Lu Yuan nodded and said in a deep voice: "Yes, I thought that after repelling the Ning Guo army, the situation would change!" ”

Yu Xun shook his head and said: "It is difficult for a small victory to affect this situation, if you want them to completely change their minds, you have to fight a big victory, a big victory that makes everyone stunned!" ”

Lu Yuan stood up, paced back and forth a few steps, and said decisively: "I know what you mean, as the saying goes, the first strike is stronger, since Wu Yueguo has already decided to hit us, no matter how much you retreat, it is useless, I agree with your Muzhou strategy, and I will fully support you, let it go!" ”

"Thank you Jieshuai, my subordinates will live up to their mission, but my subordinates hope that Jieshuai can give his subordinates something." Yu Xun smiled, not looking overly excited.

"What's that?" Lu Yuan asked.

"Gunpowder!"

Lu Yuan smiled slightly, and his generals realized that the effect of gunpowder was a good thing for him, and he smiled: "Okay, as much as you want, just go and get it." As he spoke, he wrote a note to Yu Xun to collect gunpowder.

Holding the extraction certificate given by Lu Yuan, Yu Xun left the Yamen of the Jiedu Envoy, went to Shuizhai with a battalion of soldiers and a few carriages, and headed for the military workshop.

He had long heard that in order to provide research for the military workshop, Lu Jieshuai allocated a large amount of money to the military workshop and established a gunpowder workshop on the outskirts of Hui'an Mansion to produce gunpowder.

The production of gunpowder requires sulfur and saltpeter, and in order to obtain a large amount of saltpeter, the government also specially purchases saltpeter from the private sector.

Yu Xun didn't know much about gunpowder and didn't have much interest, but when he went to the arsenal by chance, he saw the power of a large amount of gunpowder after exploding, and a light flashed in his mind, and he became interested in gunpowder from then on.

In order to understand the source of saltpeter, he also went to investigate and knew that there would be nitrate in the corners of toilets, pigstys and stables, and put it in barrels, and filter it to obtain saltpeter crystals.

The purpose of his visit to the arsenal this time was very simple, that is, gunpowder, and all of it!

With Lu Yuan's permission, although the people in the arsenal were not happy, they still gave him all the gunpowder in stock, and Yu Xun returned to Shuizhai with this batch of gunpowder satisfied.

The water village is designed according to his requirements, the big boat is outside, surrounded by a city, the small boat is inside, connected into a path, and the soldiers live and sleep on the water on weekdays.

When he arrived in the village, Xiao Shilang greeted him and asked, "General, what did the marshal do to find you?" ”

Yu Xun smiled slightly and said, "Let the brothers get ready, follow the plan set before, and start." ”

"General, do you mean that the marshal promised to attack Muzhou?"

"Don't ask so much, just give the order."

"Yes."

Muzhou.

It has been more than half a year since Lu Yuan's population strategy, and the original Muzhou Thorn History has long been removed, and the new Muzhou Thorn Shi is called Fang Ying, and under his governance, Muzhou began to recuperate.

Because Tang and Wu Yue have a long border, border troops are stationed at the border, and the same is true for Shezhou and Muzhou.

Later, after the rebellion of Ning Guohou, Shezhou became Hui'an Mansion, and the Ning army no longer defended the border, so Wu Yueguo transferred the original border army of Muzhou to the border of Xuanzhou, ready to find an opportunity to attack Tang State.

Therefore, at this time, there were only 5,000 soldiers in Muzhou, which was also the fundamental reason why Yu Xun proposed to attack Muzhou, and Muzhou and Hui'an were connected by water, if they could be captured, they could supply each other and prevent others from besieging the city.

This is like Go, as long as there are two alive, it will be difficult to encircle and die.

For Yu Xun, it was easy to conquer Muzhou City, but if he wanted to deal with the Yijin army that followed, he needed to plan carefully.

He marched extremely fast, and now he has led the navy through the Xin'an River and into the territory of Muzhou, marching by waterway, even if it is a night march, it is difficult to hide from others, Yu Xun knows that the assassin of Muzhou already knows about crossing the border.

The other party's reaction is nothing more than two kinds, either they come with troops and attack themselves, but this possibility is relatively small.

It is more likely that a messenger was sent to inquire and asked to leave the country immediately.

Sure enough, not long after the army was driving in the water, a small boat approached, and a scribe who claimed to be the Muzhou Thorn History Mansion asked to see him, and Yu Xun beheaded the other party without saying a word.

Xiao Shilang was a little puzzled by Yu Xun's approach, and asked: "General, the two armies are at war, and they don't kill them, why are you doing this?" ”

Yu Xun smiled and said, "Captain Xiao, what do you say Muzhou Assassin Shi will feel when he learns that I beheaded his envoy?" ”

"He must be furious."

