On the official road, more than 2,000 soldiers have quickly formed a military formation, Zhang Cen is extremely nervous, standing on a high place and looking around, only to see that his soldiers are constantly running from the east, all of them are in a hurry, many soldiers even lost their armor and weapons, and ran back with their bare hands, but there was no sign of enemy attack around.

About half an hour later, the soldiers were almost all there, Zhang Cen counted the army, there were nearly a thousand people missing, this must have been attacked and killed by officers and soldiers, Zhang Cen quickly glanced at Guan Sheng, only to see that he was full of sneers, and he didn't say a word, Zhang Cen was secretly annoyed in his heart, but he couldn't attack, so he had to shout and order: "Rest in place, don't act rashly!" ”

The soldiers sat down to rest, many of them were frightened, sitting on the grass in a daze, Zhang Cen asked people to count the grain, although the enemy cavalry ruined their chance to seize the grain, but they still grabbed a batch of grain and livestock from the town, which could be eaten by 4,000 soldiers for three or four days, and there was no problem in going to Gaotang County.

There was no movement all night, and the officers and soldiers seemed to have disappeared, and they did not appear again within a radius of five miles, but the soldiers were still frightened, and basically remained in a semi-asleep state, and no one dared to fall asleep.

Early the next morning, amid the shouts of the generals, the soldiers got up one after another, dragged their heavy bodies, and continued to march north......

In a forest ten miles to the south, a thousand cavalry were resting in the woods, Li Yanqing divided his troops into three routes this time, Lu Fei led three hundred soldiers to Gaotang County by boat, and Dutou Wang Ping led five hundred infantry to Gaotang County by small road.

Li Yanqing personally led a thousand cavalry to follow the soldiers of the Liangshan Army, seizing every opportunity to annihilate the scattered ranks of the enemy, and last night the Liangshan Army plundered, and Li Yanqing seized the opportunity to annihilate more than 900 people, plus 300 soldiers who died in Liaocheng, the Liangshan Army has lost more than 1,200 people.

At this moment, a cavalry scout came galloping and rushed into the woods and shouted: "The enemy has risen and set off." ”

Li Yanqing immediately ordered his cavalry to get up, and everyone turned over on their horses, drinking water and eating dry food on their horses while hurrying, their speed was not fast, basically similar to walking, on the one hand, they had to take care of the horsepower, and more importantly, they had to cooperate with the enemy's marching speed.

Behind the cavalry were hundreds of mules laden with hay fodder, and a hundred soldiers were in charge of them, and the procession headed north.

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On the other side of the Yellow River in Gaotang County is Yucheng County, Qizhou, both Gaotang County and Yucheng County have a Yellow River wharf, last autumn, Song Jiang personally led tens of thousands of troops to cross the Yellow River from the wharf of Yucheng County, and entered Bozhou.

Now that the imperial court has sent troops to Shandong, the situation in southwest Jeju has suddenly become tense, and Song Jiang has to be forced to completely shrink the front, concentrating all the troops distributed in various states in Yunzhou and Jeju, preparing to fight to the death with the main army of the plant.

Qizhou's troops were all transferred back to Yunzhou, leaving only 3,000 people to garrison the important town of Licheng County, and Yucheng County did not have troops to garrison, but there were more than 100 large and small ships moored on the docks of the Yellow River.

On this morning, hundreds of soldiers rushed to the dock from Licheng County, they brought an order from the lord Song Jiang to let all the ships go to Gaotang County, ready to receive the Hebei soldiers back to Qizhou, although Song Jiang decided to give up Hebei for the time being, but he could not give up the army on the other side of the Yellow River, especially two important brothers Zhang Cen and Guan Sheng, if something happened to them, Song Jiang would be difficult to explain to the other brothers of Zhongyitang.

"Let's go now, go directly to Gaotang County and wait!"

The soldiers boarded the boats, and one of the commanders urged the boatmen to sail north.

The boatmen had no choice but to untie the cables, pull up the sails, and one by one the cargo ships swayed away from the wharf and headed for the other side of the Yellow River.

Lu Fei led 300 soldiers on ten cargo ships to Gaotang County two hours earlier, and their task was the same as the Shen County wharf, destroying all the ships that came to meet the Liangshan soldiers, so that the Liangshan Army in Hebei could not go south by boat.

Lu Fei received news from the other side that more than 100 ships had left the dock and set off, and he immediately shouted: "Ships go and intercept the fleet on the other side!" ”

Ten large boats carrying 300 soldiers left the dock of Gaotang County and headed for the middle of the Yellow River, and in less than a quarter of an hour, they saw small black dots in the distance, densely packed with small black dots, and there were hundreds of boats.

