At the beginning of January, Xiangping, the capital of Liaodong County, was located in the later Liaoyang City, on the south bank of the Yanshui (Taizi River).

Fusu has been here for more than a month, in November, he gathered 3,000 soldiers from Haidong, because Jiaodong stopped the ship bound for Haidong, everyone could only turn north, through the hills of Liaodong, before the heavy snow fell, arrived at the city of Xiangping.

At that time, the guards of Liaodong County faced this group of dusty soldiers, and their guards were covered with frost and snow, and they hesitated again and again - Yuyang and Youbeiping soldiers had rebelled, although Liaodong and Liaoxi were still fine, but who can say for sure, what will this group of soldiers who have been in the bitter cold land for many years do after entering the city?

Until Fusu came forward, asked the army to retreat ten miles, and invited the county guard to meet him out of the city to show his identity.

Liaodong Shou met Fusu a few times a few years ago, and Fusu repeatedly assured that he could control this group of soldiers, and Liaodong Shou turned from worry to joy, and opened the city to welcome the Haidong soldiers in.

"The prince is still here, the subordinates will be relieved, there are more thousands of soldiers, and when spring begins, Liaodong will not need to be afraid of Donghu entering the Kou!"

It's a pity that the county guard is still too optimistic.

This invasion of Donghu is more violent than in previous years!

At this moment, Fusu stands on the rammed earth city wall more than two feet high, and the scenery of the Liaohe Plain is unobstructed: the vast land in early spring has a little greenery, and unlike later generations, the forests on both sides of the Yanshui are still very dense, and its edges are farmland and grasslands, and some Lilu villages can be vaguely seen - but they are all empty.

The people north of Yanshui are dragging their families and mouths, driving cattle, sheep and dogs, crossing the pontoon bridge built by Fusu in a hurry, and taking refuge under the city of Xiangping.

"Seventeen years ago, it must have been a similar situation." Fusu looked at this scene and muttered to himself.

Qin Shi Huang twenty-one years, Wang Jian has broken the Yan capital, Yan Wang Xi moved the capital Xiangping, when Yan Prince Dan in order to buy time for Yan Wang Xi, and a group of guest soldiers after the palace, and fight and walk, when they fled to Yanshui, Qin General Li Xin also with thousands of cavalry to pursue here, in the water's edge to show off his might, so Yan Wang was afraid, after Yan Prince Dan crossed Yanshui, he was greeted not by the cheers of the Yan people, but by the cold dagger of his father......

Yan Wangxi sent someone to kill the crown prince Dan, and sacrificed his head to Li Xin, begging the great Qin king to calm his anger and spare Yan Guo.

Fu Suyou remembered the look on his father's face when he opened the box when the deformed head was sent to Xianyang.

is no longer the sneer of seeing Fan Yuqi's head, but joy, sadness, and hatred!

Later, Fusu understood this mood, Prince Dan was the only friend of Qin Shi Huang in Handan when he was young......

The relationship is hard to describe.

And today, Fusu is in Xiangping, and like Yan Wangxi, he has to face the situation of large soldiers approaching the city and Liaodong is precarious.

After all the people north of Yanshui withdrew to Xiangping, the beacon tower more than ten miles away from Shuibei, a bunch of wolf smoke rose straight up, which was so eye-catching in the clear blue sky!

"The Hu people are here!"

Half a year ago, with the news of the death of the First Emperor, Great Qin's rule in the Kwantung Prefecture was on the verge of collapse.

And Donghu is like a hungry wolf locked outside the fence, seeing the right time, he began to invade the side plug in a big way!

In the autumn of last year, when Fusu passed through Liaodong, Donghu had already begun to enter the Great Wall of Kou and fell into Gaoxiansai (Tieling, Liaoning). The lieutenant of Liaodong took half of the county soldiers and stationed them in Houcheng (south of Shenyang, Liaoning) on the Wailiao River, wanting to recover the Great Wall and drive the Donghu people out.

In the Northeast in winter, no one dared to stay outside at will, let alone use soldiers, and the Donghu people also stopped for a few months.

But this is just the beginning of spring, the snow has just melted a little, Donghu launched a surprise attack again, Kouhou City, Liaodong Wei and the battle, but fell into the Hu people's plan, surrounded by thousands of horsemen, and died in battle!

Houcheng fell immediately, so far, the Donghu people along the Liao River to the south to attack and plunder, the morning to the dome, twilight to the city, the Liao River envy the people, almost every family was plundered by it, wives and daughters were taken, the old and weak were killed......

Right now, the news of Houcheng's defeat has just reached Xiangping, and Hu Qi has reached the north bank of Yanshui!

