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Hearing this, Zhao Sheng couldn't help interjecting: "Although Li Mu did make great contributions in the battle to capture Hetao, is he too young?"
Pang Nuan smiled and said: "Mr. Pingyuan doesn't know something. Although Li Mu is young, he has been in the army for more than ten years. He is calm and wise, and he has experience in cavalry combat. If he leads an army to fight, Li Mu may not be as good as me, but if If each leads a cavalry, it will be difficult for me to defeat Li Mu!"
Zhao Dan pondered for a while, feeling a little hesitant.
Although I also know that Li Mu is very magical, but Li Mu is young after all. In history, Li Mu only started to become divine after 30 or [-] years. Is it too early to entrust Li Mu with important responsibilities now?
But no matter what, Pang Nuan is also a famous general after all, and he has led Zhao Guo's frontier cavalry regiment to fight against Yan Guo twice, so he still has a say in the cavalry.
And in this way, Li Mu can be regarded as Pang Nuan's old subordinate. Since Pang Nuan admires him so much, then Li Mu has almost grown up now, right?
After a long while, Zhao Dan took a deep breath and made a decision: "In this case, then the Hedong side will use Wu Xin Jun Lian as the general, and the widow will give you 25 soldiers and horses. First capture the Weihan passage, and then play it by ear to decide whether to Continue to attack Guanzhong! As for Hetao, Li Mu will lead [-] cavalry troops southward, mainly to contain the Qin army and buy time for Wu Xinjun's main force."
"As for Handan, Pang Qing will be in command, assisted by Ju Xin, and will be in charge of the battle in Handan!"
"Doctor Zheng Zhu, don't be idle if you belong to the big business. Immediately send envoys to various countries, especially Wei and Qi, and strive to keep these two countries neutral! Then ask Han Wangran and Chu Wangyuan, and see them Would you like to send troops to attack Qin with me!"
As Zhao Dan's orders were issued in an orderly manner, after a year of silence, the entire war machine of Zhao State began to move again.
3 Chapter Ninety
As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the food and grass go first.
It has been a month since the last time an issue was discussed in the Longtai.
Since Hedong County has just been occupied by Zhao State for less than a year, the role of the granary has not yet been fully utilized, so this time Zhao State still needs to transfer a large amount of grain and grass from Handan and other eastern plains.
Transporting such a large amount of grain and grass will inevitably require the requisition of many civilian laborers. If this happens, it will naturally be very powerful, and it will not be able to hide the truth from those who are interested.
As the most powerful country today, Zhao's every move naturally attracted the attention of other countries.
So soon, several other monarchs also understood Zhao Guo's intention to dispatch troops and prepare to attack Qin State.
As the saying goes, one hair can move the whole body, once the country of Zhao moves, how can the other countries not respond at all?
A large amount of information from Hu Yiwei's branches in various countries began to gather in Zhao Dan's Longtai in the palace city of Handan like snowflakes.
"Your Majesty, King Jian of Qi refused to meet the envoy, and Hou Sheng even avoided seeing the envoy. The Qi State may change!"
"Your Majesty, King Yu of Wei has already received the envoy and declared that the alliance of the Three Jins is the national policy of the State of Wei. The State of Wei will abide by the alliance of the Three Jins and regard Zhao State as the leader of the alliance of the Three Jins."
Zhao Dan couldn't help laughing when he saw what the envoy wrote in his reply.
Wei Wangyu would willingly regard Zhao as the leader of the alliance, and he would confess to Zhao when Wei became stronger than before the Battle of Hedong?There are ghosts at a glance!
Sure enough, Zhao Dan continued to read the next message from the branch of Hu Yiwei's secret agent Wei Guo: "Wei Guo's army has recently assembled on a large scale and is secretly transporting grain and grass materials to Yecheng."
Yecheng, just across the Zhangshui River from the Great Wall in the south of Zhao State, transported supplies, grain and grass to Yecheng, and the intention of Wei State is self-evident.
Even though he had already been mentally prepared, Zhao Dan still couldn't help but feel a little bit of anger welling up in his heart.
"Wei Wangyu, Wei Wangyu, it seems that you must be taught a good lesson by the widow!"
