As a ranger, Kang Xiaoyu was also extremely alert when he fell asleep. But nothing happened that night, and her location was off the trade route, deep in the Gobi, and no one came.

When she woke up the next morning, Ye Feiyu was still asleep, but her breathing was extremely steady, and she was obviously not in danger of life.

The arrow wounds on Ye Scarlet's face are still terrifying, and it seems that scars are inevitable. She was proud of her appearance, and these two scars would inevitably become a heart disease. But the key now is to get out of this desert, and nothing else can be controlled so much for the time being.

Wake up Ye Scarlet Fish, help her onto the horse, and the two of them rode a war horse again and walked the way they came. Although the wind was not too strong last night, the horseshoe prints of last night had disappeared.

However, Kang Xiaoyu still remembered the direction of the road, and soon found the ancient trade road, and after walking forward for a short time, the Guangxian Post was not far from the lake.

On the edge of a beautiful lake, the reeds were almost burned by the fire. As the night passed, Guangxianyi looked extremely deserted. The merchants, who had been terrified all night, left the Guangxian Post as soon as dawn, while the Anxi agents led by Michelle left before them.

There were no new caravans arriving at the Guangxian Post today, only the soldiers were in and out of the castle.

Tie the war horse away from the post station, Kang Xiaoyu walked to the Guangxian Post with a short knife, and it didn't take long for him to come back again, with a few more water bags and a bag of dried meat on his body.

Even if the guards are heavily guarded, how can they stop a strong person like her. She went in and out of the Guangxian Post and came back with these things, without even alerting a single soldier.

If it weren't for the fact that the merchants were gone, she wouldn't want to go to the inn to get something. These soldiers have the unique equipment of the Anxi Army, and they should be considered the subordinates of Brother Pony, and she has no intention of harming them. This time, I went to get some food and water, and it didn't hurt anyone.

Tie the water bag and food to the horse's back, take out the horse feed and feed the mount, Kang Xiaoyu rode the horse away from the road. After bypassing Guangxian Station from a distance, he returned to the avenue again and continued to move towards the vast Gobi.

She had only one war horse, but two of them. Naturally, the speed can't be raised. However, walking along the trade road, with the bones of mules and horses along the way to guide the way, you will not take the wrong road after all.

Ye Feiyu lost too much blood, and he was also wobbly on horseback, and he needed Kang Xiaoyu's support to sit firmly. The two rode horses on the ancient trade road of Moheyanmoraine. There was no one in front of and behind, and he walked lonely in the direction of Wushanyi.

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More than 200 Anxi spies followed Mi Xue all the way, and it was just after noon when they arrived at Wushanyi. After taking a short break at Wushan Station, after eating food and filling up the water bags, the group set off again and continued to move towards Shuangquan Station.

Because of the appearance of that black-hearted woman, Michelle has already raised the speed of progress to the limit. If you can spend the night at Shuangquanyi tonight, you will be able to spend at least one day less time in Moheyanmoraine.

It is necessary to rush to the Igo army as soon as possible, and then change horses and speed to the river, and report the information to the general in detail. That's what she has to do right now.

It was already twilight when I arrived at Shuangquanyi, and it was peaceful along the way. The commander personally came to this place, and the Anxi secret agent in charge of Shuangquan Station received him with hospitality. After resting for a night, it was still dawn, and more than 200 people galloped at high speed on the Gobi and went straight to the next post station, the fifth post.

It's all about speed. More than 200 riders rode on the ancient road, and the yellow dust rolled up everywhere they passed, which frightened the merchants to avoid it. In one day, there were still two post stations in a row, and at noon arrived at the fifth post for a short rest. In the evening, it was already at the Cold Spring Station.

At this point, Mohe Yanqi is already halfway through, and Lengquanyi no longer belongs to the sandbar boundary, but belongs to Yizhou, which belongs to the three western states of the Tang Dynasty.

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The three prefectures of Moxi are Xizhou, Yizhou and Tingzhou, and Xizhou and Yizhou are south of the Tianshan Mountains. Tingzhou is located north of the Tian Shan Mountains, and these three prefectures are the main settlements of the Han people west of the quicksand.

