That night, Zhao Hongrun rarely drank until he was extremely drunk. Although he always boasted that he drank a lot and the alcohol content of contemporary drinks was lower, he could not resist the frequent drinking of Zhao Hongjiang, the brother of the Four Emperors of Yan, so that Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Hongjiang were drinking.
After dropping more than a dozen jars of wine, he finally passed out drunk on the spot, which surprised Zhao Hongxuan and the three princes' guards.
His Royal Highness Prince Su, who seemed unable to lift his shoulders or lift his hands, actually had the same drinking capacity as King Yan Zhao Hongjiang? I believe this incident shocked many Zongwei.
After waking up the next day, when Zhao Hongrun drowsily shouted that he was thirsty, someone next to him handed the tea bowl to his mouth.
Zhao Hongrun reluctantly opened his eyes and took a few glances, only to realize that it was Wei Jiao, the chief of his clan's defense.
"Your Highness, how are you feeling?"
When asking this question, it could be seen that Wei Jiao was suppressing a smile, because it was the first time that he saw his Highness drinking until he was drunk and unconscious.
"It's okay, but I'm still a little dizzy." After taking the tea bowl and drinking all the water in it, Zhao Hongrun said weakly while holding his forehead.
Wei Jiao grinned when he heard this.
They Zongwei know the feeling of a hangover all too well.
Giving a thumbs up, Wei Jiao chuckled and said: "Your Highness, you were so brave last night... You don't know that till the end of last night, Cao Yan and the others were looking straight at you."
The Cao Yan he mentioned was the Zongwei Chief of Yan King Zhao Hongjiang. Zhao Hongrun met him last night and felt that he was a Zongwei with a relatively stable personality.
"Oh." Zhao Hongrun responded casually and reluctantly got off the bed.
Due to his hangover, he only felt top-heavy at the moment, as if the world was weightless and he had lost his balance. To be honest, Zhao Hongrun didn't like this feeling.
After walking out of the house where he lived last night, Zhao Hongrun looked around a few times and realized that he was in a larger mansion.
He could vaguely remember what happened last night, and learned that this mansion was the residence of King Yan Zhao Hongjiang in Shanyang, Prince Yan's Mansion.
But to be honest, this mansion is not comparable to the Yan Palace in Daliang by King Yan Zhao Hongjiang. It seems that the mansion occupies a large area, but the decoration and furnishings inside are not at the same level as the Yan Palace in Daliang.
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"Your Highness is awake?"
Outside the house, Zhou Pu and Chu Heng were sitting at the stone table in the yard. When they saw Zhao Hongrun walking out of the house, they stood up immediately.
Zhao Hongrun counted the number of people and found that the number did not match because Lu Mu, Gao Kuo, Zhong Zhao, Mu Qing, He Miao, Zhu Gui and others were not in the yard.
However, after recalling, he understood the reason why those Zongwei were not here - they were beaten down by Cao Yan, the Zongwei of King Zhao Hongjiang, and others last night.
Of course, Cao Yan and others also paid a price for this. At least Zhao Hongrun vaguely remembered that at least five of the royal guards of Yan King Zhao Hongjiang were drunk on the spot.
"Xiao Xuan is up?" Zhao Hongrun asked after sitting at the stone table for a while.
Zhou Pu told Zhao Hongrun that in fact King Huan Zhao Hongxuan had just come to visit his brother, but Zhao Hongrun was still sleeping soundly at that time, so Zhao Hongxuan took Zhou Min to the front yard to have breakfast.
Afterwards, Zhao Hongrun asked King Yan Zhao Hongjiang again, to which Zhou Pu smiled and said: "I guessed that His Highness would ask when he woke up, so he went to visit and learned that His Highness King Yan was still resting."
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Obviously, the fourth emperor's drinking capacity is better than him. After drinking last night, he went to drink his clan guards again, and one of them could drink at least three of them.
"Are people with bold personalities naturally good drinkers?"
