The stubbornness of Gongxian made Qu Cheng, the chief general of the Yanling army, feel troublesome, but on Zhao Hongrun's side, he rarely did not think about the war here, but carefully read a long letter. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This letter was just received by him, and the person who sent it was the green crows who Zhao Hongrun had deployed in Daliang, the capital of the Wei king.

Those people recorded in detail what happened in Daliang and even in the northern Xinjiang area from June to July, and it took nearly 20 days to send it to Zhao Hongrun's hands after several turnovers.

The major events stated in the letter are not similar to the fact that Prince Hongli and King Yong Hongyu are fighting openly and secretly in the court, because those two can no longer care about the internal struggle at the moment.

Because, at the end of July, the Korean cavalry finally went out of Mengmen and Tianmen.

South Korea, as expected, declared war on Wei.

The excuse for sending troops was ridiculous: South Korea said that they had a scout cavalry that had been attacked by Wei near Sanyang, and hoped that Wei would take care of the friendship between the two countries and hand over the murderer.

In this regard, Zhao Hongrun scoffed.

Because this is a typical one, why should you set up a memorial arch.

You must know that since April this year, the South Korean scout cavalry has exchanged fire with the Wei army in the area of Shangdang Shanyang County of Wei State.

Zhao Hongrun's fourth imperial brother, Yan Wang Hongjiang, was a high-minded and extremely tough prince, and on the first day of his arrival in Shanyang County, he began to deploy troops to expel the scouts in Shanyang County.

In other words, from that time on, the border armies of Wei and Han began to clash with each other, and there were casualties among each other.

But at that time, South Korea never mentioned anything about the disappearance of the scout horseman, and waited until the end of July to see the dagger.

From this, it is not difficult to guess that the preparations on the South Korean side should have been completed, and this is why such a ridiculous excuse was proposed.

Let Wei hand over the murderer of the Korean scout horseman?

Amusing!

Didn't the Korean scouts kill the Wei soldiers in the Sanyang area?

Moreover, to launch a counterattack against the Korean scout horse, it was Zhao Hongrun's fourth royal brother Yan Wang Hongjiang who gave an order, could it be that Wei would still hand over this prince to Korea?

Therefore, to put it bluntly, the so-called diplomatic intervention proposed by South Korea is, in the eyes of Cho Hong-run, nothing more than a hypocritical means of declaring war.

Compared with South Korea's cowardly means of declaring war on Wei, the slogan put forward by Lu Xi, the king of Qi, when he sent troops to tentatively attack Liyang, was very direct, and this is what it means to understand between the lines: The widow is unhappy with your Chu State, so test the water with Liyang first.

Subsequently, the State of Qi did not wait for any reaction from the State of Chu, nor did it give the latter a chance to maneuver diplomatically, and directly sent troops to attack Liyang.

Thinking about it carefully, if it weren't for the fact that it was easy to arouse the accusations of the people of the world because of the undeclared war, Lu Xi, the king of Qi, would not have spent much energy thinking of any reason or excuse for attacking the state of Chu.

This is the domineering spirit of the hegemon of a powerful country!

Beat you because you are unhappy, why be hypocritical?

Compared with the domineering spirit of Lu Xi, the overlord of the Central Plains, King of Qi, South Korea's cozy attitude made Zhao Hongrun feel disgusted.

It's a pity that an overlord like Lu Xi, the king of Qi, was too immersed in wine, so he contracted a serious illness before he was in his forties, and the medicine stone did not work, thinking about it carefully, Zhao Hongrun also felt a little regretful.

Although he knew very well that if Lu Xi, the king of Qi, did not die, he Wei might not have a chance to gradually rise in the chaotic wars of various countries that were about to come in the future.

Zhao Hongrun flipped a page of the letter and continued to read the battle of the Wei and Han Shangdang described in the letter.

It is said that it is a battle, but in fact, the letter only briefly states several battles that took place in Shangdang Shanyang County, and it was also an encounter between scouts and scouts.

It's not a big war, and it's not worthy of being called a battle.

