It's been a few months since I left Sa Mojian, and I don't know how the aggressive Hu extermination campaign is going. The Anxi Army must complete the rectification as soon as possible, and then do something.

Now Ma Lan is also the envoy of the soldiers and horses of the four towns and the deputy envoy of the four towns Zhidu Yingtian, and it can be said that he is above 10,000 people under one person in Anxi, and even Feng Changqing can't compare to his power now. That being the case, the matter of setting foot in the river must be carried out as soon as possible, and it cannot wait for the court to reward his will.

Anxi has a long way to Chang'an, from Feng Changqing to enter Chang'an, to the courtiers to discuss the content of the reward, and then to the Zhongguan to Anxi, I am afraid that it will not take a few months. It is not known what will happen in the middle of the river for a few months, so it is only sooner rather than later.

Gao Qianqian is extremely capable, although Ma Ling can't bear it, she has to let her work harder. The rebuilding of a Zhuangzi was completely entrusted to her, and Ma Lan herself began to prepare for the reorganization of the army.

Bian Lingcheng has been living in Ma Lingcheng's manor since he came to Anxi, and most of the cities in Qiuzi City have been living in Ma Lan's manor. These days, Gao Qianqian has made the manor full of black ashes, and Ma Ling has asked him to move to Qiuzi City several times, but Bian Lingcheng refused, and has been staying in Ma Lan Village and not leaving. And now that Ma Lan has begun to reorganize the army, Bian Lingcheng no longer continues to rely on Majia Grange, saying that he wants to follow Ma Lan to see how Ma Lan reorganizes a king's army.

At this time, where could Ma Ling not understand what Bian Lingcheng was making trouble. Bian Lingcheng didn't want to make friends with him at all, this lieutenant was completely the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven. These days, his words and deeds, I am afraid that they will be reported to the Son of Heaven by this guy.

With a frank heart, Ma Lan is naturally not afraid. Some things came to the ears of the Son of Heaven through this lieutenant, and the effect was much better than his own recital.

Therefore, Ma Ling naturally did not shy away from Bian Lingcheng, but let him follow him.

The quota of 24,000 Han troops in the four towns of Anxi was determined by the imperial court and could not be changed unless there was a will. In the battle of Talas, the Anxi army suffered heavy losses, Li Siye and Duan Xiushi preserved thousands of men and horses, and Ma Lan later brought back thousands of men and horses, counting some of the men and horses left behind, adding up to less than 15,000 people. Fortunately, there are many people in Anxi Han now, and the war dead are all filled with children, and now they are full again, and there are still 24,000 people.

Of the 24,000 men, nearly 10,000 were recruits who had never been on the battlefield. They came to fill the positions of their fathers and brothers who died in battle, and they were bent on finding revenge on the big cannibals, and their morale was naturally no problem, but they lacked training and actual combat training. If you want to build combat power, you must train hard and fight a few more battles.

The Han soldiers of the four towns guarded the territory of Anxi, except for the four towns and the big cities such as Boxian and Bahuan, the garrisons were relatively scattered. The garrison is slightly more than the army, the second is called the guard, and the second is the beacon horse shop camel shop and the like. Scattered in peacetime, gathered in wartime, not only to train on weekdays, but also to participate in the production of military cantonments, which can be regarded as both farmers and soldiers, although it is already a recruitment of Long March athletes, in fact, it is not much different from the previous government soldiers.

In Ma Lan's plan, an elite that is completely detached from production is a must. Without the will of the Son of Heaven, he would not be able to increase the number of Han troops in the four towns of Anxi, and it would not be realistic to transform the 24,000 Han soldiers into a professional army at the same time, so he could only select a group of elites from them for the time being.

The great poet Cen Shen drafted the military order and was also brilliant, Ma Ling was extremely satisfied after reading it, and after showing it to Bian Lingcheng, the lieutenant also smiled and nodded, saying that although the idea of Renjie Xian Brother is novel, he might as well give it a try.

This person nodded in approval, and Ma Ling ordered his own soldiers to go to the three towns of Shule, Yanqi, and Khotan, as well as the armies and guards, and ordered the garrisons to select soldiers who dared to fight to go to Qiuci to participate in the selection of the new army in Anxi. The military order clearly stated that it was voluntary, but it also marked a very attractive condition, that is, those who could eventually stay, each person would receive a monthly penny.

This was the first step in Ma Lu's establishment of a professional army, and only with sufficient military pay could the soldiers be removed from production. The monthly salary of a penny is much less than that of the regular army in black clothes, but this is only the beginning. In Ma Lu's eyes, the future salary of the Anxi Army cannot be worse than that of the future enemy, the Great Cannibal.

The men sent out by Tian Mingyuan to give orders were all the best soldiers, all of whom were in the forward troops when they returned from the river before. These people are all close associates of Ma Lan, and they are loyal to Ma Lan. The order quickly spread everywhere, and after the desperate advocacy of these people, it immediately caused a sensation among the Han soldiers everywhere.

One thousand dollars is enough to buy more than a dozen buckets of Xizhou white noodles, two Xizhou Dalian, and dozens of catties of dried grapes. Those veterans of a hundred battles who left the army were fortunate enough to become local officials, and there was not a single penny of money in January. The border army is poor, and such treatment can be regarded as extremely generous.

