Chapter 197: Han Wangran and Wei Wangrun [two in one]
Twenty days later, in early June of the ninth year of Wei Xing'an, Han Wangran received an urgent letter from General Le Yi.
At that time, Han Wangran was still busy making pre-war preparations for the tough battle with Wei, but he never expected that Wei had no intention of attacking his country.
"How come?!"
The moment he saw the contents of Le Yi's letter, Han Wangran couldn't help but exclaimed in confusion.
He originally thought that Le Yi's urgent letter was to report to him the bad news on the front line - in fact, no matter whether the Wei army attacked Wu'an or Julu, resulting in the fall of these two cities, Han Wangran could accept it, but the reality is that the Wei army
He has no interest in attacking South Korea.
Just like Han General Le Yi, Han Wangran also immediately realized that they had misjudged Wei's strategic intentions, or in other words, they had all been deceived by Wei King Zhao Run's trick of making false claims.
"No, no..."
Han Wangran shook his head slightly and murmured to himself. At this moment, he suddenly felt as if his heart was tightening and cramping, which made him feel a little dazed. Fortunately, his right hand was able to support the table in front of him in time.
"King?!"
The chamberlains nearby and the prime minister who had just been discussing war planning with Han Wangran opened their eyes and saw in shock that the figure of their Korean monarch suddenly swayed, as if he was about to faint and fall to the ground in the next moment.
Although Han Wangran himself supported the table with his hands in time, he still could not make everyone in the hall feel relieved.
"King?"
"King!"
Everyone in the hall gathered around him.
Facing the concerned inquiries from everyone in the hall, Han Wangran waved his hand and stretched out his hand to wipe his forehead with a tired expression.
The Prime Minister opened his mouth and hesitated to speak. Finally, his eyes fell on the letter in Han Wangran's hand, and he realized that it was this letter that greatly affected the spirit of the Korean monarch.
After a while, Han Wangran said in a low voice: "Everyone, please step aside and let us... be quiet."
Everyone in the palace looked at each other, and in the end they did not dare to disobey the monarch's order and retreated outside the palace.
"Your Majesty..." The Prime Minister opened his mouth and wanted to speak.
However, before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Han Wangran: "Prime Minister, please leave for now."
"……yes."
He hesitated to speak, but in the end he wisely withdrew from the hall, leaving Han Wangran alone in the huge hall.
There was no one around, so Han Wangran turned his attention back to the letter on the table, a self-deprecating, bitter smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
It has to be said that Wei Wang Zhao Run's move of "making a sound in the east and attacking in the west" was really too deadly. He deceived everyone in South Korea and made South Korea spend a full two years building the "Wu'an-Baren-Julu Defense Line" and the subsequent counterattacks.
The preparations for the "Handan North County and Julu North County local battlefield" were all in vain.
Han Wangran's eyes couldn't help but fall on a map on the desk. It was a map focusing on Handan North County and Julu North County in South Korea. Not only was the local landform and rivers clearly marked on the map, but there was also a
A special mark to deal with the local granaries, as well as passes, fortresses, military camps and other defense facilities originally used to resist the invasion of the Wei army - these were all built by South Korea in the past two years with huge efforts and funds.
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I still remember that just a stick of incense ago, when Han Wangran had not received the urgent letter from Han General Le Yi, he confidently said to the Prime Minister that as long as there are these lines of defense, even if it is an army as powerful as Wei's,
Don't even think about attacking Yuyang County where his Korean capital is located in a short period of time.
And South Korea was able to perfectly fulfill its promise to the Chu State, dragging Wei's army in the Northern Plains, so that the Chu State could take the opportunity to send troops and pull the powerful Wei State from its throne as the overlord of the Central Plains.
But after a stick of incense, an urgent letter from the border garrison commander Le Yi completely shattered Han Wangran's illusions about this war: Wei State had deceived the entire Central Plains!
The Wei State had no intention of attacking Handan North County and Julu County!
His South Korea's "Wu'an-Boren-Julu Defense Line" will become a joke.
"As expected of you...as expected of you..."
With a bit of bitterness on his face, Han Wangran murmured to himself, and at this time, a strong sense of frustration emerged in his heart.
This was no ordinary frustration. An ordinary defeat would not make Han Wangran so depressed. The frustration in his heart came from the fact that no matter what he did, he could not defeat his old enemy Wei Wang Zhao Run.
