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Chapter 640 Ice and Snow
Shi Bao outside the city also received news from Soochow and was overjoyed.

"The King of Jin has an order to break the city, and everyone will enjoy two hundred acres of land!" Sima Yan looked at the cheering soldiers, but he felt mixed feelings.

It was only one step, but it felt like it was getting farther and farther away from him.

Some things can be done but not said.

Once said, it will always be a thorn.

The game between Sima and his son was revealed by Zhong Hui, and the relationship between the two became subtle.

Inherited by family tradition, Sima Yan has been steeped in power since childhood, so of course he knows the rules of power operation.

Nothing can be said until the last moment.

"Your Majesty, there is a letter from Yingchuan!" The confidant crept up to Sima Yan's side and whispered in his ear.

Sima Yan's heart skipped a beat.

After Sima Zhao succeeded to the throne, he vigorously promoted the Shandong Bing and Ji gentry to check and balance the dominant Yingchuan gentry.

Of course the Yingchuan gentry were dissatisfied.

"My lord, within two months, this city will be destroyed, and Zhonghui will be destroyed!" Shi Bao's beard and hair were all grown up, and at the age of nearly seventy, he was getting older and stronger.

"Sikong is worthy of being a pillar of the country!" Sima Yan echoed.

The fierce battlefield has not aroused his interest, and the life and death of Zhong Hui has nothing to do with him.

Sometimes Sima Yan also admired Shi Bao very much. Both of them were suspected, but he was still so conscientious, fighting for the Sima family as if he had nothing to do.

Unfortunately, his fate has long been doomed.

Except for Chen Tai, Sima Yan had never seen anyone who was suspected by his father and was still alive and kicking.

But behind Chen Tai was the Yingchuan gentry, and the Sima family did not dare to move.

"How can the old minister not repay the kindness of the Taiwei's support with his own body?" Shi Bao cupped his hands to the sky.

Sima Yan's heart moved, Shi Bao seemed to be showing his loyalty to him?

Does he know anything?
Sima Zhao was often sick in bed, but Shi Bao had a clear vision. What things in the army could escape his eyes?

"Someone already knows Shi Gong's heart." Sima Yan also became vague.

Shi Bao exchanged a few words and then backed away.

Sima Yan was in a daze all the time, the letter in his hands was soaked with sweat, at this moment he had to think of another question, since Shi Bao knew so much, would his father also know?
In March, the weather in the northwest suddenly turned cold.

The clouds were thick, the wind was howling, and then bowl-sized hailstones fell, more than a dozen military camps were smashed, more than a hundred soldiers were injured, and three people were killed...

Horses and livestock also suffered heavy casualties.

Yang Zheng could only shrink his soldiers to Linjin City.

After the hailstorm, the heavy snow came late, everything froze, and the long-awaited Yellow River finally froze.

It is not cold when it should be cold, and it is cold when it should not be cold, which means that the sky is chaotic.

Yang Zheng remembered that there was a saying in later generations that the four to five hundred years from the end of the Han Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty was in the Little Ice Age, so the grasslands and the Western Regions moved south and east one after another.

But having said that, now that the overall situation of the Qin State has been decided, the land equalization system is on the right track, and it has the ability and strength to eat the tribes that move south and east.

"My lord, Soochow sent troops to attack Hefei!" The scouts braved the hail, rain and snow to transmit the news from the east.

Yang Zheng thought he had heard it wrong. Shouldn't Zhong Hui and Soochow join forces to resist Sima Zhao at this time?
How did it become a two-sided attack on the bell?

A few days ago, I was still feeling that Zhonghui would not die, but in a blink of an eye, Zhonghui was in danger.

Without Soochow's help, Zhonghui would definitely perish.

"The bell is gone." Yang Zheng sighed endlessly. Sun Hao was not even as good as Sun Chen and Sun Jun back then, and the two of them knew how to support Zhuge Dan.

"Now that the Yellow River is frozen, how about trying the quality of the East River?" Pang Qing suggested.

"The last general is willing to be a forward!" Meng Yu, Wen Yang, Ma Xun, and Liu Heng joined hands together.

