Since the Han army regained the three counties in western Liaoning, Lingzhi City has become the central city where the Han army was stationed.
As a vassal of the Han army, the Yuwen tribe had almost unimpeded access to western Liaoning. Duan Xianbei, who originally regarded the Yuwen tribe as enemies, could only pretend not to see it.
However, as the Yuwen Department became stronger and stronger, a large number of cattle, sheep, horses and female slaves were plundered and sold in larger quantities.
Every time he comes to Lingzhi City, the Yuwen Department will make a lot of money.
Some of the Duan tribes living outside Lingzhi City soon became interested, and they began to hook up with Yuwen Xianbei, wanting to follow and plunder.
Duanbu Xianbei, who had been split into three tribes, could not stop the rebellion of these old tribes.
Today's market in Lingzhi City is the first time these tribes have come to do business since they switched to the Yuwen Department.
"There really is a woman with yellow hair!?"
After several brown-haired female slaves entered the city, they immediately aroused the enthusiasm of the Han soldiers and farmers along the way.
Most people were rushing forward, wanting to take a look at the wonderful scenery.
Seeing that more and more soldiers were gathering, almost blocking the road, a man in silk robes immediately shouted anxiously.
"Fellow military lords, please don't squeeze in!"
"These slaves are for sale today. If anyone likes them, please go back and get the money and go to the market!"
After hearing what this Renshiya man said, some Han soldiers left and went back to withdraw money.
When the tooth man saw this, he felt proud in his heart.
These Han army soldiers from Jizhou are all wealthy masters, and they would buy an ordinary horse without blinking an eye.
Nowadays, if you want to buy a few female slaves, you are even more willing to spend money.
Thinking of this, he turned his head and glanced at the Hu Ji again, and secretly said to himself that he was lucky that these strange-looking slaves did not fall into his hands.
The noisy scene on the street immediately attracted many city residents to watch.
However, after knowing that the Yuwen Department had offered another batch of slaves for sale, many people were not surprised.
In a building next to the road, as the general who succeeded Wu Xin in guarding western Liaoning, Ran Long was also upstairs watching everything on the street.
"General, these boys are really noisy. Would you like me to give them a lesson?" A general said in Ran Long's ear.
Ran Long shook his head.
"These good men left their hometowns and came to western Liaoning just for military exploits and generous rewards!"
"There is almost no war now. If this once-a-month 'big reward' is ruined again, I'm afraid it will be detrimental to the morale of the military."
Ran Long was not very strict with the discipline of these garrison troops, and was more concerned about whether these Han soldiers were willing to garrison here.
After all, there are no job fields and mansions here in western Liaoning. Han troops regardless of their rank live in military camps inside and outside the city.
Although this kind of military camp is not the kind of military camp that is used for marching, the conditions inside are far inferior to those in the Han Army Mansion and Soldiers' Home in the Central Plains.
At this time, a follower of Ran Long came in to report.
"General, the Yuwen Department sent someone to deliver the list!"
"Bring it here!" Ran Long said immediately.
After conquering Xianbei in the western part of Liaoning, Liu Yu incorporated the western Liaoning area into the newly established Liaozhou.
That is to say, Duan Bu Xianbei and Yuwen Xianbei both belong to Liaozhou. However, for Yuwen Xianbei, there is no practical benefit except that Duan Bu Xianbei is a little proud every time he faces the team.
It is impossible for Liu Yu to safely hand over the specific power of Liaozhou to the hands of Yuwen Mogui and his son.
Therefore, the people who really hold power are Han officials and generals such as Ran Long and Wang Chang.
A young handsome man from the Yuwen Department with a Kuntou walked in respectfully, holding a list in his hands.
Ran Long picked it up and read it.
After coming to western Liaoning for a few months, Ran Long was already most familiar with the goods that the Ministry of Education and Culture could provide.
"Huh?" Ran Long suddenly made a soft voice of surprise.
Because he saw something different from usual.
"Why are there so few horses coming to the mutual market today?" Ran Long asked dissatisfied.
Nowadays, the Han army has a great demand for horses. In order to supplement the vacancies of horses, horses have always been an important item in the mutual market transactions in Lingzhi City.
Ran Long was immediately dissatisfied when he saw that the horses provided today were only half of the previous ones.
Although the horses provided by Yuwen Xianbei are not all qualified war horses, they are still very good even if they are used as pack horses and draft horses.
