The man named Yuma invited Zhao Hongrun and others to the back hall.?〔?
He ordered his men to prepare some wine and food to entertain Zhao Hongrun and others. As for whether the latter dared to eat it or not, it was none of his business.
Originally, Zhao Hongrun naturally wanted to ask about Yangxia County, but before that, he was more interested in the word Yuma in Dang County. He was very curious that the man in front of him named Yuma could actually use the word "bird".
To describe those horse thieves, they can hide everything and hide themselves.
"The wandering horses of Dangjun. Everyone thinks that we are horse thieves wandering on the border between Yingshui and Dangjun. But in fact, we are not the so-called horse thieves, but the army... the cavalry of the Wei State!"
The first words Yuma spoke made Zhao Hongrun more shocked. He had a vague premonition: Yuma's matter might involve the imperial court and his father's dark history.
Sure enough, as Yuma told him, Zhao Hongrun gradually understood the true identity of Yuma in Dangjun.
It was a ranger secretly formed by the Wei State. Its formation model was based on the Korean cavalry army. It was not a mixture of infantry, bows and cavalry like the previous cavalry units of the Wei State, making the cavalry serve as infantry.
Instead of supplementing the archers, the cavalry was separated as the main force to attack the enemy.
However, because the Wei State lacked the experience of forming a separate cavalry army, the Youma Army can be said to be the first pure cavalry army attempted by the imperial court. It used the identity of a horse thief as a cover and used the Song people who were currently hostile as training troops.
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At that time, Dang County in the Song Dynasty was not the territory of the Wei State. The Song State at that time still had frequent conflicts with the Wei State.
As for Wei Guo, he is the younger brother of the Wei Kingdom. If the younger brother is bullied, why should the elder brother not come forward to help? But the problem is that the Song Kingdom also has an elder brother, and behind him is the king of Qi, Lu Xi.
The Qi State was the Qi State that defeated the powerful Chu State and was unable to retreat.
The allied forces of Qi, Lu and Song at that time were very powerful, so powerful that the Wei State did not dare to provoke them at will.
Therefore, under various conditions, the Wei State secretly formed the Youma Army, allowing the latter to frequently enter and leave Dang County to cause destruction.
Perhaps in the eyes of the world at that time, Youma in Dang County was a horse thief who looted everywhere, but in fact, the main purpose of the Youma army was to attack and destroy some special places in the Song Dynasty, such as buildings in the form of inns.
It is no exaggeration to say that a single dispatch of the Youma Army could severely damage the information transmission system in Dang County of Song Dynasty.
There is also a direct attack on Song's grain transport team.
What I didn't expect was that Xiong Tuo, the king of Yangcheng of the Chu State, actually invited Emperor Wei to attack the Song State together. What was even more unexpected was that even when the Wei army was unable to work, the king of Chu Yangcheng
Xiong Tuo's army still conquered most of the Song Dynasty, forcing Song General Nangong to secretly surrender to Wei in order to preserve his position.
Faced with the temptation of the entire Song territory, Emperor Wei issued a private order to the Youma Army: attack Chu Yangcheng Lord's logistics and grain transport army!
Ah...it really is my father's dark history.
Zhao Hongrun had a strange expression on his face.
Although he still said to Yuma that I don't believe your one-sided words, deep down in his heart, he already believed it.
After all, he has had many contacts with Chu Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo and knows very well what kind of person the latter is.
He was a very ambitious and capable son of the Chu Kingdom. How could he slip up at a critical moment and end up being greedy for credit and taking risks, thus leading to a shortage of logistics and food transportation?
If Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, is really that stupid, then why does Zhao Hongrun support him in his fight for the position of King of Chu?
Obviously, at that time, Xiong Tuo, the king of Chu Yangcheng, was plotted by Zhao Hongrun's father, Emperor Wei. The latter secretly informed the Youma army to attack the Chu army with a black gun. This led to the fact that the Chu army was about to capture the entire Song Dynasty. , but fell into the embarrassing situation of having no food in the army.
Father, he... is really ruthless, he even cheats his teammates...
Zhao Hongrun took a sip of wine from the wine glass and smiled bitterly to himself.
Perhaps many people feel that Emperor Wei did more than stick to his foundation and was not pioneering enough, but only a few people know about Emperor Wei's ambitions.
Take Zhao Hongrun for example. He once felt that his father was the kind of king who was conservative, but later, with the advice of his second uncle Zhao Yuanyan and his sixth uncle Zhao Yuanli, he realized that his father did not like to stay in Chuigong Hall at all. , dealing with government affairs all day long, he also wanted to imitate the ancestors, drive and conquer personally, and open up territory for Wei. This can be seen from the name of Zhao Hongrun's fourth brother Hongjiang.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun had no doubt that his father had actually set his sights on the territory of the Song Kingdom and was ready to annex it to the territory of the Wei Kingdom at any time.
However, it may be that after the Emperor Wei captured the Song State and annexed the Song State's territory, he was shocked to find that the expansion of the territory did not make his Wei State truly powerful.
