Huang Yuandai arrived at the dock, and the big boss of Fox Lake, who followed him to support, also arrived a moment later.

Huang Yuandai didn't enter the water village, just in the pavilion by the dock, sketching the battle situation in front of him with Cao Yunye and others.

"We surrounded a team of 1,000 people, and in the previous battle, we showed good combat power, and the beard of the state city doesn't know how many people we have, so I will send a team of 1,000 people to save it. ”

Huang Yuandai drew a map of Mozhou, Baiyangdian and Fox Lake on the dirt land:

"At the moment when the national war is critical, Hu Zi's troops are all thrown into the frontal battlefield, and there are not many people left in the rear, and there are only 3,000 garrisons in the entire Mozhou City.

"This time, I transferred all the manpower of Hudian in Mozhou and Yingzhou, with a total of 4,000 people, most of whom are on standby in the periphery.

"If Mozhou's beard only sends a team of 1,000 people to save it, we rely on our familiarity with the terrain and are good at water warfare, and it will not be difficult to gather and annihilate together.

"At that time, our goal of this battle will be achieved. ”

Cao Yunye rubbed his hands and said excitedly: "As long as these two thousand-man teams are destroyed, there will be a bearded regular army of a thousand-man team left in the entire Mozhou, and it is okay to defend the state city, but it will be difficult to divide troops to guard the local counties and townships."

"When that time comes, we will expand the team and recruit heroes in the counties and townships, so that we can raise the influence to a higher level, and the military camp does not need to be built in Baiyangdian, it can be directly placed in Tangxing County!"

Speaking of this, Cao Yunye's eyes were full of yearning:

"With the possession of the city, a stable source of soldiers and money, and the grasp of local power, we are no longer bandits, nor are we heroes in the mountains and fields, but upright kings!"

Li Hu, who was standing behind Cao Yunye, was brightened and enthusiastic by his words.

In the countryside of prefectures, counties, and counties, there are many rich landlords like Liu Shi who have gained benefits, so they take refuge in Hu Zi and kowtow to Hu Zi, and take the opportunity to make a lot of money;

There is also no shortage of Wang Er's kind of people who have no moral bottom line in order to get ahead, be prosperous and wealthy.

But there are also many people like him Li Hu who don't want to be a slave to the country and don't want to be a dog for a beard.

Just this time, he took refuge in Cao Yunye, and many young people in the countryside came to visit.

On the one hand, like Li Hu, they were hurt by Hu Zi and Liu Shi and others in these days, and wanted to fight to the death with Hu Zi, and on the other hand, they also did not want to see the great rivers and mountains of their ancestors stolen by a group of barbarians.

Before, they had no grievances and blood, but they had no way to kill the enemy, so they could only grovel and endure, but now with Li Hu, a chivalrous warrior they are familiar with, taking the lead and joining Cao Yunye, of course they will not let go of the opportunity.

——This is also the reason why Cao Yunye has long wanted to pull Li Hu into the gang. Desperate work is very important, and having a familiar and respected hero take the lead is a completely different thing from going to a stranger completely.

It is conceivable that as long as they occupy the county seat, when the time comes, there will be a large number of young people to vote, and the size of the team will be different immediately.

Cao Yunye said excitedly, but Huang Yuandai looked indifferent, touching his goatee and being noncommittal.

"Sir, do you think what Cao said is wrong?"

Cao Yunye thought about it, and he realized the problem, and his face became solemn: "If Mozhou only sends one thousand people, then that's all, if two thousand people pour out, we are afraid that there is no chance of winning." ”

If you can't win this battle, then you don't need to say anything, there is no future development at all, and it is fortunate to be able to escape and swim in Baiyangdian Lake and avoid this catastrophe.

"Sir, what should we do?" Cao Yunye immediately asked.

Huang Yuandai took out the wine gourd on his waist, raised his head and wanted to take a sip, but he didn't pour out a drop of wine, he suddenly became excited, and threw the wine jug to Cao Yunye: "Go, let's drink first." ”

......

A day later, Shuizhai got the news that Mozhou's bearded soldiers and horses had left the city.

Cao Yunye and the others looked grim.

Mozhou's beard chose to pour out of the nest!

