A few days later, a good news from the frontline battlefield was delivered to Zhao Dan, who was just in the meeting.

Zhao Dan was very eager to take a look at it, and then he was overjoyed.

Pang Xuan led the Zhao Qi coalition army, and defeated the 200,000 Yan army led by Rong Yi in the first battle, killing the head of Rong Yan's department, including Rong Sheng, the second son of Rong Yan, and many other Yan generals were killed by the Zhao Qi coalition army, and captured more than 100,000 Yan troops.

Now Rong Xuan has no choice but to flee back to Wuyang, the capital of Yan State, with the remnants of the defeated army, Pang Xuan naturally will not miss this opportunity to take advantage of the victory and march, and directly wave his army to the north, and he will be able to surround Wuyang in a few days.

What made Zhao Dan even more overjoyed was that Pang Xuan specially noted a hero who made the first contribution in this good news - Li Mu!

Not only that, Pang Xuan also wrote such a paragraph.

"If it weren't for Li Mu leading the heavily armored cavalry to break through the Yan army's front in one fell swoop, causing the Yan army's position to be scattered by his own rout, even if this battle can be won, it won't be so easy! In the eyes of the ministers, this heavy cavalry is extremely powerful in the plains, and there is absolutely no infantry in the world that can compete with it, and it will definitely become a great weapon under the king's command! ”

If there was still a trace of doubt about the power of this heavily armored cavalry before, then after seeing Pang Xuan's words, all the doubts in Zhao Dan's heart were completely dispelled.

said a thousand words and ten thousand, and there is no more convincing record of real swords and guns.

Facts have proved that this kind of heavy cavalry is definitely a kind of big killer in this era.

Of course, this class is not perfect, for example, the continuous combat effectiveness of the heavy cavalry is very poor, it can only charge and cannot turn, and the cost of forming it is very amazing, etc., which are its shortcomings.

But as long as it is used in the right place, the power that this kind of heavy armored cavalry can exert is absolutely amazing.

The performance of this kind of heavy armored cavalry on the battlefield is simply like the tank armor cluster of later generations!

Zhao Dan suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, raised his head, and smiled at the few important ministers of Zhao State who had already stretched their necks and waited for the news in front of them: "Zhuqing, this is good news from Yan State!" Let's circulate it to all the secretaries. ”

Soon, this good news was circulated by several important ministers of Zhao State.

All the important ministers of Zhao were overjoyed when they read the news, and the hall was immediately filled with an atmosphere of joy.

Zhao Sheng, the first Xiangbang to finish reading the good news, arched his hand towards Zhao Dan, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to the king and King Hexi, since this battle has been won, then it must be impossible to expel the puppet Wang An and support Yan Wang Ke." ”

Zhao Dan was also in a good mood, and couldn't help but smile when he heard the words: "What Pingyuanjun said is very true." By the way, the widow wants to give Pingyuanjun a heavy task, I wonder if Pingyuanjun is willing to go to Yanguo and his party? ”

Zhao Sheng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then quickly came back to his senses and said, "The king doesn't want to order his ministers to accompany Yan ...... Empress Dowager Yan and Wang Ke returned to China to succeed to the throne? ”

Now that Gongzi Ke has become Yan Wang Ke, then Queen Yan will naturally become Queen Mother Yan.

Zhao Dan smiled: "Exactly." It must be known that the succession of King Yan is such a big event, and he is the nephew of the widow, if the widow does not send a person of high virtue to the Yan country to watch the ceremony, wouldn't he be accused by the world of being rude? I don't know if Pingyuan-kun is willing to do it? ”

Zhao Sheng was praised by Zhao Dan's "high morality" and instantly praised to the sky, and the whole person didn't feel a little fluttering, and immediately said when he heard the words: "The king has a life, and the minister will follow it!" I don't know when the king wants his ministers to leave? ”

Zhao Dan said with a smile: "In the opinion of the widow, of course, the sooner the better, don't forget that there are still 100,000 loyal soldiers of the Yan Kingdom waiting to be loyal to the Empress Dowager Yan and Yan Wang Ke?" ”

Zhao Sheng was stunned again when he heard this, but quickly came back to his senses.

