Karasuma Shan succeeded to the throne in Louban, Yuan Xi took back the three counties of Youzhou, and his strength increased greatly, and this news also reached the ears of Gongsun Du of Liaodong. Gongsun Du ran Liaodong for many years, rejected Goryeo in the north, pacified Buyeo, Baekje, and Silla, and commanded tens of thousands of armor soldiers, and even had invincible iron cavalry to dominate Northeast Asia. With the rise of Yuan Xi in Youzhou, his heart is becoming more and more uneasy, he is powerless, I am afraid that he will soon die, but I am afraid that after himself, the Liaodong regime that he has worked so hard to establish will no longer exist.

Gongsun Du convened his eldest son, Gongsun Kang, to discuss: "Back then, Gongsun Zhan, the assassin of Youzhou, was of the same clan as me, and he would not raise troops to attack. Yuan Shao was destroyed last year, and now Yuan Xi, the assassin of Youzhou, is strong and ambitious, and in just two years, he has already subdued the six counties of Youzhou, I don't know how our army will respond? ”

Gongsun Kang is also an ambitious person, unwilling to be subordinate, and said to Gongsun Du: "My father has been running Liaodong for many years, and he has brought countless armored soldiers, which is not comparable to the foreign tribe of Karasuma, and the road is far away, as long as he unites the three kingdoms of Korea, Goryeo, Baekje, and Silla, it is enough to resist Yuan Xi." ”

Gongsun Du was also relieved to see that Gongsun Kang did not underestimate Yuan Xi, and added: "I, Liaodong, still want to show favor to Yuan Xi, and I must calm down, otherwise Liaodong will be in danger." "Gongsun Kang saw that Gongsun Kang valued Yuan Xi so much, it was also very strange, how could a person who had just run Youzhou convince himself? Probably because his father was afraid of things, but Gongsun Kang didn't say this, but said to Gongsun Kang: "Father, I am willing to go to Youzhou to find out the truth." Gongsun Kang also had this idea, and when he saw that Gongsun Kang took the initiative to ask for help, he also agreed, and ordered someone to prepare Liaodong's specialty ginseng, deer antler, and a thousand good horses, and go to Youzhou to visit Yuan Xi.

Although Yuan Xi has the intention to subdue the entire territory of Youzhou, the next target is Liaodong, but Liaodong is far away and is not comparable to Karasuma, so he must be fully prepared. At this time, the number of Youzhou troops had reached 100,000, including 20,000 cavalry, 10,000 archers, and 10,000 lancers; 80,000 infantry, including 5,000 heavy infantry halberds, 5,000 trapped camps, 10,000 Montenegrin troops, and 10,000 crossbowmen; Each of the six counties of Youzhou has 5,000 county soldiers stationed, and the Jixian battalion has 20,000 elite soldiers.

For the number of troops, Yuan Xi has no intention of continuing to increase, a state, 100,000 elite soldiers in hand, it is enough, now to consider improving the equipment, want to rely on the advanced technology of later generations, in the battle. Yuan Xi pays the most attention to the mutual restraint between the arms, the cavalry is the trump card of this era, with strong functionality and full impact, and when his strength is enough, to create an ironclad cavalry, it will be a nightmare for all infantry, and the only worry is the Zhuge crossbow. Therefore, Yuan Xi is also thinking about whether to invite Huang Yueying first?

When he was thinking about how to strengthen his military strength, Tian Feng came to report, and Gongsun Kang, the envoy of Liaodong, asked to see him. Gongsun Kang, Yuan Xi still has a memory, it's not that he has seen it, but when Yuan Xi of the Three Kingdoms defected to Liaodong, this person took his head to curry favor with Cao Cao, Yuan Xi had a good impression, and announced him into the mansion expressionlessly.

Gongsun Kang saw that Yuan Xi was dignified, not angry and arrogant, and did not dare to slack off in the slightest, so he stepped forward and respectfully knocked on Yuan Xi and said: "Gongsun Kang, the envoy of Liaodong, came to congratulate Yuan Thorn Shi on his double happiness, and brought Liaodong's specialty thousand-year-old ginseng, deer antler velvet, and a thousand good horses, please Yuan Thorn Shi smiled." ”

Although Yuan Xi didn't wait to see Gongsun Kang, sooner or later he would send troops to Liaodong, but people came all the way with gifts, and they also asked politely: "The envoy has worked hard all the way, I don't know where to come to the door with double happiness?" ”

When Gongsun Kang saw Yuan Xi asking, he made a speech that had been prepared on the road: "Lord Yihe Assassin Shi is happy to have a noble son, and there are successors to the great cause; Lord Erga stabbed Shi to take Karasuma and recover the three counties of Youzhou. ”

