Hearing Han Qian's plan to attack the west, Zheng Hui patted his thigh and praised: "It is really a blessing for Great Chu to have Lord Han and the defense envoy to serve him, and Zheng is also fortunate to be able to be a minister in the same palace as Lord Han!" ”

"Lord Zheng is overrated!" Han Qian said modestly, "I'm used to stealing tricks, but the sword is on the wrong side, and it can be used occasionally, after all, it's not the right way." ”

Zheng Hui shook his head and smiled, he knew that Shen Yang, General Lou Chuan, Yang Jian, Marquis of Zhenyuan, and even His Majesty were all dissatisfied with Han Qian's instigation of the three princes to guard Xichuan City during the Jingxiang War.

Although this topic is not suitable for deep discussion, Zheng Hui does not think that Han Qian has done anything wrong.

As the general of Xichuan who could not get out at that time, Zheng Hui knew better than anyone about the dangers experienced before and after the Dengxi area at that time, and he knew in his heart that if it were not for Han Qian to instigate the three princes to grasp the defense of Dunxi with a thunderous force and a series of strange schemes after that, most of Jingxiang would have fallen into the hands of the Liang army, and even if Tanzhou did not declare independence, there would never be today's act of cutting down the domain of Tanzhou.

Zheng Hui looked at Han Qian, he was not very handsome, but he had a calm bearing that was difficult for ordinary people to reach, and it was difficult for people to associate it with his actual age.

Zheng Hui is only thirty-seven years old this year, and he is already an official position at the level of Chenzhou Assassin Shi and Deputy Defense Envoy of the Wuling Army, and he can definitely be said to be the young Zhuang faction of the Great Chu Dynasty, but he is much older than Han Qian, who is only twenty-one years old.

In fact, even Zheng Xingxuan, who is a generation younger than Zheng Hui and cultivated as a rising star of the Zheng family, is the same age as Lin Haizheng, and he is twenty-four or five years old at this time.

As a military attache at the level of battalion commander, he can already be said to be the backbone of the Great Chu Army, and he can definitely be said to be young and promising, but in front of Han Qian, who is calm and calm, he really can't show off his spirit.

Zheng Xingxuan secretly pondered what Han Qian had just said in his heart.

Although he was arrogant in the past, and felt that Han Qian was just lucky to win by luck when he went off the rails and played tricks during the Jingxiang War, but after he joined the County King's Mansion, he had a clearer understanding of the things before and after the County King's Mansion, and this time he entered Xuzhou, he had to admit that Han Qian did have something that others could not, and it was no wonder that His Royal Highness would rely on him so much.

This is something he can't envy.

Han Qian's plan to attack the east and west is only a general direction, and Feng Yi, Zheng Xingxuan, Yuan Guowei and Zheng Hui also have other counselors and military affairs advisers around them, and further refinement will be made.

Not to mention Yang Zaili and Xiang Jianlong, the four chiefs, Han Qian incorporated 1,600 four-surnamed soldiers into the Wuling Army, among which there must be quite a lot of generals, and even a few grassroots military attachés, all of whom were looking forward to the frustration of the Han family's father and son, and the Wuling Army to defeat Chenzhou.

What Zheng Hui and they have to do is to secretly and purposefully release some restrictions, through these generals who have not yet attached themselves to the Wuling Army, and through the restless elements in the four surnames, the Wuling Army suffered extremely tragic setbacks in the First World War of Nanpo Village, and the news that Zheng Hui, Han Qian and others are afraid of the Tiger and are brave and deliberately adjust the direction of the attack is spread.

After that, he selected the elite who were familiar with the water from the infantry camp to strengthen the water camp, restore the construction of warships in the Wufeng Mountain Shipyard, and constantly sent scouts to Lipu, transferred the water camp station from Wufeng Mountain to Wukou Village, and constantly sent warships to attack the river between Chenyang and Lipu.

Han Qian spent more time with the guards.

The forces of the surnames in Chenzhou, as long as there is a glimmer of possibility, are not willing to become puppets of Tanzhou, so on the premise of refusing the entry of Tanzhou soldiers and horses, on the one hand, they will continue to recruit and transfer the people to be brave, and on the other hand, they will adjust the defensive deployment between Chenyang and Lipu.

