Since the last time he was almost assassinated in Jian'an County, Fujian, Wang Ze's safety has always been valued by everyone, and of course he will not be allowed to do this kind of dangerous thing of leading troops to fight.

However, this time Wang Ze didn't know which 'door' tendon his brain was pumping, and after coming to Qizhou, he had to lead his troops to go out, at this time Wang Yong had not yet rushed from Qingzhou to Qizhou, and no one could cure Wang Ze, and finally the generals agreed in desperation.

This time, Wang Ze crossed the river from a hundred miles downstream of Ande County, and led 1,500 cavalry, led by a cavalry captain named Shi Haiguang, who was a native of Donglaiye County and the most powerful cavalry general under Ji Xiang.

Seeing that the three hundred Qi soldiers in front of him were escorting more than 200 grain trucks, Wang Ze's eyes lit up, these vehicles transported more than 4,000 stones of grain, according to the calculation of Liu Damo's 50,000 troops, this is their food supply in the past ten days.

In the past few days, several convoys of convoys transporting grain and grass to the Liudama army have been destroyed by their own side, and the grain and grass in the Liudama army are running out of food.

As long as the grain and grass loaded by this convoy are destroyed this time, then the Liudamo army on the front line of Ande County will be short of grain and grass, so that the heart of the Qi army will inevitably be shaken, and at that time, Wang Ze will take advantage of the situation to attack again, and it will not be so difficult to win.

The Qi army in front of him seemed to be a little scattered and chaotic, but Shi Haiguang could see at a glance that these people were veterans who had been in battle for a long time, although their movements and formations looked chaotic and disorganized, and their movements looked very casual, but it was because they had robes around them to cover them at any time, and they were all people who could trust each other in life and death.

"Little Hou Ye! These Qi troops are not ordinary state and county soldiers but town troops from the northern Xinjiang, you wait here for a while, I will destroy them immediately! Shi Haiguang immediately asked Wang Ze for his life, he saw that these Qi troops in front of him had actually begun to light wolf smoke, if he delayed for a while, I was afraid that Qi army reinforcements would arrive.

"Captain Shi, it's okay to have the 'Meng' team lead me here, you go quickly, in the future, the march and battle will still be based on combat as the first element, don't worry about me!" Wang Ze pretended to be old-fashioned and said to Shi Haiguang.

I don't know Shi Haiguang secretly scolded himself, "If it weren't for you, how could I be like this, even if your old man hurts a sweat 'hair', I can't afford it!" ’

Shi Haiguang rushed up quickly with the cavalry, and Wang Ze's voice came from behind him: "Don't kill innocents 'indiscriminately', don't kill those people!" "Shi Haiguang pretended not to hear it, who would care so much when he killed it.

However, Shi Haiguang did not rush up directly, it is not called a charge, it is called death, it is impossible to win with the cavalry attacking the infantry with a strict formation, even if it is the Song Dynasty known as the weak Song Dynasty, the 'elite' infantry can resist the impact of the Western Xia and Liao cavalry several times more than undefeated, but it is only until the cavalry of the Western Xia or Liao State in the back cuts off the logistics of the Song army, which leads to the defeat of the Song Dynasty army.

In terms of enhancing the long-range strike strength of his own cavalry, Wang Ze tried his best to come up with a few crossbow arrows, but unfortunately failed because he took it for granted. Later, a carpenter in the carpentry institute made a crossbow arrow that was very suitable for cavalry after several years of pondering, and the 'shooting' range was more than 30 zhang, and at this distance it could easily 'hole' through the cowhide armor of his own configuration.

Seeing the cavalry rushing out of the woods in the distance and the cavalry on both sides of the avenue rushing towards the convoy together, the soldiers of the Qi army did not panic at all, but the people in the car formation panicked, and one by one they involuntarily screamed everywhere and ran around.

Qi Jun shouted a few times, but when no one listened, he immediately waved his knife and cut off the head of an unlucky man, and these people quieted down.

At this time, Huang Rui gathered around Luo Bin and Gu Kai, and there were more than a dozen young people who were more familiar with Qingzhuang on weekdays, although they were not from a village, they were also neighboring villages, and they often met for red and white ceremonies on weekdays.

In these days when they were out of the house, because Huang Rui's martial arts were the highest and his conduct in the world was also superior, these young people were willing to take Huang Rui as the leader and follow his orders, which would have them escorting several old people from their village behind a car.

Huang Rui even stretched out a hand into the grain pile of the vehicle, where there was a horizontal knife that Huang Rui secretly put there, this knife was quietly built by Huang Rui last year with the money saved to find a famous blacksmith in the county, although it is not as sharp as a divine weapon, but it is also very sharp.

