A glimmer of hope ignited in the heart of the cultivator, and he hurriedly said, "Quickly let the messenger soldiers in!" ”

After a while, a sergeant walked in from outside the door, knelt down on one knee and presented a volume of battle reports, "Hebei's latest battle report, please take a look!" ”

Seed Master Dao took the battle report and opened it and read it hurriedly, he was so excited that he slapped the table, "Okay!" ”

Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze were both startled, and hurriedly asked, "But Hebei good news?" ”

Seed Master Dao nodded, "The Hebei Liangshan Army has been wiped out north of Gaotang County, and the main general Zhang Cen died in the chaos. ”

Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze were both surprised and delighted, this disappearance came too timely, and it would inevitably greatly boost the morale of the army. ”

"In the last battle, we suffered only a dozen casualties."

The seed master was surprised, "How could it be? ”

The soldier reported the situation of the last battle in detail to the planter, the more he listened, the more surprised he became, and he followed him for six days and six nights before he started to destroy the enemy, this patience and tenacity may not be able to do it even if he himself, he secretly praised that he really did not see the wrong person, Li Yanqing does have the background of a famous general.

Uncle Zhang gave a thumbs up and praised: "If you are so young, you can be tenacious and patiently look for fighters, this person will definitely be the pillar of my Great Song Dynasty to resist foreign races in the future, and the handsome man has the wisdom to know people!" ”

Zhang Shuye never understood why the Seed Master Dao valued Li Yanqing so much, and now he finally understood, led two thousand troops into Hebei, and finally annihilated tens of thousands of Liangshan troops, which is indeed not something that ordinary people can do.

"The handsome man should immediately report the good news to the Son of Heaven!" Zong Ze next to him said with a smile.

Seed Master Dao nodded, he immediately stamped his seal on Li Yanqing's battle report, and sent a few soldiers to Bianjing to report the news together with the soldiers sent by Li Yanqing.

Seed Master Dao's confidence suddenly increased, and he sent another soldier to Gaotang County to deliver a letter to Li Yanqing, allowing him to go south to Qizhou.

.......

Li Yanqing wanted to go south to Qizhou but it was not so easy, he first had to properly solve the problem of the resettlement of the township soldiers, of course the township soldiers could not be disbanded, Li Yanqing rushed to the Daimyo Mansion and handed over the 10,000 township soldiers recruited by the Daimyo Mansion to Liang Zhongshu, who was responsible for distributing the 10,000 township soldiers between the Daimyo Mansion and Bozhou, the Daimyo Mansion needed to increase the garrison, and Bozhou also needed soldiers to defend the city.

As for the 4,000 township soldiers in Xiangzhou, Li Yanqing left 2,000 young and strong, and the remaining 2,000 people were handed over to Zhang Changyi, the training officer of the Xiangzhou regiment, to be brought back to Anyang County.

At the wharf of the Yellow River in Yucheng County, Qizhou, ten large ships arrived at the wharf one after another, and a thousand infantry rushed out of the boats, quickly assembled on the wharf, and deployed the defense on the wharf to prevent the Liangshan army from attacking the wharf.

Li Yanqing only had 10 large ships, and these ships had to make at least a dozen trips to transport all the soldiers, horses, livestock, and food supplies to the south bank, and ensuring the safety of the wharf was a top priority.

In fact, Li Yanqing's worries were a bit redundant, and not long after the first batch of soldiers went ashore, the magistrate of Yucheng County hurried to the wharf.

"Below is Liu Guang, the magistrate of Yucheng, who will you be?" The magistrate asked loudly.

Lu Fei stepped forward and said, "Our lord is still on the other side, and I am responsible for this, what do you have to do?" ”

Liu Guang, the magistrate of the county, waved his hand, and came up with dozens of carts, which were filled with grain and dozens of big fat pigs, and he hugged his fists and said: "This is a little heart from our county to the brothers, and I implore the general to lead the army to our county to station." ”

Lu Fei asked strangely, "Aren't there Liangshan bandits stationed in Yucheng County?" ”

Liu Guang shook his head, "Yucheng is a small county, and the Liangshan bandits can't look down on it, and the Liangshan bandits didn't enter the city when they passed by, but there are thousands of Liangshan bandits stationed in Licheng County." ”

"Since the Liangshan bandits don't look down on Yucheng County, why did the magistrate invite us to station?"

