Xiahou Zhuo shouted to his generals: "From today onwards, Tang Pidi is the consul, where he is, as I am, what he said, as I said, I only say this sentence once, and I can't remember the military law." ”

"Yes!"

His subordinates immediately responded, whether they were convinced or not, Xiahou Zhuo's military orders had to be listened to, and military orders were military orders.

Tang Pidi looked at Li Qi and said: "From today on, I will live on the city wall, you take care of the carriage and horse shop, the people of the Cui family will definitely come to the carriage and horse shop to test, if it is not necessary, they will not easily startle the snake, we should do the same." ”

Li Qi nodded and said, "I understand." ”

Xiahou said: "I asked people to build a military tent for you under the city, you can live in a military tent, it is not good to live on the city wall." ”

Tang Pidi looked at Xiahou Zhuo and said in a flat tone: "You also have to live on the city wall." ”

Xiahou Zhuo was stunned: "This ......"

Tang Pidi shook the general's order flag in his hand, with an expression of a violator, Xiahou Zhuo immediately smiled and said: "Just listen to you, you say you live on the city wall, then live on the city wall." ”

Tang Pi said: "The enemy is now, you want the soldiers to know that you are there, what is the military heart?" will be in the heart of the army. ”

"Good!"

Xiahou nodded vigorously.

There were about 20,000 defenders in the city, and Tang Pidi suggested that Xiahou Zhuo divide the team into four groups, two batches as reserves, and the remaining two groups took turns to be on duty for a period of five days.

At the same time, it was ordered to strictly check the people who entered and exited the city gate, and all those who came from the direction of Yanzhou Qingzhou should be taken down first.

In addition, mobilize the people to dig more pits outside the city, although the Qingzhou army is mostly foot soldiers, but when rushing to the city, there are so many pits, which can also disrupt their formation and slow down their charging speed.

"Over there."

Tang Pi said: "Dig more deep pits, leaving a passage without traps every ten zhang, which can allow the enemy to attack and rush over, adjust the position of the bed crossbow on the city wall, and aim at those places where there are no pits." ”

Xiahou Zhuo smiled: "It's very bad." ”

Tang Pidi also smiled and said: "Defending the city, killing the enemy is the best, the more enemies are killed, the more the enemy's morale is damaged, and the more people die that they are frightened, they will be afraid when they rush to the city." ”

Xiahou snorted and looked back at Liu Ge, who nodded without waiting for him to speak, "I'll arrange it." ”

Xiahou Zhuo laughed.

In just half a day, the arrangements made by Tang Rival, not to mention Xiahou Zhuo, who originally knew Tang Rival's ability, even Liu Ge had already admired the five-body throw, all said that the hero was a teenager, and it seems that this teenager is a hero.

Xiahou Zhuo asked Tang Pidi: "Why are all the arrangements you make in the direction where the Qingzhou army came, and the direction of the Yanzhou army is just randomly arranged for people to guard the city wall." ”

Tang Pidi smiled: "Because the Yanzhou army is not to be afraid. ”

Xiahou Zhuo asked, "But the Yanzhou army is more warlike. ”

Don Pidi smiled but didn't say anything.

Six days later, a scout rushed back from the southeast, saying that he had seen the banner of the Qingzhou army in the distance, and the number was immeasurable.

Calculating the days, they will be able to reach the city of Jizhou in seven or eight days at the latest.

The plan of the Qingzhou army is to take Jizhou directly, give up all the towns along the way, Qingzhou Jiedu should be very clear to Cui Yanlai, those small cities are not necessary to attack at all, as long as Jizhou is taken and the takeover is announced, those small cities will inevitably see the wind and rudder, if you pass a city to attack a city, it is just a useless move to waste time and troops.

After entering the Jizhou border, it had been raining for two consecutive days, and the roads were muddy, delaying the speed of the march.

