The army left Tingzhou City and escorted Li Longji's coffin to the east, Ma Lu had something on his mind, and they were all cavalry, so the speed of the army's march was not slow, at least much faster than Zhang Xun's daily thirty miles.

The scouts were still released for a hundred miles, and at the same time, a large number of Anxi secret agents dispersed, and the eagle slave fell not far behind the army, receiving news from Chang'an at any time. The post road from Tingzhou to Yizhou is quite smooth, and the carriage with the coffin is not difficult to walk, and it can catch up with a hundred miles of travel every day.

The west of the moraine is the world of Ma Lu, but after all, there are few people, and the supply of the army is mainly based on the Xinghu caravan that follows behind. Persian merchants and big food merchants are also involved, these are the famous merchants in the west of the city, merchants are extremely important for the future development of the west of the city, although Ma Ling wants to eradicate the Persian temple, but did not think to exterminate the Hu merchants.

The business road is the blood of the west of the moraine, the merchant is the source of wealth in the future, the Han merchants do not have the adventurous spirit of the Hu merchants for the time being, and the status of the Hu merchants at this time is irreplaceable.

Merchant stipulations have proven to be effective, and these profit-seekers are more reliable than inefficient long bankers. Wherever the army goes, the merchants can follow, this time it is not a siege, there is no loot to buy, but the Ma family workshop leaves them enough profits, plus there is no risk, the Hu merchants are naturally eager to rush.

When the brigade arrived in Yizhou, it was already eight days later. When I arrived here, I didn't stop at all, and went directly to the southeast, and soon after the Star Gorge of the later generations, I officially entered the Moheyan Moraine.

While passing through the Mohoyan moraine, Ma Lan also received information from distant Basra. Niu Xu has succeeded in taking Basra City, and with the cooperation of the local Dehgan, he has blitzed the lair of the Hawariji in the swamps. Killed nearly a thousand Hawariji followers. That was the last strength of the Hawarijites, and after this battle, the Hawariji faction no longer existed.

Now that Niu Xu and his expeditionary force have surrendered a large area near Basra, a large number of Dehgans have fallen to the side of the Anxi army. Of course, many of them also killed, only 350,000 were killed by the Anxi army, and more than 200,000 were killed by the Persdekhgans who defected to the Anxi army. Basically, they are Arabians and Yemenis, which are what the Persians often call outsiders.

The Persians of this era were far from being completely Islamized, most of them claimed to be Muslims just to avoid religious taxes, many people still missed the glory of the Sassanid Empire, the Arabians were originally just herdsmen, and the Yemenis were just lowly and dirty fishermen, who took advantage of the rise of the Great Food and poured into the Persian homeland in large numbers and became the ruling class, and the Persians actually hated these guys very much in their hearts. And now, with the support of the fierce and brutal Anxi army, and the encouragement of the Dehgans, the Persians took up the butcher's knife one by one and slaughtered these people, who were neighbors not long ago.

The caliph was naturally still an Arabian, and the order of the empire as a whole had not changed, but it had changed in the vicinity of Basra. According to the information transmitted by Niu Xu, there will be no problem in controlling the Basra area, because by this time Caliph Abdullah has already moved its capital to Damascus. It is in the dilemma of fighting on two fronts, and to the north is Ibrahim, who has been killed in the ancient city of Rai. The province of Egypt in the southwest is fighting with the descendants of the Umayyad family who came from Tunisia, and for the time being, it is not concerned about the middle and lower reaches of the two river basins. Of course, the strength of the expeditionary force itself was enough to ensure the safety of Basra.

After all, the people in Niu Xu's hands are too thin, so Ma Xuan replied to Niu Xu not to let him expand too much, and he was active in the Basra area. After the matter of the Central Plains is over. The key is still big food, so Ma Lan sent a message to Gao Qianqian, who was in Anxi, and asked her to start arranging the relocation of the Ma family's workshop. In the future, the center of gravity of the Anxi Army will be west of Green Mountain, so it is also urgent to move some backbones to build another Majia workshop in the river as soon as possible. In the future, ordnance workshops will be everywhere, otherwise it will affect the speed of expansion.

Chang'an side. There is news coming every day, so Ma Ling knows the movements of Chang'an well. Before the army passed Moheyanmoraine, Ma Lan received information from Mi Xue that Li Jing was proclaimed emperor, and finally reached Chang'an City.

Chang'an City has actually become an empty city, and the nobles have followed Zhang Xun to greet the coffin of the emperor, although they only walk thirty miles every day, but they have also left Chang'an for six or seven hundred miles. After the news spread in Chang'an City, Chang'an City immediately exploded.

In addition to the original team of Pinglu Town, Li Jing's subordinates are more children of Liangjing, and many of the athletes are from Chang'an.