In terms of commanding troops to fight, he is not as good as Zhao Run.
In terms of governing the country and bringing peace to the people, he is not as good as Zhao Run.
In terms of diligently managing the country, he is not as good as Zhao Run.
With great difficulty, he promoted the "Three Kingdoms Alliance of Han, Qi, and Chu" in an attempt to end Wei's dominance of the Central Plains. However, he found out that he had been deceived by Wei King Zhao Run for two or three years.
Such successive setbacks in all aspects of everything made Han Wangran inevitably feel a kind of despair that was close to "it's natural, how can it be prosperous".
Mencius said: When Heaven is about to entrust this person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind and will, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, deplete his body, and mess up his actions. Therefore, if his mind and forbearance are tempted, he will benefit what he cannot do.
Han Ran once believed in this.
But at this moment, he couldn't help but want to ask the sky: Am I not one of them? Why was Han Ran born, but Zhao Run was born again?
If the person chosen by God is Zhao Run of the Wei State, then the fact that he endured for more than ten years under the pressure of powerful ministers such as Han Hu, Han Wu, and Han Geng, and finally got what he wanted and regained the kingship, what else?
What's the meaning?
The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't accept it. Han Ran only felt his chest tightening, and the hot and stuffy air made him faintly breathless. His whole body was panicking, and even traces of hot water gradually oozed from his forehead - these
They are all signs of "hurt fire attacking the heart".
Suddenly, he felt that the chest tightness was getting worse and worse, and he gradually became unable to breathe.
He wanted to stand up, but he never thought that his vision would go dark. His left leg tripped on the table in front of him, causing him to subconsciously lean forward. He fell to the ground with a thud, and his forehead hit the edge of the king's steps.
The corner suddenly started to bleed.
"King!"
There was an exclamation from outside the palace, and immediately, the Prime Minister ran in with open arms.
It turned out that the Prime Minister Kai Zhang never left the palace after he walked out of the palace. He stood outside the palace waiting to be summoned. After all, when Han Wangran was depressed because of Wei Wang Zhao Run in the past, he always cheered up quickly. Therefore, Zhang Kai
I think this time will be no exception.
Unexpectedly, after waiting for a while, he did not see Han Wangran calling him, but heard a thud from the hall, as if something heavy had fallen to the ground.
He secretly glanced inside the palace door, and was shocked to see his Korean monarch lying on the ground, with blood seemingly flowing from his forehead.
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty?"
He stepped forward to support Han Wangran, and kept asking with an open face of fear and concern. After all, Han Wangran's face covered with blood at this time was too scary.
However, compared to the panic and panic in Kaifangdi, Han Wangran was very calm - maybe he hadn't realized why he fell to the ground just now.
After a while, Wei Qing Ma Kuo also learned the news, and immediately came with his people. While sealing the palace, he ordered the chamberlains and maids in the palace not to talk about Han Ran's fall in private. At the same time, he came to Han Ran's side and expressed concern.
ask.
At this time, the palace doctor was also summoned to clean the wound on Han Ran's forehead and asked Han Wangran the reason for his fall.
Han Wangran was not a person who kept tabs on doctors, so he told the palace doctor his physical feelings just now.
After hearing this, the old palace doctor said with a sigh: "Your Majesty, you are suffering from anxiety, combined with years of hard work and a lack of mental and physical strength... The old man has long advised your Majesty to take good care of yourself."
The old palace doctor's tone was a bit complaining and a bit helpless.
Many young people are like this. They always rely on their youth and strength, neglect to take care of their bodies, turn a blind eye to certain fatigue signals of the body, and refuse to listen to the advice of the elderly. It seems that these young people often do not live long.
Even the wise monarch of South Korea in front of him is the same. Although he works day and night for the country, he seems to be unwilling to listen to the advice of their palace doctors and still forcibly overdraws his energy, which causes his body to become more and more fragile.
Weakness, also known as poor Qi and blood.
The qi and blood were not flowing smoothly, coupled with the urgent fire attacking the heart, this led to what happened today.
"No one is allowed to tell anyone what happened today!"
After the old palace doctor bandaged the wound on his forehead, Han Wangran warned in a deep voice, after all, something like this could easily cause chaos in Korea.
At this critical moment, how can South Korea fall into civil strife again?
Sitting on the throne, Han Wangran put his hand on his forehead and thought about the next strategy.
