As the night deepened, so did the crescent moon. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The coachmen and servants outside the info pavilion had been on the road for a day, yawning after dinner, and most of them dispersed early and returned to the tent to rest. Only those who had their turn to keep watch were around the campfire, gossiping about common topics.

Yan Xing walked outside the pavilion with Gan Ling and a few other servants at this time, although it was like a bowl of hot soup could not solve hunger, and there was no warmth from a cold coat on his body during the night patrol, but when his coachman and Hu Cong saw Yan Xing patrolling the night, they still felt a trace of warmth in their hearts.

One or two of the night watchmen tonight were still clansmen he knew, and Yan Xing didn't have any shelves, so he sat on the ground like them, and after a few words of greeting from his parents, he got up to say goodbye, and only turned to the corner outside the pavilion where the goods were stacked after a week of patrolling the perimeter.

Hu Cong, who was guarding the goods, and his subordinates saw Yan Xing and his party coming over, and hurriedly got up to greet them. After a few more words of encouragement, Yan Xing waved them back again. The servants around him scattered in all directions, and only Gan Ling remained, still guarding behind Yan Xing.

Yan Xing looked at these goods thoughtfully, his deep eyes were shining, as if he was thinking about something. Although the piled up goods were covered with thick tarpaulin, Yan Xing knew that there were bags of corn, bunches of cloth, pieces of salt that the Qiang tribe desperately needed, and handicrafts such as pottery lacquer plates・・・・・・

Of course, the most important thing is that it also contains 10,000 iron arrowheads, 500 iron spearheads, and 300 ring-headed knives.

Although the Qiang people were relatively Sinicized compared to the Hu people outside the Saiwai and carried out agricultural production like the Han people, they had less land and grains, and they relied more on animal husbandry in comparison, and their handicraft industry was very backward, basically lacking everything, and they always needed to trade with the Han people with livestock, furs, medicinal herbs, jade.

Since the end of the Han Dynasty, the local powerful forces have continued to grow, such as "wide open houses, high-rise buildings and pavilions, Bopi perfusion, bamboo and wood into forests, six livestock grazing, fish and pear fruits, sandalwood and mulberry hemp, closed doors into the city, crossbow equipment, capital to millions" of the wealthy family is not a few. During this period, there was a secret trade between the powerful clans and the Qianghu in the border counties, and in the past, the local government strictly controlled the most important goods such as salt and iron, and the trade was prohibited by law. However, now Jincheng County has fallen into the hands of the rebels, and the Han family, who has just taken power, is temporarily powerless to control and prohibit this kind of transaction, and how can the powerful clans with their own intentions be willing to miss this kind of profitable thing under the chaos of the army, and often take advantage of the relaxation of the legal ban and the failure of government decrees to smuggle the grain and linen hoarded in their own warehouses to the tribes of the Qiang people for trading with the Qiang people, and then transport the livestock, furs, and medicinal materials that have been exchanged back to the mainland for sale. What's more, they directly colluded with the tribes of the Tieguan and Qiang people to directly trade iron tools and horses, and the profits obtained were hundreds of millions.

Because the Yan family was attached to the Han family in Jincheng, they took advantage of the convenience of the relationship to get a piece of the pie, and privately began to contact the Qiang people and conduct secret transactions.

"This time the transaction is all with the third uncle's people, what news does our people have sent back?" Yan Xing asked Gan Ling.

"This time it was Yan Feng who was in charge of the joint, and according to him, it was a tribal transaction between the White Dog Gathering and Burning Dangqiang outside the Saiwai."

"Hmm... We still know too little information, well, I plan to let you take twenty people, tomorrow I will find an opportunity to take other paths to go in advance, and sneak up first to secretly spy on whether there are any other inside stories in this transaction, I plan to ・・・・・・" The next words Yan Xing said more and more quietly, deliberately so low that only Gan Ling on his side could hear it.

"Good!"

Gan Ling agreed as always cheerfully, Yan Xing didn't say anything more, he knew his henchmen, and knew that Gan Ling had always been careful in dealing with these things.

He turned around and called the captain of the guard, who was guarding the goods.

"Tomorrow, from the time we leave Yunwu's territory, we must double the number of people guarding the goods, and there must be no omission!"

Facing Yan Xing, who was in an aggravated tone, Hu Congwu hurriedly lowered his head and promised. There were many wars in Liangzhou, and the Yan family's troops were trained according to the Shiwu in the army, although they had not yet reached the situation of repeated orders in the army, but the orders of the head of the family were like military orders for the general troops.

