Seeing that Xue Tong was in a hurry, Lu Yao shook his head again and again: "Old Xue, old Xue!" Have you forgotten, why did we go east to Taihang this time? ”

Xue Tong glared at the copper bell suddenly.

The conversation between Lu Yao and Xue Tong didn't last long, and the two of them deliberately lowered their voices, so no one knew what they said. But in the blink of an eye, I saw Xue Tong turning his horse away in high spirits, and his mood was quite high-pitched. During the march, most of the other officers were busy with their own affairs, and Lu Yao was only followed by He Yun, so no one noticed this little episode.

Ding Miao's position is in the Chinese army. Shen Jin, who was a little closer, was familiar with his new subordinates, he was a simple military general, except for the affairs of the army, it seemed that he would take the initiative to think of other aspects. Lu Yao's deputy was Lu Yao's old acquaintance, Chen Pei and Chen Qingnian, the former cavalry governor of Chengdu Wang's tent, and he and Shen Jin marched side by horse, jointly commanding about 400 cavalry. Although this one-eyed officer was once reduced to a thief, at this moment, it seems that his majestic military temperament is not inferior to others. In Lu Yao's opinion, although Shen Jin's voice is louder, Chen Pei is more like the chief general of the army.

The hurried procession was like a long snake walking through the plains of Qianmo, and soon left the black and gray Yecheng in the distance, and only the towering three were still clearly distinguishable. They marched northeast along the south bank of Zhangshui, intending to pass through the two counties of Ping'en and Guangzong, bypass the mainland, and first go to the Xindu City of Jizhou and Changleguo.

Lu Yao looked west for a moment, took the horse's head a little, and led He Yun and other soldiers to retreat to the side of the road, watching the soldiers march. After a while, he sighed deeply.

If it was his subordinates in the Jinyang Army in front of him, someone would wave to Lu Yao at this time, someone would greet the approachable general with a smile, and Lu Yao would respond one by one, praising their performance, or scolding a few times half-jokingly. Lu Yao had a high prestige in the hearts of those soldiers, he led them to win victory after victory, and once saved the lives of many soldiers on the battlefield. His every word, every action, is enough to motivate morale.

But at this moment, these soldiers will not have any communication with Lu Yao. In the smoke and dust stirred up by the war horses stepping on the ground, the faces carved by the wind and frost passed by, and Lu Yao could see that there was only Mu Ran in their expressions. At this time, just after the end of the day, the preset journey of the day has not yet been completed, but some people are already tired, and the posture of riding the horse is gradually tired.

These people were all subordinates of Kisang Shile, fierce and rebellious thieves. Because Ji Sang was killed by Lu Yao and Shi Le withdrew from Yecheng, in the end, more than 1,000 thieves were awarded the head, and more than 3,000 people surrendered. It was only three days after their surrender, and they were only briefly broken up and regrouped. In exchange for leaving the vast majority of the people to Li Yun, yesterday, Lu Yao transferred dozens of more elite and reliable soldiers from the beggar army and appointed Yilu as a grassroots officer. However, this can only ensure the obedience of the bottom line, and the complete command system needs to be slowly tempered and improved in the future. Such an army may be able to fool ordinary people who have not been in battle with the personal bravery of its soldiers, but in the eyes of an experienced soldier like Lu Yao, this is a demoralized army, a force that does not know what the goal and future are, and a soulless army. Not to mention fighting, Lu Yao couldn't even guarantee that no one would secretly escape when he set up camp at night.

Soldiers, rule is the victory, not the public. If he could have more time, Lu Yao would never have gone north with such an army so early. Even if he uses the minimum standard he can tolerate, he needs to be ordered to enforce prohibitions, he needs to unite the hearts of the people to fight musically, and he needs to organize the Shiwu joint protection to strictly control the people...... But Lu Yao didn't have time.

