In order for the Han people to take this land forever, they should turn themselves and the Anxi army into beasts. It's one thing to know the truth, but it's another thing to do it.

Once he went west to Kufa and killed hundreds of thousands of people back and forth, it was already the limit of his psychological endurance. What's more, the people who killed that time were all residents of the city who rebelled against the Tang Army, at least there is an explanation. And now this scene on the shore of the Aral Sea is really impossible for him to watch.

……

Five thousand athletes galloped slowly across the delta in the river and disappeared from view. Under Xihai City, Fang Wenwen looked at the direction in which the army had disappeared, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and a smile with incomprehensible meaning appeared.

"Text, you built the city with a woman, and when this news reached Chang'an, I am afraid that it will attract a lot of criticism for the horse minister. Ma Xiang has already made great achievements, it is the time to cherish the feathers, what are you thinking about openly harming Ma Xiang? A scribe of the same age as Fang Wen asked with a smile.

Fang Wenwen smiled and said: "Changming said that he laughed, I have already made it clear to Ma Xiang what the woman is doing to build the city. You and I are all tied to Ma Xiang, how can I harm Ma Xiang? If the horse is glorious, we will be honored, and if the horse is damaged, I will be lost, and what will it benefit me to harm the horse? ”

Gao Changming smiled and said, "Ma Xiang has already gone away, and the text still refuses to tell me the truth?" ”

Fang Wenwen glanced back at Gao Changming and said with a smile: "Changming clearly already knows, so why do I need to say it?" It's just that Ma Xiang has a retreat in his heart, and our fame and wealth are all tied to Ma Xiang, where is he allowed to retreat? ”

Gao Changming laughed and said, "I knew it was like this!" You and I have been doing nothing in Anxi for more than 20 years, and I finally met the Ming Lord, and changed someone to preside over the west of the quicksand, how can we have today's status! The more infamous Ma Xiang is, the more difficult it will be to get out in the future. He continues to preside over the west of the quicksands, and we will not talk about our wealth. If Ma Xiang is no longer the lord of the river, we will be Ma Xiang's henchmen, and in the future, not only will we be rich and noble, but we may also be stabbed! ”

"No matter what, we must not let Ma Xiang have the possibility of getting out. Text: You deliberately added an infamy to Ma Xiang, in order to make Ma Xiang unable to enter Chang'an, and he can only continue to be the lord of the moraine, haha! ”

Fang Wenwen also laughed and said: "Ma Xiangzhi's talent is unparalleled in the world, and he is a little soft-hearted. With the combat power of today's Anxi Iron Cavalry, how can there be an opponent in the world, if you change someone in this position, you can sweep the Central Plains and replace it, and you can retreat to hold the moraine, cut off both sides of the green mountain, and be the lord west of the quicksand. Even if it is a loyal Tang Dynasty who lives up to Jun's grace, after all, he has a heavy army, and it is not up to him to decide how long he wants to be in Anxi, with Ma Xiang's temperament, but it is Chang'an's will that he can take everything in his hands. ”

"Ma Xiang is a big tree, and we are just vines clinging to it, how can we let him fall down casually? Just let him have more infamy, but it will be a good thing for us. ”

Gao Changming said with a smile: "I just hope that Ma Xiang can understand his own situation, and don't have the idea of retiring after success." Life is difficult to hide in the three-foot world, if you let go of all this and drift away, it is impossible to be a rich man, and all prosperity will become a thing of the past. ”

Fang Wen said: "Ma Xiang is compassionate, which is a good thing for us. I don't have to worry about rabbits and dogs cooking, just help with peace of mind. However, we must insist on this matter, and we must not let Ma Xiang retreat. Changming, you and I have been in Anxi for more than 20 years, and we have been a small official for 20 years. ”

Gao Changming nodded with a smile.

……

Since there is no longer a need to sweep the oases on both sides of the Wuhu River, the speed when returning to the division is extremely fast. Near the ruins of the city of Ximi, a large number of women and children who were looking for people were gathered, and they were so hungry that their faces were yellow and thin, and the army stopped here, leaving a large amount of food for this group of people to find out of the fire, and then left on the road.

The plan to occupy the land of fire has been determined on the shore of the Aral Sea, these people will become the people of the Tang Dynasty in the future, and these beautiful Sogdian women will also have children for the men in Guanzhong in the future, so naturally they cannot be allowed to really starve to death.

It was the Turks who carried out the killing, but it was the Tang people who gave them food, although Ma Lu was for the Anxi army himself, these people who had been hungry for many days were grateful to the Tang army. These days, they have been looking for something to eat in the Wuhu water, and they have long been unable to hold on, but now they have received a lot of food, and they are naturally grateful.

People who are grateful are naturally easy to manage. Ma Lan appointed an elder to take care of the people, telling them that someone would come to save them soon, and the remnants of the fire stayed quietly outside the ruins of the city of Goods, waiting for the arrival of a savior.

Soon after passing the city of Ximi, the army left the Wuhu River and headed east into the desert, and after three days, they reached the place where the dense water had disappeared in the desert.

After marching along the Nami River for several days, they arrived at the Anhua army on the west side of the city. Duan Xiushi has already arrived here, and he is busy selecting Guanzhong men from the Anhua army who are willing to go to the west to find his hometown, and the people have been almost selected, and a large number of materials have been transported from the fishing city, but they have not set off yet.

