Facts have proved that Zhao Hongrun's guess was correct, because after just a moment, the thirty cavalrymen came to Zhao Hongrun's army. The first general wearing a tiger helmet and tiger pattern armor was obviously Zhao Hongrun.
With Zhao Hongxuan’s fourth emperor brother, King Yan Zhao Hongjiang.
"Ha ha ha ha--"
Across the distance, King Yan Zhao Hongjiang let out a hearty laugh, and said hello from a distance: "Is Hongrun on the other side? Your fourth brother, I have come to pick you up in person, hahahaha."
"..."
Listening to King Yan Zhao Hongjiang shouting from a distance, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but feel a little confused.
Because to be honest, his relationship with the fourth emperor brother could not be said to be good or bad at all. When both of them were still living in Daliang, they would not meet each other a few times throughout the year, even if they met occasionally.
, they just nodded and said hello to each other. Apart from the half-brother relationship, it would not be an exaggeration to call these two casual acquaintances.
"Brother, when did you get on such good terms with the Four Emperors?"
King Huan Zhao Hongxuan couldn't help but asked in confusion.
While he was puzzled, he also felt a little bit disgusted in his heart.
It was not because he saw that Zhao Hongjiang, King of Yan, the fourth emperor brother, came here specifically to welcome his brother Zhao Hongrun, but Zhao Hongxuan was curious when his brother established such a good relationship with their fourth emperor brother.
relationship.
You must know that once upon a time, among the brothers, only two brothers had a close relationship with each other. As for the other brothers, in fact, they had a very cold relationship with each other.
Oh, excluding Zhao Hongzhao, the Rui King who is now serving as the left prime minister of Qi. For this sixth brother, both Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Hongxuan have a close relationship with Zhao Hongzhao.
"I feel puzzled too..."
Zhao Hongrun was just about to explain when he saw King Yan Zhao Hongjiang riding his horse not far away. He immediately ended the conversation with his brother, rode his horse out of the team, and bowed towards King Yan Zhao Hongjiang who was approaching on horseback from a distance.
He cupped his hands and called with a smile: "Brother Four Emperors, you are well."
"Hahahaha." King Yan Zhao Hongjiang came to Zhao Hongrun with a smile, looked up and down at this brother who was once not valued by him, and said with emotion: "I really didn't expect that, Hongrun, the fourth brother I used to think he was me
The leader of the Zhao family, but I never thought that the heroes of the younger generation of the Zhao family are right in front of me, but I am blind and ignorant... You
I heard about the heroic deeds of conquering King Chu's capital Shouying last year, good, good, good!...Last year, no, the situation in Shanyang was tight at the end of the year before last. Brother Huang, I had no time to go back to Daliang. I missed it for Hongrun.
To celebrate this, I learned that Hongrun came to my Shanyang today, and I have specially asked people to prepare a banquet. Today, you and I will have a good drink and we will not return until we are drunk!"
Saying this, King Yan Zhao Hongjiang patted Zhao Hongrun on the shoulder with excitement. The force was such that Zhao Hongrun grinned and felt a sharp pain in his shoulder.
Zhao Hongrun calmly moved his numb shoulders, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Four Emperors misunderstood. It was not me who captured the Chu Kingdom's capital Shouying. At that time, there were also King Lu Xi of Qi and General Tian of Qi.
The two armies joined forces to attack Shouying. I even suspect that Shouying was defeated at that time. It may be the conspiracy of the King of Chu..."
"Hey!" Before Zhao Hongrun could finish his explanation, King Yan Zhao Hongjiang waved his hand and interrupted the former.
I saw Zhao Hongjiang grabbing Zhao Hongrun's arm and saying boldly: "No matter what, you have earned enough face for me, Mrs. Ji Zhao, let's go have a drink."
When Zhao Hongjiang grabbed his arm, Zhao Hongrun felt a sharp pain in his arm. If he hadn't seen that the Fourth Emperor Brother in front of him was so excited that he didn't seem to be faking it, he would really have suspected that the Fourth Emperor Brother was deliberately taking the opportunity to do something dirty.
