On the evening of the 30th, Zhao Mengqi led his army to Yangzi Village, about 70 miles away from Fuzhou City, and set up camp.

This is a trumpet-shaped valley between Daping Mountain and Taicheng Mountain, the narrowest point in the north is only a dozen zhang wide, if it is held here, it will also cut off the land passage from the south to Fuzhou.

Set up a camp by the mountains and rivers along the official road, Zhao Mengqi deliberately appeared and patrolled around, and even walked around Yangzi Village.

When the camp was completed and the soldiers began to bury the pot and make food, he slowly returned to the camp, and all this naturally fell into the eyes of the fine work lurking nearby.

After the meal, Zhao Mengqi convened his subordinates to discuss the big tent of the Chinese army, and Chen Wei, who was supposed to sit in Fuzhou City, was impressively listed.

Zhao Mengqi looked at Chen Wei and said, "Bachelor, after I leave, I will leave this place to you, if you can't do anything, then it doesn't hurt to withdraw to Fuzhou City." ”

"Your Highness, rest assured, the old minister will try his best to hold back the traitor, but His Highness should be more careful."

Chen Wei had a tired look on his face, after all, he was in his seventies, even if he was riding a horse, he couldn't stand it after a day.

But at present, among the 3,500 soldiers and horses, in fact, only one Ma Si battalion is a regular army, and it is impossible to control it at all if someone else comes to it, so he can only let him, a veteran, come out.

Next, everyone deduced the follow-up actions again, and memorized each step by heart.

At this time, somewhere in Taicheng Mountain, several detailed workers summarized the information they saw and sent it with a pigeon letter.

It's just that they won't know that by midnight, more than two dozen figures took advantage of the night to leave the official army camp and trotted back to Fuzhou.

These two dozen people are Zhao Mengqi and Geng Zhi and other personal guards, as for the other Banzhi, they did not stay in the camp, but did not leave the military camp outside Fuzhou at all.

In less than three hours, they arrived at the south bank of the Minjiang River, boarded a small boat that had been waiting for a long time, and carried them out to sea.

At the mouth of the sea, a Shenzhou, two merchant ships of 5,000 materials, and four warships of the Dinghai Navy were waiting quietly, with a Ma Si battalion and two Dongwei battalions, as well as more than 100 Banzhi guards.

On the Shenzhou, there was already a firearms battalion led by Shi Cheng and two hundred sailors, and each Dinghai warship had nearly a hundred sailors.

So, in fact, there were more than 2,500 soldiers here.

After Zhao Mengqi and the others transferred from the boat to Shenzhou, Chaoyang just jumped out of the sea.

"Set sail, south!"

With Zhao Mengqi's order, the fleet took a zigzag route and went against the wind.

At the same time, the white-eyed Jiao's fleet had just entered Xinghua Bay.

After more than half an hour, the white-eyed Jiao arrived at the mouth of the Hagilu River and docked to meet Pu Shiwen Liuqingzhu.

As soon as they met, Pu Shisi couldn't wait to ask, "Big brother, how is the situation?" ”

It is impossible to receive pigeon letters at sea, so he does not know anything during this time.

Pu Shiwen replied, "The news we received last night is that King Yan's march is slower than we expected, and he is still sixty miles away from here. ”

"Strange, isn't he in a hurry to rescue Quanzhou? Why is it still so slow, could it be a trick? Pu Shiston was suspicious.

Liu Qingzhu said, "There is this possibility, the place where they camped is a choke point, where it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is suitable for both advance and retreat, which makes us very embarrassed." ”

Pu Shisi immediately checked the map, pondered for a moment and said, "You say, will King Yan not be here?" Even this official army is just a pretense, just to delay our attack on Quanzhou? Or is it that what King Yan really took was actually the sea route? ”

After hearing this, Pu Shiwen shook his head, "It's possible to pretend to support us to delay us, but it's unlikely to take the sea route, where does he still have troops?" Second, the spy said that he saw King Yan there with his own eyes yesterday evening. ”

"If this official army is a disguise, then the troops in it may also be fake, and they may all be brave and fake, but the officers and soldiers with real combat power have taken the sea route with King Yan, so we can only get nothing here, but if King Yan himself is still there, it will be a little uncertain."

Pu Shisi was still suspicious, and his fingers tapped on the map, thinking hard.

Liu Qingzhu also said, "However, the spies in Fuzhou sent back a pigeon letter saying that there was nothing abnormal on the Minjiang River, and no big ships capable of transporting troops were found to enter or leave. ”

"Is that so? On the surface, everything is fine, but I still have an uncomfortable feeling in my heart, take a step back, even if Yan Wang didn't take the sea route, but stop at this halfway, we can't start.

In my opinion, anyway, we have just arrived, and everyone is still on the ship, so it is better to go to sea again at this time and go north to Fuzhou.

In case King Yan takes the sea route, we have a high probability of intercepting it, if we don't go, we will enter the Minjiang River, and then go south from the land, you go north, so the two bread sandwiches, they can't hold it at all. ”

Pu Shisi was scheming and didn't like to wait passively, so he proposed a new plan.

