I followed them from a distance and traveled all the way north to Haradaira (east of present-day Haradaira). As it was late in the evening, and there was still a long way to go, they set up camp outside the city tonight. Because Ding Yuan was the governor of the state, he could stay in the post house in the city.

At this time, everyone was camping outside the city, and the county magistrate and the county lieutenant came out of the city to greet them, saying: "The lower officials and others have seen the history of Ding Thorn, and the post house has prepared wine and wings, and I respectfully invite the history of Thorn to come." ”

Ding Yuan nodded and said, "Well, Fengxian and Zhang Liao, you two should go with this assassin history." ”

Feng Xian couldn't help but say: "The history of the assassination, the camp has not yet been built, and the subordinates still lead the soldiers to build the camp first, okay?" ”

Ding Yuan said: "Hey, just leave this matter to Zhang Yang, and you can go with me." ”

"No." Feng Xianxin knew that Ding Yuan's order was not easy to disobey, so he had no choice but to obey the order.

At this moment, I tied Bai Ling to a tree beside me. Then he shot a deer in the forest on the side, disemboweled, skinned and skulled, and then cleaned. Then he set up a fire and roasted the deer on it. After a while, the meat is roasted and fragrant, and it is ready to eat. It happened that Zhang Yang and Song Xian came over and said, "Hehe, Brother Cheng Lian will really enjoy it, I won't mind if the two of us come over to satisfy our hunger." ”

I smiled and said, "There are a lot of barbecues, I can't eat them all by myself, you guys came just in time." ”

The two of them smiled and sat down, I asked them to do their own thing, and they were not polite, one of them dragged a thigh and ate it.

Then I asked, "Why are you two just the two of you, brother?" ”

Zhang Yang said: "I was invited into the city with Ding Tingshi." ”

"Oh? Why didn't you go? I asked again.

But I heard Song Xian say: "Hey, just us little minions, if we want to be literary but not literary, if we want martial arts without martial arts, Ding Tingshi will not bring us." ”

I couldn't help but say: "That's also true, in this era, only people with ability can be more popular." ”

Zhang Yang said: "Actually, I think it's pretty good now, unrestrained, and you don't need to look at people's eyes." ”

Song Xian on the side suddenly said: "By the way, I almost forgot, I also brought sorghum wine here; Brother Cheng Lian for you, try my home-brewed one. ”

Song Xian said and threw the wine bag to me, I took it and opened it and took a sip, the mellow aroma of the wine instantly penetrated my heart and spleen, making people feel comfortable. Immediately, I handed the wine bag to Zhang Yang. At this time, I said, "Everyone thinks about the unrestrained life, because there is no pressure, so I feel very relaxed; Actually, I like to be under pressure, because only with pressure can there be motivation, motivation can generate value, and life can be meaningful when value is generated. ”

Zhang Yang took a sip of wine, returned the wine bag to Song Xian, and said, "I don't understand what you say, but I feel very reasonable." ”

I smiled and said, "Actually, in our place, even teenagers can understand this truth, but there are very few people who can really do it; People who like pressure and use pressure as motivation are probably mostly those who are called "second goods". ”

"What's the second cargo?" Song Xian couldn't help but ask strangely.

I said, "The second goods refer to those who are stupid, such as those who would rather suffer losses than take advantage of others. ”

Song Xian was immediately surprised: "Huh? Such a person is a respected "gentleman" in the Han Dynasty, how can he be a stupid second goods? ”

I smiled and said, "Because most of the people here are already confused, they don't have a correct value; What was originally good, but they all thought it was bad, and what was originally bad, they all thought it was good. ”

Zhang Yang couldn't help but say: "Putting the cart before the horse, isn't the world in chaos?" ”

I shook my head and said, "No, we have a very stable life somewhere." ”

Zhang Yang was puzzled: "There is no distinction between right and wrong, but why can you live a stable life?" ”

