From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Cao Wei period, the administrative divisions of Yongzhou and Liangzhou have been changed repeatedly, such as the people of Longxi County, it is difficult to tell whether he is from Yongzhou or Liangzhou, so the Longyou area has always been called the land of Yongliang.

The Western Han Dynasty was sealed for five years, divided into thirteen states in the world, each placed a thorn history, known as the thirteen thorn history, Liangzhou is one of the thirteen states, starting from Chencang in the east, reaching Yangguan in the west, and administering ten counties such as Longxi and Tianshui. In the first year of Xingping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yongzhou was divided into five counties: Wuwei, Zhangye, Dunhuang, Jiuquan and Xihai. In the eighteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao defeated Ma Chao and Han Sui, pacified Xiliang, abolished Liangzhou, and merged Liangzhou's hometown and Guanzhong Sanfu into Yongzhou, and Yongzhou's territory reached its heyday.

After Cao Pi became emperor, Liangzhou was reset, and eight counties in the area west of the Yellow River in Yongzhou, including Jincheng, Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang, Xihai, Xiping, and Xijun, belonged to Liangzhou.

In layman's terms, there was Liangzhou first, and then Yongzhou was divided, Yongzhou sat big, annexed Liangzhou, and because Yongzhou was too big, Liangzhou was reset. The counties governed by Yongliang and the two states are constantly changing, and even many locals can't figure out whether their grandfather's generation is from Liangzhou or their father's generation is from Yongzhou, and later they simply call themselves Yongliang people. Therefore, the land of Yongliang is not the joint name of Yongzhou and Liangzhou, but the mixed name of the entire Tongguan west and east of Yangguan, although Yongliang is divided into two states, but it still refers to a place in people's geographical concepts.

Lintao is just a small county under the jurisdiction of Longxi County, leaning on Minshan Mountain in the south, relying on Taoshui in the north, and the households are not thousands, but it is dangerous because of its geographical location. However, it became the first line of defense of Wei to defend Shu. After Jiang Wei took office. Repeatedly used troops against Longyou. And Lintao is the right crossing of Long, and it has become a strategic place for Wei and Shu to fight.

However, time has passed, since the Wei army entered Shu, the smoke of Lintao has gradually subsided, and it has returned to the quiet appearance of the mountain city in the past. Not only in Lintao, but also in Longxi County, and even in the entire Yongliang region, the Wei army's defense system has become quite weak.

During the period of confrontation between Wei and Shu. Wei deployed more than 100,000 permanent troops in at least the Yongliang region to guard against the attack of Shu, and important strongholds such as Longxi gathered heavy troops and were always on guard.

However, since the Wei army invaded Shu in the fourth year of Jingyuan, Deng Ai, the general of Zhengxi, and Zhuge Xu, the assassin of Yongzhou, each led 30,000 soldiers and horses into Shu, and the troops in the entire Yongliang region were emptied, from Chang'an to Longxi, on the long land of thousands of miles, the garrison of the Wei army was only more than 20,000 people. Moreover, the main defensive forces were also oriented to the west and north to defend against Qiang and Hu. The Wei instinctively ignored the threat from the south.

The original defensive town of Lintao is now basically an empty city, and the new Lintao County makes Xu Jun quite a headache about it. Due to the weakness of the defense force, those Qiang and Hu who originally lived in the deep mountains and made a living by plundering have repeatedly invaded Lintao in the past two years, burned, killed and plundered, and harmed the township.

However, the city defense of Lintao City is strong, and those Qianghu who are in chaos are only harassing the township, and they have not yet had the courage to attack Lintao City. Xu Jun could only order the city gate to be closed tightly, to guard it to the death, and to prevent Qianghu from sneaking up on the county seat. can't get rid of the bandits, but Xu Jun is also confident that he can defend Lintao City, and the officials and bandits do their own thing, but they are all right.

In October, the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, according to the practice of previous years, those Qianghu who are in chaos will definitely rush to the old nest before the heavy snow covers the mountain, and wait until next year's spring when the flowers bloom, and then raise troops to attack again.

The cool winter always comes earlier than the Central Plains! Xu Jun, who was born in Luoyang, smiled at this, he had just changed into a warm raccoon dog skin robe, and now the fire was booming in the house, Xu Jun couldn't feel a trace of chill, but he would rather the weather be colder, preferably three feet freezing, so that those nasty beards would not be used to disturb them.

"Qiqi County, an army suddenly appeared at the city gate, and it was asking to enter the city." The officer ran in to report.

"The army?" Xu Jun was stunned for a moment, the figure of the army would appear here and now, which can be described as unbelievable, "Where is the army?" Who is in the lead? How many people are there? ”

Xu Jun's three questions made the messenger a little overwhelmed, but he still said quickly: "The city is our Great Wei army, it seems that it has just returned from Shu, about five or six hundred people, and the general of the army is unknown." ”

"Oh? Can they hold military orders? ”

"Nope." The messenger said truthfully.

A cold glint flashed in Xu Jun's eyes, he nodded thoughtfully, it seems that this number of Wei army should be deserters, now the fierce battle in Shu is in full swing, I haven't heard that the army withdrew first, and I only heard that a few soldiers fled back to their hometowns, but there has never been such a large-scale collective escape.

Although Xu Jun is only a small county magistrate and does not have the power to deal with deserters, if he condones deserters to enter the city, he will inevitably be implicated. However, Xu Jun still decided to go to the city to have a look, no matter what, these Wei soldiers are also Yongliang natives, Xu Jun can't bear to see them punished, if he can persuade them to retreat, it is also a matter of merit.

rushed to the top of the tower at the south gate, Xu Jun really saw a large group of soldiers in the uniforms of the Wei army, no flags, no order, just chaotic calling the door.

It seems that it is no different from Xu Jun's suspicions, this group of Wei soldiers must have fled back from the front line of Shudi, according to Wei law, once the deserter is caught, it will be a decisive decision, but the cruelty of the war in front has to let these soldiers gamble.

Xu Jun was quite sympathetic to the plight of these Wei soldiers, but he was not a law enforcer, and he couldn't control the life and death of these soldiers, he poked half of his head out of the city wall, and was thinking about how to persuade these Wei soldiers to return to the front line, his eyes happened to fall on the head of the person, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

"Major General, how could it be you?" Xu Jun had been a subordinate of Deng Ai, the general of Zhengxi, and naturally recognized the general under the city as Deng Zhong at a glance, and asked involuntarily.

Deng Zhong was at a loss, "Are you?" ”

Xu Jun immediately said respectfully: "The humble post was originally a subordinate under the command of General Zhengxi, and he was promoted by the governor of Dengdu, so he was fortunate to be the commander of Lintao County." It is rumored that the young general and Deng Dudu were defeated in the Yinping Ancient Road, life and death are uncertain, I can't imagine that there is a chance to see the young general today, it is really a great luck, but I don't know if Deng Dudu has been well? (To be continued.) )