City horse guard general. Since then, he is writing a letter to his wife in the city tower to report his safety. Tomorrow the post guard is coming, and it is necessary to take the opportunity to write a letter to his wife and family to talk about his current situation and report his safety to his parents.

In this era, there were already post stations and post guards, but they were mainly for the military and the government. Of course, if you send a few small money, it's okay to ask the post station to bring a letter to the family, who still dislikes money.

Because of the convenience of paper, in the upcoming official documents, there will be a national situation report in the nature of the posterity. An official document came from the post station last time, saying that the war with Zhao was not ideal, and the king and the Xiangbang had to send the defenders of the national capital to the border of Zhao to strengthen the attack. In this way, the soldiers who rotate in various places will not be able to go home on time, and their own guards will not have the opportunity to go home and rest in shifts.

But the pawn's food is almost finished, and he is fine, with a small fiefdom of food. But the other soldiers were miserable, because they needed food and clothing from their families, and because the soldiers could not go home, the families would also delay their output because of the lack of labor. This empty consumption will also deplete their food stocks. And the soldiers were not captured, and they could not get the share of the capture that belonged to the soldiers in the war. It seems that some of these soldiers under his command have suffered hardship.

But these people, including themselves, are all involuntary low-level people, and their fate is not in their own hands, it is determined by the power in the hands of the superiors.

But fortunately, there is no war here, and everyone can still sit here safely, enjoying the sunshine and rain and dew.

As he was writing, suddenly there was a big chaos outside, and someone shouted: "Guard, there is an enemy situation outside the pass, hurry out and take a look." ”

Qi immediately became nervous, and muttered as he walked out: "Damn Hu people, I came to harass me again at this time, it's really annoying to death." ”

He was really not nervous about the enemy's situation, because the pass here was steep, and the Hu people could not easily get benefits, and it was easy to guard.

When I walked to the city wall, I looked out, but I saw a war horse in front of the pass, and a general, riding on a horse, was looking at the city tower. "Huh? How come it's not the Hu people, but the Zhou people. At first, he wondered, but then he immediately understood: "It's the Zhao people, the Zhao people are sneaking up on the grassland, but how did they bypass the hostile grassland?" ”

But this doubt did not need him to think about it anymore, for just as he was stunned, a whistle screamed, and a sharp arrow flew like lightning, and it burrowed into his throat like lightning. This guard was full of resentment: "Damn Zhao people, it's going to bring suffering to the Yan people again." ”

With the death of the defenders, there was immediately a great chaos on the city. While the defenders were in confusion, a group of cavalry rushed in, and at the moment when the guards were stunned and at a loss, they rushed to the pass, took out a strange hook, and threw it at the head of the city.

It was a kind of three-clawed hook, and when it was thrown up, it grabbed the head of the city, and the cavalry immediately grabbed the rope on the hook without hesitation and climbed towards the head of the city.

"Cut the rope, quick, quick." A captain reminded his subordinates loudly. The soldiers who came to their senses immediately brandished their swords and slashed the ropes, but no sooner had they leaned out than the Hu people who had swarmed from below rushed up. Those were all the condor archers among the Hu people, and the bows and arrows in their hands shot out one after another, accurately shooting the Yan soldiers who leaned out.

And in the blink of an eye, those climbers had already kicked the city, and a young general pointed the sword in his hand: "Put down your arms, surrender and don't kill." ”

The dragons have no leader, the city wall is broken, and there is no point in resisting again, as long as it is the Zhou people, surrendering is the best choice.

The soldiers did not hesitate, immediately put down the weapons in their hands, and obediently knelt on the ground and surrendered - Maguan City, Yan Guoxiongguan City, fell.

Lou Di looked at this flowing siege process, and his jaw dropped in surprise.

"Siege, can it be like this?"

Zhao Xing rode into the pass proudly, and said lightly: "Actually, this kind of siege effect is something I have deduced and practiced countless times, and it is also achieved with the cooperation of various conditions." In the future, it will not be so easy. ”

When Xu Jie entered Yanshan, he gave up his carriage and followed Loudi and Zhao Xing on horseback, so he explained to Loudi: "First of all, we rushed to the city horse pass unexpectedly, so that the guards were caught off guard and panicked. And the second general's divine shooting played the effect of capturing the thief and capturing the king, leaving the guards without a leader. Then the hard training of the three-claw hook invented by our lord played a key role, and your condor shooter made a great contribution, so that the effect was achieved. ”

Loudi really didn't expect that there would be so many factors in this little attack.

