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Five days later, after appointing Ma Yong as the envoy of the Longquan army, Ma Lan left the Longquan army with his own soldiers, and went west along the dense water to the station of the Anhua army.

The Anhua army has more than 40,000 people, centered on the newly built Anhua Town, and scattered on the oasis on both sides of the dense water.

The dense water, which is located between the Yaozhi Water and the Wuhu Water, is larger than these two great rivers, but it did not flow into the Aral Sea, but disappeared into the desert. The Anhua Army's garrison was very close to the desert, and a few hundred miles further southwest was the place where the dense water disappeared in the desert.

Ma Lu also stayed here in the Anhua Army for five days, helped the people of the Anhua Army build houses for five days, and after dissipating the grievances of the people, he left Ma Qiang as the Anhua military envoy, replacing the Hubu Langguan who had been following him here from Chang'an, and then went on the road again without stopping, taking his own soldiers all the way to the east, towards the direction of Sa Mojian.

Sa Mojian is also south of Namishui, with the Fufeng Army in front of Samojian and the Lincheng Army to the east. If the Eighth Army in the river didn't go to see it in person, Ma Lan was not at ease.

The Fufeng army did not rebuild the city, but directly regarded the sassy construction as a town town, and the mansion of the Fufeng military envoy was opposite the aggressive palace. It was a request to set up the town here, and at that time Ma Lan was on his way to Kufa, and Fang Wen and they agreed to Du Hao's request.

A considerable number of ordinary people of the Fufeng Army lived in the city of Sa Mojian, and the selected thousands of Ding Zhuang military camps were also set up in the city, using the military camps and school grounds left by the big cannibals. A large number of military cantonments are distributed outside the city, and the people are renovating their houses.

Sa Mo Jian has the reputation of heaven on earth, the land here is the most fertile, the Sogdians are profit-seeking people, most of them do not like to farm, good fields are abandoned, and then the big food force crossed the Wuhu River, after the Persians moved to the north of the Wu Hu River on a large scale, the Persian farmers reclaimed the fertile land around the Sa Mo Jian.

With the Qinhua Wang's "Decree to Exterminate Hu", there is no Persian around Sa Mojian now, and the Persians have worked hard to cultivate a large number of fertile fertile fields for decades, just for the Han people who immigrated to cultivate.

Sa Mo was built in the hinterland of the river, it was the capital of Kangguo, and there were many Kangju people inside and outside the city, but from what Ma Lan saw, the Han people and the Sogdians of Kangguo got along quite well, and there were their own settlements inside and outside the city, and they had not heard of any major conflicts.

As the capital of Kangju, there were more than 100,000 Sogdians inside and outside the city, and the number of Han people who immigrated was not dominant. However, the Kangju people of Sa Mojian were the first to see the power of the Tang Army, and no one dared to discriminate against the Han people here.

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After appointing the Fufeng military envoy, Ma Ling stayed in the Fufeng army for five days to gather people's hearts, and then continued to travel east along the dense water to Lincheng Town, the garrison of the Lincheng army.

The Lincheng Army was the penultimate of the Eight Armies in the River to arrive, so the Lincheng town was placed very close to the Green Ridge, near the capital of the United States, Pianzhi Kent.

The capital of the United States, Kataji Kent, which had been destroyed decades earlier when the Khan of Sulu had fought with the governor of Khorasan, is now a dilapidated city with only a few thousand people. The town of Rin, which had not yet been built, looked larger in size than the ruined Kataji Kent.

The people of Guanzhong are all honest people, although the Lincheng army occupies a demographic advantage in this area, the people do not have the habit of bullying others, so the construction of Lincheng City did not forcibly conquer the local rice country Sogdia, but the Lincheng army and Han people themselves carried out.

Since he caught up, Ma Lan naturally took Niu Xu and a cadre of personal soldiers to participate in the construction of Lincheng Town. The king of the rice country is the younger brother of the king of Kangguo, and he is also an old acquaintance with Ma Luan, and after knowing that Ma Lan came to inspect, he came to visit Ma Lan in person with a large number of gifts.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to clear the Persians, the two brothers King of Qinhua and Gongshun Wang Mosi completely controlled the entire Hezhong region, and now Duai was stationed in the city with a large army, while Mosi controlled a large area around Pianzhi Kent to the north of Yaozhishui, although not as beautiful as his brother Duhao, but he was the second number one in the Sogdians in the river.

After several years of war, there were only 450,000 people left in the nine Sogdian commands, and this time the Han people who migrated to the river, the people of the Eighth Army plus the Anxi veterans who arrived in advance had nearly 400,000 people, and they were basically able to compete with the Sogdians in terms of numbers. The Han people were also soldiers and farmers, and their lives were as concentrated as possible, and after arriving in a place, they immediately occupied a local population advantage, and the only exception was probably the construction of the Sa Mo where the Fufeng Army was located.

Naturally, the Sogdians did not have the capital to confront the Tang Dynasty, and the Sogdians could only express their obedience to the edict of the Heavenly Khan.

Ma Lu was already jealous of the surname Zhaowu Jiu at this time, and he was also extremely cold to Mo Si, and after receiving the gift, he ordered Mo Si to leave on his own.

Mo Si didn't know why, he couldn't help but feel worried in his heart, and after returning to Kataji Kent City, he immediately sent an envoy to capture the city to report his anger.

