A few days later, Pang Tong marched westward with 120,000 horse infantry troops, heading towards the Tucheng built by the Kun people on the plain in Qiangu County in the west. For a time, the small tribes in the four places were holding a wait-and-see attitude, and some took the initiative to send envoys to the Ren tribe to meet Pang Tong and ask for attachment. In such an environment, everyone in the Kun ethnic group is at risk. Jianning County in the north is also on the defensive at this time, and the Liaoman tribe is gathering the remnants to form a self-defending army. At the same time, both the Kun and Liaoman tribes sent emergency documents to the armies fighting in the north and the Shu Kingdom.

But by the time the coalition forces in the north received the emergency documents, the Ren army had already stopped at the east wall of the Kun tribe, and all four gates were guarded by cavalry. In the north, the coalition forces were heading north to attack Jiangyang County, and Kunze and Liaoduo were anxious after learning of the war in Xinggu County in the south. Ignoring the opposition of the coalition leader Yonghong, they led their troops to retreat without authorization, resulting in the failure of the plan to attack Jiangyang County, and the army had to retreat to Nanyu County. It seems that it smelled the situation of the rebel army, and the Shu army, which had been showing retreat, suddenly raised 200,000 troops to the south, and the leader was Guan Yu.

The coalition army was also shocked, and they woke up to the fact that the Shu army was going to let them go deep into the hinterland, stretch the battle line and supply line, and were ambushed without understanding the indistinguishable terrain of Shu. The retreat saved their lives, and Yonghong decided to stick to Nanxu County, and sent a letter to Meng Shu, the leader of the Hao Mon tribe whose territory spanned Yongchang County and Yunnan County, asking him to pay attention to the movements of the Ren people, and if he dared to invade Yongchang, he would raise troops to break it. The Mon and Yonghong Dilong times were better, and the Mon controlled about one-third of the territory of Yongchang in the northern part of Yongchang, as well as Jianchuan County on the west side of Yunnan County. The Dilong clan controls most of Yongchang County, has a large population and considerable power. and made friends with the Panyue State on the west side, and the Panyue State secretly provided some resources to help Yonghong lead the troops to resist the Shu State.

In the cool climate, the army of the Ren nationality surrounded the Kun Tucheng, the defenders in the city were insufficient, Pang Tong ordered people to shout under the city, if the city was not opened, it would be attacked. Unexpectedly, the guards in the city responded tenaciously, and even scolded a few words back. Pang Tong's army went down directly to the east five miles away, and it seemed that it was going to fight a protracted war, but unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, Xue Yue took a few agile people to the wall.

"There are enemies!"

The defenders were also extremely quick to react, but as long as the few Ren soldiers who were agile and agile still couldn't be as fast as Xueyue. The soldiers at the head of the wall raised their swords and slew them. Xue Yue went down the wall alone, the fire flashed on the wall, and the soldiers leaned against the battlements to meet the enemy. At this moment, the soldiers under the wall thought that the Ren army was climbing the wall with a ladder, and they all rushed up. Xue Yue lowered her body and moved quickly along the wall, and when the soldiers were on the top of the wall, she came to the city.

"Someone!"

As soon as one of the guards spoke, Xue Yue's cold hands flashed, and he fell to the ground along with the guard opposite.

The gate was open, and the cavalry of Pang Tong's army galloped in, entering through the main gate, and the infantry was slower and still running two miles away. But the cavalry had already suppressed the resistance on the ground, and those on the wall did not dare to go down the wall. When the infantry of Pang Tong's army arrived, the soldiers on the wall were still resisting to the death, and some archers kept shooting, and Pang Tong himself led the troops forward and killed them to the ground.

"It's stubborn." Pang Tong said coldly, looking at the corpses on the wall.

Knowing that the coalition forces should send troops over, Pang Tong hurriedly built a defensive offensive in the city and dug a deep ditch outside the wall. On the one hand, he pacified the Kun people in the city, and on the other hand, monitored the high-level figures of the Kun people to prevent them from contacting the outside world. After all, the city here is different from that of the Han people in the north. These people are all a people, and they have a deep and constant affection for the Kun people. If the Kun people still have soldiers and horses outside, they will definitely have the effect of combining the inside and the outside when they have the opportunity. At that time, it was time for Pang Tong to scramble. Half a month later, more than a dozen small and medium-sized tribes in Xinggu County took refuge in the Ren people, and in fact, most of the territory was indeed under the rule of the Ren people. Tanma returned, and Liaoduo of the Liaoman tribe led the troops back to Jianning County to fight with the Kun army that was traveling with them. Kun Ze led 40,000 horse infantry troops to rush over, and in about eight days, he could reach Siche County, Xinggu County, where the Kun people are located.

Pang Tong learned some things about the Kun people through the Kun people, and bought off Kun Dong, a nephew of Kunze. This person was in his twenties, and he had studied in a private school run by the Han people in the county town, and his father was dismissed from his position in the clan by Kunze because of his discord with Kunze, and finally became depressed and had heart disease, and died of illness in middle age. Pang Tong promised him that if he defeated Kunze, he would make him the patriarch of the Kun tribe.

Kundong walked northeast, and a few days later encountered the army of Kun banner marching, and immediately found Kunze. He immediately wailed and said, "The patriarch has just returned!" The people of Naren have taken the city! When he said this, he burst into tears, which made Kunze also dispel his wariness of him.

