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On the seventh day of October, Zhao Hongrun led his Suwang army to cross Pilao Pass.
At this time, the fire on Yishan Mountain has been extinguished, and the once lush mountain forest has been destroyed. From a distance, the two peaks of Yishan Mountain are scorched black, like ugly scars, which makes people feel...
Very uncomfortable.
It has to be said that it is generally better to do less things like setting mountains on fire, because as the saying goes, you can rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, and you can rely on the water to drink the water. This time Zhao Hongrun burned the entire Yishan Mountain with a fire, which means that in the next few years, even
In more than ten years, the lives of local residents in counties like Tang County, which is located near Yishan Mountain, or in mountain villages located nearby, will not be so easy.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun was wondering if he could find a way to move the Korean people living in this area to Linfen.
There is no denying that this is a good idea. After all, Linfen is one of the few large cities in the west of Hedong County, and it is not a problem to accommodate some Koreans.
But the problem is that due to all the ugly atrocities committed by the Northern First Army on this land during the previous Northern Xinjiang Campaign, the local Korean people had an extremely bad impression of the Wei Army and basically refused to move there.
Go and live in Linfen.
Therefore, all Zhao Hongrun can do is to reserve some food for the local Korean people to avoid starvation when the cold winter comes.
When passing through Pilao Pass, Zhao Hongrun looked around at the pass. To be precise, it should be the ruins of the pass. Because the Wei army used strategic weapons such as oil this time, a solid stone pass was destroyed.
The fire reduced it to ruins.
Pilao Pass, which was quite famous in both Hedong County and Shangdang County, no longer exists.
Zhao Hongrun lamented this.
He didn't know whether it was right or wrong to frequently use oil as a strategic weapon on the battlefield.
On the plus side, the power of oil is simply devastating. It is as powerful as a pass such as Pilao Pass, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It can only retreat sadly in the face of the fire that uses oil as a combustion aid, because it is simply beyond the control of human power.
Yes, it falls into the category of natural disasters.
But conversely, things like oil are also very harmful.
First of all, its pollution is very serious. If it is not completely burned, the oil film produced by the oil will corrode the soil; even if it is completely burned, the soil in this area will be salinized.
In Henan City in Sanchuan County, which was the original tribal camp of the Jiejiao tribe, Zhao Hongrun used a huge amount of oil to burn down the city, which shocked the whole of Sanchuan. Many Sanchuan tribes were frightened and did not dare to fight with the Wei State.
Be an enemy.
But until now, after two or three years, the land is still a piece of scorched earth without any grass. Only a few stubborn weeds can occasionally be seen growing on the land. It does not look like a grassland area full of green grass.
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In addition to the impact on the environment, frequent use of oil will also reveal the existence of this black oil. If the enemies of Wei learn of the existence of this black water, they will use it on the battlefield against Wei in the future.
, Zhao Hongrun felt worried.
You know, oil does not only exist in Guizhou. At least when Zhao Hongrun was attacking Chu, he passed by a hill called "Fierce Mountain" by the locals. He knew that the mountain would explode violently in thunderstorms from time to time.
Burning hills are likely to contain rich oil beneath them.
To be fair, Zhao Hongrun is actually not satisfied with the combination of catapults and oil barrel bombs as this strategic weapon.
Although the power of burning oil is extremely huge, in fact, if you think about it, you will know that oil shipped in wooden barrels cannot actually create much fire, unless it is invested regardless of the cost like the Wei army did when they burned Henan City.
In Zhao Hongrun's view, this kind of fire caused by oil is more of a deterrent, making the enemy afraid of it. As for the lethality, as long as the enemy generals understand the nature of the oil, don't let the soldiers stupidly
Use water to extinguish the fire, but stay away as soon as possible. In fact, the fire caused by the ignition of oil can only burn some defense facilities at best and cannot cause a large number of enemy casualties.
To put it bluntly, using oil to create huge fires seems like a natural disaster, but in fact, the efficiency of killing enemy troops is far inferior to that of the Wei State's continuous crossbows and the Lu State's crossbow boxes.
Just imagine that in the "Battle of Hangu", the Wei army used various powerful crossbows to kill tens of thousands of Qin soldiers in just two hours, but this time they used oil to fuel the burning of Piluo Pass. How many troops did the Korean army lose?
When the Korean general Jin Mao ordered the withdrawal of troops in time, the Korean army suffered very little personnel losses, and only a few hundred people were killed.
Therefore, it can only be said that Zhao Hongrun has no choice but to regard this kind of weapon with a deterrent effect that is greater than its actual power and has various shortcomings as a strategic weapon.
"It seems that we still need to find a siege weapon that can replace the combination of catapult and oil..."
Thinking about this matter, Zhao Hongrun drove his mount and slowly passed through the ruins of Pi Lao Pass.
On that day, King Su's army was on the east side of Pilao Pass, Wangwu Mountain and the north side of Xiyize, on a spacious plain area, preparing to build a camp here as a stronghold to attack Duanshi County.
But half a day later, waiting for the Yanling Army, the Shang Shui Army had just arrived in the nearby forest and were preparing to cut down trees to build a camp. The Qingya people who went to Duanshi County to investigate the news sent people back to tell them that Han General Jin Pao had come back from
Duanshi County withdrew its troops and continued to evacuate eastward with the county residents.
After hearing the news, Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly.