The common people of Wei State are still as poor as ever. The real beneficiaries are the nobles in the country. They frantically seize the mineral veins and resources of the Song Dynasty that the Wei army conquered, sucking nutrients like parasites. But the imperial court, because The expansion of the territory has added a lot of messy things, such as the Wei people persecuting the Song people, the Song people gathering in crowds to rebel, and so on.
It may be that from that time on, Emperor Wei realized that blindly expanding the country's territory would not make Wei truly powerful, so he patiently began to devote himself to developing the basic national strength.
Over time, the ruthless fourth prince Jing Wang Yuansi that Zhao Yuanyan and Zhao Yuanli had in the past disappeared, and gradually turned into Emperor Wei who is now getting better and better tempered and acting like a wise king.
In the process of Zhao Hongrun's father, Emperor Wei, changing his mentality, Dangjun Youma, or in other words, Youma Army, most likely played the role of the victim.
"Yuma...what happened in the end?" Zhao Hongrun raised his head and asked Yuma.
Yuma also raised his glass and took a sip of wine, and said calmly: "After I, Yuma, attacked the Chu army's logistics and food transport troops, Xiong Tuo, the Lord of Yangcheng, had to withdraw his troops from the Song Dynasty. However, this incident aroused the dissatisfaction of the King of Chu. In order to prevent the Wei State from falling into an unjust situation in the north, he urgently sent the Dangshan Army to kill Youma and all the people. The blame is all placed on Yuma..."
Killing people and silencing them doesn't count, but Yuma has to take the blame... His father at that time was really ruthless.
Zhao Hongrun's expression became weirder and weirder.
He could understand the considerations of Emperor Wei at that time. After all, compared with a ranger, Song's territory was naturally more important. In the same way, if abandoning an army could help Wei avoid being accused of injustice by Chu, And made the latter use this as an excuse to go to war against Wei. The behavior of Emperor Wei is not incomprehensible.
After all, emperors are inherently ruthless people. It's not that they are ruthless, but that the position they are in requires them to become ruthless.
"The Dangshan Army at that time was not yet called this name. At that time, Sima An was stationed in Taoqiu. The purpose was to frighten the Song State and prevent the Song State from sending troops to invade the Wei State... After receiving the secret order, Sima An urgently mobilized Dangshan
The army caught the unsuspecting Yuma off guard, and more than three thousand people
Yuma's army was slaughtered by 70% to 80%..." At this point, Yuma showed a bitter smile on his face and said with emotion: "However, at least Sima An still has some humanity, he did not kill everyone, let alone massacre.
Yuma's family, wife and children finally gave me, Yuma, a glimmer of hope..."
General Sima An?
Zhao Hongrun was slightly startled. You must know that he had been wondering, wondering how the Youma Army could survive since it was General Sima An who personally took action. You must know that Sima An had been defeated by Cheng Gao Guan Da on many occasions.
General Zhu Hai was called a butcher, killing people like a vicious dog, and would not stop until he killed them all. Many tribes in Sanchuan were exterminated, and they all became victims of Sima An.
It turns out that Sima An let the situation slip, no wonder Yuma was able to escape with a slim chance of survival.
"What happens after this?" Zhao Hongrun asked.
Youma took a long breath and recalled: "After I, Youma, was expelled from Dang County, Sima An took command of Dangshan. We Youma did not dare to go north, so we had to flee south... At that time, the Qiu Zong of Yangxia County
The leader has some friendship with me, Youma, and they took us in. From then on, the famous Youma people in Dang County disappeared, hehehe..."
Listening to that sad laughter, Zhao Hongrun felt quite uncomfortable in his heart. After all, if the facts are as Yuma said, then the Yuma people are indeed the best example of hiding the birds and hiding the birds, and they are not the first
This will not be the last one.
What my father did in this matter was indeed unethical...
With words like this, Zhao Hongrun could only think about it in his heart. After all, Emperor Wei was still his father no matter what he said. It was outrageous for his son to say something wrong about me.
What's more, this is Zhao Hongrun's father's dark history more than ten years ago. Isn't today's Emperor Wei becoming more and more kind?
Well, Zhao Hongrun could only comfort himself in this way.
"Don't you hate the imperial court? Don't you hate... that person?"
Zhao Hongrun asked Yuma Dao seemingly thoughtfully.
Although he sympathized with the Youma people, if the man in front of him said that he hated the Wei Dynasty and wished for its destruction, Zhao Hongrun would definitely kill the surviving Youma people without mercy.
It's not that he favors his father, Emperor Wei, but Zhao Hongrun doesn't want to see another force that hates Wei eventually turn against Wei.
But to his surprise, Yuma heard the words and said with a smile: "Your Highness, Prince Su, in the past ten years, have you ever heard of Yuma doing something that harms the interests of the country?... Even if he is punished by the imperial court, he is
That one abandoned us, but we are still Wei people, and we still regard ourselves as soldiers of the Wei Dynasty... What's more, we don't want to provoke that evil man Sima An again."
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Zhao Hongrun was very surprised to hear these words, and couldn't help but be in awe of the man in front of him. After all, there are absolutely few people in the world who can have such ideological consciousness.
After a while, he said quietly: "I, the king... can restore the military horn of the Yuma Army to you."
"..."
Yuma was stunned for a moment, looking at Zhao Hongrun as if in disbelief. (To be continued.) 8