After receiving the news from the county, the priest of Sanshui County of Anding County tried to send someone to lure Lu Fang away from his old nest Zuogu (Weizhou Town, Tongxin County), and coaxed him to the county town to capture him in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, from the county magistrate's clever plan to the two hundred county soldiers lying outside Zuogu, Lu Fang discovered them all.

Lu Fang gathered for several years, and there were three or four hundred subordinates of the subordinates. So he made a quick decision and led them out of Zuogu, caught the county magistrate off guard. The county soldiers were hurriedly defeated and were chased by Qiang and Hu cavalry all the way, leaving hundreds of bodies behind. Even the county magistrate himself was killed by Lu Fang.

"The new army is just like that!"

After this victory, Lu Fang asked someone to poke the county magistrate's head with a spear and resounded with triumphant success. The Han heroes who were doubtful about the center of Zuogu, Qiang and Hu chiefs said: "This is the combat power of the new army, and it is not worth fearing. As long as we are united, great things can be accomplished!"

The big red cloth at Lu Fang's house was torn. After his wife cut it a little, she wrote the ugly word "Han" with thick ink and heavy pen. She raised it with a clothes rod, which was the banner of reviving the Yan Han!

The Han flag floated in the left valley surrounded by the mountains. Lu Fang looked up and burst into tears: After lying to others for a long time, even he believed that he was really a descendant of the Han Dynasty.

Lu Fang's manifesto was full of rustic flavor, and the quotation of scriptures did not exist at all. It was all simple and easy to understand what the old ladies in the village could understand: "Wang Mang was originally a minister of the Han Dynasty, but he actually poisoned the little emperor to death and usurped the throne. This is unbearable. My real name is Liu Wenbo, and I am the great-grandson of Emperor Xiaowu. I have a great generation. I should avenge my younger generation and revive the Han Dynasty ancestral temple."

The ranger whom Lu Fang usually wins over responded immediately: "Go to Chang'an and seize the throne!"

"Wen Bo should be the emperor!"

Lu Fang was quite sober and knew that it was unreliable to be an emperor in a village. She waved her hand and refused, saying that she would be the king first and the emperor would talk about it later.

So he combined his own life experience and called himself "King of Xiping of Zuoguli, the Great Han Dynasty", and his first wife became the queen.

Then Lu Fang began to grant officials to his confidants: his elder brother Lu Qin was named "General".

There is another village scholar who failed to take four subjects in this county and was humiliated by the great hero Anding and turned to Lu Fang in anger. He got his wish and was named "Grand Prime Minister".

A poor Hu herder who defected to Lu Fang was named "Reima Shaobo" and was named "Grand Sima".

He was fooled by Lu Fang and believed that he was a native of the Han family and was named "Daduwei".

The three elders in the village were pushed out and transformed into "Grand Master". Li Tian, ​​who often went to the fields in person, became a "Grand Chief Farmer".

Even a village chief has become a "Dashili".

Lu Fang, a rural tyrant, couldn't even explain the true lineage of the Han Dynasty. Of course, he was not familiar with the names of the three dukes and nine ministers of the court. Anyway, he thought that adding a big word would mean a high official.

After giving rewards to his confidants, Lu Fang sent his "Grand Sima" to refute Ma Shaobo and immediately rushed to the Qiang and Hu tribes of Anding's vassal states to make an appointment with them to work together.

"My family has only Zuogu. Even if the whole township is gathered together, there are only hundreds of people. They still have to make an appointment with the Qiang and Hu, the vassal states."

Sanshui County was originally the capital of a stable vassal state. The Qiang and Hu tribes that surrendered during the Han Dynasty were placed in a valley of hundreds of miles in radius, living a half-agricultural and semi-herdial life, and belonged to several Guiyi Marquis. Originally, only soldiers were needed to replace taxes when the imperial court summoned, and there was no land rent.

It was not until Wang Mang came to power that he began to greatly change the system of the previous dynasty, first abolished the titles of the Qiang, Hu and Guiyihou, and then dissolved the vassal states. He required that the Qiang, Hu and Hu also collect rents and taxes according to the registered households and people and serve labor.

