In the last days of mid-June, the scouts of the Wei and Han armies took the lead in fierce battles on the northwestern flat land around the high wall that the Wei army was repairing. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At this time, the scouts of the Wei army were no longer limited to the black crows, the hundreds of Shanyang cavalry formed by Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, who spent a lot of money, as well as the Southern Yan cavalry under the command of the Southern Yan general Wei Mu, including the more than 2,000 Yanling cavalry newly formed by the Yanling army, all joined the reconnaissance and surveillance mission against the Wu'an Han army.

I have to say that in the face of the Korean cavalry, the cavalry of the Wei State can only be said to have just started, so that the cavalry sent out is often rarely able to return unharmed, especially when encountering the Loufu cavalry under the command of the Han general Shanggu Shouma, even if the Wei cavalry immediately turned around and fled, it was difficult to escape the pursuit of the latter.

But no matter what, the Wei army still found some information about the Han army in Wu'an.

Judging from the banners on the banner, the Wu'an Han Army at this time roughly had 30,000 Shanggu troops from Ma Hao, 30,000 Taiyuan troops from Lian Jie, and 20,000 from Qin Kai's Yuyang army, plus the remnants of Han Yang, Storm Kite, Feng Ting, Jin Huang and others, and there were nearly 1450,000 miscellaneous soldiers.

In terms of the number of troops, the Wei army has an advantage, after all, the five Wei armies of the Suwang Army, the Wei Wu Army, the Southern Yan Army, the Shanyang Army, and the Northern First Army together will exceed 200,000.

But from the perspective of the configuration of troops, the Wei army is completely at a disadvantage, after all, of the 150,000 soldiers and horses of the Han army, at least one-third are cavalry, and the rest are mixed with infantry and crossbows; But on the Wei army's side, all the cavalry were added together, and there were only 10,000 cavalry when they were full, and the rest were infantry.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun wondered at first: Obviously the Korean army has an absolute advantage in cavalry, and it should make full use of the advantage of cavalry to fight a mobile battle with their Wei army, why did the Korean army gather its army in Tiaoling and put on a posture of preparing to fight to the death with their Wei army here?

As a result, two days later, Zhao Hongrun understood. Because on June 22, the Korean cavalry bypassed Handan and attacked "Zixian".

At that time, the Shanyang Army of Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, was stationed in the upper reaches of "Zishui", and the Northern First Army of Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, was stationed in "Zixian".

If it weren't for the rapid support of the Shanyang Army of Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, the Northern First Army stationed in Zixian might have lost this city.

Later, Zhao Hongrun learned that the Han army attacking Zixian was the cavalry under the command of Shanggu Shouma Hao, and the general who commanded this cavalry was Ma Hao's deputy general Xu Li.

This Xu Li is not simple, leading the cavalry of the upper valley under his command to flow around Zishui and Zixian, so that the Shanyang Army and the Northern First Army are tired of coping, and they can only passively defend in order to protect themselves, if they leave the city easily, they will be attacked by Xu Li's army.

This passive situation was not slightly improved until the Shanyang Army and the Northern First Army followed the example of the Suwang Army to build the Wugang car.

After all, the scope of this person's activities is on a flat ground between the upper reaches of Zishui, Zixian and Handan, which is clearly to disrupt the communication between several Wei armies, although Zhao Hongrun can expel this Korean cavalry by repairing the low wall with cement, but at this time, the main force of the Han army in Wu'an is eyeing the tiger, and Zhao Hongrun is really powerless.

He could only count on the Southern Yan Army stationed on the "Handan Mountain" in the south of Handan City, hoping that the cavalry battalion in the Southern Yan Army could clamp down on Xu Li's army.

On June 24, the Korean troops in the Tiaoling area began to exert pressure on the area around the high wall, trying to attack the high wall repaired by the Wei army.

Due to the unremitting harassment of Shanggu Shouma Hao a while ago, the Wei army has not been able to repair the high wall far so far, only two miles, and this level of high wall defense can play a very little role in the battlefield within a visual range of at least thirty miles.

Zhao Hongrun was very dissatisfied with this, after all, in his predetermined strategy, at this time, the Wei army under his command had to at least repair a high wall ten or twenty miles long, which could greatly reduce the huge threat posed by nearly 50,000 Korean cavalry once the Wei and Han armies launched a large-scale battle.

But as the so-called world is unpredictable, first the harassment of Shanggu Shouma Lu, and then, it was the water army of Julu Shouyan Crepe that attacked the Wei army's waterway route, resulting in the Wei army on the front line failing to complete the task given by Zhao Hongrun on time.

Up to now, Zhao Hongrun can only rely on the Wugang chariot and the heavy cavalry of the traveling horse - the infantry of the Korean army is not afraid, as long as the Wugang chariot and the heavy cavalry can contain the cavalry of Wu'an, then the victory of this war will eventually belong to their Wei army.

It is undeniable that Zhao Hongrun did think so at first, until Sun Shuke, the general of the Yanling Army stationed at the high wall, sent an urgent message for help to Handan.

At that time, Zhao Hongrun was stunned after learning the specific situation, why? Because the Han army on the Wu'an side actually imitated the Wugang car of the Wei army, and also built a thousand Wugang cars, and used it to attack the high wall.

I have to say that in addition to greatly limiting the cavalry, the Wugang car is a war weapon, in fact, it can also play a good defense against the enemy's infantry and crossbowmen, and the key thing is that this kind of combat vehicle does not have much technical content to be honest, and it is something that can be imitated just by looking at it.

