When he heard the retreat horn blown by Xin Zan's cavalry, Dangyin Hou Han Yang could only retreat even though he was still unwilling.
After withdrawing from Jixian, Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, joined Xin Zan's remaining cavalry. When he learned that his generals Xin Zan and Fang Bi had both died in battle, he was in disbelief.
"Who killed General Xin Zan?"
Dangyin Hou Han Yang asked the cavalry in shock.
The cavalry replied: "It's Wu Ji, the leader of the Wei army in Shangshui, who is riding alone to kill him."
Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, was speechless when he heard this.
Putting aside Fang Bi for the moment, there are many generals under his command who can replace the former. However, Xin Zan is an old general of his cousin Kang Gong Han Hu, a general specially sent by his uncle to assist him.
How should he explain to his cousin in the future?
After hearing what happened, Dangyin Hou Han Yang regretted it because he knew at this moment that Xin Zan would not die in the battle if he had followed Bao Yuan's advice just then, recognized the situation and retreated in time.
But it was too late now, nothing could be said to help, so Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, led his troops to evacuate towards Qishui Pass in a worried and depressed mood.
As for the retreating Korean army in Jixian County, Zhao Hongrun did not order a pursuit. After all, Dangyin Hou Han Yang still had more than 10,000 cavalry. If he was not greedy enough and pursued the enemy in depth, he would probably be killed by the opponent. Anyway, his
The purpose was only to capture Ji County. As for the Korean cavalry, Zhao Hongrun believed that his next strategy could greatly limit the strength of the Korean cavalry.
"Congratulations to His Highness King Su for capturing Ji County."
After entering the city along the west gate of Ji County, Wei Mu smiled and congratulated Zhao Hongrun with a fist in his hand.
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun laughed and said happily: "Same joy, same joy... Even if the general does not remind me, I will not ignore the contribution of the Nanyan Army." After saying this, he turned to Wei.
Mu blinked.
When he heard Zhao Hongrun's words, Wei Mu couldn't help but be startled. After all, he had no intention of claiming credit. The reason why he was quite close to Zhao Hongrun was because the latter's identity was very special, and his father was loyal to Wei Mu.
The emperor of Wei, and his mother was Wei Ji, who was born in Wei State like Wei Mu. "Note: "Wei Ji" here is not a taboo name."
For the above reasons, Wei Mu spared no effort to assist Zhao Hongrun. In order to achieve Zhao Hongrun's strategic intention, he did not hesitate to let his Nanyan Army cavalry battalion fight with the Korean cavalry. The Nanyan Army only had three thousand cavalry, which has always been Wei Mu's pet peeve.
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And the reason why he celebrated just now was just to get closer to Zhao Hongrun. He didn't expect that Zhao Hongrun would respond like that.
However, after seeing Zhao Hongrun blinking at him, Wei Mu smiled slightly and suddenly understood in his heart: His Highness Prince Su was just making a harmless joke.
Therefore, he followed the words and deliberately said: "His Royal Highness King Su, please remember what you said today... When His Highness King Su first formed the battle, he generously gave military expenses to the Junshui Army, Dangshan Army, and Fenxing Army. It is a pity that
I, the Nanyan Army, can't get that kind of advantage. In the past two years, we have been stretched thin, and we can't even pay out the pension at the end of the year, alas."
Hearing Wei Mu's pretentious complaint, Zhao Hongrun couldn't laugh or cry: It was all an old story four or five years ago. I didn't expect the general to still remember it.
But having said that, after Zhao Hongrun went to Yangcheng Jun Xiong Tuo and returned triumphantly, he distributed a fortune to Fenxing Army, Junshui Army, and Dangshan Army, which indeed made many people jealous. For example, when Zhao Hongrun went to Sanchuan County later,
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Chenggao Pass, Chenggao Army General Zhu Hai also mentioned this matter to him intentionally or unintentionally, which made Zhao Hongrun unable to save face later, so he had to find a way for Chenggao Army to make extra money for merchants traveling to and from Luocheng.