Except for leaving two hundred people to defend the city, the rest of the men and horses quickly rushed to the water village!

"Sir, how is this good?" Cao Yunye hurriedly asked Huang Yuandai.

"What do you think?" asked Huang Yuandai as he drank the wine in the gourd.

Cao Yunye hesitated and said: "Sir, even if there are many cultivators among us, but there are nearly two thousand people on the other side, how can we not be opponents, let's abandon the water village first and escape into the lake to avoid trouble?"

Huang Yuandai stuffed the wine gourd, hung it back on his waist, touched the goatee and smiled: "What are you afraid of?"

"The soldiers and horses of Mozhou poured out of the nest, and this move is exactly what I want. If they don't, I think it's going to take a lot of work. It's good now, it's all simple. ”

Li Hu felt that Huang Yuandai was bragging, and he didn't know who he was, but Cao Yunye was stunned and said in surprise: "Mr. has other big plans?"

"It's not a big plan, it's just a small plan. ”

Huang Yuandai patted his stomach and called the big boss of Fox Lake to come to him, "You immediately gather with the old three departments, gather at the edge of Hudian, and after the bearded soldiers and horses arrive, let them in, don't show their heads and be discovered."

"Then we will transport the straw boats we have prepared in advance to the reeds and set them up properly, and wait for my orders. ”

The other party took the order and left, Cao Yunye didn't know why, and Huang Yuandai looked at the reeds, sighing regretfully:

"It's a pity, it's the turn of spring and summer, and the reeds are green, and if the reeds are yellow in autumn and winter, why should the old man bother to burn these barbarians with a fire. ”

As he spoke, he beckoned and called a cultivator's entourage: "Give the Miao Da family an order to open the red bag and act according to the plan inside." ”

"Yes!"

After arranging these, Huang Yuandai turned his head to look at Cao Yunye: "Master Cao, aren't you going to give up the water village and escape into the depths of the lake?

"However, we have to wait for the bearded reinforcements to come close before leaving, and we have to act in a panic to lure the other party into pursuit. Remember, don't run too fast, lest the other person completely lose your track and can't catch up. ”

Cao Yunye heard it in a fog, and he didn't know what the other party was planning: "Sir, what is this intention?"

Huang Yuandai smiled mysteriously, "What is the intention? ”

Cao Yunye: "......"

Huang Yuandai continued: "The big boss wants to expand the team and compete with the bearded people, which is a good thing, but the expansion of the team does not have to occupy the county, as long as there is money and food, there is no worry about no heroes to vote." ”

Cao Yunye's most scarce thing was food, and his eyes lit up when he heard this: "Can Mr. get money and food?"

Huang Yuandai said lightly: "There is a lot of money and grain in Mozhou.

"These days, the beard is forcibly conscripting military rations everywhere and wants to transport them to the front line, these are the hard-earned money of my Daqi people, you say, can you let these beards be used to fight our royal division?"

......

When Hu Zi's reinforcements entered Baiyangdian and approached Shuizhai, they first sent elite cultivators to report the news, and the commander who was surrounded in Xiaozhou immediately took the spirit and led his troops to take the initiative to attack.

Huang Yuandai went to the light boat early, and under the escort of several entourages, he hid in the depths of the reeds, and Cao Yunye did not hesitate, and withdrew from the battle with his subordinates at the moment before the Hu Zi reinforcements arrived.

As expected, the beard of nearly three thousand-strong people, in the face of more than a thousand heroes who fled without a fight, immediately rowed their oars and chased after them.

This is inevitable, they came to Baiyangdian to cut off Cao Yunye and others, get rid of this scourge, if they return in vain today, and Cao Yunye will attack the county seat and kill people again in the future, then what should I do?

Right now, Cao Yunye's department is in front of him, of course, there is no reason to let it go.

In the chase and entanglement between the two sides, casualties are inevitable, but relying on the familiar terrain, Cao Yunye's casualties are not large, if it weren't for the practice of Huang Yuandai's arrangement, they couldn't shake off their beards, they would have run away a long time ago.

In the end, the waters of Baiyangdian are wide, and the two sides have been entangled for several days, but there is no result.

