Chapter 139 A Ten Thousand Enemy Emerges in Leping
Ji County, Youzhou, Youzhou Governor's Office.

Liu Bao, the governor of You and Bing, knelt in front of the main desk with a worried look on his face. During this period, all kinds of bad things kept coming to him. The Xianbei Duan and Murong families in Liaodong and Liaoxi counties kept making trouble. These Hu people all ran to Yuyang to rob the Han people of their food.

There was another great turmoil near Luoyang. It was rumored that the King of Zhao had transferred all the Zhao troops to Luoyang, leaving Zhao's defense empty. Bingzhou in the west of Zhao was also under his command. If something happened there, he, the General Anbei, would be unable to do anything.

Looking at the whole country, the only governor who is safe and secure now is the Governor of Qingxu. There are no external enemies there, and the internal strife near Luoyang City cannot be transmitted there.

"Report, the Xianbei chieftain Duan Wuwuchen has brought gifts to see you. They have over a hundred riders and seem ready to apologize to the governor."

A messenger servant came in quickly and reported that there were Hu people coming from outside the city.

"Let them come in without armor."

The Xianbei Duan clan was the leader of the Xianbei people in Liaoxi County. Among the Xianbei tribes, Duan Wuwuchen was closer to the Han people. The people under his jurisdiction came from many different sources, mainly Wuhuan and Xianbei, as well as Han people and Xiongnu.

Liu Bao's idea of ​​dealing with the mess in Youzhou has always been to bring the nearby ones into play and attack the distant ones. The main territory of the Xianbei Duan clan is in Liaoxi County, but the leader's family all live in Lingzhi, east of Ji County.

Lingzhi was only 400 miles away from the capital of Youzhou. Even if the Hu people could not bear the hunger in the early spring and came directly to rob the Han people of their food, both sides had to maintain their dignity on the surface.

The servant took the order and left, and Liu Bao picked up another official document written on silk.

Not to mention the content of the document, just reading the cursive writing on it gave Liu Bao a headache.

The group of scholars in Luoyang City had nothing to do all day long but mess around with this, which led to the clerks who copied official documents in various places taking this as a trend and starting to write official documents in cursive script.

Liu Bao missed the official documents that were mainly written in official script. At least they were easy to understand and did not hurt his eyes.

"The Li clan rebelled...beheaded a hundred people..."

General Anbei frowned as he read on, only to find that the document was written incomprehensiblely.

The main meaning is that a rebellion broke out among the Han people in Jingxing area, east of Taiyuan County and west of Changshan County. The leaders were the Li clans of Zhao State. The most valiant among them killed hundreds of people and had already captured Leping County and Zhan County under the jurisdiction of Leping County.

The rebellion of the Han people had already made Liu Bao feel uncomfortable enough, and the incident happened between Bingzhou and Jizhou, which made the wrinkles on General Anbei's forehead even more dense.

"Leping County... Zhang Clan of Changshan..."

Liu Bao was thinking about how to suppress this group of rioters. The Zhang family was a big clan and they spent a lot of money on the wealthy and powerful in Luoyang every year. If he allowed this group of rioters to flee to Changshan State, he would be in big trouble.

At least for now, the King of Zhao supported by Zhang is in power, and he does not want to anger him.

While Liu Bao was in distress, Duan Wuwuchen brought his sons, nephews and other entourage into the Grand Commander's public housing.

"To apologize to the Grand Commander, here are two hundred thousand dollars and fifty pieces of silk."

The Duan clan leader was already in his forties, short and stocky, and could speak Chinese quite well, at least Liu Bao could understand him.

As soon as he saw him, General Anbei thought of the group of scholars. Liu Bao thought that by flattening the tall and strong scholars, he might be able to get a short and strong figure like Duan Wuwuchen.

"The food that your Xianbei tribe has robbed is much more than this. What can you do with 200,000 coins? It costs several million coins to buy a noble." Liu Bao shouted.

Those Xianbei who could offer compensation were considered good Hu people. Murong Xianbei robbed and killed the people of Liaoxi every year, and General Anbei was helpless against this group of Hu people.

The Xianbei people captured many Han blacksmiths, and there were abundant iron mines in Liaodong and Liaoxi, which meant that every Xianbei cavalryman had double stirrups, making their horse-riding combat capabilities much stronger than the Youzhou Jin cavalry.

"We are poor and can only take out this much money." Duan Wuwuchen said with a wry smile.

He looks rather ferocious, and this forced smile is even more creepy.

Liu Bao didn't want to see his old face, so he neither replied nor accepted the Hu people's apology, but just continued to read the official document from Bingzhou.

These official documents were still about the rebellion between Bing and Ji. Jingxing Pass was in danger, Jingxing Pass was lost, and many of the Zhang family's forts in Changshan were captured...

What’s even more exaggerated is that the official documents that arrived later frequently used the phrase “ten thousand enemies” to describe the bravery of the rebel leaders, which made Liu Bao smile rarely.

Apart from the garrisons sent by the Governor's Office, each prefecture and county had only dozens or hundreds of military officials that the prefects and county magistrates could mobilize. They would naturally be no match for a few strong men, so the rebel leader would become the enemy of thousands of people.

