The two weddings made the final touches for the general meeting of Wuwei town officials.

The first wedding was very low-key, and it was Li Zena Xiahe who entered the door. There are only three tables in the Li family's mansion, but the people who come to congratulate are all high-ranking officials and dignitaries, just the so-called full of officials who go up from the five grades. Not to mention Li Ze, who is the marshal of Wuwei, is Xia He himself, and his current power is enough to make people look sideways.

She wields far more power than any other assassin.

And the second wedding was much more lively.

The marriage between Cao Xin's eldest son Cao Zhang and Li Ze's deputy commander Li Yu was very lively in Wuyi. Cao Xin's two sons, the eldest son Cao Zhang was originally a little stupid in reading and did not understand current affairs, but he had never been married, but the second son Cao Jing had already been married, but he married a member of Wang Wenshu's family, which was considered a close parent.

Cao Zhang was originally Cao Xin's heart disease, but what Cao Xin never expected was that his eldest son, who was least optimistic, was actually quite a late bloomer, and now not only has he become a prominent figure second only to Yang Kai in the Yixing Society, but the wife he married is even more shrewd and capable, far from being comparable to the wife of his second son Cao Jing.

Cao Xin was a veteran of the Chengde era, and in the Li Ze era, he was also trusted, and now through the marriage with Li Mi, his political status is a step further. His eldest son got married, and all the officials who came to Wuyi naturally wanted to have a cup of wedding wine for face.

Cao Xin held a banquet in Wuyi to marry his daughter-in-law, but on Li Ze's side, he also married Li Yu as a daughter. In the eyes of many people, Cao Xin is really vicious and calculating. He himself can be regarded as representing the present of the Cao family, and Li Mi can be said to represent the future of the Cao family.

Li Mi was born in a secret camp and was highly valued by Li Ze. Let's take a look at the people who were born in the secret camp with Li Mi, Li Hao, Li Han, Li De, Li Rui, Yan Jiu and other people, which one of them is not a rookie in Wuwei, one by one young young people are already in a high position, and when Cao Xin's group of people is old, these people will naturally take over the banner and stand on the top of Wuwei Festival Town. The Cao family now has Cao Xin at the helm, and in the future, Li Mi will carry the banner, not to mention a hundred years, forty or fifty years of good times is enough. And forty or fifty years is enough for the Cao family to become a famous family in this land.

Cao Xin naturally knew this, otherwise, he would not have behaved so calmly about Wang Mingyi's imminent resignation. Wang Mingyi's return to business has brought the Cao and Wang clans back to their previous tracks, but the person at the helm in the future will be replaced by Cao Zhang and Li Mi, instead of Wang Mingren.

The generous Cao Xin set up a three-day flowing water banquet in Wuyi, no matter who it was, as long as he came, he could sit on the table, drink a glass of wine, and eat a delicious meal.

At this time, under the rule of Wuwei, except for Yingzhou, all other places are considered to be peaceful, this year's wind and rain are smooth, after Li Ze took power, lightly pay for the thin endowment, build water conservancy, vigorously encourage agriculture, and see that another bumper year is coming. The history of assassins from all over the world gathered in Wuyi, and they were also relaxed. A bumper harvest means that the people can eat their stomachs, which means that they can easily collect enough taxes and complete the tasks assigned by the town.

But except for one person, it's a bag full of heads now. This person is naturally the only general Liu Chenglin who has not come to Wuyi and has just been promoted to the governor of the right guard of Qianniuwei.

The battle to capture Shijiawu was far from being as simple as he imagined.

He teamed up with Li Rui and set up a series of plans to defeat Fei Can's 2,000 cavalry, which was indeed to remove his worries, but Shi Jiawu's resistance was unexpectedly strong. In addition, there were 2,000 Lulong elites stationed in Shijiawu in the early stage, which greatly increased the strength of Shijiawu.

Shijiawu is a typical dock fort formed by blood kinship, and it is the largest dock fort in Yingzhou, with 3,000 township soldiers, and basically has a blood bond of far or near, which gives them the basis for desperate resistance. Ever since stepping into Shi Jiawu's control, Yanagibe's troubles have been continuous.

After losing Fei Can's cavalry assistance, Shi Jiawu immediately abandoned some small strongholds on the periphery, but in doing so, they set fire to the houses, destroyed the water source, and even those that were not easy to destroy, and put a lot of livestock carcasses, making it impossible for Liu to find a clean water source.

Small groups of rangers took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to harass day and night, and even tried to attack Liu Chenglin's logistics passage at times. It's like having a few mosquitoes buzzing around in your ears all the time, and you slap them with all your might, often getting nothing. But if you ignore it, he screams so annoyingly, and the most annoying thing is that he can really pounce on you and suck you in the blood.

Liu Chenglin originally wanted to take Shijiawu as a gift to Li Ze's return when Li Ze returned to Wuyi, but until now, Li Ze's Wuyi Conference was nearing the end, and his main force had just arrived at Shijiawu.

