After leaving Yongnu, Hu Yu, who led to Gao Fei in this geographical direction, suggested two roads to Liaodong, one was to take the "coastal road", and the other was to go out of Lulongsai. After several comparisons with Gao Fei, he still decided to take the "coastal road". So, under the leadership of Hu Yu, tens of thousands of horses and horses went all the way east from Yongnu City.

The so-called "Coastal Road" is located in the narrow coastal plain, which is today called the "Liaoning West Corridor". It has experienced too many vicissitudes in Chinese history, and Shanhaiguan has always been a battleground for soldiers. However, most of these situations occurred after the Tang and Song dynasties, and during the Eastern Han Dynasty, although this road was also the main passage to western Liao, its transportation conditions were too far worse than those of later generations.

In the absence of bad weather, this road will be directly inserted into the inland counties of Beiping and Yuyang, and once it encounters heavy rains in summer and autumn, this road has become an unfeasible road, and it can only be said that the traffic conditions in Northeast China during the Qin and Han dynasties were quite bad. At that time, there was no Shanhaiguan, the Shanhaiguan area in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was called "Jieshi", in the southwest seashore of Suizhong County, Liaoning Province, about 30 miles away from Shanhaiguan in the west. Therefore, Cao Cao once wrote the poem "Watching the Sea", which was in the place of Jieshi.

Lulongsai is also an important traffic artery, but there are 500 miles of dangerous land, and it is not as smooth as the "coastal road", and it is only early spring, there is not much spring rain, and it has just rained a heavy rain, so Gao Fei chose to take this road, first to Liaoxi, and then to Liaodong.

On March 23, Goofy began a long journey with tens of thousands of troops, along the "Coastal Road" all the way to the east, and as he walked, he silently wrote down the terrain of this area, and vowed to make this area a smooth road in the future.

Gao Fei is really trekking through mountains and rivers this time, but fortunately he caught up with the good time, if he took this road in summer and autumn, it would really be like walking Zeguo. Although the conditions are difficult, they can hone people's will, and they can also enjoy the sea view, and they continue to cheer up the troops along the way, whether it is the people or the army, they are all encouraged, and they all gritted their teeth and persevered to complete this journey.

On the tenth day of the first month of April, after a long journey of more than ten days, Gao Fei and others finally walked out of the "coastal road". Although they met a lot of Wuhuan people along the way, fortunately, Gao Fei led an army of 20,000 people, and Hu Yu, a guide who knew the Wuhuan language, and everyone did not encounter any trouble.

On April 11, Gao Fei and others entered the subject country of Liaodong, and tens of thousands of people crossed their territory under the gaze of the Wuhuan people, and after several days of arduous walking, after crossing the Great Liaoshui, they finally arrived at Xiangping, the county seat of Liaodong County, on April 20.

As we got closer to the city walls, the situation of the walls became clearer and clearer. This city wall is made of rammed earth, and some of the walls and soil that have been peeled off for a long time can still see the traces left by the rammed earth when the city was built. In some places, the rain has washed out deep crevices, and the vigorous grass has stubbornly taken root in the crevices, and now the spring is shining, and the green grass and red and white wildflowers are dotted on the ochre-yellow city walls.

There are no battlements and watchtowers made of blue bricks in the city, only a wall of loess extends to the north and south. Above the gate, a small pavilion-like gatehouse made of wood, stood alone on the wall, leaning against the pillars on the left and right sides of the gatehouse, and on each stood a soldier in armor, listless, and drowsy in the sunlight, and not paying the slightest attention to a long procession approaching in the distance on the official road.

Gao Fei rode the oolong horse at the front of the team, looked back at the tired crowd, when he turned his head and saw two large characters engraved above the door of the city gate, he let out a long breath, a smile appeared on his tired face, and said lightly: "Xiangping...... We're finally here......"

When they reached the city gate, both men and cattle stopped at the side of the road as if they were deflated, not wanting to go any further. The road was crowded one after another, and a long queue of tens of thousands of people and baggage trucks blocked the official road, and everyone sat on the ground on the side of the road, panting for breath, drinking water, and wiping sweat.

Gao Fei turned around and saw this scene, he didn't say anything, in the past month, everyone's hard work he has seen with his own eyes, such a long distance, such a difficult road, not only tired more than a thousand people, but also made some other people collapse, all pale and weak. Except for the Yu Linlang who came out with Gao Fei from Gyeonggi who still insisted on staying, the rest of the people, whether they were young and strong people who had just joined the army, or Chu Yan's gang of bandits, were tired and out of breath.

"Zilong, tell you to go down, let everyone rest first, and all enter the city in a quarter of an hour, and finally arrive, no matter what, you can't fall outside the city!" Gao Fei shouted at Zhao Yun behind him, turned his horse's head, and ran towards Xiangping City, a few hundred meters away.

Rao is a thousand-mile horse like an oolong horse, after such a long journey, he also seemed to have lost his spirit because there was no good forage to feed him during the march, and he didn't have the excitement he had before, just doing a simple trot, carrying the high flying on his back towards Xiangping City.

