Liaocheng, also known as Liaojun, is roughly hidden in the northeast corner of Liaoyang old city in later generations.

Qin unified the six kingdoms and established Liaodong County and its capital Xiangping City here. After Goguryeo occupied Liaodong in the sixth year of Yixi (410 AD), it was renamed Xiangping City as Liaodong City and was operated as an important western town.

Although Emperor Yang of Sui claimed to have three major battles of millions of teachers, he never fell into the trap.

It was not until the 19th year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty (645 AD), when Emperor Taizong of Tang personally conquered Goguryeo. Li Ji, the chief marching officer of the Liaodong Road, attacked and defeated him with fire, and changed this city to Liaozhou City, as a frontier springboard and transition for the army to quell Goguryeo. Since then, he has been inherited, also known as Liaocheng and Liao County.

After Emperor Gaozong ascended the throne, a famous general, Li Ji, also took this as the starting point and rushed into the hinterland of Goguryeo with a light ride and fast horse, and began to implement the scorched earth strategy of "killing peasants in spring and burning fields in autumn".

In the end, Goguryeo was famine and the people were in full swing. The royal family boys of Quan ran to the Tang Dynasty and led troops to attack and destroy the country. They captured the king Quan Gaozang in the late Goguryeo to offer prisoners to Taimiao. Since then, thousands of years later, the stone statue of Quan Gaozang stayed on the shrine of Zhaoling as a captive.

Later, the rebellion in the old land of Goguryeo and the newly established Andong Protectorate was also used as a support point. In the end, the nobles, scholars, officials and their relatives and vassals were moved thousands of miles away to the Jianghuai land, and since then disappeared into the big family of the Chinese nation.

Therefore, this is an ancient city with quite a history and allusions.

It lies in the slightly undulating mountains and fields. The city is a square corridor. The front is about six or seven miles long, and there are two obvious city walls inside and outside. The outer wall is covered with a 20-foot-high brick horse wall ladder surface, and the gap is painted on the surface, making it difficult to climb; and the inner city located in the northeast is obviously one heavier than the outer city, with two and three floors above, with unknown buildings;

The inner city is the residence of the Luo family and its subordinates, as well as the official offices and barracks; the outer city is a commercial area and a settlement area for most civilians.

The city gates are three, the east and west gates are opposite, and the double-story gate tower is called Guangshun and Pingyi. The larger northwest outside the city is called Zhenyuan Gate. The city wall has horn towers, scepters, daughter walls and other buildings, and there is also a urn city wrapped by two high walls, which looks magnificent and towering.

The Prince River flows out of the east wall, forming a rather vast city-mopping water system. It can be said to be a typical product of the great achievements of the city-building technology of this era.

The overall feeling is a bit amazing.

But after getting closer, you can see some mottled traces on the dark gray wall, both old and new, which seem to be silently reminding anyone who noticed this detail what happened here.

The lightest part of the color seems to be within the past or two years, and there are almost no traces of moss and weeds on the entire city wall...

Could it be that Anton Roh was beaten to the bottom of the city?

With this conjecture and thought, I saw the team coming to greet me. The flags were waving, the robes and armor were brightly shining, the body was burly and the formation was neat. In every move, I had a solemn spirit that had been in the army for a long time.

"Okay, that's interesting."

I muttered in my mouth and continued to look at it carefully. It should be the final armed force of Anton Roh's trust and reliance.

Compared to the places I saw along the way, the troops stationed in the vassals who were obviously outdated and backward in equipment, training and nutritional conditions were insufficient, it was obviously incomparable to the sun.

“Virtual,…”

Seeing this scene, Luo Sijin, the old man who accompanied me, couldn't help but let go of his hidden thoughts, and leaned forward to me with a gaze.

"I am a Liaodong athlete, but I still see it in my eyes..."

"Um,……"

I touched my chin and said sincerely

"I do have a brave and stubborn demeanor..."

But what I was thinking about was another thing. It did look like a strong outfit and a powerful soldier who had been in the military for a long time. But I don’t know what the situation would be like when fighting. At least in terms of weapons and tactics, I am no longer just one or two levels from my Huaidong.

If you talk about strong and powerful or experienced battle formations, I will kill more than a dozen Northern Army soldiers, so I must have something to say.

But at least, as a basic cunning, I closed my fearless thoughts and made some more pertinent praises to them.

For example, in the courageous spirit, the long-lasting and endurance of fighting on the battlefield, he fully gave affirmation and praise.

"It is their blessing to be able to receive praise from virtue."

It seems that my praise has benefited him quite well.

"But your subordinate also has the ancient style of Xiliuying..."

"I am worthy of being invincible in the Northern Dynasties..."

After praising each other for a few words, I noticed the silence on both sides. However, I didn’t know when the people on both sides were already quietly competing with each other in their momentum and lineup.

The subordinates I brought seemed to be indifferently maintaining the silent queue standing in place, as if the other party had transparent air that did not exist at all.

In contrast, the other party's momentum and emotions that were leaping on the top became somewhat confusing and noisy. The judgment of the superiority and inferiority was immediately clear.

However, I led the team not to slap the face at the door of others. With a command, most people returned to their normal behavior of being relaxed and involuntary, but they still had the attitude of being as if nothing had happened to the other party.

However, it was obvious that Luo Sijin did not notice these subtleties, or he did not care about these subtleties at all, but followed my questions and introduced the welcome person.

