As expected, Rezwan was captured, bringing Pan Xiaogu a territory certificate and 1,000 development points.

Just as Pan Xiaogu was preparing to repeat his old plan and attack the next target, Ardak, snowflakes fell in the sky, and the first snow of the year arrived, it was still a blizzard.

The snowflakes swept across the grasslands outside the city in the blink of an eye, sweeping the ground into a new white coat in the blink of an eye.

Accompanied by the wind and snow, the temperature plummeted, and the temperature dropped by about ten degrees overnight, Pan Xiaogu did not have a thermometer, but he was sure that the temperature was definitely below minus ten degrees.

Pan Xiaogu was a little glad that the blizzard had come at the right time, if it was a day at night or half a day earlier, his army would only be able to resist the wind and snow in the wild.

Staying in the field in such bad weather, even if you make more preparations and prepare more supplies, the army will inevitably have casualties, especially those servant troops, most of the equipment except weapons are self-prepared, many people only have a leather jacket to protect against the cold, if they encounter a snowstorm in the field, there will definitely be serious attrition.

However, the army left in the city was not idle, Pan Xiaogu asked each department to organize a post-war summary meeting with a squad and platoon, summarize the shortcomings in the battle, and improve the opinions, and finally these summaries were summarized by the captain and discussed at the regular meeting of the officers, and the results of these discussions would be included in the drill code, and the content of the drill code would be gradually improved.

The servant army also needs to be expanded, as well as other chores such as material collection and town management, and Pan Xiaogu even feels that he is busier now than when he was fighting.

In addition, Pan Xiaogu often brought the traitor Gitak to talk to and asked him about various information in Persia.

"There was no governor in the province of Khazar, and the king of Persia divided the pastures and migration routes for the subjugated steppe tribes, and made the chiefs of these tribes khans to administer the steppes, and these steppe tribes paid a small tax every year, nominally obeyed the rule of the Persian king, and at the king's call, armed with scimitars and horses, to fight for the king."

Gitak was explaining how the Persians ruled in the province of Khazar, and Pan Xiaogu was most concerned about the strength of the various tribes there.

"There are three strongest tribes in the province of Khazar, each of which can raise an army of 10,000, but a year ago the king of Persia gathered an army of more than 60,000 men from the steppes, all of whom were transferred to the west to defend against the Seljuk attack, and have not yet returned. Few tribes in the steppes were able to amass more than a thousand soldiers, even the largest ones. ”

That's good news.

The troops had previously seized a number of maps of Persia showing the distribution of the pastures of the Khazar tribes, but this map showed only the names and locations of the tribes, and nothing more detailed.

At this time, Pan Xiaogu took out this map and asked Gitak to introduce him to the specific situation of these tribes.

Since he knew that the strength of Khazar Province was weak, Pan Xiaogu would of course give priority to attacking these steppe tribes, and of course, before attacking, he would definitely send people to conduct reconnaissance to verify whether the information said by this Hu man who had surrendered to Cheng was true.

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While Pan Xiaogu was hiding in the city of Rezwan to escape the blizzard, Princess Tamina of Tus City also led the newly assembled army to the south to meet the invading enemy.

The other party was a Turkic general under the command of the former governor, and after receiving the news of the death of the former governor, under the banner of avenging the former governor, he recruited troops and horses, and many Turks in Khorasan Province joined him one after another, forming an army of nearly 30,000 people.

On Princess Tamina's side, she barely managed to raise a force of five or six thousand men. However, in terms of high-end combat power, Princess Tamina has the advantage, the princess has a private escort team, with more than 100 people, and the worst people in it have the level of government guards!

Most of these people came from various noble families in Persia, many of them were the best sons of these families, these people were once defeated by Princess Tamina, conquered by the princess's martial arts and beauty, and were willing to follow Tamina as a guard, Tamina was able to escape with her brother in the case of the fall of the capital, traveled thousands of miles to the city of Tus, and pushed her brother to the position of governor of Khorasan, these guards were indispensable!

The wind and snow in the north had not yet affected the central region of Khorasan, and the armies of the two sides camped and confronted each other across a wide valley.

"Go back and tell your Turkic master to end this senseless rebellion as soon as possible and surrender to the noble Ardashir, or tomorrow your blood will fill the valley in front of you!"

In one of the most luxurious tents in the camp of Tamina's army, a Persian princess dressed in ornate armor threatens a messenger-like man.

The messenger did not take Princess Tamina's threat to heart in the slightest, and instead sneered contemptuously

"Your Highness, please recognize the reality in front of you, your army is less than one-fifth of mine, and tomorrow it will not be our blood that will fill the valley, but the bones of your people! It's Your Highness who wants to surrender! ”

The messenger didn't seem to be enough, and continued to provoke in a frivolous tone

"But don't worry, Your Highness the Princess, it doesn't matter if you go to the battlefield tomorrow. When my general heard the rumors of the princess's beauty, he decided to inherit the will of the governor and marry Her Royal Highness the princess as his wife. ”

The messenger looked at Princess Tamina triumphantly, and he regretted that he could not see Princess Tamina's face and could not see the beauty of this princess.

"Bold!"

"Rude!"

The messenger's words angered the others in the tent, especially the princess Tamina's bodyguards, all of whom were loud growlers, and the princess could tear the messenger to shreds with a single word.

Although the messenger's face was pale, he did not show a trace of fear, and ignored these rants, just stared contemptuously at Princess Tamina on the throne.

In order to downplay her female image in the army, Princess Tamina has been wearing a silver metal mask to cover her face, because the mask is obscured, and others cannot see the expression on the princess's face.

However, it is impossible for the mask to even block the eyes, and the princess's eyes can literally spew fire at this time, so you can imagine how angry she is now.

Princess Tamina jerked up a hand to stop the others from snarling and invective, and after everyone had quieted down, Princess Tamina said to the messenger in a cold tone

"Go back and tell your Turkic master that he has succeeded in provoking me, and on the battlefield tomorrow, I will personally cut off his head to wash away the humiliation I received today!"