But now it seems that this Fourth Emperor Brother is probably a reckless man with a true temperament.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun reminded: "Brother Four Emperors, my brother Hongxuan is also here."
After hearing this, King Huan Zhao Hongxuan hurriedly rode out of the team, came to the two of them, clasped his fists and called: "Brother Four Emperors."
"Oh..." King Yan Zhao Hongjiang was obviously stunned for a moment, and his expression became a little weird.
Just when Zhao Hongxuan was secretly guessing whether the fourth emperor brother in front of him had any prejudice against him, he saw the fourth emperor brother looking around for a few times and asked with a strange expression: "Zhao Hongli... is he here?"
After hearing this, brothers Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Hongxuan immediately understood.
After a wry smile, Zhao Hongxuan explained with some shame: "Dong...well, the eldest prince is currently under self-imposed confinement in his mansion. Because of the incident of "The Roar of the North First Military Camp", he will be under self-imposed confinement for a while."
Sure enough, after hearing that Zhao Hongli, the former crown prince of the East Palace, did not come, King Yan Zhao Hongjiang immediately smiled on his face. He immediately took Zhao Hongxuan's arm with his other hand and pulled Zhao Hongrun hard. What did the Zhao Hongxuan brothers say, "I'm not drunk today."
Words like "No Return".
This made Zhao Hongrun dumbfounded and sighed secretly: This Fourth Emperor brother is too straightforward, he just shows his thoughts on his face.
Since his arm was so painful from being grabbed by Zhao Hongjiang, Zhao Hongrun repeatedly promised that he would go to the banquet and have a drink with the Fourth Emperor Brother today, and then the latter let go.
Instructing the army to advance slowly towards Shanyang, Zhao Hongrun asked Zhao Hongjiang: "Brother Four Emperors, what is the current situation in Shanyang?"
It can be seen that although King Yan Zhao Hongjiang looks reckless, he is actually not a reckless man. As soon as he heard Zhao Hongrun's question, he had already guessed something in his heart and said with a smile: "Hongrun wanted to ask the people who passed by me in Shanyang yesterday."
That Korean army, right?... Don’t worry, they have left.”
"Gone?" Zhao Hongxuan asked in surprise.
"Yes." King Yan Zhao Hongjiang touched the stubble on his chin and said with a frown: "It really shocked me yesterday. I was originally planning to send troops to attack Mengmen Pass, but I just led my troops out of (Shanyang)
City, I found the sound of horse hooves in the west like
Lei... At that time, I thought Qinyang had been captured by the Korean army. Later, Pang Huan, the deputy general of the Second North Army, sent me a message. Only then did I know that it was Tianmen Pass and the Korean army could not hold the pass.
Evacuate from my side of Shanyang."
At this point, he struck with his fists and said with some annoyance: "They have too many soldiers. The cavalry alone has no less than 30,000. I didn't dare to lead the army to attack. I can only watch them in the north of my Shanyang."
The Korean troops stationed at Mengmen Pass also escaped... What a pity!"
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun asked with some surprise: "The Korean troops at Mengmenguan have also withdrawn?"
"Well!" Zhao Hongjiang nodded and explained: "At that time, the tens of thousands of Korean troops stationed between our Shanyang and Mengmenguan for half a day did not attack our Shanyang. I thought it was very strange. I didn't expect it.
Half a day later, at Mengmen Pass, the Korean army set a fire and burned the pass...I went up the mountain to take a look early this morning. Mengmen Pass was indeed burned by a fire from the Korean army.
.”
At this point, he asked in confusion: "Hongrun, you are from Tianmen Pass. You should know why the Korean army at Tianmen Pass evacuated, right? When the Korean army evacuated, they also took Mengmen Pass with them.
The Korean army here...I haven't figured it out after thinking about it for a long time."
Hearing this, Zhao Hongxuan snickered twice and said mysteriously: "Brother Four Emperors, the reason why the Korean army evacuated Tianmen Pass is because my brother led his army to capture Xuushi City and Changzi City, cutting off Tianmen Pass.
