After Sun Yuanhua's order was issued, it didn't take long for Han Tong, the remaining officer of the Broken Army, to come to the prefect's yamen with a few officers. When Han Tong arrived www.biquge.info, Sun Yuanhua said in a deep voice, "Han Tong!" You know the situation now! The situation is urgent, so I can't say more! Now there's a mission for you! You set out with 500 men at once to intercept the pirate army from Qingdao, and be sure to hold them back! ”

Han Tong commanded, "Yes!" My lord! But my lord, how long do my subordinates have to hold them off before they can complete the task!? ”

Sun Yuanhua thought for a moment and said solemnly, "Judging from the current situation, it will take at least three hours!" Can it be done? ”

Han Tong hugged his fist and said, "My subordinates swear to die!" ”

In order to allow Han Tong to successfully complete the task, Sun Yuanhua gritted his teeth and allocated the only dozens of war horses in Shihe City to Han Tong to call, and at the same time gave them a large amount of gunpowder.

Half an hour later, Han Tong prepared the supplies and set off with people. The task of five hundred recruits to the three thousand fierce pirates seemed to be a mission to death, but Han Tongxin was not afraid at all, but was faintly excited. The most outstanding students in the first phase of the military academy, Fan Liang, Sun Liang and others have made great contributions and have been favored by Liu Fan, but he Han Tong is just a small team officer. Although this kind of result is not bad among the students in the same period, Han Tongxin is quite unconvinced, and he is also one of the best students in the first phase, Han Tong thinks that he doesn't have to be worse than this "Erliang", but works harder and harder than the two of them! Han Tong has always thought that the reason why he is inferior to them is just because he lacks a chance! Now here's your chance! As long as he can complete the task assigned to him by Sun Yuanhua and keep the two cores of Jiaozhou, the arsenal and the salt field, then he Han Tong will make a great contribution, and the credit will even exceed the sum of Fan Liang and Sun Liang! Are you still afraid that you won't be able to get Liu Fan's reuse? Thinking about it, Han Tong is excited! I can't wait to immediately plug in my wings and teach Liukou a cruel lesson, so that his name Han Tong will resound in Jiaozhou! Become an existence admired by all people.

Although his heart was turbulent, Han Tong's face was silent. Along the way, Han Tong is also trying to find a countermeasure. As a cadet of a military academy and a native of Shandong, Han Tong himself has outstanding military talents and a familiar geographical environment. He knew that with dozens of knights in his hands and less than 500 new soldiers, it would be impossible to complete the task by going head-to-head with the pirates! The only way is to destroy the road and block the enemy's advance, and at the same time constantly harass the enemy in order to delay time and complete the task given to him by Sun Yuanhua, after thinking for a long time, Han Tong's eyes lit up and he had an idea!

Qingdao is located in the plain area of the southwest of the Laoshan Mountains, Qingdao itself does not have any high mountains, it is completely a horse and a flat river, it is completely impossible to set up an ambush in such an open terrain, but Qingdao to Shihe has to pass through a lot of hilly locations, as long as these hills are not too high, but it is not easy to easily climb over, and at the same time, these undulating hills can also block the enemy's field of vision and provide cover for Han Tong. So Han Tong decided to set up an ambush on the line from Xujiazhuang to Taoyuan!

Taking advantage of the fact that the pirates had not yet arrived, Han Tong took the 500 soldiers of the Broken Army and marched all the way to the vicinity of Taoyuan. Taoyuan is located in the western part of Laoshan Mountain, which is a narrow valley terrain. At the same time, it is also one of the roads leading to the Stone River. After Han Tong arrived in Taoyuan, he observed the terrain and finally decided to blow up the valley mouth in the northern part of Taoyuan. Han Tong ordered more than 200 soldiers to climb up to both sides of the valley and bury the explosives they were carrying. Huge boulders tumbled down, blocking the way forward. Han Tong nodded with satisfaction when he saw this scene, although the power of black powder is limited, but it is no problem to blow up a few stones, more than a thousand catties of gunpowder down, the valley mouth is completely sealed by a boulder, if you want to clean it up, it is impossible without ten days and a half months!

Because of the urgency of time, after the affairs of Taoyuan were completed, Han Tong did not stop and immediately rushed to another road to Shihe, Xujiazhuang. Different from the dangerous terrain of Taoyuan, although the road in Xujiazhuang is a little farther, it is indeed relatively flat, and the population is dense, although there are some hills around, but now after artificial development, some terraces have been formed, and it is quite difficult to block the pirate army here!

Han Tong had no choice but to use the old method, sending people to blow up the road, and at the same time asking people to contact the people of several surrounding villages and ask them to help destroy the road, so that although it could not stop the enemy's infantry from advancing, it could effectively stop the enemy's heavy advance.

While Han Tong was trying to destroy the road, the pirate's army finally arrived at the valley in Taoyuan after nearly three hours of marching. The army then entered the valley, and half an hour later, Wang Zhi, who was riding a horse from the Chinese army, suddenly received a message from his subordinates: "The road to the valley in front of the commander has been cut off by a boulder, and the army cannot move forward!" ”

Wang Zhi was furious: "Then move them away!" Do you still need me to teach you? Idiot! ”

The visitor replied with a look of embarrassment on his face: "I'm afraid the Great Commander can't do it!" There are too many boulders at the mouth of the valley, and we don't have the equipment, so we can't clear the road for traffic in three to five days! ”

Wang Zhi was stunned when he heard this, "What!?" Bastard! It must have been done by those people in Jiaozhou! Pass my order, the rear team will become the front team, and the army will leave the valley and march on the road! ”

"Hehe," Li Tianxing said with a smile, "It seems that our enemies are still quite cunning!" They didn't blow up the south entrance, they didn't blow up the middle, but they blew up the north entrance! It's just that we need to delay some time, and it seems that I guessed correctly! There are really no soldiers in Jiaozhou! Without further ado, Grand Commander, send out a sentinel at once! Find out what the enemy is doing! We must get to the city of Stone River before it gets dark! The sooner we arrive, the bigger the harvest will be! ”

Wang Zhi was surprised: "Mr. Li, how do you know that they blew up the valley?" And why are there not many soldiers in Jiaozhou? How do you know? ”

Li Tianxing glanced at Wang Zhi, and said lightly, "The obvious matter, the officials and soldiers in Jiaozhou definitely did not know the news in advance, otherwise such an important place as the shipyard would not be easily taken by us, since they didn't know in advance, and now the road has been destroyed, they can only send people to set off after getting the news of the occupation of Qingdao!" If you want to destroy such a large valley in such a short period of time, there is no other way than to blow it up with gunpowder! And if Jiaozhou's troops are strong, no one will stop us from advancing! In this valley we have long been ambushed! Got it? ”

Wang Zhi exclaimed, "Mr. has seen the subtleties, which is admirable!" Wang Zhizhi is convinced! (To be continued.) )