NCCnovel Chapter 194: The Long Tao River
Chapter 194: The Long Tao River
It is three hundred miles from Guwu to Pingyang City, which takes only three days for Shi Ge and his men to get there.
However, the first place they went to was Qiuyou County.
Tuoba Youyou didn't expect that before he could even warm up his bed, he heard Kui Zheng running over and saying, "Master Tuoba, there are tens of thousands of soldiers outside. They seem to be slave soldiers from the ancient times."
Kui Zheng's words were extremely vague, especially the three words "slave soldiers", which made Tuoba Youyou's vanity start to flutter again.
"A slave soldier who came from nowhere wants to compete with my Tuoba family?"
Without even the thought of going out to see what was going on, Tuoba Youyou called his deputy general, An Zhaoxi, and said, "Go and see where they are coming from. If they can't find the answer, make them surrender."
"Yes, chief." An Zhaoxi took the order and walked out of the hall. He took out a long spear from the ear room, and rode to the city gate with the thousand-cavalry general Yuan Shan.
"Who is this person at the gate, and why are you knocking at the gate?"
Looking at the man below, wrapped in animal skins but not wearing armor, holding a mace in his hand, standing on the ground looking at the city wall, he looked a bit like a robber.
Before Shi Ge came, he also learned about the Tuoba family. The Xianbei and their Qiang tribe had been ruled by the Xiongnu before, so in Shi Ge's cognition, they were all a slave clan and had nothing to be proud of.
"I was assigned by the Lu family to work with you to build Pingyang."
An Zhaoxi was only a thousand-rider in the previous team, and was promoted by Tuoba Youyou. He was six feet tall and as fat as a bucket, but fortunately he had good horsemanship, especially his amazing arm strength.
When he heard Shi Ge say that he was sent by the Lu family, he didn't waste any words, went downstairs and rode his horse to the front of Shi Ge's team.
"You guys just came here on your own? Why doesn't the Lu family have a representative? You're just talking nonsense, how can I believe you?"
"Believe it or not, I have 60,000 men. You have 50,000 men on paper, but in reality, there are only a little over 40,000. At least 10,000 of you are injured and disabled, so your fighting strength is less than half."
Shi Ge's words made An Zhaoxi's heart tremble slightly.
They are all right. If a real fight breaks out, they may not win.
Since they are not enemies, let’s see how strong they are.
"We warriors on the grassland believe that the strong are respected. Can you defeat me?"
He was confident of his arm strength, and since the person in front of him didn't seem that strong, he decided to take a gamble and not suffer any loss.
An Zhaoxi had a hidden agenda, paving a way for herself to be unwilling to be inferior to others in the future.
"You want to fight me?"
Shi Ge asked.
"If you beat me, I'll listen to you."
An Zhaoxi tilted his head and looked at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle.
"Whoosh!" A gust of wind blew over, and An Zhaoxi suddenly felt something was wrong. Just as he was about to take a step back, someone grabbed his belt.
"Bang!" A hook punch went up along the chest and hit the chin.
"Crack!" An Zhaoxi felt a lot of crumbs in his mouth, and then his feet felt dizzy and he flew up.
Seeing this, Yuan Shan, who was behind, took a few steps forward and caught the flying An Zhaoxi, but was knocked to the ground by the huge impact force.
"Anyone else want to take action?"
Shi Ge looked at the person coming from behind and asked loudly.
An Zhaoxi lifted his chin, spat out a few broken teeth with blood residue, and said vaguely:
"There are four requests for instructions."
"Open the door, let's go in and let Tuoba Youyou out."
If 60,000 people entered the city, it would probably break the city apart, and there would be almost no civilians inside.
When the soldiers of the ? tribe saw that the city gate was open, some of them did not go in through the gate, but climbed up through the cracks in the city wall.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the city wall was taken over and the government office was surrounded.