Although medicine has been applied to the wound, he can still feel a dull pain. What's more terrible is that he doesn't know if it was because his forehead hit the step just now, so he is quite dizzy at the moment, which seriously hinders his ability to function.
Thinking made him, who was already anxious, become even more anxious.
Perhaps because he saw something, the Prime Minister opened his mouth and whispered softly: "Your Majesty, if you don't want to rest first..."
"How can I have the time to rest?"
Han Wangran glanced at the open ground, and after enduring all kinds of discomfort and thinking for a while, he said in a deep voice: "Call Zhao Zhuo, I have something important to tell him."
After a while, the scholar-official Zhao Zhuo came to the palace and saw Han Wangran's head wrapped in a bandage, with faint traces of blood seeping from the bandage. He was shocked and said: "Your Majesty, you..."
As if he had guessed Zhao Zhuo's thoughts, Han Wangran handed the two letters he had just written to the chamberlain beside him, and asked the chamberlain to hand them over to Zhao Zhuo. At the same time, he said: "Take these two letters and set off immediately.
One letter was given to Le Yi of Julu, and the other letter was sent to Luoyang of Wei State to be handed over to King Zhao Run of Wei." At this point, he paused, beckoned and said, "Come forward."
Zhao Zhuoyi stepped forward, saw Han Wangran's movements, and leaned down knowingly, so that Han Wangran could whisper a few words in his ear.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Zhuo was shocked by these few words, and said with a bitter smile as if in fear: "Your Majesty, your Majesty calls your ministers...to provoke the State of Wei?"
He couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
You must know that the last envoy from Qi, Tian Hu, who provoked Wei, was beheaded on the spot by Wei King Zhao Run.
Han Wangran was silent for a moment after hearing this. It was not that he felt sorry for Zhao Zhuo, but he felt that such a crude provoking method might not be enough for Wei King Zhao Run to fall for him. In this case, Zhao Run would naturally not be attacked by Zhao Run.
Angered by Zhuo's provocation.
It's just...it's just that he was so dizzy at the moment that he really couldn't think of any other way.
Different from the situation two years ago when he was afraid that Wei State would attack his South Korea, now he is eager for Wei State to send troops to attack his South Korea instead of attacking Qi State. The reason is simply that his South Korean side is well prepared and can at least resist.
After living in Wei for a while, Qi was unable to withstand Wei's offensive.
What's more terrible is that it is difficult for South Korea to send troops to help Qi State, because if it loses the advantage of fighting on the ground, its army in South Korea may not be able to hold back Wei State as expected - this will completely disrupt the "Three Kingdoms of Han, Qi, and Chu"
Alliance" the strategic policy previously set against Wei.
"...Let's arrange it like this for now."
Han Ran said secretly.
After receiving the king's order, Zhao Zhuo naturally did not dare to delay and hurriedly set off for Julu City that day.
After more than twenty days of hard work, Zhao Zhuo finally arrived at Julu City at the end of June and handed Han Wangran's letter to Le Yi, the commander of the border armies.
At that time, Le Yi did not bother to exchange greetings with Zhao Zhuo. He opened the letter on the spot and looked at it with Julu Shouyan.
As he had guessed before, Han Wangran ordered him in the letter to provoke the Wei army at all costs and to induce the Wei army to attack.
After reading this letter, Le Yi and Yan Kui looked at each other with mixed feelings of joy and sorrow.
Fortunately, after sending someone to send a letter to Jicheng that day, Le Yi had accurately judged Han Wangran's decision, so on the third day at that time, he had already taken various measures in an attempt to seduce Handan and Feicheng.
The Wei Hanoi Army and the Anti-Rebel Army in the area hoped to offend the Wei Army and make the Wei Army take the initiative to attack, thus starting the first battle between the two countries after three years of confrontation.
Worryingly, Zhao Run, the king of Yan, who was stationed in Handan, and Pang Huan, the general of Wei who was stationed in Feicheng, ignored Le Yi's provocation and had no intention of taking the initiative.
What makes Le Yi and Yan Kui even more depressed is that the Wei army actually built a series of defense facilities in Handan, Feicheng and other places - this incident once again proved that the Wei state had no intention of sending troops to South Korea!
Wei State deceived the entire Central Plains!
Since Han envoy Zhao Zhuo was still in a hurry to go to Luoyang of Wei State, he did not delay in Julu City. He just had some food and immediately set off on his journey.
