Xihe County of the Great Jin Dynasty, the place of governance is away from Shicheng. 9 counties: Lishi, Zhongyang, Pingzhou, Lin County, Yuanyang, Yuanyin, Pingding, Guangyan, Meiji. Among them, Pingzhou because of geographical reasons, the Huns and the Han people often fight, has become a white land, and the city has been destroyed, hundreds of miles uninhabited, Pingjin Valley is in the territory of Pingzhou County, Xihe County.

Lishi County was occupied by the Iron Blood Army last year, when the Iron Blood Army first arrived, the Mao family and the Lin family of the wealthy family from Shicheng both returned to Shun, and the Mao family followed the army to Shangdang County, and now the head of the Mao family has become the brigade commander of the cavalry reserve brigade, and the Lin family volunteered to garrison Lishi City, and Lishi City was repaired by the Lin family with all its might, and the demeanor of the strong city has been restored. Because of the taming of the Lin family, Chu Yun also saw it, and he appointed Lin Yu, the head of the Lin family, as the county commander of Lishi County to assist Liu Bi. After Liu Bi straightened out the stone city, in the first month of the cold and freezing sky, he quietly left the stone city with the guide given by the Lin family and thousands of troops.

Rushing in the ice and snow is extremely demanding for the army and the commander, the slightest carelessness is the end of the whole army, not to mention people, in the environment of minus 12 degrees, even animals know to hide in their own holes and shiver. But on the contrary, a special team appeared in Xihe County, and this team was silent, like a group of puppets marching silently, forming a long black line between the white heaven and earth. This is exactly the 2,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry under the leadership of Liu Bi and the brigade commander Fang Dashan of the 1st Cavalry Brigade. More than 2,000 cavalrymen led the horses silently on the road, and the horses were covered with white ice edges. And the 2,000 infantry behind them are also tightly carrying weapons and materials to hurry step by step, although the iron-blooded army is short, but with the characteristics of hardship and hard work, it is not inferior to other strong armies in the world.

On the road south from Shicheng to Zhongyang County, Fang Ai, the commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade, also marched silently with more than 1,000 infantry, they were much better than Liu Bi's army marching north, because their goal was only a few dozen miles away. Fang Ai scolded Liu Bi for his brain-dead behavior of marching in this weather, without the slightest bearing of a child of the family, although he scolded and hated, but he was just cheering up his subordinates in disguise, and he also knew that if he was not careful, a catastrophe could happen in this ghost weather. Fortunately, their target was already close, the scouts had been released an hour before, and with the help of the Inspectorate, it wouldn't be long before they could warm themselves in the house.

"Brigadier Commander, the scout is back. Although Fang Ai and these brigade commanders were all appointed as captains, the army was still willing to call them all Governor Chu Yun to get their names as brigade commanders, Fang Ai's eyebrows were already full of frost and snow, he wiped his face with his sleeve and looked into the distance, several crimson figures appeared in his eyes, and his mouth was full of smiles.

The county order appointed by the Huns in Zhongyang County had no defense at all, and Zhongyang County was captured. Because the location of Zhongyang County is the closest to Pingyang County in Xihe County, because of the important location, the Xiongnu Han State appointed a school captain to serve as the county commander of Zhongyang County, and he recruited hundreds of Hu people to claim the king and hegemony here. The two Han families in Shicheng were too strong, and he didn't dare to provoke them, but in Zhongyang, he was the emperor of the soil, and Zhongyang County Ling always thought that he was the smartest Huns, and he was proud to get this territory, but he didn't expect to become a prisoner in the blink of an eye.

Fang Ai is a child of a family, and he has an attitude towards the Hu people - killing, so this smart Xiongnu who thinks he thinks is a Hun didn't even see Fang Ai's face, so he went to meet the king of Hades with hundreds of his subordinates. Zhongyang County changed its owner overnight, because the distance was not too far from Shicheng, and the two cities were horns of each other, and their defense power was greatly increased. But the Huns were unaware of this change.

