According to the pre-war deployment, Jiang Chuan, Ji Xiang and others should have launched an attack on Liu Damo's army a long time ago, so that the Qi army that was chasing them should have hurried towards Ande County; But looking at the appearance of the Qi army in Bohai County, it depends on the posture of not leaving here, what is going on?

The current situation was different from his original calculation, and Wang Ze and the others did not dare to act rashly even if they went deep behind enemy lines, so batches of scouts were sent out, and even hundreds of local young men from Bohai County led by Huang Rui, Gu Kai, and Luo Bin were also sent out.

Of course, when these people were sent out, they were 'mixed' with Wang Ze's original cavalry, and the excuse was to let them learn more from the old men of the cavalry, except for Huang Rui, the other hundreds of young men were all very moved.

For Huang Rui, Wang Ze said very bluntly, he said to Huang Rui sincerely: "Huang Zhuangshi, now you are the fruit captain of our army, and now these hundreds of young men have been with us for a short time, although I put them together with the cavalry under my command for the purpose of surveillance, but it can also make them integrate into our side faster, what do you think?" ”

Of course, Huang Rui also understood the current situation, he looked at Wang Ze's reply respectfully and sincerely: "The arrangement of the little marquis is reasonable, we are willing to act only the orders of the little marquis, and I am willing to personally sneak into Bohai County to detect the reality of the Qi army for the little marquis." ”

The cavalry that was sent to investigate the military situation gradually moved away, and the other cavalry remained in the woods, fortunately, everyone replenished the military rations when they attacked the Qi army yesterday, otherwise the food was really not enough to eat for a few days, and it was summer again, and it was better to have more mosquitoes in the woods.

However, the waiting time was too long, and I waited for two days with the torment in my heart, and it felt like two years had passed. On the third day, the cavalry that went south to reconnoiter brought Zhu Bofu with him, accompanied by a cavalry under Zhu Bofu.

Hey? Shouldn't Zhu Bofu be with Ji Xiang's army now? Wang Ze immediately went up and looked up and down, left and right, and found that although Zhu Bofu had a lot of scarred scars on his body, it was only a skin and flesh injury that was not much of a problem to his body, so he put his mind at ease.

He took Zhu Bofu's hand with one hand and asked eagerly, "Big brother, why did you come here, shouldn't you go back?" And Jiang Chuan and Ji Xiang attacked? ”

Zhu Bofu was not polite at all, he sat on the horse and sighed for a long time before replying: "Da Lang, you don't know, everyone took a lot of effort to transfer away those cavalry under Liu Damo, but unfortunately it was disturbed by the reinforcements sent by the Hu Lawyers Association!" When we withdraw, seeing that you haven't come back for a long time, I'll come to look for you!" ”

It turned out that the day before yesterday, Jiang Chuan, Ji Xiang, Cao An, Meng Xian, Chu Honghang and others took advantage of the dark night to let Zhong Likai and Zhang Feng force them to cross the river, and Zhong Likai and Zhang Feng also took the opportunity to use the gunpowder weapons on the ship to eliminate thousands of Liu Damo's infantry.

Zhang Feng and Zhong Likai have occasionally had skirmishes with the Qi army's sailors during this period of time, and after Sun Xing went to the Yellow River section of Jeju, they didn't even have these, and now they haven't fought a big battle for a long time.

More than 2,000 soldiers stationed on the riverbank under the command of Liu Damo were killed in one look, although there were still tens of thousands of people under Liu Damo, but more than 2,000 people were lost at once, where were these tens of thousands of people enough to toss.

In desperation, Liu Dharma withdrew from the shore to the large army camp, so Jiang Chuan, Cao An, Chu Honghang, and Meng Xian took advantage of the situation to attack, and Ji Xiang led more than 10,000 cavalry to help, and after disturbing the side, blocking the reinforcements.

may have been stunned by the fire 'medicine' bomb at the beginning, the Qi army lost nearly 10,000 people in a row, and in less than two days, Liu Dharma lost nearly half of the camp one after another, and what was worse was that Liu Damo's army ran out of food.

In desperation, Liu Dharma had no choice but to order to kill cattle and sheep first and then horses, and insisted on it for another day, Jiang Chuan and others outside the camp of course could see that the Qi army was short of food and began to kill horses.

However, the disadvantage of the Qi army is the good news for their own side, as long as the Qi army is short of food, the morale of the Qi army will inevitably be low, and when the time comes, they will take advantage of the situation to attack, then the threat of the Qi army on the north road will naturally be solved.

Just when Jiang Chuan, Cao An and others were preparing to break through the remaining camp of Liu Dharma in one go the next day and eliminate the remaining 20,000 troops of Liu Damo, Ji Xiang, who was wandering behind the side of the Qi army, brought bad news: more than 20,000 cavalry came from the direction of the plain.

