Shu Chen

Chapter 509

Bingzhou Shangjun is a border county that is even worse than Beidi County, which was abandoned three times.

In the first year of Emperor Ling's Zhongping (184), he was plundered by the Qiang and Hu, and Shangjun was in name only, and the overseas Chinese ruled in Luoyang; and in the 20th year of Emperor Xian'an (215), his name was officially abolished.

Therefore, Shangjun, which has been reduced to the Promised Land of the Qiang and Hu and is no longer a king, obeys the law of respecting the strong and the law of the jungle.

Less than a hundred riders entered the tributary of Wudingshui and walked horses to the source of the water in Qiaomen County (belonging to Shangjun). Li Tangmang, who called himself the "Abandoned Army" horse thief, was now famous in Shangjun and the southern part of Xihe County by virtue of his unstoppable Xiliang iron cavalry. far and near.

After attacking the weak and ignorant horse thieves and bandits of various tribes and expanding the team to 300 people, the local Huawai Han family Li Shu also began to join forces with them to plunder the Qianghu tribe wandering in Wudingshui.After a year of bloody primitive accumulation, the Qihuo Army is now a horse thief with more than [-] people, and it is also the most powerful horse thief in the local area.

This was due to Li Tangmang's three actions.

One is fairness.

Those who joined the Qihuo Army, regardless of whether they were Qianghu or Han family members, were treated equally by Li Tangmang.

Before the battle, he and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry took the lead, but the proceeds from the looting were shared equally, and there was no partiality when dealing with internal conflicts.

This made many people who had no choice but to join feel that life in the Abandoned Army seems to be better than before, at least they can share the blessings and difficulties together.

Second, he is trustworthy.

Every person who joins the Abandoned Army will make a promise from Li Tangmang: he will protect the children and property of the other family; and the wives and children of those who unfortunately died in the war, as long as the Abandoned Army does not die, they will take care of them!

Originally, no one believed this promise.

It has already become a place of alienation, and the weak have already preyed on the strong. How many people can abide by benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trust?

But soon they changed their minds.

It was a newly attached person. His younger brother encountered Qianghu rangers going south when shepherding sheep. Not only the sheep were robbed, but he was also beheaded on the spot.After Li Tang Mangde heard about this, he personally took two hundred riders to the north at Xingye, traveling more than five hundred miles, and finally caught up with the group of rangers in the Sheyan River Valley.

In the battle with him, he was invincible, so he abandoned the looted cattle, sheep, war horses and fled.

Li Tangmang ordered everyone not to take cattle and horses, and chased and killed them for more than a hundred li. After going through four battles, he finally killed all the rangers and returned with their heads lifted to the newly attached person to tell the spirit of his brother.

Traveling six hundred miles, he sacrificed his life for five battles, and beheaded more than three hundred heads, just to fulfill his promise.

Naturally, after this incident, Li Tangmang was like "getting a hundred catties of gold is worse than getting Jibu Yinuo" in the hearts of everyone.

The last reason is that Li Tangmang banned slaves.

The two prefectures of Youbin are the frontiers of the Central Plains Dynasty. They were inhabited by the Southern Huns, other tribes of the Huns (Jia people), Xianbei, Wuhuan, and various Hu (Qiang). Li Shu was often plundered by Hulu and returned to the tribe as slaves.There are also many wealthy families who sent caravans to buy back the captive Han Li and Shu with cloth, ironware, tea and other items to serve as slaves.

Among them, the Kanto aristocratic family is the most enthusiastic about it.

After the Abandoned Army gained a firm foothold and gradually became stronger, Li Tangmang, with the support of the surrounding Han forces, ordered that there should be no slave trade here.

Offenders will be punished!
He also often drove his troops northward to snatch the slaves of the Han family from the southern Huns and Xianbei tribes.

Most of these rescued slaves joined the Abandoned Army; and the surrounding Han forces were also infected, and there were countless vassals who voluntarily prepared their bows and horses.

