Just when the Korean general Yanmenshou Li Muyi was preparing to become a lone hero to help the country without hesitation, King Huan Zhao Xuan had already led his Northern First Army back to Anyi in Hedong County.
At this moment, Anyi was being managed by Luo Yao, another counselor beside King Huan Zhao Xuan. After learning that the prince had returned to Anyi with his army, Luo Yao hurriedly went out of the city to greet him.
At this time, Luo Yao had already received a letter from Wei Ji, the governor of Hedong. Therefore, he was not surprised that King Huan Zhao Xuan led the army back to Anyi. He was only surprised that Zhao Xuan appointed a surrendered general and successfully continued to govern Jinyang.
One thing, I felt a little surprised.
Seeing this, Zhao Xuan then explained: "This was Zhou Min's suggestion. He felt that this move might test Le Cheng's loyalty to me, the great Wei Dynasty."
Luo Yao nodded after hearing this.
He also felt that Zhou Min's suggestion was very good. After all, in terms of the current general trend of the "Wei-Korean Alliance", Wei could not forcefully occupy Jinyang, otherwise he would inevitably be accused of being ugly, but if he surrendered his generals and successfully continued
There would be no problem in governing Jinyang. After all, it was not known to everyone that Le Cheng had secretly defected to Wei.
"Where's Zhou Min?" Luo Yao asked curiously.
"Still in Yao County." Zhao Xuan explained: "For the sake of caution, he decided to station an army in the Jieshan area to prevent a successful rebellion."
"It won't happen." Luo Yao said with a smile.
In his opinion, if the "rebellion" succeeds, the most it will do is lose Taiyuan, which originally belonged to South Korea in name only. Does the success dare to ignore the king's order from Jicheng and declare war on Wei?
"Zhou Min also feels that it is impossible for success to betray me, the Wei Dynasty, but it is better to be careful." After saying that, King Huan Zhao Xuan turned the topic to the war in Hedong: "How is the war situation in Hedong right now?"
Luo Yao heard this and said seriously: "I just received the battle report from Lord Wei Ji two days ago. According to the battle report, the Hedong Army is currently confronting the Qin General Wang Jian in the Xiayang and Fenyin areas... Wang Jian's army seems to be insufficient in strength and has not yet been
What kind of threat does it pose to the Hedong Army, but Lord Wei Ji does not dare to take it lightly. After all, Qin’s garrison in the north, in addition to Qin General Wang Jian in Xihe, also has soldiers and horses from Wuxinhou Gongsun Qi..."
King Huan Zhao Xuan listened quietly to Luo Yao's description. After listening, he nodded and said: "The army has just returned to Anyi. It will take two or three days to reorganize. Please send a letter to Fenyin and tell Hedong to guard Wei Ji, saying that I will be here
In three days, he will lead the Northern First Army to support Fenyin and ask him to prepare in advance."
"Yes!" Luo Yao responded with cupped hands.
On the same day, King Huan Zhao Xuan handed over the matter of reorganizing the army to generals Zhang Ao, Li Meng and others, and returned to the palace in Anyi City.
After returning to the palace, he hesitated between going back to the "study" or the "master bedroom".
The master bedroom actually refers to the bedroom where his wife "Han Ji" lived. She was the Korean princess who married into the Wei Kingdom due to the marriage between Wei and Han when the late king Zhao Si was still alive, and Han Wangran's cousin.
Over the years, the relationship between Zhao Xuan and the Han family has not been harmonious. The reason is simply that the couple has always had differences on the issue of Korea. In fact, to be more precise, it was because King Huan Zhao Xuan had a thorn in his heart and did not want to see Koreans.
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Thinking about it, in the past twenty years, South Korea and Wei have fought four wars. It is strange that the Wei people have a good impression of South Korea.
But this time, after hesitating for a while, King Huan Zhao Xuan walked towards the master bedroom of the north house.
It may be because he has been in a good mood recently. After all, his invasion of Taiyuan County was a great victory. Not only did he capture Jinyang, but he also forced the landing of famous Korean generals, and the defense of Taiyuan was successful; it may also be because he has learned that South Korea exists in name only.
, so I don’t know what I think, but I want to see Han Ji.
