The night after the Mid-Autumn Festival can already make people feel the coolness of autumn, the night wind blowing from the wide water surface of Jishui waves the flags in the Qi army camp, and everything else that can be shaken, and the bonfire lit in the camp is also swaying in the night wind.

The curtain of the 'door' of the Chinese army's big tent where the Hu Lawyers Association is located is tied to the lintel of the 'door' by a cowhide rope, and the cool night breeze blowing in from the open tent 'door' makes this sturdy cowhide tent made of genuine leather a little more refreshing.

Twenty 'squire' guards waited in front of the big tent' gate, and there were hundreds of 'elite' soldiers who were fully armed to the teeth around the big tent, firmly guarding the center of these hundreds of thousands of Qi troops, even in the hottest dog days, these 'squire' guards personally trained by the Hu Lawyers Association never put down the armor and swords on their bodies, it can be said that as long as the Hu Lawyers Association goes out, these 'guards' will be in a state of waiting for each other at any time.

The butter and wax in the big tent are still burning, and from time to time there is a crackling sound and the flames are slamming away, and the Hu Lawyers Association is still staring at the map and thinking hard about the enemy's plan, judging from the motionless meals placed in the wooden tray on the table next to it, the Hu Lawyers Association has not eaten dinner until now.

At this time, a 'waiter' came to the big tent with a tray of food, and saw that the bowls of food beside Hu Lawyer's Association were still untouched, so he opened his mouth to persuade: "Governor, let's hurry up and eat first!" Destroying the enemy is not something that can be done in a moment and a half! Only with a good body can the traitor be extinguished! ”

This 'squire' guard can be regarded as an old man who has followed the Hu Lawyers Association for many years, so he dared to interrupt when the Hu Lawyers Association was pondering, and heard his 'waiting' guard's reminder that the Hu Lawyers Association felt a burst of hunger in his stomach at this time, and looked up to see that nearly half of the butter and wax in the big tent had been burned, and it seemed that it was almost time!

"Okay, eat first!" Since the news of Gao Yin's killing by Gao Yan spread in the Qi army camp, the pressure faced by the Hu Lawyers Association is not ordinarily small, and by secretly arresting a few detailed works, the Hu Lawyers Association can also guess which people are spreading the news!

But after thinking about it for a few days, the Hu Lawyers Association quietly let go of those fine works, because at this moment, the people who can profit by spreading the news of Gao Yin's death are nothing more than those few, and the most suspicious of them is undoubtedly Gao Zhan, the king of Changguang, who is the right prime minister.

But the Hu Lawyers Association can't prove that these people are sent by Gao Zhan with these detailed works caught, and Gao Zhan also has his own mother, the Empress Dowager Lou as a backer, although Gao Yan is more wary of Gao Zhan, but after all, the two are brothers, and the posture of brothers, friends and brothers still has to be done.

In this way, the Hu Lawyers Association will definitely not be able to do anything to Gao Zhan, since he can't help but get Gao Zhan, and Gao Zhan is very good at holding grudges, the Hu Lawyers Association has always ignored these things that compete for power and profit, and it is simply out of sight and out of mind as if there is no such thing!

"Huh? There is even a bamboo tube rice from the Southern Dynasty? "Hu Lawyers' Association picked up the wooden plate on the desk, and there were two bamboo tubes with thick arms, the green 'colored' fresh bamboo tubes and the warm feeling of being grilled by charcoal, and the fresh bamboo knots sealed at one end also exuded the aroma of fresh bamboo after being grilled.

Speaking of which, because the Hu Lawyers Association had been in the northern frontier areas of the Northern Qi Dynasty such as Shuozhou, he drank spirits and ate large pieces of roast sheep, and he really didn't know how to start with the bamboo rice, a fresh way to eat it in the Southern Dynasty, so he curiously took a bamboo rice and looked back and forth to study it carefully.

The 'squire' guard hurriedly stepped forward and picked up another bamboo tube of rice and said to the Hu Lawyers Association: "Governor Dadu, this is made by the cook sent by His Majesty from Yecheng personally, let me split this bamboo tube!" Saying that, the 'squire' guard used a dagger to 'insert' into the middle of the bamboo tube, "Dadu Governor, you see, this bamboo tube is made of bamboo back then, although the bamboo joints at both ends are relatively strong, but these parts in the middle are not strong, as long as a knife is 'inserted' into the middle of the part, you can easily crack the bamboo joint, so that the bamboo tube rice will be opened!" ”

As he spoke, the 'squire' guard had already opened the bamboo tube, and the fresh bamboo tube rice made with fragrant rice, shiitake mushrooms, and June lamb 'meat' still exuded a 'tempting' aroma, but Hu Lawyer's Association didn't seem to see it, he seemed to have caught a little idea!

