"PS: I returned to Hong Kong today, and will return to Shanghai tomorrow. I will start updating at that time. This trip is really tiring."

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On the first day of the first lunar month in the twenty-seventh year of Wei Hongde, Prince Zhao Run of Wei State hosted a banquet in Julu City for the generals of his Shang Shui Army, which was supposed to be a celebration of the New Year.

The soldiers and generals of the Shangshui Army are no strangers to this. After all, it is not uncommon for the Yanling and Shangshui armies to celebrate the New Year in other countries during the war. Who asked these two armies to celebrate the New Year in other countries during the war?

The army, directly under the command of Prince Zhao Run, has been the most frequently deployed army in Wei in the past ten years.

Of course, whether holding a banquet to celebrate the New Year or rewarding the sergeants, the main purpose is to create a festive and peaceful atmosphere. In fact, there is not enough meat in Julu City, so that when the Wei army and generals celebrated the New Year, they had to

Braving the cold snow and going out of the city to hunt in the mountains, in the words of many Shang Shui soldiers, being idle is just idleness anyway.

Even Zhao Hongrun, when he had nothing to do, would lead a group of merchant cavalry out of the city to hunt, looking for traces of wild beasts in the ice and snow.

This has brought disaster to the wild beasts in the Julu area. Whether it is the wolves that are still hunting in the snow during this season, the bears that have long hidden in caves to hibernate, or other wild beasts, they are all attacked by these self-proclaimed animals.

Wei Jun's humans were regarded as food.

Perhaps to ordinary civilians, these wild beasts are dangerous and deadly, but to the experienced Shang Shui army and Wei soldiers, no matter how ferocious wild beasts are, they are nothing more than food.

It is worth mentioning that in this winter, Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Shui Army, finally completed his achievement of challenging a bear alone. In the snow, with dozens of Wei soldiers watching and cheering, he forcibly defeated a bear.

A bear that was several heads taller than him was beaten to the ground, and then dragged back to Julu City. Many soldiers and generals of the Shang Shui Army could not help but exclaim again. Their general was simply wearing a robe.

Monster in human skin.

Perhaps influenced by this astonishing move, a bad trend gradually began to spread among the Shang Shui army. For a while, the Wei soldiers seemed to be keen on fighting wild beasts to prove their bravery.

This sounds like a very high self-challenge, but in the final analysis, it is just that Wei Jun is just too idle.

Of course, those who are keen on this kind of self-challenge are only a minority among the Wei army. More Wei soldiers would rather hide in the house and warm themselves by the fire and sleep. This day is not enough to be described as leisurely, it should be called decadent——

This is also the reason why the combat capabilities of many armies dropped significantly after the winter break. Due to the severe cold, these soldiers wasted the whole winter.

Under this situation, the Shang Shui Army's deputy general Zhai Huang put forward the suggestion of winter drills in order to warm up for the upcoming decisive battle in spring and enable the soldiers to maintain their original strength level in winter.

In previous years, the Shang Shui Army was not so urgent, because after the winter break, although the strength of their Wei soldiers had declined, in fact, their opponents' strength had declined even more severely, and the war was not going well.

The stalemate was fierce, so there was plenty of time for the soldiers to regain their strength after the spring.

However, the situation this year is different. Both South Korea and Wei are fully prepared to defeat each other in one fell swoop after the spring begins and seize the opportunity. In addition, South Korea's soldiers are not inferior to Wei's soldiers.

This made generals like Zhai Huang very vigilant towards this spring decisive battle, fearing that the strength of their own soldiers would decline and their side would lose the decisive battle with the Korean army.

But obviously, in the middle of winter, forcing the soldiers to practice in the snow, and when the soldiers in Shangshui generally did not have winter clothes, this did not seem like a reliable idea, and it could easily arouse the Wei soldiers.

dissatisfaction.

No, only two hours after the order was issued, the Wei soldiers began to lament and complain - even if they were as elite as the Wei merchant navy, they were unwilling to train in the snow in the middle of winter.

