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Han Wu led hundreds of good men in the army to ride the war horses left behind by the enemy. Po Xilin took a trip in the direction of his escape, and when he arrived at the city gate, he saw that the city gate had been blocked, so he turned back, and brought back more than a thousand war horses, a large number of weapons and armor, and more than a dozen large Tang crossbows.

"General, there are dead people along the way, and it looks like there are other people helping us."

When Ma Lan heard this, he rode out of the camp and followed Han Wu and his party to look at it again.

From the barracks to the city gate, dead people and dead horses were all along the road, most of them died under the Tang army's giant crossbows, and the city gate was the most executed.

It seems to be in a hurry and. Posilin actually walked over the wall, leaving all his mounts in the city.

"The results of the manpower left by the father and daughter of the Kang family are about to catch up with us!" Ma Lan stood at the blocked city gate, looking at the corpses all over the ground, and said secretly in his heart.

"General, do you want to catch up?" Ang Lee asked.

Walking on a snowy night, it is certainly impossible for the enemy to go too far, so many people are difficult to hide, and it is easy to catch up with a light horse.

Ma Ling groaned and shook his head.

In the midst of the wind and snow, and. Although Po Xilin can't go far, he still has nearly a thousand dead subordinates after all. If these people are to be kept, the Anxi army will inevitably pay an extremely heavy price.

The current task is to bring thousands of Anxi athletes back to Anxi safely and merge with them. The desperate efforts of the remnants of the Posilin army really outweighed the losses.

Since it is not . Posilin fled, but the tide of history had not changed, and it seemed that the famous Persian slave was still doomed to death at the hands of al-Mansur.

More than a dozen eight-ox crossbows were found on the rooftops on both sides of the street, and these treasures naturally could not be wasted, so they were all brought back.

As the group rode their horses in the wind and snow, Du Huan looked at the corpses of the Posilin cavalry on the street and couldn't help but ask, "General, why did the Sogdians help us?" Now that we occupy the city, is it for the sake of the Sogdians' help that we should be more merciful to them? ”

Benevolent? Ma Lan shook his head.

The nine surnames of Zhaowu have just united with the black-clothed Great Food to defeat the Tang Dynasty in the Talas River, so they will naturally not betray the black-clothed Great Food at this time. Therefore, it was not all the Sogdians who came to help, but the Kang father and daughter.

And they are only doing it for their own benefit.

In this matter, we can thank the Kang family father and daughter, but we have nothing to be grateful to other Sogdians. Not all Anxi prisoners of war were bought, and they were treated as favorably as they did in the Kang family. Now that the building is occupied by the Anxi army, how can those rich Sogdian merchants do it without paying a price?

……

As an important town on the middle of the Silk Road, it has a population of nearly 100,000. On that night, the flames in the city were never extinguished, and nearly 10,000 people died in the fighting.

Naturally, the Anxi Han army would not do such a thing as slaughtering the city, but for those merchants of all ethnic groups who bought their robes as slaves, everyone would not be polite.

If there is no trace of abuse on Paoze, then the treatment he gets is naturally better, at least the lives of the whole family can be saved, but it is difficult to keep the wealth.

Wealthy merchants who did not buy prisoners of war from the Anxi Army as slaves were likewise more or less affected. This is an enemy country, which is naturally different from in Anxi. It's already good to get started with the rebels, just take away the property, and don't kill people.

The silver and golden dinars are all good things, but the most precious are the horses and camels. Everyone wants to return to Anxi safely, and they can't do without these things.

The Sogdians are purple-haired and deep-eyed, and it is said that they have some origins with the Qi tribe who once caused trouble in the Central Plains during the Wuhu Rebellion, and they can be regarded as some martial arts, but under the coercion of the elite soldiers of Anxi, none of the Sogdian guards dared to resist.

Even the famous ones. Bo Xilin was driven away by these people, who dared not to open his eyes at this time, and angered these red-eyed Anxi soldiers.

It snowed overnight, and the sassy streets were trampled into mud. It was only after the dawn that the fires in the city gradually went out.

The Anxi Army has taken over the city, and the streets are no longer patrolled by black-clad soldiers, but the elite of the Han army on their horses. There was a dead silence above the market, and the surviving people were hiding in their homes and did not dare to come out.

The black-clothed cavalry camp has now become the garrison of the Anxi Army, and the camp is full of Anxi Army athletes who have changed their clothes. Most of the pills from the night ended here.

The Sogdians claimed to be wealthy, and it seems that so, with Umayyad gold and silver coins alone filling more than a dozen carts.

The gold and silver coins minted by this white-clothed food were of excellent finery, and there were more or less some of them in the arms of the Anxi soldiers. Du Huan was extremely dissatisfied with the soldier's behavior of secretly hiding gold and silver coins, but the main general Ma Lan was resigned.

The border army is poor, everyone is a recruit with their families, they have more wealth, and their wives and children are better off when they go home.

It's ridiculous to say that the Tang Iron Army is famous, but the soldiers have almost no military salary, and they can only get some Changtian Butian. And regardless of whether the white clothes are big food or the black clothes are big food, the regular army's treatment is extremely high.

