Chapter 596 Salt Official Surge

Niu Gao raided Haining County, the speed was fast and ruthless, first let Shi Wengong behead the Seven Buddhas, Haining County was leaderless, just an hour, the small Haining County was completely occupied by the Dingguo Army. The Dingguo army rested for several days, and suddenly a large army gathered, naturally it would not be just for a Haining County. Niu Gao did not stop, with Gao Pet and Guan Sheng as the general to go straight to Yanguan Town in the south, Gao Pet arrived three miles north of Yanguan Town, and released the arrow, Xiao Yue, who had been preparing for a long time in the south, also led Yang Zaixing to kill from Yanmen Town, and for a time 20,000 troops surrounded Yanguan Town. The Dingguo Army's movements were too fast, and by the time the news reached Lin'an, the Dingguo Army had already formed a siege of Yanguan Town. Yanguan Town is not compared to other places, it is a bit like Fumin Town in Guanzhong. Because it is a place where salt farms gather and is next to the Qiantang River, Yanguan Town cannot build a city wall, and it is open on all sides, so to defend Yanguan Town, you must use a large army to confront each other.

Deng Yuanjue is not there, and now the person in charge of Yanguan Town is Deng Yuanjue's general Huang Ai and Li Tianrun's younger brother Li Tianyou, although this Li Tianyou is not as brave as his brother Li Tianrun, but he loves to use his brains in battle, and he only fights with the Dingguo Army is not the best policy, and immediately led this man to the salt field east of Yanguan Town. The salt field of Yanguan Town is not a large salt field, but a small salt field, and the salt field is either blocked by a river or blocked by a high slope, which is not suitable for a large army to fight at all. Xiao Yue led the troops to pursue all the way and directly followed up the salt field, but as soon as he crossed the river, he was attacked by Li Tianyou. The thieves scattered, striking at the soldiers crossing the river, taking advantage of them and running away.

After all, Xiao Yue is a Khitan, and the wars he has seen are all grassland battles that are open and closed, and he is not familiar with the small-scale struggle in the south of the Yangtze River after all, in fact, in the face of this situation, the best way is to divide into several teams of 100 people to cooperate with each other to advance, as usual, a team of 20 people, a team of 10 people The method of street fighting does not work at all. After a while, Xiao Yue was beaten by Li Tianyou's stalking method, but fortunately, Niu Gao came in time, otherwise this Khitan general would have personally gone into battle to hunt down those annoying flies.

Niu Gao did not rush to send troops into the salt field like Xiao Yue, but found Guo Shiguang, "General Guo, what is the terrain of this salt field, how to exterminate this remnant army?" ”

Guo Shiguang was originally from Hangzhou, and later followed Shi Bao to be active in the Hangzhou Bay area, so he knew the situation in Yanguan Town well. Listening to Niu Gao's inquiry, he arched his hand and said, "General Niu, the east of Yanguan Town stretches for ten miles, and there are sixty-eight salt farms of all sizes, most of which are bounded by hills and rivers, which is not conducive to the march of the army. The last general thought that he should not be in a hurry to encircle and annihilate Li Tianyou and Huang Ai's troops, and when he sent a general directly to the vicinity of Jinniu Mountain, the army spread out a formation, slowly advanced, and constantly squeezed the enemy's space from the east and west, forcing them to come out and fight a decisive battle with our army. ”

Niu Gao nodded secretly when he heard this, he really deserved to be the head snake of Hangzhou Bay, after thinking about it, Niu Gao called Yang Zaixing over, instructed him, and ordered him to ignore the salt fields along the way, and go directly to the south of Haining County to the direction of Jinniu Mountain.

With Guo Shiguang's guidance, the situation is much better when the fight is started, the Dingguo army is no longer in a hurry to pursue, but a large force of soldiers and horses form a team, carpet towards the east of the salt field, because the soldiers of the Dingguo army gathered together, although each team is only three or four hundred people, but the teams are not far apart, can be reinforced at any time. Some thieves also attacked and harassed according to the previous methods, but as a result, fewer people came and were directly killed, and there were too many of them, and many teams of the Dingguo Army cooperated to encircle, so under the entanglement, the casualties of Li Tianyou's troops continued to grow.

