Zhang Liao left Macheng on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and when he left, there were only two hundred horsemen around him, at this time, except for Zhang He, no one would have thought that when he returned to Macheng in the future, he would become a world-famous figure, followed by tens of thousands of iron horsemen.

The two hundred cavalry following Zhang Liao were the officer seeds selected by the adjutant general Murong Ping from the Xiao cavalry guards for the Yue cavalry guards, although there were only two hundred people, they were also strict and murderous, so that pedestrians on both sides of the road did not dare to look directly.

Although the two hundred cavalry is small, it depends on who they compare with. It is said that Hou Cheng had fifteen horses, which were stolen by the Hougou people and were ready to be dedicated to Liu Bei. After Hou Cheng realized this, he chased and killed the Hougou people and recaptured the horse. For this matter, the generals also congratulated Hou Cheng, and Hou Cheng entertained everyone, so he braved Lu Bu's alcohol ban to brew wine at home for five or six times, and was almost beheaded by Lu Bu. Fifty horses have been lost and they have to be regained, and two hundred warriors and horsemen are not to feast on the guests for three days?

Zhang Liao and his entourage set out from Macheng, first arrived at Jining Duwei City, which is located in the west of Daqing Mountain, north of Yanmen County, more than 400 miles away from Zhang Liao's hometown of Mayi, and can be reached in three or four days by horseback.

Zhang Liao was originally a descendant of Nie Yi, and his family changed his surname to Zhang in order to avoid resentment, and lived in the area of Mayi. So, why did Zhang Liao's family avoid resentment? This matter has to start with the "Ma Yi Strategy" during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Zhang Liao's ancestor, Nie Yi, was a wealthy merchant during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and an important participant in the conspiracy of the quota at that time.

According to the records of the "Historical Records", when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu asked for an alliance with the Han Dynasty, and the ministers of the Han Dynasty at that time could not fight for this, Han Anguo and others supported the peace relatives, but Wang Hui thought that he should not ask for what he wanted, and attacked him with troops. As a result, Han Anguo's side was supported by more courtiers, so Emperor Wu decided to make peace with the Xiongnu.

Nie Yi, a wealthy merchant in the area of Yanmen and Mayi, out of familiarity with the Xiongnu and anxiety about the endless troubles of the Western Han Dynasty, built a yì to Emperor Wu through Wang Hui, and the Han Dynasty had won the trust of the Xiongnu after making peace. As long as it is tempted, it will be defeated. So Nie Yi was ordered to use himself as bait, personally went to the Xiongnu camp, surrendered to the military ministers at that time, and claimed that he could kill the county order of Mayi, force the city of Mayi to surrender, and then get the property of the city. Just believing his words and greedy for profit, he immediately planned to raise troops. After Nie Yi returned to the Han Dynasty, he was falsely called the head of the chief of Mayi with the head of a criminal. In order to show that the time has come, lure the Hun army deep into the important land.

The plan was originally carried out smoothly, but when he was marching, he found that there were only livestock and no one in sight between the city and the field, so he became suspicious. He sent troops to capture a fort and captured a lieutenant. This lieutenant confessed the truth that there were already more than 300,000 Han troops ambushed near Mayi, and Shan Yu, who saw through the conspiracy, retreated in shock, and the Han army's ambush was useless. Wang Hui judged the shape of shì. Thinking that the best opportunity to attack the Xiongnu army had been missed, he decided to withdraw his troops and return to the division, and the "Ma Yi Strategy" ended in failure.

Because Ma Yi's plot was discovered by the Huns, Nie Yi and his people were naturally resented by the Huns. In order to avoid the retaliation of the Huns, Nie Yi's descendants changed their surname to Zhang and continued to live in the area of Mayi.

Zhang Liao was famous in the township when he was young, and was promoted as a Yanmen County official. Later, Ding Yuan, the assassin of Bingzhou, saw that Zhang Liao was superior in force, so he summoned Zhang Liao to engage in it, and ordered him to lead his troops to Luoyang. After Zhang Liao arrived in Luoyang. The general He Jin sent Zhang Liao to Hebei to recruit troops, and a total of more than 1,000 people were obtained. However, when Zhang Liao had not returned to Luoyang when he recruited troops, He Jin in the capital had died due to the failure of suppressing the eunuchs, and Ding Yuan was also killed by Lu Bu, so all the soldiers recruited by Zhang Liao belonged to Dong Zhuo. After Dong Zhuo's death, Zhang Liao's troops were assigned to Lü Bu and he served as a cavalry captain.

Judging from Zhang Liao's background, in fact, his relationship with Lu Bu is not like Hou Cheng and Song Xian, when he was under Ding Yuan, his position was to be engaged, and Lu Bu was the chief bookkeeper, and the two actually belonged to colleagues, not superiors and subordinates. After Ding Yuan's death, when Dong Zhuo controlled the military power, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao were still not superiors and subordinates, but both Dong Zhuo's subordinates, but Lu Bu's status was higher than Zhang Liao's. After Dong Zhuo's death, Zhang Liao, as a native of Bingzhou, could not run to Li Dao and Guo Yan, so he could only follow his fellow countryman Lu Bu, but his status in Lu Bu's camp was not high.

It is precisely because the relationship between Zhang Liao and Lu Bu is a partnership, rather than a dependent relationship between the head of the family and the tribe, so when Lu Bu was given death by Cao Cao in Baimenlou, Gao Shun did not say a word, but Zhang Liao was willing to serve Cao Cao. It was not that Zhang Liao was loyal, but because he was not obliged to be loyal to Lu Bu.

