Between Dachang and Wushan County, there is a Daning River connected.

The Daning River is a tributary of the Sichuan River, although the riverbed is wide, but the water surface does not completely cover the entire riverbed, most of the water surface is only a few zhang wide, and the narrowest place is even only seven or eight feet wide. Only a few smaller boats can sail in the upper river, and in some places there are even shoals, which can only be passed by bamboo rafts.

On both sides of the river are steep rock walls, and there are only extremely steep boardwalks on the rock walls.

The plank road is too dangerous, so when the sweeping king and the ten anti-kings set out from Dachang, they still took the waterway, they temporarily built a lot of bamboo rows, and then went down the Daning River. For the bandits who are relatively short of mules and horses, and the roads are difficult to travel, it is much more convenient to go down the river, whether it is to transport supplies or to march.

Cao Wei, the sweeping king, and Yang Youxian, the king of the ten antis, have more than 5,000 soldiers and horses, but there are only a very small number of Tang horses, and only a few of their subordinates are veterans. Despite this, the two of them were quite relaxed, and they didn't think that there would be any trouble with this march at all.

In a small county like Wushan, there will not even be a garrison, at most it will be some regimental training plus some people's strength, and only a few hundred thousand people will be strong, even if there is a city wall to lean on, it will not be able to stop their attack at all. As long as they attack the city directly, send a ruthless blow, and desperately pay some casualties, it is easy to take the city.

Although after the defeat of Wushan, at least half of all the harvest was given to Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, but at least they could leave half of it. Although Wushan County is not big, it is on the Yangtze River after all, and there are a lot of merchant ships passing by in ordinary times, even if it is not as rich as Dachang, but it will definitely gain a lot.

Compared with the sweeping king, they marched on the bamboo line, and Liu Jun and them were more stable and faster in the big river boat.

From Dachang City to Wushan, the distance from Fengjie to Wushan is about the same. They all took the waterway, but Liu Jun and the others drove to Wushan County in less than two hours.

Arriving in Wushan County, Liu Jun quickly led the war barracks to disembark, this time the disembarkation speed was faster, it took less than half an hour, and the war barracks had all disembarked and landed.

After the whole army went ashore, it was already dark, and Liu Jun and they marched with torches. When passing by the county seat, the officials in Wushan County were all hiding in horror on the head of the city, closing the city gate.

Liu Jun rode to the city. Call out to the city and report your identity.

"Open the city gate quickly, we are the standard battalion soldiers and horses under the command of Lord Xiong, the prime minister of the six provinces."

Nazhi County in the city looked at the fire below, and the large team of soldiers and horses gathered, and he was not lightly frightened. Although I heard the shouts from the city and knew that a large fleet passed by during the day, I did not know their identities. Nazhi County only blindly drank the order and was not allowed to open the door, and only asked the official to reply that it was dark and could not see clearly, so he could not open the city. It will only be done after Tianming verifies his identity.

"Grass,--dare to shut up, it's really eaten the bear's heart and leopard's gall!" Feng Sheng was furious.

Liu Jun's lieutenant officer Fu Shan was also very angry, "My lord." I'll go over and shout again. ”

"No, just push the gun cart up and give the city a quarter of an hour, if they don't open the gates again. We'll just blast open the gates. Liu Jun didn't want to talk to the city, his plan was to arrange a group of soldiers and horses into the city.

Fu Shan was stunned. "If they really don't open it, let's really bombard?"

"These guys are all bullies who are afraid of the hard, as soon as we launch the cannon, they will definitely be afraid, and they will definitely open the door." Liu Jun said confidently.

Sure enough, when the artillerymen pushed a dozen artillery carts to the bottom of the city and lined up, the city gate finally opened.

The city gate opened, and a group of people came out of the city, the first one wearing a black gauze hat and a green robe, it was the magistrate of Wushan County, he came out with a blue face, and shouted loudly from afar, "Which of you is the one who leads the troops, come out." ”

The magistrate of the county, who was born in two ranks, was actually threatened by a group of martial artists with cannons, it was really unbearable, although the city gate was opened, but this breath had to be out.

Liu Jun rode forward and came to Nazhi County, "Who is coming?" ”

The magistrate saw that the person riding the horse in front of him was dressed in armor and dressed extraordinarily, but he was very young, so he didn't take Liu Jun in his eyes for a while, and shouted, "Who are you, you don't get off the horse in front of this official, who is your boss, call him." It is really unreasonable to dare to threaten this official with a cannon, it is too unreasonable, this official wants to refer to him to the imperial court, and he is also a copy of him. ”

Liu Jun snorted coldly, "Ben will ask who you are, didn't you hear?" ”

Na Zhixian shouted very loudly, but when he was drunk by Liu Jun's not high voice, he couldn't help but feel some palpitations. He swallowed his saliva, suppressed the palpitations, and became more and more annoyed, "This official is Wang Qiren, the father of Wushan County, who are you?" "There is also a reason for Wang Qiren to be angry and shouting, the Ming Dynasty is noble and martial, especially the officials who are from the two lists of Jinshi are on the right path, even if it is just a small county, it is also very noble, especially in front of those martial artists, it is more and more so.

Usually, the thousands of households of the fifth grade and even the commander of the third grade have to be polite when they see them. The group of soldiers and horses who came now actually dared to threaten him with cannons, and he felt that his dignity as a scholar and a minister was offended.

"Oh, it turns out that you are the magistrate of this county who was closed just now, and you were born in Jinshi, right?"

"Of course, Chongzhen was the thirty-seventh Jinshi in the first year." Na Zhixian snorted coldly, and his nostrils were almost facing the sky.

