It was the height of summer, and the Yan clan's forces in the Central Plains had advanced to Yuzhou, but the battle situation was at a stalemate. Cao's army was too closely defended between Chen and Liang, and it seemed that they were using all their might, even if Zhang Liao and others took turns to send troops, they could not effectively break through, and the war without a winner made this land full of terror.

Yanbei doesn't look at those, he only reads the battle report when he sits in Puyang. His battalion changed from Chengwu as the front line to Chengwu in the rear, and then moved north to Puyang. This seems to be quite unfortunate for the army, but there is no way, now that the threat of the Cao clan and the Yuan clan has gradually weakened, there is no need for the stalemate of the war situation to drag him to the front line, and in Puyang can allow him to better sort out the important tasks of the world...... Because the war report can be sent closer.

Although it was only a day or even a few hours short for the herald rider, it was very different for the Yan. At least it was important that his orders could reach where they wanted to be delivered a day or two earlier.

"King, King!"

Yan Bei was startled by the shouting outside the mansion, his eyes widened, and his hand unconsciously wiped it on his waist, but he felt empty. Guo Jia crashed into the room like a gust of wind, even ran away from one of his shoes, grabbed the letter and said: "Liangzhou, Liangzhou is pacified!" ”

Liangzhou is pacified? So fast?

"Show it to me!" Yan Bei didn't have a general awareness of Liangzhou in his head, he had never been to Liangzhou, and the farthest west was only to Bingzhou. Although he knew that Liangzhou was a wild place that people in the Central Plains often said, he finally had a general understanding of the Liangzhou rebels in his heart, fierce and fierce, so he was very surprised, Ma Chao was not beaten by Han Sui last year, "How can it be so fast?" ”

"Ma Chao, Ma Chao is back." Guo Jia gasped and sat on the ground without an image after handing the letter to Yan Bei, and his eyes widened and motioned for Yan Bei to read the letter. Yan Bei opened the letter and saw the detailed battle report of the Battle of Jincheng, so he didn't look up at the first two lines and asked Guo Jia without raising his head: "The military officer who sent the letter, are you leaving?" ”

Guo Jia shook his head and found that Yan Bei was not looking at him at all, and said with difficulty: "I didn't leave, I ran two horses all the way, and arranged to go down to drink and eat, what's wrong?" ”

"Call in, eat with so-and-so, and let him dictate the war."

In recent years, the Yan army has recruited students from all over the world because of Taixue, and even exempted the children of the war dead and disabled from the expenses of the families of the dead and disabled in the counties of Youji with the national treasury, so the literacy rate has surged. In order to settle and make better use of them, these people who have better knowledge and are good at learning will enter the school captain's department as assistants; Among them, those who are proficient in numeracy will assist the military commissariat officer; As for those with average knowledge, they served as military officials in the Qubu and Tunbu.

Perhaps the middle and lower rank officers of the Yan army cannot guarantee that no one will be equipped with literate staff, but each tun can have at least one literate officer...... That is to say, although most of the battle reports received by Yanbei were sent from the generals who commanded the troops in various places, the battle reports received by those generals were often sent from the Tun General Department.

More literate soldiers, better cartographic scouts, and more and faster horses indirectly changed the tactics of most of the generals in the Yan army, except for generals with superb tactics such as Lu Yi and Zhang Liao, so that they gradually changed from the large-scale assembly of troops and horses in the past to small-scale attack tactics.

This is not good or bad, but it does improve the ability of the generals of the school captain to fight independently and reduce the burden on the generals. On the other hand, however, it is also essential to exacerbate the attrition of non-combatant formations.

For example, the generals of the various departments were not too embarrassed to tell Yanbei the truth directly...... Their subordinates often got lost and lost in one cantonment after another during the march and attack.

Not long after, the Liangzhou military officials who heard Yanbei's summons ran over, of course they didn't dare to hold their rice bowls, but just respectfully came over and asked, "What is the matter with the king's subordinates?" ”

said that it was a military officer of the Liangzhou army, and opened his mouth with a full Jizhou accent, Yanbei was happy when he heard it, waved his hand and ordered someone to bring him wine and food again, and asked with a pleasant face: "Don't be afraid, you tell me, what's going on in the Jincheng war." ”

The military officer was a little nervous, and said: "Back to the king, General Zhao led the troops from Yugu to confront the enemy, the enemy general Yan Xing picked up and killed three generals of our army in the morning, and in the afternoon General Zhao went out of the camp to kill six generals in a row, and the enemy's morale collapsed and retreated into Yugu, General Zhao pursued, so General Ma Mengqi led 8,000 Qiang soldiers from the snow mountain to attack Jincheng and attacked Yugu, trapping tens of thousands of rebels in Yugu, and the battle was won. ”

"Wait, so?"

Yan Bei frowned, the words of the military officials were indeed quite exciting, who would have thought that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses on both sides would finally use the idiotic method of heads-up in front of the battle to lay the victory, isn't this a hole in the brain? But what Yanbei couldn't understand the most was the narrative tone of the military officials. Because Zhao Yun killed six generals in a row and caused the enemy's morale to collapse and retreat into the Yugu, 'So'Ma Chao led his troops to attack Jincheng from the Snow Mountain and then to Yugu, besieging tens of thousands of rebels in the Big and Small Yugu?

"Although Yan has never been to Liangzhou, this is ...... It can be drawn on the map, the snow mountain is more than 300 miles south of Jincheng, and Jincheng is more than 200 miles west of Yugu. Yan Bei couldn't understand, and asked angrily: "Ma Chao made eight thousand flying eagles from the snow mountain?" Or did Zhao Zilong give him a dream? ”

"The King forgives sins!"

The military officer kowtowed to the ground, the more nervous he became, the more stupid he became, and said with a crying voice: "No, it is General Ma who besieged Yugu from the rear, and General Zhao stabbed Yan Xing to death when he led his troops to chase and kill, and then the rebels ran out of food, and most of them surrendered to our army, Han Sui disappeared, and Cheng Gongying killed himself, and he won." ”

Yan Bei saw that the official was frightened, and he didn't ask any more, just waved his hand to let him go down, and then got up and paced in the hall, secretly digesting the joy. After a long time, he turned his head to Guo Jia and asked, "Fengxiao, this Liangzhou has won, what happened to Yizhou?" ”

"Back to the king, Zhang Lu has broken through the checkpoint, Yizhou Mu Liu Zhang can't resist, or it won't be long before he will be defeated and killed. However, Jingzhou is still unclear, although our army has a large number of soldiers, but Liu Biaojun's resistance is far beyond estimates, and I am afraid that the battle situation will not change much in half a year. ”

"Hmmm......"

Yan Bei nodded, he didn't have a better way, no matter the war in Jingzhou, Yuzhou or Xuzhou, he didn't want to command those generals outside without authorization and teach them how to fight. In all fairness, in some respects, he is really inferior to his generals.

"But in this way, in the end, to avoid the big trouble, the next thing can be done." Yan Bei turned his head and said to Guo Jia: "Order someone to draw up a book, with Xun Yue as the minister of Zhao and Ma Teng as the minister of Zhao and the state; Ying Shao served as the assassin of Liangzhou of Zhao State, and Zhao Yunjia was the general of Zhao Guo's expedition to the west; Ma Chao...... For General Fubo of Zhao State, transferred to Xuzhou to fight! ”