In fact, the dispute between the Donghu people and the Han people has been going on for a long time.

It is said that the ancestral source of Donghu is related to Wu Geng's establishment of "Beiyin"; Some people say that the Donghu people are the remnants left behind by the Jizi when they went east to Korea at the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, but it is unknown whether it is or not.

Like the Huns, the Donghu people "migrated from water to grass, and did not have to be in the city to cultivate the fields", but since the Warring States period, they have attacked each other with the Yan and Zhao states in the Central Plains, and relied on the situation to invade the neighboring ethnic groups.

In the twenty-sixth year of King Zhao Huiwen, Zhao Zeng captured the land of Donghudai. Historical Records? Zhao Shijia" notes: "Donghu rebelled against Zhao and drove people from all generations to rebel, so they also took it." Donghu was defeated by Zhao and subjugated to Zhao, but after he became powerful, he betrayed Zhao and plundered the people and property of Zhao's land. In the first year of Zhao Xiaocheng, Li Mu, the general of Zhao State, killed more than 100,000 horsemen of the Xiongnu in Dai and Yanmen, and at the same time, he descended to Linhu in the east and defeated Donghu again.

Donghu also raided the northern border of Yan on several occasions, and during the reign of King Yan Zhao, Donghu defeated Yan and forced Yan to send a general named Qin Kai (Qin Wuyang, the grandson of Qin Kai, who assassinated King Qin with Jing Ke) to Donghu as a hostage. The northeastern part of the Yan Kingdom, from Shanggu to Liaodong, and the adjacent areas of Donghu were often plundered by Donghu Kou.

After Qin Kai returned from Donghu, Yan took advantage of Qin Kai's familiarity with the internal situation of Donghu and led the army to attack Donghu with Qin Kai as the general. This time, Donghu was defeated, forcing Donghu to retreat more than a thousand miles. Yan also built the Great Wall, and made Yang to Xiangping. Put the five counties of Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, and Liaodong to prevent Donghu.

By the time of the Qin Dynasty, the Donghu were already an extremely powerful tribe. Historical Records? The Biography of the Xiongnu said: "Donghu is strong and the Yueshi is prosperous", "Maodun is established, and Donghu is strong". That is to say: from the Warring States period to the Qin period, the economic and military strength of the Xiongnu was inferior to the Yueshi in the north, and the east was inferior to the Donghu.

During the Western Han Dynasty, Donghu was surrendered by the Western Han Dynasty, but at the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Donghu people took advantage of the opportunity of changing the dynasty to rebel again, resulting in today's situation.

The princess said and asked Nina, "Princess Nina, I'm not lying. ”

Nina smiled and replied, "Sort of." It's just a Hanhu strife, who invaded whom? You said that it was our Hu people who invaded you, but your land was not born there, in fact, Hu and Han competed, and the strongest one wins, whose land is not to look at reason, but to see power. If it comes to reason, I'm afraid no one can say clearly. You Han people were originally on the edge of the Yellow River, but today you are spreading thousands of miles, is it possible that you occupy all the borderless land? ”

The prince had nothing to answer for a while, because what Nina said was really true.

Li Qianyue heard Nina's words to excuse the Donghu people, but Nina is a Hu person, of course she will help the Hu people excuse her, not to mention that she also feels that Nina's words are also reasonable, she doesn't want to be unhappy with Nina because of this, whether it is a thousand miles of land or a projectile land, she is a woman, she only cares about one family and one court, and her thoughts are different from men's, so she hurriedly interrupted and talked to Nina about clothes and rouge.

Wei Changfeng listened to the conversation between the three people in the raft in front of him, and he was also infinitely emotional. He really didn't know who was right and who was wrong.

In fact, what Nina said was the dispute between Hu and Han, but isn't it the same within the Han people? The Western Han Dynasty overthrew Qin, Qin unified the countries and destroyed Zhou, and Zhou destroyed Shang, which one is orthodox? Whose world is this land? As far as I am concerned, should I wholeheartedly recover the Western Han Dynasty, or should I be loyal to the Eastern Han Dynasty?

