The southern part of the county is also a mountainous area, but the situation is only slightly better than that of the East China Sea, where two east-west mountain ranges divide the area into three narrow strips from north to south, with only a few passes in between. Wanghui City is located in the southernmost one, next to Hui County in the south, and there are a total of four roads leading to other places around it, including an official road to Hui County in the south, and three roads in the central and southern areas of Shangwei County in the north.

Therefore, the strategic significance of Wanghui City is self-evident to the rebels of Wei County, once the city is lost, the official army of Duzhou Prefecture in the south can invade Wei County through the three roads north of the city. Among the three northbound roads, except for Gudao, which can only send a small number of troops to guard it due to its geographical advantages, the other two mountain [***] and Shanyang Road are relatively spacious official roads, and they must be heavily armed.

The north gate of Wanghuicheng to the northeast is the valley road taken by the 400 infantry troops of Wanghuicheng, and the northwest direction is the Shanyang road that Liu Yuanzhi lied about when he was defeated and retreated from Weinancang, and the distance to Weinancang is more than twice as long as the valley road, and on the way it will pass through a Shanyang Pass garrisoned by a small group of rebel troops.

The other two roads are outside the south gate of Wanghui City, the official road to Huixian is in the southwest, and the other northbound mountain [***] is due east. Fifty miles to the east, the mountain [***] turns into a northbound mountain pass, and there is also a simple small checkpoint - Shanyin Pass.

Whether it is Shanyin Pass or Shanyang Pass, they are all under the jurisdiction of Du Ziteng, the general of Wanghui City, and each has a team of 100 people stationed in peacetime, which can only prevent a small force from sneaking up and cannot block the impact of the army.

At this moment, Du Ziteng naturally will not go south to Huixian, so he can only go east to the mountains [***]. And the exit to the north of the mountain [***] is still twenty miles east of the valley road, closer to the tail of Dongguan, if it is not a last resort, Du Ziteng is really reluctant to go in this direction.

After Du Ziteng took the remnants of the army up the mountain [***], there was basically no chance to meet the 400 infantry troops sent before, unless they dared to return to Wanghui City and bypass the narrow road east of the city wall from under the nose of the Eastern Navy, and then it was possible to go in the direction of the valley road. And if you really do this, not to mention whether you will be blocked by the Eastern Navy at both ends, just a random arrow on the city wall is enough to make Du Ziteng's more than 200 remnants lose more than half.

Therefore, when the three stinkers deployed the battle plan, they basically tacitly acquiesced that the 400 infantry army did not know about the changes in Wanghui City. And the north gate of Wanghui City does not even have any traces of siege, and the place of battle between the Eastern Navy and the rebels is simply in the city, eliminating the trouble of arranging other people to clean up the battlefield.

The time was close to the fifth watch, that is, three o'clock in the morning in the real world, and after a short rest for a few hours, the Eastern Navy finally waited for the 400 infantry troops who hurried back from the northeast of Wanghui City.

"Do what you planned." briefly explained to Chen Chuang, and the remaining seven members of the East China Sea team except Xiao Qi and Li Sha were in place.

Wanghuicheng's 400 infantry army was led by Du Ziteng's lieutenant general of the infantry army, according to Liu Yuanzhi's introduction, this person's name is Li Erhu, a famous general of the Weixian rebels, and he is very good at attacking the city. When the rebels seized Wanghui City from the official army, it was this Li Erhu who took the lead in attacking the city with the death squad, and the rebels took the most important stronghold in the south of this county in one fell swoop.

It was precisely because of his bravery that Du Ziteng would send him to assist the Ma army, which was one step ahead, to attack the lost Weinancang. Fortunately, the Eastern Navy did not really defend Nancang, otherwise with the low city wall, it might not be able to block the attack of this rebel general. Even if he is lucky enough to be able to repel Li Erhu's strong attack, I am afraid that the losses of Chen Chuang's division of the Eastern Navy will be indispensable.

Li Erhu is brave and bold, but he is a little quick-tempered, and he is not suitable to be the grand prize of the commander of the army, so he has been following Du Ziteng for all these years and attacking the city for him. So combined with his characteristics, Liu Yuanzhi also agreed with it after learning about the battle plan of the three stinkers to close the door and beat the dogs.