Lu Fei was very shrewd, he heard some contradictions in the words of Zhixian, Liu Guang sighed, "It is estimated that the Liangshan bandits are going to give up Qizhou, Song Jiang asked Qizhou to raise 50,000 stones, and decompose it into Yucheng County is 8,000 stones, how can we have so much grain, the people of the county are very afraid that the Liangshan bandits will come to the county to grab grain, everyone is panicked, I heard that the officers and soldiers have crossed the river to the south bank, everyone unanimously asked me to invite the officers and soldiers to Yuzhou to station." ”

Only then did Lu Fei understand the intention of Zhixian, and at this time, a soldier shouted: "The commander has disembarked!" ”

As soon as Lu Fei turned around, he saw that the second group of troops began to disembark, and it was their main general Li Yanqing who came down from the first ship. ”

Liu Guang was overjoyed, and hurriedly followed Lu Fei to see Li Yanqing, "Liu Guang, the magistrate of Yucheng County, Xiaguan, see General Li!" ”

Yucheng County is a small county, and the magistrate is only a petty official from the eighth grade, while Li Yanqing is a seventh-grade servant of the imperial history, not only the official rank is higher than him, but also has the right to supervise, of course, Liu Guang doesn't know, if he knows, the attitude will only be more respectful.

Lu Fei told Li Yanqing about Liu Guang's intention, Li Yanqing looked at several carts of fat pigs, and said with a smile: "Thank you very much for Liu Zhixian's intentions, but please don't worry about Liu Zhixian, if the Liangshan bandits in Licheng County know that we are coming, they will no longer have the idea of requisitioning grain." ”

Li Yanqing led the army to exterminate the Liangshan bandits in Hebei, and the tone of his speech had invisibly a strong self-confidence, which was manifested as a kind of majesty, so that Liu Guang, the county governor, did not dare to question Li Yanqing's conclusion, he had to nod and said: "I hope the general can lead the army to quickly suppress the bandits and restore the peace of Qizhou." ”

Li Yanqing said to Lu Fei again: "Send two brothers to see the situation in Yucheng County, if the city wall is tall and thick enough, we can temporarily use it as our logistics powerhouse." ”

"I'm going to check it out for myself." Lu Fei took a few soldiers and hurried to the county seat with Liu Guang, the magistrate.

Yucheng County is located 30 miles away from the Yellow River Wharf, and Licheng County is 50 miles away from Yucheng County, that is, about 80 miles away from the Yellow River Wharf.

Li Yanqing learned from the information currently available that the Liangshan army probably only had 3,000 troops stationed in Licheng County, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and if he could take Licheng County, he would undoubtedly have inserted a dagger in the back of Yunzhou.

He had to seize Licheng County before Song Jiang realized the importance of Qizhou and began to increase troops to Qizhou, at this time, Li Yanqing's mind turned, and he suddenly had a wonderful plan to seize the city.

The next day, just after dawn, about five miles away from Licheng County, a grain convoy transported by 300 mule carts was heading towards Licheng County.

At this time, in the North Songgang woods about two miles northwest of Licheng County, a cavalry of more than 1,000 people has been lurking for a long time, they sneaked into this forest with the help of the cover of night at the fifth watch, and the city wall and the north city gate can be clearly seen from the woods, Li Yanqing looked at the grain transportation team from far and near, he turned around and ordered in a low voice: "Order all the brothers to prepare to attack!" ”

The soldiers were gearing up, waiting for the final order to attack.......

As soon as the city gate was opened, the vendors and vegetable farmers who were waiting outside the city immediately flocked in, and at this time, the grain convoy gradually approached the city gate.

There were about more than 100 soldiers defending the city, and they shouted for the head of the capital: "Where did the team come from?" ”

Yao Qing, the county lieutenant, hurriedly stepped forward and said: "I am the county lieutenant Yao of Yucheng County, and I came to deliver food on the order of Zhi County!" ”

Yao Qing often came to Licheng County, the officers knew him, and the head of the city guard also knew that their general had allocated 8,000 stone of grain to Yucheng, so he sneered and said: "Other counties have not come, and your county is the most active, is it too little to allocate to you?" ”

"There! We are also very short of food, so we can only come over half of it first, and then deliver the other half in a few days. ”

"Humph! Count you Liu Zhixian acquaintances. ”

Dutou waved his hand at the head of the city, "Go up and have a look!" ”

Several soldiers rushed forward, inspected dozens of mule carts in a row, and ran and said, "It's all food!" ”

Du Tou nodded and shouted: "Open the city gate and let them enter the city!" ”

The gates of the city, which had been opened only by a small crack, were now creaked open, and three hundred mulemen began to drive rapidly towards the city with their mule carts.

Dutou came down from the city, stood by the city gate and waited for the county lieutenant, he also wanted to make some more benefits, at this time, he found that the mule drivers were very strong, magnificent, and their backs were straight, not like the appearance of a coolie selling mules, especially the person in front of him was extremely tall and strong, he suddenly became suspicious in his heart, and shouted: "Stop for me, who are you?" ”

Standing in front of him was the head Lu Fei, Lu Fei was majestic, a head taller than everyone else, he saw that the other party was already suspicious, and suddenly picked up a spear from the ox cart, and stabbed the enemy in front of him with a spear, "Lao Tzu is your grandfather!" ”