Chapter 340: Gather in Zhangqiu

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On the morning of the 10th day of the first month of March, Wang Bo had the upper hand on the battlefield, and Qin Qiong retreated to defend the city, but what about the strength of the city? It can neither stop the Hebei Righteous Army from forcibly crossing the Jishui, nor can it drag the Hebei Righteous Army under the city, after all, the goal of the Hebei people is Qi County, which is Zhang Xutuo and his main army, not a small and insignificant Zhangqiu City.

Just when Qin Qiong was desperate, Zhang Xutuo rushed with the main army and caught Wang Bo off guard, and Liu Badao, the Hebei handsome man who was crossing the river, had no choice but to stop crossing the river because of the lack of Wang Bo's cover on the other side, and in the face of the suppression of the dense arrow array of the official army.

Wang Bo was weak and exhausted from continuous battles, and saw that the Hebei Righteous Army was blocked on the north bank of Jishui and could not give him support, and Zhang Xutuo came with all his strength, full of murderous spirit, and retreated thirty miles in desperation, and withdrew to Taicheng southwest of Zhangqiu.

Wang Bo hurriedly sent messengers to ask Meng Rang and the Zuo brothers for help, reported the battle situation in Zhangqiu in detail, asked them to fire reinforcements, rushed to the Zhangqiu battlefield, and attacked Zhang Xutuo with the Hebei rebels.

He also sent an envoy to the Zhongchuan Water Battlefield to ask Li Fengyun for help, hoping that Li Fengyun could divide his troops to reinforce him, so that the three-way righteous army would attack Zhang Xutuo and would be able to fight a battle.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Xutuo, with Zhangqiu City as his "backing", set up a blocking battle array along the south bank of Jishui, and clearly told the thieves in the north of the river that I would not let you cross the river to the death.

Just when Zhang Xutuo relied on Zhangqiu City and Jishui River to deploy a large army to block the Hebei Righteous Army from crossing the river, Meng Rang and the Zuo brothers followed with the army of Changbai Mountain, and Chen soldiers were in Gaotang City, twenty miles southeast of Zhangqiu City

At dusk, Beihai Marshal Guo Fangpre and Qin Junhong also led their troops into the Zhangqiu battlefield and stationed their troops in Xiaoliang City, thirty-five miles east of Zhangqiu City. This city is only a few dozen miles away from the Takishui of the boundary between Qi County and Beihai, and once the shape is not right, the Beihai rebels can quickly withdraw to their own territory, which can be described as worry-free.

That night, Zhang Xutuo summoned his officers, deployed offensive and defensive strategies, and swore to fight to the death.

The messengers of the rebels also ran back and forth in the night. Meng Rang, Zuo brothers and other leaders of the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army still respected Wang Bo very much on the surface, and took the initiative to ask about the attack strategy, while Guo Fangpre and Qin Junhong put on a posture of advancing and retreating with the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army, willing to attach their wings to the back, waiting for Wang Bo to make a decision.

At this moment, Wang Bo was anxious and was waiting for the messenger to return from the north bank of Jishui.

Judging from the battle situation, the Hebei Righteous Army and the Qilu Righteous Army have successfully surrounded Zhang Xutuo and occupied the initiative on the battlefield, but in fact, the Righteous Army has fallen into passivity, and the two righteous armies are divided into two parts by the natural danger of the Jishui River, and any part of the troops can not form a fatal threat to Zhang Xutuo, it can only be said that the confrontation is more than enough, and the attack is insufficient, which is equivalent to dragging Zhang Xutuo, and the reason why Zhang Xutuo dared to use himself as bait and put him to death is definitely not to hold the purpose of breaking the cauldron and burning the jade, but to rely on another purpose. This reliance is the reinforcements, and the closest reinforcement to Zhang Xutuo is Yang Lan, the king of Qi, on the Zhongchuan Water battlefield more than 300 miles away.

Wang Bo knew very well that the current Zhangqiu battlefield was basically in a stalemate, and it was too unrealistic to expect all the heroes from all walks of life to attack desperately with all their might.

