When the newlyweds Yan'er, Ma Lan and the two brides were in adultery, and they didn't want to go back and forth, but the honeymoon had not yet passed, and news came from several places in the territory one after another, while enjoying the tenderness and sweetness brought by the two newlyweds, some things had to be dealt with.

First, on the shores of the Aral Sea, there was a rather unexpected conflict.

Huoxun, also known as Khorezm, is also the country of Zhaowu nine surnames, when King Kang ruled the river with the support of the Tang Dynasty, Huoxun was not annexed by the Tang Dynasty due to its remoteness, and after Ma Lu led the army into the river, he personally led the troops to extinguish Huoxun and turned Huoxun into the territory directly under the Tang Dynasty. On the Huoxun hometown, now there are 10,000 or 20,000 Han people, built two big cities, one is the Huoxun king's capital Li Ximi, the ruins built Dingxi City, and the other is located in the delta area of the Wuhu water into the Aral Sea, the Wuhu water is scattered into several when it is close to the Aral Sea, respectively, into the Aral Sea, forming a fertile estuary area, this delta is the most fertile area of the Huoxun, because the Aral Sea is also called the West Sea, so a big city built here is called the West Sea City, It was built under the auspices of Ma Lu's confidant Fang Wenwen.

In the first battle of the fire search country to destroy the country, a large number of fire search men were killed by the army, leaving only women and children, and later they were accepted by the single men in the prison. In the past two years, after the war, this land has gradually begun to recover, and the people are slowly multiplying, but because the Han people who occupy this place are drawn from the Eight Armies in the River, there are not many people in the Eight Armies in the River, so the strength of the Tang Dynasty in this land is still relatively weak. However, since Huoxun's territory is mainly distributed on the oases on both sides of the Wuhu River, and the places far away from the Wuhu River are deserts, there is no real threat. More than 20,000 Han people. In fact, it is enough to occupy this land.

An area where the people of Hermes-Epitek are concentrated. The main ones are the two big cities in the lower reaches of the Wuhu River. Dingxi City was originally the royal capital of Huoxun. It is still in the center of the position, and there are naturally more Han people distributed, and Xihai City is close to the Aral Sea, which is located on a rare treasure land in the desert, but it is far away from the Eighth Army in the river, and there are fewer Han people distributed. Of course, this is only temporary, the most fertile land in the whole Huoxun homeland is there, and the land is the lifeblood of the Han people. In the future, the area around Dingxi City will definitely be one of the most densely populated areas of the Han people. Now the Guanzhong men who have entered the Huoxun homeland are not short of land for the time being, and their main task is to reproduce with the surviving Huoxun women, and they don't have to worry about cultivating the land for the time being.

The text of Xihai City is extremely important, and the city is built with great care, and in order to build this city, seven or eight thousand Huoxun women have died of exhaustion, and there are also not weak defensive forces distributed here. After the men of Guanzhong were trained, they soon became a good army, the system was similar to the Zhichong Mansion in the Central Plains, and the men were busy with farming and training in their spare time, of course, for these men. Most of the farming work is not to be done, and it is assigned to each family's fire seeker to complete. Fang Wen trained here in order to implement the government military system in the river. But he didn't expect that these government soldiers would be useful one day. So when the barbarians from the west attacked, Xihai City was actually unprepared.

To the west of the Aral Sea and to the east of the Caspian Sea, large areas of land are vast and sparsely populated, and are the territory of the Oghuz people, who are actually the Turks. There are a number of small tribes scattered here, which have some connection with the Western Turkic tribes, but are not directly under the control. These small tribes have been sometimes allied and sometimes fought against each other, and there is no strong tribe, so they do not pose a threat to the fire seekers who settle in the Amu Darya (Wuhushui) delta. At the height of the Sulu Khan, they briefly obeyed Sulu's orders, but after Sulu's death, they resumed the tradition of fighting each other.

In general, they are far away from the delta, and the relationship between the fire search people in the delta area is limited to some trade exchanges, the fire search people belong to one of the nine surnames of Zhaowu, that is, the so-called Xinghu, the most long-sleeved good dance, born to be a profit-seeking people, and the interaction with this merchant nation, for these small Turkic tribes is actually an extremely important thing, trustworthy and honest fire search merchants, is also very popular here.

This area, from the geographical point of view of later generations, also belongs to a part of the Turan Plain, the entire Turan Plain is in Ma Lan's plan, the large fertile plain along the northern coast of the Caspian Sea is also a good place for the Han people to thrive, but relatively speaking, the Hu civilization is the biggest threat to the Tang Dynasty, so after extinguishing the fire Xun, it did not continue to expand in the direction of the Caspian Sea for the time being. Not long ago, a group of Turkic cavalry suddenly appeared in the delta, ransacked many Han villages, and finally even besieged Xihai City.

