Handan, Miyagi.

Zhao Dan is still dealing with government affairs as before, and his desk is still a mountain of bamboo slips.

In addition to Zhao Dan, there is another person in the hall, that is, Yu Xin, who has just been promoted by Zhao Dan to be the prime minister, responsible for filling the vacancy after Zhao Sheng left.

At this moment, Yu Xin is reporting to Zhao Dan: "King, according to Pang Xuan's report a few days ago, he and Ju Xin have gone to Yuanyang to take over the army, and they will be able to march east to resist Yan in the near future." ”

Yu Xin looked quite tired, but now a pair of dark circles appeared on his originally elegant face, which was a little mismatched.

The reason why they advanced eastward rather than north was because the five northern counties of Zhao were mainly western and northwestern, while the Yan people attacked from the northeast.

Zhao Dan snorted, put aside a bamboo slip that had just been approved, reached out and rubbed his temples, and after a while before he spoke: "The harness has been sent?" ”

Yu Xin nodded and said, "Three thousand sets of horse harness have been transported to Yuanyang. ”

These harnesses were secretly built by Zhao Dan these days by letting the craftsmen of Zhao Sheng send Zhao Guo.

At the beginning, Zhao Dan only planned to build five hundred sets and send them to Gaoque Sai to quietly train the troops, to see if he could quietly train two or three thousand elite cavalry, and then suddenly use them when he was fighting to the death with the Qin State, and kill the Qin State by surprise.

But what he never expected was that the situation could not catch up with the changes, and then the situation changed dramatically, Zhao Dan knew that the war was in front of him, so he simply ordered the craftsmen to work overtime and build a full 3,000 sets of horse harnesses.

To be honest, due to the problems of materials and initial forging, and Zhao Dan was not a professional in this in his previous life, Zhao Dan did not have a score in his heart whether this batch of horse harness was good or not.

But now that the army of Yan is attacking, there is a huge disparity between the enemy and us in the northern battlefield of Zhao State, so Zhao Dan can't manage so much as soon as he grits his teeth, and simply transports all the inventory to the northern battlefield, hoping to increase the chances of victory for his cavalry.

As for the question of what is exposed or not, it's all time to gamble on the stud, who cares about those?

To be honest, Yu Xin was also quite surprised, if he hadn't temporarily taken over Zhao Sheng's position a while ago, Yu Xin wouldn't have known that there was such a magical thing as a horse harness.

You must know that the scholars of the Warring States Period are all capable of literature and martial arts, compared to the scholars who are more delicate than the girls in later generations, they don't know where they are strong, Yu Xin is also proficient in equestrianism, of course, it is impossible not to see the value of the harness.

After Zhao Dan paused, he continued to ask, "Where is Yan Jun now?" ”

Yu Xin replied: "A few days ago, the spies came to report that the main force of the Yan army has crossed the Tang River and is besieging Gucheng, and another Yan army division is advancing west along the Flying Fox Mountain, which seems to be going to replace the city directly. ”

Daicheng is the location of the county guard of Zhao Guodai County.

"What?" Zhao Dan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then his brows immediately furrowed tightly, and then a trace of anger began to appear on his face.

In fact, even if Gu Cheng fell, Zhao Dan would not be so gaffe.

It is really this Daijun that is very, very important to Zhao Guo.

As we all know, since the Zhao Wuling King Hufu cavalry shooting, the power of the cavalry of Zhao State has shocked the world.

What is the most important thing for cavalry? Of course, it's the war horse under the crotch.

The reason why cavalry could not be popular in the other six countries except Zhao was that they did not carry out the reform of Hufu cavalry archery, there was another reason - the quality of the war horses of the other six countries was not good.

Horses originated in Central Asia, introduced to China during the period of Emperor Yao in ancient times, and after thousands of years of domestication, most of the horses in the Central Plains are short and slender in size, and they look more like horses' close relatives - donkeys.

The feeling of riding this kind of horse can be said to be basically the same as riding a donkey, and it is okay to use it to pull a chariot, but it is a bit funny to use it to fight.

