"Sit down, have a good feast, you should eat and drink tonight, Ben Hou has ordered the remaining naval army to go to stop the enemy. The craftsmen who built the roads in various places also organized them to defend the city, and it was not enough for a large number of soldiers to mess with our position. ”

Cai Cong said lightly, revealing this powerful self-confidence in his words, which made everyone feel at ease like a needle that fixed the sea.

This night the glasses were staggered but some people did not dare to drink too much, and when the late night banquet was dispersed, there was not even a single one who drank too much, and all the officials returned to their posts in high spirits, and time waited for no one, who knew how long it would take for the pirates to land.

And on this night, before Hailing's sailors set off, Hailing County was attacked by a large number of pirates, and the battle was extremely fierce, and the fire shone on the entire county. Even the Acropolis, which was far away, could be seen in the sky.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, the lieutenant Guoyi of Hailing County and the navy sat on the city wall all night, but the two died one after another, and the county commander was shot in the face by a stray arrow in the dark night and died on the spot.

The county commander ordered the casualties to be counted, and there were more than 2,000 corpses on and off the city wall, and the dead naval soldiers and officials accounted for a full seventy percent, plus the death of the lord of a city and the main general in the army, which can be described as a great defeat.

Hailing County ordered people to go to Yangzhou to invite troops, and he sat in Hailing, vowing to kill all the thieves and avenge the victims of Hailing.

When the news reached Yangzhou, Cai Cong was furious, ordered the burial of Hailing County Ling and Guoyi Duwei, and ordered George Liang to take over the political affairs of Yangzhou City, and he took 8,000 soldiers to Hailing.

George Liang begged hard and Cai Cong did not change his decision, forced to helplessly George Liang invited Zheng Rong and his son, and then Hailing came to an urgent report, and on the second night after the night attack, the thieves attacked the city again, and the prepared county Cheng set an ambush on the beach and cut three thousand, and the thieves retreated in panic. Cai Cong reluctantly announced that he would not go to the front line in person, and ordered Jiang Wei to lead 8,000 soldiers to Hailing to support, while he waited for the villagers and craftsmen on the Yangzhou side to prepare weapons and then go to Hailing in one fell swoop.

When Jiang Wei arrived with 8,000 people, he was warmly welcomed by Hailing, and the county Chenglu Qiu was personally leading people out of the city for ten miles to greet him.

"Luxian Cheng, the beach night battle is beautiful, I heard that Luxian Cheng expected the enemy to guess that the thieves would attack again, so he led the troops to ambush the beach, mainly with crossbows, and then the fire bull array charged to break the enemy's courage, and finally defeated the enemy with a spear array, it was really wonderful!"

Jiang Wei came from afar, and he praised loudly from afar. Luxian Cheng arched his hand with a smile, and said sadly: "No matter how powerful it is, it can't recover the casualties caused by the night attack, that night Hailing was full of blood, and the moon was reflected in blood, it is really the sin of me waiting for the chief of a county!" ”

"It's a blessing to be able to defend the city in the hurry of the thieves' night attack, but how can they take the blame on themselves? Now this official has come to the aid with 8,000 soldiers and horses, and he will not let the thieves move forward.

Let's go into the city and talk, and then think that we should conspire, and if we can, we should counterattack and defend, so that we will not be too passive. ”

Jiang Wei held Luxian Cheng's hand tightly, said sincerely, and also put forward his own opinions.

"I don't think it's appropriate, although the enemy army did not break the city during this night attack, but fifteen warships were scuttled and nine big ships were drowned, and at the moment there are not enough Hailing warships, and the whereabouts of the thieves on the sea are unknown, where can we find them in the vast sea?"

Luxian Cheng hurriedly said, his words made Jiang Wei snort in pain, and the smile on his face turned into a painful color, passive defense is not the way, what if the pirates bypass Hailing, climb the mountain and attack other cities?

"The sea is turbulent, and I want to hold the arm ring hook, urge the wind and waves, and hit the sea building ship directly."

Lu Xian Cheng's sad and indignant poetry, eager to turn into the surging waves on the sea to destroy the enemy's sea building ship, Jiang Wei slapped Lu Qiuzheng's shoulder with his fist to show empathy.

In normal times, Lu Qiuzheng would definitely feel rude and disgusted, but now he only felt a kind of hatred for the enemy, and his blood was condensing.

Returning to the county government, the two sat down and talked, they were not the main ones who talked on paper, and soon came up with an exact plan, the road leading to Yangzhou in Hailing was heavily guarded, and other small roads and dangerous roads were sent scouts to step up inspections, and once the situation was found, they had to report it quickly, but in this way, the troops in Hailing City were greatly reduced, forming a lot of hidden dangers.

And on several islands not far from each other on the sea, there were people everywhere, and there were vulgar men everywhere, speaking and chattering, lighting a bonfire and eating barbecue meat and sea fish, some people grabbed the meat to eat, and when they grabbed it, they raised their knives and guns and fought to fight, and if they won the battle, they ate meat, and if they lost the battle, the corpse fell to the side and no one cared.

"General Garman, your soldiers are really fierce, but wouldn't it be inappropriate to fight in public without military discipline like this?"

In the tent, a tall general with a dagger adorned with gems cut a roast full of spices and stuffed large pieces into his mouth.

And opposite him was Songwen, who was elegantly eating exquisite wine and food at the moment.

"Haha...... I don't have so many military regulations here, as long as I don't retreat from the battle, being a deserter is not considered a military rule, and as for fighting, it can only make my soldiers braver, why should I stop it? It's you, the king of a country, who actually followed me to be a pirate, I really can't figure it out! ”

Garman said savagely, he couldn't help but sarcastically say something about Songwen's graceful posture, which only women and hypocritical aristocrats ate like this in the Great Eat.

"Haha...... The general laughed, the so-called king of a country is just a joke, the Tang Dynasty is menacing, and the tens of thousands of soldiers under it can't stop the Tang army at all, of course, we must transfer as soon as possible, as long as this army is there, I can make a comeback wherever I go, as for the Great Wenguo, let him be wiped out! ”

Song Wen said calmly, in addition to luck, he was able to escape death many times because of his keen intuition, as early as when Feng Ang dispatched troops, he felt that something was wrong and began to plan. Then came the auspicious news, he no longer hesitated, and directly sailed out to sea with his army.

If it was really Xiangrui, how could he not go to Chang'an with the car, and no one knew about Lingnan itself, but it was necessary to wait until Chang'an came to hear the news that the people of Lingnan would gather around the Guogong Mansion to see Xiangrui, even so, there was no unicorn appeared, and Li Chengqian was there in person, so he felt that there was a problem, so he left early.

Then he met the army of the Great Food Country on the sea, both sides thought that the opposite side was the Tang Army so they fought, but fortunately they immediately found out that something was wrong, Songwen learned that he was going to fight Yangzhou, and decisively courted peace, and discussed jointly sending troops to Yangzhou, and then said that he would kill him.

(End of chapter)