Among them, Yizhou is the earliest of the three states in the west of the Tang Dynasty, as early as the early years of Zhenguan, the lord of Yiwu City, Shi Wannian returned to the Tang Dynasty with seven cities, and Taizong placed it in West Yizhou, and later changed its name to Yizhou. It has three counties under its jurisdiction, and it is the first territory of Datang in the west of quicksand. Later, the general Hou Junji swept the Western Regions, using Yizhou as a springboard.

It has been more than 100 years since Yizhou was returned to the Tang Dynasty, and during the Taizong Dynasty, the population of Yizhou was dominated by the Hu people of the Western Regions, and Shi Wannian himself was a Sogdian. Over the past hundred years, the number of Han people in Yizhou has been increasing, and it has exceeded the number of Hu people.

Tianbao was originally changed to a county, and Yizhou has been changed to Yiwu County, but people are still used to calling it Yizhou.

The three prefectures in the west of the city are all the territory of the Beiting Jiedu envoy, and the garrison of Yizhou is called the Yiwu Army, and the garrison is Ganluchuan in the west of the city, which is one of the three main forces of the Beiting Army. The other two main forces of the Beiting Army were the Han Navy stationed in Tingzhou and the Tianshan Army stationed in Xizhou.

Ma Lan was ordered by the Son of Heaven to take charge of the west of the quicksand, and served as the protector of the capital of Anxi and the envoy of the two towns of Anxi and Beiting, and the Beiting army was also his subordinate. That's why he has the right to transfer people from the Yiwu army to replace the soldiers in the original ten post stations in Mohe Yanmoi, and control this lifeblood of quicksand in his own hands.

Naturally, he didn't have any different intentions, but this ancient path was too important and absolutely could not be lost, so he valued it so much.

Mi Xue took the Anxi spies through the Cold Spring Station, and went forward for two days, and finally got out of Mohe Yan Moraine and arrived at Yizhou, an important town in the west of Moxi.

The brigade stayed outside Yizhou City, and sent an envoy to Ganluchuan to recruit horses, Mi Xue entered Yizhou City by himself, found the leader of Anxi's secret agent in Yizhou City, and briefly learned about the situation in this area.

But this time, she heard a news that shocked her extremely much.

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The establishment of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate was originally to separate the Eastern and Western Turks. The Western Turkic combat power is far inferior to the same clan in the north and south of the desert, and has been beaten by the Tang army for more than 100 years, which is really not a problem, and later the Ashina clan declined, and the Turkic tribe with a different surname rose to the Turkish clan, and the situation changed slightly, but the combat power of the Turkic Warrior is still not as good as the Later Turkic Khanate. Therefore, the original main enemy of the Beiting Army was the post-Turkic khanate, which had revived in the first year of Yongchun.

In the third year of Tianbao, the most powerful Hui leader of the Tiele tribe rebelled, joined forces with the famous Tang general Wang Zhonghe, and the following year destroyed the Later Turkic Khanate, cutting off the great trouble in the northern part of the Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop. The leader of the Hui Hui Gu Li Pei Luo unified the Tiele tribes, and each department was called the Hui Hui, and the Tang Dynasty sealed the Gu Li Pei Luo as the Khan of Huairen.

Guli Peiluo inherited almost all the chassis and population of the Later Turkic Khanate, bordering Murowei in the east and Jinshan in the west, and the land of the desert in the north and south is all Uighur territory.

After the destruction of Guli Peiluo, the Turkic Khanate died in the same year, and in the fourth year of Tianbao, his son succeeded him as Gele Khan. Compared with the aggressive Post-Turkic Khanate, the Hui Khanate has been in the state for more than ten years, and generally speaking, it is still relatively friendly with the Tang Dynasty, so there have been no major disputes.

Among the northern Mobei tribes, the Hui are the most pro-Tang tribes. Huairen Khan and Gele Khan were respectful to the Tang Dynasty, in fact, they both followed the tradition of the Hui tribe.