What's more, the Anxi New Army will be personally trained by General Ma Lan, and joining the New Army will become General Ma Lan's descendant. With General Imma's popularity in Anxi now, everyone is willing to follow him even if he doesn't want a penny, not to mention that he still has a good military salary.

The most excited are the recruits who have just filled the vacancies, and their families have really received a pension worth 150 yuan from General Ma Lan, and now they are willing to sell their lives to General Ma Lan. What's more, the pro-soldiers who gave the order let out the wind, and General Ma Lan formed a new army, that is, to find the big cannibal to take revenge. Is it the son of man who does not avenge the enmity of his father and brother? These hot-blooded Han family sons did not hesitate at all, and almost all of them chose to sign up for the Anxi New Army.

Ma Lan is already a soldier and horse envoy in the four towns, but he still has no shelf, and the pro-soldiers sent to herald the order have brought rich gifts to the local commanders. Duan Xiushi cherishes money very much on weekdays, but at this time he is extremely generous, and the gifts he prepared for Ma Lu are chic and rich. Ma Lan was originally a Shangguan, and he spent so much money, where could those main generals not do things seriously, they were all very serious about selecting for Ma Lan, and they wanted to send their strongest fighters to Ma Lan.

The number of places is limited, and the selection is naturally extremely intense. Many young heroes have emerged in this selection and will become the backbone of the future Anxi Army.

January has passed, and the time has reached the third month of the Han calendar. In the newly built military camp outside Qiuzi City, five thousand fierce Anxi men gathered. This is the most elite soldier of the Anxi Army, and now all of them are gathered here.

Over the course of a month, news gradually came from the west of the Green Ridge that the Sogdians and the Great Cannibals had completely turned their faces, and fought from Khorezm to the Fergan Basin all the way to the middle of the river. The Sogdians are said to have bought off the Turkic tribes of the Fergan Basin and joined forces to flank the great cannibals east of the water. These great cannibals all belong to the Persian tribe of the Great Eater, and they were originally prepared to attack the four towns of Anxi with great interest after the Battle of Talas. Unexpectedly, the Sogdians, who were originally allies, suddenly stabbed them in the back, blocking these Persians to death on the east bank of the medicine killing water and preventing them from crossing the river.

This information was transmitted by the Hu merchants who had crossed the green mountains, and the fighting there was so fierce that the roads were cut off and business could not be done. Many Hu merchants who went to the river were trapped in the green mountains, and had no choice but to retreat to Anxi.

Such information can only reflect a general situation of the war, and is not accurate enough, which is the disadvantage of poor intelligence. This is also a problem that Ma Lan has to solve, so this time he recruited in addition to 5,000 soldiers, but also secretly recruited a group of people who are proficient in Hu, and conducted training in addition, and did not put it in this military camp.

Although the news is exaggerated, it can also judge the fact that the Persian tribes who are eager to return home have not been overwhelmed, but have the upper hand one by one. This situation was what Ma Lan wanted to see the most, the Sogdians and the Great Cannibals consumed each other, and the population of the land in the river became smaller and smaller, so as to leave a vacuum for the Han people. The longer the war, the more beneficial it will be to Ma Lan.

The Hu merchants of Anxi were dominated by Sogdians and Great Cannibals, and the Great Cannibals were dominant, but the Great Cannibals were also divided into two groups, one was the Arabians and the other was the Persians who were the Great Cannibals, the former being the traditional superior people and the political basis of the White Food, and the latter being the supporters of the Daixing Black Food.

The Tang Dynasty was generous, although the Anxi army was defeated by the black-clothed food, but did not retaliate against the big cannibals, and the Hu merchants did not suffer any impact on the business of the green mountains. Under the deterrence of the Han army in the four towns, there was no armed conflict between the white-clothed food merchants and the black-clothed food merchants.

Now, the ethnic conflict in the west of the Green Ridge has become more and more influential in Anxi, and it is gradually becoming uncontrollable. The Hu merchants became more and more fond of huddles, the Sogdians did not like all the big cannibals, the big cannibals did not like the Sogdians, the black-clothed merchants did not trade with the white-clothed merchants, and the white-clothed merchants did not bird the black-clothed merchants.

The competition in the market is becoming more and more fierce, but after all, they are Hu businessmen, and they can still get by on the surface, and they all maintain the good tradition of abiding by the spirit of the contract. And secretly, it finally began to bleed. In Qiuzi City alone, there have been seven incidents of Hu merchants being wiped out in the past half month.

The seven cases involved none of the big Hu merchants, all of them were small businessmen, and those Hu merchants with thousands of camels and camel teams were relatively quiet. Even so, the number of Hu people killed in the seven cases has reached more than 100. Now the hearts of Hu merchants are fluctuating, and they must take guards when they go out, and the relatives of Hu Shang, who were destroyed, went to the door of the Dadu Hufu every day to cry, asking the Lord Du Hu to make decisions for them and find out the murderer as soon as possible.

Wang Zhengjian didn't think about it at all, and handed over all the mundane affairs to Feng Changqing. Feng Changqing knew that this was the result of Ma Lan's actions in the river, and the development of the form in the river was extremely beneficial to Ma Lan's plan, he was afraid that Ma Lan would make a mistake, and he was dedicated to helping Ma Lan train the new army, where would he care about such a trivial matter. As a result, these Hu people cried at the gate of the Dadu Protectorate, and their tears dried up, and no one came out to pay attention to them.