The edict of the king of Yan ordered all the men over the age of sixteen and under the age of sixty in the country to assemble, and the entire land of Youyan was suddenly covered with war clouds, chariots and horses, and a murderous atmosphere.

Yan Zhao has been a generous and tragic person since ancient times, and once the whole country is mobilized, it is really powerful.

However, Yan Di was not carried away by anger, he knew that there was a considerable gap between Yan and Zhao in terms of national strength and military strength, and it was absolutely impossible to defeat Zhao with the strength of Yan alone, and it was impossible to take revenge for killing his son, so Yan must lobby the other two member countries of the Alliance, Chu and Beimink, to attack Zhao together.

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Three days later, Yan Guo's flying horsemen rushed to Beimink City in the starry night.

Beimink City is the newly built capital after the establishment of the Bei Mink State, located in the middle of the Liaohe River Loop, that is, near the Liaoyuan of the later generations, the land here is fertile, the water and grass are abundant, it was originally the territory of Goguryeo, but the North Mink State has increased in strength since the establishment of the country, coupled with the full help of the Chu army, it has formed an absolute military advantage over the Donghu tribes such as Goguryeo.

By now, all the Goguryeo men who were taller than the wheels of the carriage on the Liaohe River have been slaughtered, and all the women and children of Goguryeo have become slaves of the Northern Mink, and the remaining 100,000 Goguryeo people have all fled to the wild land on the peninsula to take food from the barbarians who drink blood from Rumao.

As soon as the flying news of the Yan Kingdom arrived in Beimink City, Zhao She, the king of Beimink, hurriedly summoned the general Meng Yan to discuss the strategy.

Because the Northern Mink Kingdom was located in the Liaohe River Loop, it faced the threat of nomadic peoples such as the Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, Sushen, and Goguryeo, so it did not have infantry. And there is only one Northern Mink light cavalry, and this light cavalry can't of course be controlled by the Northern Mink Wang Zhaowa, but in the hands of the Northern Mink General Meng Yan.

"General, King Yan's envoy is here for help, shall we send troops or not?" In the face of Meng's death, the king of the North Mink, Zhao Shi, turned his tail in a completely consultative tone, and he couldn't afford to stand up to the king at all. It's not that he doesn't want to, but he doesn't dare, because the Northern Mink cavalry only listens to Meng at all. As long as Meng Yan gave an order, he, the king, would be finished in no time.

"Oh, King Yan's envoy is here for help?" Meng Yan's heart suddenly moved slightly when he heard this. He always paid attention to the situation in the Central Plains, and the movements of the court of Chu and the situation of Qi also continued to be transmitted to Liaodong through Tang Bao, and Meng Yan certainly knew that the king had been secretly planning to dominate the world.

It's just that Meng Yan didn't expect that the first person to do it was King Yan.

After receiving the flying letter from the king of the North Mink, Meng Yan hurriedly sat up on his knees after reading it, and arched his hand and said: "The king, since the minister is the general of the North Mink Kingdom, of course he has to obey your wishes. But if you don't want to, then you won't be able to fight. ”

As early as the rebellion of the anti-Qin army on the 18th Road, Zhao She's tail had sent a cavalry to accompany the Tibetan Yan campaign, although the troops were not much. But it was also half of the strong men that the Northern Mink tribe could dispatch at that time, and the reason why Meng Yan was so generous to give up the decision to Zhao Shi was that he believed that he would definitely choose to send troops.

Sure enough, Zhao Shi was very happy after listening to it, and immediately took the case, and said loudly: "The widow has a good relationship with King Yan. Yan Prince Zangyan is even more widowed to watch grow up, and now Zangyan died at the hands of Zhao Jun's assassins, how can the widow sit idly by? General, go back and gather the army, and send troops to the next day. ”

"Whoa!" Meng Yan responded with a bang and took the order.

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Of course, it was impossible for such a big move of Yan Guo to hide from Zhao Guo's meticulous work, and the news quickly spread back to Handan.

Although Zhang Ao, the king of Zhao, is getting older, and even the prince is already in his teens, he is still as cowardly as ever, and when he heard that Yan Wang Zangtu has issued an edict to gather all the strong men in the country, he immediately panicked, and regardless of the fact that it was already midnight at this time, he urgently summoned the general Bai Yan and the minister Zhang Jing into the palace to discuss countermeasures. "General, Prime Minister, how is this good?" Zhang Ao looked stunned.

Zhang Jing sighed and said: "King, this is also expected, Yan Di has such a son as a master, and the remaining sons are either fools or idiots, and they can't inherit his great cause at all, but now they let General Bai Yan kill him in Anqiu, how can he give up?" ”

"Prime Minister, you don't have to say such strange things now, right?" Bai Xuan frowned displeased.

The clan nephew Bai Yan actually set up an ambush in Anqiu, and killed the Yan prince Zang Yan in one fell swoop and injured the Chu prince Xiang Zheng, which made Bai Xuan really a little surprised, but this clan nephew is still a little tender after all, since there is an exact source of information, why did he only bring 800 people to go? In the end, not only did he fail to capture Zang Yan and Xiang Zheng, but he also put his own life into it.

What is especially suffocating is that now it has brought a disaster to Zhao Guo.

Zhang Jing sneered in his heart, but he didn't say anything more, he was really a little afraid of Bai Xuan.