Sima Teng has died, the civil and military have their own ghosts, Shi Le's strength still exists, and the chaos in Yecheng must continue for a long time. The wealth accumulated by the two dynasties for decades has also been wiped out in the raging fire. In such a situation, Yecheng has become a bottomless abyss that devours the assets of the imperial court. It is a complete luxury that the state wants to obtain materials from Yecheng to support Jinyang. Fortunately, Yue Shigong didn't have much expectation for this, although Lu Yao had some regrets, more than that, he was glad that he escaped death.

But Lu Yao's mission is not only in Yecheng. Tuoba Xianbei's festival will be held in July, only thirty years away. Lu Yao had to go to Daijun as soon as possible, so as to echo Wen Qiao who was sent to Danhan Mountain at any time, and find an opportunity to help Tuoba Yilu. This is the real purpose of the group, and there is no room for negligence!

The significance of this Tuoba Xianbei sacrifice ceremony is extraordinary. Since the death of the previous generation of Da Dan Yu Yi, the entire Tuoba Xianbei tribe was divided into two parts, and the two big chiefs of Luguan and Yilu competed for more than a year, and small-scale conflicts continued. This situation must be brought to an end. Therefore, during the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens, both sides will do their best to go to Danhan Mountain to be shocked. Lu Yao could imagine that since the moment Tuoba Luguan decided to hold a ceremony to worship the heavens, the vast grasslands of thousands of miles from Liaoxi to Shuofang had been tense. Every tribe and every grassland has become a place for the Tuoba Xianbei family to wrestle secretly.

From another point of view, who will be in charge of Tuoba Xianbei's strong strength of 400,000 will undoubtedly have a huge impact on the situation in the northern Xinjiang of the Great Jin Dynasty. Whether it is the Hu people in northern Xinjiang such as Yuwen Ministry and Duan Ministry, or the imperial court and town forces in Youzhou, Jizhou, and Bingzhou, they are all waiting with bated breath.

For the Jinyang regime, which was facing the military pressure of the Xiongnu and Han States, Tuoba Xianbei's movements were a matter of life and death. Needless to say, in the Battle of Jinyang, although the soldiers of the Jin army fought bravely, when Zuoxian Wang Liu and tens of thousands of people went straight to the city of Jinyang, the key to deciding the victory was actually Tuoba Yilu's Xianbei cavalry. If the Xianbei people's stance of getting close to the imperial court changed, the Jinyang regime would inevitably fall into a precarious situation.

Therefore, Lu Yao was ordered by Yue Shigong to meddle in the affairs of Danhan Mountain, and strive to steer the situation in the direction of Jinyang, and maintain Tuoba Xianbei's goodwill towards the Jinyang regime. Its specific goal is just as Liu Kun said to Lu Yao on the Hanging Urn Mountain: "In any case, Lu officials are not allowed to get what they want, and they cannot be allowed to take advantage of Lu Lu." ”

In order to achieve this goal, in the past few days, Lu Yao has been maneuvering between the civil and military officials of Yecheng, using all means to maximize his strength. Such a move even aroused Xue Tong's suspicions, which couldn't help but make Lu Yao feel a little funny, but it was indeed necessary.

With the weak power of Jinyang, to meddle in the internal power struggle of the first-class powerful clans in Northern Xinjiang, the difficulty and complexity of this action are beyond ordinary people's imagination. Yue Shigong himself couldn't tell Lu Yao what to do. What's even more troublesome is that due to the strong power of Tuoba Luguan, the scouts are all over the grasslands in the northern part of Bingzhou, and even the local wealthy families in Xinxing, Yanmen and other counties are mostly connected with it. For every move of the Jinyang Army, it is not an exaggeration to say that Tuoba Lu knows everything about it.

