"Huh? Why is it gone? Oops, that voice was a bit redundant. ”

After killing the four most hard-hearted soldiers around Zu Lang, Dian Wei swung his double iron halberd a few times under the inertia of inertia, and then realized that he was a bit self-defeating.

The situation he expected should be that as soon as he assassinated Zu Lang, there was a steady stream of Zu Lang's personal henchmen pouring into the Chinese army's big tent, and then he needed to expose Zu Lang's accusations of betraying the court and stabilize these people.

However, after killing the four pro-soldiers who were originally standing guard in the tent, no one came in!

He roared in vain! Maybe it even alarmed the people outside!

After Dian Wei cut off Zulang's head, he raised the curtain of the big tent with vigilance, ready to dodge the arrows shot from outside the door.

If it was difficult to break through, he was also mentally prepared to return to the tent and wait for help, and let Guan Yu and Li Sukill come to meet him.

But what he saw were seven or eight outcasts looking at him with weapons in their hands.

Seeing the pair of twin iron halberds that killed five people and soaked in blood, those rogue militiamen couldn't help but shudder and retreated.

Alas, the military discipline and morale of the Wandering People's Army, that's it!

Fortunately, Guan Yu and Li Su, who were fifty steps away, had already vaguely heard Dian Wei's roar, and they first controlled Zhou Tai for the first time, and then quickly clamored to come over and take over the troops.

"Zu Lang has been ambushed for colluding with the thieves! General Zhou didn't know, and now it's anyway! The rest is not asked! ”

The entire battalion was soon controlled.

Li Su had no choice but to let the few Jiang Qin's personal soldiers who destroyed the ship appear in front of people again, accusing Zu Lang and Jiang Qin of conspiring against each other, and said it with a nose and eyes, which made the ordinary militia more and more afraid to resist.

However, there are many Zulang's fellow villagers and old people, who are probably afraid of liquidation, so they dispersed in a hurry and took hundreds of people with them.

For these people who just want to escape, Li Su doesn't chase after them. Remove some people who are not strong-willed, so as not to lead the morale of the troops away when the fight starts.

After some tossing, there were seven or eight hundred fewer people on the land battalion, but there were still two thousand people left.

Zhou Tai was stunned for a while, but finally understood the current situation, stabilized the others, and hugged Jiang Qin's head and cried bitterly.

"Gongyi, why are you confused!"

Because he didn't need Zhou Tai to participate, Zu Lang didn't tell Zhou Tai about the cause and effect of his plan out of secrecy.

Therefore, at this moment, Zhou Tai only knew the fact that "Zu Lang colluded with Zheng Bao to betray the imperial court", but did not know that Zu Lang's motive was to "preserve his strength".

Therefore, Zhou Tai couldn't understand why Jiang Qin followed Zu Lang to rebel against the imperial court. He only felt that this fellow villager had taken a wrong step, and he was very sorry.

Li Su watched from the side, and felt that it was better not to let Zhou Tai know those motives. So he quietly waited for Zhou Tai to cry almost before announcing the next step:

"Zhou Zhuangshi, since this incident has happened, I will appoint you as the deputy general of the land army, obey the command of Lu Su, and Dian Wei will be the vanguard with the army. Yun Chang and I went back to direct the waterway, and arrived at the mouth of the water half a day later than the original date, so we must not be delayed any longer! I don't want you to make contributions in this battle, as long as you bite Zheng Bao and stick to the end, after the war, I will show you the official position of county lieutenant, with a rank of 300 stones. ”

Zhou Tai sighed a few times, but finally agreed to the request and announced the rectification of the people.

Although he had a good relationship with Jiang Qin's fellow villagers, he listened to the confession of those soldiers around Jiang Qin that "they had indeed destroyed Li Su's ship on Jiang Qin's orders". Moreover, Zhou Tai, who was a few of Jiang Qin's personal soldiers, knew that this matter was indeed occupied by the imperial court.

He didn't know what Zu Lang was planning with Jiang Qin, this was treating him as an outsider, and his unwillingness in his heart faded.

