Qin Shi: Sword Asks the Bright Moon

Chapter 458 The Opening Curtain

In Dai County in the north, after an earthquake, the entire Dai County seemed to have experienced the end of the world, with countless houses collapsed. Even though the entire Dai County had been prepared by Yang Ming's order last year, but because they didn't know the exact time point when the earthquake would happen, the government and the army could do very little. Apart from ordering people to reinforce the houses, the rest was to store supplies.

However, Qin State has just occupied Dai County after all. Even if it has established its own ruling system in Dai County, it can only effectively control the city.

Therefore, an earthquake that spread throughout the northern territory and had already been felt to the south of Yanshan Mountain in Yan State and the northern area of ​​Zhao State, the acting army as the epicenter suffered heavy losses. There were not a single house left, and the walls of more than a dozen cities were shaken down.

Dai County was in a mess. Han Fei, who was the governor of Yanmen County and supervised the government affairs of Dai County, came to Dai County overnight from Yanmen County. After arriving in Dai County, his anxiety eased a little.

Because Dai County, the largest and most important county in Dai County, is in a better situation than he imagined. It’s not that the disaster in Dai County is lighter, but that Dai County still maintains basic order after the earthquake. The arsenal and granaries are under the control of the Qin Army, and there is no obvious chaos on the streets. Under the leadership of the army, the people are also organized to dig out people buried in collapsed houses. Not much difference.

Arriving at a temporary official residence cleared among the ruins, Han Fei asked Zhang Yuan, the magistrate of Dai County, "What's the loss in Dai County?"

"Reporting to my lord, it is very cold in the north, and the people live in it, so thick adobes are piled up to keep them warm. In addition, the earthquake was at night, and the people were all at home. The earthquake struck again suddenly, so the casualties were quite heavy. According to the available statistics, there are as many as 800 people dead, more than 3000 injured, and about [-] people are buried in the ruins. It is still unknown how many people can be rescued in the end. The number of casualties in Chijian." Zhang Yuan, the county magistrate of Dai County, replied.

"Dai County is not the worst-hit area, and the casualties are so serious?" Han Fei looked at Zhang Yuan while talking to himself, but he couldn't help but look more curious.

As for Zhang Yuan's background, Han Fei, as the only county guard in the northern border, naturally knows the details. A school lieutenant under the command of the Dragon and Tiger Forbidden Army was also the first group of soldiers when the Dragon and Tiger Forbidden Army was formed. He was over 35 years old. The establishment of the army, becoming the county magistrate of this generation, is more important than the former school lieutenant's position, it only depends on personal judgment.

It was precisely because he knew Zhang Yuan's background that Han Fei was curious. Zhang Yuan was born at the bottom. Even if he was literate, he only came into contact with it under the force of the military order after he joined the Dragon and Tiger Forbidden Army.

But now the situation in Dai County is no longer a matter of full-time or not, but can be called good at it, a warrior who is good at governing the place?Isn't this kind of thing a little too mysterious?Or is it that the Dragon and Tiger Forbidden Army is full of such strange creatures?

Han Fei withdrew his thoughts of running away and asked Zhang Yuan about other things, but now he didn't have the energy to take care of other things.

When almost every family mourned because of the earthquake in the north, it was a completely different situation in Jicheng, the capital of the Yan Kingdom.

In the Palace of King Yan, Yan Dan, as the crown prince, described the situation from the three counties in the north of Qin State to King Xi of Yan. In his steady voice, there was excitement that ordinary people could hardly detect. He could only hear Yan Dan say: "Father, the earthquake in the three counties in the north of Qin State spread for thousands of miles, especially Dai County. The loss was the heaviest. Qin State had just captured the three counties in the north, and suffered this catastrophe. It seems that God can't look down on Qin State."

"That's Qin's business, what does it have to do with our Yan?" Yan Wangxi asked back, Qin has suffered a disaster, does Yan need to celebrate?It's completely irrelevant.

"Father, the matter is not so simple. I have already sent people to Feihukou to investigate. According to the news sent back, because of the earthquake, the passage of Feihukou was blocked by the collapsed rocks. In less than a year, it is almost impossible for Qin to open the Feihu Pass again. In this way, our western border of Yan Kingdom is one less serious problem." Yan Dan said.