Under such a situation, Liu Kuncai ordered Lu Yao and Ding Miao to lead the elite team east to Taihang in the name of visiting Yecheng. They went around in a big circle, and the ultimate goal was Daijun, the easternmost part of Youzhou, a stone's throw away from Danhan Mountain. According to Liu Kun's arrangement, they will receive some support from Ding Miao's father, Jizhou Thorn Shi Ding Shao. As for the rest, it can only be improvised by Lu Yao, and it is completely impossible to predict in advance. Liu Kun gave Lu Yao the power to act cheaply, precisely for this reason.

Thinking of this, Lu Yao muttered: "It's ...... to act cheaply."

Perhaps it was because he had stood in one place for too long, his horse snorted impatiently, and his hooves stomped on the ground in a leaping motion. It is a broad-shouldered, strong-limbed stallion with a glossy variegated fur. Because it has never been gelding, it has a very violent temper. However, Lu Yao had been fighting for many years, and his riding skills had been honed very well, and he easily maintained his body balance, reaching out to caress the slender cheeks of the green horse, and quickly calmed it down.

Lu Yao continued to ponder: The four words of acting cheaply are not simple. Its words are from the "Historical Records", saying that Xiao He "is bound by the law, and the temple is established in the palace and county, and it is allowed to be engaged; That is, if it is not played, it will be implemented cheaply, and it will be smelled when it comes up. "Xiao He is one of the three heroes of the early Han Dynasty, the first minister of the Han Dynasty in the past four hundred years, and the head of the hundred bureaucrats. Gaozu unreservedly trusted his ability, so he had the thing of "doing it cheaply, coming up to hear it". Liu Kun granted this power to Lu Yao, to a certain extent, it also represents Liu Kun's absolute trust in Lu Yao, allowing him to act independently according to his own judgment under special circumstances.

Lu Yao's behavior in Yecheng is within the scope of cheap action. In the past few days, with the prestige, merits and connections he had accumulated in a series of fierce battles, he had successfully reached an agreement with many civil and military officials in Yecheng. What is obtained from them will surely be beneficial to the trip to Danhan Mountain.

But Lu Yao will also think: To what extent can Liu Kun trust himself? On the first night after leaving Jinyang this time, the words that Xue Tong said to himself resurfaced in Lu Yao's mind. What Liu Yizhong said is true or false? I, Lu Daoming, asked myself about being loyal to the king, how could Yue Shigong be dissatisfied? If he is really dissatisfied, how can he entrust me with a heavy responsibility and allow me to do things cheaply?

Lu Yao sighed again. He vaguely remembered that the history books recorded that Liu Kun was "good at caressing, but short of control", and said that he was "luxurious and luxurious, lustful, although he was temporarily self-motivated, and indulged in indulgence." These words and phrases have been really felt by Lu Yao in the months after the Jinyang War. Even if what Liu Yizhong said was all false, it is a fact that Yue Shigong quickly exposed his character flaws shortly after his brilliant victory.

Also inferred from the history books, in another year, the Xiongnu Han Kingdom will launch a large-scale attack on Luoyang. With the cooperation of Wang Mi, Shi Le and others, after a few years of interruption, the Western Jin Dynasty melted like the scorching sun, and collapsed in an instant, from Hebei to the Central Plains, the bones of the Han people piled up like a mountain. In the midst of such chaos, what kind of life will you usher in? Is it raw? Is it death? Is it to become the mainstay, make immortal achievements, and do vigorous things? Or has it disappeared into obscurity, thus becoming the so-called "shame of the traverser"?

Perhaps because he was facing an unprecedentedly complex environment, Lu Yao rarely hesitated. This is completely different from the feeling when reading the text after thousands of years of time and space; He deeply realized that his strength was too weak, and even though he relied on the memory of the future to understand the general trend of history a little, it was still difficult to grasp the direction in the turbulent tide.

Surrounded by a large army, Lu Yao did not have much of a high-spirited attitude because of this. Even though he had been planning for a long time about the path he should take, when he was about to take this step, he only felt as if he was on the edge of the abyss and walking on thin ice.

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My mother-in-law finally connected with the original manuscript. Sweat......

No rest tomorrow, update as usual.