It is easy to trick Li Erhu into the city, but it is even more difficult to keep him out of the city, even if the second plan of cavalry attack is adopted, I am afraid that a lot of troops will be lost under the counterattack of this tiger. And only this third set of plans to close the door and fight the dog, trick him into the city, trap him in the city gate and shoot him with random arrows, is the right way to deal with this fierce general.

Li Erhu said yesterday at noon that in accordance with Du Ziteng's order, he led 400 foot soldiers to follow the route of the Ma army and continued to go from Gudao to Weinancang. He was a guy surnamed anxious, and he refused to stop at dusk, and planned to march in a hurry to the city of Weinancang to join the horse army. Whoever thought that he had only halfway to the valley road, he saw the corpses of five hundred horses all over the field, and he had not even packed up his weapons and baggage.

In this era, salt and iron belonged to the materials controlled by the Dongzhou Imperial Court, and were firmly in the hands of the Imperial Court and the official army. Unless the rebels open the mines privately, it is difficult for the people to have a large amount of iron in circulation. In this way, the recycling of weapons and armor after the war is an indispensable process. Therefore, whether it is an official army or a rebel army, as long as time permits, the first thing to do after winning a battle is to clean up the battlefield and collect weapons.

However, at this moment, the 500 horse troops in the valley road not only lay in the wilderness, but also did not even take away the armor and weapons on their bodies, which means that the troops who ambushed them were also in a hurry. Du Ziteng knew that Li Erhu was rough and didn't like to engage in trivial affairs, so he specially arranged a deputy for him to take care of complicated matters, and also helped him come up with ideas.

The deputy dismounted and touched the body temperature of the cavalry and the horses, and they were already dead, which showed that these were left yesterday. The night has passed, and the enemy who ambushed the Ma army has long since disappeared, and if he continues to advance at this time, he is afraid that he will not be able to take the tail Nancang with this mere 400 men.

What's more, if the cavalry is not maneuvered, if it encounters an attack by the Eastern Navy on the way, these 400 infantry troops will not only be unable to save Weinancang, but I am afraid they will have to put themselves in again. The deputy didn't expect that the fundamental purpose of the Eastern Navy was to look at Huicheng, their old nest, but he was afraid that this infantry army would be attacked by a sneak attack, so he immediately informed Li Erhu of his judgment and asked him to turn back quickly.

Li Erhu is a rough man, and he has never had any opinions, so he immediately followed the advice of his deputy and turned back. What's even more ridiculous is that the deputy did not forget to let the soldiers of the infantry army clean up the battlefield and peel off all the weapons and armor of the horse army and bring them back.

In this way, in half a day, these 400 infantry troops ran back and forth for nearly 100 miles without stopping, and even added dozens of catties of weight to each person on the return journey, that is, the equipment of the Ma army. When they returned to the north gate of Wanghui City, the infantry soldiers were already too tired to do anything, so they wanted to hurry back to the barracks and sleep with their heads covered.

Even the deputy didn't see that Wanghui City had changed hands in just ten hours, let alone Li Erhu, a rough man, he stood outside the city gate and opened his throat and shouted, "Erhu, I'm back, open the door quickly!" ”

A junior colonel on duty on the city tower replied, "General Li, why did you come back early?" I will ...... after the last general, General Mingdu."

"Wait, wait! I'm tired, open the door! Grind and grind Lao Tzu to pump you! Li Erhu didn't wait for the guards on the city tower to finish speaking, and his temper came up.

Chen Chuang in the city was happy to hear it, and originally wanted to do enough tricks according to the requirements of the adults, so as not to be seen as flawed, but he didn't expect that Li Erhu was completely defenseless. That's fine, the so-called too much talk will be lost, if you don't do a good job, you will show your feet.

The junior colonel had to shout loudly, "Open the city gate and let General Li in." ”

Half a minute later, the gates were opened unhurriedly, and seven or eight guards at the gates gave way to let the four hundred infantry into the city. When everyone entered the city, these city gate guards quickly closed the north gate of Wanghui City, making a piercing "squeak" sound, which made people's hearts furious.

Several infantry soldiers who walked at the end couldn't help but shudder, and looked back at the city gate guards, only to find that their eyes were unusually indifferent when they looked at them, as if the four hundred infantry soldiers were all dead.