After arranging all the matters, Yan Xing walked towards the pavilion again. As he walked, his mind began to calculate the current situation:

I heard that Zhou Bo had led the soldiers and horses of the six counties to arrive in Didao, and the head of the Han family had heard earlier that he had also brought the main force of the rebels to be stationed in the Longxi area to recruit the Qiang tribes of the White Wolf Qiang and Tsing Yi Qiang, which would estimate that the two sides had already drawn their swords and crossbows, and the Qiang people outside the Saiwai were also ready to move, and I heard that their demand for iron tools was much greater than in the past・・・・・・

The big war is about to break out.

Longxi Didao City, a large camp outside the city of the Han army.

The tent of the Chinese army in the camp was lit by the candles on both sides at the moment. Cheng Qiugao, who looked clear and had a beautiful beard, sat on the general seat in the tent, frowning and checking the accounts of the consumption of grain and grass in the Japanese army in the past few days.

After being in charge of military affairs for nearly a month, Cheng Qiu finally realized what Sun Tzu said: "Where the method of using military is to gallop thousands of cars, leather cars to ride thousands of times, bring 100,000 armor, and feed food for thousands of miles." Then the internal and external expenses, the use of guests, the material of glue paint, the dedication of the armor, the daily cost of thousands of gold, and then the 100,000 teachers are "difficult."

Since he led the soldiers and horses of the six counties to the expedition, the dispatch of men and horses, the allocation of soldiers and armor, the recruitment of labor,

The transportation of grain and grass has made Cheng Qiu's hair gray. On the surface, as one of the senior adjutants of the assassination history, he was in charge of Cao Clerks and governed affairs in the middle, and now he was entrusted with an important task to take charge of the affairs of the whole army, which could not but be said to be a high authority. But in fact, his family knows his own affairs, Cheng Qiu knows that he has become a traitorous villain in the mouth of the state sergeant, and the powerful clan is also gnashing his teeth at himself, eager to eat himself alive.

You must know that since Geng Yan took office, he has been planning to conquer the rebels in Liangzhou. However, the use of foreign troops requires money, grain and grass, men and horses, and soldiers, and the counties in the west fall into the hands of the rebels, and the counties and counties controlled by the imperial court are also suffering from war, and the self-protection of all places is insufficient, where can they provide soldiers and horses with food and straw to the state. In the face of the situation of displaced people in Liangzhou after the war, this large amount of military expenditure naturally cannot be fully spread on the heads of the poor and poor leaders. So Geng can only hit the idea on the powerful clan in the state, but unfortunately although the assassin is powerful, but he is also an outsider after all, you must know that the officials in the state generally use the name of the native as a custom, so that the positions in the state are mostly monopolized by the powerful clan surnames, in the face of such a huge local power, if the governor is weak and incompetent, he will naturally end up in a situation of being bullied in the air. But if the governor is overbearing and unwilling to compromise with the local tyrants, sometimes he will not be able to escape the fate of being expelled by the local tyrants.

When Zixiyuan sold his official today, Geng was born in a famous family, and spent a lot of money to come to Liangzhou to take office. Naturally, he didn't want to do nothing, he came to the border to use the border affairs to make military achievements and pay homage to the prime minister, and even took the position of the third prince like Zhang Wen. Therefore, at the beginning of his tenure, he recruited the children of the big clans in the state, and secretly recruited henchmen who could be used for himself.

Although Cheng Qiu has been a small official for many years because he was born in a poor family, he is quite talented and skilled in political affairs. Therefore, as soon as Geng Cong discovered his talent, he immediately entrusted him with important tasks and promoted them one after another, until he was engaged in the middle of the government, and he was the master of Cao Wen. And Cheng Qiu did not live up to Geng Contempt's high hopes, with the attitude of "the soldier dies for his confidant", since he served as a governor of the central government, Cheng Qiu helped Geng Contempt secretly suppress Haoqiang in political affairs, verified the population and property hidden by the big clan, doubled the collection of Haoqiang's taxes, forcibly transferred soldiers and horses from various counties and counties in military affairs, and squeezed away Gaixun, who was known as a prestige in the state and made great military achievements, so that the county government of Hanyang also became Geng's contempt.

It's a pity that although Cheng Qiu is also a capable official, he is a layman in military affairs. In the face of this man composed of defenders, newly recruited soldiers, and galloping soldiers drawn from the six counties, there is very little that can be done except for promoting a group of lower-level military officials in personnel to win the hearts of the people. And since Geng Dao arrived in Di Dao, he moved into the county government and lost all the military affairs to Cheng Qiu.

Originally, the affairs of the army were cumbersome, and I thought that I had deeply offended the surname in the state, if I couldn't make military achievements in this counterinsurgency, then I would immediately be pointed out by Qianfu, and I was afraid that he would be unable to escape death in the end, Cheng Qiu suddenly felt irritable in his heart.