It sounds like a matter of course, but the problem is that many Qiang and Hu don’t even plant land, and only grazed sheep on the mountain, asking them to hand over the fields and rented food. With the harsh criticism from the minor officials, they couldn’t live their lives and they also went into the mountains and forests to lay grass.

The dissatisfaction with the new dynasty is increasing day by day in Sanshui County, which is also the reason why Lu Fang can gather people to win the hearts of the people by relying on his impersonation of a Han family.

"I must be contrary to Wang Mang in everything before I can accomplish anything." Lu Fang was so scheming, and took great care of the Qiang and Hu tribes with more than 50 people in the county, hoping that they could bring their troops to join him and siege the county town together.

But it was not enough. Lu Fang said intimately: "Even if the Qiang and Hu tribes gathered to capture Sanshui County, the Dayin of Anding County in the south, and the General Swallowing Hu in the north, they will definitely send troops to suppress me later. I still need foreign aid."

So he asked his elder brother Lu Qin to travel a long way.

"You try to go out to the frontier and find King Julin of the Xiongnu, and say that King Xiping of the Han Dynasty is willing to marry him! I beg the Shanyu to send troops south to help me. After the matter is completed, I, the Han Dynasty, are willing to cede land from the Great Shanyu of the Xiongnu, pay tribute and pay tribute!"

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When Lu Fang was holding a big red cloth to revive the Yan Han in Zuogu, the Fifth Battalion had also advanced south and arrived at Baitugang with Liang Qiuci.

This place is just as its name suggests. The soil plates on the river bank are white and there are dozens of slab houses in the valley. But after the new army touched it in, let alone living people, they didn't even find a sheep.

"Why don't there be a thief?"

Liang Qiuci was full of doubts. He was full of anxiety about this battle. He only felt that what he wanted to deal with must be the extremely vicious enemy. After all, Ruchen and Dong Xi were killed one after another, so he did not want to follow the footsteps of the two.

So Liang Qiuci was extremely careful and set up camp after walking only twenty miles a day. The personal guards surrounded his camp tents so much that they could not be fully covered.

He was worried that the rest was unnecessary. Although Liang Qiuci was also on the list of fifth ties, he was at least reasonable and was quite impressed by the fifth ties. He was of great use and could not die for the time being.

More than two thousand people left Tewu at the speed of turtle climbing and arrived at Baitugang for three days. Not to mention that Ma Yuan had already received the fifth notice and moved into the mountains. Even if he was a bandit, he would be enough to run away.

A military guard whispered to Liang Qiuci, "Capital Captain, now he has been empty, and there are not even one refugee hiding in the mountains. This is not easy to kill the people and make contributions."

"Who said there was no!"

Liang Qiuci was not so bad that he directly massacred the soldiers in the army. He only set fire to the Baitugang board house, and then replied: "Great victory! The enemy was lost in the fire!"

Although I didn't win the head, can this victory be erased? No!

The fifth reunion reported: "Captain, you must have heard of the army's advance and went south to surrender to Lu Fang!"

That's right, at this point, General Tunhu's mission was only half completed, and they had to continue walking along the Kushui River and go to Sanshui County to cooperate with Anding County soldiers to eliminate the rebel Lu Fang.

The road to Zuogu is narrow. It is easy to get lost by going up and down the loess hills and needs a guide. The fifth reunion really found a herdsman who was darkened by the sun and brought it to Liang Qiuci.

Liang Qiuci was above and looked at the man: "Who is your name?"

Wan Xiu, who was wearing short strokes and exposed his arms, lowered his head and said, "The villain is named Ren Xia."

He stayed in the local area for almost two years and spoke fluent dialect. He claimed to be a poor herder on the Kushui River. He was caught by bandits and later fled to Tewu County. He heard that Sima of the Fifth Reunification was recruiting guides and joined the army.

"I heard you've seen the thief leader, what does he look like?"