At this moment, hundreds of soldiers armed with bows and crossbows appeared on the towers and wing walls overhead, and even the uniforms on their bodies were different from those worn by the rebels in Weixian County.

Li Erhu, who was walking in front, suddenly found that the way forward was blocked by a sandbag and earth wall built at some point, and hundreds of soldiers behind him were facing him with bows and crossbows. No matter how careless he was, he could see that the uniforms on these people were different from his own, and they were not even the officers and soldiers he was familiar with, obviously they could only be the legendary Eastern Navy.

He still couldn't figure out how the Eastern Navy had entered Wanghui City, and how Du Ziteng could easily give up the city, where the Eastern Navy soldiers had already begun to pour arrows at the 400 infantry troops who were closed and beaten.

Speaking of which, the Eastern Navy is not equipped with so many bows and crossbows, which were captured from the armories of Weinancang and Wanghui City, and it can be regarded as the true meaning of fighting with war.

Hundreds of arrows whizzed towards the 400 infantry troops besieged on the central strip, and dozens of people fell to the ground on the spot, while the survivors had to face a second, third, and even endless attack. The panicked foot soldiers began to flee on both sides of the long street, only to see that the forks in the road had also been blocked by makeshift fortifications. And behind these fortifications, according to the width of this fork, there are more or less a dozen or even dozens of Eastern Navy soldiers waiting for them there.

There is no escape...... Li Erhu's eyes were split, he was brave, but he couldn't bear this overwhelming arrow with his body. Fortunately, an infantry general like him, who is accustomed to attacking cities, will carry a shield against arrows with him, and he is not afraid of the arrows of ordinary Eastern Navy soldiers for a while, but the rebel soldiers around him fell one after another.

"Wanghui City has fallen! Let's kill it! Then he was enlightened, and with the surviving soldiers he turned around and rushed in the direction of the city gate.

When he came to the city gate, he saw that the city gate corridor was full of corpses, and seven "city gate guards" dressed in the uniform of the rebels of Weixian County were lined up to block it, and even the rebel soldiers closest to the north gate could not pass through their defenses. However, due to the presence of these people, the vicinity of the city gate was not hit by arrows, and the remaining rebel soldiers kept pouring towards it.

Li Erhu was still some distance away from the city gate, and he could vaguely see the seven people opening the killing ring there, and the rebel soldiers were as fragile as chickens in front of them, and their knives were bloody. At this time, less than a third of the 400 foot soldiers were left, and the rest were all wounded, with arrows dangling there.

"Get out of the way! Let me! Li Erhu roared, pushed away a soldier who was blocking in front of him, and strode towards the north gate. He pulled out the two short axes at his waist, and rushed forward with a "oops" cry, directly towards the man in the middle of the seven people who blocked the door.

The target targeted by Li Erhu was the waning moon, and when he saw this rebel general slashing at him with a double axe, he was also excited, and picked up a sledgehammer and smashed it.

With a loud "bang", Li Erhu lost his usual surname to continue to rush forward and stood in place, but Wanyue staggered back a few steps, and slammed his back against the city gate.

"Good guys!" After Wanyue's "brute force" was promoted to the C rank, it was the first time that he fell behind in a pure power competition. Although the other party has a slight upper hand with the help of his habitual surname, it is enough to show that Li Erhu has superhuman arm strength that is not inferior to that of Wanyue.

Li Erhu successfully repelled the waning moon blocking the middle lane, but he was facing the dream man of the East China Sea team, and there were six people watching from the side, how could he sit back and watch him escape from Wanghui City through the defense line. Under Zhang Wei's command, the dreamman adjusted the formation and filled in the void left by the waning moon.

At this time, another round of arrows came from behind the rebel infantry army, and dozens of people immediately fell, behind Li Erhu, there were few rebel soldiers left who could stand, and most of them had already fallen to the ground, even if they were not dead, they were lying there and humming.

Chen Chuang and Liu Yuanzhi on the city tower didn't expect that the effect of this closing the door and beating the dog would be so good, and then they thought that there was no need to kill these people quickly, otherwise the rebels in Weixian County would not swear to resist to the death when they encountered the Eastern Navy, and they hurriedly let the soldiers of the Eastern Navy shout "Disarm and not kill", and at the same time stopped the blow of bows and arrows.