"This is the Andong Guards who guard Liaocheng..."

The famous Andong Guardian Army, of course, compared with my half-toned Qingzhou Guardian Army, is an old-fashioned establishment with hundreds of years of history and great military achievements.

It can be traced back to the first generation of Anton's great defender Xue Rengui, who was under his jurisdiction. There were countless Fanhu Tumans who had been conquered in the past dynasties. It was not until the Anshi Rebellion broke out during the Tianbao period that it was cut off for a while.

However, it was restored and rebuilt because of Xue Song and Luo Xian's Anton Expeditionary Army, and since then it has become the core armed forces to protect the governors of Andong Road and the Protector of Andong.

Later, the Xue family and the Luo family gradually got farther away, and focused on managing the five-way guard guards in the former land of western Liaoning. The order and name of the Andong guards were left to the Luo family, who still owned the Liao County city.

Now the person who led the troops to serve as a stake was naturally one of the generals under the Luo family. Lu Yixin, the confidant of the vassal lord, was added as one of the two deputy envoys of Anton's guards. The envoy was usually held by the heirs of the vassal lord.

In addition, there are three other standing army numbers under the Luo family named Dongning, Baoding and Dingxiang, which are currently stationed in the enemy's Xinchengzhou (near Shenyang City today) and Huaiyuan's frontier key points; they are all retained because the Anton Luo family served as the Great Protector of Andong in all dynasties.

Then there are three so-called "Lianghe, Cangwu, and Gaimu", which are respectively responsible for local garrison troops, and are responsible for local garrison defense in the east, north and southwest.

Therefore, according to the sequence left behind in the past, there were three armies, three towns and one guard, and seven out-of-production battle sequences under the command of Anton Roh.

Of course, according to Luo Sijin, we can also gather scattered vassal soldiers from various prefectures and counties, and then mobilize young and strong people in the leadership to enrich the army.

Because Liaodong is mountainous and brave, many young and middle-aged people recruited to bring their own bows and arrows and other armed forces, and with a little formation training, it can be used.

In addition, it can also recruit and send the princes of the vassal division to bring troops to gather.

Therefore, it was not a problem to wear a hundred thousand armor during the heyday of Anton Roche. Speaking of this, he could not hide his pride.

Of course, I feel that his words are mostly going to be discounted. With Liaodong's current output and situation, it is quite difficult to get so many troops.

If Anton Daluo is really so powerful and full of troops, why should I come here from afar and even privately raise the possibility of borrowing troops?

Is it necessary to invite me to send troops to attack the forces of the Northern Dynasties?

Just as an actor. Well, it’s the basic cultivation of a potential ally. I still expressed my surprise and praise appropriately to satisfy a certain mood of his.

Then, I saw several relatives and retainers who came out to greet each other one by one, including Luo Xianchen, a relative and retainer who was in charge of the city affairs. Among them were the clan represented by Luo Xianchen, another old man in charge of the city affairs, as well as the contemporary inner minister Zhu Yannian and Zhang Yixin, who were the deputy ministers.

If you look carefully, it is quite grand and considered to be a reciprocal qualification as a vassal lord. Of course, this treatment must be considered as the title bonus of me, the Huaidong Commander.

Then my subordinates and I were arranged to stay in one of the satellite cities not far from Liaojun City, a sub-fort called Anshun Castle. The food, water, family and equipment inside were all available, as well as slaves who were close to each other and servants who were servile, and they were obviously well prepared.

Then after a while, he was invited to Zhan Mingtang, the inner city’s family, to attend a small family banquet that welcomed the air.

It is said to be a small family dinner, but the specifications are not low at all. The banquet is illuminated by valuable high-quality blubber and beeswax with spices; the mountain delicious flavors such as bears, deer, roe deer, flying dragons are extremely rich in food;

There are dozens of family members who come forward to accompany them. And they are all in power with specific duties and titles, rather than those who are idle and clean.

As the official leader this time, the next head of the family, Luo Zhanji, the current Andong Guardian, also came forward to discuss with me about the past relationship between the two major sources and family backgrounds.

He is over 40 years old and elegant, and can be called an old handsome guy. His words are funny and have some experience and scheming. It is hard not to make people feel a little favorable and kind.

As for the contemporary patriarch and vassal lord, it is said that because he was seriously injured in the White Wolf Water War several years ago, he was always lingering in sickness, and the situation was sometimes better and sometimes worse. Therefore, there was an additional arrangement for resigning from office and retirement this time.

However, this time was also a typical retreat. Apart from letting me recognize a bunch of people and faces who were important, I didn’t see anything substantial.

“The Lord…”

Xue Huiyan, who accompanied me to attend, suddenly reminded him

"There are no heavyweight generals and frontier military commanders here..."

After he said this, I felt a little aware of it. Looking back, it seemed that they were all biased towards the in-house minister and the acting official’s order.

Unlike the overseas vassals of the Southern Dynasty who mainly used the uncivilized Tuyi Island barbarians and only retained and maintained a considerable demand for force, the Anton Daluo family was always in the forefront of fighting against the forces of the Northern Dynasties, and was the first to bear the brunt of the powerful vassals of the Northern Dynasties, which were highly militarized and always in preparation for war.

Therefore, in the daily operation and operation of the feudal family, various military-related contents and needs obviously account for a considerable proportion.
Chapter completed!