Liaodong County is a large county of Youzhou, vast and sparsely populated, located in the equivalent of Liaoning Province in later generations, including a small part of present-day Korea, and Lelang County to the east of Liaodong County is the easternmost county of the Han Empire in the territory of the Korean Peninsula in later generations. This has always been the most northeastern part of the Central Plains Great Unification Dynasty, and further north, the weather is cold and frozen, which is not conducive to the development of the farming nation, but it is the happy land of the nomads, and it is a place where soldiers must fight, and later the Ming and Jurchen Guanning wars, the main battlefield is here.

Liaodong County four war land, the northeast has Goryeo country, the north has Xianbei, Wuhuan, Fuyu and other departments, at the end of the Han Dynasty and all are in the prosperous period, all the departments in the Three Kingdoms after the two Jin Dynasty and the north and south of the dynasty are south to the Central Plains, according to the soil called the king, the world Han people as nothing. However, at this time, although the Han Dynasty was rotten, it was not something that these small states could provoke. And Youzhou has always been fierce people, since the right Beiping County shocked the Xiongnu Han Zhifei general Li Guang, has been the Han Empire's advance base for the fight against the nomads, at this time in the confrontation with the three northern tribes, the wolf to fight the wolf and the tiger to destroy the tiger, and count the good generals, never let the nomads outside the Saiwai to please go. Unlike Liangzhou in the northwest, which is also fierce in the people's customs, it has repeatedly become a chronic disease of the Eastern Han Empire in the attack of the Qiang people, and even some rotten Confucians look at the treasury and say that they want to abandon this "chicken rib" nonsense, which shows that the harm of the Qiang people is endless.

Gongsun Chan is the cavalry captain of Liaodong County, many times to resist the northern alien race to the south to plunder, but also several times to venture into the prairie alone, won a lot, in Liaodong County and even the entire Youzhou are very prestigious, and later Gongsun Chan can defeat the annexation of Youzhou assassin Liu Yu with the power of a county, the main reason is that he repeatedly resisted the great military exploits of the foreign tribes.

After a few days of traveling, the four of us arrived at Xiangping City, the seat of Liaodong County, and it didn't take much effort to find Gongsun Zhan's house. Not long after Jian Yong handed over the door post, he only heard a hearty laugh from the house: "Xuande, how can you have time to see your brother today?" Saying that, a tall and burly man in his thirties strode out, with a very striking beard on his face, and a weathered look on his face, even more calm and resolute, with fine eyes shining brightly, and was throwing himself at a few of us, and he still held the letter written to him by his father in his hand, which had not yet been opened. Come to think of it, this person is Gongsun Zhan.

Hearing this, he should have run out without waiting for the servant to speak clearly, and heard that his father's man was coming, but his father was among them. Jian Yong led me forward first, and said with a smile: "General Gongsun is polite." In Jian Yong, Xiazhuo County, entrusted by Xuande, he asked the general to ask for a few glasses of water and wine. "Gongsun Chan is bold and hospitable, and Jian Yong talks to him very casually.

Gongsun Chan couldn't find his father among the people, so he came to his senses, and only arched his hand with Jian Yong very casually, and his eyes fell on me behind Jian Yong, and he was slightly surprised: "Why didn't Xuande come by himself?" ”

I made Gongsun Zhan's scalp tingle a little, this decisive general, the momentum is really unusual, and he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed and said: "Boy Liu Feng, meet Uncle Gongsun!" ”

Jian Yong didn't care about Gongsun Zhan's contempt, and said with a smile: "Xuande was ordered by the assassin to form a volunteer army to suppress the Yellow Turban Thieves. This child is the son of Xuande, Liu Feng. ”

After listening to Jian Yong's words, Gongsun Zhan came up and took my hand, laughed and said, "In the past, I heard Xuande say that there is a young son in the family, and it is you?" Yes, yes, really young and wise, really have the wind of Xuande, come in with me. A pair of big hands full of thick calluses, but being held by him made people feel very cordial, while laughing to guide Jian Yong and me, not a few steps, the anxious Gongsun Chan smiled again: "Virtuous nephew, why didn't Xuande come with you?" ”

Seeing Gongsun Zhan treat me like this, I don't have anything to do with him: "Today, the Yellow Turban thieves are rising, and my father has been invited by Liu Thorn to form a volunteer army to help protect the township with Captain Zou." Because of the good relationship with his uncle in the past, Xian Xian and his uncle and little nephew came to visit Uncle Gongsun. Jian Yong is also the plenipotentiary representative of his father, but Gongsun Chan doesn't seem to take him very seriously, but my reply can't put him behind me, looking at Gongsun Chan with a smile in his eyes, I had an idea, and said boldly: "Uncle is now the captain of Liaodong Cavalry, his soldiers are strong, and all the captives in the north are looking forward to the flag, if my uncle can borrow hundreds of my father's personal soldiers, why worry that the Yellow Turban Thieves can't be extinguished as soon as possible?" ”

