When he heard the retreat horn sounded by the cavalry of Xin Zhan's army, Han Yang, Marquis of Dangyin, could only retreat even though he was still unwilling in his heart. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After withdrawing from Ji County, Han Yang, Marquis of Dangyin, joined up with Xin Zhan's remnant cavalry, and he couldn't believe it after learning that his subordinates, Xin Zan and Fang Bi, had both died in battle.

"Who killed General Xin Zhan?"

Han Yang, Marquis of Dangyin, asked the cavalry in shock.

The cavalry replied: "It is Wu Ji, the commander of the Shangshui Wei army, who is fighting for death on his own." ”

Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, opened his mouth when he heard this.

Fang Bi didn't mention it for the time being, among the generals under his command, there were many who could replace the former, but Xin Zhan, that was his cousin Kang Gong Han Hu's old general, was a general specially sent by his cousin to assist him, how would he explain to that cousin in the future?

After hearing what had happened, Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, regretted it a lot, because he knew at this moment that he had listened to the advice of the violent kite at that time, recognized the situation and retreated in time, and Xin Zan would not die at all.

But now it's too late, and it won't help to say anything, so Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, was anxious and depressed, and led his army to evacuate towards Qishui Pass.

And for the retreating Han army in Jixian County, Zhao Hongrun did not order the pursuit, after all, there are still more than 10,000 cavalry under Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, if he is not greedy enough and chases the poor deeply, he is likely to be killed by the other party for a while. Anyway, his purpose was only to conquer Jixian, and as for those Korean cavalry, Zhao Hongrun believed that his next strategy could greatly limit the strength of the Korean cavalry.

"His Royal Highness King Hexisu seized Ji County."

After entering the city along the west gate of Ji County, Wei Mu smiled and congratulated Zhao Hongrun.

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun laughed and said very happily: "Joy and joy." …… Even if the general does not remind the king, the king will not ignore the merits of the Southern Yan army. With that, he winked at Wei Mu.

Hearing Zhao Hongrun's words, Wei Mu couldn't help but be stunned, after all, he didn't mean to invite credit, the reason why he was quite close to Zhao Hongrun was because the latter's identity was very special, his father was Wei Tianzi, who was loyal to Wei Mu, and his mother was Wei Ji, who was born in the same country as Wei Mu. "Note: The name "Wei Ji" here is not a name."

For the above reasons, Wei Mu spared no effort to assist Zhao Hongrun, in order to achieve Zhao Hongrun's strategic intentions, he did not hesitate to let the cavalry battalion of the Southern Yan Army fight with the Korean cavalry - the Southern Yan Army has only 3,000 cavalry, which has always been Wei Mu's heart.

And the reason why he celebrated just now was just to get closer to Zhao Hongrun, but he didn't expect Zhao Hongrun to respond like that.

However, after seeing Zhao Hongrun's winking at him, Wei Mu smiled slightly, and suddenly understood in his heart: His Royal Highness King Su was just making a harmless joke.

Therefore, he deliberately said along the lines: "His Royal Highness King Su must remember today's words. …… When His Royal Highness King Su was in the first battle, he generously gave the Junshui Army, the Dangshan Army, and the Fencheng Army a military expense, but unfortunately my Nanyan Army couldn't get that cheap, and it was overstretched in the past two years, and even the year-end pension could not be issued, alas. ”

Hearing Wei Mu's pretended to complain, Zhao Hongrun couldn't cry or laugh: It's all old things from four or five years ago, but I didn't expect the general to remember.

But then again, after Zhao Hongrun went out to conquer the Junxiong Tuo of Xuancheng and returned to the division in triumph, he gave the Fencheng Army, the Junshui Army, and the Dangshan Army a war profit, which did make many people blush, for example, when Zhao Hongrun went to Sanchuan County to pass through Chenggao Pass, Zhu Hai, the general of the Chenggao Army, also mentioned this matter to him intentionally or unintentionally, so that Zhao Hongrun couldn't wipe off his face later, so he had to get a way for the Chenggao Army to make extra money - to collect tariffs on the caravans traveling to and from Luocheng.

