In the Liucheng Prefect's Mansion, Li Chongjiu summoned the tribe leaders of the Dingling tribe who had surrendered to Liaoxi County and held a banquet to entertain him. After the tribe leaders of Dingling tribes were invited, they all obeyed, and more than a dozen tribe leaders attended. The tribes of Dingling in western Liao also have their origins, and the origins should be started with the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China.

At that time, Zhai Liao, a native of Dingling, established an emperor in Hebei, and his country was named Dawei, and later generations all called Zhai Wei.

Zhai Wei received support from the Cui clan of Qinghe at that time, such as Cui Hong and Cui Cheng, the famous ministers of the Northern Wei Dynasty in later generations, were all ministers of Zhai Wei. However, Zhai Wei was later destroyed by Liu Laozhi and Murong Chui. Zhai Wei's Ding Ling tribes were hundreds of thousands, but most of them were killed by the Xianbei Murong. After the country was destroyed, the Ding Ling people who moved to the Central Plains moved to Liaodong. Many of the Ding Ling people in the western Liaoning County were descendants of Zhai Wei.

Now in the western Liao County, the tribes of Dingling have long disappeared from their prosperity when they moved to the Han area. They have almost degenerated to the wilderness of knotting and slashing and fire. Each tribe lives on their own, and only one tribe is better in the sea and can be eaten with salt. The tribe leader claims to be the name of Cui Xu in the Han Dynasty, saying that his ancestors were descendants of the Cui Wei emperor Zhai Liao.

During the banquet, Li Chongjiu took the condition of opening up the trade between salt, iron and cloth, and allowed Dingling's divisions to be integrated into one, following the example of the Western Liao Dynasty, to become a part of the Khanate. In addition, he also selected the sons of the tribes of Dingling, or 300 nobles in the tribe, and selected them as Li Chongjiu's personal army. All the elders showed doubts and hesitated and refused to agree. In the end, Cui Xu and several tribe leaders came forward to support him. Li Chongjiu immediately asked Cui Xu to serve as the commander of Dingling's unit. In this way, Dingling's unit in the western Liao Dynasty was officially included in the Khanate. The same was true for the Western Liao Dynasty, and 300 people were selected to select Li Chongjiu's personal army.

Li Chongjiu's personal army was ordered to be the Wansheng Army, all brave warriors in Dingling Martial Arts, and they were given generous salary and could choose to start a family in the Han area. If their father died of illness, they were also qualified to return to the clan to inherit the power of the tribe in his father's hands, and give priority to inheritance. If the clan does not follow, they can declare to Khan Li Chongjiu. If Li Chongjiu agrees, they can intervene.

After completing this matter, Li Chongjiu knew that he had finally annexed Liaoxi County into his territory.

"Congratulations to the prefect, conquering the two tribes of the Marine and Dingling in one fell swoop, so that our Liaoxi County will be worry-free." Yang Linfu congratulated Li Chongjiu.

Wen Yanbo praised the emperor, "Prefect, this is the art of an emperor. He has arranged the children of the two noble families of Ding Ling and Mohe as soldiers. They can be hostages and add a strong soldier. It is really a killing of two birds with one stone."

Li Chongjiu smiled and asked, "It has been settled in western Liaoning, but now there is only one county in Liaodong, Lin Fu, Tongding and Huaiyuan towns, what's the matter of surrendering the two towns?"

Yang Linfu said with some guilt and shame: "Report to the prefect, but there is no reply yet."

Wen Yanboqi said: "It has been ten days since I went there. No matter what, there should be an echo at this time, but why did I not see any news for a long time?"

Li Chongjiu comforted Yang Linfu and said, "It doesn't matter if we don't agree. Our army has finished resting and can go to Liaodong. I think we can come to two cities every day." Yang Linfu nodded, but his face was full of worry.

In the middle of the night, Li Chongjiu was about to fall asleep, but the guards outside the room reported that Yang Linfu had important matters. Li Chongjiu immediately summoned Yang Linfu into the house. When Yang Linfu saw Li Chongjiu, he said, "Prefect, something big happened in Liaodong!"

