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"This, what does the uncle mean that the army will turn back and not go to Liaoxi?"

It was night, in the camp of the Zhao Yan coalition army in Jieshi, Yan Hou Ke wanted to cry without tears.

You must know that now Zhao has annexed all the former vassals Lu and Wei, almost unified the Central Plains, and Sanqi, Song, and Cao have basically lost their independent status, just like Zhao State Fengjun. Only because of the geographical location of Yan State, Zhao State is beyond the reach of the whip, and Yan Hou Ke is timid and afraid of things, and he does not dare to offend the big country, after all, whether it is from Zhending or from Daijun, the Zhao army can reach the capital of Yan State in ten days. So he followed the advice of the doctors and met Zhao Wuxian many times, hoping to exchange his humility and obedience for the continuation of the Yan Kingdom.

This strategy seems to have been successful, and Zhao allowed Yan to exist, and now he is actively helping Yan Hou Ke expand his territory......

Yan Guo couldn't refuse, so he could only agree tremblingly.

Zhao Wuxian was extremely high-profile about this matter, and he made a fuss to the whole world before he even started. Then 10,000 troops drove in, from Linyi to Jidu and then to Jieshi, all the way to the thousands, eating the Yan people with the Yan people, only to go to the edge of Liaoxi, but suddenly said that they were going to withdraw the army? What does that mean?

Yan Hou asked cautiously, and Zhao Hou said while eating a whole roast camel in front of him with a knife: "Yan Hou doesn't know, more than 1,000 horsemen of the vanguard army commanded by Sima Xinzhizi of Shanggu County have arrived in Yushui (Daling River), and the people of Liaoxi heard that the army was coming, and they did not dare to resist, and they surrendered one after another. ”

"The thief has descended?"

Yan Hou Ke was surprised and delighted, you know, last year when he sent people to attack Liaoxi, but he was violently resisted by the thieves, and now as soon as Zhao Jun came, the thieves fell in the wind, the difference in treatment and situation is really mixed in people's hearts, but he still flattered him:

"Uncle Wei Dehehe, as soon as the army comes out, all the people surrender, this feat is comparable to the Northern Expedition of Duke Qi Huan to the mountains and cut off the lonely bamboo."

There is something in the words, he mentioned Duke Qi Huan because after the end of the Northern Expedition, Duke Qi Huan not only asked Yan Guo for an inch of land as a reward, but also gave Shuzhou to Yan State, Yan Hou Ke intended to hint at Zhao Wuxian: "What I said before, can I still honor it?" “

Zhao Wuxian understood, he wiped the oil on his mouth with a kudzu towel and said, "Yan Hou rest assured, Liaoxi will soon be delivered to Yan Guo." Yanhou can send doctors and soldiers to build a fortress, defend Yushui, and let the local area forever bask in the Chinese style. “

"In this way, I have thanked the lord for his kindness!"

A stone put his heart down, although he felt sorry for the cost of Zhao Jun when he was in Yan Kingdom, but Yan Hou was still very happy to recapture a corner of Liaoxi without spending a single soldier, at least when he died, he could boast about his martial arts on the inscription.

But he was worried that Zhao Jun would come again next year, and when the time came, Yan Guo would not be able to afford the cost of food and horses for thousands of people.

So Yan Hou Ke asked cautiously: "Since Liaoxi has been surrendered, what about Liaodong or Chen Heng who is entrenched in North Korea?" Didn't the prince send troops this time just for Chen Heng? ”

"Sun Wu has a saying, where the law of war is used, the whole country is the first, the country is second, the soldiers who surrender without a fight are also the good ones. The filthy people did not offend Zhao Yan, they should not be rashly crusaded, they only need to be appeased, and they can guard the borders and be at peace with each other, anyway, the filthy people have no ruler, and the tribes are scattered all over the country, and sooner or later they will be naturalized in the Central Plains. As for Chen Heng? It's not enough to worry about the fugitive, so let him survive for a few more years! ”

Yan Hou was dumbfounded, a few years ago, Zhao Wuxian gritted his teeth at Chen Heng and would split the body quickly, but today he let him go so easily, turning his hands into clouds and covering his hands into rain, what does this mean?

His heart couldn't help but get nervous again, and he began to feel that Zhao Wuxian's ambiguous Northern Expedition was full of suspicions, and what he was trying to do was only afraid that it was not Chen Heng and North Korea!

Could it be the society of Yan Kingdom?

