Handan, palace city.

Zhao Dan was still dealing with government affairs as before, and his desk was still filled with bamboo slips.

In addition to Zhao Dan, there is another person in the hall, that is, Yu Xin, who had just been promoted to become the prime minister and was responsible for filling the vacancy after Zhao Sheng left the prime minister.

At this moment, Yu Xin was reporting to Zhao Dan: "King, according to Pang Nuan's recent return, he and Ju Xin have already arrived in Yuanyang to take over the army, and they will advance eastward to fight against Yan soon."

Yu Xin looked quite tired, but now there was a pair of dark circles on his originally elegant face, which felt a little inconsistent.

The reason why they went east rather than north is that the five northern counties of Zhao State were mainly in the west and northwest, while the Yan State invaded from the northeast.

Zhao Dan nodded, put aside a bamboo slip that had just been reviewed, reached out and rubbed his temples. After a while, he spoke, "Have you sent all the harnesses?"

Yu Xin nodded and said, "All three thousand sets of horse harnesses have been shipped to Yuanyang."

These horse harnesses were secretly built by Zhao Dan by Zhao Sheng and Zhao State craftsmen in the past few days.

At first, Zhao Dan only planned to build five hundred sets and send them to Gaoquesai to train troops quietly to see if he could quietly train two or three thousand elite cavalry, and then suddenly used them when he was fighting with Qin and caught Qin off guard.

But what I never expected was that the situation could not keep up with the change. Later, the situation changed drastically. Zhao Dan knew that the war was in front of him, so he simply ordered the craftsmen to work overtime and built a total of three thousand sets of horse harnesses.

To be honest, due to the materials and the problems of first forging, and Zhao Dan was not professional in his previous life, Zhao Dan had no idea whether this batch of horse harness was useful.

But now that the Yan army is invading, the enemy and us are very different in the northern battlefield of Zhao State, so Zhao Dan gritted his teeth and couldn't take care of that much. He simply transported all the inventory to the northern battlefield, hoping to increase his chances of winning for his cavalry.

As for the question of whether to expose or not, it is time to bet on life. Who cares about those?

To be honest, Yu Xin was also quite surprised. If he hadn't temporarily taken over Zhao Sheng's position a while ago, Yu Xin wouldn't have known that there were magical things like horse harnesses.

You should know that all scholars in the Warring States Period were both literary and martial. They were more delicate than girls in later generations who were weaker than women. Yu Xin was also proficient in horse racing, so of course it was impossible for him to see the value of horse harnesses.

After Zhao Dan paused, he continued to ask: "Where is the Yan army now?"

Yu Xin replied: "A few days ago, the spy came to report that the main force of the Yan army had crossed the Tang River and was besieging Gucheng. Another Yan army side division advances west along Feihu Xing, as if it is going to replace the city directly."

Daicheng is the location of the county magistrate's seat of the Zhao State Dai County.

"What?" Zhao Dan was stunned at first when he heard this, then his brows immediately frowned tightly, and then a hint of anger began to appear on his face.

In fact, even if Gu Cheng fell, Zhao Dan would not be so incompetent.

It is really very important for Zhao State.

As we all know, since King Wuling of Zhao, Hu clothing and cavalry, the power of Zhao State's cavalry has become famous all over the world.

What is the most important thing for cavalry? Of course, it is the war horse under the crotch.

The reason why cavalry cannot be popular in the other six countries except Zhao is not because they did not carry out the reform of Hu clothing, cavalry and shooting, there is another reason - the quality of war horses in the other six countries is not good.

Horses originated in Central Asia and were introduced to China during the ancient times of Emperor Yao. After thousands of years of domestication, most of the horses in the Central Plains countries are short and slender in skeletons, and look more like donkeys, a close relative of a horse.

The feeling of riding a horse can be said to be basically the same as riding a donkey. It is okay to use it to pull a chariot, but it would be a bit funny to use it to fight.

