More than 20 days ago, Yanbei set off from Liaodong with the carriage and horses, and embarked on the road back to Jixian County. It is also a coincidence, although the trip back to Liaodong County at the end of the year is for personal matters, but it happened to catch up with the heavy snow in Youdong, and I visited the disaster situation of the counties along the way back.

The counties are generally similar to those of Liaodong County, where cattle, sheep and horses are quite damaged, and the collapsed houses are more troublesome, but the loss of the horses is not a blessing, and the casualties of the people are still very small.

In Yanbei's view, the lack of dead people is a great thing.

In this era, man-made disasters and natural disasters are also unavoidable.

To the end of the year, Yanbei and his party went to Jixian County. When I returned to Liaodong, there was only one line of honor guards, but when I returned home, I brought a group of 100 people from Liaodong Academy, but it was lively. Instructed the state government to place the accompanying Bing Yuan and a group of Confucian scholars, Zhang Nian and other Liaodong students were placed in Yanbei's house in Xiangping, Yanbei planned to arrange a few samurai who had studied from Liaodong Academy into the pro-guard army, and in the future, they would be able to use their talents, and whether they could be military marquis or school captains would depend on their abilities in the future.

Seeing that it was inevitable that they would fight Gongsun Chan in the fourth year of Zhongping, Youzhou did not lack opportunities for samurai to make meritorious contributions.

The cold is a double-edged sword, covering all the information of Youzhou to the outside world, and also blinding the eyes of the outside world who want to peep into Youzhou. From Yanbei to Jixian County, the first priority was to go to the state capital, and Guo Xin, who acted as an assistant officer along the way, sorted out the disaster situation of each county and submitted it to Xun Yue, so that he could prepare for the disaster relief after the year.

By the way, Zhang Chang, Guo Xin, and Sun Zong were left in the state capital, and Xun Yue was left to decide whether they would stay or stay after using them, whether they were to be an assistant in the state capital or put them outside to be a county order, and it didn't matter to Yanbei, even the matter of rebuilding the state school was handed over to Xun Yue. Now for Yanbei, the most important thing is the two sacrifices.

First, as a state pastor, he should lead the officials to sacrifice Taiyi in the New Year, praying for good weather and peace for the people in the coming year; The other is to prepare for the spring expedition festival.

What Yanbei attaches importance to is obviously the latter.

The wind and rain are smooth, and the people are safe, which seems to be a joke in Yanbei, from the emperor to the state pastor and even the county guards, they are sacrificed every year, but which year is the wind and rain smooth, and which year is it really Antai? If a grand sacrifice can guarantee peace in the coming year, Yanbei is very happy to burn Gongsun Chan and give it to Taiyi God!

After the worship of the gods, the subordinates of the general of Zhenbei added a new official position, the commander of the drum lang, who led the four hundred encouragement langs, the four hundred knights to perform the drum and military music, and the post of transmitting the message in the army. They were also professional samurai who were detached from production, and were filled by samurai with war drums and military music in the various divisions, but in addition to the swords and crossbows of the battle array, they had to practice military music, war dances, and even learn to sacrifice to those who died in a foreign land after victory.

Yanbei separated the drummer and messenger cavalry from the army, led by a special person, directly under the Chinese army, and was not prepared by 10,000 generals, and not used by 10,000 people.

Gulang Duwei is the warrior Zhang Nian brought back from Liaodong County by Yanbei this time, and there are two assistants who are recruited from Youzhou Township. In war, they boosted the morale of the soldiers; After the war, they guided the souls of the fallen soldiers home.

Finally, the severe cold weather fell heavily in Changshan and Zhongshan in the middle of the new year, and the southbound road in Youzhou was completely blocked, and Yanbei sent a message to recall all the generals such as Lu Yi and Gao Ran back to Jixian County...... Yan Bei was a little nervous, he had never fought such a big battle.

But he knows how to face his opponents.

None.

Recently, the generals and captains in helmets and armor have been reporting from outside the city, and groups of elite generals and guards in bright armor have surrounded their generals and captains into the city and entered the cantonment camp.

Today's Youzhou has many captains, but the general is only two under Yanbei, the partial general Lu Yi has been in this position for more than a year, since the time of Dong to guard Jizhou, he was promoted to the partial general, outstanding achievements, now Yanbei is the prince, the general is also riveting enough strength to wait for a big war to let him get the merit of the marquis; General Gao Lan was promoted at the end of the year, but he was also an old man in the army with his qualifications as a captain, and now he is expected to become a general.

These Youzhou pillars came to Jixian County for the same thing, Youzhou Mu, Zhenbei General, and Jihou Yan Zhongqing were promoted to discuss the account.

"Some time ago, General Gao of Zhuo County sent a message to the state capital, and Gongsun Zan led his troops all the way east to cross the Hutuo River, and hit the river to Chengping, threatening Nanpi. If it weren't for the canal water, Yuan Shao's life would not have been saved. When crossing the canal in the south, Gongsun Chan was trapped by Yuan Shao, and the soldiers surrounded him for more than a month, but he still let Gongsun Chan run back to Julu...... This heavy snowfall. ”

Yan Bei shook his head lightly and said slowly: "Saved Bogui's life!" ”

The snow of the Zhuo Dynasty around the end of the year did save Gongsun Zhan's life, and Gao Ran had already prepared his troops and horses to prepare for the first cut and then set out to block Gongsun Zhan's back road back to Julu. He led the army west out of Wuruan Pass and took Guangchang as a grain camp, but a heavy snow forced him back.

Fortunately, this snow came at the right time, if it was a little later three or five days, once the soldiers and horses went south and it snowed again, the Gao Lan Department would become a lone army, and no one could save him.

"Dog eats dog, why doesn't Taiyi God kill these two things!" Lu Yi was full of complaints, and the snow was knee-high all the way, so that he was not guilty but did not dare to complain to Yanbei, it was worth scolding Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shaodao: "It also saves the general's fatigue!" ”

"Come on, apart from Shang Wuyi, who has Taiyi God blamed?" Guo Jia, who spent the whole autumn with Lu Yi in Daijun, was fed up with Lu Yi's gags about everything, and still sat on the step with a cynical look, raised his head and said: "The words of the prince, General Gongsun has not received much damage in eastern Hebei, how many enemy troops will we face in the spring?" ”

"Gongsun Chan attacked Yuan Shao and raised more than 20,000 soldiers, not counting the soldiers and horses deployed to defend Changshan Pass. Fighting Yuan Shao, Gongsun Chan wants to defend against our Youzhou, but after this battle, Yuan Shao has no strength to fight again, and he will definitely levy most of the soldiers and horses to invade Youzhou. Gao Ran clenched his fists, his face was calm and even a little regretful, and he responded: "Fifty thousand, or even more." ”

Although everyone had been preparing for this battle for half a year, they were still shocked by the sheer number of things Gao Ran said.

Even if the entire Youzhou army can be counted as 100,000 Wuhuan people, but after removing the soldiers stationed in northern Xinjiang, eastern Xinjiang and various places, the soldiers and horses that can be mobilized at present are only 40,000. What's more, 20,000 of them were recruited from among the homeless people last year, and the difference in strength between the enemy and us is really huge.

"Although the enemy army is numerous, our army has a favorable geographical advantage, as long as it is on the defensive, it will be invincible." Yan Bei nodded slowly, this war that had not yet started finally revealed the rudiments in his mind, and said: "Don't seek a quick battle, just want to frustrate the enemy's spirit, and at the right time, you can show your defeat and lead the enemy army into Zhuo County and fight a decisive battle with it!" ”