In summer, due to several heavy rains, the river water swelled sharply, flooding the vines and grasses near the shore, and it was muddy for dozens of feet from the shore.

Meng Yi frowned and looked at the empty night, the dark short Ge flashed with a strange faint light, and dozens of warships of all sizes lurked in the vast night like a group of hunting beasts. Four thousand enemy bandits rested six miles ahead, apparently unaware of the danger here.

The rift between the Qingyan Army and the Xiangfan Society is so big that anyone can see it, and the Twelve Kou Alliance believes that the Qingyan Army will be happy to watch the fire from the other side. Although the combat strength of the Qingyan Army's water battalion is alone in Qingjiang, there are only more than 2,000 infantry soldiers, and even if they have the intention to interfere, they are powerless to return to the sky. Before Feng Yuanyuan led the troops to fight, he ruled out the possibility of the Qingyan Army sending troops to interfere, and entered the north bank for a while, burning, killing and plundering all the way, and did not see any action of the Qingyan Army on the south bank, and he was even more convinced that the Qingyan Army was thinking of profiting from the fisherman. At night, Feng Yuanyuan mainly concentrated the scouts in Xuancheng and the northeast area of Xuancheng, after all, the Xiangfan Hui 1,000 elite cavalry was their biggest threat, and only a group of scouts was arranged in front of the Wulun River to monitor the possible warships of the Qingyan Army Water Battalion.

Xue Mingrui held on to the rope ladder and climbed up the ship as high as Zhang Yu from the sampan. Although Xue Mingrui's light body technique has been greatly improved in the past half a year, and he can jump onto the ship with his flexible skills, but at this time, all the generals on the deck of the ship are rare masters, and Xue Mingrui is unwilling to expose his light body technique that he can't put on the stage in front of everyone.

Liang Bao poked his head out from behind the female wall, stretched out his hand to pull Xue Mingrui onto the deck, and said, "Degui, I am waiting for you to reply." ”

"Xu Ye knows my name, but you still call 'Degui, Degui'." Xue Mingrui complained in a low voice, turned over on the deck, felt that Meng Yi looked back to this side, did not dare to take it back, hurriedly walked to the bow of the boat, and thought: At this time, the black light is blind, but I feel that Mr. Meng is looking at me, and the realm of the twelve teachings is not something we can figure out. I heard that Xu Ye is young and his cultivation is even higher than that of Mr. Meng, which is really unbelievable.

Under the faint starlight, Xue Mingrui could only see Meng Yi's faint sturdy figure, walked to his side, only heard him snort softly, Xue Mingrui was the first batch of generals to walk out of Taishan, since the establishment of the Yanwutang, has been taught by Meng Yi and others, in his heart as Meng Yi is like a teacher, usually a disciple, knowing Meng Yi's indifferent surname, he snorted softly and greeted himself.

Wei Yu's body moved slightly to the side, giving up a gap for Xue Mingrui; From time to time, there was a cold murderous aura on his body. Among Xu Ruyu's four disciples, Liang Bao has the best surname and is the most popular among everyone, although his cultivation is not the highest of the four, but everyone in Yanwutang likes to ask him any questions they encounter in their practice. Even if he didn't know it at the time, he would go to Xu Ye or Mengjiao Xi for you. Wei Yan went to Wuling Mountain after showing his face a few times, and everyone had no impression of him. Ming used to treat people very sincerely, but he couldn't help revealing a little majesty on his body, which made people awe-inspiring. Wei Yu is the most indifferent, and his temper is similar to the twelve teachings that live in simplicity. It is privately rumored that he has a murderous past, and Xue Mingrui thinks about his surname.

There are many versions of rumors about Wei Yu, Ming Xi, and Wei Yan's past, and these rumors undoubtedly have one thing in common, that is, they must have lived a murderous life in the past. The people who have experienced the war have an unusually sensitive sense of murder, Meng Yi and others have been living in seclusion in the mountains and fields since the death of Wu Chu, and the murderous aura has faded, but Ming Xi and others can't hide the natural murderous intent on their bodies, and this bloodthirsty murderous intent is even more obvious when fighting.

Although there are all kinds of rumors, it does not hinder the trust of the people. Xue Mingrui remembered the situation when he followed Wei Yu into the mountains to suppress bandits two months ago, and Wei Yu used his arm to block an arrow that grabbed the throat for an ordinary soldier beside him. Xue Mingrui thought to himself: Under his indifferent surname, there is still blood flowing.

"How's the enemy doing?" Meng Yi frowned slightly, slightly dissatisfied with Xue Mingrui's distraction.