And at this time, the three thousand beards suddenly received an urgent order from Mozhou, asking them to immediately abandon Cao Yunye's department and return to the state city!

It turned out that just when they were dealing with Cao Yunye, more than a thousand river bandits suddenly appeared outside Mozhou City and attacked the city with great momentum!

Tangxing County is in the west, adjacent to Baiyangdian, Mozhou City is in the east, and facing Fox Lake, the two lakes are originally connected, and it is not troublesome for the people under Huang Yuandai to run to attack Mozhou City.

Originally, there were two or three hundred men and horses in Mozhou City, plus the officials of the Assassin's Mansion, and then forcibly recruited some young and strong people to go to the city to help in the battle, under the control of the bearded cultivators, in the face of more than a thousand river bandits, it was not difficult to defend the city.

The worst is that you can hold on for a while.

But the problem is that as soon as the river bandits arrived outside the city, they were killed and opened the city gate, and the river bandits rushed to the city without bothering and went straight to the assassin's mansion.

Just like Cao Yunye's attack on Tangxing County, the river bandits went straight to the Assassin's Mansion in the middle of the night and killed high-ranking officials such as Bearded Assassin Shi and Beijia.

The assassin is not in the Yuan Shen Realm, but the end is the same as the Huzi County Order of Tangxing County, and he did not resist the onslaught of the masters among the river bandits at all.

Only Changshi ran out and immediately sent someone to inform Baiyangdian's army to come back for reinforcements.

Unlike the attack on Tangxing County, the river bandits who entered Mozhou City, Mo said that they did not run away that night, and they were still swaggering in the city, not in a hurry, transporting money and food from the treasury!

Among the bearded army, the most important thing is horses, since there is no shortage of horses, then naturally there will be no shortage of carriages.

Under the rapid loading and unloading of the river bandits, a team of wagons transported the grain, cloth, gold, silver and jewelry from the treasury to the outside, so that the people of Mozhou City really watched the excitement for a while.

Many conscientious people took out their own wine, meat and silver, and kept adding them to the carriage, and if they couldn't add any more, they stuffed them into the arms of the heroes, hoping that they would have enough strength to eat and kill more beards.

And some big families with good family style sent their children to join the river bandits, on the one hand, to help in the war, and on the other hand, to keep in touch with the heroes, so that when the king wins a great victory in the future, he can have a merit and a way out.

The two or three thousand beards who were chasing Cao Yunye immediately turned around and retreated when they learned that there was a fire in the backyard and their hometown was not protected.

When they returned to the army, the scattered and fleeing fleets under Cao Yunye's command quickly gathered together from all over the place, followed them without leaving, and from time to time they attacked and harassed in turn.

The bearded men have been entangled with Cao Yunye's subordinates for a few days, and they are already tired, and now they are in a hurry to return to Mozhou City, and they have to be distracted to deal with Cao Yunye's attack, so they are inevitably physically and mentally exhausted, and their vigilance is greatly reduced.

When they were about to land, they breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that Cao Yunye didn't dare to go ashore, and when they could finally get rid of lice, countless grass boats suddenly rushed out of the reeds on both sides!

The boats were loaded with dry wood and hay, and sprinkled with a lot of grease, and when they rushed out, they were all set on fire! By the time the bearded men found themselves surrounded by fire, there was no way to enter the heavens and the earth.

Many were burned, and many fell into the water in panic.

Even if they are cultivators, in normal battles, they can use ships to move and transfer, and they can also fight if they are not familiar with the nature of water, but now, the water has become their purgatory.

Cao Yunye led his troops to follow, and the other river bandits who had been ambushed here for a long time had been recuperating for a long time, and at this moment, they launched a fierce attack on Hu Zi from all directions at the same time!

Most of them are familiar with the nature of the water, and the beards that fall into the water are effortless to harvest, and they can be haunted underwater even if they have a burning boat on their heads.

Even if they can't beat their beards in the boat, as long as they overturn the boat, gouge through the bottom of the boat, and let the beard fall into the water, this is their home field.

The beards were in disarray, and they scrambled to flee.

Because there is still some distance from the riverbank, there are very few people who can successfully escape.

It was a battle of equal strength.

Again, it was a battle that was by no means evenly matched.

In short, this is a battle without suspense.