At the military council, Zhai Huang, deputy general of the Shangshui Army, explained: "...an entire winter of idleness will undoubtedly reduce the physical strength of the soldiers. Zhai believes that although there are still more than a month left before the decisive battle in the spring, it will still be possible in the future.

To be on the safe side, we should take precautions at this time and find ways to restore the soldiers' physical strength."

After listening to Zhai Huang's words, the generals of the Shang Shui Army did not know what to say.

After all, there were indeed many Wei soldiers who spent this winter eating, sleeping, and eating, as decadent as pigs. In fact, some Wei soldiers did not leave the residential houses assigned to them during this winter, lying in bed all day long.

On the grass couch, either soundly asleep or chatting with Tongze who lives in the same house, one can imagine how serious the problem of physical decline will be - in this state, how can the Wei soldiers defeat the Korean army in the spring decisive battle?

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In the end, it was Prince Zhao Run who came up with a compromise, which was to let the soldiers under his command recover their physical strength through play, and this method was snowball fights.

In the days that followed, the 40,000 to 50,000 Merchant Navy soldiers in Julu City, organized into teams of a thousand, started the largest snowball fight in history.

In order to inspire the soldiers' belief in winning, Zhao Hongrun came up with a gimmick, that is, allowing the final winning team of 1,000 people to name their own team of 1,000 people, such as "Hu Ben", "Shenwu", etc., after all, for

Nowadays, most Shangshui soldiers desire honor more than material rewards.

- Strangely enough, the Wei army's treatment is generally very high, especially that of the Shang Shui army, but most of these rewards are material rewards. As for honorary awards, there is currently only the title of "scout", that is,

Only the bravest and most comprehensive soldiers can get the honor of "scout".

Because of this, when this order was issued, the hearts of the Shangshui Army soldiers suddenly aroused: Who doesn't want to give their thousand-man team a brave and domineering name? Especially for those who

Thousands of people will speak.

For a time, even the laziest Wei soldiers came out of the warm houses with great interest and asked about the requirements for winning this snowball fight. When they learned that he currently had forty or fifty merchant ships,

When only one thousand-man team could finally get this honor, the sense of competition within the Shangshui Army suddenly increased.

Regarding this matter, Zhao Hongrun only told Zhai Huang about it, and then handed it over to the latter. After all, for him, it didn't matter which thousand-man team won the championship and got the honor. The key was to

In this activity, the participating Wei soldiers could exercise to restore their physical strength and should be used as a warm-up for the decisive battle in the spring.

Ever since, from that day on, snowballs were flying in Julu City, and the excited and excited shouts of the Wei soldiers were everywhere.

"This way! This way!"

"We need help here!... We can't suppress it anymore and we need help!"

"Ah... damn, I can't stand it anymore. Someone is coming, someone is coming quickly..."

Similar sounds can travel far and will inevitably attract the Korean cavalry patrolling the area and monitoring the movements of the Wei army.

No, not long after, the cavalry general "Hualang" under the acting governor Sima Song led a group of cavalry to the Julu area. When he heard the shouts of the Wei soldiers coming from Julu City,

Afterwards, Hualang and the cavalry under his command looked at each other.

"Wei Jun...what are you doing?"

"It seems like there's internal strife? And the fighting is very intense..."

Amid the mutterings of his cavalry, Cavalry Commander Hualang scratched his hair and felt confused.

He never believed that an elite Wei army like the Shang Shui Army would actually have internal strife. But if it wasn't internal strife, what were the Wei soldiers in the city doing? Why were they so excited? So excited?

Later, it was not until the snowball fight in Julu City that the city wall of Julu was included in the "combat area". The patrolling Han Qi who was monitoring the Wei army outside the city suddenly realized that the Wei soldiers were actually having a snowball fight.

It really hurts my ass.

The cavalry commander Hualang and his cavalry were speechless.

It is worth mentioning that they originally had doubts about whether the Wei army in the city was setting up a suspicious formation and using the snowball fight as a cover to cover up some ulterior motives. Therefore, they went outside Julu City every day to monitor every move of the Wei army.

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After waiting for three to five days of surveillance, they realized that the Wei army was really just having a snowball fight.

Do you want to be so free?

