Yang Feng's army walked out of the desert three days later and found the Chu River, which they then traveled upstream for nearly a month before finally reaching their destination.

Crushed leaves.

And then, as expected, no one was there.

The Tang army led by Gao Xianzhi evacuated Broken Leaf two months ago, and not only Broken Leaf, but also the Tang Army stronghold to the east from Broken Leaf was all abandoned.

And by this time it was already the end of October.

Those Tang soldiers understood what this meant better than Yang Feng, the winter in the Western Regions was really full of snow and swords, and the Hanhai was dry and icy, even if they set off immediately, it would be impossible to enter the Yili River Valley when winter came, and the Yili River Valley would have to travel more than a thousand miles to Qiuzi! In this way, you can only spend the winter here, but fortunately, there are enough houses to live in the city of Broken Leaves, there are mountains and forests on both sides, there are firewood for the winter, and there is no shortage of water in the river outside the city. As for the food, this is also simple, led by the captain himself, after the two thousand troops ran to the grassland to engage in a grain requisition operation, not to mention food and meat, even clothes and women are available, as for how the Grolu herdsmen who were robbed by them survive the winter, this is none of their business.

These goggles dare to betray the Tang Army, this is the retribution they deserve.

Yang Feng fought against the Grolu people for betraying the Tang army, and wiped out a total of eight Grolu tribes, all of which were slashed by men who were taller than the wheels, women and children caught, and snatched all the rest that could be robbed, and then cut off all the heads of those leaders, handed them over to a specially sent messenger to hang on the horse, and then went to other Hu tribes to play the game of passing on the head, and by the way, told them that the Grolu people betrayed the Tang Dynasty and tried to lure the big cannibals over, although the main force of the Tang army withdrew, but still left the captain to garrison Broken Leaf to protect the departments, It can be seen that His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty loves you, but you can only help you with the food and salary of this garrison.

In other words, we are thousands of miles away to protect you, and you give dozens of cattle and hundreds of sheep, which is completely reasonable!

Of course, if you don't give it......

The heads of the eight Grolu leaders swayed with the restlessness of the horses.

So that no one will not give.

In fact, this area is mainly Tuqishi, at this time, the Tuqishi yellow-haired tribe and the black-haired tribe are fighting, the Tang Dynasty is capricious for a while to help this and that, in short, tossing and tossing to completely toss and scrap the Tuqishi, those small tribes have been beaten by the Tang army many times, and now they have to swallow their anger when they meet this brutal captain.

In short, in this way, Yang Feng completely solved the problem of overwintering food.

Of course, he didn't just go out to grab it.

Should it be done in a peaceful way or should it be done in a peaceful way as much as possible?

He actually found a good way to make money here.

"I really don't understand, obviously the Western Regions are full of saltwater lakes, why do those Hu people still treat salt as a treasure?"

He said speechlessly.

On the shore of the lake beside him, hundreds of soldiers are setting up dozens of cauldrons, some people scoop up the lake water with wooden barrels and pour it into the pot, and some people are there to continuously fill the bottom of the pot with firewood, the flame of pine burning burns the iron pot, the lake water inside is boiling and tumbling, some of the pots that are about to be burned dry, white crystals are precipitating, next to a completely dry pot, a soldier carefully scrapes off the layer of wet salt grains, like a treasure into the wooden barrel on the side, in the boundless primeval forest behind them, Dry trees are being cut down, split, and dragged out.

This is Atami.

That is, Issyk-Kul.

The salt content of this famous mountain saltwater lake is not high, less than a quarter of the seawater, but this is enough, it is nothing more than a little more cooking time, Yang Feng does not need to consider what cost, you must know that for the Western Regions of this era, salt is used to entertain the most distinguished guests, and even Tibet relies on selling salt to the Western Regions to make a fortune, and it is very difficult to transport salt from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau across the Pamirs.

Well, he actually grabbed too little salt to remember how precious this thing is here.

Since the salt grabbed is not enough, then I have to cook it myself, Atami is only two hundred miles away from the broken leaves, and there is only one river valley passage, which is completely as safe as the big rear, there is no need to worry about any harassment when cooking salt here, and it is surrounded by ancient primeval forests, and there is no problem with fuel until he leaves, and more importantly, these salts can be traded, in other words, even the people of Shiguo are extremely lacking in this, and salt can even be used as currency here, guarding this huge lake and boiling slowly.

"How can they understand this!"

Chen Quan, the commander of the second battalion beside him, said with a smile.

Then Camp Commander Chen smiled and shook a big fish with dozens of catties on the grill, seeing the fish oil bubbling out, almost at the same time the captain threw the horse in his hand like lightning, and instantly inserted it into the lake, and then shouted, a big fish weighing at least fifty catties was picked out, and the soldiers waiting on both sides quickly stepped forward, opened the belly of the fish with a horizontal knife and threw the internal organs into the lake, and then took a hoe to cut off the fish scales, chopped the fish into a few sections, threw it into the big pot next to it, poured salt and began to cook the fish, And a group of big fish attracted by the internal organs in the lake gathered stupidly, and the captain's horse was raised again.

