In the deep winter night, in the stormy Peng Lize, there were more than ten ships moored, under Zhao Tuo's order, they did not beat the drum and blow the trumpet, let alone raise the battle flag, but gathered the sails and quietly hid in the night.

Standing on the edge of the rickety boat, looking at Peng Zeyi, who had a faint fire a few miles away, Zhao Tuo's face was a little ugly.

Zhao Tuo's body is very weak now, the bowl of chicken blood wine that he drank with Heifu and Wu Rui almost killed him, and on the first day of his return, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and then vomited and diarrhea......

"Could it be that the Yue people threw Gu in the chicken blood wine?" Zhao Tuo's men were very worried.

In the eyes of the Central Plains people, the Yue people are barbarians living in the mountains and forests of the southern waters, advocating witches and ghosts, and even raising snakes and insects as Gu to poison others, so at this time, seeing that Zhao Tuo was unwell, he was immediately nervous.

Zhao Tuo thought that the bowl of chicken blood wine was made by Heifu's subordinates, and the Yue people had no chance to poison it, probably because they drank raw blood and made their stomachs uncomfortable.

At this time, they received an urgent report from Peng Ze by water: Fanyang Jun attacked Peng Ze with a surprise army!

asked people to send this situation to Heifu Sima as soon as possible, and Zhao Tuo also ordered the fleet to hang up the sails, row the oars of all the staff, and return home quickly!

"The five hundred lords are not waiting here for Sima's orders?" There was some hesitation among the men.

Although Zhao Tuo's body was weak and he couldn't even lift his sword, his mind was very clear.

"Peng Ze is in a hurry, the city is broken or overnight, and the news is sent to Sima, I am afraid it will take two days, and it will take two days to return here, if I am free here, Peng Ze has been broken! It's better to return quickly, probe the enemy situation in detail, and then make plans, and then come back to meet Sima, and it will be too late. ”

After sending his men back to his ship, Zhao Tuo secretly thought: "Sima doesn't think Zhao Tuo is lowly and worships me as a brother, this is Zhao Tuo's great honor." But I saw that his subordinates Gongao, Dongmen Leopard and others were quite unconvinced, and this was my chance to prove myself! How can you let it go? ”

So, driving at full speed, the group arrived at the lake next to Pengzeyi on the evening of the third day of December, and saw from a distance that Pengze Wharf was burned again, and there were more than 100 Chu people on guard along the coast, monitoring the movement on the lake at any time.

So Zhao Tuo ordered his subordinates to continue to drive forward and hide near the small lonely mountain on the north bank.

Zhao Tuo's captains, in fact, captains, came to the building to report to him the enemy situation he saw on the ship.

"The dock has been burned, but the city has not yet fallen, and the black flag of the Qin army is still hanging."

"There are more Chu people than expected, about a thousand people, under the banner of Fanyang Jun, occupy the Lilu in the south of Pengze City as a camp, surround the two corners of the city, and now the campfire is booming."

"There are 300 men on the shore to defend it, probably for fear that the army will rush back from the waterway."

"Five hundred lords, what should we do next?"

Everyone looked at Zhao Tuo, and according to their thoughts, after investigating the enemy's situation, it was a safe way to quickly return to Heifu and receive the army to rush over.

"When Sima learned that Peng Ze had been attacked, he was afraid that he would give up attacking Fanyang and return to the south bank of Peng Lize."

Zhao Tuo shook his head after thinking about it: "With my understanding of Sima, he will never give up halfway!" ”

Zhao Tuo has also read the book of soldiers, and he understands that the army going south is like a bow and crossbow full of strength, which has to be sent, and if it is withdrawn at this time, it will not only damage morale, but also make an alliance with the Ganyue people with great fanfare, and it will also become a joke.

Therefore, it is unlikely that Heifu will come back, and to relieve the siege of Peng Ze, he has to rely on Zhao Tuo and them.

He smiled: "The disease of the torrent, as for the drifter, it is also powerful; The disease of the bird, as for the destroyer, the festival also. ”

"Fanyang Jun thought that a surprise soldier would make Sima a dilemma, but we, why not be a surprise soldier?"

