Last time, the news of Hou Jie's claim to be emperor was delayed for more than two months before it reached Li Jie's ears, for which Fujian set up a bureau and nine branches in West Asia, and sent a message with a harrier eagle along the way, ten days and two hours, the city of Damascus was broken, the prime minister Sarawa, the general Faisal and other thousands of Abbasid core ministers were killed, and the caliph Hou Jie raised fire ** and burned the huge Damascus Palace into a white ground, and the news arrived in Fujian.

At this time, Li Jie was no longer in command of Posis, but went north again and arrived at a place closer to Chang'an.

Next to it is the Chu River in Central Asia, surrounded by the snow peaks of more than 3,000 meters at the western foot of the Tianshan Mountains on both sides, the widest part is more than 80 kilometers, and the narrowest place is only more than 10 miles.

In the narrow part of this narrow corridor, a rather large and magnificent fortified fortress suddenly appeared, and the towering rammed earth walls stood between the majestic mountains and rivers, holding the golden Silk Road that ran from east to west.

More than 100 years later, this great poet will be born, filling in an indelible brilliance to the most brilliant era of the Tang Dynasty.

That person is Li Bai, and this city is the westernmost Broken Leaf City of the Four Towns of Anxi.

However, now, this is no longer the Broken Leaf City of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, but the Strip Branch Protectorate under the Dadu Protectorate in the Hezhong River of the Fujian Kingdom, where the Broken Leaf Detention Prefecture is located.

After more than a year of friction, fighting, intrigue and betrayal, the Western Turkic Turkic Khanate, which was nomadic in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, also bowed their arrogant heads to the King of Min.

Under the city, the noise kept ringing.

"The ministers and others pay a visit to the capital protector of the river."

It was more than a hundred Turkic tribal nobles who declared their allegiance to Li Ranzai, and behind them, a hideous wolf-headed totem was fluttering in the gale, but the owners of the wolf's heads were like tamed dogs, lying on the ground and trembling, not daring to be disrespectful at all.

Under the command of more than a dozen cavalrymen holding the banner of the Hezhong Metropolitan Protectorate, after more than a year of grassland fighting, Li Rang, who has become more mature, is proudly standing above the war horse, accepting the worship of many unruly steppe wolves in a lofty attitude.

It is not an easy task to make these free, savage, and ferocious nomads submit, and what is to be done is to be more savage, ferocious, free, and warlike than them.

The reason why nomads have become a nightmare for farming people is because they come and go like cavalry, unparalleled mobility, and can attack the farming world at will at any time, while farming civilizations cannot organize such mobilization capabilities.

The 50,000 Hezhong Iron Army are almost all locally recruited tribes, and they are usually nomadic as pure soldiers in the border of the Hezhong Metropolitan Protectorate, and pay military expenses with the past business travel taxes of Hengros City to maintain the peace of the Silk Road.

And they also served another mission, pounced like wolves into the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, sweeping away the local Turkic tribes.

On the steppe, the tribes are not without disputes, for the pasture, for the blood feud, there are endless disputes with each other, but like the Hezhong Army, there is no production at all, there is no family drag at all, and they are constantly harassing and fighting day and night, even the warlike Turks can't stand it.

When the whole sheep were slaughtered, while drinking milk wine, while waiting for the milk skin to ripen in the pot, the black and oppressive river cavalry came up like a hornet, and the Turkic warriors who were tired of coping had to get on their horses again and again to fight, and again and again with the tribe to migrate, the newborn died in the escape, the horses, cattle and sheep became emaciated, and the tactics of the nomads who had always robbed the agricultural empire were used in turn on themselves, and they could not stand it.

Coupled with the persuasion of the Turkish nobles who surrendered to the court, the unbearable Tuqi Shi lords finally became angry and followed the fire-spitting fairy Khan of Chang'an and returned to the river.

Lacking the support of the local tribes, even the strong Anxi Iron Army could not support it, so it had to retreat back to the Green Ridge under the disappointed order of the old capital governor Cheng Mingzhen, leaving the Broken Leaf Town that had been built with great difficulty to the Fujian army.

Below, Li Rang accepted the worship of the Turks, and on the city wall, Li Jie kept looking at the east, a cold horizontal knife was held in his hand by one hand, far away in front of him, after the experience of more and more narrow eyes narrowed slightly, a fierce breath was reflected from his eyes.

"Chang'an!"

Looking at it from a distance, the slightest words squeezed out of Li Jie's mouth.

But at this time, there was a sudden sound of footsteps under the city tower, which was the unique sound of Min ** boots and masonry colliding, and after a while, an officer wearing black armor, crossed swords and shields on his chest, and wearing a black hat on his head, walked up quickly.

After Xue Zhiguan's rebellion, the secret guard of the police force in charge of intelligence was cleaned by Li Jie and Wu Meiniang, and even the governor who once commanded the entire secret guard was divided into three, not subordinate to each other, and was only responsible for the king of Min.

