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If we take the new Broken Leaf City as the center of the circle, then the desert and grassland are intertwined within a radius of 2,000 miles, and the snow-capped mountains are in between.

To the north and west of New Shattered Leaf is a sparsely populated, vast wilderness nomadic area and a primeval forest safari zone.

The southeast goes down the Broken Leaf River and is the old nest of the Hui people.

The south across the Broken Leaf River is a barren desert, this desert stretches for thousands of miles from northwest to southeast, the northwest is small and the southeast is blunt, the shape is like a swimming tadpole, the Tang army called it the Broken Leaf Desert, the south of the Broken Leaf Desert is another important stronghold of the Hui people Talas, and it is also one of the two major strongholds of the Hui deputy Khan Satuk Bogra.

Although the Western Regions are vast, if the Tang Army wants to return to the east, there are basically only two roads in the north and south.

The north road takes the Yili River Valley, the way to go is to go directly to the east, break through the defense of the Hui people in the Ba Ra Sha Roll, cross the Atami Sea, and enter the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains from the Yili River Valley, this road is equivalent to stepping on the base camp of the Hui people! And even if they have crossed the Ba Ra Sha Roll, the eastern part of the Yili River Valley is almost entirely the territory of the Hui people.

The south road is to take Shule (now Ka&�), from Shule to cross the Green Ridge (Pamir Plateau), and then you can go along the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, or the northern foot of Kunlun, and go straight to Yangguan. And from the new Broken Leaf City to Shule, there are two kinds of Qizheng two ways to move: the first is still to break through the Ba Rasha roll, and then turn south, all the way to kill Shule, this is the right way; The second is to cross the Broken Leaf River, follow the Broken Leaf Desert, break through Talas, another stronghold of the Hui people, and follow the southeast, and walk about 1,000 miles in a roundabout way to reach Shule, which is a strange road.

These two roads, north and south, are actually the main roads of the Silk Road, and they have been the same since ancient times. Except for these two roads, most of the other places are more than 6,000 meters above sea level!

Li Bai Shiyun: The difficulty of the Shu Road is as difficult as going to the blue sky, but the road between the green mountains and mountains is ten times more difficult than the Shu Road! Zhang Mai traveled all the way from the East and was very impressed: at that time, there were all kinds of modern means of transportation, not to mention now relying on two legs or riding horses.

At this time, Guo Shidao led the three battalions of the Flying Bear Battalion, Xiaocai, and Yingyang to return first, and Yang Dingbang led the Leopard Tao Battalion eastward to collect intelligence to determine whether to go to the Yili River Valley or Shule, and which way to go if Shule.

Zhang Mai also followed as a supervisor, and at the same time, the two teams to which Guo Luo and Yang Yi belonged were also recruited, and 400 people left the Curb Dan and walked out of more than 80 miles, because they were all light horses, and the marching speed was extremely fast.

Due to the misdirection, Yang Dingbang ordered the deputy lieutenant Yang Sanggan to lead two teams of cavalry to the south, ordered Guo Luo and Yang Yi to go east, and the remaining four teams of soldiers and horses were temporarily stationed.

Soon a report came from the east: "There is a Hu Qi over there!" ”

It was only a small group of cavalry, only about twenty people, and more than a hundred herdsmen were being driven to build guard towers. Zhang Mai said: "I'll take a look." ”

After meeting with Guo Luo and Yang Yi, Guo Luo said: "The other party hasn't discovered us yet." They left their horses behind a hillside, and Zhang Mai, Yang Yi, and Ding Hanshan abandoned their horses and crawled on the ground, hiding behind a pile of bushes.

I only heard a few herdsmen who had been driven to build the watchtower talking, they spoke Turkic, Zhang Mai could not understand, but from their tone, he could feel that these herdsmen were crying bitterly.

Yang Yi and Ding Hanshan knew a lot of nonsense, and after listening to the whispered translation in Zhang Mai's ear in turn, it turned out that those herdsmen took advantage of the Hui cavalry of the overseer to go lazy and rest, and discussed, two of them said that it was better to escape, and the other two said: "It's better to kill them while they are not guarded!" ”

After listening to the translation, Zhang Mai thought to himself: "The people in the Great Northwest are really very fierce, although they are slaves, they still have to kill people at every turn." ”

"No, no," said another herdsman, "we may not be able to beat them." Besides, if we kill them, where can we flee? I've heard of the constant arrival of troops in the south these days, and the sentry towers have been built along the way in the east - one of them was built by us, don't you remember? The further east you go, the denser the net becomes. If you want to be caught again, there is only one way to die. ”

Hearing that "the further east you go, the denser the net becomes", Zhang, Yang, and Ding were all secretly surprised.

