It was already late at night when the lights were swaying in the city of Jiaozhou City. The curfew patrol and the knock-ons began to resound between the streets and alleys, but they could not curb some sneaky figures and figures that were traveling between the high gates and mansions. Sometimes they were hit in person, and even the soldiers patrolling at night seemed to be blinded.

These include the Jiaozhou Governor Gao Xiu, one of the three troops in Jiaozhou City, who had just returned from attending a banquet, and was one of the three troops in Jiaozhou City.

Compared to Zeng Gun, who was looking at the enemy's power on the city during the day and was full of thought, Gao Xiu, the governor of Jiaozhou, who was sitting in the manpower, was full of regret and unwillingness. He was originally from the literary source; he was not outstanding or different from others.

Although he was one of the vanguard soldiers and horse envoys under his uncle Gao Pian, he had never led a day of troops, nor had he led the enemy in the lead. It was only because after Gao Pian was transferred to another town, someone needed to guard and manage the industries he had accumulated and established in the local area that he was specially stated that he was the governor of Jiaozhou.

The officials and generals of the Turkish Army, who were born in the local area, were respected as the nominal governor and highest official of Jiaozhou because they were a famous general Gao Piansun. However, once the east and west of the Lingdong and the west of the court were successively destroyed and the court lost their supplies, they decided to surrender to the thieves, and he, as the governor, lost his greatest use and was put into use in name only.

However, at least because of his origin as a relative of the famous generals and relatives of contemporary famous generals, he treated him quite courteously and was full of honor and carefreeness. He did not even violate his private property and land and houses, but he could still breed evil and produce him. However, Zeng Yan was different from that. It was not enough for him to collect all the wealth of the city to be used as military supplies and rewards, and even the wealth of the collaborators led by Gao Xiu was not spared, and they wanted to "destroy the family" for the court.

Gao Xiu, who had given all this, was still the governor of Jiaozhou who was raised high and used as a living mark to walk. Even the three hundred generals and divisions left to him to take care of his industry and to take them away on the grounds of uniform use of their lives. Therefore, when he thinks of the precious treasures that were moved away from his house, he feels painful and heartache;

In comparison, the Guiguan Manager Li Zan was much better than him. He relied on the thousands of gathered troops and the wealthy families under his command. He is now appointed as the deputy governor of Annan and the envoy of the Tiandu branch, and is actually the second-in-class figure in the city.

To be honest, he believed that he did not have much ambition or desire, and just wanted to make a few more years of peace and stability in the position of the governor of Jiaozhou, and to double the industries he cared for in his name. Isn't this possible? Therefore, he couldn't help but quickly turned into hatred and secretly resentful to Zeng Yan; if the other party was not a thief who started his business by killing officials and rebelling, he would have thought of another way out.

However, after returning to his mansion and closing the gate of the aconitum, he found that in the clear moonlight, he was waiting for a familiar figure, and he couldn't help but be surprised:

"Tu Zhen, you are still alive... Are you all gone??"

Then Gao Xiu reacted and suddenly said harshly to one of the former part.

"You are actually still in the mood to come back. I am a descendant of the famous Gao family and a relative of the Bohai Duke. No matter how unbearable it is, I have absolutely no reason to be sad about the thief."

However, although what he said was righteous and severe rebuke, a series of complicated plans flashed through his heart like lightning.

This family general named Gu Liumeng and named Tu Zhen was born in the Mingzhou, Dongdao, Jiangnan. This time he was able to be released and easily sneak into Daluo City, which was as strict as facing the enemy, was probably due to the response and concealment of a heavy army.

"Ming Gong said so much, we should not dare to have the lintel of Gao Ling Gong..."

But Gu Liumeng continued to say more respectfully.

"I just want to know the truth. The villain is so greedy that he can't bear to see... He wants to see the great foundation left by Ling Gong... is ruined by others' selfishness."

"I can't bear to see the painstaking efforts and kindness of Ming Gongjiu's construction of Jiaozhou, and it's all gone to waste and it's hard to survive alone..."

"What do you mean?. How dare you be the guardian of the court..."

Gao Xu's tone became more and more severe, but he let out a sigh of relief in his heart.

"What kind of virtue do I have..."

"Why should Gong Ming belittle himself?"