Zhao Xuan had two sons and a daughter. The eldest son was named "Hu", the second son was named "Po", and the daughter was named "Shang". They were all born to the side wife.
Yes, the main wife, the Han family, has no children.
It's not that this Korean princess can't have children, it's just that Zhao Xuan doesn't like this daughter and they haven't slept together several times throughout the year. It's strange that the Han family came out.
It is worth mentioning that Zhao Xuan once thought about divorcing his wife and asked Zhou Min, Zhang Ao, Li Meng and others privately. Zhou Min and others had long known that Zhao Xuan and the Han family were not getting along, and most of them supported Zhao Xuan.
After all, in the eyes of Zhou Min and others, the late king Zhao Si's promise of this marriage was just to ease the relationship between Wei and South Korea. But now, his Wei country no longer needs to fear South Korea, and Zhao Xuan, the Han family and his wife
If the relationship between people is not harmonious, why bother to maintain it by force?
However, this matter was strongly opposed by Luo Yao. Luo Yao persuaded Zhao Xuan for only one reason: that is, the mistress has not done anything immoral in these years, so how can she divorce her legitimate wife?
In addition to Luo Yao, Zhao Xuan's mother, Queen Mother Shen, also strongly opposed it. She even called Zhao Xuan to him and scolded him, which made Zhao Xuan give up the idea.
As a result, Zhao Xuan later took in several of his favorite concubines and gave birth to Zhao Hu, Zhao Bo, and Zhao Shang.
After a while, Zhao Xuan came to Han's bedroom, knocked on the door, opened the door and walked in.
After entering the house, he found that Mr. Han was sitting on a chair next to the table in the house, leaning on the table, as if he was tired and taking a nap.
On the table, there are also some belongings of female workers and a piece of silk that has not yet been embroidered.
Looking at Han's thin body and thin clothes, Zhao Xuan frowned slightly, and after looking around for a few times, he took a piece of clothes and put it on her body.
Perhaps this movement alarmed Ms. Han who was taking a nap. She suddenly raised her head as if frightened. When she saw it was her husband, she breathed a small sigh of relief and felt a little overwhelmed.
Seeing this, Zhao Xuan said calmly with almost no fluctuation: "The weather is still cold, be careful to catch cold."
Only then did Han notice the clothes draped over her body, holding a corner of the clothes with one hand, and became more and more hesitant.
She had almost forgotten the last time they talked.
After a long time, Mrs. Han whispered: "Husband, husband...are you back?"
"Hmm."
"Over there in Taiyuan..."
"I have conquered Taiyuan. And South Korea... has surrendered to me, the Wei Dynasty."
"oh……"
After a few awkward conversations, the room suddenly fell into silence again.
Perhaps because he couldn't find any topic, Zhao Xuan pointed to the silk cloth on the table and asked, "What is this?"
Mrs. Han breathed a sigh of relief, as if she felt relieved to have a new topic. She quickly explained: "I sewed this for Chang'er..."
The Chang'er she mentioned was the daughter born by Zhao Xuan's side wife.
"Oh?" Zhao Xuan asked in surprise when he heard this: "Why give it to Chang'er alone?"
"Is she jealous?"
Zhao Xuan secretly guessed.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Han explained: "The two sons, Hu'er and Po'er, are very well taken care of by the family. Only Chang'er is a little... Well, I don't have anything to do on weekdays anyway, so why not..."
While she was talking, she secretly looked at her husband's face, and it could be seen that she was actually a little afraid, or in other words, uneasy.
It's no wonder, after all, the fact that the relationship between the couple is not harmonious cannot be hidden from the upper and lower levels of the palace. This makes the Han family not very respected in the palace. If not for the Queen Mother Shen in the distance, Luo Yao is nearby to take care of this Huan. Princess, I believe that the Han family will not have an easy life in the palace.
"I see."
Only then did Zhao Xuan suddenly realize.
Brothers Zhao Hu and Zhao Po are his sons, so they will naturally be taken care of by everyone in the house. Zhao Shang is a daughter, so naturally she is not as valued as her brothers.
Preferring boys over girls has been the case since ancient times.
