On New Year's Eve that year, Zhao Hongrun failed to rush back to the Wei capital of Liang, he just invited many generals under his command to have a banquet similar to the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

For this willful request, an army in charge of logistics and transportation in the Qi State believed that it was bound to hate Zhao Hongrun to death, and actually asked them to transport an additional batch of wine and livestock on the coldest days of the cold winter month.

Fortunately, although the road leading to the Wei Army's Ice City was very difficult, there was no sneak attack by the Chu army on the way, and the Chu army was too lazy to dispatch in this kind of ghost weather.

After unloading pigs and cattle and other livestock and a cart of wine in Bingcheng, the transport troops of Qi left scolding behind their backs, and the Wei soldiers in Bingcheng were very happy, after all, in recent times, although the Wei army has not encountered the problem of food shortage, but in the final analysis, the food is not good, it is really pickled vegetables and pickled meat in the morning, and pickled vegetables and pickled meat in the evening.

In the last two days of December, the Wei army temporarily stopped the snowball battle that had not yet been completely decided, and instead devoted itself to the intense preparations for the New Year, thousands of pigs and cattle were slaughtered, and the smell of boiling broth spread for miles, making the Chu army scouts in Juyang County, who sometimes passed by the ice city and monitored the ice city's every move.

Aside from this incident, there is almost nothing worth mentioning on the battlefield on the Western Road, after all, both the Wei army and the Chu army are very restrained during this period of time to avoid conflicts in this cold winter weather, so even if the scouts on both sides encounter on the snow field, they will leave each other very tacitly.

In this way, Zhao Hongrun spent a New Year in the land thousands of miles away from the Wei capital Daliang, and at the age of seventeen, he entered the nineteenth year of the Great Wei Hongde.

In the first month of the nineteenth year of Dawei Hongde, the battlefield on the west road was still covered by ice and snow, and the roads were not smooth, but the weather that was windy and snowy at every turn gradually became less, although the ice and sun hanging in the sky still did not have much temperature to speak of, but the sunny weather was indeed gradually increasing.

The Wei army is okay, because Zhao Hongrun came up with a way to fight snowball fights that can not only exercise the muscles and bones of the soldiers under his command, but also boost morale, so the physique of the Wei soldiers has not slackened because of the free time of more than a month, and the morale of the army is still at a high level.

Comparatively speaking, the situation on the Chu army's side is not very optimistic.

The first is Fang Zhong's Xiang Mojun.

As Zhao Hongrun had expected, Xiang Mojun, who was extremely short of food, really died many people in this heavy snowfall.

According to the reports of the green crows who went to investigate from time to time, at least more than 100,000 people froze to death and starved to death, and most of the remaining Chu troops were in a half-dead state because of hunger and cold, and a large number of soldiers fled, some surrendered to the Wei army, and some fled back to their respective hometowns, and then died on the way, so that at present, the soldiers under Xiang Mo's command are less than half of the original.

However, at this point, I have to mention one thing, one thing that Zhao Hongrun admires, that is, Xiang Mo strictly abides by his previous promise, and in the case of getting some food, he always gives it to the generals under his command first, which makes so far, there are still more than ten or two hundred thousand Chu soldiers supporting the general of Chu State, but it also makes this general of Chu State infected with wind and cold because of hunger and cold, and he is sick in bed for a month.

In line with the idea of sympathy, after Zhao Hongrun learned of this incident, he specially sent Zongwei Lu Mu to take a team of Su Wangwei to Fangzhong, and also brought two pigs and a cow to Xiang Mo.

After all, putting aside the hostile positions of the two sides, Zhao Hongrun still has great respect for Xiang Mo, after all, Xiang Mo, like Shouling Jun Jingshe, is one of the few virtuous people in Chu State.

Afterwards, Xiang Mo personally wrote a letter to Zhao Hongrun, probably to thank Zhao Hongrun for his magnanimity, of course, in the second half of this letter, the general of Chu State still inevitably used a large amount of content to persuade Zhao Hongrun to withdraw from the army, not to help Qi to abuse, thus affecting the diplomatic relations between Wei and Chu.

Zhao Hongrun smiled at the letter, and then threw it into the bonfire in the house and burned it.

In fact, he can also use this letter to divide the trust of Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, in Xiang Mo, as long as the second half is cut off, but this kind of behavior is too indiscriminate and very easy to criticize.

As for whether the three animals finally fell into Xiang Mo's belly, Zhao Hongrun didn't have the heart to pay attention, after all, he had already done what he should do as a nobleman, demonstrating his bearing as a nobleman surnamed Zhao of Wei Guoji.

In the final analysis, he used three animals to win the friendship of Xiang Mo, the general of the Chu State, and this account was still full of money in Zhao Hongrun's opinion.

Although this friendship will not let Xiang Mo turn to Wei, let alone let Xiang Mo release water in the subsequent war, at best, when Zhao Hongrun is unfortunately defeated and falls into the hands of Xiang Mo one day, Xiang Mo may take care of today's friendship and not kill Zhao Hongrun.

However, in Zhao Hongrun's opinion, this is enough, after all, this move only satisfies his wish to make friends like Xiang Mo, where is the extravagant hope of rebelling against the general of the Chu State with just three animals.

Compared with Xiang Mo, who was in an embarrassed situation, the situation on Shouling Junjingshe's side was much better, but what made Zhao Hongrun secretly laugh was that although Shouling Junjingshe secretly learned a trick from him to use snowball fights to exercise the Chu army and make the Chu army hold morale, the effect was not very good.

