When the army left the city, it fell silent. The once prosperous city now has no living residents.

In the open space outside the city, the army gathered again, and it was extremely lively. Although the weather was already extremely cold, the movement of the army did not stop there.

The province of Syria has been completely included in the Tang Dynasty, but there is still some land in Dashi, so the actions of the army are still to continue.

The territory of Sassanid Persia has all been returned to the Tang Dynasty, and the place where the next step is to march will be no longer the Persian Dehgan, so the form of war will also change.

Standing in front of the army, Ma Xuan issued the order to go out. The army split into two parts, and left Damascus one after the other, both heading south.

In order to achieve the goal of completely eliminating the Hu world as soon as possible, after careful consideration, Ma Lan decided to divide his troops in Damascus, and the two armies went to carry out their tasks separately.

One of them will head all the way south into the nest of the Arabians and along the shores of the Red Sea, with the goal of clearing the oasis of the Red Sea coast of the Arabians and eventually all the way to Yemen.

This group will have to deal with the Bedouin tribes left in the desert, and they will enter not the traditional territory of the Persians, but the area where the Arabians have lived for generations, and there are several places in this area, which are holy places in the hearts of Muslims. There is no doubt that what they will face is the most frantic resistance of the Arabyans.

These people who remained in the desert were different from their fellow people who went to their homeland in Persia to enjoy happiness, and they still maintained the fierce nature of the desert people. In addition, he is a true believer of Hu Da by nature, so he will definitely resist to the end. And Ma Lan didn't have the idea of occupying this barren land, all he wanted was to completely eliminate the Hu world. Oil cannot be exploited yet, and the land is of little value to him. Therefore, his request to the athletes is to kill and destroy as much as possible, and not to give the local tribes a chance to compromise and surrender.

They don't need to occupy the city, they don't need to establish a ruling order, and the only thing to do when they enter this area is to kill. No need to fight. Just push down the eastern shore of the Red Sea, destroy everything you encounter, and finally reach Yemen. Dirty Yemeni fishermen can't be spared either.

The Arabians are a fierce people, but no one can stop the new Ansi army, and these herdsmen naturally can't do it. This barren land will be completely a no-man's land, and the teachings of the prophets will be completely forgotten.

The second army went south shortly after. It will head west into the Sinai Peninsula. Then officially entered the province of Egypt. The young caliph Rahman, who had suffered a defeat at the hands of the Syrian Legion and was recuperating here, was the primary target of the Don army. The lower reaches of the Nile, which is also part of the fertile crescent, will not be spared, and Rahman and his Berbers, who are loyal to the Mu'awiyah, will be completely defeated by this Don army, and the last of the three caliphs will also die. After occupying the province of Egypt, the task of this Don army was to continue its westward expansion along the southern shore of the Mediterranean. Fight all the way to the hometown of the Berbers, and completely wipe out the Hu Da forces along the way.

Comparatively. Although the second Tang army did not have Dehgan to establish order on its behalf, the resistance encountered would be much smaller than that of the Bedouin herdsmen, and the people here naturally did not need to be wiped out, and it was still possible to establish order initially. Sicily, north of Tunisia, was the territory of the Great Cannibals, and since Morocco crossed the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain, the Great Cannibals ruled Spain, and the Tang army needed to establish a port here to prepare for the next battle across the sea.

The two Tang armies took away most of Ma Luan's men, and now only a few hundred soldiers remain with him. There were also hundreds of people there in the harbor to protect the ships. This time, Ma Xuan was not ready to participate in the division of troops, but directly handed it over to the younger generals.

For these athletes under his command, Ma Lu is extremely confident that with the cooperation of the Turkic miscellaneous soldiers, they will definitely be able to successfully complete the tasks assigned to them.

Among the two armies, each with more than 10,000 Turkic miscellaneous soldiers, the role is naturally to fight a good battle. There are 6,000 New Army fighters who are about to enter the Arabian Peninsula and only 4,000 athletes who are about to cross the Sinai Peninsula into the provinces of Egypt. Ma Lu didn't go all the way this time, not because he was tired of fighting and killing, but because he still had something to do.

Anyway, now it's all the army pushing, and whoever is the boss is the same. He didn't follow because the Eagle Slave had news that Du Huan and the Elephant Male were about to be killed in the lower reaches of the Indus River.

According to the agreement, he should also go to the mouth of the Indus River to meet Du Huan.

This is actually not a big deal, but since the matter of the Western Expedition is only left to push it over, there will be no accidents, so Ma Lu still intends to fulfill this promise.

Sending off the two expeditionary armies, Ma Lan did not stay in Damascus any longer, and headed directly east with his own soldiers, preparing to return to Baghdad. Niu Xu's fleet was there, and when he got there, he could take the Anxi sailors down the river, return to Wannian City through the Tang Sea, and then go straight out of the strait to the mouth of the Indus River.

