Golden autumn September, harvest season.

The land of Nanyang is golden.

Men, women and children all went to the fields to reap the fruits of this year's labor.

Li Yu's new army also bore fruit.

The soldiers already have a tacit understanding, their movements are quickly coordinated, they advance and retreat in an orderly manner, and they are no longer stragglers.

Early in the morning, Li Yu came out of the backyard and met Wang Qian.

"Master, what's the matter?"

"Your Highness, Qingzhou has replied."

Wang Qian took out a box from his sleeve.

At the end of May, Li Yu sent a letter to Wang Shifan of Qingzhou, asking him to be a matchmaker, and in the letter, he also borrowed 5,000 soldiers from him, I don't know what he will do.

Li Yu unfolded the letterhead and looked at ten lines.

It turned out that Wang Shifan received Li Yu's letter in early July. For this King De, Wang Shifan is not very happy in his heart, who let him usurp the throne?! But after all, he is the eldest son of the heavenly family, and there is still some politeness that should be there.

The letter wrote: "Although the minister has the heart to serve left and right, but the road is far away, and the responsibility of guarding the land does not dare to slack off, and the heart is powerless. "That is, it can't come.

The matter of borrowing troops is also because of the exchange of troops with the traitor Wen, there is no time to take care of it for the time being, and after retreating from the enemy, there is room for maneuver and he will go to Jingxiang to help Yunyun.

As for the rebel soldiers besieging Qingzhou, Wang Shifan insisted, "The ministers should die and then themselves, and never surrender to the enemy." ”

It doesn't matter if Wang Shifan faction doesn't send troops, Li Yuzhen wants to exterminate the silver sand thieves a long time ago, he doesn't want to startle the snake, lest Zhu Quanzhong be alert.

As long as Wang Shifan does not surrender easily, so that Zhu Laohu will not be able to move the capital to Chang'an.

The two were talking about Wang Shifan in the front hall, when a messenger suddenly arrived.

It turned out to be his father-in-law, Jing Xiangjiedu's urgent letter from Zhao Kuangning, he wanted Zhao Kuangming to lead troops to Jingnan, and asked Li Yu if he wanted to go to relax.

In fact, it can be said that there is no suspense in leading troops into Jingnan this time, Jingxiang is also a strong soldier, and the point is that the navy is powerful.

As soon as the army enters Jiangling City, Lei Yangong will inevitably run, and it can be said that he can take the entire Jingnan without much effort.

There is a reason why Li Yu was allowed to follow.

Since Li Yu took Nanyang, the Zhao brothers formed an alliance with him, and seeing that Li Yu gradually had a thousand tooth army, he had the heart to test his son-in-law's ability, and he had been training for so long, could it be done? This trip to Jingnan is a good opportunity.

Henan Province and Jidu Province in the Central Plains were occupied by Zhu Quanzhong, and now he was leading the main force to fight in Yanzhou and Qingzhou, and he had no time to take care of it.

And Zhang Quanyi, who was in charge of the capital of Jidu, was repairing Luoyang Palace City, busy with the relocation of the capital, how could he have time to find trouble with Li Yu.

The matter of Luyangguan last time, under Li Yu's letter of apology, was over, and Zhang Quanyi took over Luyangguan again, so he didn't want to make a fuss and let the world laugh at him for bullying the weak King De.

Qingzhou City Pinglu Jiedu Envoy Hall.

Wang Shifan frowned.

Ever since he was against Zhu, there have been constant wars.

At the beginning, Zhu Quanzhong led his troops to Chang'an and Fengxiang, and there were only a small number of defenders in Zhucheng in Henan Province, and Wang Shifan took Yanzhou City in one fell swoop.

In order to resist Zhu Quanzhong's counterattack, he formed an alliance with Yang Xingmi of Huainan Province. Zhu Youning led his troops to defeat Wang Shifan, and Huainan sent the general Wang Maozhang to help in the battle, but Zhu Youning fell off his horse and was beheaded by the Qingzhou general Zhang Shi.

This is a mortal feud.

Zhu Youning was killed in June, and Zhu Quanzhong led the elite to kill in July.

Zhu Quanzhong is a veteran and has rich experience in warfare.

He knew that the only thing Wang Shifan relied on was the general Liu Yan, so he first besieged Yanzhou and trapped Liu Jun.

Let Yang Shihou lead the elite to attack Qingzhou.

Wang Shifan was originally a Confucian general, and he had never fought a few battles in his life, but he lost one battle and lost one battle, and his confidence was lost.

Li Yu told him in the letter that he could not surrender, otherwise there would be a catastrophe, which was undoubtedly a blow to the head, and he did not want to fight from the bottom of his heart.

After replying to Li Yu, he heard that Yang Shihou was in Linqu, transporting grain and grass, and was going to attack Mizhou.

Although he didn't want to fight anymore, he couldn't give up Mizhou and ignore it, so he reorganized his army and prepared to attack Yang Shihou.

Wang Shifan listened to the report of his generals on the situation of the reorganization of the armament war, and was a little absent-minded. He remembered that Li Yu mentioned in the letter that it was best not to fight with Zhu Quanzhong's troops, and it was the best policy to defend the city and defend it.

"Shi Yue, collect grain and grass into the city, the autumn harvest is about to begin, let the people collect the grain, and then make a decision."

"Yes."

Wang Shiyue hurried to do it.

