Time flies in a blink of an eye, and it is October of the fourth year of Jianxing. At this time, the situation in the Central Plains became more and more erosive, and the imperial court became increasingly poor, but the Xiongnu Han State became stronger and stronger, not only the heart of the Jin Dynasty became more and more obvious, but also within the main sphere of influence of the Han State, in Hedong, Henan, Hebei and Youyan and other places, the Han State maintained a strong deterrent force, so that all parties loyal to the Western Jin Dynasty court were fighting hard and trying their best to resist.

On the one hand, he saved Gao Yue and Sima Bao to concentrate on infighting in an environment without external troubles, so that he could reap the benefits of the fisherman at any time; On the other hand, Liu Kun of Bingzhou gradually took root, and called on the Quartet to accept the powerful and powerful, and became the leader of the Jin Dynasty's towns in Hebei, and he had already developed a force. Although Shi Le's department was on the vergean, because Liu Kun was in the heart of the Han Kingdom, it was like a nail wedged in, which made people restless, so Liu Yao was eager to return to Hedong to control the situation.

After leaving Tongguan, Liu Yao quickly marched eastward, first defeated Guo Mo, the Taishou of Hanoi appointed by Liu Kun, so that he had to lead the remnants to abandon the city and flee south, and then swept through Henan non-stop, all the way to destroy the vassal Liu Kun's Zhongjin Wu forts, more than 30 fortresses, and at the end of September, went north, broke into Shangdang County.

Shangdang County governs the city of Huguan.

The red and yellow flags and wolf heads that cover the sky and the sun mark that there are extremely astonishing numbers of huge troops stationed inside and outside Huguan. This is indeed the case, with Liu Yao leading 40,000 troops to come, and the 50,000 troops of Shi Le's department, which had already taken the city earlier, at present, the elite soldiers and strong generals of Hebei of the Xiongnu and Han States have basically gathered here for a while.

Although it was noon, it was the end of autumn, and the sun had become much milder, so it was not hot or dry. Outside the big tent of the Chinese army, countless heavily armed soldiers, holding spears and knives, surrounded the boss. There are dozens of senior generals and staff members on the left and right, sitting on both sides of the open air, all of them are straight, their eyes are not squinting, and their faces are grim. When you look closely, everyone's heads and faces are covered with dense fine sweat.

"Slash!"

As the prison officer broke off, in the middle of the empty field, the bare and sturdy executioner, the ghost head knife in his hand fell quickly, and in a moment, he cut off seventeen heads, and the severed bones rolled all over the ground, and when the blood of the headless cavity spurted wildly, a puddle of blood accumulated on the ground, and the thick blood flowed meanderingly, and it didn't take long to silently overflow the soles of everyone's boots. The generals were better, and several civil officials even began to brow unconsciously, but none of them dared to move their feet even slightly, although the soles of their feet seemed to be as uncomfortable as if they were burned.

"General Shi, do you think the king's disposition is appropriate?"

In the middle of the head, a person sits upright, exuding a powerful aura, it is Liu Yao, the king of Zhongshan in the Han Kingdom. He spoke lightly, but he didn't raise his eyelids, and he didn't look at General Shi who was sitting beside him.

General Shi on Liu Yao's side has a broad forehead, a high nose and deep eyes, thick sideburns hanging from his temples, and a long beard with thick beard on his face, and he looks good. The most peculiar thing is that in its deep eyes, a pair of pupils are gray-blue on the outside, but brown-yellow on the inside, and when staring at people, there is always some emotionless calmness or coldness.

This person is the governor of the Xiongnu Han State, the general of the hussars, the governor of the military of eastern Shaanxi, Dongdan Yu, the pastor of Youji Erzhou, and the Gongshile of Shangdang County. Shi Le is a member of the Qiang nationality, this year is forty and three, when he was young, he was the lowest slave status, into the Xiongnu Han army, starting from the partial, turned to the north and south of the river, repeatedly hit the Jin army, and made countless great achievements. Liu Cong, the lord of the Han Dynasty, valued Shi Le very much, rewarded Shangdang County to Shi Le as a feudal country, and let him be in charge of the conquest, and he could decide on his own major affairs, which was almost the branch of the Han State in Hebei.

Originally, Shile ruled Hebei. But Liu Yao suddenly came without telling him, and he was menacing, which actually had a bit of anti-guest dominance and forced the head snake on the ground. Liu Yao has a tough personality and is extremely powerful in Han, he was already suspicious of Shi Le's power, and he was afraid that he would breed self-reliance ambitions, so while attacking Liu Kun, he also planned to beat Shi Le, so that Shi Le had better restrain some selfishness.

The seventeen people killed at the moment were soldiers in Shile's army, because they took the lead in attacking and killing a small village, but they collided with Liu Yao, who had just arrived, and was beheaded in public by Liu Yao in the name of violating military discipline. In fact, in all fairness, this kind of behavior was almost not strange in the Hu army at that time, although Liu Yao claimed to have strict military discipline, but it was also relatively speaking, and it was more focused on requiring his subordinates to obey him unconditionally without the slightest disobedience. For these seventeen people, he can kill them, or he can not kill them, the reason why Shi Le and his subordinates summoned the school staff Zuo Qiqi, and then publicly killed the head, Liu Yao's true intentions are self-evident.

