"PS: Well, my friend's new book is "Fu Yun Ji", how could it be written as "Floating Clouds" yesterday?"
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The time goes back to two months ago, when the Wei State dispatched 400,000 troops to advance into the "Hetao area" and prepared to go to war with Lin Hu living there, in the "Yuyang County" in the northeast of South Korea, in the "Ji (Ji)" where the county seat is located
"jì) County", the leader of the Blue Crows, "Crow Qi", was hiding in a residential house in the city with five of his Blue Crow brothers.
Since the weather in Yuyang County was cold, they simply gathered around the charcoal fire in the house, drinking and roasting the game they had hunted.
These Green Crows have not been in South Korea for a day or two. In fact, they were sent to South Korea by Zhao Hongrun as early as two years ago, that is, after the "Battle of Five Parties Defeating Wei" and after South Korea sued for peace with Wei.
At that time, South Korea and Wei had reached a tacit understanding, and the two tacitly decided to wait until Wei occupied the Hetao and expel Lin Hu, or until South Korea defeated Dong Hu, before the two sides went to war again, so as to avoid war between the two Central Plains countries.
, being taken advantage of by those foreign nations.
Since then, Ya Qi and dozens of other Green Crows were sent to South Korea by Zhao Hongrun, specifically responsible for collecting Korean war status against Donghu, and sent them as secret letters to the "Daliang Branch of the Green Crows" in Daliang -
-In fact, during the same period, South Korea also sent many agents to sneak into Wei State in disguise to explore the progress of Wei State's war against Lin Hu.
It is not an easy task to lurk in an enemy country to collect intelligence, not to mention that the war between South Korea and Donghu also took place in the distant Yuyang County.
Therefore, after Ya Qi and others were selected, they were first arranged by Zhao Hongrun to go to "Qi County" under the rule of King Yan Zhao Hongjiang. In this border city between Wei and South Korea, they first learned the dialects of various parts of Korea and understood the various regions of Korea.
The humanistic situation, and then entered South Korea under the cover of Wei Shang.
The merchants of Wei State, as long as they are a slightly larger caravan, more or less have aristocratic backgrounds, for example, Wang Yong merchant Wen Shaobo, who was next to Su Wang Zhao Run, was followed by a large number of Qingya people.
, followed Wen Shaobo as he traveled north and south to visit other countries, and secretly drew a rough map of the counties and counties in other countries, which he sent to Daliang on his return trip.
To be honest, many businessmen from various countries in this era are actually equivalent to "legal spies". While doing business, they also collect intelligence about other countries for their own country. If other countries cannot catch these people, they will have nothing to do with it.
There is nothing they can do. After all, they can't stop eating because of choking. Should we put an end to such spies and drive out all the merchants from other countries?
As for Ya Qi and others, with the help of the caravans under "Anping Hou Zhao Tan" and several other nobles of the Su Wang Party, they infiltrated Handan County in South Korea as a businessman.
When the caravan was returning, Ya Qi and others quietly left the caravan, bribed Korean officials and other means to obtain a Korean road guide (equivalent to an ID card), and then approached Yuyang County one stop at a time.
, until last year, I finally arrived at "Ji County" in Yuyang County, bought several houses in the city, and settled down.
Since Ya Qi and others had already mastered various Korean dialects when they were in the border city of Qi County, when they pretended to be relocated to Jixian, they did not arouse the vigilance of the Korean neighbors.
After all, Jixian County is the seat of Yuyang County. It is one of the "Ten Hao of Beiyuan" and the place where "Yuyang Guards Qinkai" is stationed. It is also an important city in the northeast of South Korea. Crow Qi and others pretended to be businessmen in South Korea.
It certainly doesn't arouse suspicion.
The only problem is that the cold weather here in Yuyang County makes the Green Crows who used to live in Shangshui County feel very uncomfortable. After all, the temperatures in the two places are very different.
On this day, Ya Qi and five brothers were having a barbecue and drinking wine in the house, when suddenly there was a knocking on the door outside the house.
The rhythmic knocking on the door was the secret signal of the Green Crows.
Therefore, Crow Seven stood up and opened the door. After glancing at the side of the courtyard wall, he lowered his voice and asked, "Is there anyone following?"
Standing outside the house at this time were two Qingya people dressed as businessmen. They were wearing thick cotton-padded jackets and a cotton hat on their heads. The two people couldn't help rolling their eyes after hearing Yaqi's question.