But Gu Liumeng continued to say softly while observing his words and expressions.

"The thief leader still told Gong Ming: "If you are not of our race, your heart will be different. Since ancient times, no matter who is in power in Annan, you are all subjects of our Han family."

"But if Annan is in chaos and the other party is empty, then it will be a waste of money for those barbarians; this is why the opponents come to join the army..."

"It's such a clever word."

Gao Junxiu snorted heavily, but reached out to signal him to go inside to avoid suspicion.

.....

The territory of Wu'ezhou (now near Taiyuan, Vietnam) to the northwest of Jiaozhou is also full of war.

On the edge of a small town where the corpses were burned into white, a group of turtle barbarians were gathering again. With them, there were mules and horses filled with things, and women tied with ropes and crying without covering their clothes.

Most of them were wrapped in blue cloth scarves and had feet, and were equipped with (bamboo) barrel armor, leather pockets, spears, hand marks, sidekicks, rattan cards, mountain crossbows, bamboo arrows, sugar beef arrows and other equipment. Among them, the brave ones got the patterned face, and the more patterns the more warriors they had won in front of the formation.

On the blue and black flags in the middle of these barbarians are a group of silver-embroidered Big Dipper stars, and on the accompanying flags are gold-plated tiger-headed human-body bronze beasts representing the ancestor gods of the clan. In the open space under the flags, many cattle and sheep were dragged down on the yellow sand in front of the tent, and they were slaughtered and divided into meat for each warrior to be divided into roasted and eaten;

The internal organs were taken out and thrown into the blazing fire pit surrounded by the witch festival with feathered crowns, and bursts of stinking smell and smoke that smelled pungent, which was considered a good omen. The blood of the livestock collected with copper horns was poured on the mottled green bronze drums in the rows of lines, and the patterns on the drums that described the ancient legend of hunting and fighting became more and more ferocious.

In the newly built large brown animal skin tent, Luo Fengyi, the big boss who looked thick and thick and short and fat, was chewing happily and eating, and was covered with oil stains and residue on his chest, but he unconsciously held the ox horn cup and drank loudly.

Amid the rhythm of many bronze drums, there were warriors with shirtless faces in each hole in the open space in front of the tent. Even though the sweat and blood were dripping, they were not moved at all. Until one of them fell completely, they were dragged out to replace others with cheers and roars for the winner throwing gold and silver jewelry.

Luo Fengyi sat happily and looked at all this, full of a kind of surging longing and ambition. At that time, the ancestors of the Luo family were just a small village under the command of most of the Huang family, and many vassals. Because they stood out among the "fighting enemies" fighting in various caves, they replaced the gradually declining master of the original Qiaotou Cave. Later, while the Huang family rebelled and the imperial court to attack the four kills of the troops, they got rid of their vassal status as the leader of the Huang family, and took refuge in Linxizhou and set up their own house.

Nowadays, most of the Luo family members have been married and annexed for generations. They have been under their name. Lin Xi, Dehua and Langmang have tens of thousands of people in the three prison states of Lin Xi, Dehua and Langmang. There are tens of thousands of people in the caves of about seven caves, and there are also Tangquan and Lusuo, including the 19 caves of all sizes of the capitals of five prison states, as vassals, and they have been devoted to money, grain, goods and labor in Dingkou all year round.

Because more than ten years ago, the Huang family, the governors of the Nong family, and the cave masters, were killed and injured by the official army due to collusion with the Nanzhao rebellion, and were weak one after another and have not yet recovered their old views. Instead, the other troops who were like Luo, who were watching and taking advantage of the situation, took advantage of the situation and eroding and annexing many peripheral villages and populations.

Since then, over the years, the Luo family tribe led by Luo Fengyi has become the entire Xiyuan barbarian, and even the Annan Protectorate has been bound by the thirteen tribes and twenty-nine states, and has slimly ranked first among the top-ranking Tuman forces.

Because they have lived for generations, with mountains and canyons and small basins, caves are naturally formed according to the terrain. The village is called the settlement area; among which the caves are the largest, which is the same county, and the smallest, which has a village. The village is the most basic rural unit than the Han area. Each village has corresponding leaders and nobles, and the place where the bronze drums are cast is called "Du Lao".