Aren't you worried about the upcoming decisive battle in the spring? Please be more serious! Bastard!

With mixed emotions, groups of Korean cavalry went back and forth from Julu City, feeling quite uncomfortable.

It has to be said that even though they were in the hinterland of South Korea and the retreat route back to Wei was cut off by the Korean army, neither the prince of Wei, Zhao Run, nor the soldiers and generals of the Yanling Army under his command, or the Shangshui Army, seemed to have no fear at all.

Feeling panicked, in addition to hunting, they even had a leisurely time having a snowball fight in the ice and snow.

In contrast, Han Jun's side did not have the leisure and ease of Wei Jun at all. As for Han Lihou Han Wu, he did not have the same relaxed mood as Wei's crown prince Zhao Run.

It's no wonder, after all, at the end of last year, on the battlefield in Hanoi, Wei had already given up its original strategy, launched a counterattack in advance, and pushed the front back to the "common ground" before the ice and snow came.

It is difficult to guess that in another month, when spring really comes and the ice and snow begin to melt, the Wei army on the battlefield in Hanoi will definitely start operations again.

For South Korea, what is very embarrassing is that they will be in a two-sided battle, and it will be difficult to take care of both ends: on the one hand, they have to resist Wei's attack on the frontal battlefield, and on the other hand, they have to find a way to deal with Mr. Wei.

From a strategic point of view, Run this partial division is a complete mess.

In addition, before the twelfth lunar month of last year, the heavy cavalry of Daijun, which the Han army had placed great hope on, lost nearly 10,000 people at the hands of the Wei army. The morale that fell due to this defeat has still not been fully recovered to this day.

Many Korean soldiers and generals are thinking about a question: If even Daijun's heavy cavalry, which costs a lot of money, cannot defeat the Wei army under Wei Gongzi Run, then will South Korea still have a chance to win this battle?

Thinking about this problem all day long, and barely seeing the possibility of victory, how much better can the morale of the Korean soldiers be?

Not to mention them, even the generals are pessimistic about the decisive battle in the spring - they will definitely fight, but they don't know whether they can win.

Even Han Lihou Han Wu, who had absolute trust in Daijun's heavy cavalry before, now felt a little uneasy.

It is undeniable that the heavy cavalry is very powerful, so powerful that even after a defeat, Han Lihou Han Wu still believed that the heavy cavalry was the key to defeating Wei. The problem was that Wei Gongzi Run on the opposite side, Han Lihou Han Wu could not figure out whether the opponent would Come up with some other tactics to restrain his Korean heavy cavalry.

If it were an ordinary opponent, I believe that Han Lihou and Han Wu would have sworn to boast that no matter what kind of conspiracy the other party played, it would be nothing but empty talk in front of his Korean Daijun heavy cavalry.

But facing Wei Gongzi Run's treacherous military tactics, to be honest, Han Lihou Han Wu was still a little unsure.

"Report! The cavalry patrolling Julu is back!"

Outside the commander's tent, the soldiers' announcement came.

Immediately, a general stepped into the tent and saluted Han Lihou Han Wu, Dangyin Hou Han Yang, Yuyang Shou Qin Kai and others inside the tent.

This general is Hualang, the Han general who just went to patrol the Julu area. Because of the "warhouse chariot incident" of the Wei army a while ago, he was temporarily transferred from the Han general Sima Shang to the Yuyang army to make up for the Yuyang army. The Yang Army's lack of patrolling cavalry prevented the Wei Army from once again using the unpredictable military chariot tactic to sneak to the rear under the eyes of the Korean Army and attack the Korean Army's food routes.

"Is there any movement from the Wei army in Julu?"

Lihou Hanwu asked while drinking hot wine to drive away the cold.

After hearing this, Hua Lang clasped his fists and said, "Reporting to Marquis Li, there is no abnormal movement of the Wei army in Julu City. However..."

"But what?" Li Hou Han Wu's face straightened and he asked slightly nervously.

Perhaps he didn't even realize that neither he nor the Korean generals under his command were becoming more and more fearful of Wei Gongzi Run and the Wei troops under his command.
To be continued...