On the eighth day of the first month of March, the Great Liang Imperial Court sent Zhao Sheng, the monarch, to meet Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, in order to help the guard. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Under the conclusive reason of Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, Zhao Sheng, the emperor of the Southern Liang, could not convince the former, so under the protection of more than 20 Zongwei, he crossed the river to Shanyang and Huaiyi.

At this time, Huaiyi had already been recovered by the Qin-Wei coalition army led by Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, and it was the Yangquan Jun Yingyi of the Qin State who was currently stationed in Huaiyi.

On the tenth day of the first month of March, after Zhao Sheng, the prince of the court, entered Huaiyi City, he met with Yangquan Jun Yingyi and thanked the Qin army for his help on behalf of the imperial court. Immediately, he rushed to Shanyang non-stop, asking to see Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su.

On the morning of the 11th, Zhao Sheng, the king of the Emperor, arrived in Shanyang and met with Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, and Qin Shaojun, the highest-ranking person in the Qin army, and once again put these three to help.

When Zhao Sheng, the monarch of the Emperor, learned that most of the territory of the Patriotic Kingdom had been captured by the Han general Sima Shang, Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Hongjiang both looked solemn.

Although they had long guessed that the weak Patriotic Army might be unable to resist the attack of the Han general Sima Shang, they did not expect that the Patriotic Army would be defeated so badly that it would be simply vulnerable in front of the Korean army.

"How so?"

After listening to the words of Zhao Sheng, Zhao Hongrun asked in surprise: "Are the troops of the country defeated?" The Puyang Army, the Tanyuan Army, and the Chengqiu Army, all of these armies were defeated? ”

Since Wei has also sold weapons to Wei Guo over the years, Zhao Hongrun, who is in charge of the Smelting and Manufacturing Bureau, of course knows that Wei Guo also has several good armies - what we say here is good, referring to the army with complete armor and a certain combat effectiveness.

Zhao Sheng shook his head and explained: "As far as I know, the Tanyuan army was transferred to Pingyang a while ago in case (Han) Sima Shang crossed the river from Pingyang...... His Royal Highness must have also heard that Nangong Yao was attacking Dingtao. ”

Zhao Hongrun frowned when he heard this.

Dingtao, this is one of the few cities directly under the jurisdiction of the Wei court after the fall of the Wei State and the Song State, because of the richness of this city.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun is not surprised that the rebel general Nangong Yao will attack Dingtao.

may have noticed Zhao Hongrun's frowning move, and Zhao Sheng, the monarch of the Emperor, immediately said: "Your Highness, rest assured, the general of the Junshui Army has already led the army to settle in Dingtao, and the rebel general Nangong wants to capture Dingtao, it is not so simple." ”

Zhao Hongrun nodded when he heard this.

He is no stranger to Bailiba, the general of the Junshui Army, after all, when he Zhao Hongrun went out to meet the offensive Chu army, Bailiba was by his side to assist him and fill in the gaps.

Although Bailiba's talent was not as good as Sima An'an's, Zhao Hongrun believed that it would be difficult to defeat the Junshui army with Nangong Yao's Suiyang rebels alone—unless there was a Chu army to help them.

"What about the Puyang Army?" Zhao Hongrun asked about the whereabouts of the army that was said to be the most elite of the Patriotic Empire.

"When Zhao came, I heard that the Puyang army still hadn't moved, probably King Wei wanted to meet the Han army in Puyang." Zhao Sheng said with a wry smile.

"It's stupid!" Zhao Hongrun frowned.

He could understand the reason why King Wei did this, it was nothing more than that he was afraid that the Han army would capture Puyang, so he let the Puyang army stay in the royal city.

But in this way, isn't it equivalent to giving up the people of the eastern part of the country?

As the king of a country, the king of Wei fought passively, how could the army of the country have the fighting spirit to fight the Korean army?