I have to say that if it weren't for the fact that the household department made the most profit in the matter of Sanchuan trade at that time, and he didn't bother to care about the meager tariffs in Chenggao Pass, otherwise, with Zhao Hongrun's unauthorized behavior, he would definitely be impeached by the household department - even if Zhao Hongrun is the prince, he has no right to set tariffs privately, just like Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, does not have the right to lift the "sword control" of the local county residents in Shanyang County.

"The next time I have a chance, this king will definitely not forget the soldiers of the Southern Yan Army."

Zhao Hongrun swore and promised.

Wei Mu smiled slightly, he actually didn't care whether Zhao Hongrun's promise would be fulfilled in the future, after all, in recent years, the income of the household department was quite considerable, so that the household department, which has now become wealthy, is too lazy to cut the military spending of the six battalions of the garrison, in the final analysis, when the household department proposed to reduce military spending, it was because the treasury could not make ends meet, but now that the household department has money, who would risk a big disapproval to offend the generals of the sixth battalion of the garrison? Aren't you afraid that the latter will be angry and send someone to demolish the household department and the government office?

Therefore, in the current situation of generous military spending, Wei Mu does not care whether Zhao Hongrun will fulfill his promise in the future, but Zhao Hongrun's attitude makes him feel very good.

Of course, in fact, this is just a subjective reason - Wei Mu was quite warm and close to Zhao Hongrun from the beginning because of his special status, and Zhao Hongrun was not a bastard who didn't know what to do, Wei Mu treated him friendly, and he naturally had to be friendly in return.

After leading the army into Ji County, the first thing Zhao Hongrun did was to make a list of Anmin, and by the way, find out the Korean spies who were still hiding in the city - this was almost routine.

It is still quite important to appease the people in the city, because Ji County is located at the junction of Wei and Han, and the people living here are very mixed, that is, there are Wei and Koreans. However, because this city would be captured by Wei and Korea from time to time, the residents of the city did not have a high sense of belonging to the armies of the two countries.

To put it bluntly, in the eyes of the local county people, whether it is the Han army or the Wei army, as long as they do not invade them, they will recognize each other's rule, and they belong to the people who do not have much sense of belonging to the country.

The reason for this phenomenon is that Korea has ruled the city for decades without persecuting the local residents.

For this point, even if they are enemies of each other, Zhao Hongrun has to admit that the quality of the South Korean army is still relatively high, especially the South Korean generals who have a lifelong wish of "making South Korea dominate the Central Plains" generally do not do anything similar to slaughtering and looting, unless they are strongly resisted by local civilians when attacking a certain city, so they use the massacre to deter people.

As for finding out the Han army spies hiding in the city, Zhao Hongrun handed over this matter to Yang Bai and Ding Heng of the black crows.

In the evening of the same day, Zhao Hongrun ordered to reward the three armies, and at the same time invited the generals under his command and the generals of the Southern Yan Army to a banquet in the county government in the city.

Zhao Hongrun was not familiar with the generals of the Southern Yan Army in the past, but under Wei Mu's introduction, he still remembered a few faces.

For example, the deputy general of the Southern Yan Army, "Ai He (He)", was the same person who led the Southern Yan cavalry to support the Suwang army today, and immediately gave support when the Shang Shui Army was attacked by the Korean cavalry under the command of the Han general Xin Zhan, causing the formation of the Xin Zhan Army to collapse and fall into a bitter battle with the Shang Shui Army for a time.

In addition, there are several generals of the Southern Yan Army such as "Ma Hong" and "Gu Chao", and it can be seen that they are all vigorous young Zhuang generals, which makes Zhao Hongrun feel quite relieved and happy.