Although Li Erhu split back the waning moon, his hands were trembling constantly at this time, and he couldn't lift the double axe at all. The sharp-eyed Zhang Wei immediately saw the clue, and an arrow stepped in front of him, showing his claws and about to kill him.

"Don't kill him!" Behind him, Huang Zhi shouted in time.

Hearing this, Zhang Wei hurriedly withdrew his claws, but still left a shallow blood mark on Li Erhu's neck.

Li Erhu still wanted to resist stubbornly, but Zhang Wei went around behind him, used the grappling technique taught by the army to wrangle his arm from behind, and dislocated him with a single force.

At this time, the rebel soldiers had long lost their fighting spirit, and the few who were not hit by arrows were all honestly throwing their weapons and squatting on the ground, waiting for the Eastern Navy soldiers to come and take them in.

Li Erhu, who was stripped of his two arms, still wanted to resist, but under the leadership of the waning moon, who had recovered his strength, people in the dream pushed him to the ground with all hands and feet, and found a rope to tie him up.

The three major battles of the Eastern Navy's attack on Wanghui City finally came to an end, and the attack captured more than 140 rebel soldiers, most of whom were wounded by swords and arrows. The rebels killed in the three battles were as many as 1,000 people, basically crippled the defenders of Wanghui City, and Du Ziteng no longer had the ability to counterattack back in a short period of time.

Next, it depends on how the East China Sea team plans to deal with Wanghui City, keep it for themselves or give it away, give it to Li Wei or give it to the Duzhou Mansion Army. However, since this place is 700 miles away from Donghai Town and 200 miles away from Dongwei Pass, with the limited strength of the East China Navy, it is really unable to stretch the battle line so long, so it is basically a foregone conclusion to endure the pain and cut love.

The Donghai team was not familiar with the Duzhou Mansion, although it was more logical to hand over this city to the Duzhou Mansion Army stationed in Hui County, but considering the relationship with Li Wei, the three stinkers finally decided to give this city to the Lizhou Prefecture Army, which could be regarded as a long-term favor.

After cleaning up the battlefield, scouts were sent to the front line where the official army and the rebels were fighting in the central part of Wei County, and Li Wei was notified to send troops to take over the defense of Wanghui City.

When the Chen Chuang Division of the Eastern Navy returned to Weidongguan, the fourth night was just over halfway through, and this unit had already passed the test of blood and fire, and was much more mature than when it had just set off, and had a little more fierce spirit than its colleagues stationed at Weidongguan. Seeing that Wu Qiang's heart was moved, he hurriedly found the person in his dream and asked when it would be his turn to go out to fight and support the war.

However, after a series of battles, the dream people of the Donghai team are also a little tired at the moment, and more importantly, they have been away from Donghai Town for a while, and many of their personal exclusive skills and combat skills have accumulated enough proficiency to be promoted to the rank. And this kind of thing like upgrading the skill rank can really only be done in the town office in Donghai Town, so they have to go back.

Although Wu Qiang had some regrets, he also had to obey the decision of the adults, but he told a piece of news, "Due to the need to travel between Donghai Town and Dongwei Pass for a long time in the future, we set up a post station halfway. If you don't change horses, you can return to the town in the evening. ”

Although he knew Wu Qiang's little abacus in his heart, Huang Zhi didn't care, "This is the best, our time can't be wasted in a day, we can rush back to Donghai Town overnight, you did a good job!" ”

Sima Fuqiang also had no objections, "Very good, before we come back, we will do a good job with Chen Chuang on the handover of defense." Hopefully, by the time we return to the two levels, you'll be ready to go. ”

"Yes, my lord!" Wu Qiang was overjoyed when he heard this, and this was what he was waiting for.

Huang Zhi thought about it for a while, and then explained, "Arrange a task for you to cooperate with Liu Yuanzhi to persuade Li Erhu to surrender, we need this person." ”

Wu Qiang's face fell, "Lord Shixin, isn't this your specialty?" How did you think of letting your subordinates do it? ”

"Hehe, it's all up to me, will you go out to fight by yourself in the future and still capture prisoners? It's an opportunity for you to train and it's part of how to fight. I hope that when we come back, you have already dealt with Li Erhu, otherwise, hehe! ”

"Otherwise, what's wrong?" With anxious questions in his heart, Wu Qiang watched the people in his dreams drive Maxi away.

(To be continued)