The team collects customs duties.
It has to be said that if the Ministry of Revenue had not made the biggest profit from the Sanchuan trade at that time and was too lazy to care about the meager tariffs at Chenggao Pass, otherwise, with Zhao Hongrun's actions of making claims, he would definitely have suffered.
Even though Zhao Hongrun, who went to the Ministry of Household Affairs for impeachment, was a prince, he had no right to set customs duties privately, just like Zhao Hongjiang, the King of Yan, had no right to lift the "sword control" on local residents in Shanyang County.
"The next time I have a chance, I will definitely not forget the soldiers of the Nanyan Army."
Zhao Hongrun promised emphatically.
Wei Mu smiled slightly. He actually didn't care whether Zhao Hongrun's promise would be fulfilled in the future. After all, the revenue of the Ministry of Revenue has been quite considerable in recent years, so much so that the Ministry of Revenue, which has become rich and wealthy now, is too lazy to reduce the military expenditure of the Sixth Battalion. In the final analysis
, when the Ministry of Revenue proposed to reduce military expenditures, it was because the national treasury could not make ends meet. But now that the Ministry of Revenue has money, who would take the risk of offending the generals of the Sixth Battalion of the garrison? We are not afraid that the latter will send people to arrest the households in anger.
Has the government office been demolished?
Therefore, with today's abundant military spending, Wei Mu does not care whether Zhao Hongrun fulfills his promise in the future, but Zhao Hongrun's attitude makes him feel good.
Of course, in fact, this is only a subjective reason. Because of Zhao Hongrun's special status, Wei Mu was quite enthusiastic and close to the latter from the beginning, and Zhao Hongrun was not an unruly bastard. Wei Mu treated him friendly, so he naturally also
Be friendly in return.
After leading his army to Ji County, the first thing Zhao Hongrun did was to go out to calm the people, and to catch Korean spies who were still hiding in the city. This was almost a routine matter.
It is quite important to appease the people in the city, because Ji County is at the junction of Wei and Han, and the people living here are very mixed, including Wei people and Koreans. But because this city will be occupied from time to time
Wei and South Korea attacked and conquered back and forth, so that the residents in the city did not have a high sense of belonging to the armies of the two countries.
To put it bluntly, in the eyes of the local county people, whether it is the Han army or the Wei army, as long as they do not invade them, they will recognize each other's rule, and they belong to the people who do not have much sense of belonging to the country.
The reason for this phenomenon is that South Korea has ruled this city for decades and did not persecute the local residents.
Regarding this point, even if they are enemies of each other, Zhao Hongrun has to admit that the quality of most of the Korean troops is still relatively high, especially the Korean generals who have a lifelong wish to "make Korea dominate the Central Plains". Generally, they do not
They will do things like massacre and looting, unless they encounter strong resistance from local civilians when attacking a certain city, so they use the massacre to shock people.
As for uncovering the Korean spies hiding in the city, Zhao Hongrun left the matter entirely to Yang Yi and Ding Heng of the Black Crows.
In the evening of that day, Zhao Hongrun ordered to reward the three armies, and at the same time hosted a banquet at the county government office in the city for his generals and the generals of the Nanyan Army.
Zhao Hongrun was not familiar with the generals of the Nanyan Army in the past, but after Wei Mu's introduction, he still remembered a few faces.
For example, the deputy general of the Southern Yan Army, "Ai He", was the man who led the Southern Yan cavalry to support King Su's army today, and immediately provided relief when the Shangshui Army was attacked by the Korean cavalry under the command of Han General Xin Zan.
The support caused Xin Zan's army to collapse and once fell into a bitter battle with the Shang Shui army.
In addition, there were several generals of the Nanyan Army such as "Ma Hong" and "Gu Chao". It could be seen that they were all young and vigorous generals, which made Zhao Hongrun feel quite gratified and happy.