This is the policeman Zuo Du Lieutenant Zhu Rongguang who accompanied the car.

Without extra words, Er Zhu Rongguang knelt directly on one knee on the ground and held a bamboo tube in both hands.

Unexpectedly raised his eyebrows, and finally put away the knife, Li Jie casually took the bamboo tube and unscrewed the wax seal, read it at a glance, and after a while, extremely complicated emotions were revealed on Li Jie's face, and finally he put down the note inside as if he was relieved, and his hands hung down on both sides of his body.

"Go down."

After kowtowing, Er Zhu Rongguang retreated down the stairs without saying a word.

The flags of the Fujian Kingdom on the gatehouse of the Tianshan Mountains were blowing fiercely, and with his hands behind his back, Li Jie looked at the vast snow of the Tianshan Mountains in front of him again, until a few moments later, another heavy military boot stepped upwards at a rapid pace.

"Father!"

Dressed in heavy armor with polished silver scales, and wearing a heavy helmet of gods covering his cheeks, like an iron man, Li Rang walked up quickly.

From the beginning of the establishment of the Hezhong Metropolitan Protectorate, Li Jie gradually let go, and the big and small things of the Metropolitan Protectorate were for Li Rang to decide alone, and over time, this was surrounded by Confucianism since childhood, especially the eldest son of the King of Min who was like Emperor Wen in later generations, and finally exercised a heroic spirit in line with the Tang Dynasty in the seventh century.

But today, it was the day when the Turks were completely annexed, and Li Rang still showed a lot of roughness and impulsiveness that belonged to young people, barely supporting an arrogant and majestic look After accepting the worship of the Turks, he walked up the castle tower with excitement and hurriedly, like a child who wants to show off his achievements to his parents.

"Father, the twenty-two departments of the nine surnames of the Tuqi Shi have been subordinated to my Damin, and the Lord Suo Ge has been elected as the Khan of the Tuqi Shi, and the Tiaozhi is the protector of the palace."

"Although Cheng Mingzhen's old man ran fast when he saw the opportunity, he didn't run far, and all the departments expressed their willingness to send troops to follow Wang Shi to fight together, Father, why don't we continue to attack to the east and fight directly to Guanzhong, right?"

The hand with leather gloves pointed to the east excitedly, and Li Rang trembled a little excitedly when he spoke, but Li Jie shook his head, not a trace of pleasure, but sighed.

"If you don't fight, our class will return to the court."

"Why?"

The contest between the two protectorates has always been Li Rang's total goal, seeing that there is a chance to completely strangle the old enemy Anxi Protectorate, but suddenly withdrawing the troops, it is no wonder that Li Rang, who has always been obedient, screamed incredibly, but at this time, a heavy cough behind Li Jie made Li Rang can't help but stiffen.

That is the great Sima of the Hezhong Metropolitan Protectorate, Shangzhu Guoxi Jun buy, was arranged by Li Jie to assist Li Rang, and is also the second official master of Li Rang after the old Yang Yi, so many years have passed, Xi Junmai now has a lot of heroic old feelings, no longer the majesty of the white horse to break through all enemies, there are a lot of age spots on his face, and his beard is half white, and even because of the pain on the battle in the early years, he still trembled slightly in the cold wind of the Tianshan Mountains.

However, the solemnity and majesty of ten thousand enemies cannot be washed away by the years no matter what, and there is even a feeling of old and strong.

Listening to Xi Junmai's reminder, Li Rang suddenly remembered his abruptness, after all, he was the governor of the capital, a general, not the king of Min who decided everything, Li Rang, who had come to his senses, hurriedly knelt on one knee and kowtowed with a little trepidation.

"The minister is guilty."

"Alright."

Li Jie waved the sleeves of the wide royal dress again, and said a little lazily: "Get ready, the class teacher will return to the court." ”

The sun gradually sinks in the west, reflecting on the snow-capped mountains, a brilliant orange and red reflect far away from the mountains, at the foot of the mountain, the city of broken leaves that can give birth to great poets, but once again empty, the river army light cavalry raided, did not plan a lasting supply line, did not have the conditions to stick to this Silk Road, had to give up.

Like a long dragon, the 50,000 Fujian army waved its flags and began to slowly move south against the slanting sun, dozens of tribes and hundreds of Turks who had just surrendered to the Fujian State were lined up with doubts on both sides to see off the Hezhong army, but the hearts of the Turks were full of doubts and suspicions.

retreated in such a hurry, could it be that something happened to the Fujian country?

Perhaps, we can make our own decisions again?

It's just that thinking about the locust-like tactics of the Fujian Kingdom, no one dares to show their thoughts on their faces.

Looking back at the Broken Leaf City under the afterglow unwillingly, Li Rang's fists clenched and gurgled, and he shouted heavily in his heart.

I'll be back!

Unfortunately, Li Rang didn't know that he had been linked to another land all his life, and from his accession to the throne to his death, he never had the opportunity to walk this Silk Road again......

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