You must know that more than ten years ago, after the Wei State experienced the two turmoils of "Shunshui Army and Yushui Army in the same room" and "Nanyan Xiao Rebellion", the domestic generals can almost be said to have died a generation, which made Wei once face a situation of having soldiers and no generals, so Wei Tianzi pushed out a few Zongwei around him and let his army sit in several key places in the country.

But more than ten or twenty years later, the Wei State gradually recovered, and many generals slowly emerged, such as Feng Shu and Zhou Kui of the Chenggao Army, Wen Feng and Bai Fangming of the Dangshan Army, Cao Jue and Li Qi of the Junshui Army, Cai Baohu of the Fencheng Army, and Ai He of the Southern Yan Army, etc., these generals are all quite potential generals in Zhao Hongrun's view.

And the generals who defected to Wei were not inferior, such as Qu Cheng, Yan Mo, Zhai Huang, Sun Shuke and so on of Su Wangjun.

In Zhao Hongrun's view, these are all outstanding generals who have the potential to become a general.

In terms of "commander-in-chief", Wei now has Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, Jiang Wei, the general Shaohu, Wei Ji, Lintaojun, etc., so it can be said that Wei is moving towards a "country with a strong army".

Zhao Hongrun believed that after this heavy blow to the Korean army, no country in the entire Central Plains would dare to underestimate Wei.

From 14 to 17 February, Han Yang, Marquis of Dangyin, was surprised to find that the Wei army under the command of Wei Gongzi Run did not take advantage of the victory to march after conquering Ji County, which completely ruined his plan to ambush the Wei army on the battlefield of the plain that lasted for more than 100 miles.

Out of confusion, Han Yang, Marquis of Dangyin, sent several scout horsemen to Ji County to inquire about the movements of the Wei army.

After returning to their own team, those scouts told Han Yang, Marquis of Dangyin, an important matter: Wei Gongzirun's army was building a river port on the bank of the big river south of Ji County.

As soon as he heard this, Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, suddenly realized that the Wei army might be planning to replace land transportation with water transportation and transport the grain and grass needed by the army on the battlefield.

But suddenly, for this matter, Han Yang, Marquis of Dangyin, has nothing to do, after all, the Su Wang Army has set up layers of defense in the area of Ji County, even if Han Yang, Marquis of Dangyin, wants to harass the Wei army to build a river port, there is no chance.

Of course, Han Yang, Marquis of Dangyin, didn't care much about this, after all, the strategy he decided was to prepare to use the absolute superiority of cavalry to defeat the invading Wei army on the plain battlefield from Gongdi to Qishui Pass, which was more than 100 miles long, and it had little to do with whether the Wei army had enough food and grass.

Even, he preferred the Wei army to complete the transportation of grain and grass as soon as possible, after all, only when the Wei army hoarded enough grain and grass in Ji County, this Wei army would advance to Qishui Pass, and he would have a chance to defeat this Wei army.

On 18 February, dozens of large ships flying the banner of the word "Wei" went down the river to the temporary river port newly built by Su Wangjun in the south of Ji County, where they landed and docked.

Seeing this, the soldiers of King Su, who had already been prepared, boarded the ships and pushed down carts full of bags from the big ships.

"These carts ......"

A trace of doubt flashed in the eyes of Zhai Huang, the deputy general of the Shang Water Army, because he felt that the cart used to transport grain this time seemed to be larger than before, and the wood used seemed to be exceptionally strong.

Not far away, Zhao Hongrun glanced at the carts, then lowered his head and continued to look at a drawing in his hand.

On the drawing, a seemingly ordinary cart is depicted, but at the front of the cart, there is a baffle like a giant shield. In addition to this, many swords and spears were tied to this cart.

"Huh." The corners of Zhao Hongrun's mouth lifted, revealing a slight inexplicable smile.

His gaze was cast on the lower left side of the drawing, and he saw three words written there.

Wugang car!