As the sun sets, the tide is already high.

Hundreds of thousands of people participated in the fight, and at first glance there were many people on both sides, but most of the people behind didn't know what was going on in front of them.

Especially on the Shi Clan's side, although the last group of people were from their fort, Li Ying and the others were not stupid enough to tell more than 100,000 of their plans. Most people thought they had come here to escape the famine, and they didn't even have a tool in their hands, so they weren't prepared to participate in the fight.

And where are the guards around Li Ying and the others who are the opponents of the guards around Li Chengqian?

So from the very beginning of the battle, one side chased the other side and fought.

Moreover, these people in the south bank of the Haihe River are chasing more and more together, after all, it is the nature of the Chinese to be kind and charitable when they look at people pitiful, but they also have the bloody nature to resolutely fight to the end in the face of robbers.

Li Chengqian rode on a war horse and was protected by a group of East Palace guards, chasing Li Ying and others, Li Chengqian decided to let these people all die in the chaos today, and then directly ask these scholars for their guilt.

Li Ying and the others didn't run far before they walked into the Jedi, with the sea in the east, the big river in the north, and tens of thousands of pursuers behind them.

Li Ying had no choice but to run towards the river where they were hiding the boat, which was in the same direction as the boat carrying grain.

As soon as they ran in that direction, the poor people behind them immediately chased after them like madness, and that was their living food, how could these bad people take it?

Seeing this, Li Chengqian had a smile on his face, reined in his horse's head and said loudly: "Pass on the order of King Lone, don't chase after the people behind." ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, they really went to rob the grain ship!"

Duan Shaolong had no war horse and could only run behind Li Chengqian, and when Li Chengqian stopped the war horse, he ran to Li Chengqian's side and reminded Li Chengqian loudly.

Hu Xiaotian, who was running next to him, hurriedly pulled him and said in a low voice: "The grain boat is still in the river, they can't grab the grain boat, but they have to be separated from the people." ”

When Duan Shaolong heard this, he hurriedly said: "They are separated from the people, and the people can't catch them." So saying, he ran forward.

Hu Xiaotian hurriedly grabbed him and said loudly: "I'm talking about the people brought by Li Ying and others, where do you think they are?"

Duan Shaolong hurriedly said: "Aren't the people who follow Li Ying all bad people?"

"Those more than 10,000 people have fallen for Li Ying and others, how can His Royal Highness the Crown Prince treat them as one with Li Ying and other rebels?

Believe it or not. Hu Xiaotian pulled Duan Shaolong to look at the various armor guards who were restraining the poor.

"Isn't that still fighting?" Duan Shaolong turned around and looked ahead again.

Sure enough, the poor people in front of him were fighting against the people brought by Li Ying and others.

Li Chengqian, riding on a tall horse, naturally saw this scene as well, and ordered the guards beside him: "Take a hundred cavalry to bypass from the south and separate the people who are fighting among the poor people and those who are squatting behind." ”

"Obey!" One of the guards hurriedly went out with the cavalry.

Now that the situation is clear, only more than 1,000 of the more than 10,000 people brought by Li Ying are loyal to them, and only a very small number of brave and ruthless people will participate in the battle against the poor people on the south bank of the Haihe River.

When the others saw the sea in the east and the river in the north, they were so frightened that they squatted on the ground and did not dare to move.

As soon as the cavalry of the East Palace went around, they immediately separated those who participated in the rebellion from those who did not.

Thousands of people fought around hundreds of people, and the battle was quickly decided.

And Li Ying, Cui Rafter, and Zhang Zhao, who had already run to the edge of the Haihe River, had hundreds of people around them, and hurriedly looked for the wooden boats they left on the side of the Haihe River.

Li Ying, who got on the wooden boat, gritted her teeth and arranged: "We will grab a grain ship later, escape overseas first, and then wait for the opportunity to come back." ”

As he spoke, he made a wooden boat and went towards a big ship.

