In the second year of Taiwu, October 7.

According to the original arrangement, Xu Sheng and his team should rest in the Pingcheng area.

But early this morning, Tun General Xu Sheng, together with the other two team generals, took the initiative to ask the subordinate general Lu Fang that he was willing to go south to the Sanggan River area to reconnoitre.

Lu Fang used to be the goalkeeper of Captain Lu Xiang, and he has always admired the fierce general. And in his eyes, Xu Sheng is such a fierce general.

He sometimes regrets Xu Sheng, just because he was assigned to their rear army system, and then he was delayed.

Since the Battle of Zhongrenting, there has been no major war in the rear army, and even if it takes Juyong Pass, it is a small fight. After that, Wang Shang sent troops to conquer Liao, and the rear army sequence was the least drawn.

So when countless soldiers finally became famous in the battle of Liao, Xu Sheng was still a general.

And at the same time? The "white-robed general" Tai Shici, who stood out in the expedition to Liao, was obviously still an enemy in Zhongren Pavilion, and now he has become a general.

That's the chance of chance.

But Lu Fang didn't worry too much about Xu Sheng, because this kid was also extraordinary. is not only from the Yecheng Martial Arts School, but also has left a name in front of the king, and he is a strong general.

So Lu Fang knew that Xu Sheng was just one chance away now.

Even Lu Fang knew this, and Xu Sheng himself knew it, which was why he took the initiative to ask for help.

After the Taishan army conquered Pingcheng, it did not continue to move south, but stayed in Pingcheng and began to deal with the nearby Hu tribe.

Zhang Chong attaches great importance to Pingcheng. This is not only because of the glory of Heijo in the future, but also because even now, Heijo is an important hub for the defense of the north.

Probably east to Daijun, west and Shanwu, Antarctic Yinguan, north to participate, this area is a vast plain, but also the local people call the area of Yanbei.

Zhang Chong prefers to call it the "Datong Basin".

This basin, surrounded by mountains and staggered mountain passes, is extremely conducive to the formation of political units or military alliances. In addition, there is a Sanggan River flowing in the middle of it, which is suitable for both farming and nomadism.

In this way, the characteristics of Hu and Han people settling here have been formed.

In addition, in terms of access, the Datong Basin, where Pingcheng is located, is also a transportation hub.

Starting from Pingcheng, through Yonggu straight to the north, it will jump up to the vast grassland, which can hit Xianbei; Descend along the Sanggan River, through the northeast line or due east line, you can reach Youzhou. And this passage is also the one taken by the Taishan army.

Then go up the Sanggan River, through the south line or the southwest line, you can reach Bingzhou, and go straight to Yanmen Pass. From here to the west, you can pass through the white road, and then go south to reach Chang'an.

It can be said that Heijo is the most important transportation hub, and it is the first choice for both offense and defense.

Because of this, although the Han dynasty was unable to develop Pingcheng due to historical limitations, Zhang Chong decided to use this southern expedition to put the development of Pingcheng into action.

Therefore, Zhang Chong decided to set up the grain platform of this southern expedition here. The grain transported from Youji will be piled up here, and then it will go south along the Fenshui waterway.

At the same time, Zhang Chong used his time in Pingcheng to constantly recruit the nearby nomadic tribes.

At this point, Zhang Chong would like to thank Lu Zhi for his contribution. Because in the past, Lu Zhi delivered a batch of iron tools to the nomadic Hu people in these Yan Dynasty lands, so that the various departments were slaughtered together.

Just when they were exhausted, the Taishan army suddenly rushed out of Youzhou and picked peaches. First defeated several Xiongnu tribes, and then successfully recruited a large number of nomads.

However, inevitably, the Taishan army stayed in Pingcheng for a bit longer.

Xu Sheng is the general of the Marshal Department of the Rear Army, although he is a humble person, he still does not forget the front-line affairs. He was keenly aware that now was the time to scout the area around the Sangan River.

So he took the initiative to ask for this opportunity first.

Sure enough, his subordinate Lu Fang agreed without hesitation, and specially approved a batch of war horses for Xu Sheng to ride.

Xu Sheng only brought four military officials, six capable sentinels, and a group of eleven people quietly drove to the Sanggan River to investigate.

After crossing the Sanggan River, it is outside the Yanmen Pass, where is the defense area of the Duliao general Gai Xun.

The time when Gai Xun was appointed as the general of Duliao was half a year.

Since Dong Zhuo took full charge of the military power in Kansai, people such as Gai Xun and Fu Xie have been released one after another. Originally, Fu Xie wanted to seek the position of General Du Liao, but his original intention was to be a pure martial artist who guarded the border for the country rather than get involved in politics anymore.

But Dong Zhuo thought about it carefully, and finally let Gai Xun be the general of Duliao.

This is because he is not very relieved of Fu Xie. Fu Xie used to be the protector of Huangfu Song, and the prestige of the Huangfu family in the Yanmen area is very deep.

Huangfu Song's father was the Taishou of Yanmen, and his uncle Huangfu Gui was a general of Duliao. And now let Fu Xie, a person who is close to Huangfu Song, be the general of Duliao, he is not at ease.

As a result, the position of General Duliao fell on Gai Xun's head.

And the first thing Gai Xun did for General Duliao was to move the Duliao General's Mansion, which was originally located in Dingxiang County, to Yanmen Pass.

This was based on his judgment of the future war.

