Chapter VIII Initiation

In the battle of Talas River, the black-clothed regular army led by Ziad was no more than 10,000, if it were not for the fact that he took the lead in occupying Talas City first, so that the Anxi army from afar had to give up the specialty of the plain battle, but besieged the city with insufficient numbers, Ziad could not be the opponent of Gao Xianzhi, the famous general of the Tang Dynasty.

Gao Xianzhi went west out of the Green Ridge, with tens of thousands of Hu Han athletes under his command, 24,000 elite soldiers of the Han army in the four towns of Anxi, and more than 20,000 people who followed General Gao to the west. If Ziad only has more than 10,000 elites, the tall general can still win at a little cost. In the end, it was the more and more servant armies that were coerced by the big cannibals in black that changed the tide of the war.

These Sogdian troops from Zhaowu Jiu and Persian peasants from all over Khorasan who hastily took up arms relied on their numerical superiority to resist the elite Anxi army, thus laying the foundation for the victory of the Great Cannibals. The Anxi army attacked far away, trapped under the fortified city, and if it could not be resolved quickly, defeat was inevitable. As for a heavy rain falling from the sky in the dark night and the betrayal and escape of the Gharluq servants, it was only the last straw that overwhelmed the tall general.

The Tang Army's armor weapons were completely different from the Great Cannibal, and they did not have much value for the Great Cannibal in Black. After the war, Ziyad firmly controlled the prisoners of war of the Anxi army, and did not take the weapons and armor left on the battlefield by the Anxi army, and gave them to the Sogdian army and the Persian tribes who helped in the war, which was counted as a reward for participating in the battle of Talas.

The Battle of Talas originated from Shiguo, one of the nine Sogdian surnames, and Kang Guo, as the leader of the nine surnames of Zhaowu, naturally participated in the bloody battle of the Talas River. Naturally, a large number of Tang Army armor and weapons were scattered to Kangju, and all kinds of things could be bought at will on the streets of Sa Mojian.

This time, Kang Lin'er was able to bring so much Anxi military standard equipment, which is the reason.

Among the ordnance brought by Kang Lin'er, the standard horizontal knives, bows and arrows are all complete, and the arrows are also complete with armor arrows, long stacked arrows and raw arrows, which are full of hundreds of quivers. There are also dozens of sets of Mingguang armor, although there are traces of conquest on them, fortunately, they are basically complete, and even there are more than ten intact Mo knives.

The only regret is the lack of the most terrifying weapons of the Anxi Army, all kinds of powerful crossbows.

The terrible crossbow arrows of the Tang army made Ziad extremely impressed, and when he was in the Talas River, he ordered all the Tang crossbows on the battlefield to be destroyed directly, and not a single one was allowed to be taken out of the battlefield.

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These things, according to Kang Lin'er, cost hundreds of thousands of Dirkhan silver coins. This was the last help she and her father could give Ma Lu before they left Sa Mo Jian.

Ma Ling looked at the ordnance all over the ground, and then looked at Kang Lin'er's stunning little face, and his heart became extremely strange.

Kang Million has obviously made a heavy bet on him.

These things, even with Kang Million's status in Sa Mojian, are definitely not something that can be purchased in one day. It seems that Kang Lin'er and her father have made a decision from the beginning and have been planning this matter for a long time.

Everything is in the hands of Kang Fatzi. He expected to finally get the recipe for papermaking, and he knew that Ma Ling would definitely return to Anxi.

"This guy, can he really think of himself as Lu Buwei?"

This feeling made Ma Lan very disliked. Fat Kang seems to have compiled a big net and netted him in it.

This net is undoubtedly perfect, and Kang Lin'er is the most perfect part.

The girl in front of her smiled skillfully, and there was endless affection in her pool-like eyes. But is her smile and her affection real?

Recalling the crazy and enthusiastic Hu Xuan in the women's store yesterday, Ma Lan really couldn't believe that everything would be fake.

In the game, it is not clear which is true and which is false.

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As a human being in two lives, Ma Lu has looked down on many things and can't think about it clearly, so he won't think about it anymore.

The situation in front of him does not allow him to think too much.

Because of the attack on the elite cavalry of Bo Xilin in the city, the city was very turbulent for a few days, and the black-clothed soldiers and the hidden white-clothed remnants attacked each other, setting off a bloody storm. Many Sogdians were also involved and suffered unjustified disasters.

However, all of this did not affect Kang Million's family, and Kang Million's energy in Sa Mo Jian can also be seen.

After Sa Mojian regained its calm, Kang Million took Kang Lin'er and drove hundreds of camels out of Sa Mojian City with Chengxintang paper and various goods, and went to Mulu with hundreds of Sogdian guards. Except for a few Sogdian guards in the entire Kang family's mansion, only Ma Lu and them remained.

A few more days later, the last few Sogdian guards also withdrew. According to the time estimate, Kang Million and Kang Lin'er should have arrived in Mulu.

Ma Lan has been struggling to endure in the past few days, suppressing the increasingly irritable emotions in his heart. Anyway, he didn't want to bring danger to Kang Lin'er after all. And now that Kang Lin'er has arrived in Mulu, it is finally time for him to launch it last.

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It's already the beginning of October, and there are snowflakes floating on the oasis.

On such a cold day, the streets are already devoid of pedestrians early. In the middle of the night, the black-clad soldiers on patrol were gone.