"That's right, all I want is his anger."

"Do you want him to take the initiative to fight us?" Xiao Shilang suddenly realized.

"This is natural, the first battle must be fought outside, and I want to destroy their main force." Yu Xun said lightly.

"Do you need to wait for the Falcon to arrive?" Xiao Shilang asked, he had always had doubts about Yu Xun's decision to let the sea falcon ship move slowly behind.

"No, the time to use that giant ship hasn't come yet."

Muzhou Thorn Mansion.

After Assassin Shi Fangying learned that the envoy he sent was beheaded, his first feeling was unbelievable, Hui'an Mansion was crazy, he heard that the Tang Army was attacking them, and he learned from internal channels that the Wuyue Imperial Court also seemed to be very interested in Hui'an Mansion, and they took the initiative to provoke at this time, didn't they look for death?

Wait, could it be that the imperial court has really decided to fight them, and they learned about it in advance, so they want to strike first?

But even so, did they send more than 2,000 people to take Muzhou? That's too much to look down on himself, he has already found out that the other party is only more than 2,000 people, less than half of himself, and they are all small broken boats.

He decided to strike a thunderous blow at the other party, letting them know the strength of the Muzhou Naval Army, and it was best to capture the opponent's main general alive, and he wanted to ask that guy what he thought, and he actually dared to kill his own messenger.

Just as he was about to give the order to send troops, his subordinate lieutenant general asked, "Lord Assassin, I don't know who the enemy commander is?" ”

"I don't know." Fang Ying raised his eyebrows and said.

"The last general thinks it's better to investigate."

"This" Fang Ying frowned, thinking that this Zhonglang who was promoted by himself had always been calm in his daily affairs, and nodded and said, "Okay then." ”

So he sent a lot of sentry horses to investigate, and learned that the other party's master would be a young man named Xiao Shilang, Fang Ying said lightly: "No wonder you are so reckless, I originally thought that Lu Yuan of Hui'an Mansion was a character, but now it seems that he let this kind of person lead the army, but that's it, General Xi, I plan to take the initiative, what is your opinion?" ”

"The last general is willing to go on the expedition with the adults." General Xi said in a deep voice.

"Very good, give the order to go down, prepare the warship, and attack."

"Yes!"

The river in September, the autumn breeze is blowing, and it is most likely to make people feel melancholy.

On the Xin'an River, the two fleets are facing each other, showing a tense state, with the majority of the flotillas on one side being medium and large ships, and the other side being small ships.

Muzhou Thorn Shi Fangying looked at the opposite side, shook his head and said with a smile: "What kind of navy is this, it can't be composed of merchant ships and fishing boats, right?" ”

General Xi next to him frowned slightly, and said, "Lord Thorn Shi, the formation of the opposite fleet is chaotic, and we must not underestimate the enemy too much." ”

"I know that the proud army will be defeated." Fang Ying smiled and said: "I know myself, I am in politics, I can barely do it, but I can't lead troops to fight, General Xi, I will give you command of this battle." ”

"My lord, you are too humble, since you came to Muzhou, the lives of the people have been getting better and better, and the last general has always admired you very much." General Xi said sincerely.

"Haha, you're too ...... Hey? What's going on on the other side? Fang Yingqi said, only to see that the small boats on the opposite side began to scatter in all directions, divided into many teams, and surrounded this side.

General Xi was taken aback, he didn't expect that the other party would dare to take the initiative to attack after seeing his formation, and he hurriedly let the front army meet it.

However, the opponent's small boat uses the tactic of dividing the ship, that is, the wolf pack tactic, which is a common tactic used by small boats against large ships, taking advantage of the shortcomings of the inconvenient steering of large ships, but in order to implement this tactic, the requirements for soldiers are extremely high.

At this moment, General Xi realized that the general of the naval army opposite was not an ordinary character.

Soon, many flying hooks and locks flew out of the opponent's small boat, and after pulling the big boat, the soldiers on the small boat climbed directly onto the big boat and engaged each other in short combat.

These small boats chose to concentrate on attacking, they concentrated on selecting a few large ships, and then the bee chrysalis went up, and the large ships of the Muzhou army were inconvenient to move, and the rescue was too late, and when they approached their own ships, the ships had already been captured by the other side.

Then they returned to the boat, leaving a few people to control the big boat and ram it into the big boat of the Muzhou army, and when they collided together, the soldiers jumped into the water, and the small boat that followed climbed onto the big boat, and then took the boat as well.

Using this tactic, the Hui'an army won the first battle.

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