Pu Shiwen nodded to Fuqing County on the map, "If King Yan finds that he is attacked from both sides, then he can immediately transfer to Fuqing County, which is ten miles away, with the support of the city wall, more than 10,000 of us will definitely not be able to capture it in a short time, and wait for a few days for King Yan's follow-up army to arrive, won't we have to sit on wax?" ”

"Don't be afraid, if he wants to go to Fuqing, let him go, let's just take advantage of the emptiness of Fuzhou City, simply take it down, and when the two cities of Fuzhou and Quanzhou are lost, how can King Yan bear this responsibility? Then with a force from the gang in the court, they can also bring him down! ”

After listening to Pu Shisi's strategy, a group of people couldn't help but feel a little moved.

Just then, a clipper arrived from West Cup Island, where the carrier pigeons were received, to deliver the latest news.

"The official army continues to go south, and the banner of King Yan is still there, and there are many of the forty-three horses in the team."

After taking turns to read the pigeon letter, Liuqingzhu let out a sigh of relief, "It seems that we are nervous in vain, but King Yan is still here." ”

"Maybe it's just that King Yan wants stability, so he chooses to only march sixty or seventy miles a day, then he should plan to camp here on the north bank of Hagilu Creek, so it's okay, let's just wait for their work, and wait for them to die with one blow when they are tired!" Pu Shiwen became excited.

Liu Qingzhu looked at Pu Shisi and Baiyan Jiao, "To be safe, it's best for your people to go to Litou Mountain a little north to lay an ambush, so that they can be cut off from the back road and completely surround them!" ”

Pu Shisi still felt that something was wrong, but from the available information, he couldn't find a problem.

So, after hesitating for a long time, I decided to listen to everyone and implement the original strategy.

Soon after, nearly 6,000 pirates disembarked and headed for Litou Mountain, six miles away, killing and hiding the bodies of any people they met on the way.

Time passed little by little, and at the beginning of the afternoon, the officers and troops marched to Miantingling, which was about twenty miles away from Hagilu Creek, but they did not stop, and began to set up camp.

After receiving the report from the spies, Pu Shiwen and the others fell into confusion again, and Pu Shisi also rushed back to the Fengtou Mountain ambush site from Litou Mountain.

Liu Qingzhu was confused, "What are they trying to do?!" Did you perceive an ambush? But their scouts aren't here either, are they? ”

"So what should we do now, do we continue to wait until tomorrow, or do we just attack it?" Pu Shiwen couldn't make up his mind.

Pu Shisi pondered for a while, "If we wait until tomorrow, if they turn around and go back, won't we be more passive?" I don't think it's better to wait until it gets dark, and then let's go to the camp! ”

After a while, they finally decided to follow Pushisi's idea.

Although the advantage of encirclement was lost, fifteen thousand men against three thousand five hundred men was a huge advantage.

They then began to adjust their disposition, gathering all their forces at Litou Hill for an attack after dark.

At this time, on the southern slope of Miantingling, more than 3,000 people were frantically building fortifications.

Chen Wei looked at everything in front of him, but smiled bitterly.

According to the original plan, they should have turned around and returned to Yangzi Village as soon as they were halfway through, and the camp set up there yesterday had not been dismantled, so that even if the traitors chased after them, they could occupy a favorable position to resist.

But everything changed when the officers of the Military Intelligence Department handed him a letter left by King Yan.

So he had to order his troops to continue to advance here, and then make defensive preparations.

After Chen Long beside him saw his father's wry smile, he couldn't help but complain, "Why does His Royal Highness King Yan always like to use such a dangerous way to do things? Although I don't know how many rebels there are, I think there will be no less than 10,000, and few of our more than 3,000 people have ever been in battle, how can we resist? ”

Chen Wei's white eyebrows twitched, and he glared at his son fiercely, "I forgot the way of respect and humility!?" What can Your Highness do? …… Okay, what's the use of complaining now? If it really wasn't feasible, would I still be willing to die for nothing? ”

At this moment, a large group of men and horses came running from the north side of the official road.

"You see, His Royal Highness is not without a target, but has already calculated it, originally said that the two battalions transferred back to the zero regiment are to defend Fuzhou, in fact, from the beginning they were ordered to reinforce us, with these two battalions of Dongwei, plus more than a thousand miners, our defense can be solid enough, now the only thing to worry about is whether King Yan can really do what he said, to cause a crushing blow to the traitors, heh, His Royal Highness's idea is indeed wild enough, from being surrounded, forcibly transformed into anti-encirclement, with a minority to surround the majority, tsk, I dare to think about it. ”

Chen Wei was full of sighs, he didn't realize that the unit had actually been following thirty miles later, and because the place where he passed by, the military intelligence department had cleared all the spies who could convey the pigeon message, so the traitor side was also unaware.

A moment later, Lu Changqing, Wu Qiong, Yang Xiao and others entered the camp and reported to Chen Wei.

Immediately, Yang Xiao led his miner brothers to dig a trench outside the camp, which did not need to be too deep, as long as it could play a hindering role, and then cut down some trees to make a simple rejection of horses, and it would be even more difficult for the traitors to attack at that time.

The two battalions of the regiment did not join the labor, but had to recharge their strength and prepare for battle.

Some people died, but not completely......