Du Huan nodded, he didn't want to stay in Chang'an City for a moment.

The girl of the Yang family has nominally become the owner of this mansion, so Du Huan can only go in to say goodbye to the girl, and by the way, he asked her the business of Chengxintang paper. According to the previous plan, he was responsible for the task of opening the market for Chengxintang paper in Chang'an, and now he can only give up this task.

The guards who came with him were taken away along with the caravan, and the 5,000 yuan that Gao Qianqian prepared for opening a paper store in Chang'an was handed over to the girl of the Yang family. Five thousand yuan should be a huge number for this girl, which can be clearly seen from the look of the little girl who saw these excellent martial arts years casting Kaiyuan Tongbao.

After the delivery was completed, Du Huan left directly with the caravan, and more than 100 camels left Yankang Fang and went straight to the direction of Anyuan Gate.

"County, since there are so many camels, why don't you bring some goods from Chang'an on the road?" Li Xiu asked.

"No need." Du Huan smiled reluctantly. He just wanted to leave Chang'an as soon as possible and report these things to Ma Luan, where was he still in the mood to make money.

Unexpectedly, Li Xiu was not ready to discuss with him at all, so he directly ordered the camel team to be driven to Chang'an City, and bought a lot of things in a mess, saying that he was going to take them to Anxi for sale. He is the son of the Duke of Jin, how can Du Huan not follow, so he has to let him.

Originally, he came to Chang'an to find craftsmen, because he wanted to enrich the Ma family's workshop, and the Ma family's workshop issued a year, which was regarded as a private employment of the Ma family. And now Li Xiu is going with the holy decree, but he can only join the Anxi army, although there are many craftsmen, they have nothing to do with the Ma family's workshop. This is undoubtedly a trouble, but this trouble can only be solved by his own general after Anzai.

The men of the caravan drove the camels, dozens of guards rode horses to escort them, and in the carriage sat the craftsmen who would be the prisoners and Li Xiu's family. All the people brought from Anxi had to return, but the dozens of concubines of Ma Lu and the little Sogdian saints were left in Chang'an.

The goods carried on the camel's back were worth thousands of dollars, all of which were purchased by Li Xiu out of his own pocket, needless to say that after being sold in Anxi, the proceeds also belonged to the young master of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Out of Anyuan Gate, he looked back at the tall city wall of Chang'an City, and Du Huan was also confused for a while.

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From Chang'an to Anxi, the road will take two months. Du Huan was still on the Silk Road back to Chang'an, far away in Anxi, near the South Mountain of Khotan, a group of cavalry quietly walked out of the camp of the defenders of Pishan Town.

The foothills of the Green Mountains in the southern Khotan Mountains to the north of Shule are the traditional nomadic lands of the Wuqijin tribe, and the mountains further south are the territory inhabited by the Qiang people. These Qiang people lived in the high mountain areas and often went to various parts of Khotan to raid, and were the most troublesome enemies in Khotan.

When the Tibetan Empire was not established, it was a group of Qiang tribes on the plateau, and they were the same race as these Qiang people near the southern mountains of Khotan, and they were all Qiang people who believed in primitive Bon. Because of this, when the Tibetan and Tang Dynasty were fighting for the land of Anxi, the western front always launched an attack from the area of Khotan's Nanshan Mountain, and this attack was always responded to by the Qiang people in this area.

In the past few decades, the offensive and defensive trend of the Tang Dynasty and Tubo has changed, especially during the Tianbao period, Wang Zhonghe's brother Shuhan successively held the right of the Longyou, fought in the Heyuan area, and constantly pushed the battle line to the old realm of Shenlong, suppressing the Tubo so that it could not breathe, because it could not take advantage of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo was also extremely resentful of Zampu, and the internal rebellion and disputes continued. Under such circumstances, the Tubo people could no longer compete with the Tang Dynasty on the Western Front, and the Tang Dynasty conquered the Great and Small Bolu one after another and firmly occupied the initiative on the Western Front.

The Tubo people on the steppe no longer come down, and the Qiang people near the southern mountains of Khotan have no backers, but these people in the high mountains are the most fierce, and the pressure of survival makes them continue to go down the mountains to plunder.

Of the four towns in Anxi, Khotan is the closest to Tibet, and Khotan is the most often plagued by Tubo and the nearby Qiang people. It is precisely because of this that the Khotanese king's clan Wei Chi hated the Tubo and Qiang people the most, and was the most loyal to the Tang Dynasty. There are also more than 10,000 soldiers in Khotan, who deal with the Qiang people coming down from the high mountains together with the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty's envoys in Khotan.

This small group of cavalry only has more than 100 people, but it carries more than 300 war horses, which is the standard equipment of the recent Tang scouts. The horses did not make much noise when they walked, and it was obvious that the horses' hooves were wrapped in cotton felt.

Yang Yu squinted at the snow-capped mountains in the distance, the spurs lightly touched the belly of the war horse, and the war horse was slightly painful, and then galloped quickly. The robe behind hurriedly followed, and a hundred people rode fast horses straight to the foothills of the snow-capped mountains in the distance.

Two hours later, a valley came into view. The valley resounded with the loud singing of Qiang women, smoke rising from the cooking, and the neighing of horses could occasionally be heard.

At the mouth of the valley, several horsemen came to greet them, and they were the brothers who had come to the valley in advance to investigate.

"Captain, there are more than 30 households in it, 50 or 60 men, and more than 200 Khotanese slaves."

Yang Yu nodded, and slowly put on the Mingguang armor on his horse, and the rest of the soldiers made the same action.

A hundred men rode across the mountain pass and immediately launched an assault into the depths of the valley. The valley is not large, only a few miles long, and it is difficult to find it because it is hidden under the snow-capped mountains.