The pro-Tang dynasty of the Hui Khanate also had a reason.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Turks were a problem in the heart. After several generations of the eldest grandson family, the Turks finally fell into chaos, and then Li Jing succeeded in one fell swoop, and three thousand horsemen wiped out the Turks, achieving the reputation of a generation of military gods.

After the fall of the Turks, all the ministries descended to the Tang Dynasty, and then the Tang Dynasty set up the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate in the north of the desert, and placed a single in the Metropolitan Protectorate in the south of the desert, each with jurisdiction over the Turkic Surrender Department of the 24 states, and managed the affairs of the ministries to mediate disputes. At that time, the Hui tribe was subordinate to the Protectorate of the Northern Metropolis of Anbei and was one of the Tiele tribes.

In the first year of Tiaolu (679 AD), the Turkic tribes of Shan Yu Dadu Hufu launched an anti-Tang rebellion, and after the first year of Yongchun (682 AD), the Turkic Khanate was established, and Shan Yu Dadu Hufu had already dissolved automatically. The Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate in Mobei still exists, and the nine Tiele tribes are still loyal to the Tang Dynasty, the most loyal of which is the Khan of the nine Tiele tribes, and the Hanhai Governor Bisu canonized by the Tang Dynasty.

Since the first year of Hongdao (683 AD), the northern drought in Mobei lasted for three years, and there were seven or eight out of ten sheep and horses. The Tongluo and Fugu tribes under the Protectorate of Anbei all surrendered to the Later Turkic Khanate in Monan, and in turn attacked the pro-Tang nine Khan Hui chieftains, and the situation in Mobei was chaotic for a while.

Tang is the most respectful in returning to the Tang Dynasty, and Datang naturally can't help it. Although the road to Mobei was cut off by the Later Turkic Khanate, there was still a road to Mobei. In June of the first year of the vertical arch (685 AD), the Tang Dynasty soldiers were divided into two roads, one was the Hexi cavalry led by Liu Jingtong, the general of the Left Leopard Taowei, who went out of Yanhai to attack in the north, and the other road was to defend the fields of Jinshan and fight from west to east.

There are not many soldiers and horses in Jinshan Duhufu, but at this time, the ten tribes of the Western Turks have been surrendered by the Tang Dynasty, so Tian Yangming went out to the east, and most of the soldiers and horses under his command were the cavalry of the ten tribes of the Western Turks.

Tian Yangming and Liu Jingtong joined forces with Mobei and successfully quelled the rebellion. However, because Tian Yangming's subordinates were mainly Western Turkic cavalry, they followed the Tang Dynasty to make a fortune, but while defeating the rebellious Tongluo Fugu tribes, the cavalry of the ten tribes plundered on the Mobei grassland, and beat the rabbits to completely cripple the loyal allies of the Tang Dynasty.

The Hui tribe suffered a big loss and could no longer continue to rule in Mobei, so they complained to Wu Zetian. Tian Yangming returned triumphantly with the ten tribal chiefs of the Western Turks, and Wu Zetianxia investigated Tian Yangming for the crime of "vainly breaking the Huihui", and Tian Yangming was dismissed from office.

The patriarch of the ten surnamed tribes thought that he had meritorious, and he wanted to go to Beijing to make a pilgrimage to the martial queen to seek a reward, but Wu Zetian also did not give a reward and was not allowed to make a pilgrimage on the grounds that the ten surnamed tribes broke the Hui Hui.

Although the combat power of the ten tribes of the Western Turks is average, they are all unruly and unruly, and they will not be rewarded for half a year, where can they swallow this breath, and immediately launched a rebellion against the Tang Dynasty, and the Jinshan Protectorate was abolished, and the situation in the Western Regions was turbulent again, and the Anxi athletes had to fight in the south and the north to quell the rebellion.

It may not be wise not to reward merit, but because of Wu Zetian's attitude of maintenance, the Hui tribe is extremely grateful to Datang. (To be continued.) )