Ma Lan listened to it and was extremely satisfied. The new army of Anxi wants the elite of the elite, the most basic one is that you must be able to use the Mo knife, the Han army of the four towns is 24,000 people, the elite has been simply pulled out, and it is impossible to pick out a few thousand Mo knife knights, and it is inevitable to recruit warriors from the three states of the west of the city.

As for recruiting athletes from the Turks, as long as they are completely Sinicized Turks, Ma Lu is not excluded in his heart.

The Western Turkic tribes and the Tang Dynasty have been lingering for a hundred years, and have been beaten by the Tang Dynasty, and there are many tribes that surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and there are many who have been completely sinicized, and there are even many famous Turkic generals, such as Ashina Sheer, etc., who have made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty.

Although he did not trust aliens, he was not a pure pedigree. In his eyes, the Han nation should not be a category of blood, but a category of culture, and there is no difference between the aliens who can accept the Han culture and the Han people. Except for the Blue Turkic nobles, the Turkic people of this era are not much different in appearance from the Central Plains, and they are completely able to integrate the Chinese cultural circle.

Therefore, he tried his best to seek the land in the middle of the river, and an extremely important purpose was to prevent the Hu Da forces from spreading northward, to prevent the Turks from coming into contact with the Hu Da forces, and to prevent the Turks from becoming Hu Da believers. After the Tang Dynasty occupied the land in the middle of the river, the Western Turkic tribes on the Qianquan Grassland were still there, and he never had the idea of exterminating the Turks, and the Turkic tribes that could integrate into the Chinese cultural circle would integrate, and those who could not integrate would naturally drive westward and let them harm the weak Europeans.

The development of any civilization is a process of absorbing and accepting the surrounding peoples. When the Western Zhou Dynasty was divided, all that was was just a corner of the Central Plains, and it was the ancestors who accepted the barbarians from all over the country in the process of expansion, which led to the later generations of the Han Dynasty.

Today's royal family regards Lao Tzu as an ancestor and has revised the "Clan Chronicles", but it cannot erase the Xianbei bloodline on his body. The Li family came from the legion of Hebayue in the Western Wei Dynasty, which is a secret that every reader knows. Such a family with a strong Xianbei bloodline has created a prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, and its rule is as stable as Mount Tai. If the Li family is regarded as a Hu person because of their bloodline, then the glorious Tang Dynasty that is well-dressed and crowned by all countries is not the pride of the Han people, but a Hu dynasty that the Han people are ashamed of.

Either use culture to erode alien races, or let the Han people have a numerical advantage, these are the two ways to make a place permanently belong to the Han civilization. In the land of the river, Ma Lu used the second method. However, for the Fergan Basin and the west of Jinshan, which are not suitable for Han cultivation, Ma Lan's first choice is the first method.

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The three days in a row were spent in a busy situation.

Of the 5,000 newly selected Mosword knights, more than 4,000 with crossbows will follow Ma Lu to the river, while the rest stay behind and wait for their weapons. These more than 4,000 people, plus the more than 800 horsemen that Ma Lan brought to Chang'an before, are a steel division of 5,000 people.

Arrange a part of the personal soldiers into the army as captains and captains, and then carry out simple running-in and training, everything went extremely smoothly. Ma Lan was extremely satisfied with the quality of these recruits, and it was obvious that Feng Changqing had also spent a lot of effort on these guys.

Among the 5,000 people, there are more than 200 Sinicized Turkic people, all of whom are the sons of Haoqiang in the three prefectures of the western region, and their speech is no different from the local Han people in Xizhou, and they are completely no different from the Han people.

There is something in his heart, Ma Ling is very busy, with his prodigal nature, he has no time to see what the newly bought pair of Long family sisters looks like, which makes Gao Qianqian feel extremely incredible. After three days, Ma Ling once again carefully told Feng Changqing, bid farewell to Gao Qianqian, whose eyes were red, and led the army straight to Shule, preparing to go to the river from the South Road of Green Mountain.

Along the way, Xinghu merchants were endless, and they all traveled back and forth to deliver materials to and from the east and west of the Green Mountains. Nearly half of them were transporting supplies for the Anxi army, and more were trafficking in other things.

Since the rise of the Abbasid Revolution, there has been chaos in the Great Food Country, and as the place where the Blackmen have risen, the province of Khorasan has been particularly chaotic, and the trade routes have been severely blocked, and it has become extremely difficult for small merchants to trade except for powerful large merchants. And now that the situation in the land in the river has stabilized, and the internal affairs of the Great Food Country have gradually become calm, the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food have confronted each other across the Wuhu River but have not started a war, and the business road has been smoothed. This is a great opportunity for these profit-seeking people to operate.

It was late February when the army arrived at the Green Ridge to guard and capture, and the Green Ridge Guard was still Ma Dayuan, and his subordinates were still so many, but the position was already a general from the third grade. Ma Lan had received many blank generals before, and he had already issued one to this clan uncle before going to Chang'an. This place is extremely crucial, and you can only rest assured that you can keep it here.

Ma Yong and Ma Qiang have now become counties, which is really a glorious lintel. When Ma Dayuan saw Ma Lan, don't mention the intimacy.

The army stopped at the Green Ridge for a day, and then went directly to the direction of Dalongchi.