On 16 September, Yang Zaixing advanced westward from the vicinity of Jinniu Mountain, although the pace of the advance was very slow, but it was very steady, and by noon that day, the remaining 6,000 remnants led by Li Tianyou and Huang Aisuo had been squeezed on the four miles of land along the Qiantang River. At noon, the Dingguo army buried the pot to cook, rested, and launched the final attack on the remnants of Li Tianyou in the evening, this time Li Tianyou and Huang Ai could not resist, countless thieves died, and some people jumped directly off the Qiantang River to escape, but most of them were drowned in the water, to sunset, Li Tianyou died in battle, Huang Ai was seriously injured and captured, so far it was also announced that Yanguan Town changed hands, Dingguo Army relied on strict scheduling, it took only two days to occupy Haining and Yanguan Town, completely opened the eastern gateway to Hangzhou.

Yanguan Town is located on the side of Hangzhou Bay, backed by the world's first tide Qiantang River, Yanguan Town has always been rich in sea salt, rich and beautiful. But in fact, in addition to these, Yanguan Town is also an ancient cultural town, and the Jiangzhu culture in the south of the Yangtze River originated here in BC. When you come to Yanguan Town, you can not eat the sea salt here, but you can't help but take a look at the Qiantang tide, and the best place to see the Qiantang tide is the fish scale stone pond. The fish scale stone pond is also known as the Qiantang River and Haitang, I heard that I want to come to Yanguan Town to watch the tide, the wooden girl looked very excited, which made Zhao Yougong very puzzled, the valley where Qin Hongmian took refuge is in the golden mountain, not far from Yanguan Town, to say that the cost of going to Yanyulou is too high, but it is free to come to Yanguan Town to see the tide, is it possible that Qin Hongmian has not even taken the Qiantang River to see the tide?

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Zhao Yougong pulled Mu Wanqing to the side and asked quietly, "Wan'er, haven't you really come to Yanguan Town to see the surge?" ”

"No, why do you ask?"

His Royal Highness Zhao didn't answer, but just rolled his eyes at Qin Hongmian not far away, there are still such mothers in the world, and I don't know what Qin Hongmian thinks. Feeling the white eyes of His Royal Highness Zhao, Qin Hongmian frowned in confusion.

In fact, Zhao Yougong is also the first time to go to Yanguan to see the tide, and they all say that Yanguan Ancient Town is the first tide viewing place in the world, and if you have a chance, of course you have to take a look. And in Fang La, Lin'an, he couldn't swallow it, he couldn't wait to pick up Zhao someone's skin with his own hands, this Zhao Yougong was really too cunning, this hand was striking east and west, false and real, but it really deceived everyone. Now that Yanguan Town has been lost, Hangzhou will definitely not be protected, if Hangzhou is gone, Lin'an is just around the corner, what is the use of guarding a Changhua County? In desperation, he could only order the transfer of the department to change the town to Hangzhou, and let Wang Yin garrison Changhua County. In addition, Deng Yuanjue also transferred troops and horses from the headquarters of Qingxi County, Muzhou, and sent people to Taizhou, Quzhou and other places to arrest Zhuangding, and in just three days, the number of troops increased to more than 100,000. In the past two years, after the power has grown, Fang Lake has rarely done this thing to catch young and strong, but this time he has been forced to a desperate situation by Zhao Yougong and has to do it.

Fang La's arrest of young and strong people everywhere is bound to make the people in Taizhou and other places boiling, but the people of Taizhou do not have a good impression of the imperial court, and there is no big mess in Taizhou for a while. Fang La made such a big move, and the one he wanted to guard against the most was the Dingguo Army in the east.

