The Wei army set off in a majestic manner, and Wei Wuji personally led an army of 100,000 to attack, leaving an army of 50,000 to guard the camp.

The army marched towards Anyi to the east of the river, and the two cities of Yucheng and Hancheng bore the brunt.

"Zhang Er, Chen Yu, and Jin Yao listen to orders!"

"Zhang Er is the right vanguard, Chen Yu is the deputy general of the right vanguard, go to take Hancheng, Jin Yao is the left forward, go to take Yucheng, each give the two of you 20,000 horses, and the city must be broken within three days!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Er and Chen Yu gladly accepted the order, and it was naturally gratifying to have the opportunity to lead the troops, and they were also the vanguard and vanguard deputy generals of a large army.

Jin Yao also glanced at Wei Wuji in some surprise.

Yucheng and Hancheng are not fortified cities, according to scouts, the defenders of the two cities are only more than 1,000 people, and the Wei army can be said to be able to capture these two cities.

Wei Wuji was willing to give me this low-hanging fruit, instead of handing it all over to his henchmen?

After all, it was a battle achievement, and Jin Yao was not so resentful of Wei Wuji that he didn't even want the battle merit at his fingertips, but he still snorted coldly with some arrogance: "The last general will obey the order." ”

Immediately, without waiting for Wei Wuji to say anything, he went straight to Yucheng with a group of old Jin contempt troops.

Zhang Er saw Jin Yao snorting coldly, his face was full of anger, and his hand once again unconsciously pressed on the hilt of the sword.

"Open your ears!"

Wei Wuji snorted, and when he heard Wei Wuji call him so, he opened his ears and shrunk his neck, and there was no longer any anger in his face.

Wei Wuji usually calls him "Er" intimately, and only calls him by his full name when he is angry, and his parents died early, and the person he fears in this world is Wei Wuji, who is also a father and a teacher.

"Alas, Yu, you must remember to keep an eye on your ears, and don't let him act recklessly."

Seeing Zhang Er's appearance, Wei Wuji couldn't help but rub his eyebrows.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Chen Yu glanced at Zhang Er helplessly.

Watching the two vanguard armies set off, Wei Wuji sighed slightly.

If he could, he would rather be a carefree son, dressed in fancy clothes all day long, fighting cocks and lackeys, and never interfering in military and political affairs again.

But the mother country needs him, so he must stand up and be the self he hates the most.

The military order just issued seemed simple, but in fact it was an invisible confrontation.

Since ancient times, there has been no separation between the military and the government, and this is true.

As Jin Yao thought, although he gave him the military exploits of a city in order to appease the hearts of Jin Yao and Jin Yao's old department, he was not really impartial.

There are four castles on the periphery of Angeup, in addition to Yuseong and Hanseong, there are also Yanshi Castle and Kuseong Castle.

Yanshi City is in the northeast of Yucheng, which is closer to Yucheng, so it is natural for Jin Yao, who has captured Yucheng, to attack Yanshi City at that time.

In the seventeenth year of King Zhou, Qi, Han, Wei, Zhao, Song, and Zhongshan attacked Qin (don't ask why six countries are called five countries, and the historical records are written like this), and returned to Yanshi. Qin and Han, Wei Hebei and Fengling made peace.

At that time, Kuang Zhang, the chief general of the Qi army and the commander of the coalition army, broke through the Hangu Pass for the first time and led the army of the Five Kingdoms into the pass.

But the embarrassing thing came, the Hezong Alliance originally wanted to recapture some of the Qin army cities outside Hangu Pass, and no one wanted to really break through Hangu Pass.

After all, Hangu is known to the world, and everyone doesn't want to waste too many soldiers on this Xiongguan, but they didn't expect that on the way to join the alliance, there was chaos in Shu, and King Zhaoxiang had to transfer Sima to lead the elite troops into Shu to quell the rebellion, and it took a long time to return in time. At the beginning of the Ji Jun Rebellion, Xiang Bang Ying died of illness and suddenly, which led to internal turmoil in the Qin army.

Coupled with Kuang Zhang's command ability, the coalition forces really broke through the Hangu Pass with little casualties.

But because of the suddenness of the incident, no one thought that Kuang Zhang could really break through Hangu Pass, so he did not prepare enough grain and grass, so the coalition army did not dare to stretch the front too long, so he had to go north to attack Yanshi City first and occupy the salt lake on the edge of Yanshi City.

The salt lake was an important salt-producing area of the Qin State, not only the yield was extremely high, but the quality of the salt was far superior to that of ordinary salt, so it became a major economic lifeline of the Qin State.

Han and Wei held the idea of taking advantage of the advantage, and reached a private reconciliation with Qin, so the coalition army did not go west to Xianyang, and directly disbanded and withdrew from Hangu Pass on the spot.

Therefore, Wei Wuji wanted to cut off this economic lifeline of the Qin State.

It stands to reason that such an important city should be handed over to Zhang Er and Chen Yu, two young people he is optimistic about, to attack, not only to train people more, but also to gild their resumes, but it was still handed over to Jin Yao.

First, Zhang Er and Chen Yu still lacked experience in leading troops after all, and it was a long-distance march to Yanshi City, so he was worried that he would not be able to take care of it.

Second, compared to Yanshi City, there are even greater military achievements.

Anyi, the old capital of Wei, is definitely of great significance to Wei, especially for a king of Wei who is a prosperous country.

After capturing Hancheng, he could go north and attack Wucheng, which was only twenty miles away.

Once Zhang Er and Chen Yu captured these two cities, then his Chinese army would press on and pounce on Anyi together.

At that time, he will hand over the first credit for winning Anyi to Zhang Er and Chen Yu, so that they will also enter the eyes of his brother, the current King of Wei, as quickly as possible, and pave the way for their future with the great merit of recapturing the old capital Anyi.

Wei Wuji also ordered the army to camp on the spot, and waited for the good news from Zhang Er and Chen Yu.

Of course, Wei Wuji didn't know that a certain young talent who was born in Wei and was about the same age as Zhang Er and Chen Yu planned to repay his mother country with kindness and fulfill the exploits of these two young people.

At the head of Yanshi City, the county magistrate of Yanshi City couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded when he looked at Yanshi City, which had changed greatly after only four days.

Is this still his Salt Castle made of earth and stone?

Four days ago, the spy in the city suddenly found the Yanshi County Order, claiming that the guard Zhang Ji asked them to immediately raise and sell the salt in the treasury at a discount, and buy the grain and grass of all the grain merchants in Yanshi City, at least 40,000 stone of grain.

The order of this upstart of the Qin State, his small county order naturally did not dare to disobey, let alone discount.

In fact, no matter where Zhang Ji goes to Qin State, as long as the local officials don't want to go to the prison to drink tea, they don't dare to disobey Zhang Ji's orders.

However, it is also a loss that Yanshi City is an important place for salt production, and merchants gather, so there are naturally many grain merchants. Many merchants are more willing to barter and directly exchange grain for salt than money, so it is not too difficult for Yanshi City to raise 40,000 stone military rations, otherwise it may not be possible to raise 40,000 stone military rations.

And on the day when he had just raised enough military rations, the Mo family's ink craftsmen descended from the sky on the machine Vermilion Bird, and also borrowed the machine Suzaku to transport a large number of bricks and stones.

In just four days, with the assistance of various machine beasts and machine equipment, the young men who commanded the Yan County Order had already built seventy percent of the walls of Yan City.

On the fifth day, two Qin armies of more than 1,000 people suddenly came to the city, claiming to be from Hancheng and Wucheng, and they came to Yanshi City on the orders of the guards.

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