Gu Kai quietly approached Huang Rui and whispered to him: "Big brother, I don't think the situation is too good, these official dogs are clearly trying to treat us as a 'meat' shield!" What can I do now? ”

Hearing his sworn brother ask himself, Huang Rui turned his eyes to look left and right, and saw that the Qi soldiers hadn't taken care of their side, so he replied in a low voice: "We can only protect ourselves, you and Luo Bin protect the eldest father and them first, pull off the iron shaft on the car as a weapon, and adapt to the situation in a while." ”

Seeing that the leading brother Huang Rui had already made a decision, Gu Kai quietly slipped into the crowd, there were only 20 people in their group, and four of them were only sixty years old, so they also had to contact some of the people who were alive and strong.

Huang Rui looked at Wang Ze's team from a distance, and secretly thought to himself, "Look at the outfit of these soldiers, it should be the Xia army on the other side of the river!" When Wang Ze had just occupied Qizhou last summer, Huang Rui was ready to come to Wang Ze, but at that time, because a friend died of illness and entrusted his family to his care, the result was delayed.

After the New Year, Huang Rui sent the friend's family to the friend's relative's house, and once again prepared to go to Qizhou to join the army, but he didn't want the north of the river to be blocked by the Qi army, so he delayed it again for the sake of insurance.

The Qi army has ordered the soldiers to prepare bows and arrows since Shi Haiguang launched a charge, as long as the cavalry on the opposite side enters a distance of 100 meters from the chariot array, they will come to a salvo 'shot', even if they still have to die in the end, but they still have to give the enemy a hard blow.

I didn't want to wait for the cavalry led by Shi Haiguang to rush to a distance of 100 meters, but they all stopped, and then a large number of crossbow arrows 'shot' into the car formation, and the Qi army saw that the situation was not good and hurriedly ordered the bow and arrow to 'shoot' out, although it was not the best 'shooting' range of the bow and arrow, but after all, it could still hurt the other party.

It's a pity that the Qi army is still disappointed, the five rows in front of the cavalry on the opposite side are all the middle-heavyweight cavalry that Wang Ze saw when he came back last time, and the men and horses are protected, although some bows and arrows have also 'shot' through the armor on people or horses, but at most they have caused some minor injuries.

Huang Rui, who had been observing the battle between the two armies, noticed that the crossbow arrows 'shot' by the attacking cavalry were all 'shot' towards the center of the car formation, and at least forty or fifty Qi soldiers were killed or seriously injured at this meeting, and the people who stayed at the outermost part of the car formation were rarely injured.

At this time, another Xianbei officer also noticed this phenomenon, so he shouted to the other soldiers: "Those dog men don't dare to 'shoot' the people, pull the people over as shields!" Saying that, the Xianbei officer walked over to Huang Rui and the others with more than a dozen people.

Seeing the Xianbei officer walking towards him and the others, Huang Rui suddenly knew that something was wrong, he gave Gu Kai, Luo Bin and others a look, and then quietly grabbed the handle of his horizontal knife.

"You guys are all here to help me shoot arrows!" Saying that, the Xianbei officer was about to stretch out his hand to pull Huang Rui, but at this moment, the officer only felt a cold light flashing in front of him, and suddenly the officer's arm was completely unloaded, and the bursting blood veins spurted out a burst of blood mist.

Then there was a rush of blood spurting out from the severed arm, and the Xianbei officer screamed in pain, and before the officer's scream could be screamed, the highest part of the scream came to an abrupt end with a cold light.

The dozen or so soldiers who followed behind the Xianbei officer were immediately stunned, where did they think that these people would dare to kill the officers and soldiers, and before the dozen or so soldiers behind the officer could react, Huang Rui cut the throats of the five soldiers with a sweep.

Several other soldiers were stabbed to death with spears by Gu Kai and Luo Bin who rushed over, and nearly 100 soldiers of the Qi army were 'shot' to death and 'shot' wounded just now, and their weapons were thrown on the ground at will without time to be restrained, and they were quietly picked up by Gu Kai and Luo Bin.

More than a dozen young men took the opportunity to push the three grain trucks away, and the iron buckles between the cars had already been secretly removed by them, which would move these vehicles away with just one push, and there was suddenly a gap of nearly ten meters in the car formation, and the nearby people escaped from these gaps.

Shi Haiguang immediately made a decision, and took the lead in rushing in from the gap with dozens of cavalry, and the car formation was suddenly in chaos, and the Qi army could no longer stabilize its position, I don't know who set the vehicle on fire, and under the scorching sun, one grain truck after another burned, except for more than 20 grain trucks were rescued, and all the rest were burned.

Looking at the burning vehicles, the rescued people were full of tears, not only the joy of the rest of their lives after the disaster, but more importantly, they were reluctant to give up the burned grain, Wang Ze It was impossible for them to understand the feelings of an ordinary person facing hundreds of thousands of catties of grain being burned at this time.