Li Su turned to Lu Su, who came with the army this time, but never got any sense of existence: "Zijing, I think Zhou Tai and Dian Wei are not familiar with the art of war, but they are afraid that the troops will advance and retreat easily." As long as the captain and Zheng Bao are fighting, you can flank the enemy, disrupt the morale of the enemy, and create fighters for the other two roads, I will be satisfied. ”

Lu Su: "Brother Boya, don't worry, Su will do his best." ”

……

After a day and a half of silence, Lu Su, Dian Wei, and Zhou Tai arrived near the mouth of the river with 2,000 people by land, and Li Su and Guan Yu with 2,000 people by water.

Because it was delayed for half a day longer than the original plan, when Lu Su arrived at the battlefield, Wu Qiu Yi had already taken the combined forces of Zhang Duo and Xu Qian, a total of three or four thousand people, to engage Zheng Bao's men and horses.

The mouth of the water is located on the southeast shore of Chaohu Lake, the terrain of this area is generally relatively high, there are two mountains of Qibao Mountain and the water of the Xuwu Mountain surrounding the lake, there is a deep valley between the two mountains, the water of the water flows out of the Chaohu Lake from this valley mouth, and finally flows into the Yangtze River.

Such a river valley terrain is relatively unfavorable for the deployment of large troops. Therefore, when Lu Su arrived, Zheng Bao's troops were in the upper reaches of the river valley and Wu Qiu Yi's troops were downstream, fighting each other, and the width of the front of the battle was less than 100 zhang, that is, the width of the riverside beach.

Zhou Tai saw that the difference in strength between the enemy and us did not seem to be very large, and although there were few people in the imperial court, they seemed to be more elite and commanded, so he tentatively asked for help: "Do you want me to lead people to rush down?" ”

Lu Su is only 16 years old, and he has only read some books and traveled to understand some human nature, but if he wants to talk about the actual combat application of the art of war, it is also none. So Lu Su was also so nervous that he sweated slightly.

Brother Li handed over 2,000 soldiers and horses to him, but he couldn't mess it up! Be worthy of Brother Li's trust!

If it weren't for the fact that Zu Lang's subordinates really didn't have talent this time, they wouldn't have given him Lu Su such a chance to perform.

Be sure to catch it!

Lu Su thought carefully for a long time, and decisively said: "Don't worry, let them fight first, let's form a team first!" Divide the 2,000 people into two teams, let the soldiers decide for themselves, and divide the wives and children into one army, and those who have no family to worry about the other army!

If you are concerned, go down to Qibao Mountain first, Youping, you take them along the river valley first, and agree on the military order, as long as you hold on to a stick of incense, you will allow them to retreat! But if you dare to retreat first, you will be killed!

I personally led the remaining half of the Qibao Mountain without family care, and continued to ambush the half slope of Qibao Mountain, if your men and horses retreated, I can chase and lure Zheng Bao's main force away, and I will kill it from the mountain again, and cut off the retreat of the chasing troops-

The morale of Zheng Bao's people is all supported by the Shuizhai Village, and they have dealt with the imperial court for many years, and every time they can't beat it, they take the boat from the Shuizhai and return to the lake. Therefore, the key to this battle is to create opportunities for Guan Sima and Li Beijia of the waterway, and this Han Xin's method of seizing the well is also. ”

Zhou Tai was a little confused when he heard it, but as soon as he heard that as long as he led the team to hold on to a stick of incense, he could withdraw, he was still quite satisfied.

The Wandering People's Army, or as a reinforcement, can boost our morale as soon as it appears, and it is not a big problem to insist on a stick of incense in this case.

Zhou Tai spent half a pillar of incense time for the troops to divide into two units, and then personally led one to kill.

Lu Su took a thousand people, lay in ambush on the hillside, and waited quietly very calmly.

When Zhou Tai first appeared, the morale of the officers and troops was really high, and the friendly troops on the east bank of the river shouted to kill again and again, and once killed Zheng Bao's people back hundreds of zhang, but then Zheng Baojun saw the scale of Zhou Tai's reinforcements and stabilized his position.

Zhou Tai lasted a while longer than expected, and he himself fought hard and killed more than 20 soldiers, which boosted morale for a while. It took him half an hour before he scattered with a thousand of his men, leaving behind about two hundred corpses on the ground, as well as hundreds of enemy corpses.

……

Zheng Bao has been climbing high in the village to look out and sit in the town, and he is really happy to see this.

