Beidi County of Liangzhou is close to Shangjun of Bingzhou, and the small city of Niyang is located on the east bank of Jingshui, only sixty or seventy miles away from Zuo Fengyi. Due to its close proximity to the Sili area, the residents of the city are mainly Han Chinese, and occasionally some Qiang people from the northwest sell some horses or y-o materials here, and then buy some grain and cloth.

Guo Jia did not choose to attack Fuping, a county in Beidi County, because it was too far away, more than 400 miles away from Diaoyīn, and if the army chose the northwest route, the whole trip would be doubled, and the road was not smooth, and there were many mountains and rivers blocking it.

The purpose of this raid by the Flying Tiger Army is to show prestige and temptation, killing and looting are not the main purpose, as long as the rebel Bian Zhang and Han Sui are captured, the tactical goal can be regarded as achieved. And Niyang City is the first place where the Flying Tiger Army shows off its might.

When Lu Bu led 6,000 cavalry to surround Niyang City with great momentum, the hundreds of soldiers guarding the city M-N had already been so frightened that they closed the city M-N, hiding behind the city wall and not even daring to stick out their heads. These guards had never seen Han cavalry dressed in new uniforms and armor, so they had to report to the county commander in the city, saying that many soldiers and horses had come from outside the city, and the two large flags of Gaoqing had the characters "Fei Ping" and "Lu" written on them, and they did not know which team it was.

Trembling, the county order climbed up to the head of the city, and when he came out of the city to look outside, he was suddenly frightened and his heart was half cold, thinking that this should not be the legendary Bingzhou Flying Tiger Army, right?

The county commander in the city listened to Lu Bu's shout, and had the intention of not opening the city to the Flying Tiger Army, but he was afraid of annoying Lu Bu, and hundreds of soldiers could not hold the small city of Niyang at all, and his head would be in danger of moving at that time. After hesitating for a while, the county commander gritted his teeth and ordered someone to open the city M-N to welcome the army into the city.

After Lu Bu entered the city, he was not polite, he scavenged all the grain and grass in the city's treasury, tied all the Qiang people who stayed in the city to do business with ropes, and rushed to Linjing in Anding County like locusts crossing the border in less than half a day.

As soon as the army on Lu Bu's side left, the Niyang County Commander ordered someone to send the written letter to the Anxi General's Mansion in Qi County, in which the letter naturally exposed how the Bingzhou army was like a wolf and a tiger, and how he couldn't be dissuaded, and was told about the grievances of being bī opening the city m-n, just waiting for the fall of the Anxi General's Mansion.

When the Flying Tigers arrived in Linjing, it was already night. Lü Bu was still besieging the city with a large army, and the local defenders opened the city M-N, and the Flying Tiger army entered the city to rest for the night, and captured another hundred and ten Qiang people early the next morning, and continued to march northwest to Gaoping, known as the first city of stability. The Linjing County Decree did not wait for Lu Bu's army to leave the city, and sent people overnight to hurriedly report the matter to the Anxi General's Mansion, and what he said had the same meaning as the Niyang County Order.

Gaoping as an outpost city to prevent the Qiang people in the Western Liang, built strong and tall, last year has been the Anxi general Dong Zhuo led the army from the rebellious Bianzhang, Han Sui recaptured, now has become an important town with the Qiang people near Zuli, by Dong Zhuo's general Ye Xiong garrisoned.

Speaking of Ye Xiong, everyone may not be familiar with him, but if he is given a different surname and called Huaxiong, even children will know who it is.

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Ye Xiong is called the Governor Huaxiong, which is really a bit wronged, just because Ye's traditional Chinese character is "Ye", and Hua's traditional Chinese character "華" looks very similar, if it is written in cursive or block script with an M-O pen, it is absolutely difficult to distinguish.

Let's give Ye Xiong a fair and let the family appear according to his real name. In the future, wherever you see Ye Xiong, everyone will know who it is.

