Chapter 274: Almost
Xinghe has been here for four years!
There was no snow in Handan, the capital of Zhao, before and after the New Year's Pass, and letters flying from all over the country informed that it was snowing everywhere, and it was still snowing heavily. This made Yanbei feel as if it was snowing all day, as if only he couldn't see it.
Snow is not a good thing, especially when the roads are blocked, and it is even more inappropriate to collapse houses and injure people's lives.
But if it doesn't snow, it's even worse, if it doesn't snow all winter, Jizhou will have a big drought in the coming year, and the grain can't be harvested or a trivial matter, and the insect eggs in the frozen ground will cause a locust plague to make people even more anxious.
This incident suddenly had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses more than the hostile princes, and it also made Yanbei's heart tremble. In a few years of ruling the country, Yanbei is fearless of soldiers, no matter how powerful the enemy is, it is just a matter of annihilation for him, but there are also things in the world that he is afraid of, he is afraid of natural disasters.
Plagues, flooding of the Yellow River, severe cold and blizzards, drought in the Red Land, and of course, drought caused an overwhelming plague of locusts!
Of course, Yanbei didn't know that the eggs were hidden in the ground, and the drought could give the eggs better breeding conditions...... In this era, people thought that drought was the result of the heavens looking at the ruler unpleasantly, and locusts were demons and monsters that ran out of the dry and cracked land.
There is no snow during the New Year, which makes Yanbei very melancholy!
Of course, if you want to say that Zhen Jiang is even more melancholy, as soon as she doesn't fight and doesn't govern the country, she expects the snow to enjoy the snow scene of Zhao Yuan on the Xie Jian Pavilion, but the ice in the river is civilized and it doesn't snow, so she is anxious. But in the blink of an eye she was not in a hurry, because in the spring she would be able to ride a horse again!
Yanbei is not so interested, although it has not snowed, this winter is extremely cold, the empty hall has a few braziers still frozen so that people's hands are shivering, and then in a hurry, he sent someone to carry the case to the small dark room in the palace to review letters from all over the world. I took the trouble to read the letters sent from all over the world over and over again, for fear of missing the slightest message.
Winter is a little good for Yanbei, the cold and wind and snow make all parts of the world come to a standstill from the operation, others can be idle but he can't, he has to take this opportunity to sort out the changes in the situation that have occurred throughout the year and the movement plan of Yan Zhao in the coming year, these major events are urgent, once something goes wrong, it will be compensated with human life.
He had already tasted the bitter fruit of his mistakes, because he was busy with the southward campaign and forgot that the northern cavalry was equipped with two horses, which led to the defeat of the Youhe cavalry in the Xianbei invasion war the previous year, for which the two states paid the bitter fruit of nearly 10,000 good men killed on the battlefield.
Among the ten thousand troops who died, there were more than 4,000 Wuhuan riders, all of whom were skilled men, and although they were not Han Chinese, their father and brother may have fought side by side with Yanbei back then...... This undoubtedly distressed Yan Beibei.
They were cavalrymen, the best of the army, cavalrymen who could draw a bow and wield a sword on horseback with the strength of their waist and legs alone, but they were killed by their opponents due to lack of armament.
This brought a great sense of humiliation to Yanbei, he, his son-in-law, was defeated by the hands of the people due to insufficient troops and poor tactics, which was the mistake of the main general. But let his men die because of poor armor? It was his mistake!
For a long time, in order to let Yan's sons ride faster and stronger war horses on land to defeat the enemy, Yanbei used Xianbei war horses, Jizhou good horses, Liangzhou horses, and Shandan military horses to breed; In order to use a sharper and lighter ring knife to slash the enemy, he excavated the Anping mine in Liaodong, did not hesitate to rely on foreign wars to plunder the population, and even in later wars, he took the iron ore-rich Bohai Sea and Henan Yin as the primary strategic targets.
In order to let Yan's sons ride the wind and waves on the sea, ten years ago, Xiuwen County Port dispersed to hire craftsmen and dig mountains and forests when his whole family had only a thousand gold, so that Yan's endless buildings and fighting ships are useful today, so that Yan Zhaojing's flag flutters all over the world; He built Tiewu Iron Prison and reused craftsmen, so that the Yan clan used stronger and longer-firing stone cannons to crush the enemy's courage in addition to every city they conquered.
He Yan Zhongqing is rich in the four seas and the six he, but let the warriors who follow him die in a foreign land outside the fortress because they don't have a small bilateral stirrup!
What could be more humiliating than all this?
No, even if he is defeated, he will not feel humiliated, he has never felt sad because his skills are not as good as others, and he recognizes him as practicing if his skills are not as good as others, and he will always be able to fight back one day. What really humiliated him, the soldiers won the battle with their lives, and resisted Hu Lu outside the territory, but he repented, it turned out that such a disastrous victory was the price of his clumsiness!
There was nothing in the world that made him feel more sad than that.
Yan Bei read over and over again in the dark room every letter of ordnance planning in various places before the beginning of winter, verified possible mistakes over and over again, and deduced in the dark room with his eyes closed and deduced the possibility of every war after the beginning of spring...... In the four years of Xinghe, there were too many wars that made him feel bottomless.
This year, Bingzhou will feint to attack Xianbei in the spring moon, but the purpose is not to kill the enemy but to delay the footsteps of the enemy army and prevent them from moving, and then Tai Shici will lead a huge army from Youzhou to march, taking the first step of the Yan clan's campaign against Saibei for more than ten years.
Zhang Liao entered Jingzhou, joined forces with Zhang Jaw and Gao Ran, formed an unshakable and terrifying army against Liu Biao and Cao Cao in Jingzhou, and attacked reasonably from the east and north until Jingzhou was captured.
Liu Bei may or may not come to Handan, but whether he comes or not, led by Ma Chao, the troops assembled by Zhao Yun, Pang De, Ma Dai, Zhang Lu and others will attack Yizhou from the north after April.
Yan Bei sketched on the map, drawing the Yan family's huge military situation, and finally stretched out his hand to draw another circle in the southeast, and said to himself with a smile: "And Jiangdong, these little guys who don't bite or scream, almost forgot about them." ”
Immediately revised a letter, appointing Sun Quan as the Taishou of Wu County, Zhou Yu as the Taishou of Dongjun, and Zhang Zhao as the Taishou of Pengcheng, and ordered him to take office, and enlisted Sun Ce as Guangluxun, and immediately entered the court. At the same time, he ordered Tian Yu and Xu Huang to conquer in the name of crusade against rebellion from the eastern border of the sea and land Chen Bingjiang and after four months and others who had no intention of entering the court.
Calling people to come in to collect letters, and when the road is clear, they will be sent to various places, the door of the dark room is opened, and the fresh air comes in, which makes Yanbei feel refreshed, and then gets up and wants to go out to breathe, how do you know that when you get up, it is dark in front of you, and you will fall forward and faint, fortunately, the palace people in front of you reacted in time to hug Yanbei, which prevented him from suffering a greater bump.
As soon as the news of King Zhao's fainting came out, the entire Zhao Palace's chickens flew and dogs jumped.
After fainting for half an hour, Zhang Ji hurriedly came, and he was ventilated and drinking, which made Yanbei wake up slowly, and he rested for several days before his posture improved.
Almost, Yanbei became the first prince in the history books to hang up due to carbon monoxide poisoning.