Build a royal palace? The officials and generals couldn't object when they heard this, after all, Zhao Junsheng was already a vassal king, and there should be a palace, but what was the scale of this palace?

Someone asked, "Lord, I don't know how this palace was built?" What is the scale? ”

Zhao Junsheng said with a smile: "You have to ask the craftsman in charge of construction." Mao Xiuzhi, this king has entrusted you with the task of building the palace, and it is up to you to recruit craftsmen, choose a location, and decide the layout of the palace with the craftsmen! ”

This is a big project, Mao Xiuzhi stood up and promised: "Your Majesty will receive your orders!" ”

Zhao Junsheng then said: "This king has the imperial court's edict, he can justifiably send troops to attack Dingzhou and Yingzhou, this king intends to divide the army into two roads, one way has the king personally led the army to attack Dingzhou, and the other way selects a good general to lead the army to attack Yingzhou, the candidate for this Yingzhou ······"

"The last general, please order to attack and lead the army to attack Yingzhou!" Chang Kun, Bai Jinguang and Wei Chi Yandong stood up at the same time.

Zhao Junsheng's gaze turned around the three of them.

At this time, Hua Mulan's voice next to him also came: "Brother Junsheng, I will lead the troops to Yingzhou!" ”

As soon as she said this, several other generals were anxious, and Bai Jinguang said: "Madam, our brothers finally got the opportunity to lead the troops to fight, why are you robbing us of business?" It's not worth your shot for such a trivial matter as Yingzhou, it's more than enough to have my Bai Jinguang! ”

Hua Mulan waved her hand: "That's not good, I haven't led troops to fight for a long time, how can I let go of this opportunity now?" Since you've said so, then I'll allow you to be my lieutenant, right? ”

Bai Jinguang was angry: "Madam, you can't bully people like this!" ”

"Bullying? Look at what you say, am I bullying you? Mulan asked with a smile.

"Ahem!" Zhao Junsheng had to interrupt them loudly, "Mulan, don't you go this time, right?" The child is still too young to be inseparable from his mother, if you take the soldiers away, he will make trouble if he can't see you for a while, I can't handle it! When the child is older, I will never stop you if you want to lead troops to fight again. Besides, there has to be someone left in the family to watch the house, don't you say? ”

Hua Mulan opened her mouth, got up and stomped her feet and left angrily, dropping a sentence: "You know how to bully me, hum!" ”

The officials and generals watched Mulan leave angrily, and they all smiled knowingly.

Zhao Junsheng said to Bai Jinguang: "Bai Jinguang, you will lead the troops to attack Yingzhou, and this king will give you four thousand dragon army, four thousand tiger army, three thousand whirlwind army and three thousand Xuanjia army, what other requirements can you make!" ”

Bai Jinguang excitedly agreed: "Yes, Lord Wang." Siege equipment is needed for siege equipment, please ask the prince to order the transfer of a group of craftsmen, other than that, the last general has no other requirements! ”

"Of course, it's decided!"

Zhao Junsheng continued: "This king personally led 5,000 Flying Bear Army, 3,000 Shenwu Army, 2,000 Whirlwind Army, and 2,000 Xuanjia Army to attack Dingzhou! Pass the order and give orders to the armies that have the task of going out, so that they are ready to go to the battle! Pei Jin, this king ordered you to be the governor of the grain and grass of the two armies! ”

"Your Majesty obeys!"

At night, Zhao Junsheng returned to the backyard, and at the dinner table, Hua Mulan was feeding her son Zhao Dong, and when she saw him come in, she twisted her body and ignored him.

Seeing this, Zhao Junsheng glanced at the food on the table, and couldn't help laughing: "Yo, today's dinner is quite sumptuous!" With that, he sat down at the table.

The maid brought a basin of water, Zhao Junsheng washed his hands, and beckoned to the maid standing aside: "You come to feed the child!" ”

"Yes, Lord Wang!" The maid agreed, and walked over to take the rice bowl and spoon from Mulan's hand.

Zhao Junsheng picked up the wine jug and poured two glasses of wine, one glass was handed to Mulan, "Mulan, I know you can't sit still at home, after all, you have been leading troops for a long time, and you have fought too many wars, and it is difficult to adapt to the days when you don't bring troops and don't fight, your mentality is not right, you have to adjust, otherwise it is easy to have problems!" ”

Hua Mulan didn't believe it: "Why is my mentality wrong?" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it, thought about it for a while, and said to Mulan: "There are some soldiers who have been in the army for a long time and have experienced many tragic battles, and it is difficult for them to adapt to a peaceful life after retiring, they can't adjust their mentality in time, they always think that there is danger around them all the time, and they are unwilling to communicate with other people, which makes them suspicious, and they will go crazy after a long time, and even do self-destructive things, this is the mentality is wrong!" ”

Hua Mulan listened to Zhao Junsheng's words, thought about her situation, and was indeed somewhat similar to what he said, and usually thought that there were dangers everywhere, but it was not as serious as he said.