"Shi Ke, you take a thousand cavalry to harass Linqu, only harass, contact and leave, don't fall in love with war."

"Yes."

Wang Shike took the order and left.

At this time, Wang Shifan seemed to suddenly have confidence.

You must know that the army needs to consume a lot of food and people's power, and Zhu Quanzhong brought a large army from Bianzhou, as long as he does not fight, it will be very difficult for them to maintain it.

This procrastination trick is king.

He couldn't help but think of King De, who was far away in Nanyang, and tried the effect according to the method he said.

……

Linqu camp.

Yang Shihou frowned and looked at the generals below.

"What do you say? Qingzhou cavalry attack? How many centaurs are there? ”

"Report to the envoy, a thousand horses."

"Huh? What do they mean by that? ”

In Yang Shihou's mind, his own strategy should be no problem! When Wang Shifan learned that he was going to attack Mizhou, he would definitely gather a large army to come to the rescue, and he had already thought of a countermeasure, as long as he dared to come, he would be able to defeat them.

What's going on today? A thousand horsemen are coming? Wang Shifan has become smarter all of a sudden? Don't play according to the routine!

"Drive them away."

"Yes."

Yang Shihou's army sent cavalry to drive away.

In the battle between cavalry and cavalry, if one side does not want to fight, then the other side has no choice, it can't catch up, it can't fight, and it can only drive things away.

But these thousand cavalry Qingzhou cavalry surrounded them and didn't leave, if you came, he would run, and if you went back, he would come again, which made Yang Shihou very annoyed, you can't ignore him, your own sentries have been almost wiped out by this group of cavalry, can such a scourge not be driven away? !

He didn't expect Wang Shifan to have such a means.

Wang Shifan not only did not come out of his army, but also sent letters to the cities, telling them to defend the cities, and after collecting grain, the walls were cleared, leaving no edible things for the enemy, and even the wild grass in the field was burned.

Just a few days after the messenger arrived in Nanyang, all the places under Wang Fanfan's jurisdiction began to set fire to the grass after harvesting the grain and grass, and the smoke was billowing and the air was full of the smell of burning.

Zhu Quanzhong was rewarded, and his anger jumped like thunder.

Hurriedly let Yang Shihou enter Qingzhou, and the grain and grass in Bianzhou were also urgently transported in the direction of Qingzhou.

Yang Shihou also secretly regretted at this time, he underestimated the enemy.

Originally, the plan was to lure the snake out of the hole, but who knew that people were not fooled, and gave Wang Shifan two months in vain, so that he could finish the autumn harvest, which was a mistake! Although the lord didn't blame, where did he put his face?!

He carried the most elite silver spear to serve the festival, and he thought that it would be a piece of cake to beat Wang Shifan, which was indeed the case at the beginning, but then it was not like that.

Could it be that Wang Shifan has a master behind him? !

In such doubts, Yang Shihou waved his army to Qingzhou, and he made another plan to surround the point to send reinforcements!

I'm going to fight Qingzhou now, will reinforcements from other cities come to die?

Who knew that Yang Shihou waited for more than ten days, but he didn't even see a figure.

Ah! Mistaken!

Surround Qingzhou.

He led an army of 30,000 to besiege Qingzhou City.

At this time, it was pitch black outside Qingzhou City, not only the weeds were burned, but even the trees on the nearby mountains were cut down.

This makes Master Yang so angry, you are a Wang Shifan, you, you are too shameless!

At this time, the sentinel returned, and Beihai, one hundred and forty miles to the east, was also the same as Qingzhou, the city gate was closed, and the people around him had brought grain into the city, the surrounding weeds and straw in the fields were burned, and the boats in the Bailang River were also collected into the city.

I'll go!

It's the same with Laizhou, Michigan.

Hiss~~~

Yang Shihou gasped.

This is to carry it to the end with yourself!

What he was most afraid of was that Wang Shifan would defend the fortified city.

His army has been besieging the city for a long time, the consumption is too great, and it is about to enter winter, and when the weather is cold, there will be no way to fight at all, and he can't do it without retreating.

Faced with such a predicament, the lord was far away in Bianzhou, urging him to enter the army, and he had to come hard and attack Qingzhou.

On the city wall of Qingzhou.

Wang Shifan took his subordinates to look at the dense Xuanwu army outside the city, and secretly congratulated himself that he had listened to King De's strategy, otherwise he would have lost his troops and would have been defeated.

In the past two months, he has harvested a large amount of autumn grain, and tens of thousands of people in the vicinity have also brought surplus grain into the city.

Reinforcements from Laizhou and Mizhou also advanced to the city in half a month.

Today's Qingzhou City has 50,000 troops to defend, 100,000 people to help, millions of stone to store grain, a large amount of wood and forage, they are still afraid of the Xuanwu army outside the city?

"Set up camp!"

Yang Shihou gritted his teeth and issued an order.

All of a sudden, there was chaos outside the city.

"Big brother, at this time, the Bianjun army is unprepared, and it is just time to raid."

Wang Shike suggested.

"Hehe, don't worry, they are a trick to lure the enemy, don't be fooled."

After speaking, Wang Shifan turned around and went down to the city and left.

Yang Shihou outside the city waited for an hour and didn't see any movement at the city gate, so he could only sigh, alas, this Wang Shifan has become smarter!

Just when Qingzhou was defending the fortified city and hanging high to avoid war, Li Yu of Nanyang was busy with the vast number of soldiers and civilians.