The ships that transported grain to Li Chengqian were all built by Li Chengqian's people according to Li Ke's Dafu ship when he went to sea; not only the hull was huge, but the ship was also equipped with a catapult that could be adjusted far and near, and the catapult could throw stones and gunpowder packs.

What to throw depends on the mood of the conductor......

This was the first time that grain was transported from Dengzhou, and Li Yifu and Su Dingfang personally escorted the boat, and on the boat, they saw a fight on the south bank of the Haihe River, but Li Chengqian was wearing a coarse linen short coat today, and they were far from recognizing it.

But seeing Li Ying and others rushing over in a small wooden boat, Su Dingfang immediately ordered to throw stones, not knowing who the other party was, so he didn't throw the gunpowder bag directly.

In a burst of "hoo, hoo, woo", Li Ying and several of his small boats were shot one after another. The wooden boat was smashed by dozens of pounds of stones, and the people on the boat were also smashed and suffered heavy casualties, all fighting in the river.

Li Yifu saw that these people could no longer pose a threat, so he said to Su Dingfang: "We have delayed time at sea, there is chaos here, throw some gunpowder to deter it." ”

Su Dingfang saw that there were still some people fighting on the shore, nodded and ordered: "Try to throw it in a place where there are no people and a place where there are few people." ”

When the heralds behind them heard this, they went to give the order, and after a while, there was a "rumbling" gunpowder explosion on the south bank of the Haihe River, and the limbs of some unlucky people were blown up into the sky.

The scene of gunpowder explosion is rare even for the people of Chang'an City, not to mention that the people here, when they saw the thunder rumbling and the flames were shining, they all thought that God was angry and sent heavenly punishment to punish them.

They all kowtowed on the ground, praying for God to calm his anger.

Li Chengqian saw that the chaos here had subsided, so he ordered: "Liu Kui, you go to the ship to upload the edict of the Lone King, ordering them to send a few ships to the west to help Fang Yi relieve the siege. ”

"The slave obeys."

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Five miles west of the coastal river, there are two other sides facing each other.

On one side is Wang Fangyi leading more than 1,000 East Palace guards, and on the other side is nearly 100,000 poor people led by Cui Wenlan.

However, although Cui Wenlan has a large number of people here, he is not their main force this time, and their purpose is only to drag down some of the East Palace guards, even Li Chengqian.

After all, there were a lot of people here, and they thought that Li Chengqian would personally bring people here.

Then Li Ying and the three of them could carry out sabotage in the east, but they didn't expect Li Chengqian to go to the east, and Hu Xiaotian of Qinghe also recognized Cui Rafter and Zhang Zhao on the spot, and messed up their plans.

Of course, Cui Wenlan didn't know at this time that Li Ying, who was a few miles away, had rebelled and been pacified, and if he knew, he would definitely surrender immediately.

However, at this time, Wang Fangyi was very anxious, and Li Chengqian released a signal flare to show that the situation was already very critical, but he did not let these people go.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has an order, ordering you to go to Youzhou as soon as possible, and the Youzhou Governor's Mansion will relieve you, and you must not mess around here."

Wang Fangyi shouted loudly with a serious expression.

"Master Jun, we can't afford to leave, so let's stay."

"Yes, why can they stay when the court is relieved, but we can't?"

"What is the relief of the Governor's Mansion of Youzhou? If the Youzhou Governor's Mansion can help us, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will still come here to open up the wasteland?"

……

No matter what Wang Fangyi said, these people just didn't leave, and Wang Fangyi was so anxious that he was furious.

"Archer prepare!"

Wang Fangyi was really worried about Li Chengqian's safety, and in Wang Fangyi's opinion, the fall of the sky was not as important as Li Chengqian's safety.

Of course, Wang Fangyi's move was just to scare these people away, but he didn't expect that when a hundred and ten bows and arrows heard the order, they opened their bows and arrows to aim at these people, but these people still stood still.