"Mulan, your situation is relatively light, as long as you adjust your mentality in time, there will be no problems. Look at our son now, he is our hope, he is still young and needs your mother to take care of him! ”

"I also said in the council hall that one of the two of us should stay at home to take care of the family, it is not easy to accumulate this family business, if neither of us is here, what if there are other people with bad intentions? We have to leave these family inheritances to our sons and let them pass them on, don't you say? ”

Zhao Junsheng saw that she was silent, knowing that she was still angry, and continued: "Otherwise, if you really want to lead the troops to the battle, I won't go, stay and watch the family, you take the troops to Dingzhou, this is all right?" ”

When Mulan heard this, she immediately objected: "No, if I replace you, how can outsiders look at you?" They will say that you Zhao Junsheng have to rely on his wife to fight the country, I don't want others to look down on my man. Okay, okay, you better go, I'll stay and watch the house! ”

The corners of Zhao Junsheng's mouth showed a smug smile, and he hurriedly offered his hospitality to Mulan, picking vegetables and pouring wine.

Zhao Junsheng was named the king of Yan, and the news of the edict to crusade against Dingzhou and Yingzhou spread far and wide, and the rumors of Dingzhou and Yingzhou were loud for a while, and the atmosphere of preparing for war became increasingly tense.

An Cong is the younger brother of An Yuan and An Jie, and this is also a person who will not be stupid enough to be slaughtered and wait for death, and has been preparing for war since he received the news.

Baba Shouxing is the younger brother of Baba Han, but he is an old man, don't look at it as an old man, but he is also a not simple character, no one wants to be killed.

When these two people heard that the imperial court issued an edict for Zhao Junsheng to send troops to fight against them, they were very puzzled, why did the imperial court suddenly issue an edict for Zhao Junsheng to crusade against them? The key is that Zhao Junsheng is still so obedient, this is not normal.

Zhao Junsheng didn't give them much time to find out the truth of this matter, since receiving the edict, only ten days have passed, all matters have been prepared, and he and Bai Jinguang soldiers have killed Dingzhou and Yingzhou respectively in two ways.

On the fifth day of August in 436 AD, the two armies set off separately, the road led by Zhao Junsheng was called the West Road Army, and the road led by Bai Jinguang was called the East Road, the East and West armies were equal, but the composition of the troops was different.

The Western Route Army under the command of Zhao Junsheng had more archers and infantry, and less cavalry; The proportion of infantry and cavalry of the Eastern Route Army led by Bai Jinguang is comparable.

On the tenth day of August, after five consecutive days of marching, Zhao Junsheng's Western Route Army, which combined infantry and cavalry, passed through Fanyang County and entered Beiping County, to which Dingzhou belonged.

The name Dingzhou was determined by Daowu Emperor Tuoba Jue in 400 A.D., and the previous jurisdiction has been Zhongshan, which was briefly named Anzhou, and was changed to Dingzhou after only three years.

The area under the jurisdiction of Dingzhou is not large, but there are also five counties, namely Zhongshan County, Changshan County, Boling County, Julu County and Beiping County.

The Beiping County here is not Beiping, the capital of later generations, but about the area of Baoding.

Two days after today's Dingzhou, the Western Route Army led by Zhao Junsheng did not encounter any resistance, the whole county of Beiping County surrendered, and the soldiers, horses and officials were completely withdrawn, leaving all the people behind.

"Hey, it's really strange, what the hell is this An Cong doing? Does he want to lure the enemy deeper and then cut off our supply lines? Zhao Junsheng fell into deep doubts after the surrender of the last county seat in Beiping County.

Chang Kun next to him clenched his fists when he heard Zhao Junsheng's words and said: "Lord Wang, if An Cong wants to lure the enemy deeper, and then send troops to cut off our supply line, he can only send troops from the west to make a roundabout, if he sends troops to go from the east, he will definitely encounter our East Route Army." In this case, the last general asked for a detour from the west to Shangquyang and the southbound Tang."

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and agreed: "If An Cong wants to cut off our supply line, he can only send a small number of cavalry, and the large team of men and horses is easy to be discovered by our scouts." In this way, this king will give you a thousand whirlwind troops and a thousand Xuanjia army, and you will lead the team to rush to the west to bypass as a response to the main force of our army. ”

"The last general commands!" Chang Kun hugged his fists and agreed, and ordered a thousand whirlwind troops and a thousand Xuanjia troops to go down Tang County and follow the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain to the southwest.

On August 15, after three days of marching, Chang Kun encountered a Dingzhou cavalry at the foot of Taihang Mountain, forty miles northwest of Shangquyang, with a strength of about 3,000 troops, and the commander of the army was An Long, the younger brother of An Cong.

After he encountered An Long, he divided the 1,000 light cavalry into two and deployed them on the left and right flanks for guerrilla attacks, and charged Anlong's 3,000 cavalry in a dense formation with 1,000 Xuanjia heavy cavalry.

An Long didn't know how powerful the Xuanjia heavy horse was, he thought that the others were outnumbered, and he wanted to defeat Chang Kun's men and horses in one fell swoop.

But this time Anlong suffered a big loss, all the Xuanjia army were heavily armored cavalry, both men and horses were wearing heavy armor, the main war horses were all selected tall and sturdy horses, and the two secondary horses were also Mobei horses with strong foot endurance.

Under the charge of the two armies, Anlong's 3,000 cavalry was charged by Chang Kun's 1,000 heavy cavalry and suffered heavy casualties, and then Chang Kun's 1,000 whirlwind troops deployed on both flanks went out to chase and kill the fleeing Dingzhou cavalry.