Li Rang's Hezhong Protectorate now resembles a smaller Fujian state. Li Rang gave an order, and the soldiers within a radius of thousands of miles continued to assemble towards Dubai, Abu Dhabi and other coastal cities as if they had encountered iron filings from magnets.

After arriving in the local area, in order to maintain a huge territory, on the one hand, the Hezhong Protectorate recruited mercenaries locally, and on the other hand, recruited mercenaries from the regional tribes conquered by the Great Min, and retained enough troops to guard each territory, there were still 40,000 people gathered in Li Chou's hands.

20,000 iron horsemen in the river, almost half of Li Rang's family, sitting in the river and the taxes of the Arabian Peninsula, equipped almost better than the sixteen guards of the Great Fujian, all inlaid with iron of the best inlaid armor, one person and three horses, sixty bows and arrows, two bows, high-grade spears and hand-to-hand combat with horizontal knives are available, especially the source of soldiers in the morning and evening, many of the officers are veterans of the retired soldiers of the Fujian King Tielin and the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and the soldiers under his command are almost all Persians, Turks, Alans, Sogdians and the children of the nobles and wealthy families in the Tang people, who have been trained for a long time.

The Tianzhu mercenaries have 3,000 people, although the equipment is not as sophisticated as the iron army in the river, but it is not bad compared to the Arabs, and the vast majority of these people are caravan bodyguards who pass through the Persian Gulf coast all the year round, even if the Great Min tries his best to strangle pirates and robbers, this road flowing with gold is still full of crises, and these mercenaries are tempered by fighting with those outlaws all year round.

There are 6,000 Persian mercenaries, 1,000 Caucasus mercenary cavalry, and the Persians are also selected because of the tyranny of the Arab Empire, bachelors who are ruined, with hatred for the Arabs, these people especially dare to fight and dare to die, equipped with general Fujian soldiers and weapons.

As for the Caucasian mercenary cavalry, the Armenian iron cavalry used to be the main force of the Persian and Byzantine armies for a long time.

The rest were vassal camel cavalry drawn from the Bedouin tribes that had already submitted to the Great Min, and the Arabs' combat effectiveness was obvious to all, but the conquest of Riyadh and the desert Bedouin capital were not reliable.

Fortunately, this time Damin only regarded them as transport soldiers and people.

For this expedition, Li Rang also moved out all his family resources, more than 10,000 camels were full of equipment and supplies, and large buckets filled with water were also piled up into a hill.

Such an army gathered on the outskirts of Dubai City, even Guo Beifeng, who was not too optimistic about this expedition, couldn't help but nodded secretly, if you want to defeat such an army in the field, I am afraid that there is no double Arab cavalry to achieve it, but at this time, Bosman has just ascended to the position left by the old judge, and the people of Riyadh are panicking, I am afraid that he can't even control the six thousand Basra cavalry left by the old judge, such a disparity in strength, Li Chou should be able to capture Riyadh in this battle, Recover the ground for the Arab barbarian attack on the Arab territory of the Transoxiana Protectorate last month.

For this battle, Li Rang also attaches great importance to it, and personally held a grand oath-taking meeting on the outskirts of Dubai Harbour, thousands of Da Min Jing flags are placed in all directions according to the direction of Fuxi gossip, and on the loess mound of high stacks, under the scorching sun on his head, Li Rang meticulously put on his cumbersome and complicated royal robe.

“…… The Arabian barbarians are unkind, and the king of Min gave Lone the right to go out to the desert to break the enemy's capital to repay my great Min Tianwei! ”

The complicated sacrificial text of the expedition was also read out by Li Rang meticulously, the sacrificial text written by the Great Confucian, let him read it for half an hour, when he finished reading, the back of the six-layer silk robe was soaked, Li Rang still seemed to be fine, and he still held up the royal sword given to him by Li Jie when he went out of the town of Arabia, and handed his hands to Li Chou, the general who knelt in front of him.

"Your Highness, rest assured, the minister will be ruined and returned as a thief!"

Under the watchful eye of the Shang Fang sword, Li Chou really felt that the peak of his life had arrived, and excitedly kowtowed to Li Rang, and then Li Chou strode down the altar, pulled out the sword, and shouted to the sky: "Thief!" ”

"Roar! Roar! Roar! ”

In response to his shout, the whole army also raised their weapons and roared in unison.

However, I don't know if it is because the unintelligible sacrificial text is boring, or the sun makes people drowsy, and the roar of more than 40,000 troops makes me feel powerless no matter how I listen to it, and it casts a haze over the expedition.

However, the momentum of the expedition has reached this point, and it can no longer be stopped, the camels are marching on both sides of the team, riding proudly on the back of the Dawan horse of the divine horse, and Li Chou is leading the guards and walking at the forefront of the whole army. Sen Senran's battle formation was like an angry dragon, fiercely piercing into the embrace of the yellow sand, and the roads on both sides of Dubai Harbour were also full of people of relatives and friends who were sending off.