However, although the land is narrow but still fertile and sufficient rain, farming and animal husbandry are quite developed; therefore, the caves are known as "there are many common people and the grain is abundant"; they also have a large number of slaves as the driving force; therefore, they are in the social mentality between primitive clans and slavery; they are close to the Han area and are intact, and corresponding government offices, markets, temples and schools are built.

Among them, the local products include gold, silver, copper, lead green, cinnabar, green feather, cave burrow, fennel, and grass fruit. They often flow down the mountains and sell them to the plains to benefit each. Therefore, the upper class adults of each cave are still quite rich, and they often run in the mountains and the manor is connected to the clouds, and thousands of slaves and servants are sent.

Among them, the masters of each cave chose to choose the brave and strong people under their leadership, and they practice swords, guns, bows and crossbows. These caves often have great strength and hard work, and they are good at hunting through leather shoes, and they do not stop going up and down the mountain. When they fight against each other, they set up formations, and each sets up two wings to wrap each other, and the elders win. Therefore, these leaders and cave masters of the Xiyuan Barbarians usually belong to mountains, water, grass, fields, and forests. Frequent fights and even generations of revenge and killing have also developed a very fierce and fearless folk customs and blood (tradition).

Although they fight each other continuously on weekdays, maintaining the tradition of selling each other as goods and looting people as slaves; once a strong man can combine them into one place, it will become a disaster that will ravage the local area; the "Huang Family Cave Rebellion" that has been intermittently and condemned for hundreds of years in history, and even Li Duyou, the leader and governor of Qiyuan Cave who was lured by Nanzhao more than ten years ago, and the Menshan tribe where Zhu Daogu, a native of Nanzhao who invaded Nanzhao, was located.

Now, most of the Luo family members who are now on the rise are obviously one of the successors who want to learn from their ancestors. In fact, his name of righteousness was given by a tutor hired by the previous generation of the Luo family members, and he took the meaning of loyalty and integrity.

But Luo Fengyi was not the eldest son who was naturally favored, nor was he the youngest son of his previous generations. However, among more than a dozen brothers of the same generation, he stood out and even laughed to the end with his rough appearance and despicable manner. Obviously, it was not a matter of luck. Although it has always been said that he was the choice of star destiny favored by the ancestor god.

This time, most of the Luo family members who came from, and brought together vassals, gathered 30,000 cave tribes and carried all the troops along the Xidao River. Since then, the lineup of 50,000 troops has not only been for the appetite of the wealth and children of a few prefectures and counties. According to his counselor Duan Jie, who was taken in from the defeated army of Nanzhao in his early years, the Tang court is now weak and civil strife, and the Annan Sea is in danger of land and internal strife. It is time for the Luo tribe to rise and claim to be in charge.

What's even better is that just like God's will, his army had just left Fuxian Mountain and ran into the representatives of the Han tyrants who came to find their in-laws as foreign aid, which made it even more famous and easy to deal with. As he thought so, he saw that his relatives were hurriedly passing over the crowd that was drinking and sent him a silk cloth wrapped in expressionless face.

"Since there is a better name, those people are useless."

After a moment, Luo Fengyi suddenly stood up and showed a smile on his face.

"Let's take it out and cut off the sacrifice to the gods..."

In an instant, the fierce soldiers with patterns rushed in and dragged some of the leaders dressed in the banquet in the hall, dressed in the Tang Dynasty, without saying a word, and turned into bloody heads on the tray and brought in.

This sudden scene and the familiar expression on his face reminded some people of the scene when he was young and stout years ago, he rushed back with dozens of followers to break into the residence of the seriously ill master of the Ministry, and then turned the entire manor into blood.

"Happy event, it's a great event."

Then, Luo Fengyi was still silent on the cave owner and the generals of the cave, who were still rubbing their greasy and short palms and said loudly.

"It was the Han family's escort who invited me to fight against the thief..."

"Blessed by the Ancestral God, the time has come for most of my Luo family to take over Annan..."

"All the lands where the Da (Red) River passes through, the land, wealth and children of the Han family will use it..."

"Everyone can be the governor, general, and the treasures and treasures in Daluo City, waiting for us to enjoy..."

"The big leader finished the competition (million-winning victory),...The Luo King finished the competition..."
Chapter completed!