"Ahem, the contemporary Wei Wang is the master of the guard, and the courage is insufficient, and it is inevitable to retreat to Puyang." Yan King Zhao Hongjiang coughed and reminded the eighth brother Zhao Hongrun to pay attention to proportion, after all, the latter slandered and was also the monarch of a country.

Although he said so, in his heart, Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, was also very disdainful of the contemporary King Wei, after all, he, like Zhao Hongrun, attached great importance to the safety of the people of Wei, so when Shanyang was attacked, he would rather risk his life to die on the battlefield than abandon the people of Shanyang and flee to the south of the river.

"The defense of the country is over." Zhao Hongrun shook his head regretfully, and couldn't help but feel a little sorry in his heart.

After all, his biological mother Wei Ji is Wei Ren, so he has some feelings for Wei Guo more or less.

Hearing this, Zhao Sheng said with a smile: "That's not necessarily. …… Although King Wei was afraid and did not dare to send the army away from Puyang, the son of King Wei was very brave, and I heard that he recruited more than 20,000 people in the area of Puyang and Juan (Juan) City, and personally led the attack on Sima Shang. It is also said that he was helped by some heroes......"

The heroes of the country are not much different from the rangers of ordinary countries, they are all those who do not produce by themselves, are employed by merchants and gentry, either to serve as bodyguards for others, or to do business of taking money and killing people.

However, unlike the vast majority of rangers in the Wei State, the style of patriotic heroes prevailed, so most of those heroes paid attention to benevolence and righteousness, and sometimes for the sake of morality, integrity, and the grace of knowledge, the heroes of the patriotic country did not hesitate to abandon their wives and repay their benefactors.

Zhao Hongrun once heard an anecdote:

There was once a patriotic hero who could not support his wife and children because of his poor family, and he had no money to treat his seriously ill mother, and it happened that a benefactor heard about this and gave this person a bag of money.

Later, the benefactor was killed by a powerful gentry, and after sending his mother to death, the heroic man asked his wife to remarry with his son, while he himself carried a sword to the house of the gentry, killed dozens of people in anger, and finally killed the gentry.

Of course, in the end, this heroic man himself was hacked to death by the servant of the evil gentleman.

Such respectable stupid husbands abound among the patriotic heroes.

"Oh, King Wei is not as bold as his son. …… By the way, what's the name of that Wei Gongzi? Zhao Hongrun asked curiously.

"Yu, Wei Gongzi Yu." Zhao Sheng replied.

"Wei Yu?" Zhao Hongrun was stunned when he heard this, and a slightly strange expression appeared on his face.

Because if he remembers correctly, it should be the son of his biological mother's sister, that is, his cousin.

In both public and private life, I should support the defense of the country......

Zhao Hongrun sighed slightly in his heart.

With Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, I only care about the Wei State and the life and death of the guards? The idea is different, Zhao Hongrun is inclined to support the defense of the country, but the trouble is that a while ago, the three generals of the Han army, Li Mu, Le Yi, and Storm Kite, led troops into Ningyi, blocking Zhao Hongrun's way.

Unless Zhao Hongrun sent an army across the Great River, and then through Yuanyang and Nanyan to support the defense of the country, it would be difficult for him to break through the resistance of the Han army in Ningyi.

But the problem is that the Qin-Wei coalition army under his command at the moment is actually only sixty or seventy thousand, and more troops are still in the area of Hedong County.

After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun asked Zhao Shengdao, "Lord Zhao Sheng, is the Northern First Army still in Daliang?" ”

Zhao Sheng, the monarch of the Emperor, shook his head and said: "At the beginning of the month, Lord Zhao Tong, the king of Yu, led the Northern First Army to Yongqiu, and you also know that after the beginning of spring, the Chu army under the command of Chu Shouling Jun Jingshe will attack Liang County......"

As he spoke, he seemed to think of something, and said: "Having said that, when Zhao came, the Ministry of War recommended the Yangwu Army to support the Wei State, with Lord Wei Fu as the commander and Hou Dan as the deputy general......"

