Until he saw Wang Yong, Shen Sanshui, who had been waiting for reinforcements for many days, still felt that this day was really exciting, starting from the Qi army's siege in the morning, the city was almost broken many times, and with the arrival of the Qi army's large-scale siege equipment, Shen Sanshui was ready to die.

As a result, at the critical moment, Wang Yong led the reinforcements to arrive in time, and after a short trial between the two sides, the Qi army gradually retreated for several miles, and the ups and downs of life were nothing more than this.

By the time the two sides officially disengaged at noon, it was already noon, and in just two or three hours from noon to Shen, Wang Yong's army temporarily set up a military camp covering a large area in a spacious open space not far from the city outside the city, and the camp and Jiaozhou City and the Qi army camp faintly formed a triangle.

Soon after Shen Sanshui arrived, Xiao Jing, the assassin of Jiaozhou, and Wang Rui, the chief of the guard, also followed him to the camp to meet Wang Yong, probably because of his weak heart, Xiao Jing has not dared to look directly at Wang Yong as before, although Wang Yong's newly established Chinese army tent outside the city is as warm as spring, but Xiao Jing always feels a chill on his back.

"Mr. Xiao, you still haven't heard from Mr. Lu?" Wang Yong, who is becoming more and more powerful, is in the first position, and he is burly and kneeling on the soft mat, which is made of soft lamb fur.

Although the soft mat made of lambskin has always been widely praised for its excellent comfort, Wang Yong still felt that this soft seat was a little uncomfortable after sitting for a long time, so he leaned forward and leaned on the table in front of him, his right elbow supported his chin on it, and his left hand was flat on the table and knocked on the table, thinking, 'Let's change to the original mat later, the soft mat is too embarrassing!' ’

Everyone in the tent didn't know what Wang Yong was thinking in his heart, but after everyone entered the big tent together, the first topic Wang Yong mentioned was still the safety of Lu Wen's whereabouts, which showed that Lu Wen attached great importance to Wang Yong's heart, so that everyone had to pay attention to it.

Xiao Jing, who was asked, stood up respectfully and said: "Back to the general, since I received an urgent report from the guards of Guan Shuaiguan, I sent a letter to the leaders of the mountains in the mountains of the counties of Southern Qingzhou, Qingzhou, and Jiaozhou more than ten days ago, and all the princes who find Mr. Lu will be rewarded, but so far there has been no news!" ”

Since Dugu Yongye led the army to sweep through the entire Northern Xuzhou and Southern Qingzhou, Lu Wen, who had been inspecting the progress of farmland and water conservancy in the countryside of Southern Qingzhou, suddenly disappeared from everyone's sight.

"So do you know where Mr. Lu went last?" Wang Yong still asked expressionlessly, making Xiao Jing feel more and more that the pressure unintentionally released by the person in front of him was getting bigger and bigger, Wang Yong could be said to have the momentum of the princes, and he was no longer the bandit leader back then.

So Xiao Jing's attitude became more and more respectful, he thought about it and secretly glanced up at Wang Yong and said: "A few days ago, there were mountain people from Southern Qingzhou who came to the city from the small road, and they claimed to be the people of Dongguan County, Southern Qingzhou (this Dongguan County was located in present-day Shandong during the Eastern Wei Dynasty and Northern Qi Dynasty, not Guangdong), and said that Mr. Lu had disappeared since he set off to inspect upstream along the Yishui!" ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Jing said worriedly: "As for the last place where Mr. Lu appeared, according to our investigation, it should be on the mountain road from Nanqingzhou to Yishuiyuan, but we don't know exactly where it is!" ”

Listening to Xiao Jing's answer, Wang Yong was still expressionless, and was silent for a long time, Lu Wen disappeared on the same day that the Qi army captured Nanqingzhou, a place one or two hundred miles north of Nanqingzhou, so it is said that Lu Wen was not captured by Dugu Yongye, otherwise it would be impossible for Dugu Yongye not to use the captured Lu Wen to attack the confidence of the defenders of Jiaozhou City.

It's just that not being captured by the Qi army doesn't mean it's a good thing, as a descendant of a leader of the Taishan thieves, how can Wang Yong not know that these places in Nanqingzhou have been full of bandits and bandits for hundreds of years, especially the area where Lu Wen disappeared.

Of course, many of the bandits mentioned here can also be said to be mountain people, but it is also very normal to be bandits in this troubled era, such as the Viking pirates who are popular among young people in later generations.

