The Dugu family is known as the family cursed by God, and the reason is naturally that the fertility of the family is too low, and the people have not been prosperous, but fortunately, God is fair, although the personnel of the Dugu family are scarce, but they are all top military geniuses, especially in the generation of Duguli, the founding emperor of the new dynasty.

Duguli has four brothers, in order of age, they are Dugu Jing who guards the east camp of the empire, Dugu Ling who guards the south camp, Dugu Qi, who takes over the throne and is the same descendant as Dugu Li, and Dugu Ying, who is the oldest in the west of Zhili.

Unlike his elder brothers, when Dugu Ying was appointed by Dugu Li as the commander of the West Battalion, he was fiercely opposed by the court, and even Duguli's other brothers were quite complaining, and the biggest reason for this was age.

Dugu Ying and Dugu Jing Dugu Ling are both concubines, but he was born late, more than 30 years worse than the eldest Dugu Jing, when Dugu Li ascended the throne, Dugu Ying had just passed his eighteenth birthday, let an eighteen-year-old young man be a party leader, everyone thought that Duguli's brain was broken.

And in addition to the officials in the court, Duguli's move was also opposed by the Imperial General's Mansion, the generals of the General's Mansion did not exclude the people of the Dugu family from being in charge of the four major battalions of the empire, after all, the other three at the same level as Dugu Ying were either experienced handsome, or the generals of the previous dynasty, they just simply felt that Duguli's appointment was too child's play, you must know that the Western Battalion governs the military forces of Shuozhou, Rongzhou, and Qiangzhou in the western part of the empire, and there are more than 100,000 western elites under its banner, how can it be easily handed over to a child?

The objection given by the General's Mansion was very direct, Duguying had no combat experience, and he would not convince the generals assigned to the Xida Battalion.

Seeing that the opposition of the people around him was so fierce, although Duguli had the intention to promote his favorite brother, he had to start reconsidering the candidate for the West Daying, and at this moment, a voice sounded in Duguli's ears.

"Your Majesty, now that the North Battalion has been handed over to Lin Ye of the four major camps, if a person with a foreign surname is put in charge of the Western Battalion, then half of the military power of the empire will fall into the hands of people with foreign surnames, which is very detrimental to the stability of the empire in the future." The person who spoke was Duguli's most trusted emperor.

Dugu Li frowned when he heard this: "I also know this, it's just ......"

The imperial master continued: "Your Majesty, I have a suggestion, He Ming will appoint your henchmen as commanders, this one can appease the military generals of the Chinese court, the second is to let Duguying learn the art of war with him, and the third is to let him return power with his loyalty when the time is ripe." ”

Duguli stretched his brows, gladly accepted it, and the order was re-promulgated, and all the ministers and generals accepted it calmly when they heard it.

The reason why Dugu Li let Duguying take office in the West Battalion, there is also a very deep reason, the full name of the West Camp is the military camp of the three states in the west of the Zhili Empire, these three states refer to the three states of Shuo, Rong and Qiang in the west of the empire, among these three states, Shuozhou has many waters, and the only water army of the empire is stationed.

Next, as long as nothing happens to the Western Battalion, in a few years, the initial planning of the empire conceived by Dugu Li and the Emperor will continue perfectly.

However, the more they worried about something, the more they didn't expect it to be that the west was the most war-torn one, and it was the most complete kind of chaos.

First, the confidant general appointed by Duguli was poisoned and died in a coma, and then the spies of the Fengying who were patrolling outside reported that the state capitals of Rong and Shuo colluded with some Xirong tribes to rebel, and the coalition army line approached the Xidaying station.

At this time, the western camp had completely fallen into chaos, the generals were suspicious of each other, and the situation in the western part of the empire was in danger.

At the critical moment, Dugu Ying, who was only twenty years old, stepped forward, he knew that the situation was dangerous at the moment, and the slightest carelessness would cause civil strife.

Duguying knew that the death of the commander was inseparable from the rebels, so he planned to create a panicked scene in the camp, and led the elite to ambush in the valley a few miles behind the camp.

When the rebels of the two states and the Xirong tribe came to attack, they saw the officers and soldiers in the camp fleeing in all directions, and the two state capitals who led the troops were overjoyed when they saw this, and they really hit the plan. The two people were not satisfied with the seizure of the West Camp camp, and they wanted to defraud the water army camp, and the two were afraid that the deserters would run to the Shuozhou Navy to report the news, so they hurriedly pursued them with people, without any accidents, and the coalition army that was in a hurry was caught off guard by the soldiers of the West Battalion who had been waiting for a long time, and most of the men and horses they brought were lost, and the two state capitals were also killed by the soldiers of the West Battalion.

After the victory, Dugu Ying ignored the dissuasion of the people around him, only took the heads of the two state capitals and five hundred light horses, went straight to the two state cities, and successfully persuaded the defenders in the city to surrender, and the long-planned rebellion of Xizhili was quelled in less than three days.

For a period of time afterward, Duguying led the soldiers of the Western Battalion to exterminate a number of Xirong tribes who participated in the rebellion, and drove the rest of the tribes out of Rongzhou.

After this battle, Dugu Ying gained a high prestige in the hearts of the soldiers of the West Battalion, but at the same time, Dugu Ying's cruel and murderous character that he had hidden for twenty years was also exposed, and wherever the army he led, no prisoner was captured, and the captured people would be killed by him, and in order to show his merits, Dugu Ying even did a lot of things that violated humanity, he arbitrarily classified some tribes that he did not like as rebel tribes, and these many tribes distributed in Rongzhou and Qiang Prefecture were recognized as rebels. Then the entire tribe and women, children, old and children will be killed by Duguying's army, and within a few months, more than 8,000 people in the two states died directly or indirectly in Duguying's hands, and the people of the entire Xizhili grieved and complained.

Since then, Duguying's name has been synonymous with executioners and demons in the eyes of the people of the two states, and the people of the two states are afraid and afraid of him, and they all hate him to the core.

The tribe of Shan Junshi and others was one of the tribes that were exterminated by Dugu Ying, and the grudges between these Xirong people and the Dugu family also came because of this, so when the people who opposed the Dugu Alliance were recruited, the two brothers of Shan Junshi resolutely joined in with a desire for revenge.

But when they failed to assassinate Dugu Ying several times in succession, and their companions continued to die tragically, they realized how weak and naïve they were, how powerful and terrifying the other party was, and after realizing the gap between the two sides, they chose to take revenge from other angles, such as overthrowing the dynasty of the Dugu family, so these Xirong left their hometown and traveled to the states of the Central Plains, in a vain attempt to provoke trouble and create chaos.

Hearing Shen Ye's question, Shan Junshi, who had not dealt with Duguying for many years, instantly recalled his nightmare.

His voice was a little trembling, a little sad, but more fearful: "Duguying? He's a demon! ”