There are nine counties under the jurisdiction of Bingzhou, guarding the northern frontier of the Han Dynasty, and there are no less than 100,000 elite soldiers stationed in the state for a long time, but in fact, its total population is less than 700,000, which is not comparable to a county in Zhongshan Kingdom, Jizhou. Among them, the two counties of Yanmen and Taiyuan have the largest population, with more than 200,000 people each, followed by Shangdang, with more than 100,000 people, and the rest of the large counties are only 20,000 or 30,000 people, and small counties such as Shuofang County have even less than 10,000 residents.

Since the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu in the north, the Han court has been more appeased than killed by the Hu people outside the Saiwai, and the border areas of the state are even more mixed with the Hu and Han, the Huns, the Xianbei people, the Wuhuan people, the clans and clans of each clan have formed a village to protect themselves, or for the enemy, or for the blood relatives, and the degree of chaos is no less than that of Liangzhou, which has been in turmoil for many years. This was originally the first place where the criminals of the Tun army lived, and the folk customs were even more brave and ruthless, and the lone wolf Lu Bu of the state was left by his first father-in-law Ding Yuan to leave the remnants of the state army, and once even drove Cao Cao almost homeless.

If you just have a state, with such a limited number of people, self-protection is still insufficient, let alone the Central Plains. This is also another "fight" with Yuan Shao that Tian Feng said! That is, the scramble in Jizhou. Zhongshan and Changshan County, which connects Zhongshan and Bingzhou, must not be discarded in Tian Feng's plan.

It is precisely because of the chaos of the state that the state has not been able to breed a family valve that connects counties and counties like other states in the Han Dynasty, although the situation here is chaotic, but it is also the people's mind, and a strong ruler is needed to rule this land. This is also similar to Liangzhou, Liangzhou due to the drought for many years, the Han officials to Qianghu and the poor and weak people of the Han people are extremely heavy, for decades Bian Zhang, Beigong Boyu, Han Sui, Ma Teng have been in turmoil, there is no moment of peace.

The border land of the Han Dynasty is secluded, and Liangzhou, with Youzhou being the most peaceful, Liangzhou being the most chaotic, and it has been recorded in the annals of history many times, but Bingzhou is the most Hu people.

As the saying goes, heroes come out of troubled times, and what we pay attention to is the truth of fists. Those troubled heroes in Liangzhou, except for Ma Teng, who is known as the prince of the world, all climbed up step by step from a small haoqiang. is Ma Teng, who has also fallen to the point of marrying a Hu girl as his wife, and his realm is inferior to Liu Bei in his early years. It is precisely because of the chaos that many of the county magistrates of Liangzhou Prefecture have died at the hands of the rebels, and they never reach the end of their term of office. Let the boss with hard fists live freely there, and the chaos is like an anarchic underworld paradise. And these underworld bosses, today they are blood relatives, and it is normal for them to fight each other tomorrow, especially Han Sui, who is known as the Yellow River Jiuqu, is the most successful, and has killed two righteous brothers Bian Zhang and Beigong Boyu, although Ma Chao later said that he fell into Cao Cao's divisive scheme, but if it wasn't for Han Sui's bad example, how could Ma Chao be easily fooled.

What Tian Feng values about merging with the state is that it can collect elite soldiers here, and there is no local wealthy clan to control the elbow, and the climate is not worse than that of Jizhou, so it is easy to accumulate their own strength by attracting displaced people to encourage production. And in this era, the most important thing is the homeless, and the Black Mountain Thieves are the most well-known homeless organization.

The location of the Black Mountain thieves is the later Taihang Mountain, where Zhang Yan was rampant for more than ten years in history, once ruling hundreds of thousands, and exchanging songs with Gongsun Zhan. With Yuan Shaozhi's strength, after defeating Gongsun Zhan, he crossed the four prefectures of You, Hebei, and Qing, and several times the elite soldiers and strong generals entered the separate routes, but they were still helpless against the Black Mountain thieves, and the old army was exhausted. It wasn't until Lü Bu, who was born in Bingzhou, killed Dong Zhuo and escaped from Chang'an that the Black Mountain thieves were divided and collapsed under the blows of Lü Bu and his Bingzhou iron cavalry.

Rao is like this, Zhang Yan later defected to Cao Cao, which also made Cao Cao very excited, and was also awarded by Cao Cao on behalf of the Son of Heaven to the Marquis of Anguo Pavilion, and his descendants will be passed on to future generations. At this time, the Montenegrin thieves were taken to Luoyang by Ding Yuan because of the main force of the Bingzhou Army, and no one could stop them from rampaging through the Bingzhou. Shangdang Taishou Zhang Yang was also known for his bravery in the Bingzhou army, but he was also beaten by Zhang Yan and had no power to fight back.

