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The victory over the army of the Han general Shangdang guarding Feng Ying and the capture of Feng Ying's Danshui camp is certainly a thing worth celebrating, but this victory cannot alleviate the embarrassment of Su Wang's army on the issue of military rations.

On the morning of October 26, the generals of the Yanling army came to the castle guard mansion of Hyun City, met with Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, and told the latter the emotions of the soldiers in the army—the secret of the army's running out of grain and grass could not be hidden.

"How did you leak the news?"

When meeting with Qu Cheng, Yan Mo, Zou Xin, Sun Shuke and other generals of the Yanling Army, Zhao Hongrun asked them.

After hearing Zhao Hongrun's inquiry, Sun Shuke replied respectfully: "It was inadvertently mentioned by some soldiers of the rear army......

Next to him, Zong Wei Chang Wei Jiao frowned and asked after hearing this, "Is it a spy?" ”

After all, the countries of the Central Plains have always infiltrated spies into hostile countries, and let these spies pretend to be locals to join the army, so as to facilitate the grasp of the movements of the hostile countries' armies and give the enemy a non-military blow at a critical time.

For example, in the Shanyang army under the command of Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, a lot of spies have been caught, and this ** once took the opportunity to burn the granary in Shanyang County, but unfortunately his whereabouts were exposed, and he was finally hanged by Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, in the city gate tower of Shanyang.

But logically speaking, the hidden dangers of the Shang Shui Army, the Yan Ling Army, and the Youma Army in this regard are relatively small, after all, the Shang Shui Army and the Yan Ling Army are all from the Chu people, and these Chu people have obtained the identity of "Shangshui Wei people" after defecting to the Wei State, and the selection of the Youma Army is also in Shangshui to absorb the local young and strong training, all belong to the army in the south of the Wei State, and there is no channel or method to send the spies to Shangshui County in Korea, which is located in the north.

Sure enough, Yan Mo shook his head after hearing this, and said: "I have confirmed my speculation in this regard, those soldiers who said that they leaked their mouths were the third phase of soldiers who defected to our army during the period of Xuanxian and Xiangcheng, and they all knew each other, and there were no people who were born in person. ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Hongrun nodded, in fact, he didn't think it would be a spy at the beginning, after all, the army under his command was the army in the south of Wei, if this way Korea had a way to infiltrate spies across most of Wei, then South Korea would be too powerful in this regard.

Apparently, this was due to the failure of some of the soldiers in charge of distributing the food to keep their mouths shut.

"What about the soldiers?" Zhao Hongrun asked.

Sun Shuke hugged his fists and said, "I have been taken into custody and are waiting for His Highness to be dropped." ”

Zhao Hongrun thought about it when he heard this, and suddenly waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let them go." ”

"This ......," Sun Shuke showed a look of embarrassment on his face.

As if he had guessed his thoughts, Zhao Hongrun said with a light smile: "Most of them are unintentional mistakes, so don't punish too much and spoil the atmosphere in the army." …… As long as it's not a scheming. As he spoke, he saw that Sun Shuke's face was still hesitant, so he added: "Besides, what those soldiers said is not a rumor, is it?" Sooner or later, this question will be known to the generals in the army, it is just the difference between sooner or later. ”

Hearing this, Sun Shuke turned his head to look at Yan Mo, because in the Yanling army, Qu Cheng was only responsible for commanding the whole army, and the rest of the Yanling army's affairs were all handled by the deputy general Yan Mo, including the punishment when the soldiers violated military discipline.

I saw that after seeing Sun Shuke's expression and asking, Yan Mo thought for a while and said, "Since His Royal Highness will not pursue it, then this matter will end here." …… However, these soldiers have affected the morale of the army and violated the military discipline of our Yanling army, so they will be punished for 20 years. ”

"Yes." Sun Shuke hugged his fists and retreated to the standing column.

In this regard, Zhao Hongrun didn't say much, after all, this is the internal affairs of the Yanling Army, since he has delegated military power, he will not interfere too much in the internal affairs of the Yanling Army or the Shangshui Army, not to mention that Yan Mo has done a very good job in rectifying military discipline.

At this time, Zou Xin, the general of the second battalion of the Yanling Army, saw that the previous topic had ended, so he stood up and clenched his fists and said: "Your Highness, the matter of our army's exhaustion of food and grass has been more or less known to the sergeants and soldiers of the army. ”

"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun responded when he heard this, wiped his face with his hand, and asked, "At present, what is the morale of the soldiers?" ”

Zou Xin hugged his fists and said in a deep voice: "It may be due to several victories in succession, even if the sergeants vaguely know that our army is running out of food and grass, it does not have much impact on morale...... However, the general was worried that once our army ran out of food, even if the sergeants and soldiers did not break and flee, it was inevitable that there would be violations of military discipline. ”

He didn't say anything that violated military discipline, but everyone present could roughly guess: as a veteran of the Su Wang Army, which had not lost a single battle, honor and pride made it very unlikely that the sergeants of the army would break and escape, but there was no guarantee that in the absence of a way, these soldiers would not rob the food of the local Han people in order to survive.

Don't think that the Su Wang Army is really the division of the royal road, in fact, it is only because the commander-in-chief of this army is the highly prestigious Su King Zhao Hongrun, and Zhao Hongrun pursues the principle of "soldiers do not disturb the people", so the soldiers of the Su Wang Army will not commit any crimes against the enemy civilians.

