On the seventh day of November, the weather was gloomy and the northeast wind was howling.

Dozens of miles east of Xingyang, outside the Chu army camp, 100,000 troops gathered together.

With many halberds and horses held high, this is one of the most powerful armies in the world.

The leader is a black horse under the crotch, wearing black gold armor, holding a dragon halberd, and wearing a tiger skin red robe.

Behind Xiang Yu were 18,000 cavalrymen.

During the Battle of Pengcheng, Xiang Yu personally led 30,000 cavalry to raid the coalition army led by Liu Bang, and defeated hundreds of thousands of coalition troops.

From the battle of Pengcheng to the present, the cavalry of the Chu army has suffered losses, and there are currently 25,000 people, Xiang Yu brought the main force of the cavalry this time, showing the determination to destroy the Zhao State.

The army set out and marched northward.

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Xiangguo, the royal palace, the study.

There are only two people here: Zhao Xie and Li Zuoche.

Li Zuoche presented the written training outline to Zhao Xie for review.

Zhao Xie looked at it carefully, and the outline was written in great detail, including the training content and assessment requirements of each branch of the army, such as foot soldiers, cavalry, and crossbow soldiers; Including different training subjects and training progress for recruits and veterans; Including equipment requirements for different classes, weapon matching, and so on.

For example, the comprehensive ability of soldiers is divided into three levels: upper, middle, and lower, and the lower level is just passing.

For example, foot soldiers, first of all, require physical fitness to meet the standard, in ancient times, it was necessary to march long distances on foot, and sometimes it was necessary to run forward, and those with poor physical fitness could not run long before they were tired; Then there are the combat skills of different weapons, including training methods and assessment requirements, including individual combat and group combat, including different ways to deal with enemy foot soldiers, crossbowmen, and cavalry.

For example, cavalry archers, horsemanship is the most basic, including shooting at fixed targets when in a fixed position, shooting at fixed targets when moving, and shooting at moving targets when moving. In the days when stirrups were not available, it took a lot of time just to practice riding.

In modern times, Zhao Xie was familiar with many military books such as "The Art of War", "Wu Zi", "Wei Xuanzi", "Liu Tao", "Li Weigong Asks the Right Questions", "Ji Xiao Xinshu", and learned about the ways of employing troops and training methods of famous generals such as Wu Qi, Han Xin, Li Jing, Yue Fei, and Qi Jiguang.

In Zhao Xie's view, if it is strictly implemented, it will certainly be able to train well-trained soldiers.

"King, the recruitment of 80,000 soldiers has been completed nearly halfway, and it is expected that all of them will be recruited within half a month. Tomorrow will start the big competition, and after the completion of the training, the veterans will start the whole training ......"

Li Zuoche reported on the current military situation.

Handan County, Julu County, and Hengshan County, which were under the jurisdiction of Zhao State, reached the conscription target according to the population situation, and the people from the Ministry of War went down to various counties, counties, and townships to be responsible for conscription matters together with local officials.

After the report was completed, Li Zuodao: "King, the capture of Yan Kingdom must be carried out as soon as possible!" Zang Di does not have much prestige, the original Yan King Han Guang is very popular with the people of Yandi, but Zang Di killed Han Guang, there must be subordinates who are dissatisfied, as long as there are appropriate lobbyists, someone must be persuaded to do internal response. ”

At the time of Chen Sheng's Wu Guang uprising, the world was in turmoil. The Chen Sheng regime sent Zhao people and military ministers to pass through Zhao Di. After stabilizing Zhao Di, Wuchen sent Han Guang to pacify Yandi, but as a result, Han Guang was very popular as soon as he arrived in Yandi, and was made the king of Yan by the local nobles, and Zang Di was only a subordinate of Han Guang.

Xiang Yu divided the feud and deliberately separated many princes and kings.

For example, Zhang Er and Chen Yu originally supported Zhao Wang Xie, and when Xiang Yu divided the Zhao Kingdom, he divided the Zhao Kingdom into the Dai Kingdom and the Changshan Kingdom, and only let Zhao Xie be the acting king, and Chen Yu was named the king of Changshan.

