Nowadays, the public security of Gaoxiang County under Richard has been replaced by police stations who were transferred to office by officials and yamen runners. In addition, the number of young and strong men in Gaoxiang County has dropped significantly, and under the leadership of the government team that has improved its operation, there will be no chaos.

Therefore, Richard took away all the Ming army camps and direct system soldiers with peace of mind. Of course, the more than 000 people of Seme slave camps were used to serve the army and transport food and supplies, and on the other hand, it was to bring on the battlefield at critical moments and gather enough hard data for the large-scale war of ten thousand people in the mission.

In this way, Richard pulled out the army's number to 7,000. As long as he picked an enemy army of more than 000 people, he could carry out a 10,000-man battle required by the reputation mission!

Shiguo Mansion was originally the capital of the ancient Western Regions Kingdom, the ancient state of the Western Regions. After the destruction of the Green Skin invasion, the Zhaowu family, the surviving royal descendant of the Kingdom of Jieshi, paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty, and led the Tang army to recapture ancient states of the Western Regions, such as the Kingdom of Jieshi Kingdom and Kang Kingdom. The Kingdom of Jieshi Kingdom was renamed Shiguo Mansion by the Tang Dynasty court.

Because the Zhaowu family made great contributions to this, they were enfeoffed by the Tang Dynasty court at that time in Shiguo Mansion. Later, as the Zhaowu family gradually became more powerful, they took over the military and political power of the Shiguo Mansion.

An Lushan raised 200,000 troops to rebel. After expelling Tang officials from the Tufan Kingdom, he killed the governor of the Shiguo Mansion in the Zhaowu family, bribed and controlled the Tang army of the Shiguo Mansion, and defected to the Tufan Kingdom.

The Jiedushi in Shiguo Mansion was airborne. In order to maintain the rule of remote areas, the Jiedushi court was allocated back and forth, and there would be a rotation every few years.

However, the allocation of Jiedushi is easy, and the garrison cannot be randomly transferred, otherwise the transfer of thousands or tens of thousands of people would be a very large expenditure. There are hundreds of Jiedushi in the entire Tang Dynasty. If the garrison is allocated, the normal rotation alone can make the court bankrupt!

Therefore, the local garrison has a saying - the iron-clad military governor who has flowed through the river...

Because of this, the Tang army stationed in Shiguo Mansion for many years has long been infiltrated and controlled by the local Zhaowu family. The new Jieduan only brought dozens of personal soldiers, and even the teeth soldiers equipped by Shiguo Mansion to the Jieduan were seriously infiltrated by the Zhaowu family!

Of course, this is nothing in peacetime. Although the Jiedushi is a newcomer, he is leaning against the court behind him. The Zhaowu family dares not restrain him at all, and the local garrisons dare not disobey the new Jiedushi.

However, a large-scale rebellion occurred in the inland of the Tang Dynasty, and the people of the Anxi Protectorate changed their minds. The governor of the Shiguo Mansion naturally became a stumbling block for the Zhaowu family, and it was not uncommon to be eliminated...

Without the endorsement of the Tang Dynasty, it is not difficult for the Zhaowu family, which had been operating for hundreds of years, to get rid of a Jiedu governor.

After the Jiedushi of Shiguo Mansion was removed, Zhaowu Dizhe, the head of the Zhaowu family, claimed to be the Jiedushi of Shiguo Mansion, and incorporated 2,000 Tang Dynasty field troops from Shiguo Mansion, including hundreds of elite tooth soldiers.

Subsequently, Zhaowu Dizhe drew more than 000 people from the Shiguo Mansion's military and subordinate county soldiers.

The Zhaowu family has long been colluding with the tribes of the Tufan Kingdom, and the Tufan Kingdom is not a solid piece. Although they share the same respect for Songtsen Gampo, the leaders of various tribes also want to make a fortune in the Anxi Protectorate.

Therefore, this time Zhaowu Dizhe of Shiguo Mansion went on the expedition, and nearly 5,000 Tufan tribe warriors were joined.

These nearly 5,000 people were the support of the Tufan tribe to the Zhaowu family of Shiguo Mansion, and it was also the Tufan tribe used by the Tufan tribe to plunder the troops of the Anguo Mansion.

The Tufan tribe needed to make money from war and rob. The Zhaowu family of Shiguo Mansion wanted to annex the Anguo Mansion. The two sides hit it off. With the good cooperative relationship before, an army of tens of thousands of people formed this!

These tens of thousands of people were just the main combat soldiers. In addition, the Zhaowu family also recruited more than 20,000 servants from Shiguo Mansion. These servants acted as food and supplies teams, and on the other hand, they were ready to be cannon fodder at any time and anywhere!

Although the ancestors of the Zhaowu family were Semi people, after they became the leader of the Tang army, they continued to marry Han people and were awarded Han people by the Tang court. It can be said that they were completely separated from the original Semi people.

This was a political method that the Tang Dynasty ruled the Western Regions countries. It absorbed the remaining powerful and meritorious ministers of the Western Regions through marriage and elevated ethnic origins, and then used their familiarity with the local area to cruelly suppress and enslave the majority of the Semen group!

After a long time, even the Zhaowu family itself thinks they are Han people’s powerful people!

Of course, because of the long-term marriage and mixed race, the appearance of the Zhaowu family is no longer much different from that of the Han people.

The reason why Seme people were bullied by the Han people in the Anxi Protectorate was also related to their appearance being too far from that of the Han people, because Seme people were conquered nations and were born dwarfs, and could be identified at a glance, thus forming a unique racial hierarchy.

It is not difficult for the Han people to integrate a few powerful people through immigration, but it is impossible to change the human population of the Semen. The population base of the Semen in the Western Regions is too high...

Under the leadership of Zhaowu Dizhe, the army of Shiguo Mansion burned villages like bandits. If the counties and towns encountered along the way did not surrender, they would immediately massacre after breaking the city. Whether it was Semu or Han people, they would be treated equally...

The military discipline of Shi Guofu is so poor that it has a lot to do with the fact that half of the Tufan tribe soldiers. These Tufan tribe soldiers are foreign soldiers, so it is not easy for Zhaowu Dizhe to be too restricted. Moreover, these Tufan tribe soldiers did not take Zhaowu Dizhe a penny of military pay.

They joined the army to fight, hoping to make money by robbing and making money. If Zhaowu Dizhe dares to stop him, the army will split in minutes!

Zhaowu Dizhe didn't care about these nearly 5,000 rab-like Tufan tribe warriors, but he didn't dare to offend the Tufan Kingdom behind them, so he could only watch the Tufan tribe warriors transformed into bandits, robbed them all the way, and made the villages under Anguo Mansion look so different...

If it weren't for Zhaowu Dizhe's obstruction, they would even have looted all the surrendered counties and towns!

People in this era often have a kind of urban and rural discrimination, and often do not regard the country people as humans. It is a common operation to burn villages when wars occur.

However, as long as the cities are not strongly resisted, the conquerors will restrain themselves. Even the mobs such as the Tufan tribe warriors did not let go of the robbery, and at most they would accept military expenses from the gentry class of the county and towns.

Therefore, the villages encountered by the Shiguo Mansion army, who drove all the way to Anguo Mansion, were almost robbed, but the counties and towns were generally kept intact.

Because Tao Anbang, the governor of Anguo Mansion, followed the city's strategy, the counties and towns adjacent to Shiguo Mansion surrendered without fighting...
Chapter completed!