"Reporting to the general, the Dingling and Lejie people in the north rebelled last month. A large number of troops went to the north and have not returned yet."
"Many of those who followed were one person and three horses, so there were fewer horses in the exchange this time."
After hearing this explanation, Ran Long stopped asking any more questions.
Anyway, now Yuwen Xianbei has almost no room to rebel against the Han army.
Once the support of the Han army was lost, Murong and other troops, who were already enemies, would definitely take advantage of the situation and attack Yuwen Xianbei's home base near the Liaohe River.
"Okay, if that's the case, let's go and hand over the task to Dongshi." Ran Long said casually.
Because Yuwen Xianbei's trade goods were increasing, a special East Market had been set up in Lingzhi City specifically for trading these.
After sending away the Yuwen Xianbei people, Ran Long had nothing to do for the time being.
After the Duanbu Xianbei was conquered, a large number of Han people who had fled from the Central Plains had been moved to the Youzhou area.
Nowadays, western Liaoning is sparsely populated. Apart from a group of Han soldiers and monitoring the Duan leaders, Ran Long really has nothing to do.
Just when Ran Long was about to go to Dongshi to see the excitement, someone suddenly broke in.
"General, urgent report!" the sergeant said breathlessly.
Immediately, he handed a wax-sealed urgent report to Ran Long's hand.
After Ran Long opened it, the more he looked at it, the more solemn his expression became.
The generals, staff and others next to him all looked puzzled, and they all speculated in their minds about what happened.
Finally, after Ran Long read the letter, everyone knew what had happened, or what kind of order he had received.
"It's a military order from the imperial court!" Ran Long said.
Everyone looked at each other and wanted to know what the military order was.
"After the Huns moved their capital to Chang'an, they became very arrogant and even wanted to annex Qinzhou and Liangzhou on a large scale. We must not sit idly by and ignore them."
"Your Majesty ordered me to recruit the Duan tribes to send troops in western Liaoning. I will leave for Hanoi County next month!"
After hearing this order, everyone was slightly shocked.
"General, not long ago, this section of the tribe just went east to compete with Murong's tribe for territory, and suffered a lot of losses. If we recruit them as volunteers to follow the army again, I'm afraid many of them will defect from Murong's tribe." A general said softly. .
For these barbarian tribes, except for the tribes led by the Duan brothers, the rest of the tribes are likely to rebel at any time.
In particular, Murong and Duan Bu had a close relationship before. Once there are certain external factors, some people are indeed likely to defect to Murong's Department.
"Now the Murong tribe claims to have 100,000 households in Liaodong. If some more Duan tribes escape, I'm afraid the border will be uneasy." A general said.
The reason why Duan Bu Xianbei was still left in western Liaoning was that his important role was to guard against Murong Xianbei in eastern Liaodong.
If Duan Bu Xianbei himself falls apart, then Liu Yu's plan to use Duan Bu as a barrier will be in vain.
"Haha, these are all okay!"
Ran Long smiled softly.
"The military order says that each of the Duan clan's three households should send out one soldier!"
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Yecheng.
After the order to recruit Xianbei of the Duan clan in western Liaoning as servant cavalry was sent to western Liaoning, there was a reply soon.
Liu Yu felt a little confused immediately after seeing Ran Long's personal reply.
Duanbu Xianbei's recruitment method is to send one soldier out of every three households. The ratio of soldiers to civilians is actually very high.
If everyone in Duanbu is really like this, tens of thousands of people will die once the war starts.
In that case, I'm afraid Duan Bu Xianbei will be completely finished.
"I really didn't expect that the Duan family would be so well-behaved?"
Liu Yu has always been a little wary of Duan Mogui, Duan Wenyang and others who have left their names in history.
But now it seems that Xianbei has completely surrendered.
"If that's the case, it would be great!" Xi Jian, the commander-in-chief of military affairs, said next to him.
"The cavalry from the Western Liaoning Province are also very brave, and they are probably the most suitable ones to use against the Huns and barbarians."
Liu Yu nodded. No matter what the reason was, now that he had these Duan Xianbei Yi Cong cavalry in his hands, his plan to take over the next two was to be even faster.
"After this section of cavalry arrives, there will be no shortage of cavalry in my hand." Liu Yu was also very happy.
It turned out that the Xiongnu Emperor Liu Cong, who had established his capital in Chang'an, had just sent troops to defeat the Qinzhou and Jin forces in Longxi.
Jin King Sima Bao was defeated and fled, and almost half of the Qinzhou soldiers were killed by the Xiongnu.