In Wukang County, Song Jiang was somewhat depressed, he wanted to act with the Dingguo Army and share a piece of the pie, but he didn't expect this Zhao to be so cunning, not only did he turn Fang La's tricks, but even the armies of the imperial court were regarded as fools by him. Now that Zhao Yougong occupies Haining County and Yanguan Town, Fang La is bound to increase his troops in Hangzhou, Hangzhou is where Fang La's core interests lie, at this time he is already very sensitive, if anyone dares to attack Hangzhou first at this time, Fang La will definitely fight for his life.

Hangzhou is close at hand, but the Dingguo army has no sign of sending troops to Hangzhou, the Dingguo army does not move, and the other soldiers and horses will not be stupid enough to do it first, so a strange scene has been formed near Hangzhou. Fangla's various departments sharpened their knives and waited for the officers and soldiers to attack, but the soldiers and horses of the imperial court were very quiet, as if they had discussed it, they were stationed in their respective defense areas, and they didn't even bother to send troops to attack and disturb.

It's weird, it's really weird, and in this weird atmosphere, Zhao Yougong sat in the fish scale stone pond and looked at the tide of the money pond in front of him easily. Qiantang tide, the wonder of the world, the tide rises at noon, begins to be slow and elegant, until the end, you can hear the rumbling sound from the front, the tide is surging, there is enough height of the foot, the water and light on the horizon are one, the wave is wave after wave, the momentum swallows the sky and the earth, better than thousands of troops and horses.

On September 19, when the battle situation was at its most critical, Zhao Yougong led people to leave Yanguan and wanted to return to Guanzhong. When the news that Zhao Yougong was going back to Guanzhong came, many people were stunned, what the hell was Zhao Yougong doing, didn't he want Hangzhou, didn't he want Lin'an? Only Wu Yong felt that it was not surprising that His Royal Highness Zhao did this, that Zhang Zhenniang was about to give birth, how could Zhao Yougong miss his first child?

Zhao Yougong returned to Guanzhong, but Fang La didn't dare to believe it, he was really scared by someone Zhao before, if he used this to confuse everyone, when everyone relaxed, the Dingguo army in the east suddenly launched a fierce attack, then wouldn't Hangzhou City suffer? The Si Xing Fang and Fang La in Hangzhou City were generally thinking, for fear that the Dingguo Army would attack Hangzhou, so they could only let the soldiers and horses of the various departments raise their vigilance.

In late September, Tokyo's Bianliang City was already a little cool, and in an elegant mansion, there was a masked old man with a gray beard, the old man's back was slightly bowed, his hands were hanging together, and behind him sat the black-robed man who listened to the rain pavilion master.

"Then Zhao Yougong's skills have been refined to such a terrifying level?" The old man asked softly, and the black-robed man nodded, and said with a slightly hoarse wry smile, "I have made too much progress, although the disciple couldn't beat him before, but he came and went freely, and there should be no problem." But now, the disciple felt that he had no chance of winning. ”

"Strange, who is this Zhao Yougong to learn from? The old man tossed and turned for half his life, and he felt that even Wu Yazi and Tianshan Tong couldn't train such an excellent disciple, and as for the other old monsters, it was even more impossible, could it be Murong Longcheng? After that, the old man smiled bitterly and shook his head, back then, he saw Murong Longcheng's life dry up and die, and besides, Murong Longcheng was bent on recovering the Great Yan Kingdom, and there was no reason to cultivate Zhao Yougong, he should cultivate Murong Fu. The old man has a headache, the people who are superb in the martial arts are nothing more than those few, Murong Longcheng, Tianshan Tong Ma, Wu Yazi, and the other one is himself, and only he and Tong Mama are alive, but Zhao Yougong is not a disciple of Tong Ma, and the Dragon Capture Gong, Flame Palm, Jiuyang Gong, and Yijin Jing are even more concentrated beggars and Shaolin advanced martial arts, and they have nothing to do with the Xiaoyao faction. Who is that person, and why is there no impression at all? R1152