In fact, as early as the Kaiyun period of the Later Jin Dynasty, Yelu Deguang tried to recruit Li Yiyin many times, but they all ended in failure, because there are two families in the northeast of Xia Sui Sizhou Lin and Fu Zheyang are also wall-riding factions, and the Liao State has no strong enemies around the Hetao, Yelu Deguang has the ambition to annex the Central Plains, and he looks down on these small domains, so he gives up. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, the times have changed, and the Great Zhou has pacified Hexi, and then taken the Hehuang horse breeding land, and has broken the balance in the northwest and walked out of the pattern of strategic encirclement, which makes people of insight in the Liao State worried. Among them, Yang Gon, the envoy of Pingzhou Qianbo, Xiao Siwen, the king of Youzhou Southern Courtyard, and Yelu Tartlie, who stayed behind in Xijing Datong Mansion, paid the most attention to it, and resolutely attacked with heavy troops to interrupt the plan of the Great Zhou to conquer Huainan.

So he sent Han Zhuo as an envoy to try to persuade him to surrender again, but Li Yiyin simply refused. However, when Han Zhuo euphemistically proposed that after the war, Li Yiyin's unmarried youngest daughter would be hired as the Liao Emperor Yelujing as a concubine, Li Yiyin readily agreed.

In order to prevent the opportunity from being exposed, Han Zhuo only stayed in Xiazhou for two days before setting off, led more than 100 horsemen to drive mules and horses loaded with goods, pretended to be a caravan from Suizhou Wubao Sanchuankou to cross the Yellow River, via Shizhou, Hedong, and will go to Taiyuan to meet Liu Jun, the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, to discuss the dispatch of Shuo, Sheng and other states of Jiedu envoys, and concurrently serve Cui Xun to lead the troops to the south, to meet the Northern Han army to the south.

On this day, Han Zuo's caravan left Shizhou and entered the Luliang Mountains to the east, because Fenzhou and Qinzhou surrendered to the Great Zhou, and are now under the jurisdiction of Jinzhou Jianxiong Jiedu, and Yang Tingzhang, the commander of Jinzhou, is the younger brother of the first emperor Guo Wei Yang Fei, and he checked the transit business travel in the jurisdiction very tightly, and never allowed a grain of grain or a piece of iron to go north to Taiyuan, so Han Zuo had to work hard to cross the mountains and mountains to bypass Fenzhou, of course, he could also go north to Lanzhou, but that had to go around a larger circle.

And the Fenzhou Assassin is still the original official appointed by Liu Zhiyuan of the Later Han Dynasty, Xiande voted for the Great Zhou in the second year, in fact, it is still autonomous, Yang Tingzhang is in charge of military affairs, and only sets up and appoints border inspections, and does not interfere much in state affairs.

I don't know when, a group of robbers came to the Yinquan Mountain at the junction of Fenzhou and Taiyuan Prefecture, about dozens of people occupy the mountain as the king, and often block the road to rob the past merchants, and the Fenzhou Thorn History and Wengu Town Patrol Envoy twenty or thirty miles south of the Yinquan Mountain actually turned a blind eye to this, causing this gang of robbers to gather more and more, and now it has reached more than 200 people.

Han Zuo's caravan walked all the way for five or six days and finally got out of Luliang Mountain, this afternoon Shen Shi entered a ravine at the northern foot of Yinquan Mountain, and walked out of this ghost place to Wenshui County, south of Taiyuan Prefecture, so Han Zuo was not in a hurry, seeing that it was still early, and he was about to get out of the valley, so he drank horses and rested by the stream.

"Look! There is a woodcutter on the other side of the river, do you want to call over and ask, how far is it to see Wenshui County? "The place was quite safe, the soldiers were all picking their feet, some were drinking water and eating dry food, and only one soldier who stood on the tree by the river and looked at the sight of the people.

"Okay! Go to someone who can speak Hedong dialect. "Han Zuo is walking this road for the first time, and he is still more cautious, so he asked a Shuozhou Han soldier to go over to find someone.

The two woodcutters, one old and one young, the oldest one was forty or fifty years old, and they looked simple and simple, and they were a little scared when they saw everyone carrying knives and bows. The youngest was in his twenties, tall and thin but very strong, with a tanned face, but his eyes were dripping, and he looked around at the entourage soldiers, and he did not look like an honest man.

"Are you from this place? Is it from the Great Zhou or Taiyuan? Being on the border, Han Zhuo asked.

"Earlier, I was from the Northern Han Dynasty, but soon I was from the Great Zhou, because Taiyuan taxes and grain were urgent, and we paid more than in previous years, and our family was ready to move to Xicheng, Fenzhou if we saved enough money." The old man replied, but he was telling the truth.