At that moment, Shi Le stared at Liu Yao with a pair of different-colored eyes, and when he was about to speak, someone next to Leng Buding suddenly said loudly: "King Zhongshan is so fair, how can there be anything wrong!" ”

Faintly angry and unconvinced. Everyone followed the prestige, but it was Shi Le's nephew and the general Shi Hu. Shi Hu is twenty years old, has a fierce and brutal temperament, and is extremely easy to kill, and even his wife has killed several people with his own hands before and after. Especially after conquering the city, they often kill all over the city, regardless of whether they are high or low, young or old, and like to use pits, burning, sawing, cutting and other heinous means of torture and killing to satisfy the pleasure of perversion. Daily life is also irritable and difficult to control, Shi Le has repeatedly persuaded and blamed him to be somewhat restrained, but Shi Hu has gone his own way and intensified.

Shile could not bear it and was ready to kill him. But Shi Le's mother, Wang, loved her grandson, and after being persuaded by Haosheng, Shi Le gave up. And because Shi Hu was young, he was superb in his bow and horse, and when he was brave and brave, when he turned to the Quartet and charged into battle, he was invincible with it, and Shi Le loved it very much, so he gradually threw away his disgust and became more and more trusted.

Originally, according to the development of official history, after Shi Le's death, Shi Hu destroyed his descendants, usurped the throne and became one of the few top tyrants in China's 5,000-year history. But at the moment, Shi Hu is just a general in Shile's army, following his uncle's side, fighting horses all day long, and fighting with soldiers.

The seventeen people who were beheaded today were Shi Hu's direct subordinates. In his eyes, destroying a small village was not a matter of fact, but he was caught by Liu Yao, and it was best to publicly behead it for public display. Shi Hu was furious, not really sorry for his subordinates, but felt that he had been slapped in the face. But anger is anger, he also knows what kind of character Liu Yao is, so he finally endured it again and again, and when he heard Liu Yao's questioning with a pretentious gesture, Shi Hu finally had a hot brain, and blurted out with resentful sarcasm.

Liu Yao's face sank, but he still looked at Shi Le, and said coldly: "Who is this person?" ”

Shi Le once took Shi Hu with him when he met Liu Cong, and met Liu Yao a few times, Liu Yao couldn't have known who he was, but asked knowingly. However, although Shi Le is a prominent official and even dominates one side, he is still one level lower than Liu Yao in all aspects, no matter what he thinks in his heart, he still has to lower his posture on the surface. Hearing this, he hurriedly responded: "This is his subordinate nephew, called Shi Hu, who is stupid and vulgar, which makes the king laugh." ”

Liu Yao glanced at Shi Hu coldly and said, "The lonely king is talking to Uncle Ru, where is your qualification to interject?" I don't know the rules. It was supposed to be severely punished, but in the face of General Shi, just don't retreat! ”

Shi Hu was stunned for a moment, and then was overwhelmed by Liu Yao's domineering faint words, which made the resentment in his heart more and more intense. He lowered his head slightly and took two steps back, but his strange eyes widened angrily, and he gasped lowly.

Liu Yao ignored it completely, raised his head and said: "General Shi, I remember that in the past, whenever you met the lonely king, you had to greet each other with a big salute and even bow to the ground, why did you meet today just a military salute?" ”

Shi Le is already ranked as the third duke, at least he can be honored as a Shi duke, or a general and a metropolitan governor. Liu Yao sat on the golden sword, and repeatedly called General Shi lightly, as if he was ordering some ordinary general, and now he began to look for him again, and in front of his subordinates, he directly asked questions.

Shi Le's face also began to darken a little, and he was silent for a moment, but he still bowed down and responded: "My subordinates used to be humble, but fortunately with the care of Your Majesty and the king, they have their current status. The naked heart of his subordinates has not changed. I thought that it would be difficult to give full salute to the armor, but since it aroused the suspicion of the king, it was better for his subordinates to make up for it. ”

As he spoke, Shi Le gritted his teeth and was about to leave the table and bow down, but Liu Yao suddenly stretched out his hand and stopped him abruptly: "That's it." The lonely king is just talking, as long as your heart has not changed, how can the lonely king really care about these small details. ”

Liu Yaoben secretly thought, if you don't want to kill you, you don't know what the power of the king is. But seeing that Shi Le had been polite and polite all the time, he really couldn't find any reason. So the two discussed the current situation in various places.

"General Shi, now that the state is in turmoil, and you are complicit with Youyan Xianbei, Your Majesty and Gu are very worried. Since you are specifically recruiting Hebei, why did you stagnate the situation to such a point? ”

Shi Le said pleadingly: "King, let your subordinates tell the truth. Liu Kun of Bingzhou, his subordinates have dealt with him many times in big and small battles, and he knows that this person is both wise and brave, and he is a persevering character, and now he has contacted the Xianbei people in Youzhou, which is a bit tricky. Therefore, he can only slowly weaken his power from the periphery, but he can't achieve it overnight, and he can be eliminated from now on by relying on a certain battle. ”

"But how can it be delayed like this? Your Majesty will put Hebei on you, you will do whatever it takes, sweep away the obstacles, and sacrifice some dogs and horses for my Han to completely control the world, and share your Majesty's worries. Instead of pouring bitter water on me now and talking about difficulties. The so-called knowing the difficulties, you are also a veteran general who has been familiar with the battle, this kind of simple truth, do you still want the lone king to teach you? At the very least, you have to fight a few big battles, and with the credit, you can block the mouths of the people, right? ”