At the end of the first year of Guanghe in the Eastern Han Dynasty (178 AD), Chen Lin personally escorted Cai Bojiao, who had been convicted by his words, to Shuofang County, with a tortuous journey, and arrived in Shuofang County in February of the following year. Chen Lin and others were also busy settling down for Cai Yong, just when Chen Lin wanted to return to Luoyang, there was a shocking news: the Xiongnu Zhonglang Zhang Xiu and Zhang Zixue were at odds with the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Hu Zheng, killed Hu Zheng, and set up the right Xian Wang Qiangqu as Shan Yu.

The Xiongnu Zhonglang General was an official set up by the Han Dynasty to supervise the Southern Xiongnu, with two people, one Sima, a number of subordinates, and a thousand armor soldiers with bows and crossbows. Xiongnu Zhonglang will move with Shan Yu, that is to say, where Shan Yu goes, Xiongnu Zhonglang will go.

As soon as Chen Lin said "Hexi Plain", Cai Yong laughed: "Bozhi didn't know that after I defeated the Xiongnu Empire, one of the Xiongnu moved westward, and about forty or fifty thousand people moved inward to attach to the Han Dynasty. The place where it lives is called 'Hetao Plain', which is the bending section of the Yellow River and its basin, from Xihe County, Shang County, Shuofang County and other places in Bingzhou to the periphery of Liangzhou, a large area, called 'Hetao Plain'. The Yellow River is rich in one set of harms, and this set is the Hetao. The 'Hexi Plain' that Bo Zhi said is wrong, hahaha. Cai Yong deserves to be a knowledgeable person, Chen Lin knew how shallow his knowledge was, and hurriedly scratched his head in embarrassment.

Chen Lin said again: "Now that this Xiongnu Zhonglang will kill Shan Yu, and set up a new Shan Yu, I am afraid that there will be some changes in this Hetao Plain." Cai Yong continued Chen Lin's words: "The number of Xiongnu in the entire Hetao in the land of Qianghu today has reached 300,000, and the number of people who can control the strings can reach 80,000. ”

Chen Lin shouted: "What, eighty thousand? "Eighty thousand warriors on horseback, no wonder Chen Lin exclaimed, "Isn't my Han every year from the Qiang Hu to recruit young and strong into the army, how can there be 80,000?" Cai Yong sighed: "My Han often draws young men from the Qianghu to enlist in the army, but my Han Qingping, there is no war, and the Qianghu cavalry drawn every time returns to Hetao in a few years, so it becomes my Han to raise soldiers for it." Chen Lin: "It is said that most of the Sanhe cavalry are from the land of Qianghu, why do they let them return easily?" Cai Yong: "Although the Sanhe cavalry is from Qianghu, it is different from other Qianghu, because the Sanhe cavalry are all people who have settled in the land of Sanhe, and there is no difference between them and the people of our Han Dynasty, unlike Qianghu, which is still a tribe. ”

Chen Lin was extremely shocked in his heart, and always thought that the tens of thousands of Sanhe cavalry controlled by the Han Dynasty were drawn from Qianghu, but he didn't expect it to be like this, that is to say, today's Hetao Plain, which is dominated by the Southern Xiongnu, has a strong national army, and it may lose control at any time, and the consequences will really become another Xianbei.

Chen Lin hurriedly asked Cai Yong: "Then according to Lord Cai's opinion, how should we deal with the matter of Qianghu?" Cai Yong: "It's a pity that the old man is a literati, but he doesn't know about military affairs." Chen Lin was slightly disappointed, he was very anxious in his heart, and shouted in a lost voice: "Why don't you build a city to transform it like the pre-Qin." "Many of today's Shuofang Wuyuan Yunzhong were built by the Qin Dynasty to defend against nomads, and many years later, although it was still desolate, it was under the control of the Han people. According to Chen Lin's thoughts, there is no need to build the Great Wall in the Hetao, but to build a few more cities. When the Qianghu people live in the city, let alone his 300,000, even if he has 300,000, he will not be able to turn the sky upside down.

