Huo Zizhen sent someone to urge Zhang Yunlong to speed up the march, and as soon as the herald left, suddenly the colonel came to report: "The enemy's 5,000 ironclad cavalry rushed to the Hongmingshan Department and formed an encirclement with the enemy in the direction of Yaocheng." ”

"If Hong Mingshan suffers from the enemy on his back, he will be defeated." Huo Zizhen pressed his hands on the sand table, and his sharp eyes quickly swept to the north of Xiangzhou: "Our army's battle line must be pushed to the north of Xiangzhou to block the enemy from the north." ”

"Marshal, then let's not save General Hong?" Deputy Marshal Zhang Zhikui said worriedly.

"Siege Wei to save Zhao!" Huo Zizhen pointed to Ye County and said, "Hit here!" ”

Guo Xu, the general of the Sixth Army of the Flying Tiger Army (the captain of the cavalry escort brigade before Meng Yang's death), said: "Marshal, the Xuanjia Army has not yet arrived, let's leave like this, the enemy of Xiangzhou is killed, aren't we suffering from the enemy on our backs?" ”

Huo Zizhen patted the handsome case and roared: "I don't believe that Zhang Yunlong dares to ignore the safety of the handsome department, and he still grinds with me." If I die, don't think about it! ”

Huo Zizhen was stunned, and said coldly to Zhao Guangda, the commander of the Northern Expedition: "Zhao Jianjun, did you say it?" ”

Under the eyes of the handsome, Zhao Guangda couldn't help but shiver, leaving behind his usual arrogant expression, and said quite respectfully: "This official thinks that the handsome man's words are reasonable. Even if he Zhang Yunlong ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, he didn't dare to do so. ”

Huo Zizhen sneered: "Since this is the case, then ask Zhao Jianjun to join Ben Shuai and kill Xiang Ye County!" ”

——

On the seventh day of June, Dizhou, Bohai City.

"Rush!"

The brothers Dian Han and Dian Xiao, led 5,000 recruits to besiege Bohai City for six days, besieging and charging no less than 30 times on all sides, but still couldn't take the small Bohai City.

The guard Natan only had five hundred male soldiers on his side, but he used it to the extreme.

Of the five hundred soldiers, two hundred, did not have to go up to the city, but escorted the people under the city, and distributed them to the city, and shot them with wooden bows.

If anyone dares to disobey, they will kill their family members on the spot.

The city is miserable and cannot be detailed.

Natanhun asked all Han people to cut off their forehead hair before going to the city and comb it into the same pigtail on the back of their heads as the male Jia people, so that the Liang soldiers could not distinguish which one was a Han and which one was a male Jia.

The battle was extremely fierce.

"Brother, it's no good, the generals brought from Longyou have three dead and five injured. No one led the charge, and the recruits were afraid of battle and did not dare to fight! "The warden was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, and he couldn't lift one arm, so he came to discuss with the pawn.

Dian Han sighed heavily, looked at the generals and colonels around him, and all of them were depressed and couldn't keep their spirits up.

Five thousand people, fought for six days, killed and wounded, and couldn't even take a small city, which was really discouraging.

It's not that the soldiers of the girder are not brave enough, but the equipment is too poor, and it is poor in all aspects.

The siege equipment is not good, but the opponent is very sophisticated, there are several high-grade archers with good skills standing on the city, full of lethality, even if it is a seven-grade canon, they do not dare to break through easily. - He is the main general, and he cannot be easily dispatched, and once he is seriously injured, he will inevitably be unstable.

The enemy army prepared a lot of fire oil.

As soon as the ladder was put up, oil was poured on it, and the ladder was turned into carbon ash; There were four rushing chariots, just rushed to the city gate, the city was sprinkled with fire oil, pine oil, stone grease, stones, wood, the rushing chariot was destroyed at the city gate, blocking the city gate to death.

There was only one siege crossbow, and it fired sharpened wooden stakes against the adobe city wall, hoping to climb the wooden stakes to climb the city, but as soon as it fired less than ten wooden stakes, the crossbow was broken.

The soldiers charged with stones, trying to pile up stones under the walls to climb, but the enemy's bows and arrows were dense like rain.

What's even more hateful is that the enemy army doesn't even have a piece of iron on the arrow, and it can still seriously injure the Liang soldiers, and this battle is really aggrieved and distressing.

The soldiers didn't even have leather armor, and the armor from the ironclad army was really a little useless.

"Fourth, I know what you said, but we can't do it if we don't rush. While the enemy support force has not yet arrived, we cannot delay any longer. Dian Han was anxious.

