"Brother Zhao, Sister Liu, it's done, it's done!"

The next night, Li came to the Zhao family with a smile on his face, told the Zhao Qi and his wife about the great news, and Zhao Zhi, who was so embarrassed that she dared not look up.

"Really? Oh my god, I didn't expect that my sister would really do this. I really don't know how to thank you!"

After hearing Li Jing's words, Liu was only happy and didn't know how to express his gratitude. From now on, my sister-in-law will be the wife of the young master, so my husband and wife are also considered to be a status in Hanoi. This is really a great joy!

Seeing his man standing there stupidly, Liu pushed Zhao Qi: "What are you still standing here? Go and kill chickens and cook, and treat the girl well!"

"Hey, okay!" Zhao Qi then realized, smiled silly, rolled up his sleeves, and prepared to kill the chicken and entertain the guests.

Seeing Zhao Qi and his wife crying, Li felt a little embarrassed. In fact, he didn't put much effort into this matter at all. He was just a matchmaker that Mr. Yuan asked him to be. He just ran away and did not make any contribution. He tried his best to dissuade Zhao Qi and his wife, asking them not to do anything, but he couldn't resist it anyway, so he had to obey them.

Three days later, Princess Bo Tianchou personally brought a generous betrothal gift to propose marriage. Zhao Qi and his wife received it in fear and fear. The elder brother was like a father. They agreed that the ninth day of November, half a month later, would be a good day, so that the wife of the Zhao family would prepare their wedding dress in advance. On that auspicious day, the young master would come to the house to marry him.

"Thank you, Lord Bo, for your care. Please reply to the young master. We and my wife will prepare everything. On the auspicious day, we will send our younger sister to the sedan chair!"

Liu looked at the generous betrothal gift and was full of joy. She accompanied her husband to agree with her smile. She was about to stay in Tianchou for lunch, but Tianchou politely rejected it on the grounds that she was busy with official duties, left the betrothal gift, and left with her entourage.

However, Helan's father Helan Sotai received a letter from his daughter and was frowning, feeling very guilty in his heart. He immediately went to pay homage to the new Shanyu Huchuquan and conveyed the content of the letter. He hoped that Shanyu could agree to the deal so that his daughter would not fall into the pit of fire.

According to relatives, Helanzhi had to call Hu Chuquan and call him cousin. In order to exchange his brother's body, he had no choice but to send Helanzhi out. I heard that if he did not agree to the deal, Yuan Mai sent Helanzhi to a brothel. Hu Chuquan was also uneasy. In addition, Helan Sotai begged hard, Hu Chuquan agreed to the deal and summoned Ahkook, who had taken over his position, to discuss the matter.

In the Battle of Shangdang, Ahguai saw the power of the Han army's heavy armored cavalry and decided to build a heavy armored cavalry belonging to the Huns. He was worried about the lack of iron forged armor, but he did not expect that Yuan Mai would actually send an envoy to ask for a transaction.

Although the "hate of killing your father and the hatred of taking your wife" was irreconcilable, the Zuo Xianwang of the Hun who was later renamed Liu Bao still had some mind and vision, and immediately agreed to the transaction.

However, the conditions for Ahkeng have changed slightly. In recent years, the Han Dynasty was in turmoil, the princes fought, and the Huns entered the country and plundered many times, so they were no longer interested in cloth and silk. Therefore, Ahkeng changed the conditions for the transaction to a horse for 700 kilograms of iron. He also told the messenger with a tough attitude that he asked him to reply to Yuan Mai when he returned. If he still wanted to bargain, the transaction would not be raised again, and no less than a kilogram!

After Yuan Mai received the reply from the envoy, he summoned Tian Feng, Zhang Liao, Tian Chou, Wang Ling and others to discuss it together. During this period, the value of a cavalry was equivalent to ten infantry, and the armor and weapons of an infantry were calculated to be about sixty kilograms [Note: One kilogram of Han is equivalent to one kilogram of later generations]. The Huns asked for seven hundred kilograms to change a horse. Although they suffered a little loss here, they were also within an acceptable range.

A few days ago, during the encounter between Li Yang and Zhu Ling, Yuan Mai led his troops to kill more than 4,000 Cao troops, seized at least 260,000 kilograms of weapons and armor, and combined with the supplies left by Zhang Yang, Yuan Mai sold iron, collected more than 2.8 million kilograms of iron, and purchased more than 600,000 kilograms of iron from vendors, and finally collected enough to trade 5,000 war horses.

After equipping the supplies, Yuan Mai sent an envoy to the Xiongnu base camp five hundred miles away again, and agreed to exchange supplies at Wu County, where the Han and Hu bordered the two places. Three million and five hundred kilograms of iron were loaded with nearly four hundred horse-drawn carriages, which were magnificent and winding all the way.

In order to ensure the safety of the baggage, Yuan Mai was sent out all the elite troops. He sent Zhang Liao to lead the guards of the camp and borrowed Qu Yi's Xiandeng camp. In addition, the other troops under Zhang Liao's command were escorted to Wu County.

In addition, Wang Shuang led the newly formed 1,500 "Tiger Cavalry" as a vanguard to open the way to investigate the enemy situation. The cavalry and infantry armies had a total of 8,500 people, guarding 400 chariots and iron, and they marched out of Hanoi in a mighty manner and headed towards Shangdang. Their destination was Wu County, at the junction of Shangdang and Xihe River.

Wu County is located at the junction of the three counties. The three forces are intertwined, complex and full of crises.