Not only is no one boiling salt here, but no one is eating fish!

The big fish that Atami has accumulated over millions of years are silly waiting for him to enjoy!

And this lake is not frozen in winter, because it is surrounded by mountains, and the temperature is much higher than outside, just like a resort area.

"It's a pity that there are no chili peppers!"

The captain who picked out a big fish again said regretfully.

"Captain, what is a chili pepper?"

Chen Quan asked suspiciously.

"Chili, Chili that's a legend!"

Yang Feng said with embarrassment.

He hasn't contacted Xiaoqian until now, and he doesn't know what happened, could it be that he blew up the Ford and caused a nuclear leak, and the radiation affected Xiaoqian's signal? But it shouldn't be, if you really want to be like that, Xiaoqian is just hiding away, in short, she lost contact inexplicably, so don't think about it for the time being, if you want to eat chili peppers, you have to open up the Pacific route first. In fact, if Xiao Qian is always lost in the future, then he really has to find a way to open up this route, after all, there are a bunch of good things such as corn, potatoes, tomatoes and so on waiting for him, and if he really loses contact all the time, he doesn't dare to go even if he wants to, he needs Xiao Qian's help to return to the original time and space, without Xiao Qian, even if he commits suicide, he can only wander in this time and space in a soul situation, and he can't return to his own body.

"Captain, our messenger is back!"

At this moment a group of cavalry came running, and the first one shouted on his horse.

Yang Feng's messenger came back from Qiuci, as soon as he arrived at Broken Leaves, he immediately sent a messenger to Qiuci to report, here is two thousand miles away from Qiuci, the messenger each has three horses to transfer, half a month is enough to run there, in fact, it doesn't take half a month, because there is a Datang Post Station in the Yili River Valley, you can directly change horses forward, but the winter snow still prolongs this time, in fact, this is the thirty-fifth day after he sent the messenger.

The messenger brought him what he wanted.

"Captain, you've been promoted to Broken Leaf Guard!"

Chen Quan said in surprise when he heard Yang Feng read the official document in his hand.

"Quick, meet the general!"

Then he shouted to the soldiers.

Guarding and capturing is the commander of the military town in the jurisdiction of the Jiedu, this official position does not need to be appointed by the imperial court, and the envoys of various sections can be sealed by themselves, and it is not an army establishment, and the number of military personnel under the guard is not limited, hundreds to thousands, Yang Feng himself was a captain in charge of two hundred people before, and it is very reasonable to be promoted to guard and capture.

"You don't have to be polite!"

Yang Feng waved his hand indifferently and said.

Of course, he couldn't be excited by such a sesame mung bean petty official.

"How's the situation going with the marshal?"

He then asked the messenger.

"Back to the general, when the subordinates came back, Gao Jieshuai has been dismissed and returned to Beijing, and General Feng took over as the Jiedu envoy, this is Gao Jieshuai's last appointment, he asked his subordinates to tell the general, this return to Beijing will inevitably play the general's merits to the sage, and if this broken leaf is abandoned, the Western Regions will be completely abandoned, he hopes that the general will lead the soldiers to continue to guard, and he will ask the sage to send reinforcements to restore the traffic between Qiuzi and the broken leaf."

The messenger said.

"Where's the Feng Jieshuai?"

Yang Feng asked.

"That's what Feng Jieshuai means."

The messenger said.

Of course, Feng Changqing likes Yang Feng to continue to guard in Broken Leaves, as long as Yang Feng is in Broken Leaves, then he can block the eastward advance of the Great Cannibals to a certain extent, and he can contain Glolu and Tuqishi, and the entire Anxi will no longer have to worry about the northern front, and he can go all out to deal with the verdant Tubo people, Yang Feng's birth is completely a pie-in-the-sky good thing for them.

"Since that's the case, then we can only obey the orders of the marshal."

Yang Feng said.

Chen Quan and the others didn't say much.

In fact, they are also very happy here during this time, these guys have robbed more than 4,000 women alone, with an average of more than one per person, not including the little women who are raised, and they have no worries about food and clothing in the broken leaves, and the surrounding Tuqi Shi people now treat them as uncles, for fear that these guys will not be happy to go out to kill people and set fires, Yang Feng has even begun to collect taxes from them, after all, the Tuqi Shi people are still subjects of the Tang Dynasty, and it is completely reasonable for him to collect taxes on behalf of the imperial court. Especially now this boiled salt is to let the soldiers see the future of the good, broken leaves are a commercial city, and so these salts are sold through the merchants, then wait to sit and collect money, the only problem, that is, they are now boiling salt is prohibited, after all, salt is not boiled by anyone, but the broken leaves are lonely in the Western Regions, who cares about this, who dares to say anything, you have the ability to guard this broken leaf city, we go back to the mainland to celebrate the birthday.

In short, in this way, Yang Feng became the Tang Dynasty Broken Leaf Guard, commanding 3,000 troops to guard the westernmost fortress for the Tang Empire.