In the hinterland of China, it is a peculiar place, because it is located between two valleys, hence the name Bingzhou.

Sandwiched between two mountains and one river, because of its superior terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it has formed a relatively closed environment, which can be described as a natural country within a country. And because of its geographical location, when the Xiongnu or Qiang tribes in the west or north march into the Central Plains, they must first take and annex the state.

According to the danger of Taihang Bacheng in the east of the state, it is difficult to attack and easy to defend, overlooking the entire Hebei Plain. Nantong Huai, Meng, from Huai, Meng and south, west refers to Luoyang, east refers to Kaifeng. Huai, Meng, the Central Plains of the key to the strong. The west is thin in the river, the danger of leaning on the Yellow River can be trusted, the north is adjacent to the Inner Mongolia desert, relatively weak, but since the Warring States period, the Great Wall has been built in successive dynasties, and it is thousands of miles long.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was middle-aged, and he was one of the thirteen state departments, leading nine counties such as Taiyuan, Shangdang, Xihe, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Yanmen, Shuofang, Wuyuan, and Shangjun. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the state began to govern Jinyang.

It's just that the situation in the state is now in a mess.

The Yellow Turban Party Guo Da took the Baibo Valley as a base, gathered 780,000 people, attacked Taiyuan in the north, and went south to Hedong, which was quite active. six years of Zhongping; Emperor Ling died, the young emperor was first established, Guo Da and the southbound Xiongnu Nandan combined with the Fuluo cavalry, and then attacked Hedong. The capital division Luoyang was shaken, and the Taishi Dong Zhuo panicked, and hurriedly sent Zhonglang to intercept Niu Fu with his troops, but was killed by Guo Da and lost his armor and fled in defeat. The Baibo coalition army crossed the river through Shangdang, captured many counties and counties in Henan, and the troops reached Puyang and Qingfeng in present-day Henan, and even once came to Luoyang City.

There is also Zhang Yan, this guy's original name was Chu Yan, and he was promoted to be handsome after Zhang Niujiao's death, so he changed his surname to Zhang. Zhang Yan is plagiaristic and agile, so the army calls him Feiyan. In Changshan, Zhaojun, Zhongshan, Shangdang, Hanoi and other places, the number of troops reached hundreds of thousands, known as the Montenegrin Army. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was unable to conquer, and the counties of Hebei were harassed by them. Later, Zhang Yan sent people to Kyoto to surrender, and the imperial court worshiped Zhang Yan as the general of the peace.

There were also Southern Xiongnu in Fuluo, who joined forces with the Baibo army to attack the county. At that time, many people gathered in various places to build walls to protect themselves, and they had no profit from plundering money in Fuluo, and the people were bruised and had to stop in Binh Duong. Subsequently, in order to solve the problem of military rations, Hexi County almost became his hunting ground, and he took it if he could, and avoided it if he couldn't.

But at present, the most powerful is the number one general under the Xianbei leader Bu Dugen, the king of Zuogu Li, Saiyu'er, who led tens of thousands of elite iron cavalry to attack the Yanmen area, Taiyuan is in danger, and the frightened former state pastor Zhang Yang repeatedly told Chang'an.

It was in this situation that He Chen accepted the order of the court and served as the governor of the state, in charge of nine counties and eighty-eight counties. According to the current chaotic situation, the sphere of influence that can really be controlled is estimated to be part of Shangdang, Xihe, Taiyuan, and Yanmen, and as for the other five counties, those who are now in a panic are either occupied by Xianbei, Yellow Turbans, and Xiongnu, or because they are in a chaotic and apolitical state, it can be said that what is lost to He Chen is a mess.

It is said that He Chen sent an envoy to merge with the state, so he can only use one word to describe "scratch." ”

Is this fucking going to war? Or is it just a trip to Taihang and Wangwu Ershan?

This is clearly a group move.

In addition to the forward "Burning Legion" to play the outpost, the Chinese army brigade in the back, almost dragging the family and the small, shouting and screaming, everyone either carried a package on their backs or pushed a wheelbarrow. Look at the traces of the wheel eating dirt, it should be full of valuable things. At least nearly 100,000 people followed, stretching for dozens of miles, whether voluntarily or forced, at a glance, it was full of numb and numb convoys, all of which were tied with large boxes. Starting from Nanyang and extending to Yuyuan Pass, there are patrol cavalry galloping through from time to time in the middle to prevent someone from robbing and making trouble.

The bandits trained by He Chen almost carried out all the valuable things in the entire Nanyang, Xiangyang County Mansion, and the county governments below. Needless to say, gold jewelry, famous jade porcelain, weapons, armor, quilts, military clothes, food materials, as large as seats, clothes and quilts, as small as pots and pans, can be taken, can be dismantled, can be dismantled, really can't be removed, but also kicked on the feet, spitting, how disgusting Liu Biao how to tidy.

And He Chen's gang also incited the people, although many people thanked He Chen for his life, but now most of the people have land to cultivate, and they also have a head, not to mention that the place in Bingzhou is now panicked and unsafe, under the trade-off, not many people follow He Chen to leave. This made He Chen scold a few times, they were all a bunch of white-eyed wolves.

Xiao is like this, when Liu Biao entered Nanyang County, he saw that the entire county warehouse seemed to have been looted by bandits and hooligans, and the whole person was stunned, stupidly opening his mouth wide and staying there, unable to recover for a long time. Uncle, this is the richest Nanyang in the world? Damn, even the earthen tile yurt house in the northwest is a hundred times stronger than this, look at the empty county government, even if the rats go in, they will run out with empty cloth bags and tears. Liu Biao even saw that in addition to the brand-new door posts on both sides, even the door panels were dismantled, and when the cold wind blew, whistling by, everything was empty.

