Chapter Ninety-Six: Courage and Perseverance
Persuasion is often a mental exercise.
Yan Bei put aside the letter from Zhao Du, and the lobbyist Sun Zong's persuasion to surrender to the trial failed again. If you want to persuade Yan Liangwen to be ugly, you must first let them have a step down, and Yan Bei thinks that this step is a trial. In fact, now the three of them don't look like prisoners after they arrive in Handan, just like the self-evident tacit understanding, the Yan soldiers guard them, but they can also move freely, and even equip the three with heavy wooden weapons and mounts for them to move their bodies.
The only thing is that they can't come and go freely. This is enough, the servants of the Zhao Palace's servants will send them books, and even carefully pick some battle reports and hand them the situation in the world, so that they don't have to clog their ears and blind them to listen.
The Yan clan didn't defend them very well, but at this time, they wouldn't run away.
In the blink of an eye, it has been a few years since the Yuan clan lost the Bohai Sea, and in the past few years, they have been like dead people to the Yuan clan, and they have nowhere to go after leaving the Zhao Palace. It seems that the only dignity left in the hearts of the three of them is that under this self-evident tacit understanding, they will not surrender to Yanbei, and will still stay in Zhao State as the general and prisoner of the Yuan family.
The mission left by King Zhao to Sun Zong was to persuade them to surrender every once in a while. In fact, Yanbei knew this very well, and the three of them would never surrender because of Sun Zong's lobbying...... After a few years of captivity, persuasion to surrender has become a ritual for them to gain self-esteem, from the earliest scolding to now being able to drink and have fun with Sun Zong, they are familiar with each of their guards, and even often call a place to drink, but they will never surrender because of this.
This is also Yan Bei's way of respecting the three of them.
He is good at manipulating the mind, so he naturally knows how the three of them are in a dilemma under the faces of the ancient wells without waves today. In the past, the Yuan clan once dominated the two states, and alongside the Cao clan, was the second largest prince in the world after the Yan clan, which was the basis for their loyalty. But now, with Zhang Jaw trapped Han Meng in Leling, and Lu Yi collected the three counties in Qingbei, the Yuan family gradually showed a state of declining West Mountain, and they could not descend at this time.
Yuan's is strong and fashionable and does not fall, is it difficult for Yuan's to decline, can it be lowered? Joke, what kind of soldier is it if you surrender like this!
There is a lack of opportunity, a lack of opportunity for them to dedicate their last shred of loyalty to the Yuan family. They could not surrender until the time came.
The torrential rain in southern Hebei gradually became smaller, Guan Hai was grinding the two-handed big ring knife that Yan Bei gave him outside the tent, turned his head to the tent and shouted: "King, they still haven't surrendered, right?" Descend and not fall, flee and not escape, what is this, it is better to cut it with a knife! ”
"In ancient times, virtuous elders said that a gentleman is beautiful as an adult. Yan Mou is not short of these few mouthfuls of food and a few horses to support people, so why should he do such evil things. They want to be all loyal, even if they are not used by Yan, Yan will be all for them! Yan Bei walked out of the military tent, looked up at the overcast sky, and said softly: "The rain has stopped, but it looks like it is going to fall, I don't know if your brother's boat can be transferred in time." ”
Guan Hai responded, and he was also worried in his heart. To be honest, despite being under Yan's command for a few years, he is still not used to this kind of life. In the past, it didn't matter whether the troops were sent or not, whether the ship was sailing or not, even if the time and place were lost, it didn't matter except for mistakes. And now any small mission is placed at the level of national affairs, once it is related to military orders, even if the Yellow River is flooded, it must not be too late to transfer warships!
Dian Wei, who was also a guard, was more accustomed to it than he was used to.
In the distance, Dian Wei, who was dressed in a heavy armor with a helmet and armor, strode over, and the ring knife on his waist touched the heavy leg armor with his steps, stepping on the muddy land of Hebei from far to near. When he walked closer, he meticulously bowed his hand, and then signaled the soldiers behind him to present the book, hugged his fists and said: "King, the battle report of Henan has come!" ”
"It's not easy, but it's coming!"
As Yan Bei spoke, he asked the soldiers to hold several stacks of books sealed with animal skins and damp into the Chinese military tent. For half a month in a row, Henan's battle reports could not be reached due to the great water of the Yellow River, and the Hebei soldiers could not travel to the south, which really made people anxious. He even looked at the waves of the river more than once and wondered if Zhang Liao's army had been defeated by Cao Cao?
