With ballistas in the air, flames everywhere, and black smoke billowing from the ground, the 3,000 cavalry were defeated in the joint attack of the Tang River and the patrol fleet on the simple but very practical tidal flat positions that the Tang River hastily established. The 3,000 men of the death cavalry retreated safely to Qinzhou City, and only less than 500 of them retreated. And even these lucky guys who escaped alive are mostly injured, but few of them are intact.

Shen Qingyan suffered. But this loss is what he is willing to eat, because of the existence of this loss, he can generously retreat to Qinzhou City and put on a defensive appearance.

Shen Qingyan no longer attacked the tidal flat position, and Tang He was naturally happy not to fight. After crossing the river to the north and heading north, Li Jingxuan had already given him a clear plan and told him seriously: "If others fight others, they will fight their own, and as long as possible, they must not be confused by the enemy's actions." You know, our strength lies in the sharp weapon of the fortified city, and as for the face-to-face field fight, we are not as good as each other. Defend the counterattack and build your own fortifications first. That's the right choice for us. ”

Tang He took Li Jingxuan's advice very seriously, and after yesterday's battle, he naturally understood that the strength of the demon was not something he could resist.

Therefore, under the protection of the cruising fleet, he honestly implemented Li Jingxuan's plan to set up a village first and then enter the army. He enclosed the entire tidal flat circle and used cement, sand, bamboo, and red bricks to carry out the construction of the camp. Because there was no attack by Shen Qingyan, the construction of the camp in Tanghe went very smoothly.

However, within a few days, a gray wall surrounded the tidal flat where he was located. The wall was about ten miles long, about two feet wide, and only as high as the chest, but it was a low wall.

This low wall is not tall or thick, but it is just enough to give proper protection to the archers and spearmen behind the low wall. Under such protection, Tang He arranged archers and spear guards, and placed thousands of cavalry in the meantime, but the entire camp was held as if it were ********.

The low wall gave the camp good protection. And the big camp began a new round of construction after the completion of the low wall. The Tang River wants to turn the hastily built wooden camp into a permanent camp as strong as a breastwork. Although this permanence is not really a permanence of thousands of years, as long as it can last for a few years, a few decades of construction period, this is enough for Tang River.

"The next battle is a big battle, the outcome is not something that can be determined in a few days, it is a battle that lasts for months or even years, and you have to be prepared for a long fight. This is also what Li Jingxuan said to Tang He, and Tang He thought about it deeply.

Establish permanent fortifications on the tidal flats, rely on the defense system of the fortifications to kill and injure the enemies who may come, strive to hold the tidal flats, plant a nail in front of Qinzhou, and then wait for the occurrence of changes in the north. This is the combat strategy that Li Jingxuan and Tang He decided after discussion. According to this strategy, Tang He's army is a main force and a pretense, and the sailor on Li Jingxuan's back, although it seems to be a partial division, is actually a sharp steel knife.

"Now it's up to Li Jingxuan's steel knife to successfully pierce the enemy's chest. Xiongzhou City, that is the rear of the demon barbarian, with Jing Xuan's ability, he should be able to take it smoothly when he is caught off guard by scolding. After issuing a series of orders, Tang He did everything he could, and now he stood on the watchtower in the middle of the camp, looking at the north and gloomily: "Brother, the sea is unpredictable, I hope you can have smooth sailing." He muttered softly, secretly praying for Li Jingxuan in his heart.

Smooth sailing? Tang He's wishes are very good, but God may not be as he wishes.

The phantom array is realistic, and everything in the phantom array is randomly generated after the corresponding conditions are met. Everything is like the real world, full of accidents in certainty.

When the Tang River was on the river beach and Shen Qingyan's troops were fighting, Li Jingxuan's fleet was also helplessly encountered by the typhoon from the autumn.

Dark clouds like ink, howling winds, and heavy rain. In this storm, only the power of heaven and earth is the most powerful, and no man-made thing can compete with the power of heaven and earth. The surging waves of more than ten feet high smashed down overwhelmingly, and the icy sea water washed the sailboat from beginning to end. The sheer force made the ship creak with a toothache, and the sound was so dense that one couldn't help but worry about whether the ship under him would survive the round.

