Chapter 251: A Strange Situation

Zhengyuan County since receiving the news of the Northern Xiongnu invasion of the south, the entire Zhengyuan County has been built into a military fortress, all the people have moved to Yanmen under the possible conditions to temporarily avoid the disaster of war, now Zhengyuan City is full of patrolling soldiers and horses, almost no people can be seen, and the total number of these soldiers and horses, nearly 300,000! It is not so easy to encourage merchants in northern Xinjiang to build, and to build two counties on the ground, especially at the same time there are more than ten acropolis, the process is very cumbersome, it takes nearly three years, the original army and Zhenyuan County are just beginning to take shape, although many displaced people have been moved into the city to become the owner, but most of the displaced people do not have their own unique houses, and even several families live together.

Now the Northern Xiongnu are coming in a big way, the construction of the city, naturally to be temporarily stopped, the construction period has also been postponed indefinitely, and even in order to prevent the Northern Xiongnu from attacking the city, a lot of fortification items have been prepared, some of the buildings are not completed, directly all of them were demolished and requisitioned, and then compensated after the war.

Fight a big war, fight is the material, fight is the logistics, at this time after the Liaodong Campaign, the northern Xinjiang has been nearly half a year of cultivation, a little bit of recovery, this is a defensive war, not the initiative to attack, grain and grass can also keep up, if you fight an expedition of one million people, I am afraid that the situation in the northern Xinjiang is not easy to consolidate, it will completely collapse, so although Liu Tai has conquered foreign tribes many times, but they are all moderate, if they really move away, Liu Tai has no way at all.

"Dashuai, the Northern Xiongnu have been stationed thirty miles outside the original city for as many as seven or eight days, why don't they attack the city? Or don't even talk about the scene? What exactly is the intention? The army commander Ma Qiang arched his hand to Huang Zhong, who was sitting in the first seat, and asked out with a puzzled expression.

Huang Zhong didn't answer, Huang Zhong didn't know this question himself, so he could only look at the military advisor.

Seeing that Huang Zhong couldn't explain it, he set his eyes on Fu Zhu, and one by one they did the same, looking at Fu Zhu who was kneeling there.

Frustrated with frowns, as if calculating something in his heart, shaking his head from time to time, nodding from time to time, feeling everyone's gaze, his expression was a little solemn.

"Everyone wants to know the intentions of the Northern Huns, and this army division also knows, but at present, the Northern Huns don't make any moves, as if they are waiting for the news of the Xianbei 400,000 army of the Middle Route Army." Frustrated Zhu's face returned to indifference, and he said calmly.

"En" Huang Zhong's eyes flashed with a fine light, nodded, and said approvingly: "From the perspective of loyalty, the most important problem of the alliance of the five clans is to have selfish intentions, and this is also the fundamental reason why the alliance has not lasted for a long time, although the Northern Xiongnu and I conquer the original and Zhenyuan two counties, but so far there has been no conflict, I think it is also sitting on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, if Xianbei wins, the Northern Xiongnu will definitely take advantage of the victory to pursue, attack my Zhengyuan city, if Xianbei is defeated"

"The Northern Xiongnu army will take advantage of the situation to retreat, and the three tribes, including Qianghu, Goguryeo, and Buyeo, will retreat without a fight, but the current situation is that Goguryeo has already started, and Qianghu is also preparing to attack Shuofang, what are the intentions of these people?" Guan Yu didn't let Huang Zhong finish speaking, but directly picked up Huang Zhong's words and said.

Guan Yu's habit is very bad, if he didn't know Guan Yu's spleen surname, anyone would be angry, fortunately, Huang Zhong and Guan Yu have been together for a long time, knowing that Guan Yu is just quick to talk, and he can't hide his thoughts.

"Well, Yun Chang is right, Goguryeo is very easy to explain, they have always been stealing chickens and dogs, and they are arrogant and arrogant there after they have captured one or two cities, Ao Wu, this kid, I am very familiar with it, he is a careless and meticulous person, and with the help of Master Guan and Liu Zhizhong, there is no problem at all to deal with Goguryeo, and they can even get through Bogu." Huang Zhong smiled indifferently, although Ao Wu said that he was Gao Shun's personal soldier, he was also a soldier under Huang Zhong in the past, and he was brave enough to be buried, just because he had not received a traditional professor, he would be buried.

