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Bailang Mountain is located ten miles east of the former site of Guangcheng (now Jianchang, Liaoning). On the watershed west of the main peak, there is a huge white stone zombie. It looks like a curled white wolf from afar, hence the name. This mountain is more than 1,000 meters above sea level, surrounded by clouds and mist, with dense forests and deep ditches, and many tigers and wolves, which are easy to enter and difficult to exit.

On the side of the northern peak of Bailang Mountain, the winding and continuous Bailang Water (now Daling River) is vast. This is the most important river in western Liaoning. It gathers from the west, south and north to the east, spanning hundreds of miles, and injects into the Liaodong Bay. The White Wolf Grand Canyon on the west side of Bailang Water is a must-pass place to enter Liao from the northwest, and its geographical location is very important. Bailang Mountain on the south side of Bailang Valley has extraordinary military significance.

During the Western Han Dynasty, this place was once belonged to Youbeiping County. By the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was assigned to Liaoxi County. After Gongsun Du occupied Liaodong, this place naturally became his sphere of influence. Since western Liaoning began to be occupied by the Wuwan people since the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was chaotic and difficult to control. After Gongsun Zan of Youzhou rose to the end of the Han Dynasty, it bordered the Youbeiping County of Youbeiping County. At that time, Gongsun Zan was famous as Youyan. In order to avoid his edge, Gongsun Du accepted that Wuwan in western Liaoning was rampant, he agreed that this place was a buffer place between Liaodong, Youzhou, Xianbei and Wuwan.

As the western barrier and strategic buffer place in Liaodong, Gongsun Du could not ignore it, but he could not carry out effective governance. In this way, Liaoxi became a "chicken rib" for Gongsun Du to eat without meat and abandon it with taste.

How to deal with this useless rib really made Gongsun Du very troubled. He was struggling for several years. It was not until the appearance of Ma Han and Hange's tribe that he saw a glimmer of signs. Gongsun Du adopted the two most valued confidant advisers: the Liaodong Zhizhong engaged in the strategy of driving tigers and wolves offered by Yang Yi, the chief clerk of Liaodong. He generously took out a cavalry commander and a white wolf city to win over Ma Han.

Gongsun Du's purpose was to treat Ma Han and his Hango tribe as a wedge and nail it to the land that belonged to him in name but was actually out of control, laying a force for him to truly control western Liaoning in the future.

Gongsun Du had long thought of this method, but none of his subordinates could be competent - just kidding, the north of Wuwan King Tadun and the south of the white horse Gongsun Zan, the powerful force and reputation that even he, Gongsun Du, may not be enough. Therefore, he has good plans but lacks good generals. No matter how good the plan is, it can only be put on hold.

The reason why Gongsun Du valued Ma Han was not that he believed that Ma Han could control the white horse Gongsun, but that Ma Han had a huge influence among the Xianbei people and the Wuwan people. In an era when the reputation of the Three Kingdoms was more important than everything, sometimes a person's influence was enough to support an army of ten thousand people.

Give a cavalry official position, add a small city, and provide some money and food to win over a powerful cavalry and set a wedge in western Liaoning. This deal is too cost-effective. As long as Gongsun Du is not kicked by a donkey, he will not miss it.

Gongsun Du offered very favorable conditions: Ma Han, the leader of the Hange tribe, was the commander of the cavalry (the so-called "principal system" means to report to the court and receive seals and ribbons. He is an official officially recognized by the court, not a grass-headed official who was secretly sealed by the prefectures and counties). He was in charge of the White Wolf City and could appoint auxiliary officials of civil and military affairs on his own. The list was reported to Liaodong County. Liaodong would provide Bailang City with a military vacancies of one million yuan, with a 1,000 hu of rations per 3,000 shi of grass and 3,000 stones of other weapons, military uniforms, armor, and horses, and were provided according to the treatment of county soldiers.

What Ma Han had to do was to obey Gongsun Du's orders in every war, and the Hange cavalry had to participate in the war as a guest army, in order to listen to the orders and not the Xuan.

