This powder pack can be dismantled and thrown by powerful warriors, and mounted on a special wooden pole giant arrow, it is the Sky Thunder Arrow.

Before the advent of portable artillery, it was an extremely important new weapon to provide long-range lethality for Ma Lan, who paid the most attention to the mobility of his subordinates.

The leaders of the Qarluq tribe slowly rode back, all of them with strange faces, extremely complicated expressions, shocked, and more awe-inspiring.

The Turks of this era were not yet believers in Huda, but believed in primitive shamanism and feared the gods the most. The army of the Heavenly Khan can even be triggered by the thunder, how can there be anything to say, such an army, where can they mortals resist!

"Ma Xiang, I swear that from now on, I will be naked to Tang, and there will be no dissent! If you break this oath, you will let me die under the thunder of heaven!" Mou Tingteng looked solemn and shouted in a deep voice on the horse's back.

"If you violate this oath, let me die under the thunder!" The leaders shouted at the same time, their voices extremely neat. Apparently they had already discussed it before returning here.

"Haha, good!" Ma Lan looked at these Turkic people with awe-inspiring eyes, smiled and nodded, "Your loyalty is commendable, and your benefits will be indispensable in the future!" The Rat Nishi tribe has been broken, and the children of the land are all owned by you and others, and you don't take the slightest bit of it! ”

"Thank you, Ma Xiang!" "When I go back, I will immediately move out of Kadan Mountain and give up all the land in Broken Leaf City for hundreds of miles." In the future, when Ma Xiang rebuilds Broken Leaf City, my tribe will also try their best to help Ma Xiang! ”

"That's great!" Ma Lan smiled and nodded, "After the defeat of Huifu, I will come here again, when it is summer and autumn, it is the time to build the city." ”

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Liwei's purpose has been achieved, and there is naturally no need to stay here. After leaving a few Qarluq guides, Ma Ling ordered the assassin to take the cavalry of the Qarluq tribe to collect the remnants of the Rat Nishi tribe, while he himself led the army to the southeast and went back to the Broken Leaf Water.

The sea is already close at hand. Looking back, he could see the large sparkling water, but Ma had no intention of looking at it.

In the previous life, Lake Balkhash was outside the territory of China, which can be said to be a pity. And now that he has the opportunity to make up for this shortcoming, in the future, the surrounding area of Yibanhai will be the territory of Datang, so naturally there is nothing to regret.

After returning to the edge of the Broken Leaf Water, the army marched along the riverside oasis, walking hundreds of miles before leaving the Broken Leaf Water again. Switch to the northeast.

If you continue to walk along the Broken Leaf Water, it is going to Atami, which is the road from Shule to Broken Leaves, this time Ma Lu is going to the grassland at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, so naturally he can't take this road.

Bypassing a remnant vein of the Tianshan Mountains and turning to the east, it is to enter the Yili River Basin.

The area from Yilishui to Shayechuan has always been the activity territory of the three tribes of the Qarluq, and the big teeth of the three tribes of the Qarluq were built on the Kadan Mountain, and the small teeth of the three tribes of the Qarluq tribe were built in the Gongyue Castle in the upper reaches of the Irishui River.

Yili water is the Ili River thousands of years later. The rich and beautiful Ili River valley is surrounded by magnificent Tianshan Mountains on both the north and south sides. The Ili River flows westward into Lake Balkhash. A thousand years after Ma Lu's original life, this beautiful river valley belongs half to China and half to the outside world. And even this half of China, which is almost lost.

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A thousand years later, in 1944, the Upper Ili River Valley, which belonged to China, was then called the Ili Prefecture, with the capital of Yining, and the famous Yining Incident occurred in this year.

At that time, the Ili River valley was occupied by Soviet Russia. Not far from the Chinese border, under the Ili River valley and on the branch of the Tianshan Mountains, is Almaty, a large city founded by Soviet Russia, which also has a consulate in Yining.

Right this year. With the support of Soviet Russia, the Kazakhs, Tatars and Uyghurs in the Ili River Valley rebelled and carried out genocide under the slogan "Kill the Hui and destroy the Han", and the Han and Hui were almost wiped out by the rebels.

Thanks to the direct involvement of the Russian Red Army, the rebellion quickly spread to the two prefectures of Tacheng and Altay north of the Tianshan Mountains, where the Han Chinese and Hui were also massacred. The Han people in the three districts died.

At that time, the Chinese government was weak and unable to confront Soviet Russia, whose ambition was to annex the whole of Xinjiang and secretly gave great support to the rebels, who completely occupied the three prefectures of Ili, Tacheng and Altay, and played the banner of "Eastern/Turkic/Stanist Republic", which was the historical root of "Eastern/Turkic" decades later.

The Chinese government urgently sent troops into Xinjiang to support, in the face of the fierce rebels, the Chinese government army shouted the slogan of "stubbornly defending Dadihua", the army and the rebels confronted each other on the front line of the Manas River, and after repeated bloody battles, the situation was finally temporarily stabilized, but the upper Ili River valley and Tacheng and Altay were always controlled by the rebels.

Later, through diplomatic efforts, the Chinese government finally got Soviet Russia to agree not to support the rebels in the three regions, but it paid a huge price for recognizing foreign independence.

And even so, it only stabilized the situation in Xinjiang, and did not let the whole of Xinjiang fall to Soviet Russia, and the three districts of Yining, Tacheng, and Altay were still firmly occupied by the rebels.

