Thousands of iron horsemen were the lead, followed by a large number of caravans, and the army marched slowly on the Iranian plateau, with scouts cruising on all sides. Ma Lan sat on the back of Qinghai and squinted at the summer scenery of the Iranian plateau, looking extremely relaxed.

He is very satisfied with the performance of Gao Ming's team. Now the generals in the new army in Anxi are mostly young generals in their early twenties like Gao Ming, and these young Zhuang factions are the core of the new army, and they have performed extremely well since they began to kill all sides after passing the salt desert.

Deterrence and inducement, these means were arranged by him, and the generals completed them very well. The generals carried out his orders with great firmness and without any doubts.

In the words of later generations, this is called strong execution. Orders and prohibitions are what an army needs most.

After passing through the salt desert, he did not kill a single person with his own hands, the army rolled forward, and constantly divided part of the army to sweep the two sides, because of the absolute advantage and the previous Tang army's brutal and ferocious notoriety as a guarantee, things went extremely smoothly. The biggest loss so far was the loss of a scout squad of a dozen people just after the salt desert.

The large areas on both sides of the route have been continuously captured by Datang.

The army is like a mothership sailing in the starry sky, and each thousand-man team is like a detachment that has been released...... Ma Ling shook his head, the memory of playing games in his previous life is too long ago after all.

In order to completely conquer the Great Food, he has made preparations for a long time, and now that the army is dispatched again, it is a thunderous blow, and there is no chance of any accidents. After all, when Dashi was at its strongest, there were only more than 100,000 regular troops, and if it was against today's Anxi New Army, to be honest, it would not be enough to stuff your teeth. What's more, now that the three caliphs are standing side by side during the Great Eclipse, the territory is extremely chaotic, and it is impossible to compete with the new army of Anxi.

Because he was well prepared, everything was extremely simple, and this expedition was like an armed parade for him. It's even like a hike.

The daily work, in addition to marching, was to receive the nearby Persian Dehgans who had come to surrender, and to send out or take back the thousand-man detachments. Merchants followed behind to provide military supplies, and at the same time to buy the spoils of war from the army, from which they reaped high profits. The Arabians and Yemenis will lose everything, and for the victors it will be a carnival, a feast of money and power.

After camping. After receiving a group of Dehegan who came to serve, and sent out a team of 1,000 people, inside the handsome tent, a stunning girl wearing a delicate leather armor frowned, sighed and said, "It's so boring!" ”

"What's boring, just look at the scenery." Ma Ling smiled and poured a glass of iced grape brew and handed it to the girl.

The girl snorted sullenly, took the glass and drank it down. A lovely scarlet glowed on the flawless little face.

"Expedition Food...... That's what it looks like. This is nothing like I had imagined, but it is completely different. ”

Yang Youniang didn't drink much. After taking a drink, his face flushed, and he looked outside and whispered.

Since the beginning of the Wuhu water, I have been on the road, and the difference is only fast and slow. For Yang Youniang, who has heard Gao Qianqian tell the story of returning to the Northern Expedition, such days are really too boring, and they are so bored that they will go back to see Gao Qianqian in the future. Dou has nothing more to say.

However, she spent more time with Ma Luan, and the relationship between the two became more intimate, and she also had a little more understanding of the man she admired, and her heart was completely open.

Ma Lan poured another glass of grape wine. He said with a smile in his hand: "The key to its military operations lies in the preparation before the war, and other things are secondary." The armies had never fought, and the outcome was largely known. Surviving in danger, winning in defeat, and defeating the strong with the weak, there are such examples, but in the end there are too few. Things are difficult to do, so they are valuable and will be remembered by people. In fact, in most wars, the competition is the strength of both sides and the preparation before the war. Just like this time, the details have been planned long before the return of the Northern Expedition, and the green card began to try to print two years ago, and the color printing technology has just come out to print this kind of thing...... In a word, only by taking precautions can we strategize and win thousands of miles away. ”

"It's too bullying to fight like this." Yang Youniang stretched her waist, her delicate curves were revealed, "Preparation before the battle is important, but if you are an Arabyan, you know that the Anxi army is going to press over, how should you prepare?" ”

Ma Lu took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Grape brewing should be drunk like this, you are like a cow drink - this time it is the momentum of the boulder crushing the eggs, and the Arabians really have nothing to prepare." They should not covet that little wealth, but flee as far as possible before the army arrives. Or just wash your neck and wait for the army to come and cut off your head. ”

"So it's boring!" Yang Youniang snorted.

Ma Lan smiled and gently took the girl into his arms.

accompanied him all the way, and he felt more and more pity for this beautiful wife.

The deep attachment to him in the girl's heart, he could clearly feel it, and this touched the softest part of his heart.

