If Liu Yu knew that the son who didn't let himself worry about it was actively planning to form a cavalry for his father to sweep the world, he would definitely feel very relieved, and even very much looking forward to it!

Because, Liu Yu now urgently needs a cavalry force with strong combat power, loyalty and reliability.

After more than half a month of going south, Liu Yu has fully felt how unreliable the team he brought is, there is no discipline or discipline, and there is no combat power, except for the number of people who seem to be large and the momentum is huge, the others are simply not worth it. Moreover, it is precisely because of the large number of people and horses going south that it has not only caused great trouble to logistics supply, but also caused a lot of trouble to the people along the way.

Speaking of trouble, this is still light. In fact, Liu Yu knew that some troops were very disagreeable, and they could be described as a scourge. For example, if the 20,000 people brought by Yan Rou continue to stay in Jizhou, they may do something even more unbearable, and they may even become a bandit army.

The troops under Liu Yu's command are so unbearable, but there are complicated historical reasons.

A few years ago, before Liu Yu served as the pastor of Youzhou, Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju formed an alliance with the Wuhuan people, and then rebelled together, led the army to attack under Jixian County, burned the city, plundered the people, and killed the then Wuhuan school captain Ji Chou, Liu Zheng, the Taishou Liu Zheng of the Right Beiping, and the Taishou Yangzhong of Liaodong, and the rebellious troops once reached more than 100,000, stationed in the area of Feiru.

Zhang Ju called himself the "Son of Heaven", and Zhang Chun called himself "General Mitian and the King of Anding", and they passed the book to various states and counties, saying that they would stand on behalf of the Han Dynasty. Zhang Chun also sent 50,000 troops including King Wuhuan Qiao into Qingdao and Hebei Prefectures, broke through Qinghe, Pingyuan and other counties, and killed many people and officials.

The following year, the imperial court sent Liu Yu, who was then Zongzheng, to lead Youzhou to the post of pastor to quell Erzhang's rebellion.

After Liu Yu arrived in Youzhou, he streamlined his troops, widely implemented benevolent governance, and sent envoys to tell King Wuhuan Qiao, Qiu Liju and others that the imperial court would be lenient with their previous behavior and could exempt them from responsibility for the crimes they had committed, but they could no longer support Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun in the future.

After successfully dividing the relationship between Erzhang and the Wuhuan people, Liu Yu immediately offered rewards and wanted Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun in various parts of Youzhou. Seeing that there was nothing to do, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun fled for their lives outside the Saiwai, and the rebels who rebelled with them surrendered or fled. Later, Zhang Chun was killed by his disciple Wang Zheng, and his head was sent to Liu Yu. Liu Yu made great contributions, and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty sent an envoy to promote Liu Yu to the rank of Taiwei and named the Marquis of Rongqiu.

Liu Yu is a benevolent and generous person, after he received more than 70,000 troops from Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju, he did not kill them all like Huangfu Song did to deal with the rebellious Yellow Turban "moth thieves", and then piled up a "Jingguan" in Youzhou, but placed this uneven team on the spot, among which the old and weak were all distributed to the land, transferred to the people, and the remaining 30,000 young and strong were transferred to part of the standing army in Youzhou.

Of the 30,000 soldiers led by Liu Yu this time, a considerable part of them belonged to the rebel army that followed Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju in rebellion, and the 20,000 troops brought by Yan Rou were even more complicated.

Yan Rou was originally from Guangyang, his hometown is thirty miles west of Jixian County, he was taken captive by the Wuhuan people who went south to Kou when he was young, and later the Xianbei people came to fight the Wuhuan people, and took him from Wuhuan to the Xianbei tribe.

If it had been someone else, I am afraid that I would have lost my life a few times by being taken captive like this, but Yan Rou was an outlier, not only did she not suffer much, but instead of suffering much, she became a friend of the Xianbei and Wuhuan people, and gained the trust and closeness of the two clans.

As mentioned earlier, the original Wuhuan captain Ji Chou was killed during the Erzhang rebellion, and later the imperial court reappointed a captain named Xingju to take office, but he was killed by the Xianbei people, and the purpose of the Xianbei people's killing of Xingju was to seek this position for Yan Rou!

