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From mid-February to the end of February, Zhao Hongrun lived in Shanyang, waiting for the grain and grass to be transported to the eastern part of Hedong County.

During this period, on February 23, the Su Wang Army, which was originally stationed in Changzi City and Hyun City, had completed the delivery of the city with the Northern Second Army under the command of Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang.

From now on, Zhao Hongrun and his subordinate Su Wangjun will withdraw from the Shangdang battlefield and hand over all strategies on this battlefield to the Northern Second Army.

For this reason, Zhao Hongrun also specially wrote a letter, summoned a few green crows, and ordered them to send it to the general Jiang Con day and night, after all, Jiang Cong had made an appointment with him Zhao Hongrun before, and Jiang Cong would attack Taiyuan County, attract the attention of the Korean army in Taiyuan County, and facilitate Zhao Hongrun to attack Shangdang, so as not to get the time for the Korean army in Taiyuan County to support Shangdang.

And now that Zhao Hongrun has decided to withdraw from the battlefield of the party, he should say hello to Jiang Cong.

As for whether Jiang Cong and Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, can cooperate tacitly, Zhao Hongrun is not worried about this.

Because these two parties are currently the ones who have shown their support for the fifth son of the emperor, Qing Wang Hongxin, Zhao Hongrun is not worried that once Jiang Cong's situation is not good, Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, will stand by and watch as he did before.

After all, it was difficult for Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, to gain a firm foothold in the Wei court alone, and only when he joined forces with the Tianshui Wei clan behind Jiang Cong, would Wei Tianzi feel a little pressure.

Therefore, no matter what, Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, would not save Jiang Contempt's Northern Third Army to the death.

Of course, this is just a matter of facts, after all, in the current form of the Northern Third Army, Jiang Yan is still very brave, and he hit Taiyuan County in one go, although the record is not as good as the scenery of the Su Wang Army, but it can also be said to be proud of the rest of the Wei army.

In contrast, Zhao Hongrun instead cared about whether the Northern Second Army under the command of Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, could hold Shangdang and not be reoccupied by the Korean army.

However, according to generals such as Qu Cheng and Yan Mo, who arrived in Shanyang, the Northern Second Army of the Southern Liang King seems to have been planning to continue the offensive to the north.

This made Zhao Hongrun snicker secretly.

As expected, and reasonable, Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, intended to continue to lead the army to the north, which was not at all unexpected by Zhao Hongrun.

After all, if Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, was only satisfied with holding the eldest son city and the Hyun clan city, then even if they could hold these two places, it would be impossible for them to overshadow the Su Wang army - because it was the Su Wang army that conquered these two places!

Therefore, in this case, there is only one way out for the Northern Second Army under the command of Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang: not only to defend the city of the eldest son and the city of the Hyun family, but also to continue to expand the merits, only in this way will the Northern Second Army not encounter the matter of being erased again in the future.

For the area north of the eldest son city and Hyun City, Zhao Hongrun still knows a lot.

According to the map, there are still many fertile places worth conquering to the north of Changzi City, such as Tunliu, Xiangyuan (Yuán) Guyuan, Lushi, Tongyu (dī), and so on.

These places belong to the central part of the Shangdang Army, because the age is far apart, so Zhao Hongrun can't tell whether these places once belonged to him Wei State, but judging from the place name, this should be the border between Wei and Han back then, inhabited by foreign races such as Tongba, Lu, Chidi, etc., acting as a relaxation zone between Wei and Han.

But one thing can be confirmed, that is, the Northern Expedition of Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, is destined not to be easy.

To the northwest of the Eldest Son Castle is Tunliu, which is already close to the mountainous terrain known as "Wuyun Mountain" and "Bafu Ridge", and further north, "Xiangyuan" is built on a relatively low mountain.

Further north, there is "Huguan", which is built on a high mountain called "Hukou Mountain" by the locals, where the terrain and elevation are not inferior to the Tianmen Pass and Mengmen Pass on the Taihang Mountain.

Further north of Huguan is the northern mountainous region of Shangdang County, which is rich in resources according to Zhao Hongrun, but with modern technology, it is still very difficult to develop mining in these mountains.

Because of this, even Korea did not invest in construction here, so that from more than 100 years ago, they were staring at the southern part of Shangdang County, which was still part of the Wei State at that time, after all, it was a flat and fertile land, suitable for farming.

From a strategic point of view, if Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, wanted to ensure that the eldest son city was worry-free, he must capture Huguan; If he is not satisfied with stopping at the eldest son city, but wants to fight to Taiyuan County, then he must take this Xiongguan.

It's just that it is not easy to conquer Huguan, and after taking it, it is an extremely difficult challenge to go straight through the mountainous area in a straight line of 150 to 200 miles in the north of Shangdang County, and finally arrive at Taiyuan County.

It was precisely because of this reason that Zhao Hongrun wittily handed over the battlefield of Shangdang to Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, after all, in his opinion, in that kind of light infantry battle with Korea in the mountains and mountains, the sword and shield soldiers of the Su Wang Army were not only not the slightest advantage, but were at a disadvantage.

As for whether Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, can achieve results in that area, it depends on his own ability, anyway, as far as the current situation of the entire Northern Xinjiang Campaign is concerned, whether it is the Taiyuan battlefield or the Shangdang battlefield, it is no longer the focus of the entire Wei-Han war situation. From the moment Zhao Hongrun decided to attack Handan, the royal capital of South Korea, the focus of the two countries shifted to Handan County.

