Xiao Jing's strategy is not new, it is still an old strategy used by the ancients hundreds of years ago, although the book of war often says that 'one plan cannot be used twice', but Wang Ze still decided to adopt it after some thought, comparing the situation of hundreds of thousands of Qi troops pressing the border, the pressure on Wang Ze is too great.

In the days when the river was surging, Wang Ze and Hu Lawyers Association were actively making preparations, and various fortifications were constantly being built on the east bank, while the Qi army on the west bank was constantly cutting down trees to make offensive equipment.

It's spring after all, with less rainfall, and the lack of continuous precipitation, the river water is swelling due to a large amount of ice and snow melting, which comes and goes as fast as it comes!

Especially in the past year or two, in order to ensure the agricultural irrigation of the prefectures and counties of Sanqi, Wang Yong ordered the prefectures and counties to build a large number of canals, ponds, dams and other water conservancy projects, which intercepted a lot of ice and snow melt during this period of time, all of which caused the Wei River to swell for more than ten days, as Wang Ze said.

On the fifth day of the river surge, Wang Ze found that the surging river began to drop significantly, and after the seventh or eighth day, the water flow in the Wei River had completely subsided, although there would be some water gushing out from other places from time to time, but the water flow was not much the same as on weekdays, which made Wang Ze, who was not fully prepared, nervous again.

Although the river beach in front of him was wide, and after the surging river receded, a large number of puddles and a thick layer of mud were left in the wide river beach, but these small difficulties could not prevent the Qi army, which had been prepared for a long time, from launching an attack on the defenders on the east bank.

With Wang Ze's order, a group of soldiers under the leadership of their respective generals began to enter the fortifications that had been built on the east bank of the Wei River, and a large number of bows, crossbows, arrows, guns, various medicines, weapons, etc., were taken out of the rear reserves, with these weapons of mass destruction, at least the Qi army could pay a greater price when attacking.

On the ninth day, before dawn, the Qi army on the west bank began to make rice, and the thick smoke produced when the fire was cooking rose from the Qi army's camp, and even formed a cloud of smoke over the Qi army, which was blown into a terrifying shape by the night wind, and looked particularly eerie and terrifying in the moonlight.

The Hu Lawyers Association got up early, a herald kept leaving from his Chinese army's big tent, and under his command, the Qi army, which had finished eating, began to march towards the Wei River.

This time, the Hu Lawyers Association is to use hundreds of thousands of Qi troops to crush the past, from Gaomi County to the downstream distance of hundreds of miles is the battle line prepared by the Hu Lawyers Association, nearly 400,000 troops in this section of the attack at the same time, it can be said that the absolute superiority of the Qi army's strength has been brought into full play.

Although Wang Ze built a lot of fortresses on the east bank, and the fortifications formed on the basis of some villages in the past made the Qi army more troublesome, but in this way, Wang Ze had to fortify everywhere, and the result was that there was no defense everywhere, and the originally scarce troops were diluted again, and it was easier for the Qi army to break through the defense line.

After all, the Wei River is a river channel with a width of nearly 200 zhang, which is already more than a mile wide by the standards of later generations, even if the original turbulent river has receded, there is still a water surface nearly 20 zhang wide in the riverbed, but the deepest part of the river is only three feet deep.

Therefore, the Qi army could not fill in the Weihe River in front of them like the moat of Qingzhou City before, but the generals of the Qi army who led the attack this time, Hu Luxie, Murong Yan, Jing Xianjun, and Pi Jinghe, were all experienced and famous generals, and they had already thought of their minds.

With the huge movement before the Qi army's attack, the defenders on the other side of the river had already begun to prepare, and Wang Ze also took Cheng Hu to the watchtower of a fortification not far from Gaomi County early to observe the enemy situation.

At first, because the sky was dark, Wang Ze couldn't see what the Qi army was doing even if he used a telescope, but after the sky gradually turned bright, Wang Ze was dumbfounded when he saw the Qi army slowly advancing in the Wei River.

Wang Ze clearly saw that in the originally wide Wei River in front of him, a channel as wide as five or six zhang was filled up by the Qi army, and the bottom of this channel was piled up with thick trunks and branches, and the top gradually became thinner branches and firewood, and a layer of sandbags was laid on the top, which was more than two feet above the water on average, and the Qi army walked on it as if walking on the ground.

In addition, Qi Jun also took into account the flow of the river, and nailed out dozens of triangular supports with thick tree trunks in advance and placed them on the lowest layer, and then paved them with thicker tree trunks on top, so although the Weihe River with a small amount of water will be slightly blocked, it can basically flow under the channel and will not collapse the channel.

