From the end of the 20th year of Hongde to the beginning of the 21st year of Hongde, Zhao Hongrun made some changes to the division of tasks between the two groups of hidden thieves under his command.
First, he summoned some of the Black Crows to Shangdang County. From now on, the Black Crows will replace the Green Crows' original mission of accompanying the army.
As for the Green Crows, they will gradually fade out of their role in accompanying the army and will instead be responsible for gathering intelligence on the Korean army and delivering news on several battlefields.
Such an arrangement was made by Zhao Hongrun, considering the communication situation between his Wei army in several battlefields. It has to be said that he was severely deceived by the defeat of the Nanliang King Zhao Yuanzuo at Tianmen Pass this time, and he almost lost one hundred thousand King Su.
The army was defeated in Shangdang County. Even after racking their brains in the end, it was thanks to his brother Huan Wang Zhao Hongxuan who led the 20,000 Northern Army to come to the rescue. Otherwise, the victory of the "Battle of Wei Qiu" would definitely not be the Wei army's.
However, this arrangement has a shortcoming, that is, the Black Crows are not suitable to follow the army, because this group of people is not good at spying on military intelligence, but only good at assassination.
To put it bluntly, members of the Blue Crows are generally more resourceful, while members of the Black Crows are less likely to adapt to circumstances. It is for this reason that this time the Black Crows are led by "Yang Ji".
Yang Ji, that is, Ji, changed his name after joining the Black Crow Crowd, and took Yang from Yangxia as his surname.
This man was born as an orphan, and was highly regarded by Jin Gou, the leader of Yuanyang Xia Fuqiu, who is now a wanted criminal. It is said that he was regarded as an adopted son by Jin Gou and taught him carefully. But when Jin Gou defected, Bai did not lead the remaining criminals.
The Fuqiu people followed, including Jin Gou who later colluded with the big thief Huan Hu, and the other two leaders of the Black Crows, "Mang Crow" and "Black Spider", had secretly monitored this person for a while. Therefore, Zhao Hongrun felt that this person
It should still be quite trustworthy.
However, depending on the situation, Black Spider has added an insurance policy for this, so this time, "Ding Heng" was also sent to act together with Yang Ji.
Ding Heng is a member of "Ding Village" in the Central Plains of Yangxia Hidden Thieves. He is the eldest among the adopted sons of leader Ding Ming. After Ding Village merged with the Black Crows, Ding Heng became the subordinate of Black Spider.
Black Spider still trusts Ding Heng, or the original Dingzhuang forces including Ding Ming and Ding Heng. Why?
Because the old village owner Ding Ming was too timid, he did not dare to take sides when the Fuqiu people and the Yiqiu people were fighting among themselves.
Of course, this move also caused the Dingzhuang forces to lose their qualifications to be the leader among the Black Crows.
The real leaders of the Black Crows are Black Spider and Mang Crow. This was the reward given by Zhao Hongrun after they defeated Jin Gou. As for Yang Ji, his position as leader is not very tenable, because giving him the position of leader is a consideration.
Some of the defeated and surrendered Fuqiu tribesmen were merged into the Black Crow tribe. In order to appease these original Fuqiu tribesmen, Yang Ji was given the position of leader.
But in fact, Yang Ji does not have much say among the black crows. At least, until the black spider completely trusts Yang Ji, this person does not have much independent rights for the time being.
But it is undeniable that Yang Yi is a smarter member of the Black Crows, and so is Ding Heng. Therefore, the leader of the Black Crows, Black Spider, thinks it is more reliable to send these two people to assist His Highness Prince Su.
However, Zhao Hongrun still felt a little regretful about this, because if he had a choice, he would choose Black Spider, because according to his understanding, Black Spider's scheming and methods are not inferior to Jin Gou, which makes Zhao Hongrun feel more at ease.