He immediately took the clan guards and headed to Duanshi County in light gear.
Sure enough, as reported by the Green Crows, Duanshi County has become an empty city.
In fact, Han general Jin Yao did a very good job in evacuating. He set fire to the granaries, houses and many other buildings in the city, making it clear that he did not intend to leave anything useful to the Wei army.
"This Jin Mao..."
Looking at the burning Duanshi County, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but frown.
At this time, Duan Pei, the leader of the Green Crows, came to Zhao Hongrun, cupped his fists and said: "Your Highness, in fact, the Korean army is not far away from our army. If they march in a hurry, they may be able to catch up..."
"It makes no sense." Zhao Hongrun shook his head.
What if we catch up with Jin Maojun?
At this time, Jin Piao's army was retreating to the east with many Korean civilians. If Zhao Hongrun sent troops to pursue them on a rapid march, let alone whether they would be ambushed. What if Jin Piao's army gave up on the Korean civilians when it discovered that the chasing Wei army appeared in the rear?
what to do?
Massacre Korean people to vent their anger?
Or should we bring those Korean people back and support them, thereby increasing the burden of food consumption on the Wei army?
Therefore, it is better to let the other side retreat with those Korean people.
"In what direction did Jin Piao's army retreat?" Zhao Hongrun asked.
"They retreated toward the northeast," Duan Pei replied.
After hearing this, Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao took out a map from his arms.
This is a very special map, because it is clearly marked "Shangdang", so as the name suggests, it is Shangdang County, which is now controlled by South Korea. However, in this map, there are many cities in Shangdang County.
They all belong to the State of Wei and are marked with the word "Wei".
It turned out that this map was the map of Shangdang decades before the Wei State lost the southern part of Shangdang County. Before Zhao Hongrun rushed to northern Xinjiang, he sent his Zongwei to dig out the map of Shangdang from the Zongfu's treasury and compared it with the map of Shangdang.
A copy of the cortical map.
As for why he brought this old map with him, there is only one reason: Zhao Hongrun hopes to use this map to inspire himself to defeat South Korea in this northern Xinjiang battle and regain the country's military defeat decades or even a century ago.
And the lost country.
"The northeastern part of the Duan family is Gaolang..."
Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao pointed at the map and said in a deep voice.
Zhao Hongrun glanced at the ancient map, his eyes slightly dazed.
"Duanshi...Gaolang..."
He suddenly remembered a person, General Sima An of the Dangshan Army.
I remember that as early as the "Battle of Weichuan and Sanchuan", Zhao Hongrun had a night conversation with Sima An in order to obtain the full assistance of the Dangshan Army.
At that time, Sima An revealed his own origin, and only then did Zhao Hongrun know that this general of the Dangshan Army, who pursued the belief of "exterminating all those who are not our own race," was actually a descendant of the Sima family, the general guarding Tianmen Pass.
At that time, outside Tianmen, which belonged to the Wei State, there lived several foreign tribes, such as the Yi people who called themselves "Duan clan", the Hu people who called themselves "Gaolang", etc.
At that time, the relationship between the Wei army guarding Tianmen Pass and these foreign tribes was quite harmonious. In fact, the Sima clan guarding Tianmen Pass even mobilized soldiers to help these foreign tribes build cities to protect them from the cold winter wind and snow.
However, these aliens eventually betrayed the Wei State and, under the inducement of South Korea, assisted the Korean army to capture Tianmen Pass. As a result, after the Wei State was defeated in the "Battle of Shangdang", the remaining land in the southern part of Shangdang County was also occupied.
captured by South Korea.
The most fatal thing was that Wei lost Tianmen Pass and Mengmen Pass, causing the war between the two countries to burn from Shangdang County to the narrow Hetao area in the middle of Hedong County.
It is no exaggeration to say that the losses Wei suffered due to the betrayal of those foreign races were no less than another disastrous defeat in the Battle of Shangdang.
However, the fate of those foreigners who betrayed the Wei State is not much better. They have long been driven to the barren land northwest of Shangdang County by South Korea.
One day later, the Qingya people sent another message, saying that Jin Yao's army turned north in the Gaolang area and withdrew into "Xunshi" County.
Therefore, there are currently two routes for advancing troops in front of Zhao Hongrun: Xuushi County or Tianmen Pass.
At this time, Zhao Hongrun had not yet received the news that "Southern Liang King Zhao Yuanzuo was defeated at Tianmen Pass", so after thinking about it, he decided to attack the Xuans.
After all, Han general Jin Mao had just suffered a defeat at his hands, and the morale of his troops was low. If he didn't take the opportunity to pursue him now, how could he wait?
Looking at Tianmen Pass, although Zhao Hongrun wanted to help Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Nanliang, it is well known that Tianmen Pass, Mengmen Pass, and even South Korea deployed heavy troops on the two passes at Shangdang Army.
Especially Tianmen Pass, even the Second Northern Army under the command of Zhao Yuanzuo, King of Southern Liang, has been unable to attack it. Could it be that it is a soft persimmon?
Since we want to expand the results of the war, of course we must choose the Korean general Jin Pao of the Yun clan to start.
But just after Zhao Hongrun led King Su's army to the Xuans, he received an urgent battle report from Linfen along Pilao Pass, saying that Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Nanliang, was defeated at Tianmen Pass on the sixth day of October.
Upon receiving the news, Zhao Hongrun's complexion instantly turned pale.