Football is over for the time being.

Training continues, and Zhang Ming often finds time to train with them.

Time passed slowly, and the collection of taxes went relatively smoothly.

Under the oppression of Zhang Ming's murderous name, the tax revenue was slowly recovered.

A large amount of taxes were collected by Zhang Ming, which is not much more than the tax revenue of Youzhou in previous years.

Dahan was hollowed out by these families.

Now, the imperial court is very poor, and it is difficult to make up thousands of troops.

Of course, the emperor himself had money from selling officials, but he was reluctant to take out the money.

It's October.

The counties have already brought the football back, and at the same time, two teams have been formed and are training intensively.

At this time, the weather is getting colder.

The Wuhuan of the north has regained its strength.

They are strong not because they have a larger population or anything else, but because they have a strong leader who unites most of the tribes.

This person is Qiu Liju of Wuhuan.

He was strong and, after internal wars, unified the tribes.

"King, our 80,000 troops have been gathered, and we can invade the south at any time."

Qiu Liju nodded, looking at the dozens of generals under the tent, and felt quite proud in his heart.

After unifying the tribe, Qiu Liju wanted to invade the south and not plunder the places, I was afraid that there would be no way to survive the winter.

"Okay, this time we will invade Jizhou, Qingzhou and Youzhou."

Qingyouxu is close to the grassland, and there are several passages, and the entire Han Dynasty has been plundered by the grassland people several times.

"Report."

Qiu Liju was about to give an order, when there was a call outside the tent, Qiu Liju frowned and said, "Call in." ”

A soldier hurriedly ran up, knelt down on one knee and said, "Report to the king, a Han man was caught outside, saying that there is important information to report to the king." ”

"Bring it in."

A young man, cowering, was brought in and pressed to the ground.

"Who are you? If you have anything to report, if you can't prove your role, kill the sacrificial flag. ”

"Useful, useful."

"My surname is Li, and I originally belonged to the Li family in Liaoxi County, but Liaodong Taishou Zhang Ming killed my whole family and copied my family, I was not killed in other places at the time, but all my family property was taken by Zhang Ming."

Qiu Liju's face froze, and he said in a deep voice: "Do you want this king to avenge you?" ”

The man surnamed Li was taken aback, this Qiu Liju was too murderous.

"No, my lord, my lord, I have important information."

Qiu Liju stared at him, making the surnamed Li tremble.

"Say."

"King, that Zhang Ming recently robbed the entire family in Youzhou, all the families paid taxes to him, and now he has collected a huge amount of money and taxes, and the king can handsome Wang Shi go south and rob Zhang Ming's money."

Qiu Liju pondered for a while, and then said, "Take it down first." ”

"What do you think?" Waiting for someone to take it down, Qiu Liju asked.

A tribal leader stood up and said: "King, my subordinates have also heard about this matter, Zhang Ming was ordered to collect taxes, but he is too guarded, I am afraid that he will not be able to collect much taxes, but his subordinates know the cunning of these Han families." ”

Qiu Liju nodded, their old Wuhuan King was killed by Zhang Ming, and they were in chaos for a while, and now they are reunited.

Winter has come, and troops must be sent to plunder.

"Then send 30,000 troops to Liaodong, and the rest of the army plunders Youzhou and Qingzhou."

Qiu Liju did not dare to send all the soldiers and horses to Liaodong, if they could not rob enough food in Liaodong to survive the winter, their winter would be sad.

"Bagantuo, you go to Liaodong, bring the Han people with you, and if the other party tells a lie, you will strip naked and freeze to death in the wild."

"Yes, my lord."

Qiu Liju, the king of Wuhuan, ordered an army of 30,000 to attack Liaodong, and the rest scattered and plundered all over the country.

The Wuhuan army, mighty, divided into several ways to kill.

Zhang Ming has set up spies in many places, but only in the territory of Dahan.

A few days later, Zhang Ming received the news.

After receiving the news, Zhang Ming urgently called Guan Zhang Zhao, Xu Huang, Xi Zhicai, Tian Feng and Chen Yang.

These are currently his team.

"News from the border that the Wuhuan army is heading south again, what are your plans?"

As soon as Zhang Ming finished speaking, Zhang Fei took the case: "Come and kill as many as you want, I'm afraid of a ball." ”

Everyone ignored Zhang Fei's words, and Xi Zhicai said: "Lord, we can hold on, according to our current strength and materials, the enemy will not be able to break through." ”

Xi Zhicai said it more prudently, but Zhang Ming didn't want to do it.

"My Liaodong can naturally be fine, but the departments of Youzhou are afraid that they will be slaughtered."

Zhang Ming looked at everyone, made a decision and said: "Zhicai, Tian Feng, you two have 10,000 troops to defend the city, and I will lead 10,000 cavalry to the outside line, waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack." ”

Everyone saw that Zhang Ming had made a decision, and he could only implement it.

"My lord, my subordinates suggest that we can directly attract the enemy to Xiangping City, so that other counties will not be attacked, my army is here, and the materials are concentrated in Xiangping, and the enemy will be easily attracted over."

"Okay, Zhicai immediately arranged for someone to spread the news, and the rest of the people immediately began to prepare."

After Zhang Ming gave the order, the generals went to prepare nervously.

And Zhang Ming went to find Zhang Ning and Cai Yan.

"Yan'er, the wedding date is just a few days away, but I'm afraid it won't be held as scheduled, and now Wuhuan is going south to plunder, I must lead my troops to fight to drive away these invaders and restore peace to the people."

Zhang Ming took Cai Yan's hand, and Cai Yan said with a worried face: "Husband, go, pay attention to safety, Yan'er is waiting at home." ”

Zhang Ming nodded, and then left.

Zhang Ming was ready that night, and then led 10,000 troops to leave the city.

"We're going straight north, fighting the enemy, and then we're going south."

The other counties finally stabilized, and Zhang Ming would definitely not allow it to be destroyed.

And Xi Zhicai and others stepped up to strengthen the city defense and carry all kinds of materials.

Liaodong entered a state of intense preparation.

Zhang Ming led the cavalry to the quilt for two days, and then stopped.

The enemy is already very close and will arrive in a day's time.

Wu Huan, 30,000 troops are coming, not to be underestimated.

"Report, General."

"The enemy advanced with 5,000 men and set out overnight."

The spies probed again.

Because Wuhuan went south, he had to carry some cattle and sheep, so they divided the forward middle army and the rear army, otherwise they would not be able to run fast.

The forward 5,000 men were already about to arrive, while the Chinese army stayed, waiting for the rear army to escort cattle and sheep, which were their food.

After understanding the situation, Zhang Ming said: "Five thousand forwards, let's try it to see if we can ambush them, even if we can't, we must directly attract them to the south." ”

Zhang Ming and the others began to arrange, there was no dangerous place to ambush here, so they ambushed next to a small town.

Zhang Ming estimated that they would lose and plunder the town here, so Zhang Ming and they were ambushed here.

The town's defenses were weak, and it was estimated that the cavalry could break through the low walls after a few assaults.