Lipu is located at the northwest foot of Xuefeng Mountain, the largest river valley basin in the upper reaches of Yuanshui, it is located in the territory of Lipu County, the soil is fertile, the climate is suitable, the products are extremely abundant, there are more than 13,000 households in Chenzhou, almost half of the people inhabit the Lipu River valley basin.

The Datan River flows into the Yuanshui River from the northwest of the Heiqi Mountain, the estuary of the Datan River is the water and land intersection that enters the plain of the Lipu River valley from the Yuanjiang River, the Datan Village built there is also the important commercial port town along the Yuanshui and Chenyang, Qianyang and Wukou.

In mid-November, the surnames of Chenzhou continued to recruit and recruit the warriors who could fight well from the subordinate households, and increased the number of guards in Datanzhai to 14,500 people.

At this time, Zheng Hui led his troops and horses to bypass Jiming Village, directly along the south side of Chenshui, between the hills at the northeast foot of Longya Mountain, rushed to attack Chenyang City, attacked for two days, and discarded the whirlwind cannon and other heavy weapons, and hurriedly fled back to Laolongtou from the wild path at the northeast foot of Longya Mountain.

As Han Qian expected, the thirsty warrior saw more than 2,000 Wuling troops fleeing south, where could he still have the patience to guard the rabbit in Jiming Village?

Xishuhu led 2,000 soldiers from Jiming Village, and was lured by Zheng Hui into a mountain col in the northeast corner of Laolong Gorge, where he was first secretly deployed in the Meizipo side ridge with 60 bed crossbows to shoot out of formation.

At the beginning of the shooting, he did not see through the fact that Lao Yao Pass was a carefully selected field battle place for the Wuling Army, while urging his generals to rush the main force of the Wuling Army that wanted to escape from the south entrance of Lao Yao Pass, and on the other hand, he personally led the soldiers to storm the bed crossbow position of Meizipo, but he did not want him to be resisted to death by the three hundred armor soldiers led by Zheng Xing, Zheng Hui, Tian Cheng and Gao Shao guarded the exit on the south side of Lao Yao Pass, and at the same time, they also organized their soldiers and horses to go around a ramp outside Lao Yao Pass to the entrance on the north side of Lao Yao Pass, and trapped more than 2,000 soldiers in the valley of Lao Yao Pass.

At this time, more than 30 heavily armored cavalry, which have rarely appeared on the battlefield of Chenxu since ancient times, were also put into the battlefield.

Driven by the armor, the tall war horse was covered by the protection of the steel horse armor, ignoring the arrows shot by the soldiers, mercilessly impacting the gradually scattered formation of the soldiers, and harvesting the lives of the soldiers cruelly and efficiently.

Due to the fact that the Tiger was eager to fight for merit and recklessly dispatched troops from Jiming Village, the guard general of Chenyang City and the third son of Xiying was worried that the Tiger was too reckless and difficult to defeat the main force of the Wuling Army in front of the Old Dragon Gorge, and he also led 800 soldiers out of Chenyang City to chase and kill.

Of course, Xi Sheyan didn't expect the plan at that time, more thinking that Xi Shehu could entangle the main force of the Wuling Army, and he led his troops to rush over to fight a war of annihilation, thinking that after this battle, he would be able to become the male lord of Chenxu and Xuzhou.

In this way, Zheng Hui and Han Qian were even more unlikely to show mercy to their subordinates, and they did not have time to force the more than 2,000 soldiers trapped at the bottom of the Lao Yao Pass Valley to surrender.

The tiger has the courage to be invincible, but this time in order to facilitate the pursuit of the main force of the Wuling army, he did not wear heavy armor that affected the action, and wore an extra leather armor when he was about to fight, but he could not stop the accumulation of stainless steel arrows, and dozens of arrows in his body finally fell in front of Meizipo, and he also cut down the outermost two bed crossbows before he died.

As soon as the tiger died, the remaining soldiers completely collapsed and fled all over the mountains to avoid being pursued.