Isn't there a hundred thousand Yan army captives now? As long as the Empress Dowager Yan arrives with Yan Wang Ke, unless all these captives don't want to live, it will definitely be a matter of minutes to join the Empress Dowager Yan and Yan Wang Ke.

Once there are these 100,000 Yan troops to help, then together with the Zhao Qi coalition army, there is an army of nearly 300,000 people, with these 300,000 troops in hand, unless that Yan Wang An and Rong Yan can invite the gods to descend to earth, otherwise where can there be the slightest possibility of reversal?

After Zhao Sheng figured out the joints, he immediately admired Zhao Dan greatly, and said: "The king's foresight, the minister is far from being as good as the king's case!" ”

Zhao Dan looked at Zhao Sheng's appearance, and he was also a little proud and funny in his heart.

To be honest, I don't know if this Zhao Sheng's kung fu is getting stronger and stronger, in short, now Zhao Sheng's performance is becoming more and more like a heartfelt when he is patting a sycophant......

Zhao Dan laughed and started another topic: "By the way, since all of you have already read this good news, you must also know about the performance of the heavy armored cavalry in this good news." ”

This time it was Lian Po who was the first to speak: "King, in the opinion of the old minister, this heavy armored cavalry is definitely the more the merrier!" From the old minister's point of view, this heavy armored cavalry should make him a thousand thousand! ”

As the head of the Zhao military, Lian Po is definitely the one who supports the heavy cavalry the most.

In fact, the views of the arms of this era are not as clear as any sea, land and air in later generations, and sometimes even for all kinds of tearing for military spending, for Lian Po, as long as it is something that can win the war, then it must be supported!

However, as soon as Lian Po's voice fell, the old general suddenly found that his king's face was a little strange.

Not only his own king, but even the face of Neishi Yuxin on the side was strange and abnormal.

Where can Lian Po endure this urgency? immediately spoke: "King, could it be that the old minister said something wrong?" ”

Zhao Dan smiled bitterly and said, "No, no, the general is actually not wrong, but ...... That's it, Yu Qing, let's explain. ”

As an internal history, Yu Xin is in charge of the country's finances.

So Yu Xin began to explain.

This heavy armored cavalry is good, but there are many shortcomings, one of the biggest shortcomings for Yu Xin, the Minister of Finance, is - expensive!

It's expensive!

Very expensive!

How expensive is it?

As we all know, the regular army soldiers of Zhao State, that is, the Central Army, are very well paid.

In order to maintain the 100,000 central army of Zhao State every year, it accounted for more than half of Zhao's treasury expenditure.

In terms of the consumption of money and resources, the cost of a heavy armored cavalry alone is equivalent to forty soldiers of the Central Army, which is also because of the abundance of war horses in the territory of Zhao State, so a lot of money is saved on war horses.

But even if it is converted at this ratio, the money and materials that Zhao Guo needs to support the 500 cavalry of the Central Army under Li Mu now is equivalent to the money and materials of 20,000 soldiers of the Central Army!

If you want to raise 5,000 heavy armored cavalry, it is equivalent to raising an extra 200,000 Zhao Central Army!

After listening to Yu Xin's calculation, Lian Po's mouth opened wide, and after a long time, he said: "This heavy armored cavalry is so expensive?" ”

Zhao Dan and Yu Xin nodded at the same time and said, "Exactly!" ”

Lian Po sighed, looking depressed.

Zhao Dan looked at the old general's appearance, thought about it and comforted: "Actually, don't worry about the old general, as long as you wait until the output of high-quality steel comes up in the future, then the cost of this maintenance will actually decrease, and according to the estimation of the widow and Yu Qing, it should not be a problem to raise two or three thousand heavy armored cavalry in the next few years......

As soon as Lian Po heard this, he immediately jumped up and said with a smile: "This is very good, the king is the respect of a country, and the words he says cannot be easily changed, the quota of these three thousand heavy armored cavalry, the old minister will write it down!" ”

Zhao Dan looked at Lian Po, whose old face was smiling, and was speechless for a while.

This old guy was originally afraid that the widow would not continue to invest in the heavy armored cavalry, so he deliberately pretended to be like this and waited for the widow here.

Who said that Lian Po has an upright temperament?

The widow should have seen something from the story of the so-called "guilty plea"!