The river is rippling, dozens of big ships are moving rapidly on the water, stirring up white waves, and there are many merchant ships of wealthy families on the Huai River. There were many guards on the merchant ships to guard against the water bandits scattered on the river.

With the chaos of the world, one by one samurai continue to grow in the fighting, and in just a few years, they can grow into a master of training. In addition to joining the army, the rest of these warriors is to take refuge in major families or wealthy families as escorts, so as to obtain cultivation resources.

When the world is stable, a life is a big case that shakes the township, and many poor families or local heroes with inheritance can only practice behind closed doors, and dare not act at will to avoid committing crimes. However, when practicing the body of a warrior in the early stage of cultivation, he paid the most attention to stimulating qi and blood, and fighting was the best way to stimulate qi and blood.

Only penance can not be made, and a true master can never be born without being tempered by blood. And when the world is chaotic, human life is not as good as dogs, and there are wars everywhere where you kill me and I kill you, such an environment is an infernal hell where life is worse than death for ordinary people, but for physical warriors, it is the best environment for the survival of the fittest and rapid growth.

As the saying goes, heroes come out of troubled times. That's true.

The martial artists who practice the body within Yangzhou are basically absorbed by the army and the county soldiers, and the world is chaotic, which is a good opportunity to make meritorious contributions to the glory of the lintel, not to mention joining the Yangzhou army, as long as you make meritorious contributions, you can get the teaching of the cultivation exercises, which can be called the best place for the poor family and local heroes with no background.

However, more than half of the samurai who were born in Xuzhou were co-opted by the families of various counties and counties, and less than one-fifth took refuge in Tao Qian.

The guards and children of these merchant ships saw the dozens of warships in front of them, and their faces changed dramatically in an instant. Most of them are wealthy families from Guangling and Xiapi, and a small number are merchant ships from Yangzhou.

"It's the Yangzhou Navy! The Yangzhou Army is going to attack Xuzhou!"

"The Yangzhou and Xuzhou armies have been facing off in Zhongli for so long, and they finally have a move, fortunately, the Yangzhou army is strictly disciplined, so you don't have to worry about the goods being robbed!"

"The right general is my hero in Xuzhou, if he can really capture Xuzhou, it would be good to drive Tao Qian away! Hehe, speaking of which Tao Qian is a native of Danyang, Yangzhou, and has become a pastor in Xuzhou. However, my heroes from Xuzhou went south to Yangzhou and became Yangzhou pastors...... It's really unpredictable!"

"Hey, if there is a big chaos today, the heroes rise together, the strength is not strong and can not protect the people under his rule at all, Tao Gong's ability to govern internal affairs is good, but unfortunately the military is not his strength, even if the right general does not come in the future, there will be other princes to attack! It is better to let the right general occupy Xuzhou, at least he is our Xuzhou people!"

The children of these merchant ships looked at the warships in front of them and talked to themselves. He even hoped that Gao Cheng would capture Xuzhou, and would no longer worry about the attacks of the princes of Yanzhou, Yuzhou and Qingzhou.

Gao Cheng stood on the deck, and when he heard what these people said, he couldn't help but have a smile on his face. "It seems that the wealthy families in Xuzhou do not reject the army under my command!"

His original plan was to capture Guangling County, then transfer troops into Yuzhou to defeat Yuan Shu, temporarily repel the enemies on both sides of Xu and Yu, and finally concentrate on dealing with Liu Biao in Jingzhou.

Now it seems that it is not bad to attack Xuzhou first. But then Gao Cheng's mind turned, and he still gave up this tempting idea.

Starting from Yangzhou to dominate the world, the first territories to be seized are Huainan and Jingzhou. Now Huainan is already in hand, and Jingzhou is left. Jingzhou is the key point of the world, connecting Wuhui in the east and Bashu in the west, and the Central Plains in the north. If Gao Cheng did not capture this place as soon as possible, the enemy would form a naval army from this place in the future, and go down the river, directly threatening the vital point of Yangzhou.

The ships were extremely fast, and in less than a moment they left the merchant ships behind. Time flies by like water, on the march, and in the blink of an eye, it is a day.

In the early morning of this day, a misty burst of water vapor rose, like a cloud and mist, enveloping the entire water surface, and even a soul refining master who had entered the second order and had extremely keen five senses could not see the scene in the distance.

As the sun gradually rose, the mist on the water gradually dissipated, and dozens of warships turned past a water inlet, and then suddenly the river ahead suddenly opened up, and the river channel was already very wide. It's like it's flowing into the sea. The water in front of us is vast and endless, as if you have entered the sea.

"Lord, Hongze Lake has arrived!" Lu Su said. Xi Zhicai, Zhou Cang, and Dong Xi followed behind him and looked in the direction of Hongze Lake.

Hongze Lake is the largest lake in Xuzhou, with an area of one-fifth of Guangling County. Xi Zhi is a person from the Central Plains, and he has never seen such a vast lake, so he can't help but step forward to look at the scenery on both sides.

"Such a big lake is a good place to build a water village to train the water army! Tao Qian actually didn't use it to train troops?" Xi Zhicai sighed.

Lu Su sighed slightly and said: "Tao Gong only has the ability to defend the land, and he does not have the ambition to pacify the world, so Xuzhou has many soldiers, but there is no sign of forging ahead." ”

"As far as I know, Tao Gong fought against the Qiang people of Liangzhou under Sikong Zhang Wen a few years ago, and in the process of fighting, he burned a part of the potential to increase the power of the spell, causing Shou Yuan to be damaged. Perhaps, this is the reason why his ambition is exhausted. ”

Lu Su knew all kinds of things in Xuzhou very well, and explained a few words, so that Gao Cheng and Xi Zhicai suddenly understood.

After another half of the day, the water in front of us became narrow again. There are two exits to the east of Hongze Lake, the southern one leads to Baima Lake, near Huai'an. The north is the backbone of Huaishui, which flows directly into the sea through Huaiyin.

"Yuan Dynasty!When you get to the city of Huaiyin, are you willing to take the city for me as the vanguard?" The army gradually approached the destination, Gao Cheng set his eyes on Dong Xian's body, and began to arrange the next siege plan.

Now the 200,000 army under his command, there are only two generals at the level of refining Gang, Zhou Cang and Dong Xi, of which Zhou Cang, as the commander of the Chinese army, cannot move lightly, and can only be served by Dong Xi as the general who charges into battle.

Dong Xian is fierce and resolute by nature, and he is a natural general. After hearing Gao Cheng's words, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly promised: "My subordinates are willing, don't worry, my lord will definitely capture the city!"

Gao Cheng laughed and said, "Okay! Courage is commendable, in this case, I will appoint you as the general of the former army, as soon as the army arrives, immediately attack the city!"

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Huaiyin city wall, more than 10,000 newly recruited county soldiers with panic on their faces, looking like a catastrophe is coming, the day before yesterday Zang Ba used a secret method to transmit the news, and passed the situation of Gao Cheng down the river to the county guard and county order of Guangling County. Now the entire Guangling knows the news of the Yangzhou army's pressure on the border.

These people on the city wall are the soldiers and horses pulled up by the Huaiyin County Order to urgently recruit strong Ding. Of the more than 10,000 people, only 2,000 have combat experience.