After Zhao Zhuo left, Le Yi and Julu Shouyan crepe discussed countermeasures in private.
Although Han Wangran ordered them to try their best to induce the Wei army on the border between Wei and South Korea to take the initiative to attack his country, the Wei army on the opposite side did not take the bait. What should we do?
After pondering for a moment, Julu Shou Yanju suggested: "Wei General Pang Huan is calm and steady and difficult to deal with. It is better to start from Zhao Jiang..."
Hearing this, Le Yi nodded slightly.
He also felt that the reckless and violent Yan King Zhao Jiang was indeed easier to seduce than the calm Wei veteran Pang Huan.
Therefore, Le Yi immediately summoned his general Luo Wu, and after a few careful instructions, ordered him to go to Wu'an immediately.
Luo Wu did not dare to delay, so he took more than a dozen cavalry and traveled to Wu'an day and night.
Julu City is not very far from Wu'an. If you ride a horse, you can reach it in two days. If you speed up, a dozen hours will be enough.
Therefore, Luo Wu arrived at Wu'an before dusk on the second day and relayed Le Yi's general order to Wu'an guard Jin Wei and Xu Li, the chief general of the Shanggu Army.
After meeting Jin Mao and Xu Li, Luo Wu first showed Han Wangran's handwritten letter.
Han Wangran’s autographed letter to Le Yi can be roughly divided into two main points:
First, Le Yi was given full authority to handle the war on the front line. Whether it was fighting against Wei or rushing to aid Qi, Le Yi would make his own decision.
After all, it would take at least twenty days for Julu to reach the royal capital Jicheng, which would be fine on a normal day, but during a war, the twenty-day delay would inevitably lead to a delay in the fighter plane.
Therefore, Han Wangran must grant Le Yi this special power.
On the other hand, only with this special authority can Le Yi command the remaining Korean troops on the border without having time to ask Jicheng for instructions from the king.
Second, Han Wangran ordered Le Yi and other generals stationed on the border to do everything possible to lure the Wei army into war at all costs, so that the situation would return to the strategic formation that the "Three Kingdoms of Han, Qi, and Chu" had previously designed to target Wei -
-To put it simply, South Korea is responsible for attracting Wei's main force and creating a favorable situation for Chu.
"Jin Mao, Xu Li, please obey the king's order!"
After reading Han Wangran's letter, General Jin Yao and Xu Li bowed towards Jicheng with their hands and fists clasped.
Immediately, Jin Yao asked Luo Wudao: "I wonder what General Le Yi has planned?"
Luo Wu clasped his fists and said seriously: "The general hopes that General Jinmao will immediately lead his army to attack Handan..."
Hearing this, Jin Mao frowned slightly and said hesitantly: "Does General Le Yi hope to anger Wei by taking back Handan? It's just..."
He felt quite embarrassed and ashamed.
The reason is that he is really not sure about capturing Handan.
You must know that although Wei's Hanoi Army is not a strong force compared to the Shang Shui Army, Yanling Army, Suppression Army, and Wei Wu Army, the style of the Hanoi Army is very tough - even if it is
The new recruits have also inherited the steadfastness of the first generation of Shanyang soldiers who were almost completely annihilated in Shanyang. They are very brave in combat. This has been the case in the fights between sentry cavalry and scouts in the two cities of Handan and Wu'an in the past two years.
You can see it.
It was really a tough force that paid attention to blood for blood, tooth for tooth. The Handan Army under Jin Wei alone, even with the help of Xu Li's Shanggu Army, might not be able to make a breakthrough.
But it is undeniable that Yan Wang Zhao Jiang may indeed be the only breakthrough to 'provoke' the Wei army to take the offensive. After all, the other two Wei generals, namely Pang Huan and Qu Cheng, are much more reckless than Yan Wang Zhao Jiang.
My husband is very difficult to deal with.
But it was hard to disobey the general's order. Since Han Wangran had authorized Le Yi to have full power to oversee all wars on this side of the country, Jin Ao, Xu Li and others had no choice but to obey Le Yi's orders.
After looking at Gu Shou Xu Li, Jin Yao muttered: "Please tell General Le Yi... please give Wu'an some time to prepare, um, five days. After five days, I, Wu'an, will follow General Le Yi's instructions."
Order, try to use troops against Handan."
Luo Wu nodded and immediately returned to Julu City with Jin Yao's words.
