Regarding the things Wei Mu told about the defense of the country, Zhao Hongrun was still quite curious in his heart. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

For example, Wei Mu mentioned that Zhao Hongrun's eldest aunt wanted her son, Wei Gongziyu, to inherit the family business of Xue Linghou Wei, after all, Wei Wangjin was not the only son.

Although Zhao Hongrun didn't care about his grandfather Xue Linghou Weishuo's family business, as far as the matter was concerned, this matter also involved him after all, and of course he had to figure it out.

It's a pity that now is obviously not a good time to talk about this matter, after all, the top priority is to conquer Ji County.

So, after sighing with emotion, Zhao Hongrun turned the topic back to Ji County.

Seeing this, Wei Mu, who was still smiling on his face, also became serious at this moment, and after listening to Zhao Hongrun's narration, he nodded and said, "Sure enough, General Shaohu has already mentioned the specific situation to His Royal Highness. …… Yes, it seems that Wei is attacking Ji County, but in fact, Wei just wants to defend the camp on the side of "Xitun". If this camp is lost, then our Southern Yan Army can only withdraw to Xiuwu. ”

Zhao Hongrun nodded, he also understood that it was impossible for the Korean cavalry to sit idly by and watch Wei Mu build a second camp.

From the perspective of the whole strategy, Jixian is what the Wei army must capture, because only by capturing Jixian can the Wei army really threaten the Korean army on the battlefield of Gongdi, otherwise, like the current situation, Linxian and Jixian are in the hands of the Han army, and it is very difficult for the Wei army to blindly want to occupy the common land.

Because Xiuwu City is too far away from the common land, it cannot be used as a support base.

Sure enough, as of the tenth day of the first month of March, on the side of Gongdi, the Wei Wu Army, the Shanyang Army, and the Northern First Army had begun to try to capture Gongdi, but as everyone expected at the beginning, the Wei army's progress was very slow.

In the final analysis, the most fundamental reason is that the above three Wei armies have no way to gain a foothold in the common land.

The tactics of the Korean army are very clear: I will not confront your Wei army head-on, but if your Wei army tries to set up a camp in Gongdi, then I will frequently send cavalry to harass and slaughter your soldiers who carry wood.

It has to be said that in the current situation, the Korean light cavalry finally demonstrated their strategic strength - after learning that the Wei army was trying to cut down trees from the Xiuwu area and transport them to the construction site to build a camp, the Korean cavalry bypassed the position of the three Wei army garrisons including the Wei Wu army, and attacked and killed the Wei soldiers who carried the wood. When Shaohu, Zhao Hongjiang, Zhao Hongxuan and others led the troops to the rescue, those Korean cavalry left immediately, leaving the corpses of Wei soldiers to leave.

It can be said that in the face of the extremely mobile Korean cavalry, the infantry of Wei was completely helpless.

It is precisely because of this that Shaohu, Zhao Hongjiang, and Zhao Hongxuan were unfavorable to their divisions, and the war began to suffer losses at the hands of the Korean cavalry, making the battle situation in the Gongdi battlefield a stalemate.

In this case, the general Shaohu gave a strict order to Wei Mu and Zhao Hongrun: Be sure to capture Ji County!

This can't be helped, because in the case of an unfavorable attack on the common land, the Nanyan Army and the Suwang Army in Jixian County may be the only breakthrough on the battlefield at present.

After receiving Shaohu's appointment order, Wei Mu smiled and said to Zhao Hongrun: "That general is angry with you and me, it seems that attacking Gongdi is not ideal." ”

Zhao Hongrun smiled when he heard this, and didn't explain anything, after all, Wei Mu was also clear about the situation of his Su Wangjun.

Two days ago, although the three armies of the Shangshui Army, the Yanling Army, and the Youma Army under the Su Wang's army arrived in Ji County one after another, the catapult troops were far behind.

Without a siege weapon like a catapult, what can you take to siege the city?

