The larger the number of people in a marching team, the lower the efficiency and the easier it is to get into trouble. The total number of men in the whole group did not exceed 80,000 men, and together with the vehicles and horses, the team had pulled at least fifteen thousand kilometers, an increase of at least 14,000 men compared to the time when they set out from Sylvane.

These people included scattered people who joined the team in the middle of the process, Central Asian brides bought in Damgan, and more than 3,000 people joined by Herat...... These new recruits always need a period of scouting and adaptation, and then they are broken up and integrated into the various squads.

The division of the squad was planned by Du Ne, Li Xuan, Dou Mo and others with reference to the formation method of the Lao Luo Cavalry School. Each squad has about five or six four-wheeled carriages, plus camels and horses, and the personnel also form a complementary relationship. Competition and comparison between the squads are inevitable, and a virtuous circle is formed.

You must know that the management of civilians is Lao Luo's biggest headache, compared to the simple, direct and rude army, the affairs of civilians are much more troublesome. They don't have so much organizational discipline, and when there are many people, even if Lao Luo has three heads and six arms, he can't do it.

Fortunately, Du Ne's persuasion with reason, Li Xuan's delicacy and meticulousness, combined with the stubborn old man Dou Mill's rough voice, are really invincible.

Organization and management is really a social science, even if Lao Luo, the elite of the army in later generations, will inevitably not think of it for a while. So after seeing the play of Du Ne, Li Xuan, and Dou Milling, Lao Luo inevitably sighed a little, really don't take the ancients as fools, although their knowledge may not be as systematic as that of later generations, but intelligence and machine change will never be weaker than later generations.

In addition, five miles away from the procession, there were about two thousand merchants who followed, that is, the aforementioned Nouak's party. These people all hoped to follow the brigade to the east to trade, and when Lao Luo led the team to camp in the east of Mashhad, they stopped in the city of Mashhad, and now they have begun to follow all the way again.

The difference is that these people are much more honest than when they first followed the city of Rai, and they no longer dare to have any strange tentative behavior - it is really Lao Luo who led people to kill tens of thousands of Turkmen and frightened them, and the title of Butcher Luo is not only for the homeless people in Rai City.

In later generations, excessive and indiscriminate use of force may provoke some public condemnation, but in this era, force is the most effective tool for self-preservation in this land.

Lao Luo is now leading the team to play the role of getting the highest force, and the united Turkmen have been beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, can anyone else play?

Don't think that news is really slow in this era, things like tribal wars are often passed on by word of mouth, and the non-stop merchants and herdsmen who live in the grass are the transit points for spreading the news. The return party had not yet left Mashhad, and news of the war in Herat had spread to Kashgar and Samarkand in the north.

Therefore, after leaving Mashhad, there were no scattered nomadic tribes in sight in the vast procession, and even the bandits who used to roam around the procession were nowhere to be seen.

For seven days in a row, Gonzhas muttered in Old Luo's ear more than once, "Where have the damned bandits been hiding?" I'm thinking of using them to train the new fighters. ”

The new soldiers are selected from the crowd rescued from Herat, they are now recovering their physical strength quickly, and they basically have the experience of fighting with one hand, but the simple marching drill is not to see the real level, if you want to find out, only with actual combat can you see how they play in battle.

Guan Hexi unexpectedly entered the cavalry school, because of his good quality, after several rounds of fist and foot weapon competitions, he became a captain in the cavalry school. Since I haven't been worried about eating and drinking recently, I don't have to worry about being whipped and scolded every day, so the whole person seems to be inflated, and he looks strong, "Sir, can you expand the range a little?" Maybe those guys aren't hiding far......"

The people in the team are very quick to adapt, including Guan Hexi, a rough embryo like Guan Hexi, this place can't adapt to the environment has long gone underground, so he is very proficient in calling his boss a chief.

"No, our purpose is to protect the team's marching speed, not hunting, you bastard dare to make a fool of your ideas, beware of the blue-eyed Sidik getting into trouble with you!" Gonzhas wanted to make a move, but Lao Luo's military order was no joke.

"Hey, sir, it's not like I haven't used a knife with someone for a long time, and my hands are itchy!" That's right, since this Hexi man changed his armor and was issued with weapons, he couldn't bear to prove something.

"Shut up, you bastard, you haven't had a day of leisure since you were full...... "The reason why Guan Hexi followed Gonzas was because Lao Luo felt that this guy might be able to play some unexpected role when he went to the East, so he ordered the white bear Gonzas to bring this hearty man.

"Hmm......" Guan Hexi heard the impatience of his boss's boss, and hurriedly quieted his breath.

……

Not only did his soldiers feel bored, but even Lao Luo felt that it was not easy to live without bandits to relieve his boredom. There are no obvious road marks on the long barren beach or dry meadow, and if it weren't for some guides in the team who are familiar with the water and soil, I am afraid they would have taken the wrong path.

It's like driving down an empty highway in the afterlife, dull and sleepy.