It may be that he was upset and kneeling for a long time, Cheng Qiu's legs gradually became numb, he rolled the bamboo slips spread out in front of him and put them on the side of the desk, lowered his head and rubbed his thighs, but his qi and blood became more and more stagnant under the mood, so he simply got up and paced along the inside of the tent.

I heard that the rebels have recruited many tribes from the Wolf Qiang and Tsing Yi Qiang, and they are sharp. However, this group of soldiers and horses led by himself was improvised patchwork, although under the banner of counterinsurgency, once the confrontation, it is not known who will kill the deer, after all, in recent years, the officers and soldiers have fought with the rebels and the Qiang people have not been defeated.

Thinking about something, Cheng Qiu took a few steps forward.

Suddenly, as if aware of something, he forcibly retracted the foot he had stepped on.

It's so quiet!

Although there is a curfew in the army at night, and the sergeants are not allowed to leave their camps without authorization, the sound of the Kim watchman will sound on time, and in the past, at this time, the sergeants outside the tent should also have the sound of rotating and walking, why is there no sound tonight?

Cheng Qiu, who had doubts in his heart, was shocked for a while, and was hesitating to go out of the account to check or call the guard soldier in.

Before the decision was made, a rush of chaotic footsteps had suddenly sounded around the tent, and before Cheng Qiu could react, the curtain of the tent door was rudely lifted.

A cold wind with grit came to his face, and Cheng Qiu couldn't help but squint his eyes. He twitched his nose and chuckled inwardly:

The smell of blood!

Immediately after the smell of blood, a group of wolf-like soldiers rushed in and surrounded themselves, and the swords and guns that were dangling in the candlelight were still dripping with blood, and they all pointed at themselves diagonally.

"The army has a night curfew, and you want to break into the military tent at night for no reason, and you want to test the military law?"

Cheng Qiu has been in the sea for a long time, and he is in a high position. He didn't choose to sit still, trying to suppress these soldiers in momentum, but unfortunately he regretted it after his words came out, he watched every soldier take his words as the wind in his ears, and his face was expressionless, as if he was a dead man.

Where are the common disgruntled soldiers in the army, this is clearly a team of dead soldiers!

In the silence after Cheng Qiu's words, the sound of the rubbing of the armor leaf sounded, and a black shadow with armor through the armor appeared from the darkness outside the tent, and the footsteps of the person who came were very light, but the pressure on Cheng Qiu's heart was so great that it was difficult to attach.

When he saw the person clearly, Cheng Qiu couldn't help but scream.

"The king-kingdom-you!" He had thought in his heart that it might be a mutiny, but he didn't expect that it was actually the Liangzhou Thorn Shi's other driving kingdom.

The kingdom carried his hands behind his back, and his black-red face was unfazed. He didn't respond to Cheng Qiu's exclamation, but just quietly looked at the panicked Cheng Qiu for a while before slowly speaking.

"Military order, Cheng Qiu intends to rebel, according to the law!"

"Kingdom, you-" Cheng Qiu jumped up like a lightning strike, and subconsciously wanted to rush towards the kingdom. But the soldiers around him had already swarmed him and threw him to the ground. The high crown on his head was torn off, the bun was scattered, and Cheng Qiu's lips were also broken, and he didn't have time to shout another sentence with his bloody mouth, and a soldier behind him had already dragged his long hair fiercely, stabbed the sharp blade in his hand from the back of his neck, and directly cut off the head that was still high in the governance not long ago, and for a while blood was pouring out and fell on the clothes and armor of the dead soldiers in the tent, and the dead soldiers were still expressionless, carrying the bloody heads out of the account and presenting them to the kingdom.

Just after the kingdom gave the order, he retreated out of the tent just right, avoiding the blood in all directions, and at this moment, watching his former high-flying and invincible colleague in the state turn into a dead corpse and the bloody head was presented by his subordinates, his face was still gloomy, but there was a slight hint of imperceptible joy.

He waved his hand and asked his soldiers to stand aside with their blood-dripping heads, standing outside the tent without saying a word. Not long after, another rush of footsteps came, and Wang Fan, the eldest son of the kingdom, had a complicated expression, and trotted over with a few personal soldiers. Seeing the kingdom standing outside the tent, Wang Fan subconsciously shrank his head, and then hurriedly walked forward and leaned into the kingdom's ear, his voice changed because of nervousness and trembling.

"Father, our men have taken control of the city, but—"

"Uncle Fang is dead!"

Another thunderclap on the ground!