Now Ao Wu, as a county guard, can be described as a feudal official, with more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, all of whom are elite regular soldiers, it can be seen that Liu Tai attaches great importance to it, and even has the mind to hand over the entire Northeast to Ao Wu, which Huang Zhong can see from Liu Tai's many actions, as for how far Ao Wu can climb in the end, it can only depend on Ao Wu himself.

"Well, Ao Wu's force is really good, bold and careful, in the early years, General Ben wanted to ask him from General Gao, but General Gao didn't give it to him." Guan Yu smiled, when he saw Ao Wu for the first time in the past, Guan Yu liked it very much, and even wanted Ao Wu to be his lieutenant, but Ao Wu Pianpian was a tendon, and he had to follow Gao Shun when he died, but fortunately, Liu Tai's appointment, Ao Wu didn't dare to refuse, otherwise he would be a little bold.

"Hansheng, something is wrong with the Qianghu side, although Shuofang has developed rapidly in recent years, but it is impossible to lead the Qianghu to fight, after all, the Qianghu side and our side are separated by Hexi Xianbei, although there have always been conflicts, but there are very few, and it can even be said that it is negligible, this time the Qianghu poured out of the nest, there will definitely be some purpose." Fu Zhu frowned, glanced around at everyone, and then looked at Huang Zhong and said.

Huang Zhong nodded, as the chief general of Bingzhou, it can be said that he knows the most about all sides of Bingzhou, if it weren't for Hexi Xianbei far bypassing Zhengyuan County to Danhan Mountain to join the army, Northern Xinjiang would not have been so embarrassed to meet the enemy, and Qianghu has always been a little incompatible with Xianbei, it can be said that there is a small fight in three days, but how could it suddenly join forces with Xianbei and the Northern Xiongnu this time? It's a weird situation.

"Could it be that Qianghu's real purpose is not Shuo Fang?" Frustrated with a frown, he stood up and walked over to a military map on the left side of the lobby.

This military map is naturally a map that can only be equipped by superior officers in Northern Xinjiang, and it is exclusive to Guan Yu, as the general of Zhengyuan County, he knows the most about this map, and there are even many annotations with Guan Yu on it, indicating the strength and distance between the two sides, although it is not very accurate, but it can also be seen that Guan Yu has not only guarded Zhengyuan County in the past two years.

"Yun Chang, you know this map best, or you should tell me about the most likely military target of Qianghu." Frustrated turned his head to look at Guan Yu among the people who followed behind him, and said lightly.

"No!" Guan Yu arched his hand, although Guan Yu is the guard of Zhengyuan County, and Fu Zhu is not Guan Yu's direct superior, but what Fu Yu has done in Bingzhou in the past few years is deeply admired by Guan Yu, and he is naturally very sure of Fu Yu's ability, otherwise, with Guan Yu's surname, except for Liu Tai, it is really a bit difficult to give up his hand to anyone.

"Military advisor, please see, this place is the tribal range of Qianghu, and Qianghu's sphere of influence is thousands of miles away from my Zhengyuan County, if in normal times, Qianghu's soldiers and horses will disturb Linrong at most, and at most it will not exceed a thousand soldiers and horses, because the main raiding range of Qianghu is Liangzhou Beidi County and Zhangye vassal country." Guan Yu pointed to the sphere of influence marked with the word Qiang Hu on the map, and said to everyone.

"I heard that Dong Zhuo, the assassin of Liangzhou, commanded more than 200,000 elite iron cavalry, suppressed the Qiang rebellion many times, and even beat the Northern Xiongnu to dare not invade the Dunhuang area, Qiang Hu agreed to go east this time, is it because Dong Zhuo suppressed it too hard?" Although he didn't want to grow up with other people's morale to destroy his prestige, Yan Liang still had to admit that Dong Zhuo was indeed very good at fighting and made great contributions in the northwest border of the Han Dynasty.