Hundreds of men rode fast horses and moved extremely quickly, but when they arrived in Baghdad, it was already January of the third year of Zhide.

Everything is going well in Baghdad, the new city is being built rapidly on both sides of the East Tang River, and the whole of Baghdad is a huge construction site. Niu Xu's Anxi sailors were ready, the gold and silver on the ship had been transported to the town of Baghdad for storage, Ma Lan took his own soldiers to the banks of the West Tang River, and got on the Fufeng with Yang Youniang, and the fleet set off with the whole army, and went down the West Tang River, the Euphrates River, and galloped downstream.

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Chang'an City is still cold in January, but the market is still bustling.

In this year, the trade between Chang'an and Anxi was particularly prosperous, from Anyuan Gate to Mohe Yanmo, and caravans were endless along the way. The things produced by the Ma family workshop are not only military products, but also more and more civilian products, all kinds of finished products are transported from Qiuzi, the price is high but extremely sought after, and the various materials needed are also continuously transported from Chang'an and sold to the more and more huge Ma family workshop.

Chang'an West City is close to Anyuan Gate, is a place of Hu merchants, due to the expansion of trade with Anxi, this year's Chang'an West City is particularly lively. However, in the West Market, there have also been some changes, that is, there are many fewer big food merchants that can be seen from time to time. To be precise, all the merchants who believed in Huda, whether Arabians or Persians, never appeared on the market again.

The reason why it didn't appear was naturally death.

Now Zhang Xun is in a high position in the Tang Dynasty, and most of the ministers who participated in the discussion of politics were promoted by Zhang Xun, and they all obeyed Zhang Xun's words.

Not long after Ma Lan's troops entered Khorasan, in Chang'an City and even the entire Tang Dynasty, Xiao Zhang Tanhua launched a purge of the forces that believed in Hu Da. He may not understand why he did this, but he still chose to believe in Ma Lan and decided to follow Ma Lan's advice, so the businessman who believed in Hu Da was also killed.

Tang Law is not popular, although Zhang Xun is the first assistant, but at the feet of the Son of Heaven in Chang'an City, it is naturally inevitable to shrink his hands and feet, so these businessmen themselves were cut off their heads, and their families were not implicated, but the wealth they owned was directly confiscated by Zhang Xun and filled into the treasury.

This is an unprecedented thing in the Tang Dynasty, which naturally caused a discussion between the government and the opposition, although Zhang Xun labeled these people as deliberately rebelling, but most of the people in Chang'an did not believe it, and many people thought that Zhang Xun was interested in the money of these people, which was naturally a great shame for the Tang Dynasty. Some people accused Zhang Xun of being ruthless in front of him in the court, and there was more discussion in the market, and some literati even linked this incident with Zhang Xun's lack of queen, saying that the reason why Zhang Xun was desperate was because he was too ruthless and killed too much.

Zhang Xun's wrist was extremely hard, regardless of the discussion of the government and the opposition, and still resolutely implemented this decree in Datang. The fifteen provinces of the world all acted like this, and the heads of businessmen who believed in Hu Da fell to the ground, and their wealth was confiscated by the government. In the end, it caused a real rebellion in the port of Canton.

It was originally a place where big food merchants gathered, and there were many of them who believed in Hu Da, and when they saw the catastrophe coming, the merchants who believed in Hu Da gathered and wanted to capture the city of Guangzhou. However, Zhang Xun had already expected that - this was also pointed out by Ma Lan - and had secretly set a trap, and as a result, he wiped out the rebellious big food merchants and obtained a lot of wealth.

After this incident broke out, it confirmed the fact that Hu Da believers deliberately rebelled. The whole operation was limited to the merchants who believed in Hu Da, and the wealth obtained in the end was extremely amazing, and it was all filled into the treasury by Zhang Xun.

It has been a few months since this matter calmed down, and now order has been restored in Chang'an West City, and the void left by the merchants who believe in Hu has been filled by other merchants.

Zhang Xun's approach actually still has hidden dangers. Only one person from the family was killed, and the rest were still followers of Mokomat. But after all, he is only a right-hand minister, and he can't really go against the grain and ignore the matter at all.

This is the reason for the constraint, with Zhang Xun's temperament, he naturally wants to kill, but for the time being, he can only do this.

In the evening, the weather was extremely cold, and when the West Market was about to close, a small camel team entered the Anyuan Gate and went straight into the West Market.

Such caravans are extremely common, and there are many from Anyuan Gate to Qiuzi, so naturally there is no doubt. This is also an ordinary camel caravan, and it is also an ordinary caravan, and there is nothing surprising about the people in the caravan.

Two Han Chinese, who had worked hard all the way in the caravan, received their hard-earned money and left Xishi.

The sound of the gong sounding behind him, and Zhao Guang, who was dusty, stood in the shadow of the street corner, looking up at the vast twilight, with an extremely complicated expression. (To be continued.) )