Eighteen troop carriers were not allowed to go ashore, and under the strict orders of the commander-in-chief Zhang Shun, eighteen warships were forced to return to the sea and sail towards the dock on the north shore.

There are only fifteen earth-shaking thunders, which will be mainly used to siege the city, there is no need to waste them on the bombing ships with low accuracy, the Xuanwu battalion uses Zhentian thunder to deal with warships with more layers of significance is to carry out psychological deterrence against the enemy army, and hit the morale of the soldiers of the Liangshan Army.

Three converted cargo ships watched from a distance, like three hungry wolves that had not eaten enough, waiting for another chance to attack the enemy.

Eighteen troop transports docked one after another, and a group of soldiers quickly rushed to the shore, at this moment, the horn sounded not far away, and a thousand cavalry came like a gallop, stirring up rolling yellow dust on the official road, and they arrived at the dock in a moment, and they began to kill the soldiers of the Liangshan Army who had just landed in a team of 100 people.

The soldiers on the shore were suddenly in chaos, and the infantry could not withstand the fierce onslaught of the cavalry, and quickly dispersed, but the soldiers who had not yet disembarked from the ship opened their bows and arrows and shot at the cavalry on the shore.

Li Yanqing watched the battle from a distance, and when he saw the increase in cavalry casualties, he immediately ordered: "Order the ship to move, and you can use the earth-shaking thunder again." ”

The flag was waved on the shore, the soldiers on board understood, and the three transport ships also headed for the pier, and as they approached the pier, they were immediately stopped by several empty boats to prevent them from approaching the troop carriers docked at the pier.

The soldiers on the ship started together, threw a jar of fire oil to the opponent's ship, the ceramic jar was smashed on the deck, the brown fire oil flowed all over the deck, the boatmen were shocked, and they wanted to turn around and leave, at this time, the soldiers of the Xuanwu battalion lit a rocket and shot at the opponent's ship, and several interceptor ships suddenly turned into a sea of fire.

The three ships did the same, using cannons to throw a jar of fire oil at the dense ships on the docks, and the rockets were fired, and several large ships full of soldiers began to catch fire, just then a sky-shattering thunder emitting white smoke fell into one of the ships.

'Boom! An earth-shattering explosion sounded, and dozens of soldiers on board were blown into the air, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the ship was also blown to pieces, and began to sink rapidly, and thick smoke covered the dock.

Immediately afterward, another earthquake exploded between the two ships, and the powerful shock wave suddenly overturned the two large ships full of soldiers, and the 160 soldiers on board fell into the water one after another.

The fire burned seven large ships, and the earth-shattering thunder was even more terrifying, and the soldiers were so frightened that they rushed to the shore, and they would rather fight with the cavalry than die in the explosions and flames.

The ships of the Liangshan army had no soldiers, just like lambs that were powerless to defend, except for scattering and fleeing, there was no power to counterattack, at this time, several other transport ships of the Xuanwu battalion also approached the enemy ships, although they did not install cannons, but they had fire oil, this time the seed master sent to Li Yanqing had three hundred jars of fire oil, which were just used to attack the enemy ships.

At this time, there was chaos on the shore and water of the wharf, the cavalry of the Xuanwu battalion and the Liangshan soldiers on the wharf fought fiercely, and the boats in the water were ignited one after another, and the fire of most of the ships was getting bigger and bigger, uncontrollable, and the boatmen jumped into the water to flee for their lives, allowing the burning boats to float on the water, and finally sank into the Yellow River.

More than 1,400 Liangshan infantry who came ashore only lasted less than half an hour, and then they were defeated under the strangulation of the cavalry, the corpses on the bank were all over the field, the blood and water flowed into the Yellow River, the soldiers ran for their lives with wails, but they could not outrun the horses, were pierced through the back of the heart by the spears of the cavalry, or their heads were cut off by the swords, only dozens of people escaped by luck, and the first batch of 1,600 reinforcements was finally wiped out.

Twenty troop carriers were blown up and eighteen were burned, only two boats fled back to the south bank, Zhang Shun was stunned, he could continue to send reinforcements, but without troop carriers, he could not do anything, Zhang Shun had no choice but to send people to Xucheng County to report to Song Jiang.

Although the Xuanwu battalion effectively thwarted the Liangshan army's attempt to rescue the north bank, they also paid a heavy price, the cavalry suffered more than 80 casualties, most of them were shot by arrows, nearly 50 people were killed, and the cavalry training was not easy, which made Li Yanqing really painful, he ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, leaving dozens of people to monitor the dock and the opposite bank, and then led the other troops back to the old town camp.

The next two days were calm, on the one hand, the soldiers fought continuously, they were really a little tired, and they needed to rest, on the other hand, Li Yanqing needed to observe the enemy's reinforcements, he not only sent ships to closely monitor the movement of the wharf in Yanggu County, but also sent cavalry scouts to the wharf in Gaotang County, Bozhou to monitor, Gaotang County was once the old nest of the Liangshan Army in Hebei, and the possibility of reinforcements still crossing the river from Gaotang County was not ruled out.