So, here comes the problem again. Since Zhang Liao is not Lu Bu's subordinate, he doesn't need to be wronged to marry Lu Niangrong to Yecheng, you must know that only the family can be sent back and forth like a dowry for goods, and Zhang Liao's identity can leave Lu Bu and find a new owner.

The reason why Zhang Liao was willing to be given to Liu He by Lu Bu as a dowry was because he was secretly silently paying attention to the shape of the Han Dynasty, and Liu He was undoubtedly the master he could turn to. Since he knew that he was going to be sent to Yecheng and would return to Liu He's account from now on, Zhang Liao would not be guilty of the bad reputation of parting ways with Lu Bu for the sake of temporary pleasure. If Lu Bu sent him to Yuan Shao or someone else, Zhang Liao would definitely not agree so readily, and it was even possible to take the opportunity to leave halfway.

It was precisely because Liu He knew that Zhang Liao and Lu Bu were only partners, so he was relieved to let Zhang Liao create his own army, and gave Zhang Liao a lot of power to act cheaply. In Liu He's opinion, Zhang Liao will never have any more entanglement with Lu Bu in the future, and if Lu Bu wants to influence Zhang Liao with his former boss, he will only bring humiliation on himself.

After Zhang Liao arrived in Jining City, he first visited Du Ji, the governor of Jining. Last time when Liaozhou was founded, Liu He selected officials to go to Liaozhou, and Du Yi, as a popular candidate, had the opportunity to serve as the governor of Liaozhou, but he gave the opportunity to Han Heng. Du Yi felt that although the position of the governor of Jining was not as high as that of a state, he could do a lot of things, and Han Heng had followed Liu He a long time ago, and his qualifications and popularity were also higher, so Du Ji was at ease at the foot of Daqing Mountain, settled the displaced people, and made dazzling achievements.

The current Jining Duwei City actually manages the affairs of the small half of the state. The northern part of Yanmen County, Dingxiang County, Yunzhong County, and the eastern part of Wuyuan County are now effectively under the administration of Du Gi.

When Kebineng led an army of 80,000 to attack Youzhou in the south, it was not Youzhou that suffered the most, but Bingzhou. In order to lead the Xianbei people to Youzhou, Yuan Shao deliberately adopted a policy of appeasement, so that Fengji, the governor of the North Road at that time, abandoned the five northern counties and ceded Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, Dingxiang and Yanmen to Kebineng.

After the Xianbei people occupied the northern part of Bingzhou without a single soldier, they plundered on a large scale, and captured many Han people back as slaves, and later drove the Han people to attack Macheng as human flesh shields. After such a scourge of the Xianbei people, and the five counties in the north of Bingzhou were completely injured, Liu He couldn't bear it, so he asked Zhao Yun, the commander of the Xiaocai Guard, to lead the army to gather the remaining people of Bingzhou in the north of Bingzhou, and then concentrated near Daqingshan, and later built a new city, which is now Jining Duwei City.

Zhang Liao came to Jining Duwei City to recruit soldiers here. Last year, there was a great drought in Bingzhou, and the plague was discovered, and the affected people in the southern counties of Bingzhou all fled, either running along Huguan to Jizhou, or running to the north of Jining Duwei City Control Zhì, so there are now hundreds of thousands of displaced people gathered here, as long as Zhang Liao's method of recruiting troops is proper, there is no worry about not being able to recruit good soldiers.

Du Yi welcomed Zhang Liao's arrival, he was now worried about how to settle these hundreds of thousands of displaced people, if Zhang Liao could recruit all the restless young men among the displaced people into the Yue cavalry guard, it would also save him a lot of worry. In the future, the defense area of the Yue cavalry guard will definitely be in the north of Bingzhou, Du Ji helped Zhang Liao at this time, and Zhang Liao will definitely help Jining Duweicheng in turn in the future, which is a win-win good thing.

Zhang Liao revealed his identity in Jining City, and then assigned 200 of his subordinates to various tunpu and homeless settlements, so that they could find those Bingzhou Township Party whose families were ruined when the Xianbei people went south, and played the banner of blood debt and blood repayment.

These gathered in Jining near the state of the people, speaking of which family has an unbearable memory of blood and tears, their northern Hu people hated to the bone, and now I heard that the general is going to form a large army dominated by the men of the state, so they have come to Zhang Liao, a few days there are thousands of people.

Zhang Liao lowered the standard for the selection of cavalry by one notch, and selected 3,000 sturdy soldiers from these fellow villagers, and the rest of the people who did not meet the requirements were not let go, but let them serve as auxiliaries.

With these 3,000 sons of Bingzhou as the foundation, Zhang Liao was no longer in a hurry to expand his recruitment, but chose Wuquan in Yunzhong County as his station, and then took these recruits to training. To the north of Wuquan is the area where the Xianbei people used to control and operate, and Zhang Liao trained here, which could not only get the support of Jining Duwei City, but also allow the soldiers to see the homes looted and burned by the Xianbei people every day, which had an obvious effect on boosting morale.

Murong Ping was entrusted by Zhang Liao to return to Macheng to apply to Zhang He for various equipment for war horses and cavalry, Zhang He was generous, and immediately allocated 5,000 war horses to Murong Ping, as well as various weapons, armor and logistics materials.

Zhang Liao had soldiers and war horses, and he was full of ambition, and regarded the vast northern part of Bingzhou as the best training ground.

Hedong Lu Bu heard that Zhang Liao was thriving in the north of Bingzhou, and he felt all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred in his heart, but unfortunately there was still a koji between him and Zhang Liao, so he could only look at Yecheng with his eyes, hoping that Liu He's five fingers could leak a little bit and a half, and it would also make his life in Hedong better. (To be continued......)