I said, "Because people are happy to be content with the status quo and don't want the world to become chaotic, even if they lack the right values, they can ensure social stability. It's just that behind this stability, most people hide an unhappy heart, and some people even go crazy because of it. ”

Zhang Yang couldn't help but sigh: "Alas, it seems that everyone in the world is a hard-working person. ”

Song Xian couldn't help asking: "By the way, Brother Cheng Lian, where are you from?" ”

I said, "My hometown is far away from here, and from here I will go west, and I will be able to reach my hometown in 1,850 years." ”

Song Xian suddenly said, "Good girl, so far away, then how did you come here?" ”

I said, "Because my ancestors knew about the existence of this land 1,850 years ago, they led their people to migrate here year after year, until my generation finally came to this land. ”

Song Xian immediately sighed for a while: "Hey, your origin is really not simple." ”

I immediately smiled and said, "I'm joking, do you believe this?" ”

Song Xian couldn't help but be surprised: "Huh? It turned out to be made up, you are really boring, I thought it was true. ”

Zhang Yang on the side smiled, immediately stood up, and said, "I'll go to the camp tent to get a quilt, so as not to catch a cold at night." ”

Song Xian hurriedly said: "I'll go, I'll go, Zhang Zhen just sit with you." ”

With that, Song Xian ran back to the camp with a smoke. I couldn't help but ask, "Isn't he supposed to tell you to "don't drive", what?" ”

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "That was before, not now." ”

It was obvious that he had been demoted, but it was inevitable, so there was nothing surprising.

That night, the two of them did not return to the tent, but slept with me outside the camp. The next morning, before dawn, the officers and men got up and set out for work. From here, they turned east into a mountain range, and then walked for most of the day until they came to Ningwu Pass, where they stopped to bury pots and make rice.

At this time, I can't help but wonder a little, why don't they continue to enter Yanmen Pass in the north, isn't it closer to Dingxiang from Yanmen Pass? I thought about it carefully, only to find out that the key to this is that the canyon more than 100 kilometers north of Yanmen Pass is the place where we dug gold last time, and it is estimated that they did not want the Huns to pay attention to that place. Because there was going to be a war at this time, Feng Xian sent someone to replace Li Su back.

After eating, they left the customs and continued their journey north, walking about dozens of kilometers before arriving at Mayi County (now Shuozhou). What is strange is that although this place also belongs to the outside of the pass, it was not captured by the Huns. At this time, there were only about 150 kilometers left in Dingxiang, so they stopped in this city and began to deploy their troops.

In other words, Yanmen Mayi is Zhang Liao's hometown, and when he comes to his hometown, he naturally wants to go home to see it. After all, there is a war coming soon, and it is always the right time to go back and meet with your family to say goodbye.

At this time, I couldn't help but quietly study the situation of this war. The terrain here is quite complicated, full of mountains and ravines, and it is very difficult to fight if the difference in strength is too great. There were only more than 10,000 officers and soldiers on the Han Dynasty's side, and the number was really small, and the only countermeasure was to have a decisive battle with the main force of the other side. The distance from Mayi to Dingxiang is spacious and flat, but once the lone army goes deep, it is easy to be dumpled by the other party.

The Huns had more than 100,000 horses, and they could completely divide their troops into ten routes, leaving one way to defend the city, and the other nine roads were running into the criss-crossing ravines, and detouring to outflank the back roads of the officers and soldiers, so the fate of this bag of dumplings was probably inevitable. In other words, the Huns only need to divide their troops into three ways, and they can also wrap the officers and soldiers with dumplings.

However, according to Su Bu's character, it is estimated that he will not necessarily divide his troops to make a detour to outflank, and perhaps he will directly fight the officers and soldiers. But even if it is a decisive battle, how can more than 10,000 people fight against more than 100,000 people? If it is the defender, it can also use the location of the city to consume the enemy's living force. But as an attacker, tsk, this battle is not easy to fight.