The back road to Mengmenguan."
King Yan Zhao Hongjiang's eyes widened when he heard this, and once again grabbed Zhao Hongrun's arm excitedly, and asked in shock: "Hongrun, you captured the two places of the eldest son of the Yun family?"
Zhao Hongjiang grabbed his arm again, Zhao Hongrun grimaced in pain and nodded repeatedly.
"That's it...that's it!"
Zhao Hongjiang slowly let go of Zhao Hongrun and said suddenly: "Let me tell you, why did the Korean troops in Tianmen Pass and Mengmen Pass suddenly withdraw their troops? It turned out that the retreat was for Hongrun.
You copied it... Tsk!" At this point, he clenched his fists together again and said angrily: "What a pity! If I had known about this a few days earlier, I would have taken Mengmen Pass down."
Zhao Hongrun smiled when he heard this and said nothing.
It's not that he despises Zhao Hongjiang or the Shanyang Army under his command, but he guesses that the food stored in Mengmen Pass is probably sufficient. In this case, the Shanyang Army will probably not be able to forcibly conquer this pass, even if it is
The same goes for his Su Wang army.
Of course, this refers to the premise that King Su's army does not use natural disaster-level strategic weapons such as oil barrel bombs.
So, he gave a sloppy look and said: "Didn't Mengmen Pass fall into the hands of the Four Emperors now? There is no difference."
"How can you say there is no difference?"
The upright Zhao Hongjiang could not accept Zhao Hongrun's statement. In his opinion, it was one thing for him to lead his army to conquer Mengmen Pass. It was another thing for the Korean army to leave Mengmen Pass with a burned-out empty pass after they withdrew.
How can the two be compared?
The three brothers chatted and slowly came to Shanyang County.
When entering the city, Zhao Hongrun was shocked by what he saw with his own eyes, because he discovered that all adult males in Shanyang City (civilians are fifteen years old) carry weapons, swords, spears, and crossbows with them.
, some look like military-made weapons, while others are more like self-made and relatively rough.
According to the criminal laws of Wei State, weapons are controlled items. Except for nobles, civilians, including some guards of nobles, are not allowed to carry weapons around the city.
Seemingly seeing Zhao Hongrun's doubts, King Yan Zhao Hongjiang said with a smile: "The men in our Shanyang City are all militiamen of our Shanyang Army. Don't underestimate them... Shanyang was almost killed by Han several times.
The reason why our army was defeated was because the men in the city fought side by side with our army and defended the city to the death. Therefore, I gave the men in the city an exceptional honor and made fun of the control of weapons."
"But you don't have this right..."
Brothers Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Hongxuan looked at each other, both of them dumbfounded.
You must know that even a prince cannot decide such a thing.
"Have the Four Emperors reported this to the court?" Zhao Hongrun asked tentatively.
"Why do you also say that this matter needs to be reported?...Does this matter really need to be reported?" King Yan Zhao Hongjiang asked in surprise.
"This obviously needs to be reported..."
Zhao Hongrun couldn't laugh or cry.
During the banquet, King Yan Zhao Hongjiang chatted with Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Hongxuan about the current situation. When he learned that the brothers planned to lead an army to counterattack South Korea's Handan Army, Zhao Hongjiang could not hide his joy and immediately asked to join.
Zhao Hongrun happily agreed.
After all, for King Yan Zhao Hongjiang, even though they still had no friendship with each other as of five years ago, this does not prevent Zhao Hongrun from admiring this fourth emperor brother.
After all, King Yan Zhao Hongjiang had been stationed in Shanyang for five full years. When Zhao Hongrun led his army to attack the Chu Kingdom, this fourth emperor brother silently guarded Wei's northern border.
Just as Zhao Hongjiang was inspired by Zhao Hongrun's heroic oath: The prince will guard the country.
Shanyang is the gate of Wei State in the northern frontier, and King Zhao Hongjiang of Yan is the guard stationed at this gate.