Compared with Fang Ai's ease, Liu Bi and Fang Dashan were much more difficult, they attacked to the north, not to mention the distance, and the further north they went, the worse the environment, plus the more Hu people in the north city, compared to the docility of the Han people, the Hu people were much more irritable.

When Liu Bi and Fang Dashan came to Lin County after a long journey, they were discovered. Seeing the city gate of Lin County closed, the two of them wanted to cry without tears, who made them more targeted, farther away, and easier to be discovered.

Lin County is not like the Han people from Shicheng accounted for more than half, the Hu people here are the mainstay, although not the most Huns, but no matter which nationality the Hu people are not very friendly to the Han people, here is also the main horse breeding, several Hu people and horse farm owners manage Lin County, they gathered thousands of people to fight against Liu Bi's army, this weather, want to attack the city is simply child's play.

The Hu people sent someone to contact Liu Bi and ask them to leave, and as soon as Liu Bi's eyes rolled, he had an idea. Liu Bi told the Hu people in Lin County that he was on the order of Liu Kun and Lord Liu to go to the army of Yunzhong County, but the weather was cold and went in the wrong direction, hoping to buy some food, although the Hu people in the city were a little hesitant, but they didn't want to fight rashly with the regular army, they took out some food, Liu Bi and others really went north after eating, and the Hu people kept sending people to follow them, Liu Bi and others walked out for more than 30 miles, and the Hu people in the city were relieved.

When the gate of Lin County was opened and the old life was restored, Liu Bi's 300 people hiding in the snow took the opportunity to kill and seize the east gate of Lin County, and the Hu people shouted that they were deceived. Liu Bi also ignored the danger of riding a horse in the snow, and he ordered Fang Dashan to send cavalry to support.

In half a day, the raiding force of three hundred people was almost killed and wounded, but Fang Dashan's cavalry finally arrived, and Lin County quickly fell. The Hu people in Lin County almost felt that the sky had fallen. Although I didn't expect the Han people to be so cunning, but the four gates were occupied by the Han people, and they couldn't run if they wanted to, in their opinion, the Han people would definitely take bloody revenge.

When Liu Bi returned with the rest of the army, this fear reached the extreme, and the Han people in the city were overjoyed, and the imperial court finally returned. But after Liu Bi came back, he did not kill on a large scale, he just arrested more than 600 Xiongnu men and women, and then personally feasted many Zahu leaders and Han people with prestige elders, he put all the fault on the head of the Huns, announced that everyone was bewitched by them, and in addition, no longer pursued, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

He also appointed a prestigious Qiang leader among the Hu people as the county leader, and recruited troops in Lin County, and soon recruited more than 1,000 people, these people were mainly Hu people who were proficient in cavalry and archery, and Liu Bi treated them with the treatment of regular soldiers, which made the Hu people in Lin County quickly return to their hearts.

He ordered one of Fang Ai's infantry lords to lead 600 men to garrison Lin County, and served as the county lieutenant, appointing a Han elder as the county commander. Then he led the army to continue the attack to the north, the Hu people of Lin County asked for guidance, and contributed thousands of horses to the army, Liu Bi's army, whether cavalry or infantry, almost everyone had horses, and their number not only did not decrease, but increased by several hundred, and the army of 4,500 slaughtered towards Yuanyang County.

Yuanyang County did not have much vigilance, and half a month later, Liu Bi's army suddenly killed and entered Yuanyang, and the people in Yuanyang did not react, so they were occupied by Liu Bi. Liu Bi left a thousand troops to garrison, and killed Yuanyin County non-stop, without giving the people of Yuanyin County any time to react, and Yuanyin County fell after just three days.

