Northeast of Qinghai Lake, Niu Xindui.

At the foot of the mountain, Cheng Yaojin sat in a tent and roasted fire, and sent someone to call Liu Lancheng.

The old brother Liu Lancheng of Wagang, who was in Wagang, walked into the tent. In the twelfth month of the cold winter, the right general, the Duke of Pingyuan County, and Sima of the Governor's Office of Shanzhou, unbuttoned the collar of the round neck and crotch robe with his knife, forming a small lapel, revealing half of the brocade inside.

As soon as I entered the tent, I saw a fire ignite, so I simply unbuttoned the inner button on the right, took off my right sleeve, and directly threw it away.

"Old Liu, how did you get it?" Cheng Yaojin took down the skewers grilled beside the cow dung fire and handed them to him. Liu Lancheng was not polite, so he took it and blew it a few times before eating it.

"Well, it's just right, the outside is burnt on the outside and tender on the inside, especially the mutton tail oil in the middle is the best, which makes the mutton very tender. Well, pepper and cumin are also added here. Lao Cheng, you can enjoy it. The salt is also sprinkled with green salt. You guys, where are you hiding so many good things!"

Cheng Yaojin smiled, "I am not the young master of the famous family. I have brought these things to war. Isn't this the income from the Tuyuhun camp and searching for their famous kings' tents after breaking through the Tuyuhun camp. The people of Murong Xianbei are really good at enjoying it. Not only are there green salt, pepper, cumin, but also Gaochang wine, Persian Sanlejiu, and the national wine of our Tang Dynasty. If it weren't for the war, I would have really wanted to have two good drinks."

"Tell me quickly, how are you getting?"

Old Liu finished a skewer of mutton skewers, and then reached out and pulled two skewers from the fire without hesitation. "The harvest is good. I guess the Tuyuhun people were also shaken by us. I thought we would go west along the south bank of Qinghai Lake. Unexpectedly, we shot a shot and walked around the north. The so-called famous king here is also a fool. He only knows how to enjoy it and has no defense."

Cheng Yaojin led 5,000 cavalry across Chiling and out of Hezhou, and advanced westward. Their troops advanced rapidly and raided and annihilated a Thousand Tuyuhun tribe near the southeast of Qinghai Lake. After annihilation of the enemy, he was run away because he failed to wipe out the tribe, and was shocked by a hundred cavalry.

After some discussion, Cheng Yaojin simply canceled the original route from the southeast to Fuqi City, but instead turned to the north.

This route around the north can be said to be completely unexpected to the Tuyuhun people. In fact, the escaped Tuyuhun people fled along the south bank of Qinghai Lake to Fuqi City, and along the way they had already told the news of the arrival of the Tang army to the south bank tribes.

On the contrary, in the north, there was no notice of a soldier coming from Hezhou.

At the foot of Niuxindui, a mountain in the northeast of Qinghai Lake, five thousand Tang troops suddenly appeared in the wind and snow, and launched a raid at dawn.

"Grabbed 20,000 cattle and horses!"

Liu Lancheng was filled with oil and was very satisfied.

"Where are beheadings, where are the prisoners?"

"A thousand people were captured, only a few hundred beheaded." Liu Lancheng told Cheng Yaojin with some regret that although he caught the Tuyuhun people off guard this time, he also captured the leader of the here, King Xuan Liang Qu Cong, but the Tuyuhun people were still very capable of escaping. King Xuan's brothers and nephews saw that the opportunity was not good, even Liang Qu Cong didn't care about saving them, and they ran away with their subordinates.

Only cattle, sheep and horses were not enough to be taken away, and most of the captured women and children were captured.

Seeing that Liu Lancheng was going to get the mutton skewers, Old Cheng quickly reached out and grabbed the last skewer into his hand, put it into his mouth and chewed it, "Damn, we marched for 500 miles in this battle, eating ice cubes against the wind and snow, but the result was this battle?"

Liu Lancheng didn't eat the last skewer of mutton, so he reached out and wiped the oil on Lao Cheng's robe with both hands. "That's right, let's come out and march all the way. This ghost weather has run five hundred miles in a row and has fought a battle ahead. Now I can get this harvest."

"What a damn thing. Although King Xuan has captured him, most of the young and powerful people in his tribe have escaped. This time, he must have gone to report to Fu Yun again."

"Prince Xuan will not escape, but the people from the tribe in the south have already reported to Fu Yun to let him know about our troops."

Liu Lancheng was quite content. In the battle of Dafeichuan, he annihilated more than a thousand enemies and seized more than 10,000 cattle and sheep. This twist of change happened to the north, and more than a thousand prisoners were captured under the cattle heart, hundreds of beheaded, and a famous king was captured. Although there are more princes in Tuyuhun now, the king is a king after all, and it is still quite valuable.

