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Ah Huanhe was stunned. How could there be war horses neighing in the valley? Is anyone here first? Ah Huan suddenly felt a bad feeling in his heart. Most of his guards were going to drive away the prey. At this time, there were only more than fifty people around him. If someone wanted to assassinate him, this would be a great opportunity.

Ah Su urged the horse to run out of the valley without thinking. At this moment, an arrow shot like lightning and hit his left shoulder. Ah Su screamed and fell heavily from the horse. The guards suddenly became in chaos and rushed forward. Eight black shadows on both sides rushed over. The spears stabbed, and instantly stabbed more than 20 people, cutting off the way for the guards to rescue the Qiang King.

The guards were anxious and fought to break through the siege, but the eight interceptors had high martial arts skills and were powerful in killing. They were assassinated in an instant. Someone blew the horn for help. The horn of "Wuwu" was clamoring, and they asked for help from other Qiang King guards who drove their prey.

At this time, the Qiang King climbed up from the ground, endured the severe pain, and stumbled out of the valley. After running for more than a dozen steps, a man jumped off the tree like a big roc, holding a short spear in his hand and wearing black clothes. It was Deng Ai, the eight subordinates of the Eagle Strike Army were responsible for intercepting and killing the Qiang King's guards, while Deng Ai was responsible for assassinating the Qiang King.

Liu Jing learned about the internal crisis of the Qiang people. The signs of the founding of the Qiang people were not because of the natural development of productivity, but were forced to be combined by the Qiang king. Because internal conflicts of interest cannot be unified, once the powerful Qiang king dies, the internal Qiang people will fall apart, and the dream of founding the Qiang king will become a silence. Assassination of the Qiang king is the mission of Wei Jin and Deng Ai to come to Lingzhou this time.

At this time, the sound of the fast horse hooves of the cavalry came from outside the valley. The guards outside heard the horn of help and rushed to rescue him quickly. Seeing someone stopping him in front of him, King Qiang Ai endured the severe pain in his left shoulder, drew his sword and shouted, and rushed towards Deng Ai. Deng Ai sneered and threw it hard. The short spear came out, and a flash of lightning flashed out of his hand, which instantly pierced the Qiang King's chest. The Qiang King screamed and was nailed to the ground.

Deng Ai turned around and saw that Qiang cavalry had appeared at the entrance of the valley. He saw that eight Eagle Strike soldiers had stabbed more than 50 guards and dropped them all, and shouted: "Retreat."

The nine people rushed to the mountain and quickly entered the lush jungle. The figures disappeared, and there were only corpses left in the valley. The Qiang King’s guards found the lord’s body and burst into tears together.

Deng Ai and others assassinated the Qiang King, and it was unrealistic to try to escape on horseback. They climbed over the ridge as quickly as possible and ran wildly at the foot of the mountain. At this time, they had already faintly heard the sound of trumpets around. At this time, the Qiang people began to investigate assassins on a large scale. Deng Ai was anxious. If he took a step further, the mountains would be surrounded by the Qiang people, and he could not escape even if he had wings.

"General Deng, here"

A Qiang soldier who came with him found Deng Ai and shouted loudly: "Here"

Deng Ai was overjoyed and rushed forward and asked, "Where is Mr. Wei?"

"Just wait in the woods ahead, the horses are ready, General Deng please follow me."

The soldiers led a group of people to run forward. At this time, Wei Jin and two other Qiang soldiers led more than ten horses out. When he saw Deng Ai, he hurriedly came forward and asked, "How is it?"

"Lucky to be unfair"

Wei Jin was overjoyed and handed the war horse to everyone and said, "The Qiang people have already started the mountain, let's go quickly."

Everyone turned over and ran to the northwest, but they did not dare to return to Lingzhou City. They could only find a way to cross the Yellow River first and then go north to Juyanhai. There was Han army stationed there. Only in this way can they escape the large-scale investigation of the Qiang people.

As Liu Jing judged, the assassination of the Qiang King triggered a strong earthquake among the Qiang people in Heshuo. First, the four kings fought for the position of the Qiang King. He accused each other of killing his father, and then met in war, which immediately triggered a conflict between the tribes that supported them. Various contradictions that Ah Yan forced suppression broke out in full swing after his death.

Civil war broke out between tribes, killing people and setting fires, robbing property, cities were destroyed, grain fields were trampled, and a large number of Qiang people were forced to flee. Qiang King Ah Yan's dream of founding for twenty years, which was finally destroyed in the revenge.