In fact, Dian Han is also wondering now, why hasn't the enemy's support force come yet, could it be that there are no soldiers in the male Jia country?

At this time, the herald reported to the door: "Captain Educe, General Tang Qi Zhonglang ordered, saying that the new Fourth Division, which belongs to the Tang Yuan Division of the Second Regiment, has attracted 2,000 iron cavalry reinforcements from the enemy to Cangzhou." You don't have to rush to attack the city at this time, just surround it first, and it is estimated that the food in Bohai City will run out at this time. It is better to leave a door for them, they are hungry, and they will give up the Bohai Sea by themselves, and it is not impossible to ambush them in the right place when the time comes. ”

"Tang Yuan? The division belongs to the second regiment? Dian Han was stunned for a while: "Where did the second regiment come out?" How many people are there? ”

The herald said: "Back to the general, my subordinates don't know very well. Just listening to the scouts of the second regiment, Tang Yuan's troops were like snowballs, rolling around Zhanhua, Yangxin, and the southern part of Cangzhou, and now the size of the army has expanded to 3,000 people. ”

"Three thousand?" Dian Han couldn't cry and laughed: "Right now, there are no 3,000 people left in my army, and he Tang Yuan is really capable." It seems that his first-class lieutenant can't stop him at all, more than me, a second-class lieutenant. ”

Dian Han praised Tang Yuan loudly because of his achievements, but now Tang Yuan was not in the mood to be complacent.

Behind him, two thousand hardcover men Jia Tieqi were like a swimming sharp knife, chasing him everywhere.

This side is mostly plains, and it is not easy to find a few dense forest hills, and he leads the troops and hides in the mountains.

Hit head-on?

It's like sending him to death, Tang Yuan won't do that kind of thing, not to mention that he also has the experienced Zhang Nu and the "cunning" secretary Lang Nalanxin by his side. Neither of these men would agree to him doing that.

Tang Yuan dispersed his troops into the mountains and started a guerrilla war with the Nanjia cavalry.

With the protection of the jungle, shoot cold arrows.

"Bang ——!"

"Tang Duwei is good at archery!"

"Haha!" The eighteen-year-old laughed.

At this time, Tang Yuan's young heart did not retreat, and when he was happy, he smiled brightly.

Just now, he shot an arrow through the chest of a male cavalry centurion, and fell off his horse.

Because of the suddenness of this arrow, the rest of the cavalry hurriedly retreated, and the enemy army was in chaos, and arrows flew like rain in the dense forest, and more than a dozen people were shot in an instant. It's a pity that most of Tang Yuan's soldiers are strong men, and their archery is not accurate, and their equipment is extremely poor.

If you don't have a sharp metal armor-piercing arrow, you can't shoot through the enemy's armor at all.

The enemy army was attracted by Tang Yuan to the south of Cangzhou, and it had been two days and nights.

In fact, this was not Tang Yuan's original intention, he originally wanted to avoid the enemy's support troops, but he was unlucky, because he made too much noise, he actually attracted the enemy cavalry.

But two days later, the enemy withdrew for some reason.

It seems that they have lost interest in continuing to fight guerrilla warfare with Tang Yuan.

However, before they left, they actually set fire to the mountain, burning Tang Yuan and the others to the black.

"His grandmother's, this man is really yin!" Tang Hu scolded indignantly.

"It seems that they have a rush on their mission, and they have to get out of here immediately, otherwise our group will be unlucky." Tang Yuan looked at the back of the enemy army in the distance.

"Well, there are a few more horses over there." Tang Hu jumped and ran over.

After rolling around Leling and Wudi, and tossing in the mountains for two days, Tang Yuan got dozens of war horses and some sophisticated equipment. But the price he paid was not small. The enemy's elite cavalry was not to be underestimated, killing at least 500 Liang soldiers in two days. And they hurt less than 100 people. The proportion of casualties is more than five times that of guerrilla warfare. If you face the enemy head-on, the consequences are unimaginable.

Tang Yuan formed two cavalry teams, which were not large, with a total of more than sixty cavalry.

"Now, we have two fixed cavalry troops. Chen Bao, you lead a team. Liu Zhan, you lead a team. Tang Yuan ordered.

"Huh? What about me? Tang Hu glared.

"You'd better follow me." Tang Yuan looked down, and the enemy army had completely withdrawn: "You kid doesn't have a very bright brain, you know that you can rush and fight, follow me, I can rest assured." ”

"What you said is that my fat tiger character is actually the most suitable for being a cavalry captain. If you have something, I'll be the first to rush over. ”

Tang Yuan thought for a while and said, "I'll talk about it later." ”