Chapter 369: The Old Man Meets

Xinchang City is only more than 70 miles away from Liao Team City, and it only takes one day to reach it by horseback. After Xian Yuyin led the army to capture Xinchang, he immediately sent a fast horse to the Liao team to report the news, and invited the Bingyuan family to come to Xinchang to avoid trouble, so as not to be persecuted by Gongsun Du.

These horses were the booty seized from the four county towns after Xian Yuyin conquered Yushi, Pingguo, Wenxian and Xinchang, adding up to 2,000 horses. Liaodong produces a large number of high-quality war horses, these years because the rise of Youzhou has blocked the trade of war horses between Gongsun Du and the Central Plains, so as long as there is a place where Gongsun Du sent troops to garrison, there are always a lot of war horses available, but now it is cheap in vain.

Although the infantry of the Liao army is similar to the marines of later generations, most of these soldiers are Youzhou men, and they began to contact with horses when they were young, although they are not as skilled as the Youzhou cavalry, but it is not difficult to run on horses at all. It's like a person who has learned to ride a bicycle, even if he hasn't touched the handlebars for more than ten years, as long as he wants to ride, he can ride and run on the saddle.

The cavalry squad sent by Xian Yuyin to Liao Team City numbered fifty people, and they were wearing the clothes of the defenders of Xinchang City, carrying the tokens of the leader of the defenders of Xinchang City, and even the accent of their speech was an authentic Liaodong flavor, so they entered Liao Team City without difficulty.

Prior to this, when Xian Yuyin commanded the troops to capture the three cities of Pingguo, Wenxian and Xinchang, he first sent a small force each time, wearing the clothes of Gongsun Du soldiers, and after blending into the city, the inside and outside should be combined, and the city gate was opened as quickly as possible, and then the army was welcomed into the city. Although this trick is a bit old-fashioned, it is tried and tested and very useful.

In that year, Gongsun Du sent an army of 20,000 and 30,000 troops under the command of Gongsun Yue, Gongsun Zhan's younger brother, to besiege Jicheng, but they were all annihilated and captured by Liu He. Forty percent of the captured Liaodong soldiers eventually became soldiers under Liu He, and after several years of training and education, they have been completely loyal to Liu He. In the Liao army, there were more than 2,000 Liaodong soldiers who were captured at the beginning. Now that they have returned to their homeland, they have naturally become the best guides and pioneers of siege.

After the team of fifty people entered the Liao Team City, under the leadership of Li Yuncong, the leader of the team, they soon came to the gate of the courtyard where the famous man Bingyuan lived.

Li Yuncong remembered the explanation of the Lord Xian Yuyin before coming.

"Bachelor Bing is a celebrity who is very valued by the eldest prince, and I also have a personal friendship, you guys who have no ink in your stomach, you must be respectful after seeing Bachelor Bing, you can't speak vulgarly, you can't be loud, but you must invite Bachelor Bing to Xinchang City."

"What if Master Bing refuses to come?"

"Stupid! If you don't come, you won't be 'hard' please! ”

Li Yuncong adjusted his facial expression. Try to pretend to be harmless to humans and animals, polite and respectful, and then stretched out his hand and knocked on the courtyard door of the Bing family.

After a while, a little scholar opened the courtyard door, leaned out half of his body, and looked at Li Yuncong at the door with some doubts.

"Why did this good man knock?"

"Dare to ask this little gentleman, is Master Bing at home?" Li Yuncong asked with a flattering face.

Being called "Little Mister", the scholar was a little proud in his heart. "My husband is reading a book in the backyard, and no one should disturb him."

"Little sir. There is a letter here, which was sent to me by Mr. Bing, and I asked to forward it to Mr., saying that I had an urgent matter to meet Mr. ”

"Then you wait at the door." The little scholar took the letter. Close the courtyard door and walk briskly to the backyard.

"Sir, there is a group of strong men on horseback outside the door, and the first one says that he has been entrusted to deliver a letter. It seems that he is very anxious, I don't know if Mr. will see it or not? ”

Bing Yuan, who was writing with a pen, heard the question of the scholar outside the door. With some displeasure, he put down the brush and said to the outside of the house, "Where is the letter?" ”

The scholar then pushed the door and entered, and presented the letter brought by Li Yuncong to the bookcase in front of Bing Yuan.

Bingyuan opened the letter and looked at it carefully, then frowned. "Gongsun Du is afraid that he will not be able to escape destruction this time. It's just that I didn't expect the son of the Liu family to be so good, he just broke the Hu people in the northwest of Youzhou, and then he waved his army to the east to deal with Gongsun Du, and I am afraid that it will be rare for Liaodong to live in peace in the future. ”

"Xiao Wu, you go and invite the man who is headed by the door in, I have something to ask him."

"The slave knows, please wait."

A moment later, Li Yuncong followed the little scholar into Bingyuan's study.

"The villain led Li Yuncong in the front battalion of the left part of the Liao Army, and he has seen Bachelor Bing!"

"Why did General Xian Yu send you here?"

"It's just because the villain was a member of the Liao team before joining the Liao Army, and he is more familiar with this area, so the general sent a certain person to welcome Mr. to move to Xinchang City." Li Yuncong replied respectfully.