Ye Xiong was born in Guanxi, more than nine feet long, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a leopard's head and ape arms, and is in his early thirties, and now he is a cavalry captain under Dong Zhuo, commanding 20,000 cavalry and infantry soldiers, responsible for preventing the Qiang people in Jincheng and Wuwei from attacking Hanyang, Anding and other counties, and has been holding on to Gaoping City for a year.

On this day, Ye Xiong was in the backyard of the house, practicing martial arts with a machete with a wide mouth and a wide back, when he suddenly heard that his own soldiers came in a panic to report, saying that a large-scale cavalry force had appeared outside the city. So Ye Xiong picked up the long knife in his hand and moved quickly to the city, looking up, he couldn't help but gasp. I saw that nearly 10,000 cavalry and tens of thousands of horses were gathered densely under the city, and people neighed for a while, so it was not terrifying.

Ye Xiong looked closely, and there were two big flags in the Chinese army under the city, on which were written the traditional characters "Fei Ping" and "Lu", and he suddenly settled down a little, just waiting for someone to come out and shout. Sure enough, after Ye Xiong appeared at the head of the city, a mighty general riding a horse and carrying a halberd walked out of the team under the city, and shouted towards the head of the city: "I am Lu Bu, the commander of the Flying Tiger Army under the Zhenbei Army, and I went to Jincheng to arrest the anti-thief Bian Zhang and Han Sui, passing by here, I don't know which general is in the city?"

Ye Xiong was relieved when he heard that the other party claimed to be the Bingzhou Flying Tiger Army, which was the same as his own speculation, so he breathed a sigh of relief and replied loudly: "I am Ye Xiong, the captain of the cavalry under the command of General Dong Zhongying of Anxi, and I was ordered to garrison Gaoping, I don't know what happened when General Lu's soldiers came to the city?"

"Our army came all the way from Niyang and Linjing, the journey was tiring, and today I will enter the city for a while, and please make it convenient for the general!" Lu Bu had already seen that there were many defenders in Gaoping City, and they were extremely strong, and he would definitely not be able to scare the city with just a few official words, so he had always been polite to Ye Xiong's tone.

"I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint General Lu! You and I belong to two states, each is its master, Gaoping is the land of Liangzhou, Shuxiong can't receive soldiers from other states, and I ask the general to forgive me!" Ye Xiong unceremoniously rejected Lu Bu's request, and had no intention of letting the state army enter the city at all.

"In this case, please also ask General Ye to order people to go out of the city to send some grain, grass and wine, our army will rest outside the city tonight, and rush to Zuli early tomorrow morning!" Lu Bu remembered Guo Jia's treatment before the expedition: "Gaoping City can enter if it can enter, and if it can't enter, it can't be strong, and you can't waste time." "So he retreated to the next best thing and asked Gao Ping to provide supplies.

Unexpectedly, Ye Xiong still couldn't splash water and oil in, so he unceremoniously rejected Lu Bu's request: "The grain and grass in Gaoping City are limited, which is only enough for my subordinates, and the general should find another way!"

At this time, Lu Bu was a little angry, and pointed at Ye Xiong, the head of the city, and shouted angrily: "Ye Xiong, I don't know each other, but I dare to go down to the city to fight with a certain one, so as to teach you that the sky is high and the earth is thick!"

Tens of thousands of soldiers in the city and under the city all looked at Lu Bu and Ye Xiong, and at this time, Lu Bu challenged in public, so that Ye Xiong, who had always thought that he would encounter an enemy in Liangzhou by force, was also angry, so he opened his mouth and scolded: "Lu family child, I will meet you this time, so that I can teach you that there are more warriors in Liangzhou!" After speaking, Ye Xiong walked down the city, rode a brown S-Western Regions horse, and carried a broad-backed sword out of Gaoping City.

The competition between the two has risen to the height of whether the men of Bingzhou are powerful or the men of Liangzhou are mighty, so they immediately attracted the shouts and cheers of tens of thousands of soldiers in and out of the city.