In northern Xinjiang, the life of the foreign tribes was getting more and more difficult. Gongsun Zan, with the support of Yuan Shu, pursued Xianbei and Wuhuan, while Yuan Shao, also driven by the aristocratic family, fought against the Southern Xiongnu in Bingzhou.

Originally, these three foreign families saw the big man in the precarious situation, and had other thoughts, intending to take advantage of the opportunity to rise. However, they did not expect that the situation would change so quickly within this year.

The northern foreigners who were originally able to arbitrarily control Youzhou and merge two states and fight vigorously with the Han Dynasty. Now facing Yuan Shao, who only owns Youzhou and merges two states of Hebei, they were beaten so hard that they couldn't hold their heads up at all and couldn't fight back.

Power.

Especially Gongsun Zan, his fighting style is extremely rogue. His 50,000 cavalrymen are all elites, and they are broken into pieces and roam freely on the grassland. Gongsun Zan, who is well versed in the essence of guerrilla warfare, uses the power of the light cavalry to the limit, which is even more shameless than the aliens.

, just like locusts, they are madly plundering the population and wealth on the grassland.

The Youzhou cavalry under Gongsun Zan are basically the best among the elite, not to mention that the opponents are these barbarians. In frontal battles, they can often suffer 1 to 5 or even 1 to 10 losses. Over time, the spirit of Youzhou has arisen in the hearts of the aliens on the grassland.

The mentality of the state cavalry being invincible made the aliens' ability to perform in the face of Youzhou soldiers become lower and lower, and the battle loss ratio between the two sides further increased, gradually forming a situation where the aliens fled as soon as they encountered the Youzhou army.

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Gongsun Zan, the white-horse general, seemed to have become even more insane after "losing" Baima Yicong. In the past, the foreign tribes in the north were only afraid of Baima Yicong, but now because of Gongsun Zan's awakening and Yuan Shu's suggestion, the entire Youzhou army has become crazy.

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There is no way, military merit, wealth, and the number of armies under command are all directly linked to the performance. Many talented people have directly completed the magnificent transformation from small soldiers to generals by virtue of their own abilities.

With Yuan Shu's suggestion, the number of cavalry under Gongsun Zan's command, which originally numbered only 30,000, grew to 50,000 in just six months. According to our party's army expansion strategy during the war, the speed of army expansion was so terrifying that it was like a snowball.

If it weren't for the sparse population in Youzhou and Gongsun Zan's unwillingness to incorporate foreigners into his army like the Xiliang army, Yuan Shu even doubted that following this policy, Gongsun Zan would be able to recruit 200,000 cavalry within two years. After all, our party has completed ten

The feat of expanding the army to one million within a year.

Fortunately, Yuan Shao had been busy with the issue of annexing the state and did not notice the expansion speed of Gongsun Zan's army. Otherwise, Yuan Shao would have come to conquer at all costs.

Just kidding, if Gongsun Zan is allowed to develop at this rate for two years, Yuan Shao will have to kneel down even if he has the support of the family.

But no matter how deeply Gongsun Zan hid, Yuan Shao gradually noticed something was wrong. Of course, Wuhuan and Xianbei understood this more deeply. After all, the losses were increasing every month, and even a fool could detect that something was wrong.

Due to Gongsun Zan's great reputation, the leaders of Wuhuan and Xianbei did not make any excessive resistance to Gongsun Zan's aggression at first. They thought this was Gongsun Zan's last act of madness, just an act of revenge against the foreign tribes in the north.

But as time went by, they discovered that something was wrong with the situation. In the past, Gongsun Zan had also made Northern Expeditions against foreign tribes, but he usually retreated due to lack of logistics after one or two months of support. In addition, the army under Gongsun Zan was indeed elite, even if

The leader of Wuhuan, Tadun, and the leader of Xianbei, He Lian, were not willing to fight Gongsun Zan easily, so they always turned a blind eye to it. They allowed Gongsun Zan to toss for a while and then passed.