You know, after the Wei State experienced two turmoils more than ten years ago, "Shun Shui Army and Yu Shui Army were fighting in the same room" and "Nan Yan Xiao Family Rebellion", the generals in the country could almost be said to have died for a generation, leaving the Wei State
For a time, he was faced with a situation where he had no troops but no generals. Therefore, Emperor Wei pushed out a few of his clan guards and allowed them to lead the army in key places in the country.
But more than ten or twenty years later, the Wei State gradually recovered its vitality, and many generals gradually emerged, such as Feng Su and Zhou Kui of the Chenggao Army, Wen Feng and Bai Fangming of the Dangshan Army, Cao Jie and Li Ji of the Dredging Army.
, Cai Qinhu of the Fenxing Army, and Ai He of the Nanyan Army, etc. In Zhao Hongrun's view, these generals are all generals with considerable potential.
The generals who defected to Wei were no less impressive, such as Qu Cheng, Yan Mo, Zhai Huang, Sun Shuke, etc. of King Su's army.
In Zhao Hongrun's view, these are all outstanding generals who have the potential to become generals.
In terms of "commanders", Wei now has Zhao Yuanzuo, King of Nanliang, General Jiang Bi, General Shaohu, and Wei Ji, Lord of Lintao, etc. It can be said that Wei is moving towards "a country with a strong army".
Zhao Hongrun believed that after this severe defeat of South Korea's army, no country in the entire Central Plains would dare to underestimate Wei.
From February 14th to 17th, Dangyin Hou Han Yang was surprised to find that the Wei army under the command of Wei Gongzi Run did not take advantage of the victory to advance troops after conquering Jixian County.
The plan to ambush the Wei army was completely ruined.
Out of confusion, Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, sent several scouts to Ji County to inquire about the movements of the Wei army.
After the rebukes returned to their own troops, they told Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, an important matter: Wei Gongzi Run's army was building a river port on the bank of the river south of Ji County.
Upon hearing this, Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, suddenly understood and guessed that the Wei army might be planning to use water transportation instead of land transportation to transport the food and grass needed by the army on the battlefield.
But it suddenly dawned on him that Dangyin Hou Han Yang had no good way to deal with this matter. After all, King Su's army had deployed layers of defenses in Ji County. Even if Dangyin Hou Han Yang wanted to harass the Wei army to build a river port, there was no chance.
Of course, Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, did not care much about this. After all, the strategy he decided was to use the absolute superiority of the cavalry to defeat the invading Wei army on the plain battlefield from Gongdi to Qishui Pass, which was more than a hundred miles long.
Having enough doesn't really matter.
In fact, he prefers that the Wei army completes the transportation of grain and grass as soon as possible. After all, only when the Wei army has accumulated sufficient grain and grass in Ji County will the Wei army advance towards Qishui Pass, and he will have a chance to defeat this army.
Wei Jun.
On February 18, dozens of large ships flying the flag of "Wei" followed the river to the temporary river port newly built by King Su's army in the south of Ji County, and landed here.
Seeing this, King Su's soldiers, who had already been prepared, boarded the ships and pushed carts filled with bags from the ships.
"These carts..."
A trace of doubt flashed in the eyes of Zhai Huang, deputy general of the Shangshui Army, because he felt that the cart used to transport grain this time seemed to be larger than before, and the wood used seemed to be particularly strong.
Not far away, Zhao Hongrun glanced at the carts, then lowered his head and continued to look at a drawing in his hand.
On the drawing, there is a seemingly unremarkable cart, but the front end of the cart has a baffle that looks like a giant shield. In addition, there are many swords and spears tied to the cart.
In the car.
"Heh." Zhao Hongrun raised the corners of his mouth, revealing an inexplicable smile.
His eyes fell on the lower left side of the drawing, and he saw three words written there.