These visitors from the sea, all armed with flintlock pistols and grenades, could not be stopped at all.

Although Liao Hua's subordinates were also equipped with a small number of grenades, Liao Hua regarded grenades as strategic materials and refused to use them easily.

Just when Liao Hua was distressed, there was an urgent report to the Taishou Mansion of Langxi County, and the navy of the Central Army really came again, this time landing on the coast of Rizhao, and now it is attacking Haiqu County.

In order to quickly support the coastal and land borders, Liaohua has moved the county from Kaiyang to Juxian.

Hearing that Haiqu County was in an emergency, Liao Hua did not hesitate, and immediately led his 10,000 elite infantry to aid Haiqu County.

Of the 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command, 5,000 were stationed in Tobu, 3,000 were in Zhuxian, and 2,000 were left behind in Juxian.

He can only mobilize 10,000 people in normal times, Juxian is not far from Haiqu, more than 100 miles, they travel day and night, and in less than two days, he led the army to Haiqu.

Sure enough, outside Haiqu City, the Central Army of 2,000 people was attacking the city, but after all, it was a marine, and there were no siege equipment.

The so-called siege of the city is just to climb the city with a ladder, and as a result, the five hundred city defenders in the city are stunned to hold their offensive.

When they saw Liaohua's reinforcements coming, they turned around and ran, heading straight to the sea, where their navy was answering.

Liao Hua only symbolically chased them for a while, put them on the boat, and then collected his troops and returned to the city.

He stayed in Haiqu for another day, and after making sure that the fleet of the Central Navy was far away, Liao Hua instructed the local county magistrate to repair the city and replenish the city defense army before leading the army back to Juxian.

However, on the way back, in order to save time and physical strength, I took a shortcut.

This so-called shortcut is the Zhengrong Valley.

Although it was walking in broad daylight, Liao Hua always felt that there was a cool breeze around him.

Liao Hua regretted the shortcut he chose, thinking that back then, he had killed tens of thousands of comrades in the Qingzhou Army here.

He felt that until now, the ghost of Zhengrong Valley was still lingering, and his resentment was overwhelming.

In the past few years in Langxie, it is the first time for him to revisit his old place today, and he doesn't know why, he chose this path by mistake.

It's too late to regret it now, he can only order his subordinates to speed up the pace and pass quickly.

As soon as the forward left the north entrance of the Zhengrong Valley, there was a trumpet sound all around, and the Central Army had been fighting all year round, and Liao Hua was very familiar with it.

Did this Central Army fall from the sky? How to appear in their hinterland? There's no one in Tobu to report it.

Beyond the valley, on the surrounding wasteland, there were groups of cavalry of the Central Army, like wolves, with more than 10,000 horsemen.

Liao Hua clearly saw the two big flags in the central army formation, with the words "horse" and "zhao" written respectively.

As the cavalry team gradually approached, he even saw clearly that under the banner, there were two people with silver helmets and silver armor who looked like generals, one was someone he knew, it was Zhao Yun, the assassin of Qingzhou.

Although I don't know the other, but looking at the dress and the word "horse" on the banner, it should be Ma Chao.

They deliberately chose this place, to avenge the revenge of the mountainous valley.

Sure enough, there was also a trumpet sound from the south entrance of Zhengrong Valley, and it was also a cavalry of more than 10,000 people of the Central Army, blocking his retreat.

Liao Hua couldn't help but smile bitterly, as for it? Against his own 10,000 infantry, 30,000 cavalry came.

Generals like Zhao Yun and Ma Chao came out in person, and they really looked up to themselves.

Zhao Yun was admiring Sima Yi's idea at the moment, in order to be able to hide from the sky and cross the sea, Sima Yi first asked Xu Huang to send troops to attack Yanzhou, attracting Cao Cao's attention and mobilizing the defenders opposite Qingzhou.

Then he asked the marines to attack and disturb Haiqu, giving Liao Hua the inertia of keeping everything normal.

In the end, it was this big deal, smuggling the personnel, horses, and equipment of two cavalry divisions and carrying out a large-scale landing.

The landing site was selected in Haizhou Bay, which is at the junction of Langxie and Donghai counties, and a large number of reconnaissance troops were dispatched to land in advance, controlling all the residents and coastal defenders' posts within a radius of several tens of miles.

After all these enemy soldiers and civilians were under centralized control, open and secret outposts were set up on the periphery before they began to land on the beach.

In order to transport so many men and equipment, Sima Yi mobilized all the ships of the Yellow River Fleet, the Bohai Fleet, and the Yellow Sea Fleet that could sail in the coastal areas, whether they were building ships, fighting ships, transport ships, or cargo ships.

Even so, it took two trips back and forth to complete this major project from Jiaozhou Bay to Haizhou Bay.

During this period, the attack on Haiqu and Rizhao coastal areas was also to drive the coastal residents inland, so that they would not see so many ships coming and going, so as not to leak the news.

Now, everything is perfectly executed, it all unfolds as planned, and it has successfully surrounded Liao Hua in this very monumental place.

Zhao Yun and Ma Chao took a few steps forward and looked at Wei Jun opposite, "Liao Hua, you didn't expect it, your final destination is this place where you committed a heinous crime." ”

"All this is the will of heaven in the dark! What are you waiting for? Aren't you just going to be caught? ”

"Tied up?" Liao Hua also took a few steps forward and said with a wry smile, "Can I surrender now, can you still forgive me?" ”

Ma Chao sneered: "Liao Hua, you traitor, what do you want to do well?" The policy of our Central Army to surrender and avoid death does not include traitors like you. The main bus has been stayed, Liao Hua is a thief, he wants to see people in life and see corpses in death, after he is caught, he will be killed by a thousand knives and Ling Chi! ”

Liao Hua nodded, "In that case, what's the benefit of talking more?" Let's do it, if you want me to die, you have to pull a few of you on your backs. ”

The 10,000 infantry of Liaohua can be regarded as the elite of the Wei army, fully equipped with hoplites, spearmen, and crossbowmen.

Knowing that they had fallen into a desperate situation of mortality, it stimulated their blood.

One by one, they had red eyes, raised their swords and guns together, lined up in an offensive formation, and rushed towards the cavalry of the Central Army in front of them.

Ma Chao looked at Wei Jun who rushed over and sneered: "Want to play with your life? Then you have to play with grandpa! Orders, guerrilla tactics, no hand-to-hand combat! ”

The Central Army had not yet developed a special musket for cavalry, and they used the same flintlock and rifled guns as the infantry, and instead of bayonets, they retained horizontal knives.

Since Ma Chao ordered guerrilla tactics, the officers and men of the 11th Cavalry Division scattered in all directions, keeping a distance of 100 to 120 zhang between themselves and the Wei army, calmly shooting at the enemy, and then running to a distance to reload their bullets.

How can a two-legged one run more than a four-legged one, so the Wei army wants to fight hard with the Central Army, but there is no chance at all.

The hoplites could only cover the spearmen and crossbowmen behind them with their large shields and their own bodies, and the crossbowmen could only shoot arrows in vain beyond range.

Juxian

(End of chapter)