Fang Xuanling also had to admit that this was Li Yuan's extremely vicious move, Li Jiancheng would easily gain a foothold in Hanoi County, and then his army would continue to attack Hebei, and finally go north to join Luo Yi's army, and the situation in Hebei would be dangerous.

Fang Xuanling pondered for a long time, and said slowly: "I'm afraid that when Li Jiancheng chose Hanoi County, he had the intention of taking Hanoi County as the foundation and plotting against Hebei, so Li Yuan sent Wen Daya to recruit Luo Yi as soon as he entered Chang'an, obviously he wanted to take Zhuo County as the northern ring and Hanoi County as the southern ring, and when we sent troops to Jiangdu, they would take the opportunity to attack Hanoi County. ”

Zhang Xuan paced back and forth in the big tent with his hands in his hands, and finally he stopped and said: "The only way is to transfer Luo Shixin to Hengshan County, hold Jingcheng, and at the same time cut off Li Jiancheng's road to the north, and then transfer Xu Shiji's army to Wei County, join Wang Bian, and then abandon Hanoi County, and withdraw Wang Kuang's army to Wei County, the three armies have 20,000 people, to resist the attack, enough to fight Li Jiancheng's army, as long as Li Jiancheng's army is short of food, he has to withdraw and annex the state." ”

"In fact, the marshal can consider forming an alliance with Liu Wuzhou, and ask Liu Wuzhou to attack Taiyuan in a big way, and Li Jiancheng will have to go back to the army to save Taiyuan, this is the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, can the marshal give it a try?"

Zhang Xuan shook his head without hesitation and said: "I won't try, first, Liu Wuzhou won't follow my arrangement, he can't wait for Li Jiancheng to attack Hebei, and Luo Yi won't retreat to Yanmen County." Second, Liu Wuzhou is a Turkic dog, and an alliance with Liu Wuzhou is equivalent to an alliance with the Turks, and I Zhang Xuan will never do this kind of collusion with foreign races. ”

Fang Xuanling smiled awkwardly and said, "Since this is the case, then use the big marshal's plan to transfer Luo Shixin to garrison Zhending County." Defending the fortress of Tumen Pass in Jingcheng, Xu Shiji's army went south to Wei County to join the two Wang generals.

He suggested sending another envoy to Li Jing, imploring him to put the general righteousness first, to contain Luo Yi for us, so that Luo Yi could not enter Hejian County, and at the same time send 10,000 Beihai garrisons to urgently support Wei County. So we can buy a little bit of time. ”

Zhang Xuan realized that he had spoken too hard just now, and he was sorry in his heart, so he nodded and said, "Just like that, let Zhao Liang rush to Wei County with 10,000 troops." ”

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Yu Wenhua and his army finally arrived in Shanyang County, because the exit of the Tongji Canal into the Huai River was surrounded by dozens of Qingzhou warships, so that Yu Wenhua's fleet could not go north again, and the thousand dragon boat fleets had to be moored on the Tongji Canal.

In the county office, Yu Wenhua and Zheng are discussing countermeasures with Yuan Min, Yuan Li and his brother Yu Wenzhi and the four Yuwen brothers were originally the sons of the gentlemen. did not inherit their father Yuwenshu's war skills at all, and Yuan Min is a native of Inner Shishe, the political struggle is okay, and it is barely feasible to handle government affairs, but he is also a layman when he leads troops to fight.

Only Yuan Li was born in the military, and he was appointed as a general of Hu Benlang, and he was named the secretary of the military department by Yu Wenhua, and he knew a little bit about leading troops to fight. said that it was a discussion, but in fact, Yu Wenhua and the other three could only rely on him.

Yuan Li pondered for a moment and said, "Our advantage is 80,000 Xiaoguo troops. Well-equipped, well-trained, and far more troops than the Qingzhou army, as long as the 80,000 troops can reach the other side, then we have a sixty percent chance of winning this battle, so the biggest problem we face. It is also the most critical question, that is, how to cross the Huai River with the army? ”

Yuwen Zhiji snorted and said, "We have enough boats, is there still a problem with crossing the river?" ”

Yu Wenzhi and the current official are the left servants, leading the twelve guard generals, and he is the highest commander of the army. But what he said was very layman's and naïve, which filled Yuanli's heart with contempt.

Yuan Li didn't show contempt on his face, and said with a smile: "Although we have an army of 80,000, we don't have a navy, we can't expect the boatmen to fight, first of all, we can't get out of the Tongji Canal, and secondly, even if we rush out, surrounded by the Qingzhou navy, all the soldiers will sink to the bottom of the river, and it is completely sent to death, and it is useless to have any ships." ”

"So what do you say?" Yu Wenzhi said angrily.