"What's going on over there?"

"The people of the tribe were locked up and treated like animals, and many girls were brutalized in broad daylight. I couldn't stand it, so I went up the wall at night and slid down with a rope, intent on seeing my army. ”

Kun Ze's eyes were angry when he heard this, the flames churned in his belly, and said: "The phoenix chick of the Ren clan is really an evil ghost, I will definitely slice him and drink it!" ”

"Don't be angry, the patriarch is now heavily guarded, but the county is weakly guarded. The Ren clan wants to fight you in Kuncheng, so we might as well take the county town and have a place to live. ”

Kunze nodded and said, "The thief is quite powerful, so it's fine." ”

He immediately ordered the army to march in a southeasterly direction.

A few days later, Kunze led the army to the west wall of the county town after the soldiers had eaten at noon, and saw that the city wall was sparsely guarded, and he looked in a hurry. Kunze ordered a strong attack, the army pressed against the wall, set up a ladder, like ants began to climb the wall, at first it was smooth, but when they reached the middle of the section, a large number of defenders suddenly appeared at the head of the wall, overturning the ladder, for a time the arrows rained down, and the blood flowed like a river. The north and south gates of the county town were wide open at this time, with Jin Xuan leading the troops in the north and Xuewen leading the troops in the south. Pang Tong watched from the top of the wall as the two cavalry came over. He gave the order to open the door again, and the sword and shield soldiers inside rushed out. The besieged Kunze army thought that they could take a county town, but they became miserable. And his good nephew Quinton has long since disappeared.

Ren County defeated the Kunze siege army, annihilating more than 20,000 people, and the others surrendered after Kunze was seriously wounded and captured. The entire county of Xingu was acquired after the war. According to the previous agreement, Pang Tong asked Kundong to return to Kuncheng to lead the tribe. After learning of the defeat of Kunze, the Liaoman tribe, who wanted to wait for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the Ren army in Xinggu County, defended themselves, and the entire Jianning County was called up by them.

But Pang Tong estimated that there would be a maximum of 100,000 people after many reports from the spies. Pang Tong stepped up the absorption of various tribes in Xinggu County, and some of the small tribes whose territory bordered Jianning County were alarmist by the Liaoman tribe, and even fled north to Jianning County in order to take refuge in the Liaoman people.

"Great Patriarch, the Liaoman tribe is spreading rumors everywhere, saying that we treat people from various tribes as slaves, which is really infuriating!" Jin Xuan went to the palace of Pang Tong, the county seat.

Pang Tong smiled and said: "Why be angry, the rumors will be self-defeating after a long time." And everyone is not stupid, most of the tribes have accepted the proposal to merge into the Ren tribe. ”

"But Jianning County said that we did it by force."

"Don't be serious, see people's hearts over time."

In May, after the successful completion of the restructuring and absorption of all the tribes in Xinggu County, the Ren tribe became quite large-scale.

"In the entire south, the power of Yongchang County can match us." The old Jin Bei really couldn't believe that today's Ren clan was so powerful, he raised the wine bottle and drank it.

Everyone gathered in the Pangtong Mansion to drink and eat food, and gathered together.

"Wrong." Kun Dong, the new patriarch of the Kun clan who had just been recruited, said: "Don't forget the Dilong clan and the Meng clan in Yongchang County, as well as those famous tribes, it is not an exaggeration to say that if the entire Yongchang clan is willing to work together, the other counties on that side are not their opponents combined. ”

Xuewen, Qingzun, and Lu Du were a little displeased when they heard this, and they all felt that this person in his twenties who sat in the position of patriarch was talking exaggeratedly.

"So exaggerated?" Pang Tong was surprised: "I've seen the map, although the terrain on the graphics is larger than Xinggu County and Qiqi County combined, it can't have such a large scale, right?" ”

"It's a fact that there are a lot of people. What's more, the terrain there is so weird that ordinary people don't dare to go deeper. Some rivers are highly poisonous. The tribes there are even stranger, some can drive away wolves, some use very powerful hidden weapons, and some ......"

"Is Elder Kun a little bit old, and his ambition has destroyed his prestige?" Qingzun couldn't help but say. He held up the wine bottle. "Here, a toast."

Quinton reluctantly raised his glass and drank it. What Qingzun said and the act of respecting him immediately was to tell him not to continue. There is contempt and suspicion for him.

Pang Tong was elbowing the table and pondering. In the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, Meng Shu was a well-known figure, but he didn't expect his county to be so strange. Although the other elders were skeptical, he still had to be cautious with a skeptical attitude, there were too many incredible things in this world.

"There are two tribes in the entire Xinggu County who voted for the Liaoman tribe, and the others belong to my Ren tribe, which is really a big tribe." Xue Wen laughed, his face flushed.

Those who indulge in alcohol seem to have forgotten the pain of defeat, and everyone under the candlelight seems to be immersed in the joy of victory.

"And that strange clan, that Fireblade Clan, has never said who he is on his side." Qingzun's slender cheeks turned slightly white, as if it was not commensurate with his dark skin. This patriarch, who drinks a decent amount of alcohol, seems to show a different skin color every time he drinks. "I think I should teach this tribe a lesson, didn't the great patriarch have been attacked before?"