"Oh." Xue Mingrui retracted his thoughts and replied solemnly, "The scouts scattered along the Ulun River by the enemy have all been quietly cleaned up by us, and there is nothing abnormal in the enemy camp, so they should not be aware of our existence." They now rested on the high ground on the riverbank six miles away, and the camp had eighteen bright posts, and twenty-six secret posts had been discovered. The 1,000 elites of the Black Warrior Battalion of Tiankui Village were stationed on the northern slope of the highlands, where the sentry posts were the tightest and could not be infiltrated within 300 steps. In addition, there were 1,000 thieves stationed on each side of the high ground, and half of the 1,000 thieves on the east side carried longbows. The large tent was set up in the middle of the high ground, and there were about 200 guards, with long blades as halberds and short blades as simple knives, carrying one-armed machine crossbows. ”

Meng Yi replied lightly, turned his face and fell into the vast night.

Xue Mingrui originally thought that he would be surprised to find out that the enemy had a large number of machine crossbows, but it seemed that they had already realized it. Single-arm machine crossbow, divided into single shot, three shots, five shots, each machine crossbow complex structure, easy to damage during combat, but can be fired continuously, forming a dense lethality, for the powerful family like. In the past battles, the Liukou in the Qingjiang Mansion never had a record of using expensive and vulnerable one-armed machine crossbows, but now it seems that other forces have entered the Qingjiang Mansion.

Wei Yu said lightly: "It's still Mr. Jean's unfortunate words, but I don't know which family of Puji and Nanping is the blood of this batch of machine crossbows?" ”

"I'm afraid it's Nanping County, after all, it's two hundred one-armed machine crossbows. Alas, with a crossbow and a longbow, these four thousand thieves have a lot of combat power, and they can't wait for the dawn to pass the order and enter the combat state immediately. Meng Yi said casually, in his eyes, this may be just a military exercise presided over by him in the past.

Dozens of small warships slowly approached the shore, and countless soldiers descended to waist-high water with rope ladders hanging from the rope ladder. The Hundred Pole Battleships and the Winged Ships had a deep draft and could not get close to the river bank, so they used small sampans to transport the warriors ashore.

Wading through the muddy embankment, Liang Bao thought to himself: Ulun will flood once a year, and after winter, build a stone embankment, and next year the two banks will have 100,000 acres of fertile land.

A person behind him was tripped by grass stalks and planted in the mud, the sound of water was in an uproar, Liang Bao hurriedly helped him up, felt his slightly trembling hands, and thought: He is afraid that this is the first time to fight, the four hundred elite vanguard troops drawn from each department have already sneaked to the side of the enemy camp, and they will charge the enemy camp when Mr. Meng and the other seven instructors arrive. If the enemy camp is in chaos as expected, the two thousand soldiers behind him will not hesitate to enter the battle. If the vanguard army met with stubborn resistance, the 2,000 soldiers would only respond to the evacuation of the vanguard army.

At this point, Mr. Meng is very stubborn, yes, the Blue Flame Army can't afford too many casualties. Meng also insisted on being the chief general of this operation, which was to control the casualties of the Blue Flame Army. Shao Haitang talked about the civilian casualties, and Meng Yi only replied lightly, "I will take care of it", and his expression was inappropriate.

The Qingjiang River bandits and the Twelve Kou Leagues made peace with each other in Nanping County, and gathered a huge force of more than 15,000 people in the north of the Lishui River Valley. The northern defense line can no longer count on Xu Jingcheng, so the Qingyan Army, with a total strength of only 6,000, will not be able to withstand a crushing victory, even if it gives up the north bank. From noon, the Lishui coast began to accept the displaced people on the north bank, although Xu Boying, Meng Yi, uncle and grandson Fangwu, and Jiang Youli did not speak, but they were afraid that they also had the idea of giving up the north bank.

Liang Bao led the team to sneak through the night, stopped two miles away from the enemy camp, and waited for the vanguard in front to launch a charge before entering the predetermined combat position, and the fleet led by Wei Yu would enter that section of the river a little first.

Liang Bao smiled slightly, thinking that if this army was closer to the enemy camp, it would be difficult to guarantee that it would not be discovered by the masters in the enemy army, and only four hundred elite soldiers of the vanguard army could sneak within five hundred steps of the enemy camp quietly.

The battle ahead began in the darkest moment before dawn, and suddenly the noise took over the heavens and the earth, and the blades clashed and the voices of people were boiling, mixed with a few sharp roars. The fires quickly extinguished, and the enemy was about to light torches and be sniped by the longbowmen of the Blue Flame Army, especially the bonfires on the high ground.

