Cheng Boli led 30 of his own soldiers into Boli City, went straight to the governor's mansion without stopping, threw the reins of the horse to the guards and rushed to meet his eldest brother Cheng Boxian.

"Big brother."

"The third brother is back, how is the situation of this northern tour?"

Cheng Boxian put down the paperwork in his hand and asked.

Cheng Boli said with a serious expression: "The situation is not optimistic. ”

"Could it be that there is an abnormality in the Black Water Turtle people in the north?"

"It's not just a change." Cheng Boli said worriedly: "My brother led people to the north this time and found that the entire Nahe, Kuhan River, and the upper reaches of Heishui were all unified under the command of the Funi Department. Seven cities were built in the vast area between the Na River and the Khuhan River, and the number of the people under his rule amounted to more than 20,000 people, and the number of soldiers who could fight reached more than 8,000, and the people of Fune were equipped with iron swords and arrows. ”

"It is not surprising that the people of Fune used ginseng, deer antlers, mink, and dongzhu in exchange for iron tools from neighboring tribes and merchants to make knives and arrows."

Cheng Boxian frowned and said thoughtfully.

"Not only that, the people of the Brother's Sect of Wisdom and Recruitment entered the city ruled by the Funi tribe to investigate, and they found that there was an iron shop in the city, and the source of the iron material was actually smelted from the iron ore they found in the territory of the Funi tribe. What is even more shocking is that the people of Heishui who make a living from fishing and hunting have cultivated a piece of arable land outside the city, and they have learned that they want to sow seeds after the beginning of spring, and they are extremely compulsory. ”

"It's okay."

Cheng Boxian sat up from the collapse and exclaimed: "This shows that it is a rising Goguryeo again." ”

didn't think that a few years had passed, and Fu Ni Bu had quietly risen on the side of his couch, and Cheng Boxian was annoyed. regretted that in recent years, he only paid attention to the construction of people's livelihood in the Governor's Mansion, and neglected to be vigilant against the surrounding Heishui people.

"Big brother, wouldn't it be the Black Water Warrior tribe that was driven away by Wang Hu, who was then the general of the Xuanwu Guard, in the second year of Xianheng?"

Cheng Boxian glanced at his second brother Cheng Boli and nodded silently.

"In just four years, the Funi Department has developed from the remnants of more than 1,000 old and weak women and children to the point where it has grown to the point where it has annexed Tieli, Yuexi, and the remnants of Heishui? In this way, it seems that the Bo Jilie of the Fu Nirvana Department is a great character, this person promises not to get rid of it, and I am afraid that there will be no peace in the Heishui area. ”

"I'm curious, how did the Funia Department develop so quickly? It turned out to be the annexation of the three remnants of Tieli, Yuexi, and Heishui. ”

Cheng Boxian asked: "Has the third brother ever heard how the Funi Department annexed the three departments?" Why did they suddenly think of building a city and cultivating fields, and also exploring iron ore smelting? ”

"Big brother, through the captured captives and the spies of the Ideological Recruitment Department, I have inquired about the development of the Funia Department in the past few years."

"It is said that when the Funia tribe was at its most difficult, a group of people who claimed to be the remnants of Goguryeo went to defect, and the leader was called Uemuro Chengding, and he had a long conversation with the leader of the Funi tribe, Nogajiao, for a long night, and made several suggestions. Later, when our army defeated the coalition forces of the Heishui Ministry, the upper room Chengding helped the Nirvana to annex the three tribes of Tieli, Yuexi, and Heishui, and heard that the leader of the Heishui tribe, A Shimu, was killed by him. After that, the leader of the Fune tribe, Nuo Gejiao, regarded himself as the leader of the Black Water Evil Tribe, and began to gather the wild tribes in the mountains, gathering the Black Water Evil people scattered all over the country, and learned to cultivate and smelt iron ore to make weapons and armor from the remnants of Goguryeo. The year before last, some Silla people went to defect and grew stronger and stronger. ”

"It turned out that the remnants of the Goguryeo rebels were helping the Nirvana tribe."

