Zhang Xuan was named the envoy of the six counties of Jianghuai, specifically Jiangdu County, Liyang County, Zhongli County, Lujiang County, Huainan County and Ruyin County, among which Jiangdu City was not under the jurisdiction of Zhang Xuan because of its political status comparable to that of Nandu, and was under the jurisdiction of Jiangdu Chen Ling.

In addition to Jiangdu City, other places in Jiangdu County, such as Hailing County, Jiangyang County, Gaoyou County, etc., were all controlled by Jianghuai Recruiting Envoys, but the interesting thing is that the recruiting envoys were located in Jiangdu City, which was not under his jurisdiction.

Five days later, 20,000 troops and more than 100 large ships entered the Huai River from Xuyi County, where the Tongji Canal passed through the Huai River for nearly 200 li, and then entered Hangou from Shanyang County in the east of the Huai River.

It is quite a coincidence that Du Fuwei, known as the Jianghuai wolf, and his deputy general Fu Gongyou are from Qi County, and Du Fuwei also had a small bandit in Qi County, which was not tolerated by Wang Bo and had to flee to Jianghuai, and in just a few years it grew rapidly in the Jianghuai area.

Du Fuwei has four generals under him, namely the former general Fu Gongyou, the later general Ximen Junyi, the left general Miao Haichao and the right general Wang Xiongdan, known as the Four King Kongs.

Du Fuwei had 60,000 Jianghuai troops, nearly 1,000 large and small warships, active between the Yangtze River and the Huai River.

General Zuo Miao Haichao is the general of Du Fuwei's navy, with 15,000 sailors, nearly 1,000 large and small warships, active in the Huai River and its tributaries, but the main nest is in Huaming County, Zhongli County, this county town close to the Huai River is also Miao Haichao's hometown.

Miao Haichao is about 30 years old, is a well-known water bandit in the Jianghuai area, tall and powerful, strong martial arts, and makes a 60-pound mace. Before Du Fuwei did not go south to Jianghuai, he was the king of Jianghuai.

The year before last, he was defeated by Du Fuwei, and simply led the whole army to join Du Fuwei and became Du Fuwei's right-hand man.

At this time, Miao Haichao had already received the news that Zhang Xuan led 20,000 Sui troops to the south, and he couldn't help but be eager to try, not long ago, he led his army to follow Du Fuwei to annihilate the 5,000 troops of the Sui general Gongsun Shangzhe in the area of Yancheng County. In the end, Gongsun Shangzhe only led a dozen people to escape.

The success of this battle made Miao Haichao feel a little arrogant.

At the head of Huaming County, Miao Haichao, who was holding a mace, was looking at the sparkling water surface of the Huai River in the distance, and hundreds of warships were moored on the water, according to the information he obtained, the Sui army had arrived in the area of Xiaqiu County, and 20,000 Sui troops would enter the Huai River tomorrow afternoon at the latest.

Do you want to kill the Sui army? Miao Haichao was a little entangled in his heart, on the one hand, he was eager to fight, and it was best to capture Jiangdu, on the other hand. He didn't know much about this Sui army, he only knew that Zhang Xuan was the third fierce general in the world, and his martial arts were superb, and he was far from being his opponent.

Just as his thoughts were fluctuating, a soldier behind him suddenly shouted: "The lord is here!" ”

As soon as Miao Haichao turned around, he saw a fleet coming from the west, headed by a large ship of about 2,000 stones, with a tiger's head and a dragon's tail. It was the tiger dragon boat that the lord Du Fuwei was on, and he hurriedly ordered to the left and right: "Quickly follow me to the dock to meet the lord!" ”

The gates are opened. Miao Haichao led a group of officers and walked briskly towards the dock a mile away.

At this time, the tiger dragon ship had already stopped at the dock, and Du Fuwei stepped down from the big ship, Du Fuwei was about thirty years old, tall and thin, with a horse's face. His gaze was very cold.

At the age of sixteen, he occupied the mountains in the area of Qi County as the king, although the trouble was not big, but there were more than 1,000 people under his command, but Wang Bo rebelled in Qi County, squeezing his power territory. He was finally defeated by Wang Bo, and had to lead hundreds of people to flee to Jianghuai, and then raised troops in Jianghuai again, step by step.

Du Fuwei also participated in the heroes meeting at the beginning of the year, when he still had the idea of accepting the imperial court's recruitment, but Li Zitong's poisoning made him deeply frightened and escaped from Luoyang.

Half a month ago, he ordered the general Miao Haichao to lead the army to intercept the 100,000 stone grain transported from Jiangdu to Luoyang, and cut off the traffic of the Tongji Canal, and at the same time, Miao Haichao led the headquarters to annihilate 5,000 Sui troops in Yancheng, shaking the imperial court.

