Previously, Tian Mingyuan captured Jiling City and pocketed the entire Sistan Basin, which had already completed the task assigned by the Son of Heaven. The Son of Heaven ordered Ma Lan to capture the city of Jiling and reopen the Persian Governor's Palace, and now although the Mu Kun family was executed by Ma Lan, the matter of reopening the Persian Governor's Mansion still has to be done.

Now there is a Persian governor's mansion set up by Tian Mingyuan in Jiling City, but there is no Persian governor for the time being.

In fact, the road from Jiling City to the Strait of Hormuz is already very close, much closer than from your Shabuer City, but Ma Lan was worried that Tian Ming's arrows and thunders would be too great to continue the battle, so he asked him to return to your Shabuer City after capturing Jiling City.

Now it seems that this little worry is actually unnecessary, and the Dehgans along the way are extremely cooperative with the Tang army, and few of them resist the city.

After disposing of the Dekhgans of your Shabuer City, the army left your Shabuer City in a mighty way, and walked a short distance to the west, and arrived at the valley where the 40,000 Kufa Iron Horsemen of Mansur were killed that day.

Months passed, and there were no signs of fighting in the valley, but the occasional steel arrows used by the Anxi army could still be found in the riverbed. On the high slope on the other side of the river, where the Anxi spies dug the tunnel, now a beacon of the Tang Army has been built, and more than a dozen soldiers are guarding here.

This is Tian Mingyuan just built when you were waiting for the main force of Ma Lu in Shabuer City, and since it is to be occupied permanently, the setting of the Fengsui horse shop camel shop is necessary. More than a dozen athletes were originally members of the Anxi New Army, but they were injured during the expedition to Jiling City and could no longer continue to follow the army, so they were arranged here by Tian Mingyuan and found some local Persian women to take care of their diet and daily life.

Soon after crossing the valley, it was out of the confines of the province of Khorasan. The army turned south, bypassed the Garn Mountains, and began its march in the direction of Kerman.

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At the beginning of the city of Rai, Ma Lan deliberately showed the Shiite leaders Ibrahim and Jafar the deeds signed by Abdullah to cede the land, and when the Shiite caliph Ibrahim raised his banner, the first crime of Abdullah was to cede the land of Allah's people to the infidels.

Therefore, the news that Abdullah ceded all the territory on the eastern side of your Shabuer City, the Kerman line, to the Tang Dynasty spread to all parts of the empire as quickly as possible. Half a year has passed since the Battle of Rai, and the entire Persian homeland of the Dekhgans knows the news.

So this time, Ma Lan's march was unusually smooth. The Dekhgans along the way did not resist at all, and directly opened the gates of the city and respectfully greeted the combined forces of the Tang and Turks.

Caliph Abdullah abandoned them, and the other caliph, Ibrahim, used this as an excuse to crusade against Caliph Abdullah, but he never said that he would not recognize the contract, and the caliph of the Umayyad was far away, so naturally he could not help them.

Since it was impossible for all the caliphs to help them resist the Tang people, and they themselves were never pious Mavari, they naturally would not fight for the caliphs and give up their lives in vain.

Along the way, all the soldiers are bloodless, and there are naturally fewer killings. Ma Lan originally drew a straight line on the map, but the administrative divisions of the Great Food Empire were not straight lines, so the Persian Dekhgans who came to serve were not only the Dekhgans near the marching route, but also the Dekhgans on the western side of the marching route, which was not the goal of Ma Lan's expedition.

As for the Dekhgans on the eastern side of the marching route, it is needless to say.

This time the march was more of a trip than an expedition.

In the original history, the essence of the Abbasid dynasty was the revival of Persian civilization, and the Arabians ruled the Persian homeland for a hundred years, leaving only Islam and Arabic, and everything else belonged to the Persians.

The expedition went so smoothly that he wondered if he would personally cause a revival of the Persians. Maybe a hundred years later, the Tang Dynasty will only leave the Central Plains official dialect and etiquette in this land, and other things will still belong to Persia itself?

With little resistance along the way, the expedition became more and more like an armed march, as if it were not to seize new land, but rather the owner of the land to go around his own land.

There was no resistance, Ma Luan's main task was to meet with those Dehegans who had surrendered to Cheng and install agents of the Tang Dynasty, so even if it was stop-and-go, he could march nearly 100 miles every day, so that you would have to zigzag more than 2,000 miles from Shabuer City to Kerman, and it would take less than a month to unify the total.

It's unbelievable how things are going well, and the deference of the Dehgans is also unbelievable, they themselves are not cohesive, and the Tang Dynasty's occupation of this place is like a change of master for them. Moreover, the Tang people would not force them to give up their original religion, nor would they be required to pay the poll tax, so they really had no reason to resist.

People are always greedy, and Ma Lan is naturally no exception. The Persian Dekhgans were so submissive that he even had the idea of taking a larger area and taking Fars as well.

But after thinking about it, I decided that it would be better to play it safe.

There were no preparations in advance, so the Anthy agents did not infiltrate the area around Fars, and it may not be smooth to enter rashly. Moreover, Fars was not an area ceded to him by Abdullah, and the occupation of Fars was not justified, and it was possible to encounter a backlash from the Persians and cause losses to one's own side.

