"Dong Hu actually..."

Looking at the secret letter in his hand, Zhao Hongrun felt quite emotional.

The secret message in his hand at this moment was forwarded by the branch of the Green Crows in Daliang, and what was delivered was the exact news that "Crow Seven" and others had returned from Ji County, Yuyang County, South Korea.

According to information from Crow Qi, he saw with his own eyes that in the "Battle of Jixian", almost 150,000 Donghu cavalry fell in front of South Korea's heavy cavalry - Zhao Hongrun felt that the "150,000" figure was a bit exaggerated.

After all, he has led troops to fight all year round, and of course he knows what a spectacular scene it will be if 150,000 Donghu cavalry are placed on the battlefield. Unless these 150,000 Donghu cavalry are just wooden piles, as long as they have the consciousness to escape, with the help of heavy

The charging speed of the cavalry was almost impossible to catch up with these Donghu Qingqi.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun conservatively estimated that the number of Donghu cavalry casualties in the "Battle of Jixian" needs to be discounted, that is, about 70,000 to 80,000.

Of course, this estimate is actually meaningless, because it is impossible for South Korea to let the Donghu cavalry escape from South Korea - why did the army guarding Mashe in Shanggu not participate in this battle? Isn't it just waiting for the Donghu cavalry to escape?

After they all entered South Korea through Juyong Pass, did they send troops to cut off the latter's return route and retake Juyong Pass and Juzhu Mountain Beiling Fortress?

Even if Crow Qi was eager to report on the Korean heavy cavalry and couldn't wait to inquire about the actions of Shanggu Shou Ma She, Zhao Hongrun could guess it because the trap set by South Korea for Dong Hu this time was so obvious that it was

Any general who knows a little bit about the art of war and strategy will hardly be fooled - as a frontier fortress of the country, how could it fall so easily?

Come to think of it, the Donghu have always been used to running rampant in the northern border of South Korea, so they did not expect that South Korea was deliberately showing weakness to the enemy, luring them into the plains of Yuyang County, and then annihilating them in one fell swoop.

"This time South Korea severely damaged Donghu, and I have contributed a lot. Marquis Han Wu should award me with first-class military merit..."

After taking a few glances at the secret message in his hand, Zhao Hongrun was joking with Lu Mu, Qin Shaojun, and Zhao Que in the tent.

After hearing this, Qin Shaojun asked in confusion: "South Korea won the war, what does this have to do with you?"

Zhao Hongrun smiled and said nothing, and did not answer Qin Shaojun.

I believe that only the Zongwei Chief Lu Mu in the tent at this time could understand the profound meaning of His Highness's words.

It is simply because South Korea’s design of Donghu this time relied entirely on the heavy cavalry modeled after Wei’s Youma heavy cavalry. Without this heavy cavalry, South Korea would never have thought of attacking those 150,000 Donghu troops in such a short period of time.

The cavalry dealt a devastating blow.

Without that heavy cavalry, the 150,000 Donghu cavalry would eventually flow to the plain terrain of Shanggu County or even Handan County, burning, killing and looting in the hinterland of South Korea. At that time, South Korea would pay for their actions of "leading wolves into the house" -

-Of course, without the support of the heavy cavalry, South Korea would not have deliberately given up Juyongguan and deliberately put so many Donghu cavalry into the territory.

Therefore, South Korea's biggest reliance on defeating Donghu this time is the heavy cavalry built with a lot of money. The concept of "heavy cavalry" was first proposed by Zhao Hongrun, and thus he created the Youma Heavy Cavalry. Therefore, South Korea should naturally use

The first merit was awarded to him.

Of course, this was just a joke, Zhao Hongrun wanted to ease the shock in his heart at this moment: even he did not expect that South Korea would be so bold to use heavy cavalry to design the Donghu cavalry, and they even won the bet.

Those were 150,000 Donghu cavalry, which should have at least caused some losses to the South Korean army. Unexpectedly, South Korea used that heavy cavalry to wipe out all these Donghu cavalry within the country's borders at an extremely small cost.

"Donghu is over..."

Zhao Hongrun let out a long breath.

As the strongest Rongdi occupying a large area of ​​grassland outside northern Korea, the Donghu tribes cannot of course only have a few hundred thousand warriors, but it cannot be denied that the annihilation of the hundreds of thousands of Donghu warriors will definitely make the Donghu tribes

The vitality of the tribe was severely damaged.