Bing Yuan asked with interest: "Since you are a member of the Liao team, why do you want to work in the Liao army and help others deal with General Gongsun?" ”

"If you go back to the bachelor, the land of Liaodong is under the jurisdiction of Youzhou, not the private property of Gongsun Du, and now we are ordered by Lord Taifu to come to conquer Gongsun Du, who intends to stand on his own, and the will of heaven and the people, is to occupy the name of righteousness."

"Hehe, a little head of the army, he actually knows the righteous name, this Liao army is not simple. Wait a minute, let me pack up, and I'll go with you to Xinchang City. ”

"Please forgive me, General Xian Yu said, because time is pressing, Mr. only needs to bring the notes over the years, and the rest of the family property can be ignored, and after the Gongsun Du is leveled, the eldest prince will come to Liaodong to compensate you!"

"Oh, the eldest prince will come to Liaodong in person? Then I will ask him for a copy of the books in Mr. Cai's house! ”

Bing Yuan has been fond of collecting books all his life, and later generations are known as the Eastern Han Dynasty bibliophile, he has long heard that Cai Yong's family has a rich collection of books, and this time he just took this opportunity to ask Liu He for a set of copies of Cai Yong's books. Liu He is Cai Yong's son-in-law and the founder of Yenching University, and Bing Yuan asked him to ask for the right person.

In the evening of the same day, Li Yuncong escorted Bingyuan's family to leave Liao's team city calmly. The soldiers guarding the city gate only thought that the Xinchang guard was going to invite Master Bing to give a lecture, so they did not stop him.

The place where the Liao army chose to go ashore was too hidden, and now the soldiers and civilians of the entire Liaodong only thought that the army in western Liaoxi would come from the side of Yiwu Lu Mountain, and the news that Xian Yuyin had completely blocked the Liaodong Peninsula, so until now, the defenders near Xiangping did not know that the Liao army had approached nearly a hundred miles to Xiangping City.

Two days later, Li Yuncong escorted Bingyuan's family to Xinchang safely. Xian Yuyin greeted Bingyuan very warmly, and then placed Bingyuan in a large courtyard in the city that had been prepared for a long time.

"Mr. Genju, it was five years to say goodbye to the Daliao waterside at the beginning, and now when we meet again, Mr. looks even more extraordinary!"

"General Xian Yu has won the award, when the general and Han Zipei came to Liaodong, they were cautious, but now they are leading more than 10,000 tigers to look down on Liaodong, and the opportunities in life are really unpredictable."

"This time I came to Liaodong, but I was ordered by the eldest prince, just to eradicate the power of the Gongsun clan entrenched in Liaodong, and once again incorporate this territory into my Han territory! Mr. is a well-educated man, and he is well-known in Liaodong, please help me. ”

"I don't know how the general needs Bing's help?"

Xian Yuyin said with a serious face: "Before the expedition, Gongzi specially told me that the army came to Liaodong here, not to kill, injure and plunder, just to cut off the dissident Gongsun clan Although there is a crime of disobedience, it will not cause disaster to the military and people of Liaodong, as long as the military and people of Liaodong are willing to break away from the rule of the Gongsun clan and not oppose our army, there will be no swords and soldiers." ”

Bing Yuan nodded, pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "I understand what the general said." The general wants to use my name to contact the Liaodong Shi clan and appease the hearts of the people in Liaodong, right? ”

"Please also sir!"

"Hehe, it can alleviate a little blood and light disaster for the people of Liaodong, such a good thing, Bing should do his best."

That night, Bing Yuan wrote letters to his friends Wang Lie, Guan Ning, and Guoyuan, who also avoided trouble in Liaodong, while Xian Yuyin sent people to disguise themselves as ordinary people and carry letters to Xiangping, Liaoyang, and Xian Du to secretly contact the scholars in various parts of Liaodong.

As long as they have their support and solidarity, the resistance encountered by the Liao army in the process of recovering the city will be greatly reduced, and the casualties of the Liao army will naturally be reduced a lot in the process, which is very important for subsequent actions.

According to Liu He's request, in this eastward expedition to Liaodong, the Liao army should try to solve Gongsun Du in the most gentle way, and then take the troops under Gongsun Du, especially the Liaodong Naval Division, for their own use, and finally merge the four counties of Liaodong into Youzhou, so that Youzhou's strength will be raised to a higher level, and the strategic depth will be advanced to the east for more than 1,000 miles.

Although Xian Yuyin is not a fierce general with explosive force value, he is the most obedient general under Liu He, Liu He said what to do, he will carry it out to the letter, so this time to pacify Liaodong, Xian Yuyin has done every step steadily and solidly, until now he is not impatient, and he did not immediately attack Xiangping City.

Although Gongsun Du was a "soil emperor" in Liaodong, his life was not easy, because in the northwest of Liaodong, there were Xianbei people in Liaodong making trouble, and in the north of Liaodong, there were fierce Fuyu people entrenched, and there was a very difficult Goguryeo Kingdom in the east of Liaodong. If Liu He mobilized a large army this time to smash the land of Liaodong and consumed all the troops under Gongsun Du on the battlefield, then even if he got the land of Liaodong, Liu He would not lose more than he gained, and he would immediately face the dangerous situation of being surrounded by wolves.

Liaodong is like a big piece of fat meat, Gongsun Du is the thorn in this meat, what Xian Yuyin has to do is to carefully pull out the meat thorns for the eldest prince, and try not to bring out the good meat near the meat thorns and waste it, and finally let Liu He eat with a mouth full of oil. (To be continued......)