Now this wide passage has been laid by the Qi army for most of it, especially the section of the riverbed that has been paved with water, although there are still dozens of zhang away from this channel to extend to the east bank, but this section of the riverbed is only more silt, which does not affect the Qi army through the Wei River.

Even at this time, there were groups of Qi soldiers carrying large bundles of firewood, branches, and sandbags from the west bank, and they were still extending the passage forward.

In the days when the water of the Wei River was surging, these hundreds of thousands of Qi troops did not sit idle and eat dry food, and waited for the opportunity, under the order of the Dadu Governor Hu Lawyers' Association, almost all the generals and soldiers were sent out to cut down trees, collect firewood and grass, and other things that could be used, and even the beams in a large number of people's houses were torn down and carried over.

Seeing that the passage laid by the Qi army was still extending to the east bank, Wang Ze was anxious, and what made Wang Ze's heart even more angry was that in addition to the passage in front of him, standing on the tall watchtower and looking downstream with a telescope, he could see that four or five passages were also being laid.

"Dalang! There are too many Qi troops! Even Cheng Hu, who was a little sluggish, could see the urgency of the situation at a glance, "If only the eldest father could return in time with the tens of thousands of defenders in Qingzhou!" ”

"Second brother, don't panic, now we have a plan to destroy the Qi army, and when the time comes, we will teach them a hard lesson!" Although Wang Ze was also a little worried, he still kept calm to cheer Cheng Hu up, "Even if some of the Qi army attack, we are not afraid, we just need to work hard to block most of the Qi army from attacking!" ”

Although Wang Ze built a well-defended defense line along the Wei River from the mouth of the sea to the mountains west of Jiaozhou City, there were not enough troops, even the strongest city would soon fall.

"Although you are Han people from Northern Qi, don't blame me for being ruthless when you help Northern Qi attack!" Wang Ze looked at the hundreds of thousands of Qi troops on the other side of the river and muttered to himself.

At this time, Wang Ze thought about Xiao Jingjin's only plan to defeat the Qi army, and he didn't know if it would hurt Tianhe too much, although he didn't believe too much before or now, but now Wang Ze can't control it so much.

may have heard Wang Ze's words, Cheng Hu said a little hesitantly: "Da Lang, is the plan Mr. Xiao said a little too killing!" I've heard before that if you kill too much, Heaven will always punish you! Didn't Bai Qi kill himself because he killed hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops in the past, and was ordered by the King of Qin to commit suicide? ”

Wang Ze looked at Cheng Hu in front of him with some surprise, Cheng Hu would never say such a thing before, and he didn't know who brainwashed this honest boy, but he couldn't let others fool him!

So Wang Zezheng said: "Second brother, didn't you listen to Old Daoist Liu's preaching?" We are not killing people indiscriminately, but to save the millions of people east of the Wei River, but those who kill for personal grudges will eventually be punished, but the more we fight for the people, the more we kill, the more worthy of our people! ”

Seeing that Cheng Hu was stunned by what he said, Wang Ze secretly pondered what Cheng Hu had just said in his heart.

There must be good people in the Qi army in front of him, and there must be grievances when they are killed by a single brain, but they have grievances when they kill these Qi troops themselves, so aren't the tens of thousands of soldiers on their side who were killed by the Qi army in Jeju and Jibei County wronged? Aren't the people who were killed by the Qi army before being wronged? Aren't the millions of Han people who died at the hands of Wuhu since the Han Dynasty wronged?

Since these Hu people and the Qi army in front of them are not afraid of hurting Tianhe when they kill the Han people, what are we afraid of? For example, when the Japanese invaded China in later generations, they killed so many Chinese people and lived a good life in the later years, and the Omi ghost animals killed tens of millions of Indians, and even hundreds of millions of blacks and other indigenous inhabitants in the hundreds of years of the so-called period of great geographical discoveries.

On the contrary, the dynasty that has always been an inner king and an outer saint has always been very good to foreign races and enemy prisoners of war, but life has gone by and worse, and there are not even a few real friends!

Wang Ze secretly decided in his heart that he would never let such a thing happen again, since we are here, we have to think carefully about the children and grandchildren of future generations, although we can't unify the whole world, but only one continent in the nine continents in the world is not enough for us!

Just when Wang Ze was thinking about these messy things, he was suddenly awakened by a shout of killing, and it turned out that thousands of Qi soldiers armed with swords, shields, spears, crossbows, arrows, and other weapons jumped onto the riverbed with a large amount of mud and sand and puddles and rushed towards the shore.