In addition, there are not only amateur bandits composed of local people, but even the Taishan thieves, who have always been more professional, often have small groups of bandits wandering here, the main purpose is to rob some merchants who pass through the territory of Southern Qingzhou in the hinterland of the Southern Dynasty and Sanqi.

Originally, this was a very important trade route in the hinterland of the rich Southern Dynasty and Sanqi, especially since Lu Wen took office as the assassin of Southern Qingzhou, the number of merchants passing through here between the north and the south has increased, so that the number of bandits and bandits who have come to loot from the surrounding states and counties has increased.

At the beginning, when Cheng Chong was still in Nanqingzhou, he also fiercely pursued and suppressed some thieves, and severely cracked down on several groups of thieves who killed people indiscriminately before they relented a little; However, by the time Lu Wen took office, Cheng Chong had been transferred by Wang Yong to Jibei County to deal with the threat of the Qi army, because the garrison of Southern Qingzhou could only ensure the security of the counties and counties in the state, so the bandits began to rob the passing merchants unscrupulously.

Of course, after Cheng Chong's ruthlessness, these thieves didn't dare to kill people indiscriminately like before, thinking that this time Lu Wen's sudden disappearance was probably hijacked by these people, but what did these people kidnap Lu Wen for no reason?

After thinking for a long time and not having an answer, Wang Yongliang waved his hand after a long time: "Mr. Xiao, please send a message to the mountains of various states and counties, but whoever finds Mr. Lu himself, regardless of life or death, has a reward of 5,000 taels and a thousand horses of silk cloth, but knows the location of Mr. Lu and comes to report the news, and when it is confirmed that Mr. Lu is indeed there, the bounty is 1,000 taels, and if you learn that Mr. Lu has been to a place after being broken in Nanqingzhou, the bounty will be 100 taels!" ”

"Respectfully!" Xiao Jing lowered his head and promised to retreat, but in his heart he was really lucky for himself, fortunately he didn't leave too early, otherwise he would have lost a lot this time, even if Wang Yong didn't blame himself here, Wang Ze wouldn't spare himself.

When the Qi army pushed the large siege equipment towards the city wall, Wang Rui, who saw that the situation was not good, hurried from the city to inform Xiao Jing of the situation outside the city without even saying hello.

Although it is not easy to get out of the city at this time, Xiao Jing has already prepared an ordinary house in the city for himself, and a tight cellar has been dug in the house, which is guarded by an old servant, as long as he hides in the cellar of this house to avoid the limelight, it is more convenient to escape.

However, when Xiao Jing had just packed up his valuables and was about to flee with his wife and family, Wang Rui got the news that Wang Yong led the reinforcements to arrive in time, so he hurriedly came to inform him.

At this time, Xiao Jing avoided being discovered by everyone and tried to escape, but when everyone talked about the merits in the big tent, they always commented that Xiao Jing was very effective in presiding over the logistics work when defending the city, which was widely praised by everyone, and even Wang Yong nodded again and again when he heard everyone tell about what Xiao Jing did at that time.

After explaining Xiao Jing, Wang Yong looked around at the people in the big tent, most of them were brothers and juniors who had followed him for many years, and there were many familiar faces in the past year, but I don't know how many people will be lost here after this war.

However, most men do not have these ideas, these enthusiastic men have always believed that a manly man has made meritorious contributions and has no chance to build a meritorious career, and in addition, in the past two years, Wang Yong has won victory after victory with them has also given them strong confidence.

To tell the truth, this time Wang Yong's emergency return to help bring not many troops, basically half of the number of Qi troops led by Dugu Yongye, and a series of gold medal fighters under Wang Yong, such as Cheng Chong, Ge Wei, Xun Yun, Yuan Jia, Hu Bingchang, etc., did not bring any of them because they wanted to defend the Hu Lawyers Association and Murong Tu army on the front line of Jeju and Jibei County.

Among the more than 20,000 troops brought by Wang Yong now, most of the generals are middle and high-level officers at the level of captains and lieutenants, who were not very famous before.

Shi Haiguang, the cavalry captain, had shown his talent when Wang Ze attacked Liu Damo's army before, and Zhou Duo of the crossbow battalion had also participated in the subsequent series of battles to attack the prefectures and counties of Qidong since the battle to eliminate Duan Yining's troops, and outsiders still knew a little about them.