As a powerful country second only to Zhao in the Three Jin Alliance, Wei's betrayal is undoubtedly a serious loss for Zhao.
But fortunately, Zhao Guo was already prepared for Wei Guo's betrayal.
Thinking of this, Zhao Dan raised his head and glanced at Miao Xian in front of him: "How is the win over Duan Ganzi going?"
Miao Xiandao: "It's in progress, and some results have been achieved. It's just that this officer was a pro-Qin faction before. If you want him to change his position to support Zhao, I think it will take some time."
Zhao Dan shook his head and said: "Miao Qing, you are wrong. I don't need Duan Ganzi to support Zhao Guo, what I need is Duan Ganzi's hatred for Wei Wuji. Once Duan Ganzi can betray Wei Wuji because of his hatred for Wei Wuji Wei Guo's own interests, that is what I want to see the most, understand?"
Miao Xian's body shook slightly, and he bowed in response: "The old minister understands."
The next one was a secret report about the state of Qin. Zhao Dan picked up a secret report from it, looked at it and suddenly fell into deep thought.
After a while, a smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Dan's mouth: "This Lu Buwei is interesting."
In this secret report, Lu Buwei bluntly told Zhao Dan that he was going to poison Prince An Guojun!
According to Lu Buwei, this poison is a chronic poison, and it will gradually accumulate some toxins in the body after taking it normally.
These toxins are difficult to remove, but they will not take effect immediately. Only after the poisoned person takes another "prime", the toxins will suddenly erupt. The more toxins accumulated in the body, the shorter the eruption time.
In the most ideal situation, at most one hour can kill people instantly.
"Is there such a poison?" Zhao Dan closed the file, secretly guessing what kind of poison Lu Buwei had given Mr. An.
It's a pity that Zhao Dan didn't study medicine, so after thinking for a while, he gave up the decision to guess the poison.
But Zhao Dan thought of another thing from this.
In history, after the death of Qin Wangji, An Guojun died suddenly just three days after he finished mourning and formally ascended the throne. Could it be said that
However, for the time being, this matter does not help Zhao Dan much. If possible, Zhao Dan hopes that Qin Wangji can die at this time.
Zhao Dan thought for a while, and said to Miao Xian, "How has Lu Buwei been doing in Qin over the years?"
Miao Xian replied: "I have provided some information, but none of it is too important."
Zhao Dan frowned, thinking to himself, could it be that Lu Buwei, a good man, is not good enough now because he changed history?
But Zhao Dan thought about it again, it seems that Lu Buwei really didn't show any signs of performance in Qin Wangji's era. It was not until Zi Chu succeeded to the throne that Lu Buwei began to hold a high position in Qin State and thus showed his talent.
The time has not come.
Zhao Dan sighed and asked again: "How about Lu Buwei's son and daughter?"
Miao Xiandao: "His son is calm and stable, and his daughter has the demeanor of everyone, not like the daughter of a merchant family."
Zhao Dan laughed, and said: "It's been almost three years, if these two children still haven't been trained to look good, then I can't blame the widow."
Miao Xian couldn't help but asked: "Does Your Majesty really want to fulfill the agreement with Lu Buwei and make the son Heng marry his daughter?"
"Of course." Zhao Dan nodded with certainty.
Miao Xian said: "But Lu Buwei hasn't done anything outstanding so far, will your majesty think about it again?"
Zhao Dan smiled and said, "Don't worry Miao Qing, I still have great confidence in Lu Buwei's talent."
Zhao Dan picked up another letter, but this time it was not a secret report, but an urgent report sent back by the envoy to Chu State.
Looking at it, Zhao Dan couldn't help but frown: "Chu Wang Yuan has assembled his troops, and is going to attack Lu State with Chun Shenjun Huang Xie as his commander?"
Zhao Dan himself has no objection to Chu State's destruction of Lu, after all, Lu State is not important to Zhao State now.
Moreover, once the State of Lu is destroyed, the geopolitical conflict between the State of Chu and the State of Wei and Qi State will become more intense, and it will be more convenient for the State of Zhao to fan the flames for his own benefit.