Right! It is to avoid the strongest place, "The Art of War" said: "The form of a soldier, avoid the real and attack the false." The water is controlled by the land, and the soldiers are defeated by the enemy. "As long as you avoid Jeju and Jibei County, which are currently the most heavily defended by Wang Yong, and attack from other places where the defense is weaker, then the land of Sanqi occupied by Wang Yong will be split in half like the bamboo tube rice in front of him.

Previously, the thinking of the Hu Lawyers Association entered a misunderstanding, that is, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses needed a large amount of grain and grass, and they had to rely on the Yellow River and Jishui to attack, but because Wang Yong mobilized most of the troops to resist by virtue of the advantages of the water army, more than 500,000 troops on both sides were crowded in a small area of Jeju and Jibei County, and it became a stalemate when they fought back and forth.

Although Wang Yong now has 300,000 troops, but because his offensive has concentrated 200,000 troops in Jeju and Jibei County to defend himself, the defense of other places must be very lax.

In this way, while attacking the main force that contained Wang Yong from Jeju and Jibei County, he sent a 'elite' army to attack from the weak point of Wang Yong's flank and rear from the front, and then spread the local heroes and powers of the imperial court, so that all places would inevitably raise banners in response to Wang Shi, and Wang Yong's power would collapse.

It's just that since it is necessary to attack from the weaker place of Wang Yong's defense, where is the attack from the weaker place? Hu Lawyers' Association, who didn't care about eating, stretched out his right hand and used his index finger to look carefully on the map, such a broken map is estimated to be understood by a general like Hu Lawyers' Association.

From Jibei County to Dongping County, this piece of breakthrough in the middle? It seems that it is not possible to block this piece of the extremely steep Taishan Mountain Range, and it is difficult for the army to pass through here, and even if it breaks through Jibei County or occupies Dongping County, there is a big city like Qizhou behind it, and it is easy for reinforcements to come to support.

Especially in Qizhou, Gao Ji's family still did a lot of things when he was a assassin here, at least the city walls and other fortifications of Qizhou were built very well, and Wang Yong rebuilt the city of Qizhou for more than a year, which was even more difficult to attack, and it was obvious that attacking from here was looking for abuse.

Since it is not possible to attack from the south, the Hu Lawyers Association has set its sights on the north of Qizhou, where the north and south sides of the Yellow River are a horse and a flat river, whether it is the march of the army or the transportation of grain and grass, it is very convenient, and there is also the Pijing army in the north of the river to suppress the Zhangwu rebels, so there is no need to worry about the future.

Moreover, attacking from Leling County in the north of the river can also transport grain and grass through the Qinghe River, passing through Bohai County and Cangzhou, so there is no worry about the grain and grass being burned again!

But after careful thinking, the Hu Lawyers Association still can't, and now the control of the water surface on the Yellow River is the Sun Xing Naval Army under Wang Yong, since Wang Yong occupied the land of Sanqi, under the suppression of the Sun Xing Naval Army, the naval division of the Qi Army has not been able to reach the river section east of Qizhou.

Since May this year, after the Haoqiang Meng, who originally occupied Jeju, took refuge in Wang Yong, Sun Xing personally led nearly 100 warships to garrison the Jeju River section, and the Qi Army Naval Division could only go around the river section west of Jeju! Besides, even after breaking through the Yellow River, there is still a Jishui blocking it to the south!

Suddenly, the afterglow of his eyes seemed to see something, and the eyes of the Hu Lawyers Association suddenly fell to a place! It seems that both himself and Wang Yong subconsciously ignored this before! Looks like this is the chance to win! Well, this is it! Hu Lawyers Association secretly made up a decision in his heart!

In the city of Jibei County, twenty miles opposite the Hu Lawyers Association, even when it was close to Zishi, there were still soldiers and horses coming and going on the street. The heavy vehicles of the brigade transporting food and weapons to the front, the cavalry that changed the guard, and the infantry in charge of patrolling the city kept passing through the streets, and the sound of wheels and horseshoes on the ground was mixed with the footsteps of the soldiers as they marched and the sound of weapons clashing gently.

Because Jibei County is located on the front line and the occupation time is very short, in order to prevent the Qi army from 'mixing' into the city, there are basically soldiers guarding the interchange of every two streets, and one or two soldiers are guarding there every 100 meters in each street.

In the county guard's mansion, Wang Yong was reading the close documents sent by Qizhou, Qingzhou and other prefectures and counties in his study, and sighed a little helpless while looking at Wang Yong, even if he had occupied the land of Sanqi for more than a year, there were still many scholars who did not recognize him.

Of course, Wang Yong also knew that since he first occupied the land of Sanqi, some of his actions were indeed a bit excessive, especially after his baby son Wang Ze was almost killed by a sneak attack by the monks of Qizhou, Wang Yong destroyed the Buddha in the entire land of Sanqi in a fit of anger, and until now there are nearly 100,000 monks serving hard labor to atone for their sins.

