Pan Xiaogu stayed in the Qianyue Territory for seven or eight days, in addition to dealing with the transfer of reinforcements and the construction of his own territory, he also took time to establish a new territory in the east and south of Xianyue Township, and completed the plan to build a territorial group.

After all this was done, Pan Xiaogu returned to Persia with the last batch of recruits.

The fish-men in the river seemed to be really scared and never appeared again, but Pan Xiaogu did not let down his vigilance, and when passing through the Taniguchi camp, he ordered the troops stationed in the camp to be vigilant at all times, and to improve the defense of the camp as the main task before new gunpowder was produced.

Ten days later, Pan Xiaogu returned to the camp in Canalan with more than 800 recruits and more than 60 inheritors.

"Reykmund was defeated by Her Royal Highness the Princess of Tus City?" As soon as he returned to the camp, Pan Xiaogu received a message from the Sogdian Gitak.

After conquering Chanalan City, Gitak officially gained Pan Xiaogu's trust and was allowed to reply to his own chamber of commerce.

Gitak not only used the channel of the Chamber of Commerce to help the Five Rivers Army exchange some of the captured booty for the materials urgently needed by the army, but also collected a lot of intelligence.

"Yes, Your Excellency Governor. After the thief was defeated by the Lords, the thief in Redmond has been looting on the other side, breaking through several villages and towns. The plundered towns were no match for him, so he surrendered to the city of Tus and asked for reinforcements, and just five days earlier, Princess Tamina had defeated Rekmund's army at Sylvain. ”

Pan Xiaogu was a little interested in Rykmund, a Europa exiled to Central Asia, so he asked curiously

"Is Redmond dead?"

"Not really, this thief is very good at escaping, and I heard that he fled from the battlefield again, but it is said that his knights of the guard suffered heavy casualties, and his soldiers also fled." Gitak replied.

"In that case, then leave him alone. But this guy got me in a big problem. "Originally, the south bank of the Panyang River was occupied by some weak local forces in Khorasan Province, and these people were originally in a semi-independent state of disobedience to the orders of Tus City, but after the troubles of Rekmund, these forces directly took refuge in Tus City.

Let's not talk about whether these people are sincere or not, their move directly made the sphere of influence of the Five Rivers Army border the sphere of influence of Tus City.

Pan Xiaogu was not sure if the warlike Persian princess would lead an army to attack him.

"Is there any other news in Persia? Where have the Turks and the Great Cannibals hit now? ”

"This ......" Geetak hesitated, and Pan Xiaogu looked at him strangely

"What's wrong?"

"Please forgive me, Lord Governor, the villain's family is just a small chamber of commerce, and its sphere of influence is only limited to a few provinces in the north, and I don't know much about the war situation in the south, so I have only collected some hearsay news." Tajik explained with trepidation.

"What should I do? It's okay, it's not your fault, just tell me what you know. Pan Xiaogu said indifferently, he understood that the establishment of an intelligence network was not an overnight thing, and it had to be done little by little.

"Thank you for your kindness." Gitak expressed gratitude, and then introduced Pan Xiaogu to the current form of Persia.

The situation in Persia could not be more appropriately described in one sentence.

Divided, the country will not be a country.

After the Persian kingdom was conquered by the True God, most of the Persian royal family in the city managed to escape, including the seriously ill Persian king and most of the princes who managed to join the Persian army that had resisted the Turks, and some of them, like the princess and sister Tamina, fled to other Persian provinces to seek refuge from the local governors.

The king of Persia was already seriously ill, and after this toss, he fell into a coma, but the old man's life was very hard, and he kept dragging it out, but it didn't matter if he died or not. Those princes are eyeing the throne that is about to be vacated, these people regardless of the war situation, wantonly woo the generals in the army, expand their power in the army, those royal family members who ran to the local area are also trying to win over the local governors, for a time there was a situation of division and division between the Persian army and the territory.

If it weren't for the fact that the Seljuk Turks and the Great Cannibals were busy digesting the results of the previous war, and the Persians who did not have the strength to deal with the internal fighting, Persia would have perished long ago.

“… Hear from the people who fled from the south that the Great Cannibals are forcing the locals to convert to Christianity, and everyone must convert to the True God Religion. It was horrific that the local True Gods rushed into churches and temples of other gods, slaughtered believers and clergy, destroyed idols, burned scriptures, and dragged those who did not want to convert to the streets, sat on wooden stakes, and skinned for public display. It is no wonder that most of the Sogdians believe in Zoroastrianism, and it is also within the scope of those who must be converted, so it is no wonder that he feels the same way.

Pan Xiaogu glanced at Gitak, and said in his heart, if it weren't for the fact that Brother had made the earth bigger, the current scene in Persia would have happened more than three hundred years ago, and you, the indigenous of Central Asia, would probably be the companion of those guys who let people sit on wooden stakes now.

Monotheism and True God, the fundamentalist religions of the two mothers, will set off more bloody storms in the history of civilization in the future!

However, since they have crossed over and are located in Central Asia, it is up to them to keep them out of the scope of Chinese civilization before these two great religions retreat from fanaticism and barbarism.

"It seems that Persia really can't hold out for long, is there any movement on the part of the city of Tus? Her Royal Highness the princess should already know the news of my invasion of Persia by the Five Rivers Army. ”

"After the army of Tus City had destroyed Reykmund, only a small number of troops remained, and most of them withdrew to Tus City. However, the subordinate chamber of commerce has a shop in the city of Tus, and there is news that the city of Tus is still recruiting troops to expand the army, and it looks like it is going to war. Gitak looked worried.

"Don't worry too much, the expansion of the city of Tus is not for us, it is more likely to deal with the current chaos in Persia." Pan Xiaogu seemed to be comforting and said, in fact, he was using words to clear his mind.

"But aren't you going to take the city of Tous? It is an important gateway to the north. "Gitak has been in the army for so long, and he can guess a thing or two about the strategy of the Five Rivers Army.

Pan Xiaogu glanced at Geitak, a little surprised by his acuity.

"I know that the location of Tus City is very important, it is the southern gate of the sphere of influence that I control now, of course it is good to be able to control it in my own hands, but it seems that it is difficult to do this now, so I might as well put it there first, and let Her Royal Highness the warlike princess guard it for us first. Moreover, from the other party's point of view, they will never take the initiative to provoke us in this situation where they are enemies on all sides, don't forget, we are the Tang Army, and we are backed by the entire Tang Dynasty! ”