"Yang Wu Army?" Frowning, Zhao Hongrun's face was a little unsightly.

The reason is very simple, because the Yangwu Army was used by Xiao Luan, the leader of the remnants of the Xiao family, to launch a rebellion during the imperial hunt in Zhongyang Xinggong, and was also one of the accomplices who indirectly caused the suicide of Zhao Yuanyan, the uncle of the six princes.

At this point, Zhao Hongrun's antipathy to the Yangwu Army is still above that of the Qin people - because if there was no rebellion launched by the Yangwu Army's used fools, the forced palace of Zhao Yuanyan, the uncle of the six princes, would not have caused much negative impact in fact.

Maybe Wei Tianzi will issue a gag order afterwards, and then lock up Zhao Yuanli for a while, and then what should be done.

Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun said with a gloomy face: "I thought that the Yangwu Army had been removed from the army......

"Well, that's how it was." Seeing that Zhao Hongrun's expression was different, Zhao Sheng, the Emperor of the Mountains, carefully explained: "But Xu Guan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Lord Xu believe that the national crisis is at the head, and it is the time to employ people, so they decided to temporarily keep the number of the Yangwu Army and order it to be rectified, so as to wait for the need." ”

After a pause, he added: "Your Highness, rest assured, the Ministry of War has removed all the generals of the Yangwu Army, and transferred Zongwei from our Zongfu to serve as generals, and the low-level sergeants and generals have also been re-screened, and there will definitely be no more disasters in Zhongyang." ”

"......" Zhao Hongrun was silent for a moment, and finally nodded with interest.

After half a ring, he said in a deep voice: "I understand the intention of Lord Zhao Sheng, and I will try my best to ...... Try to defeat the South Korean army as soon as possible and reinforce the country. ”

That being said, how easy is it to defeat the South Korean army?

Think about who the Han general stationed in Ningyi is, that is Yanmen Shou Li Mu and Beiyan Shou Leyi, the only two famous generals in South Korea who still have a defeat so far, although the strength of the two sides is almost the same, and Zhao Hongrun also has Yangquan Jun to win the cymbal to help, but in all fairness, Zhao Hongrun is not too sure.

The main reason is that the pre-war preparations on his side are too inadequate, and there are no crossbow carts and tortoiseshell carts to fight against them, nor enough cement to repeat the Wei army's offensive on the battlefield of the Baili Plain, which means that the Qin and Wei coalition forces under his command must confront Li Mu and Le Yi's armies head-on, and they cannot be opportunistic.

It is true that the Qin and Wei coalition forces are fierce tigers, but Li Mu and the Han army under Le Yi are not mediocre hands, the so-called two tigers fight, many times it is not necessarily one injury, but both are defeated, in order to reinforce the country, rashly enter the army to fight with Li Mu and Le Yi, is this really a wise choice?

That night, Zhao Hongrun lay on the bed in the bedroom with his head on his hands and pondered, seeing his appearance, the finches did not dare to blow out the candles.

Having said that, in the past few days, there is one thing that Zhao Hongrun always feels very strange, that is, Li Mu and Le Yi garrisoned Ningyi, but did not send troops to attack Shanyang and Huaiyi.

These two Korean generals are stationed in Ningyi, which is not difficult to understand, after all, he Wei Gongzirun is also famous in South Korea, and when he learned that he led the army to Shanyang, the commander of the Korean army, Kang Gong Han Hu, would naturally send the two generals who were the best at war.

However, why didn't Li Mu and Le Yi send troops?

…… Could it be that Li Mu and Le Yi deliberately delayed our army, so that our army could not support the defense of the country in time, so that Sima Shang could attack and destroy the defense of the country?

"Something isn't right, well, it's not right......"

Turning over and sitting up, Zhao Hongrun muttered.