Jingzhou is a quagmire for everyone, just like the war launched by the Yan clan against the Yanyu Cao clan and the Qingxu Yuan clan at the same time, it will inevitably be protracted and costly. Yanbei's mess is more than these in the world, Xianbei in the north has a Kebi Neng, since the early years of the battle of Jundu Mountain was blocked by Xu Huang in the valley and beaten to the head of the rat to the north to retreat to the grassland, there has been no movement for several years. But those who have beaten know that as long as the fight is not over, retracting the fist is always to hit harder for the next blow.

The battle flags of the Yan clan are planted all over the north, but why not Xianbei? Over the years, Kebineng has annexed Xianbei adults such as Budugen and Putou, intending to rebuild the tribal alliance of the Tanshihuai period, and everything is gathering momentum. The war between the nomads and the farming people has always been so awkward, even if they are as strong as Yanbei, they are limited by their position and cannot really grasp the initiative in the battle in the north.

It was never up to the south of the Great Wall to decide when the war would start, all they could do was to defend, gain superiority, strengthen the defense, strengthen the superiority, and ultimately hope to crush their living forces in the event of an invasion by foreign enemies.

Going deep into the desert grassland, outside the plug where there is no road to speak of, using heavy troops to search for the main nomadic force that migrates with the horse grass, this kind of gambling on the fortune of the country Emperor Xiaowu can do, but Yanbei can't do it, because he didn't use two generations to create the rule of Wenjing for a hundred years His father and grandfather accumulated family wealth for him.

Yanbei could use 150,000 troops, 300,000 people, and hundreds of thousands of horses, donkeys, mules, cattle and sheep to attack Yuan's and Cao's by land and water. Perhaps regardless of victory or defeat, only 300,000 or even 200,000 of these nearly 500,000 men eventually returned to the north of the Yellow River, but for every 100 miles of their battle line advancing south, they could gain several cities and hundreds of thousands of people.

Since the Yan's front landed on the south bank of the Yellow River, how can it advance thousands of miles? Such a war is worth it, they get land, they get people, they lose soldiers, armor, ordnance, but they get a foundation to recuperate!

But he couldn't let the tens of thousands of troops leave the Great Wall and go deep into the hinterland of the outside of the fortress, walking in the grasslands and deserts at the risk of the destruction of several captains and even the entire army. Once the war outside the Saiwai is lost, it is not like the southern battle that can recover fifty percent even if it cannot retreat with its whole body, once the army is defeated, it will inevitably face the risk of annihilation, and there will be no survivors in ten, which is a great loss for Zhao and Yanbei; Even if he wins, what can that barren land that cannot be cultivated bring to the Yan family?

Nothing.

The people there are no different from the slaves in the Iron Mountain of Gongxian, the men are warriors who cannot be used by me, and the women will only let the little wolf cubs outside the plug be born endlessly like horse grass. Horse? Cattle? Sheep? Yanbei is not lacking, Zhao is not lacking, get Liangzhou Lingyanbei to get the souvenir of Emperor Xiaowu's expedition to Dawan - the Shandan military horse mixed by Dawan horse and Han Dynasty horse, both the bones, strength and speed of Dawan horse, and the endurance of Han horse, is the world's first-class BMW.

As Yanbei's status became higher and higher, he felt more and more that slavery was a very meaningless thing, although he enslaved more than 100,000 Southern Xiongnu captives in Gongxian County to dig and open the mountain, and was the largest slave owner in the world, but he still firmly believed that the world would be free of slaves sooner or later, as he was when he was young. Because slaves are like private soldiers...... Decentralization.

As the most powerful ruler in the world and the ruler who has held power for more than 20 years, Yanbei has become more and more aware of the use of power. The so-called power, in Yan Bei's eyes, is nothing more than being able to use others to achieve his own will, and others are still happy to do so. This in itself is much more clever than servitude to slaves, who are not happy to do so, and as a ruler he must have the means to make others happy to carry out his will, otherwise he cannot be called powerful.