"Us?" Everyone looked at each other, a little unconfident.

"We are just people who build boats, and we can gallop on the water for a while, but we don't have an advantage when we get to the shore."

Zhao Tuo had his own thoughts, he became serious, looked at everyone, and said loudly: "The Wu people are good at water, but against the Huai, they can defeat the chariot soldiers of the Chu State on land, and enter the Yingying in five battles." Who said that a man who built a boat can't go ashore? ”

The subordinates asked again: "Even if the five hundred lords want to fight with the Peng Ze defenders inside and outside, where will they land from ashore?" The wharf was burned, and the Chu people also sent 300 men to guard the shore where the boat could land. ”

Zhao Tuo didn't answer at first, and walked out of the ship's room.

They were located near the small lonely mountain near the north bank, Zhao Tuo looked at the black south bank of the Dajiang River, and pointed to a place where there was no light on three sides of the water: "Penglangji!" ”

Hearing this, everyone changed color, and they only thought that Lord Zhao Wubai was crazy......

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In the early hours of the morning, under the cover of the whining wind and waves, a small boat sailed from the depths of the lake to the south shore, and more than ten paddle blades entered the water at the same time, and the blades stirred the lake water, drawing a ripple.

Without a dock, the big ship would not be able to dock, so it could only rely on the paddle boat to sneak closer.

Zhao Tuo squatted on the first boat, his stomach had not yet recovered, it seemed to be knotted at the moment, and there was a tingling pain, I don't know if it was the sequelae of diarrhea or because of nervousness.

Not only are you nervous that you will be outnumbered, you will be spotted by the enemy troops guarding the shore, but you are also nervous about the waters you are about to sail into.

Two miles ahead, the moon reflects the black cliffs, which are Penglang Rock.

Penglangji stands in the middle of the river with strange stones, faces the river on three sides, resists the wind and curbs the waves, and the waves are surging. The local people say: the boat crosses the rock, although there is no wind, there is also a surge, and the cover is named after this.

Zhao Tuo turned his head and found that the boat and the ship were gradually shrinking behind him, and when they were almost gone, Peng Langji was also close at hand.

The messy wind blew from the north bank, the water hit the hull of the boat, the soldiers pursed their mouths, while shaking the oars vigorously, their hearts rose to their throats, for fear that the next moment accidentally hit the reef, the boat was destroyed and people died, the river water of Layue was cold and biting, and it could quickly take away people's body temperature.

"Fortunately, I have not been idle in the month since I occupied Pengze."

Zhao Tuo shouted that he was glad that he let people find out the nearby terrain and hydrological conditions, and asked the local old fisherman to take him to Penglang Rock to overlook the north shore.

For now, these are their strengths.

The shore was a clump of rocks, but it was high tide at this moment, so more than a dozen small boats sailed safely through the most dangerous area, and the bow of the boat rushed to the rugged shore of Penglang Rock.

Stepping on the cold water of the lake, the soldiers skillfully dragged the boat ashore and tied it, and then lined up in two teams, everyone's cheeks were red by the cold wind of the wax moon, and some even had long snots under their noses.

Although he was named Five Hundred Lords, in fact, Zhao Tuo's subordinates were only more than 300 people, and only 200 of the people who were left to guard the stern of the building went ashore with him to carry out this adventure.

Zhao Tuo directly wiped the snot of a young man from the building boat with his sleeve, patted the people who were a little nervous, and said with a smile:

"If there is a war in the daytime, we dare not call it the first."

"But when it comes to night battles, I'm afraid no one dares to compete with the people of the building!"

Hearing this, everyone laughed in the cold wind, which is indeed the advantage of the people of the building. The Qin army, which was mainly a farmer, whose staple food was millet and rice, and rarely had meat to accompany the meal, often had the symptom of "blindfolded birds", and could not see clearly at night, even if there was a moon, they could not see anything at all, and it was difficult to move.

However, the people of the building boat are different, they are selected from the fishermen who live on the waterfront, they grew up drinking crucian carp soup, and they also eat rice soup and fish in the army, and their vitamins have been supplemented, so the symptoms of blindfolded finches are mild.