When I arrived on the east bank of the Hutuo River, I found that there was not a single boat, and all the boats had been received on the west bank, and you could see the wooden boats on the west bank that were buckled upside down.

Qingzhou Jiedu made Cui Yanlai sit on the war horse, and he frowned slightly as he looked at the river that was more than three miles wide.

Cui Yanlai is nearly fifty years old, but because she has practiced all year round and is well maintained, her face is less than forty years old.

He has been in the position of Qingzhou Jiedu envoy for nearly ten years, and the Cui family spent a lot of financial and material resources to let him sit in the position of this prince, just to plot Jizhou and Qingzhou.

Ten years ago, it could already be seen that the decline of Da Chu was unstoppable, and the bold Cui family began to lay out early.

They are low-key in Jizhou, and even try not to arrange people to enter the government to do things, for so many years, there is not even a single person from the Cui family in the Jizhou army, so that Prince Yu and Jie Du made Zeng Ling completely relax their vigilance against the Cui family.

And the Cui family has the best attitude, asking for money and food for food, as long as Prince Yu says a word, the people of the Cui family will do it immediately, and there will be no prevarication and contempt.

Now that the ten-year layout is about to be harvested, Cui Yanlai's heart is inevitably a little excited.

As long as the Cui family can take Jizhou and sit on the land of the two states, they can unite the grassland tribes in the north, the sea in the east, take Yuzhou to the south, and retreat to defend the north for thousands of miles.

Turning the family into a country, only in front of you, is not able to dominate the world, but also can be ruled by the river.

Cui Yanlai was silent for a moment and then ordered: "Order the auxiliary soldiers to build pontoon bridges to cross the river, and within three days, twenty pontoon bridges must be built. ”

His subordinates immediately answered and went to deliver the order with arrows.

The military order was like a mountain, and the auxiliary soldiers began to cut down trees on the bank to build a pontoon bridge, first sent people to swim into the river, drove the wooden stakes to the bottom of the river, then connected the wooden stakes, and then laid wooden planks.

More than 10,000 people took action, and the speed of progress was extremely fast.

In the woods on the other side of the river, General Liu Ge had arrived for a day and a night, and he hid here with his team, just waiting for the Qingzhou army to cross the river.

"General."

His pro-soldier lieutenant spoke with a slight fear, glanced at Liu Ge and said: "The enemy army is huge, it looks like there are no less than hundreds of thousands, and we only have four thousand people......"

The lieutenant hesitated for a moment and said: "That kid surnamed Tang is young, but the general wants to follow his military orders to set up an ambush here, this, isn't this deliberately letting the general come and send him to death?" ”

Liu Ge glanced at him sideways and said, "If you say more, I will throw you into the Hutuo River, disturb the morale of the army when the battle is about to happen, and you can be killed." ”

The pro-soldier lieutenant immediately shut up.

Liu Ge lay behind the high slope and looked at the opposite bank, the Qingzhou army had a large number of auxiliaries, and the progress of building pontoon bridges was very fast, and it seemed that it would not take three days to extend all the twenty pontoon bridges that were advancing at the same time.

Liu Ge commanded in a low voice: "No one is allowed to move without my military order, eat and drink in place, even if you pee, you must stay in place, and those who violate the order will be killed." ”

"Yes!"

The people around him immediately responded in a low voice, and then gradually passed Liu Ge's military orders one by one.

Two days later, just after noon on the third day, the pontoon bridge built by the Qingzhou Army was already close to the east bank.

On the west bank, Qingzhou Jiedu made Cui Yanlai nod with satisfaction, this speed made him feel pleased.

"Lin Aether."

Cui Yanlai ordered: "You are the general of the former army, and you will cross the river with the men and horses of the headquarters." ”

General Lin Yitai immediately leaned over and said, "Honorable Order!" ”

Tens of thousands of former troops began to gather on the west bank to prepare to cross the river, and the moment the pontoon bridge approached the east bank, there were whistles from the east bank, which was a signal that the pontoon bridge had been built.