"Get ready to attack!"

Thirty soldiers on each ship were in position, ready with fire oil and rockets, waiting for the opportunity for the two ships to stagger together.

In the Song Dynasty, firearms were mainly used in water warfare, and firearms were used to burn the sails or hulls of the opponent's warships, so that the opponent suffered heavy losses and had to withdraw from the battle.

Oil has always been a sharp weapon in water warfare, and generally warships will prepare a large amount of sand, and soldiers will cover the enemy with sand in time to spray the oil on the ship.

But the 100 ships of the Liangshan army were not warships, but 100 ordinary transport cargo ships, each with only a few soldiers on board, no firearms and no fireproof sand, they did not realize that they would encounter enemy ships, and they thought that they had just loaded soldiers and returned to the other side of the Yellow River.

There were thirty soldiers on each ship of the Xuanwu battalion, equipped with more than 100 jars of fire oil and a large number of rockets, at this time, a large ship in the front approached the other ship's ship, and when the two ships staggered past, the soldiers standing on the side of the ship were already ready, and they threw a jar of fire oil to the deck of the opponent's ship.

More than two dozen pottery altars 'bang! Bang! 'Shattered, the altar was filled with oil, the pungent smell permeated the opposing ships, and several soldiers in charge of archery were ready, and they lit rockets in the burning tin buckets, and several flaming and smoking arrows were fired at the opposing ships.

'Boom! The oil was ignited, and it burned so rapidly that it burned the whole deck in an instant, and the boatmen shouted in fright, and then the sails were also ignited by the rockets, and the fire took advantage of the wind, and the whole ship became a sea of fire.

The soldiers did the same, and dozens of large boats sailing in front were soon set on fire, smoke billowed on the river, tongues of fire raged, boatmen jumped into the water with logs and fled for their lives, and the boats behind saw that the situation was not good, and turned around and sailed towards the dock on the south bank.

The Xuanwu battalion ships did not stop, they continued to pursue, and the boatmen could spare them, but they had to burn all the boats, completely cutting off the hope of the soldiers of Liangshan in Hebei Province to retreat to the south bank.

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When thousands of Liangshan troops marched for five days and five nights and finally arrived at Gaotang County, 800 miles away, they were still greeted by the closed city gate and thousands of cold arrows on the city's head, Wang Gui led 7,000 township soldiers to sit in Gaotang County, pushing thousands of Liangshan soldiers who had traveled long distances into the abyss of despair.

Two miles away, 4,000 soldiers of the Liangshan Army rested in the woods next to the official road, each soldier was depressed, depressed to the extreme, thought that they could enter Gaotang County to rest and report a meal, but they were still a step late, thousands of enemy soldiers had already occupied Gaotang County, unless they desperately captured the county seat, otherwise they really had no way out.

Zhang Cen was also extremely disappointed in his heart, in fact, when he was in Liaocheng, he vaguely guessed that the situation in Gaotang County was similar, and it must have been occupied by the enemy, but he still had a glimmer of hope, maybe there were no enemy troops stationed in Gaotang County, or maybe there were ships moored on the dock of the Yellow River to meet them.

Now that half of the hope has been cut off, there is still the last half of hope, is there a ship sent by the big brother on the side of the Yellow River wharf?

At this time, a group of soldiers who had gone to the docks of the Yellow River to inquire about the news returned, and they brought with them a boatman who had been lucky enough to swim ashore.

Zhang Cen hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "How is the situation?" ”

"General, the situation is not good!"

"Why?" Zhang Cen's heart sank, and he faintly realized something.

The boatman knelt down and wept: "We were supposed to meet the general to cross the river, but we met the other party's boats, they were very fierce, and they burned with arrows, we could not resist, and burned many boats, so we could only jump into the water to escape." ”

"What about the other ships?"

Zhang Cen asked anxiously: "Could it be that all the ships have been burned?" ”

"I don't know about the other ships, they fled back, but the enemy's ships also chased after them, and it is estimated that there will be more luck than luck."

Zhang Cen was like falling into an ice cave, shivering with cold, he was completely desperate in his heart, all the escape routes were blocked, what should they do?

At this moment, a soldier came rushing and shouted in the distance: "General, look at the cavalry!" ”

Zhang Cen looked back and saw a cavalry team on a high ground a few miles away, with more than a thousand people, like wolves that had been following their prey, looking at their prey from afar.

What to do? Where do they go from here? Zhang Cen stood for a long time, and finally he couldn't help but let out a long sigh and ordered: "Pass my order, the army will continue to go north and go to Texas!" ”

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