Although he already had the drawings of Shi Jiawu in his hand, Liu Chenglin was still taken aback when he really saw Shi Jiawu.

Although it is called a dock, it is so large that it can almost be called a city.

Shijiawu is built by the mountain and the river, through years of unremitting construction, the river is diverted, a river with a width of nearly ten zhang surrounds the dock fort three-quarters, and the only side that is not near the water, but it is backed by the mountain, about two-thirds of the Shijiawu is built on the flat land, and the other one-third is built according to the mountain. Not only is it extremely steep, but it can also help the guards in other parts of the dock fort.

And in the upstream, artificially excavated into an artificial lake of thousands of acres using the sluice to connect the river, on the edge of the artificial lake, there is a water village, there are some warships inside, although the boat is not big, but for Liu Chenglin, it is an unsolvable problem.

If you want to conquer Shijiawu, you need to cross the river first, and to cross the river, of course, it is impossible to rely on the only stone bridge on this river, Shijiawu did not demolish this stone bridge, but on the opposite side, an army was arranged to defend, this is an obvious trap, attacking the stone bridge, it fell into the opponent's life for life, Liu Chenglin believes that the army guarding the opposite side of the stone bridge must be Lu Longlai's army, although they are wearing the clothes of Shijiawu village soldiers.

No wonder Shi Jiawu is so unruly, no wonder Lu Longren lost almost the entire Yingzhou, after losing Fei Can's thousands of cavalry, they still have to ensure that Shi Jiawu, for Yingzhou, this is indeed a key point, if you don't take Shi Jiawu, there is no way to talk about attacking Mozhou.

After personally observing the situation of Shijiawu on the spot, even if he was as arrogant as Liu Chenglin, he admitted that it was indeed a little difficult to take Shijiawu with the five thousand armor soldiers in his hands.

After setting up camp less than five miles away from Shijiawu, Liu Chenglin gathered all the generals.

"General Hou, let's talk about the specific situation first." Liu Chenglin looked at the waiting area.

Hou Fangyu stood up and said: "General Liu, if you want to attack Shijiawu, you need to cross the river in the first step, I sent someone to find out the situation, the river is not deep, the shallowest place is only about three meters, and the deepest place is only four or five meters, such a water depth is not suitable for big boats, so the water village in Shijiawu is full of small boats, which provides us with opportunities." ”

"Tell me about it!"

"The snatching of the stone bridge is a must. If you can take it, it will be the best. But at the same time, our main forces still have to cross the river to fight, build more rafts, and build pontoon bridges, but fortunately, the river is not wide, more than ten zhang. ”

"Their warships can go down the river to attack us." Wei Gang, another Qu Chang from the secret camp, frowned.

"Just digging a stake in the middle of the river is enough to guard against these boats." Hou Fang Yu Road. That's why I said that the water is not deep in our favor. But General Liu, even building a pontoon bridge to attack is extremely difficult, because the range of long-range weapons on the dock fort, such as stone cannons, trebuchets, and crossbows, is enough to cover the entire river. ”

"The large trebuchet we brought this time, even if it is on this side of the river, is enough to deal a fatal blow to the dock fort." Liu Changfeng said: "Although the wall of Shijiawu is covered with stones, it is still an earthen wall inside, and it should not be able to resist our giant trebuchet. ”

"Can you send a partial division to make a detour upstream or downstream, swim across the river, and when the army attacks, suddenly launch it, and respond to the main force?" Wei Gang suggested.

Liu Chenglin shook his head: "This doesn't work, whether it's from the upstream or downstream, after crossing the river, if you want to attack Shijiawu, you must pass through the narrow beach before the mountain and the river, and this distance is simply the road of death, unless you take a farther road and attack from behind the mountain, but for the people of Shijiawu, they are only afraid of falling into their hands when they enter the mountain." So we have no other way but to attack head-on. ”

"General, looks like we need reinforcements." Liu Changfeng thought for a while and said, "Shi Jiawu will definitely be difficult to fight down, and Lu Long's reinforcements from Mozhou are already on the way. I'm afraid that this battle will eventually turn into a head-on war between us and Lu Long. ”

"That's true." Liu Chenglin said: "This battle will inevitably detonate our all-out war with Lu Long." They will never give up on Shijiawu, and we must take it. Changfeng sent someone to ask for help from the festival marshal. ”

"Yes!"

"Tomorrow, let's take a look at the battle first, and try the quality of Shi Jiawu's soldiers and horses." At the end, Liu Chenglin waved his fist: "Fang Yu, today your subordinates will work hard first, go to cut down trees, make wooden rows, wooden stakes, Changfeng and Wei Gang belong to have a good rest tonight, ready to understand the battle, Li De, your subordinates will be tired tonight, patrol the Quartet, in case the other party makes any moves." ”

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