Moreover, even if the catapult troops arrived at the Xitun Wei camp in Ji County, the Su Wang Army still needed siege equipment such as well chariots and ladders, after all, no matter how brave the soldiers and generals of the Su Wang Army were, it was impossible to fly up the city wall of Ji County out of thin air, right?

It was not until March 12 that the catapult troops led by Gu Tao, the 2,000-strong general of the Shang Water Army, finally arrived at Jidi, and at this time, the Su Wang Army and the Nanyan Army also urgently built a batch of well carts, ladders and other equipment for the siege of the city, and the preparations were finally completed.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun discussed with Wei Mu, with Su Wangjun as the main force to attack Ji County, and the Southern Yan Army stationed in Xitun Wei Camp.

It's not that Zhao Hongrun looks down on Wei Mu's Southern Yan Army, it's just that in his opinion, there are nearly 100,000 Su Wang's army under his command, and it is more than enough to attack Ji County with such a force, and he doesn't need the assistance of the Southern Yan Army.

Of course, out of respect for the Southern Yan Army, Zhao Hongrun can actually only take the Shang Shui Army or the Yan Ling Army to the battle, so that the Southern Yan Army can be used as an assistant army and share the military merits of the Southern Yan Army after the war.

But the problem is that the Su Wang Army and the Nanyan Army have never cooperated, and they are not familiar with each other, unlike the Shang Shui Army and the Yan Ling Army both belong to the Su Wang Army, although there is a desire to compete with each other, but they are familiar with each other and understand each other's tactics, so sometimes, as long as they see each other's movements on the battlefield, generals like Qu Cheng, Yan Mo, and Zhai Huang can guess the intentions of the friendly army and make corresponding changes in time to cooperate.

Wei Mu, the general of the Southern Yan Army, generously agreed to Zhao Hongrun's request, and he also decided to help Zhao Hongrun as much as possible, personally leading about two or three thousand cavalry troops under the Southern Yan Army to sweep the formation for the Su Wang army, so as not to be attacked by the Korean cavalry when attacking Jixian.

For this, Zhao Hongrun is deeply grateful.

On March 13, Zhao Hongrun led nearly 100,000 Su Wang troops to officially attack Jixian.

The "Xitun Wei Camp" of the Southern Yan Army is not far from Ji County, but no matter how it is said, there is a distance of nearly thirty miles, and at this distance, if Su Wangjun wants to quietly come to Ji County, it is simply impossible.

After all, the situation in this area of Ji County is more or less the same as in the common land, and the wilderness is full of patrolling Korean cavalry.

It is no exaggeration to say that the front team of the Su Wang Army had only walked less than ten miles before it had already been discovered by the Korean cavalry.

At this time, Wei Mu immediately sent the only cavalry unit of his Southern Yan Army to support the Suwang Army to advance to Ji County, and on the side of the Yanling Army, the deputy general Yan Mo also personally led the newly formed cavalry of the Yanling Army to act together with the cavalry team of the Southern Yan Army.

These two cavalry forces totaled 5,000 men, which was a cavalry force that could make the Korean cavalry feel jealous.

However, the good times did not last long, and when the Su Wang army was only about ten miles away from Ji County, more and more Korean cavalry gradually appeared in front of the Wei army.

These Korean cavalry may have guessed the intention of the Suwang army to attack Jixian, and after attracting the attention of many Suwang generals with some harassment, they actually directly launched a surprise attack on the catapult troops under Gu Tao, the 2,000-strong general of the Shangshui army.

At this time, the Southern Yan cavalry quickly came to the rescue, and with the assistance of the Yanling cavalry, they fought against the Korean cavalry.

This was the first time that Zhao Hongrun had witnessed the confrontation between the light cavalry and the light cavalry, even if the Nanyan cavalry was not a soldier under his command, he also felt extremely heartache, after all, he could see that the Nanyan cavalry under Wei Mu was all well-trained warriors, even if he faced more than twice the Korean cavalry with two or three thousand people, he did not hesitate to charge.