"Childe!"

Liaodong Shou was shocked to learn that the county lieutenant had died in battle, and told Fusu worriedly: "Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, and Liaodong are near Donghu, but Gongzi should know that the topography of Liaodong is different from that of the three counties. ”

"Yuyang and Youbeiping are blocked by Yanshan, and there are also Yiwulu Mountains in western Liaoning, and Donghu enters Kou, even if the three counties give up the counties in the north of the county, they can also rely on the mountains, suspend the trampling of Hu Qi, and surrender the inner county."

"But Liaodong, there is no big mountain in the northeast of Liaoning, but there is a spacious river, the Donghu people call it Rao Leshui, the camp of the king of Donghu is located in the Red Mountain (Chifeng) on the bank of Rao Leshui, the Hu people take plundering as a business, go down the Liao River, a horse and a flat river, so there is only one Great Wall that can protect Liaodong!"

Because of this, after the Donghu people plundered the three counties but were blocked by the mountains, they naturally turned to Liaodong, which had no natural dangers, and regarded this as the main target of the attack.

"Now that the Great Wall has been broken, the Houcheng that guards the north of the county has also been lost, there is no danger in Liaodong, and there is only this Yanshui and the wall of Xiangping City in front of more than 100,000 people in the county!"

Liaodong has no way to avoid it, and there is no way to abandon it, so he has no choice but to bow down and pause: "I still hope for Gongzi, save Liaodong!" ”

Fusu did not answer, and at this time, his subordinate Sima Gaocheng and a group of military officials also climbed the city tower and reported to Fusu:

"Childe, three thousand soldiers have been gathered, Liu Ji has also counted, the grain in the treasury is enough for us to support Liaoxi County, as long as we levy the carriages and horses in the city and carry the grain up, we can leave at any time!"

When Liaodong Shou heard this, he got up suddenly: "Childe is going to leave?" You...... How can you go! ”

Gao Cheng was suddenly unhappy: "County guard, Gongzi, he is going to take the Haidong soldiers home, he is going to inherit the business of the first emperor, if you don't leave, what are you doing in this poor country?" ”

Liaodong Shou felt a chill in his teeth, after the county lieutenant's whole army was annihilated, the guards in Xiangping City were only two thousand, and it is said that the Donghu people who went south had enough people of 10,000 horsemen!

Without Fusu's soldiers, he couldn't imagine how the county would resist.

So Liaodong said in a hoarse voice:

"Leave at this time, aren't you afraid of being harassed and attacked by the Donghu people?"

Gao Cheng said with a smile: "The county guard is wrong, the Donghu people bully the soft and fear the hard, for their generation, we are like porcupines with long thorns, they are afraid of the fat Xiangping, they are more interested, our army can calmly cross the Liaoshui and go to Liaoxi County......"

Once there, you're one step closer to home!

Liaodong Shou suddenly despaired.

Indeed, for Gao Cheng, for Liu Ji, and for the soldiers of the three thousand families in Yanzhao, Central Plains, and Guanzhong, Liaodong is just a reverse journey for them to spend the winter, and it is not worth nostalgia, they can't find any reason to stay here.

But Fusu has!

After a long silence, staring at the billowing wolf smoke in the distance, Fusu finally spoke.

"More than ten years ago, the First Emperor brought fire and blood to Liaodong, destroyed the Yan Kingdom here, and slaughtered the Yan Gong clan on a large scale."

"But at the same time, the First Emperor also sent Li Xin and other generals to expel Hu Rong, repair the Great Wall, relocate the people in the interior to fill the vast land, and give peace, prosperity and law to Liaodong."

He turned around and looked at Gao Cheng, as well as the leaders and five hundred lords behind him.

"I've heard a saying, the officials, the people are hanging for their lives!"

"Since we are still Qin troops, as Qin officials, we have the responsibility to defend the territory of Great Qin and the head of Qian. Instead of eating the surplus food of the Liaodong people here, and wearing the warm clothes woven by local women, they were in the jam and burned and looted on a large scale......"

"Pat your buttocks and leave!"

Liaodong was overjoyed, but Gao Cheng was anxious, and stepped forward and said:

"Did Childe forget? You also have to return to the Central Plains, wash away your grievances, inherit the business of the first emperor, and save the world...... Liaodong, not Xianyang! ”

"But Liaodong is also part of the mountains and rivers under the rule of my father!"

Fusu was rarely angry, and his voice was extremely stern.

He pointed to the land of Liaodong filled with flames outside: "If Fusu can't even defend a border county, how can it defend the world?"