This kind of dark night is indeed a good time for them to show their talents!

"After tonight, Zhao Tuo may be worthy of being Sima's brother-in-law, and the second and third sons will also make contributions and become famous in the army!"

Zhao Tuo is young and not very good at words, but he knows that the most motivating thing for everyone is to take the lead.

So he ignored the faint pain in his abdomen, regardless of the cold wind pouring into his armor, pulled out his sword, and pointed to Peng Zecheng a few miles away, and pointed to Fanyang Jun's camp.

The campfire over there had melted into the night sky, becoming a vague speck in the distance, but it showed them a general direction.

"The inside and the outside should be combined, destroy the enemy army, and then enter the city to eat warm morning food!"

The moon hid in the clouds again, and it was pitch black all around, but in the eyes of the people of the building, their five hundred lords, Zhao Tuo, were shining like gold at this moment! Lead the crowd forward!

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"Ten days ago, Zhao Tuo with two hundred building boats, landed in Penglangji, attacked Fanyang Jun's camp in the dark, Xiao Tao in the city saw the enemy camp on fire, and also led the crowd out of the city to respond as soon as possible, the two should be outside the combination, and killed more than 1,000 Chu people, until the next morning, the battle ended, more than 300 Chu people died, more than 200 escaped, and the remaining 500 have been surrendered."

After informing his men of the battle that took place ten days ago, Heifu put down the slip sent by Peng Ze and said with some smugness: "How? I look at people's eyes, is it quite accurate? ”

Dongmen Leopard, Gong Ao, Ji Ying and others looked at each other, with a small number of enemies, they could do it by asking themselves, but with people landing and sneaking in places with great wind and waves and dense reefs, it is not possible for people who are not wise and brave.

They were dissatisfied with Heifu's importance to Zhao Tuo before, mainly because Zhao Tuo did not show excellence, but this time, they had to obey.

When Xu Shu heard this, he also breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "The subordinates who work in the gold mining have it." ”

Hefu had a wooden box open with him, and inside was a scorched head with half of his face burned.

"This is Fanyang Jun himself, who also died in the chaos, and Zhao Tuo also specially sent his head, wanting me to deter Fanyang and shake his military heart."

Speaking of this, Heifu got up, walked to the edge of the city tower, looked at the Qin army who was cleaning up the battlefield, and the embarrassed Chu prisoners, and smiled: "Zhao Tuo is shining, I, as a righteous brother, have not fallen behind!" ”

Just yesterday, after a few days of attack, Wu Rui led the Ganyue people to attack Fanyang from the water gate, Ejun led more than 1,000 people in the city to resist stubbornly, but could not resist the high morale of the Qin army, and was quickly defeated, after paying more than 200 casualties, Heifu has completely controlled the largest city in Yuzhang!

In mid-December, Fanyang Jun died in Peng Ze, and Fanyang was also conquered by Heifu, and thus the war in the north of Yuzhang came to an end. Heifu asked Ji Ying to send the good news to Li You, the commander who was attacking Changsha, and to the newly established "Jiujiang County" in Shouchun, Huainan.

By the beginning of January, Li You's order was still on the way, but Jiujiang County's reply had arrived first.

"According to the order of the king, the land of Yuzhang in the south of the Yangtze River will be placed under the rule of Jiujiang County, and the area around Fanyang will continue to be set up as a county, and Peng Ze and Yu Gan will be the townships under its rule......"

It was also accompanied by a letter of ren, a brand-new crown dress, and a small copper seal with an ink ribbon......

In the Qin system, each level has a corresponding official seal, such as the soldier Zuo Cao Shi made by Heifu before, which is an adjutant who is not in the stream, more than two hundred stones, so there is only one small seal; More than 200 stones, more than 600 stone or less officials, it is a copper seal yellow ribbon, Heifu served as the left lieutenant of Anlu County, in this example.

As for the copper seal black ribbon, the two colors under the ribbon are the "big officials" with a rank of 600 stones!

Sure enough, after opening the Ren book, Heifu's name was written on it!

"The five doctors Heifu have made a strategic contribution to the southern expedition, so Jiujiang County guards it as the Fanyang Order!"