It's just that anyone can see that those encounters are just a warm-up before the entire Wei and Han Shangdang battles, and there are as many as more than 100,000 cavalry troops on the Korean side that have not yet been dispatched, and on the Wei side, Wei Mu, the general of Southern Yan, and the new Great Wei Wu Army, which is still in Daliang, and is personally trained by Shaohu, the head of the Zongwei next to Zhao Yuantong, the king of Yu, have not yet entered the battlefield, so no matter how you look at it, it will not be a national war that will end in a short time.

It is worth mentioning that Zhao Hongrun saw the name of his younger brother Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, in this letter.

According to the understanding of the green crows in Daliang, Zhao Hongxuan assisted Hongli, the prince of the East Palace, and gathered many private troops belonging to princes and nobles in northern Xinjiang, with a total of 50,000 troops, and this number is still gradually rising.

And under Zhao Hongxuan's mediation, Yanwang Hongjiang finally did not target the prince of the East Palace, Hongli, the governor of northern Xinjiang, at present, the so-called Northern Xinjiang expeditionary army led by the prince of the East Palace, and the Shanyang army of Yanwang Hongjiang, each other is performing their own duties, and the well water does not interfere with the river water.

"Northern Xinjiang Expeditionary Army...... Oh, that's a very meaningful name. ”

Zhao Hongrun put down the letter in his hand with some unfinished thinking, and the content of the letter has been stated here, and it has reached the end, and there is no follow-up.

It's no wonder, after all, this is a letter sent from Daliang more than 20 days ago.

Although Zhao Hongrun was a little worried about his younger brother Huan Wang Zhao Hongxuan, the two were thousands of miles apart, and in this era of inconvenient information transmission, even if the crows tried their best, Zhao Hongrun would not be able to immediately know his brother's recent situation in northern Xinjiang.

From the side, Zong Wei Changwei said with a smile: "It is indeed a good name with a lot of meaning, the Northern Xinjiang Expeditionary Army...... It seems that Donggong's heart is very big, and he still wants to counterattack into South Korea. ”

"Humph!" Zhao Hongrun snorted lightly and said lightly: "The heart is higher than the sky, and it is thinner than paper, so high and ambitious is talking about this kind of guy!" …… Is it true that the Korean cavalry is a rabble? ”

You must know that for the Korean cavalry, he Zhao Hongrun can also be regarded as having some experience, for example, the big thief Huan Hu who was born in the Korean cavalry, he Zhao Hongrun dispatched tens of thousands of soldiers and did not catch it.

And now, Chen Bing is on the border of Wei and Han, and there are more than 100,000 Korean cavalry troops, who knows if there are any cavalry generals like Huan Hu there?

Listening to Zhao Hongrun's evaluation of the East Palace, Wei Jiao couldn't help laughing and said, "Your Highness, you are too harsh. …… At the beginning, the East Palace was nothing more than seeing you with His Royal Highness King Yong, and blamed you for no reason, do you still remember? ”

If these words were said from someone else's mouth, maybe Zhao Hongrun would really feel unhappy, but from the mouth of Wei Jiao's henchman, Zhao Hongrun only regarded it as a joke.

"This king has always had a small belly, are you meeting this king for the first time?" Zhao Hongrun glanced at Wei Jiao, but he couldn't help but laugh after a few pretends.

After laughing for a while, he let out a long breath and said, "To be honest, it's not that I'm prejudiced against the East Palace, I'm just afraid that the East Palace will be too good and happy...... Don't look at the so-called Northern Expeditionary Force of 50,000 people, but this army formed by the private soldiers of various nobles, one of them is bound to seek good fortune and avoid evil, just thinking about reducing their own losses, and by the way to get great military achievements, how can the battlefield be so simple? …… If everyone thinks about it this way, this so-called Northern Xinjiang Expeditionary Force is just a scattered sand army formed by a group of rabble, and it will not be of much use. ”

Zong Wei Changwei nodded convincingly.

After all, the reason why the army is an army is because the military orders are like a mountain, even if sometimes the general orders his subordinates to shoulder a task of nine deaths, or even to send them to death for strategic needs, his subordinates still have to go.

