Liaodong.

Xiyun presents a magnificent red glow, under the mountains are barren tribes, there are not many tents of skin felt, there are still traces of some people's activities, not far from the grass, the thin sheep gnaw on the scarce turf, and the shepherd Wuhuan people are staring at the figure of looking for grass everywhere with some woodenness.

Soon, a fast horse broke into his field of vision from a distance, and on the back of the running horse, someone staggered and fell to the ground, and then got up again, and ran desperately in this direction, shouting loudly in Wuhuan words, constantly waving his arms to give warnings. When the shepherd raised his eyes in front of the flock, trying to understand the meaning of the other man's words, he faintly heard a different voice in his ears, and the running figure came in a patch of red.

At this time, the sheep suddenly went about in a panic, and the earth seemed to come to life, and there was a rumbling roar, and the shepherd waved his whip at the man, trying to pull him on his horse, but when he saw the pale expression of his fellow man, it was too late.

"Inform the people of the tribe, ...... Run—" The man cried out in a heart-rending voice.

In a forest under the mountain, frightened birds flew out, the figure of the first war horse turned out of the arc and galloped from there, the earth still roared, never stopped, and then more...... two, four, ten, hundred...... The thousands of horses formed a black line, and the roar of the horses' hooves trampling the earth shattered the eardrums, stretching left and right like the tide of the sea and pushing it in a straight line.

The pupils constricted, the Wuhuan shepherd strangled the horse's head, swung the whip vigorously and whipped the horse's buttocks, turned around and ran in the direction of the tribe, and the person who wanted to rescue behind him was also running frantically, and the nearby sheep had already been shaken by the shock brought by the charge of the war horse, and fled in all directions.

The Wuhuan shepherd who ran away glanced back, and the compatriots who were not riding horses behind him were instantly drowned by the surging iron hooves, and he turned his head to look at the tribe in front of him that was still smoking, and made the loudest sound in his life.

"Han Qi is coming—"

The roaring sound reached the tribe, and the old man and the child, who were turning over the furs, stopped their movements, raised their heads, and saw the scene of the shepherd who had given the warning being chopped to death by the Han cavalry chasing from behind.

In the next second, the iron cavalry swept and approached.

The sound of panicked shouts and wails suddenly set off in the tribe, and when the first cavalry rushed into the tribe and stabbed the spear and pierced into the old man's chest, more figures poured in.

The once peaceful land of Liaodong has long been gone for several years, since Gongsun Zhi, Zhao Yun successively slaughtered Wuhuan, Xianbei people transferred to the head of Gongsun Du at the moment, the calm Liaodong can only be found in the memory of the past, but in the past few years, as the ruler of several counties in Liaodong, while opening up a new countryside to settle the people, on the other hand, not to be outdone, took over the burden of guerrilla Wuhuan and Xianbei, and then got more horses from Gongsun Zhi, and gradually formed a cavalry with a scale.

Now he is also the real king of Liaodong.

Yuan Shao, who was far away in Jizhou, and Cao Cao in the Central Plains naturally saw it in their eyes, and put forward a bargaining chip for an alliance, and even the court team of the feudal marquis had passed through Youzhou and entered the territory of Liaodong.

It's late, Gongsun Du stands on the head of Xiangping City, the sky in the distance, the red glow is dispersing, in the cold weather of spring, the wind blowing is still cold, different from the Central Plains, although the land here is also wartime, but relatively calm a lot, since he sat in Liaodong, the power has reached a very stable point.

"The reward of the imperial court is already on the way, Cao Cao wants to recruit me, and Yuan Shao also wants to get close to me, hahaha......" The palm of his hand rubbed against the cold wall tiles, Gongsun Du spoke quickly, turned back slightly and said to Liu Yi and Yang Yi, his cronies behind him, and laughed suddenly, "...... The Han family is almost gone, and the prestige is not as good as before, the people of Liaodong rely on me to eat, who still remembers the dilapidated Liu family? ”

Liu Yi frowned, took half a step forward, and said in a low voice: "But after all, there is still the righteousness of the court, and the lord may as well take it." ”

"What if you don't pick it up?! The lord is in Liaodong, and there is Yuan Shao in the middle, so can Cao Cao still fight? Yang Yi glanced at the other party with disdain, and waved his hand: "Ignore that Cao Cao, it is better to get close to Jizhou Mu Yuan Shao, now he is sitting in four states, and there are countless soldiers, horses, and grains, and it is better to have him in front." ”

However, Prime Minister Cao Cheng and Gongsun Zhi are good, if they do not connect, there is a gap in the relationship between the two after all, and there is no natural danger to defend after crossing the Liao River, if Gongsun Zhi leads the cavalry out of the grassland and directly into Liaodong, things will be unfavorable to the lord. What's more, Gongsun stopped the ambition of the wolf, I am afraid that he has long been suspected of being involved in Liaodong, and the lord must not give him an excuse to attack ......".

Gongsun Du nodded, looked at the two cronies again, and was silent for a moment: "How about I have good relations on both sides?" ”

"It's okay to be left and right, but it's also possible to ....."

The conversation fell for a while, the city was quiet, Gongsun Du walked behind a famous soldier with both hands, it was just night, and the city could faintly hear the noise of pedestrians returning home, and could look at the outline of the streets in the city, he had been operating in Liaodong for more than ten years, and he was heroic and decisive.

After a while, his footsteps stopped at a certain moment, reached out and touched the crown hat hanging from the nine jade strings, and whispered: "I want to be the king of Liaodong...... What kind of bullshit Yongning townsman wants! ”

The abruptly raised voice sounded for a while, and his chest calmed down, he beckoned his cronies behind him, hesitated, and said: "I want to be the king, you send someone to Shanggu County to ask Gongsun Zhi, is it allowed?!" "It's not easy to say.

Liu and Yang lowered their heads, they also knew that the man had almost traversed the entire north, and many tribes in the north had been lost under his wolf teeth in the past few years, and even the Wei Qiutai of the Buyeo State, who was interested in being friendly to Liaodong, was also under the command of the other party, if the lord in front of him was the king of Liaodong, the one over there was the real king of the north.

"Yes!"

The two of them responded in a low voice, and soon after, they quickly left Liaodong and went to Shanggu County in the west of Youzhou.

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Upper Valley County.

It is the beginning of spring, the huge city has completed the expansion, the city and the outside of the city in such a festival, more lively than usual, sweeping away the winter snow streets, people come and go, steaming stalls, hawkers shouting pedestrians, the city is filled with the atmosphere of the New Year.

In addition to the large number of Han people in the city, many merchants from the Western Regions began to come here, and of course, what was more prominent was the large number of captives from different tribes who were detained outside the city, and some of them even had no names and were taken captive. And this time, Suonu and Qubei, who were from the grasslands of western Liaoxi and Yanmen Pass, were invited to Shanggu County to celebrate the New Year with the rest of the Han generals in the army.

Of course, even if you don't want to, you don't dare to refuse.