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In the Tongque Palace of Yedu, Cao Pi followed a eunuch and hurried to the inner hall. He was quite glorious during this period. Since the Yang Cui incident, Cao Cao's attitude began to change subtly. He no longer appointed Cao Zhi to inspect the counties and counties for him, but asked him to be responsible for it. At the same time, Cao Zhi no longer asked Cao Zhi to interfere in external affairs. On the contrary, Cao Pi was repeatedly valued, and even handed over military logistics affairs to Cao Pi, which formed a sharp contrast.

It implies that Cao Pi is moving forward in a big way, and even Cao Cao publicly implies that his official position is more suitable for inheriting his career. Although Cao Pi's position has not been clarified yet, it seems that it is only a matter of time.

Cao Pi also understood that his victory was in sight. In order to consolidate his position, he was more careful and he no longer participated in many things, such as inspiring his father to be appointed as the King of Wei. He used to be the advocate behind the scenes, but now he no longer mentioned this matter. He actually knew that his father was unwilling to go further.

For example, in order to show his attitude, some of Cao Zhi's supporters, such as Wang Lang, Wang Jie, Han Song and others, strongly recommended them to his father to show his greatness. Even Hua Xin, whom his father had never liked, was recommended to stay in Xuchang and no longer stay by his side.

Regardless of whether he was really sincere or not, his actions won Cao Cao's praise and handed over external affairs to him, making Cao Pi even more proud.

Cao Pi walked into the lobby and saw his father sitting at the table and drowning. He didn't dare to disturb him. He stood by his side with his hands down. After a while, Cao Cao woke up and saw his son. He couldn't help but smile apologetically: "Let my son wait for a long time."

"The baby just arrived and disturbed his father's rest."

Cao Cao nodded and asked, "How was Yang Biao when you went to Yang's house yesterday?"

"He looked fine, but he was a little listless and didn't want to pay attention to the child. The child comforted him and promised that he would not harm the interests of his family. He expressed his gratitude to his father, but he was always cold to the child."

Cao Pi's answer was very satisfied with Cao Cao. Yang Biao's attitude and answer were as expected. The reason why he asked Cao Pi to appease Yang Biao was actually testing Cao Pi to see if he was honest with himself in such trivial matters. Cao Pi did not exaggerate and admitted that Yang Biao's attitude was cold to him. This is Cao Pi's progress and treats others with sincerity.

Cao Cao stopped mentioning Yang Biao, and said: "I have called you today for my father to talk to you about Liu Jing's northern expedition to the Huhu in Guanzhong. I got the news from the original that the Xiongnu Shanyu Huchuquan sent a special envoy to Yedu, hoping to get our support and jointly deal with the Han army's expansion north. What do you think about this?"

"No"

Cao Pi's face changed and he said anxiously: "Although Liu Jing is our strong enemy, he has occupied the national justice in the Northern Expedition. If we take the opportunity to collude with the Huns, it will only make the people in the world despise us and make us completely morally failure. Father, we should be clear in this matter and publicly express our support for Liu Jing's Northern Expedition. We must not be ambiguous, making people suspect that we secretly collude with the Huns."

“You are in a very good state, very good”

Cao Cao did not hide his praise for his son and said with a smile: "Do you know what a father did? I ordered the original party to directly reject the Xiongnu envoy from Yedu and add 100,000 troops to Yuan, and be commanded by Zhanger. I also want to take the opportunity to take back Yanmen and Yunzhong counties occupied by the Xiongnu. I also want to take this opportunity to reach an alliance with Liu Jing to further ease the relationship between our two families. So I decided to let you go on a mission to Chang'an for me, and discuss the marriage with Liu Jing with the two families, and form an alliance based on marriage, and jointly recover the lost territory of China."

Cao Zhi has always firmly opposed marrying his sister Cao Xian to Liu Jing, but Cao Pi agreed that he is more realistic than Cao Zhi. He knew that the most important thing for Wei was time, which required time to govern internal affairs, cultivate and gradually restore the strength of the army. Only by becoming stronger from the roots can they compete with the Han army. His father's suggestion hit his mind. Based on marriage and attacking the Hu as a common goal, he can indeed fundamentally ease the hostility between the two families and gain valuable time for Wei.

But his father asked him to be a mission, Cao Pi was a little worried about whether he would become a hostage to Liu Jing. He hesitated and said: "The child agreed with his father's decision to jointly attack Hu and restore China with the Han army, but will the child go to Chang'an affect government affairs?"

Although his thoughts were not clearly stated, Cao Cao laughed, "Don't worry, my son, I have been dealing with Liu Jing for many years. I know more than anyone else who he is. He will not make things difficult for you. Moreover, you are discussing the fight against Hu. Morally, he will treat you as a guest of honor. In addition, you tell Liu Jing that I will go to the Yuan Dynasty in person and serve as the commander of the East Attack Hu. This time, I hope to fight side by side with him."
Chapter completed!