At this time, Zheng Hui and Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, Lin Haizheng and others reorganized the formation, led the main force of the Wuling Army out of Lao Ya Pass, and at Qixingpo, two miles away, to meet the Xishiyan and 800 soldiers who were still ignorant and chased from Chenyang City......

Before dark, the Wuling army went to Laoya'ao, Meizipo, Qixingpo and other places at the northeast foot of Longya Mountain, and completely annihilated the 3,000 soldiers who were lured out of the walled city.

When the night was full of stars and moons, illuminating the mountains and fields like water, Zheng Hui led his troops in the morning light and advanced again to Chenyang City.

At this time, there were less than 300 defenders left in Chenyang City, and they didn't even have time to dismantle the dozen or so whirlwind cannons that Zheng Hui had abandoned outside the city before and transport them into the city.

The defenders piled up firewood and ignited it, wanting to burn the whirlwind cannons, but the Wuling army came very quickly, the defenders hurriedly promoted the city to close the door to defend, the Wuling army extinguished the firewood, and more than a dozen whirlwind cannons were almost usable after replacing the slings and leather bags, and kept collecting nearby stone tablets and stone mills, and launched a new offensive against Chenyang City, where only three hundred defenders were left.

And Xiying's ninth son, Xiying, washed and shot in Jiming Village, and there were less than 200 soldiers left to defend.

On November 19, Zheng Hui captured Chenyang City.

At this time, Jiming Village became a lonely village surrounded by Wuling Army, and two hundred soldiers abandoned the village, and wanted to escape from Chenshui into the Yuanjiang River by three canopy boats, and wanted to escape from the Yuanjiang River to the direction of Yuanling or the Datan Village of Lipu.

However, at this time, Yang Qin had already led three warships from Wukou Village to Qianyang City to join the main force of the Wuling Army, and at the mouth of the Chenshui River into the Yuan River, he directly knocked over the canopy boat that transported the escape of the 200 defenders of Jiming Village, and the vast majority of the 200 soldiers sank to the bottom of the river.

On November 19, the sun had not yet set.

Han Qian stood in front of the river beach wharf on the east side of Chenyang City, watching the afterglow of the sunset fall on the clear Yuanshui River, and the three war sailboats slowly approached.

The cast-iron horns are like poisonous snakes lurking beneath the water, looming in the clear river water.

Yang Qin stood at the bow of the boat, and before getting off the boat to meet Han Qian, he ordered the soldiers standing on the side of the ship to drag a corpse dragged behind the boat with hooks and guns.

It was the corpse of more than a dozen arrows in the body after the ninth son of Xiying shot into the water.

Yang Qin will not bother to salvage the corpses of other soldiers who are immersed in the bottom of the river, and Xi Shetao, as the ninth son of Xiying, is more special, but it is to avoid being pecked by fish and shrimp.

It had been less than half an hour since he was killed, and his face had not yet been soaked by the river, and even his hideous face of temporary struggle could be clearly seen.

Xi Xunqiao and the children of the Chenzhou Xi clan are of the same origin for a hundred years, and he was not in a good mood to see this scene, but he was even more shocked in his heart, under the strong pressure of the Han family's father and son, the Chenzhou Xi clan, which had successfully unified the forces of the Chenzhou surname, was so vulnerable.

Its elite soldiers in Chenyang County, the size of the number is not similar to the main force of the Wuling Army, and there are two fortified cities of Chenyang City and Jiming Village to defend, hundreds of Fanhu and Tanzhou lurking people and horses also fully support them to resist the northward advance of the Wuling Army, in such a short period of time, the main force suffered heavy losses, not to mention, but also lost the entire Chenyang County?

Xi Xunqiao finally decided to give advice to Zheng Hui and Han Qian, naturally hoping that the Wuling army would win, but he never wanted the Chenzhou soldiers to lose so badly.

He expected Xiying's father and son to make a new choice when they felt the strong pressure of the Wuling Army, gave up the illusion of separating Chenzhou, and threw themselves into the arms of the imperial court, and worked with the Wuling Army to clamp down on Tanzhou and support the imperial court's reduction of Tanzhou.

Who would have thought that the elite soldiers of the Chenzhou Xi clan in Chenyang County would be so vulnerable!