The gate of Linzhou City opened, and under the leadership of a Linzhou cavalry captain, the Zhenwu Army made Zhao Ping and his party of twenty horsemen drive into Linzhou City, and followed by the Linzhou army of twenty horsemen.

The Linzhou City that the genius architect Zhen Silun made up really deserves its name. As soon as you enter the city gate, you will be densely packed with stone houses, the streets are narrow, winding, like a labyrinth, and some of the main roads become dead-end roads when you walk, and you can only continue to move forward by passing through an inconspicuous alley next to it.

For those who enter the city for the first time, if no one takes it with them, needless to say, getting lost is a compulsory course!

Even if you open the gates and let you enter, you'll immediately be caught in brutal street fighting. There may be a few archers in ambush in the window of every house, and a row of arrows shoots out, but you can't find even a single figure; Behind each wall, there is the possibility of a sudden row of spears piercing through the intruders passing through the alley.

And that's just a small part of the beginning.

After walking a short distance, it is no longer flat ground. The captain of the Linzhou Army apologized and asked everyone to dismount and climb up a steep staircase.

It doesn't matter if you take the stairs, but this staircase can only accommodate two people walking side by side, one side is a cliff, and the other side is a high mountain cliff, if you come to visit the mountains and rivers, the natural scenery is beautiful, but for the siege people, it is really a nightmare!

After walking through hundreds of steps, there is another platform, densely packed houses, and winding narrow streets. This is a second platform. The third platform is completely out of the road, and if you want to go up, you have to enter a cage, like an elevator in the future, and slowly hang up.

Linzhou Thorn Mansion is on the third platform.

On the third platform, there is a playground about the size of two basketball courts, and at the end of the playground is a two-story Thorn Mansion. There are two columns of spearmen in full armor standing on the playground, and I don't know if I welcome Zhao Ping, or if I want to give Zhao Ping a dismount!

Yang Hongxin, the self-established king of Linzhou, was also wearing a fully armed armor, standing in front of the Assassin's Mansion, and when he saw Zhao Ping coming up, he hurriedly strode over.

"I have heard that General Yang is mighty for a long time, and when I saw it today, it was really imposing!" Zhao Ping obviously didn't care about Yang Hongxin's careful thinking at all, people were huddled on the top of the mountain alone, and finally there was a visitor, so it didn't hurt to let him pretend to be a force.

Yang Hongxin also opened his mouth and smiled, walked up to Zhao Ping, hugged his hands, and bent down to give a military salute.

"Lord Zhao smiled, and Yang Hongxin has seen Lord Zhao."

Seeing Yang Hongxin on the road like this, He Daxian also felt a little funny.

After all, Zhao Ping is the envoy of the Zhenwu Army ordered by the imperial court, but this Yang Hongxin is the assassin of Linzhou who he pretended. Even if you Yang Hongxin is really the assassin of Linzhou, Linzhou is under the management of Zhenwu Army, and Zhao Pingke is your top boss!

As long as you still recognize the Later Tang Dynasty, as long as you still admit that you are an official, how can you not be polite when you see your boss?

It's just that Yang Hongxin played a trick and put on a suit of armor, so he didn't have to kneel and bow as a civilian official, just follow the military salute between the officers, and bend over with a fist.

Yang Hongxin is worthy of being the sixth-ranked figure on the Western Regions Hero List, tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a head taller than Zhao Ping!

"Let's go inside and talk."

Since Yang Hongxin recognized himself as the top boss, He Daxian was not polite, and directly patted Yang Hongxin on the back, and urged the house to talk about things. Yang Hongxin was also very happy, obviously the Zhenwu Army Festival Envoy in front of him had already admitted that he was a fake Linzhou assassin.

When they entered the room, they sat down.

"Linzhou City, it is really a fortified city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack."

"Lord Meng Zhao praised him, and Yang also thought so."

"It's easy to defend and difficult to attack, just because it can't be attacked."

"Oh, how so?"

"I'll go back and ask Zhe Silun, and there will probably be a way."

“”

"If it doesn't work again, I'll let him lead the team to attack."

"Hahahaha, Yang can only open the city gate, and respectfully invite Lord Zhe to come in and have a cup of tea."

The two laughed at each other, and the atmosphere relaxed a little.

After some politeness, Zhao Ping's face became serious.

"Although Linzhou is good, is General Yang ready to guard this Linzhou City for the rest of his life?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"How about being a moderation envoy?"

Yang Hongxin also became serious.

"Xiazhou?"

"No, you help me subdue the Dingyan Army, and I will help you take Shuofang Lingzhou!"

"And then?" Yang Hongxin held his breath.

"Take Lingzhou as the base, take Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou in the west, open up Guasha, take Jincheng in the south, Xiping, if you can take Fuqi City, you will go to establish a country!"

"Is that true?" Yang Hongxin's voice trembled!

"Seriously! Zhao Ping can swear here. ”

At this time, Yang Hongxin's face was already flushed!

Is it that many people don't understand? Well, let's briefly popularize historical knowledge again, no way, the changes of ethnic groups in various places during the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Five Dynasties are too frequent, a chicken dies and a chicken crows, every few decades a new great nation rises, another once great nation begins to decline, thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi, is the best idiom to describe this situation! The history is rolling in, and there are countless heroes of all ethnic groups!

Yang Hongxin is the ancestor of the Yang family, so who is Yang Hongxin's own ancestor? Tuyuhun people!

The Tuyuhun ethnic group originally lived in the area of Qinghai Lake south of the Qilian Mountains. Fu Qi City is the Tuyuhun King City on the shore of Qinghai Lake, and it is also the birthplace of the Tuyuhun people.

During the Sui Dynasty, Tuyuhun rose up and began to expand northward, Tuyuhun Khan Lü Kua invaded the Hexi Corridor that originally belonged to the Sui Dynasty's territorial boundary, and was defeated by the Sui army, after the Sui died, Tuyuhun captured the Hexi Corridor again, and fought with the Tang army several times, and finally annoyed the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty sent the general Li Jing to recover the Hexi Corridor, defeated the Tuyuhun army, made the Nuo Haobo Khan, and allowed the Tuyuhun people to survive in the Hexi area. Later, the Tubo army rose again, the Tubo army defeated the Tang army, after the Tang army was defeated and retreated, the Tuyuhun people themselves could not defeat the Tubo people, they were uprooted by the Tubo people, and they were driven all the way to Lingzhou.

Since then, the fate of the Tuyuhun people has not been controlled by themselves.

With the changes of history, they were caught between the Tibetans, the Tang army and the Uighurs. A large number of Tuyuhun people migrated eastward into the Central Plains and integrated into Han Chinese society, some went to the Western Regions and integrated into the Uighurs, and some went north and entered the northern grasslands, where they mixed with the northern steppe peoples. In the official history, after the rise of the Khitan and the Dangxiang respectively, the last remaining group of Tuyuhun people were basically wiped out in the later Western Xia Empire and the Great Liao Empire in the north.

However, at this time, in the late Tang Dynasty, there were still a large number of Tuyuhun people displaced in the Western Regions, and they had not yet completely integrated into the Dangxiang people or Han people, and they were still nostalgic for their homeland Qinghai Lake, which was occupied by the Tufan people, and their royal city Fuqi City!

That's why Yang Hongxin, who has the blood of the Tuguhun people flowing in his body, is so out of shape!

Men are ambitious! The small city of Linzhou is just a place to settle down, and now the historical opportunity for the Tuyuhun people to turn over has finally come to him, this iron-blooded Tuyuhun man, where can he still be calm! (To be continued.) )