"These links must be closely coordinated, as long as there is a mistake or omission in one link, we will succeed." Zhao Xing said to Lou Di. 27KK

At this time, Le Yi strode down from the city with a sword: "There are five hundred soldiers in the city, and all of them are solved, and we have lost fifty soldiers in the city, and we have won a big victory." ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "But this time, I can't take credit for your merits." Because, as the commander of an army, you are not standing in your command position to command the battle, but you are personally a pawn to attack, and you are derelict in your duty. ”

Le Yi smiled indifferently: "The lord is wrong, because, the commander of this army is you and not me." As a general in the army, I should take the lead in the city and bravely kick the city, which is what I should do at this time. Therefore, I am the first to kick the city, and according to military regulations, I should be the first to act. Then he said proudly: "The big house of the three houses is here." ”

Zhao Xingwei concluded, he wanted to find something wrong and lose the reward, but he had a huge loss.

The city horse pass is naturally a horse market inside and outside the pass, and there are a large number of materials for trading cattle and sheep in the pass, as well as many horses.

Of course, the Yan Guogong was directly seized, and those horses belonged to merchants, and of course they couldn't even touch a single horse hair. But the merchants were entertained with delicious food and drink, and were temporarily placed under house arrest to block the news.

The seized materials, according to the rules, must be handed over to the king, and then the king will reward them back, so that everyone has a share.

Zhao Xing regarded it as if he did not have this capture, and in the name of Zhao Yong, he gave all the rewards to Loudi as a reward for him to lend troops to himself. The reason why it is in the name of Zhao Yong is that Loudi wants to thank Zhao Yong, thank Zhao Guo, and deepen his relationship with Zhao Guo. Wait for such things to slowly become more, and it will be a matter of course to integrate Lou Annoying people into Zhao State and become Zhao people.

This is Zhao Xing's ambition, since he and Loudi are tired of the war, and they have connected their feelings with business, eliminated the estrangement, and Loudi still has the heart to integrate into the Central Plains, so in the end, it is also a good option to use this method of assimilation to annex Lou Fu.

Is it cost-effective to annex other people's population and land without violence?

For Zhao Xing's decision, Lou Di is a straight person, of course he doesn't understand the twists and turns of the Zhou people, but he is still grateful that the king of Zhao can reward himself so generously.

Zhao Xing taught him: "The monarch rewards, you should express gratitude, this is the rule." ”

Lou Di didn't know about this procedure, so he willingly asked: "The king is like this to me, thank you." But I don't understand this, and I have to bother my brother to do it for me. ”

Zhao Xing was willing to do this for him, so he took some time to write a letter of thanks on behalf of Loudi. Zhao Xing bullied Loudi for not having words, and bullied Loudi for not understanding his own words. So, he wrote this letter with sincerity, expressing his self-reproach for invading Zhao Di, and then recounted his own suffering, and asked Zhao Jun to agree to start a mutual market in Daijun, so that everyone could be neighbors in harmony.

After it was written, the pretended text was not the right topic to read to Lou Di, the content was neither humble nor arrogant, and after righteously accusing Zhao Guo of blocking his own mistakes, he suggested that everyone should live in harmony with the original intention.

Xu Jie looked at the contents of the letter, listened to the nonsense in Zhao Xing's mouth, and then suggested: "Since the king of Loudi is grateful for the king's gift, he should send an official envoy in person." ”

Eating people with a short mouth and soft hands, Lou Di thought that he should thank others in person, so he agreed to this suggestion.

So Xu Jie had to inch in: "According to the rules of our Zhou people, since you have received a gift from our monarch, you should return the gift, this is a favor." Of course, your return gift is only symbolic, a horse, a few cows. ”

Loudi also thought that this was a favor, and this etiquette was more popular on the grassland, so he agreed.

So, under the mediation of Zhao Xing and Xu Jie, Zhao Guo and Lou Fu opened the first formal envoy communication, which laid a good foundation for future development.

After arranging this, the army continued to roar south, after making the necessary supplies here.

Out of the Yanshan Mountain Range, it is a horse Pingchuan, Zhao Xing's 80,000 army roared, and rushed to the city of Yandu, so fast that the Yan army did not even have time to close the city gate. If it weren't for the fact that Zhao Xing didn't want to make things out of control, in order to prevent Lou Annoying from really eroding this thousand-year-old city, now, Zhao Xing would not be shouting and bluffing outside the city, but talking to King Yan in the palace of King Yan.