What's more, after achieving such a brilliant record, South Korea will definitely pursue the victory. Therefore, it is already a certainty that South Korea will severely damage Donghu and drive the latter to the distant and cold northern plateau.

Coupled with Zhao Hongrun's side, the Wei army also defeated Lin Hu and the Xiongnu. This means that South Korea will be free from the invasion and harassment of foreigners. Soon, Wei will face a country that will no longer have the drag of foreigners.

South Korea - Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun felt a little toothache.

You know, in the "Third Wei-Korean Northern Border Battle", when South Korea mobilized elite border garrison troops such as the "Yanmen Army" and the "Beiyan Army", the casualties of the Wei army suddenly increased, and Zhao Hongrun's

It was in the "Battle of Ningyi" against Yanmen Shou Li Mu and Beiyan Shou Leyi that the Shang Shui Army suffered heavy casualties for the first time, with nearly 20,000 casualties. At that time, he

The friendly army from the Qin State he led lost more than half as a result. It can be imagined that the Yanmen Army and the Beiyan Army, the two Korean border garrisons, are not at the same level as the weak armies of the Handan Army.

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So in the end, it was thanks to Yanmen's trick of luring Lin Hu and taking advantage of the situation to invade Taiyuan, and Yanmen, the king of Nanliang, that Wei defeated South Korea.

If South Korea had not been hindered by Lin Hu and Dong Hu in that battle, it would have been hard to tell the outcome based on the situation at that time.

Now, the Wei State is about to face Korea, which is no longer burdened by Lin Hu, Dong Hu and other foreign ethnic groups. Even Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but become nervous after realizing this.

But when he recalled South Korea's heavy cavalry, which cost 50,000 yuan to build, he couldn't control his nervousness and couldn't help laughing.

"Fifty thousand heavy cavalry..."

Zhao Hongrun almost woke up laughing from his dream.

Only those who have built heavy cavalry know how expensive this unit is. Regardless of the cost of cavalry, it seems that the light cavalry has an extra set of Wei heavy infantry-style armor and an extra set of vests. But in fact,

It's much more than that.

First of all, the material used to make the heavy cavalry armor was an alloy studied by the Wei State Smelting Bureau at that time. Yes, it was an alloy made by forging iron into steel and adding other metal ores in proportion to it. The purpose was to make the heavy cavalry armor more durable.

The armor you ride on has stronger defense without adding much weight.

Secondly, the inside of the armor of the heavy cavalry must be lined with thick leather armor, and key parts must be filled with animal tendons. The purpose is to reduce the shock force that the heavy cavalry receives when colliding. Otherwise, it will be like Yuma Heavy Cavalry.

Wearing an armor that looked like an iron can, they ran rampantly. While killing the enemy sergeants, they themselves had already been injured by the force of the impact, and their internal organs were injured, causing them to vomit blood.

Thirdly, the vests of heavy cavalry, or the armors worn by war horses, are not an ordinary thing.

In order to prevent the burden of the armor from causing the war horses to lose too much of their usual flexibility, the vests of the Yuma heavy cavalry are made of chain mail and hanging armor made of interlocking iron rings. The advantage is that it is easy to wear and can provide defense.

The strength is higher than that of ordinary armor, but the disadvantage is that it is time-consuming to create. In order to ensure the toughness of this armor, the Smelting Bureau and the Weapon Casting Bureau were both artificially crafted at that time. There are thousands of iron rings on a piece of chain armor.

You can imagine the huge amount of this project.

It is precisely because of sparing no effort on the material of the armor that the Yuma Heavy Cavalry can create stunning results again and again. As for Zhao Hongrun, he is unable to build more heavy cavalry. He only maintains the current five thousand Yuma Heavy Cavalry.

The armor will cost him a lot of money.

However, South Korea actually built 50,000 heavy cavalry in one go. Even though the armor of these heavy cavalry is slightly inferior to that of Yuma's heavy cavalry, the cost is probably astronomical.

What made Zhao Hongrun secretly happy was that he had at least a hundred ways to make these 50,000 Korean heavy cavalry retreat without any gains.

There is no way around this. After all, the heavy cavalry itself is a very restricted unit, and its survivability alone is almost zero. Even if it is a legionary battle, it very much needs the cooperation of the enemy. If the other party does not cooperate, it will not be able to survive after seeing the heavy cavalry.

The cavalry is out of the battle the moment it enters the battlefield. In fact, except for heavy infantry, almost all other arms can escape from the lock of heavy cavalry with their legs, as long as they turn around and escape in time.

This is very embarrassing.