The length of the dense water is far less than the black water and the medicine killing water, it is a large river that flows from east to west from the green ridge, and among the eight armies in the river, the Anhua army, the Longquan army, the Fufeng army and the Lincheng army are lined up from west to east, all of which are on both sides of the dense water. This is the most fertile land in the river, and a large number of Sogdians with the surname Nine also live around the dense water, and now they have formed a large mixed settlement form with the Eight Han Army.

A few hundred miles further east of the town of Lin, there are the reckless mountains, and the alpine mountains are naturally not suitable for Han people to immigrate.

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In Lincheng City, he helped the people build a five-day city, and appointed Li Sheng, the second son of Li Siye, as the military envoy of Lincheng when he left.

There is the Tang Dynasty, there is one in the east and west of the Green Ridge of the Iron Gate Pass, this Iron Gate Pass is located in the west of the Green Ridge, close to the southern foot of the Green Mountain, and it is also hundreds of miles away from the Penchi River in the upper reaches of the Wuhu River. The route of the Anxi army to cross the Green Ridge was the southern foot of the Green Ridge, and it was hundreds of miles northwest of the Green Ridge to the Tiemen Pass.

The Iron Gate Pass is not far from the Wuhu River, but it is not on the edge of the Wuhu River, but in an unnamed river valley. Steep peaks on either side, and gentle valleys in between, are important places in the middle of the river.

Among the eight armies in the river, the Huating army arrived the latest, because there was no need to trek for a long time after crossing the green mountain, so the number of people lost by the Huating army after crossing the green mountain was small, which was also an important reason why the total Dingkou of the Huating army was reduced.

Among the eight armies, the Huating Army was the most isolated.

On both sides of the city were the Anhua Army and the Longquan Army, and below it was the Xinping Army, the Yanchuan Army and the Lantian Army, and a total of five armies formed a hammer shape. And there are also two armies around Samojian, the Fufeng Army and the Lincheng Army, but this Huating Army is alone in the Iron Gate Pass, which is extremely far away from any army.

When Ma Lan arrived at Tiemen Pass, the city of the Huating Army had just been half built, and Ma Lan naturally repeated his old skills and took his soldiers to the construction of Huating Town.

The method is very old-fashioned, but it is extremely practical, seeing that the prime minister Ma Xuan and everyone worked hard to build the city, and the food was the same as everyone else, the resentment of the people quickly disappeared.

By the time Ma Lan left five days later, the people had already sent some of them to the Tao.

This time, Ma Luan left behind as the military envoy of Huating was another confidant general, also Zhao Ji from the Anxi New Army.

Among the Eighth Army in Hezhong, except for one Du Fu, who was a literati, the rest were appointed confidants and cadres in the Anxi New Army. Ma Lan attaches great importance to the people of the Eighth Army, so he will reluctantly cut his love and let these young generals leave the elite new army and serve as military envoys in these military towns.

The Eighth Army in Hezhong is the foundation of the Anxi Army in the west of the Green Mountain, the source of soldiers, and the foundation of the inheritance and spread of the Han culture. These hundreds of thousands of Han people are not only farmers, but also fire, which must be ignited as soon as possible to affect the land as much as possible.

The positions they left behind can be filled by young people in the new army. There are many low-level officers in the new army in Anxi, and they can get ahead as long as they are given the opportunity, and Zhao Ji, who previously shined in Tian Ming's Far Eastern Expedition, is an example.

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After leaving the Huating Army, Ma Ling and his own soldiers turned to the northwest non-stop and went straight to Xinping Town. One person and three horses constantly change mounts, the endurance of the Arabian horse is amazing, because it is only a small force, so the speed is getting faster and faster, it only took five days from the iron gate pass where Huating Town is located to Xinping Town, and the daily travel distance reaches more than 200 miles.

In fact, this time the patrol was like this, and the advantages of the Arabian horse were brought into full play. However, every time he arrives at a place, he needs to delay for a few days, and the delay time is nearly a month, plus the time on the road, when Ma Lan arrived at the Xinping Army again, it was already the beginning of February of the fourteenth year of Tianbao.

This period of time can be said to be extremely hard, unprecedented hardship, more tiring than the bloody battle on the battlefield, but after inspecting it, Ma Lan was finally able to put his mind at ease.

The fourteenth year of Tianbao is the year when the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and it was the year when the Tang Empire was cut in half, but history has changed, Zahu An Lushan has died, and the Tang Empire is thriving.

According to Ma Luan's request, Fang Wen had already built a martyr's shrine in the Xinping Army before the arrival of the first month.

The Martyrs' Shrine covers an area of several hundred acres and is located outside of Tan Binh Town, which is a huge square surrounded by low walls.

On the low wall, the name of every Guanzhong person who died on the road is engraved, where is the township, where he died, are clearly engraved. The names of the Anxi athletes who died on the battlefield are also engraved on this low wall.

In the center of the square is a huge square monument, the shape of the monument is extremely strange, from the design of Ma Lu, slightly thicker at the bottom and slightly thinner at the top, made of large stones stacked on top of each other, and the surface is polished to be extremely smooth.

The eight golden characters on the front of the monument, the silver hook and iron are very imposing, and they are also from Ma Lan's handwriting.

"The heroes of Anxi are immortal!"

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