Liaocheng, also known as Liaojun, is roughly located in the northeast corner of the old city of Liaoyang in Liaoyang City, Liaoyang City, in later generations.

Qin unified the six countries, and set up Liaodong County and its seat Xiangping City here, and after Goguryeo took Liaodong in the sixth year of Yixi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (410 AD), it was renamed Xiangping City as Liaodong City, and it was operated as an important town in the west.

Although there are three major expeditions of Emperor Yang of Sui, known as the hairdresser of one million, it has never fallen.

Until the nineteenth year of Tang Zhenguan (645 AD), Tang Taizong personally conquered Goguryeo, and Li Ji, the head of the Liaodong Provincial March, attacked it with fire, and changed this city to Liaozhou City, as a frontier springboard and transition for the army to level Goguryeo, and since then it has been inherited and called Liaocheng and Liaojun.

After Gaozong succeeded to the throne, a generation of famous generals Li Ji also took this as a starting point, and broke into the hinterland of Goguryeo on a light horse, and began to implement the scorched earth strategy of "killing farmers in spring and burning fields in autumn".

So that the Goguryeo country was starved, the people revolted in all directions, and the royal family Quan boy went out to the Tang Dynasty and led troops to destroy his country, and captured the late Goguryeo Wang Quan Gaozang to offer the prisoner Taimiao, since then thousands of years later, the stone statue of Quan Gaozang has remained on the Shinto of Zhaoling as a captive.

Later, the rebellion in the hometown of Goguryeo in Pingdi, and the newly established Andong Metropolitan Protectorate also used this as a support point. In the end, the Goguryeo king's nobles, scholars, officials and their dependents and vassals were scattered and relocated to the land of Jianghuai, and since then they have disappeared into the big family of the Chinese nation.

Therefore, it is an ancient city with a lot of history and allusions.

Lying in the slightly undulating mountains and wilderness, the city is a square corridor, the length of the front alone is about six or seven miles, and there are obvious double city walls inside and outside. The exterior wall is covered with a 20-foot-high brick and horse wall with a ladder surface, and plastered to plaster the gaps, making it difficult to climb; The inner city, located to the northeast, is obviously a higher than the outer city, and there are two- and three-story buildings with unknown purposes;

The inner city is the residence of the Luo clan and their vassals, as well as the location of the government office and barracks; The outer city is a commercial area and a large number of civilian settlements.

City gate three, east and west gate opposite, double-storey gatehouse, said Guangshun and Pingyi. Outside the city, the northwest is larger, the town is far away, the city wall has the corner tower, the pheasant moat, the daughter wall and other buildings, and the urn city wrapped by the two-storey high wall, which looks magnificent and towering.

The Taizi River flows out of the eastern wall, forming a rather open moat system. It can be said to be a typical product of the culmination of the city-building technology of this era

The overall feeling is a bit breathtaking.

But when you get closer, you can see that the dark gray wall, some of the old and new are mottled marks that seem to have been repaired one after another, as if to silently remind anyone who notices this detail what has happened here.

The lightest of them all looked like they were within the last year or two, and there was hardly any trace of moss or weeds visible on the entire city wall......

Could it be that Anton Roche was once beaten to the bottom of the city?

With this in mind, I met the team that had come to greet me. The banner is unfurled and the robes and armor are clear hunting, the body is burly and neatly arrayed, and there is a solemn atmosphere that has been in the ranks for a long time in the gestures.

"Well, that's kind of interesting."

I muttered in my mouth, and continued to look closely, it should be the ultimate armed force that Anton Roche trusted and relied on.

Compared with the garrison soldiers in the places I saw along the way, who were obviously outdated and backward in equipment, and their training and nutritional conditions were insufficient, it was obviously incomprehensible.

"Virtuous ,......"

Seeing this scene, Luo Sijin, an old man who accompanied me, couldn't help but let go of his hidden thoughts, and leaned over to me with some eyebrows dancing and asked

"I'm a Liaodong athlete, but I can still see ...... in my eyes"

"Hmmm,......"

I touched my chin and said heartily

"It does have a brave and heroic demeanor......"

But what I was thinking about was something else, it looked like he was indeed a hardcover and strong soldier who had been immersed in the army for a long time. But I don't know what the situation will be like when we fight, at least in terms of weapons and tactics, it is not only one or two levels behind my Huaidong.

When it comes to being strong or battle-hardened, I killed more than a dozen of the Northern Army, and they must have a lot to say

But at least, as the basic Ejo Mansion, I have restrained this fearless comparison. Some of them have been selectively compared and praised.

For example, in the spirit of courage and fearlessness, in the durability and endurance of battlefield fighting, and other strengths, fully affirmed and praised.

"It is their blessing to be praised virtuously"

It seems that my compliments have put him quite useful.

"But your department also has the ancient style of the fine willow camp......"

"It is worthy of being ......invincible in the Northern Dynasty."

After a few words of praise to each other, I noticed that the left and right were silent. But once upon a time, the people on both sides had quietly and secretly competed in momentum and lineup.

The men I brought with me looked indifferent and remained in a silent queue in place, as if the other party was a non-existent transparent air.

In contrast, the momentum and emotions of the other party leaping up to the top are a little chaotic and noisy. The verdict was immediately clear.

However, I didn't lead the team to come to slap my face at the door of people's homes, and after an order, most people have returned to the normal state of traveling with ease and intention, but they are still secretly the attitude of the other party as if they were nothing.

However, it is evident that Luo Sijin did not notice these subtleties, or that he did not care about these subtleties at all, and followed my question to introduce this welcoming man.