In fact, since occupying the entire land of Sanqi and sweeping away most of the notorious heroes, Wang Yong has no longer continued to target the local warriors, but those heroes are still superficially obedient but will never let their children enter Wang Yong's regime.

Since the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Northern Qi Dynasty attacked on a large scale this year, from time to time there are heroes everywhere who make some small moves behind their backs, ventilate the Qi army, and passively deal with the showdowns of the government everywhere.

For some of the powerful Wang Yong who are unwilling to follow his own children, he also understands, but for those families who are not open their eyes and are ready to stab themselves in the back, Wang Yong is not polite, and immediately sent Ji Xiang, Yang Wu and other generals to lead thousands of cavalry under their command to quickly sweep through the states and counties.

Wang Yong was not too worried about the attack of the Hu Lawyers Association, although most of the soldiers under his command were new recruits, but because of the 'fine' weapons and thunderbolts and rockets, the pressure on defense was not as great as imagined.

Now the Northern Qi Dynasty actually has an ironclad army similar to itself, and even vertical rockets similar to fire oil arrows have appeared in the ranks of the Qi army. Because there are many Xianbei people in Northern Qi, there are also a large number of cattle and sheep, and there is no shortage of cattle and sheep fat, as long as you know the principle of vertical rockets, you can make it, it seems that in the battle with Wang Yong, the Qi army is also making continuous progress!

It's just that today's piece of information made Wang Yong's brows furrow, this is a piece of information from Yecheng, the scouts who were sent there heard a huge roar inside when they passed by outside a workshop in Yecheng, according to the intelligence description, the sound of this explosion is very similar to the sound of the explosion of their own gunpowder.

It seems that the Qi army even knows what is going on with the thunderbolt, but how could the Qi army obtain the thunderbolt method in a short period of time? Even if you pick up a thunderbolt that doesn't explode on the battlefield, you have to study it for at least a few years to know!

Speaking of which, Qi Jun's research on thunderbolts was really based on the thunderbolts picked up from the battlefield, at the beginning, because Wang Yong didn't use thunderbolts much, Northern Qi couldn't pick up a few thunderbolts from Wang Yong.

However, in May of this year, Wang Yong could not return safely because Wang Ze was cut off in the north of the river, so he frantically sent troops to attack the Qi army in Pingyuan County on the other side of Jeju, so that the use of thunderbolts became larger.

But in the end, the Qi army still held most of the camps, so that the Qi army picked up more than a dozen thunderbolts that did not explode when cleaning the battlefield, and were immediately sent to Yecheng by the Qi army who had found the treasure, and on the way, because the weather was too hot, two thunderbolts exploded because of improper storage, resulting in more than ten deaths and injuries.

After these frightened soldiers carefully sent the thunderbolt to the weapon manufacturing workshop outside Yecheng, none of the craftsmen knew what was filled with this thing, which was a big deal for the generals who escorted the thunderbolt all the way.

To say that since ancient times, there are still Chinese, at this time someone found the Louguan Taoist priests in Yecheng, since ancient times, these Taoist priests because of refining the elixir of immortality, often experiment with all kinds of things, it can be said that ancient Chinese chemists, have a lot of understanding of some 'messy' things.

Although the Taoist priests in Yecheng have always only liked to 'deal' with rich dignitaries, they have never liked to receive the workshops that make weapons and the martial artists who lead the soldiers to fight, but these Taoist priests heard that there are thunderbolts made by Taiqing Dao in the East China Sea, so it didn't take much effort for these Taoist priests to take the initiative to come.

As expected, after inviting a few Taoist priests to come, after some experiments such as viewing, smelling, tasting, tasting, and burning, these Taoist priests determined that these thunderbolts were made of saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal, and other things commonly used in alchemy by themselves and others.

However, the Taoist priests did not know how these things could sound like thunder, and after knowing the formula, these Taoist priests themselves began to configure materials to make a few thunderbolts.

But I don't know why, the thunderbolt they made can only be used for smoking, even if one of them finally sounds, but it is just like a sullen fart without deterrence.

The performance of the new Thunderbolt greatly disappointed the deacon of the workshop and the generals of the Qi army who sent Thunderbolt, the deacon was disappointed because he lost the credit of asking for merit, and the general was disappointed because he seemed to be unable to configure a weapon to match the thief, and the loss of his own side in the future war will be great.

But several Taoist priests who were looking at the Tao were shocked in their hearts, could it be that Taiqing Dao really defected to the right future master? Otherwise, why is there such a big difference between the performance of the thunderbolt made by himself and others according to the formula of the test and the thunderbolt made by Taiqingdao!