At the end of the twentieth year of Xiping, the entire southern army was dispatched to open the outside of the fortress.

Since Dong Zhuo's conquest of Guishuang, the southern army has never gone out on such a scale, leading the army is naturally Zhang Liao, with thirteen battalions under his command, and they are also fully prepared, the drill competition that fell into madness, or was interrupted by Zhang Liao, the army is about to start, and the soldiers have to save their physical strength in order to expedition outside the Saiwai, however, after this competition, the military generals in each department have been integrated into their own military brigades, and the captains and the like are chatting and laughing.

Lu Yi was the only one who was excluded by others.

Zhang Liao did not intervene in this matter, Lu Yi is not stupid, on the contrary, this is a very smart person, he will definitely have a way, Zhang Liao thought so, in a time that is not very suitable for sending troops, launched a campaign against Saiwai, the so-called Saiwai area, in the original refers to the northwest of Liang, the southwest of Liangyi, in the northwest of Liang, there are a large number of Xianbei people, Huns, and even many different tribes, but after the establishment of Xinzhou and Hezhou, these people have either become the subjects of these two states, or have moved away.

Therefore, the northwest region of Liangzhou and Liangzhou has become the territory of the Han Dynasty, that is, it is included in Xinzhou, there is no so-called foreign race, only the existence of thieves outside the Saiwai is the southwest region of Liangzhou, bordering Yizhou, here, there are a large number of indigenous people, as well as Qiang people, these Qiang people, in fact, most of them followed the Han army to conquer the surrounding soldiers, and successively had their own kings, but unfortunately, bad luck, can always meet some people who should not be met....

After every blow, they were able to come to their senses, but the last time, they met Duan Cheng, Duan Cheng directly cut their king, which made them sink for decades, but they could not come to their senses, they later also instigated the Qiang people in Liangzhou, rolled up the rebellion within the Han Dynasty, and successively encountered Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu, Sun Jian, Che Li Qu, and now Zhang Liao.

If it's just a blind war, it's just that, the hateful thing is that the Han Dynasty changed its previous strategy, after Emperor Xiaokang, the border area implemented the Huairou policy, a large number of Xiongnu, Qiang, Wuhuan, Di, etc., distributed land, taught farming, literacy and hyphenation, allowed them to participate in the assessment, can serve as local officials, and now there are a large number of Qiang people in the southern army, this series of changes, so that the thieves outside the Saiwai Kou completely collapsed.

They lost the support and response of their fellow clans within the Han Dynasty, and even their own tribesmen fled in groups and went to the territory of the Han Dynasty, where they lived for more than 40 years.

However, many ministers in the DPRK and China are against it, and they even want to give up Liangzhou, let alone this place outside the country?

There is no benefit to it, but it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources to manage, and the gains outweigh the losses.

However, from the period of Sun Jian, the strength of many thieves outside the Saiwai is already not a threat to the territory of Liangzhou, but they still maintain the tradition of often going to the outside of the Saiwai to train soldiers, which has continued to this day, Zhang Liao took Ma Chao and Zhao Yun as the vanguard, and after the Lu Yi was decided, he sat in the Chinese army, and the army marched towards the outside of the Saiwai, just out of Liangzhou, they encountered small-scale thieves, horse bandits, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun, the two of them, attacked together, but captured hundreds of prisoners.

The captives were left to Lu Yi, and the rest continued to advance.

It was originally winter, the winter here is more cold, there is snow everywhere, making it difficult for the soldiers to advance, Zhang Liao insisted on going out at this time, it was meant to be tempered, these thieves did not have a unified deployment, each of them was an army, it could not be the opponent of the southern army, after entering the core area, Zhang Liao directly implemented the strategy of dividing the troops, scattered all the twelve battalions, and scattered them to capture and clear.

At the same time, he strictly ordered his subordinates not to kill civilians in order to risk military exploits.

Everyone left one after another, they were not the first time to arrive here, and they were more familiar with this place, Zhang Liao told them the area where they assembled, and the time, Lu Yi was still left by him, after all, Lu Yi came here for the first time, and he didn't know the terrain and environment here, so it was better to stay by his side and feel at ease, Zhang Liao was not as eager as other generals, and together with Lu Yi's department, he rushed towards the assembly area in a hurry.

Lu Yi also understood in his heart that this first expedition outside the Saiwai, he was unlikely to have any opportunities for meritorious service, more to observe, to learn, to follow Zhang Liao, it is not bad, at least if you don't understand, you can ask him, the two walked all the way, on the road, occasionally see some herdsmen in sweaters, gray faces, these people are very vigilant with the coming army, and the thieves outside the Saiwai often make a living by robbing them.

Lu Yi immediately sent his soldiers to talk, his soldiers are all Qiang, when these people used to talk to the herdsmen, these herdsmen were stunned, they knew that this army, the army of the Han Dynasty, these people are different from thieves, they never invade the people, even if there is an invasion, as long as they tell the horse, they will deal with it, but for so long, they have not seen a Qiang in this army.