Liang Bao looked at the messy figures in the campfire, and the rest of the place was plunged into darkness. Liang Bao led 2,000 foot soldiers to the southeast of the high ground in a matter of moments. At the foot of the mountain, I heard a commotion in front of me, and vaguely saw many people hugging down from the high ground, and there were dark shadows in the faint light, Liang Bao naturally knew that this was a rogue who had escaped, so as to avoid accidents, he still shouted: "Qingfeng." ”

The rogues scattered and fled, and many of them, unable to sort out their situation, continued to rush downward, and were greeted by a rain of arrows, dozens of corpses rolling down, many of whom fell in terror.

Liang Bao didn't have time to clean up the battlefield, and he didn't care about chasing the escaped thieves, so he led everyone to rush to the top of the mountain. If the vanguard encounters resistance, it can only be at the top of the hill or on the northern slope.

When you go up to the middle of the mountain, you will encounter more chaotic enemies and faint starlight, only a master like Liang Bao can distinguish between friend and foe, and the rest of them will borrow the pre-agreed slogan to avoid accidental injury.

The enemy has 500 sword and shield men and 500 longbowmen stationed here, and it is here that the vanguard army is the first to attack, and as long as the longbowmen are scattered, the enemy will not be able to organize effective resistance in the dark.

The saber stabbed into the enemy's body, and Liang Bao could feel the fear in the opponent's heart. The enemy invaders halfway up the mountain were already in complete chaos, but Liang Bao couldn't control the troops, and there were only more than 500 people who rushed to the top of the mountain with him, and the others were chasing and killing the fleeing rogues. The defeated enemy will not pose a threat for the time being, only the top of the mountain and the northern slope may encounter resistance, as long as the 200 guards of the Tiankui Village Black Warrior Battalion and the Big Tent are defeated, this group of thieves will not form an effective counterattack. If the enemy is relieved, this battle will not be controlled by manpower.

Liang Bao stood on the top of the mountain, and saw that there were no traces of fierce fighting in the open space on the top of the mountain, and knew that the guards of the enemy's tent had moved elsewhere. Several bonfires were lit on the northern slope of the mountain, and by the light of the fire, Meng Yi and the others were seen attacking the camp of the enemy on the northern slope.

Liang Bao knew that after Meng Yi led the crowd to attack the enemy camps in the east and south, he put the two enemy camps on the north and west slopes on guard. The thieves who were wandering around also realized the situation on the northern slope and fled to the northern slope one after another. The 1,000 thieves stationed in the enemy camp on the western slope near the river bank are now also pulling out their camp to move closer to the black samurai camp on the northern slope, and more than 100 torches are strung together in a line on the northwestern side of the mountain.

If the two enemies were allowed to converge, the original battle plan would most likely be aborted. Liang Bao divided dozens of people to gather the team, and led the remaining five hundred people to rush towards the more than 100 torches, ignoring the defeated rogues on the way. If you encounter a slightly organized arrival, you will often use arrows to defeat it, and you will not be entangled.

The enemy in the western camp lit the torches in order to avoid being taken advantage of by the Blue Flame Army in the dark. At this point in the battle, the enemy had already understood that the Blue Flame Army had agreed on the password to fight secretly to avoid friendly attacks by mistake. However, the enemy of the western camp who lit the torch completely exposed himself to the eyes of the infantry battalion led by Liang Bao.

When Liang Bao led five hundred people to rush down from the mountain, he was completely hidden in the dark, and the enemy in the western camp heard the messy footsteps, thinking that it was the rout army in the southeast, and shouted for them to avoid, and what he didn't want to meet was a headless rain of arrows.

Yongyang's hard-horned longbow can penetrate the skin wooden shield within one hundred and twenty steps, Liang Bao led the crowd to approach the enemy fifty steps before emitting arrow feathers, and the Xiying Kou were caught off guard, and they panicked to prop up the protective body round shield, only to find that the shield and the leather armor on the body could not block the shooting of the arrow cluster at all.

In an instant, more than a thousand enemies in Xiying fell into the despair of death, the first person abandoned his sword and fled, and the others also fled. Liang Bao didn't expect the longbow to be used on the enemy of the Black Warrior Battalion wrapped in iron armor and protected by a leather shield, and ordered everyone not to spare the arrow feathers in their hands, and it was a big deal to recover them from the enemy's corpse.

