As July approached, when Song County completely ignited the war between the Wei aristocratic private army and the Song Dynasty's Beibo Army due to the "Battle of Jinxiang", King Su Zhao Hongrun was in the study of Prince Su's Mansion, paying close attention to Song County as always
various battle reports.
What he cared about most was, of course, the private armies of Chengling Prince Zhao Shen, Anping Marquis Zhao Tan, etc. who were known as "King Su".
"It seems that those people in Prince Chengling are quite sensible."
While Zhao Hongrun was watching the battle report, Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao was reading several secret letters and said with a smile.
These secret letters were sent by the Green Crows who secretly followed Chengling King Zhao Shen and others into Song County.
It's not that Zhao Hongrun doesn't trust Chengling King Zhao Shen and others, it's just that he now has a good understanding of the virtues of the domestic nobles in certain matters.
Take Chengling King Zhao Shen as an example. It is undeniable that this prince actually showed a lot of noble character when the Wei State was in danger and supported the country free of charge to resist foreign enemies.
But before that, during the period of peace in Wei State, didn't this prince take advantage of the imperial court's loopholes and occupy the mines that originally belonged to the country?
It is even said that one year, Zhao Fang, the second son of Chengling King Zhao Shen, got drunk and had an argument with someone in the street with his wife and brother, breaking one person's leg. Later, the matter was eventually settled.
Therefore, among the nobles in the Wei Kingdom, there are actually quite a lot of things that have happened. If it were Zhao Hongrun in 1967, if he saw this kind of thing, he would definitely come forward to teach him a lesson. However, after the "Five Parties Defeat Wei"
, Zhao Hongrun's tolerance towards the domestic aristocrats has increased a lot, and he no longer wants to eradicate the domestic aristocrats, but adopts a restraint and control attitude.
For some things that have little impact, just turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye.
If this group of people goes too far, give them a warning so that they can be careful.
For example, this time, when Chengling King Zhao Shen, Anping Marquis Zhao Tan and others led their troops to attack Song County, Zhao Hongrun actually informed Shangshui Qingya in advance and asked the Qingya people to send some people to keep an eye on them, so as to prevent Chengling King Zhao Shen from attacking Song County.
Others behave in a manner that deceives superiors and deceives subordinates.
But fortunately, as Wei Jiao said, Chengling King Zhao Shen and others were really sensible this time and did not do anything to displease him. Although they did blackmail the Ji family, Shan father and other local tycoons.
He was ruthless, but he also gave the latter various promises, such as winning over the latter to join the "Su's Chamber of Commerce" and so on.
Overall, it was quite a sight to behold.
"Look at this." Zhao Hongrun handed a letter in his hand to Wei Jiao.
Wei Jiao took the letter and said with a smile: "Another bragging battle report?"
He would say this because the battle report sent to Daliang by Chengling King Zhao Shen and others was really too boastful, just like the first siege of the "Battle of Jishi" when he faced Ding Hu, the defender of Jishi County.
When he personally led the army out of the city to fight, it was obvious that he relied on repeated crossbows, machine-operated crossbow boxes and other war weapons to save the defeat. However, in the battle report sent to Daliang by Chengling King Zhao Shen and others, they said something about "luring the enemy out of the city" and "planning to annihilate the enemy".
"Anyway, it's whatever sounds nice to say. Even the battle losses between the enemy and ourselves were exaggerated, which made Wei Jiao laugh. For example, "killed thousands of enemies, only suffered a few losses" and so on.
Come on, Ding Hu is a fierce general under Nangong Yao, and the Ji clan army he leads is also a well-trained army among Nangong Yao's army in Song County. The private armies of domestic nobles can actually compete with that kind of well-trained army.
It's hard to tell the outcome of the battle, and they even have the upper hand. This is not a private army of nobles. It is definitely an elite "garrison army" level such as the Shang Shui Army, the Yanling Army, and the Wei Wu Army!
"Huh?" After carefully reading the letter, Wei Jiao discovered that although the letter was also written by Zhao Shen, King of Chengling, it was not a battle report sent to the court to brag about the results of the battle, but a review report.
A battle report that sounds quite real.
Moreover, Chengling King Zhao Shen also told how he obtained "Ding Hu's head" in his letter, which surprised Wei Jiao.
After all, in the battle report submitted to the court by Chengling King Zhao Shen and others, Ding Hu was shot dead by Anping Marquis Zhao Tan with a crossbow. I didn't expect that the truth would be like this.
"It turned out to be Huan Hu? Why did he do this?" Wei Jiao asked in surprise: "Even though Huan Hu is hostile to Nangong Chen and Ding Hu, in this situation, they should unite..."
In Wei Jiao's opinion, since the Daliang court has shown its attitude of regaining Song County, Nangong Chen and Huan Hu should temporarily put aside their hatred and join forces to resist the court.
It is true that Nangong Chen's father Nangong Yao was killed by Huan Hu, but if the imperial court really regained Song County, neither Nangong Chen nor Huan Hu, the two rebels, could hope to be pardoned by the imperial court.
In this case, even if they have the revenge of killing their father, Nangong Chen and Huan Hu should temporarily unite. Although even after the two unite, it will be difficult to maintain the current territory when the Wei State sends out elite divisions in the future.
But it can still be delayed for a few months, right?
But Huan Hu was lucky enough to kill Nangong Chen's general Ding Hu and send his head to the bed of Chengling King Zhao Shen.
"What on earth is this man thinking?" Wei Jiao couldn't understand.
Zhao Hongrun pondered for a moment and said calmly: "It is not difficult to guess the purpose of Huan Hu's behavior. It is nothing more than to threaten King Chengling and others not to bring their ideas to Suiyang County... As you said, in the case of being unable to obtain pardon from the court,
Next, Huan Hu and Nangong Chen should choose to temporarily join forces.
