In the first year of Wuding of the Eastern Dynasty, after the end of the Battle of Bishan, Gao Huan, the king of Bohai, felt that the Western Dynasty was afraid that it would not be able to be solved in a short period of time, so in order to avoid falling into the dilemma of fighting on two fronts, he actively repaired with the surrounding forces, and built the Great Wall in Beishan, Yanzhou, to strengthen the border security in the northern part of the state.

Originally, although the northern part of the country was also a mountainous area with rugged roads, it was still unimpeded, and pedestrians and merchants could pass freely.

However, with the completion of the construction of this section of the Beishan Great Wall, all the traveling teams that pass through this route must pass through the forts along the route before they can enter the Jinzhong Plain, where the Jinyang Bafu is located. Some brigades of men and horses carrying equipment are often kept out of the Great Wall.

The Eastern Dynasties had not been used in northern Xinjiang for several years, and the local people rarely carried out large-scale circulation of figures, so the most common travelers on this route were those Hu merchant groups.

These caravans often had to travel thousands or even tens of thousands of miles to make a profit, and many of these areas were barbaric places with no royal order, so it was necessary to maintain a considerable armed force to protect themselves to ensure the safety of people and goods.

When these Hu merchant groups arrived outside the Beishan Great Wall, the members of the merchants were allowed to enter by paying tribute or bribing the garrison officers, or by bringing their own people and goods, but their entourage, especially the armed guards, was often isolated from the Great Wall and easily difficult to enter.

Therefore, outside the Great Wall, there are a large number of settlements in the Beishan Mountains, and the people periodically gather or disperse, mainly the members of the armed team of those Hu merchants.

These people often need to stay here for several months, the time is not long, not short, the daily consumption of food is indispensable, and the time is not enough for them to cultivate the wasteland, so they can only buy food from the local military and civilians nearby, and a large market has been formed over the years.

In a valley in the middle of the northern mountains, there are many camping felt tents on both sides of the valley, and at the bottom of the slope are large herds of cattle, horses and camels, and residents of various races come and go, which looks very lively.

There was a crowd of people fighting around the valley, and there were a lot of money and goods piled up around the gladiatorial arena, some small flags, and even a slave orchid.

These are the gambling money used to bet, and the people who live here have nothing to do, and do not dare to act recklessly, so as not to punish the masters who have entered the south of the Great Wall, so they can only gamble with each other, and anything can be used as a bet, and those flags represent a camp, and if they don't have it, it is okay to bet on themselves.

With the frantic shouts and cheers of the crowd, a tall horned warrior on the field broke his opponent's arm alive, and waved around the field to show off his victory.

His companions had already taken all the jackpots from the area where the gambling money was kept, and if they received money they didn't like, they shouted and sold it on the spot.

"Next time, you must not show it off like this, you must give people some hope of victory!"

Li Yunxin, who was wearing a fur coat and felt hat, saw that the gambling money collected was so small, so he was a little dissatisfied with the subordinates who had just flaunted their might on the field. In the two or three days that their group entered here, several horn duels fell, and the name of fierceness gradually grew, so that the surrounding Hu merchant guards did not dare to casually provoke and fight with them.

The group returned to the camp with the gambling money on their backs, Li Yunxin went straight to the tent where Liu Kuzhen lived to ask for a meeting, and after entering the tent, he saw that Liu Kuzhen was really busy driving the women who were sitting close to the left to the inner tent, he chose a spare seat to sit down, looked at Liu Kuzhen and said: "Patriarch Liu, we have been here for a few days, how to pass through this prohibition but there is no eyebrow, if the opportunity is delayed, it is difficult to return to the lord of Lang!" ”

Before Li Yunxin was ordered to lead a thousand men and horses to Yunyang Valley to accompany Liu Kuzhen to marry, the king of Beihai did nothing to make things difficult and warmly entertained them. Knowing that they were going to return to Lishize, they were even more enthusiastic, and gave them a lot of money and money, and helped them disguise themselves as a caravan from the south, and traveled day and night along the way, and arrived here smoothly.

The Yunyang Valley is close to the south of the desert, and it has close contacts with the Hu merchant group, and Li Yunxin's subordinates are all Longyouerlang, and his conversation habits are very different from those in northern Shaanxi, so even if he encounters some states and counties on the road, he can easily cover up the past.

But when they came to the outside of the Great Wall of Beishan, they were still different from the normal merchant group, and the defenders here had already forbidden the brigade to pass through the pass, so they were immediately stuck here.

Liu Kuzhen, the newlywed Yan'er, also became serious after hearing this, and said: "The envoy sent by the King of the North Sea is negotiating with the lord here, and there must be a result in the near future, please wait patiently for the general." Lord Lang's orders, I dare not slack off, if we can't cross here, let's find another place to sneak in. ”

The North Mountains stretch for thousands of miles and are connected to the Luliang Mountains from the southwest, and even if the Eastern Dynasty is heavily garrisoned, it is difficult to fill all the mountains and valleys with soldiers, as long as you look carefully, there will always be loopholes to infiltrate. In the case of Shihu being overwhelmed by the army before, tens of thousands of clansmen could escape from the encirclement, not to mention the thousands of people they have now.