But this time the situation was completely different. Gongsun Zan's attacks seemed endless, not at all less exhausting, and even becoming more and more violent. The losses were so great that even Tadun and Helian couldn't bear it anymore.

"He Lian, I'm afraid Gongsun Zan is determined to destroy our two tribes this time. More than ten tribes in our Wuhuan have been wiped out, and nearly 100,000 tribesmen have been lost. If we continue at this rate, we will not be able to survive for more than two years.

I’m afraid I, Wuhuan, will no longer exist in this year.”

Faced with Gongsun Zan's threat, Xianbei and Wuhuan, who had always been at odds, had to come together. Wuhuan's leader Tadun took the lead in approaching Helian.

If Tadun is considered a foreign tycoon, Helian is somewhat unworthy of his name. His father Tan Shihuai is indeed an unparalleled tycoon. He unified Xianbei, seized all the Xiongnu's homeland, defeated Fuyu in the east, attacked Wusun in the west, and drove out the Xiongnu in the north.

Ding Ling.

Each and every one of them are Tan Shihuai's heroic achievements. It can be said that he single-handedly led Xianbei to become powerful, even comparable to the Northern Huns in those days, forcing the Han Dynasty to marry him, but he refused.

It's a pity that such a heroic figure has no successor. Compared with his father, He Lian is a typical example of a tiger father and a dog son. Not to mention leading Xianbei to continue to grow, even the position of the leader of Xianbei is not stable.

"You and I both know the situation in Youzhou. It would be good to be able to raise an army of 100,000 people. Where can Gongsun Zan get the money and food to support the battle for more than half a year without declining?" He Lian said with the same frown.

Compared with Wuhuan, which was prospering under Tadun's command, Xianbei under his command has gradually declined. It is no match for Gongsun Zan and has no ability to even stop him. Although He Lian is addicted to wine and sex and has no morals and incompetence, he is not the same.

Not stupid. If this continues, even if the tribal leaders below do not rebel, he, the Xianbei leader, will sooner or later become Gongsun Zan's prisoner.

"I probably know something about this." Tadun was obviously fully prepared for coming here this time, and had already found out a lot of information.

"It should be Yuan Shu from Jiangdong of the Han Dynasty who provided food for Gongsun Zan to attack us."

"Han people are cunning and will not take action for no reason without benefit. Is it possible that Yuan Shu is related to Gongsun Zan by marriage?" He Lian asked suspiciously.

"No, there should be a transactional relationship between them."

"trade?"

"That's right."

Tadun sighed softly: "According to my men's inquiries, Yuan Shu from Jiangdong used a large amount of money and grain and Gongsun Zan to plunder the tribesmen, cattle and sheep we obtained, so that every time Gongsun Zan attacked us, not only did he not lose anything, but he also gained a lot of money.

The money and food are used to recruit soldiers. This kind of transaction has been going on for more than half a year and has never been interrupted. It is said that Yuan Gongdao in Jiangdong is extremely wealthy, and the money and food in his hands are enough to arm a million troops. If I continue to sit here and wait for death, I am afraid I will have to go north.

Following in the footsteps of the Huns.”

He Lian took a breath of cold air and said with a look of horror on his face: "Is this really true? If this is true, I'm afraid our two clans are about to be in disaster!"

Both He Lian and Tadun were very clear about the gap between themselves and the Han. The combat effectiveness of the two sides was not at the same level. If the Han had not spent a lot of money and food to defend the border and did not have much food to supply the army, I am afraid they would have gone out early.

That's it.

The reason why they have been taking the initiative in the battle with the Han is because they are barefoot and are not afraid of wearing shoes. They have nothing and attack the Han when they are short of food. No matter they win or lose, they can temporarily solve the food problem.

On the contrary, when the Han army attacked them, they gained basically nothing. It was meaningless except spending a lot of money and gaining peace for a short period of time, so they can remain at ease until today.
Chapter completed!