At this time, although it was already spring, the weather was still cold, and the river was mostly ice and snow meltwater, which was cold and biting, but a large number of Qi troops still rushed towards the east bank regardless of these feet of mud and water. Bibi eBook

Wang Ze sighed helplessly, no matter how big his ideals are in the future, he will eventually defeat the hundreds of thousands of Qi troops in front of him first, if he loses the foundation of the Three Qis, he only relies on the hundreds of thousands of people in the East China Sea today to develop, and I don't know what year and month it will take to develop!

With the advance of the Qi army, the crossbow arrows and bows in the hands of the defenders began to shoot rhythmically, and the defenders did not use gunpowder weapons at this time, mainly because the number of Qi troops attacking now is not much, and it is difficult to kill and injure too many Qi troops with gunpowder weapons.

Defending this section of the defense line where Wang Ze is located is the nearly 20,000 troops based on the thousands of soldiers of the Blue Wolf Battalion led by Chu Honghang and the militia of Changguang County, and they only have 20,000 people but they have to be responsible for defending this 30-mile-long section of the river, and the task is not ordinarily heavy, and the difficulty is not ordinarily high.

Because there will always be some places in the middle of the fortifications that are not properly arranged, some Qi soldiers will begin to find these loopholes, and then a group of light and heavy cavalry will quickly arrive and eliminate the Qi soldiers who are trying to make a detour.

These cavalry were the cavalry of Ji Xiang, Yang Wu and Ge Wei, after following Wang Ze to escort the craftsmen and people to the east bank of the Wei River, Ge Wei and the three of them stayed with the cavalry, and the cavalry under the command of the three of them had nearly 7,000 cavalry.

In addition, during this period, Zhu Rui urgently sent a team of merchant ships to exchange thousands of war horses from Liaodong and the Khitans, and collected all the horses raised in Muping, Weihai, Chengshan and other large camps, and organized some soldiers who could ride to form a new cavalry team.

In this way, there are 25,000 cavalry in the entire Weihe defense line, but the combat effectiveness of them is only about 10,000, but these cavalry are not good at fighting, and the sentry patrol is quite competent.

In addition, with these cavalry patrolling day and night, they can not only block the Qi army from smuggling across the Wei River at night, but also be able to connect all the defensive fortresses in the daytime battle, so as not to make these fortresses an isolated existence.

With the cover of the Qi army that had landed on the shore before, the Qi army behind quickly paved the passage to the east bank, and at this time, hundreds of ironclad soldiers suddenly rushed out from one of the fortifications closest to the passage, and slashed at the Qi army that was huddled together, and after killing dozens of steps, they quickly retreated to the fortifications to guard.

"Huh? Da Lang, didn't the ironclad battalion follow Uncle Zhou on the front line in Jeju and Jibei County? Why do we also have the existence of the Iron Battalion here? "Cheng Hu is a little strange.

Wang Ze looked at the heavily armed group of ironclad soldiers and said to Cheng Hu: "These ironclad soldiers were retrained by me by gathering some ironclad battalion soldiers!" A year ago, someone thought that we had Changbai Mountain, Linzi and Yidu, which are iron producing areas, so they suggested to my father to withdraw the iron mines in Changguang County, at that time I did not agree because the islands in the East China Sea urgently needed a large amount of steel, and asked my mother to expand some production specifically for our East China Sea to produce steel! ”

Cheng Hu is now in the period of voice change, and he said in a humble voice: "Fortunately, the eldest lady did not adopt this suggestion, if it wasn't for the fact that we had stored some more steel in Changguang County before, I'm afraid that at least half of these soldiers in front of us would not have had time to equip weapons!" ”

Just when Wang Ze and Cheng Hu were talking, the Qi army's offensive on the east bank began to become more and more intense, although the passage in front of Wang Ze was the first to be laid, but it was precisely because Wang Ze was here that Chu Honghang led the defenders to counterattack the Qi army The counterattack was also the most fierce, but it was a passage next to it that was first laid to the east bank.

Chu Honghang, who was dressed in iron armor, was like a tireless machine, constantly wielding two eight-sided purple gold hammers weighing one hundred and twenty pounds in his hands, and he no longer knew how many Qi soldiers had died under these two sledgehammers.

But no matter how powerful Chu Honghang is, he is only one person after all, with the input of another batch of new forces of the Qi army, more Qi troops have come one after another, and the defenders in the fortifications have moved out the stored 'rain and flying', this thing is hundreds of gunpowder-assisted arrows as mentioned earlier, and the lethality of the dense formation is not small.

Arrows rained down into the Qi army's arrow array, and even formed an open space in the dense crowd, like a wheat field that fell after the rain in summer, but these clearings would soon be filled up again by the Qi army.