Ma Lin remembered that in Tabari's Chronicles, the annual salary of a black-clothed infantry was 960 dirkhans, and the annual salary of a cavalry was twice that of an infantryman!

Compared with the preferential treatment of the regular army, the Anxi athletes have received too little. If it weren't for the general opposition of the junior officers, Ma Ling would even want to divide all the gold and silver coins directly, instead of bringing them back to Anxi and handing them over to the government treasury.

The gold and silver coins were all dead, and the most important seizures were horses and camels, which were the most important guarantee for the return of the people to Anxi. Some of these horses belonged to the Anxi army, and they were sold here after the Battle of Talas, and now they are considered to have been returned to their original owners.

Tens of thousands of war horses and more than 1,000 camels are enough to arm all the Anxi athletes. Although it is not possible to do all one person and two rides, one person and one ride can still be fully guaranteed.

There were more than 700 people in the robes recovered from the wealthy merchants of various ethnic groups, and many of them were abused, but basically there were no fatal injuries, and they could fight on horseback. Now Ma Luan is not counting the wounded soldiers, but there are 6,000 Han family sons and daughters, and there are more than 2,000 soldiers of various ethnic groups.

There were only more than 20,000 people in the Han army of the Anxi army, and it was customary to send tribal soldiers to participate in the war, and these tribal soldiers were the tribal soldiers who followed the high general's westward expedition, and they were also defeated and captured in the Talas River.

Among them, the Uighurs were the most, and there were also some Western Turkic tribes who submitted to the Tang Dynasty in the land of ten arrows, and a small number of Khotanese and Bahanna. These people had no skills, they were sold as war slaves, the price was much lower than that of the Tang army prisoners of war, and they were mainly bought by the Sogdians to look after their families.

Last night, the Anxi Army went door-to-door in the rich area to search for Anxi Army prisoners of war, and found a large number of such tribal fighters. Naturally, these guys wanted to return home, and as soon as they were released by the Anxi Army, they grabbed their knives and slashed at the merchants who bought them. In last night's chaos, these guys were the most ferocious.

Although the tribal warriors are ferocious, they are relatively simple and know how to be grateful for the pictures. Knowing that it was Ma Lan who rescued them with the prisoners of war of the Anxi Army, these tribal warriors naturally all came under Ma Lan's command.

The combat power of the tribal warriors is naturally not comparable to that of the Anxi Iron Army, but it is still possible to fight a smooth battle. This time he got enough war horses, and Ma Lan naturally didn't mind bringing them, after all, everyone had fought together in Talas River before.

The more seriously wounded warriors could not fight, and when they returned, they could just ride on camels. Now Ma Lan has 6,000 elites of the Han army and 2,000 miscellaneous tribal warriors in his hands, which is all his capital.

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The blocked gates had been opened, and two thousand tribal warriors rushed out of the city and slaughtered the castles around the city.

After the occupation of the river, the rich Sogdians who had built a lot of Sogdians were driven out of the city to build forts, and after the Abbasid Revolution, many of the rich people had moved back to the city, but the fortresses outside the city left a lot of wealth. These riches are now Ma Lan's goal.

For these miscellaneous troops, Ma Lu did not ask too much, only asked them to snatch horses and camels as much as possible, and only half of the other wealth, and let them use the rest for themselves.

These forts were heavily defended and difficult to conquer. Since there are these miscellaneous fish to work hard, Ma Lu naturally does not want to lose the life of the Han army. Tribal warriors are profitable, and naturally they will sell their lives one by one.

The only thing they weren't allowed to loot was the fortress outside the city of Kang Million's family. The father and daughter of the Kang family help themselves, and this love must be undertaken.

The city has calmed down, but outside the city there is a beacon fire. Two thousand tribal warriors were strong enough for the Sogdian fortress outside the city.

……

"Guys, what to do next, I'd like to hear your opinions."

In the barracks, the high-ranking officers of the Anxi Army gathered together. Ma Lan looked around at everyone and spoke.

Du Huan stood up: "General, Samojian is more than 500 miles away from the Talas River, and more than 700 miles from the Talas River to the Green Ridge, we will return the same way, ride a fast horse, even if there is a delay on the road, a month and a half is enough to return to Anxi." ”

Everyone else nodded, they were all low-level officers, they had not participated in military aircraft, and they didn't know much about the terrain in the river, seeing that Du Huan was very reasonable, they naturally felt that this method was good.

Ma Lan waved his hand to signal Du Huan to sit down, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid it's impossible to go back the same way." As far as I know, after the Great War of Talas, and . Posilin was ambitious, and a large number of Persian tribes crossed the medicine to kill the water and planned to attack the four towns of Anxi. Now that we're going back the way we came, aren't we about to bump into it. The army of Posilin? ”

"At the moment, though. Posilin was wounded and fled, but there are still a large number of Persian tribes near the medicine and water, and I want to take everyone back to Anxi alive, but I have no intention of fighting with the Persians. ”

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