"It's better to flee northwest than to live like a beast every day." The previous herdsman said.

Zhang Mai thought again: "It seems that the Hui people can only rule this generation by force, and they are not popular on the grassland. In fact, these herders can fight for it. ”

However, it also takes strength to win the support of others, and the peoples on the grassland are also very snobbish, when you are not strong enough, people will only respond to you with a cold ass when you come up with a hot face.

But another herdsman said: "In the northwest, I heard that there has been a gang of Tang Kou recently, but it is very powerful!" A few defeated soldiers fled yesterday, and I heard that they were defeated by Tang Kou again. ”

An older voice said: "That gang of Tang Kou, it didn't just appear, there were before, but it hasn't been so fierce recently, I heard that it seems that there is a hero in Tang Kou recently, what is it called...... What's coming? Hehe, Bogra Khan has been invincible since he became an adult, this time the Great Khan transferred him to pacify this gang of Tang Kou, everyone originally said that this was the Great Khan who wanted him to taste the hardships of a thousand-mile expedition, torture and torture him, but he didn't expect that he would be defeated by Tang Kou, and now there is a good show to watch...... Ah, they are coming, get to work, lest you be scourged! ”

They didn't dare to delay any longer, and crawled back again, Yang Yi asked, "Brother Mai, what do you think?" Zhang Mai said: "There don't seem to be many people in this group, I think we might as well fight a battle, surround them all and arrest them, torture those Hui cavalry, maybe we can get some information." ”

"Okay, that's exactly what I want!"

If you just want to win, Yang Yi will directly lead a team of people to rush out, but it will take some effort to catch them all, first by Guo Luo around the circle, four ambush soldiers, Yang Yi calculated that the ambush has been decided, then suddenly rushed out, the crowd was shocked, they had heard that more than 2,000 people in Masoud died in the hands of Tang Kou, and yesterday they heard that the Dan was lost, and they were afraid of it first, and then saw that the enemy was outnumbered, did not dare to resist, and fled one after another, Yang Yi rushed out on horseback, intercepted half, and more than ten people fled on horseback, and the ambush was everywhere, It was easy to wipe out this team.

This is another victory of the Tang Army Rangers after the victory of the Dan Army, although they are outnumbered, but they have won the battle and their morale is also strong.

When the herdsmen who were serving hard labor saw Tang Kou coming, they all panicked, Zhang Mai rushed forward, Guo Luo reassured them, and said to them: "Don't panic, everyone, we are here to save you!" ”

These herdsmen were skeptical, but seeing that even the Hui cavalry could not escape, where was there room for resistance? And they all threw up their hands, and proclaimed that they were willing to go.

That's what they said, but Zhang Mai paid attention to their eyes, only to find that their eyes were very distant.

Yang Yi went to torture the Hui captives, Guo Luo interrogated where the herdsmen came from and what tribe, the herdsmen claimed that they were Tuqishi and came from the coast of Darinkur, Zhang Mai asked Guo Luo what Dalinkur was, Guo Luo said: "Darinkur is the name of the Hu people, we used to call it Yibohai." ”

At this time, Zhang Mai already knew that people in this era often called the big inland lake the sea, but the name of Yibohai was still a little unfamiliar, Guo Luo told him about the geographical location and size of Yibohai, and talked for a long time, Zhang Mai was confused, and simply took out the atlas of 1:15 million.

There are also maps in the Tang Army in Anxi, but the ancient maps are different from the modern maps, Guo Luo Yang Yi has also seen Zhang Mai's atlas, but he can't understand it, this is not that the IQ of the two is not enough, but their ancient map system is different from the modern map, Guo Yang and the two of them feel unimaginable when they first look at this kind of satellite bird's-eye map, just as Zhang Mai is used to seeing the bird's-eye map, and then look at the map given to him by Guo Shidao always feel awkward and unaccustomed.