However, the remaining cavalry captain Fa Yan, infantry captain Han Biao, Zhou Guang and others are some newly promoted rookie generals, Xiao Jing and others have never heard of it, Wang Yong now has to take these young generals and an army with only half of the number of Qi troops to defeat the elite Qi army twice as large as himself, which is indeed a bit difficult.

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"Bang" more than ten miles away from Jiaozhou City, the big tent of the Qi army camp made a broken sound of porcelain falling to the ground, the guards outside the big tent as if nothing had happened, still standing outside the big tent door guarding, when the general was angry, their best choice was to pretend that they didn't see anything.

Dugu Yongye was indeed angry, but he was not angry at the soldiers and generals but at himself, because there was no one in the big tent except him.

Dugu Yongye was so angry in his heart, if he hadn't thought about cherishing the town soldiers he led, and attacked and won Jiaozhou City early and ruthlessly, why would he have come to this point today!

Because Dugu Yongye had been guarding in Heyang, which was adjacent to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and although the Qi soldiers he was leading now were from elite town soldiers, they were not his subordinates in Heyang in the past, so Dugu Yongye had been very careful to command this army from the beginning of his departure.

At the beginning, Dugu Yongye did win the obedience of some officers after sweeping North Xuzhou and South Qingzhou, but it has always been very cruel for siege warfare, so whether it was attacking Guan Shuai Guancheng or attacking Jiaozhou City, he also forced the soldiers of the former Northern Xuzhou Army to charge ahead.

But it was precisely because he took care of the emotions of the soldiers of the Qi army that he did not send the main force of the town army to attack in time, which led to the fact that now Dugu Yongye has tasted the evil fruits he planted, and what he can't understand is how Wang Yong rushed to Jiaozhou City so quickly.

According to the information he received from the secret agents scattered in the land of Sanqi, this time it was generally snowing heavily in all states and counties in the land of Sanqi, and the thinnest place was Qizhou, which was also more than a foot thick, and the deep places such as Changguang County were more than three feet thick.

Originally, the thick snow should be said to be an obstacle to the march of Wang Yong's army, but Wang Yong not only did not delay the speed of reinforcements, but calculated the time, and even moved faster than when it was not snowing, of course Dugu Yongye didn't know that Wang Yong still had a sleigh on his side.

Just when Dugu Yongye was frowning and thinking hard, a slightly thin figure walked into the big tent and saw a mess scattered on the ground, so he couldn't help but shake his head and persuade Dugu Yongye: "General, since ancient times, marching and fighting have been about mercy and not being in charge of soldiers!" But that's the case, so don't think about it anymore! ”

Dugu Yongye looked up and saw that it was Meng Lingtong, the former chief bookkeeper of Qufu County, and he reluctantly squeezed out a trace of an ugly smile and said: "It turned out to be Mr. Meng, please take a seat quickly!" I really regret that I didn't listen to my gentleman's words in time and captured Jiaozhou City earlier regardless of casualties, otherwise the situation would have been more than that! ”

Meng Lingtong pulled Dugu Yongye to sit down, poured a cup of tea for Dugu Yongye, and then said with a smile: "The general is not more anxious, although we lost the lead this time, but we have not completely lost the opportunity to win, as long as we persist, we will still succeed!" ”

Hearing Meng Lingtong say that there is still a chance to win, Dugu Yongye was overjoyed and said: "Please forgive me for my previous sins and point out the opportunities for me to win one by one, and then Shiji (Dugu Zizi) must obey Mr.'s arrangement!" ”

Since Dugu Yongye listened to Meng Lingtong's plan to defraud Pingyi, he went down the river and took North Xuzhou to get the 30,000 troops of the Ba clan in North Xuzhou, and immediately went north to Xuanke, Nanqingzhou, and Dong'an County without waiting for Lu Wen to get the news. Although it was blocked by hundreds of soldiers led by An Xin for nearly ten days in front of Guan Shuai Pass, the Qi army did not pay much price until the attack on Jiaozhou City.

In just one or twenty days, it swept a large area of rivers and mountains for nearly a thousand miles, and even the long-standing Dugu Yongye was really carried away by the outstanding achievements, thinking that he had no opponent in front of him, and he did not have the humble attitude of obeying Meng Lingtong's words before.

But now when attacking Jiaozhou City, it was a failure, giving Dugu Yongye a great lesson, I thought that the city that was nine out of ten stable became solid in an instant, although Wang Yong only brought 20,000 people, but if these troops entered the city to defend the city, they had no chance at all.

