"This Yellow River is a lot more muddy than when we went to rescue the three leaders!"

A 3,000-stone class East China Sea Army Sea Shark-class warship entered the rolling river along the mouth of the Yellow River, and a captain of the Xia Army's navy on the boat shook his head and sighed at the boiling Yellow River water under the boat.

In summer, the Yellow River is a little muddy after flowing into a large amount of rain and tributaries along the way, and the clear river water that was originally green in winter and spring is now still some muddy yellow, and it is obvious that the soil from the upper reaches has been washed into the river.

The lieutenant's words were heard by Qu Liulang next to him, and he laughed and said: "Let you learn more about Your Majesty's knowledge on weekdays, you are just lazy and unwilling to learn, this is caused by soil erosion."

In the past, when we came, the number of people in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in the Northern Zhou Dynasty was still small, except for Guanzhong, the others were Hu people grazing, of course, the water was clearer.

Now I heard that the Northern Zhou Dynasty was granting land on a large scale and implementing the equalization system, and the fields by the river were easy to irrigate, so more land was cultivated, so that a large amount of soil was washed into the Yellow River during the heavy rain! ”

"It's still a great general!" As soon as Qu Liulang's words fell, there were several officers on the side with a hippie smile on their faces, almost the most places in Wang Ze and Wang Yong's old department in the navy, many officers grew up together on weekdays, so as long as they didn't fight, they laughed with Qu Liulang on weekdays.

A school captain said with a smile: "In the future, after Your Majesty destroys the Northern Zhou Dynasty and unifies the Central Plains, we will turn all the land in the upper reaches of the Yellow River into grassland, so that we will not be afraid of these soil erosions!" ”

At this time, several school officials next to him laughed even more, in their opinion, although the strength of the East China Sea Xia Kingdom is already very strong now, it is still a little inferior to the Central Plains power head-on, not to mention when they can unify the Central Plains.

Of course, although these people like to joke, they also know that the heaviest military order in the war, once Qu Liulang gives an order, none of them dare to push back and refuse to carry it out.

At this time, another lieutenant asked Qu Liulang in confusion: "General, why don't we act with General Cao and them this time?" Is there any big move in your old man's family taking everyone into the Yellow River this time? ”

Qu Liulang said with a smile: "If we follow Cao Erlang's action, it will just be a transport team, how many Northern Qi naval troops can there be in Jishui?" If you want to make a contribution, you still have to rely on the Yellow River, not only there are many naval troops in the Northern Qi Dynasty, but also there are only more than 100 miles from Liyang to Yecheng! ”

Qu Liulang's words made the eyes of a group of officers around him glow, and they didn't care that this time Qu Liulang only brought thirty warships below medium-sized, just thinking that if they could eliminate many Qi army and sailors, and then capture Yecheng at once, capture the emperor, nobles, and family members of Northern Qi, what a great credit it should be, and they didn't mind that there would be a cheap old man at the same time.

In fact, of course Qu Liulang would not attack Yecheng like this, this time after he entered the Yellow River under Wang Yong's order, he wanted to destroy the Northern Qi prefectures and counties along the way as soon as possible, and then attack and harass the Northern Qi to prevent them from using the Yellow River to transport grain, grass, troops, materials, etc.

You must know that in ancient times, in the absence of railways and highways, the loss of land transportation was very large, and the materials of the general army relied on water transportation, once the waterway could not go, then it was difficult to meet the needs of the army.

As long as Wang Yong sent a naval army to block the two important waterways, the Yellow River and Jishui, then the Northern Qi army stationed east of Jinan City would lose all aid from the rear.

Just when Qu Liulang led his thirty ships into the Yellow River, it was also on the evening of the same day that Cao An, who had taken on the heavy responsibility of seizing Jinan City ten years ago, once again took on the heavy responsibility and repeated the old incident of Wang Ze's capture of Jinan City.

Because since the end of the Jeju War, the population of Jinan City has suffered serious losses, and it has not recovered too well, and it cannot support too many troops, and there are tens of thousands of Qi troops stationed in Qingzhou to the east of Jinan City, so the number of troops stationed here has not been much.

In this way, when Cao An and Zhang Hang led the army into the city, the first reaction of the Qi army was not to drive the Xia army out, but to immediately pull out their legs and run, which allowed the Xia army to successfully capture Jinan City, and even the big families in the city did not have time to react.

However, thanks to Xia Jun's good reputation for treating ordinary people in the past, some ordinary people in the city were panicked after learning that the city had fallen, and at the same time, they had a little more hope.

After Wang Yong was defeated and fled, these people blocked the road to the six counties of Qidong because the Qi army blocked the road, so even if they wanted to follow Wang Yong, they still couldn't do it. Fall in love with the literary network

And the big families in the city who learned the news of Xia Jun's entry into the city were full of regret, hating why they didn't learn the lessons of those heroes at the beginning, and even dared to come here, but now they also have past experience, knowing that as long as there is no evil in the city, Xia Jun will still spare his life.

In this way, Xia Jun captured Jinan City with ease, which made them feel unbelievable, and also made Zhou Tong, who was ready to kill, very dissatisfied, but fortunately, Cao Anren was more clever and appeased this big brother who wanted to kill in time.