And the cavalry foundation of Wei is already weak, how can Zhao Hongrun sit back and watch these heroic cavalry die, you know, even if it is the cavalry of northern Sichuan, Zhao Hongrun was reluctant to sacrifice in the past, let alone the cavalry of the Southern Yan Cavalry, which is the native cavalry of Wei.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to send 500 horsemen to the "Shangshui Touring Horse", which was personally led by the general Ma You.

Don't look at the number of 500 traveling horses and heavy cavalry, but Zhao Hongrun believes that if those Korean cavalry ignorantly choose to hedge with the 500 traveling horse heavy horses, then the one who can survive in the end will definitely be the traveling horse heavy cavalry.

However, Zhao Hongrun's expectations were dashed, because after seeing the iconic heavy armor and vest of the Youma Heavy Cavalry, the Korean cavalry, which was still entangled with the Southern Yan cavalry, actually chose to retreat immediately, and fled into the distance in just a few blinks of an eye, which made the Southern Yan cavalry feel extremely stunned.

"What's going on?"

Wei Mu looked at the five hundred horses who were all heavily ridden.

At first, he didn't understand the intention of His Royal Highness King Su beside him to send these five hundred cavalry, after all, in his opinion, at this moment, there were at least six or seven thousand Korean cavalry gathered on the periphery of King Su's army, and only five hundred cavalry, what could they do?

However, those Korean cavalrymen quickly withdrew after seeing the five hundred traveling horses and heavy horses, and it seemed that they were extremely afraid of this "Shangshui Traveling Horse", which made Wei Mu couldn't help but look at the traveling horses and heavy horses a few more times.

"The cavalry of the Han army seems to be quite jealous of His Highness's ...... Well, the merchant water tour horse cavalry. ”

Out of curiosity, Wei Mu asked Zhao Hongrun sideways.

Regarding Wei Mu's inquiry, Zhao Hongrun did not hide it, and said with a frown: "Shangshui Youma is a heavy cavalry, and if the Korean cavalry chooses to fight head-on with the Youma Army, there is no chance of winning. …… It's not that I'm boasting, but the 5,000 horse army under my command once defeated 30,000 Korean cavalry in a battle in Shangdang County, killing half of its army, and losing only more than 100 horsemen. ”

With that, he frowned and looked at the fleeing Korean cavalry in the distance.

And after hearing Zhao Hongrun's explanation, Wei Mu gasped in shock.

The 5,000 guerrilla army against the 30,000 Korean cavalry can not only defeat the opponent but also kill half of the opponent's cavalry, and what is even more terrifying is that the self-damage is only more than 100 cavalry.

Suddenly, Wei Mu noticed Zhao Hongrun's frowning and looking at the actions of the Korean cavalry in the distance, and suddenly understood in his heart, and said in a low voice: "It seems that the Korean cavalry has a deep defense against the Horse Army. ”

"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded, feeling a little lost in his heart.

He originally hoped to let the Youma Army show off again, but he didn't expect that these Korean cavalry would be like rats touching cats when they saw the Youma Army.

From this, it can be speculated that either these Korean cavalry were the cavalry that evacuated from Tianmen Pass that day, or Storm Kite, Jin Di, Feng Ying and others had already told the latter the details of the heavy riding of the horses after defecting to Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin.

In this way, the Horse Army is temporarily abolished - unless the enemy light cavalry chooses to charge suicidly, it will be very difficult for the heavy cavalry to defeat a light cavalry, because it will not be able to catch up.

After two full hours, with the support of the Southern Yan cavalry and the deterrence of the heavy cavalry, nearly 100,000 Suwang troops arrived in Ji County one after another, and set up troops in the west and south of the city, preparing to attack this city.

This time, Su Wangjun did not carry baggage, because there was no need at all.

In order to break the situation, Zhao Hongrun will conquer Ji County today no matter what!

The reason why the 100,000 Suwang army poured into the nest was to let the Han army in Jixian County recognize this point and consider whether to fight the Suwang army here.