It happened very suddenly, the local Han people were caught off guard, and suffered a lot of losses at the beginning, the attacking Turkic cavalry had four or five thousand people, and the Turks were all soldiers, these were actually herdsmen, but there was no tribe nearby that could gather so many adult men, and it should be a joint action of several tribes. Thousands of Turks besieged Xihai City, the Han people closed the city gate for defense, the defenders were not enough, but the Turks were not good at attacking the city, Fang Wen built this big city with great care, so it was easy to block this Turkic people from the city.

After several attacks, the besieging Turks did not take advantage of anything and finally chose to give up, but instead of retreating, they began to plunder the plains around the city. There are thousands of Han people in Xihai City, of which more than 2,000 are government soldiers, but they cannot go out of the city to meet the enemy, they have not trained for a long time, the most important thing is the lack of horses, lost the city as a support, naturally unable to fight with the Turks who are skilled in archers and horses. If the regular army of Anxi was here, even if it was not the new army of Anxi, it would be enough to defeat this enemy, but they were only some government soldiers, and they were very short of equipment and horses, and they could not deal with the Turkic cavalry that came and went.

The intention of the Turks was not to abandon the city, and it seems that they had prepared for a long siege, and the surrounding Han people who did not enter the city in time were killed, and many more were captured as slaves. This is also the way the Turks have always been, for whom manpower is an extremely important resource. With Hermes-Epitek, things have changed somewhat, and for these people, survival is naturally the first priority, so when a large number of Hermes-Epitek were plundered into the Turkic army, the besieging Turkic army began to have some crude siege equipment, and it was more and more accumulated over time.

However, without waiting for the Turks to accumulate enough siege equipment, the reinforcements of the Tang Dynasty still arrived in time.

The new Jingsai army adapted from the original assassination of An Lushan has expanded to 3,000 people, all equipped with arquebuses, this army is training in desert operations between Dingxi City and Xihai City, the envoy sent by Xihai City met this training army in the middle of the road, and after knowing the emergency in Xihai City, the Jingsai Army immediately reacted, and the whole army followed the envoy to Xihai City to reinforce the Han people there.

This army was the first regular army in Anxi that used only firearms, and it took a lot of effort to fight with the cavalry, and they also had war horses, but musketeers on horses, and after rushing to the vicinity of Xihai City as fast as possible, they fought a big battle with the Turkic cavalry in the nearby forest.

The location of the battle was chosen by the Jingsai army, using a simple trick to lure the enemy, and the Jingzhou army's personal force was much worse than the previous Anxi army, but the use of arquebuses could be done by an adult man. When the main force of the Turkic cavalry was introduced into the forest, the arquebus of the Jingsai army began to exert its might, this kind of standard arquebus from the hands of Li Xiu's master has reached the limit, although it is not as good as the hard crossbow, but it exceeds the Turkic horn bow, and the direct shot at close range is enough to penetrate the Mingguang armor, which is not at all only the Turks in simple leather armor can resist.

Under the cover of the trees, the Sergeants of Jingsai fired in rows and rows, and the Turks fell one after another in the deafening sound of gunfire. This method of attack was already strange, the gunfire was like thunder, and the war horses of the Turks were so frightened that they could not organize a strong resistance, and of course most of them themselves were frightened and stupid. When the Jingsai army approached and threw out fire and thunder, the Turks' will to fight immediately collapsed. Occasionally, a fierce Turk rushed over by a single man, and was also stabbed to death by the Jingsai soldiers and soldiers, and the arquebus loaded with spears could be used as spears, and the personal martial courage was useless in the face of a spear.

The battle was carried out exactly according to the script of the Jingsai army staff, and after the main force of the Turks was introduced into the forest, they were surrounded by the Jingsai army from the perimeter and completely entered the place of death. Of the more than 3,000 Turkic cavalry, only 100 escaped in the end, and the rest died in the dense forest. The first battle since the formation of the new Jingsai Army ended with a complete victory, and through this battle, the staff of the Jingsai Army, which was responsible for formulating the battle plan, was also recognized by everyone, especially the former Jingsai sergeants who had traveled thousands of miles to Ma Lu, and they were impressed by these young boys.

After annihilating the main force of the Turkic cavalry in the forest, the siege of Xihai City was naturally lifted. Most of the besieging enemies were annihilated, but the Turks who were plundering nearby did not catch much, and most of them fled. Not only that, but hundreds of Han people fled with them and left the delta.

This incident happened probably when Ma Lan first returned to Anxi, there were no eagle slaves in Xihai City, and the news was sent here by Anxi's secret agents after it reached Bohai.

In this incident, hundreds of Han people were killed, hundreds of Han people were plundered, and more than 1,500 Han people were lost in the siege. For Ma Lan, this is the most serious loss after the Tang Dynasty's sphere of influence crossed the Green Mountain. Such losses are simply unbearable. (To be continued......)