Chapter 197: The road is ambushed

Three days after Su Shang led the army back to Donglai City, the county guard announced three news at the same time!

First, on the ninth day of October in the 11th year of the Great Cause, Su Shang, the Duke of Laiguo, will hold a big wedding in Donglai City.

Second, on March 15 of the twelfth year of the Great Cause, the county guard government will hold a talent selection test in Donglai City, and talents in the Great Sui can sign up to participate, and those with excellent grades can be admitted as local government officials, and after one year, those with outstanding work ability can be recommended by the county guard government to the court as officials.

Third, from March 28 to the first day of April in the twelfth year of the Great Cause, Su Shang, the Duke of Laiguo, will hold a recruitment meeting for the unmarried generals of the allied army in Donglai City.

As soon as the three news came out, the enthusiasm of the Donglai people was detonated, and the Donglai people rushed to tell each other, and the news quickly spread all over Donglai City, out of Donglai County, and to all parts of Dasui!

Just when Donglai City was bustling, Li Jing led a cavalry team of more than 1,000 people, escorted a carriage, and quietly left Donglai City!

They went all the way quickly, went straight to Qiancheng County, Beihai County, and boarded a fleet that had been waiting for a long time at the mouth of the Jishui River!

The fleet has a total of twenty-five warships, five of which are thousand-stone ships, and the remaining twenty are all kinds of hazy small boats, and there are also a thousand well-equipped infantry waiting on board, who will escort Su Wenxian to Jingzhao Wugong County with a thousand cavalry teams under the leadership of Li Jing!

This time Su Wenxian went to Jingzhao Su Clan, in order to protect his safety, Su Shang not only sent the military god Li Jing, but also sent the fierce general Wei Chi Gong, and even drew two hundred soldiers from his own personal barracks and asked them to accompany him to protect Su Wenxian!

The fleet enters the Yellow River from the Bohai Sea and will follow the Yellow River waterway to Jingzhao Wugong County! The river is calm and calm, and the fleet travels day and night, all the way forward fast!

Suddenly, a sentry who had been standing on the lookout on the top of the ship rushed into the cabin, "Report to the general, the sentinel ship ahead has sent out three fireworks signals!" ”

In the cabin, Li Jing and Wei Chigong were closing their eyes to recuperate, both of them were very calm at this time, and the sentry's report did not surprise them, as if things were just what they expected!

"The herald immediately halted its advance, and the cavalry ships docked to the left! The herald ordered all the officers and men to prepare for battle, and after the fleet docked, the cavalry officers and men immediately landed ashore...... "Li Jing did not hesitate, and quickly issued several orders!

Li Jing took Wei Chigong to the bow of the ship, and a moving Hazy Sentinel Ship was returning quickly, and soon the Hazy Sentinel Ship was on the warship, and a scout captain quickly boarded the ship.

"Report to the general, ten miles ahead of the barrage found a barrage! There is a suspected ambush in the woods on the left bank of the river, and the number is unknown! ”

Li Jing frowned a little, and ordered the fleet to dock to the left side, hoping to temporarily avoid the enemy and clear the barrage from the left side, but he didn't expect the enemy to ambush on the left side of the river!

Li Jing looked at the river bank on the left, the place where the fleet docked was an open area, and there was a flat riverside tidal flat within a radius of several miles, and the cavalry fleet had already approached the shore at this time, and the cavalry members who were fully equipped were quickly leading their horses to land.

"General, why don't you let the last general go ashore to fight?" Wei Chigong said to himself!

Li Jing pondered for a moment, "It's okay!" However, General Wei Chi must remember that our mission this time is to escort, not to attack the city! The situation on the shore is unknown, and after General Wei Chi lands, he will order the ships to sail to the shore temporarily! General Wei Chi led the cavalry team to move and fight, and must not fight to the death with the enemy's attack and defense! ”

"Yes! The end will understand! ”

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As soon as Wei Chigong finished landing and assembling the team, a scout rushed over, "Report to the general, there are 5,000 enemy troops hidden in the iron cable barrage, and the enemy army has moved, and it is estimated that they are killing the landing site at this time!" ”

Wei Chigong looked back at the fleet, the fleet had been started and was going offshore one after another, there was no worries, Yu Chigong suddenly felt at ease.

"How is the enemy armament? Is there cavalry or not? ”

"There are 500 cavalry, of which 3,000 enemy troops are equipped with leather armor, and the remaining 2,000 enemy troops are uniformly equipped with Mingguang armor, and the subordinate flag is the 'Zhai' flag on a black background, which should be Zhai Rang's Wagang army!"

"Good! Revisit! ”

Wei Chigong looked at the woods a few miles away, frowned and muttered for a moment, and suddenly thought to himself, "Zhao Hong, Wang Mingtao, the two of you each lead a hundred cavalry, detour from the woods to the back of the enemy, and after the general launches an attack, you wait for the opportunity to pretend to be a thousand cavalry from the rear of the enemy army to attack!" ”

"Yes! The last will obey! ”

Zhao Hong and Wang Mingtao led the soldiers to leave quickly, and then Yu Chigong also led the rest of the soldiers into the woods quickly!

Half an hour later, an army of more than 5,000 people appeared on the banks of the downstream river, and there were all kinds of flags in the ranks, the largest of which was the "Zhai" flag on a black background, and there were several smaller brown "single" flags around it, which turned out to be a Wagang army led by a single general!

At the front of the line was a tall general. The general looks about thirty-two or thirteen years old, more than eight feet tall, with long hands and feet, a burly figure, dark brown complexion, a short beard on his face, and a bright eye, riding a black war horse on his crotch, and holding a black horse lance, majestic and breathtaking!

Next to the general, there was another general who also looked to be in his thirties, but this person was dressed as a literati, riding a huáng sè war horse, about seven feet tall and two, not fat or thin, with a moderate figure, and a fair and elegant face. It can be seen that this is a staff officer who was born as a scribe!

"General Shan, it seems that they are very vigilant, not only did they not stop the ship and dock, but they were ready to turn around and return home!" Looking at the fleet of ships that had already sailed from the shore and were about to turn around and return home, the scribe general frowned a little!

"There's a bit of trouble now! The admiral asked us to rob the ships, but they didn't dock, how could we rob them? Chief of the house, what can you do? The burly single-surnamed general asked.

The scribe general surnamed Fang shook his head, "No! The river is too large, and the range of arrows is insufficient, so it is impossible to use rocket attacks. However, they always have to land for supplies, and now they can only wait for the right time, or cut down the trees and make the soldiers cross the river to board the boat to attack! ”

"No! We don't know how much food supplies are stored on their ships, and once the trailing time is too long, our own food and grass supplies will not be able to keep up, and we will not be able to cross the river in a row, they are warships, and they can completely rampage, and the wooden rafts cannot stop them at all. ”

"General Shan is right!"

The scribe general surnamed Fang nodded in agreement, "As long as they are in the river, we can't help them." Now we can only hope that General Xu on the other side of the river will find a way! ”

The army continues to advance. Suddenly, the scribe surnamed Fang pointed to the tidal flat in front of him and shouted, "General Shan, look!"

Is the overlord of the late Sui Dynasty good-looking?