"The face is full of pockmarks and ugly." Wan Xiu recalled Ma Yuan's handsome appearance and gritted his teeth and said, "He has a sarcastic heart and has also occupied the villain's wife and daughter!"

"No wonder he was called Ma Bandit!"

Liang Qiu Ciran said that after the war, even if he could not catch the Maqu coach, he could forge a head according to Wan Xiu's description.

If Maqumaster rebelled again afterwards, he also had an excuse: "The bandits are always a name that continues, and they continue to follow one after another. This Maqumaster is not the same Maqumaster!"

With Wan Xiu leading the way, the team continued to set off on the road and entered the boundary of Sanshui County along the Kushui River.

The reason why this Sanshui County is called Sanshui is because there are Luochuan Valley and three springs flow together. However, except for the three rivers, the banks are slightly flat, the rest are all loess hills. Liang Qiuci is still cautious, walking only twenty miles a day, and the ranger is released far away.

"The lower officials are willing to be the vanguard!" The fifth reun volunteered, which surprised Liang Qiuci: "Didn't Boyu always refuse to take the lead?"

"If you don't disperse the people along the way first, won't you let them become your devils in vain?" Di Wulun said in his heart, and he learned from the lessons of the last march.

Liang Qiuci's army was also happy that the fifth reunion was blocking the arrows in front of him. If he encountered bandits, the losses would be from the fifth battalion. When it was the turn to cut off the thief's head, wouldn't it be enough to drive Xian's soldiers away.

However, Di Wu Lun and Wan Xiu knew that Ma Yuan had been more than a hundred miles away from the north, so of course he would not come. The only thing he had to worry about was whether Lu Fang from Sanshui Zuogu would send someone to attack them.

But as the terrain gradually widened, this worry gradually disappeared. Occasionally, you can see black shadows at the end of the horizon. When you approached, you found that it was a beacon tower, probably left behind when the Hanwu era was advancing northward. Some were scattered with broken tiles and bowls scattered inside.

Seeing that his six hundred combat troops were still energetic and had not fallen behind, Wu Lun decided to speed up a little: "Start up, travel thirty miles a day."

On the tenth day of going south, Di Wulun and others arrived in Beixiang, Sanshui County, which was an empty river valley plain, which was later called "Hui'an Castle".

To the north of this place is the edge of the Gobi Desert. Because there is a salt lake blocking it, the desert does not extend further and the planting is still abundant. Where there are many red willows, all kinds of flowers and plants are lush, and the ravines of the ravines are particularly thick. Local civilians dressed in rags, pulling thorns and scattering licorice in the trenches, shoveling wormwood, and trying to get some side food in addition to the grain.

When they saw soldiers passing by from afar, they were even more frightened than when they saw bandits. The adults held the child and immediately fell into the ditch, but they could not hide it from the officers and soldiers. Several horses came over. After looking down at them, the young officers in charge did not order the slaughter. They waved their hands and drove away: "Go away quickly, the king's army is here, don't come to the side of the road within three days!"

The common people were as if they were amnesty and fled in a hurry, and they did not dare to look back.

When the Wulun and his group arrived at Xiaoyi, Beixiang, they found that the door was closed, and the supreme man in the village was terrified.

"Don't be afraid of me, we are an official..."

The fifth relationship stopped the voices of subordinates. If you don’t have a memory, isn’t this more scary? Even if you claim to be a bandit, you are better than calling yourself a king.

"We were ordered to go south to suppress the enemy. We just passed by the land and sent two hundred stones of grain to the army for three days. Then I could persuade the general not to lead the troops into the town."

"Are they a rebel from Zuogu Township?"

"Of course, have you ever come to Ru Township to bother?"

The village man cried and said, "The senior official, there is really no food. Two days ago, Zuo Gu Lu Fang called himself a great Han heavenly soldier, so he sent someone to conquer... and rob him! He also said..."

He moved very quickly, Di Wulun frowned and asked, "What else did Lu Fang say?"

The township man said carefully: "The traitors claim that they are suppressing troops and calming the people!"

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Chapter completed!