I came this time, I didn't have the task of borrowing soldiers, but my father's subordinates were indeed outnumbered, although the second uncle and the third uncle were brave and invincible, but their subordinates were all brave villagers who had never experienced the baptism of battle, and the capital was too small. Gongsun Zhan heard me say this, he squinted and smiled at first, stayed in the back, was slightly stunned, and couldn't help but stop at his feet, looked at Jian Yong behind him, and said, "Is this the meaning of Xuande?" ”

I was also very surprised when I heard this, how could it be as if he knew very well that his father would not do this? You must know that in history, when my father started his family, he borrowed soldiers and generals from Gongsun Chan several times, but he was not less cheeky.

Jian Yong never thought that I would mention it like this, but he was a calm person, and he was somewhat familiar with me for a few days, and although his face was shocked, his face did not change, and he only looked at me and smiled without answering. I was slightly embarrassed on my face, and replied truthfully: "This is just what the little nephew thinks." Then he explained: "Although my father has nearly 1,000 volunteers and bravers at present, they are all unbattled, and they lack armor and horses, so it is really difficult to be of great use. If you can get the help of your uncle and be driven by hundreds of Liaodong warriors, you can get twice the result with half the effort. "At this time, although the Han Dynasty was rotten, but the prestige was still there, even if it was Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and other families, they never thought that only after more than ten years, the Han would fall apart after four hundred years. I blatantly borrowed troops from Gongsun Zhan, and I was not afraid that he would be suspicious. And if his father has made great contributions in the extermination of the Yellow Turban Army, with the relationship between the two of them, he can be a good arm of Gongsun Zhan.

Hearing me say this, Gongsun Zhan was greatly moved, stared at me for a long time, and then laughed and said: "Xuan De is always conceited and heroic, and I don't expect him to come to me for help when he first started the army." Although the virtuous nephew is young, he has more knowledge and virtue. ”

I made his scalp tingle, too, who would have thought that such a young child as me could be so blatantly arrogant for his father's own words? Before I could react, Gongsun Chan let go of my hand and turned to Jian Yongzan: "This is Mr. Jian?" Xuande has friends like this, how fortunate he is. "Dizzy, he praised me before, it turned out that it was just a comforting word, but the real thing is that Jian Yong taught me on the road!

Jian Yong didn't argue, and only "noticed" to Gongsun Zan at this time that he didn't know what to do, and said with a smile: "The general's words are serious, how can Yong dare to be so praised by the general." But I saw a flash of surprise in his eyes that inadvertently swept to my side, but for some reason he didn't tell Gongsun Chan that all this was my own decision.

Gongsun Chan smiled and said: "Sir and nephew will rest in my mansion today, and when I send someone to order five hundred cavalry slaves, I will let Mr. lead him to meet Xuande tomorrow." Rescue soldiers are like fighting fires, and Mr. Zan will not stay in Liaodong for a long time. ”

Hearing Gongsun Chan's big stroke, I almost didn't have fun. Although Gongsun Chan said "riding slaves", this riding slave is not something that ordinary people can deserve. Most of them have military positions, they are slaves in peacetime, and they go out with their masters in wartime, and they are in the army. I think that Wei Qing, the general of Emperor Wu back then, was born as a slave from Princess Pingyang's family. Although this slave is not another slave, but which of the riding slaves in this stuffed land does not live under the knife? Especially after the Northern Xiongnu let Dou Xian shoot away, the border generals of the Han Dynasty liked to play solitary riding in-depth when they had nothing to do, in fact, it was all the nomads who had accumulated military exploits. What they bring, generally their own riding slaves, loyalty, combat power are guaranteed, if it is advantageous, it will advance, and if it is a small setback, it will retreat, and then take the army to the prairie to find the field after returning, and most of the gains will of course be their own. It is conceivable that Gongsun Chan said that these 500 riding slaves should be a big stroke.

To be honest, at the beginning, I never imagined that my inspirational words could bring such a big help to my father. You must know that this Yellow Turban Army claims to be holding millions of people, but it is dragging families and mouths, and the number of people who can fight is extremely limited, and the vast majority of them are just poor people who are desperate with hoes and wooden sticks, even compared with their father's 1,000 village warriors with underworld background, let alone these 500 tiger and wolf cavalry? Jian Yong was also overjoyed, and his father thanked Gongsun Zhan on behalf of him.