However, the failure of horses from the Central Plains countries does not mean that the entire land of China is not good. After all, there were many tribes such as Di Rong and barbarians living with the Chinese countries at that time, and some even established their own countries, such as Bai Di established the Zhongshan Kingdom.

The Daidi people who occupied Dai land at that time were good horse raising players. The Dai horses they raised were famous all over the world. Until hundreds of years later, they were an important war horse cultivation base. Later generations even praised the poem "Liberate the Hu eagle and chase the birds, and they can hunt Akita for Dai horses."

Hundreds of years ago, Zhao Wuxiong, the ancestor of Zhao State, seized part of Dai County from the Di people. Since then, Zhao State (at that time, Zhao State was still the Zhao State of Jin State) has its own war horse base, and the horses of Zhao State have become the best in the world.

Therefore, Dai County is extremely important to Zhao State.

"Damn Yan people!" Zhao Dan's face was gloomy and punched heavily on the table.

Today, Zhao State has several large horse farms in Dai County, which raise thousands of Dai horses. These are all to be added to the Zhao State cavalry in the future, and there are many crucial pure blood species/horses.

Once the Yan people snatch these horses, especially these species/horses, are stolen, it will be a huge loss that is extremely heavy for Zhao State and cannot be compensated in a short period of time!

Although cavalry is not used as a trend among the other six countries in this world except Zhao, Zhao Dan knew very well that it would be a matter of time before the cavalry could rise to power.

After all, cavalry is the real king of the cold weapons era. Before the emergence of hot weapons, cavalry represented the highest combat power in this cold weapons era.

Under such circumstances, war horses, as the most valuable resource for building cavalry, must not be stolen by the Yan people!

The reason why Yan State was repeatedly beaten by Zhao State in the late Warring States Period was certainly a reason why the gap between generals and the army was, but the battlefield factors should not be ignored.

The battlefield of the confrontation between Yan and Zhao is the Hebei Plain alluvialized by the Yellow River. The extremely flat terrain here gives the Zhao cavalry a great space to play, and it can be called the natural home court of the Zhao cavalry!

In fighting on such a battlefield, the Zhao army was already better than before they started fighting.

Yanzhao Yanzhao, people from these two places have been called one by one for many years. To put it bluntly, everyone is actually almost the same.

The people of Zhao rose up after Hu's uniforms and riding. If the people of Yan stole the war horses and went back, they would also carry out a reform similar to Hu's uniforms and riding the slash. Then, who will be the little ones in Yan or Zhao? Humph, that's really hard to say.

Zhao Dan slowly raised his head, and the light in his eyes seemed to be able to swallow people. He said word by word: "Daijun, there is no way to lose anything!"

This sentence is said firmly and resoundingly.

Yu Xin looked at Zhao Dan's expression and didn't know what he should say at this time. He immediately spoke: "In the opinion of his ministers, the horse farms in Dai County should be retreated to Yunzhong to avoid falling into the hands of the Yan people."

Zhao Dan nodded and said in a deep voice: "I ordered Pang Nuan to lead troops to Dai County quickly and resolve the siege of Dai County!"

After all, Pang Nuan now has 50,000 people, and the Yan army attacked Dai County only a partial division. I think the gap between the number of troops on both sides should not be too big. Under such circumstances, if Pang Nuan can't even stop this Yan army's partial division, then don't mess around in Zhao State.

Yu Xin responded: "I will send someone to pass on the order of the king!"

At this moment, the eunuch Ling Miao Xian suddenly hurried into the palace, possessed Zhao Dan's ear and said a few words softly.

"What?" Zhao Dan's face showed an extremely shock.

When Yu Xin, who was standing beside him, was secretly guessing that there was bad news from which country it was, Zhao Dan, with an extremely solemn expression, had already stood up.

"Lin Qing is critically ill, Yu Qing, please follow me to Lin Qing's mansion."

When Yu Xin heard this, his heart suddenly skipped a beat, and even his heartbeat missed half a beat.
Chapter completed!