Liu Bi breathed a sigh of relief, the Hu people have accounted for a huge majority here, Liu Bi used his old method when he was in Lin County, and used Huairou's means to deal with other Hu people except the Huns, the Hu people quickly returned to their hearts, and he recruited troops locally, because as long as they have people to join the Iron Army, then they and the Iron Blood Army will become an interest group, and they can only follow the Iron Blood Army to advance and retreat. Liu Bi expanded the army on a large scale, and in a short period of time, the first cavalry brigade under Fang Dashan expanded to a super large scale of 6,000 people, after all, there were no Hu people who could not ride horses, and they all joined the army with their own horses.

Liu Bi did not recruit many Han people, and there were too few Han people here, and there were too many recruits, so these places all became Hu people, which was not conducive to their rule.

Liu Bi stayed in the two counties of Yuanyang and Yuanyin for a month, so that the Hu people fully recognized the Iron Army, and they would raise horses in captivity for the Iron Blood Army in the future, and the Iron Blood Army would buy them normally, and these counties soon became important horse production bases that were not weaker than the horse farms in Shangdang County.

When Liu Bi left, he left 2,000 people stationed in Yuanyang and Yuanyin counties, and in this way, there were more people under his command than when he sent troops, all the infantry remained, but the cavalry under Fang Dashan reached more than 6,500 people.

A month passed, although the weather was still cold, but the ice and snow had melted, and he led thousands of troops to Pingding County, the last place of the battle, Pingding County was already near the Great Wall, and there were fewer Han people, and he encountered fierce resistance in Pingding County. The Hu people in these places are all wild, which is in strong contrast to the Hu people in the hinterland who admire Wang Hua.

Liu Bi's iron-blooded side was exposed, he slaughtered in Pingding, almost everyone in the thousands of troops fell into madness, tens of thousands of Hu people in Pingding, Guangyan, and Meiji counties were killed, and the tyranny of the iron-blooded army shocked all the nearby Hu people, and the Hu tribes moved out of the grassland one after another, and the Hu people in the three counties were almost empty.

Liu Bi moved thousands of Han people from Guangyan, Meiji, and Pingding to the Great Wall, and the Han people here were almost no less than the fierceness of the Hu people, and he recruited a thousand Han people to join the iron-blooded army, and left another thousand troops to guard Pingding County, and then drove tens of thousands of good horses and Hu people and most of the cavalry to return to the south.

The killing in Pingding County not only did not make the Hu people hate, but made many small tribes submit to the Iron Blood Army, and the Iron Blood Army cavalry reached seven or eight thousand people, which was still the situation after he left thousands of good men every time he captured a county. Moreover, these Hu people were more proficient in riding than the Han people, and they were good soldiers when they went back with a little training, and this time Liu Bi Xueyue's march achieved great results.

It took Liu Bi one winter and two months to control all the territory of Xihe County except for a piece of Xihe County on the west side of the Yellow River controlled by the Xiliang Zhang clan into the hands of the Iron Army.

In addition, because Liu Bi and Fang Dashan slaughtered tens of thousands of Hu people, the Shenghu in the north were greatly frightened and became famous in the grassland, and the Hu on the grassland did not dare to cross the Great Wall for several years. Liu Bi showed his talents, Chu Yun didn't look at the wrong person, and Liu Bi didn't show the slightest sign of rebellion.

Just when Liu Bi occupied Xihe County, the other princes in the world were not idle, Youzhou Wang Jun's heart to call the emperor was obvious, Shi Le pretended to take refuge in Wang Jun, and constantly sent people to persuade Wang Jun to be the emperor, Wang Jun sent his minister Wang Zichun to Xiangguo Shile to spy on him, Shi Le hid his strong soldiers and elite weapons, and showed the envoy the empty tent of the old and weak soldiers, and solemnly paid homage to the north to accept Wang Jun's letter. Wang Jun gave Shi Le a graceful tail, and Shi Le pretended not to dare to hold it in his hand, but hung it on the wall, and bowed to it respectfully in the morning and evening, saying, "I cannot see the prince and see the things he has given me as if I saw him." He also sent his subordinate Dong Zhao to present Wang Jun with a symphony table, and agreed to go to Youzhou in mid-March to honor Wang Jun as emperor.