The soldiers persuaded them all the way, telling them how good the life of the people in the Han Dynasty was, and telling them that if they didn't want to stay here and suffer the persecution of the thieves, they could go to Liangzhou and Yizhou.

Occasionally, when thieves robbed herdsmen, Zhang Liao did not take action and let Lu Yi solve it.

"There's something wrong with the climate here... If you are dizzy, or if you feel unwell, tell me...", Zhang Liao just instructed Lu Yi, and didn't say more.

In fact, there is no need for Zhang Liao to say more, Lu Yi has already felt the difference here, the group of people is advancing like this, along the road, you can often see the traces of battle, this is naturally left by the previous army, many battalions, a lot of gains, the southern army such a large-scale expedition, not to mention that it is such a season, to the enemy heavy losses, because the Han army has never launched a campaign in this season, so they have no preparations for battle.

And these twelve battalions, none of them are easy to mess with, they have almost not lost much wartime death along the way, some fell down the valley, but no one died in battle, no one can resist such an attack, closer and closer to the place of assembly, but the thieves outside the Saiwai are not enough to kill, just one battalion of Ma Chao, more than 4,000 thieves have been captured, such a vast team, the thieves fled in despair.

Lu Yi chatted with Zhang Liao all the way, and gradually approached the assembly place.

"Ah!!!h

With a loud roar, Lu Yi was startled, and hurriedly pulled the reins, Zhang Liao on the side had already pulled out his long sword, looking around, the soldiers also made a posture to face the battle, but there was no figure everywhere, Lu Yi felt a little cold in his heart, there was only a sound, but there was no figure, what is the situation? He was thinking about it, but from the snow in front of him, a few people suddenly jumped out, Lu Yi hurriedly looked up, there were only four people, it seemed that they were not thieves.

But they don't look like herdsmen, they don't have livestock, and their clothes are different, not to mention, the place where they are buried has just been explored by the soldiers, can ordinary people hide themselves so well? If they hadn't spoken, I was afraid that the army would have passed like this, and they would not have been found at all.

There were four people in total, two supporting one and one person, howling at the Han army.

Lu Yi looked at the soldiers on the side and said, "Go over and ask, who are they..."

The soldier nodded, walked towards them, the leader of the man, looking at the Han army, howled like crazy, he knelt on the ground, tore his hair, but cried heartbreakingly, such a crazy appearance, the soldiers were a little frightened, walked to their side, and asked in Qiang: "Who are you?!" ”

Those people looked at him a little blankly, and then looked at Han Jun.

The four of them were a little excited, a little broken, and the one who was supported said in a trembling voice: "We are the Han army... It's the Han Army..."

The Qiang people were shocked and hurriedly went back to pray.

"What?? Han Army?? How can it be?? In addition to our Southern Army, which Han army will appear here?? When Zhang Liao heard this, he was a little surprised, but he got off the horse again, walked in front of them, and helped up the man who was kneeling on the ground and crying, the person who was supported seemed to be their leader, Zhang Liao looked at them with some doubts, and asked: "I don't know what camp the Han army is?" ”

He also saw clearly that the person who was supported had both legs and his knees cut off.

This person's appearance is really scary, the whole face is burned, and it is extremely hideous.

The four of them stood in front of Zhang Liao, the lips of the leader were trembling all the time, and tears were dripping down.

"The Han Brave Battalion is !!!!! here"

Zhang Liao's face changed, his eyes widened, looking at the people in front of him, he shouted, "Someone!" Hurry up and get hot water!! Take the food !! The soldiers quickly got busy, and Lu Yi also came over, supported a few people, took them to the carriage, sat them down, changed their winter clothes, and ate hot water, these people seemed to have some spirits.

"Gentlemen... Is it a soldier of the brave battalion?? ”

"Exactly... A long time ago, we went out to Guishan, many people were separated on the way, and some people rushed out of the sea of fire on Yangjia Mountain, I was one of them, we got together, we were chased and killed by the Kushan people, kept chasing, kept fleeing, we fled to South Guishan, fled into the mountains and forests, towards the big Han, kept walking, kept walking, only four of us left, only four left... How's the war going?? Did we win? The leader suddenly looked up and asked.

"We won... The Kushan kings were killed. ”

"Do you know the commander of the Brave Battalion? Captain Gongsun, what about him? The lame soldier asked a little panicked.

"He's still alive, he's fine, he's in Luoyang now..."

The lame soldier smiled with relief, nodded, and said, "It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive, I still have... There's also a... Younger brother...."

His voice became smaller and smaller, and he slowly closed his eyes, Zhang Liao was taken aback, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to probe his snort, he was curled up in his coat, skinny, and the whole person was shrunk into a ball, closed his eyes, and fell asleep forever.

"Marquis!! O Marquis!! ”

Seeing the other three crying bitterly, Zhang Liao stood for a long time, took two steps back, and knelt down on one knee.

He gave the unknown marquis a humble military salute.