Zhao Hongrun couldn't figure it out. He only knew that in the drinking contest with King Yan Zhao Hongjiang's group last night, their side obviously lost. He, the brothers Zhao Hongxuan and their clan guards teamed up to pour wine on King Yan's people.
, but he didn’t win in the end.
Of course, there is also the reason why Wei Jiao didn't drink much last night. After all, Wei Jiao is the chief of the Zong Wei and needs to be vigilant at all times.
Zhao Hongrun secretly made up his mind that when he invented the distilled high-concentration millet wine in the future, he would have another drink with Yan Wang Zhao Hongjiang and his group to redeem this failure.
Zhao Hongrun was still very willing to make friends with King Yan Zhao Hongjiang, the brother of the Four Emperors.
Of course, this is talking about Zhao Hongjiang today, not Zhao Hongjiang four or five years ago.
In Zhao Hongrun's impression, King Yan Zhao Hongjiang was not a calm leader when he was in Daliang. He always made troubles from time to time. For example, which court official's son was beaten today, and which official's son was beaten tomorrow?
He was the nephew of a court official. Anyway, as long as King Yan Zhao Hongjiang met someone who made him feel unhappy, no matter what his family background was, he would beat him up first.
It is precisely because of this character that King Yan Zhao Hongjiang was extremely unhappy with the former East Palace Prince Zhao Hongli from the beginning. After all, the former East Palace Crown Prince Zhao Hongli would always behave like an eldest brother from time to time, which even Zhao Hongrun was unhappy with.
, not to mention Zhao Hongjiang, the King of Yan who was inherently upright and reckless.
According to Zhao Hongrun's understanding, his fourth emperor brother, Yan Wang Zhao Hongjiang, is a man with quite a heroic demeanor. To put it bluntly, if you are better than him, he will obey you. Otherwise, I'm sorry, no matter what your family background is, in
There's a lot of shit in his eyes.
It is precisely for this reason that when Zhao Hongrun was still living in the Daliang Palace, he always walked around when he saw King Yan Zhao Hongjiang from a distance, because in his eyes at that time, King Yan Zhao Hongjiang was a complete reckless man, and he did not dare to provoke him at will.
To avoid getting beaten.
Perhaps today, Su Wang Zhao Hongrun is jokingly called the "big beam tyrant", and neither the government nor the public dare to provoke him, but if we push it forward a few years, this title will definitely fall on Yan Wang Zhao Hongjiang.
However, five years ago, that is, in the 16th year of Hongde, King Yan Zhao Hongjiang made a huge change. When the Chu State sent troops to attack the Wei State, he gave up the fight for the throne. After several rounds, he finally came to Shanyang County.
He began to train the Shanyang Army to guard against the threat from North Korea, which relieved Zhao Hongrun's worries when he went to Chu for the first time.
To be fair, Zhao Hongrun admired two people among his contemporaries. One of them was the sixth brother Ji Zhao (Zhao Hongzhao) who is now serving as the left prime minister of Qi State, and the other was the owner of this mansion, King Yan Zhao Hongjiang.
It is worth mentioning that King Yan Zhao Hongjiang has hardly returned to Daliang a few times in the past five years, putting all his thoughts on Shanyang, and even gradually became famous in the hearts of many Korean generals - "Shanyang"
"Wei Gongzijiang" refers to Zhao Hongjiang, King of Yan.
Speaking of Shanyang, this county town is actually the frontline on the battlefield in Northern Wei. It has been attacked by the Korean army many times, because only by taking this city can the Korean army of Mengmen Pass attack Hedong of Wei with confidence.
County, otherwise, they are likely to be cut off by the Shanyang Army.
In this matter, the Korean army has already suffered losses - I remember that in the first battle of Northern Xinjiang, King Zhao Hongjiang of Yan united with General Wei Mu of South Yan to attack the Korean army who had left Mengmen Pass in front and back, and asked "Gong Zhongpeng,
Tian Ling's two Korean generals were defeated.
