"These loyal soldiers, all the scars are in front of them, not a single one, they are behind them!"

The arrogant voice fell, and a low sigh immediately sounded in the big tent.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you think these nine martyrs are qualified to compete for this first merit?"

As soon as Zhang Yan's words fell, Dian Wei's big voice sounded in the big tent.

"It's better to fight to the death. Lord, Dian Wei is willing to be the last! ”

Saying this, Dian Wei glanced at Guan Yu, who was at the bottom of the list. With such a big move, how could Guan Yu not see it? As soon as Dian Wei's voice fell, Guan Yu immediately said:

"The dead are greater. Guan's merits can only be compared with Dian Baichang. There are martyrs in front of him, and Guan should retreat. ”

Since the two main masters have expressed their position like this, the rest of the people naturally have nothing to say.

As a result, these nine patrol soldiers who fought desperately and bloodily to resist the surprise attack of the Hun cavalry and won a short time became the famous "Nine Martyrs of the Blood Plain" in later generations. In order to record their deeds, the stone tablet was unearthed after more than 1,800 years, and became an important material for later generations to study the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty.

With the death of Yuvro, the entire Southern Xiongnu tribe no longer has any decent high-level nobles. The rest of the Xiongnu nobles, without the leadership of the core figures, were not convinced by each other.

In this chaotic situation, many small and medium-sized tribal leaders, panicked by the ferocity of the Han army, and threw themselves into the Taixing army very well. In just over ten days, Zhang Madness received the leaders of nineteen thousand-level tribes. From the hands of these tribal leaders, he received a total of no less than thirty heads, which belonged to the rebellious Xiongnu nobles.

The Southern Huns are about to be pacified!

However, such a good situation cannot make insolence really happy. After all, the so-called "people who are not of my race will have different hearts." Among those surrendered Huns, how many had bad intentions, and how many were just rudder when they saw the wind, it was not a secret to the arrogance who had mastered the volumes of "Dunjia Heavenly Book" and "People".

Receiving these ill-intentioned guys all day long made the arrogant temper a lot more irritable. If there are not enough Han people to join the rule of the Taixing army to help integrate these Hu people, this expedition will inevitably eventually become a situation where they will fall into the quagmire of Hu chaos and cannot extricate themselves.

However, if you want to get a large number of Han people to join the rule, it is not what you plan to do, but what Mrs. Guo plans to do, and what Taipingdao plans to do.

At present, in addition to promoting the strong from the poor herdsmen of the Xiongnu and forming a cavalry for future conquests, he can only sit and wait for the good news brought by others.

As for the person who can provide good news to the insolent man, at this moment, he is standing outside the gate of the Taiping Dao stronghold in Baibo Valley.

Although Baibo Valley is located in the Sili School Captain's Department, which is often referred to as "Sizhou" in Hedong County, the local owner is a group of Yellow Turban remnants who belong to the Taiping Road of Bingzhou. From this point of view, it can be described as a typical place where "the mountain is high and the emperor is far away".

According to later generations, the location of Baibo Valley is in Yonggu Town, Xiangfen, Shanxi. This place is located in the Fenhe River Gorge - the Taiyuan-Hedong strategic avenue is a key point, and building a fortress here can make the enemy lose contact with the north and south sides, and lose their head and tail. In this way, you can go south or north at will, and plan and defend the battle, all by yourself.

Mrs. Guo's annexation of Taiping Road has undoubtedly been planning for a long time to resist the Han family. Obviously, Mrs. Guo's eyes are not limited to just one state. Although Hedong County belongs to the division, it is topography and is connected with the state.

In addition to its important strategic position, it is also because it is located on a huge platform on the west bank of the Fen River, with a mountain on one side and a ditch [river] on three sides, which can be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Moreover, the water here is abundant and the area is vast enough for 100,000 people to live and rest. In addition, the local soil is fertile and the irrigation is convenient, and it has always been an important grain producing area in the Linfen area. With a combination of conditions, it is not surprising that Baibo Valley has become the best place for future troops in the Taiping Road of Bingzhou.

According to the records of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, the "White Bo Army" led by Guo Tai should have risen in February of this year [188] and launched an uprising. However, perhaps due to the influence of the arrogant crossing, even if the time has reached June, the current Bingzhou Taiping Road still has not officially erected a rebel flag.

Bingzhou Taiping Road is in the Baibo Valley, and a total of five important dock forts are operated. As the leader, Mrs. Guo naturally has to stay in the largest and most critical barrier. When a Taiping Daoist went in to report, Shi A, who was in charge of guarding the envoy of the Taixing Army, secretly took a look at the barrier.

But see this wall, the shape is not round or square, relying on the terrain to build, the circumference is about 500 zhang, and all sides are ravines eroded by flowing water. Between the bottom of the valley and the wall of the rampart, there is a cliff with a height of 50 to 60 zhang. The entry and exit of people in the fortress only rely on an earthen bridge more than five zhang wide in the west.

With such terrain, even if there are 100,000 troops besieging outside, it will not be able to be used at all. When it comes to easy defense and difficult to attack, it is really "one husband is the key, and ten thousand people are not open".

To be able to use the terrain to such an extent, the designers really took great pains. Seeing this, Shi A's evaluation of Mrs. Guo, the head of Taiping Dao, couldn't help but increase a few points.