, said: "This damn weather, there are not even dogs on the street, how can there be anyone?"
This is of course an exaggeration, but the situation here in Yuyang County is indeed the same. Unless the sun rises and the weather gets a little warmer, there will indeed be very few people walking on the street.
What's more, in the northeastern region of South Korea, most people do not make a living by cultivating fields to grow food, but rely on the harvest of "chestnuts" - for example, in Yuyang County, where wild chestnuts are all over the mountains and fields, the local Koreans do not need to work at all.
As long as you go to the mountains during the annual autumn harvest, you can carry back pockets of chestnuts, which is not only enough for the whole family to make ends meet, but the Koreans even use these chestnuts to make wine, which is the so-called chestnut wine (
chestnut wine).
Especially the chestnut wine in Yuyang area is very famous throughout Korea. "Note: Historically, the Yan people lived on chestnuts and hardly needed to work."
At first, Ya Qi and others were worried whether hiding in the house all day long would arouse the suspicion of the neighbors. It was not until he lived here for a while that he was relieved. The Koreans in Yuyang County hid in the house to warm themselves by the fire every day.
Drinking is the norm, and people here are almost not engaged in production.
To put it bluntly, apart from the cold weather, this place is simply the best place for a lazy person to settle down. After all, with almost no effort, you can harvest a large amount of chestnuts from the wild mountains and forests for food.
"How to say?"
Seeing the two Qingya brothers who had returned from going out to explore the news, sitting by the charcoal fire to warm themselves up, Crow Qi asked in a tight voice.
I saw one of the two green crows replying in a low voice: "Brother Qi, you guessed it right. The Koreans did take the initiative to attack Donghu and provoke a war..."
As he spoke, he took the chestnut wine handed over by his companion, took a big sip, and then continued: "In the past two years, Dai Xin, the governor of Dai County, died in the battle in Shanyang, which made the situation of Dai County really bad. Shanggu Shou Ma
The troops under She's command are not enough to defend Daijun and Shanggu at the same time. Currently, Ma She, the defender of Shanggu, is stationed at Feihu Pass in the southern ridge of Juzhu Mountain..."
"Juzhi Shannan Ridge?" Crow Qi was stunned when he heard the words, frowned and asked: "What about the North Ridge?"
The Green Crow shrugged and said: "It has been captured by those Dai Rong a long time ago."
Hearing this, Ya Qi frowned deeply and murmured: "Something's not right... Shanggu Shou Ma She is one of the top three famous generals in South Korea who is good at fighting. How could he give up on Beiling so easily?
He wouldn't know that Bei
As soon as the defensive blockade of the ridge is thrown away, Dai Rongke can directly face Juyong Pass. If something unexpected happens at Juyong Pass, Dai Rongke will have to drive straight in. By then, maybe Yuyang, Shanggu, Julu and so on
The whole county will suffer..."
"Not only Dairong, but also Donghu." The green crow member added.
"It's not quite right...it's not quite right..."
Holding her chin, Crow Qi looked at the charcoal fire thoughtfully.
There are a few things that he still hasn't figured out yet.
For example, since Ju Xin, the governor of Dai County, was defeated and captured in the "Battle of Wei-Han Shanyang" and ordered to be executed by Zhao Run, His Royal Highness, King Su of Wei State, South Korea has not sent any more powerful generals to garrison Dai County.
To be precise, Handan actually sent a general to replace Ju Xin, but the problem was that this general was too useless. If Ma She, the Shanggu Shou, had not sent troops to support him in time, he might have defeated Dai Jun long ago.
The whole thing was lost.
Because of this, Yaqi didn't even bother to remember the name of that useless general.
Is it because South Korea could no longer find a general who could replace Ju Xin after the "Third Battle of Northern Xinjiang between Wei and Han"?
Of course not!
At least in Crow Qi's memory, there is also the newly promoted Beiyuan Ten tycoon "Sima Shang".
This is a man who captured at least 60% of the territory of the Wei Kingdom in just one or two months during the "Third Battle of Northern Xinjiang between Wei and Han". It is no exaggeration to say that if South Korea had not been attacked at that time,
Lin Hu's invasion, with the few troops in the hands of Wei Gong Ziyu, was simply not enough to stop the attack of the Han general Sima Shang.
And for such a general who is good at fighting, although there were once rumors that he "replaced Ju Xin as the acting governor", in fact, even Crow Seven could not find out where this man had gone.
do what.