But there is no way. After all, the Black Crows also need to develop themselves. Black Spider is one of the few smart people among the Black Crows who can stand alone. If he comes to Shangdang County, then the Black Crows' industry in Yangxia may collapse.
, because the other leader, Sang Ya, could not be regarded as a normal person at all. Zhao Hongrun always felt that this guy had mental problems.
By the way, the responsibilities that Black Spider currently shoulders among the Black Crows are roughly the same as Ying Kang, the leader of the Blue Crows, that is, they are responsible for developing their respective hermit villages, including forming caravans to make money through trade, absorbing, and training members.
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In the first month of the 21st year of Hong De, Yang Ji and Ding Heng of the Black Crows handed over the task to Duan Pei of the Green Crows. From now on, Yang Ji and Ding Heng replaced Duan Pei at Zhao Hongrun's side, and Duan Pei
Then he led the Green Crows behind the scenes and collected battle reports on various battlefields in Northern Xinjiang for Zhao Hongrun.
In fact, Zhao Hongrun hopes that the Green Crows will infiltrate South Korea and collect information about South Korea for him.
However, the embarrassing thing is that after sending the Green Crows out, they did not send back any information about the battle situation on several battlefields at first, but instead escorted two messengers to Wei Qiu.
Well, it's a messenger from the Ministry of War's Driving Department, writing an urgent letter for eight hundred miles.
At that time, after the two messengers revealed their identities, Zhao Hongrun's expression became very embarrassed, because he had already guessed that this could not be a letter sent to him by the Ministry of War - the commander-in-chief of this battle was the commander-in-chief of the war.
General Shaohu, even if he has some urgent mission, it should be General Shaohu's bodyguard who comes to deliver the message. What's the turn of the Ministry of War?
Therefore, the reason why the Ministry of War sent this letter is self-evident - it was an urgent letter sent by Emperor Wei from the Ministry of War.
"I really don't want to take it apart..."
Under the gloating gaze of his brother Huan Wang Zhao Hongxuan, Zhao Hongrun opened the letter with a stern expression.
Sure enough, this was a letter written by Emperor Wei himself. In the letter, Emperor Wei severely criticized Zhao Hongrun and repeatedly emphasized in the letter that "a gentleman will not stand under a dangerous wall." Obviously,
Emperor Wei, who was in Daliang, had already learned that Zhao Hongrun was trapped in Shangdang a few years ago and was once in dire straits.
In addition, the letter also contained a piece of paper, which seemed to be a page torn directly from a military book. On the paper was an essential chapter on the art of war for chasing the enemy - the meaning was already obvious.
"Next time, get back to Daliang!...Tsk, tsk."
Zhao Hongxuan stretched his head and looked around, with a bit of schadenfreude and envy on his face, and murmured: "Judging from the handwriting, it seems that my father is really angry this time... my father cares about you very much."
Zhao Hongrun rolled his eyes at his brother angrily and burned the letter directly. As for the page of the military book, he held it in his hand with a strange expression.
He must admit that he was indeed a little impatient when he entered the army, although he had a good idea - to capture Xuushi City, cut off the connection between Tianmen Pass and Mengmen Pass and Changzi City, and speed up the defeat of the Korean army in Shangdang County.
Unfortunately, because Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Nanliang, was defeated at Tianmen Pass, his 100,000 King Su troops went deep alone and fell into a desperate situation.
"...But having said that, this is not entirely my responsibility."
Zhao Hongrun was a little depressed. He admitted that he was a little impatient, but this was not entirely his fault. The emperor of Wei threatened him with "if the next time happens again, go back to Daliang and read the book of war again." What does this mean?
But having said that, as his younger brother Zhao Hongxuan said, Zhao Hongrun was very moved by the importance Emperor Wei showed to his son between the lines in the letter.
However, Zhao Hongrun was deeply touched by the several issues pointed out by Emperor Wei in his letter.