However, the Xianbei people underestimated the attitude and determination of the Han court towards foreign peoples, even if the Lingdi at that time was absurd and unreasonable, and the imperial court's suppression of the northern ethnic groups was gradually declining, but the killing of the two consecutive captains of Huwuhuan also made the court very angry, so the court promoted Gongsun Zhan, who had made contributions in the process of crusading against Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju, to the captain of Wuhuan, and then promoted him to Zhonglang General.

Gongsun Zhan's attitude towards Xianbei and Wuhuan people is fundamentally different from Liu Yu. Liu Yu advocated a policy of tenderness towards the nomads outside the Saiwai, while Gongsun Zhan advocated a-for-tat for a tooth and resolutely counterattacked and exterminated. The Xianbei and Wuhuan people suffered a lot in Gongsun Zhan, and they turned to support Liu Yu more, and at the same time actively supported Yan Rou as a spokesperson, usually responsible for dealing with the officials of the counties in Youzhou.

Although Yan Rou is a Han Chinese, but he is for the sake of the interests of Wuhuan and some Xianbei people, Xian Yufu was hot-headed, and volunteered to ask him to send troops to support Liu Yu to go south, which was in Yan Rou's arms, so Yan Rou immediately gathered 20,000 cavalry, and followed Liu Yu south to Jizhou.

The reason why Yan Rou wanted to lead his troops south with Liu Yu was that he could further consolidate his position in the hearts of Wuhuan and Xianbei, and he could say this to Wuhuan and Xianbei: "Look, I still have a very high status in Liu Yu's heart, right?" He wants to send troops south to deal with Gongsun Zhan, and he won't forget to ask me to go with him! ”

Second, Yan Rou can help the Karasuma people and the Xianbei people to carry out a large-scale raid with legal scenery, not only can they obtain a large amount of grain and grass military funds from Youzhou and Jizhou, but also show their "muscles" in Youzhou and Jizhou.

Third, and most importantly, Yan Rou wanted to use this action to further persecute Liu Yu and let Liu Yu go to the court to show himself as the captain of Wuhuan Colonel. Yan Rou knew very well that he had an irreplaceable role between the Han people, the Wuhuan people, and the Xianbei people, as long as he got this position, even if the imperial court did not pay him a penny of military salary in the future, he was sure to expand his power inside and outside the border fortress and divide one side.

Although Yan Rou is calculating, Liu Yu is not stupid. Liu Yu would never tell Yan Rou that in fact, the person who secretly recommended Gongsun Zan to the imperial court to be promoted to the captain of Wuhuan was himself. The world only knows that he is kind and generous in his heart, and has always treated the Wuhuan and Xianbei people with a gentle policy, but he does not know that he also hopes that he can have a sharp enough knife in his hand to deter the Wuhuan and Xianbei people.

Throughout Liu Yu's life experience, he was obviously not a qualified military strategist, but he was an outstanding politician. The military is always in the service of politics, and many times, the murder of playing politics does not require the use of a knife at all. For example, when Liu Yu killed Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju back then, he didn't use much force, but just adopted some divisive methods, which could easily work.

No one knows better than Liu Yu the inferior nature of the nomadic people outside the Seychelles, "those who are close are not inferior, and those who are far away are resentful", and to deal with these peoples on horseback, to put it bluntly, they have to pay equal attention to grace and power.

Since Liu Yu ruled Youzhou, because all the hatred was pulled away by the fierce Gongsun Zhan, he became the "savior" in the minds of the Xianbei and Wuhuan people, and the Wuhuan and Xianbei people outside the Saiwai have never crossed the Great Wall to the south over the years, so that Youzhou, which had suffered from the rebellion of Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju, ushered in a rare opportunity to recuperate. Especially after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Youzhou was hardly affected too much, but took in many people who fled from the south, and there was a vague scene that was too peaceful.

However, soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. Although Liu Yu now has a status and prestige that no one can replace in Youzhou, he is facing the continuous growth of Gongsun Zan and the double oppression of some Xianbei people and Wuhuan people represented by Yan Rou.

