The heart is unhindered, and you can be unscrupulous.

This is not a pre-planned act. After coming to Tingzhou, seeing the white hair between Gao Qianqian's green silk, Ma Lan had already made a decision.

The flies in the court are dogs, and they just ignore it. Everything came according to my heart, finish this battle as soon as possible, reopen the Broken Leaf Military Town as soon as possible, advance the territory of the Tang Dynasty to the Zagros Mountains as soon as possible, and then leave the rest of the time for myself and my family.

He has been in this world for more than four years, and most of his time has been spent on the road to war, and he really owes a lot to those who care about him.

Do your part and push the problem to Li Longji to solve. How long you can serve Datang depends on the attitude of this son of heaven.

Anyway, an iron wall has been built on the edge of the Wuhu water, isolating the possibility of Islamic culture spreading eastward, and the original intention of coming to this world has been realized. Other deeds are just icing on the cake, dispensable.

The world is very big, after all, it is impossible to completely conquer it, and it is already very good to drive Hu Da's kingdom out of the territory of the Tang Dynasty as much as possible. Such a feat is enough to be proud of, and it is worthy of anyone.

……

All the Shuofang troops in the inner city were driven out by their own soldiers, and the entire inner city was completely controlled by Ma Lu's men. Yang Guozhong and a cadre of staff he brought with him were all guarded in the yamen, and none of them were allowed to go out.

Soon after Ma Lan and his entourage left the inner city, hundreds of Han naval non-commissioned officers poured into the inner city of Jinman County, strengthening their control over the inner city. These are Du Huaiguang's henchmen, who assisted Ma Lan's personal soldiers to completely control the entire inner city of Tingzhou.

Tingzhou is the largest city at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and the inner city is also extremely prosperous.

The soldiers patrolling the streets have been changed from the Shuo Fang Army to the Han Navy, there is no difference to them, anyway, they are all Tang Dynasty soldiers, and their safety can be guaranteed.

In an elegant courtyard near the city, a few merchants hurriedly entered. Closed the door.

Deep in the courtyard, in the hall, an old man with a red face listened to the merchant's report and waved his hand to signal the agents to leave. smiled and said: "This lazy donkey, he wants to unload the grind, I have to think of a way to put it on him." ”

"Your Majesty, he is so domineering, can't it be that he really has bad intentions?" The next tall old man asked.

"He is the son of Ma Shaobao. How can it be a traitor and a thief. I know exactly what he thinks! Li Longji, the son of the Tang Dynasty, looked proud, and said with a smile, "At the beginning, I gave him too much power on a whim, and now he has no reward!" I am already seventy years old, and he is worried that after I am gone, the new emperor will ascend the throne and the rabbit will die and the dog will be cooked. That's why I did that. It's clear that he doesn't care about anything, and he will give up his current identity and status at any time, but he has been a ranger. When the time comes, he can go anywhere, and no one can help him. ”

Gao Lishi said in a deep voice: "With such thoughts, it is a great rebellion!" How can the monarch's father still exist, so consider what kind of truth is behind the monarch's father! ”

Li Longji smiled: "Having said that, it is also human nature. However, I feel that my body is still strong and can last for a few years. He wanted to retire too soon, but that didn't work! He is a god-given general of mine, and he wants to leave without pouring out the things in his head to Datang, how can there be such a cheap thing! ”

"What should we do about today's affairs?" Colliers asked. "After all, Yang Zhao is the coach, and Ma Zhao has just come back, is it possible to really watch him violate his will and imprison Yang Zhao to attack Mobei on his own?"

"Old-fashioned. Didn't we say it beforehand? This time, we will follow, just to take a look, and not mix anything. Yang Zhao and Ma Lu don't care how they fight, as long as it doesn't affect the Northern Expedition and return to Fu. Li Longji smiled, "Unless the matter reaches the point of no return, I will never come forward." You also need to be careful with your manpower. Don't be noticed by Ma Lan. Most of his spies entered Mobei, but after all, there were still some left here. ”

Colliers nodded.

……

According to the will of Chang'an, after Ma Lan returned to Juntingzhou, he had to quickly spread the news to all the armies, and the armies that got the news should immediately set off and attack Mobei to destroy the Hui.

This matter should have been done by Yang Guozhong, but after Ma Lu arrived in Tingzhou, he immediately imprisoned Yang Guozhong and deprived him of the right to command the army. Therefore, Ma Lan also immediately sent a messenger to directly convey the news of the return of the army.

The area of Mobei is vast, and it is difficult to rely on the Anxi army all the way to get all the success, and the Tang army from all walks of life entered the grassland together, and the biggest role for Ma Lan was not to give him a chance to escape. Ge Shuhan, Guo Ziyi, and Li Siye are all outstanding talents, and Li Jing has been even more sharp in the past two years, and they have led the army to attack the grassland, at least they can be invincible and undefeated.

And the decisive road is naturally on Ma Lan's side.

In the Beiting Army, more than a thousand of the most powerful Modao soldiers were quickly selected, and all of them were added to the Anxi New Army. These people are all equipped with Yuanrong crossbows, counting these people, the new army of Anxi in Ma Lu's hands once again exceeded 10,000 people, and all of them were equipped with Yuanrong crossbows.

