In fact, before the "Battle of Hyun Castle", the military rations of the Su Wang Army had already begun to be tense, but at that time, Zhao Hongrun put the defeat of the two Korean fierce generals at the level of the Ten Heroes of the Northern Plains on the top priority, so he did not consider the issue of military rations. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

To be precise, the food problem was not critical at that time, because Zhao Hongrun planned to withdraw his troops at that time, but he knew one thing very well, if he ordered the withdrawal of troops immediately, then the Han general Storm Kite would definitely follow them like a hunting wolf, biting the prey bite by mouth.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun hoped to find a way to severely damage the light cavalry of the Riot Kite Army before withdrawing his troops.

The attack on Hyun City was actually just to lure out the 30,000 cavalry of the Storm Kite Army, otherwise, when the back road was cut off, what would Zhao Hongrun do with such an enclave?

Unexpectedly, the results of the "Battle of Hyun City" were even better than he expected, not only severely damaged the 30,000 cavalry of the Han general Storm Kite, but also defeated the other Beiyuan Shihao and Han general Jin Huang by the way, and captured Hyun City in one go, which inevitably made Zhao Hongrun a little uneasy - in this case, do you have to retreat according to the original plan?

You must know that the north of Hyun's city is the eldest son city, which is a very key strategic city in Shangdang County, it extends in all directions, and is a hub city connecting the south and north of Shangdang County, and its strategic significance is equivalent to Linfen and Anyi in the west of Hedong County.

Moreover, the city of the eldest son was also a city that once belonged to the Wei State.

Zhao Hongrun didn't know exactly how many years ago, the city of the eldest son belonged to his Wei state, and it was the bridgehead of his Wei state in Shangdang County and South Korea across the mountain.

At that time, the Korean cavalry was not as strong as it is today, and the infantry and crossbowmen were still the main force of the Korean army.

At that time, the confrontation between Wei and South Korea mainly took place on the mountain plank road on the northeast side of the eldest son city - in order to attack the eldest son city, South Korea built a mountain plank road across the Taihang Mountain from the "Maocheng" in the west of Handan County, and began a long local war.

In order to block the army from Handan County, South Korea, the Wei people built a pass in the northeast of the eldest son city, which was once quite famous as "Huguan".

For a long time, the city of the eldest son supported the Shangdang Nanjun of the Wei state, allowing the Wei people to sit on this fertile land, including the city of the Hyun clan.

However, later, the "Huguan" was lost, and the "Eldest Son City" was also lost, and the Wei people could only evacuate to the south and rebuild the pass in the area of the current "Tianmen Pass" and "Mengmen Pass".

Later, Wei even lost the "Tianmen Pass" and "Mengmen Pass", and completely lost the fertile land of Shangdang.

Therefore, as a Wei person, as the prince of Wei, Zhao Hongrun actually very much hopes to help his country regain the lost territory, and it is for this reason that he will rub the ancient map of the confrontation between Wei and Han in Shangdang County more than a hundred years ago and take it with him.

And now, the Hyun City has been conquered by him Zhao Hongrun, and the Eldest Son City is in front of him, how Zhao Hongrun hopes to swing his army to the north and recapture the Eldest Son City, which once belonged to their Wei State.

However, his army ran out of rations.

The daily consumption of 100,000 Su Wang troops is equivalent to a hill made of grain, which is quite exaggerated.

The logistical transportation of the Su Wangjun took the route of Pigao Pass: in the Wei State, the people's teams of men who transported military rations jointly organized by the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of War would continuously transport grain to the front line. It was first transported to "Linfen", and then from Linfen County through Tang County and Pigao Pass, and finally transported to the Suwang Army.

It is worth mentioning that the military rations of the Su Wangjun are generally based on "fast food" or "ready-to-eat" food, such as fried rice, mutton cakes, dried meat, etc.

This is advocated by Zhao Hongrun, after all, the Suwang army under his command is very strong because it is well-trained and equipped with the most advanced weapons and equipment of the Wei State, which leads to the Suwang army can often conquer several places in a row within a few days.

It is precisely because of this that some people think that a certain Su King is good at quick attack battles and long-range attack battles.

However, the result of this is that the supply of logistical grain and grass is not available. It may be that at some point, the speed of the people's troops who were responsible for transporting grain was not even as fast as the speed of the Suwang army who were attacking the city on the front line.

In order to avoid delaying the fighter plane, Zhao Hongrun advocated fast-eating military rations, using fried rice, mutton cakes, dried meat and other foods that are easy to store and not easy to spoil as military rations.

It is undeniable that this kind of fried rice fried in lard, or fried in mutton fat, is easy to carry and resistant to hunger, and a soldier often eats a small handful of fried rice, or nibbles a piece of mutton cake, and can last all day. Needless to say, the kind of jerky that is as hard as a stone, a small piece can make a soldier gnaw on it for a whole day, as if it were not to fill his stomach, but to grind his teeth.

Especially when this kind of quick food is served with hot water, the soldiers who have not eaten two mouthfuls will feel a swelling in their abdomen, and they will no longer feel hungry.

It is precisely for this reason that the Su Wang Army, which had only been supplied once in Tang County, was able to hold out for more than 20 days after penetrating deep into the territory of Shangdang County.

But unfortunately, this is already the limit, if Zhao Hongrun can't think of a way to get food, then, let alone continue to attack the eldest son city in the north, they can only consider withdrawing their troops.

However, due to the special historical significance of the eldest son city, Zhao Hongrun hesitated.