It is not that Shouling Jun Jingshe was less prestigious in the Chu army than Zhao Hongrun in the Wei army, but because the two armies - to be precise - the two countries had different systems.

In the Wei State, although the soldiers are still consumables on the battlefield in essence, they have a certain status, especially the soldiers who have fought in foreign wars, and basically enjoy heroic treatment in the Wei State, even if they are unfortunately killed in battle, their families can also get corresponding pensions.

Because of this, the Wei soldiers generally accepted the concept of sacrificing their lives for the country, and even the former Chu soldiers who submitted to the Wei state like the Yan Ling army and the Shang Shui army gradually regarded the Wei state as a home that had to be defended.

But this is not the case with the soldiers of Chu State, whether it is the county division of Chu State or the main army of Chu State, many Chu people join the army just because they have a bite to eat, and it is too far for them to protect their families and defend the country.

Just like Zhao Hongrun bluntly said in the slogan he played a while ago: Chu State is only the home of a small group of Chu nobles led by the Xiong family, not the home of all Chu people.

I have to say that more and more Chu people have recognized Zhao Hongrun's remarks.

Because of this, those Chu soldiers who surrendered to the Wei army did not think that they had made the wrong decision to defect to the enemy and betray the country, and those Chu soldiers who were still under the command of Shouling Jun Jingshe would not think that they were fighting a war to defend their homeland and country.

There are many, many people who just can't help themselves.

And when it comes to the word involuntarily, I have to mention one person, that is, the governor of the 30,000 Caixi County Division, Cai Hou, the county magistrate of Caixi County.

In the past month or so, Cai Hou's life has not been easy, he has not thought about tea and dinner in his military camp every day, and he is worried day and night.

It's no wonder, because in the last month of the eighteenth year of the Great Wei Hongde, three thousand-strong teams of the Wei army suddenly attacked Cai Xi and captured the county seat.

Why?

Because his Cai family is all in Caixi, and now that Caixi has fallen, it means that Caixi's relatives have all fallen into the hands of the Wei army.

Although Cai Hou angrily led his army back to Caixi in an attempt to recapture Caixi County from the thousands of Wei troops, when he saw the Wei army in the city pushing his old father, mother, wife and children onto the city wall, Cai Hou confessed in horror.

Since then, Cai Hou has been waiting for the negotiation of that Wei Gongzi Ji Run.

Because so far, there are various indications that Ji Run, the prince of Wei, did not kill the nobles of the Chu State indiscriminately like Tian Tan of the Qi State, but tended to adopt a method of coercion and inducement, such as the Nanmen clan in Qi County, which was to surrender to the Wei Gongzi Run.

Therefore, Cai Hou guessed whether that Wei Gongzirun would send someone to negotiate with him and coerce and lure him to return to Wei, after all, he Cai Hou also had 30,000 Caixi County Divisions under his hands, which still had a certain use value.

However, unexpectedly, after waiting for a month, Cai Xi did not wait for that Wei Gongzirun to send someone to negotiate with him, on the contrary, Shouling Jun Jingshe, who was in Juyang County, had already sent his henchmen twice, hoping to temporarily take over his military power.

Although he admired Shouling Jun Jingshe, it was still impossible for Cai Hou to hand over the military power in his hand to the former, after all, if the military power was handed over, what use value would he have in the heart of that Wei Gongzirun? In this way, how to ensure the safety of his Cai family who fell into the hands of the Wei army?

As a result, Cai Hou ordered the people to detain the people sent by Shouling Jun Jingshe and refused to hand over the military power.

Because of this incident, Cai Hou's current situation is also precarious, because not long after he detained the people of Shouling Jun Jingshe, Zhou Zheng, the commander of the 50,000 Yanyang Army who had attacked Cai Xi with him a while ago, has now also begun to target him, and he Cai Hou has probably been judged to be a thief who defected to the enemy.

This made Cai Hou very wronged, and there was an embarrassment that he was not a human being.

waited until the end of the first month after the first month, and Cai Hou finally received a solicitation letter from Ji Run, the son of Wei.

The content of the letter is very clear, although the Cai clan is now in the hands of the Wei army, the Wei army will not harm him Cai clansmen, of course, the premise is that Cai Hou is knowledgeable and helps the Wei army win this battle. As long as this can be done, that Wei Gongzi Run will guarantee the safety of his Cai family, and promise him that the Cai family will have a place in the Wei country in the future.

For this coercion and temptation, Cai Hou, who had the handle in the hands of Zhao Hongrun, had nothing to do.

So, in the first two months of the New Year, Cai Hou took the lead in the first battle of the Western Road battlefield after the New Year, and designed to attack Zhou Zheng's 50,000 Yanyang army.

In this design, he first gained Zhou Zheng's trust and made an agreement with Zhou Zheng to attack Caixi, and then, he secretly contacted the Wei soldiers in Caixi City, and together they attacked Zhou Zheng's Yanyang army, and together with the Wei soldiers, the Yanyang army was defeated.

During this period, the leader of the Yangxia black crows, who had been staring at Zhou Zheng's head, took advantage of the chaos to cut off Zhou Zheng's head.

After the New Year, the first battle of the Xinlu battlefield was fought in a dumbfounded way, the Caixi County Division rebelled, and the 50,000 Yanyang army of Zhou Zheng was defeated, which means that the road to Haoshang was unimpeded by the Wei army. (To be continued.) )