Two or three days later, on 26 February, Shaohu, the commander of the Wei Wu Army and the commander-in-chief of the Wei Northern Frontier Campaign and the general Shaohu, who was currently stationed in Zhaiyang, made a special trip to Shanyang to submit a letter of appointment to Zhao Hongrun, appointing Zhao Hongrun as a deputy general and commander of the division.

It turned out that on the second day after Zhao Hongrun arrived in Shanyang, he wrote a detailed battle report and sent the green crows to the hands of Shaohu, the general who was in Zhaiyang. In this war report, the specific process of Zhao Hongrun's dispatch of troops to the party and the current situation in the party were recorded in detail.

At that time, after receiving this letter, the general Shaohu was very surprised that Zhao Hongrun had recovered the "Eldest Son City" and "Hyun City", especially after Zhao Hongrun pointed out in the letter that Tianmen Pass and Mengmen Pass had also returned to Wei.

Because this means that the Wei State has recovered all the land and cities that were occupied by the South Korea during the generations of ancestors in this battle, it can be said that the Northern Xinjiang Battle was very successful, as long as the Korean army can be blocked again, I believe that the results of this battle will make the entire Wei State feel excited, after all, the Wei army has recovered the lost territory of the Wei State - the fertile land in the south of Shangdang County.

As for the northern part of Shangdang County, to be honest, Wei didn't have any idea about it, not because it used to belong to Korea, but because it was a deep mountain range, which was not conducive to farming, and even if it occupied those inaccessible mountains, it would not be of much use to Wei.

Moreover, once Wei occupied the northern part of Shangdang County, then Wei would directly border Taiyuan County in Korea, which would irritate the Korean army.

Therefore, it is a wise choice to leave those mountains in the northern part of Shangdang County unattacked.

Of course, this is Zhao Hongrun's consideration, and since Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, decided to lead his army to advance to the north of Shangdang County, he will not stop him, what if the Northern Second Army of the Southern Liang King cooperates with Jiang Contempt's Northern Third Army and can defeat Taiyuan County in South Korea?

Although the capture of Taiyuan County means that Wei will border Hu Rong in the Northern Plains, it also means that Wei has a chance to get war horses, doesn't it? The herd of horses grazing in Sanchuan County was not enough for Wei to form a large-scale cavalry army.

The next day, Meng Kui, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry of the Great Liang Imperial Court, came to Shanyang in person, accompanied by Wang Fu, the director of the General Administration of Metallurgy, and it could be seen that they attached great importance to Zhao Hongrun's letter a few days ago, especially the cementitious material named "cement" mentioned by Zhao Hongrun in the letter.

On the same day, Zhao Hongrun showed Meng Kui and Wang Fu the limestone he picked up on Taihang Mountain, and explained to them the principle of burning lime and mixing cement.

It's no wonder, after all, Zhao Hongrun's words had too much impact on them.

You must know that most of the buildings in the Wei State are wooden institutions and civil structures, and there is no need to say much about wooden structures, and civil structures, whose materials are bamboo, wood, rammed earth, straw, hay, adobe bricks and tiles, may be used to strengthen the firmness of the wall by rammed earth grout - sometimes you can see obvious hole-like traces on some mud walls, that is, the traces left by rammed earth grout.

But whether it is a wooden structure or a civil structure, it is probably not very solid, the former is generally used for palaces, and the latter is generally used for private houses in the county, really like Chenggao Pass, Fencheng Fortress, Tianmen Pass, Mengmen Pass this kind of strategic pass or fortress, that is all polished and piled up with a whole piece of mountain stone, and the amount of work is quite huge.

It is precisely for this reason that the status of stonemasons in the past was very high.

However, the appearance of cement replaced the role of the whole mountain stone, which meant that the Wei State could use bricks fired from clay to build fortresses and passes, and the difficulty of masonry was significantly reduced.

A fortress of the same size, it may have taken three or five years or more to build with stones in the past, but now with cement, it may be built in three or five months, what an improvement?!

It is precisely because of the appalling that Meng Kui and Wang Fu personally came to Shanyang to talk to His Royal Highness King Su, after all, cement is destined not to flow into other countries, I believe that in the future, whether it is lime firing or cement mixing, the Ministry of Industry and the Metallurgical Bureau will send troops to garrison it, beware of someone leaking this secret.

Probably because the attraction of cement is too great, so that Meng Kui and Wang Fu did not take it in Shanyang for a long time, so they took a few truckloads of limestone prepared by Zhao Hongrun in advance to return to Daliang on the same day, preparing to study the firing of the lime that Zhao Hongrun said, and make cement to test the power of this cementitious material.

It is no exaggeration to say that once this experiment is successful, then the building material of mountain stone will be withdrawn from the stage and replaced by concrete.

At the beginning of March, Zhao Hongrun estimated that the new grain and grass shipped to northern Xinjiang in China should soon arrive in the eastern part of Hedong County, so he left 3,000 Yanling troops to garrison Tianmen Pass, and took the rest of the nearly 100,000 merchant army, Yanling army, and Youma army with a total of nearly 100,000 Shangshui army, Yanling army, and Youma army, and set off for "Xiuwu".

accompanied by the 20,000 Northern First Army of King Huan Zhao Hongxuan and the 30,000 Shanyang Army of Yan King Zhao Hongjiang.

Three armies, totaling about 150,000 soldiers and horses.

Coupled with the Southern Yan Army and the Wei Wu Army stationed in Hedong County at this moment, the total strength of the Wei State counterattack on the Handan Army in South Korea has exceeded 200,000.

This was the largest number of troops sent by Wei to counterattack South Korea since the exchange of troops between Wei and South Korea.

I believe that this force will shake and panic the whole of South Korea.