In cold weather, the most important thing is materials. Compared with the last time I returned to Anxi from Samojian, the time was almost a month late, the weather was much better, and there were no problems along the way because the supplies I carried were enough. The sturdy man who could wield the Mo knife did not react so strongly to the qi epidemic, and after crossing the mountains and rivers and valleys for more than a month, the army had already arrived at the secret protection.

After passing the city of Sega, the capital of the Protector King, the terrain quickly descended. This road has been simply repaired many times by the Anxi army, and most of the dangerous points have been turned into thoroughfares. After passing through the city of Ashu, he brought the edict of the Son of Heaven to Tocharian Yehu, and soon after crossing the city, the army had already reached the upper reaches of the Wuhu River.

Behind it is the reckless green mountains, and in front of the vast expanse is the Turan Plain. Ma Lan took a deep breath, and his heart was surging for a while.

It was already early April of the thirteenth year of Tianbao, and the last time I stood in this place was more than two years ago.

More than two years ago, he returned to Anxi with thousands of athletes through this place, and now he has come here again with 5,000 iron horsemen, but his mood is very different.

Originally launched in Sa Mojian, just to fulfill the responsibilities of the Han family, thousands of robes became slaves, and as a Han person, he naturally couldn't sit idly by. After the success of the launch, he went to attack the city of Catcher and Drink, and when he returned to Samojian again, he encountered Duai and Mosi, and it was then that the idea of grabbing the land in the river for the Tang Dynasty arose.

At that time, I was worried about Yuyang and thought that this matter was extremely difficult to achieve, but more than two years later, An Lushan had died under his poison, the Tang Iron Cavalry had marched into the river to establish Xiongcheng, and the Han people had begun to settle in Tuntian on the bank of the river.

And this time, he returned here with five thousand athletes, and what he wanted was not just one river, but the entire Turan plain!

Standing here, all the worries of the past have been left behind. Since the people of Datang need more land, then use the sword of Datang to get it for the people of Datang!

450,000 immigrants are just the beginning, and one day, every river valley and oasis here will be the best clothes of the Han family. The aliens are either on the right or are expelled by slaughter, and there is no other possibility.

The April wind is blowing and it is slightly warm.

Qinghai Cheng also seemed to feel Ma Lu's state of mind, and let out a long hiss happily.

"Sons, go! Kill with a certain family to the edge of the sky! Ma Ling let out a long laugh, the spur was light, and Qinghai Cheng suddenly stepped out of his four hooves and galloped forward along the Penchi River.

"Kill!" Five thousand athletes shouted in unison, Mo Dao raised his spirits, and galloped out with Ma Lu. The four hooves of the war horse turned and knocked on the ground, rolling up the yellow dust in the sky.

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Wuhu water and Yaozhi water are the boundaries of the river, and they are also the two most important rivers, the river water is mainly glacial meltwater, and the runoff is not too large. These two large rivers flow in a north-south direction and eventually empties into the Aral Sea. The Zeravshan River is located between the Wuhu Water and the Yaozhi Water, but it runs east-west, although it finally disappeared into the desert without flowing to the Aral Sea, most of the time the flow is more than the Wuhu Water and the Yaozhi Water.

Therefore, the two most famous cities in the river, Sa Straw and Fishing and Drinking, were built on the banks of the Zeravshan River. Among them, Sa Mojian is the richest, and is even known as one of the four great paradises on earth.

Sa Mo Jian is the capital of Kangguo, and Fishing is the capital of Anguo. It is the closest to Mulu, the capital of Khorasan, and was the first to be attacked by the Great Cannibals, and was controlled by the Great Cannibals for the longest time. Even at the height of the Sulu Khan, the city was largely under the control of the White Coats.

This time, Li Siye and Lifei Yuanli marched into the river, and did not conservatively build a military town in Samo, but directly drove the army to the city of Catching, and after sweeping the remnants of the surrounding Persian Mawari, they rebuilt the city of Catching, which can be said to be aggressive.

To the south of the city is the black water, and there are large oases on both sides. Due to the frequent sweeps of the Tang army, the Persians had to retreat to the other side of the Wuhu River, and now near the fishing city, the oases on both sides of the Wuhu River are the world of the Tang army's rangers.

The first batch of Tang immigrants to the river, those Anxi veterans and their children and families who had made great achievements, were settled on the oasis on the bank of the Zeravshan River close to the fishing city.

Along the way, there is a horse shop camel shop beacon guidance, Ma Lu this time the march first to the northwest to the sa Mo Jian, where Li Siye was stationed with 500 Tang troops, and then galloped directly along the bank of the Zeravshang River to catch and drink.

The last attack on the city of Drinking back and forth, the residents on both sides of the river were harmed a lot, and when Li Siye and Li Fei Yuanli brought troops to come, they forbade the Anxi army to harass the residents, and basically did not commit any crimes in the autumn. Li Siye made a start, Ma Lan naturally did not want to condone his subordinates, although the Sogdian women on the side of the road looked at everyone hotly, but no one dared to violate military discipline. It's just that Ma Lan sometimes looks at the one- and two-year-old children held by those Sogdian women, and many of them look like the seeds left over from the last Anxi army.

This time, it was to formally bring Hezhong under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and the Sogdians were the people under their rule, and no matter how indulgent they were, they couldn't justify it. The army marched west along the river, and after half a moon they reached the city of Catch. (To be continued.) )