"This is the Anton Garrison Army that guards Liaocheng......"

The famous Anton Guarding and Catching Army, of course, compared with my half-toned Qingzhou Guarding Army, this is an old establishment with a history of hundreds of years and outstanding achievements.

The earliest can be traced back to the first generation of Andong Dadu Xue Rengui, the pro-soldier department under his jurisdiction. The successive dynasties have conquered and destroyed countless Fanhu people. It was not until the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion during the Tianbao period that it was cut off for a time.

However, because of Xue Song and Luo Xian's Andong army, it was restored and rebuilt, and since then it has become the core armed force of the Archon Governor and the Anton Metropolitan Protector of the past dynasties.

Later, the Xue family and the Luo clan gradually drifted apart, and they were arrested in the five roads that focused on the operation of the hometown of western Liaoning, and the military order and name of this Andong guard were left to the Luo clan, who still owned the Liao county city.

Now the one who led the troops to act as an account was naturally one of the generals under the Luo clan, Lu Yixin, a close confidant of the feudal lord, and was added as one of the two deputy envoys of Anton Guard. On the other hand, the main envoy is usually the heir of the feudal lord.

In addition, Roche also had three other similar standing armies named Dongning, Baoding, and Dingxiang, which were currently stationed at the enemy's frontier points in Xinchengzhou (near present-day Shenyang) and Huaiyuan; It is all because Anton Luo has served as the protector of Anton in the past dynasties, and the exclusive military number that has been retained.

Then there were the so-called three major towns of "Lianghe, Cangbe, and Gaimu", which respectively managed several garrison government troops, and were responsible for local garrisons in the east, north, and southwest.

Therefore, in the end, according to the calculation of the sequence left in the past, under the command of Anton Roche, there were three armies, three towns and one guard, and the whole seven were out of production.

Of course, according to Luo Sijin, it is also possible to gather the scattered soldiers of various states and counties, and then mobilize the young and strong people in the territory to enrich the army.

Because, Liaodong is mountainous and the people are brave, and many of the young and middle-aged people recruited from it have their own bows and arrows and other weapons, which can come in handy as long as they have a little formation training.

In addition, they can also recruit and send those vassals to bring troops to gather and annex.

Therefore, in the heyday of Anton Roche, it was not a problem at all to bring 100,000 armor, and when it came to this, he could not hide a sense of pride.

Of course, I feel that most of his rhetoric should be discounted, and with the current output and situation in Liaodong, it is quite enough to be able to raise so many troops.

If Anton Da Luo is really so strong and sufficient, then why bother to come me from afar, and privately propose the possibility of borrowing soldiers.

Do you want to invite me to send troops to attack the forces of the Northern Korean camp?

Just as an actor. Well, no, it was the basic cultivation of a potential ally, and I still duly expressed surprise and praise to satisfy a certain mood of his.

Then, one by one, I met a number of Luo clan relatives and retainers who came out to greet them. Among them, there are not only the same identity as Luo Sijin, but also the family represented by Luo Xianchen, another family elder who is in charge of the affairs of the city, as well as the contemporary Neizai Zhu Yannian, Zhang Yixin led by the ministers, acting officials.

If you look closely, it's quite a grand qualification to be regarded as a feudal lord. Of course, this treatment has to be counted in the bonus of my title as a Huaidong envoy.

After that, my subordinates and I were arranged to stay in one of the satellite cities not far from the Liao County City, a sub-fort called Anshun Fort. The food, water, household goods, and utensils were all there, along with the slaves and maidservants who were waiting for them and the rough servants, and they were evidently well prepared.

Then after a short rest, he was invited to the Zhan Ming Hall of his family in the inner city to participate in a small family banquet.

It is a small family feast, but the specifications are not low at all, and the feast is lit with the fine blubber and spiced beeswax; Bears, deer, roe deer, flying dragons and other mountain treasures can be described as extremely rich food;

And just the family members who came forward to accompany him were enough to have dozens of numbers. Moreover, they are all incumbents with specific ministries and titles, not the kind of idlers and ladies.

As the main owner of this time, the next head of the family, Luo Zhanji, the current Anton Guard, also came forward to talk to me about the past relationship between the two major sources and family backgrounds.

He is in his forties and has an elegant demeanor, can be called a handsome old man, and his speech is witty and has his own experience and city. It's hard not to make a good impression of first impressions.

As for the current patriarch and feudal lord, it is said that he was injured in the Battle of the White Wolf Water a few years ago, so he has been sick for a long time, and his situation has been good and bad. Therefore, there is an additional arrangement for retirement this time.

However, this was also a typical retreat, and I didn't see anything substantial other than a bunch of heads and faces in important positions.

"The Lord ......"

Xue Huiyan, who accompanied me to attend, suddenly reminded

"There are no heavyweight generals and front-line commanders in this......"

When he said that, I reacted a little. In retrospect, it seems that they are all biased towards the rank of ministers and acting officials.

Unlike the overseas vassals of the Southern Dynasties, which mainly used the uncivilized Tuyi Dao barbarians as their opponents and only retained and maintained a considerable amount of military needs, the Andong Da Luo clan was perennially in the struggle against the Northern Dynasty forces, and the first frontier belonged to the highly militarized and perennial state of preparation for war.

Therefore, in the daily operation and operation of the feudal family, various contents and needs related to the army obviously accounted for a considerable proportion.

And at this family banquet, as the order of the military ministers and generals, except for the local Anton guard, as well as a few logistics, craftsmanship related, the so-called representatives of the three armies and three towns, actually did not see any of them, which is obviously a bit unusual.