Therefore, from then on, Gong Zhongpeng and Tian Ling attacked Shanyang repeatedly, forcing King Zhao Hongjiang of Yan to lift the weapons control in Shanyang County and adopt the tactic of all people as soldiers. Finally, they desperately blocked the Korean army's attacks again and again.
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In terms of merit, Zhao Hongrun thinks that this brother of the Four Emperors can be called a great meritorious worker, because both Zhao Yuanzuo and Jiang Bi, the king of Southern Liang, only joined the battle at the end of the first Northern Xinjiang Campaign, and before that
, it was King Zhao Hongjiang of Yan who single-handedly attracted the firepower of South Korea, and at the same time attracted the Korean troops from Tianmen Pass and Mengmen Pass at that time. It was a completely difficult situation of walking on thin ice.
Of course, in this matter, Nanyan General Wei Mu also played an important role. It was precisely because this general supported the Shanyang Army several times that Yan King Zhao Hongjiang was able to defend Shanyang from being attacked by the Han Army. Otherwise,
, Wei State has probably lost the strategic location of Shanyang.
On the way to the front yard, Zhao Hongrun passed by a fairly empty space in the mansion, where King Yan Zhao Hongjiang was naked to the waist, practicing martial arts in the open space that seemed like a martial arts field, stabbing, picking, wheeling, and splitting.
Wielding a spear, the spear danced like a swimming dragon.
"Didn't you say that the Four Emperors haven't gotten up yet?"
Zhao Hongrun looked back at Zongwei Zhou Pu with some confusion. After all, Zhou Pu had just said that King Yan Zhao Hongjiang was still sleeping soundly.
Noticing the questioning look in His Highness's eyes, Zhou Pu also looked at a loss. After all, he had indeed heard what Cao Yan, the chief of the clan's guard of Zhao Hongjiang, King of Yan, said.
With a puzzled mood, Zhao Hongrun walked over.
Zhao Hongjiang, who was practicing martial arts in the venue, obviously noticed Zhao Hongrun and the others. He put away his gun and stood up and let out a breath. Then he threw the spear in his hand to Cao Yan, the Zongwei Chief who was heading towards him, and walked towards Zhao Hongrun with a smile: "
Hongrun, are you up so early? It seems that I didn’t teach you enough yesterday, hahahaha."
Zhao Hongrun responded with a wry smile, and when his eyes fell on Yan King Zhao Hongjiang, there was a bit of shock in his eyes.
Because he discovered that Yan King Zhao Hongjiang had scars all over his body, and those scars were like ugly worms crawling all over the former's body.
At that moment, Zhao Hongrun was speechless.
He didn't know the origin of the injuries on the fourth emperor brother's body, but he could guess that these scars must have been left on the battlefield here in Shanyang. Otherwise, how could the noble prince protected by Zongwei be subjected to such
Injuries? You must know that so far, Zhao Hongrun has almost no injuries on his body.
Seeing Zhao Hongrun's eyes falling on his naked upper body, King Yan Zhao Hongjiang was stunned for a moment. Then he realized what he was doing and put on the robe handed over by his clan's chief of defense, Cao Yan, to cover up the scars on his body.
"When did Hongrun get up?" Zhao Hongjiang asked with a smile.
"I just woke up not long ago... Where are the Four Emperors brothers?" Zhao Hongrun glanced at Cao Yan, the Zongwei Chief next to Zhao Hongjiang, and said, "Just now, Cao Zongwei Chief told Zhou Pu that the Four Emperors brothers are still resting."
After hearing this, Zhao Hongjiang looked back at Cao Yan with confusion, only to see an embarrassed expression on Cao Yan's face.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun and Zhou Pu understood: they were considering their faces and deliberately saving them face.
After all, for contemporary men, it is quite embarrassing to be unable to drink as well as others.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun nodded to Cao Yan in good faith, changed the topic and asked: "Brother Four Emperors, is practicing martial arts in the early morning a habit that he has maintained since he was in Daliang?"
