The World of Yellow Sky

He was very excited when he heard that the Northern Expedition of the Han army was defeated, and that the great virtuous master had led the Taipingdao army to regain the land of Hebei. He was very excited, and then he had been waiting for the great virtuous master to go south with his army and unify the world.

It just seemed that things were not as simple as imagined. The great virtuous teacher did not lead the army to continue south, but temporarily stopped.

He was alone in Tingwei's mansion, isolated from the world, and the only person in Chendu who knew his identity was his contact person, who was responsible for passing the information out of the city.

He has been in Chendu for many years, and has even married and had children. His wife is the daughter of an official in the Han court.

Sometimes, Li Chengcheng doesn't know who he is.

Is it the Qianhu of the Eagle Wolf Guard, or Ting Wei Youping of the Han Court.

On the execution ground, he saw with his own eyes what happened to those lurkers who were Eagle Guards like him.

Li Cheng closed his eyes, and he remembered the scene he saw at the edge of the execution ground a few days ago.

More than a dozen bruises, hardly recognizable as human beings, and prisoners from the lake of flesh and blood were put on the scaffold.

On the execution platform, a soldier dumped a wooden bucket full of clear water on the ground, and the clear water took away the blood that had accumulated on the execution platform.

A batch of prisoners had been executed on the execution platform here. Standing on the edge, Li Cheng couldn't see what was going on under the platform, but he knew what it was like below the platform.

On the execution platform, more than a dozen bare-chested prisoners with bruises all over their bodies were forced to kneel on the ground, and the executioner with a sharp knife behind him was ready to execute.

The north wind howled, and the topless prisoners on the execution platform were trembling in the cold wind.

The executioner was chanting aloud the crimes above the crimes. Those who were put on the execution platform were all spies of the Eagle Wolf Guard lurking in Chendu, so as to announce to everyone that this was the fate of spies and traitors.

The sound of sobbing, wailing, begging for mercy, and the crying of the baby lingered in Li Cheng's ears.

Those voices did not come from above the scaffold, but from the other side of the scaffold. Those people were all women and children without exception, and they were the family records of the prisoners on the scaffold who were about to be executed.

Li Cheng looked at the unfamiliar faces on the platform.

He didn't know anyone in it, but he knew that these people were all his fellows.

Like him, they all made the same promise.

Li Cheng was a little dazed. Suddenly, he seemed to hear his son's cry, saw his wife trembling with fear, and saw himself kneeling on the execution platform with scars all over his body.

"Raise the knife!"

There was a loud shout, and Li Cheng saw a sharp knife being raised high.

A group of Yingwei Tiqi who were tied up on the execution platform tried their best to raise their heads, straighten their spines, and bow their necks to be slaughtered.

Someone was muttering something silently, with their eyes tightly closed.

Someone was trembling all over, but they were still clenching their teeth.

But no one begged for mercy, and no one shed tears.

Under the execution platform, there are all kinds of beings, and the noise is always there. Some of their eyes are teasing, some are contemptuous, some are angry, but most of them are numb.

"Hair like leeks, cut back to life..."

Li Cheng heard it very clearly. He heard a familiar singing voice.

"The head is like a chicken, and it croaks again!"

The place where the singing came from was the execution platform not far away.

"Execution!"

Li Cheng saw the anger in the executioner's eyes.

"Puff puff!"

After all, the song was not finished, and more than ten human heads had already rolled down under the execution platform.

Li Cheng slowly opened his eyes, and the candle in front of him was almost completely extinguished, leaving only the last bit.

Li Cheng stared at the last candle on the table, and sang softly with a voice that he could only hear.

"Officials don't have to be feared, but ordinary people should never be taken lightly..."

A gust of wind blew into the house from the gap in the window, and the candle on the table shook for a bit, and then turned into a wisp of green smoke...

8 Chapter Twenty

In the third year of the Ming Dynasty (196), the first ten days of May.

On the eastern border of Buyeo, the weather is gradually getting warmer, but the climate is still very cold, so it is necessary to wear fur coats to keep warm.

On the dilapidated road, there is still a lot of remaining snow.

Accompanied by the rapid sound of horseshoes, a group of cavalry galloped past, scattered mud spots and snowflakes.

And not far behind that team of cavalry, countless cavalry in different clothes and armed with weapons are slowly moving forward along this road.

"Woo——"

Gongsun Du gave a soft shout, pulled the reins, and the horse under the seat raised its head, and stopped moving forward, and all the cavalry behind also stopped.

Looking at the Fuyu soldiers who were slowly marching on the road, Gongsun Du shook his head slightly in his heart. The strength of an army can actually be seen from the speed of the march and the situation.