The goal of the Hebei heroes is not Zhang Xutuo, but to plunder Qi County and expand their strength, so preserving their strength is the first priority, and it is impossible for the Hebei heroes to cross the river to attack at any cost unless they have to. Of course, the Qilu heroes want to kill Zhang Xutuo, but if they kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, if the final result is that they are both defeated and even burned, wouldn't they have nothing? Wouldn't it be in vain to cheapen the white thieves and Hebei people? Therefore, the Qilu heroes will not attack at any cost.

Everyone did not want to lose themselves, and they were unwilling to do their best to attack Zhang Xutuo, Zhang Xutuo's goal was achieved, the official army took the initiative, and the righteous army was in danger of destruction at any time.

Therefore, the only thing that can be counted on now is Li Fengyun, if Li Fengyun keeps his promise and divides his troops to reinforce the Zhangqiu battlefield, so that the righteous army can gain an advantage in terms of strength, he will definitely be able to break the current stalemate, but this brings another serious worry, Li Fengyun has divided his troops, will his army left in Zhongchuanshui still be able to resist the attack of Yang Lan, the king of Qi? If you can't reach it, Yang Lan, the king of Qi, will drive straight into the battlefield and kill the Zhangqiu battlefield, and the righteous army will be defeated.

In the early morning of the 11th, the Hebei Righteous Army replied to Wang Bo, two countermeasures, one of which was to avoid excessive casualties when crossing the river, and choose another place to cross the river, but the risk was that once the officers and soldiers learned that the Hebei Righteous Army was looking for another place to cross the river, they would inevitably attack the Qilu Righteous Army, and strive to inflict heavy damage on the Qilu Righteous Army before the Hebei Righteous Army crossed the river, and then hit the Hebei Righteous Army, so that the two righteous armies would be broken by each; Second, the Qilu Righteous Army attacked Zhang Xutuo at any cost, forcing Zhang Xutuo to withdraw the main force from the line along the river, so that the Hebei Righteous Army could take advantage of the situation to cross the river and take advantage of the situation to cover the killing.

Wang Bo was both indignant and helpless. Hebei people want to preserve their strength, no matter what, they are not willing to sacrifice themselves to become Qilu people, this is also human nature, I can't complain about Hebei people, people can cross the river to the south to help you fight Zhang Xutuo is already very righteous, as long as you sacrifice yourself first, he will follow him and sacrifice himself to die, how do you still let people? You can't let people charge into battle, you follow behind and wave the flag and shout, right?

Wang Bo told Meng Rang and the Zuo brothers about the two countermeasures of the Hebei Righteous Army as quickly as possible, and the result was as he expected, although Meng Rang and the Zuo brothers respected him on the surface and swore that they were the only ones who looked forward, but when it came to their own interests, their true colors were exposed.

Meng Rang and the Zuo brothers politely refused on the grounds of their own weakness. It is true that Wang Bo's own strength is small, and it is not easy for the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army to hold on under Zhang Xutuo's encirclement and suppression, although the number is quite large, but trapped in Changbai Mountain, there is nothing to want, too embarrassed, lack of money, food and weapons, low combat effectiveness, and the official army will definitely die in a head-on battle. As for the Beihai Rebels, they have just raised their flags, looking at the crowds of people, in fact, they are useless, and their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the Changbai Mountain Rebels, which is basically equivalent to a group of rabble.

The strength of the Qilu Righteous Army is weak, and under such a disadvantage, the troops are divided into three ways to attack, and the three earth dogs go to besiege a tiger, isn't this looking for death?

The two countermeasures of the Hebei people are not available, Wang Bo is helpless, and replies to the Hebei people and Meng Rang and other Qilu heroes, temporarily maintain the confrontation situation, and wait for the response of the white marshal Li Fengyun.

However, what Wang Bo didn't expect was that at this moment, Li Fengyun was leading the army to rush to reinforce Zhangqiu.