Zhang Mai told them: "This is a bird's-eye view, that is, a map drawn after looking down from the sky. When you look at this map, imagine yourself as a bird looking down on the ground. ”

The two of them were a little shocked when they heard this: "Looking down from the sky? Is it standing on a high mountain and looking down? ”

Zhang Mai coughed, thinking that he couldn't explain it clearly to them, so he said: "This is a treasure in the palace, but I don't really understand how to make it." ”

Guo Yang and both thought in their hearts: "It turned out to be a secret treasure in the palace, so it's no wonder." I think it was because the envoy wanted to come to the Western Regions, so the emperor specially sent it. ”

The topography of the Tang Dynasty has changed compared with modern times, the desert will expand or shrink, the rivers will disappear, if there is a major earthquake, even the mountains and rivers may be displaced, but the large mountains and lakes will not change, the three of them discussed repeatedly, Guo Luoyang Yilian said with a comparison, Zhang Mai finally figured out: "Yisohai is Balkhash Lake!" ”

And that group of herdsmen called themselves Turkish, that was originally the Western Turkic Division, in Wu Zetian, Tang Xuanzong period was very powerful, according to the Yili River Basin and the Broken Leaf River Basin, at the peak of the 20 governors, each governor 7,000 soldiers, known as 200,000 horseback control strings, Wu Zetian Shengli two years of its king sent his son into the court, was named the king of the county, is an important subject of the Tang Dynasty in this region, after the Tang Dynasty gradually declined, now its old territory has changed hands twice, first by Ge Lulu, and then Ge Lulu was defeated by the Hui who migrated from the east, Today's Turgish has become a slave of the dead country, and he can only be driven back.

After Zhang Mai figured out these situations, he asked them to call them over and reveal their identities, and these Turkish herdsmen were surprised when they heard that they were the old army of Anxi of the Tang Dynasty, and cried on the ground: "Is the Tang Dynasty still there?" ”

Zhang Mai said to them: "You Tuqi Shi is my Tang Dynasty vassal country, you are also my Tang Dynasty subjects, everyone is their own people, just because of the civil strife in the Central Plains, there is no time to look westward for a while, and the Western Regions have fallen into the hands of Hu Lu who do not know what benevolence and righteousness are - but this is only a temporary situation, now the Central Plains has been restored, and the national strength of the Tang Dynasty has gradually recovered, so the imperial court sent me to contact the tribes and tribes in the Western Regions, and I don't want to save you by chance—you go back, tell the tribesmen, and endure for a few more years, Waiting for the king in the east, when the time is ripe, Chang'an will send a large army back to restore order in this area. At that time, everyone can live a good life again. ”

None of these Turks spoke Chinese, and he translated these words by Guo Luo, and then Zhang Mai divided half of the horses he had taken from the group of Hui scouts and gave them to the herdsmen.

After listening to Zhang Mai's words, more than 100 herdsmen discussed with each other, and most of them bowed to the ground and begged Zhang Mai to take them in: "If we go back now, even if we are not liquidated and punished by the Hui people, we will continue to be slaves, and we are willing to attach ourselves to the Tang Army, and ask the master to take them in." ”

Guo Luo was overjoyed and translated these words, but Zhang Mai said: "The military discipline of my Anxi Tang Army is severe, and life is hard, I'm afraid you can't stand it, so let's go back and live." ”

But these herdsmen thought: "Now that I have gone back, under the hands of the Hui people, I am still living like cattle and horses." It's better to follow them, maybe there is a way out. Then they all said: "The lord is so benevolent and righteous, as long as he is willing to take us in, we will have no complaints about being cattle and horses." ”

Zhang Mai saw that they were all strong and spoke earnestly, and he was willing to take them in, so he let those who were willing to stay, a total of seventy-eight people. Guo Luoyang Yi selected the strongest twenty of them, transferred the weapons collected from the Hui soldiers to them, and sent them into the ranks of the Tang army. These turks, young and old, are all people who grew up on horseback, and the twenty people selected by Guo Luoyang Yi were particularly fierce, and as for the more than 30 people who were reluctant to join, Zhang Mai did not break his promise and released them together.

Yang Yi said: "Let these people go back, I'm afraid that our whereabouts will be revealed." ”

Zhang Mai smiled: "Don't be afraid, I just want them to go back to help us do publicity." ”

At this moment, Yang Dingbang sent someone to report: "Special envoy, there is a situation in the south!" ”

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