You must know that this time, the Su Wang army was able to conquer Hyun City at a very small cost, because he used hundreds of barrels of water to scare the Jin Huang army in the city, and frightened those Jin Huang soldiers who had been attacked by oil barrels and bombs into frightened birds, and abandoned the city wall out of fear. Otherwise, even if it was Yan Mo, it would not be so easy to take the Hyun City from the hands of the Han general Jin Huang.

If this time, because of the problem of food, the whole army has to retreat and return the captured Hyun City to South Korea, then in the future, will the Wei army still be able to capture this city at such a small price?

Some people may think that the Su Wang Army has a strategic-level war weapon such as oil barrel bombs, and it is not a problem to capture Hyun City at all.

But the problem is that the area around Hyunshi City is very fertile land in this basin, and after the oil is burned, there is a very serious pollution, and what Zhao Hongrun wants is a complete land that can grow crops, not a dead land where plants and trees are not born.

Call him selfish, anyway, in the land that may become his own territory, he is reluctant to use a weapon like oil barrels.

Turning the fertile land where crops could be grown into a dead land with no grass growing is enough to do this kind of stupid thing once in Henan City, the former residence of the Qianjiao tribe in Sanchuan County.

After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun felt very entangled: he was reluctant to easily give up the Hyun City in his hands, but reason made him understand that after severely inflicting a heavy blow on the 30,000 light cavalry of the Storm Kite Army, his army should retreat bravely and quickly take advantage of the victory to retreat, so as not to be too late to retreat when the time comes.

Unexpectedly and reasonably, Zhao Hongrun finally decided to withdraw his troops, after all, he was not a person who was obsessed with the gains and losses of one city and one place, and his priority was the situation of the Su Wangjun under his command.

But this decision was incomprehensible to the generals under his command.

In fact, it is not incomprehensible, to be exact, this emotion should be depressed and annoyed.

Think about it, their Su Wang Army obviously defeated the two fierce generals of the Korean army, Storm Kite and Jin Di, but because of the problem of food and grass, they had to retreat, just like losing the battle, who would feel better.

In a sense, Su Wang's army defeated the powerful Korean army tactically, but lost strategically.

And the strategic 'loss' is not because of Zhao Hongrun, but because the friendly army did not follow up, to put it bluntly, it was Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang outside Tianmen Pass, who failed to pose enough threat to Tianmen Pass, otherwise, how could the storm kite dare to draw troops and horses from Tianmen Pass and cut off the return of Su Wang's army?

The so-called "non-war crime" refers to this situation.

Having said that, in fact, at the military council, there were several generals who wanted to speak but stopped.

In fact, many generals of the Suwang Army felt that at this time, they should give priority to the issue of military rations, collect military rations by all means, and then use these military rations to counterattack Tianmen Pass, or march to the city of the eldest son.

What is it to rob the civilians of the enemy country of food during war? Isn't victory the first priority?

Even a few generals thought of more vicious measures, such as using the Han people in Hyun Castle as military rations.

But in front of a certain King Su, they didn't dare to mention it at all, let alone any more vicious measures, not even to mention robbing the civilians of the enemy country.

Because the military regulations of the Su Wang Army clearly state that unless they are attacked by enemy civilians and there are casualties, then the Su Wang Army reserves the right to find the murderer and execute him in public; Otherwise, the Su Wang Army is not allowed to do anything that infringes on the personal safety and property of the civilians of the enemy country.

"War, let the civilians go away", this is the principle pursued by a certain King Su.

However, just as Su Wang's army was preparing to withdraw south, the situation suddenly changed again.

First of all, the remaining 15,000 cavalry of the Storm Kite Army, which had been heavily damaged, changed their previous aggressive momentum in front of the Wei army and began to implement the harassment tactics of multiple small groups of cavalry.

I have to say that this is the conventional tactic of light cavalry against infantry, like the "Battle of Hyun City", the method of cavalry attacking infantry, in Zhao Hongrun's opinion, is very wasteful - yes, not stupid, but wasteful, wasting the strategic use of light cavalry.

And now, Han General Tyrant Kite suffered a big loss on the side of the Wei army, and finally reacted, trying to use endless harassment and sneak attack tactics to contain the Su Wang army in the area of Hyun City.

"Leave him alone!"

After learning about this, although Zhao Hongrun felt annoyed, there was no good way, after all, the light cavalry was this kind of cheating and cheap troops, if he had a light cavalry in his hands, he would also use this kind of trick to make the Korean army immortal, which is nothing to praise.

The only thing Zhao Hongrun could do was to let the armies under his command be on guard against the sneak attack of the light cavalry of the Violent Kite Army.

But a few days later, when the Su Wangjun cut the meat of more than 10,000 dead war horses into jerky, and took the few stored grains in the granary in Hyun City, ready to evacuate to the south, the green crows sent out suddenly came to report that there was a Korean army in the north with mixed infantry and cavalry, which was rapidly coming towards Hyun City.

Half a day later, Zhao Hongrun climbed the wall of Hyun City and looked to the northwest, and sure enough, he saw that a large number of Korean troops had arrived here.

"It's coming so fast......"

Zhao Hongrun frowned.

According to the information he had received from several noble families in the city, there was only one person who could come to support so quickly, and who had such a number of mixed infantry and cavalry troops in his hands.

That is the Han general who sat in the eldest son city, one of the ten heroes of the northern plains, and the chief garrison of Shangdang County, Feng Ting.

"Now, it's troublesome......"