Feng Yuanyuan watched the 1,000 men and horses in Xiying being beaten to the ground by the five hundred green flames in the hidden shadows, and his heart was gloomy. When they met on a narrow road, compared to the composure of the Qingyan Army, the group of Kou seemed too flustered. In addition to the two hundred guards on his side, only a thousand black warrior battalions were not scattered. At the beginning of the night attack, Feng Yuanyuan led two hundred guards into the camp on the northern slope and lit a bonfire to wait for the battle. And the more than 1,200 people on his side could barely stop the attack of the 400 people in front of him. Is Xu Ruyu really so powerful? Two years ago, Qingfeng Jing rode the East China Sea, and now the Qingyan Army is as vicious as a tiger.

The night attack began from the southeast side, and the defeated rogues instinctively headed northwest in the confusion. Feng Yuanyuan used arrows to disperse the crowd that had already fallen into chaos, so as not to be overwhelmed by the chaotic army and taken advantage of by the Blue Flame Army.

When Liang Bao and Meng Yi converged, a blue glimmer appeared on the horizon, and their vision was still weak, and they could only distinguish between friend and foe in close hand-to-hand combat. Except for the 1,000 enemies on the northern slope, the other three sides were routed by night attacks, and the organized resistance was scattered.

Although Feng Yuanyuan had a strong uneasiness in his heart, when he saw Liang Bao leading five hundred people to join Meng Yi, he could only move to the river bank in the northwest direction. In his heart, he thought that the combat strength of the Green Flame Army was the same as the four hundred people led by Meng Yi, not to mention that the scattered Blue Flame Army gradually gathered, and organized the pursuit and killing the group of bandits wandering around, and the defeated bandits fled close to the northwest slope of the riverbank.

The Qingyan Army sent troops to intervene in the situation on the north bank, and the Qingjiang waterway must have been blocked, and it was only possible to escape from the Lishui Valley by following the Wulun River to the north.

Liang Bao led the gathered 1,000 foot soldiers behind the Black Warrior Battalion, and when he encountered the fleeing bandits, he just drove them away with a rain of arrows, and did not send troops to chase them down.

Feng Yuanyuan led everyone down the heights, and suddenly found that countless routs were crowded on the muddy riverbank. People kept jumping into the river, preparing to cross the Ulun River to escape the massacre.

Feng Yuanyuan suddenly saved the Qingjiang water camp, and subconsciously looked back, in the blue morning light, the vague shadows of dozens of warships appeared in the Wulun River hidden in the west of the highland.

Feng Yuanyuan pulled out his long knife in a dejected manner, preparing for the final battle, and then sat down on the muddy ground of the river with his head down. On the top of the mountain and on the eastern slope, thousands of Blue Flame Troops formed a shield formation, and behind the high shield there was a cold glow of arrows. The faint neighing of horses came, reminding people that the Blue Flame Army did indeed have a cavalry battalion. It's just that no one has ever seen the cavalry battalion of the Blue Flame Army go on an expedition.

There was no suspense in the battle that continued on the river bank in the morning, and nearly 3,000 thieves were crowded on the river bank at the foot of the mountain, among which only the 1,000-strong black warrior battalion was still intact, and the others were frightened birds. On the slope to the southeast, the Qingyan Army is in full array, and only the narrow riverbank valley to the north can escape.

Two thousand routs rushed out of the narrow valley, and in a moment the tight formation of the Black Samurai battalion was shattered. The battleships of the Qingyan Army were slowly approaching, four hundred warships, sixteen fighting ships, sixteen large-wing ships, dozens of Mengchong ships, and more than half of the troops of the Qingjiang Water Battalion were quietly approaching in front of them. Feng Yuanyuan hesitated between fleeing and surrendering.

A year ago, 60,000 Puji bandits fled from the east gate of Yongyang City, and were chased and killed by Wanling's 5,000 elite cavalry. In fact, in that battle, the Qingfeng Spirit Cavalry did not participate in the chase battle.

Feng Yuanyuan didn't dare to guess the strength of the Blue Flame Army's cavalry battalion. Wei Yu stood on the battleship of Gao Zhangyu and surrendered, and asked the group to put down their blades and shields, take off their armor, and gather at the designated place.

Feng Yuanyuan couldn't help but regret listening to the instigation of the lobbyist in Nanping County, thinking that the Qingyan Army without Xu Ruyu would definitely be conservative and would not send troops to interfere in the situation on the north bank. The Blue Flame Army is not the only one who knows this truth, how can he tolerate the reckless behavior of the Twelve Kou Alliance on the north shore? Unwillingly, Feng Yuanyuan still put down the knife in his hand. The soldiers of the Black Warrior Battalion, who were scattered, did not flee separately, and when they saw that the main general laid down their weapons, they also put down their weapons one after another.

