Alidayi once said that after the resumption of trade with the Liang Dynasty, he would help the Liang army to regain the lost territory, which naturally included the city of Jimo, which was occupied by the Gulans.

However, after the opening of the trade route, Ali Dayi did not take the initiative to bring up this matter, Chen Mu wanted to mention it, but he felt that it was not suitable now.

Because he has another problem that needs to be solved urgently, if this problem is not solved well, it will not make much sense for him to take the end city.

When you arrive in the Western Regions, this place is vast and sparsely populated, from Dunhuang to the end of the city, you have to walk for two days and two nights by carriage. There are post stations in the middle to rest, but they are not very formal, and there are horse thieves from time to time.

This is also the reason why Chen Mu didn't go to the end of the city after he arrived in Putao City last time.

Some people say that with a garrison, the horse bandits should be quickly eliminated.

They say it lightly.

Killing horse bandits is easier said than done.

The difficulty in eliminating horse bandits is not a question of winning or losing a war.

Eight hundred regular troops fighting dozens of horse bandits, it is impossible to have any great difficulty.

The problem is that people don't fight you.

When you come, people will run away on horseback. Wherever those guys go, it's home, and there's no fixed place to find it. Sometimes they are so arrogant that they rob the military, such as forcibly occupying the post station, and the officers and soldiers guarding the post are hung by them on the flagpole and hanged alive.

To this end, Chen Mu formulated a recruitment policy of "official bandit family", recruited local horse bandits, and gave the largest horse bandit leader the rank.

The previous Dunhuang generals also tried to recruit An, but they were unsuccessful.

The reason is that they do not trust each other, and every time they recruit An, the Dunhuang general asks the leader of the big horse bandits to kill a few thorns to show his sincerity.

But this is precisely the most taboo thing for the horse bandit leader.

Once the leader of the horse bandits kills a few thorny brothers around him, then he will have no way to retreat, and he will be at the mercy of others when the time comes.

Chen Mu's recruitment policy is "peaceful coexistence".

You return to the Liang Dynasty, I will pay you military salaries and food according to the treatment of soldiers, and your brothers are still your brothers, and you are in the same establishment.

How can you prove your sincerity?

It's very simple, don't make trouble within three years, that's the greatest sincerity.

When the time comes, I will issue you a Liang Dynasty military registration, go home according to the treatment of veterans, and if you don't have a home, you will be a veteran in the army. This trick was inspired by the "Push Grace Order". Although the form is different, it is essentially the same, slowly disintegrating the horse bandit armament.

Not to mention, this trick really worked, and the problem that many years and generations of Dunhuang generals could not completely solve was solved by Chen Mu lightly.

Ma Zhenshan, the leader of the big horse bandits in southern Xinjiang, personally rushed to Dunhuang to meet Chen Mu, hoping to lead his 300 bandits to the imperial court.

After inquiring, I learned that Ma Zhenshan was also an officer of the Liang Army back then, and became a deserter after the defeat, so he mixed in the rivers and lakes, and with the combat power of Shangliupin, he dominated one side and crisscrossed southern Xinjiang for 20 years. Unify five or six large and small pony gangs. It has become a hegemon in southern Xinjiang.

Only 300 people are a hegemon?

Don't underestimate the three hundred people, they won't go to the siege, they will be stabbed in the back.

Three hundred horse bandits robbed the city of tens of thousands of people, and if they robbed it once, they could live for several months, and if they grabbed a big ticket, it was possible to live for a year.

It seems that Chen Mu underestimated the strength of the local horse bandits before.

"Ma Zhenshan. I named you the cavalry captain of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Division of Shence, would you like to? ”

"Yes! As long as I get rid of the name of this thief, so that I can go home when I am old, I am willing. ”

"Where is your hometown?"

"Chang'an, Yanshoufang." century

"Okay, from now on, the post stations on the border of Shazhou will be under your control, and from now on, your team will implement the military discipline of Shence, can you do it?"