Xihe County was originally a territory of the Han Dynasty. Since it was occupied by the Huns more than ten years ago, more than 100,000 Huns, young, young, and children have occupied it here and never left. Over time, Lishi, the capital of Xihe County, became the base camp of the Huns.

Located east of Xihe County, bordering Shangdang County on a large scale, the prefect Guo Yuan, who was personally appointed by Yuan Shao, was responsible for guarding the capital. In order to defend against the entry and robbery of the Huns, Shangdang County generally had about 7,000 troops, which was much more troops than ordinary counties.

The south of Xihe and Shangdang is Pingyang County of Sizhou. It is now controlled by Cao Cao and is under the jurisdiction of Xiahou Yuan, the governor of Yongliang's military.

The prefect was Guo Ji, who was 40 years old, and his capital was Pingyang. He usually stationed 4,000 troops in the county. Since the war broke out in Hanoi, Xiahou Yuan sent a side general Zou Zheng to lead 4,000 troops to Pingyang to assist Guo Ji in strengthening Pingyang's defenses so as not to attack Yuan's army.

After receiving a report from the horse-striking news, he heard that Yuan Mai collected the supplies of 400 carriages and went to Wu County to exchange horses with the Huns. Guo Ji was very moved. If he could rob the batch of supplies, he would not only make great contributions, but also forge weapons and armor, and expand his military strength.

Immediately summoned Zou Zheng to discuss and encouraged him: "This time, Yuan's army went to Wuxian to trade horses with the Huns. It was only sixty miles away from my Pingyang border. The fast horses attacked quickly, only about an hour. It was the time to achieve great success. General Zou should help me achieve great things together!"

Zou Zheng hesitated: "I heard from the spy that the general who escorted the baggage was Zhang Liao. He is one of the eight powerful generals under Lu Bu. I'm afraid it's not easy to win!"

Guo Ji laughed to the sky and said, "How can a general be so timid? Zhang Liao's lord Lu Bu was captured by Cao Gong. How capable is a small Zhang Liao? He was defeated repeatedly and trapped in the lonely city of Xia Pi. He did not dare to fight against Yu Jin, Xu Huang, Le Jin and other generals, nor did he dare to fight against Li Tong, Xu Xi, Mao Hui and other partial generals. How capable can he have? If even Zhang Liao dared to fight with him, how can Brother Zou make great contributions? Could it be that when he meets famous Hebei generals such as Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and Qu Yi, they will fight again to make contributions? The day when a real man makes contributions is now, it is not a real man who wins in a timid way!"

After hearing Guo Ji's encouragement, Zou Zheng was excited.

Yes, he, a little Zhang Liao, is nothing more than a side general under Lu Bu. Even the arrogant Lu Bu was captured alive. How capable is Zhang Liao? If he didn't even dare to fight Zhang Liao, would he expect to make contributions when meeting Yan Liang and Wen Chou, such famous figures in the world, to make contributions?

"Since that's the case, I'm willing to obey the prefect's orders!" Zou Zheng made up his mind and bowed his wrists.

"Haha... OK, with General Zou's help, this matter will be accomplished!" Guo Ji was overjoyed and smiled with his beard.

The two of them decided to stop and immediately left two thousand people to guard the capital Pingyang, led the remaining six thousand troops, traveled lightly and quietly, heading north, quietly entering the western region of Shangdang, preparing to ambush Zhang Liao halfway. However, it was good to be able to seize some of the baggage, and a total of more than 400 carriages. Don't believe that Zhang Liao would not lose sight of one thing?

However, Zhang Liao had long expected the enemy Yu Xian. Before entering Shangdang, he predicted that if someone had the idea of ​​making this batch of baggage, it would be nothing more than Cao soldiers from Pingyang and Hedong counties, as well as senior officials from Bingzhou who had ulterior motives and needed to be careful. Therefore, he sent dozens of capable scouts early, disguised themselves as people, and entered Hedong, Pingyang, Taiyuan and other counties to spy on information.

Guo Ji and Zou Zheng thought they were secretly doing it, but in fact they had been spying on Zhang Liao's whereabouts long ago, and quickly passed the information to Zhang Liao and continued to monitor Cao's army's actions.

After receiving the probe, Zhang Liao came up with a plan and attracted Wang Shuang to discuss: "Cao army conspired to ambush our army, trying to plunder the baggage. I have a plan now. The Cao army that can be killed will not return. The prince should help me!"

Wang Shuang nodded and said, "General Wenyuan has been through the battlefield for a long time, so he must have a strategy. The young master asked me to ask you more advice. But the general has given me instructions. How dare Wang Shuang refuse to obey?"

"Hehe... General Ziquan is polite!" Zhang Liao smiled and said modestly, whispering in Wang Shuang's ears for a while, "That's how you will definitely defeat Cao's army!"

"Haha... the general was really a clever plan, and Wang Shuang was so impressed that he was overwhelmed." Wang Shuang praised him repeatedly, and his admiration for Zhang Liao was suddenly like a surging river, endless.

[ps: Finally, let’s make a calculation for the transaction between Yuan Mai and the Huns, so as not to think that the lonely boat is a silence. I have verified all the information and it is absolutely logical.

One pound of six in the Han Dynasty is equivalent to one pound now. The article mentions that a soldier needs to be equipped with about sixty pounds of iron, which is equivalent to about 39 pounds now. The combined armor, helmets, long and short weapons, bows and arrows, etc. are consistent with this number.
Chapter completed!