Hearing Zhang Fei's words, Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh.
However, he still forced a smile on his face: "Third brother, in these troubled times, we don't ask for wealth, but at least we must have a clear conscience!"
"Now Yanmen Pass is being attacked by the Huns. How can we leave at this time?"
"Listen to brother, if we continue to serve in the army for a while, we will at least be able to repel the Huns. If no one appreciates us by then, it won't be too late for us to return home!"
"It is also!"
"I heard that there was a peerless warrior named Ke Bineng among the Huns. He was just outside Yanmen Pass. I would at least have to fight him once." Guan Yu, who was stroking his beard next to him, narrowed his eyes slightly, full of pride.
road.
"good!"
"Yun Chang's words only boosted morale!"
"A real man was born in heaven and earth, how can he give up so easily!"
Zhu Di strode over, looked at the three fierce generals in front of him and said: "I have heard about the deeds of the three of them. To be honest, I greatly admire their military exploits. If the three of them don't dislike it, they will join our Bingzhou Army.
How about becoming a company commander first?"
"Company commander?" Liu Bei and the others couldn't help but express a little doubt when they heard this. They had never heard of this official title.
"Haha, this is the name of the new official position."
"Soon, the Bingzhou Army will undergo a comprehensive reorganization. In fact, this company commander is equivalent to a school captain, and he will lead a hundred soldiers."
"But don't worry, you three, the company commander is only temporary."
"As long as these three have real abilities, they will soon become the generals guarding one side!" Zhu Di said.
After hearing this, Liu Bei and the three of them were a little silent.
To be honest, they had heard too much about such a big cake, but whether it was Huangpu Song before or Gongsun Zan after, they always thought of using it when they wanted to use it, and ignored it after using it.
The three brothers had been together in the army for many years. They originally wanted to stand out by relying on their true abilities and serve the great men. However, things did not work out. They have been stuck in the official position of school lieutenant and have been unable to make any progress for many years.
Now he has gone from a passionate young man to a veteran in the army.
And they now understand that if today's big men want to go further, they must either join those aristocratic families and become disciples, or they must be affiliated with aristocratic families. Only in this way can they be "recognized" by the court and quickly gain promotion to a noble rank.
People like them who neither want to seek refuge with the powerful families nor the generals, but who only want to serve the Han Dynasty, have no way of serving their country even though they possess powerful weapons.
What's more, Liu Bei's banner is still the royal family.
This is even more impossible.
Because in this era, there are basically no people who are truly loyal to the Han Empire.
Even those scholar-bureaucrats who were still attached to the Han Dynasty, for them, their family came first.
It is impossible for them to promote a royal family member like Liu Bei who has great ambitions and is extremely capable. This is making themselves uncomfortable.
After all, no one can guarantee whether Liu Bei will become the second Liu Xiu.
In fact, if you really count, Zhu Yuanzhang should spare no effort to suppress or even kill Liu Bei.
Because Liu Bei was determined to have trouble with him.
His ultimate goal was to destroy the Han Empire and extend the rule of the Ming Empire to the world, but Liu Bei would never allow this.
Zhu Yuanzhang knew this, and so did Zhu Di.
But today, after experiencing three or four plane wars, Zhu Yuanzhang's pattern has long been opened up.
He has understood a truth.
Their enemies are no longer these comrades, or even just humans. They have more and more powerful enemies that will appear one after another in the future.
What they have to do now is to unite all human beings they can.
Especially these Chinese Han elites who share the same origin and are famous in history.
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang was also very confident that neither Liu Bei nor Cao Cao, figures who were called ancestors in history, would make waves again in the face of the mighty trend that he brought about that was about to change the world.
They only have two choices.
The first is to hide your name and be an ordinary citizen honestly.
The second is for your own use.
Of course, Cao Cao had automatically given up the first option.
Now Cao Cao should be pained and happy to receive new knowledge and education in the Ming Dynasty Qishi Mansion.
In the future, he should enter the Ming Dynasty's official system and become a parent official who governs the local area.
Leading troops in a war is probably impossible.
Now it depends on Liu Bei's choice.
Time passed quickly, and another day passed in the blink of an eye.
The additional members of the mechanized legion from the Ming Dynasty finally arrived.