"Although I have been a bandit for 20 years, until now, I still memorize the "Thirteen Slashes" of the Shence Army. In fact, I have long had the intention of surrendering, but the previous Dunhuang Travel School did not give me this opportunity, but played hard with me, of course I can't agree. Not only do I disagree, but neither do my brothers. ”

Chen Mu did not leave Ma Zhenshan in Dunhuang City, but asked him to garrison Shouchang, and told Ma Zhenshan, I won't send you a prison army, but you have to know it yourself. There are a few people around you who are too gangster, and it is impossible to quickly complete the transformation from bandit to soldier. You must educate them well and help them complete the transformation from bandits to soldiers as soon as possible.

Chen Mu invited Ma Zhenshan to take his family to Dunhuang and gave him a house.

Ma Zhenshan said that he must have a lot of children in southern Xinjiang, but he didn't know where the children were, because after those women were used by him, they were all put back.

Chen Mu was speechless.

After temporarily resolving the problem of horse bandits, Chen Mu waited all day, hoping that Queen Gulan would send another envoy to invite him to meet.

But as time passed, Her Royal Highness didn't seem to have that meaning.

At this time, Chen Mu wrote a letter to Kong Xiaoxian and asked for soldiers.

Kong Xiao wrote back to Chen Mu first, but no.

Chen Mu wrote again: If you don't have soldiers, I'll go to the Sogdians for help.

Kong Xiao replied first: Wait for the opportunity to move, so as to do it yourself.

Chen Mu calculated the time and felt that the time was too tight, so he decided to give up the attack before the year and write a threatening letter to Her Royal Highness the Queen first:

"When I was besieged in Dunhuang, you occupied the last small city. When the Liang army was defeated, there was no time to deal with you. Today, the return of the Liang army and the occupation of our city again is an offense to the great powers. I hope that His Royal Highness will judge the situation and not make a big mistake with a small one. When I return to Beijing this time to discuss matters, I will inevitably bring up this matter. The Qur'an survives only in the words of my words. If you don't believe it, you can see the after-effects. The 250,000 Hungarian-Sogdian coalition army is still invincible to our Shence army, and you can't afford to wait for a small country, and you dare to make a mistake? ”

Pick up the pen, brush a little bit, his brush writing is quite not very good, and then let Xiaomei translate word by word, and send someone to send it to Gulan.

This time, Queen Qulan's reply was very fast: "The 30,000 warriors of Gulan are waiting for your return in the last city. ”

As the Sogdian king Alidayi had previously reminded, the Quran queen was not a good man.

Since this is the case, then you don't have to be polite, and when you come back from Luoyang, the first thing you will do is to borrow troops from Alidayi.

"If you provoke us like this, aren't you afraid that Her Royal Highness will come over and kill us first?"

"She won't. If she is really strong, why should she give up Pu Tao City to the Aziman people? And the end city is to the west of Putao City, if we want to recover the end city, we need to first recover Putao City. By the time we start beating Peach City, she won't be so sideways. ”

"So your real target is Peach City."

"Yes. Kill one, bluff one. Solve two problems in one battle. ”

Chen Mu walked out of the room to breathe and watched the craftsmen make the grinder.

I've tried it I don't know how many times, and it's still not satisfactory.

Chen Mu asked the craftsmen to change their thinking, if it really doesn't work, they will all use iron.

I went out for a spin, and when I came back to the house, I just sat down, and the lame man grabbed a handful of melon seeds from his pocket, and swallowed his head. (In the Han Dynasty, Mrs. Xin Chai found melon seeds in her stomach, so Chen Mu didn't think it was strange.) ）

Chen Mu ignored him and looked left and right, Xiaomei didn't know where to go. I guess I went out to buy melon seeds, and the melon seeds in the lame man's pocket were still given by her yesterday.

"From Dunhuang to Luoyang, four thousand miles." The cripple muttered in pieces, and suddenly teased: "Alas, I said that she shepherds brother, when will we leave?" ”

"Hurry up the horse, change the horse at one stop, and arrive at Luoyang in ten days."

"You're going to die on the road?"

"This time it was just the two of us going back. You are a dignified eight-rank general, can't you bear it? ”

"Hehe, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear the loneliness."

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