Naturally, there was a messenger who immediately left Chang'an City, to chase the holy car that was going west, among the military horses of the Northern Expedition, Geshuhan An Sishun received a secret order, and before he went to Chang'an, he had already returned to the army and returned to the garrison with the army, but Fan Yang Guo Ziyi and Hedong Li Siye Zhang Xun did not give the two such an order, after all, the jurisdiction of the two was too far away from Anxi, so the two went to Chang'an City according to the order, and when the news came, they were waiting for His Majesty's next will in Chang'an City. Hearing the news of Li Jing's rebellion, the two were extremely shocked, and no longer continued to wait for the Son of Heaven to come back, and went out of Chang'an City directly together, rushing towards Hebei.

Both of them are heroes, and this reaction is reasonable. Li Jing's situation was different from that of An Lushan, An Lushan had three towns of men and horses at that time, but Li Jing only had one town of people, if the two of them were stubborn, Li Jing would not be able to go south, and if the two of them attacked together, Li Jing was afraid that it would be difficult to resist.

However, Ma Ling prefers that the two of them will not be able to hold out, after all, Li Jing is going to attack Silla, and there is a great possibility of winning, Silla is also a big disaster, if Li Jing is defeated, everyone will go to pick peaches again, and from then on they will pocket the three thousand miles of rivers and mountains, and they will not have to think about Silla in the future.

However, these still have to be decided by Li Siye and Guo Ziyi, he is only the nominal envoy of Fan Yang and Hedong Jiedu, and he can't really order them. Li Siye and Guo Ziyi returned to the north together, and these issues should be considered on the way. With the ability of the two of them, it is impossible to be afraid of Li Jing, a hairy boy, whether he can bear to wait and wait to pick peaches, this is unpredictable.

Although the eight-hundred-mile expedited is exaggerated, Zhang Xun should get the news within two days. Of course, counting the time when Shanghai Dongqing flew here, in fact, Zhang Xun should have already gotten the news at this time. is thinking about the matter of the west of the moraine, and now that there is a fire in the rear again, Zhang Xun is afraid that he will vomit a few mouthfuls of blood again.

Since the shovel, it is no longer difficult for war horses to walk in the Gobi Desert, and it is impossible for such a situation as "horses stepping on gravel and bleeding from all hooves". At night, the army was encamped outside the post station, Ma Ling was thinking about Zhang Xun's possible reaction, and he didn't feel sleepy for a while, when suddenly a group of scouts galloped from a distance with torches in front of the tent.

On top of a war horse in the middle of the scout, a thin man was tied to the horse's back, and his temperament was quite calm. The leader of the scouts urged his horse forward, arched his hand towards Ma Lu, and said in a low voice: "General, we caught this person nearby, he was alone and not in the caravan, and after we caught him, he said that he wanted to see the general, so we brought him." ”

Ma Ling nodded, looking at the man on horseback, faintly feeling a little familiar, but he didn't remember where he had seen it. The man looked at Ma Luan and smiled but didn't say a word.

Ma Lan stared at the man on horseback for a moment, then turned around and walked back to the tent, and the soldiers escorted the man in, and the man looked at Ma Lan and smiled: "Little pony, don't come unharmed." ”

"Back in Chang'an City, you were just a rooster and a dog thief, and the word pony was also worthy of your name?" Ma Lan looked at this habitual thief in Chang'an City at the beginning, and said lightly, "It seems that you have run a long way, and you can be tired like this with your foot strength, there should be something big." Say whatever you want, and don't have to go around the bush in front of me. ”

Back then, the ranger Ma Lan didn't look down on these thieves, even if this guy was known as a thief, the ranger Ma Lan wouldn't look at him more. I just had a relationship before, and I didn't have any friendship, and he naturally didn't pretend to be a friend of this guy. Ranger and thief are not people of the same world at all.

The thin man was not annoyed, and smiled: "I'm from Liaodong." ”

Ma Luan's expression remained unchanged, and he said lightly: "So what?" ”

"I am in front of the Guardian Emperor, and I am also a member of the first product, and you are just a member of the first product, you and I are on an equal footing, why not if I call you a pony?" The thin man smiled.

"Guardian Prince, what is that?" Ma Lan's expression was still flat.

The thin man was slightly stunned: "You know everything?" ”

In his mind, when he said the words "Son of Guardian", the other party might be surprised, or angry, but it shouldn't be so plain anyway, but Ma Lu has such an expression.

"I know more than you think." Ma Lan smiled faintly, all of them were his own soldiers here, so he didn't shy away from it, "From Liaodong, Li Jing sent you!" With your skills, it's appropriate to be a messenger, no wonder it came so quickly! What do you want to do when Li Jing asked you to come to me? Let's talk about it! ”

The thin man's expression changed, but he immediately regained his composure, took out a letter from his arms, and handed it to Ma Lan.

Ma Lan took it casually, opened it and looked at it, put the letter on the table, looked at the thin man, and a mocking smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Li Jing, the son of Guardian, named me the general of the protector of the country, the king of the west, hereditary replacement, and asked me to sweep the world for him, and then let him be the emperor...... Oh, young people now...... Where the hell does this self-confidence come from? (To be continued......)