Liu Bao felt that the Li clan had picked a good time, as the Zhao troops were not in their garrison, and the governor of Jizhou, Liu Shi, was old and confused, and was also serving as the Grand Tutor in Luoyang, so he had no time to take care of such matters.

As for Bingzhou, the court was even more powerless. The King of Taiyuan had not been conferred a title for many years. In order to ensure the complete military and political operation of Bingzhou, the court established Taiyuan County again.

The governor of Taiyuan County had to guard against the Southern Xiongnu in Linfen and the Xianbei in the north, so he handed the mess to his military superior, General Anbei, Liu Bao, the commander-in-chief of Youbing's military. "The commander-in-chief looks worried, is there something wrong? If my people can help, please let me know."

The Xianbei leader Duan clan then tried to curry favor with the Grand Commander of You and Bing in the Jin Dynasty. He thought that he was not strong enough and could only rely on the Jin Dynasty.

Liu Bao looked at him and suddenly an idea came to his mind.

Wouldn't it be killing two birds with one stone if we borrowed Hu to suppress the bandits?
"There is a rebellion in the south. This government is busy with government affairs and cannot leave. We need thousands of cavalry to contain the roaming rebels."

Liu Bao knew that the Duan family had a large number of Han cavalry under their command, and he wanted to use these cavalry to suppress the rebellion in Leping and Changshan counties.

Duan Wuwuchen took the opportunity to climb up the ladder, "How can we let these rioters disturb the Grand Commander's mind? My son Duan Wenyang is brave and good at fighting. He can bring thousands of cavalry to help quell the rebellion."

Even the Xianbei tribes that surrendered to the Jin Dynasty had no legitimate reason to send troops into Han territory. Duan Wuwuchen had long wanted to send troops to Han territory.

He didn't want anything else. It would be enough to capture some Han craftsmen, stonemasons and blacksmiths.

"Thousands are too many. You barbarians are committing all kinds of evil. You can only send one thousand Han cavalrymen, and I will send another army to fight together."

One army consists of 1,500 people.

Fifteen hundred soldiers from military households and one thousand Han cavalry from the Duan clan of the Xianbei were enough to quell a civil uprising that affected two counties.

Of course, this Jin army also had the responsibility of supervising the Xianbei cavalry.

"It's all up to the Grand Commander. Wen Yang, why don't you thank the Grand Commander?"

The Xianbei leader Duan was overjoyed and bowed to the ground with his son on the spot.

The two sides continued to negotiate and finalized details such as the timing of sending troops, marching routes, and food supply.

"After suppressing the rebellion of the Li clan, I will make a petition to the court, requesting that you and your family be granted the title of Duke of Liaoxi County."

In the end, Liu Bao did not forget to give some verbal benefits to the Duan family.

Duan Wuwuchen was overjoyed and was very grateful to this group of rebellious Li family members.

……

Changshan Commandery, Yuanshi County, outside a Wu family fortress.

In the past ten days, the three Lis had led the old and weak soldiers reorganized from Leping County, and tricked the soldiers from Zhan County, Jingxing Pass and other places to go out of the city to quell the rebellion. Then Li Hao showed his great power, first killing and dispersing the Jin army, and then following the scattered Jin army into the city, and successively captured the two county towns of Zhan County and Jingxing, as well as the important Jingxing Pass.

After recruiting a lot of soldiers, Li Hao was faced with the dilemma of lack of armor, food and livestock. The big families in the neighboring Yuanshi County had both private soldiers and land, money and food, which were exactly the stepping stones for the Li family to rebel.

So Li Hao led his troops into Yuanshi County, but did not attack the county seat. Instead, he reorganized the forts in the countryside, gathered the blacksmiths, craftsmen, private soldiers and tenants of the big families, and then sent them all to core territories such as Leping and Zhan County.

There are four major families in Changshan, Zhang, Wu and Konggui. The Zhang and Wu families are located near Yuanshi County.

The Zhang family's fortress in Yuanshi County had been almost completely cleared out, so some members of the Zhang family brought their private soldiers and joined forces with their relatives from the Wu family, and stationed them in this largest fortress.

More than 600 soldiers with swords followed the generals on horseback and slowly deployed their battle formation in front of the fort. There were another two or three hundred civilian laborers following behind the soldiers, pushing carts. There were many simple ladders on the carts, which were enough to attack ordinary forts, but definitely not the big one in front of them.

After losing more than a dozen forts, the Zhang and Wu families had a clear understanding of the rising star General Li Hao. They felt that they could not defend the fort, so they sent several people out of the fort to negotiate.

"I, Wu, am willing to submit to the general and offer my daughter to serve him. I will also give him 100 swords and spears, and 30 horses to help him accomplish his mission. I only ask that he move his troops elsewhere."

The leader was named Wu Wei, the cousin of the owner of the fort. He was in his early forties, wearing a loose robe, and gave a flattering smile to General Li on horseback.

Last name Wu?

This last name sounds familiar.

"What a fool! These will also be mine after we capture this fort."

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