In the late first lunar month, Ji Palace, and the Palace of Qinhe.

Ji Kangzheng asked Huang Yong, director of the Intelligence Bureau, and said, "Director Huang Yong, please tell me about the specific situation of the Li Mu family."

Huang Yong bowed to report: "Your Majesty, the Li Mu family's Ying surname and Li family lived in Baren, Zhao (now Longyao County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province), and is the largest family in the local area."

"Li Mu's grandfather Li Tan gave birth to four sons. His son, like many families, was divided into the Central Plains countries. His eldest son Li Chong even moved to Longxi, Qin (now southeastern Gansu) to spread branches and leaves."

In this era, when faced with war and man-made disasters, the big families would distribute their descendants in various places for the continuation of their family bloodlines to avoid the destruction of their families.

The same is true for many large families in Yan State. Therefore, Ji Kang did not feel anything strange.

Huang Yong continued to say to Ji Kangyan: "Li Mu's father Li Ji is the youngest son of his grandfather Li Tan, and he stayed with his family to stay in Bai Ren. Li Mu now has three sons. After his father died of illness, his mother is still alive. Last year, his eldest son just gave Li Mu a eldest grandson."

Ji Kang interrupted Huang Yong and said to him: "Did the grandson of Li Mu be named Li Zuoche?"

Huang Yong was stunned for a moment, not knowing where his king learned about it.

However, this is also one of the contents that the intelligence agencies cannot neglect and must be clearly found out.

Huang Yong bowed and said, "The king, his grandson is indeed named Li Zuoche."

Ji Kang thought to himself: "Li Mu's grandson is also a powerful character. Han Xin once asked him about his advice. His famous saying "A wise man will have a mistake; a foolish man will have a thousand thoughts, a gain." But it has been passed down through the ages."

"King, according to the inquiries from our intelligence agencies, Li Mu is very filial to his mother, and his family is all in Bai Ren. Because Li Mu is upright, his career in Zhao State was not smooth and he was repeatedly excluded by Zhao State's court."

"Li Mu loves his soldiers, and these soldiers obey Li Mu's words. Whenever the Huns attack, Li Mu thinks of him gathers his soldiers to defend instead of going out to fight."

"Li Mu repeated this. Over the years, the soldiers of the Zhao border county did not suffer any great losses. The Zhao Dynasty court asked Li Mu to take the initiative many times, but Li Mu just refused to listen."

"This made the soldiers guarding the border counties very worried about Li Mu. As expected, before Li Mu defeated the Huns' army, Zhao Wangdan followed the opinions of the ministers in the court, summoned Li Mu back, and appointed someone else to act as Li Mu."

"It's a pity that when Li Mu came back, the Huns invaded the Zhao army. The Zhao army would fight every time and would be defeated in war, which caused great losses to Zhao State. The King of Zhao had no choice but to ask Li Mu to station in the border county again. Li Mu said he was sick and refused to go."

"The King of Zhao repeatedly invited Li Mu to lead the troops. Li Mu replied: "The king must use his ministers, and he will be as good as before, so he dares to obey orders." In desperation, Zhao Wangdan was forced to agree to this condition, and Li Mu then went to the border county to command the Zhao army to fight."

"After Li Mu arrived at the border, he still led the soldiers according to the previous rules and regulations, which made these soldiers very much want to fight the Huns. So Li Mu chose a thousand three hundred chariots, a thousand chariots, a hundred gold men, and a hundred thousand people, and all of them were trained in war and the Great Ranking of Animal Husbandry."

"When the Huns sent a small number of soldiers to invade, Li Mu asked them to capture thousands of people. After learning about it, the leader of the Huns Shanyu sent a large number of troops to attack the Zhao army. Li Mu set up many strange soldiers and surrounded the Huns with lightning speed. The Huns were defeated. The Zhao army achieved substantial victory, defeating tens of thousands of Huns and capturing several Hun generals."

When Huang Yong said this, he stopped and found that his king was listening with relish.

Seeing Huang Yong stop, he said to Huang Yong:

"Director Huang Yong, you drink a sip of water and continue talking."

"No." Huang Yong took the water cup handed over by the attendant's servant, and drank a few sips of tea.

He pursed his lips and continued to say:

"King, after Li Mu defeated the Huns, Zhao Wangdan sent a few letters to ask Li Mu to pursue him. Li Mu still refused to obey Zhao Wangdan's orders. He just recovered the territory occupied by the Huns and then stopped moving."

"It's okay. Li Mu also wrote a letter to Zhao Wangdan, saying that Zhao Wang did not understand military affairs and went north to the grassland in winter, and the army would be defeated. At that time, after receiving Li Mu's letter, Zhao Wangdan was furious in the court and scolded Li Mu."

"If it weren't for the obstruction of veteran Lian Po and others, Zhao Wangdan might have dismissed Li Mu again. Since then, Li Mu was even more disliked by Zhao Wangdan and was ordered to lead his army to garrison the northern border and not be allowed to return to Handan."

Huang Yong finally reported to Ji Kang.