"They...... How can this Korean be so brazen? ”

Including Zhao Hongrun, the generals of the Suwang army were furious when they learned that the Han army in Wu'an had copied the Wugang car, believing that the Han army had brazenly plagiarized the wisdom of their Wei people.

But seriously, this kind of thing is actually not uncommon among the countries of the Central Plains, after all, there is no intellectual property rights in this era, and they steal from each other and imitate each other, which abounds: once the chariot of the Wei State was strong, and the countries of the Central Plains followed suit; Then the Korean cavalry rose strongly, and the Wei State followed the example of the Han cavalry and secretly formed the "Dangjun Traveling Horse".

And now, the Wei army's Wugang car was stolen by the Koreans, which also means that this war weapon is indeed a sharp weapon on the battlefield.

Of course, Zhao Hongrun was a little depressed about this: I strongly recommend the heavy cavalry to you, for which you were almost trapped in Shangdang County, you don't steal the heavy cavalry, but actually steal the Wugang car?

In addition to being depressed, Zhao Hongrun strongly believed that in this battle, he must once again "prove" to the South Korean army the necessity of building a heavy cavalry, otherwise, what he was planning might really be disturbed by his unsightly Wu Gang car.

I have to say that Zhao Hongrun misunderstood in this matter, it was not that the Han army did not notice the power of the heavy cavalry, and even, in the eyes of Storm Kite, Jin Di, Feng Ting, and Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, their fear of the heavy riding of Shangshui Horse was far higher than that of Wugangche.

The problem is to build a set of heavy cavalry heavy armor, not only does it cost a lot of money but also the workmanship is complicated, the big war is imminent, how can generals such as Storm Kite have the leisure time to raise huge sums of money to build heavy cavalry heavy armor?

In contrast, stealing the Wugang car has to be simply said, after all, this thing really has no technical content, it is nothing more than a baffle on the cart, anyway, the generals of the Korean army do not require the construction to be as strong as the Wugang car of the Wei army.

It has to be said that under the condition that the Wei and Han armies both possessed Wugang chariots, the role of cavalry and crossbowmen on both sides was greatly reduced, while the status of melee infantry was rapidly raised.

This situation greatly increased the chances of survival of the Korean infantry in front of the Wei crossbowmen, but in the final analysis, it could not shake the foundation of the Korean army. After all, if nothing happens, the role of the Wei heavy infantry on the battlefield is obviously greater than that of the Korean light infantry.

The "matter" in this sentence "if there is no accident" actually refers to the variable of Taiyuan Shou Lian.

The reason why Sun Shuke couldn't resist the attack of the Han army in Wu'an and urgently asked Handan for help was because Taiyuan Shoulian Di personally went into battle to attack the high wall, and killed several thousands of generals under the Yanling army with his strange weapon that looked like a mace and a long-handled knife.

So much so that before the reinforcements sent by Zhao Hongrun to the high wall arrived, Sun Shuke suffered a defeat at the hands of Lian Lu and lost the high wall.

There is no way, the Wu Gang car in the Han army greatly limits the combat power of the Wei army's crossbowmen, making it impossible for the Wei army to resist once such a fierce general as Lian Di is killed near the high wall.

What's even more odious is that Lian Fu also picked on the non-commissioned officers and generals of the Wei army to kill, and as soon as the non-commissioned officers and generals of the Wei army in charge of the command died, the ordinary Wei soldiers were naturally in chaos, and where could they resist it.

In the evening of the same day, after receiving a message from Sun Shuke asking for help, Zhao Hongrun received news about Sun Shuke's defeat and retreat.

He was not surprised by this, because the length of the high wall was so short that the Korean army could easily go around the back of the high wall.

Not to mention that it was Taiyuan Shou Lian Jie who attacked the high wall, this was a Korean fierce general who had defeated Wei General Jiang Jian in Jinyang County, Taiyuan County, and Sun Shuke was just a general who was stronger than the commander, and he couldn't personally go into battle to boost morale like Lian Jie, let alone defeat Lian Jie.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun did not mean to blame Sun Shuke, but just sent someone to invite the general Shaohu to discuss with him about sending troops.

The next day, June 25, Zhao Hongrun and the general Shaohu led the Su Wang army and the Wei Wu army respectively, preparing to attack the Korean army.

In fact, the Wei army could also choose to defend Handan and wait for the Wu'an Han army to attack Handan.

After all, Handan has a strong city wall, and with the help of the city wall defense, the Wei army's chances of victory should be higher.

But the problem is that Handan is the royal capital of Korea, and God knows how many people in the seemingly peaceful Handan City are waiting for the opportunity to prepare for a fatal blow to the Wei army - in case these people jump out when the Han army of Wu'an storms Handan, set fire to harass the city, and disturb the situation, it is not possible that the Wei army will be defeated in the defense of the city, burying all previous advantages.

Therefore, it is better to be tougher and go out of the city directly to fight, which can also show the momentum of the Wei army - after all, Zhao Hongrun's previous momentum, but to occupy Handan, and South Korea will not die, how can he retreat to Handan City with self-destruction, so doesn't it seem that he is afraid of the Han army of Wu'an?

It is precisely for these reasons that Zhao Hongrun chose to fight with Wei Wujun, and he wanted to use this battle, or arrogantly put it mildly, to interrupt the counterattack of the Han army of Wu'an, force him to bow his head, and ask him for peace with Wei.