In front of the ruins of Isfahan, a new city is rising rapidly, more than 100,000 Persian coolies sweat under the scorching sun, and they will die of exhaustion every day, and the new city is getting taller every day.

In the clear sky, occasionally Hai Dongqing fell, and what Ma Lan brought over was all good news.

The southern expedition to Tianzhu went very smoothly, and the allied forces of all ethnic groups crossed the Karakoram Mountains with the elite soldiers of Anxi, and entered the lower reaches of the Shiquan River, the so-called Indus Valley in later generations. The Tianzhu people really dispatched their vaunted elephant soldiers, but this thing is just an ornament, and it is useless at all.

The Xiangxiong cavalry who came down from the bitter cold land saw a large area of flat and fertile land, and their eyes were red, and they fought extremely bravely, which was not at all something that the Tianzhu people could resist; The performance of the coalition forces of the various prefectures in the west of the city that volunteered to participate in the war was poorer, but with the elite soldiers of Anxi, they were able to defeat less and win more.

The cavalry of the Wuqijin tribe, which had been attached to the Tang Dynasty for the longest time, also participated in this battle, and they slowly found the feeling of their ancestors. The Geshu tribe had received the help of Ma Lu at the beginning, and now it has become the most powerful of the Wuqi Jin tribe, and so far the cavalry of the Geshu tribe has played the best among the Wuqi Jin tribe.

More than 100,000 troops rushed down from the top of Qiangtang, like a flood that burst the embankment, and the Tianzhu people could not resist it at all, and soon fell into chaos. Organized resistance was quickly defeated, and now the army has dispersed, establishing Tang rule with swords on the vast plains of the Upper Indus.

The warriors of all tribes strictly followed Ma Lan's orders, and any towns and villages that dared to resist were directly slaughtered into a blank field. The reputation of the invaders for their brutality and ferocity was soon established, and the Tianzhu people of the Land of the Five Rivers were terrified, and in order to avoid the fate of slaughtering the city after the defeat, one town after another chose to surrender directly after the arrival of the army.

There are two armies in the southern expedition to Tianzhu, and the one that belongs to the direct control of the Governor's Mansion in the west is the one dominated by the Zhangxiong people. And the other one, led by the new Longyou Jiedu envoy Wang Rare, was also extremely smooth.

The young general deliberately delayed the dispatch of troops, and the consequence was that tens of thousands of Qiang people on the Qiang pond starved to death, and then he took the main force of the Longyou army with him. Wrapped in almost all the Qiang tribes on the Qiang pond except for the Zhangxiong people, they drove into the mud bharat. Due to the extremely limited food he supplied to the Qiang tribes participating in the war, almost all the Qiang tribes were dispatched in order to survive, and as a result, the population on the Qiang pond was sharply reduced, and the nomadic Qiang people were almost nomadic anymore.

Nibra is the place of the Buddha's birth, and this march has received strong support from the Buddhist sect of Middle-earth, plus Zhang Xun has pacified Silla, so there is no need to consider the situation in Liaodong, so the household department has no problems in the supply of military supplies. 50,000 elite soldiers on the right side of Long. Together with the 120,000 Qiang people who entered the mud bhara, they quickly subjugated the small mountainous state, and then continued south, now to the fertile Ganges valley.

Wang's rare advance speed is extremely fast, and the place where Nalanda Temple is located is now the territory of the Tang Dynasty. The Qiang tribe was starved of hunger for a winter, and now when they come to this fertile land, they have become like hungry wolves, and they treat the Tianzhu natives extremely fiercely. After leaving the mud bhara. The king rarely announced that he would no longer provide them with a grain of grain, and that they would have to plunder everything themselves. These Qiang people starved for a winter and didn't want to go hungry anymore, so the towns and villages of the Tianzhu people were swept over one by one. After all, the Ganges valley is rich, and although the Qiang people are quite numerous, they will soon be able to fill their bellies. Seeing such a warm and fertile land for the first time, the Qiang people recalled the previous battles for the "treasure land" of the Luo River Valley. It's all extremely funny.

The Qiang people who were born in the bitter cold land have a stoic temperament and extremely strong combat effectiveness, plus the Longyou army equipped with strong bows and crossbows to suppress the formation. The natives of Tianzhu are the opponents of the invaders.

It is rare for the young man to become famous when he is keen on fame, and he also walks the path of Ma Lan, and treats the Tianzhu people extremely ruthlessly, and also uses the set of "those who follow me prosper and those who disobey me die", and slaughter the city at every turn, this method has been proved to be extremely effective, and the Tianzhu people in the land of five rivers are the same, the Tianzhu people in the Ganges River basin face the unstoppable and brutal invaders, most of them choose to surrender.

The news of the victory continued to reach the surrendered city, and from the surrendered city to Ma Lu. These victories were all expected by Ma Lan, but when he saw the news of the victory, he was always relieved.

All aliens are cheap bones, and this is especially true of the Tianzhu people. This place has always been a plate of scattered sand, even in his previous life, in the history of the Tianzhu people have been repeatedly conquered by foreign people, and the number of foreign people is very small. For example, Babur's invasion of India from Afghanistan relied on a force of 12,000 men.

This time, the two armies poured into Tianzhu, and there were more than 200,000 soldiers in battle, although the composition was quite complicated, but it was gathered under the battle banner of the Tang Dynasty, with the backbone, such an army was comparable to the local army in Tianzhu.