Wang Jun's envoy Wang Zichun also betrayed Wang Jun, and he told Shi Le: "Youzhou was flooded last year, and the people had no food to eat, and Wang Jun hoarded more than one million corn grains, but did not help the victims, the punishment decree was harsh and cruel, taxes and labor were frequently levied, loyal ministers and wise men left from him, and the Yi people and Di people also rebelled outside. Everyone knew that he was going to perish, but Wang Jun was unaware, as if nothing had happened, he had no fear of disaster at all, and had just re-set up the official office and arranged hundreds of civil and military officials, thinking that Han Gaozu and Emperor Wei Wu could not compare with him. Shi Le smiled and said, "Wang Jun can indeed be caught." The envoys sent by Wang Jun returned to Jidi and said: "Shile's current army is lonely and weak, loyal and undouble-minded. Wang Jun was very happy, even more arrogant and slack, and no longer arranged defense.

Wang Jun's arrogance made him lose his vigilance, and Shi Le sharpened his sword and prepared to completely annex Youzhou.

At this time, there was a great turmoil in Hanzhong, the Di people and the Han people attacked each other, and finally the Di people failed, and their leader Yang Nandi was expelled, and Hanzhong was given this territory by Zhang Xian to Li Xiong, the lord of the Cheng country, who was also a Di people. Chengguo was a vassal of the Jin Dynasty occupying Yizhou, and in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, Qin and Yong's two prefectures were in drought for many years, and the Di people and Han people in six counties such as Luoyang and Tianshui had to migrate to the Liang and Yi areas to eat. In the sixth year of Yuankang, Li Te, the leader of Di, led the people into Shu. After they entered Shu, due to the greed of the local officials and the government's forced return to their hometowns within a time limit, the leader of the displaced people, Li Te, of the Luoyang Di tribe, took advantage of the anger of the displaced people and gathered a crowd in Mianzhu to revolt in 301. In 303, Li Te was called a general, and after the death of Li Te and his brother Li Liu, Li Xiong, the son of the special, succeeded the troops and captured Chengdu.

However, they are still attached to the Jin Dynasty, and the Jin Dynasty is too busy to take care of itself at this time, and can only grit its teeth and admit them, but this time Chengguo, and occupied Hanjia, Fuling, and Hanzhong, and their strength has increased greatly, and they almost all of the territory of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period has made their ambitions inflated, and they don't know if they still listen to the orders of the imperial court.

Moreover, Li Xiong, the lord of Chengguo, was humble and liked meritocracy, and arranged their positions according to people's talents, he let Taifu Li Xiang manage and educate the people inside, Li Feng appeased Huairou outside, the criminal law decree was lenient and concise, and there were no prisoners in the prison who had not been convicted for a long time. Establish schools and set up historians. The taxes of the Cheng Han Dynasty, the adult men in the common people pay three grains per person per year, the adult women are halved, and the sick are halved. Each household's endowment is only a few zhang of silk and a few taels of cotton. Labor was scarce, labor was rarely levied, the people were mostly wealthy, and those who were newly attached were exempt from forced labor. This series of actions has made the national strength of the country thriving.

The small court of Chang'an had a place to breathe because of Chu Yun's actions, and they were not willing to be ignored, so they took out the orthodox supreme morality and wantonly sealed officials, with Xiliang Zhang Liang as the Tai Lieutenant, Liangzhou Mu, and Xiping County Duke; Wang Jun as the Grand Sima, Du Du You, and Ji Zhu Military; Xun Group as Sikong, Lingshangshu Zuo Servant and Si Li, and Lieutenant of the Division; Liu Kun as the Great General and Sikong, the Governor and the Military of the Prefecture. The imperial court took Zhang Liang as old and sick, and worshiped his son as the deputy assassin. And Chu Yun also has a reward, Chu Yun's five-rank general was promoted to a third-rank general, although he is also a miscellaneous general, but his level has been greatly improved, and the rest such as Liu Yan and others have a reward.