To be honest, this is all thanks to Zhao Xuannai being Zhao Run's brother. Under the influence of his brother, he also likes his daughter quite a lot.
"This woman is actually..."
After understanding the reason, Zhao Xuan secretly looked at Ms. Han and thought about it carefully. In fact, Ms. Han had not done anything to make him feel annoyed. It was just her background that made Zhao Xuan feel a little unhappy - he was the most disgusted. It was South Korea that had repeatedly threatened his Wei state.
Seeing her husband-in-law staring at her unblinkingly, Ms. Han was quite at a loss, frightened and shy, and kept her head down in silence.
"Have you heard of success?" Zhao Xuan suddenly asked.
Ms. Han raised her head when she heard the words, feeling a little dazed. After hesitating for a while, she said cautiously: "I've heard of it before, but it's me, Dahan..." At this point, she seemed to have thought of something, something a little bit... In panic, he immediately changed his words: "I am a general from my home country."
"..."
Zhao Xuan looked directly at Han.
Yes, it was because when Han first married him, he never corrected the title and kept saying "I am Dahan", which made Zhao Xuan feel extremely disgusted - you must know that he was disgusted with this marriage in the first place, but he didn't have him. The elder brother Zhao Run was so courageous that he did not dare to disobey his father, Zhao Si.
But I don’t know why, this time Zhao Xuan didn’t have much resentment in his heart after seeing Han’s ‘gaffe’.
Probably this is because South Korea has surrendered to Wei.
All in all, he was in a good mood.
"That's right!"
Just when Han was panicking, Zhao Xuan chuckled and said: "South Korea's famous general is successful and has surrendered to me this time!"
"..." Mrs. Han was a little surprised that her husband didn't get angry this time. After blinking in confusion, she whispered: "Gong, congratulations, husband... As far as I know, that success seems to be a very powerful man." Where are the generals?"
"Hehehehe..."
Zhao Xuan was very happy when he heard this.
In the past, when he looked at Mr. Han, he always disliked her, but now, it seems that there is nothing that makes him angry.
At least when he was showing off his "successful surrender", Mr. Han complimented him cooperatively, even though he seemed a little trepidatious.
This made Zhao Xuan couldn't help but reflect on whether he had transferred his anger towards South Korea to the Han family in the past. Is this unfair?
Just when Zhao Xuan and his wife, Han, were chatting harmoniously for the first time, chatting about the former's achievements in conquering Taiyuan County, there was a knock on the door outside the house.
Immediately, the voice of Yi Cheng Luo Yao came from outside the house: "Your Majesty, I heard that you came to the mistress?"
He was the Yichen (retainer) of King Huan Zhao Xuan, so he called himself a subordinate.
Zhao Xuan was a little surprised. He raised his hand to signal Han, who was about to get up to open the door, to sit on the chair. He got up and opened the door himself: "What's wrong, Luo Yao."
"Your Highness, Princess." Luo Yao first bowed respectfully to Zhao Xuan and the Han family in the room, and then whispered: "Lecheng sent someone to send an urgent message."
After saying that, he handed a letter in his hand to Zhao Xuan.
Zhao Xuan opened the letter in surprise and glanced at it twice, then frowned deeply.
Seeing this, Luo Yao asked in surprise: "Your Majesty, what's wrong? What happened?"
I saw Zhao Xuan frowning and saying: "The good news is that Lecheng has persuaded Han Xu, the Marquis of Yangyi, to join the Wei Dynasty, and the two of them have sincerely submitted. The bad news is that according to what Lecheng said in the letter, Qin
The country's use of troops against the Wei Dynasty was actually provoked by Han general Li Mu, and Li Mu intended to gather troops from Yanmen, Taiyuan, and Daijun to counterattack Jicheng in an attempt to help South Korea..."
"This is happening?!" Luo Yao was shocked when he heard this, and then he shook his head and sighed: "Li Mu is indeed a loyal minister, but it's a pity, it's a pity..."
"Hmph." Zhao Xuan snorted lightly, then handed the letter in his hand to Luo Yao, and said seriously: "Immediately send someone to send this letter to Daliang and give it to my brother Wang."
"Yes!" Luo Yao responded with cupped hands, and then glanced at the Han family in the room, and said with a smile: "Then... I will take my leave and do not disturb the prince and princess."