The countries of this era are different from those of later generations, and in many cases, the extent of the map recorded in history is only the sphere of influence of the regime, and this range is not necessarily effectively controllable. In fact, many so-called dynasties or dynasties have very small populations, so small that only a few crude cities can accommodate all their populations, and this characteristic is most obvious in Central Asia, and then the rulers of the cities either maintain their rule through business or through plunder, and of course there are also other countries that cultivate farmland in the cities, but this is not very common.

The remaining blank wilderness was the sphere of activity of the nomadic tribes, who existed as tribes, paying taxes to the rulers living in the cities and providing war auxiliaries. When tribes are dissatisfied with the policies of their rulers, they migrate or rebel. So it can be said that the Central Asian kingdoms of this era did not have so much authority over the region, and this tradition continued until a thousand years later, when the local politics of countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Syria were decided by clan elders.

"I can't see anyone, this kind of place is really desolate......" Li Ji tightened the robe on her body, sat lazily on the back of a camel, and said to Lao Luo next to her.

"Well, there's no bandits to relieve the boredom, it's really boring." Lao Luo was also on the back of a camel, and in front of him was Hua Biao, who had the same lazy expression and squinted eyes, this little thing was tired of running, and began to stick to Lao Luo's side again.

"Hey, the bandits are all frightened by your ferocity, third brother, how dare they come to provoke us?" When you don't have to rush to the road, the camel's pace always seems slow, so the fire lady's expression is also very lazy.

"Maybe after the Wuhu water, the Qarluqs and Uyghurs will bring us a little fun?" The information from the scouts in front has not yet been transmitted, and Lao Luo does not know the exact situation, but according to the military history he knows, the Ghaznavids were still stronger than the Qarakhanids during this period.

"Wuhushui, the Turks seem to have always called it Amu Darya, the Qarluq people should be difficult to stop you, third brother, right?" There was a powerful man beside him, Li Ji felt that there was nothing to worry about, and when it came to the traitor in the eyes of the Tang people, he also looked careless.

"I wish the Qarluqs could be like the Ghaznavids......" Lao Luo squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, but only half of his words were spoken.

"The same thing?" Li Ji asked.

"The same hard bones, so that I can kill them with peace of mind." Indeed, Lao Luo still retains a little bit of the passive counterattack concept of later generations, and if the Qarluq people behave like soft bones, he really doesn't know how to choose.

“…… Third brother, are you really ...... "shameless?" Or tough, or something else? Li Ji couldn't find the right adjective.

"Look ahead, it seems to be a river, it should be in Wuhu Water......" Lao Luo didn't pay attention to Li Ji's words, because he saw a bright line on the ground in the distance, if it was right, it was the Amu Darya River in the future.

……

The earliest record of the name of Wuhu water is derived from the Greek word Oxus, which was transliterated as Wuhu water in the Tang Dynasty, and the Turks called it Amu Darya. It is a river that flows into the Aral Sea from east to west, and because of its rapid flow in the upper reaches of the mountain valley, the middle and lower reaches are much more soothing, and it is the main river suitable for irrigation in this part of Central Asia.

The section that Lao Luo and his team came into contact with was a relatively soothing area, the river was more than 200 meters wide, and the shallowest part of the water was only more than one meter - it was possible to use the airbag raft that had been prepared in Sylvan to build a pontoon bridge.

The rivers I passed along the way were not very deep, so I never used them, and now it seems that the preparation work was not in vain, because I don't know when the problem can be easily solved.

When the excitement came, the idle cavalry cadets were no longer idle to do, and Gonzhas sent out all the brave fellows, at least a thousand of them—their task was to swim to the other side to set up a cordon, and a group of fellows put all their armor on horseback, and then led the horses shirtless and began to cross the river.

Fortunately, it was not too cold at this time.

In addition, hundreds of strong men in the garrison camp came out, everyone puffed out their mouths and held a cowhide air bag to blow there, this work made a group of strong men glow with childlike innocence, plus there were thousands of brides to be married next to them to cheer and cheer, the children of the boy camp were not allowed to interfere, some of the little guys who were anxious screamed, and the elderly people on the floating car looked at the scene and smiled silently, how could it be lively.

Although Guan Hexi's name has the word "river" in it, he is not a man who can swim in the water, so he has to watch the excitement on the side in a daze.

"I heard that this kind of tool for crossing the river was prepared by General Luo, it seems that this team of people is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger." Yan Songming jumped off the horse, walked to Guan Hexi's side, and said in a deep tone.

"The general is really good, not only this kind of raft, but also those big balls that can float in the air, and the carriage with four wheels are all made out of the master......" Guan Hexi participated in the affairs of the army and had communicated with some former gladiators, so naturally he knew much more than Yan Songming, who had been mixing among the civilians.

"I don't know what kind of world General Luo has been like after he arrived in the East."

"What do you want to do so much? Anyway, the second half of the generation is all handed over to the general, what about you, scholar? ”

"Scholars don't know how to choose......"

"You scholar is not happy, who saved your life? It's not that the Lord will lead the team to save people, you and Ne are still slaves in the hands of the Turks! ”

“…… Brother Guan is right! ”