Tuoba Youyou was stuck inside, clearly in a bad mood. Seeing An Zhaoxi with a swollen face and blood at the corner of her mouth, she asked Yuan Shan beside her, "What happened here?"
Yuan Shan didn't know how to respond, so Shi Ge spoke up, "This general respects the strong, and I showed him that. Now he respects me. What do you say? Do you want to fight?"
Tuoba Youyou shuddered, took a step back and said awkwardly, "How can we have a martial arts competition in the hall? Just tell me what you want."
"Let's govern Pingyang County together. This place is too small and not suitable for your status."
Shi Ge wanted their people and was not interested in the city of Qiuyou because it was too small and not as good as their Guwu County.
At this point, Tuoba Youyou was at a loss as to what to do. He frowned and said, "Then let's go to Pingyang County again."
As a border county of Bingzhou, Pingyang County appears to be relatively large, and its population and commerce are relatively concentrated.
The area is larger than that of Guwu and Qiuyou counties combined.
"This place is good, really good. It will become powerful in the future."
In this era, people's yearning for a home always includes the tenderness of mountains and rivers, and Pingyang County happens to be a gentle stroke in this natural painting.
Taohe River flows slowly through the green waves of the county town, like a green silk ribbon gently tied around Pingyang's waist, adding a bit of agility and vitality to the city.
Taohe River in Pingyang County runs east-west, dividing the county seat.
"How about we separate into north and south and each send troops to garrison here?" Tuoba Youyou had been here before, and he knew where the best places were in the county.
Shi Ge also saw through Tuoba's thoughts and said with a frivolous smile: "You choose first!"
"I live in the north!"
The north of the county town is sheltered from the northwest wind, and Tuoba Youyou likes it here.
"Okay, I'll send 10,000 troops to the northwest of the north, and you can also deploy troops to the southeast of our south bank."
Shi Ge was very fair, but he also had to check and balance each other and facilitate supervision. After all, Pingyang would be his territory in the future.
Tuoba Youyou thought about it and felt that it was no problem. As for stationing troops on the south bank, he didn't want to send anyone there.
When leaving Qiu You, Shi Ge found the county magistrate Kui Zheng and asked him to return to the city.
At Kui Zheng's request, Shi Ge left his younger brother and 10,000 old and weak soldiers behind to assist the county magistrate in maintaining public order.
From this we can see that Shi Ge is still ambitious and has started planning in advance.
After the Lu family learned that Shi Ge and others had gone to Pingyang, they spread rumors in the court, saying that the Pingyang Rebellion was caused by the roaming slave soldiers of the ? clan, and they also submitted a petition to the court requesting that the rebellion be quelled.
In fact, none of the three princes in the court expressed their opinions on this matter.
The eldest prince kept aloof from the matter as it had nothing to do with him.
The second prince is eager to cause chaos and threaten Dingzhou.
The eighth prince already knew about this plan, so he would not create any unnecessary trouble.
After receiving the memorial, Zhao Hengzhen threw it on the ground and said to Wu Wei, "Is the Lu family stupid, or does the Eighth Prince have some ideas?"
How could Wu Wei dare to respond to this?
"Your Majesty, the Dark Cavalry Division has an urgent document. The border is in chaos. Weizhou is under attack by the Yuwen clan. Moreover, the Xiongnu have arrived in Changshan County and are also attacking Weizhou."
"What is Bingzhou's attitude?"
When Zhao Hengzhen heard that the Huns came from Changshan County, he asked impatiently.
"Bingzhou has deployed 100,000 troops from Daijun, and is besieging Yuzhou from Changshanjun. Lingqiu has also gathered 70,000 to 80,000 troops to attack Guangchang County. News has come back that fighting has broken out at a mine in Guangchang County, and the military town is in chaos."
"How many people died?"
"More than 10,000."
"How are the two places in Weizhou now?"
After hearing these bad news, Zhao Hengzhen finally started to worry about what would happen to the two places in Weizhou...