Crow Qi, who was puzzled, could only wait and see what happened, secretly paying close attention to the actions of Shanggu Shou Ma She and Yuyang Shou Qin Kai.
However, what puzzled him was that after the fall of the North Ridge of Juzhu Mountain, Shanggu Guards Mashe garrisoned at Feihu Pass in the South Ridge. It seemed that he was not in a hurry to recapture the fortress in the North Ridge, but instead strengthened it in Feihu Pass in the South Ridge.
Defense, as for Yuyang County, Yuyang Guard Qin Kai did not send troops to strengthen the defense of Juyong Pass for some reason, but only continued to strengthen the defense in Ji County.
These two important towns in South Korea's northern Xinjiang seem to be a bit passive in accepting the challenge.
Finally one day, when Ya Qi was warming himself by the fire and drinking wine in the house, the door suddenly rang loudly.
When he opened the door, he saw two Qingya brothers rushing into the house. After closing the door, they lowered their voices eagerly and said: "Seventh brother, something happened, Juyong Pass has been breached!"
"What?!" Crow Qi's eyes widened in shock.
You must know that a while ago, he was still muttering that Ma She, the guardian of Shanggu, had relaxed his attack on the northern ridge of Juzhu Mountain. This would give Dai Rong and Dong Hu an opportunity to take advantage of it, causing the pressure on Juyong Pass to increase sharply. He did not expect that it would only be through
After about ten days, Juyongguan was really captured.
"What are Ma She and Qin Kai doing?"
Crow Qi's face turned pale in shock.
Two days later, around noon, a warning sound suddenly sounded in the city.
Crow Qi was quite frightened after hearing this, so she put on her thick cotton clothes, walked to the yard, and peered into the streets of the city through the earthen wall that was only one person high. On the distant streets, she saw those who were stationed in Yuyang.
The Korean army was quickly running towards the city gate.
At this time, the Koreans in the neighbors on the street also came out and stood on the street, watching from a distance the soldiers of Yuyang who passed quickly.
Seeing this, Yaqi asked a Korean in his forties with a local accent: "Uncle, what's going on?"
"I heard that Rong Di attacked the city." The Korean said calmly: "But it's okay. General Qin Kai is here, so it won't be a problem." As he said that, he stroked his beard and said somewhat unexpectedly:
"It's strange to say that those Rongdi people have not attacked our Jixian County for several years. What happened this time..."
"What's wrong? Hey, that's because Juyong Pass was breached!"
Crow Qi muttered in his heart.
Until this moment, he was still very puzzled as to why Juyong Pass was so easily breached by the Donghu and other foreigners. He felt as if Ma She, the guardian of Shanggu, and Qin Kai, the guardian of Yuyang, deliberately gave up Juyong Pass to each other, but... why?
"Is it to lure the enemy? South Korea deliberately lured Dong Hu in?"
Crow Qi frowned slightly.
It is undeniable that the Yuyang County and Shanggu County areas are mostly plain terrain, which is indeed conducive to Korean cavalry operations. However, the problem is that the Donghu nomads outside South Korea also have a large number of cavalry.
Although the Korean cavalry was said to be strong enough to compete with the Donghu cavalry, Yaqi still couldn't understand the reason why South Korea abandoned the fortresses in the mountains and chose to fight on the plains.
"..."
Frowning, Yaqi ran to the street rather nervously and carefully observed the expressions of the Yuyang soldiers from a distance.
What made him feel a little relieved was that the Yuyang soldiers were not too panicked and were moving quickly towards the city wall in an orderly manner.
During this period, Crow Qi also saw Qin Kai’s famous general who was called the Ten Heroes of Beiyuan by the Koreans. He saw the latter sitting astride a war horse, waving with a smile amidst the cheers of the Koreans in the city on both sides of the street.
, slowly heading towards the city gate.
"You're not panicking at all...could it be that the Donghu outside the city are just a small group of people?"
Seeing Qin Kai's calm expression, Ya Qi secretly guessed in his heart.
However, he guessed wrong. In fact, the number of Donghu who invaded South Korea this time was extremely large, at least 150,000 troops. However, the number of Donghu and other foreign tribes that have arrived in Jixian so far is only 30,000 or 40,000.
While appeasing the people in the city, Han general Yuyang Shou Qin Kai rode his horse to the west gate, climbed on the wall of the west gate, and looked out into the distance outside the city.