It won't be long before Wang will be able to occupy the whole of North India along this route, and the road led by Du Huan will completely occupy the land of the Five Rivers, and then continue to advance south along the Indus River, with the ultimate goal being the mouth of the Indus River. And that place is not far from Wannian City, the base of the Anxi Army and Water Division.

Ma Lan said that he would take the Tang Dynasty's sailors to the estuary of the Indus River and join Du Huan, and this matter could be realized by next year at the latest.

Establishing a ruling order will be a long-term process, but first we need to get the land. In the process of conquest, the Tang people will gain a reputation for brutality and murder, which will be extremely beneficial for the next step of their rule.

The affairs of the southern expedition to Tianzhu were extremely smooth, and everything was going according to plan. The place of the Buddha's birth has become the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the monks of Chang'an City are following the road that the king rarely opened up to make a pilgrimage to the place of the Buddha's birth. To the west of the Aral Sea, the sweep of the Oghuz was unhindered and went very smoothly.

In charge of this matter was Ma Yong, Ma Qiang, and the 3,000 new army athletes under his department, and tens of thousands of Turkic mercenaries as auxiliaries, and after receiving Ma Lu's order, the leader of the Qarluq did not dare to slack off, and directly set off from the Broken Leaf River with 30,000 cavalry, and went west to sweep the territory of the Oghuz people. After both sides returned to the division. According to the latest information, all the large Oghuz tribes have been annihilated, and now the large armies have been separated, and the Turkic miscellaneous soldiers and Qarluq cavalry are looking for the small tribes of the Oghuz people. Then annihilate it. For the attack on Xihai City last winter, the Oghuz paid a very heavy price.

Ma Yong and Ma Qiang, with 3,000 new army athletes, have arrived on the northern shore of the Caspian Sea, and are subduing the local tribes in preparation for the next step of building the city. According to the intelligence, the local tribes were still in a state of ignorance and extremely hostile to the Anxi army, but after the Anxi army bloodied a large number of tribes, they were under the butcher's knife of the new Anxi army. The remaining tribes also quickly learned to bow their heads.

According to the news from Ma Yong and Ma Qiang, it is indeed an extremely vast fertile plain, which is the most suitable for Han people to settle. After the construction of the city in the future, it is necessary to communicate with Zhang Xun again, and the idea is to move some Han people to the north shore of the Caspian Sea and thrive in this fertile land.

In addition to the conquest, there were other things that were extremely important to both the Anxi New Army and Ma Lu.

The construction of the city by Broken Leaf made Pei Yan arrive after the Broken Leaf River. After bringing Ma Lan's order to the assassins, he began to build the city. This city will be bigger than the Broken Leaf City built by Wang Fangyi and Du Huaibao back then. After completion, the town of Broken Leaf will be reopened, and the four towns of Anxi will restore the establishment of Broken Leaf, Shule, Qiuci, and Khotan. On the side of the Beiting Army, Du Huaiguang and Li Qiyun led 20,000 cavalry to Cheling through the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, crossed Cheling and entered the Yili River Valley, and had also reached the Shaye River. After they arrived. The construction of Shattered Leaf Town has been greatly accelerated.

The reopening of Broken Leaf Town is Ma Lan's promise to Wang Zhengjian to the old general, and it is also his own wish, and now everything is going well, and this matter can be completely completed within a year.

This side of the river. The Ma family workshop, which was built and drank, was completely on the right track and could fully undertake the ordnance production task of the Anxi New Army. The Hindu Kush Mountains are rich in resources, and the supply of various resources has been straightened out, and now the Ma family workshop on the Qiuzi side no longer needs to transport ordnance materials here.

Now that the center of gravity of the new army in Anxi has shifted to the west of the green mountain, the self-sufficiency of ordnance is particularly important. The development of two workshops is naturally excellent news for Ma Lu.

The scale of the Ma family workshop in Qiuci City is huge, so it is naturally impossible to be idle, and it is still in full production, but the things produced are sold to Chang'an. There was still a part left before, but now that the west of the Green Mountain can be self-sufficient, it is simply not left at all, and all of it is sold to Zhang Xun.

Chang'an got the method of ordnance production, but the supervisor has not been able to make good things, the most important soft steel can not be smelted, and the things made are not qualified, and now the qualified only granulated gunpowder, but the cost is extremely high. The Heavenly Thunder Arrow can also be made by itself, but the iron shell of the Fire Thunder cannot be made.

Ma Lan did not hide his secrets, but with the system of being a prisoner, this is also a helpless thing. The Yuanrong crossbow can only be built by Li Jing, and the Ma family workshop cannot be mass-produced, let alone Chang'an. Zhang Xun got what he wanted, but found that it was useless, and in the end he had no choice but to purchase a large amount from Anxi. The same is true for gunpowder, the cost of purchasing it from Qixi and transporting it is actually lower than the price of the prison itself, which makes Zhang Xun extremely helpless.

These things are not something that can be made by knowing the law, Ma Lu has Li Xiu and Gao Qianqian here, which is a great luck. made the prison unpresentable, Zhang Xun had no choice, he wanted Datang to have a few more strong troops, so he also bought it from Qiuzi at any cost. In this way, the Ma family workshop in Qiuzi just has a stable sales channel.

However, with Zhang Xun's urine, where is he willing to let Ma Lan take advantage, he keeps buying things, but he doesn't give real money, not even the banknotes issued by the Hanzhong Group. He is not in vain, according to the previous agreement with Ma Lan, Anxi has to pay him a million yuan every year, Zhang Xun will use this money to pay, and if it is not enough, he will use the next year's payment, anyway, it is a dime, but Ma Lan can't find fault with him. (To be continued.) )