"Zulang's outcasts are really vulnerable! Don't Qiu Yi think that with their reinforcements, he can win against me! Hmph, after the war, I had to take advantage of the situation to completely destroy Zhang Duo and Xu Qian, and arrest all the people to replenish the troops! From now on, Danyang soldiers are my family, and there is no other place to employ! ”

Zheng Bao thought with hatred, and ordered: "Transfer all the people and horses prepared in the water village!" The one who pursues Zulang! As long as Zu Lang's reinforcements are completely annihilated, we can hit Wu Qiu Yi's morale, and Wu Qiu Yi has already handed over the flank of the downstream to Zu Lang to guard, as long as we pursue and cross the river downstream, we can flank the officers and troops back and forth! ”

"Obey!" Zheng Bao's two Shanyue tribesmen immediately took the order and left.

Liu Ye, who was detained by Zheng Bao as a puppet liaison officer in the village, moved his lips when he saw this, but in the end he still did not advise.

"Zulang's people, it is impossible to have only such a point, there must be other reinforcements in ambush. Zheng Bao is stunned and doesn't know how to count. But he's been holding me hostage, and I don't need to help him. Liu Ye was secretly worried in his heart.

Sure enough, the Danyang soldiers, once they start a tailwind battle, the pursuit is easy to chase very deeply, and they get carried away.

And on one side there are elite soldiers, and on the other side are routed soldiers, everyone wants to pick soft persimmons and pinch them, so that the number of Danyang soldiers chasing Zhou Tai is actually several times more than Zhou Tai's remnants.

Although Zhou Tai was defeated, he attracted enough enemies.

According to the original plan, Lu Su shouted down from the half-slope of Qibao Mountain to cut off the narrow river valley on the west bank of the wet water. Zheng Baojun, who was satisfied, suddenly found that the enemy had a second wave of reinforcements, and panicked again, and the last reserve near Shuizhai was also hurriedly thrown up and fought with Lu Su's people.

"Is this Zulang's backhand? If that's the case, I'm afraid the outcome is still unpredictable. Liu Ye was a little unwilling in his heart, and he also fantasized that if someone killed Zheng Bao, he would not have to be hijacked by these Hao chiefs.

I don't know how long I fought hard, but the lookout hand beside Zu Lang suddenly exclaimed: "There are a large number of warships on the lake behind you!" It's only two miles away! ”

Zheng Bao was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly ran to the direction behind him to lookout: "Why did you see it so close!" ”

The lookout was also very aggrieved: "These boats are coming from the shallow water on the shore, and they are behind Qibaoshan just now - our water village is in the valley between two mountains, and the line of sight is not good." ”

In the valley, the pass and water village are repaired, and the vision is originally very poor. It's just that as long as there are many guards in the village and the defense is tight, then even if the enemy is close enough to find out, it is not a big deal.

But at this moment, Zheng Bao's attention was completely on the front of the Sushui River Valley, who knew that a large number of people would suddenly appear on the lake behind him?

And because the water is the outlet of Chaohu Lake, the current is relatively turbulent, and the incoming boats drive quickly. Even if there is no wind and no oars on the boat, the natural current alone will be washed up to the mouth of the water, and it will not be able to stop it at all.

Zheng Bao was still frightened, when he saw the two ships in front of the enemy ignite a fire and rushed directly into his water village.

Guan Yu jumped on the shore first, led his troops to rush to the water village, and commanded everyone to shout: "The imperial army has occupied the islands in the middle of the lake!" Zheng Bao has nowhere to retreat! Those who descend will not be killed! ”

The two thousand sailors shouted together, which instantly broke Zheng Baojun's military spirit - Zheng Bao's people have formed a psychological advantage over the years, and if they can't beat it, they will retreat into the lake.

The confidence and morale of the later generations of Liangshan Bo thieves are basically based on this kind of mental presupposition.

Now this confidence has been broken, and it's a fart!

Zheng Bao was in a panic, at a loss for what to do like a headless fly, and the soldiers around him were also sent out.

Liu Ye saw it eagerly, licked his lips, touched his saber, saw an opportunity, jumped up a sword behind his back, and cut off Zheng Bao's head.

"I am a member of the Han family! Zheng Bao is already defeated! You follow me to take Zheng Bao's head to surrender, and the court will definitely not pursue the fault of the thief! ”

Those people around Zheng Bao were actually shocked by Liu Ye and obediently followed him to surrender.

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Note: Although Liu Ye is a civil official, he killed people when he was 13 years old. In history, Zheng Bao was indeed at a low point in his career and was killed by Liu Ye Design.