In fact, Yang Zheng didn't want to fight, his mind was on the rear, this year's weather is so chaotic, maybe there will be floods and droughts in the future.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the middle land has always been plagued by disasters, and severe droughts, floods and plagues continued one after another.

Although the Yellow River is now frozen, this weather is more conducive to defense.

Chen Qian has been fighting in Hedong for several months, and it has already been made into an iron bucket.

When he was thinking about how to refuse, the drums outside the city were loud and shouts were like thunder, and the scouts rushed in, "My lord, the enemy troops crossed the river on foot!"

I don't want to fight, but I can't stand the opponent and want to play.

"Meng Yu, Wen Yang, and Ma Xun listened to the order, and each led five thousand cavalry to defeat the invading enemy!" Yang Zheng felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

It has been three or four years since the Feng Sa battle, and the enemy is ready to move again.

Chen Qian was worthy of being a veteran general, so Yang Zheng was somewhat surprised by the dispatch of troops this time.

The best defense is offense.

"The last general takes the order!" The three were overjoyed and took the order and left.

Liu Heng looked at the backs of the three of them, and looked at Yang Zheng eagerly with a sad expression on his face.

Yang Zheng deliberately didn't look at him.

The enemy's intentions are unclear, it may be a bluff, or it may be a trick to lure the enemy. Chen Qian's use of troops is sophisticated, and Yang Zheng has already experienced it.

It's better not to send him to such a brainy job.

In case of defeat, the morale of the army will be damaged.

"Chen Qian should be feinting." Pang Qing said.

Yang Zheng nodded.

The sound of shouting and killing and the sound of horseshoes could be heard faintly outside the city.

But it didn't take long before the various voices quickly became smaller.

Meng Yu, Wen Yang, and Ma Xun led their troops back to the city.

"The enemy's army was only a feint attack. When our army came out, the other army retreated. In the end, the general saw that there were many fortifications on the east bank, so he had to lead his army back. Forgive me, Your Majesty!" Meng Xi cupped his hands and said.

"For the way of generals, the first thing to do is to judge the situation and the situation. You have made no mistakes." Yang Zheng comforted the three of them.

With the current situation, there is little chance of attacking Hedong.

Although Sima Zhao went south, he asked Jia Chong to lead a [-] Chinese army to support Hedong.

Adding the troops of Chen Qian, Liu Hong, and Tang Bin, the Hedong army is nearly 20...

In the north, there are tens of thousands of cavalry from the Tuoba family and Liu Yuan going south at any time.

"My lord, Chen Qian has a letter!" Zhao Ahqi came in holding a letter.

Just thinking about Chen Qian, Chen Qian's letter came.

"Your Excellency, Chen Bing has been in the Jin Dynasty for half a year, and he is not allowed to advance an inch. The river east has become an iron wall, and the Huaibei bell will disappear in a blink of an eye. If you have the heart to take the river east, you might as well come quickly. Qian will be on the road to meet him. If you don't attack, you should retreat quickly. It's no use for hundreds of thousands of troops to confront each other here!"

After Pang Qing finished reading, all the generals in the tent looked at Yang Zheng, only Liu Heng bluffed, "Chen Qian is rude, do you really think that Great Qin dare not attack Hedong?"

Yang Zheng gave him a sideways look, and the guy quickly shut up.

The other generals also seemed to have no desire to attack.

Chen Qian's feint attack very cleverly demonstrated the strength of Hedong.

The so-called famous generals are nothing more than that.

"The year is unfavorable, the four seasons are not right, pass the order, and retreat!"

If the Yellow River had been frozen two months ago, Yang Zheng might have sent troops.

But now, as Chen Qian said: each is a strategy of plowing and defending, and it is useless for hundreds of thousands of troops to stand against each other here.

The time and place are not right.

Hundreds of thousands of troops fought protractedly, if there was a flood and drought in Guanzhong... the consequences would be disastrous.

Yang Zheng felt as if God was on the side of Sima's family again.

Looking at the southeast, I sighed in my heart: brother Zhong Hui, there is only so much I can help, you can go at ease, I will burn more paper for you tomorrow and today...

(End of this chapter)