After successfully seizing the city of Jinan, Cao An and Zhang Hang were not in a hurry to continue to lead the army westward, on the one hand, they strictly arranged the city defense to prevent the Northern Qi army from attacking, and on the other hand, they stepped up the attack on the Sifang county and waited for the arrival of Wang Yong's army.

After all, everything is to lay a solid foundation, only by destroying all the tens of thousands of Qi troops between Jinan City and Weishui, Wang Yong can further attack to the west, otherwise these tens of thousands of Qi troops will be a hidden danger after all.

Walking on the original use of 100,000 floating monks to build the avenue is really flat, when the Northern Qi Dynasty crossed the Yellow River, Jishui, but also the use of this flat avenue to achieve so fast.

When the Northern Qi Dynasty occupied the prefectures and counties west of Weishui, although the maintenance of this road was not so good, because of the high standards and strict requirements when the road was built, although seven or eight years have passed now, most of the roads are still flat.

Taking advantage of the convenience of this road, Wang Yong quickly eliminated a small number of Qi troops on the west bank of Weishui, and then quickly captured Weixian, Changle and other cities.

In this way, when Jing Xianjun, who led the main force of the Qi army to defend in Qingzhou, just learned that Jinan City on the back road was attacked and captured by someone again, the forward of Wang Yong's army was only ten miles away from Qingzhou, and now the Qi army stationed in Qingzhou has been completely cut off.

In the face of the rapid approach of Wang Yong's army, Jing Xianjun stepped up the contraction of his forces to hold Qingzhou City, and on the other hand, he also sent more than ten messengers to try to cross the Taishan Mountains and report from Dongping County (now Tai'an) to the interior of Northern Qi.

What Jing Xianjun didn't know was that the messenger he sent was not as big a team as when Wang Yong's troops passed through these mountain ranges, and when Yuan Jia and Hu Bingchang led the army to escape, they still maintained a certain combat effectiveness as a whole, so the Taishan thieves in Mount Tai did not dare to reach out and loot.

But now these messengers sent by Jing Xianjun are generally three or five people, and no more than ten people at most, so soon after entering the mountains, almost all of them became the ghosts of the Taishan thieves, and in the end, only one messenger crossed the mountains and came to Yecheng.

The messenger arrived in Yecheng and was not able to see Gao Wei, and Shikai was in control at this time, where was he willing to let Gao Wei know that when he assisted Gao Wei, Northern Qi was under such a serious siege, and in Heshikai's opinion, Northern Zhou, Turkic and Southern Chen were still strong enemies, Wang Yongququ was just a bandit, how could it be worth disturbing Gao Wei.

In the end, after discussing with several good ministers, he finally decided to let Dugu Yongye, who was demoted after the defeat of the army, lead the army to deal with Wang Yong, after all, Dugu Yongye's army was defeated at the beginning, and it was also a helpless move, and at this time, the Northern Qi Dynasty really had no soldiers available, so he had to let Dugu Yongye, who had been idle for a few years, go out again.

It's just that even if Dugu Yongye was ordered to take on the heavy responsibility again, it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and now Northern Qi is facing the siege of countries on all sides, which is more dangerous than when Gao Yang just died, so where is there any extra troops to send to him.

Therefore, the first thing Dugu Yongye had to do was to recruit tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and then after hastily training before he could attack Jinan City and rescue Jing Xianjun, at present, all he could do was to order the states and counties in the west of Jinan City to send a part of the state and county soldiers to prevent Wang Yong from further expanding westward.

In this way, it is difficult to have the Jing Xianjun Department who has been holding on to Qingzhou, because Wang Yong has been honestly defending Weishui over the years, and has never attacked to the west again, so the Qi army in Qingzhou has been transferred to the west, north and other places.

In the past two years, the number of Qi troops stationed in Qingzhou and other places has been reduced from more than 100,000 at the peak to more than 50,000 at present, and after deducting the Qi troops along the Weishui coast, Weixian, Changle and other cities, the number of Qi troops in Qingzhou is less than 40,000.

Originally, Jing Xianjun had made full preparations when the countries began to besiege the Northern Qi Dynasty again, as long as Wang Yong's army came, he would inevitably be hit in front of his own defense, and he would suffer heavy casualties, even if he couldn't stop Wang Yong's army, he could also make Wang Yong lose a considerable amount of troops.

Therefore, when Jing Xianjun learned that Wang Yong led an army of 100,000 to Qingzhou City, he was not worried, after all, there are many books of war: if you double it, you will attack it, and if you do it, you will besiege it.

On the premise that his side is fully prepared, only when the enemy army is ten times his own, his city is in danger of being captured, so Jing Xianjun is not worried, he knows that he only needs to defend the city well, consume the maximum amount of Wang Yong's troops, and wait patiently for the arrival of reinforcements from Northern Qi.

But what Jing Xianjun never expected was that Wang Yong's method of attacking the city was different from the way any country and army, so that Jing Xianjun's preparations completely fell into the void, so that the morale of the tens of thousands of troops of the Northern Qi in Qingzhou City was lower.