A.D. 180, the second year of Han Guanghe, November

In a flash, more than half a year passed, and after recovering Tianfeng, Liu Tai immediately returned to Jixian County and personally handled various problems in the reform of the two states.

Tian Feng did not live up to Liu Tai's hopes, and after three months of serving in the state of Bingzhou, his ability was recognized by all the officials under Liu Tai, and he was promoted to the minister of the military aircraft department of the state and the state, handling the large and small government affairs of the state.

It is worth mentioning that when Tian Feng was officially promoted to the state and did not drive, Tian Feng's friend Fu Zhu who went out to study also came to Bingzhou to help Tian Feng deal with government affairs.

Of course, for more than half a year, Liu Tai got not all the good news, the Southern Xiongnu who were adjacent to the state, during this time also continued to rub with the Northern Xinjiang Army of the state, although there was no large-scale battle, but the small-scale battle was almost once every three days, the troubled Liu Tai wanted to lead the army to conquer the Southern Xiongnu, but I don't know why the Southern Xiongnu suddenly got the news, and did not disturb the border of the state for a month, and also sent envoys to show goodwill to the Luoyang court, expressing dissatisfaction with Liu Tai.

Liu Tai was under the pressure of the imperial court, and had to temporarily stop the conquest of the Southern Xiongnu, and changed to a blockade of the frontier, not allowing the slightest rice, grain, salt and iron to flow into the Southern Xiongnu, and wanted to suffocate the Southern Xiongnu alive, and the Southern Xiongnu were also tough, for nearly three months, he did not compete with Liu Tai at all, and the salt, iron, and rice were insufficient, so he simply went to Liangzhou to buy it, and Liu Tai couldn't figure out what the hell the high-level of the Southern Xiongnu was doing.

In the past six months, the situation in the prairie has also changed unpredictably, and Lian is not Tanshi Huai after all, and after the death of Tanshi Huai, he did not raise troops to the south, and the Xianbei people are dissatisfied with it, and Xianbei has been in a stalemate with Louyi on the eastern battlefield for half a year, not to mention the countless losses of grain and grass, and tens of thousands of Xianbei troops have been dragged on the battlefield of Louyi, resulting in heavy losses among the Xianbei people.

After the Northern Xiongnu transferred 50,000 elite cavalry away from Xianbei in the west, they wantonly swept the various pastures in the western Xianbei, and the adults in the western Xianbei were miserable, and asked Helian for help, and Lian also ignored them, eating, drinking and having fun in the central royal court all day long, and made the originally vigorous prairie royal family into a miasma, all of which were only worthy of being obsessed with the magic medicine all day long.

As for Wuheng, which is adjacent to Youzhou, not to mention, since the death of Qiu Juli, the king of Wuheng Heng, all tribes are fighting for power and profit, and want to obtain the throne of the king, the Wuheng tribe that was originally like an iron plate is now divided into three divisions, Liaoxi, Liaodong, and Liaodong Wuheng are kings of Qiu Juli's nephew, Yuyang Sanbu, Right Beiping, Shanggu is controlled by a group of clan elders in Wuheng, there is no king, just a form of alliance, and the Wuheng tribe of the Yanmen generation of Yanmen in the state directly refused to interact with Qiu Guli and the clan elders. It is a faction of its own, sticking to the vast prairie in Yanmen and Yunzhong.

Now the situation is very favorable to Liu Tai, Xianbei civil strife is imminent, Wuheng has been divided into three divisions, each of which is less than 50,000 soldiers and horses, and it can be broken with one blow, but Liu Tai is worried that if the troops are sent at this time, will it lead to the end of Xianbei's upcoming civil strife, after all, Wuheng is Xianbei's southern barrier, if Wuheng is completely removed by Liu Tai, Xianbei will have to face Liu Tai directly, and Xianbei is now everywhere in the situation, there is no more Liu Tai's northern army.

Jixian Hou Mansion

In the hall, the hall was full of Wenchen generals who rushed back from all over the two states under Liu Tai's rule, because Liu Tai could not decide whether to raise troops to go north to attack Wuheng, so he brainstormed and summoned all the Wenchen generals to return to Jixian County to discuss.