The singing Qiang girl laughed and beat her Khotanese slave, when she suddenly heard the sound of the ground shaking, and when she turned her head to look, a raw arrow had already flown over, piercing her throat. The young man of Khotan, who was bound by the iron chain, was stunned, Yang Pre threw a horizontal knife over, and shouted loudly on the horse: "The king of Khotan asked me to save you and wait!" If you want to live, grab the knife! ”

He spoke the local dialect of Khotan, and the young man understood it immediately. The young man's face showed a look of ecstasy, and he clenched the handle of the knife hard, but Yang Yu and the others did not stop at all, and at the same time charged with arrows like flying locusts, shooting to death a group of Qiang young men and women who were grazing horses and sheep.

In the depths of the valley, the Qiang people also discovered the incoming Tang cavalry, and one by one the Qiang men roared and jumped on their horses, and rushed towards the Tang army one after another. Yang gave the order, and the knights hung their horned bows on their backs one by one, and each picked up a hard crossbow from the side of the saddle.

"Put!"

Seeing that the Qiang people rushed to the range of the hard crossbow, Yang gave an order, and the crossbow arrows immediately burst out and flew towards the Qiang people who had no battle armor. Suddenly, more than 20 people and their horses were shot to the ground, and the people who were not dead howled loudly.

The rest of the Qiang roared angrily and bent their bows and arrows, and the feathered arrows flew out, but they fell to the ground limply before they could reach the Tang army's war horses.

The fifty knights who fired the bolts quickly rotated the steel winch on the crossbow arm and completed the winding with ease. Although it is still slower than archery, it is extremely powerful, and the range of the hard crossbow is far greater than that of the horned bow. Yang Yu drank again: "Release!" Fifty other knights fired crossbow arrows, and a dozen more Qiang warriors were shot off their horses.

There are only a few Qiang people who are still on horseback, and the rest are all women and children. At this time, the situation of this raid was already decided, and Yang Yu shouted: "Free shooting!" The knights shot their crossbow arrows one after another, and shot the remaining Qiang warriors who were still on their horses into hedgehogs, and rushed towards the tents.

The hard crossbow was hung on the edge of the saddle again, and more than 100 horsemen marched in unison, and it turned out to have a kind of momentum like a sea of mountains. The Qiang people knelt on the ground in fear, and the war horses rushed past them, directly trampling the Qiang people into meat paste.

"I was sent by the king of Khotan to save you! Pick up the knife and kill these thieves! Yang Yu shouted on the horse, and the Mo knife stretched out diagonally and swept past the edge of a tent, and several screams sounded in the tent, and the Mo knife was already stained with blood.

The old, weak, women and children of the Qiang people scurried around in panic, but they were chased and killed by the knights of the Tang Army. In the small valley, corpses fell to the ground, blood staining the lawn beneath them.

The Khotanese slaves, who were grazing and working for the Qiang people, watched this scene blankly, reacted and let out loud cheers, staggered and ran with iron chains, picked up the Qiang people's weapons and killed the Qiang people's old and weak women and children.

With more than 100 elite cavalry, and meticulous reconnaissance in advance, there is really no suspense in such a battle. When the valley calmed down, there was no longer a living Qiang people, but Yang Yu's men were unharmed.

Untie the chains of the Khotanese slaves one by one, and order them to pick up those precious crossbow arrows, after the crossbow arrows are basically recovered, Yang Pre led the cavalry in front, and the Khotanese people happily rode the Qiang people's war horses to follow behind, driving the horses and sheep that originally belonged to the Qiang people out of the valley and headed in the direction of Pishan Town.

"Captain, this time it's another victory!" A team approached Yang Pre, lowered his voice and said excitedly.

Yang Yu nodded with a smile: "Three more turns, and you will become a captain." If it goes on like this, one day you kid won't become a pillar country. ”

The team was smiling: "What's the use of Shangzhu Country or something, anyway, there aren't so many Xuntian to give to us." It's still the general's reward that comes too well, and the full martial arts year Kaiyuan Tongbao, my grandmother likes it the most. ”

Yang Yuxu waved the horsewhip, but found that there was no whip at all, as a member of the new army of Anxi, he had already used spurs to drive the war horse.

"What stupid things do you say, how can you not Xuntian. Shangzhu Country has 30 hectares of Xuntian, that is, 3,000 acres. There is news from the general's side, Anxi does not have so many fields, but there are in the river. In the future, when we occupy the river, everyone's Xuntian will be cashed out! Hurry up and earn military merits, no matter how much copper money there is, there will always be a time when it runs out, or it is most practical to leave the field to your children and grandchildren! ”

"Captain, do you really want to enter the river?"

Yang Yu nodded and said with a smile: "Those who followed the general back from the river will go crazy if they want to go again." I heard the news that in less than three years, we will establish a military town in the river, and then we will have to cash in Xuntian. The land there is so fertile that it can produce oil, so you don't have to worry about planting the seeds, waiting for the harvest to be harvested! ”

Hearing this, the knights around him all had a light in their eyes. As a Tang people, the biggest attraction is always the land, the land that can be cultivated.

"Since we are going to march into the river, why are we here to sweep away these Qiang people? The Qiang and the Tubo people are of the same race, and they don't seem to have anything to do with the natives of the river. A knight scratched his head and asked.

"I don't understand this either, but it's the General's order, and we'll just do it. You can earn military merit so easily, where can you find such a good thing? Work hard, and strive to wait until the time is divided into fields in the river, and all of us are in Shangzhu Country, and each of us will share 30 hectares of fertile land! Yang Yuxu waved his hand and said loudly.