Li Fengyun's scouts sent the news back as early as the 8th day of the first month when they saw Wang Bo crossing Luoshui, and on the 10th day of the first month, Li Fengyun received the news and concluded that the battle of Zhangqiu was about to explode, and immediately ordered the transfer of the three armies of the Inner Prefecture, the first to the fifth armies of the Outer Prefecture, the Sixth Army under the account of Meng Haigong, and the Seventeenth Army of Shan Xiongxin, about 37,000 soldiers, set off overnight, and rushed to Zhangqiu day and night.

Meng Haigong was ordered to stay on the Zhongchuan Water Battlefield and continue to fight "fiercely" with the army of King Qi.

Before leaving, Li Fengyun secretly told Wei Fusi and Li Zixiong, asking them to pay close attention to the Zhangqiu battlefield, and the implication was to choose the opportunity to capture Licheng. Since the king of Qi has come to Qi County, he can't get nothing.

He also secretly instructed Meng Haigong that if the reinforcements of the King of Qi came and Dong Chun of Pengcheng arrived, he would evacuate the Zhongchuan Water Battlefield, and the troops would be divided into two routes, all the way to Changqing and Shengcheng. The first route was personally led by Meng Haigong, crossing the river from the direction of Licheng into the area of Queshan, and the camera responded to the main army on the battlefield of Zhangqiu.

He also sent 100,000 people to contact Xu Shiyun urgently, asking him to help, and immediately collected 100 ships to rush to Sidujin to prepare for the army to cross the river.

On the 11th, Li Fengyun received another secret report from the scouts on the march that Wang Bo crossed the Jishui River, but was stubbornly resisted by the official army, failed to capture Zhangqiu City as he wished, and failed to open up a safe mouth for the Hebei righteous army to cross the river to the south. Soon, Meng Rang sent an envoy to report urgently, Zhang Xutuo abandoned Juhe City and Pingling, evacuated the Boling battlefield, and reinforced Zhangqiu, and the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army and the Beihai Righteous Army had followed north.

Li Fengyun ordered to speed up the march and strive to reach the Zhangqiu battlefield in the shortest possible time.

On the 11th, on the battlefield of Zhangqiu, the enemy and us faced off tensely.

However, on this day, Zhou Fashang commanded the main force of the water division to enter the waterway of the Great River, go upstream, and kill the line of Dihe and Lujiao Pass, intending to cut off the retreat of the Hebei Righteous Army.

On the twelfth, the battlefield of Zhangqiu was still calm, but in the afternoon of this day, Wang Bo received a secret letter from Li Fengyun that the main force of the alliance was rushing to the battlefield of Zhangqiu, and it was estimated that it could arrive outside Zhangqiu City in the early morning of the 13th, and it could attack Zhang Xutuo at noon on the 13th.

Wang Bo was overjoyed, and immediately sent an envoy to cross the river and meet with the Hebei heroes to attack Zhang Xutuo at noon on the 13th. He also urgently wrote to Meng Rang, the Zuo brothers, and Li Fengyun came with reinforcements, and met to attack Zhang Xutuo, asking all brothers to keep their promises, and work together at critical moments to kill the enemy together.

In the early morning of the 13th, Li Fengyun led the main force of the alliance into the Zhangqiu battlefield, and Wang Bo, Meng Rang, the Zuo brothers, Guo Fangpre and Qin Junhong jointly met each other and discussed the strategy of attacking the enemy.

Almost at the same time, Zhou Fashang's sailor warships entered the Dihe waterway.

The soldiers of the rebel army guarding the mouth of the Dihe Jinkou were shocked, and 100,000 rushed south to call the police. Fast horses, galloping winds, more than 100 miles of travel only one or two hours, plus the time to cross Luoshui, the scouts finally delivered this amazing news to the hands of the Hebei heroes before dawn.

The most feared and most worried thing is still born, the evil consequences of poor information and poor information are still revealed, Hebei people made a wrong judgment on the battlefield of Qijun according to the wrong information, thinking that the only one who can give Zhang Xutuo support in the near future is Qi Wang Yang Nan, who expected that the Donglai Sailor came so quickly, the Hebei people just crossed the river for only a few days, and the Sailor cut off their retreat, it can be seen that the Sailor has long been on standby at the mouth of the sea, just waiting for the Hebei people to cross the river and strike a fatal blow.

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