What made Dugu Yongye feel fortunate was that Wang Yong only sent more than 2,000 people into the city to assist in the defense, and the remaining 20,000 people were only camped outside the city, isn't this also despising himself? In addition to anger, Dugu Yongye also felt that he still had a chance.

It is said that 'capture the thief and capture the king first' is something that even an ordinary person knows, but as a general of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Dugu Yongye doesn't know how to do it?

As long as he can defeat Wang Yong's army stationed outside the city and capture the traitor leader Wang Yong, no matter how big the price is, as long as he waits enough to capture Wang Yong, it doesn't matter if he lets the Hu Lawyers Association break through the defense line in advance and seize most of the states and counties in the land of Sanqi.

The credit for capturing the state and county is not as great as the credit for capturing Wang Yong, and when the time comes, he will use Wang Yong in his hand as a shield to capture the city.

Seeing that Dugu Yongye no longer had the conceit of the past, Meng Lingtong also nodded secretly, the so-called famous generals are not undefeated, but no matter how many defeats they face, they will not affect their emotions, and they can gain experience from the previous battles to win next time.

As long as Dugu Yongye can survive the shadow of this defeat, it will not be long before he is likely to continue to raise his military level to a higher level, and now Wang Yong is actually advancing lightly, and he will have a head-on battle with himself with only half of the number of people, and it will be too good to miss such a good opportunity if he is not captured.

"General, please look," Meng Lingtong knelt up and gestured with the cups and plates on the desk, "Although we only have 40,000 troops now, the general has already sent a message to the Metropolitan Governor of the Hu Lawyers Association half a month ago, and now the Metropolitan Governor has received an urgent report and sent troops and horses to support, so that although our rear is mountainous and difficult, it is not afraid that the back road will be cut off!" ”

Dugu Yongye nodded and said: "Of course, this is of course, and I am guarding 20,000 heavy troops in North Xuzhou, and in more than ten days, as long as the soldiers and horses of the Hulu Association rush to North Xuzhou, Dugu Sheng can immediately lead the army to support you and me, and then the number of our soldiers and horses will be several times that of Wang Yong!" However, I am afraid that Wang Yong will use his soldiers and horses to fight me to the death with all the soldiers and horses of the eastern prefectures and counties, wouldn't that be a cheap Hu Lawyers Association in vain? ”

Meng Lingtong laughed and said: "The general doesn't have to worry about this, now Wang Yong is not afraid to mobilize all the soldiers and horses, even if it is too late to recruit the militia, in addition, Wang Yong is so brutal, destroying the family and destroying the Futu Sect, there is never a shortage of dissatisfied people in the hinterland of Sanqi!" ”

As night fell, the light in the big tent dimmed, and immediately there were guards who lit butter wax, Dugu Yongye and Meng Lingtong seemed to be unconscious, the more they talked, the more energetic they became, and they laughed from time to time.

Seeing that the general didn't care about the failure of the siege during the day, and seemed to not care about the Wang Yong reinforcements who rushed over, the hearts of the soldiers of the Qi army who had just mentioned also settled down one by one.

Not to mention how Dugu Yongye prepared to deal with Wang Yong, Wang Yongzheng was holding a letter and asked the messenger in front of him: "Cheng Erlang, this kid Da Lang really said that he wanted to take his mother and two younger brothers away?" ”

The messenger called Cheng Erlang by Wang Yong was none other than Cheng Chong's only son, Cheng Hu, because Cheng Hu had a brother who died early in the past, so he ranked second.

Wang Ze, who had just left Qingzhou for a few months, came to this land again, but this time Wang Ze did not come to Jiaozhou to see Wang Yong, but sent Cheng Hu from Cheng's second uncle's family to land from Jiaozhou Port to talk to his father Wang Yong, and he went directly to Qingzhou by sea to see his mother Xiwen.

Cheng Hu, who had a simple face, didn't seem to see Wang Yong's unhappiness, he still said in a humble voice: "Father, Da Lang said that the land of Sanqi is too dangerous now, and he wants to simply take the eldest lady and Wang Hui, Wang Yu, my mother, and the third aunt's family to the East China Sea, and say that he should go on vacation and travel!" ”

"And, this stinky boy, who is my father here for, not for them, this stinky boy doesn't say a word, and he wants to take his mother and two younger brothers away and let me be a loner here!" Wang Yong complained to Cheng Hu angrily.