Cheng Boxian was stunned, otherwise, how could the Fu Nirvana Division, which was even short of iron weapons, hide in the mountains and slowly develop when the clan was about to be wiped out.

"This Shangmuro Chengding is really a character, why haven't you heard of him when you exterminated the Goguryeo rebels before?"

"I heard that he was also a brother to the Horn of the Brena Legino, and is now the number two man in the Brune, in charge of the two castles along the river."

Cheng Boli said.

"Big brother, we should immediately go to His Highness, please send more troops and horses to suppress it. Otherwise, as time goes by, I am afraid that the Fu Nirvana will become stronger and stronger, and it will be difficult to destroy. ”

"To discuss the matter of the Funi Ministry, you only need to lead the Phoenix Guard to go, and there is no need to ask His Highness to send additional troops and horses. Although there are more than a certain number of people in the Funia Division, they are just former lost dogs, so why be afraid? Third brother, you quickly go and call the second brother and Cui Yi and other generals to discuss the matter of marching into the army. ”

In the face of the Fu Ni Division, who had been beaten by Wang Hu and fled in embarrassment and almost wiped out the clan, Cheng Boxian was still very confident, because he led the army to defeat the Heishui Four-Division Coalition led by A Shimu, who defeated Wang Hu, and he was also outnumbered.

Cheng Boli was worried when he heard this: "Big brother, it's too risky to rely on our Phoenix Guard alone, right?" This time it is not as good as the four coalition forces of the Black Water Turbulent Sect led by Ah Shimu, who fought with us last time. The Funi tribe had built cities, had a certain number of cavalry, were generally equipped with iron weapons, and everyone wore leather armor. ”

Hearing what the third brother said, Cheng Boxian also felt a little tricky, and thought about it: "Then you notify Guan Yuan, the governor of the Meituo Lake Governor's Mansion, and agree with him that the two sides will jointly send troops to suppress it." The place where the Funi people are entrenched is just north of the Meituo Lake Governor's Mansion under his jurisdiction, which is closer to our Heishui Governor's Mansion. ”

"So-and-so, I'll arrange it."

Cheng Boli left in a hurry.

……

Twenty days later, Cheng Boxian, who had completed the preparations, led an army of 2,500 men from Boli City to cross the black water and march westward.

Guan Yuan, the governor of the Governor of Meituo Lake, who agreed to send troops together, also led 3,000 Xuanwu Wei Ma Infantry troops out of Chaonan County, and stationed troops in the north of the lake near Meituo Lake.

Out of the lake** to the northwest for more than 100 miles, you can arrive at the mountain city built on the north bank of the twilight water.

Because Cheng Boxian was more than 600 miles away from the Funi Department, there were many swamps and dense forests along the way, there was no road to pass, and the march was slow, so Guan Yuan led the army to garrison in the lake and wait for three days.

Three days later, no matter where Cheng Boxian marched, Guan Yuan had to go out of the pass to attack Dusk Ling City, eliminate the forces of the Fu Nie Department in the south of Wanda Mountain, and then go north to raid the rear of the Fu Nie Department according to the battle situation between Cheng Boxian and the Fu Nie Ministry.

Three days passed in a blink of an eye, Sekigahara waved his army out of the pass, and the whole army traveled sixty miles a day, and suddenly appeared under the twilight city on the morning of the second day.

The fifteen-foot-high Twilight Ridge City, built with civil structures, was attacked by the Tang army, and it lasted only two days before the city was destroyed. A force of 300 Fune cavalry opened the north gate at the moment of the city and fled towards Wandashan, and Sekihara sent Ren Qiang to lead 200 cavalry to pursue.

The Tang army slaughtered more than 2,000 people in the city, and seized 600 stones of grain and grass, 500 horses, deer antlers, mink, ginseng, and Dongzhu Nuogan.

"I don't know what the situation is over there for Cheng Boxian?"

Sekigahara said as he looked to the north.

Half a year later, in autumn, the northeast monsoon rose, and another fleet carrying a total of more than 50,000 immigrants set sail from the ports on the southeast coast of Datang in batches and sailed to the South Sea.