There was no way, Chen Gong and the soldiers who granted the scepter took a boat from north to south, but then the land on the north bank collapsed due to heavy rain for several days, and then Henan was washed away again, not to mention that people can be flooded...... What is the use of sending back a pile of blackened wood chips soaked in water?
However, fortunately, the torrential rain finally stopped, and Guo Jia in the Chinese army tent divided the battle report into two parts according to Yanzhou and Qingzhou, and put it together with the battle reports of Guo Xin and Hu Jiao of Hanoi and Hu Jiao of Si Li, and Sanfu Ma Teng and Zhao Yun of Liangzhou.
Liangzhou is remote, Longxian fell into siege again, Zhao Yun only sent back a battle report, that is, to inform Chen Qun that he had led his troops to break through from Anding, and also withdrew into Longxian, with him more than 40,000 Anding people. So far, there are more than 100,000 displaced people in a city in Longxian County, and he opened the arsenal to train new soldiers, but he can only arm 5,000 townships to defend the city, but fortunately, Han Sui besieged but did not attack, and it was not too dangerous for the time being. However, the grain and grass in Longxian County gathered more and more with the displaced people, and it could only last less than three months, so they asked the imperial court for help.
In other words, at the latest, in winter, if there is no supply of grain and grass, the last city of the Yan clan in Liangzhou, Longxian, will be breached. And now, the main road for transporting grain and grass to Longxian County is merged with the state and the division, but Longguan is in the hands of Han Sui.
Ma Teng returned to Sanfu with the armor and war horses and 3,000 battalion soldiers he had obtained from the Central Plains, and stationed in Chang'an, which Ma Dai had previously led Ma's army to occupy. When the battle report was returned, Ma Teng had not yet fought with Han Sui, but Ma Teng's general idea on the battle report was that he led the army westward to approach Longguan, and Ma Chao went south from Hanzhong to incite the Qiang tribes such as Shenwolf, Dashen, and Baima in Yizhou Hanzhong and Liangzhou Wudu; The Yi, Gang, and Dian tribes participated in the war, led this army from Wudu Road into Liangzhou, and went north to Hanyang County to attack Longguan from the east and west, so as to open up this road.
Guo Jia pushed the Yanzhou battle report to the front, but Yanbei reached out to get the battle report of Qingzhou, and said after a while: "Lu Yi fought well, Xu Huang obtained the heads of Yuan Shang and Jiang Qi, let his front army collapse, consolidate the defense, before next spring, the Yuan family can only have Beihai and Donglai in Qingzhou...... Wait for Tian Guorang to free up his hands and feet next year and fight with the water army, and Qingzhou will be in my hands! ”
After saying that, Yan Bei's hearty smile froze on his face, and he picked up the Yanzhou battle report very carefully. The army is blocked by the Yellow River, as long as Zhang Liao can hold a city, he will burn high incense, where is there more extravagant hope? What's more, he was worried that the situation in the war report was worse than he imagined.
Opening the battle report, Yan Bei closed his eyes and sighed, "As I expected, Cao Jun Lejin and Li Dian led the army to clash with Fan County, Zhang Crush died in the battle, and the department was defeated, alas! ”
"Huh?"
opened his eyes again, and then opened a volume, the battle report was a little weird, Yan Bei's complexion changed one after another, and the intermittent desire to laugh and the appearance of being tough made Guo Jia laugh, "What is this, it's wrong!" Yan, Yan Zhi will charge 4,000 Hu cavalry to Cao Ren's 60,000 array, a big victory, the people outside Puyang City trampled on each other, and the corpses blocked Pu Shui to cut off the flow? Zhang Liao went to Ludi from the north of Liangshan Mountain, Cao Cao should be in Xiaqiu, what did he do in Ludi! Wait, Puyang, Liqiu, Liangshan, Zhang Wenyuan detoured to Dongpingguo...... I have a good general Zhang Wenyuan, why not be afraid of the princes of the world! ”
Speaking of the extreme, Yan Bei laughed loudly, and then said awe-inspiringly: "Send a message urging Bohai to take charge of the warship and drive the warship into the big river for me!" If he is damaged, Yan will tune him again and make it for him! The Yan clan will be so brave and forge ahead, how can Yan, as the main father-in-law, be blocked by the big river! ”