Chapter 1156

The Bingzhou Wang clan is a first-class noble clan of the Liu Han Dynasty, with a heritage of at least three thousand years, and has some connection with the Wang clan of the military families in the Great Qin period.

Of course, it is not the Wang clan of Wang Jian, just that both sides might come from the same ancestor.

It's just that the Bingzhou Wang clan only slowly developed in the Liu Han Dynasty, from small landlords, and then gradually became the current Bingzhou Wang clan.

Only they themselves know the hardships involved.

Bingzhou is located in the border area, and there are not many noble clans; it can be said that the Wang clan is the number one noble clan in Bingzhou.

Of course, among the more than ten states in the border area of the Liu Han Dynasty, the Wang clan is not the most powerful, because they are located in the border area, and the noble clans here are instead not as formidable as the military families.

The Zhang clan of Yanmen counts as a military family, and military families are noble clans that produce martial generals.

Perhaps their influence in the imperial court is much worse compared to noble clans of the same level, but military families can often produce more powerhouses.

Although the heritage of noble clans is long, especially top noble clans, they also have those who practice cultivation and the Confucian Haoran Qi, but the lack of spiritual energy makes cultivation even more difficult than practicing martial arts.

Practicing martial arts to temper the physical body has already become a habit for martial generals, and it is not martial arts becoming immortal. Basic martial arts are actually relatively easy to get started with.

Of course, it is relatively resource-consuming. After all, in the early stages of martial arts, aptitude is not important at all; with resources, at least one can improve the strength of the physical body.

On the battlefield, the stronger the physical strength, paired with hard armor, is a human-shaped tyrannosaurus.

Of course, once martial arts are cultivated to the Golden Core realm, then each one's martial power explodes. At this time, martial arts can also leap, and the shortcomings have been made up. Compared to cultivators, there are no more shortcomings.

Therefore, border military families, for noble clans, except for their influence in the imperial court being far inferior to the noble clans of the Central Plains, are not inferior at all in other aspects.

And they are not afraid of those noble clans of the Central Plains at all.

This point was different in the late Han Dynasty in history.

Historically, military families had not yet formed in the late Han Dynasty, but it is different in this era. The product of military families was born as early as the Great Qin or even the Pre-Qin period.

With the appearance of the military school, military families are actually martial arts noble clans.

Most of the prefectures and commanderies in the border area are based on martial arts, and there are not many noble clans. Especially the first-class noble clans based on literature are just a few like the Wang clan.

The Zhang clan of Yanmen rose after a thousand years of experience, but they only became truly famous in Bingzhou in the last hundred years, and it was also because of Zhang Hu, the contemporary family head.

He joined the army at fifteen, and in ten years, he went from a squad leader to a colonel of an army, leading 8,000 Yanmen children soldiers against the 100,000-strong grassland Xianbei army invading Yanmen.

However, he became famous in one battle. In this battle, he led 8,000 children soldiers to severely damage the 100,000 Xianbei, beheading 10,000, capturing 30,000, and also harvesting more than 80,000 grassland warhorses at once.

In this battle, Zhang Hu stood out.

Then it got out of hand. He organized cavalry and became the iron cavalry of the Zhang clan. In the twenty years that followed, he not only resisted the invasion of the grasslands.

Sometimes, he would also take the iron cavalry out of Yanmen, enter the grasslands, and start hunting the various tribes of the grasslands.

After decades of hunting, the iron cavalry in his hands became more and more numerous, and the number of grassland tribes he wiped out was countless.

Zhang Hu had become the heart demon of the grassland tribes near the Great Wall.

However, he also became the guardian god of the people of Yanmen Commandery.

Decades later, after Zhang Hu became a soul-refining martial arts powerhouse, it was even more out of hand. He was the number one person in Yanmen, and even the number one fierce general in Bingzhou.

It was precisely under his leadership that the Zhang clan became more and more prosperous, and now it is the well-deserved number one family in Yanmen and a top-tier powerful noble clan in Bingzhou.

It's just a pity, "the tree that stands above the forest will be destroyed by the wind." Zhang Hu's reputation not only spread to Yanmen and Bingzhou, but all ten or so states in the border area heard of this person's reputation.

He destroyed hundreds of tribes on the grasslands alone, and the number of various grassland tribes who died at his hands was countless.

Naturally, the various grassland tribes were very resentful of him.

And the various grassland tribes moved south only in a few places. Yanmen Commandery was an entrance. Zhang Hu sat in Yanmen Commandery, which was equivalent to destroying an entrance to the south, which also forced the various grassland tribes to go elsewhere.

After all, the garrison troops of Zhang Hu's Yanmen Commandery, 50,000 iron cavalry, plus 50,000 elite veteran soldiers who had fought a hundred battles, and 200,000 garrison troops, were absolutely a hard city wall that even a 100,000-strong Xianbei army could not hit.

Of course, Yanmen Commandery naturally could not supply this 300,000-strong army, especially with 50,000 elite cavalry.

But the various commanderies in the border area actually had many connections, and other commanderies in Bingzhou also supported Yanmen Commandery behind the scenes.

After all, those noble clans in each commandery were not fools. Once Yanmen Commandery couldn't hold it and the grassland army swept in, for each place, it would be a disaster.

After all, isn't it better to block the grassland army outside and block it at Yanmen Commandery?

Although they exported some resources, it was better than the grasslands moving south, where they would have to send people and effort, and bleed to resist the grassland's blade.

Perhaps it was precisely because Zhang Hu's edge was too sharp, or Zhang Hu's harvesting of the grasslands aroused the killing intent of the grassland barbarians.

That was why they sent a great priest of the grassland barbarians to ambush the other party. That was a peak great priest, comparable to the peak soul-refining realm of human cultivators.

And then he ambushed him.

Zhang Hu was finally seriously injured, and it was only under the desperate cover of the army that he retreated from the grasslands and returned to Yanmen Commandery.

Zhang Hu, the clan leader of the Yanmen Zhang clan, being seriously injured was a head-on blow to the Zhang clan.

Of course, it was impossible for the Zhang clan to be devastated by this. The Zhang clan had been established in Yanmen Commandery for a thousand years, and Zhang Hu only brought the Zhang clan to a better level.

Without Zhang Hu, the Zhang clan was still almost a top-tier noble clan in Yanmen Commandery.

It was just that the momentum of the Zhang clan, which originally wanted to continue to rise, gradually dissipated in this incident, unless Zhang Hu could recover as before.

After all, a soul-refining martial arts powerhouse is very important to a family.

But unfortunately, many people in Yanmen Commandery knew that the family head of the Zhang clan was actually very seriously injured.

Whether he could survive was a question, let alone protecting his cultivation.

When Su Fan came outside the Zhang family, he found that the Zhang family was very strictly guarded.

Su Fan scanned with his divine sense and also found that the atmosphere in the backyard of the Zhang family residence was very serious, and many elders and clansmen of the Zhang family had very gloomy faces.

And that legendary figure of the Zhang clan was lying on the bed, his face extremely pale.

Su Fan knew his situation very clearly; it was indeed very serious, and he probably didn't have many days to live.

The means of that barbarian great priest actually came from the demonic path, and the erosion of demonic energy on his body had brought his internal organs to the verge of shattering.