Of course, Du Fuwei also knew that if he showed up at this time, the imperial court would definitely not let him go, but considering that the Wagang army was besieged by the Sui army, and Dou Jiande was deeply hidden, even Meng Haigong of the East China Sea also accepted the imperial court's recruitment, and the dragons in the world had no leader, and raised the banner at this time, although there was a danger of being targeted by the imperial court, but there was also a chance to become the head of the dragons in the world.

Weighing the pros and cons, Du Fuwei finally decided to take the initiative and raise the banner of rebellion in the Jianghuai area.

After all, Du Fuwei is a bandit who has been running for many years, he is experienced, and he is also cunning and wise, he knows in his heart that Zhang Xuan is not good, and he is afraid that Miao Haichao will act recklessly, so he hurried to stop him.

"See the lord for your humble duties!"

Du Fuwei stepped off the big boat, Miao Haichao led the crowd to bow and salute, Du Fuwei waved his hand and said coldly: "No need to be polite, I'm glad to see you here." ”

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what was going on, Du Fuwei ignored everyone, and said to Miao Haichao: "Come with me on the boat and talk." ”

Miao Haichao nodded, let everyone go back first, he himself followed Du Fuwei to the big boat, Du Fuwei walked to the bow of the boat, pointed to the hundreds of small boats that were ready to go in the distance and asked, "Where are you going to lead the army?" ”

Miao Haichao already understood the lord's intention, he didn't dare to hide it, so he had to tell the truth, "Humble duty considers that Zhang Xuan's army is from Qingzhou, and he should not be good at water warfare, so he plans to surprise Zhang Xuan's fleet and give him a dismount." ”

Du Fuwei snorted heavily, "Surprise? I'm afraid that the strange soldier has not come out, but he has fallen into the trap of the Sui army, Zhang Xuan is the ancestor of the surprise soldier, you still play this game with him? ”

Miao Haichao didn't dare to say anything, but he was not convinced in his heart, and after a while, he said: "Why should the lord grow the ambition of others and destroy his own prestige?" ”

Seeing that he dared to contradict him, Du Fuwei didn't say anything more, so he said coldly: "If you really can't help it, then you can try it to see if I am right, or if your strange soldiers are useful?" But I'm going to say it before, if you fail, don't blame me for punishing you heavily. ”

After all, Miao Haichao is a well-known bandit, and when he comes up with a bloody and brave spirit, he doesn't care about humility, so he stiffens his neck and asks, "What if my surprise attack succeeds?" ”

"If your surprise attack is successful, all the loot will be given to you!"

"We're up for sure!"

"Since you must go, then I won't stop you."

Du Fuwei dropped a word, walked back to the cabin without looking back, and threw Miao Haichao on the deck.

This is also the main point of Du Fuwei's head, and like the Wagang Army, his development is based on the continuous annexation of other bandit teams.

For example, Miao Haichao, he himself is the biggest water thief in Zhongli County, with 20,000 troops at its peak, after being defeated by Du Fuwei, Miao Haichao led more than 15,000 people to surrender to Du Fuwei, Du Fuwei could not deprive him of his army, and could only let him continue to lead the headquarters.

Other generals, such as Fu Gongyou, Wang Xiongdan, Ximen Junyi, Kan Ling and others, also had their own subordinates, and among Du Fuwei's 60,000 troops, there were less than 20,000 troops who were actually directly under him, which was called the 'Shangzheng Army'.

The greatest advantage of this method of annexation is that it can quickly gather a large number of troops in a short period of time, and Du Fuwei fled to Jianghuai to regroup in the early eighth year of Daye, and expanded to 60,000 in just four years, which is actually a concentrated annexation of the bandits in the Jianghuai area.

But this method is also easy to lead the generals to do their own thing, the consequences of the military order is difficult to implement, there are advantages and disadvantages, this time Du Fuwei rushed to Huaming County, to some extent he did not want to prevent Miao Haichao from attacking the Sui army, but wanted to use this attack to beat the disobedient Miao Haichao.

On the Huaihe River, more than 100 small and medium-sized warships left the water village one after another, heading east, Miao Haichao stood on the front warship with a mace in his hand, facing the river breeze, his eyes were murderous, Du Fuwei's contempt for himself made him resentful, he wanted Du Fuwei to see, who is the wolf of the Huai River?

On the deck, Du Fuwei looked coldly at the warship sailing away, his eyes became even colder, if Miao Haichao could succeed in the sneak attack, of course, it would be best, he could also severely defeat Zhang Xuan's arrogance and give Zhang Xuan a dismount, but if Miao Haichao failed, he could also take the opportunity to beat Miao Haichao, no matter whether he won or lost, he did not lose at all. (To be continued.) )