"Then you can continue to watch here. When you're done, write me a charter. Ma Lan said lightly.

He is now concerned about the immigrants of the Eighth Army, and his first task is to settle the people and spend this winter safely. The matter of Hanzhong Group's market development cannot be taken into account for the time being.

Pei Yan bowed and nodded.

"Sir, do you have all the things for the people of the Lantian Army to spend the winter?" Ma Lan looked at Du Fu and said.

Du Fu said: "It's all ready." The winter here is similar to that of Guanzhong, and it is even slightly warmer, and the people have brought things to protect them from the cold, and enough supplies have been sent from the fishing city. There is no problem in saving some food in the granary for seven or eight months. ”

Ma Lan nodded. These things have been arranged since he captured Mulu City, and it seems that the officials who stayed behind to capture and drink the city have done a good job, and nothing has gone wrong.

"Sir, tens of thousands of people of the Lantian Army arrived here safely, and Mr. has made great contributions. I don't know how Mr. plans to go, if he is willing to go back to Chang'an, I will send him back in the spring of next year, if Mr. is willing to stay here to help me do something, the kid can't ask for it. ”

Du Fu said solemnly: "Jixian Courtyard is just spending idle days, and it is really a waste of time. The people traveled thousands of miles to come, and it was extremely hard to open up Caolai, and Du Fu was willing to stay here and do a little bit for his fathers and elders. ”

Ma Lu was overjoyed in his heart, the scene in front of the Lantian Army has proved that Du Fu is also capable of handling mundane affairs, the so-called raw is better than cooked, the Lantian Army was brought by Du Fu, so it is naturally best for Du Fu to continue to lead the people.

"Thank you, sir, boy. From today on, Mr. is no longer Du Yuhou, but a military envoy of Lantian. Ma Lu said, took out the seal letter from his arms and handed it to Du Fu.

Du Fu took the letter and was slightly excited.

Each of the Eighth Army in the river has a large number of people, and it is not low in grade, and when it was in Chang'an, the rank of the chief officer was set as the fourth grade. In other words, he has jumped from an idle Jixian Hall scholar to a member of the fourth grade. Although it is a martial profession, it is also a eunuch, and I don't know how much better it is than before.

No one wants his wife and children to suffer, and now he has become a military envoy in Lantian, and the four grades of Yulu are enough for his family.

"When the people first arrived here, the 50,000 fathers and elders of the Lantian Army will rely on Mr. in the future. Spending the winter safely is the most important thing, and if there is any lack of use, we must immediately report it to catch and drink, and we must not let the people suffer. ”

Du Fu put the seal letter in his arms and nodded solemnly: "What the general said is, I wrote it down." ”

Accompanied by Du Fu and Pei Yan, Ma Lan inspected every military camp of the Lantian Army. These military cantonments numbered from hundreds to two or three thousand, and were basically built on the ruins of Persian villages. Outside the military cantonment, there are large tombs, listening to Du Fu and Pei Yan's introduction, those are empty graves, in order to pay tribute to relatives who died on the road.

The Lantian army set out from Chang'an and came here and lost more than 8,000 Dingkou. According to Du Fu, the Lantian Army should be in the best condition of the Eighth Army in Hezhong, and the losses of the remaining Seventh Army should be greater.

How many dingkou the Eighth Army lost in total, Ma Lu didn't dare to imagine in his heart. The survivors are stealing life, and the dead are long gone, and now, only by settling these people more wholeheartedly can we make up for one or two.

After all, the Lantian Army is an army, and it needs a certain amount of self-preservation, Ding Zhuang outside Lantian Town is training, Ma Lan went to the school to take a look, after all, they are all stoic and tough Guanzhong men, and they have been practicing kung fu for two months.

Listening to Du Fu's introduction, it was Pei Yan who was responsible for training Ding Zhuang. It seems that along the way, the relationship between Du Fu and Pei Yan is not bad.

Ding Zhuang's weapons and armor are very simple, the weapons are spears, horizontal knives and bows and arrows, and the armor is all old leather armor that the Anxi Army does not use, but there are still bright spots, that is, there is a hundred musketeers, equipped with arquebuses that are being mass-produced by the Ma family's workshop.

The range of this front-loading gun is average, and it is even inferior to a bow and arrow, but the lethality at close range is strong enough that even the Mingguang armor can't resist it, and it is extremely simple to use, and it only needs simple training to master.

Under Pei Yan's command, the musketeers rehearsed Ma Lu, and a hundred people divided into three rows to fire volleys in turn, hitting the distant targets like a sieve.

The arquebus was extremely heavy and had a slow rate of fire, and naturally the new army of Anzai would not be equipped with such weapons. The weakest single bow crossbow among the Tang crossbows has a direct firing distance of 120 steps, the range of the Fuyuan crossbow is more than 300 steps, the range of the riding crossbow is more than 200 steps among the new crossbows, and the range of the Yuanrong crossbow is close to the distance of the Fuyuan crossbow when firing a single shot, and the range is also more than 250 steps when firing a salvo. With these strong bows and crossbows, arquebuses with an effective range of no more than a hundred paces are naturally useless.

From the very beginning, Ma Lan was not prepared to equip the Anxi New Army with arquebuses, and the mass-production of this kind of thing in the Ma family workshop was originally intended for the Han people who emigrated to the river. The arquebus is very easy to use, and it is still very good for the people to defend themselves if something happens.

This arquebus is a stereotyped design by Li Xiu, everything is done to perfection, and a detachable bayonet is installed in front of the barrel, which can be used as a spear when facing the enemy.