Yan Hou Ke was nervous: "I don't know when the uncle plans to withdraw the army?" ”

Zhao Wuxian did not covet the land of Yan Kingdom, and said: "In May and June, they will be withdrawn one after another, and the widow will have to rush back to persuade farmers and deal with government affairs, I am afraid that they will not enter the Ji Capital." ”

Yan Hou had long hoped that Zhao Jun would evacuate, but he still had to pretend to invite Zhao Wuxian to Jidu to be a guest for a few more days, but Zhao Wuxian held his hand and said with a smile:

"The widow has long heard that the people of Yan are extremely hospitable, and when guests pass by to stay overnight, they will even let the women of the family wait in front of the bed?"

Yan Hou Ke's face suddenly darkened, this is an old habit of their Yan country, because the land here is vast and sparsely populated, and it is mixed with Rong Di, so he looks down on chastity and the difference between men and women, and the people are like this, the public office has repeatedly banned it but it is useless, Zhao Hou is asking this now, what does he want to do!?

He could only reluctantly say: "Let the uncle laugh, this is the custom of the Shanrong savages......

"Yan Hou don't be nervous, the widow is just an analogy for the hospitality of the Yan people, you must know that this kind of hospitality has a long history, not only for civilians, but also for the office, and the way to reflect it does not have to be to let the wife and concubine entertain guests, but also to send gifts. When Duke Qi Huan returned from the Northern Expedition, Duke Yanzhuang sent him all the way to the border, so Yanhou didn't plan to send the widow? ”

"Send, of course!"

Yan Hou Ke agreed, and the next day he also followed Zhao Jun on the road to the south, only hoping that this group of evil guests who had spent a hundred gold for a day would leave as soon as possible.

What he didn't expect was that this delivery would be sent to Yecheng, the capital of Zhao......

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In mid-May, Zhao Wuxian, who had abruptly stopped the Northern Expedition, led the army back, and when he said goodbye at the border, he suddenly held Yanhou Guiye hostage.

Zhao Wuxian claimed that Yan Hou was just a guest in Yecheng, and he would return in three months at the least, or half a year at most, so that Yan Guo should not act rashly. Then, on the grounds of the instability of the Yan State, he left the first brigade of the Zhao army stationed in Jieshi, and the first division stationed in Linyi, and let the Daijun side take over the city fortresses such as Juyongguan.

In this regard, the doctors of Jidu Yan have no other way but to accept the status quo.

Not only has the Zhao army entered the Yan Kingdom, but the Yan Hou is also in the hands of the Zhao State, and they are jealous. It was also because in the past few months, 10,000 Zhao soldiers had eaten horses and chewed horses, which exhausted the military reserves of Yan State, and the Yan army was powerless to resist. To add insult to injury, the army sent to accept Liaoxi ran back in disgrace, and it turned out that as soon as the Zhao army left, the unruly traitors rebelled again, and the Yan State had to count on the Zhao army stationed in Jieshi to help suppress it......

This trick was extremely vicious, causing Yan Guo, the only country with the strength to pose a threat to the rear of Zhao Guoda, to lose its combat effectiveness, and Zhao Wuxian no longer had to worry about what moths would come out of the north when he went south.

In the same way, because of the order of Zhao's "Northern Expedition", Sanqi built large ships along the coast, exhausted the people's power, and in late May, they received instructions from Yecheng, and all the coastal ships went south and concentrated in Qugang (Lianyungang) in Donghai County!

"Not to the north, but to the south!?" Sanqi suddenly realized, but regretted it too late.

The wind began to blow quietly southward from the land of Yanzhao, bleak and bleak, and the waves surged.

But the state of Chu, which is thousands of miles away, is still a long time away from being affected by the great storm in the north because of the barrier of space. Also in May, Yingdu's reform had died down, and the nobles and county princes were in the ascendant to attack Bai Gongsheng, and many people wanted to put him to death, and Bai Gong, the initiator of this dispute, listened to Ling Yin Zixi's words and closed his door, as if he was avoiding the limelight, and seemed to be brewing something.

On the third day of the fifth lunar month, the last round of the new moon on the Jianghan Plain was very dark, and a group of merchant ships from Huainan sailed through the Han River overnight, and at sunrise they traveled upstream, arriving outside the water gate in the south wall of Yingdu......

PS: Thistle...... The guests pass each other, stay with women, and on the eve of marriage, there is no difference between men and women, but they are proud. After a while, it didn't change. - Hanshu. Geography II", there is only one chapter left today.