The Northern Han Dynasty had long known the news, and it was reasonable that the grain was ready to be used with troops. Han Zhuo smiled and nodded, and suddenly felt something, and when he turned his head, he saw the young thin and tall descendant staring at the jade pendant on his waist, and he was suddenly shocked, there is a "Lu" word on this jade pendant, and there is a Khitan translation, because his grandfather Han Yanhui was knighted as the Duke of Lu.

"You brother, do you know how far it is from here to Wenshui County? If you are willing to reply to me honestly, this jade pendant will be given to you as a reward! Han Zhuo felt that the young man recognized it, so he cautiously tested it, and as he spoke, he really untied the jade pendant lanyard around his waist and stuffed it into the young man's hand.

"Not far! Out of this valley, there is an official road more than 20 miles ahead, and you will arrive at the official road after walking for more than ten miles! The young woodcutter grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. Seeing Han Zhuo handing over the jade pendant, he picked it up and looked at it for a while, then handed it back, shook his head and waved his hand: "Guest officer, this is jade!" It's valuable, and the villain can't ask for it! ”

Han Zhuo just stared at the hand of the young man opposite, the jade pendant was in his hand, and the big word "Lu" on it was facing him, this young man was holding it upside down, obviously illiterate. Otherwise, if a literate person will subconsciously put the words in front of him, then such a person cannot stay.

"Thank you, little brother! Let's go back! Han Zhuo's heart was relieved, he took the jade pendant and waved his hand with a smile, and sent the old and the young away. The young woodcutter didn't realize that he had walked away from the ghost gate, and looked back into the distance as he walked.

"Let's go too! There are still twenty or thirty miles to go, you have to go quickly! Han Zhuo immediately took his entourage on the road again, walked forward for seven or eight miles, and saw that he was about to get out of the valley, and there was actually a big tree on the path between the two mountains in front of him, blocking the way with branches and leaves.

"I drove this road, and I carried this tree! If you want to live from now on, leave to buy road money! Flags waved on the hillsides on both sides of the path, and more than a dozen young and strong figures appeared, shouting with knives and guns.

"Huh!" A soldier in front of him was shocked, and immediately shouted out the Khitan dialect and shouted, "There are robbers."

"The left and right factions held down for a while and moved away from the big tree!" Han Zhuo frowned, a group of thieves actually dared to fight his own idea, he decided to clean it up, according to common sense, when the thieves suffered a big loss, they naturally did not dare to report to the government, but would cover it up, otherwise it would not be a food delivery when they were weak.

The two teams of 20 Liao soldiers left the mule and horse team, lined up in two long rows on the side of the road, and threatened the hillside with bows and arrows, but in fact, the range was not enough, and the thieves were not afraid at all, laughing and making all kinds of obscene actions such as taking off their pants, straightening their waists, and pouting, which made the Liao soldiers scream in anger.

Before the trees blocking the way were removed, a burst of arrows came from the opposite side, but the thieves were really not good at shooting arrows, and the soldiers were wearing armor in their robes, so they did no harm at all. As soon as they moved away from the obstacles, thirty or forty paces away, a large number of hundreds of people shouted excitedly, holding uneven weapons such as knives, spears, and hunting forks, and rushed over in a chaotic manner.

The soldiers in the formation were met with a rain of arrows, and twenty or thirty of them were brought down in an instant, and the thieves were so frightened that they ran away without even caring for their companions. The Liao soldiers chased after them for a while, and captured a few small minions and returned to Han Zhuo for interrogation.

"Where did you come from? Where is the cottage? Who is the owner of the village? What are the skills? Occupy the mountain here as the king, why didn't the Great Zhou government clear it? Seeing that this group of robbers was vulnerable and the location of this place was critical, Han Zhuo immediately took it for his own use and planted spies, so he opened his mouth to interrogate.

"If the little one says it, will the guest officer release him? Anyway, I didn't think about you guys...... "The little minions are very slippery, and they are not small, so they actually bargained.

Han Zhuo sneered and waved his hand, and the soldiers next to him understood, and gave a few big slaps, which made the little minions dizzy and screamed like killing pigs. Han Zhuo asked again, facing the sharp waist knife on his neck, this is a real guy, the little minions had to reply: "Our village is in this Hidden Spring Mountain, there are two village owners, the big village owner is named He Ju, and the second village owner has a flower named Shooting Breaking Sky, only the surname Gongsun, no one knows what the name is?" ”

"Shoot through the sky? See what you want! Han Zhuo laughed when he heard this, and immediately let the little minions lead the way, and decided to go to the cottage to persuade him to surrender. If you set up an intelligence point here, you can not only find out the news of the Northern Han Dynasty, the northwest of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Central Plains nearby, but the location is really advantageous! (To be continued.) )