What's more, although there were not many enemies and prisoners this time, there were quite a lot of livestock captured, with more than 20,000 cattle and horses.

After all, Cheng Yaojin's army was alone, with two thousand light cavalry and three thousand horses and infantry. Although the marching speed was quite fast, it was impossible to use them as cavalry when fighting. What's more, after entering Tuyuhun, the climate was much harsh and the terrain here was high, so even marching and fighting were greatly affected.

"Wen Yu, you are just too easily satisfied." Lao Cheng criticized him.

"Satisfied and happy, Lao Cheng, do you know why you have so many complaints recently? Do you know why you are always unhappy in recent years? Because you are not content, you compete with this and that person who always wants to chase Shubao and Mao Gong, but we don't need to compare this. Comparing and comparing will make you unhappy. When you see Shubao marrying a daughter of the Boling Cui, you also want to marry a daughter of the Qinghe Cui. When you see Shubao's son Saburo is promising, you are also harsh on your son. When you see Shubao be the leader, you always think about leading the army alone. Oh, it's over."

Liu Lancheng once passed the Ming Jing during the Sui Dynasty, so his family was actually OK. He was born into a local tyrant, and was about the same family background as Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong, and was only a little different. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was not good, so Liu Lancheng, who was born in the Ming Jing, could only be wronged to be a scholar in Poyang County, and later was forced to return to his hometown Beihai County.

Liu Lancheng, who returned to his hometown in Beihai to avoid chaos, met Mr. Qi and his 30,000 troops besieged the city. The outer city was quickly broken, and the inner city was about to be lost, but at this time the food and grass in the city were about to be exhausted. It can be said that this is extremely dangerous.

Liu Lancheng was a scholar, passed the imperial examination and Mingjing. He also served as a senior official in Poyang County. Although he was not a scholar without any power, he did show his courage at critical moments. He took the initiative to find the officials in the county and proposed a method of defending the city and retreating the enemy.

His method of retreating to the enemy is simple. He said that the Beihai City is now broken, and I see that the thief army is very lazy and underestimating the enemy. I am willing to recruit brave children from the city and attack at night.

At this time, he dared to leave the city, and he was indeed a cruel person. The officials in the city could no longer do anything. He would try it out by summoning the powerful merchants in the city and gathering a sum of money for Liu Lancheng. After all, Liu Lancheng belongs to the official and scholar class, and is his own, so he can try it out.

Liu Lancheng gave a heavy reward, and he actually recruited a warrior. He seized the opportunity and took the young man with a hundred and screamed and killed him. However, Qi Gongshun did not expect that someone would dare to break out of the city at this time. He suffered a great loss due to underestimating the enemy and being careless. Liu Lancheng rushed into his camp and rushed straight to his central army.

Although Qi Gongshun led an army of 30,000, he was actually only 30,000 hungry refugees. Some of them were elite old thieves, and the rest were just to boost their momentum and were directly killed into the central army. Qi Gongshun was in a panic. He was not afraid of those who were barefoot and those who were wearing shoes, and those who were also afraid of those who were afraid of life.

When the thief camp was in chaos, the officials in Beihai City also rushed out of the city when they saw that they had the chance. At this time, they were forced to retreat and could no longer retreat. Then everyone finished playing together. So the rich officials, landlords, powerful scholars and merchants paid money, while the poor people contributed their efforts and fought together.

Qi Gongshun fled in a panic, and 30,000 troops were dispersed for a while, and the North Sea turned into danger.

Liu Lancheng was naturally treated like a hero. The prefect of Beihai directly promoted him to be an officer of Beihai Township soldiers and commanded the first battalion of the sixth battalion of Beihai Township soldiers.

Originally, Liu Lancheng was successful and famous, but the problem was that Shuzuo, a surnamed Song from Beihai County, was jealous at that time. When the thieves besieged the city, they were all on the same boat. But now the thief retreated, he was jealous of Liu Lancheng. Everyone was a scholar who had passed the Mingjing exam and was an official. Why did you, the official who ran away from Poyang County, come to my Beihai County to grab a job?

This guy is a scholar from Beihai County. Although he is a minor official, officials have always been divided into different officials. Officials are vacancies, and officials are often monopolized by local tyrants. This kind of local tyrant has a great influence on the local area. He went to the officials in Beihai. The powerful people always talked bad things about Liu Lancheng, saying that the person surnamed Liu is deeply loved by the public and will definitely be detrimental to me in the future, so it is better to kill him.

This reason is far-fetched, but in the turmoil of the late Sui Dynasty, Liu Lan became an outsider, and of course it was difficult for the Beihai group of officials and powerful people to accept. They were the one who had the same interests.