However, the horses of the Central Plains countries are not good, it does not mean that the horses of the entire Chinese land are not good, after all, there were many tribes such as Dirong barbarians who lived together with the Chinese countries at that time, and even established their own countries, for example, Bai Di established the Zhongshan Kingdom.

At that time, the Dai Di people who occupied the Dai Di land were good at raising horses, and the horses they raised were famous all over the world, until hundreds of years later, here were important war horse breeding bases, and the descendants had poems praising that "the liberation of Hu Ying chased the birds, and the Dai Horse Hunt Akita." ”

Hundreds of years ago, Zhao Wuxian, the ancestor of Zhao State, won a part of Daijun from the Di people, and since then, Zhao State (then still Jin State Zhao Clan) has its own war horse base, and Zhao State's horses have also crowned all the heroes in the world.

It is also for this reason that Daijun is extremely important to the Zhao State.

"Damn the Yan people!" Zhao Dan's face was gloomy, and he slammed his fist on the table.

Today's Zhao State has several large horse farms in Dai County, which raise thousands of Dai Di horses, which will be added to the cavalry of Zhao State in the future, and there are many vital pure-bloods/horses.

Once the Yan people snatch these generation horses, especially these breeds/horses are snatched away, it will be an incomparably heavy and irreparable huge loss for Zhao Guo in a short period of time!

Although cavalry is still not regarded as a trend in the other six countries in this world except for Zhao Guo, Zhao Dan knows very well in his heart that it will be a matter of time before the cavalry will ascend.

After all, the cavalry is the real king of the cold weapon era, and before the emergence of hot weapons, the cavalry represents the most high-end combat power in this cold weapon era.

Under such circumstances, war horses, as the most valuable resource for building cavalry, could never be robbed by the Yan people!

The reason why Yan was repeatedly beaten by Zhao in the late Warring States period is that the gap between the generals and the army is certainly a reason, but the battlefield factors cannot be ignored.

The battlefield of the confrontation between Yan and Zhao is the Hebei Plain alluvial by the Yellow River, where the incomparably flat terrain gives the Zhao cavalry great room to play, which can be called the natural home of the Zhao cavalry!

Fighting on such a battlefield, the Zhao army was already victorious before the battle began.

Yan Zhao Yan Zhao, for many years, people in these two places have been called together, to put it bluntly, everyone is actually the same.

The people of Zhao rose after the Hufu cavalry shooting, so if the Yan people snatched the war horse and went back, they also carried out a reform similar to the Hufu cavalry and archery, then who is the little victim of the Yan State and the Zhao State at that time... Hmph, that's really not good.

Zhao Dan slowly raised his head, the essence in his eyes seemed to be able to devour people, and said word by word: "Daijun, there must be no room for error!" ”

This sentence is categorical and resounding.

Yu Xin looked at Zhao Dan's expression, where did he not know what to say at this time? He immediately spoke: "In the opinion of the ministers, the horse farms of Daijun should be withdrawn to the clouds, so as not to fall into the hands of the Yan people. ”

Zhao Dan nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Order Pang Xuan to quickly speed his troops to Daijun and relieve the siege of Daijun!" ”

After all, Pang Xuan now has 50,000 people in his hands, and the Yan army's attack on Daijun is just a partial division, thinking that the difference in the number of soldiers between the two sides should not be too big, in this case, if Pang Xuan can't even stop this Yan army's partial division, then don't mix in Zhao State.

Yu Xin responded: "The minister will send someone to pass on the king's order!" ”

At this time, the eunuch Ling Mixian suddenly hurriedly walked into the palace and whispered a few words in Zhao Dan's ear.

"What?" Zhao Dan's face showed an extremely shocked look.

When Yu Xin, who was on the side, was secretly speculating about which country the bad news came from, Zhao Dan, whose face was extremely solemn, had already stood up.

"Lin Qing is critically ill, Yu Qing will follow me to Lin Qing's mansion."

When Yu Xin heard this, his heart also chuckled suddenly, and even his heartbeat missed half a beat.

This Lin Qing is, of course, the one who has multiple identities such as the secretary of Zhao Guo, the leader of the cloth faction, and Yu Xin's ally - Lin Xiangru.