"Yes, maybe it's possible!" Fu Zhu nodded, looked at the territory of Liangzhou and said: "Liangzhou is a big state, although because of poverty, resulting in a serious loss of people, but it must be said that the people of Liangzhou are so strong, even better than the soldiers in the northern Xinjiang, they are all stronger, and Dong Zhuo is in the Quartet of Liangzhou, and he has the title of Dong Demon King, and the generals under his command Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Hua Xiong are no less brave than the two generals Guan Yan!" ”

"Humph!" Hearing that there was someone who could compare with him, a look of dissatisfaction flashed in Guan Yu's eyes, because he was only in his twenties and had not entered the peak situation, Guan Yu's current force value was slightly inferior to Huang Zhong, but he was also a strong man who could rank in the top five in Northern Xinjiang, what are the three of them? In Guan Yu's eyes, he is just a clown.

Yan Liang is also a little dissatisfied, but because Yan Liang's surname is relatively deep, so he did not show up, although there are many strong people in Northern Xinjiang, but Yan Liang's only picture is Liu Tai, in Yan Liang's opinion, as long as there is enough time, he can definitely surpass most people and become the real strongest.

And Huang Zhong doesn't seem to have any dissatisfaction, and now Huang Zhong is not too young, and Huang Zhong in his year of establishment has surpassed too many people, and his strength has also entered the peak state, and even under Liu Tai's halberd, he can also make hundreds of moves, of course, Liu Tai can't use that kind of violence that is so weird that people are speechless.

"The military advisor said this too slowly, Hua Xiong is still a little famous, and he has made a lot of meritorious deeds on the battlefield of Qianghu, but Li Dao, Guo Yan... Hum!! Guan Yu's performance was the most prominent, the corners of his mouth were pursed, and he said with a disdainful expression.

Seeing Guan Yu's proud look, he shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Let me tell you this, among the generals in the Northwest, the first one is Li Dao, and Guo Yan and Hua Xiong are just following, and it is even rumored that Li Dao can knock Hua Xiong off the horse with one hand, which can be described as the number one warrior in the Northwest, and among the Qiang people, Li Dao is even known as the hammer of the demon king!" ”

"The demon king is naturally referring to Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo, this person is okay before, since he became the assassin of Liangzhou, he has spared his life, and there are nearly a thousand guards in and out, and in order to protect himself, he even put the commander of the army Li Dao by his side, protecting himself at night, never leaving him, will such a character be simple?" Frustrated's opinion of Li Dao is obviously very cautious, even with a strong sense of vigilance.

In the north and west of Xinjiang, it is the region where the force is supreme, and even the strong are regarded as gods by the people, Liu Tai killed more than a dozen generals in Xianbei before the battle, which can be described as a household name, and even with the people, Liu Tai held the overlord halberd in his hand, and sat on the thunder god to depict it, put it at home, and urged his children to practice martial arts diligently every day.

This is an era of the strong, especially when the people are suffering, the strong appear more prominent, more worshipped, such as Lu Bu in the official history, although the reputation is to death, but he still has 8,000 wolf riders in the state to follow to the death, this is the true character of the hero, the plot of the hero worship in the blood of the Han people.

Guan Yu's face also began to be a little cautious, Huaxiong martial arts, Guan Yu has heard of it, in Guan Yu's opinion, even if it is fast, it will take dozens of moves to capture and kill it, and Li Dao can knock him off the horse with only one move, it seems that Li Dao is not a general.

There are so many heroes in the world, how can there be more in the northern Xinjiang? When Guan Yu saw Ao Wu for the first time in the past, he had a premonition from the bottom of his heart, if Ao Wu fought, he would definitely be a madman who would not die, even more terrifying than Liu Tai's personal guard Chang Dian Wei, but wasn't Ao Wu once an unknown person? If it weren't for Gao Shun, Ao Wu would have died at the hands of the patient.

Of course, no matter what, in Guan Yu's heart, Li Dao will never be able to compare with Liu Tai, because Liu Tai is not a "person" at all in the eyes of the generals in Northern Xinjiang.

(To be continued)