It's just that what surprised him a little was that after the young general heard about his noble Jinshi background and county status, he didn't change his attitude at all, didn't get off the horse immediately, didn't humbly plead guilty, and actually showed a look of disdain. He was sure that it was a look of disdain.

"Presumptuous, who are you under your command, who dare to be so arrogant?"

Liu Jun's personal soldier Wang Ergou strode in front of Nazhi County at this time, and said loudly, "Listen, this is the commander of the Imperial Qinfeng, the Huguang guerrilla general, and the prime minister of the six provinces to suppress bandits, and General Liu, the commander of the middle battalion and the commander of the middle battalion under the standard. ”

Wang Qiren looked up at Liu Jun carefully in some surprise, he was still so young, and the youth was a little too much. But he turned out to be a guerrilla general, and he was also a Chinese military officer who was the new prime minister of the bandits, no wonder he was so arrogant. However, he is a jinshi and a civil official, so he naturally has to maintain his dignity in front of the warriors.

"Even if it is a guerrilla general enshrined by the emperor, a subordinate officer of the new prime minister. But don't get carried away for a while, the younger you are, the more you have to know how to be polite and obey the rules. ”

Liu Jun couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

"You are only a seven-rank magistrate, how can you dare to talk about the third-grade Shangguan like this, do you want to commit the following crimes?" Liu Jun suddenly shouted loudly.

Wang Qiren was startled and wanted to fight back, but when he saw that Liu Jun had already pressed his hand on the scabbard, he suddenly shuddered. The words that were already in his mouth were swallowed back. In his heart, he is looking for a step for himself, and it is not worth worrying about a martial artist. After all, this martial artist is a little different. It was the emperor who sealed the guerrillas, and the prime minister elected the subordinate officers.

A skirmish, which ended with the retreat of Wushan Zhixian. If Liu Jun hadn't tried his best to restrain himself, he really wanted to slap this magistrate twice just now. However, he knew that if he really did this, it would be difficult for this matter to end if it was not done well, and at worst, he might be attacked by civilian officials, even if at least he would be called a martial artist. Now that the magistrate has retreated, it is a good result.

Liu Jun transferred more than 1,000 people into the city to stand by. Then he led the rest of the men to stay outside the city. Because the sweeping kings came along the Daning River, and the section of the Daning River into the river is also called the Bawu River, the river is deeper and the river surface is wider, and there are cliffs on both sides. It is not suitable for ambushes halfway, and it is impossible to fight water battles.

Therefore, Liu Jun's plan was to hide some of the soldiers and horses in the city first, and then he took the other soldiers and horses to ambush outside the city. Wait until the sweeping king arrives at the wharf of Wushan County by bamboo row and lands on the shore. Let them go to the county seat first, and then Liu Jun will copy the bread from the back and destroy the bamboo row of the thieves first. Then outflank the attack.

"Although it is already dark now, it is very likely that the thieves will arrive tonight and attack the city in the dark. Therefore, we must cheer up the spirit, the artillery under the banner of the various ministries and departments is still under the command of the various departments, and the artillery of the artillery department is divided into two parts, one is arranged in the city, and the artillery is mounted on the city, and the other is arranged outside the city. The horses were grouped together as a reserve for charging the enemy or in pursuit of the enemy while he fled. ”

In front of the city gate, Liu Jun held a temporary military meeting with the officers of the third-level departments and bureaus of the ministry and bureau, and once again reaffirmed the battle plan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this battle is the first battle we have fought since we set out, so this battle must be won, and it must be won beautifully."

"Wan Sheng!"

The generals and colonels shouted in unison.

"Okay, the meeting is dismissed, each of them will return to the team, and act according to the plan."

In the middle of the night, there were dots of fire on the Bawu River, and countless torches formed a winding fire dragon on the river. More than 5,000 bandits led by the sweeping king and the ten anti-kings finally appeared on the river in front of Wushan County.

When the bandits arrived, they quickly landed, and bands landed on the shore and then formed a group on the river beach.

The sweeping king looked at the countless fires around him, full of excitement, and he was afraid that all of them were still immersed in sleep at this time.

"Haha, brothers, take the county seat before dawn, the silver, the women, are all ours!"

"Go into the city, grab money, food, and women!" The Ten Anti-Kings also pulled out their waist knives and shouted loudly.

"Grab money, grab food, grab women!" The bandits were excited.

"Come with me, go!" Cao Wei took the lead and rushed towards the county seat a few miles away.

And in the darkness not far from them, Liu Jun, who was hiding here, looked at that scene with a smile.

"My lord, the thieves have all gone ashore." Fu Shan lay beside Liu Jun and reminded quietly.

"Wait a little longer, the show is not afraid of being late."

After waiting for another half an hour, there was finally a burst of shouts of killing on the county side, and it was obvious that the bandits' sneak attack had failed and had turned into a strong attack. However, there was only the sound of shouting and killing, and there was no sound of cannons, indicating that the nine-headed bird and the centaurs were still hiding and did not move.

"Now, it's your turn." Liu Jun turned his head and smiled at Feng Shengdao......

"Look at us!" Feng Sheng smiled and greeted his subordinates Ye Bushu, and quietly touched the river. Liu Jun only heard a sudden sound of feather arrows breaking through the air by the river, then screams, and then the sound of swords, and all the noise soon fell silent again.

Soon, Feng Sheng, who was full of blood, returned to Liu Jun's side with a sword, "There are only more than 100 people left behind to take care of the bamboo rafts and baggage, and they have all been solved by us, and the night guards are pushing the bamboo rafts into the river and drifting away." ”

"Well, that's good, now we can stay here with peace of mind." (To be continued......)