In late October, the Thistle Palace, inside the Affinity Palace.

Ji Kang was looking at the military and civilian governors of Xing'an County and the leopard, and sent him a reply document.

“…… At the time of the autumn harvest, there are tribes gathered in Donghu, which seems to have the intention of attacking. After hearing this, the minister took the initiative to lead the army to attack, killing more than 6,000 soldiers of the other side, capturing more than 30,000 people of his tribe, and capturing 180,000 cattle, horses, sheep and livestock. Today, there are senators in the court, saying that the ministers are good at starting wars, and the ministers are sincerely afraid! ……”

After reading the reply document of the leopard, Ji Kang pondered.

According to the Yan system, the transfer of any army above the division level in the Yan State must be personally approved by Ji Kang. However, limited to the communication conditions of this era, Ji Kang relaxed a lot about the military command of the border generals.

For example, if there is an enemy army that intends to attack the border of Yan State, the local military and civilian governors have the right to decide whether to take the initiative or not. It was in accordance with this article that the leopard took the initiative to attack the border tribes of Donghu.

"Wang Cong, the deputy general of the leopard and the supervisor and intelligence personnel of Xing'an County, can they have documents to report?"

Ji Kang commanded.

"Your Majesty, they all have documents to report." Wang Cong bowed and replied.

"Give their papers to the widow."

"No."

I also finished reading the documents submitted by the deputy general of the leopard and the heads of the Xing'an County Supervision Institute and the Intelligence Bureau.

Ji Kang picked up the pen and commented on the leopard's defense document:

"The armies of the Donghu and Xiongnu tribes are not allowed to gather on our border, this is an iron law, and you have done a good job. In the future, if the army of the Donghu tribe comes close to our border, it will be handled according to this procedure. ”

Putting down the pen, Ji Kang couldn't help but think of the news from the Huns.

The vast majority of the intelligence officers sent to the northern steppes did so in the name of doing business.

In the previous life, there were few records of the process of the northern Xiongnu unifying the grassland, and Ji Kang didn't know much.

But from the current point of view, the development of the Xiongnu has obviously exceeded the previous life by a lot.

During the two years of chaos between the countries of the Central Plains, the Xiongnu army had swept through the countries of the Western Regions, and this year more than 20 large and small countries in the Western Regions were subjugated to the hooves of the Xiongnu, and the strength of the Xiongnu was further enhanced.

In Ji Kang's memory, the first large-scale war against the Xiongnu by the Central Plains Dynasty took place in the 32nd year of Qin Shi Huang (215 BC).

The Qin Dynasty annexed the Six Kingdoms, and the Xiongnu also unified the northern grasslands at that time.

The Xiongnu seized the opportunity to move south, reoccupied many parts of the northern border counties of the Central Plains, and used Henan (present-day Inner Mongolia and Hetao) as a stronghold, directly threatening the nascent Central Plains Dynasty.

The use of troops against the Xiongnu and the elimination of the military threat of the Xiongnu became a top priority after the Qin Dynasty unified the six countries.

In order to eliminate the threat of the Xiongnu, Qin Shi Huang began to recruit a large number of people to connect the northern Great Wall of the original Qin, Zhao and Yan Kingdoms; On the other hand, he sent the general Meng Tian to lead an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north.

In this battle, which lasted for three years, Meng Tian led the Qin army not only to occupy the entire Hetao region, but also to attack the Beihe River (now Inner Mongolia Wujia River), giving the Xiongnu a heavy blow.

But the good times did not last long, and then the Qin Dynasty fell, and the Xiongnu immediately occupied Hetao and other places.

It must be said that the Xiongnu nation is also a nation that is good at learning, and judging from the current practice of Tou Mandanyu, in the past few years, it has learned to learn from and learn from the culture and management system of the Central Plains countries.

Moreover, from the information transmitted back from the northern grasslands, Ji Kang learned that many people from the Central Plains had appeared in the royal courts of the Xiongnu and even Donghu and Yueshi.

These "people of insight" who had no ambition in the Central Plains countries traveled thousands of miles to the grasslands to take refuge in Toumandanyu, not only presenting maps of the Central Plains countries, but also bringing many technologies from the Central Plains to the grasslands.

In Ji Kang's view, this is a proper "leading party" and "traitor".

These guys were not at all grateful to the Central Plains that gave birth to him and raised him, but instead encouraged the grassland tribes to go south.

Thinking of this, the fog of history in Ji Kang's mind was suddenly cleared.

The historical trajectory of the entire development of China is clearly imprinted in Ji Kang's heart.

Originally, I thought that when I came to this era, I had begun to accelerate the pace of unification of the Central Plains. But the Huns were not idle, and at this time they also began to conquer the south and the north, constantly accumulating their population and strength.

After calculating the planning time for Yan Kingdom to dominate the world, Ji Kang couldn't help but smile bitterly on his face.

The Northern Xiongnu were like this, and the Central Plains countries made Ji Kang dare not be careless.

Before the end of this year, it will be impossible to use troops against Handan.

Being able to occupy the four western counties of Zhao Guo Taihang is already fast.

The use of troops against Handan in the coming year will inevitably be another bitter battle.

After that, there were the four kingdoms of Qin, Chu, Han, and Wei, what was the final development of events? It's really hard to say.

Especially in the Qin State, King Yingji of Qin is old. However, there were no changes in Qin's wartime system; After so many years, the hundreds of thousands of troops that the Qin State has painstakingly managed are also powerful.

It's useless to think so much, the most important thing at the moment is to take Jinyang as soon as possible.

Ji Kang came to the map in front of the inner wall of the hall, raised his right hand, and clicked on the map of Jinyang City.

He said to himself: "Presumably, Lecheng has already seen my handwritten letter to him, right?" ”

Ji Kang's expectation was not false at all, at this time, Le Cheng in Jinyang City was looking at his cousin Le Jian and gave him a handwritten letter from Ji Kang who came a little bit.

The army of Yan has come to Jinyang City at this time, and the entire Jinyang City is panicked and turbulent.

Every day, Lecheng not only had to appease the morale of the army and warn the Yan army to attack the city, but also inspect around the city to stabilize the people.

After reading Ji Kang's handwritten letter, Le Cheng raised his head and looked a little tired.

He said to the military major sent by Lejian: "You go back and tell your cousin Lejian that the letter from your king to the general has been received, thank you for the importance of the general, but the general will not surrender to your Yan country." ”

The major sent by Lejian arched his hand to Lecheng and said: "General, General Lejian asked me to tell you a word: My king values the general very much, and my king is really very sad about the unfair treatment you received in Yan Country in the past. ”

"When the army went south to Jinyang, my king specially wrote to the general from Jidu, and repeatedly told General Lejian that as long as the general is willing to return to my Yan country, you will definitely give a rich reward, please think twice."

Le Cheng laughed and said to Major Yan Jun in front of him:

As the saying goes: "A good horse doesn't eat grass", you don't have to persuade the general anymore. Ben Jiang has never thought of going back to Yan since he came out of Yan Kingdom to defect to Zhao State. If I defect to Yan again at this time, how will the world view Ben Jiang? How can Ben be worthy of my king's reuse of me? ”