After a while, when Wang Fangyi was about to risk being severely punished and ordered to release arrows, he saw the first few rows of people on the opposite side kneeling down towards him.

In this way, Wang Fangyi has no way, and now even if he orders the soldiers under the archery, they may not obey the order.

Just when Wang Fangyi had no way to deal with these people, he saw several large ships coming from the east.

Wang Fangyi was by Li Chengqian's side every day, and although he had never seen such a big ship, he could still guess that these ships were ships that sent grain here.

At the same time, Cui Wenlan, who was standing in the crowd, also saw these big boats, and he also guessed that these boats were ships that sent things here, so he whispered a few words.

After a while, I saw a commotion in the crowd behind me, and someone shouted in the crowd.

"Look at so many big ships sending food but letting us go to Youzhou, why are you so cruel to us?"

"It's just that the people here have food and drink, and the land is divided, but we have to go to the Youzhou Governor's Mansion to work as coolies, which is really unfair."

"It's so unfair, it's better for us to rob them of their food......"

It was also the people of Hebei Province who were drought, and they begged for a long time but did not see Wang Fangyi agreeing to let them stay, some people listened to these few fanning words, and actually ran towards the edge of the Haihe River.

Su Dingfang and Li Yifu on the boat heard Liu Kui complain about them for Li Chengqian from the time they saw Liu Kui, because there was no food here, Li Chengqian personally came here, ate with the people, lived together, worked together, and blistered his palms.

I was also embarrassed by the scholars and the Diao people, and I had been in danger just now, in case something happened......

I heard that Su Dingfang and Li Yifu were all cold, and if Li Chengqian really had an accident here, they would be the number one sinners.

With Li Chengqian's current status and prestige in the Tang Dynasty, it is not an exaggeration for them to die.

Thinking of this, I felt that the shot was too soft and light, and I should throw more gunpowder bags and blow up those chaotic people.

At this moment, I saw a group of people running towards the grain ship in a menacing manner, and with the eyes of Su Dingfang and Li Yifu, it was clear at a glance that these people were not good.

"I'm going to wait for him to get closer and throw the powder bag directly." Su Dingfang calmly ordered.

Wang Fangyi was furious when he saw that the people behind him dared to attack the idea of transporting grain ships, and gritted his teeth and ordered: "Release the arrows." ”

The archer raised his bow slightly higher and fired his arrows at the man who was still standing behind.

"Whoosh ......"

After a rain of arrows, all the people standing in front of Cui Wenlan were shot down, Cui Wenlan was so frightened that his face turned pale and he was about to squeeze back, when he saw Wang Fangyi pull his big bow full of hands, and then a feathered arrow flew whistling.

Although Wang Fangyi didn't know who Cui Wenlan was, he had already seen that Cui Wenlan was the mastermind after a long day of confrontation.

At this time, seeing that they had bad intentions, he naturally shot him first.

Sure enough, Cui Wenlan fell to the ground with an arrow, and several guards around him were in chaos.

Seeing this, Wang Fangyi knew that this place was not a problem, and was about to lead the crowd to the river to repel the people who robbed the grain.

But he saw that the grain ship had stopped, and a powder bag was placed on the shelf next to the ship, and he was about to shoot.

knows the gunpowder king Fang Yi very well, after all, the gunpowder around Li Chengqian is handed over to him for use.

"Boom ......"

An explosion sounded on the edge of the Haihe River again, this time it was different from the one six miles away, when Su Dingfang didn't want to hurt people, so the casualties were limited.

Now that Su Dingfang saw these people who almost injured Li Chengqian, he hated the itchy roots of his teeth, and ordered gunpowder to be thrown at crowded places.

Each package of gunpowder exploded, and in the black smoke and flames, some stumps and severed arms flew into the sky.

Nearly 100,000 untrained peasants had never seen gunpowder, and at first glance they could not afford to resist the power of gunpowder.