"The front battalion flanks and kills!" Hu Biao wiped the sweat on his forehead and shouted loudly: "The middle battalion has arrived, and the crossbowmen are ready!"

Since taking over as the commander of the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army, Hu Biao has never had a relaxed time, in the past two months, he has almost every day to rest for only two or three hours, eating, sleeping and training with the soldiers, which has also greatly shortened the distance between the two sides.

The soldiers of this Huaiyou Army turned into the Wuning Army are basically from Huainan, and it stands to reason that they should not be very suitable for the climate in the north, but it is slightly different in Yunzhou.

The climate is hot and humid in summer, especially in the surrounding counties - Xuchang, Sucheng, Pinglu, Shouzhang, Leize, Juye, Yuncheng These counties are more affected by the climate of the lake of Juyeze, the winter is far less cold than the counties far away from the lake in the same area, but the summer is far more humid and hot than other counties, especially the humid weather.

Therefore, in Yunzhou, the Huainan soldiers are more suitable for this place than the Huaibei soldiers, but Hu Biao, a serious Yanbei man of eight hundred, is still a little unbearable for this weather.

However, for the masters of the Heavenly Realm, this little problem is not a problem, and in the past few months, the momentum of the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army has not fallen because of the departure of Chai Yong, the previous commander, but because of Chai Yong's promotion and Hu Biao's ability to mingle.

In particular, Hu Biao swore that as long as he could win the two cities of Shouzhang and Xuchang, the officers and men of the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army would be awarded meritorious service (Xuntian) by the county duke, and after the battle of Huaibei and Yanyunyi, the Huaiyou (Wuning) Jiedu Embassy had been evaluating the military merits of each army, and the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army itself had made great contributions in the Northern Expedition.

This half-truth and half-false incentive does make the officers and soldiers of the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army enthusiastic, think about the earliest followers of the county of the Huzhou Army officers and soldiers also have a lot of military merits in Shouzhou to obtain the field, and the county after the annexation of the two states of Luhao, but because of the military merits of the army, did not award the field again, now the Northern Expedition has ended, the only war is only the attack of Yunzhou and Haizhou, to get such an opportunity, is undoubtedly a great opportunity for the third army of the Wuning Left Army, can not be missed.

The battle with the Lake Bandits began after they entered Sucheng, but with the superior strength of the Wuning Army, the Lake Bandits quickly withdrew from Sucheng, but launched a fierce resistance in Suchang.

In Hu Biao's view, this level of resistance is actually nothing, after all, this is far from the lake area, the reason why Zhu Mao gave up here at the beginning was not because he was unable to recover, but because he was unwilling to spend his troops here, once he occupied this place, he had to face endless harassment from the lake bandits, which became an unbearable burden for Zhu Mao, it was better to abandon this place and keep Yanzhou.

But for Hu Biao, this is not a problem.

The logistical supplies such as grain, jerky, ordnance, armor, medicine, and soldiers that have been continuously replenished from Yanzhou have never been stopped, and it can be said that they can be quickly replenished after every battle.

In the past month or so, there have been no less than 10 battles with the lake bandits, and the losses of the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army are not small, with no less than 500 killed and more than 800 wounded, but the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army has been able to maintain full strength.

Moreover, through this series of battles, the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army has become more and more handy in the war against the lake bandits.

From the initial mutual victory and defeat to the upper hand, the strategy of dividing and attacking together has almost become a defeated battle for the lake bandits whose combat effectiveness is obviously inferior to that of the Wuning Army.

The response to the attack on the side of Pinglu County made Pinglu and Sucheng form horns with each other, and the squeezing trend from east to west made the lake bandits have to start shrinking in the direction of Shouzhang and Yuncheng.

"Cao Zhilun, you take the right battalion and the rear battalion to attack from behind, so as to defeat them in one fell swoop!" Seeing that the left battalion and the middle battalion have firmly absorbed more than 2,000 lake bandits, Hu Biao is also very open-minded.

In the past month or so, although there have been many battles, most of them have been small battles involving a few hundred people.

The lake bandits are extremely cunning, and once they find that something is wrong, they will immediately pull out, and they have repeatedly escaped by taking advantage of their location.

Even sometimes they would take advantage of their unfamiliarity with the geographical situation to fight a counterattack, which also caused a lot of losses to the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army, and the most tragic battle directly caused more than 200 casualties in the rear battalion.

The terrain between the three counties of Xuchang, Sucheng and Pinglu is low and flat, and when the rainy season comes, it will flood sharply, and many times except for the local elders, they can't tell where there is a swamp, where there is a high ground, and where they can pass, and the lake bandits are using this terrain to constantly fight with the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army, resulting in the goal of the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army to take Xuchang City can not be achieved for a long time.

However, this situation has been greatly improved after Wang Xu became the governor of Yunzhou, Shi acted as the governor of Yunzhou.