Undoubtedly, this sudden typhoon was a test for this northbound fleet, but this test, with the efforts of those elite sailors trained by Li Jingxuan, and the excellent protection of the battleship itself, finally survived.

After three days and two nights of gloomy weather, as the cold moonlight shined through the still dense dark clouds, the satisfying good weather appeared in front of everyone's eyes again. This made them involuntarily breathe a sigh of relief. Although the days of the typhoon were only a few dozen hours, the events that happened in these dozens of hours were as if the people who had experienced them had stayed for thousands of years, but they were memorable and unbearable.

The typhoon passed. The fleet was only slightly damaged, three battleships leaked, one troop carrier sank, and two were lost, losing about 500 men. This is already a great blessing in misfortune. As the clouds were torn apart, the stars and the moon blinked at the fleet. Looking at them in the sky, the sailors at sea quickly got busy.

Now is not the time to rest, and it is almost 100% of the time to lose sight of things in a typhoon, to lose your way, and to deviate from the course. Now that the moon and stars are scarce, it is natural for the sailors in the fleet to use the stars in the sky to determine their own direction, correct the course of the fleet, and point it to the correct position.

"Is it three points off, five hundred miles away from the route?" Soon, the elite sailors reported the news of the fleet to Li Jingxuan. Li Jingxuan nodded lightly at this, and then ordered loudly: "The fleet adjusts its direction, we must rush to the outside of Xiongzhou City as soon as possible." ”

The battle plan was set by Li Jingxuan and Tang He. Naturally, the date of the battle was also decided by the two of them after consulting with each other. Although the two sides had thought of various possibilities in advance and made corresponding redundancy arrangements, in Li Jingxuan's opinion, being late was always a bad thing, no matter what the reason for being late was, he had to make up for the late time as much as possible.

After three days of galloping on the sea, Li Jingxuan finally saw the unique coastline in the northwest. According to the information obtained by the imperial history, the harbor of Xiongzhou City is a natural deep-water harbor, which is located on the edge of the Yuehe River 30 miles east of the city, and it is a harbor standing on the edge of the cliff, and its scale is not large. Garrisoned by the harbor was an infantry force of about 130 men, and its commander was a hundred households.

Baihu is not a high-ranking official, and the strength of more than 100 people is not very much, but Li Jingxuan is still cautious. This was the first target of his attack in the north, and he naturally didn't want to miss something.

At the moment, Li Jingxuan took advantage of the twists and turns of the coastline to hide the fleet in a deserted harbor, and sent spies under the command of Yu Shi to go ashore to investigate and see if there were any new changes in the situation in the small port.

In fact, it was already evening, and the darkness of the night had hidden the traces of the fleet very well. Li Jingxuan had already intended to launch an attack on the harbor at dawn the next day, so that there was not much time left for those spies to operate. However, Li Jingxuan believes that they will bring good news to him - because after the corresponding capital investment, the professional level of these spies has been pulled to the highest level, and in the face of such a professional level, Li Jingxuan thinks that it does not take much time to explore a remote rear harbor.

And that's exactly what happened. Just as it was close to midnight, the spies sent by Li Jingxuan returned. They brought back the latest information about the harbor: the defenders of the harbor had not changed, and they were still the same 130 men, and they were still a hundred households. It's just that this hundred households are no longer the same person as two months ago.

Overall, the situation at the seaport is the same as before.

Since the situation is similar, Li Jingxuan is also relieved. At dawn the next day, he began his actions. He first used small boats to put 1,000 elites on the coast, let them cut off the connection between the harbor and the rear by land, and then led the fleet directly to the harbor, using the heavy firepower of the battleship to suppress the enemy on the harbor, providing a good opportunity for his own sergeants to land on a large scale.

It is said that killing chickens with a knife is a big fuss, but Li Jingxuan's posture of fighting a lion and a rabbit at this time is not just a simple matter of making a big fuss. With this action, what he raised was not an ordinary object like a cattle knife, at this moment, he swung an extremely sharp dragon slaying knife.

