The Zeravshan River was the name of later generations, and in this era this great river was called Nami Water by the Tang people. The last time Ma Lu came to capture the city, he had not yet thought of collecting the land in the river, so he killed a group of Sogdians by the dense water. Of course, those guys are all wealthy merchant families who bought Tang Jian'er as slaves, and in Ma Lan's opinion, they deserve it, and even today Ma Lan does not regret it.

The city was burned once before Ziad put down the rebellion, and then it was destroyed again by Ma Lan and Anxi Jian'er, which was originally a city that was almost impossible to repair, but now in front of Ma Lan is a very imposing Oriental heroic city.

The walls of the new city were several feet high, and the top was extremely flat, and the city was full of horses, and the dense water was led to the edge of the city, forming a typical oriental moat, and the only way to enter and exit the city was through the drawbridges over the eight gates. The river was even diverted into the city, creating a large aqueduct, and a water gate controlled the connection between the canal and the moat.

Although the defense capability of this new city cannot be compared with the surrendered city built by Ma Luan, it can also catch up with the county town of the Central Plains, and it is obvious that Li Siye and Lifei Yuanli also spent a lot of thought on this city.

The whole city is divided into two parts, the outer city and the inner city, and the inner city also has high walls. The camp of the Anxi army was in the inner city, and the aggressive army and the Turkic miscellaneous soldiers who came to help in the war were stationed in the outer city.

Although this city is large, there are not many people in it. The original owner of the city was the Sogdians, the king of Anguo was killed by the rebel Ziad, the crowd was leaderless, Ma Lan killed a group when he brought the army, this time tens of thousands of troops came, and many people in the city were scared away.

The Sogdians who did not run away were caught by Li Siye as coolies to help build the city, and many people died in the process of building the city, and there were not many Sogdians in the city who survived. Nowadays, the number of civilians in the city is much smaller than the number of troops, and the whole city is a huge barracks.

However, it does not mean that the city is not lively when there are few people, tens of thousands of troops are stationed here, and there are many things needed every day, and there are huge business opportunities in it, so there are all walks of life in the city, and all the needs of the army can generally be met.

The King of Qinhua was a gang of the Tang Dynasty, and the Sogdians of Kangguo naturally received preferential treatment, and now it was the Kangguo merchants who provided supplies for the army in the city, and there were already many shops in the city, most of which were opened by the Kangguo Sogdians, and only a small number belonged to the Xinghu merchants from the east of the Green Mountains.

He wantonly slaughtered the Persian Mawari in the river, and the Persian Mawari north of the Wuhu River were all killed, and he dared to do this because he was backed by the Tang Dynasty. On this land, the Tang army is the real master, so although the Tang army does not have an advantage in numbers, Li Siye is the sole power, and the aggressive Kangguo warriors and those Turkic miscellaneous soldiers are all under the orders of Li Siye, the chief general of the Tang army.

After the Anxi Dadu Protector Ma Lan rode to the city with 5,000 iron, he immediately took over the city. Li Siye didn't even have time to introduce the situation of the Fishing City to Ma Lan, and left the Drinking City.

Ma Lan stayed in Chang'an for a lot of more days because of the matter of immigration, and arrived in the city of Capture and Drink earlier than Ma Lan with the edict of the Son of Heaven, Li Siye had long known about his transfer to the deputy envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and also knew that Ma Lan was now the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, the envoy of the Five Towns Jiedu, and was his direct boss. He has been waiting for Ma Lan to come to hand over, and after Ma Lan came, Li Siye left the fishing city with Li Fei Yuanli and a veteran of Anxi and embarked on the way home.

Let Li Siye and the veterans go to Hedong together, this is Ma Lan's military order, and the veterans are also extremely happy and do not resist such an order. They know that Hezhong is a stage for the younger generation, and it is already very good for them to protect them like this, not to mention that everyone in Hedong has been promoted, and they also have the opportunity to make contributions in the face of the Northeast Second Captive, so what is there to be dissatisfied with.

At present, there is only one confidant of Duan Xiushi, who is newly sealed as the county boss of Tongchuan County, and there are several other Anxi officials who came to serve, and Ma Lan can't fully trust them. Du Huan and Cen Shen are in the surrendered city, and there is only Duan Xiushi who can discuss things with him here for the time being.

With the arrival of the 5,000 athletes of Ma Lu, the number of the new army in Anxi has exceeded 10,000, all of which are equipped with riding crossbows or Yuanrong crossbows. The Anxi soldiers brought by Li Siye and the Anxi athletes who had been reinforced by the Quy Nhon army were originally nearly 10,000, but later they were scattered to various cities on the banks of the Nami River to garrison some of them, and some of them were scattered to the Fengsui horse shops and camel shops in various places, so there were only more than 6,000 people left in the area of the city. Added up on both sides, Ma Lan's hands barely reached 17,000 Anxi athletes.