In the Kangjia paper workshop, Ma Lan nailed the last war horse with his own hands and slowly stood up.

The war horses of this era were already equipped with stirrups, but the horseshoe had not yet appeared. This is also the first new thing that he, a guest from a thousand years later, brought to the Anxi army.

Dozens of Anxi men had already prepared and rode on the war horses with murderous spirit.

Han Wu came over silently and helped Ma Lan wrap the four hooves of the war horse in thick cotton felt.

Ma Lan jumped on the war horse, clenched the horizontal knife in his hand, and secretly said in his heart: "Don't worry, from now on, I won't endure it anymore!" ”

This sentence was addressed to the Guanzhong man Ma Lan.

All the gates of Kangfu had already been opened, and sixty horsemen, all of whom were one man and two horses, galloped out of Kangfu quickly, heading towards the Tang Army prisoner of war camp a few miles away.

Although the father and daughter of the Kang family are gone, through the Sogdian guards who stayed in Kang Mansion, a steady stream of information has been transmitted to Ma Lu, so Ma Lan is also well aware of the situation in the city built by Samo.

Many of the Tang prisoners of war were skilled in craftsmanship, a discovery that made the Sogdians look up to them as treasures, and the Great Food Army took advantage of the situation to raise the price of Tang prisoners of war, much to the dissatisfaction of Sogdian merchants.

Now the two sides are in a fierce truncation, and the Sogdian merchants deliberately greatly reduce the number of prisoners of war purchased by the Tang Army, while the black-clothed food army will not let up the price of prisoners of war.

Therefore, at present, a large number of Tang Army prisoners of war are still being held in prisoner of war camps, and it must be extremely difficult to live in such a cold day.

However, gathering also has the advantage of gathering, that is, it is convenient to rescue all together. Of course, the risk is also greater, because the more prisoners of war, the more guards there will be, and the greater the resistance will be.

In the past few days of waiting, Ma Lan has exhausted his wisdom and tried to take into account all aspects, wanting to strive for greater success. But even then, he wasn't sure.

But that former ranger in Chang'an City is no longer willing to wait! This emotion came from the bottom of his heart, and he couldn't control it.

Sixty men and more than a hundred horses stalked quietly in the dark night. The horse's hooves, thickly wrapped in cotton felt, struck the ground with a dull but very slight sound.

Han Wu and Li An followed behind Ma Lan, both carrying heavy Mo knives in their hands. In today's battle, they will be the main force to follow Ma Lu's charge.

The Mo sword was originally used for foot combat, and the knights who could use the Mo sword on the war horse were also very few in the Anxi army, but both of them were such characters.

It didn't take long for the prisoner of war camp to be seen through the snow.

This was originally the school of the Kang royal family, since Qu Dibo passed through the Luohe River, the Kang royal family has long been driven out of the sassy building, and it has been owned by the Dashi border guards.

The school yard is close to the roadside, in disrepair, and it is already dilapidated. After the Great Cannibals took over Samojian, there was a larger schoolyard on the other side of the city, where the elite Posilin cavalry were stationed. A hardwood fence enclosed most of the school grounds, and a bunch of sheds were built in a mess, which was the residence of the Tang Army's prisoners of war. Outside the fence, dozens of felt tents are scattered everywhere, which is the residence of the black-clothed soldiers who guarded the prisoners of war of the Tang Army.

In the distance, you can already hear the painful ** coming from the school field, which was sent by the wounded soldiers of the Anxi Army.

According to the information given by the Sogdian guards, there were hundreds of black-clad soldiers guarding the area, most of them Persians and Sogdians, and a few were Turkic war slaves. These people had all taken refuge in Huda, so they forbade drinking and having fun, and now they have gone to bed early. There were two wooden towers on the edge of the school yard, and there were lights on them, and you could see that there was a guard on each side, and it was cold and late at night, and the two guards were also curled up in a ball on the top platform of the arrow tower, already drowsy.

Ma Lan waved his hand, and a Tang Army knight rode his horse and slowly accelerated, leaving the group and galloping to the front, and at the same time put a long arrow on the longbow in his hand.

Sanshi's Tang Army-style composite reflex bow can also be pulled apart by Ma Lan, but the accuracy is not satisfactory, and this guy named Li Zhengde is a famous marksman in the Anxi army, and it is said that he can shoot out the lit incense head from 200 paces away.

The weather is extremely cold, and the snow does not melt when it falls, so the bowstring is not damp and does not affect the performance of the archers. Li Zhengde galloped out of the brigade and shot an arrow at a gallop.

Under the light, Ma Lu could see it clearly, and the arrow hit the left guard's throat, and the guard stiffened and fell to the ground.

Li Zhengde turned around and fired another arrow at the other watchtower, the same arrow that sealed his throat and killed the guard silently.

Li Zhengde galloped back, Ma Lu secretly praised in his heart, turned around and shouted: "Raise the fire!" ”

Everyone had already prepared, and helped each other quickly ignite the huge torches in their hands, and the sixty horsemen accelerated rapidly, like a fire dragon galloping towards the school field.

The distance of nearly a mile was almost the shortest distance for a cavalry charge. Although the horse's hooves were wrapped in cotton felt, the earth still slowly trembled.

Seeing that the felt tent of the big cannibal was already in front of him, Ma Lu's chest was full of blood, and he threw out the torch with the help of the momentum of the war horse, and at the same time grabbed the Mo knife on the side of the saddle.