Ma Lan took an arquebus and tested it, except for the recoil a little more, there was nothing else.

"General, I want Pei Yan to replace me as the capital of the Lantian Army."

Ma Lan glanced at Pei Yan: "Are you willing?" ”

"This is a glorious lintel, Pei Yan can't ask for it." Pei Yan bowed.

"Okay then, you will help Mr. Zimei in the Lantian Army. If you are in Guanzhong, you can't do business anymore if you have an official body, but we are here in the river, so don't pay attention to that. While you help Mr. Zimei, continue to look for a business to do, and I'm still waiting for your detailed regulations. ”

Pei Yan showed joy on his face and nodded vigorously.

Although he is from the Pei family in Shuzhong, he is only a teenager after all, and now he can be said to be on the rise. Datang is heavy on businessmen and light on businessmen, and the status of businessmen is extremely low, and he has jumped from a businessman to an official, and his status in the family has also been greatly improved, how can he not like it?

After resting for the night in Lantian Town, the army crossed the shallow black water and headed in the direction of the fishing city.

Along the way, I saw two new cities one after another, one was Yanchuan Town, which was built by the Yanchuan Army of the Eighth Army in the river, which was more than 200 miles away from Lantian Town. The Yanchuan military road lost a little more than 10,000 Dingkou, and now Dingkou is nearly 50,000.

Another city is Xinping Town, which is more than 200 miles away from Yanchuan Town, and was built by the Xinping Army of the Eighth Army in Hezhong. The loss on the Xinping Army Road is also more than 10,000, and there are still more than 50,000 in Dingkou at present.

When they arrived at the Xinping Army, it was not far from the city of hunting, and the army had just arrived in Xinping Town, and half a day later, the staff and the king of Qinhua who stayed in the city all greeted them.

"Ma Xiang, a big food Western power, tens of millions of Ding mouths, Ma Xiang's 10,000 troops directly take the Beijing Division, and kill the king of the big food, a real hero!" The king of the river looked at Ma Lan aggressively with a flattering smile.

"Well said, well said!" Ma Lan snorted, "It's nothing, the aliens are all cheap bones, give them a little face and put on their faces." Thou shalt be fierce against them, and one by one thou shalt be tamed like a trumpet dog. This time I took the army back and forth, and the big cannibal killed more than the nine surnamed Ding Kou in the river, and guess what? Those big cannibals are like seeing their grandmother when they see the army, haha! ”

"Congratulations to the little slave." Duhao's body couldn't help but tremble, and he hurriedly said.

"Aliens are all cheap bones, if you want them to obey, you have to be fierce to them!" Ma Lan patted Duhao's shoulder and patted Duhao, "But King Qinhua's heart is to Tang, Datang will not treat you badly, haha!" ”

The staff members were all human spirits, and they all heard what Ma Xuan said, and looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.

"Ma Xiang is right, the little slave is loyal to the country, and he will never dare to have a negative Tang Dynasty and a negative Khan." Aggressively said.

Niu Xu snorted coldly and rolled his eyes at Duhao. He shuddered for a moment, not knowing what this Tang boy meant.

"Go back, hundreds of thousands of people from the Tang Dynasty have come to the river, and we all rely on the King of Qinhua to live, and I hope that the King of Qinhua will take care of it more in the future!" Ma Lan patted Duhao's shoulder again, and pushed Duhao out directly with a gentle push.

Seeing that the staff looked weird, Ma Lan didn't say much to them. With their status, there are some things that they still don't know.

Now is not the time to turn your face with aggressiveness, knock and knock first, and then deal with it later depending on the situation. If what happened to Duan Xiushi happened again, it would be no wonder that Tang people were ruthless.

"Tell me, where are all these hundreds of thousands of people?" Ma Xuan ordered someone to close the door, directly took out a huge map of the river, spread it on the table and asked.

A staff member took out a red pen and drew a circle on the edge of the Wuhu River, and drew two more circles above the Wuhu River, saying: "These three are the garrisons of the Lantian Army, the Yanchuan Army and the Xinping Army, and the general has seen them." ”

Ma Lan nodded.

The staff member continued to draw circles on the map, and the fourth circle was drawn to the right above the city: "This is the station of the Longquan Army. ”

Zhu Bi moved upstream along the dense water, and drew a circle again: "This is the garrison of the Lincheng Army." ”

The sixth circle is drawn around Sa Mojian: "This is the station of the Fufeng Army." The children of Fufeng are the general's township party, and Sa Mojian is called a paradise on earth by the Xinghu, and the children of the general's hometown naturally deserve the best land. ”

The seventh circle is drawn downward to the south of Tiemen Pass and north of Wuhushui: "This is the garrison of the Huating Army." ”

The last circle was drawn downstream of the Nami water, northwest of the city: "This is the garrison of the Anhua army." ”

Ma Lan finally looked at the map, and among the eight armies in the river, the area near the fishing city was the most concentrated. There was the Anhua Army in the west of the city, the Longquan Army in the east, the Xinping Army in the south, and the Yanchuan Army and the Lantian Army in the south.

There are two armies centered on Sa Mojian, near Sa Mojian is the Fufeng Army, and in the east of Sa Mojian is the Lincheng Army.

The more remote is the Huating Army, the Huating Army is located near the Tiemen Pass, in the upper reaches of the Wuhu water, across the Wuhu water is the Wunan City that was burned into white ground by the Anxi Army. (To be continued.) )