After saying that, he bowed to Mr. Han in the room and bowed back.
King Huan Zhao Xuan shook his head speechlessly, then went back to the house and closed the door.
Three days later, King Huan Zhao Xuan ordered the First Army of the North to go to Hedong. When leaving the palace, everyone in the palace was surprised to see that Princess Han was in the send-off team, and she was the only family member of King Huan Zhao Xuan who held hands to say goodbye.
What's going on?
Everyone in the palace looked at each other in confusion, wondering what had happened in the past few days, but one thing they knew very well was that from now on, they must respect Princess Huan even more.
At the same time, Wei Ji, the governor of Hedong who was in Fenyin, had also received news from King Huan Zhao Xuan. He learned that the prince would lead the Northern Army to Fenyin soon, which made him feel at ease.
Dading.
He immediately sent someone to reply to King Huan Zhao Xuan, hoping that the latter would garrison troops in the "Pishi" area and strengthen the defense area in that area.
In fact, the Hedong side was relatively peaceful, but at this time in Hexi County, the armies of Wei and Qin were already in full swing.
The most intense one was the confrontation between the Iron Eagle Cavalry under the Weiyang Lord Ying Hua and the Hexi Cavalry under the Hexi Guard Sima An.
Iron Eagle Cavalry is a general term for the elite cavalry of the Qin State. The cavalry that can be called this name are undoubtedly the best of the elite. In terms of horse fighting, they are even stronger than the Hexi Cavalry under Sima An.
The crossbows deployed by the Hexi cavalry were stronger than the Iron Eagle cavalry.
Because of each other's strengths and weaknesses, these two cavalry forces engaged in countless contact battles in the wilderness, with both sides winning and losing.
As for the main force, Weiyang Jun Ying Hua and Yangquan Jun Ying Bo immediately launched an attack on Chongquan shortly after the beginning of spring.
These two royal families of the Qin State have 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers under their command, and their power cannot be underestimated.
Fortunately, the city walls of Chongquan County are strong, but there are many defensive weapons in the city. In addition, the person guarding the city is Sima An's deputy general Bai Fangming. Therefore, the Qin army attacked Chongquan County for more than ten days but failed to defeat it.
This fortified city.
But it is undeniable that this Qin army poses a great threat, because after defrauding Yueyang and Lianshao, this Qin army obtained a lot of weapons and war weapons from the local Wei army, which made it easier for the Qin army to attack important areas.
In the battle at Quan County, Wei soldiers suffered many casualties.
In contrast, "Pinyang", which Sima An personally took charge of, was relatively calm.
Unfortunately, such a calm situation is only temporary, because Sima An has received news that Shangjun's "Fushi" and "Diaoyin" have been captured by Qin general Gongsun Qi - he just
I feel a little puzzled, wondering why Gongsun Qi's army is so procrastinating.
You must know that in Sima An's prediction, Gongsun Qi's army should arrive in the "Qiyuan (yuan)" area in early March to prepare for the attack on Pinyang.
But it is almost mid-March now, and Gongsun Qi's army is still nowhere to be seen in the Qiyuan area.
What's going on?
It has to be said that it was not actually Gongsun Qi who did not know the importance of military strength and speed, but that he was bitten by someone behind his army. It was none other than Wei State's Yunzhong Shou Lian Pi and Jiuyuan Shou Feng Ting.
In mid-March, Lian Pi and Feng Ting, two of the top ten North Korean tycoons in the past, recruited warriors from nearby nomadic tribes after recovering the Yuanzhong Fortress, and successfully recruited over 10,000 warriors. Together with Lian Pi,
, the Wei soldiers under Feng Ting and his two men increased their strength to more than 40,000.
At that time, Feng Ting meant to wait for a while and recruit more soldiers, but he was ridiculed by Lian Pi.
In fact, Lian Pi's point of view is also correct: Qin's Gongsun Qi is obviously going to attack Hexi County. If we don't bite his tail now and put pressure on him, are we still going to let him attack Hexi? More than 40,000 people
The military strength is enough for Gongsun Qi to pay attention!
