Youzhou, Yan Kingdom.
Yang Hu stood atop the city wall, watching the armored soldiers drilling in the distance.
Since arriving in Hebei, Yang Hu had devoted all his efforts, apart from pacifying the region, to drilling his troops.
He had been unable to participate in either the war against the Shu Kingdom or the war against the Wu Kingdom, given the distance, but Yang Hu was not disheartened, for he too had enemies to deal with.
Previously, Guanqiu Jian had led the Expeditionary Army all the way to the Korean Peninsula, beating nearly all the northern enemies into submission. Few dared leap out and bare their fangs at Great Wei.
But that had been more than ten years ago, after all.
Over those years, many changes had taken place in the north.
The Xianbei had grown increasingly powerful, while former tribes such as the Wuhuan had declined completely. Several Xianbei tribes in the north gave Yang Hu an inexplicable sense of threat.
The three major Xianbei tribes in the north at present were the Tuoba Tribe, the Duan Tribe, and the Murong Tribe.
They knew a great deal about Great Wei, yet Great Wei knew little about them.
They had developed rapidly over the past decade or more. All that was known was that the Tuoba Tribe could field nearly two hundred thousand fighters, though, of course, that might include their own boasting.
As for the other two tribes, although they lived within Great Wei's Liaodong and Liaoxi regions, Yang Hu discovered that Great Wei had no accurate understanding of them.
Perhaps it was because so many major events had occurred at the imperial court over the years that no one had the attention to spare for the frontier.
Or perhaps it was contempt: since the other side had already