The Black Mountain Thieves at the time of the smug also infested Zhongshan and had several encounters with the Zhongshan army. Zhang Yan, the leader of the Montenegrin thieves, once personally led 50,000 troops to Lu Nu, but was almost beheaded in a charge by Guan Yu, and the 50,000 army allowed Liu Bei to surrender more than 30,000, leaving less than 10,000 people to flee back to the Jishan area. This time, there was a leader who was originally born in the Black Mountain Thieves, named Sun Qing, who was also a member of the Black Mountain Thieves.

It's just that Sun Qing is not sure where Zhang Yan will live, after the battle under the city of Lunu that day, Sun Qing and his men became prisoners of the Zhongshan army, and finally they were happy to think about it, and they were directly taken in by Liu Bei and became the good people of Zhongshan. After all, Zhang Yan is the leader of the Black Mountain thieves, and his daily life and behavior have always been extremely secretive, even Sun Qing was not very clear when he followed Zhang Yan for a period of time.

Snow fell along the way, and the snow was knee-high, Liu Feng and his party stumbled and drove a few villages, but without exception, they all pounced. The old and weak guards in the village looked at Liu Feng's hostile face, and the strong men who left the village could only drink half a bowl of broken rice porridge every day, and they were lying on the kang and did not dare to go out.

Looking at this posture, Sun opened his mouth lightly, but said helplessly: "Second general, son, the principal in the village should go out." ”

Liu Feng grabbed a handful of snow and swallowed it in his mouth, smacked his chapped lips, and said with a smile: "Leave them a roe deer, let's go." As I expected, Zhang Yan should have known that we were coming. ”

Guan Yu gave a noncommittal "um", rubbed the snow, looked at the ragged Zhaiding in the walled gate, a trace of unbearable color flashed in his eyes, turned over and got on the horse again, frowned slightly, and said: "Ahead is Yangqu County, let's hurry up, don't miss tonight's accommodation." ”

This is the case after driving several villages, Guan Yu can't help but be a little disappointed.

Sun Qingyan breathed a sigh of relief, the dark appearance of Guan Yu's face almost didn't frighten him, he hurriedly turned over and got on the horse, and said carefully: "Second general, there are often animal traps on the road, let's let the little one go ahead." ”

Guan Yu snorted coldly, but galloped away without looking back. Liu Feng said with a smile: "If you come to lead the way, when do you have to arrive in Yangqu County?" Don't worry, such a little trick can't stop my second uncle. After that, he turned over and got on his horse, and chased after Guan Yu with his whip.

Several pairs of suspicious eyes in the village looked at the backs of several people with complexity, and quickly put their eyes on the roe deer on the ground.

The night slowly fell, and when Guan Yu, who had been running before, stopped with a fierce buckle on the reins, his eyes shrank, and he said coldly: "No gall beetle thief, come out!" ”

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen feathered arrows flew towards him, and more than a dozen gray-clothed people jumped up in the snow. Guan Yu snorted coldly, pulled out the horse's head, and danced in a circle with his knife left and right, all the arrows were shot down, and his eyes were like lightning, shooting towards the row of archers. The dozen or so archers had been buried in the snow for a long time, their hands and feet were frozen, although these arrows came suddenly, they were all inaccurate, and their strength was poor, so that Guan Yu easily broke away.

Liu Feng saw it clearly from behind, chased after him, bent his bow and arrows, and flew towards the sturdy man in the center with a "whoosh" arrow.

The big man was attracted by the majestic and mighty Guan Yu, but Guan Yu suddenly flew an arrow from behind, and was about to dodge, but it was too late, "Ah" let out a scream, he was shot in the chest, his body staggered, he took a few steps back and fell to the ground, and was suddenly covered by the snow.

The dozen or so archers were staring at Guan Yu from the bottom of their hearts, and when they saw their leader being shot to the ground, they scattered and ran away with a "bang", even ignoring their leader.

The leader struggled a few times, and got up dizzily, but he was hitting Guan Yu's tall body, shivering, and his knees were weak and he couldn't help but kneel. It turned out that Liu Feng's arrow went to the arrow, but it didn't hurt his life.

Guan Yu frowned when he saw the panicked look on this person's face, snorted coldly but did not speak.

Liu Feng shook his head, stepped forward, and said, "Who are you?" Why ambush us here! ”

"The adults spare their lives, the small one is Huang Ergou, the hunter of Dongjie Village, because he saw the adults and horses, he shouldn't have bad intentions......"

There was a "snap", but Yan Ming listened to his endless rambling, raised his hand and whipped it. There was a trace of black blood on Huang Ergou's face, and he was so panicked that he kowtowed vigorously and wailed.

"Don't be long-winded, who made you here!" Liu Feng said coldly.

"It's just a poor person, why should Master Hou embarrass him." In the jungle, a few plain white figures flashed, and the first big man was more than eight feet tall, with a Chinese face, a long beard under the chin as thick and hard as a steel needle, and a fierce face, hugging Liu Feng without slowing down.