Therefore, it has only been a short time since Tang Mang established a foothold here, and he has a scale of two thousand riders.

The Abandoned Army is also famous, and even the caravans from Xihe County, Pingyang County and Zuo Fengyi in the Wei Dynasty voluntarily handed over supplies to Li Tangmang for smooth passage and protection.

This is also the opportunity for Li Tangmang to learn about the Battle of the Nishui River Valley in the Han and Wei Dynasties.

Four people from Gaonu County (now Yan'an) in Shangjun came here to vote, and brought him news on a special trip.

Yes, the master and three subordinates knew Li Tangmang's identity.

Gein's master is the late Deng Ai's son, Deng Zhong, who is only fifteen years old!

However, in the past, Deng Ai was greedy for merit, and based on the idea that "the husband will not eat the five tripods in life, but the five tripods will cook his ears when he dies", before going his own way to promote the war, he will let several loyal retinues bring the eldest son Deng Zhong to Gaonu in Shangjun He hid in the county, hoping that if the matter failed, Deng Zhong could escape the crime of being convicted in the Luoyang Temple of the State of Wei.

It is true.

He was defeated and died, and he was judged to be a disaster for the country. His wife and children were all moved to Shibian, a bitter and cold place in Liaodong. Deng Zhong, who had escaped, faded away almost overnight after hearing the news.

In other words, the ways in which people grow up instantly in this world are often a bit extreme.

Therefore, he also began to plan for the future and pay attention to the information around him.

When Li Tangmang rose strongly in Menqiao County, he knew that this group of horse thieves must be the Xiliang iron cavalry who had failed to return to the battle.At that time, his late father, Deng Ai, was still alive, and he felt that more than a hundred Xiliang iron cavalry fled eastward along the Sheyan River, and it was impossible to chase him.Therefore, after learning that the battle between Han and Wei in the Nishui River Valley had ended, he persuaded three followers to join Li Tangmang.

Yes, he didn't bear any grudge against the big man, nor did he feel angry towards Wei Guo.

It is inevitable for each to be his own master and die on the battlefield; it is also commonplace for him to be held accountable for defeat in a battle, and no matter how angry he is, it will not help.

Or, in the face of more important matters, he had no choice but to let go of his hatred.

He wants to rescue his biological mother and younger siblings who were relocated from Liaodong.

This is the responsibility of being the eldest son.

But if he wanted to do this, he had to go to the Han army instead of Wei.

After he became a criminal minister, if he rushed thousands of miles to Liaodong by himself, it would be the way to die.

But when he returned to Wei State, changed his surname and changed his name to join the army in commoner clothes, under the Ninth Rank Official System, he may have struggled all his life, but he would never have the chance to reveal his name again.

The Han army, which has no distinction of family status, is different.

If he defected, the big man would definitely take him in regardless of past suspicions, and would give him the opportunity to accumulate meritorious service and be promoted.

For one thing, the big man has always given preferential treatment to "Wei Jiangren".

The other is his identity and family encounters, which can enable the big man to give Wei Guobing "a thousand gold horse bones", and make those captured Wei soldiers give up their efforts for the Han Dynasty.

With a comparison, there is a judgment of superiority~
The Great Han and the Wei State competed for the destiny, and the so-called destiny is what the hearts of the people want.

As for when the big man who has not yet entered the Guanzhong will be able to come to Youzhou to give him a chance to save his relatives, then he can only resign himself to fate and go all out!

After all, he had no other choice.

Li Tangmang was caught off guard by his arrival.

It is also difficult to decide whether to stay or stay for this person who knows his identity and has fought against the enemy.

It's not to question Deng Zhong's sincerity in voting, but to worry that Deng Zhong, who is still young, will inadvertently reveal his identity and be shocked by Wei Guo.After thinking about it, when he sent several Xiliang cavalry back to communicate with Zheng Pu, he also let Deng Zhong and others accompany him.

(End of this chapter)