A cavalry of 10,000 people equipped with Yuanrong crossbows has always been Ma Lu's dream, and now this dream has been realized.

The new soldiers also need to learn how to control multiple horses by one person, and they also need to learn to obey the orders of the officers, which takes some time, so Ma Lan did not set off immediately after reorganizing the army, but retrained the athletes on the grassland outside Tingzhou City, preparing to wait for ten days before setting off.

The armies gathered in Tingzhou, and Ma Lan was handed over to Du Huaiguang to command. Du Huaiguang was originally an envoy of the Han Navy, and Ma Ling directly appointed him as the envoy of the soldiers and horses of the Beiting to control the three armies of Hanhai, Tianshan and Yiwu. Li Qiyun cooperated with Du Huaiguang for many days, and he was still Du Huaiguang's marching Sima.

The plan for the Northern Expedition has been agreed, that is, Ma Ling set off with the Anxi New Army first to find the main force of the Hui Hui for a decisive battle, while Du Huaiguang took the main force of the Beiting Army and the baggage to advance slowly, and the 20,000 Western Turkic cavalry were also under his command and obeyed his command.

As for the 10,000 cavalry brought by the Shatuo people who were attached to Beiting, because they had been nomadic for generations in the area from Pu Shihai to Jinshan, they were more familiar with the terrain, so they would set off with Ma Lu's army as the leader of the army.

Ten days later, the athletes who had newly joined the new army in Anxi were barely able to control one man and three horses, and Ma Ling no longer waited, taking Shatuo as the leader, and left Tingzhou with a mighty army, heading to the northeast.

The soldiers are very fast, so Ma Luan's 10,000 people did not carry much baggage, and they still had the intention of eating the enemy if they had it. As the rear team, Du Huaiguang has many soldiers and horses, so naturally he can't do this, and the baggage they carry will be used as a supplement to Ma Lan in case of emergency.

For Ma Lan, 10,000 yuan is enough, and in this era, no army is the opponent of this army in his hands. More armies entered the grasslands, but they did not give the Hui people a chance to avoid fighting without fighting.

The leader of the Shatuo people is named Guluzhi, and he is also a figure who has gone down in history. In the original history, the Gu Duzhi also helped Su Zong to quell the rebellion, and since then the Shatuo people have begun to set foot on the stage of Chinese history. Later, Shatuo was attached to Tubo, and then turned his back on Tubo and threw himself to the Tang Dynasty, and was pursued by Tubo for thousands of miles, most of the troops died in battle, and the rest were placed in Yanzhou by the Tang Dynasty.

After the internal migration, the Shatuo people were majestic in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, in order to help the Tang royal family quell the rebellion, and the Later Tang, Later Jin, and Later Han were all regimes established by the Shatuo people.

However, history has changed, and the Shatuo people obviously have no chance to enter the Central Plains.

Since the Gaozong Dynasty, the Shatuo people have been attached to the Tang Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, and they are considered to be extremely deferential tribes to the Tang Dynasty, and the people have always been prosperous. This time the Tang Dynasty wanted to go north to return to the Tang Dynasty, but the Shatuo people still habitually fell to the side of the Tang Dynasty, and sent 10,000 cavalry at one time, all of whom were young and strong, and none of them were old or weak.

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In May, the mountains are snowy, and there are no flowers but cold. The flute smells the willows, and the spring has not been seen.

When the army left Tingzhou, it was May of the fifteenth year of Tianbao, and although it had never snowed, Beiting was still extremely cold.

The army marched northeastward, through the vast Gobi, to the nomadic land of the Shatuo clan, and then went straight through the Jinshan Mountain from the canyon to the land of Mobei.

The north courtyard is three thousand miles away from the Huiya tent. Mobei is the Mongolian Plateau in later generations, although it is a nomadic place, the terrain is not flat.

Ma Luan did not advance very fast, and after traveling more than 100 miles every day, he set up camp to clear the nearby Uighur tribe, and then ordered the athletes to continue training, training to control horses and use the Yuanrong crossbow. There are quite a few new recruits in the new army, and it is necessary to build up combat strength as soon as possible.

The Uighur Khanate was established with the nine surnames of Tiele as the main body, and it rose to Mobei after the elimination of the Later Turkic Khanate.

Now among the nine surnames, the Fugu tribe has been exterminated by Du Huaiguang on the shore of the Pu Sea, and the other strong Tongluo tribe first surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and then betrayed, Li Xianzhong was killed by Ma Lan and passed on the head of Chang'an, and the remaining Tongluo people were killed by Li Jing, which no longer exists.

So today's Tiele nine surnames, in fact, there are only seven tribes left.

However, there are not only the nine surnames of Tiele on the Mobei grassland, but also a large number of small Turkic tribes that have formed their own settlements along the mountains and valleys, and the total number of people is afraid to exceed the nine surnames of the Hui people. Ma Lan attacked Mobei this time, and the small tribes he encountered were directly cleaned up, firstly, to avoid leaking news, and to reduce the population of the Turks by the way.

This kind of thing is mainly handed over to the Gu Lu Zhi to take the Shatuo people to do, the Shatuo people are extremely ruthless, and the execution of Ma Lu's orders is not discounted at all, and the tribes encountered along the way are all cleaned up. (To be continued.) )