But you have to know that after Huan Hu killed Nangong Yao, it was impossible for Nangong Chen to take the initiative to contact Huan Hu, and as for Huan Hu... Since he made such a decision, it meant that he had never thought about contacting Nangong Chen
Joining forces means that he may already have another ally..."
"Song Yun's Beibo Army?" Wei Jiao guessed.
"Well." Zhao Hongrun nodded and said: "Thinking about it this way, it is not difficult to understand Huan Hu's abnormal behavior... Because when King Chengling and others attacked the Ji family, the Bei Bo Army had not taken any action yet.
Huan Hu didn't want to take the lead in becoming an enemy of the imperial court, so he simply sold out to Prince Chengling and let Prince Chengling and his companions lead their troops deep into Song County, forcing Song Yun's Beibo Army to take the lead... Humph, it's true that "profit comes first"
"Considerations."
Hearing this, Wei Jiao frowned and said: "Your Highness means that Huan Hu wants the Bei Bo Army to take action first... In this case, in the "Battle of Jinxiang" a few days ago, the Bei Bo Army has already taken action against Pingcheng Hou Li Yang.
That means..."
"That means Huan Hu will also take action." Zhao Hongrun squinted his eyes and said with a slight frown: "Send someone to send a message to Prince Chengling and others, telling him to be careful. The imperial court has not given permission yet.
The garrison has invaded Song County. Qu Cheng, Wu Ji and others are unable to lead their troops to Song County to assist them for the time being. Please let King Chengling and others... try to avoid a head-on collision with Huan Hu."
"In case of collision..."
Wei Jiao's expression was a bit ugly. After all, among the domestic nobles who supported His Highness, the most important ones were currently in Song County. If Huan Hu went crazy and killed these nobles, that would be troublesome.
"It won't happen." As if he guessed Wei Jiao's worries, Zhao Hongrun said in a deep voice: "Since Huan Hu sent Ding Hu's head to the hands of Prince Chengling, it means that this guy doesn't want to be at odds with us.
..." At this point, he took a long breath, looked back at Wei Jiao and asked: "Wei Jiao, tell me, if I recommend to the court that Huan Hu go and fight Song Yun, what do you think?"
Wei Jiao's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then he smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid the court won't agree."
Think about it, how could the imperial court recruit a former big thief who had attacked Wei Wang Zhao Yuansi? Unless Wei Wang Zhao Yuansi personally pardoned Huan Hu, otherwise Huan Hu was destined to be a heinous rebel in Wei!
"Yes...it's a pity."
Zhao Hongrun also understood the reason and nodded regretfully after hearing this.
He didn't have a good impression of Huan Hu, because Huan Hu not only dared to disobey his wishes, but also deliberately killed Wang Ming in front of him, not giving his majestic Prince Su any face, and later also made a surprise attack on Shangshui County
, setting several streets on fire to retaliate against him was simply audacious.
But the impression was bad. Zhao Hongrun could not deny that Huan Hu was a very capable evil party.
If Huan Hu and Song Yun of the Bei Bo Army could be allowed to fight each other, this would be the most favorable situation for the court. Compared with Huan Hu, an evil party, Song Yun's Bei Bo Army was actually a greater threat.
Who is Huan Hu? Although this person now occupies Suiyang, he still has a weak foundation in Song County. But what about Song Yun's Bei Bo Army? But it has been operating in Song County for nearly twenty years, and it is a native of Song County.
The power is deep-rooted. Not only are the local wealthy people and gentry in Song County secretly funding the Bei Bo Army, but there are even some Song Mo forces who are unwilling to defect to Wei and are secretly supporting Song Yun.
Otherwise, where would the Beibo Army get those weapons and equipment?
Therefore, the biggest obstacle for the Liang court to regain Song County was Song Yun's Beibo Army. As for Huan Hu, it was just a scabies disease. Although Huan Hu was in Suiyang, his foundation was not deep and there was nothing to fear.
After that, just as Zhao Hongrun predicted, from the end of June to the beginning of July, the forces of the Beibo Army in Song County emerged one after another and launched a powerful counterattack against the private army of the Wei aristocrats who set foot in the eastern part of Song County. It was incredible.
Yes, places like "Rencheng", "Fengxian", "Fangyu", "Jinxiang", "Dongmin (min)", "Gaoping" and other places were all over the Beibo Army in a very short period of time.
Thousands of people, ranging from a few hundred people, were all led by local generals, and they launched a counterattack almost at the same time.
What's even more difficult is that the Beibo Army has very deep-rooted connections in Song County, especially in the eastern part of Song County. From the local gentry to the common people in counties and villages, they are all willing to fight for the Beibo Army.
Cover, this resulted in the Beibo Army being at home in this land and being able to understand the movements of the Wei aristocratic private army at any time. However, the aristocratic private army could not tell which were the righteous soldiers of the Beibo Army and which were ordinary Song people.
With our hands tied, it is impossible to launch an effective counterattack.
For a time, the private armies of the Wei nobles were caught in the quagmire of war and were dragged around Song County, unable to move.
The situation in Song County was suddenly reversed.
The imperial court also paid attention to this, because this was the power of the Beibo Army in Song County.
From mid to late July, several noble private armies were defeated by the Bei Bo Army.
Finally, among the nobles of the Qingwang Party, "Pingcheng Hou Li Yang", "Quliang Hou Sima Song" and others led their troops to massacre "Jinxiang County" in anger, and killed some people they suspected of being the Beibo Army.
All the people of Song Dynasty were killed.
This move caused a crazy counterattack by the Beibo Army, and also made Qing Wang Hongxin fall into passive public opinion in the court.