However, Chu Yun was a little contemptuous of the imperial court's actions, although Xiliang Zhang Liang showed loyalty, but who knows if he paved the way for his children and grandchildren like Sima Yi? His sons are all ambitious, and the imperial court's move has made the Zhang family's father die and succeed him, isn't this a legacy of raising tigers, Xun Group and Liu Kun are also okay, Youzhou Wang Jun Sima Zhao's heart is known to everyone, and there is even a promotion, is this considered self-digging grave?

What's even more ridiculous is that the Chang'an Imperial Court named Sima Rui of Jiangnan as the prime minister and the governor of the Chinese and foreign military, didn't this instigate Sima Rui to set up another imperial court? During Chu Yun's recuperation, Sima Rui learned of Chu Yun's name and once sent someone to make friends with Chu Yun, Sima Rui's envoy tried his best to express Sima Rui's wisdom and martial arts, and wanted Chu Yun to take refuge, Chu Yun did not express his stance to send the matter away, but from here Chu Yun can see Sima Rui's ambition. Chu Yun was also very sad for the little emperor, I heard that the emperor was only a teenager, and he was surrounded by a group of scheming careerists, so it was no wonder that the country did not die.

Liu Kun tried his best to shirk the position of Sikong and only took the general, and Zhang Liang also refused to resign from the position of captain. Everyone knows that the higher the name, the better, just when the relationship between Chu Yun and Su Jin slowly eased, and his injuries slowly recovered, Liu Kun sent his third son Liu Ding to come in person and let Chu Yun go to Jinyang, Chu Yun really couldn't figure out what Liu Kun was looking for him, and he didn't think that Liu Kun was going to set up a Hongmen banquet to wait for him, so he personally led three hundred people to follow Liu Ding to Jinyang.

Chu Yun and Liu Ding are old friends, if Liu Ding and Mo Han hadn't personally gone to the dense forest of Taihang Mountain to recruit themselves, they might not be able to say how they are still hanging around there now, how did they have today's foundation, so the relationship between the two is very harmonious. Liu Ding is very inconspicuous among Liu Kun's sons, Liu Kun has a total of three sons, the eldest son Liu Zun, who is a proton in the place of the acting king Tuoba Yilu, I heard that it is very Liu Kun's demeanor. The second son, Liu Qun, is Liu Kun's eldest son and is also very talented. is that the third son Liu Ding has almost no sense of existence, but because he recruited Chu Yun and made him show his face in front of Liu Kun, Liu Kun also looked at him differently. In addition, Chu Yun not only gave gifts to Liu Kun during the New Year's holidays, but also gave gifts to Liu Ding, so that he lived a famous life in Jinyang, so Liu Ding was also very grateful to Chu Yun.

"Brother Wen Yuan, I don't know why the general recruited me this time?" Because Chu Yun's injuries had not healed, he made a carriage with Liu Ding.

Liu Ding opened the curtain to keep the surrounding guards farther away, and then approached Chu Yun and said in a low voice: "Brother Chu Xian, this time the imperial court not only rewarded the generals and important ministers from all over the country, but also sent a secret will, agreeing that the princes of the world will fight the Xiongnu together, and few people know about this matter, and I am not qualified, but I happened to overhear it." After Liu Ding finished speaking, Chu Yun's eyes narrowed, this is important news, it seems that Liu Kun attaches great importance to it, and his own supervision department has not received any news.

"Brother Wen Yuan, I don't know if you know the specific plan?" Chu Yun asked again.

Liu Ding laughed, and said with a somewhat proud expression: "Brother Chu Xian, if it were someone else, I would definitely not reveal it, but you are different, let me tell you in detail, don't tell others." ”