Afterwards, Feng Yuanyuan knew the details of the battle, but he just laughed it off and didn't have any words. In the night battle, the Kou soldiers only lost more than 400 people, and more people fell into fear and chaos, only the black warrior battalion led by Feng Yuanyuan personally responded calmly from the beginning of the attack on the camp, but after Feng Yuanyuan saw the 400 elites of the Qingyan Army led by Meng Yiqin, he overestimated the actual combat strength of the Qingyan Army, and did not dare to fight with it on the slope far from the riverbank, and was forced into the muddy valley near the riverbank by the Qingyan Army, which was equal in number to his own, and had to surrender under the threat of the battleship's strong crossbow.

Feng Yuanyuan's decision to surrender in the chaos of the Black Warrior Battalion being overwhelmed by the rout is undoubtedly the most correct choice. The 4,000 Kou army entered the north bank of the Lishui River Valley, and only the 1,500 people who surrendered at that time were able to save their lives, and the rest of the thieves who fled in all directions were sniped to death on the land on the north bank.

At that time, Liang Bao, who was surnamed Pinghe, led Chen Bing, a soldier of the Su Guard Battalion, to the east side of Xuancheng to prevent Xu Jingcheng from taking the opportunity to interfere in the suppression of bandits. Meng also led the main force of the water battalion back to Benzhai River Port, and the work of chasing and suppressing the bandits was entrusted to Wei Yu.

Wei Yu used hundreds of small warships to blockade the river network in the area, which was completed before the night battle began, and then used 300 elite cavalry and 500 elite infantry to search and encircle the fleeing rogues in the area.

Three days later, Wei Yu completed the task of clearing and returning to the village, Xu Boying led people to accept the prisoners, Wei Yu pointed to a fishing boat towed behind the battleship and said: "It's all inside, you count it." ”

Xu Boying saw a bunch of human ears on the fishing boat, and vomited out all the food he ate the next day.

Ming Xi knew about this, and scolded in a hurry: "This cook! Wei Yu's bandit name of "human cook" spread far and wide.

Xu Boying examined in detail the course of the operation, which was called the suppression of bandits, and found that the more than 100 soldiers who actually participated in the massacre were all from the Biaofeng battalion of the Puji bandits, which was the original Qingjiang water battalion protector. The people who stayed in the village did not dare to make a judgment, after all, Wei Yu did not kill the prisoners after the surrender of the Liukou. Ming Xi knew in his heart that Wei Yu would not give Liukou a chance to surrender at all.

Wei Yu was temporarily relieved of all military duties, and the matter was reported to Xu Ruyu in Fuzhou in an urgent document waiting for his approval.

The night battle of Xing'an on July 28 showed that the forces of the Qingyan Army had officially intervened in the entire Lishui River Valley.

On the 29th, Xuancheng Shuiying occupied Beiling Fort and declared to the outside world that Xu Jingcheng seized power and broke away from the leadership of the Xiangfan Society. The Xuancheng Water Battalion was mainly composed of the children of the Ma Gang, and in order to alleviate Xu Jingcheng's reaction, it did not directly claim to belong to the Qingyan Army.

The next time, Yun Yi, Shao Jintang, Ji Huaiyuan, and others, the generals of the original village who defended the Twelve Kou Leagues for Xu Jingcheng on the northern front, declared to the outside world that Xu Jingcheng had abandoned the injustice of the people and broke away from the rule of Xuancheng Duyi Mansion.

Xu Jingcheng worked hard in the Lishui River Valley for half a year, and became nothingness overnight. Although the families did not directly explain that they belonged to Xu Ruyu, Xu Jingcheng already knew that he had made a wedding dress for others, and there would not be too many of the 3,000 soldiers and 20,000 congregations in Xuancheng who really followed him in the end. I underestimated Shao Haitang's influence in the Xiangfan Society too much, and the formation of power was not entirely dependent on the force in his hands, Xu Jingcheng regretted it too late. That night, the Qingyan Army sent a note asking Xu Jingcheng to treat the families of the soldiers who claimed to be readable.

Gao Quan waved his hand and cut down, with a fierce look in his eyes.

Xu Jingcheng picked up the inkstone and threw it at him, scolding: "You idiot, you dare to slaughter your family?" Aren't you afraid of provoking a mutiny? Then he sat down in the high-backed Taishi chair and was silent for a long time.

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