He also pointed to the people inside and outside Xiangping City, who were displaced by Donghu's entry into the Kou, and said in fear:

"If Fusu can't even save 100,000 people, what can we talk about saving millions of people in the future, and tens of millions of people will die in fire and water!"

Gao Cheng was silent, but behind him, a leader from Guanzhong muttered: "The people of Liaodong are all Yan people, and the Yan people regard Hu as Kou and Qin as Kou." For more than a month, they have never been kind to us, if there was no son, they might have killed the officials and made a rebellion, even if the son saved his generation, he would not be grateful! ”

"So, they deserved to die at the hands of the Hu people?" Fusu asked rhetorically, but the chief did not answer, which was regarded as a tacit acquiescence, and almost all the military officials from Guanzhong held this view.

"You waited wrong." Fusu shook his head.

"In Haidong's pawns, there are not only people in the middle, but also people from Yan Zhao, and even a Chu person, but in order to go home, they all twisted into a rope, withstood the frost and snow, and supported each other, before they crossed thousands of mountains and walked to Xiangping."

"And when we face Hu Kou, the Donghu people will not be merciful because you say the Qinchuan accent, nor will they let someone go because he is not a Yan person."

In front of the whip and scimitar of the Hu people, all beings are equal.

"Therefore, in Liaodong, when we are the enemies of the Hu people, we will no longer divide the Yan people, the Qin people, and the Zhao people, as long as they raise troops to resist the Hu people, they are all well-dressed people, and the people of China are all Paoze brothers!"

After Fusu's words, everyone looked at each other, but this son, who seemed to have been enlightened, continued to throw out even more appalling remarks.

"Furthermore, I thought that the kingdom and the people should be united by righteousness."

"The country treats the people like siblings, and the people treat the country like their hearts; The country treats the people like dogs and horses, the people treat the people like passers-by, the country treats the people like mustard, and the people treat the king like enemies! ”

Fusu sighed: "In the past, my father treated the people like dogs and horses, and now, Hu Hai treats the people like grass mustard......"

"This is the reason why people all over the world are flocking against Qin, Kyushu is in chaos, and they are constantly attacking and killing."

"But if we want to restore order, we should not perpetuate the mistakes of the past, but make changes from the first step we take!"

He said categorically: "How the people of Liaodong treat us is not up to the past. ”

"From now on, I'll wait for them to decide!"

Fusu held Liaodongshou's excited hand and promised: "I will not leave, I will not sit idly by and watch Xiangping turn into scorched earth, more than 100,000 people are displaced, plundered by Hulu, on the grassland, as a slave, to live a miserable life......"

"This time, Fusu, will not disappoint them!"

……

In the afternoon, Liu Dabeard, who had been ordered to stay in the Xiangping Treasury and wait to carry the grain, learned that Fusu was determined to stay in Xiangping and help Liaodong repel the Hu people.

"This boy is smarter than I expected."

Lao Liu scratched the head of the lice, regretting that he could not return as soon as possible, but he also smacked his lips and said:

"If Fusu really wants to go back to the Central Plains, in Yandi, in Zhaodi, I don't know how many heroes he will meet, any force can swallow him alive! Is it enough to rely on these 3,000 people alone? ”

"On the contrary, there are more than 100,000 people in Liaodong, because of the near border, most of them are cowardly, and the people are used to attack, and almost every young man can shoot a bow and arrow, get on a horse and gallop. Now that he has helped Liaodong repel Donghu, the people of Liaodong are desperate for him, and we are afraid that the team returning to the Central Plains will be doubled! ”

"If Naigong is in charge, Naigong will not leave!"

Speaking of this, Liu Ji couldn't help but spit on the ground:

"However, Naigong is not in charge, just a small military official! He helped Su to sell only one favor in Liaodong, but we have to sell our lives! ”

He Lao Liu will not be a dog for anyone, he just wants to take a ride home......

Liu Ji praised and scolded here, and at the other end of Xiangping City, in a courtyard for the soldiers' families to live, Liu Ji's wife, Lu Pheasant, also heard the shouts of the heralds outside.

"The general told the soldiers of Haidong and the people of the city!"

"Liaodong people accept me, dress me, eat me, we have nothing to repay, Fusu will definitely take everyone back to their hometown, but before leaving, and stay here first, help Liaodong repel Hulu!"

First in Yayan, then in Liaodong, so that the whole city could hear it, and then called on all the young men in Xiangping City to join the army to resist Hu Kou......

Lu Pheasant stopped the spinning wheel in his hand, nodded slightly, his eyes flashed, and for a while, he was a little yearning.

"Gongzi Fusu, not only is he noble, young and promising, but he is also a responsible husband!"