After this relatively easy battle, Wang Ze's cavalry, under the leadership of his captain, replenished some horse feed and rice grain from the vehicle, and one by one they were still talking excitedly about the battle in which their side did not lose a single person just now.

At this time, Wang Ze came to these people under the leadership of 'Meng' Ke and Shi Haiguang, most of these people escaped this catastrophe because of Shi Haiguang's orders, except for dozens of unlucky people, most of them were intact, and only about thirty people were 'shot' to some parts of their bodies by bows and arrows or crossbow arrows, and needed urgent medical treatment.

"The villain Huang Rui has seen Xiahou!" Huang Rui was the first to rush to Wang Ze to give a salute, and he saw that Gu Kai and Luo Bin behind him didn't know what was going on, so he pulled their sleeves before the two of them reacted, so they saluted together in a panic.

Wang Ze looked at the three Huang Rui in front of him with interest, he has rarely 'appeared' in recent years, and he has rarely come back in the past two years to conquer various places in the East China Sea, even if many low-level generals under Wang Yong's command still don't know him, he didn't expect that this person in front of him would guess his identity in one bite.

"Who are you, and why do you recognize me?" Just when Huang Rui and the others were sweating all over by Wang Ze, Wang Ze finally opened his mouth, which made Huang Rui's heart temporarily relaxed.

"The villain Huang Rui heard about Xiahou's heroic deeds in the plains and Yekeqi Prefecture last year, and this year he knew that Xia Gong had opened a foundation in Qingzhou, and there was a large army in Northern Qi to attack, Hou Ye must come back to help Xia Gong fight, only to see this general lead a team to attack, but Hou Ye stayed behind to watch the battle, and there was a team of cavalry guarding him, so he concluded that Hou Ye was here!"

Hearing Huang Rui's words, Wang Ze was suddenly a little discouraged, he thought that no one would know him if he didn't play his banner, but he didn't expect to be recognized by an ordinary man.

However, Huang Rui's words aroused Wang Ze's interest in him, and he asked curiously: "How did you guess it, you must know that my third uncle's family has an elder brother Zhu Bofu, and my second uncle's family also has a person named Cheng Hu, why don't you guess that I am the two of them?" ”

Huang Rui glanced at Wang Ze embarrassedly before he said in a slur manner: "I already know the reputation of these two brothers, but both of them are fierce generals, and they will never watch others fight in the back!" ”

Wang Ze was suddenly ashamed, ashamed! But this young man named Huang Rui is a rare talent! At that moment, he was moved by his love for talent, and he asked: "I saw your Excellency's extraordinary martial arts in the back, would you like to condescend to me to be a fruit captain?" ”

It's not that Wang Ze is unwilling to give a higher official position, but after Liu Xin's restructuring last month, even if the talents who have taken refuge in Wang Ze's side now, no matter how powerful they are, they must start from the grassroots level and understand every link, of course, as long as you have talent, then the promotion is very fast.

However, even if it was a position of Guowei, Huang Rui was overjoyed when he heard it, and he replied happily: "The villain is willing, the villain was originally from Bohai County, Hebei Province, and he has been martial arts since he was a child. ”

Seeing that Huang Rui became an officer as soon as he took refuge under Wang Ze, and there were hundreds of people under his hands when the team was pulled up, Gu Kai and Luo Bin glanced at each other, and also saluted Wang Ze together: "Since Master Hou has accepted our eldest brother, let me and the two of you too!" ”

Huang Rui wanted to join the army, of course, he had to take the two sworn brothers with him, and he introduced to Wang Ze: "Master Hou, these two people are Gu Kai and Luo Bin, both of whom are good brothers since I was a child, and they both have good martial arts, and I hope that Lord Hou will take them in together!" ”

At this time, many young men among the other people felt that if they did not send the military grain to the front line this time, they would inevitably be liquidated by the government, so they simply said to Wang Ze together: "Hou Ye, we are also willing to follow Hou Ye to serve!" I hope the Hou Ye will accept us! ”

One sheep is released, three sheep are also released, Wang Ze took in hundreds of young people at once, and the other people finally decided to go home because of the concerns of their families, Wang Ze let them drive the remaining more than 20 vehicles, pulling dozens of injured people to return to Bohai County, of course, in order to avoid encountering the army of the Northern Qi, they were preparing to take a detour home from another road.

This time, the grain transport team attacked by Wang Ze was an infantry army, and he did not capture any war horses, but he had captured more than 200 horses in the previous battles against the Qi army, so Huang Rui's 100 people were also assigned a war horse each, so that they could also keep up with the march of the large army.

Just when Wang Ze was about to retreat, he suddenly sent a distant scout horse to gallop over, and shouted: "Master Hou is not good!" There is a Northern Qi army of thousands of cavalry coming to us from the direction of Ande County! As he spoke, he saw dust and smoke rising from the southern road, which seemed to be less than twenty miles away from him.