Yuan Xi looked at Gongsun Kang's respectful attitude, and also nodded happily: "The envoy said well, these two things are indeed worth celebrating, but I am the assassin of Youzhou, and the ten counties of Youzhou have only six counties, and Your Majesty has appointed me as the general of Pingbei, which is really a negative trust." ”

Gongsun Kang's heart tightened, Yuan Xi was secretly blaming his Gongsun family for occupying Liaodong and refusing to come to pay tribute, he thought about it and said: "Please also ask Lord Assassin Shi Mingjian, Liaodong County will definitely obey the dispatch of Lord Assassin Shi, but there was Karasuma rebellion before, and there were foreign enemies in Goguryeo, Buyeo, Baekje and Silla in the north, blocking the road of communication between Liaodong and Youzhou!" As soon as my father, Sun Du, the Taishou Gonggong of Liaodong, heard that Yuan Tingshi had subdued Karasuma and recovered the three counties of Shanggu, Yuyang and Youbeiping, he wanted to come to see Yuan Tingshi in person to show his loyalty, but his old man was old and unwell, so it was inconvenient to travel far, so in order to show his sincerity, Gu sent me here. ”

Karasuma made a rebellion and blocked the way to pay tribute, which was really a clever excuse, and Yuan Xi was not easy to refute, but remembered Gongsun Du, the founder of the Liaodong regime, who seemed to have died of illness in the past few years, and asked: "I don't know how the old general Gongsun is doing now?" Please take care of him! The old general Gongsun guarded the frontier for many years, resisting foreign enemies such as Goguryeo, Buyeo, Baekje and Silla, and worked hard and earnedly. ”

Seeing that Yuan Xi did not regard himself as the heir of Liaodong, Gongsun Kang was secretly angry in his heart, and assured Yuan Xi: "Please also rest assured that Lord Assassin Shi, although my father is old and frail, with my assistance, the foreign clans around Liaodong will not dare to make trouble!" After Yuan Xi thought about it carefully, even after he destroyed Liaodong, he still had to continue to fight against Goguryeo, Buyeo, Baekje and Silla, and it was indeed a bit difficult to use the strength of his six counties. It is better to wait for changes in Liaodong and then send troops to clean up.

Yuan Xi nodded and said: "Then there is Lao Gongsun Taishou, continue to guard the frontier for my Han Dynasty, if you can defeat the three kingdoms of Korea, I will start Your Majesty, crown you as the general of Zhenbei, and let your Gongsun family attack from generation to generation." Gongsun Kang didn't know if it was fake, and when he saw that Yuan Xi promised to ask for the title of general of Zhenbei for himself, he was also ashamed to say: "If Yuan Assassin Shi helps, I will destroy the three kingdoms of Korea." Yuan Xi sneered, this Gongsun Kang is also an ambitious person, but he doesn't know how to match his ambition.

Just as Yuan Xi was about to let people take Gongsun Kang down to rest, Tian Feng asked Gongsun Kang: "General Gongsun, in Tianfeng, Xiajizhou, now Youzhou, I will ask you if my two old friends, Guan Ning and Bingyuan, are still in Liaodong?" Speaking of Guan Ning and Bing Yuan, the two masters of Sinology, Gongsun Kang was also very admired, and proudly replied: "Guan Ning and Master Bing Yuan explained the Book of Poetry in my Liaodong Xiangping, rectified the prestige, Chen Ming and courtesy, we also benefited a lot, I don't know what Mr. Tian wants me to convey, I can command?" ”

Tian Feng replied with a smile: "The two friends and I have not seen each other for many years, and I miss it very much, and now the Karasuma foreign clan has just come to vote, and I also hope that the two of them can come to explain Sinology, spread the advanced culture of our Han Dynasty, and influence the barbarian foreigners." Gongsun Kang nodded, saying that he would definitely bring the words and persuade them to come.

After Gongsun Kang left, Tian Feng explained to Yuan Xi: "Guan Ning and Bing Yuan are both political experts, and they only hid in Liaodong to avoid trouble. Now that Youzhou is stable, the two miss their hometown, and then I invite them, they will definitely come, and then I hope that the lord will grasp the talent. Although the popularity of the two is not high, the talents that Tian Feng admires are very likely to be buried talents, Yuan Xi naturally nodded and agreed, and asked Tian Feng to pay attention to the excavation of talents, not to mention the identity of the family, as long as there is a skill, you need to investigate it well, don't miss it.