At that time, in the Three Kingdoms, the number of people living in semi-independent nature was very common, such as Liu Bei to Gongsun Zan, Zang Ba to Tao Qian, Sun Ce to Yuan Shu. If you provide money and food, I will fight for you. As for my army, you cannot intervene, it is similar to the nature of mercenaries.

After simple discussions between Mahan and the leaders of the Hango tribe, they quickly agreed that it was a dream for these rootless wandering Han people to have a land of their own.

Ma Han's idea was slightly different. He knew clearly that Gongsun Du never participated in the warlords in the Central Plains during the entire Three Kingdoms period, and at most he fought against the surrounding alien races. In other words, becoming a Liaodong guest army can get valuable opportunities to recuperate, borrow chickens to lay eggs, and borrow grain to raise soldiers to achieve development. Compared with the benefits obtained by the Hango tribe, becoming a "weed" of Gongsun Du is nothing. In the vast land of Mobei and Liaodong, where many alien forces are densely populated, isn't it a thorn in the side of the local tribe? Since that's the case, then just be a "thorn in the side" with backs and holding the benefits!

The collegial agreement was reached, and Liu Yi returned to Liaodong to report, leaving only his deputy, a prefect named Zheng Gao, engaged in the guidance of the Hange tribe to Bailang City.

In mid-September, Ma Han led more than 4,000 Hange tribes to head south along the Bailang Water North Branch and arrived at Bailang City.

Bailang City is located two miles away from the east bank of Bailang Water. The city is close to square, 220 meters long from east to west and 180 meters wide from north to south, equivalent to the size of two standard football fields. The city avenue is in the shape of a "well", and the official temple (county government office) is in the center of the tic-toe mouth. The city wall is made of rammed earth, about three meters high, and has not been repaired for a long time, making it even more mottled in the sunset. The city has two gates east and west gates, the city gate has a suspension bridge, and there are moats outside the city, which are thirty meters wide, which leads to the Bailang water to flood it. The defense is not below Ning County, which Ma Han has seen.

Along the way, through Zheng Gao's introduction, Ma Han initially understood the importance of this White Wolf City. This city is the key to the Central Plains to the Northeast region, that is, the place where the "Lulong Road" in later generations is necessary, and its geographical location is particularly dangerous. The surrounding Bailang Mountains form a series of natural barriers, making Bailang City a strategic place where you can attack and retreat. Whether you want to enter the hinterland of Liaodong from Youyan, or if you want to defend the Northeast Gate in Liaodong, Bailang City is an important place for military strategists to compete for.

I don’t know if it was Gongsun Du who wanted to show kindness to Gongsun Zan to show his invincibility, or to avoid irritating the Wuwan people, or whether it was both, this important city had only 300 infantry soldiers in Liaodong, and most of them were old, weak and weak soldiers with uneven military armor. The highest civil servant was just a chief clerk, and the highest military officer was a military marquis.

All of this only shows that their existence is just a gesture of Gongsun Du's accession to the western part of Liaoxi. When Ma Han took the order to guard the military marquis stationed in Bailang City, he already understood that from this moment on, he would work hard for Gongsun Du's attitude in Liaoxi to transform into a tough situation. This is his value.

Under the afterglow of the sunset, the horse man rushed to the north slope of Bailang Mountain, overlooking this new territory that belonged to him.

The mountains are piled up, the river flows, the plains are vast, and the city is high and the valleys are deep. To the west, it is the Bailang Canyon, the important road leading to the north of the Mo River; to the southeast, it is the Lulong road leading to Youyan; to the north, it is the Bailang North Road leading to Liucheng.

This is a treasure land and a dangerous land. How to eliminate danger to the greatest extent and make this treasure land produce gold particles depends on his courage and courage.

The sound of cloud boards that were about to close were heard from the head of the White Wolf City in the distance.

"Go back to the city!"

Ma Han let out a long breath, and a long whip hit the void. The silver arrow quickly turned his head, and the iron hooves hit the mountain road, and quickly rushed down the hillside. Behind him, Wu Zhui and more than ten guards whipped their horses and followed closely.
Chapter completed!