A few years later, the Chinese government changed, the new government became friendly with the Soviet Union, and through diplomatic efforts, the three regions were returned to the Chinese government. The rebels who had slaughtered the Han Chinese on a large scale were not punished in any way, and were integrated into the new squadron as a whole. And this rebellion was whitewashed as the "Three Districts Revolution".

Fortunately, the sky has eyes, and when the rebel leaders of the three districts took Almaty in the lower reaches of the Ili River, and took a plane to Beiping to attend the CPPCC meeting, the plane fell down in Irkutsk, and the rebel leader died cleanly, which can be described as unpleasant retribution.

Even if they are whitewashed as martyrs, there are still monuments to pay tribute to them in Yining today, but that's all. The descendants of the Han family who know this history know what they are.

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At this time, it was a thousand years ago, and Almaty was just a small oasis on the southern edge of the Ili River Valley.

At that time, China was able to keep half of the Ili River valley in the end, which can only be said to be a coincidence. The rebels were sacrificed, but the dead Han people were unknown and no one remembered them.

The key to this rebellion was not in Soviet Russia, but in the final analysis, these frontier peoples did not integrate into the circle of Chinese culture, but became believers in Hu Da.

The Islamic world was fragmented in his previous life and could be said to have failed, but Islamic culture was still successful because the followers of Huda spread throughout Central and West Asia. Before he came to this era, China was strong enough to still suffer from this kind of trouble.

If the border barbarians were integrated into the Chinese cultural circle, there would be no tragedy such as the Three Districts Incident.

And now the situation is different from the previous life, the Han people moved to the river, which has isolated the Hu world from the grassland tribes, as long as the Han people firmly guard the Wuhu water line, similar things will not happen. It would be even more perfect if this line could be pushed into the Zagros Mountains as a whole.

It is impossible for the Turks in the steppe to kill them all, and even if they do, new barbarians will be created. So the best way is to pull them into the circle of Chinese culture.

Taking a step back, even if they can't integrate into the circle of Chinese culture, they can't become believers in Hu Da, which is a bottom line.

The Qarluqs, like the Qarluqs, would rather drive them to Europe to harm the Europeans than make them followers of Huda.

At this time, the Tang Dynasty was at its strongest, and along the way, the Western Turkic tribes along the way were extremely tame. The scouts passed orders at the front, and the leaders of the various tribes prepared food and horse feed for the army of the Heavenly Khan early.

After Almaty, you will walk further along the foothills, and after hundreds of miles, you will enter the upper Ili Valley. Khorgos is the western boundary of Chinese territory, and after a thousand years, the upper Ili River valley is still the territory of China.

The Ili River valley is sandwiched out of the north and south branches of the Tianshan Mountains, and it is impossible to go out directly, even if it is a thousand years later, there is no way, and now Ma Ling is carrying more than 10,000 war horses, and naturally he cannot go to the victory of Daban in the future generations. To leave the Ili Valley, one must cross the Tien Shan Mountains to the north or south. Of course, Ma Luan's goal is Tingzhou, so naturally he wants to go north.

There are still hundreds of years before the time of Genghis Khan, and the fruit ditch has naturally not yet been opened in this era. Ma Lu knew the location of Guozigou, but this time he was just passing by, so he naturally didn't have the heart to open up this new road, so he could only leave it for later.

The army arrived at Gongyue City, crossed Yilishui to the north, crossed the Tianshan Mountains from the Cheling Ancient Road, and came to the grassland at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains. After leaving the Tianshan Gorge, you have arrived at the Shiqi River, which is also known as the Jing River in later generations.

At this time, it is still cold, and it is not easy to climb over the Cheling, but compared to climbing over the green ridge hundreds of miles wide, it is much simpler.

In fact, if you go farther, you can also avoid the Ili River Valley, but from the east of Lake Balkhash to the east, cross the Alashan Pass, and you can also reach the grassland at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains. The advantage of that is that there is no need to climb over the northern branch of the Tianshan Mountains, and the disadvantage is that it naturally takes a lot more time.

Once here, the road to Tingzhou is already a smooth one, and you can travel east along the continuous oasis at the edge of the basin.

Although Tingzhou is a state, its jurisdiction is extremely vast. Among them, the western border of Luntai County is to the west of the Liqian Jiande River (Manas River), which is less than a thousand miles away from the Shiqi River, and can be reached within a few days with the marching speed of the Anxi New Army. (Tang Zhiluntai County is different from today's Luntai County, one is in the north and the other is in the south.) ）

The march all the way through the mountains and rivers is needless to say. Ma Lan was accompanied by Kang Xiaoyu, and his heart was naturally better, but the athletes were extremely tired. The crossing of Cheling had exhausted everyone's strength, so Ma Lan deliberately rested for three days on the bank of the Shiqi River, and then continued to set off with the army.

Along the way, I crossed the Yellow Grass Park, crossed the Heishui and Yeye River, crossed the Baiyang River, and before I arrived at the Jiande River, I saw the Tang Dynasty Banner on a hillside.

This road is the broken leaf road of the Tang Dynasty, and there are a lot of guards and beacons destroyed along the way, and this is the first small city where Tang soldiers are stationed. Seeing this one guard, Ma Lan knew that the Boundary Tingzhou had finally arrived. (To be continued.) )