"Lord, at this time, the two states of northern Xinjiang, in the view of abundance, should continue to recuperate, expand armaments, accumulate grain and grass, and when the time comes, then wave troops north to sweep the three major tribes of Wuheng in one fell swoop." Tian Feng sat among the Wenchen, Xun Yu and Xun Yu, glanced at the officials of the two states present, and said to Liu Tai, who was sitting on the top and thinking.

"En" Liu Tai nodded, did not answer directly, but glanced at everyone and asked, "What do you think of Yuan Hao's opinion?" ”

Xun You heard Liu Tai's question, and seeing that no one answered, after pondering for a while, he stepped forward and said: "Lord, you think that you should not fight at this time, even if you want to fight, you must wait until the Xianbei three are completely divided!" ”

"Is it split in three parts?" Liu Tai frowned, muttered softly, looked at the frustrated man with a flat face and asked, "What is Gonghe's opinion?" ”

Frustrated, he heard Liu Tai's name, looked up at Liu Tai and said: "Lord, the minister thinks that he should fight, but he must not fight, as long as the generals present send his generals from time to time to pretend to be the cavalry of the hostile tribes, and attack the various small tribes under the name of the three tribes of Wuheng, which will increase the contradiction between the three departments. ”

"This proposal is good, but this general adds one more, you must not fight hard with Wu Heng, you can gnaw what you can gnaw, and if you can't gnaw, you will run, and you must not be detected by Wu Heng, otherwise when the three departments are united, it will be enough for us to eat a pot." Liu Tai said with a smile on his face.

Huang Zhong, the representative of the military generals' department, came out of the ranks, and said with a resolute face: "Lord, in the opinion of loyalty, now that the soldiers of Erzhou are well fed, there is no need to be so careful, and he directly led the army to take three Wuheng is, and Wuheng's cavalry of less than 150,000 is not our opponent at all." ”

Liu Tai shook his head, glanced at Huang Zhong and said: "Han Sheng, the grassland iron cavalry is different from my Han iron cavalry, my Han army knights from the beginning of enlistment, contact with horses for a year or two, with the assistance of horseshoes and stirrups, you can become elite cavalry, but the grassland people have been exposed to horses since childhood, and under long-term contact, there are almost as many young and strong men as there are elite cavalry among the grassland peoples, although the three Wuheng tribes only have 150,000 cavalry in name, but if they really unite as one, they will use the strength of the whole clan to fight against our northern Xinjiang army. At that time, the 100,000 iron cavalry that General Ben had trained with great difficulty, even if he was defeated, would definitely be in vain. ”

"This...."Huang Zhong knew that what Liu Tai said was true, if he really fought to the death with Wu Heng, he would definitely not be able to afford to lose the two states, it seemed that the time had not yet come.

Zhang Fei, who was on the side, saw that Huang Zhong was speechless and retreated, and shouted with a dissatisfied face: "What are you afraid of, how can there be immortals in a war, and when Wuheng is destroyed, the lord will recruit troops and buy horses." ”

"You, stinky boy, get out of the way and talk less." Liu Tai heard Zhang Fei's words and scolded with a helpless smile.

"Hmph, hmph" Zhang Fei saw that the colleagues around him were all looking at him like idiots, his face was suddenly flushed, and after snorting hard, he had no choice but to return to his original position.

"Well, Xiao Jiazi, is there any news of Ma Jun?" Liu Tai looked at Guo Jia and asked out loud, since Ma Jun left, nine months have passed, not only did he not bring his teacher Mr. Mowen up, but he also disappeared without a trace, and he didn't know what tricks he was playing.

"Lord, Jia has no news of Ma Jun for the time being, after Ma Jun lost his figure in Qingzhou, he has never appeared again, it is Jia who is ineffective, and I hope that the lord will punish him." Guo Jia has grown up very quickly in the past six months, although he is still a child, he is also one meter three or four tall, and he will call Liu Tai his brother in private, but he will call Liu Tai as the main father in front of people.