Another example is Yan Guo. Xiang Yu divided it into two, and then divided the king in the original territory of Yan State, Han Guang was demoted to the king of Liaodong, and Zang Tu was named the king of Yan. Because Han Guang was dissatisfied with the separation, he did not leave in time after returning to the capital of Yan Kingdom, and Zang Di, who was named the King of Yan, killed Han Guang and occupied Han Guang's fief by the way.

At present, within the Yan Kingdom, there are some people who hate Xiang Yu and Zang Di, which can be used.

Who to send as a lobbyist? Yin Yun, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was originally promoted by Chen Yu, so he couldn't be mediocre, and he couldn't be expected to help, only to see if He Xian could do it.

After talking about work, Zhao Xie had an in-depth exchange with Li Zuoche, and appropriately explained the military theories he had learned in modern times.

For example, the training method of the Yuejia army and the method of dealing with the cavalry of the Jin State;

For example, the military thoughts, ways of employing troops, and on-the-spot command of some famous generals, after Zhao Xie effectively integrated, he told Li Zuoche about them.

Li Zuoche himself has a strong military ability, and the military theoretical knowledge that Zhao Xie explained to him again benefited him a lot and opened up a new world for him in the military field. No matter how strong a person's ability is, it is limited after all, and what Zhao Xie has studied in modern times is the crystallization of many top military talents.

For all this, Li Zuoche naturally thought that it was Haotian God who instructed King Zhao,

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In the inner palace, Zhao Qian is doing a female celebrity.

In the afternoon, the chamberlain came and said, "Queen, Granny Yu has arrived!" ”

The nurse is finally here! Zhao Qian was excited, and didn't let anyone bring it in, but went out directly to the palace gate to greet her.

Outside the gate of the palace, in addition to the Praetorian Guards standing guard, there was also a carriage and several retinues.

A woman in her forties stood in front of the palace gate with a happy expression. She has large palms and thick skin on her hands, which is a typical working family. After Zhao Qian was named queen, she wanted to take her into the palace, but Granny Yu clearly refused, as a member of the Mo family, she must always maintain a hard and simple style, and be with the working class.

Zhao Qian came out of the palace and saw the nurse who had been absent for four months.

"Mother-in-law!"

Zhao Qian hurried up to meet him.

"The grass people meet the queen!"

Granny Yu bowed respectfully.

Zhao Qian held her wrist and said, "Mother-in-law, don't be like this!" ”

Granny Yu said: "You are the queen, I am just a commoner, and the etiquette needs to be like this!" ”

She insisted on this, and Zhao Qian couldn't help it.

Anyway, the two were happy to see each other.

After entering the palace, Granny Yu asked, "Queen, you said that you have something important to do with me, what is the important matter?" ”

If it had been to take her to the palace, she would not have come; If it was to catch up with the past, even if Granny Yu would come, she wouldn't come right away.

Zhao Qian said: "Mother-in-law, you must know all the changes in the king in the past month!" ”

Granny Yu nodded and said: "Nowadays, all parts of Zhao Country are praising the deeds of the king, of course I have heard of it, and the king has indeed done a good job." Queen, you are married to a good husband. ”

She has feelings for Zhao Qian and is happy for Zhao Qian.

Zhao Qian said: "Mother-in-law, there are many people in our Mo family, and the king wants to recruit talents from all over the world, I hope you can contact the people of the Mo family and serve the court." ”

She and her father grew up under the influence of the Mo family since childhood, and it is not inappropriate to call themselves members of the Mo family.

It turned out that it was for this purpose, Granny Yu was a little surprised, and said: "You don't know about the Mo family, and the 'love' advocated by the Mo family is not accepted by various kings. If the king does not accept it, how can the Moshi serve him? ”

For this kind of response, Zhao Qian had expected it, and said patiently: "Mother-in-law, King Zhao is different from other kings, he said that he admires the Mo family very much, and he wants to talk to the people of the Mo family." Haven't we Mohists been struggling to get the king to accept the ideological proposition? King Zhao is different, why not work hard? ”

In the era of a hundred schools of thought, various schools of thought lobbied in various places to promote their own ideas. In general, it is said that Legalism, Taoism, and Confucianism were more accepted by the kings of various countries, and the Mohists suffered from cold reception for a long time.

Zhao Qian is smart, she said this on purpose, to create an opportunity for her husband to come into contact with important people in the Mo family.