For a time, the shouting of killing shook the heavens and the earth, and the thick smoke of gunpowder filled the sky. With Li Jingxuan's dragon slaying knife cut down, the harbor defenders who had encountered a sudden attack were powerless to resist. They were deservedly defeated. Under Li Jingxuan's deliberate actions, more than 100 guards and their commanders became the souls of Li Jingxuan's sword - Li Jingxuan annihilated them all, because of the urgency of time, Li Jingxuan had no time and no energy, persuaded them to surrender, and reorganized them.

After taking the harbor, Li Jingxuan blocked the harbor. At the same time, after sending a steady stream of soldiers from his troop transport ship ashore, he selected one of the most elite and clever troops, asked them to take off the clothes of the harbor defenders and change them, pretending to be a remnant of the defeated army, and ran to Xiongzhou City in fear.

This unit is Li Jingxuan's vanguard. And behind this army, Li Jingxuan led the army to follow from afar, posing as if he was chasing to the end.

The city of Xiongju is peaceful. As the first city captured by Jin Yu and Shen Qingyan after leaving the initial city, the development here is also good, and the entire city is quite prosperous. Especially after Shen Qingyan used this place as a supply base for the front-line Qin City, the prosperity here seemed to be a little more prosperous. Merchants from all over the world gathered here, bringing with them a large number of goods, but also exuberant popularity and a lot of money.

Demon barbarians are not good at producing. Therefore, the more adept at robbery, they are always the presence of merchants. Because everything they loot must pass through the hands of merchants before they can be converted into the war resources they need. Therefore, both Jin Yu and Shen Qingyan attach great importance to the degree of commercial development of the city. They truly understand that business equals money.

Because this is always commercial, because it is located in the rear where it is impossible for the enemy to attack, the city defense of Xiongzhou is very "sparse". When the group of people under Li Jingxuan who pretended to be defeated soldiers rushed to the position of three zhang in front of the city gate, the defenders on Xiongzhou City realized that the situation was not good.

"Where are you from?" they tried to pull up the drawbridge over the moat, and at the same time sent someone to inquire about the situation here.

"We are the defenders of the harbor, and the enemy has come from the open sea, and we are not opponents, and we are defeated. The enemy's army is huge, and the soldiers who are overwhelming the sky are not afraid of tens of thousands. They're chasing after us, hurry up and let us in, we don't want to die yet. The soldiers under the city really performed it, they shouted in panic, cried in fear, as if they were really unlucky people who were being chased by the enemy and were in danger of their lives at any time.

The defenders of Xiongcheng did not have much experience, and Shen Qingyan, who could see through all this, was on the front line of Qincheng. So they believed the words of the soldiers in the city. Out of love for their colleagues, they lowered the drawbridge over the moat and received the poor fugitives into the city. At the same time, they also sounded the horns of the city to guard against the enemy's attack.

It can be said that the reaction of these defenders, although not perfect, was also decent, and there was nothing wrong with it.

However, their decent approach could not resist Li Jingxuan's tricks.

After the drawbridge was lowered, dozens of deserters rushed into the city gate cave with a roar, and their movements were fast, as if something terrible was following behind them - in fact, the terrible army of Li Jingxuan was hanging two miles behind them, and in order to escape, it was indeed necessary for them to keep quite fast.

And at the moment when they were about to cross the drawbridge, two steel knives were swung out of the hands of the two soldiers with the tails of them, and they stood fiercely on the rope mountain of the drawbridge. All of a sudden, the rope was cut off. The huge drawbridge was thus untied, and it was no longer possible for the people of the city to pull it up.

"Damn, what's going on?"

"Are these people crazy?"

Confusion and panic appeared on the faces of the guards at the head of the city, and the events that followed turned their panic into fear.

Because the drawbridge had been cut and the team had rushed into the city, the original camouflage was no longer needed. The defeated soldier immediately tore off his rotten military uniform, picked up the scimitar in his hand, and lit up his name: "The Great Qiantian Soldiers have entered the city!" (To be continued.) )