"I don't know!"

"Isn't that enough? Since General Yuan doesn't know what to do, and it is better to give it a try, I don't believe that it will not have any effect. ”

Yuwen Zhihe stood up and said to his brother: "Big brother, we don't have much food, we can't sit still, let me lead the army to give it a try, whether it succeeds or not, it's better than nothing." ”

Yu Wenhua thought that there was not much food, and his heart was also anxious, and he didn't care that he might offend Yuan Li, so he nodded and said: "Then send 10,000 troops to break through, Zhiji is right, we can't sit still!" ”

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In the early morning of the next day, 80 medium-sized warships sailed along the Tongji Canal to the Huai River under the leadership of a large dragon boat, and the boats were loaded with 10,000 soldiers.

On the big boat at the head, Sima Dejiao carried an iron gun in his hand, and looked angrily at the confluence of the Huai River in the distance, because the Tongji Canal was about to flow into the Huai River, the river was very wide, full of a mile wide, and the two banks were swamps several miles long, and the Xiaoguo army could not assist them from the shore, and the ships could not dock, so they could only rush over the water, and if they could not do so, they would retreat back.

Sima Dejiao made his first contribution in the Jiangdu Mutiny, and was named the general of the Right Tunwei, and others were awarded the title of Shangshu and Guogong, but he was only promoted by one level, not even a knighthood, and the reward was only a hundred taels of gold, which made him resentful in his heart, why did Yu Wenhua treat himself so thinly?

Now he let himself go to them and fight a losing battle, which made Sima Dejiao feel like he was being unloaded and killed by a donkey.

But anger is anger, Sima Dejiao also knows that there is no place for him in the world, he has been on Yu Wenhua's thief ship, Yu Wenhua's ship capsized, and he couldn't live.

Their task was to break through the blockade of the Sui army and land on the other side of the Huai River to create conditions for the rear army to cross the river, but in fact they were to test the difficulty of breaking through the blockade.

Sima Dejiao concentrated on observing the movement of the Qingzhou army warships at the mouth of the river, at this time they were less than two miles away from the estuary, and still could not see any movement of the Sui army, which made Sima Dejiao a little confused in his heart, he also did not understand the navy, did not understand the speed and collision force of the warship, and did not understand the tactics of the navy, in his opinion, there is no difference between water warfare and land warfare, as long as the forced breakthrough is successful, it is a victory in battle.

"Give me a drum!"

Sima Dejiao shouted, and the big ship suddenly rumbled loudly, and more than 10,000 soldiers on the eighty warships began to shout.

Despite the noise of the Xiaoguo army, the Qingzhou army remained unmoved, and there was still no movement on the river.

Yu Wenhua and others, who stood at the head of Shanyang County and watched the battle, were also a little confused, they stood high, saw far away, and there were dozens of Qingzhou army warships moored near the mouth of the river, and they never made any movement, did they have to wait for the big ships of their army to approach before they started? It would be too close to the estuary, and it would be much easier to break through.

"Your Highness, look!"

A soldier pointed to the river and shouted, "A boat is coming." ”

Yu Wenhua and the others immediately leaned on the city wall and looked at the river, only to see that dozens of Qingzhou Army warships that had been moored on both sides of the river began to dispatch, but they were not head-on, but lined up along both sides of the river and headed south, obviously to stagger the warships of the Xiaoguo Army.

This made everyone puzzled, what kind of tactic was this by the other party?

Yuan Li looked at the Qingzhou fleet, he suddenly woke up, and hurriedly said to everyone: "The other party wants to go around behind us and cut off the retreat of our ships!" ”

Yu Wenhua was shocked and asked anxiously: "How should this be?" ”

Yuan Li turned around and said coldly to Yuwen Zhiji: "General, what do you say to do now?" ”

Yuwen Zhihe was a little annoyed, and glared at Yuan Li and said: "I just arranged for the army to fight, and the specific combat command is Sima Dejiao, ask me what to do?" ”

Yuan Li snorted and pouted, "I guess you don't know what to do!" ”

Yuwen Zhiji was furious, pressed the hilt of the sword and shouted: "What do you mean, make it clear." ”

At that moment, another soldier shouted: "A boat has come out!" ”

Everyone looked at the river together, and saw hundreds of small boats popping up on the river at some point, densely distributed on the river.

Everyone looked at each other, I don't know what kind of tactics the Qingzhou Army is? But they all have a bad feeling in their hearts, I am afraid that this fleet will be more than lucky. (To be continued.) )