After the two, Chen Lin and Fang Yue parted ways, Fang Yue would return to Hanoi the same way, Chen Lin handed over the extra seventy horses to Fang Yue, and asked Fang Yue to take them back to Hanoi and take care of them for the time being. And Chen Lin decided not to take the route in the clouds, but went directly south from Shuofang County and entered the Qianghu gathering place, Chen Lin wanted to see what kind of scene was in Qianghu. All the people who came and went back and forth from Shuofang walked in a big circle, walking from the Yanmen Gate in the clouds, and few people dared to go directly north from the two counties of Hedong or Beidi, passing through the land of Qianghu. Chen Lin's move made Cai Yong and others persuade him more than once, only hoping that Chen Lin could safely pass through the land of Qianghu, where horse thieves are everywhere, and Qianghu is arrogant, which is really dangerous. There are also many horse thieves who rob the herdsmen in the land of Qianghu, and these horse thieves are either Han criminals who fled north, or Hu people who have been exterminated. Looting for a living, coming and going without a shadow, even if it is a Han Chinese, in the long-term career of a horse thief, he has also practiced a riding skill that is not inferior to Qianghu.

Chen Lin and the others took off their Han clothes, changed into the clothes of Hu people and animal skins, said goodbye to Cai Yong and Fang Yue, and more than 20 people ran their horses and went south, where there were endless wastelands, grasslands, and horse thieves who didn't know where to hide, and the unfriendly Qianghu people.

After a day of horse running, the first thing that broke into Chen Lin's eyes was a vast expanse, and the wind blowing in his face was not as wet as elsewhere, and there was a layer of sand and dust tumbling, so it was best to cover his eyes with gauze. It is also very different from Yanmen and other places in the clouds, where there is the color of the green forest from time to time, but here you only see the heaven and earth connected together, and there are countless mountains and Baotou like undulating waves. If you walk on a low place, you may climb over the mountain pack in front of you and it will be a mountain forest, or it may be an endless desert. Chen Lin and others felt the scenery of this desert for the first time, and couldn't help but sigh at the magic of heaven and earth, it is said that the desert where Xianbei people live is deeper and wider, and I don't know what kind of style.

Chen Lin and the others were intoxicated by the scenery in front of them, when suddenly a puff of smoke and dust rolled up behind them like a storm, accompanied by the sound of thunder. As soon as Chen Lin heard about the secret disaster, he met a horse thief in just one day, a large number of horse thieves. Chen Lin was just about to give an order, but Huang Yan spoke up: "Young Master, the cavalry is from the back of the self-equal, and the road is close to Shuofang County, it must not be a horse thief, it must be the Bingzhou cavalry, but I don't know why the Bingzhou cavalry appeared here." ”

Chen Lin also felt justified after hearing this, so he lined up and looked at the incoming army, waiting to see that if it wasn't for the Han army, it would not be too late to run. After a while, a group of about 500 Han-style cavalry broke into view, and when the cavalry saw more than 20 horsemen in front of him blocking the way, the leader pointed his gun to the left, turned around in the air, and pointed to the right. I saw that the cavalry was divided into two parts, one to the left and one to the right, enveloping Chen Lin and the others. Smoke flew behind the hooves of a thousand horses, like a torrential wave, hitting the chests of Chen Lin and the others, and it was really extraordinary. Although Chen Lin also had 500 horseback guards, he was far from being as imposing and military as he had been given by the battlefield, and he had experienced countless lives and deaths.

Chen Lin was not nervous, the group of cavalry besieged everyone, and a young colonel with slightly shiny armor, long arms and round eyes, and a two-stone longbow shouted: "Who are you and where do you want to go." Huang Yan looked at the longbow on the little school's body clearly, and looked back at his longbow, after all, it looked better on his own. Chen Lin is not afraid of others asking him who he is, just because Chen Lin has a token and an official seal on his body, and today is also average. When the general saw Chen Lin's token and official seal, although he was puzzled, he didn't dare to ask more.