One of the brothers is also full of farewell, and they are sorry to say goodbye.

Still dressed in black armor, bulging by the fat and sturdy body, wearing a helmet that doesn't fit well, Song Jing looks majestic and a little funny, after Xue Ne's recommendation, this time he served as the left capital of the former army from Li Choujun, and sent troops to Riyadh.

Yao Chong is still that little white face, but at this time his clothes have changed a lot, his head is the Jinxian crown of Sanliang, and his body has also changed into a green civil official robe, the last time he put forward his own opinions on the way to govern the Arabs to Xue Ne, Yao Chong finally bid farewell to his military career, and was recommended by Xue Ne to the palace of Hezhong County, and was recruited by Li Rang as a rafter, and was transferred to the civil official of the sixth grade.

In fact, at the beginning, Yao Chong's wish was to be a civil official, to give full play to his talents in the Qinglan case, to be an official, and finally to be the minister of the country, to govern the world, and to join the Confucian soldiers may be just a small wave of his fate, but now, back to the right path, looking at the heroic body of his classmates, Yao Chong always has a feeling of loss, and the words have been confided in his chest for a long time.

However, Song Jing still patted him on the shoulder with an open-minded smile and said: "Okay, Lao Yao, we are also people who have rolled on the tip of the knife, don't be this kind of little daughter posture, besides, this trip my old Song is to make merits, not to send him to death, and he will come back soon." ”

"Aren't you afraid that when the time comes, my old Song official will be big, and you can see the morning light every day when you return to Beijing first, are you jealous?"

Hearing that Song Jing was still making fun of himself with his serious gambling contract at that time, Yao Chong finally laughed a little, and he also looked indifferent, raised his head disdainfully and smiled: "Come on!" Meritorious? Fatty, you protect your life first! ”

"Besides, what the county lord of Chenxi likes is also a personable scribe like this son, old Song, you should save it."

"And not necessarily."

also pursed his lips with disdain, just for a moment, Song Jing still couldn't help but be infected by sadness, couldn't hold back his laughter, sighed and patted Yao Chong's shoulder, and instructed: "Old Yao, the officialdom is not as good as our military camp, I, Song Chuhe, am also from a literati background, and I know the intrigues in the pen, you have to take care, protect yourself carefully, and don't be as arrogant as before." ”

"It's you!" also restrained his smile, shook his head with a wry smile, but Yao Chong suddenly opened his arms and hugged Song Jing's fat body, but just when Song Jing said goodbye from the heart, Yao Chong's mouth close to his ear suddenly whispered urgently.

"Be careful of Li Chou, no matter what time it is, remember to leave yourself a way back!"

Yao Chong's words immediately made Song Jing's eyes widen in astonishment, but after parting, seeing Yao Chong nodding solemnly at himself, Song Jing still swallowed the words back into his stomach, and slapped his right fist on his chest against Yao Chong, who was full of don't invite, Song Jing finally turned around and walked two steps quickly to praise the war horse, and also merged into the rolling torrent of the army.

Looking at Song Jing's figure as he walked farther and farther, and finally disappeared at all, Yao Chong's shrewd Wuren eyes revealed a strong sense of worry.

He was too optimistic about this expedition, although the army of the Protectorate of Hezhong was elite and well-equipped, but this time it was a desert wasteland that had never been reached, the nest of the Bedouins.

Especially led by Li Chou, who is still a talented and cautious clan.

After looking solemnly for a while, Yao Chong hurriedly hugged the case, and returned to Dubai Harbor anxiously, no matter what the victory or defeat was, he would have to embark on a completely different path from Song Jing from now on, and from then on, he would part ways.

This time, as the support of the sixteen guards, the left and right Qianniuwei were also not included in the team, and they were also standing outside the city to see them off, while returning, Sheng Lianshan, who couldn't bear it, couldn't stop complaining.

"I said Brother Li, what a good opportunity this time, the king of Hezhong County personally came to invite us to crusade against Riyadh together, those Bedou barbarians have already been rubbed into balls, such a good military feat, you will lose it."

"Hey, I'm going to be a bird, you, you say! What a chance! ”

The chattering complaints were endless, cold and unguarded, Li Yexu, who had been bowing his head and thinking deeply, turned his head suddenly, and there seemed to be an unprecedented ferocity in his eyes, and there was a cold air on the back of Sheng Lianshan, who was not looking at him, and he couldn't make a sound anymore.

"Brother Sheng, don't you want to fight? Go back and assemble your team now, and don't let the soldiers relax for a moment, I'm afraid it won't be long before even the hard battle you don't want to fight will come to you! ”

was stunned by Li Yexu's cold words, and for a while, until Li Yexu had already walked out of the horse, Sheng Lianshan came back to his senses excitedly, chasing Li Yexu's back and shouting anxiously.

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