However, in this way, it is inevitable that some time will be wasted, and if you really get lost in the North Mountain while searching for a way out, then the fun will be even greater.

Li Yun was already thinking about whether to storm or not, his 1,000 Longyou athletes, plus Liu Kuzhen's hundreds of clans, and the Jihu Beihai King of Yunyang Valley also sent more than 1,000 soldiers to escort Liu Kuzhen back to Lishi, so they had nearly 3,000 men and horses, and it was not enough to completely capture this Great Wall, but it was not enough to choose a weak point to break through, and the chance of success was not small.

However, they didn't know what the situation was inside the Great Wall, once they broke through with force, they would inevitably alarm the guards on the entire Great Wall defense line, and if they were hindered inside, even if they attacked here, they would soon be blocked. Moreover, at present, the news of the people under the same department as Lord Lang is not the same, if the implementation of Lord Lang's plan is affected because of this reckless action, it will become a disadvantage.

Therefore, Li Yun's confidence was also very entangled, and he was a little confused about what to do next.

At this time, the envoy of Yunyang Valley who had been sent to contact the lord of the war here returned, but the news he brought back was not very optimistic. The guards and commanders who had some interaction with Jihu in Yunyang Valley before all went south with the army, and now they are guarded by men and horses transferred from Jizhou, Dingzhou and other places.

Although these centaurs are also willing to collect money to let them go, not to mention the high asking price, the number of places is very limited, at most only twenty or thirty people are willing to pass, and there is no room for negotiation if there are more than 100 people.

If the 3,000 of them wanted to smuggle in batches through this method, they would need money that would have to bury the Great Wall, which would not work at all.

There is also another news, that is, the Jinyang Bafu will recruit a part of the Hu merchant forces to go to Jinyang to coordinate the defense, and the merchant forces who are interested in this will need to go to the nearby Maling Shucheng to accept the recruitment within the next few days. If you are selected, you will be rewarded with the treasures of the overlord when you complete the defense mission.

When Li Yunxin heard the news, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he decided to sneak in this way.

So he immediately mixed and split the people of the Yunyang Valley of the Communist Party of China into a squad of three or five hundred people, which was in line with the scale of the general Hu Shang army, and then set off in the direction of Malingshu one after another.

Malingshu is the western starting point of the Beishan Great Wall, located in Xiurong County, and is also the largest garrison fortress in this area of the Eastern Dynasty.

With the order to recruit, many Hu merchant forces who were blocked outside the Great Wall of Beishan flocked to it. These armed forces are supposed to take people's money and people to eliminate disasters, if they can serve such a big guest as Jinyang Bafu and be accepted as a formal official army, it is undoubtedly a carp jumping over the dragon gate, so why bother to go back and forth to the Monan Trade Road to drink wind and eat the soil.

Although there were many people here, Li Yunxin was also worried that his subordinates would reveal their identities in fear, so he first sent a team to throw stones and ask for directions.

The so-called selection here, first of all, naturally depends on whether it is strong or not, and secondly, whether there is bow and armor equipment, as for the origin and belonging, it is only a simple inquiry, after all, it is originally used as a consumable. After several rounds of interrogation, the men and horses sent by Li Yunxin to test the test quickly passed the test and were successfully recruited.

Seeing this scene, Li Yunxin also breathed a sigh of relief, and faintly guessed in his heart that the recruited people were so sloppy that these Hu merchant armies who were selected would never be stationed in Jinyang.

The reason why the Jinyang overlord wanted to recruit the Hu people should be used to deal with some sudden accidents, which also shows that the remaining troops in Jinyang should not be sufficient. And this unexpected change is very likely that Li Tai's subordinates have made great movements after entering the country.

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After realizing this, Li Yunxin became even more excited, and successively sent teams to the front for review, and they were all successfully selected.

But at this time, the road leading to the school yard was lowered and a military officer announced that the recruitment was over, and the other unselected people could disperse.

When Li Yunxin saw this scene, he was dumbfounded, most of the other centaurs had already sneaked into the past, but he didn't expect to be excluded when it was his turn. In an emergency, he didn't care about the danger, and went out directly, shouting to the soldiers of the Eastern Army inside the gate: "A certain person is full of courage and is willing to serve the king of Gao and kill thieves, why does the general exclude all the brave and righteous people from the camp?" ”

The general in charge of the selection was naturally too lazy to explain, and after hearing this, he impatiently waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to drive him away.

But at this time, a middle-aged general on the other side of the school field rode a horse and galloped over, looked Li Yunxin up and down, and then said with interest: "Listening to the accent of a strong man, it seems to be Longyou'erlang?" Do you recognize me? ”

Li Yunxin was not small when he heard this person's tone, and his voice was also Longyouxiang, but he couldn't figure out who the other party was anymore, so he could only shake his head helplessly.

When the middle-aged man saw this, he sighed, and then said: "A certain Luo Chao, who is also a person from Qinlong, has been away from his hometown for a long time, and he can't recognize the young man in the township when he sees him again...... That's it, it's always a fate to meet the villagers in this distant country, since you are so enthusiastic about serving your heart, then lead the song to my account and listen to it. ”