As the number of Qi troops increased, the defenders began to throw grenades and thunderbolts into the crowd of Qi troops, and even launched Zheng's rockets flat, but the number of Qi troops was too much, even if a large number of soldiers were constantly killed by these weapons, the Qi army still maintained an offensive posture.

With the passage of time, after repelling the many attacks of the Qi army, the defenders were running out of gunpowder weapons left, and the Qi army was still investing in the attack, and a large number of corpses even filled a section of the riverbed on the east bank, and the river flowing downstream turned red under the soak of a large number of corpses.

The soldiers of the Qi army on the front line were so tired that they seemed to want to withdraw to rest, and they didn't want to think that at this time, the Hu Lawyers Association, who had been watching the battle in the rear, actually arranged a team to supervise the battle, but anyone who wanted to withdraw was killed whether it was a soldier or a general, and then he came to a cowhide drum to drive away the drummer and personally cheer for the soldiers on the front line.

Dozens of other drummers saw that the Hu Lawyers Association had come to beat the drums in person, and they immediately began to beat the big drums in front of them 'dong dong' loudly, and the Qi soldiers who were attacking on the front line had to continue the attack with their spirits again.

The offensive of the Qi army became fierce again, and at this time, the defenders in the city did not have many reserve troops because of their weak troops, and they were already tired, and soon the Qi army began to occupy a section of fortifications, and the situation began to be unfavorable to Wang Ze's side.

After all, it was a fortification that was rushed out, and after all, it could not withstand the attack of the Qi army like a solid city wall, and soon several fortifications were occupied by the Qi army, and the defenders inside fled to death.

Hu Lawyers' Association, who saw this scene while beating the drum, was very happy, as long as he opened a gap, he could throw more troops here, and he would soon be able to tear Wang Ze's defense line to pieces.

So the Hu Lawyers Association ordered: "Order Jing Xianjun to personally lead 35,000 people to cross the Wei River, and temporarily take over all the Qi troops on the other side of the river!" Then the Hu Lawyers Association ordered more than 100,000 people under Murong Gang to start a full-scale attack and cross the Wei River to strengthen the offensive of the Qi army.

At this time, a young general said: "Governor, we still need to beware of the enemy attacking us halfway!" You must know that in the Western Han Dynasty, Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin, was here in Weishui, and he also defeated the more than 200,000 troops led by Long He, the general of the overlord of Chu, with an army of 100,000, and killed Long He here! ”

It seemed that the Hu Lawyers Association, which saw the dawn of victory, was on the rise, and when he heard the general's words, he immediately said a little unhappy: "Although Long He had a little talent at the beginning, he was just a horseman, how can he compare to me and other famous families!" Moreover, the person presiding over the battle on the other side turned out to be a milky and dry child! So why should I be afraid? ”

So Hu Lawyers Association ordered the young general to be driven out left and right, and then more than 100,000 Qi troops under the leadership of Murong Yi began to attack in an all-out way.

This time, the siege equipment carried by Murong Yi is more powerful, although the passage cannot pass through the large siege equipment, but some small and medium-sized siege equipment can still be transported over, and the fortifications on the east bank do not have to go to the city to be tall and strong, and these small and medium-sized siege equipment are completely enough.

Although Murong Yi did not do anything too dazzling in the battle to encircle and suppress Wang Yong, the Northern Qi Dynasty unanimously believed that Murong Yan's merits were second only to the Hu Lawyers Association, and after completely destroying Wang Yong's forces, he could accept the reward when he returned.

"Look, General!" Just when Murong Lu walked to the middle of the river, suddenly the guards next to him pointed to a mountain in the distance and shouted, Murong Yan looked in the direction of the guard's fingers, and there was a white pillar of smoke rising into the sky.

Suddenly, an ominous premonition enveloped Murong Tu, and he shouted, "It's not good, get ashore quickly!" So saying, he ran to the nearest east coast!

The other more than 100,000 Qi troops were still slowly lining up and slowly passing through several passages, and more soldiers simply passed through the river, because there were so many people and many people didn't hear Murong shouting.

When the main force of this Qi army had just come to the river, he suddenly felt that the ground was a little shaky, and after a while, he heard a deafening rumble upstream, and then saw a white line rolling in.

"It's not good, it's big water!" Some experienced soldiers found out what was going on at a glance, and suddenly the Qi army, which was originally crowded together, was even more panicked, and some of the soldiers at the back simply slashed at the soldiers in front in order to flee for their lives.

In this way, many Qi troops actually fought with each other, and the Hu Lawyers Association saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly ran to a high post on the west bank with the Qi army on the west bank, and he regretted it at this time, Wang Ze really reproduced the old example of Han Xin's victory over Long He here.