Liu Yu knew in his heart that this rare balance situation in Youzhou had come to an end, and if it continued, it would inevitably be a war against each other.

What made Liu Yu even more troublesome was that in order to prevent the large number of troops left by Erzhang from being dispersed, he had to leave tens of thousands of people in the army again, but now it has become a big and difficult situation. These soldiers rebelled with the Wuhuan people in the first place, and they had a close affection for the Wuhuan people, so they naturally regarded the Wuhuan people brought by Yan Rou as brothers and companions, and were unwilling to clash and fight with them.

Seeing that the 20,000 people brought by Yan Rou were becoming more and more disagreeable, Liu Yu had even moved the idea of uniting Jizhou Han Fu and Gongsun Zan to completely solve Yan Rou in Zhending. At this time, the news that Kebineng, the leader of the small Xianbei race, led tens of thousands of Xianbei cavalry to the south to plunder, so Liu Yu gave Yan Rou an order and ordered him to lead his troops to act as the vanguard, and immediately return to the area from Baishan to Danhan Mountain to defend Kebineng.

Forty percent of the 20,000 people in Yan Rou's department are Xianbei people, and sixty percent are Wuhuan people, Liu Yu arranged for these people to fight against the Xianbei leader Kebineng, isn't it a bad brain?

There was no problem with Liu Yu's order, just because the situation inside and outside the Great Wall in the north was complicated at this time, and the Xianbei people, who controlled the vast grasslands in the north, did not form a unified state.

After the fall of the Xianbei people, they were divided into dozens of large and small tribes from east to west, among which the descendants of the sandalwood acacia had tens of thousands of people, forming a large tribal alliance, and possessed the Saiwai pastures in the area of Yunzhong and Yanmen; The small Xianbei Kebineng has more than 100,000 horsemen, and has the land of Daijun and Shanggu Biansai east of Takayanagi; A number of small Xianbei tribes that originally belonged to the eastern lord Mijia and Suli were distributed outside the Saiwai of Liaoxi County, Youbeiping and Yuyang County.

In addition, in the extreme west, adjacent to the Wusun people, and in the far north, adjacent to the Dingling, Jiankun and other tribes, there are also Xianbei tribes.

In other words, this part of the Xianbei people led by Yan Rou was attached to the Wuhuan and Han people, and although they were collectively referred to as Xianbei tribes led by Kebineng, they were actually hostile.

If Kebi can come to plunder, he must pass through the territory of the Wuhuan people and these small Xianbei tribes, and they are the first to bear the brunt. Kebineng will not be polite to them, and will definitely kill all the men in their clan, and then rob them of all their belongings and rob all their women.

Although Yan Rou led his troops south to achieve all the goals, such as letting Liu Yu watch himself as the captain of Wuhuan Colonel, it was also enough to reap enough benefits, so after receiving Liu Yu's order, he quickly returned to the north.

After Yan Rou left, Liu Yu was worried that this group of Wuhuan and Xianbei people who had returned from the north were looting along the road, and he was even more worried that Yan Rouyang would take advantage of the situation to occupy Ningcheng, where the Wuhuan Captain's Mansion was located, so he chased Yan Rou and went north together.

However, what worried Liu Yu finally happened.

Yan Rou was driven north by Liu Yu all the way, although he didn't have the opportunity to do some more things to scrape the ground, but after he led his army to cross the Qiushui, he unceremoniously drove his troops into Ningcheng, where the Captain Wuhuan's Mansion was located, and also sent someone to send a letter to Liu Yu, claiming that he had made up his mind this time to defend Youzhou with Lord Taifu and jointly resist the invasion of Kebineng.

Although Yan Rou's move was a bit of a scoundrel, after all, he did not fall to the side of Kebineng, so it was inconvenient for Liu Yu to turn his face, and Liu Yu did not have the confidence to turn his face now, so he had to station 27,000 troops in Macheng on the south bank of Qiushui, forming a situation of garrisoning Yan Rou's 20,000 troops across the water.

At this time, although the wolf smoke in the northern part of Youzhou has not yet been ignited, the situation has become tense, and I don't know if Liu Yu can finally properly handle the relationship between all parties and keep the peace of the people of Youzhou as before?

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