He Chen, who was killed, Liu Biao, who was known for his elegance and etiquette, could no longer control his scolding at this moment.

But the words are nothing more than "villains, Sven sweeping, his mother's, and so on...... It is said that He Chen's miscellaneous army swept out of the Yuyuan Pass, passing through Luoyang, this ancient Yanjing is now a desolation, except for the black and black towering city gate carrying the glory of Luoyang for hundreds of years, almost let people dare not recognize this is the Han Dynasty has always been the economic, cultural, commercial center. There is no rush of people in the past, and there are many merchants, leaving only a piece of broken beams and ashes, black and scorched ground, and a desolation as far as the eye can see. Countless black crows piled up around the dry bones on the street, and occasionally a figure appeared, and immediately "fluttered" and flew away. He Chen sighed in his heart when he saw it, Dong Zhuo was really fucking crazy, a good royal capital, and he was like hell in the world of sincerity and benevolence.

Guo Jia, who followed He Chen's side, also felt a sigh of relief, thinking about how prosperous and lively he was when he traveled to Kyoto, but now it has become uninhabited for hundreds of miles, and the road is full of dead bones. How not to make people sad and cry.

After leaving Luoyang and crossing the Yellow River in the north, He Chen's brigade entered Gaodu County, Shangdang County, the sphere of influence of Bingzhou.

The county government here received the report and had already swept the couch to greet them.

Gaodu County was originally located by the Yellow River, adjacent to Kyoto, and had a prosperous population, but since Dong Zhuo's incident, plus Guo Dabaibo Valley haunted and looted, the rich businessmen in the county have already run away from the top ten, and the rest are all ordinary farmers.

He Chen asked the military horses to be stationed outside the four gates of the county seat, and brought the "Sharpshooter Guard" and "Scaly Sailors" and a group of civil officials into the city.

After dinner, everyone gathered together to discuss important matters.

He Chen moved his buttocks, obviously feeling a little uncomfortable with the seat changing from a soft tiger skin cushion to a hard wood, paused his body, and muttered: "Luoyang is barren for hundreds of miles, and nothing will happen to our army even if we walk with our eyes closed, but after entering the boundary of Bingzhou, it will be different." Guo is greater than Baibo Valley, the Southern Xiongnu is in Fuluo, including the Montenegrin army Zhang Yan, may clash with us at any time. Now that the form is becoming more and more urgent, I wonder what you think? ”

Guo Jia is now the number one military advisor in He Chen, he doesn't speak first, and no one in the seat dares to speak. All the generals really looked at him, waiting to hear his plan. It's just that Guo Jia didn't seem to have the meaning to speak, like an old monk in a trance, pulling his eyelids slightly, making people not know what he was thinking.

He Chen waited for a long time, but everyone didn't let out a fart, and couldn't help but be a little annoyed: "You are all generals who command the army to defend one side, you can't rely on the military advisor for everything, right?" Who didn't have an idea in his teeth, and he went to Lao Tzu's vigil patrol tonight. ”

The generals were frightened, except for the newcomers, most of them now know He Chen's rogue surname, which really makes him mad, not to mention the vigil, and some people have done it when they wash the toilet.

"My lord, from the point of view of my subordinates, the power of the state is complicated, and if you are reckless, it will be difficult to do all the work. It can be divided and co-opted, and the focus is on. At this time, Zhang Liao took the lead in the queue. This time, his hometown Yanmen was besieged by Xianbei, to be honest, Zhang Liao was anxious, and he was afraid that if he was not careful, his family would die.

"Oh?" Let's hear about it. He Chen nodded, Xiao said with interest.

"Zhang Yan of the Montenegrin Army, although he was worshiped by the imperial court as a general in peace, but his subordinates went back and forth with Changshan, Zhaojun, and Zhongshan, and from time to time captured the county seat and plundered. It is also disrespectful to the court, in order to divide the princes of one side, it is called the country within the country, because of its boundless power, the lord can not plan for a while, but he can first make an alliance and attack and defend each other; Guo Da raised troops in the Baibo Valley, captured the counties of Hedong, his troops were sharp, and controlled the largest lake and salt land in the entire Central Plains, Hedong. In ancient times, Guo Dabaibo's army should be the focus of the lord's attack at the moment. And the Xiongnu in Fuluo, although plundering everywhere, but the harvest is very small, the weapons are not complete, the armor is not neat, the soldiers almost eat the last meal without the next meal, and even can hear the rumor of "eating human flesh", obviously said that the child has lived an extremely hard life, as long as one or two victories are fought, this road can be incorporated into the use. Now down, only Yanmen County Xianbei all the way, is the most headache, once this pass is broken, Xianbei can go straight to the long dragon, capture Hexi, Shangdang, Taiyuan and other places, then the whole territory of the state may fall completely. In ancient times, his subordinates thought that the lord could send a general to divide half of the troops and go north to support Zhang Yang. ”

Wen Yuan's words are reasonable, but there is one thing that his subordinates dare not agree with, now there are about 30,000 regular troops under the lord's banner, plus the corps reserve and private army corps are only 50,000 people, and most of them are recruits who lack training. If half of the troops were divided into the north and went north to Yanmen, with a mere number of 20,000, in the face of Guo Da's 100,000 army and Yu Fuluo's 30,000 or 40,000 Hun cavalry, how could the lord win? It was Xu Huang who spoke to refute, obviously dissatisfied with Zhang Liao's risky strategy of dividing troops.

(To be continued)