On Hexi Road, it is actually not calm.

An Sishun, the head of the Hokkaido march who participated in the Northern Expedition, has been ordered to return to Liangzhou. After the army arrived in Liangzhou, An Sishun directly closed the city gate, did not allow the Anxi army to enter the city, and did not come out to meet Ma Lu.

Ma Lan didn't bother to bother with him, after all, An Sishun also acted on orders, and now An Sishun also has the title of Pingzhangshi under the Tongzhong Shumen, and has also become an envoy, and he can't find anything wrong if he doesn't come to visit. The army did not enter the city, and the coffin protecting Li Longji passed directly across the city and left Liangzhou City for thirty miles, but An Sishun suddenly came with his own soldiers and cried to pay homage to the coffin of the emperor. This time, Ma Lan still gave him face, which made this guy cry enough, and he was delayed for more than two hours before continuing to set off.

An Sishun cried, and returned to Liangzhou City, and it didn't take long for news to come later, not only was the army not allowed to enter Liangzhou City, but the Xinghu caravan that followed behind wanted to enter Liangzhou City to replenish supplies, but was also stopped outside Liangzhou City by the Hexi Army.

This is nothing, Ma Ling is too lazy to go to talk to An Sishun, and after Wusheling Ridge, he will enter Longyou, and then it will be Geshuhan's territory, and the materials are enough at the moment, and it is nothing if he does not go to Liangzhou City to replenish.

As a result, before they reached Wusheling Mountain, there was news from the caravan that the Hexi army had intercepted a part of the caravan, and there were probably hundreds of carriages, and they were not allowed to follow the Anxi army forward.

This is a bit of a face, Ma Lu was not polite, the team continued to set off, and divided two teams of 1,000 people to return to deal with this matter.

As a result, when I went to take a look, it was some local heroes and horses in Hexi, not An Sishun's regular troops, but there were two or three thousand people. The convoy is arguing. Listen to that meaning. It is probably because the caravan went to Hexi to trade in an irregular manner, which ruined their business.

Seeing the army coming, these people did not flinch, and put on a hob meat look, just not letting the convoy pass, saying that they were all the people of the Tang Dynasty, even if the horse minister passed here, they couldn't break the rules.

However, after a rain of arrows fell on the Anxi army. The guys were all intimidated, leaving behind hundreds of corpses, and running extremely fast.

The general at the head knew Ma Xuan's temperament, and these bastards were all Hexi Hu people, and they actually rushed to offend the army, so they naturally kicked it to the iron plate. If it is Han people, it will be more difficult, but the local Han heroes know the rules, and it is impossible to listen to the instigation of An Sishun and a Hu person.

After coming this time, it was really much cleaner. There are a lot of heroes along the way, and no one is uncomfortable anymore. When crossing the Wusheh Ridge. I saw a Hexi cavalry stationed nearby, numbering about seven or eight thousand. It was relatively polite, and the whole army came to pay respects to the coffin of the Son of Heaven, and then got out of the way.

Longyou is Ge Shuhan's territory, Ge Shuhan has not been satisfactory in the past two years, the original elite have been drawn to Gong Ren and taken to Shangqiangtang, taking advantage of the Northern Expedition to return to the army to fill up the soldiers, but there are not many elites in the army, more than 70,000 people only more than 20,000 are veterans, the rest are recruited before the Northern Expedition, and the recruits in the Northern Expedition have also gained some experience, but in fact, they have not fought any hard battles, and there are no decent opponents in the Monan Grassland, so the combat power of the subordinates is relatively average.

The pasture land of the Geshu tribe is in the foothills of the green mountains of Shule to Khotan, before the Persians invaded Anxi, and later after being defeated by Ma Lan, the old and weak women and children of the Persians have returned to the Geshu tribe, and the Geshu tribe has a great momentum, because of this matter, Ge Shuhan also inherited Ma Lan's love, and there were many exchanges between the two sides, and Ge Shuhan also went to Anxi to buy a large number of fire and thunder during the Northern Expedition, and also got some new weapons before, such as steel crossbows and winches for the eight bull crossbows, etc.

According to the information obtained by Ma Luan, Ge Shuhan also received an order to return to the army before he arrived in Chang'an, and returned to the garrison with the Longyou army to guard against himself, but with Ge Shuhan's personality, I am afraid he will not make a great effort. In fact, An Sishun didn't make a lot of effort, and shrank back after a trial.

The Hu people are all this urine, and they will not do their best when the situation is unclear, in the final analysis, the Han people who read the books of the sages can guess and be more trusted.

After passing the Wusheling Ridge, we walked southeast along the ancient Great Wall, and did not encounter the large army of Geshuhan along the way, and the small cavalry that occasionally encountered it was also more polite, of course, it was indispensable to cry and worship the emperor. Shanzhou was not on the marching route, so Ge Shuhan did not show up until the army arrived in Lanzhou, and saw a mighty army in white clothes and white armor.

However, this is not Ge Shuhan's Longyou Army, but Chen Xuanli's Longwu Army. Zhang Xun, the right minister, and Chen Xuanli, the general of Longwu, accompanied Li Heng's car, left Chang'an City for more than a month, and then came here.

At this time, it was already the beginning of October in the first year of Zhide.

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Outside the city of Lanzhou, on the beach of the Yellow River, two armies in white clothes and white armor met.

The Long Wu army was also a cavalryman, and he rode horses every day, but they all looked extremely tired. These soldiers had never left Gyeonggi, and the march of more than a month seemed to them to be extremely hard.