Faintly visible, horsemen were everywhere in the distance outside the city, seemingly raiding nearby villages.
In response, Qin Kaixin sneered secretly.
Crow Qi's guess was correct. Whether it was Ma She, the guardian of Shanggu, who retreated to Feihu Pass in the Nanling Mountains of Juzhu Mountain. While guarding the main road leading to the hinterland of Shanggu County, he exposed Juyong Pass to Donghu's eyes, or whether it was the fishing expedition.
Qin Kai, who guarded Yang, deliberately relaxed the defense of Juyong Pass in order to introduce Donghu's cavalry to the plains near Jixian.
The Jixian area was the location where South Korea had deployed as early as a year ago to prepare for a decisive battle with the Donghu cavalry.
For this reason, after Qin Kai returned to Yuyang County from the "Third Battle of Northern Xinjiang between Wei and Han", he ordered all the people in the villages outside the city to be moved to big cities such as Jixian County. Although it is difficult to guarantee that there is no one living outside the city at this time.
The Koreans outside the city believed that those Donghu cavalry were destined to plunder nothing.
"It seems that Donghu's troops have not all arrived yet... Hehe, in that case, let's let them go for two days."
Standing on the top of the city, Yuyang Guard Qin Kai observed the Donghu cavalry in the distance outside the city for a while, then smiled lightly.
He was not worried about these Donghu cavalry running around and causing chaos. After all, in order to prevent this kind of thing from happening, in fact, long before the fall of Juyong Pass, Han General Baoyuan, Dangyin Hou Han Yang and others had led the Handan army northward and stationed in Shanggu County.
"Xiadu" blocked the possibility of Donghu cavalry going south.
As for these Donghu cavalry attacking the city, Qin Kai was even less afraid.
In his eyes, these Donghu cavalry were actually equivalent to dead people.
It is estimated that after a few days, there will be more and more Donghu cavalry in Jixian area.
At this time, these Donghu cavalrymen had already faintly felt that something was wrong, because so far, they had hardly found any mountain villages or villages inhabited by Koreans, let alone looted anything.
They did not guess that the Koreans had deliberately planned to lure them into the hinterland of Yuyang County. They only thought that the Koreans were more alert this time and fled to Dacheng (Jixian County, etc.) in a hurry as soon as they heard that Juyong Pass had been breached.
Around mid-June, Han generals Bao Yuan, Jin Wei and Dangyin Hou Han Yang led the Handan army to advance northward. After learning about this, Yuyang guard Qin Kai began to fight the Donghu cavalry outside the city in an orderly manner.
Strive to tie these Donghu cavalry to Jixian and at the same time create conditions for a large-scale legionary war.
Faced with the aggressive pressure of Yuyang's guard Qin Kai, the Donghu cavalry were indeed angered.
The Korean cavalry is very famous, but in fact this is limited to the Central Plains. After all, the countries in the Central Plains rarely have large-scale cavalry. However, in the eyes of the nomadic peoples such as Donghu and Linhu who have a large number of cavalry, the so-called Korean cavalry is actually just that.
Just a matter.
If the Yanmen cavalry under the command of Li Mu, the Yanmen guard, or the Shanggu cavalry guarding Mashe in the Shanggu were here at this moment, it would make these Donghu cavalry alert. But just for the Yuyang Army and the Handan Army, to be honest, the Donghu cavalry
The cavalry didn't take it seriously.
Especially the Handan Army, although it is the Korean army stationed in the royal capital, it is actually notoriously weak. According to the understanding of the Donghu people, the Handan Army of South Korea was beaten to the ground by the infantry of the Wei State in the Central Plains two years ago.
Beating him up is simply a disgrace to the cavalry.
Because of this, even when Han general Bao Yuan and others led the Handan army to support them, the Donghu cavalry were not afraid. They were dreaming of defeating these Korean cavalry and plundering as much as they wanted in South Korea.
Since both sides were eager for war, at the end of June, after the large troops of Donghu cavalry arrived in Jixian through Juyongguan, the two sides broke out on the plain terrain outside Jixian, the largest war in the history of South Korea and Donghu.
At the beginning of the battle, the Korean army only had 30,000 Yuyang troops guarding Qin Kai in Yuyang, and 50,000 Handan troops led by Han general Bao Yuan, totaling 80,000 troops.