After Luo Wu left, Shanggu Shou Xu Li couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Putting pressure on Handan is not easy..."
No wonder Xu Li couldn't help but complain, because their preparations and arrangements in the past two years were entirely for the defensive side. For example, the daily training of soldiers in the army was mainly focused on defending the city. Now suddenly
Let them take the initiative to attack Handan, even if the main purpose of attacking Handan is to provoke Wei general Zhao Jiang and induce him to ignore the order of Wei monarch Zhao Run and attack Korea without authorization.
"For now...let's do our best."
Jin Mao said to Xu Li.
It has to be said that the Wei State suddenly changed its focus, abandoned South Korea and attacked Qi State. This move of "attacking the east and attacking the west" really completely disrupted South Korea's strategic policy and even affected the confidence of the Korean generals on the front line in this battle.
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Five days later, in early July, just as Wu'an Shou Xu Li and Shanggu Shou Xu Li were preparing to send troops to attack Handan, South Korea's envoy Zhao Zhuo also arrived in Daliang of Wei State, and then transferred to Daliang to go
The ships from Luoyang arrived at Luoyang, the new capital of Wei State, two days later.
The news that Han envoy Zhao Zhuo came to Luoyang immediately reached the ears of Wei King Zhao Run.
Zhao Run was not surprised by this, because he already had some guesses about Zhao Zhuo's purpose.
On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Han envoy Zhao Zhuo took a bath and changed clothes at the posthouse in Luoyang City, then came to the palace and begged to see Zhao Run, the king of Wei.
Zhao Run did not embarrass Zhao Zhuo because of the current hostility between Wei and South Korea. He still met Zhao Zhuo in Chui Gong Hall according to the previous specifications - acting like a diligent monarch.
Compared with the previous missions to Wei, this time, Han envoy Zhao Zhuo was obviously a little nervous and hesitant. The reason was very simple, because the purpose of his previous visit to Wei Wang Zhao Run was to 'provoke' the monarch - he did not dare.
Guaranteed, how the angry Zhao Run will treat him.
In other words, will his fate be the same as that of Tian Hu, the envoy of Qi?
But even so, Zhao Zhuo, the Han envoy, still mustered up the courage to taunt the Wei monarch in the Chui Gong Hall: "...His Majesty, the King of Wei, abandoned us, Korea, and attacked Qi. Could it be that he was afraid of our country's united will? In this case, your country
Why not admit defeat immediately and impose sanctions on those businessmen who caused the dispute between the two countries?"
Even the eunuchs in the palace felt angry when they heard the retort remarks made by Zhao Zhuo, the envoy of Han, but Zhao Run, the king of Wei, did not show any anger on his face, and even laughed out loud.
Because Zhao Run knew very well that the reason why Han envoy Zhao Zhuo behaved so abnormally was simply because Wei had disrupted South Korea's previous strategic deployment.
He asked with a smile: "Zhao Zhuo, are you here in a hurry this time? How do I feel that you have lost a lot of weight compared to the last time you went to Wei?"
When Leng Buding heard this question, Han made Zhao Zhuo stunned.
But in fact, Zhao Run's guess was indeed correct. In the past, it would take about two months for people like Han Chao, Zhao Zhuo and others to rush from Jicheng to Wei State. However, this time, due to the emergency, Zhao Zhuo traveled day and night to make the journey as long as possible.
The time required was shortened to one month.
This month of working day and night has probably made him lose nearly ten kilograms, and he looks extremely haggard.
"This time it is indeed a bit hasty..."
Halfway through, Zhao Zhuo suddenly realized something was wrong: What am I saying?
So, he immediately changed his words: "My affairs are of no importance. Your Majesty, King Wei, you ordered the attack on Qi..."
However, before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Wei King Zhao Run with a smile: "Han Ran asked you to come, right? Is he anxious when he learned that Wei Dynasty was attacking Qi?"
Zhao Zhuo's face froze when he heard this, and he took a deep breath in an attempt to bring the topic back: "Your Majesty, King Wei, I am talking about your country right now..."
"Those are all small things."
Wei Wang Zhao Run waved his hand to interrupt Zhao Zhuo's words, and asked with a smile: "Speaking of which, since we said goodbye to Handan, I have not seen the monarch of your country again. It has been almost nine years, and I miss him very much.
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When he said this, an imperceptible sparkle flashed in his eyes.