The feeling of being needed is actually a very beautiful experience.

The sunlight shone into the tent and fell on the girl's delicate body, covering the girl's body with a layer of gold. Yang Youniang looked up with her little face, a look of shame appeared between her eyebrows, she looked at the open tent, and said in a low voice: "Husband, ......"

Ma Lan smiled and put down the wine glass, and kissed the girl's earlobe, which immediately turned a lovely pink.

"Boring...... There's a lot more you can do......"

The girl's eyes flickered, and she shrank into Ma Lan's arms like a quail.

The door of the tent was slowly lowering, and on this warm summer day, something was going on inside.

For Ma Lan, this is really a very beautiful thing. The bloody killing is actually not far away, and with this beautiful wife by his side, his state of mind can be extremely peaceful, and there will be no major fluctuations.

"Actually...... It's a little boring. But when you get to Isfahan, you won't be bored......"

"It was a big city, with a population of 120,000 ...... Once there, you'll see a lot of new things......"

“…… The most important thing is that when that time comes, there will be a real big battle......"

“…… Of course, they can't beat us, and no one in the world can beat us. However, there will be some people who will send their heads over, and when the time comes, they will be cut off......"

The girl's delicate body brought him the most beautiful pleasure experience. For Ma Luan, this girl's gentle and joyful appearance under him is a scenery he will never get tired of seeing. There was a huge amount of energy in his slender waist, which made him happy and forgetful. After the restraint, gently holding the girl's sheep-like body, Ma Ling whispered in the girl's ear.

Yang Youniang's eyes were slightly closed, her expression was extremely lazy, curled up in Ma Lan's arms, and the corners of her mouth were filled with a smile.

The wildness before, and the gentleness at this time, are what she likes. At this time, she can really feel that she belongs to him.

As for all of Ma Lu's words, I didn't take them to heart for the time being, and I probably couldn't remember them until I woke up.

……

Isfahan is not far away, and what Ma is talking about is the current situation.

It can't be that simple all the time, and soon there will be a big war. And after this great war, the question of the ownership of the east of the Zagros Mountains was completely settled.

When the army was still east of the Green Mountain, Mi Xue had already brought people over, and now he has set up strongholds in several big cities in the Persian homeland, including Mulu, You Shabul, Shiraz, Rai and other big cities in the Tang Dynasty, and of course, Isfahan, the target of this expedition.

According to the information sent by Michelle, the Shiite caliph Ibrahim has mobilized a large number of loyal Mawari and is gathering in Isfahan to prepare for the attack of the Don army.

The Shiites were the backbone of the Abbasid revolution, but they were seized by the Abbas Mansour brothers, led by Ja'far. Sadigh, the good religious scholar, was reluctant to go to war. Previously, Abdullah ceded a large amount of territory to the Tang Dynasty, which angered the Shiites under the water, and as a result, the Ansey army crossed the Zagros Mountains to attack Kufa and Jafar after occupying Rai. Sadiq launched a rebellion against the Tang Dynasty in Rai, killed the tax collector appointed by Ma Lan, and occupied the ancient city of Rai.

After Ma Lu returned from Kufa, the rebellion was naturally easily crushed, and a large number of Persian Mawari died. And in order to plunge the big food into chaos, Ma Lu coerced and lured Jafar. Sadigh, let him come forward to organize an army belonging to the Shiites to fight against Abdullah. Jafar. Sadiq accepted this offer, but handed over command to another Shiite leader, Ali's descendant Ibrahim, and himself retreated into the mountains to continue teaching his students to become religious scholars.

Ibrahim is one of the three caliphs of the Great Eclipse, a descendant of Ali. The caliph Abdullah was a descendant of the Prophet's uncle, and the caliph who had fought from Tunisia to Egypt was a son of the Umayyad dynasty.

Ibrahim's caliphate status was actually pushed up by Ma Lan. He had seen the strength of the Anxi army with his own eyes under the city of Rai, so when he expanded his power, he did not dare to provoke the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but attacked the city from the ancient city of Rai, first pocketed the land east of the Zagros Mountains west of Rai, and then crossed the Zagros Mountains to attack Abdullah's basic territory Syria, once occupied the ancient city of Aleppo, and then started a tug-of-war with Abdullah's army in the area of Aleppo.

Originally, Ibrahim was not prepared to confront the Tang Dynasty, at least when he did not become the caliphate of the whole Great Eater. And now that the situation has changed, the Tang army is raging again, and he has to mobilize his forces and prepare for a decisive battle with the Tang army.

The main reason was that the governor of Isfahan had already declared his defection to Ibrahim, and the entire province was his territory, and this was his base, so he had no other choice. (To be continued......)

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