The Xiongnu and Han kingdoms immediately became excited, and they all wanted to annex Qin Liang to the west and merge with Yizhou in the south.
After all this is over, we will leave Kanto with our powerful troops.
It was naturally impossible for Liu Yu to let the Huns expand so wildly. Once the Huns established a foothold in Guanzhong, even if Liu Yu had more advantages, it would be difficult to overcome the external conditions.
Therefore, after Liu Yu discussed with Xi Jian, Zu Ti, Liu Yan and others, he had planned to divide his troops into two groups. One group would go south from Jinyang to contain the Pingyang Huns, and the other group would attack north from Hanoi County to consume them all at once. Huns.
Since it is to consume the strength of the Huns, it is natural that the smaller the loss, the better.
Therefore, Liu Yu has issued military orders widely, asking Yi Cong vassals from all over the country to send troops to obey the orders.
Except for the Jinyang Road, which was in charge of the old beggar army, the other road was mostly composed of Xianbei, Wuhuan and other miscellaneous barbarians.
"Now that we have Yuwen, Duan Bu, and Dongpingzhou barbarian soldiers, there will be almost more than 30,000 people!"
"If we add some other miscellaneous soldiers and horses, there can be more than ten thousand."
"After all, Hanoi County can have nearly 50,000 volunteers all the way!"
The more Liu Yu talked, the happier he became.
The main force in this attack on the Huns was basically these righteous soldiers, because Liu Yu wanted to save as many Han soldiers as possible.
"With so many righteous soldiers and horses, if we win, we will benefit1"
"If the attack on Pingyang fails, it can also be used to consume the potential of miscreants everywhere."
Xi Jian also quite agreed with Liu Yu's words.
He also stroked his beard and said seriously.
"If more Yi Cong soldiers from the Yuwen Department die, then Liaozhou will not have any risk of becoming powerful!"
"If Duan Bu Xianbei dies a few more people, then everyone left in Liaoxi will become a rootless tree, and it will only be a matter of time before the tribe is annihilated."
"As for the miscellaneous barbarians in Dongping Prefecture, although combat training may not be feasible, they are still suitable for doing some hard work. It doesn't matter if these people die less or more!"
According to Liu Yu's plan, as long as the Qingzhou Han Kingdom showed signs of a large-scale westward advance, the Xiongnu Han Kingdom in Guanzhong would definitely not be able to sit still.
As for how to deal with it, it is not something that can be done easily.
However, no matter what, as long as you see Qingzhou Han State dispatching soldiers and generals, the Xiongnu Han State's crazy expansion will be frightened by themselves.
At this time, Liu Yu still believed that his actions did not have a strong purpose and were just ordinary.
However, he did not know that precisely because of this change, the pattern of the Central Plains would once again be changed for hundreds of years.
Guanzhong.
Chang'an.
As the current capital of the Huns and Han Kingdom, it has become prosperous.
The Huns Emperor Liu Cong was sitting in the main hall surrounded by beauties. His eyes like an eagle did not look at the beauties around him, but stared at the secret report in his hand.
In this secret report, the number of Han soldiers in Qingzhou was exaggerated.
"Two hundred thousand! Humph, even if we give the Qingzhou thieves two hundred thousand, my men will be defeated..."
As soon as he saw the word "two hundred thousand", Emperor Cong of the Huns was already a little angry.
This is obviously a deliberately exaggerated trick of the Qingzhou Han State. It is nothing more than using a super high number of troops to force some powerful families or dock owners to defect to them.
"Your Majesty, even if the Qingzhou bandits don't have 200,000, they should still have 50,000 or 60,000."
A Hun general said next to him.
"These Qingzhou thieves are all brave. This time it is obvious that they are going for Pingyang, the eastern capital!"
"If Pingyang is lost, how can the country's foundation be consolidated!?"
Facing the noise of these people, the Xiongnu Emperor Liu Cong felt very unhappy.
Originally, according to the sharp westward advance speed of the Xiongnu and Han armies, the entire Qinzhou would be captured in just one and a half years.
But the noise made by the Qingzhou Han Kingdom in Guandong was really too big, as if just to tell the Huns, I am coming to target you!
"With Jin Wang Liu Can guarding Pingyang, we can ensure that there is no danger. My heart is actually very peaceful!"
Liu Cong's eldest son, King Can of Jin, had previously repelled the Han army's attack and could be regarded as a relatively talented general.