The Ming Dynasty's new army came in large numbers this time, totaling 80,000.
Its arms range from tanks to artillery, from mechanized cavalry to helicopter brigades.
After the arrival of this new group of troops, Zhu Di directly dispersed the original Bingzhou army and merged it into these new Ming armies.
Such large-scale military mobilization did not affect the internal stability of the Bingzhou Army.
The reason is simple, because the 80,000 additional troops not only brought weapons and ammunition, but also food, especially large amounts of meat and exotic animal meat.
Compared with the food of the Ming army, these Bingzhou counties guarding the border may not even be able to eat enough, let alone meat.
With such benefits opening the way, coupled with the prestige Zhu Di had accumulated in the Bingzhou Army during this period, and the fact that the general Zhang Liao was still missing, the troops on the front line of Yanmen Pass accepted the reorganization smoothly.
"Changing the soldiers at Yanmen Pass and waiting for the military reorganization of Bingzhou has been more than half completed."
"After all, compared to the Central Plains, a barren land like Bingzhou, which was occupied by the noble families, there really weren't many local forces except for the border army groups."
"As long as these border troops are captured, it is equivalent to capturing the entire Bingzhou."
"This thing can be accomplished because of His Highness King Yan's contribution!"
The commander who led these 80,000 people to Bingzhou was Chang Yuchun, who is now the commander.
After the initial completion of the military reorganization, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
You must know that Lao Zhu's reforms in Luoyang have become more and more profound and intense, and have begun to touch the interests of those noble families.
For Zhu Yuanzhang, maintaining border stability, especially the stability of the border army, is the top priority in the next few years.
He wanted to guard against any generals being seduced by local nobles into revolting or something like that.
Such an important position cannot be given to people from this world.
Not only in Bingzhou, but also in Liangzhou.
Even Gongsun Zan of Youzhou was the same. Zhu Yuanzhang would add sand to all the frontier troops of the Han Dynasty with certain strength step by step, and then take control of the frontier troops.
Of course, compared to Bingzhou, Liangzhou and Youzhou are more complicated, and Chang Yuchun has nothing to do about it.
His mission was to guard Bingzhou and prevent the Huns from crossing the Leichi, while at the same time firmly controlling the military power of Bingzhou in his own hands.
Zhang Liao's experiences in the past few days can be described as miraculous.
It can’t even be called miraculous, more of it is still unbelievable.
After he led two thousand wolf cavalry and was defeated by the Huns giant who suddenly appeared, he was captured by the Huns and carried to the Huns camp.
Originally, he felt that he must be close to death this time
But sometimes, fate just likes to play tricks on him.
On the second day after he was imprisoned, civil strife suddenly broke out in the Huns camp.
Taking advantage of this civil strife, Zhang Liao used a dagger he had hidden to kill a soldier guarding him and successfully escaped from the prison.
But the strange thing is that although he escaped from the prison, he could not escape from the Huns' camp.
The entire camp was shrouded in a layer of golden light. Every time he passed through this layer of light, he would appear from the other side of the camp.
It's like encountering a ghost hitting a wall.
This shocked Zhang Liao inexplicably.
Such a large-scale and long-term mysterious phenomenon is not like a natural talent, it is as weird as the giant that appeared before.
Zhang Liao smelled danger keenly.
Moreover, after he escaped, the Huns stopped hunting him, which seemed a bit outrageous.
He no longer ran away, but disguised himself as an ordinary Huns soldier and silently observed the changes in the Huns camp.
Soon he discovered a strange phenomenon.
In the past few days, soldiers were ordered to go deep into the camp every night, and then never came out again.
Originally there were at least 200,000 soldiers stationed here, but as time passed, the number of soldiers continued to decrease.
As a general who leads troops in battles all year round, Zhang Liao can still detect changes in the number of soldiers.
But it was precisely because he could detect it that he was even more shocked and surprised.
"Are you the Han general who escaped?"
Just when Zhang Liao couldn't hold back and wanted to go deep into the camp to find out what was going on, an old man suddenly pulled him back.
This is a dark-skinned, ugly-looking Huns.
But the moment he grabbed him, Zhang Liao noticed unusual aura fluctuations on his body.