"Cross the river!"

Lin Yitai gave an order.

Tens of thousands of troops began to board the pontoon bridge in an orderly manner, and those auxiliaries who had not yet withdrawn jumped into the river, and they held the pontoon bridge to the shore to make way for the army to cross the river.

It didn't take long for many people to reach the other side of the river, and they began to quickly come to the woods to investigate.

General Liu Ge looked down at the repeater in his hand, and waited for a while, when the Qingzhou army at the front was almost at the edge of the forest, Liu Ge raised the repeater and fired the first arrow.

The first arrow is a chirping arrow.

A sharp voice sounded, and the archers in the forest immediately lifted the camouflage they had draped over their bodies, and released their feathered arrows one by one.

The Qingzhou army that had just arrived on the bank of the river was caught off guard, and was overturned by a rain of arrows, and just as they were shouting and preparing to fight, the upside-down fishing boats on the river bank all turned over, and the Jizhou army hiding under the boats began to kill.

They fired wildly with their repeaters, and the Qingzhou army, which had not yet completely sorted out the formation around them, was overturned countless times.

In just a short time, there were almost more than 1,000 Qingzhou troops who had just arrived on the riverbank, and they were killed here.

The Jizhou troops on the shore began to throw arrows on the pontoon bridge, which was only so wide, crowded with people, and there was no way to hide.

The feather arrows were put down, layer by layer.

The Jizhou army, hidden in the woods, rushed out under Liu Ge's orders and threw the jars that had been prepared long ago into the pontoon bridge, and the jars were filled with fire oil.

As the oil flowed to the place, a fire was lit, and there was a fire on the twenty pontoon bridges, and the oil flowed to the surface of the river, and there was fire burning on the river.

Liu Ge kept ordering, and the fire on the pontoon bridge forced the follow-up reinforcements of the Qingzhou Army to retreat, and they could not rush over to help.

In this way, the Qingzhou army, which had just arrived on the riverbank, became a lone army, and it had already been overturned a lot before, and the rest of the people were beaten up before they even formed a team.

Liu Ge drew his knife and moved forward, and the Jizhou army was demoralized for a while, and the soldiers who were originally afraid were screaming like wolves at this time.

They frantically chopped and killed, hacking all the Qingzhou troops trapped on this side of the riverbank, and in less than half an hour, the Qingzhou army lost more than 3,000 troops.

After killing people and burning the bridge, Liu Ge immediately ordered the horn to be blown and withdrawn.

Thousands of Jizhou troops began to run back, and they withdrew when they won the battle, which seemed exciting and exciting, and at the same time, these soldiers had to admire the young man surnamed Tang.

Before coming, Tang Pidi told them that this battle could kill thousands of enemies and frustrate the enemy's spirit, but no one believed it at that time, because the enemy had hundreds of thousands, and they only had a few thousand, and they all felt that this was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg and giving their lives in vain.

After the victory, Liu Ge laughed and beckoned and shouted Let's go.

Thousands of Jizhou troops rushed back into the forest, they didn't plan to fight for a while at all, rushing through the forest is the official road, their mounts are waiting here, these mounts are not all war horses, and now there are no four thousand war horses in Jizhou City.

Most of them are horses, and even donkeys, so they can run anyway.

The Jizhou army got on the horse, the donkey got on the donkey, there were two people on the horse, and there were two people on the donkey, and they ran along the official road, bringing up a thick smoke and dust.

They ran away, but on the side of the Qingzhou army, all of them were almost going to explode, especially Cui Yanlai, although this battle could only be regarded as a small defeat, but this was the first battle, and they ran away after they won, and their army had not been able to cross the river, and they couldn't chase it.

The loss of thousands of people in this battle made the morale of the Qingzhou army drop all of a sudden.

By the time they rebuilt the pontoon bridge and crossed the river, the thousands of Jizhou troops who were ambushed here had already disappeared.