Among them, because the Handan Army lost a large number of cavalry during the three "Wei-Korean Northern Frontier Campaigns", in this battle, the Korean side only had less than 20,000 cavalry, and most of them were infantry, so that when the fight started
Not long after, the Korean army fell into a disadvantage.
This once again boosted the arrogance of the Donghu cavalry.
However, just when the Donghu cavalry was about to gain the upper hand and the battle was at its most stalemate, suddenly, the entire plain area seemed to be shaking.
The Donghu cavalry knew very well that only a large number of cavalry passing by would cause such a level of noise.
"Reinforcements from South Korea?"
The Donghu cavalrymen subconsciously looked towards the south side of the battlefield, and saw in the distance to the south, as if a flood had been released, countless Korean cavalrymen were rushing towards the battlefield.
I saw these Korean cavalry. The knights on horseback were all wearing armor. Almost only their eyes were exposed. Even the horses under these knights were also wearing vests.
Those armors reflect a dazzling silver light in the sun, and you can tell at a glance that they are made of fine iron.
"This cavalry..."
The Donghu cavalry were stunned. They couldn't understand why this Korean cavalry wore such heavy iron armor. Wouldn't this affect the sprint speed and endurance of the war horse?
Just when these Donghu cavalrymen were surprised by this strange-looking Korean cavalry, this Korean heavy cavalryman wearing heavy armor rushed in front of the Donghu cavalrymen like a torrent of steel.
There was no retreat, and there was no formation at all. These Korean heavy cavalry, which imitated the heavy cavalry of Wei's wandering horses, just wielded their weapons and sprinted forward without hesitation, towards the place where Donghu's cavalry was densest.
"Ding-ding-ding-ding-"
The Donghu cavalry drew their bows and fired, but the arrows they fired could not penetrate the strong armor of these Korean heavy cavalry at all, and could not even slow down the latter's speed.
As if a flood was unleashed and was unstoppable, these tens of thousands of Korean heavy cavalry rushed across the entire battlefield in just half a stick of incense.
During this period, no matter whether the Donghu cavalry fired with bows or raised their scimitars to look at each other, they were unable to cause effective damage to the Korean heavy cavalry protected by heavy armor.
In just the blink of an eye, after tens of thousands of Korean heavy cavalry rushed across the battlefield, hundreds of thousands of Donghu cavalry turned into corpses, lying forever on the plain outside Ji County.
"It's so spectacular..."
Seeing this scene, Qin Kai, Bao Yuan, Jin Yao, Dangyin Hou Han Yang and other Korean generals couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Hundreds of thousands of Donghu cavalry were once a powerful enemy that made them feel as if they were facing a formidable enemy. Now, after South Korea has tens of thousands of heavy cavalry, they can actually kill them all in just a few blinks of an eye.
What is even more shocking is that this Korean heavy cavalry destroyed such a large number of enemy cavalry while suffering almost minimal casualties.
At this time, Bao Yuan finally understood why the heavy cavalry of the Wei Kingdom could slaughter chickens and dogs. In the blink of an eye, half of his 30,000 cavalry were wiped out. This heavy cavalry was really too powerful.
, so powerful that it almost makes people despair.
But behind this strength...
Bao Yuan felt a pang of pain in his heart when he thought that South Korea had spent an astronomical amount of money to build this heavy cavalry of about 50,000 riders.
After all, in order to build this heavy cavalry, South Korea has spent almost all the military expenditures on the country's garrison and exhausted the savings of the national treasury. At least within five years, South Korea will have no spare capacity to replace weapons and equipment for other domestic armies.
However, after taking a look at the battlefield littered with corpses, Bao Yuan and others agreed that it was worth it.
At the same time, Yaqi pretended to be a Yuyang soldier and stood on the city wall to secretly watch. He witnessed tens of thousands of Korean heavy cavalry summon hundreds of thousands of Donghu cavalry in less than half a stick of incense.
In this scene, almost the entire army was annihilated.
"Isn't this... Isn't this my Great Wei's Yuma Heavy Rider?!"
After swallowing his saliva, Crow Qi felt creepy.
Back then, he defeated South Korea with five thousand heavy cavalry and heavy cavalry of the Wei State. Chu's infantry and cavalry army had no power to fight back. What's more, now South Korea has secretly built tens of thousands of heavy cavalry?
"Not good! We must report to His Highness Prince Su as soon as possible!!"