"It's Zhao that should be celebrating, right? With such a violent earth dragon turning around and the Feihu Path being blocked, will the road leading from the northern border to Zhao be blocked too? In this way, it would be impossible for Qin to use the northern border as a base and launch an attack from the northern part of Zhao. They can only take the Jingxing route as usual and enter Zhao as the North Army, and this Northern Army still has to withstand the pincer attack from the north and south of Zhao." King Yan was delighted. Chanted.

In the previous Qin-Zhao Wars, although Qin already knew that the Great Wall in the south of Zhao State was difficult to break through, and went out of Jingxing with Taiyuan County as the rear, but because the exit of Jingxing was in the central area of ​​Zhao State, Qin Army’s North Route Army was only the North Route Army in comparison with the Qin Army who attacked Zhao’s Great Wall from the south. If the attack goes north, it will be threatened from the south of Zhao State.

However, after the Qin army captured the three northern counties of the original Zhao state, this situation was completely reversed. The Qin army could come out from the three northern counties, enter the Zhao state from the border of Yanzhao, and go from north to south, without worrying about the North Road Army.

As for whether the Yan State would threaten the Qin army's rear, Qin State probably would not consider such a thing. Is Yan State a threat?This is an interesting question.

It is precisely because of this that Yan Wangxi said that Zhao Guocai should really be celebrated.

In fact, this is indeed the case at the Zhao Palace, the capital of Zhao, nearly a thousand miles away at this time.

"Queen Mother, Zhao Dilong turned around, and the mountain road is blocked. It is impossible for Qin to attack our country from the three northern counties. In this way, our country will be free of a major problem." Guo Kai, who is the prime minister of Zhao, also has his own intelligence system, so he naturally got the news from the three northern counties in the first place.

"You can feel a slight shaking in the palace. How serious is the turn of the earth dragon in the north?" Queen Mother Zhao said to herself, with a look of thought on her face, but she was thinking about what kind of losses Qin would have in this turn of the earth dragon.

"The Qin State paid a huge price to take down the three counties in the northern border. It originally wanted to weaken our country's strength and take the opportunity to attack our country from the northern border. However, it never thought that after occupying the country for less than a year, it would encounter such a catastrophe. Not only would it not get the slightest benefit, but it would have to invest a huge amount of manpower and material resources to rescue the disaster. Is this in response to the sentence that stealing chickens is not a loss?"
"I only hope that the disaster situation in the three counties in the north can be more serious, so that it can also involve more energy of the Qin State. It is also a good thing for us to see the ups and downs." Queen Mother Zhao said to herself.

At the same time, Li Mu, who was summoned into the palace, looked at the scene in front of him, and his ugly face appeared on his face. The northern border was hit by this catastrophe, and people like the Queen Mother and Xiangguo who stood at the top of Zhao State were celebrating. It is true that the three counties in the northern border belonged to the Qin Kingdom, but the people there used to be loyal to the Zhao Kingdom.

In this catastrophe where the earth dragon turned around, among the dead and injured victims, there must be family members and relatives of the border knight soldiers, but now...

Li Mu endured and endured, although he barely suppressed the anger in his heart, but under the anger, there was a sense of coolness. For a moment, doubts arose in his mind, what was it that he and his soldiers risked their lives to protect?
"Queen, the people in the northern region were once the citizens of our country of Zhao, and there are still many people serving in the army. Is it really appropriate for us to be so happy here?" Zhao Jia, the youngest person in the hall, the eldest son of King Zhao Xian, the former prince of Zhao, and the elder brother of Wangqian Zhao, said in a daze.

"Young Master Jia, you can't look at this matter this way. The three counties in the northern border have belonged to Qin since last year. Isn't it a good thing for us to suffer a disaster in Qin? You know, once Qin launches an attack from the northern border, the food the Qin army eats is grown in the northern border, and the weapons they use are casted in the northern border. The horses they ride on are also raised in the northern border. Sympathy." Guo Kai took the initiative to explain amidst the slight change of Queen Mother Zhao's expression.

There are some things that cannot be shown too much, but there is no need to be too hypocritical.

"But those people used to be the citizens of our Zhao country." Zhao Jia, who was about to be crowned at this time, seemed to still have the innocence and stubbornness of a young man.

"Young Master Jia, the benevolence of a woman is not worth it." Guo Kai didn't seem to care about Zhao Jia's contradictory, but was very satisfied with his innocence.

(End of this chapter)