Previously, the reason why General Duliao was set up in the area of Wuyuan and Dingxiang was to monitor the Southern Xiongnu here.

After moving from the southern Xiongnu to the Meiji area, the Han dynasty successively set up the Duliao general shogunate in the north of it, and set up the shogunate to protect the Xiongnu Zhonglang general in the south of it. It can be said that the passage for the Xiongnu to run back to the grassland was isolated from the northwest side.

But now, the situation has changed. The Xiongnu were no longer the most important enemies of the Han family, but allies that needed to be absorbed.

The Taishan Army became the biggest enemy of the Guanxi court in northern Xinjiang.

Therefore, after obtaining the approval of the Taishi Dong Zhuo and the little emperor Liu Xie, Gai Xun not only relocated the shogunate to Yanmen County, but also specially recruited 3,000 Hun cavalry from the Xiongnu court to accompany him.

In addition to the 2,000 beacon soldiers set up in Yanmen Pass, Gai Xun had 3,000 Hun soldiers, 2,000 Liao battalion soldiers, and 2,000 Yanmen beacon soldiers at this time.

And when Xu Sheng led a ten-man cavalry team quietly along the Sanggan River and infiltrated outside the Yanmen Pass, he had actually gone deep behind enemy lines, and as long as one was not careful, this ten-man cavalry team would be wiped out.

Therefore, Xu Sheng had to maintain a high degree of mental concentration throughout the whole process, he was here to go out on a mission, and since it was ten people who came out, he had to take these ten people back.

But this process is quite thrilling, they will not only encounter the wandering Huns along the way, but also have to be careful to guard against the beacon soldiers outside the Yanmen Pass.

At the beginning, how could they take the so-called beacon soldiers in their eyes, because this type of soldier is almost a miscellaneous soldier like serfs, and there is no initiative at all.

But soon, Xu Sheng and the others realized that they were very wrong.

These beacon soldiers outside the Yanmen Pass are not simple. Not only do these people actively pursue clues, but they also have their own camp walls on the main roads, and they are like a pack of hyenas, able to smell all enemies.

And the reason why these serfs can change so much is because of one person.

He is Taiyuan Taishou Pei Ye. He is from the Wenxi Pei clan and is the most outstanding clansman of the Pei clan.

His son Pei Mao was famous for standing up and scolding Dong Zhuo for getting off the horse to meet the little emperor when Dong Zhuo entered Beijing.

As the general responsible for supplying all military supplies to Yanmen Pass, Pei Ye rectified and improved the defense of Yanmen Pass.

In addition to General Duliao's battalion and the Xiongnu soldiers, Pei Ye's biggest improvement was the Fengsui soldiers.

He changed the beacon soldiers who were interested in serfs in the past to the sons of good families who owned land. The solution is very simple, that is, to give these people all the land they used to cultivate.

In the past, the land cultivated by these beacon soldiers belonged to the Han family, and these people were actually serfs. And now, Pei Ye decided to give the public land to these beacon soldiers, so that they could pay taxes to the government like normal yeoman farmers, but they were required to patrol in their spare time and go to war in wartime.

This is actually what Pei Ye learned from the Taishan Army.

In fact, as long as a force still has a certain degree of vitality, it will not always endure the situation of being passively beaten, and it will learn from the enemy.

For example, in the Warring States Period, Qin was not the first to change the law, it was precisely because he was beaten by the Wei State that changed the law that he almost lost the country, so he was desperate to change the law.

Because the law is not changed, it is only a dead end.

And now, when the Taishan army took the lead in combining the land and the army, the other princes also began to have to learn, but because of the difference in the core power class of these people, this kind of learning also had some trade-offs.

For example, Yuan Shao only gave fields to the warriors under his rule, and Cao Cao also gave fields to the officials. Pei Ye didn't have that power, so he could only give these beacon soldiers some public land a little.

But even so, these beacon soldiers burst out with great initiative and will to defend the land.

In fact, the strength of these beacon soldiers is not weak.

These beacon soldiers in the Yanbei region are either the mountain people of Hengshan or the miscellaneous beards on the plains, hard-cold and bitter, ruthless, and they are the material of elite soldiers.

And Pei Ye gave Tian Erqing to these people, let them give one armor soldier, and give three hectares to one war horse. Then outside the north of Yanbei, set up a fort and rank troops.

For a time, without spending a trace of food, the state side had to have 2,000 beacon soldiers who dared to die and could defend their homes.

Therefore, when Xu Sheng and the other eleventh cavalry team entered the Yanbei area, they encountered a series of unexpected dangers.

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Xu Sheng: They have been exposed.

At this time, they were walking down a ravine. Their war horses have also been released by them into the mountains and forests. They didn't expect that it was precisely because of the footprints of the war horses that they were discovered by those beacon soldiers.

When nearly 100 people shouted to chase and kill, Xu Sheng and the others could only choose to retreat into the mountains to the west.

Along this ravine, Xu Sheng and the others soon found a ridge in front of them. This was opened up by the mountain people hidden in the mountain forest.

The autumn harvest has passed, and the ridges are bare.

Xu Sheng and the others searched here, but they still didn't find anything to eat.

After entering the mountain, their supplies were already cut off, and what was even more desperate was that they were lost.

That is, Xu Sheng's prestige is there, and this team has not collapsed.

But the dull low pressure has always haunted the team, making people breathless.

So, Xu Sheng decided to think of a way to mention everyone's morale.