It turned out that Ande County was less than 200 miles away from Pingyuan County, and as the supreme commander of the Middle Route Army of the Third Route Army, Hu Luxie also received a few days ago that the grain route of Liudama Army was attacked by enemy troops who sneaked into the rear one after another.

After careful consideration, the Hu Lawyers Association concluded that this must be the enemy's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and it was at this time that the Hu Lawyers Association received that Liu Dharma had sent cavalry to encircle and suppress these enemy troops, and the Hu Lawyers Association immediately knew that the big thing was not good.

Previously, Liu Dharma had already 'drawn' most of the county soldiers of Bohai County, Fuyang County, and Leling County in the north of the river, and in case Liu Dharma was defeated, these states and counties were almost defenseless.

After thinking about it for a long time, the Hu Lawyers Association finally decided to send the general under his command, Pi Jing, to lead 25,000 cavalry to rush to Ande County urgently, even if it could not protect the army of Liu Damo but also ensure the safety of the three counties north of the river.

When Jiang Chuan and the others knew the news that Pi Jing's army was coming, Pi Jing's army was only a few dozen miles away from Ande County, which might take a day for the infantry, but it was only an hour and a half for the cavalry.

To attack or not to attack? If you attack, it is very likely to be entangled by the Qi army, and in the end, Pi Jing rushed to attack inside and outside, resulting in a big defeat for your own side, but if you retreat like this, you will be extremely unwilling in your heart.

There are less than 20,000 people left in the Liudama army in front of him, and if there are four or five hours, they can all be wiped out at once, so that the blow to the Qi army will be greater, and it can also better boost the morale of their own soldiers.

At this moment, Zhong Likai, the captain of the naval academy, slapped his head, and suddenly jumped up, he said excitedly: "A few days ago, a large number of gunpowder weapons were sent from Jeju Island, and I also have a lot of them here, why don't we try it!" ”

Zhong Likai was talking about the previous Zhu Bofu introduced Zheng Kui and the Japanese when he was fighting, because the thunderbolt was used up and there was no time to replenish, and he had no choice but to invent a new weapon - rocket.

Looking at such a bamboo tube in front of them, at least Cao An and others think so, such an arm-thick bamboo tube, about four feet long, and several tail fins are installed at the tail, which were pressed by the students of Jeju Island College of Science after research (Wang Ze was too lazy, and as a result, he was forced to be self-reliant).

Jiang Chuan was a little skeptical and said, "Captain Zhongli, is this rocket you talking about good?" Have you used it? He was a little skeptical of the new weapon, after all, he had not seen the power of it with his own eyes.

Ji Xiang also scratched his head a little, the thunderbolt is a cast iron mold filled with explosives, but can the bamboo tube filled with explosives can also be used as weapons? So Ji Xiang said to Zhong Likai: "Why don't we give it a try?" ”

Everyone agrees on Ji Xiang's opinion, anyway, it's always good to try it first, so ······

A quarter of an hour later, Ji Xiang said to Zhong Likai to the warship behind him that had been blown off a large board: "This is the good weapon you are talking about?" Hehe, I blew up my own ship first! ”

After Zhong Likai lit the ignition twist just now, he didn't expect the tail of the rocket to fall off, and as a result, the rocket rowed a circle and 'shot' at a warship behind Zhong Likai, and immediately blew up a large piece of the ship.

Jiang Chuan laughed dryly: "Hehe, it's really a powerful weapon, it didn't hurt the Qi army, but it destroyed one of our warships!" Do you still need it? ”

Zhong Likai gritted his teeth and said: "This time it should be because the tail fin fell off, let's check it before we launch, I don't believe that these rockets will still be like this?" ”

An hour later, in the sky full of fireworks and firelight, Jiang Chuan, Cao An, Meng Xian, and Chu Honghang led the infantry to board the warships of Zhong Likai and Zhang Feng, preparing to return to the south bank; The cavalry led by Ji Xiang was transported in advance because the place occupied was too large.

At this time, listening to the sound of thousands of horses galloping, Pi Jing's army arrived, and some of them quickly rushed to Liu Damo's military camp to put out the fire under Pi Jing's command, and the other part chased to the riverside.

Although the fire in the Liudamo military camp was quickly extinguished, there were only more than 10,000 of the original 20,000 people left, and of course, if you add the cavalry sent out, there are still nearly 20,000.

But in any case, Liu Damo's army was abolished after all, and the more than 10,000 people who survived would no longer have the courage to face Wang Yong's army, which was a good thing for Wang Yong, although the Hu Lawyers Association sent another 25,000 cavalry to support Ande County, but the strength of the Qi army in Pingyuan County was weakened.

After everyone withdrew to the south bank of the Yellow River, they found that Wang Ze had not returned, which made the generals anxious, and Zhu Bofu immediately left a letter and crossed the river to find Wang Ze, and was almost targeted by the cavalry sent by Pi Jing.