Of course, although his views were correct, Lian Piu also ridiculed Feng Ting at the time. After all, Feng Ting was a surrendered general who was captured alive by the Wei army and then surrendered, and he was a general recruited by Wei King Zhao Run himself. This made Lian Piu very face-saving.
Besides, some also look down on Feng Ting.
Fortunately, Feng Ting has always been afraid of Lian Pi, and has long been accustomed to the latter's ridicule, so he doesn't care at all - at worst, he will scold Lian Pi in his heart, just like he did in previous years.
So, on March 15th, Lian Pi and Feng Ting led 40,000 troops and marched south along the march route of Qin general Gongsun Qi to attack "Que County".
At this time, Qin general Gongsun Qi had also learned that the original fortress had been lost and lost, and he also heard that Lian refuted that Feng Ting and two Wei generals led tens of thousands of troops to pursue him, so he sent General Wang Ling to lead his army to support Que County.
Even if he does not seek to defeat Lian Pi, he must at least block the latter's army, lest the latter jump out and give him a blow when he launches his army to attack Hexi County.
On March 18, Qin general Wang Ling led reinforcements to Que County. On the same day, Lian Pi and Feng Ting also led an army to arrive here.
At that time, Lian Pi asked Feng Ting to cut down the trees nearby to build a camp, and he himself led 70% of his troops to attack Que County. However, since General Wang Ling of the Qin State was already stationed in Que County at this time, the Wei army did not occupy much
Cheap.
Seeing this, Lian Bu immediately retreated, led his army back to the camp, and ordered his soldiers to build siege equipment.
This can be regarded as Wang Ling temporarily blocking Lian Pi.
On March 19, Gongsun Qi's army effortlessly captured "Diaoyin", which had no defensive troops.
On the same day, he also received a battle report from General Wang Ling, confirming that Wei General Lian Pi had been blocked by Wang Ling in Que County.
With no worries for the time being, Gongsun Qi ordered his troops to be divided into two groups, attacking "Qiyuan" in the south and "Dingyang" in the east.
It turned out that Gongsun Qi received a letter from Wang Jian and learned that Wang Jian's army was blocked by the Wei army in the "Xia Yang" and "Fen Yin" areas and could not advance any further, so he decided to divide his troops to assist Wang Jian.
As for another consideration, Gongsun Qi guessed that Wei general Sima An should have laid a strict defense in the "Pin Yang" area at this time. Therefore, he was considering whether to change his tactics and join forces with Wang Jian to defeat "Xia Yang" first.
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After all, as long as Xia Yang is defeated by his Qin army, the Qin army can also open up the situation from here, whether it is to march to Hedong or Hexi - the only hidden danger is that this route of advance is likely to cause his Qin army to be attacked by those in Hedong and Hexi.
Support the Wei army's front and rear pincer attacks.
Therefore, Gongsun Qi decided to wait and see the movements of the Hexi Army.
The so-called wait-and-see means to allocate half of the troops and order General Wang Lu to lead these soldiers to the Xia Yang area, join Wang Jian, and attack Xia Yang to see if Sima An in Hexi will change the focus of defense from Pinyang to Xia Yang.
If Sima An did not move, then Wei Ji in Hedong would have to face the armies of Wang Jian and Wang He alone. In this way, the Qin army would have a high chance of capturing Xia Yang.
If Sima An sends troops from Pinyang to support Xia Yang, then Gongsun Qi will take advantage of the situation and attack Pinyang.
With such a two-pronged approach, Gongsun Qi believed that his Qin army's chances of victory were not small.
Unfortunately, he missed one point, that is, in Hedong County at this moment, there is not only the Hedong Army of Wei Ji, but also the Northern Army of King Huan Zhao Xuan.
It is not difficult to guess that the armies led by Wang Jian, Wang Lu, Wei Ji, and Zhao Xuan gathered in the Xia Yang, Fenyin, and Pishi areas, which will definitely trigger the largest war since the war began.
On March 26, Zhang Qigong arrived in Daliang with Han Wangran's wife and children, and handed Han Wangran's last letter to Wei Wang Zhao Run.
Also delivered on the same day was the letter written by the surrendered general Le Cheng that King Huan Zhao Xuan sent to Daliang.