After the heavy flood and heavy rain, nearly 1,000 people in the team led by Li Zhongyi fell ill.

These sick soldiers, except for those who had a fever or a cold, Li Zhongyi did not dare to be careless at all, and ordered people to go to the town to make ginger, and at the same time ordered people to boil hot water.

Soon after, the men of the Throat Camp came back and reported that there was a dock fort not far away.

Li Zhongyi couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered Zhang Sanzheng to bring five 6-pounder guns and 3,000 soldiers and horses to attack.

By the end of the night, the dock fort had been captured, and Li Zhongyi led people to carry the sick and lived in the dock fort one after another.

After they were all settled, Li Zhongyi freed up his hand and circled around the dock fort, and couldn't help but smack his tongue secretly, what a big dock fort!

According to the scale of the dock fort, there were three or five thousand people living in it, and it was not a problem at all, and the owner of the dock fort immediately attracted Li Zhongyi's attention.

"Your Majesty, this place is the ancestral residence of Sun De, the Taishi of the Tang Kingdom." Zhang Sanzheng came to report the details of the owner here, "After the last general commanded to open the gate of the fort, the people in the fort did not dare to resist and surrendered obediently. ”

Li Zhongyi touched his chin and smiled slightly, the appearance of the artillery was indeed a nightmare for the defenders of the city.

In this light army expedition to the south, Li Zhongyi decisively brought out thirty 6-pounder guns, and now they really come in handy.

It's just that the road to Hongzhou was first flooded, and then washed by heavy rain, making it muddy and difficult to walk, which became the biggest problem in front of Li Zhongyi.

"Your Majesty, the throat rebuke team that went to check the source of the flood has returned, according to the confessions of the villagers they captured, it should be the forbidden army of the Tang Kingdom, digging the remaining water embankment." The situation reported by Zhang Sanzheng just confirmed Li Zhongyi's previous speculation.

"The person who can use this poisonous trick is definitely not Li Yu's idiot, let me think about it, well, it should be Lin Renzhao." Li Zhongyi sighed for a while, Lin Renzhao, who was so wise and brave, fell into the trap of not being able to die well in history.

Previously, when Li Qiong led the army to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty, he was defeated by Lin Renzhao and fled back.

This time, Lin Renzhao was far away in Jiangzhou, and he actually calculated Li Zhongyi on the edge of Yushui, what kind of hero is this?

However, Li Zhongyi, who did not die in the catastrophe, has no way out now.

wants to go back from here, not to mention anything else, just carrying nearly a thousand sick numbers over the mountains and mountains is enough for Li Zhongyi to drink several pots.

To go to Hongzhou here, although the road is muddy, it is enough to get off the horse and lead the way, at most delay some time for the march.

At this time, more than a dozen cauldrons had been set up in the dock fort, and steaming ginger soup was brought out one after another and sent to the patient's hand.

Li Zhongyi prescribed a prescription, and there were some medicines in the dock fort, but they were not complete, so he had to order people to go to the surrounding villages and try their best to get the medicines.

Fortunately, in this era, in every village, there are traveling doctors, and the medicine is quickly available.

Li Zhongyi secretly breathed a sigh of relief while ordering people to boil medicine, as long as the medicine is complete, colds and fevers can be cured.

According to reason, it is the right thing to quickly enter Hongzhou and capture Li Yu. However, Li Zhongyi knew in his heart that if he kept people to take care of the sick, he would worry about the attack of the enemy army if there were fewer people, and if there were more people, the attack power of the large army would be weakened.

In view of the fact that the elite main forces of the Southern Tang Dynasty were all resisting Yang Lie in Jiangzhou, Li Zhongyi was not worried about the enemy attack.

Therefore, Li Zhongyi simply rested in the dock fort for a few days, and waited for the patient to recover before making plans.

The road was still muddy and difficult to walk, but the heavy rain finally stopped, Li Zhongyi looked at the overcast sky, and exhaled a long breath of turbidity, God finally stopped helping!

After careful searching, a large amount of grain and copper coins were hidden in the Sun family's dock fort, and Li Zhongyi also made a small fortune.

Three days later, after the patient's condition gradually stabilized and improved, Li Zhongyi actively prepared to go on the road.

All the grain in the fort was made into dry food, and the copper coins were packed in sacks and tied to horses.

After packing up, Li Zhongyi found Sun Changwang, the lord of the fort here, and said with a smile: "The lord of the fort is too polite, he actually prepared such a rich material for our army, I have nothing to say, I left you a token, when you arrive in Kaifeng in the future, as long as you hand the token into the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, someone will definitely lead you to see me." At that time, when I am free, I will invite you to dinner. ”

Sun Changwang cried with a sad face, smiling bitterly, their old Sun family had accumulated such a little money for nearly a hundred years, and all of it was picked up by Li Zhongyi.

In the future, when the Taishi returns, how should Sun Changwang explain the past?

Li Zhongyi asked Sun Changwang to come, in fact, he wanted him to be a guide to lead the way. According to the confessions of the people in the fort, when Sun Changwang was young, he traveled all over the mountains and rivers of the Tang Kingdom, especially the terrain from here to Hongzhou, and he couldn't be more familiar.

"Your Majesty, what do you command, just say it, anyway, the little old man's family is empty." After all, Sun Changwang was angry in his heart, and his words were secretly thorny.

Li Zhongyi directly ignored the part of the thorn, and said with a smile: "I want to go to Hongzhou as soon as possible, you are very familiar with the terrain in between, so I can only help you lead the way." ”

Without waiting for Sun Changwang to answer, Li Zhongyi raised his voice and ordered: "Come, go and invite the two sons of the castle owner to the army as guests." ”

Sun Changwang originally wanted to excuse himself, but when he heard Li Zhongyi say this, the words that had already reached his lips had to be swallowed back.

This Sun Changwang has two sons, and Li Zhongyi made a ruthless move, saying that he invited his two sons as guests, but in fact he kidnapped him as a hostage.

"Well, I'm afraid I won't be able to help." Sun Changwang swallowed his saliva and made a weak last resistance.

Li Zhongyi said with a smile: "I can trust you, and the people of the whole castle can also trust you." ”

People are under the eaves, who dares not to bow their heads? When it came to this, Sun Changwang had no choice but to follow Li Zhongyi.

After the army hit the road again, the speed of the march naturally slowed down due to the uneven potholes and muddy roads.

Li Zhongyi was not in a hurry, but just sprinkled the squad of the throat reprimand battalion farther away, so as not to repeat the tragedy of being flooded.

Once flooded, ten years afraid of big water!

Previously, the main reason for escaping from the flooding was the ability of the throat squad.

However, after Sun Changwang led the way, the speed of the army was not too slow, and it was still guaranteed to walk sixty miles a day.

In this attack on Hongzhou, Li Zhongyi brought out all cavalry, and it was one man and three horses, which was itself conducive to the march.

At the same time, dry food and drinking water are sufficient, and as long as there are no more heavy rainstorms, it will be close to Hongzhou in about four or five days.

On the way to the march, because Li Zhongyi's prescription was very effective, the patients with fever or cold were cured one after another.

At this time, every time one more person is healed, it is equivalent to one more living force to attack Hongzhou!