Chen Lin: "The general is carrying out military affairs this time?" Seeing that Chen Lin was kind and angry, he didn't act like an official, so he talked more, Chen Lin was taken aback after hearing it, and something was really going to happen. It turned out that after Zhang Xiu killed Hu Zhengshan Yu the previous time, everyone in the Southern Xiongnu was panicked, thinking that the Han was going to attack them. The new Shan Yu Qiangqu, who was originally the right virtuous king, lacked prestige, and many people were dissatisfied. And Bai Yong, the son of Hu Zheng, was originally the king of Zuoxian, and when he saw that Qiangqu was single, he was not convinced, so he thought that his father was avenging his father, and attracted some of the people to confront Qiangqu, and also killed Zhang Xiu, the general of the Han Xiongnu.

Bingzhou Assassin Shi Ding Yuan was afraid that the Qiang Hu turmoil would endanger the border and the border would be disturbed, so he ordered the Bingzhou cavalry detachment to inspect the border and report immediately if there was any movement.

Now that it has reached the edge of the Qianghu dense land, the cavalry commander of the state did not dare to go any further, so he could only patrol the border area in the middle of Yanmen Yun. As soon as Chen Lin heard that such a great change had occurred in Qianghu, from the information of the colonel, Chen Linke deduced that Qiangqu was pro-Han, and that Bai Yong killed Zhang Xiu, which was a test of the Han Dynasty, and it seems that Bai Yong also saw that the Xiongnu now have some strength and the chaos and weakness of the Han Dynasty.

Chen Lin asked again: "Does the general know where the Qiangqu Department is now, and where is the Baiyong Department?" Colonel: "My lord, it is said that the Qiang Canal is now in the west, in the area of Shili Mountain, after the death of the Xiongnu Zhonglang General Zhang Daren, the department has not returned to the Han Dynasty, presumably at the Qiang Canal of Shili Mountain." And the Baiyong Department is in the Yulin area, and its movements are secretive, and it is very likely to cause chaos in our prefecture and county. "The Great Wall in the Yulin area of the Hetao Plain has been in disrepair for a long time, and Qianghu can now be said to be in and out freely. Chen Lin didn't know much about the distribution of Qianghu, so he asked Xiao Xiao to roughly draw the approximate location of Shili Mountain on the ground.

Chen Lin turned back to Huang Yan: "I look at this Qiang Canal or the Han Dynasty in person, I must not let Bai Yong fight through the Qiang Canal and win the position of Shan Yu, otherwise it will be useless to Yu Dahan, I want to go to Shili Mountain, what does Huang Yan think?" ”

Huang Yan thought for a while, and said: "One hundred brave people, they must fight for the position of Shan Yu first, and before they overwhelm Qiangqu, they will definitely not march into our big army in a big way, and even if there is, it will be a small plunder." However, if it is allowed to win over the people, drive away or defeat the Qiang Canal, and unify the Qianghu River, it will become a border trouble for our Han Dynasty. The eldest young master has the heart to serve the country, so it doesn't hurt to go, but the court has to do a good job. The little colonel saw that Chen Lin actually asked a subordinate, it was very strange, but he heard Huang Yan speak quite extraordinary, so he looked at Huang Yan seriously, and saw that although Huang Yan was not strong and burly, he was also tall and handsome, and he was carrying a huge iron bow, and he couldn't help but be shocked. I was a little more curious about my master Chen Lin in my heart, and said in my heart that this adult was very different, and the little house slave also had such a talent, and bravely entered the land of Qianghu with a small body, and spared his life for the peace of the Han Dynasty, and this kind of loyalty and pride was what they worshipped by these border soldiers.

Chen Lin then summoned a guard, bowed his head and whispered a few words, and then said to the junior colonel: "General, this guard is going to return to Luoyang from the clouds, I don't know if I can join the general?" ”

When the little colonel left, he returned to the horse alone and bowed his hand to Chen Lin: "Today, I have to see the pride of the adults, and I admire them in my heart. "Let's go with a flying horse.