In his position, he didn't even need his staff to get together and pat his head, he could open his mouth to achieve the effect of enslaving tens of thousands of people, and it was far better than using slaves. For example, if you open a mine and dig a mountain, you don't need to plunder the population, you just need to go to the list to hire craftsmen, so why enslave? The big money was minted by him, sent to the craftsmen and people, and returned to him through taxes in the first half of the year.

He was able to achieve what he wanted, the people who opened the mines and quarried also achieved his wishes, the businessmen achieved the wishes of the officials, and they also completed one thing, but in the end they were all happy, how good!

Fortunately, now that Ma Teng, a strongman who had stirred up the storm in Liangzhou, served as the pastor of the state, he and Yan Dong worked together to guard against Kebineng, and maybe they could find some trouble for the strongman outside the Saiwai, which was a good thing after all.

"When the minister came, General Jiang had just had a small defeat, on the south bank of the water. Xiangyang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Jingzhou Navy is also strong, and it will not be able to go down in a moment. ”

Yanbei has never paid much attention to Jingzhou, and he just knows Nanyang County, and he doesn't know anything about the water potential, but he heard about Xiangyang, and Yanbei suddenly realized: "It's all hit Xiangyang?" Ah Jin is doing a good job! Lone heard that there is a man named Gan Xingba in the Jingzhou army, is that his name? A few days ago, I attacked Zhang Xiu and A Jin's camp at night, and I beat the chickens and dogs, which is very powerful! ”

"Hui Wang, a brave man in Ganning, in the past, there was a thousand water thieves in his hands, called Jinfan, who plundered the river, and also participated in the rebellion of Shu County against Liu Yan in the early years, and was afraid that he was the enemy of General Jiang. Some time ago, he was the one who stirred up trouble in the water, sank General Jiang's warship guarding the retreat, and frustrated the southbound troops and horses. Although the situation in Jingzhou is dominated by Zhao State, the situation is still unclear at present...... The king, your fellow countryman in Youzhou, Liu Xuande, also participated in this war. ”

"Liu Xuande?" Yanbei has not heard this name for a long time, even if sometimes I see this name in the mountains of cases, it is only a flash, the morale of the young people They have been swords and soldiers have also sympathized with each other, and they have fought side by side when they are courting Dong, but as each side today, no one can take care of anyone in the troubled times. Hearing that Liu Bei participated in the battle, Yanbei didn't have too many emotional fluctuations, but was surprised: "Gu still thought that he went to Yizhou, wasn't he invited by Zhao Wei to enter Shu to attack Liu Zhang, why did he go back to Jingzhou again?" ”

He smiled bitterly, he didn't know if he was a sue, but the generals sent by Yanbei to command Jingzhou and Xuzhou did do something unreliable. Arching his hand, he shook his head and said: "Liu Xuande did enter Shu, but he left a partial division led by Zhang Yide and stationed in Nanjun, which is south of Xiangyang. Some time ago, when General Jiang heard the news of Liu Bei's entry into Shu, he sent someone to send a letter to Liu Bei, asking him to weave a straw mat for himself...... The letter was sent to Nanjun by Jingzhou Mansion, and eighty percent was withheld by Zhang Fei. When he captured the north of the water, Liu Jingsheng asked Liu Bei for help, and as soon as the letter arrived at Zhang Fei, he led the army to the battle. ”

"He, was he confused by Gan Ning?" Yan Bei's eyes widened, this was even more strange than Lu Yi killing Changba, "Let him study hard, he won't read, Liu Bei is not Liu Biao!" What did a good guy do to provoke Liu Bei? ”

"King, General Jiang is looking for Liu Bei, because he can weave straw mats, but Jingzhou Mu can't." Fu Zhu smiled bitterly: "The minister once asked General Jiang, and he didn't tell the minister the reason, so the king asked in person." ”

"Ask a fart, call him back, supervise the construction of the royal tomb, don't let Zhang Fei, that barbarian, stab him to death!" Yan Bei hurriedly scolded people, rubbed his forehead and asked Fu Zhu: "Do you think Zhang Xiu led the army to garrison the Jingzhou army along the river, okay?" ”