For example, Emperor Wei thought that he "underestimated the people of the world after winning a few battles" was really on point, because at that time, although Zhao Hongrun kept saying that he should pay attention to the Korean generals such as Jin Mao and Bao Yuan, he
When he led his army directly into the hinterland of Shangdang County, he actually did not pay too much attention to the Korean army on the opposite side. Otherwise, he would not think about promoting the defeat of the Korean army as soon as possible, but would choose to fight slowly and capture Gaolang first.
As long as he chooses to occupy Gaolang first, the subsequent thrills will not happen - at worst, Baoyuan will support Gaolang, which will prevent King Su's army from conquering Gaolang in a short time. With the strength of King Su's army, they may not be able to capture Gaolang.
Wolf?
How could it be impossible to capture Gaolang after fighting for ten days and a half? If Baoyuan sent troops from Tianmen Pass to support Gaolang, Zhao Hongrun could also create an opportunity for the Northern Second Army of Nanliang King Zhao Yuanzuo to attack Tianmen Pass.
Thinking about it now, Zhao Hongrun felt that it was indeed a bit too radical at that time. In order to promote the defeat of the Korean army as soon as possible, he chose more aggressive tactics. It is no wonder that Emperor Wei was so angry in the letter. A majestic monarch actually wrote something like "
"You read all the military instructions into the dog's belly", it's really vulgar, well, vulgar.
After several hesitations, Zhao Hongrun finally did not burn the page of the military book, but hid it in his arms. When he turned around, he saw his younger brother Zhao Hongxuan who was gloating about his misfortune and Zhou Min who was smiling slightly. Even Zhao Hongrun was a little confused.
Embarrassed, he defended stiffly: "Although it was a bit dangerous, I finally achieved my goal...Xiao Xuan, please laugh at me again
You're welcome. Don't think that since you are the military leader now, I won't dare to knock you on the forehead... Well, in short, such a radical way of advancing troops still makes sense. At least, I have accelerated the movement of Korean troops in Shangdang territory.
The defeat was shortened by at least four months...if winter is included, it would be a full half year, which saved the Wei Dynasty a huge amount of food and military expenditures."
Before the meeting, His Highness Prince Su was vaguely angry. Zhou Min, the military general of the First Northern Army, nodded immediately and agreed: "What His Highness Prince Su said is true."
Since he defected to King Huan Zhao Hongxuan, Zhou Min naturally had to think about his Highness. It was better to avoid things like "His Highness was slapped on the head in public by his angry brother" if possible.
Seeing the interaction between these people, the generals and clan guards in the tent all snickered secretly.
Generally speaking, the atmosphere of the Wei Army at this moment is relatively joyful, because their chances of victory are very high - due to the radical tactics of a certain His Highness King Su, although there were many dangers, in the end, the Wei Army gained the absolute initiative on the Shangdang battlefield.
Right, this cannot be denied.
In the joyful atmosphere, Zhou Min, the military division general of the First North Army, said: "It is now two months, and the weather in Shangdang has gradually warmed up. I think that the Korean troops in Tianmen Pass and Mengmen Pass should also have
We have taken action." After a pause, he said to Zhao Hongrun: "Although the King of Nanliang outside Tianmen Pass did not put pressure on Tianmen Pass in October last year for unknown reasons, but it is now the beginning of spring. If he presses the button again,
It makes no sense that the troops cannot move. Therefore, I think that in a few days, the Second Army of the North will attack Tianmen Pass. By then our army will attack the rear of Tianmen Pass and attack from both sides. It will be difficult to hold Tianmen Pass... I believe this
At this point, the Korean generals at Tianmen Pass also understand, so I think Bao Yuan will choose to abandon Tianmen Pass and break out to the north to conserve his troops...His Royal Highness King Su may wish to take advantage of this and use troops against the Korean army."
Zhao Hongrun nodded upon hearing this, feeling a faint sense of revenge in his heart.
Because last time, Bao Yuan and his men led an army to besiege him. Things have changed, and this time it was his turn to besiege Bao Yuan.