This is a gifted person!
"I am the great elder of the Tianshuang Tribe!"
"The Tianshuang tribe was the largest tribe before Kebineng unified the Huns, and it was also the tribe where Kebineng was born!"
The old man pulled Zhang Liao back to a corner where he could not easily be noticed with a serious expression: "General Han, I noticed your aura two days ago."
"I've been secretly observing you for the past two days!"
Zhang Liao couldn't help but narrowed his eyes slightly after hearing this.
"Don't worry, you and I are not enemies now."
"Our enemy is inside!"
The old man's voice was trembling: "We were deceived. The resurrected god was not Changshengtian at all. He took advantage of us, and he used the power of the god to contaminate and control Kebineng and many Xiongnu generals.
, by the time I discovered this, it was already too late.”
"Now those polluted people are performing blood sacrifices on my people and my warriors. My people are dying every day!"
Speaking of this, the old man's voice flashed with a trace of regret.
"Blood sacrifice?" Zhang Liao was also a little shocked.
And judging from what the old man said, this matter also involves gods.
This sounds a bit ridiculous no matter how you sound.
"That's right!"
"On the night when those iron birds suddenly appeared, the gods suddenly began to become violent, and then issued an oracle, allowing Kebi to use the lives of soldiers to perform blood sacrifices and create war weapons!"
"The civil strife that night was the result of Kebineng and other people who had been controlled by the gods violently massacring other generals and elders."
"Because I raised Kebineng since I was a child, the god narrowly escaped my life in order to better control Kebineng."
"But I have nothing to do now. I can only watch helplessly as my people from the Tianshuang Tribe are sacrificed to blood bit by bit and become monsters."
"The only one who can save us now is the big man!"
The old Xiongnu man looked at Zhang Liao expectantly.
Zhang Liao felt even more ridiculous.
The Han and the Huns are feuding. They have been fighting for hundreds of years since the founding of the Han Dynasty by Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty. Now this old man actually wants the Han to save the Huns. Isn’t this ridiculous!
The old man obviously knew what Zhang Liao was thinking.
He looked at Zhang Liao solemnly: "This is not only to save us, but also to save yourself. You have no idea how terrifying the war weapons created by those madmen using blood sacrifices are."
"You must have faced the power of the giant that Kebi Neng transformed into that night?"
"That is one of the weapons of war!"
"I can tell you responsibly that there are hundreds of war weapons like that in the deepest part of the camp!"
"Do you think you big men can resist it?"
"How... is this possible?" Zhang Liao was surprised.
That night, the giant killed and wounded all the two thousand wolf cavalry he led with a single blow.
If there were hundreds of such things...
Zhang Liao couldn't imagine it.
"So, this is not only saving us, it is also saving you!"
The old man said seriously: "I have a way for you to escape from the camp. After you go back to Yanmen Pass, bring this news to your coach and tell him clearly that the blood sacrifice will take seven days to complete, and let them attack the camp as soon as possible.
The sooner the better, if it's too late it's too late..."
"How should I trust you?"
"What if this is a conspiracy, then if I lead the army out of Yanmen Pass, wouldn't I become a sinner?" Zhang Liao said calmly.
"I can take you to see those blood cocoons." The old man said as if he was very determined.
That night, Zhang Liao was quietly sent out of the Huns camp by the old man.
The moment he was sent out of the camp, he immediately activated his wind control talent and ran towards Yanmen Pass.
At this moment, Zhang Liao's face was filled with fear.
Just two hours ago, he saw the most horrifying scene in his life.
Countless grotesque giant monsters were wrapped in bloody cocoons, and the monsters in the cocoons were still breathing and twisting, as if they were about to break out of the cocoon at the next moment.
In the very center of those cocoons is an altar.
At that time, Zhang Liao watched helplessly as row after row of Xiongnu soldiers were tied up with five-flowered flowers, and with a look of horror on their faces, they were pushed up to the high platform and beheaded.
Then countless blood is absorbed by the altar, and its energy is used for the hatching of the blood cocoon.
"This news must be sent back as soon as possible, and those blood cocoons must be destroyed as soon as possible, otherwise the big man will suffer disaster." Zhang Liao couldn't help but scream in his heart.