In the large battalion, Li Yanqing was convening officers above the head of the team to discuss the next step, which was a habit that Li Yanqing had developed when he was in the intelligence battalion; after a series of battles, he would always gather his subordinates to sum up the lessons and lessons together, which would not only make him gain something for himself, but also help the growth of his generals.

The camp was very lively, everyone spoke freely, and expressed their thoughts one after another, in this kind of occasion, Wang Gui was undoubtedly a very active activist, with him, there was no need to worry about the cold scene.

"Everyone! Everybody! Listen to what I, General Wang, have to say. ”

Wang Gui jumped on the table, waved to everyone, signaled everyone to be quiet, everyone laughed, the Song army must command the above to be called a general, all of them belong to low-level officers, but this Wang Dutou likes to call himself a general, but everyone likes his cheerfulness and confidence.

And the cow head with him is a stuffy gourd, usually silent, but his personality is very stubborn, and no one else can convince him except for the command to convince him.

Everyone quieted down, Wang Gui said with a smile: "Actually, everyone has seen that our magic weapon to win is to concentrate our forces to break through, but there is a very important condition in this, that is, intelligence, I think timely and accurate intelligence is the key to victory, so the commander said what we should do next, my attitude is obvious, that is, to strengthen intelligence, what do you think?" ”

Everyone applauded and agreed with Wang Gui's idea, and at this time, a soldier walked in quickly and whispered a few words to Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing nodded, stood up and waved his hand to everyone, the big tent was quiet for a moment, Li Yanqing led everyone to win the battle, and invisibly erected absolute authority in everyone's hearts.

Li Yanqing looked at everyone and said slowly: "General Wang is right, we benefit from cavalry and intelligence, we will strengthen the collection of intelligence in the next step, and we will not talk about intelligence for the time being, I will give you a question now, if we use the earth-shaking thunder to blow up the city wall of Shen County, what will happen to the Liangshan army in the city?" Will you continue to defend it, or will you abandon the city and leave? What if we continue to cling to it? What should we do if we abandon the city? Or if they are going to fight us, how are we going to deal with it? Everyone thinks about it, and if you have the answer, you can tell General Wang or General Niu, and then I will brainstorm and make the best decision. ”

Li Yanqing left everyone a homework, and everyone went back to their tents to think, at this time, Li Yanqing walked out of the big tent quickly and asked, "Where are the people?" ”

"Wait at the guest tent!"

Li Yanqing walked quickly towards the guest tent, walked into the big tent, and saw a middle-aged scribe drinking tea in the big tent. ”

This middle-aged scribe is called Chong Lin, is the nephew of the seed master Dao, and is currently serving as the chief officer of the military department to join the army, Chong Lin got up and saluted and said with a smile: "Li joined the army in Hebei and won many battles, which has caused a sensation in the government and the opposition, even the Son of Heaven also commended you at the court meeting, Li joined the army and has a bright future!" ”

"Mr. has won the prize, please take a seat!"

Chong Lin sat down, and then said to Li Yanqing: "I came to see Li Senjun on the order of the marshal, send a letter, and send two more messages. ”

Chong Lin took out a handwritten letter from the Seed Master Dao and handed it to Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing was not in a hurry to read the letter, and said with a smile: "Let's talk about the message first!" ”

"In fact, the message is the content of the letter, one is the merit of Li joining the army in Western Xia, the Son of Heaven admits that you have made great contributions, but he thinks that your officialdom qualifications are insufficient, and it is not appropriate to promote too quickly, so you are only promoted to the first level of the Zhengqipin Dynasty Lang, and the actual service of the imperial history is added, and the reward is 3,000 taels of gold, that is to say, you have the right to supervise the state and county governments in Hebei, and the marshal is very worried that you will not be able to figure it out, so let me appease you."

Li Yanqing shook his head, "Before I participated in the Western Xia Campaign, I was from the Eighth Rank Cheng Feng Lang, and after the Western Xia Campaign, I was promoted to the Seventh Rank Dynasty Lang, and I was promoted to three levels in a row, and I also won the title of Imperial History, I am already very satisfied, there is nothing I can't figure out." ”

Li Yanqing knew very well what he needed, what he urgently needed now was not an official position, but the need to establish personal prestige in the army and the imperial court, and the need to accumulate war experience as much as possible, and the official position was not important to him.

Seeing that Li Yanqing didn't care, Chong Lin immediately smiled with relief: "It's good to think about it, after all, you are a civil official, and it is rare to be promoted to three levels in a row, and Wang Ang, the champion of the same department as you, is still from the seventh grade of the book, but is one level lower than you, and he has to do it for two years before he has the opportunity to be promoted, Chong Dashuai said, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally promised that this time he will destroy the Liang Shan Army, and he will definitely fight for you to be promoted to one level." ”

It seems that the crown prince Zhao Huan is really trying to win himself over, Li Yanqing smiled and asked, "What other message is there?" ”

"Also, the Son of Heaven has allowed you to call the village soldiers of the Daimyo Mansion and Xiangzhou."

Chong Lin took out two turtle talismans and handed them to Li Yanqing, "This is the troop transfer tortoise talisman of Xiangzhou and the Daimyo Mansion, although this tortoise talisman can also mobilize the Xiang army, but you must remember that the troop transfer is limited to the township soldiers of one prefecture and one state." ”

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