It was late autumn, and in recent years the north has become colder and colder every year, and after a cold rain, frost blooms have frozen all over the former general's mansion. When I woke up in the morning, after opening the window, a foggy scene was like a fairyland, and the coolness also poured into the room with the cold wind, which made the spirit of the young general dressed in brocade robe invigorating.

There were two soft snorts behind him, apparently the cool breeze that had poured into the room had disturbed the Zhen sisters who were still asleep. Yan Bei closed the window and dressed neatly as quietly as possible, but unexpectedly still disturbed the sleeping children, and the baby's hearty cry was extremely loud, tearing open a new day in the former general's mansion.

Zhen Jiang turned over in a daze and followed the crying, and the maidservant girl in the outer room also hurriedly entered the room to take care of it, and the moment the door was opened, the former general wearing a bear's fur and a dark coat had already walked into the house with a gloomy face, no matter how loud the cry of the child behind him was, he did not look back, and resolutely threw his figure into the thick fog.

This autumn rain made Yanbei's mood very bad.

The cold is never good for the crops, but Yanbei is not a hard-working and pitiful tenant, what he cares about is that this autumn rain has fallen frost. It won't be long before the heavy snow in the first four years of peace will freeze the coast, and the huge offensive for the entire territory of Jizhou can only sink into the sand, and the war will make way for the cold winter.

And Nanpi City, under the guard of the guard named Trial, only 700 defenders remained, but it still did not fall.

Everyone underestimated the will of the defenders in the last city under the Yuan clan in the Bohai Sea. In those battle reports written about the Yan army's offensive against Nanpi City, Yan Bei saw that his generals had exhausted all the means at their disposal. But now that city is still proudly flying the banner of the Yuan clan - in the case that the entire territory of Jizhou belongs to the Yan clan.

In the dark room of the former general's mansion, the pine resin of Youzhou and the fine sand of the Bohai Sea solidify the vast and exquisite mountains and rivers of Jizhou, and the small earthwork representing the Xiongcheng of Jizhou is tied with a small flag with the Zongyi coat of arms. In the area in the eastern part of the map, which symbolizes Bohai County, in the middle of the clay figurines with black lacquer, there is a sword-wielding terracotta figurines with yellow paint symbolizing the Yuan family on the Nanpi earthwork, proud and lonely.

Yanbei called the terracotta figurines a trial.

The sky was just bright in the early morning, and the dense foggy air carried a huge amount of water vapor, but when he walked out of the gate of the former general's mansion, the thick bear hair on Yanbei's shoulders had been marked with a little morning dew. There were no pedestrians in the street outside the gate, and when he saw Yanbei going out, Dian Wei, who was standing under the door, naturally lifted the hem of the bearskin, and the most elite tiger warrior in the two states of Youji took the reins and bowed to Yanbei.

Yan Bei started very early, and these warriors and Dian Wei got up earlier than their generals, and they rushed from the camp in the west of the city to wait outside the gate of the former general's mansion before the city gate was opened. At the same time, another group of samurai galloped from the direction of the west of the city, saluted the general outside the gate, and then entered the general's palace, replacing the other elite team who were on duty at night in the palace.

Every morning, these warriors, armed with strong bows and crossbows, would take on the guard to protect the mansion.

And every morning, Yanbei would also go to the barracks at this time to practice with his most loyal samurai.

"That Xu, the warrior under Yang Feng, what is it called?" Yan Bei turned over and got on the horse, and as soon as his words fell, Dian Wei, who was walking on the side of the horse, said: "Xu Huang Xu Gongming, strong martial arts, Zhang Nian and Beiyan are not his opponents; And familiar with military strategy. In the past, he served as a small official in Hedong County, and later followed Yang Feng, commanded thousands of soldiers and horses in the Baibo Army, and galloped to Yang Feng in the battle with Niu Fu. ”

"So, he also saved Yang Feng?" Yan Bei was amazed, and his ugly face finally brought a smile, "How could Yang Feng give it to himself generously with such a good general?" ”

Dian Wei knew that Yan Bei's second half of the sentence was not asking himself, so he only answered the first half of the sentence: "He has saved Yang Feng many times, and his martial arts strategy can be called the crown among the generals of Baibo." ”

The corners of Yan Bei's mouth turned up a little higher when he heard this, such a record was nothing in his opinion. Whether it is the White Wave Army or the Black Mountain People, after all, it is difficult to hide the constraints brought by their backgrounds, making it difficult for them to have the best talents in the world.

There is no one in the world who knows better than him how much resistance the origins of the Yellow Turban remnants and traitors can bring to people in all aspects. This is a very contradictory reality, on the one hand, Yanbei always wants to shout loudly to the world, so that they know that their background cannot stop people's achievements; But on the other hand, the shackles of birth literally imprisoned his limbs. Even though he was now the rightful lord of the north, it made him even more aware that he was not breaking the shackles of being born from humble beginnings.

He just made himself no longer lowly.

The current Yanbei, even if there is no secession, no melee, and no brave army that comes and waves to go when summoned by the two states of Youji, his identity is still unspeakably precious. He is the prince of the emperor's bounty with a gold seal and purple ribbon, and enjoys the entire Xiangping County 10,000 households; It is a former general appointed by the imperial court to command the head of the soldiers and horses under the Jiuqing, the same gold seal and purple ribbon; It is one of the thirteen states in the world appointed by the imperial court to rule the two states of Youji and divide one-fifth of the land in the world.

Even the sons of nobles from the Yuan clan were driven south of the Yellow River by his banner - who would care if he was a horse slave and a horse thief when he was young.

This is the fundamental difference between him and Black Mountain and Bai Bo.

"Since Xu Huang has some talents, let him belong to your subordinates, let someone take a military Sima seal letter tomorrow morning, and the generals who have commanded thousands of men and horses will not even be able to do a bad job of the military horses." To put it bluntly, Yanbei still looks down on the generals in the Baibo army. It's really not good to give the official position too low, otherwise Yanbei Bacheng will let Xu Huang start from Tun General. "Later, gather He Hun Lu, Yan Rou, and Bei Yan to go back to where they came from before the winter snow closes the road. He Hun Lu returned to Goguryeo, Yan Rou went to the Five Divisions of Northern Wuhuan, and Beiyan returned to Liaodong, and asked them to recruit Goguryeo warriors, Wuhuan Tucai, and Liaodong warriors, and then send someone to send a message to Xianbei Suli, next summer I will see each of them with the most elite 4,000 subordinates - in Yecheng. ”

Dian Wei promised, and the warrior who knew the secretary behind him wrote down Yan Bei's request, but Yan Bei's words were not finished, "The young man sent by Zhang Yan has raised his body enough, and asked Zhang Nian to recruit 4,000 people, as well as my tiger Ben, you also raised 4,000 posts." Don't be idle this winter, let Jizhou craftsmen make 30,000 coffins, and follow Yan to Qingzhou next year. ”

In a word, the six four thousand battalion captains were about to start forming, but Yanbei did not have much ambition and fierceness, threw away the reins under the gate of the big battalion, looked at the sky and said with bitterness: "Spread the message to the Lu Yi Gao, let them ...... Withdraw your troops. ”