Speaking of which, originally the Taixing Army's envoy to Baibo Valley this time should have nothing to do with Shi A. Helplessly, his heart moved, and he was stunned to put Shi A into the team, so that Shi A had to follow the team and travel more than a thousand miles all the way.

However, Shi Ah is extremely keen on his career, and he is not dissatisfied with the arrogant assignment. The only thing that worries Shi A is the wife he just married, one of the Yan clans of the former "Hou Shan Yu of the Subu Bone Du", the Huyan clan.

That Huyan clan, before the Taixing army attacked the Xiongnu royal court, was famous for being obsessed with the etiquette and clothing of the Han family. However, since Meiji City was occupied by the Taixing army, this Huyan clan burned and abandoned all the Han family clothes that he originally cherished as his life, and only wore the old clothes of the Huns.

Not only that, but Hu Yan, who was originally full of Han Luoyang official dialect, never speaks Chinese now, but only speaks Xiongnu. These gossip rumors spread to the ears of Captain Taihang's arrogance, and they also made insolence sigh with emotion:

"The only death through the ages is difficult, and the sadness is not the only lady." 1

Mrs. Xi, also known as Mrs. Peach Blossom, was the daughter of Chen Guojun in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Mrs. Xi's sister is the wife of Cai Hou, the monarch of Cai Guo, and Mrs. Xi passed by Cai Guo when she returned to Chen to visit relatives and was entertained by Cai Hou. Unexpectedly, Cai Hou behaved frivolously, and Xi Hou was furious when he heard it, and designed revenge. sent an envoy to the state of Chu to instigate King Wen of Chu to send troops to pretend to attack the state of Xi, and then asked the state of Cai for help to induce him to send troops.

In September, the Chu soldiers defeated the state of Cai at Xindi [present-day Runan County] and captured the Marquis of Cai. Cai Hou also designed to take revenge on Xi Hou and praised Xi Concubine for her extremely beautiful appearance to the King of Chu. The king of Chu thought about the words of the Marquis of Cai, and wanted to get a concubine, so he came to the country in the name of patrolling. Xi Hou entertained the court, and the king of Chu saw that Xi Fei's beauty was really heard of in the sky, and it was rare in the world and he couldn't sleep at night.

The next day, the king of Chu set up a banquet to thank Xihou, and took the opportunity to capture Xihou by force. was grabbed by Dou Dan and took a step forward to hold the skirt and said: Mrs. doesn't want to save the life of the Hou? What does it mean to die together? Xi Fei was gloomy.

Xi Concubine entered the Chu Palace for 3 years and gave birth to two sons, namely Du Ao and King Chu Cheng. But reluctant to speak. When the king of Chu asked her what the reason was, she replied, "I am a woman, serving two husbands, and even if I can't die, what do I have to say?" King Chu said: "This is all the fault of Cai Hou, and I should avenge my wife." So he raised troops to attack Cai.

One woman, and destroy two countries. Although Mrs. Xi was just an introduction to the meeting by fate, she finally left a great reputation in history. And comparing Mrs. Xi with Huyan Yan's family, although it is not accurate enough, it is not completely unreasonable.

The half of the poem that Zhang Madness read for Hu Yan Yan made Shi A's eyelids jump very much. However, after observing that Zhang Qi had no ill will towards this, Shi Ah let go of his thoughts of fleeing and became an official of the Taixing Army wholeheartedly.

Although the arrogant "Taihang Captain", whose rank is no more than 600 stones, is just a joke in the eyes of the old officials who know the goods. However, for those Taixing soldiers who were born in the rebel army, the rank of 600 stone is no different from the rank of 2,000 stone.

So far, the Taixing Army still uses the original positions of 10 chiefs, 50 chiefs, 100 chiefs, and 1,000 chiefs. Only in the civil and political system were there a few officials who were arrogantly appointed with the rank of 200 stones, 400 stones, and 600 stones. And the actual status of these officials may not be more than the 100 commanders in an army.

As soon as Shi A entered the Tai Marching Army, he was appointed as an "assassin and adulterer", with a rank of 200 stones, which was regarded as the price given by Zhang Yan when he recruited him. However, this "assassination engagement" is a bare-duty position, and there are only two followers under him. This situation, although it was expected by Shi A, was not a good thing after all.

To put it bluntly, in the Taixing Army, there was no position such as "assassination". It was only as soon as Zhang Qiang opened his mouth that such a position was temporarily set. Thinking about the benefits, it reflects the importance that Zhang Qi attaches to Shi A. But thinking about it from the bad side, it can also be seen that Zhang Qiang is not at ease with Shi A.

However, even so, Shi Ah would not easily give up this position of two hundred stones. You must know that with the prestige of Shi A's master, the hero Wang Yue, he has been camping in Luoyang for so many years, but he still hasn't been able to get a decent official position.

Moreover, in Shi A's observation, the arrogant person is by no means a thing in the pool. Even if this person was born in the Yellow Turban and obviously did not deal with the imperial court, he is still thriving. In the future, as long as there is a coincidence, kill more Hu people in the border areas, and with this person's future achievements, he may not be able to be made a marquis by the imperial court.

ps: 1 The words and sentences are from the poet Deng Hanyi in the Kangxi period "The Temple of Mrs. Inscription". The full text is:

Chu Gong swept his eyebrows lazily, and was speechless to Du Chun.

The only death through the ages is difficult, and the sadness is not the only lady.