The next day, Zhao Hongrun led his army to march to the east of "Tang County". Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Tang County is also a city that Jiang Di fought during the First Northern Frontier Campaign, but compared with the "Linfen" that extends in all directions, Tang County is not of great strategic significance, but for the Suwang army that is preparing to attack the "Pigao Pass", it is a stronghold that can be used as a garrison.

From early morning to noon, after a journey of about thirty miles, Zhao Hongrun led his army to arrive at Tang County, a very small county seat.

After arriving in Tang County, when Zhao Hongrun saw the banner of the 'Northern First Army' erected on the walls of this county town and the tower, he already had a bad premonition in his heart.

"This city has an ominous ......"

At that time, beside Zhao Hongrun, Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Water Army, said with a frown.

"Ah, lifeless, strangely depressing......"

On the other side, Qu Cheng, the general of the Yanling Army, also frowned and added.

Zhao Hongrun looked outside the city for a while, and ordered: "Wu Ji, your merchant army sent 3,000 people to take over the county seat, and the rest of the people are stationed in military camps outside the city. ”

"Yes!" Wu Ji clenched his fists to receive the order, and then glanced back at the deputy generals Zhai Huang and Nanmen Chi who followed behind him.

Zhai Huang met with Nanmen Chi, and after hugging his fists, he left on his own to take charge of the construction of the military camp, and the Yanling army on the other side was also stationed outside the city under the leadership of the deputy general Yan Mo.

At this time, the soldiers of the Beiyi Army in the city had already opened the city gate, Zhao Hongrun glanced at the general who took the lead, and drove his mount into the city without saying a word.

"From this moment on, this county will be taken over by our merchant army, and you will return to Anyi by yourself."

When passing by the general of the Northern First Army, Wu Ji coldly dropped a sentence, and then without waiting for the other party's reaction, he rode his horse to catch up with Zhao Hongrun.

"Yes." The general bowed his head in response, not daring to show the slightest resentment.

At this time, Zhao Hongrun had already taken the guards, accompanied by Wu Ji, Qu Cheng and other generals, and slowly entered the county.

As soon as he entered this county, Zhao Hongrun seemed to feel a breath of disgust rushing towards him, which made him shrink his neck.

"Stump, Tread, Tread—"

The group rode a war horse into the city slowly, and the county residents along the way stopped one after another after seeing Zhao Hongrun and others, hid in the nearby alleys or between houses, hid behind the firewood stacks, and hid behind the water tank, looking at Zhao Hongrun and his party with an indifferent and fearful face.

If there is no way to avoid it, he kneels on the ground and bows his head, as if to welcome the arrival of this Wei army.

Yes, just as if.

Because the eyes of these people are shining with hatred.

Suddenly, Zhao Hongrun saw a little girl who seemed to be only four or five years old running out of front on the left, only to see this little girl pick up a small pebble from the ground and throw it towards Zhao Hongrun at the front of the team.

"Smack."

The pebble was thrown on the neck of the horse mounted under Zhao Hongrun's crotch, and then fell weakly to the ground.

Also, how much strength can a four or five-year-old girl have.

Zhao Hongrun did not move, the Zongwei did not move, and the generals of the Shang Shui Army and Yan Ling Army such as Wu Ji and Qu Cheng did not move in the slightest.

On the contrary, in that house, a woman rushed out, saw that her daughter actually bent down and threw the pebble on the ground from picking up to Zhao Hongrun, screamed, ran over and hugged her daughter in her arms, pressed it to her chest, and at the same time looked at Zhao Hongrun with fear, pleading, hatred and other complicated eyes, as if the whole person was trembling.

『……』

Zhao Hongrun's heart aroused a strong killing intent.

Of course, this killing intent is not aimed at the mother and daughter, nor is it aimed at the county citizens who are full of indifference and hostility along the street, he is aimed at the Northern First Army that once occupied this county seat, and it is aimed at the scum of the Wei army who have plundered and killed innocents indiscriminately in this county.

"Let's go."

After taking a deep look at the mother and daughter, Zhao Hongrun calmly dropped a sentence and drove the war horse slowly forward.

From beginning to end, neither the Zong Wei, the generals, nor the soldiers behind them showed any ill will towards the mother and daughter, even though they saw the little girl pick up a pebble from the ground and throw it at His Royal Highness King Su, whom they respected.

Because they all know that these are all Koreans, local Koreans who were slaughtered, looted, and persecuted by the Northern First Army during the First Northern Frontier Campaign.

The group slowly left, and at this time, the woman sat down on the ground with relief, panting with palpitations on her face, while looking at the departing Wei people with puzzled eyes.

She may have been surprised, because Zhao Hongrun, who was walking at the front of the team on his mount, was dressed in brocade and jade belts, and he didn't look like an ordinary person, obviously her daughter threw the small stones on the ground to the other party, but the other party didn't mean to be angry at all.

Even the Wei soldiers and generals behind this person did not make the slightest move.

"These Wei people ......"

The trembling citizens stood up from the ground and looked at each other a little.

They had vaguely noticed that the new Wei people who arrived today seemed to be different from those Wei people a few months ago.

At the same time, Zhao Hongrun had come to the guard in the city.

After entering the guard house and taking a sip of water, Zhao Hongrun said expressionlessly: "I don't like this county. ”

Hearing this, Wei Jiao and other sect guards, as well as Qu Cheng, Wu Ji and others who were on the side, were silent.