On the other hand, on the side of the Anxi New Army, there are more than 10,000 people, each with one person and two horses, all of whom are well-groomed, sitting on horseback with high morale, the Mo knife on the saddle, and the steel crossbow and short spear on the back are all cold and flashing, which looks very imposing.

There was no feeling of meeting, and the armies of the two sides were a few miles apart, so they each stopped.

Ma Xuan gave an order, and the army on the side of the Anxi Army separated, revealing the huge carriage escorted in the center.

A horse galloped out from the opposite side, galloping towards this side, and a veteran on horseback was wearing no helmet, and his white hair was swaying in the autumn wind. A cavalryman wanted to intercept him, but Ma Ling waved his hand and let the veteran rush over.

Chen Xuanli, the general of Longwu, had red eyes, rode his horse and rushed to the huge carriage, suddenly jumped off the horse's back, knelt heavily on the ground, and cried with his head to the ground: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty......"

Seeing the old general like this, Ma Lan was also slightly moved. Chen Xuanli has followed Li Longji for more than 40 years, and his loyalty to Li Longji is undoubted.

On the basis of the original history, although Chen Xuanli participated in the Ma Wei Change, it was not out of selfishness, but in order to kill the national thief, afterwards he did not follow Li Heng north to Lingwu, but continued to escort Li Longji into Shu, and Li Heng ascended the throne, after the restoration of the two capitals, Li Longji returned to Chang'an, and Chen Xuanli was still loyal to serve. The friendship between monarchs and ministers for more than 40 years is indeed admirable.

There was another horse galloping slowly, and the middle-aged man on the horse had a thin face, an extremely tired look, but his eyes were like cold electricity.

Ma Xun nodded to Zhang Xun, Zhang Xun didn't squint, galloped straight over, got off the war horse before Li Longji's coffin, slowly knelt on the ground, and suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood.

Gently wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth, and after Zhang Xun bowed three times and knocked in a regular manner, he slowly stood up. Unlike Chen Xuanli's grief-stricken, Zhang Xun's expression was solemn, and he actually couldn't see much sadness. Of course, there is also a trace of sadness written on his face, but in Ma Luan's opinion, this sadness is not real, or it is squeezed out.

This is a lonely minister, and he doesn't care about the emperor, but the whole world. Along the way, he kept receiving information from the eagle slaves, and Ma Lan had long understood this.

Actually, the two of them are the same kind of people. Ma Lan knows this, but Zhang Xun doesn't know it for the time being. But he'll know eventually.

Chen Xuanli was crying on the ground, and after Zhang Xun finished bowing, he led the war horse and walked back slowly, and when he walked to a place dozens of zhang away from the Long Wu Army, Zhang Xun suddenly stopped and shouted: "Kneel!" "The voice was extremely loud.

After this order, 20,000 white-clothed and white-armored Long Wujun hurriedly dismounted, and knelt on the ground one after another, at this time, the figures of the hundred officials and clans behind the army also appeared, and they saw the people in front of them kneeling, and they all knelt down at this moment.

The center of the army was the car of Li Heng, the son of the most virtuous emperor, and the palace eunuch on the side of the car knelt on the ground at the moment, but the curtain of the carriage was still open.

Ma Luan's face also showed a little sadness casually, looking at Zhang Xun standing between the two armies. No one dismounted because he did not give the order to dismount. The athletes have already knelt in Tingzhou, so there is no need to kneel anymore at this time.

In fact, he still admires Zhang Xun for this kind, he has always been so pretentious, and he can still do nothing, so many princes and ministers actually listen to him, Li Heng has been in a coma for more than a month, and no one has questioned him, which is not something that ordinary people can do.

Of course, it wasn't that no one questioned him, but since he ordered the killing of Yongwang Li Lin in Wonju, the voice of doubt has never appeared again.

This is naturally Li Xuan's own death, hot-headed colluded with several clans with dozens of guards to forcibly break into Li Heng's car, nominally to see what happened to the imperial brother, but in fact he wanted to take the opportunity to assassinate Li Heng, and then give Zhang Xun and Chen Xuanli and then take the opportunity to seize power, obtain the support of Long Wujun and then ascend to the throne. His own guards had already been beheaded by Zhang Xun when he just left Chang'an, and it was a desperate gamble to get the support of several clans, but this plan was too ridiculous, and the Long Wu army was guarding in front of Li Heng's car, where would he rush to the front.

Li Heng cherishes his younger brother, but Chen Xuanli and Zhang Xun are very tired of him on weekdays, and now this guy is openly rebelling, where can he be tolerated. Anyway, Jiao Zhao is used to it, and by the way, Jiao Zhao asked for Li Lan's life. In the end, it was naturally Zhang Xun who made the decision, Chen Xuanli was still a little hesitant, but Zhang Xun was ruthless.

He is a dying person, so naturally he doesn't have so many scruples.

On the day he knew the news, Ma Lan sighed again about the inertia of history, Li Lan originally died in the second year of Zhide, but this time he died a few months earlier.

Sitting on the Qinghai skull and looking at Zhang Xun, Ma Luan's expression was extremely flat. Now that he is here, everything has to be said, such as his own requirements, and of course, the matter of Zhang Xunjiao.

For the stability of the Tang Empire, Zhang Xun couldn't let go of the power in his hands, and he was actually difficult to ride a tiger. Even if he told him that he knew that he was overbearing, he still couldn't let go of his power, so that he could take the initiative in the negotiations, and it could also make Zhang Xun calm down as soon as possible and give up unrealistic ideas, such as exterminating this Wan'anxi new army. (To be continued......)