The next day, Li Chongjiu arranged for Zhao Youting to lead 1,500 men to guard Liucheng, and he led and mobilized Dingling, the Marine, Xi tribe, and Cangtou army to dispatch 16,000 troops to march along the Bailangshui (i.e. Daling River) Valley Avenue and headed straight to Liaodong County.

Following the White Wolf Water, Li Chongjiu saw mountain valleys and several Khitan cavalry appearing in it. Although it was close to the Khitan territory, it was not their grazing ground. It was strange that Khitan cavalry holding bows, arrows and swords suddenly appeared here. These Khitan cavalry were even bold, as if they were reconnaissing the number of Li Chongjiu's army. When they were stationed in the army, they attacked at night. Li Chongjiu immediately ordered his troops to fight back and killed dozens of people, which scared away the Khitans.

Later, he left the White Wolf Water Valley and came to the foot of Yiwulu Mountain. This Yiwulu Mountain is one of the five mountains and five towns. In the Zhou Li, it is said that Yiwulu Mountain is the town of Youzhou in the north. Yang Jian also built a Beizhen Temple at the foot of the mountain to worship the mountain gods. Yiwulu Mountain is also in western Liaoning and the division of Liaodong County. After two days of marching, Li Chongjiu came to the foot of this mountain and entered the territory of Liaodong County. At this time, there were fewer Khitan cavalry along the way. Li Chongjiu stationed at the foot of the mountain, and Zhu was shocked to see a large army in Beizhen Temple. He immediately brought several disciples to the military camp to see Li Chongjiu.

Beizhen Temple was built by emperors to worship the mountain gods, so the temple was also sent by the court. Emperors like the five mountains and four rivers of the five mountains and four rivers, all of them were sacrificed according to the ceremony. When they heard that the temple was Li Chongjiu, a rebel general of the Sui Dynasty, was shocked. Li Chongjiu comforted him kindly and was sent to the temple. The temple was grateful to him and accepted Li Chongjiu's offering.

The next day, Li Chongjiu's army arrived at Huaiyuan Town. As soon as the vanguard of the army arrived, Huaiyuan Town immediately opened four gates. The generals led 800 defenders from all over the town to surrender.

The town general said to Li Chongjiu: "Five or six days ago, this town was besieged by 30,000 Goguryeo's army. I thought it was unsupported, but after a fierce battle, all the Goguryeo army retreated. I think it must be the prefect of the prefect who was intimidating the Goguryeo people, otherwise they would not withdraw their troops."

"The last general will be grateful to the prefect for the people in the city for helping, otherwise after the city is broken, the lives of the people in the city will be unsafe." What the general said is true. He conquered Liao three times, and both sides of Sui and Goguryeo formed deep hatred.

Li Chongjiu asked the generals: "Didn't it mean that Goguryeo has been using troops to Baekje? Why did he suddenly cross the Liao River invade the west?"

The town general said, "It's not too early in the morning. I heard that Goguryeo was divided into five divisions. Half a year ago, the old thief chief in the western region died in battle. His son ascended the throne. This man was ambitious and had sent troops to cross the south bank to provoke many times. This time he led a large army to attack Liaodong, and I'm afraid there was a plan to take advantage of the situation. "Li Chongjiu narrowed his eyes slightly. As soon as he attacked Liaoxi County, the people of Goguryeo came to join in the fun and clean up Liaodong County. It was obvious that he was taking advantage of the situation and wanted to seize food from his mouth.

Anyone knows that Liaodong County was at the forefront of the Great Sui Dynasty conquering Liao, and there must be a lot of military rations left. Goguryeo is here to fight its own autumn wind.

"Is there any news in Tongding Town?"

"Since Goguryeo sent troops ten days ago, Tongding Town has lost contact with the town."

Li Chongjiu felt a little frightened, thinking that Tongding Town would be in danger, so he nodded and said, "Okay, send troops to Tongding Town immediately!"
Chapter completed!