Duan Xiushi was a humble gentleman, and the effect of encouraging people's hearts was greatly reduced, and after Ma Lu arrived, he directly released the news that those who were willing to go to the fire to find their homeland would each have at least four young Sogdian wives.

In this way, in three days, more than 3,000 people signed up to go, reaching as many as 5,000 or 6,000.

These are not all single boys who have no wives, but also some of them who have started a family and have children and daughters, no matter how the old women in the family cry and scold, they are bent on tasting the taste of Sogdian women.

Although the women cried and scolded, after all, they couldn't give up their own men, and later heard that those Sogdian women were slaves, and they went to beat and scold as they wanted, so they simply stopped crying, and prepared to follow their husbands to clean up those little prodigal hooves with beautiful eyes.

As a result, when this army set off, Dingkou had already reached more than 10,000 people. Unlike when they emigrated to the river, they cried all the way, this time the men in Guanzhong laughed while walking, and prepared to go to the place to let those Sogdian women have a good taste of the methods of the Han family.

Although the women couldn't see the faces of men, they thought that they would be called by servants as soon as they got there, which was something they had never thought about when they were in Guanzhong, and they also had some expectations in their hearts.

There were 500 arquebusiers in the Anhua army, and this time 300 people were sent out to follow them to the place of fire search. They are also ordinary people, and they are also ready to be uncles.

The entire Huoxun hometown was assigned to the Anhua Army by Ma Lan, and these people did not leave the sequence of the Anhua Army, and were still under the jurisdiction of Ma Qiang, the envoy of the Anhua Army. Among the eight armies in Hezhong, the territory of the Anhua Army, which is now under the jurisdiction of Ma Qiang, is the largest.

Ma Qiang didn't worry about these guys, so this time he personally led the team to go out, leading more than 10,000 Anhua soldiers and civilians to the hometown of Huoxun Country.

After the army, it was followed by a large number of Kangju caravans, helping to transport food and various supplies. Catching and drinking the money in the city is like a mountain, this is the right thing, and Ma Lu and Duan Xiushi will not spare money.

Sending away Ma Qiang's army, Ma Ling took the Anxi athletes and returned directly to catch and drink. You can't stay here long this time, and after replenishing your equipment, you can rest and hit the road again.

The main goal of the year is to turn the territory ceded by Caliph Abdullah to the Tang Dynasty on the map into an actual occupation, and you must actually pocket the large territories east of the line of the Strait of Hormuz, such as Shapur, Kerman, and the Strait of Hormuz.

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It's already the beginning of May, and the oasis by the dense water is full of pleasant green.

The fields of the old soldiers of Anxi are all on the bank of the dense water, and this is the second time that the old soldiers have planted seeds on this fertile soil, waiting for the harvest season.

The new horse-drawn plough and the war horses distributed by the Metropolitan Protectorate for free made the process of farming extremely easy, but the problem was that there was too much land, not enough manpower, and many of the old soldiers were hundreds or thousands of acres of xun land, and their own families could not cultivate it at all, and they wanted to hire the Sogdians, who naturally did not like farming, and no one wanted to be hired at all.

Therefore, many old pawns have not been able to plant the land at home, and the old man Pang from Pang Gezhuang outside Shule City is Shangzhu Country, with 30 hectares of Xuntian, less than 2 hectares were planted last year, and only more than 3 hectares of seeds were sown this year.

Ma Lan hugged his big fat son, surrounded by Kang Lin'er, who had clear and clean eyes, standing on the ridge and gossiping with the old man of Shangzhu Guopang.

"Uncle, if you don't have enough manpower, let those boys in the army help you. Your old man is in the Shangzhu Kingdom, how many bloody battles have you won your name, and you are qualified to call those boys to go to the city to drink and say, how many people will succeed. ”

"This is unacceptable! There are no such rules in our Anxi army, the strength of the boys, it is left to the battle formation to fight with the barbarians with a knife and a gun, how can they be allowed to do this kind of work! Ma Xiang, you don't have to worry about it, there will be a way after all. ”

"They are all their own children, what does it matter if they use it!" Ma Ling smiled, "I'll let them come over tomorrow and see what I can help." ”

"No, no!" Old man Pang stubbornly shook his head, "The old man can still do it, don't bother those boys." This is my own land, and I should tend it to my own family. Your kindness is appreciated by the old man, but no one can touch my own land, and I am not at ease if I change it to someone else. ”

Ma Lan smiled. This old man easily got the Xuntian he deserved, and he loved his own land like his life, and he refused to let others touch it.

"Uncle, in two years, the army will cross the ocean, get a few boats of Kunlun slaves over, and sell dozens of them to you when the time comes, you won't have to work so hard, and you won't have to worry about planting the land."

"Ma Xiang laughed, we are here in Anxi, I don't know how far away from the sea, how can the army cross the sea, and where can we go to get Kunlun slaves?"

Ma Lan smiled, the army will hit the Persian Gulf this year, as long as he is still in Anxi in a few years, how can he not make a fleet, how can he not transport a few ships of Kunlun slaves? (To be continued.) )