In the end, Ma decided to fight to the Strait of Hormuz first, and as for whether to expand westward from the sea to occupy the province of Fars, it will be interesting to see if it is next year.

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The ancient city of Kerman was also taken bloodlessly, and after arriving here, the march had already passed most of the distance, and it was only a little more than a thousand miles away from the Strait of Hormuz.

After Kerman had rested for five days and replenished some provisions, the army continued its march and headed straight for the Strait of Hormuz.

The ancient city of Kerman is located in the foothills of the Kukhrud Mountains, near the highest peak of the Kukhrud Mountains, Mount Hazaran. Ma Lan was not in the mood to look at the snow of the Hazaran Mountains, and continued to lead the army south. The Anxi athletes have all crossed the Green Mountains, and half of them have even gone to Qiangtang, and they have also crossed the Zagros Mountains during the westward expedition to Kufa, and it is really not worth mentioning to cross the Kukhrud Mountains.

After the Kuhrud Mountains, you will find a smooth road in front of you, straight south to the Strait of Hormuz, the heart of the Persian homeland to the southwest, the province of Fars, the heart of the Persian homeland, and west along the ancient trade routes, over the Zagros Mountains to the fertile valley of the two rivers.

The province of Fars and the fertile valley of the two rivers were not in Ma Lan's plan for the time being, and of course only temporarily, and the most crucial question of whether to take these places was not whether the Anxi warriors could defeat the locals, but how long he could stay in the position of lord of the river.

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At the end of July of the 14th year of Tianbao.

The weather is extremely clear, the waters of the Strait of Hormuz are dazzlingly blue, and you can see the huge island of Qeshm from the shore.

This was a thousand years ago, and it was natural that there were no such huge cruise ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Ma Lan stood on the shore, sniffing the slightly salty smell of the sea breeze, and clenched his fists tightly.

It's finally here!

This time, the armed parade finally arrived at its destination smoothly. From then on, this place will be owned by the Tang Dynasty, and all the land east of the marching route will become the territory of the Tang Dynasty!

Behind him were 10,000 Anxi warriors and tens of thousands of Turkic miscellaneous soldiers. They were all seeing the real sea for the first time, and they were all very excited at the moment.

The island of Hormuz is in the middle of the strait, and it is naturally impossible to see it from here. There was no Bandar Abbas in this era, and there were only a few small fishing villages on the shore.

However, the topography of this place is indeed the most suitable for the existence of a port.

Since it is the territory of the Tang Dynasty that extends here, then Geshm Island naturally cannot be called Geshm Island, and Ma Lu directly named it Penglai Island.

Although this big island is not a fairy mountain on the sea, it is more beautiful than the fairy mountain on the sea in Ma Lu's eyes.

The Persian Gulf to the west naturally cannot be called the Persian Gulf, but is called the Tang Sea by Ma Lan.

The place where the port will be built on the shore cannot be called Bandar Abbas, but is named Wannian City by Ma Lu.

I was in a hurry to change the name because there were no names of these places in the classics, and these names were needed for writing the Newspaper Victory Chapter or Le Shi Jigong.

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The craftsmen worked hard to smooth a huge bluestone by the sea, and for the first time since Ma Lan came to this world, he was ready to make a good stone to remember his merits.

This place is so far away from Chang'an, the territory of Datang extends here, and the territory west of Green Mountain has exceeded the original four towns of Anxi several times. Such a credit is really worthy of his pride.

Everything seems simple, it seems to be at hand, so far the number of Anxi New Army athletes killed has not exceeded 1,000, but they have gained such a large territory.

However, Ma Lan himself knows that everything is happening for a reason, and how much effort he has spent to get to today's situation!

It has been four years since Tianbao traveled to the battlefield of the Battle of Talas in the tenth year. For four years, he was in a state of high tension and never had a time to relax.

instigated the extermination of the Persians in the river, sent troops to Qiangtang to defeat Ma Chongying and Qide Zuzan, killed the fat man in Chang'an City, and went west to Kufa to kill the great cannibal generation of Ming Jun Mansur, and instigated the Shiites to build an army on the way back......

If any of these steps are not done well, it is impossible to be here today.

If you don't force the ruthless hand to merge in the construction of the city. Posilin, forcing the Duai to break with the Great Eclipse completely, it is impossible to easily march into the river; If there is no army to defeat the Tibetans, it will not be possible to secure the way for the army to enter the river; If there is no Yin Death An Fat Man, there is no need to mention anything, at this time, he is probably still in Anxi to deal with An Fat Man's rebellion, how dare he come to the west of Green Mountain; If he hadn't killed Mansur, the Ming Monarch of the Great Food Generation, Mansur would have completed the process of integrating the interior of the Great Food, and the Great Food Empire would probably already be monolithic.

It can be said that he is lucky, but he is doing his best every step of the way. And today's result is the greatest reward for him and the Han nation.

So at this time, he is qualified to be proud, and he is also qualified to make stone achievements for himself and Anxi athletes.

The bluestone is not smooth, the height is several zhang, and the exploits of the Anxi army are written on it with a small seal, but the main part is only eight big characters.

"Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me perish!"

Eight arrogant characters, facing the sea breeze of the Strait of Hormuz, declare the arrogance of the Tang Iron Horse.

From this time on, this is the world of the Han family, and everything is under the control of the Han family. There is only one law, that is, those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me perish! (To be continued.) )