Although the local gentry in Xuchang and Sucheng counties suffered from the strength of the lake bandits and had to cooperate with the lake bandits, these gentry were still eager to hope that the government could suppress the lake bandit forces and restore the rule of the government.

Therefore, when Wang Xu, the patriarch of the Wang clan who was extremely famous in Sucheng, became the governor of Yunzhou, the gentry of Xuchang and Shouzhang immediately took action and began to make secret contact with the Yunzhou Assassin Mansion, which took Sucheng as the temporary governor, in order to recover the two counties of Xuchang and Shouzhang as soon as possible.

Even the gentry in Juye and Yuncheng counties, where the lake bandits were the most powerful, quietly sent people to contact Wang Xu in order to obtain the understanding of the Yunzhou Assassin Mansion that they had to cooperate with the lake bandits.

Once the officials and the local gentry cooperated, even in secret, the situation suddenly changed.

The local squires from various counties in Yunzhou also realized that now was the best time to solve the problem of the Juyeze bandits in one fell swoop after learning about the strength of the Huaiyou (Wuning) army, and as long as the Huaiyou (Wuning) army could adopt the current method of taking the battalion step by step and protecting the armor and sitting together, step by step from easy to difficult, it would be completely possible to completely compress the lake bandits into the lake area.

Since there is still a powerful Huaiyou Water Army in the hands of the Lord of the County, according to Xugong, even the Chaohu Water Bandits, whose fame in the south is not inferior to the Juye Ze Water Bandits, are intimidated by the prestige of the Lord of the County and surrender, and then recruit An to be incorporated into the Huaiyou Water Army, so how can the Juye Ze Water Bandits escape the net of heaven and earth announced by the county?

It is precisely on this basis that the gentry of all counties in Yunzhou are enthusiastically looking forward to the official army being able to quickly recover the two counties of Xuchang and Shouzhang, and even speed up the attack on Juye and Yuncheng counties, completely drive the water bandits into the lake, and finally completely eliminate the bandits.

Cao Zhilun is Hu Biao's deputy, and also the deputy commander of the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army, this officer who grew up from the Desheng Army is very murderous, and he was still a little resistant to Hu Biao coming to the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army, but with Hu Biao's tough performance and taking the lead, he soon won the respect of Cao Zhilun, and the relationship between the two quickly became close.

Cao Zhilun's Mo knife quickly tore through the defense line of the lake bandits, although the lake bandits also realized that the surprise attack from the rear was very dangerous, but relying on the advantage of troops and relying on the familiar terrain of the houses in the villages behind, they were still a little unwilling to fail, so they were still making stubborn resistance.

This also hit Hu Biao's mind, he was afraid that this group of lake bandits would turn around and flee, this bypassing this village, it would be a wild land, undulating swamps and reed fields, so that it would be difficult for the army to achieve the effect after entering, and if the other party is willing to rely on the village to fight, even if this kind of street fighting will be quite tragic and cruel, Hu Biao is willing, at least can achieve the goal.

However, the lake bandits were obviously not as simple as Hu Biao imagined, after escaping into the village and making some resistance, realizing that it was difficult to reverse the defeat, the leader of the lake bandits quickly changed his decision, and quickly fled from the west of the village into the swamp, relying on the familiarity of the terrain, and quickly got rid of the pursuit of the Wuning army.

Although there were local fishermen as guides, it would take time to concentrate several battalions, and once the pursuing force was too small, it was easy to be counterattacked by the enemy, so Hu Biao preferred to seek stability at this point, and he had already learned this lesson before.

Seeing that it was difficult to pursue the enemy, Hu Biao also decisively gave the order to suspend the pursuit and organize the team.

It is only more than ten miles away from the county seat of Xuchang, but it is also the most serious area of banditry, basically every village has something to do with the lake bandits, or there are some young people who are lake bandits.

The dense streams and many people live by fishing and hunting, so that these people are born to live on water, and once their livelihood is lost, or they are coerced by lake bandits, it is a natural thing to become lake bandits.

"My lord, this is Dangtou Village, there are only less than thirty families, basically all of them are old and weak, women and children, young and strong have been taken away by the lake bandits. Cao Zhilun wiped a bloodstained bright silver blade with his fingers, and said proudly: "This battle can be regarded as letting the lake bandits think about it, and I am afraid that they will never dare to fight us head-on in the future." ”

"How many beheadings, how many prisoners?"

"Four hundred and twenty-two beheaded, one hundred and sixty-seven prisoners, and a few more are afraid that they will not survive. Cao Zhilun inserted the handle of the knife into the ground and crossed his hands on his waist, "Lord Wang asked us to send all the captives to Sucheng for unified screening and labor reform. ”

"Hehe, I want to too, but the county prince will not agree, this will continue to be fought, all like this, how many people are left in Yunzhou?" Hu Biao tightened the belt around his waist and said nonchalantly: "In the future, this Yunzhou will be our Huaiyou (Wuning) territory, and the county princes and their nobles will be farther than we think." ”

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