, if the King of Liang became the Emperor of Liang in the future...... But the indescribable founding feat, seeing that the general trend of the world is only the last enemy, but he wants to hand over the military power and ignore the world? What's more, he Su Ze is a foreign general with the brand of playing horses, and most of the Western Regions protect such a position. I can't help but ask, "What is this?" What should I do if you leave, just die of old age in the Western Regions? ”

"It's okay, don't think about it so much, the position of the protector of the Western Regions will not teach you to sit all the time, who will sit in the position of Dahonglu in the future?" Ma Yu felt very relaxed about this, and said with a smile: "The old guy wants to make way for the young man, we exist in the most difficult and difficult moment in Liangguo, and Liangzhou at that time is our era...... Right now? Look at the soldiers of Liangguo, the generals of Liangguo, you haven't been back for many years, but let me tell you, today's Liangguo doesn't even need generals to fight a battle, and throwing out a hundred tun commanders can make 50,000 troops move freely, it's really different. ”

"Liangguo should mainly have a regular army, and generals like us who came out of the reckless, in addition to the experience of battle, have an understanding of the art of war that is not even as good as that of the children of Longdu who have studied in Longdu Academy for six years. If you don't retreat bravely at this time, how long will you wait? If you really want Ma to sit with the juniors in the future, a certain family will be chic for a lifetime, but you can't lose this person! ”

Su Ze couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, Ma played really chic in this life. Listening to the legend of the old Liangren, when the horse played in his teens, he could walk thousands of miles without even carrying his bags, and he saw what he ate on the road, and he lived very freely. When the first emperor went to the north with his bare hands to enlist in the army, and when the war was over, he wore the whole body of Xianbei armor and waist and five knives, not to mention, and led three horses, and the horse's rump sac was stuffed with the head as a war trophie.

Later, even more so, as soon as he burned Yan Shi Wu in anger, he attacked and killed Li Zhan in a greedy manner, and he won the twenty-seven countries of the Western Regions for the Liang State with high spirits.

Now it is the big seal of the general of Zhengxi, and he said that he would hand over the military power.

Who could be more chic than him?

"When I go back, you only need to remember one sentence, the future official career is immeasurable." Ma Yu looked at Su Ze and said, "As long as your feet are still stepping on this land, it is always right to follow Ma's!" ”