"It didn't start until we got to Shanyang." Zhao Hongjiang wiped the sweat from his forehead with the sleeves of his robe, and explained to Zhao Hongrun: "Brother, I won't hide it from you Hongrun. When I arrived in Shanyang at the beginning of the year, Brother
I couldn't adapt to it for a long time. I was always panicking that the Korean army would attack the city. I was so afraid that I couldn't sleep at night... Then I thought that I couldn't sleep anyway, so I just got up and practiced martial arts. I would have more protection on the battlefield in the future.
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Zhao Hongrun knew that what the Fourth Emperor Brother said must be the truth, but he still couldn't help but joked: "The Fourth Emperor Brother will also feel panic and uneasiness? In my opinion, the Fourth Emperor Brother is a hero who is not afraid of heaven or earth."
"Hahahaha." King Yan Zhao Hongjiang burst out laughing after hearing Zhao Hongrun's slightly flattering words, appearing extremely happy.
After all, Zhao Hongrun is someone he recognizes. Zhao Hongjiang is naturally happy to hear someone he recognizes say complimentary words to him.
Later, Zhao Hongjiang invited Zhao Hongrun to a side hall in the front yard for dinner.
While eating, he discussed with Zhao Hongrun the specific matters regarding the attack on Handan County in South Korea. It could be seen that His Highness the King of Yan was extremely enthusiastic about counterattacking South Korea. This may be because he had been frequently attacked by Korean troops in Shanyang County.
The relationship between the two countries was an attack, so they could not wait to counterattack South Korea.
During this period, Zhao Hongjiang told Zhao Hongrun some of the conditions on the Handan battlefield that he knew. For example, the commander of the Korean army in Handan was South Korea's "Dangyin Hou Han Yang".
Speaking of Han Yang, the Dang Yin Hou, Zhao Hongrun once thought that he was just an ordinary Korean noble. After all, this man had been defeated by the two generals Wei Mu and Shao Hu of the Wei State. However, after Zhao Hongjiang's explanation, Zhao Hongrun knew that it turned out that
Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, had always been suppressing the Nan Yan army, but the eastern part of Hedong County, which Wei Mu had worked so hard to manage, was not defeated by Han Yang.
Moreover, it can be seen from the fiefdom of Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, which is close to Hedong County of Wei State, that this person is a Korean noble general who was ordered to station at the border of Hedong County of Wei and Han, and general generals stationed at the border are by no means ordinary figures.
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According to the judgment of Yan King Zhao Hongjiang, the reason why Dangyin Hou Han Yang suffered a loss at the hands of the Wei general Shao Hu a while ago may actually be because Han Yang underestimated Shao Hu. After all, he knew that "Shao Hu is the king of Yu, Zhao Yuanji"
Even in the Wei State, there are not many people who are involved in the matter of "Zong Wei Chief", let alone in South Korea.
Therefore, in the eyes of many Korean generals, Shaohu was unknown. Unexpectedly, this Wei general was a fierce tiger as his name suggests.
"...But since that defeat, Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, fought one against two, resisting the Nanyan Army and the Wei Wu Army at the same time. This is really not easy." After a pause, Zhao Hongrun said to Zhao Hongrun with a serious face: "Hongrun, what do you say?
If we want to attack Handan, the royal capital of South Korea, I will definitely give our full support. But before attacking Handan, you and I must break through "Ye City", and if we want to break "Ye City", we must capture "Dangyin"...
…During the last battle in Northern Xinjiang, Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Nanliang, chose to attack Zhongmou. Although he successfully attracted a Korean army and eventually annihilated it, he still had no intention of fearing Han Yang’s Yin army...
… Handan is not like Shangdang. Once one city is attacked, the Korean troops from the other cities will immediately come to the rescue, making it extremely difficult to conquer. Therefore, you and I must be prepared for a long battle."
"..." Zhao Hongrun was convinced.
As the saying goes, the three armies should go ahead without using food and grass. Zhao Hongrun, who had already suffered a lot in Shangdang, made up his mind this time to wait until the front lines had stocked up on food and grass before sending troops.
After all, as King Yan Zhao Hongjiang said, attacking Handan, the capital of South Korea, would not surprisingly be a protracted battle.