These Fuyu soldiers marched laxly, at an extremely slow speed, and their weak combat power was even more excessive. No wonder they never won a single battle with the Xianbei and Wuhuan people, and even Yilou often made border invasions.

This time, Xu An sent him a secret order to send troops, asking him to find an excuse to conscript Goguryeo and Puyu.

Based on the armies of his two countries, he raised troops to attack Yilou and Woju, and asked him to lead Liaozhou soldiers as supervisors to sit and watch the tigers fight.

After weakening Goguryeo and Puyu and conquering Yilou and Woju, they annexed Goguryeo and Puyu.

The territory that originally belonged to Goguryeo and Woju was classified as the territory of Liaozhou, and Puyu and Yilou were set as the Far East Province.

Gongsundu did not disobey, and responded quickly. He found a few excuses, and sent envoys to the capitals of Fuyu and Goguryeo to ask them to send troops to conquer Yilou and Woju.

The reason is simple, Yilou country often harass Fuyu country, and Fuyu country is a vassal state of Ming, attacking Fuyu is to provoke Ming.

The national strength of Woju State is much weaker than that of Yilou State, and has been invaded by Goguryeo and Yilou State, but Woju State is not a little white rabbit.

Before Gongsundu arrived in Liaodong County, Woju Kingdom actually did not stop to harass Lelang County, taking advantage of the emptiness of Liaodong and looting many places.

It wasn't until after Gongsundu came to Liaodong later that he collected Lelang County and Xuantu County, which made Fuyu and Goguryeo surrender, that Woju State stopped harassing Lelang County, and this attack on Woju State was also famous.

Gongsun Du didn't reject Xu An's edict at all, the general trend of the world now lies in Ming Court, Gongsun Du saw it very clearly.

Not to mention that not long ago Xu An led the army out of Jiguan to the east, defeated the main force of the Han army's Northern Expedition in World War I, and advanced six ways in parallel, collecting all the land of Hebei, Qing, and You.

It is said that the Rao Le Shuiming army defeated Xianbei, and defeated the Xianbei Shanyu Qianman in battle. It shocked the northern border and established three provinces in the north.

Such a feat was not able to be achieved by Qin Huang Han Wu.

The cavalry troops of the Ming army were unstoppable across the grasslands, and the Ming army had planted their banners in every corner of the northern and western regions.

After the Ming Court set up provinces in the former homelands of the two Xianbei tribes in the east and the middle, the Ming army, under the leadership of Lu Bu, followed Xu An's order and continued northward with the prestige of a great victory.

Its purpose is to deter the Dingling, Jiankun, and Hujie tribes, show off their force, and make them extinguish their will to invade the newly established province.

After all, the former Han Empire also made an expedition to Mobei, sealed the wolves to live in Xu, drank horses and vast seas, and defeated the Huns who were in full swing at that time.

As a result, the Xiongnu split into two groups. The southern Xiongnu chose to submit to the Han Empire, while the northern Xiongnu chose to escape to the west.

At that time, after the Northern Huns fled westward, the choice of the Han Empire was to continue to send a large army to pursue the Northern Huns, and ignored the former homeland of the Huns.

Xianbei was actually under the jurisdiction of the Huns in the past. Later, after the power of the Huns gradually weakened, the Xianbei people gradually developed and grew stronger on the former land of the Huns.

Until the Tanshihuai period, Xianbei also completely reached its peak.

It's just that this heyday did not last long.

Lu Bu led the Xiaoqi Battalion and was ordered to patrol the north, which was to declare his sovereignty.

The Ming army's great victory in Rao Leshui was rumored through Xianbei's defeated troops, and it was naturally rumored to Dingling, Hujie, and Jiankun.

The defeat of Xianbei, the former overlord of Mobei, made Dingling, Hujie, and Jiankun terrified.

Lu Bu led the Xiaoqi Battalion on a tour of the three tribes, and at the same time summoned the leaders of the three tribes Dingling, Hujie, and Jiankun to declare their authority and show off their might.

Ding Ling and Hujie chose to bow their heads and profess their ministers. Jiankun was unwilling to proclaim his ministers, but he also expressed that he would not attack the northern Xinjiang province.

Originally, Xu An's order to Lu Bu was to show off his force so that he would not dare to violate the border. Lu Bu had the same idea at the beginning, but when Ding Ling and Hu Jie surrendered, Lu Bu had another idea.

Lu Bu led a battalion of [-] cavalry from Xiao, and at the same time recruited a total of [-] cavalry from Dingling and Hujie to attack Jiankun.

King Jiankun panicked, but someone tipped off the news, and he also learned that Lu Bu had only [-] cavalry directly under his command, so he sent someone to secretly contact King Hujie, hoping that King Hujie would fight against Lu Bu with him, and send Lu Bu and The Xiaoqi Battalion under his command will always stay in northern Xinjiang.