Although the prefect did not kill Liu Lancheng, he did feel that it was not appropriate to hand over one-sixth of the county's troops to Liu Lancheng, an outsider, so he later seized Liu Lancheng's military power and handed it over to Song Shuzuo to command.

Old Liu is also a tough guy, why?

Although he is a scholar, he can still rush into the thief camp with a knife and slash hard and slash hard. Well, if you don’t leave me here, you will have a place to leave me.

Lao Liu left Beihai City and went directly to find Qi Gongshun. At this time, Qi Gongshun suffered a defeat and finally gathered his subordinates again, but there were only more than 10,000 people left. When Lao Liu, who was chasing him last time, was shocked. He heard that he was coming to join him, Qi Gongshun not only did not ask anyone to tie him up and kill him, but instead invited him to sit down.

A hero from the grassroots also admires a capable person, let alone a scholar who can cut people with a big knife.

Qi Gongshun wanted to worship Liu Lancheng as his eldest brother, but Liu Lancheng refused. He didn't even come to steal the position of the leader. Finally, he pushed him and Liu Lancheng became the second in command.

Liu Lancheng became the second in command, and the first thing he did was to lead his troops back to Beihai. Only a month later, Liu Lancheng led his troops to capture Beihai City. He proved to everyone that I, Old Liu, can bend and stretched, and can not only help Beihai defend the city, but also break Beihai City.

Later, Liu Lancheng suggested that his elder brother Qi Gongshun join the most popular elder brother Li Mi in the Central Plains, and also became a member of the Wagang Group. He leaned against a big tree to enjoy the cool air. Qi Gongshun and Liu Lancheng continued to lead the troops along the way. Until Li Mi was defeated and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, Qi Gongshun also wanted to go to the group's elder brother Qin Qiongcheng Yaojin and others to go to the Tang Dynasty, but Liu Lancheng said that it was helpless to vote for Wang Shichong. We are leading the army outside, so why bother to vote for Wang Shichong? If we want to vote, let's go to the Tang Dynasty.

Wang Shichong was a son of Hu Shang, and he had no human pride of the atmosphere. After the eight pillars of the Tang Duke, this was the most powerful person.

So Qi Gong followed Liu Lancheng's words and led the team to join Li Shentong, who was sent to Shandong to operate, and since then he turned into a general of the Tang Dynasty.

Shortly after joining the Tang Dynasty, Li Tang sent Li Shimin to launch a battle in the Central Plains. Liu Lancheng led his team to obey orders and returned to the subordinates of Qin Qiongcheng Yaojin, the old boss of Wagang, and the past.

From then on, he became a member of the Qin Palace. Because of this, Liu Lancheng's career has been smooth since then.

Previously, Qin Qiong was in Lingzhou, and he was transferred to the Sima of the Governor's Office, defeating the Liang Shidu, giving him many opportunities to make contributions.

Until now, he was also appointed as the general of the right leader and was awarded the title of Duke of Pingyuan County. Although he was far inferior to Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin, Old Liu was quite content.

As he said, contentment is always happy. He was originally a commoner in a county. He was just a clerk and an official in the Sui Dynasty. Later, he joined the rebel army, which was forced by the world. Now he can be a county magistrate in the Tang Dynasty and have a third-rank official position. How can he be dissatisfied with anything?

"I want me to tell you that we have already alerted the enemy now. There is no chance in both the north and south. Now it's snowing heavily, so it's better to be a team leader. Anyway, the harvest is good."

Cheng Yaojin shook his head, "You scholars are timid. Lao Liu, you should show the kind of courage you were in Beihai City back then. When you were in Beihai, you dared to carry a horizontal knife and rush into the 30,000 military camp with more than a hundred teenagers. Now you are also the right-leading general, why are you still timid?"

Old Liu smiled and said, "I'm afraid of something. When have I been afraid? But this time we came, but Saburo gave me a lot of favor. We can't harm others. You think so, it's so cold and the army is deep in the middle of the army. The Tuyuhun people were prepared for a long time. What opportunities do we have?"

"If something happens, these five thousand brothers are gone, we will be sorry to Saburo and the trust of these five thousand brothers. We agreed to bring them to make contributions and earn rewards, but we did not bring them to die."

These words made Cheng Yaojin unable to refute that these soldiers were borrowed from Qin Lang.

"But I'm really unwilling to go back like this. Didn't Saburo agree with us to cross the line thousands of miles? It's only five hundred miles now, and I think I can fight two more battles."

"Old Liu, do you dare to fight again? If you don't dare, you stay and bring your brothers who don't want to fight again, and send the captured heads, prisoners, and captured cattle and sheep together, and I will continue to do it myself."

"Old Cheng, you say such words, isn't it a swearing? Since we came out together, we naturally have to go back together. Since you want to continue fighting, I, Lao Liu, will not let you be a lonely ghost on the road to the underworld!"
Chapter completed!