Such an army deserves to be called an army.

And like the Northern Xinjiang Expeditionary Army, it is just a private army formed by some domestic nobles in order to seek war exploits, how can they sacrifice themselves? No matter how you think about it, you can guess that these people must be thinking of seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, sending others to death, and taking the war merits by themselves.

The question is, no one is stupid, how can they not guess this?

Because of this, in Zhao Hongrun's view, the Northern Xinjiang Expeditionary Force is an unusable rabble, occupying the allegorical name of the expeditionary force in vain.

"With such an army, it would be good to cooperate with the Southern Yan Army and the Shanyang Army to hold the northern defense line, and it also hoped to defeat more than 100,000 Korean cavalry troops and counterattack into South Korea, hmph, Donggong also thinks a little too much......," Zhao Hongrun pouted and said.

Seeing that His Royal Highness pointed out the shortcomings of the Northern Expeditionary Force, Wei Jiao smiled and said: "It is probably the first time that the East Palace has set foot on the battlefield, and he is arrogant, and when he eats a few defeats, he will know that he is powerful." ”

Saying that, he paused, and added: "Besides, His Royal Highness King Huan, Your Highness, you don't have to worry too much, no matter how stupid the East Palace is, it will not let His Royal Highness King Huan encounter any danger." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded, and then, he turned his head to look at Wei Jiao as if he was aware of it, and teased: "Yo, Wei Jiao, your recent words have become closer and closer to Shen Yu...... Adapted? ”

Wei Jiao said with a smile when he heard this: "Follow His Highness every day, if you haven't made the slightest progress in your humble position, what face will you have to see Shen Yu in the future?" ”

"Haha!" Zhao Hongrun laughed, and then he seemed to think of something, and asked, "By the way, has there been any progress on Qu Cheng's side?" ”

Seeing Zhao Hongrun talking about business, Wei Jiao immediately restrained the smile on his face, shook his head and said: "As far as I know, the Yan Ling Army has been at a loss in the past two days, and the Chu general Sun Shuke of Hao County is like a turtle, and he can't come out if he shrinks into his shell. It is said that Yan Mo has already ordered people to build siege equipment, probably preparing to attack. ”

"Take the city first, and then cross the river, it's a very correct judgment." Zhao Hongrun nodded and said: "Rather than bypassing the Hun County and forcibly crossing the Hun River, when the time comes, the Chu warships of the Hunhe River and the Chu army of Hao County will be attacked on both sides, it is better to pay all costs to uproot the Hun County, Yan Mo is also a very decisive person...... By the way, is there any news from Qi County? ”

Hearing this, Wei Jiao said with a smile: "Over there in Qi County, that guy Zhou Pu reported to me today. …… Wu Ji and Nanmen Chi, with the assistance of the Nanmen clan in Qi County, jointly captured half of the city......"

"Half a city?" Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly.

"Yes. …… Although the defender of Qi County was temporarily defeated by the Shang Shui Army and the Nanmen clan, his resistance was fierce. According to the Green Crows, they reminded Wu Ji, but the Shang Shui Army was unwilling to abandon the city with the Nanmen clan and had to capture Qi County. At present, Qi County is still fighting. ”

The Shang Shui Army is competing with the Yan Ling Army......

Zhao Hongrun smacked the taste, frowned and asked, "What about Fu Lisai?" ”

Wei Jiao lowered his head and said, "Fu Lisai was pinned down by King Qi's army, and there is no sign of rescuing Qi County for the time being. …… Your Highness rest assured, the people of the Green Crows are staring at Fu Lisai, and if there is any movement, they will inform the merchant army. ”

"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded slowly.

He gradually realized that the army under his command was no longer the same as it had been two years earlier.

Although this emptiness of having nothing to do made Zhao Hongrun a little uncomfortable.

"By the way, tell Qu Cheng and Yan Mo that the Shang Shui Army is about to take Qi County......"

"Humble duty understands!"

Seeing the smile on the corner of His Highness's mouth, Wei Jiao comprehended. (To be continued.) )