Coming to the bottom of the city, Gao Fei saw two notices posted on the notice boards on both sides of the city wall, one of which was unrecognizable because it had been a long time, and the text was so unreadable that it was drenched in the rain, leaving only a black cloud of ink. The other one is obviously posted in the last two or three days, not only is there no trace left by the wind and rain on the paper, but also exudes a strong ink fragrance, but I don't know which guy's handwriting this proclamation is from, the structure between the lines of the word is completely disorganized, one horizontal and one vertical thickness is uneven, some are top-heavy, some are unbalanced, the whole text is twisted and oblique, looking like a children's graffiti when learning words. Or not even graffiti.

After trying to identify it, Gao Fei could see clearly what words were written on the notice, this was a document from the Youzhou Prefecture Governor's Mansion, which was written about Gao Fei, who was the general of Anbei and the Marquis of Xiangping, who was named the Taishou of Liaodong. After reading it, he smiled and looked into the city, but saw that the streets in the city were very deserted, and there was no figure in the daytime, and even the soldiers who were supposed to defend the city in the city could only see the two people who were sleeping on the edge of the tower, and the officials and other things could not be seen.

Goofy rode into the city and walked slowly through the streets of the city. This street is almost all dilapidated and decayed low mud thatched houses, and only occasionally you can see a half-room mud tile house, which is not even as good as the county town of Yongnu.

Everywhere on both sides of the street, you can see unspeakable garbage, and flies swirl and buzz on the garbage heaps of human and livestock droppings. There was a thatched hut that had probably been abandoned for a long time, and in the middle of the house there were a few swarthy rafters carrying scattered thatch, and there was a pile of purple-colored things lying on the ground that looked like a door. Goofy drove his horse over, and a large group of green-headed flies exploded with a buzz, and he saw the mass of things, which was actually a dead cat.

The internal organs of the cat's body have been eaten by wild dogs and voles or something, and only the cat's head is still complete, but the place where it should have been the eyes is now only two irregular black holes, and the decaying fur is tangled and glued together by the black liquid, and it is horribly branched.

"Damn, it's also the county seat of Liaodong County, why is the environment so bad? The city is also broken, is this a place for people to live or for animals? After Gao Fei read it, he was very unhappy in his heart, and scolded with a big grin.

Goofy frowned and forced himself to hold back his nausea, and continued to drive his horse forward, he was very uncomfortable with the surroundings, and he felt sick to his stomach when he saw the littering household garbage and swarms of flies flying around. He complained secretly in his heart, but at the same time made up his mind that he wanted to change this status quo and let others follow him to keep the environment clean and tidy, and strive to build Xiangping City into the premier sanitary city in the Han Dynasty.

Unconsciously, Gao Fei came to the Taishou Mansion, the huge Taishou Mansion is quite presentable, at least not as dirty as the streets. The door of the Taishou Mansion is hidden, there are no guards at the door, and when I look through the gap, there is no one walking around in the Taishou Mansion, and I can't hear any sound.

Goofy jumped off the back of the oolong horse, and he didn't have time to beat it with dust, so he strode towards the Taishou Mansion. Pushing open the door, the yard was empty, but the ground was clean.

"Xiangping? This is Xiangping? From the time I entered the city until now, I have only seen two soldiers, and what about the people in this city? Where the fuck have they gone? Is this still the county seat of Liaodong County? Facing the empty courtyard, Goofy finally couldn't bear it anymore, and at this moment he completely exploded, roaring with anger.

The voice echoed in the empty Taishou Mansion, and the echoes rang out in waves, overlapping each other, making people sound very harsh.

At this moment, Goofy heard a chaotic sound of horses' hooves, and from the deep sound, it was clear that there were definitely no less than a hundred horses coming. He walked out of the gate of the Taishou Mansion, stood on the street that ran from east to west, and saw a group of cavalry pouring in from the west gate, the first two were two standard-bearers.

In the blink of an eye, two healthy horses entered the city gate from outside the city, and immediately the two athletes each held a blue flag. One flag is embroidered with a line of small characters "Captain Hu Wuhuan" and two big "Gongsun", and the other flag is embroidered with the five words "Pingbei General Tian", and the two flags are hunting in the wind. Gao Fei's eyes followed the banner for a long time, and when he looked at the city gate, a large group of well-dressed and armored cavalry had already rushed out of the city gate like a surging tide.

The cavalry numbered two or three hundred men, and the dust raised by the horses' hooves fluttered in the wind. In the smoke and fog, Gao Fei couldn't see clearly who was the captain and who was the general, only saw that this team of cavalry was not only wearing helmets and armor, but also people wearing shoulder armor and arm armor, and in a blink of an eye, it seemed that someone even had black armor on both sides of his thighs to protect him, and then when he wanted to look carefully, the healthy horse galloped and the figure was longing, where could he tell which general it was, the whole team was like a moving black cloud, and like a winding black smoke, whistling along the street, and stopped in front of him in an instant.

The smoke and dust slowly dissipated, and the two healthy horses appeared in front of Gao Fei surrounded by everyone, and two middle-aged men wearing full body armor on horseback jumped down, and as soon as they landed, they made a sound of collision between the armor and the ground on their bodies, which was crisp and piercing.

Before Gao Fei could react, the two middle-aged men walked up side by side, and after looking at Gao Fei in dust but throwing armor, and after glancing at each other, a man with a yellow face and long beard on the left took a step forward, hugged his fists and said: "Gongsun Zhan, the captain of Wuhuan, may I ask if your Excellency is General Gao Fei of Anbei?" ”