You must know that when they attacked Chu State, even as enemies, the civilians of Chu State still looked at them with an eager and happy look, as if their Wei army was not an enemy who invaded Wei State, but a heavenly soldier who rescued them.

But in this county seat, Zhao Hongrun felt the resistance and hatred of the local residents towards the Wei army.

But in the final analysis, Zhao Hongrun didn't like this county, but he didn't like this county town, which had been destroyed by the Northern First Army.

At this time, he couldn't wait to investigate and execute all the soldiers of the Northern First Army who had participated in the bullying of innocents, but the current commander of the Northern First Army was his younger brother Huan Wang Zhao Hongxuan, and it was unreasonable to execute those generals without authorization.

After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun finally said: "Send someone to send a message to Xiao Xuan and let him deal with it." …… As for this county seat, when the military rations arrive from Linfen tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, a batch of ...... will be distributed to the Koreans in the city."

At the moment, Zhao Hongrun can only use this kind of small favor, hoping to alleviate some of the hatred and hostility from the Korean people in the city.

After resting for about half an hour, Zhao Hongrun took the generals of the Zongwei and the Shangshui Army and the Yanling Army to leave the city and go to Pilao Pass to spy on the reality of the pass.

Pigao Pass, located about 80 miles east of Tang County, is located in the narrowest place between the north "Yishan" and the south "Wangwu Mountain", and is known as the "western barrier" of Shangdang County.

I remember that during the last Northern Xinjiang Campaign, General Jiang Cong led the Northern Third Army to attempt to attack Pigao Pass, but when he arrived at Pigao Pass, Jiang Cong gave up.

Because on the west side of Pigao Pass, there is a long and narrow valley of about several miles, although it is a Tan Valley, but the terrain of the place is not conducive to the formation of a large army, which makes Jiang Jian realize that Pigao Pass is not a pass that can be forcibly conquered by the number of troops under his command alone, so he gave up the attack and turned to attack the "Shin City".

Now, this problem has fallen on Zhao Hongrun's head.

Around the time of Shen, Zhao Hongrun and his party rode their horses to the front of the Pigao Pass, that is, the narrow and flat valley on the west side of the Pigao Pass, which was several miles long.

I have to say that this valley road is really very narrow and long, and Zhao Hongrun suspects that this valley road may not be able to parallel two hundred soldiers, what does this mean?

This means that when attacking Pigao Pass from here, the effective force size may only be 2,003 people, and it also means that he has an empty army of 100,000 troops, while the Korean army can block Zhao Hongyun from this pass with only a few thousand men.

"A frontal attack won't work......"

After carefully observing for a while, Zhao Hongrun said regretfully.

As the commander of the Wei army, who single-handedly contributed to the "rout of the Qin army in Hangu", Zhao Hongrun certainly understood how terrible this narrow terrain was, if he forced the attack, he might have to invest tens of thousands of soldiers, but the Han army was able to defend this pass with very few troops.

Since he couldn't attack head-on, Zhao Hongrun hit the idea on the two mountain ranges on the south and north sides of Pigao Pass.

"Duan Pei!"

As Zhao Hongrun exclaimed, Duan Pei, the leader of the Green Crows, stepped forward and hugged his fist towards the former: "Humble duty." ”

I saw Zhao Hongrun raise his finger and point to the "Yi Mountain" on the north side of Pigao Pass and the "Wangwu Mountain" on the south side, and said to Duan Pei: "Tonight, you send someone to explore those two mountains, and this king wants to know the situation on those two mountains and the situation behind the mountains." …… If there is a Korean army stationed on the mountain, you green crows will make their own decisions. ”

"Yes!" Duan Pei clenched his fists and responded.

After the order was completed, Zhao Hongrun inspected around again, and after remembering the topography of this area, he immediately returned to Tang County.

At the same time, the green crows scattered their manpower to "Yishan" and "Wangwu Mountain" to investigate the situation, and it took two days before the topography of these two hills was roughly mapped and sent to Zhao Hongrun.

As Zhao Hongrun expected, whether it is the "Yishan" in the north or the "Wangwu Mountain" in the south, there are soldiers of the Korean army deployed on the mountain, and the number is not much, about 1,000 people on each mountain.

Among them, the mountain of "Yishan" is relatively steep and steep, and there are many strange rocks, which is not conducive to climbing; Wangwu Mountain, on the other hand, is relatively gentle, but Wangwu Mountain is majestic, wooded, and there are many caves in the mountain, which are connected to each other and are inaccessible.

This made Zhao Hongrun a little difficult: should he choose Yishan as a breakthrough, or Wangwushan?

After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun finally decided that the three armies would temporarily set up camp in Tang County, and first asked the green crows to go to Yishan and Wangwushan to spy on the movements of the Han army, and by the way, find a way to clean up the Korean soldiers stationed on the two hills.

After all, the ability of the green crows alone is quite strong, especially in this kind of complex mountain forest, even if the assassination skills are not as good as the black crows, but against some ordinary soldiers of the Korean army, Zhao Hongrun thinks that there is no problem.

As a result, hundreds of crows who accompanied the army poured into their nests, and as the vanguard of the battle, they began to try to assassinate the Korean troops stationed on the hills of Yishan and Wangwu Mountain.

This move unsurprisingly attracted the attention of Jin Huang, the general of the leather prison.