Hearing Zhu Bofu finish talking about the front line, Wang Ze said strangely: "Big brother, this is a good thing, we almost wiped out the army of Liu Damo without losing many people, this is a great victory!" ”

Zhu Bofu was dissatisfied: "Originally, everyone could have wiped out all the Liu Dharma army with a little more effort, but now that it spreads, people will only say that we are 'severely damaged Qi army'." But if we can go on for a few more hours, people will say that we are 'completely annihilated by the whole army of Liu Damo', what a high honor this is! ”

Wang Ze really has nothing to say about Comrade Zhu Bofu's idea of collective honor, although Zhu Bofu is usually a little vain, but after all, he is still positive on the whole, and from another aspect, this is called: collective sense of honor!

But now the situation does not seem to be too good for themselves, their own army has all withdrawn to the south bank of the Yellow River, the north of the river is patrolled back and forth by more than 20,000 cavalry led by Pi Jing, guarding a water leakage, if it is not for Zhu Bofu to report to himself, I am afraid that he will have to get into the net of heaven and earth laid by Pi Jing.

The Yellow River can't be crossed, but this reed 'dang' can't let himself hide all the time, although the reed 'dang' where he and the others are currently hiding is very safe, but in ten days Bohai County will have a wheat harvest.

At that time, there were peasants everywhere in the vicinity, or they came to rest, shepherd, etc., and it was impossible for these more than 1,000 people to hide.

Moreover, 1,500 cavalry and their war horses, as well as more than 100 new young men, the food they needed every day was not a small amount, and more importantly, Zhu Bofu also came with 1,000 cavalry when he came, so that Wang Ze's total strength now is 2,600 people.

What to do? Although two thousand six hundred is not too little, it is too weak compared to King Luo under Pi Jingsa. Just when Wang Ze was very troubled, Huang Rui came back, and as soon as he saw Wang Ze, he said excitedly: "Little Marquis, there is something good!" Bohai County's Wei Di'an is back in Ande County! ”

Originally, under the banner of raising military rations, he did not go to support the front line, but simply ran to Bohai County to avoid the limelight, and when Pi Jing led more than 20,000 cavalry to Ande County, he ordered that Di An must return to defense.

On the one hand, he was afraid of the more than 20,000 cavalry under the command of Pi Jing, and on the other hand, the eldest uncle of Wei Di'an, who had also died, so he had no choice but to raise hundreds of truckloads of grain and grass and began to return to Ande County.

"Little Hou Ye, should we attack this time?" Huang Rui asked with an 'excited' face, the last time Wang Ze and the others burned nearly 200 truckloads of grain at once, the spectacle of that scene made Huang Rui want to do it again.

Wang Ze said to Huang Rui angrily: "Before, we attacked the grain team of the Qi army because they had few people, and we could take advantage of it, but now if we attack it again, it is called death!" ”

In the woods, Wang Ze paced for dozens of steps, looking at a big tree in front of him, this big tree grew crookedly, probably the bark had been eaten by cattle and sheep before, the trunk had already rotted, and a group of ants had made a home on the tree, and groups of people climbed over.

Isn't the current Northern Qi just like this big tree? It looks like the foliage is lush and huge, but the foundation has long since rotted, and one day it may have collapsed after a great storm.

Thinking of this, Wang Ze suddenly looked at Huang Rui, and he asked, "Huang Rui, do you know how many county soldiers there are in Bohai County now?" It would be nice to draw a picture of the fortifications in the city! ”

As soon as Wang Ze opened his mouth, Zhu Bofu knew his plan, so Zhu Bofu opened his mouth and asked: "Da Lang, you shouldn't have the idea of fighting this Bohai County again, right?" ”

"Haha, it's still Brother Bofu who understands me!" Wang Ze said with a smile, "Now that the Northern Qi is attacking us, I have to find some 'chaos' for them, otherwise it will be too difficult for our family to fight against the Northern Qi!" ”

I have always been incomprehensible to Wang Ze's little brother Zhu Bofu, and I don't know how he has so many wonderful ideas, although I don't know what Wang Ze's overall plan is now, but it should not be a loss to follow Wang Ze.

Although Huang Rui has not learned how to draw a canvas defense map, but after all, he knows Bohai County very well, and under his explanation, the cavalry captain 'Meng' Ke, who has learned to draw maps, slowly drew a map of Bohai County according to Huang Rui's description.

It depicts the appearance of each city 'gate' outside the Bohai County and the division of the city inside, and of course, the most important government offices, treasury, and barracks are impressively listed.

Looking at the map in front of him, although it was still a little rough but there should be, Wang Ze said with confidence: "Let us stir up the north of the big river, and all this will start from Bohai County!" ”