King Jiankun thought that their place was too far away from the Ming Court, and the Ming army must have very limited troops in the north.

King Jiankun has great ambitions. He wants to occupy Xianbei's hometown and inherit everything left by Xianbei...

It's just that all of this has not been able to hide from Lu Bu's eyes, or from the eyes of Xiaoqiying sentries.

At the time of the plot, Lu Bu led his personal guards and rushed directly to the place where the Hujie tribe was stationed, and no soldiers from the Hujie tribe dared to step forward to stop them along the way.

Lu Bu hurried all the way, and when he arrived at King Hujie's tent, Jiankun's envoys were rushing out of the tent.

Lu Bu killed Jiankun's envoy on the spot, and no one from the Hujie tribe dared to speak to him, let alone stop him. King Hujie finally knelt down and pleaded guilty.

Then Lu Bu led the Xiaoqi Battalion and Hujie and Dingling cavalry troops, defeated the Jiankun tribe in one fell swoop, beheaded the Jiankun king, and slaughtered the Jiankun royal court.

The kings of Dingling and Hujie prostrated themselves to be granted title, and the remnants of Jiankun surrendered. Except for the three tribes of Dingling, Hujie, and Jiankun, many small tribes also petitioned for protection.

After the war, Lu Bu set up the Anbei Capital Protectorate on the table, and named Dingling and Hujie the two kings of Guiyihou.

So Xu An ordered the world to set up the Anbei Protectorate in the old lands of Dingling, Hujie, and Jiankun, and make the two kings Dingling and Hujie lords. And set up a border market to allow certain transactions.

These things that happened in northern Xinjiang can be called unreal. Although they heard the news with their own ears and the official issued a notification, it is still a little unbelievable.

However, this kind of thing will naturally not be faked. After all, if the Capital Protectorate is set up, then officials must be sent there to find out.

In just a few years, Gongsun Du could no longer understand the world.

The current Ming Court is almost as good as the Han Empire when it was at its peak.

Just as the envoys of the Han court used to have a condescending attitude when they went to any country, the attitude of the envoys of the Ming court is even better now.

However, this is also a normal reaction. After all, there is really no country in this world that can defeat the Ming army.

Gongsun Du could see Xu An's thoughts. Xu An moved the people of China to the north and recruited the Xianbei to move to the south. He wanted to completely change the land of the northern border into the land of China.

It's just that Xu An set up a province in Beidi by doing this, which is a precedent that no one has ever tried. No one knows what the result will be, and neither does Gongsun Du.

Perhaps the Northland will eventually be retaken by other tribes, and the provinces that have acquired the Northland will be dissatisfied because of the decline of the central government. After all, the sky is high and the water is far away.

No one knows if these things will happen.

But one thing Gongsun Du can be sure of is that as long as Xu An is still the Daoist of the Ming Kingdom, no one in the territory occupied by the Ming army will dare to have a different heart.

only……

In the face of time, no matter how great a person is, he has no power to reverse.

Tan Shihuai led Xianbei to its peak, but lost to time.

In the past, the Qin Emperor ruled the heaven and earth by acting as the supreme, beat and flogged the world, vibrated the world, and unified the world.

In the past, the Han Dynasty conquered the Xiongnu in the north, conquered the barbarians in the south, and connected the Western Regions, but none of them escaped the sanction of time.

People die and the country declines...

Although the tortoise has a longevity, there is still time.

The snake snake rides in the fog and ends up as dirt.

In this world, no one can live forever...

Gongsun Du lowered his head and glanced at his hand holding the rein.

Years of military career have made his wounded calluses thicker, and he is no longer young. He is already in his 40s, and in a few years, he will reach his destiny.

Those old diseases are slowly affecting his body, and even wearing down his ambition.

Back then, when he was recommended by Xu Rong and just arrived in Liaodong to serve as the prefect, how high-spirited he was.

Descended to Fuyu in the north, conquered Goguryeo in the east, attacked Wuhuan in the west, and crossed the river to attack Qingzhou.

It's a pity that Qingzhou also occupied Donglai County in the end, and there was no way to expand its territory. It wanted to expand to the south, but the Youzhou Army had the terrain advantage, which made it impossible for him to move forward even half a step after occupying the eastern part of Liaoxi County.

The places occupied by Yilou, Woju, and Sanhan are all bitter cold places. There are not so many people under his rule, and the finances are also in a deadlock.

There is no way out, no future, and the best result is to be the king of Liaodong.

In the beginning, he and Xu An were just cooperating, with the idea of ​​taking advantage of them.

But what he didn't expect was that the little-known Xu An could actually rely on Bingzhou to lead the rise of Taipingdao, and even develop to its current scale, establishing such a large and powerful empire.