Bai Xuan said to Zhang Ao again: "King, the Yan army is not enough to worry about, even if there are only more than 200,000 strong men over the age of sixteen and under the age of sixty in the country, and such a rabble has no combat effectiveness at all, and there is no need to wait for the Yan army to come to the door, so the minister will raise a large army to attack the Yan country and destroy the Yan country first!" ”

The Yan army wants to mobilize the army and make a big move, and it will naturally not be able to assemble in a short time.

In the past year, Bai Xuan has vigorously rectified the armament, and stepped up training to change the soldiers, the Zhao army has long been different from what it used to be, not only the soldiers in the counties and counties have become more capable of fighting well, but the forbidden army and the main soldiers stationed in Handan have been trained by Bai Xuan into an elite, of course, this is only an elite division on paper, and it has not been tested in actual combat.

Now that Yan is making a big move, it just gives Bai Xuan the opportunity to train his troops, I believe that after this battle, the Zhao army can transform into an elite in the true sense, and after that, even if it is facing the Chu army in the south, the Zhao army can also have the strength to fight.

"What, General, you want to cut Yan?" Zhang Ao was shocked and said, "What if the Chu army takes advantage of the weakness to attack?" ”

Bai Xuan said: "The Lianheng Alliance helps each other and helps each other, if the Chu army takes advantage of the weakness to attack the Zhao State, the king, you only need to hold Handan, and the Han army and the Han army will naturally come to the rescue." ”

Zhang Jingdao: "What if the Han army and the Han army don't come?" ”

"It can't be." Bai Xuan said categorically, "It is impossible for the King of Han and the King of Han not to know the truth of the cold lips and teeth, if the Zhao State is destroyed by the Chu State, how can he and the Han Kingdom be spared?" ”

Zhang Jing said abruptly: "It is not wise to pin your hopes on others, it is better to send troops to strictly defend the counties and resist step by step, then the Yan army may not reach Handan, and the army is already exhausted and unable to continue, so it is better than the general waving his army to attack far away, but putting an empty Handan city under the front of the Chu army?" ”

"Handan emptiness?" Bai Xuan shook his head and said disapprerovitically, "The Prime Minister's words are not true, even if the Han army and the Han army do not arrive, my Da Zhao also has 500,000 strong men, and the king only needs an edict to fight a bloody battle for the whole country, if the Chu army really comes to attack, even if the Zhao State is destroyed in the end, I am afraid that it will also be greatly damaged." ”

"A bloody battle for the whole country?!" Zhang Ao's face suddenly turned pale, listening to these four words, he naturally thought of the tragic scene of thousands of miles of corpses and blood flowing, imagining the tragic scene to the extreme, Zhang Ao only felt that his liver and gall trembled, and his legs on the kneeling seat trembled involuntarily.

"Yes, the whole country will fight until death!" Bai Xuan pressed his sword and got up, and said solemnly, "Da Zhao is a generous and sad man, the king only has an edict, and all men in the country can fight, and they would rather die than surrender!" ”

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Luoyang, royal palace.

"King, why should it be our turn to be high this time, right?" Gao Chu was gearing up, and before he entered the study, the voice had already reached the ears of Xiang Zhuang, Bi Shu and Bai Lixian. ..., Xiang Zhuang, Bi Shu, and Bai Lixian looked at each other and laughed.

Gao Chu was confused by laughter, and said in a stunned voice: "King, what are you laughing at?" ”

Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said: "The military advisor just said that you haven't fought a big battle in recent years, you must have been suffocated, and you will definitely come to ask for war this time, and sure enough, the military advisor guessed it, hehe." ”

Gao Chu scratched his head a little wryly, and couldn't help but be a little nervous in his heart, and said, "King, is it successful?" ”

"Yes, of course!" Xiang Zhuang pointed at Gao Chu with a smile and said, "You have said everything about this, if the widow is no longer allowed, you must not be blamed to death behind your back?" ”

"Great!" Gao Chu threw his fist fiercely, looking extremely excited.

Xiang Zhuang straightened his face and said: "But at the beginning, the battle of Zhao is not easy to fight, the widow will talk about the ugly things first, if you can't fight the battle of Zhao, the widow will not remember any old feelings." ”

Bai Lixian continued: "Zhao Di is a generous and tragic man, bloody and violent and dares to fight, what we are most worried about is that King Zhao issued an edict to fight a bloody battle for the whole country, if this is the case, even if we can finally destroy Zhao State, our army will pay a heavy price." ”

"The battle losses of our army are still secondary." Bi Shu waved his hand and said, "The key is that after the bloody war of the whole country, Zhao Di will become a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, not only will the strong men die completely, but the women and children will also die in large numbers, but what Da Chu needs is not a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, but a densely populated and rich Hebei!" ”

Xiang Zhuang said: "Therefore, the key to the battle of Zhao is not to fight, but to divide and disintegrate!" ”

Gao Chu's face was full of bitterness, and he said with great resentment: "Well, then I still won't join in the fun." ”

Xiang Zhuang smiled when he heard this, Gao Chu's reaction was already in his expectation, and he said at the moment: "Once the battle of Zhao starts, Bai Mo will not sit idly by, and the Han army will definitely invade Shuzhong in the south and Tongguan in the east. ”

"Whoa." Gao Chu responded with a bang, and then got up and walked away.

After Gao Chu left, Xiang Zhuang said to Bi Shu and Bai Lixian: "There is a general in Shu who goes to the town, even if Bai Mo pours all the soldiers in Guanzhong to attack, the widow can not worry, but the battle of Zhao is led by the prince, is it really feasible?" ”

Bi Shu and Bai Lixian glanced at each other, and at the same time knelt down from the seat and sat up, and said, "The ministers think it is feasible." ”