After hearing Huang Yong's statement, Ji Kang laughed and said to Huang Yong:

"My uncle doesn't like Li Mu, I like it."

After thinking about it, Ji Kang asked Huang Yong again: "Director Huang Yong, have you obtained Li Mu's handwritten document?"

"Report to the king, my intelligence personnel have obtained Li Mu's handwritten documents from Zhao's court and even from Li Mu's home."

After hearing Huang Yong's words, Ji Kang lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and ordered Huang Yong:

"Intelligence personnel in Zhao State should increase surveillance of the Li Mu family."

Speaking of this, he paused and continued to say to Huang Yong:

"We must formulate an action plan to assist Li Mu's family in escaping to our Yan State in advance, and make all the responses along the way."

Huang Yong hurriedly bowed and replied, "Your Majesty, I understand. I will go on now and formulate this action plan immediately."

After Zheng Zhu, the envoy sent to Jidu, returned to Handan, Ji Kang's uncle Zhao Wangdan carefully inquired about Zheng Zhu's trip, and knew in his heart that the war between Zhao and Yan was unavoidable.

During this period, the Zhao State was the weakest of national strength. Faced with the upcoming war between the two countries, Zhao State was forced to begin recruiting troops and prepare for war, and ordered all counties to make all military preparations.

In early February, the northern border of Zhao State was in Yunzhongcheng (now northeast of Tokto, Inner Mongolia).

During the reign of King Wuling of Zhao, the State of Zhao implemented the military reform of "Hu Clothing, Cavalry and Shooting" and its military strength was strong.

King Wuling of Zhao took advantage of the situation to explore the northern territory and drove a few nomadic tribes such as the Xiongnu, Lin Hu, Lou Fan, etc., to the west of the Dahe River. The Zhao State's forces advanced west along the Daqing Mountains and the southern foot of the Wula Mountains, expanding their territory to the edge of Hetao.

Afterwards, King Wuling of Zhao ordered the establishment of Yunzhong and Yanmen (now Shuozhou area of ​​Shanxi) on this newly developed land, and began to build the northern Great Wall of Zhao to resist the invasion of northern grassland tribes.

It was under this situation that Li Mu, the young man came to the northern border of Zhao State. He started as a small school in the army, and with his military achievements, he became a frontier official who was in charge of Yunzhong and Yanmen counties of Zhao State.

Li Mu, who was inspecting the border city in Yunzhong City, returned to his residence in the city that day. After reading the preparation documents sent by the court, he not only lowered his head and thought.

Seeing this, Li Mu's deputy general Sima Shang stepped forward and asked:

"General, did the court let our northern army go south to guard Handan?"

Li Mu, who was burly, shook his head after hearing the words of Deputy General Sima Shang.

He did not answer, and handed the documents and silk sent by Zhao State to deputy general Sima Shang.

Sima Shang unfolded the silk and finished reading it quickly, not only wondering:

"General, I really don't know what the king and the ministers in the court think? The Battle of Changping did not allow our army to go south, and the Battle of Handan did not allow our army to go south. Until now, we have not allowed our army to go south. This..."

Li Mu stood up, waved his hand, and did not let Deputy General Sima Shang continue.

"General Sima, since our king does not allow our army to go south, our army will be stationed here well, without any further comment."

Sima Shang looked at Li Mu's face, couldn't help but sigh and retreat.

At this time, Li Mu himself did not expect that Ji Kang had already set his sights on him and began to plan for him.

Although Li Mu is now famous for defeating the Huns, the Central Plains countries, including Zhao, still do not fully realize how outstanding Li Mu's military command ability is.

In this era, it is necessary to defeat the Huns and must be done.

Qin, Zhao and Yan face the northern grassland country, and they win repeatedly every time. It is not a strange thing at all. If you lead your army to defeat the Huns, it is strange.

Li Mu knew that the deputy general Sima Shang was depressed, but in fact, he felt depressed!

As a general stationed in the northern border of Zhao State, Li Mu knew the current form of the Central Plains.

But he also knew that Zhao Wangdan, Pingyuan Jun Zhao Sheng and others did not appreciate him.

During the Battle of Changping, Li Mu was ready to lead his army south at that time. However, until the end of the Battle of Changping, Li Mu did not receive the document from Zhao State's court and asked him to lead his army to reinforce Changping.

Seeing hundreds of thousands of elite Zhao troops finally let Bai Qi lead his army to kill him, causing the Zhao national strength to decline.

When the Battle of Handan began, Li Mu was anxious and wrote several letters to ask to lead his troops south. Three years have passed, and Li Mu was in the border counties and was eager to see him until the Battle of Handan ended. Li Mu still did not receive the imperial edict to lead his army south.

Faced with the fierce coming of Yan State this time, Li Mu was completely numb and did not want to write a letter to go south again.

I don’t care about that much, as long as I can protect my “one acre and three-point land”.

But when I think of my mother and family in my hometown, I still can't calm down.

"Your Majesty, do you just dislike Li Mu so much?"
Chapter completed!