There was silence for a while, only the sound of the river and the sound of oars hitting the water, although not everyone was thinking about this question, but there were indeed some people who were secretly thinking about it in their hearts.

In the evening, the army landed. On this day, they drifted down the river, and actually walked straight for more than 70 miles, much faster than the rapid march, which was close to the speed of the cavalry's rapid march, but the only regret of the soldiers was that they could not lie on the raft, which was really comfortable.

Fang Zhenhai saw that the water was moving very fast, but at this time it was the end of the Liao River, and no one knew how long the water situation in the Liao River would last, so he decided that the whole army would rest first, set off early tomorrow, and set off as long as the sky was light, and try to arrive at Dongfeng and Xifeng before the water of the Liao River dropped.

Wei Changfeng naturally didn't have time to look for Li Qianyue, he didn't even have time to see the painter Zheng Liu, so he could only send someone to tell the painter to study the repeater diagram when he had free time, just don't study it on the river, one should keep it secret, and the other is to prevent the diagram from falling into the water irretrievably.

The next day, the army was still moving along the river, and because it got up early and stopped near night, it traveled hundreds of miles on this day, faster than the cavalry. If it was six days in a row, a total of 500 miles forward, it was really smooth sailing, the road was safe, the Donghu army had some cavalry to follow the reconnaissance at the beginning, and then simply gave up reconnaissance, thinking that it was really impossible to keep up.

Early the next morning, the army continued to move forward, according to everyone's ideas, that night it could reach Dongfeng and Xifeng, but during this night, the water of the Liao River had fallen a lot, and the water flow slowed down suddenly, and the water level was low and even the bottom of the river rubbed the bottom of the raft from time to time, and sometimes even soldiers were needed to go into the water to push. In the morning, although the soldiers took turns paddling, they had only traveled thirty miles.

It was almost noon, and there was a sudden stop in front, and the soldiers shouted one after another. After a while, news came from the front, saying that there were many ships sunk in the river, and there were many boulders, which were placed artificially at first glance. It can be guessed that this must have been set up by the Donghu people to block the Han army.

Wei Changfeng sat on the raft and heard Ma Yong's loud voice shouting: "General Fang, the last general asks for an order to clear these obstacles!" ”

Fang Zhenhai chuckled lightly and replied, "Why bother? The order was given, and the whole army abandoned the raft and landed ashore, rested for a while, and marched forward in formation. ”

Everyone who heard this laughed.

yes, why bother clearing obstacles? Now that the water is slow, and it looks like it is running out of water, and it is only seventy miles away from Dongfeng and Xifeng, is it necessary to waste that strength? The Donghu people set up obstacles here, one is that they are too far away to mobilize the army, and the other is that they were born on horseback and grew up on horseback, and they don't understand the nature of water, but the Han army doesn't have to be the same as the Donghu people, right?

Ma Yong also laughed happily, it is conceivable that he must be patting his head and laughing again.

The whole army went ashore, Fang Zhenhai had already sent a fast horse to investigate the enemy's situation, and at noon, Fang passed and reported to Malay: Dongfeng and Xifeng each had 30,000 enemy troops to defend, Dongfeng's commander was Mowuer, and Xifeng's commander was Daxian Wang Gelu. However, there are only 10,000 people in Liaoyuan, an important town. It seems that the idea of the Donghu army is the same as that of the Han army, if it can hold the east and west Erfeng, it will also hold Liaoyuan, if it can't hold Dongfeng and Xifeng, Liaoyuan is a lonely city, and there is no point in defending, so the heavy troops are placed around Liaoyuan.

While Fang Zhenhai ordered the whole army to set off, he gathered all the generals and studied how to deal with the enemy's defense during the march.