In July of the third year of Guanghe, Liangzhou Beidi County Taishou Huangfu Song and Qiang Captain Tian Yan urgently reported that the Qiang people in Beidi had rebelled first, and the situation was critical, so the imperial court was asked to transfer troops to support.

During the court meeting, the emperor Liu Hong was furious, reprimanded the Qiang people for being unjust, surrendered and rebelled, and then watched all the armies, and ordered Ba County to guard Fuquan to march to the northern generals, supplemented by the Yue cavalry captain Duan Cheng, and the soldiers of Heba County and the two soldiers and horses of the Yue Cavalry Battalion rushed to the battlefield to help.

"Is it finally here? Huangfu Song and Tian Yan's urgent report is very coincidental, and I don't know how credible it is? "No, in the marquis's mansion, after receiving the appointment of the imperial court, Fu Quan sighed after listening to the holy decree passed by the little yellow door.

Originally, Fuquan had already known all of Liu Hong's plan to march north through Jia Xu's letter, and naturally knew that a key point in this plan was to forge the Qiang Rebellion, so that the imperial court would send a partial division out of Beijing in the name of quelling the rebellion, and then destroy a Xianbei in the west from Liangzhou, and then gradually encroach on the plan to completely send Xianbei to the funeral.

Now it is a coincidence that Huangfu Song and Tian Yan sent an urgent report, as if they understood the sacred heart, and played the matter of the first Lingqiang surrender and rebellion, and asked the court to send troops to support, it was really sleepy and sent a pillow, Liu Hong also happened to ride a donkey downhill, and sent soldiers and horses out of Beijing justifiably, and there was no need to be afraid of being suspected.

Among them, the most suspicious thing for Fu Quan was that this was premeditated, that is, this war report was short and short, and there was no specific description of the war, only one sentence "The situation is critical, please send troops to the imperial court to support". To put it bluntly, this sentence is the same as not saying it, think about the north as a border county of the Han Dynasty, and fight with Xianbei, Qiang and other foreign races all the year round, the county soldiers in the county have been expanding since the Han and Qiang Hundred Years War, at this time there are tens of thousands of soldiers, and it is also the most elite army of the Han Dynasty that has been on the battlefield the most, if this is "critical", it is not very useful to send Fuquan, a partial division of thousands of people.

However, complaints are complaints, suspicions are doubts, and since they have been edicted, Fuquan must carry them out. Within a day, the army had been put together, but it was very strange that Duan Cheng brought 5,000 horsemen from the Yue Cavalry Battalion, plus the 3,000 cavalry here in Fuquan, there were 8,000 people together, and this number was already wrong.

There are 3,000 Bajun soldiers under Fuquan's command, because before the military parade some time ago, the number of soldiers and horses under Fuquan Shangjuan's command needs to be replenished, and he asked for an order to order Bajun Sima Handang to bring troops to Beijing, and Liu Hong immediately approved it. Then, with the decree issued, before the crown ceremony in Fuquan, Han Dang, in order to catch up with the crown ceremony of Fuquan, quickly whipped his horse and brought more than 300 barbarian soldiers who could ride horses into Beijing, which made Fuquan's Bajun soldiers meet the number of 3,000.

Of course, there were more than 2,800 soldiers and horses left before Fuquan entered Beijing, and with these more than 300 people, it should have exceeded 3,000. The reason why the number of people has decreased is because after the big war, most of the extra soldiers are too disabled to go to the battlefield at all, or they can no longer be excellent soldiers.

Fu Quan, who knew that an army needed elite soldiers, could only reluctantly dismiss everyone in the end, and after the court gave him enough money to settle in according to the law, if he was willing to return to his hometown, Fu Quan privately posted a sum of money to let them return to their hometowns with peace of mind; Those who were unwilling to return to their hometowns, Fuquan let the Hou Mansion take them in, and the martial arts people were kept in the house by him to guard the courtyard, and those who could not fight with weapons were sent to the manor of the Hou Fu clan in Langya County to manage the manor for the elderly.

In the end, as Fu Quan thought, these people all stayed, and none of them were willing to return to their hometowns to farm and live, after all, the professional military system implemented in the Eastern Han Dynasty, unless you can't pick up weapons to fight, otherwise you have to fight for the rest of your life. Among them, there are no troubled times to act or those who can't act, since they were recruited by Fuquan, they have never returned to their hometowns to farm and live a stable life.

Now, when returning to his hometown and staying in the Buqihou Mansion as a subordinate, he naturally chooses the latter, after all, even if he takes the money and returns to his hometown, he may not be able to live a better life, it is better to be in the Buqihou Mansion, at least Fuquan, a general who loves soldiers like a son, will take care of them. Of course, what Fu Quan didn't know was that it was precisely because of his unintentional behavior that it reached the ears of his soldiers and horses, but it made the soldiers die even more.

No more gossip, since the soldiers and horses have been assembled, Fu Quan didn't bother to ask Duan Cheng about bringing more soldiers and horses, after receiving all the property sent by Liu Hong and Lu Qiang to the West Mansion as a reward for the army, the army followed his order and left Luoyang City.

At this moment, in the distant Beidi County Office, Fu Song, the Taishou Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and Tian Yan, the captain of the Huqiang School, were secretly discussing in a secluded room in the County Office to discuss the upcoming Northern Expedition.

"Huangfu Beidi, this time I am famous, thank you for your help."

Tian Yan sincerely thanked Huangfu Song, three years ago he was convicted of the incident, and he wanted to play with Xia Yu and others, relying on the merits of the Northern Expedition Xianbei to atone for the crime, but in the end, the success was successful, and the emperor Liu Hong later changed the hexagram, and he was also forgotten and demoted. Until recently, an angel sent a decree to restore his official position as a lieutenant of the Qiang Guard, and gave him a secret decree to help him, Tian Yan, who had been eager to make another meritorious promotion and make a fortune, naturally agreed, and then he has been preparing things according to the will, and there was this Qiang chaos.

"It's okay to do this, since it is Your Majesty's will, I should do it." Huangfu Song waved his hand and replied, then thought about it, frowned, and said: "It's just that hundreds of Qiang people in the county rebelled, if Xianbei sent people to watch it, it must not be hidden." ”

"Huangfu is worried about the north, I will order all the horsemen under my command to ride all over the border of the north, if there are Xianbei people entering the country, there will be no return." Tian Yan said proudly, for this comeback, he can make a good note of his merits, but he is fully prepared, how could he not have thought that Xianbei people would send spies to enter the country to check?

"I hope so." Huangfu Song nodded, there was still a trace of worry on his face, after all, the plan given by the emperor looked simple, but it was too difficult to keep it secret.

In fact, there is no "Qiang chaos in a critical situation" in Beidi County at all, and some are just among the Qiang people in Beidi, one tribe is dissatisfied with the oppression of the court officials, and then they can't bear it anymore, killing officials and rebelling, causing other nearby tribes of Qiang people to echo it, and a total of thousands of people responded to the rebellion and made some noise.

However, perhaps someone else was afraid of the rebellious Qiang people in the Northland, compared to the Han-Qiang Hundred Years' War, which was originally caused by a small group of Qiang people who used bamboo poles and wooden poles as weapons to resist. But in the eyes of Huangfu Song, he was not afraid at all, and directly ordered thousands of county soldiers to exterminate this group of Qiang people, only a few hundred people escaped, and now they are hiding everywhere, hiding from the Han army.

It is precisely because of this that Huangfu Song is worried, after all, as long as the Xianbei people enter the Northland, after a little investigation, they will know the truth of this matter.