What's even more embarrassing is that the heavy cavalry will never dare to charge towards the heavy infantry in formation, because the heavy infantry, relying on their heavy armor, is enough to make the heavy cavalry fall, and the heavy cavalry - especially the heavy cavalry in the front row.

Once a cavalryman falls to the ground, it is almost impossible for him to stand up again, and the friendly forces behind him may trample them to death.

Therefore, the best targets for heavy cavalry to bully are actually crossbowmen and light infantry, followed by light cavalry, so that heavy infantry and heavy cavalry like them are things that heavy cavalry do not want to face because they are too self-inflicted.

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At least half of Wei's garrison-level elite troops are heavy infantry, which is bound to make South Korea's heavy cavalry feel very embarrassed when they see the Wei army.

Of course, it is also possible that the Korean generals do not know that heavy cavalry cannot restrain heavy infantry, but I believe that as long as a war is over, those Korean generals will realize that exchanging a Korean heavy cavalry for a Wei heavy infantry will

This is definitely a loss-making transaction.

Because he knew all this, when Zhao Hongrun looked at the description of "50,000 (Korean) heavy cavalry" in the secret letter, he knew that the future battle between Wei and South Korea for the supremacy of the Central Plains would at least be over.

An additional 30% chance of winning.

If he wasn't afraid of leaking the news, he would really like to celebrate grandly and share his joy with others.

In late July, the Wei army in Linzhong County was divided into two groups.

The aristocratic private armies in Wei State began to collect the profits of war, count the livestock on this grassland, and recruit prisoners of war as slaves. On this matter, these nobles had already reached an agreement with the imperial court.

This agreement was signed by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the domestic nobles, and was unanimously approved by the inner court of Chui Gong Palace. Generally speaking, the private army of the domestic nobles assisted the court in counting the war benefits, and the court gave them a little sweetness accordingly.

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For example, the imperial court allowed the domestic nobles to purchase foreign captives such as Lin Hu who were captured by the Wei army in this battle at a certain price, and let these slaves work for the domestic nobles.

However, for important resources such as war horses and cattle, the imperial court strictly prohibited private transactions among domestic nobles. After all, the main purpose of Wei's attack on the Hetao was to obtain the war horses and cattle resources in the Hetao area.

As for some of the jewelry, gold and silverware collected by Lin Hu, the court was not very fond of it. As long as the nobles in the country did not get too greedy and paid a rough amount to the court, the court would turn a blind eye.

Close one eye.

As a result, with the tacit approval of the imperial court, the aristocratic private armies in Wei, including Qin's army and the Jiejiao cavalry from Sanchuan County, began to collect wealth on a large scale throughout Linzhong County, targeting those who had not explicitly surrendered to Wei before.

In the country, the nomadic tribes, whose position has always been wavering, began to implement liquidation.

The cattle, horses and sheep in the tribe were taken away, and the people in the tribe were reduced to slaves. The pretty girls among them were also reduced to barter. In the blink of an eye, a tribe was completely divided up. "Note: Because of some

The reason is this aspect. To be precise, I basically sketched out the war against the nomads. I had no choice but to guard against the slightest, so I could only write about the civil war among the Central Plains people."

However, those nomadic peoples, such as the Xianbei, Tiele and several other weak ethnic groups (tribes) whose clan leaders personally surrendered to the Wei army early on, were lucky enough to escape. They just looked at the Qin and Wei coalition forces and others like them with fear.

They were Jiejiao cavalry who came from nomadic tribes, and they separated tribes that were larger than them.

As for the garrison-level elite divisions of the Wei army, such as the Shangshui Army, the Wei Wu Army, the Anti-Rebel Army, the Northern First Army, and the Shanyang Army, they tried to cross the river in batches during this period and continued to pursue Lin Hu.

Linhe Plain, which is now the land named "Shuofang County" by Zhao Hongrun, the Prince of the East Palace of Wei State, has two branches of the river to the north, called "Nanhe" and "Beihe" respectively.

Among them, there is a horizontal mountain range to the east of Nanhe River, called "Yinshan Mountain". From a geographical point of view, it can become a natural barrier for "Jiuyuan County"; and there is also a horizontal mountain range to the north of Beihe River, called "Yangshan Mountain".

”, geographically it can become a natural barrier for “Shuofang County”.

Therefore, for the long-term peace and stability of Shuofang County and Jiuyuan County, what the Wei army has to do now is to continue to pursue Lin Hu and drive Lin Hu completely out of the natural barrier of "Yangshan-Yinshan".
To be continued...