However, if they are forced to do so, it is difficult to ensure that the soldiers in the army will not commit acts that violate military discipline.

The worst result may be that generals of a thousand generals or above will protect the soldiers under their command, after all, in the eyes of most generals, how can the life and death of the civilians of the enemy country be compared to the life and death of the brothers under their command who were born and died with themselves?

If these generals of the rank of 1,000 generals or above covered up the evil deeds of their subordinates and kept silent about it, it would be too bad, even Zhao Hongrun would not be able to find out at the first time, unless he sent the green crows to keep an eye on the generals under his command for twelve hours a day.

"It seems that this matter is imminent......

Frowning, Zhao Hongrun nodded and said: "This king knows, the generals should retreat and rest, let this king think about it for a day, no matter what, there will be a decision tomorrow." ”

"Yes!" When the generals heard this, they respectfully clenched their fists and retreated.

After the generals of the Yanling army left, Zongwei Lu Mu took out the map very interestingly and spread it on the table.

Looking at the map on the table, Zhao Hongrun frowned deeply.

It has to be said that although the army of King Su under his command defeated the troops under the command of the three Korean Beiyuan Shihao one after another, such as Storm Kite, Jin Huang, and Feng Ting, it seems that this kind of tactical victory is completely unable to reverse the bad situation caused by strategic disadvantages.

If there is enough food, Su Wangjun is a tiger and wolf army, not to mention conquering the eldest son city in the north, Zhao Hongrun even has the confidence to capture the plank road between the mountains of Taihang Mountain, and cross the Taihang Mountain to Handan County in South Korea.

The problem is that there is no food.

"Your Highness, it's almost November, and as expected, the weather will get colder and colder, so Your Highness must make a decision early." Zong Wei Zhou Pu, who has always spoken few and incisively, reminded on the side.

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun was even more worried.

But no, it's October 26 now, and at this time, the cold northwest wind has been blowing in Wei one after another.

Fortunately, this is in Shangdang, which is surrounded by mountains such as Taiyue Mountain and Taihang Mountain, so that the cold air from the northern plateau cannot cross the high mountains for the time being, and invades the entire Shangdang Basin. Not to mention the Hyunshi Basin, or Changping Basin, where Su Wangjun is now located, which is sandwiched between Falu Mountain and Yangtou Mountain.

The topography makes it clear that the weather is approaching November, but the temperature during the day still seems to be in September and October, and only at night, when the temperature plummets, will people realize that it is now the season of approaching deep winter.

And once it snows heavily, the situation of the Suwang army is even more difficult, don't think that the ice and snow can seal the Korean cavalry, in fact, the Korean cavalry that uses harassment and sneak attack tactics will not be blocked by the ice and snow, it will be sealed, it is a heavy horse - the heavy cavalry has almost no combat effectiveness on the battlefield covered by ice and snow.

And if it loses the protection of the traveling horse and heavy riding, what is left for the Su Wang army to rely on? Repeater? In the face of roaming Korean light horses, how much deterrent power does this thing have?

Therefore, before the Su Wangjun faced a more difficult situation, Zhao Hongrun had to break this deadlock and get enough food before the cold winter and the ice and snow came, and as for continuing to march into the army, it might be next year.

And now, there are three ways out in front of Zhao Hongrun: first, attack the eldest son city; second, to attack the high wolf; Third, attack Mengmen Pass from behind.

In all fairness, there is no point in attacking the eldest son city at this time, even if Zhao Hongrun bothers to take down this city? Before the city was broken, the Han general Feng Ying was bound to set fire to the grain and grass in the city.

In contrast, attacking Gao Wolf and attacking Tianmen Pass, as long as this pass can be broken, then the Su Wang army can get military rations from the Wei army outside Tianmen Pass, the Northern Second Army under the command of Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang.

The same is true for attacking Mengmen Pass, as long as this pass can be breached, the Su Wang army can also get military rations from the Shanyang army under the command of Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan.

In the end, Zhao Hongrun chose to attack the high wolf, although he knew very well that the Han general Storm Kite must have built many defenses in the high wolf.

The reason is very simple, because the road leading from Hyun City to the High Wolf is a smooth and smooth road; The road leading from Hyun City to Mengmen Pass is a rugged and long narrow valley, and it is difficult to give full play to the strength advantage of the 100,000 people of the Suwang army.

"Just the wolf! …… Return to the division, return to attack the high wolf! ”

After pondering for a while, Zhao Hongrun tapped his fingers on the table and finally made a decision.

It is undeniable that he is a little apprehensive in his heart, after all, the smooth and smooth road is not only beneficial to the Su Wang army, but also to the Korean cavalry, and the worst thing is that there are more than 20,000 Korean cavalry in this area - 7,000 Han cavalry of Feng Yingjun and 15,000 Han cavalry of the Violent Kite Army.

Under the pursuit and interception of nearly 22,000 Korean cavalry, it was not an easy task to retreat south and attack Gao Wolf.

I have to say that this requires Zhao Hongrun to plan a little, and it is best to come up with some way to make the three Han generals of Storm Kite, Jin Di, and Feng Ying unable to detect his intentions.