The Sogdian soldiers under his command have been fighting for several years, and they already have a bit of a fierce spirit, and they can be called an elite force. The number of more than 30,000 is a force to be reckoned with even in the entire province of Khorasan, after all, the entire black-clothed regular army is only 100,000, and it is still scattered in various parts of the huge empire.

In addition, there are nearly 30,000 Turkic miscellaneous soldiers, most of whom come from the Ferghana Basin and the Thousand Springs steppe, and these people are here to fight and make a fortune. This is an army formed when the Persian tribes united with the Western Turkic tribes and strangled those Persian tribes who were preparing to attack the four towns of Anxi through the medicine and killing water.

The palace of King An in the center of the city has been renovated, which is the residence of the Tang Dynasty general, which used to be Li Siye, and now belongs to Ma Lan. After the army settled down, Ma Lan summoned Duan Xiushi and Du Hao to briefly understand the recent situation.

The situation is the same as Feng Changqing understands, there has been no change, it has been extremely quiet in the past few months, the Datang rangers are still unscrupulous on both sides of the Wuhu River, and the black-clothed Dashi is still extremely restrained, and there is no effective counterattack against the actions of the Datang rangers on both sides of the Wuhu River.

Obviously, Caliph Abbas still did not want the Persians to become elite soldiers in the process of fighting against the Tang and Sogdians, and did not want to accept them. Posilin's last words influenced the Persians to form their own power, which in turn influenced his rule.

But Abbas's caution should not last long, as he will soon die.

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Duhao is still as attentive as before, and screams as a little slave in the face of Ma Lu. Now that he had completely integrated the nine surnames of Zhaowu through his military campaign against Persian Mawari, all of whom were worshipped by the Sogdians as kings, he could now be said to be the true king of the river. The change in status has made the temperament of this fat man very different, originally hidden, but now it is also showing a bit of fierceness.

The current Duan is still respectful to the Tang Dynasty, and even when Ma Lu said the huge immigration plan of the Tang Dynasty, he did not complain, but only praised the sainthood of the Heavenly Khan. However, Ma Lan does not have absolute trust in this guy.

The 20,000 Persians who were driven to Ansi left a shadow in his heart, and although the followers of the God of Light were not as fanatical as the followers of Huda, they also needed to be guarded against. In the end, the only people who can be trusted are their own people, and you must always be careful when facing foreign races.

Compared with the calm of the emperor, on the contrary, Duan Xiushi was shocked when he heard that more than 450,000 immigrants from Guanzhong would go to the river, but he, like Feng Changqing, would not doubt the right or wrong of the Son of Heaven, and immediately went to prepare for the army to cross the Wuhu River.

The matter is obvious, it is necessary to occupy a large area of land on the other side of the Wuhu River in order to meet the promise of the Son of Heaven to the people of Guanzhong, so it is inevitable to send troops across the Wuhu River.

"Chenggong, this is not in a hurry, wait and talk." Ma Lan smiled, "In a little while, the spies should be able to bring good news." ”

"What does the general mean—" Duan Xiushi said with a frown.

"Hehe, just wait. This year will be a great opportunity for us, and it will be this year to make a contribution. Hurry, you need to hurry up and prepare supplies, and the army will need them soon. ”

"Yes, yes, the little slave will do it! Capture and drink the supplies in the city to support the army for a year, but it is better to prepare more. The Sogdian fat man nodded repeatedly.

Ma Lan smiled and nodded: "I'm tired." ”

When the "butcher" Abbas dies, there will inevitably be civil strife in the Great Food Country, and then it will be a good time for the troops to send troops south of the Wuhu River. Now that the troops are sent in the past, it is not impossible to win, but the pressure will be very great, and the price to pay will be even higher.

The Anxi army is not afraid of going head-to-head with any opponent, and the new Anxi army composed of all the Modao knights is even more so, but Ma Lu does not want a large amount of losses from the Han family, and his favorite is to take advantage of the fire to rob.

Datang has already opened a military town in the river, and the soldiers are pointing directly at the Wuhu River. When Abbas dies and Taizong Mansur ascends to the throne, Abbas and Mansour's uncle Abdullah will not be willing to bow down as long as he is still the Abdullah in history.

If the messenger had managed to return to Syria alive, Abdullah's messenger would have come to the city of Drinking when Abbas had died, unless Abdullah had been an idiot.

Of course, even if there was no messenger from Abdullah, the Anxi army would have killed the black water and stabbed the already weak body of the black-clothed eater. It has been less than four years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and there are many internal contradictions and disputes, and the surface is not calm, and there are even more undercurrents underneath. When Abbas died, it was time for all kinds of contradictions to erupt.

All that needs to be done now is to wait, to wait for the death of Abbas, the great ancestor of the black-clothed food.

According to historical records, this time should be very soon.

After all, there is no cure for smallpox in this day and age, Abu. Abbas. Safah was destined to die on top of this horrible disease. When his younger brother changed his name to al-Mansur and became caliph, the drama would officially begin.

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Note: There is some information that Mansour is Abbas's older brother, which is doubtful. (To be continued.) )