When Zheng Qiyan and 200,000 ironclad pioneers first arrived in southern Xinjiang, they drove the Hongbo rebel army to the other side of the Qiushui River with the momentum of a tiger descending from the mountain, and the two armies confronted each other across the river.

Then, in hindsight, he realized that he was greedy for merit.

Hong Bo can call on a million troops to attack from the 100,000 mountains in southern Xinjiang and forcibly occupy dozens of cities in Nanjun, he is definitely not just a lustful and brutal person as the world says. Beneath his lustful and brutal façade lies a strategy he has calculated long ago.

Hong Bo had already scraped more than a dozen cities on the other side of the Qiushui River to a depth of three feet, and almost all of the strong people and their wives were taken captive to the south bank as slaves. His mind was to paddle with the Great Yi Dynasty and fight against each other.

Zheng Qiyan won the battle on the surface, but in fact, he just killed more than 10,000 old, weak, sick and disabled Hongbo soldiers, and snatched back more than a dozen broken cities with only old and weak women and children, and there were many holes and sores.

Now the two armies are facing each other with the Qiushui River as the boundary, and the flood waves are dormant and the battle situation is stalemate. At the beginning, Zheng Qiyan led the pioneer army as if it was like a bamboo, in order to annihilate the Hongbo rebel army in one fell swoop, and later replenished the 200,000 troops.

There are 100,000 mountains in southern Xinjiang, and now the weather is becoming more and more humid and hot, there are many miasma, and there are many poisonous snakes and beasts.

Speaking of days, the arrival of the 200,000 pioneer army was after all the beginning of April, the weather was still quite cold, and there was a transitional adaptation period, which was sloppy and supportive. Almost one-third of the 200,000 soldiers who came after could not stand the humid and sultry weather, were not accustomed to the water and soil, and basically had no actual combat ability.

Speaking of geographical advantages, Hongbo is bounded by the Qiushui River, occupying more than a dozen cities such as Chunshui City and Baihua City. These dozen or so cities are the best places in southern Xinjiang, with four seasons like spring and abundant products. There is the Qiushui River in front of the boundary to block the soldiers of Dayi, and the back is against the continuous mountains, which can be attacked and defended.

Now that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the climate in southern Xinjiang is unpredictable. Although Hong Bo claimed to be a million-strong army, he did not take the initiative to attack, and only sent a small group of dead soldiers to dive across the river with Gu poison from time to time to attack secretly. The Great Yi garrison was overwhelmed and lost nearly 30,000 troops piecemeal.

Zheng Qiyan also took the initiative to attack and sent troops to cross the river to prepare for a strong attack, but he never thought that the other side of the Qiushui River was all buried by the flood waves and forced to go ashore, and he died without life.

Under the scarcity of Hongbo, the 400,000-strong army now has the ability to fight, but only half of it, morale is low, and the people are panicking.

The 400,000 troops did not make an inch of success in guarding the opposite shore, and this situation lasted for another month or two, and those imperial histories who were good at spitting saliva in Beijing were estimated to be able to spray Zheng Qiyan half to death.

Zheng Qiyan, who has nothing to do and is under great pressure, has recently become obsessed with reading the 36 strategies with the intention of finding inspiration.

Thirty-six, Jintong at first just wrote a summary and some practical examples, and later when he had time, he successively used the actual combat examples of the old Jingbei Marquis to make up for each plan, or summed up some of the experience of the old Jingbei Marquis, and explained it in detail.

The more Zheng Qiyan looked at it, the more he couldn't help but praise that Lao Jingbeihou was really Jiang Lao's spiciness. Marching and fighting, step by step, meticulous and abnormal, can be said to be a last resort.

Zheng Qiyan repeated the thirty-six strategies back and forth page by page, thinking about each plan, pondering how to fight this battle, and gradually, several strategies in his heart slowly took shape.

Attack the heart for the top, siege for the bottom.

Zheng Qiyan reported the tragic situation of more than a dozen cities to the Holy Lord, and then first sent a team of soldiers and horses with relatively weak combat effectiveness to pacify the devastated dozen cities and help the refugees rebuild their homes.

The rest of the soldiers on the surface of the surface were divided into four roads, and along the way they chose a few mountains of the right size and mountain springs, and while cutting trees, they slowly transformed the terrain of the mountain to facilitate the cultivation of crops. All the way he was responsible for driving back and forth to transport things, and all the way he was responsible for making rafts by the Qiushui River to confuse the floods. All that remains is at home, ready to face at any time.

Secretly, Zheng Qiyan sent dozens of scouts to investigate and secretly visit, collect information, spread rumors, and win people's hearts.

Hongbo's soldiers don't remember when they started, the big iron armor soldiers on the other side of the Qiushui River kept cutting down and transporting timber, tying logs one by one into large rafts, is this to cross the river?

After Hong Bo heard the news, he didn't take it to heart, the ironclad soldiers dared to cross the river on a raft, and they could attack directly with fire, ensuring that the ironclad army would be burned into roast sheep.

People only say that there are 100,000 mountains in southern Xinjiang, a wild land, but they don't know that these 100,000 mountains are extremely rich in mineral products, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a hundred thousand gold mountains.

Hong Bo took advantage of the location, won a few battles, and took advantage of the Gu poison, and the soldiers of Da Yi could only stay on the other side of the river and did not dare to come. Coupled with the countless gold and silver treasures in hand, he has long been unable to find the north, his self-confidence has swelled unprecedentedly, and his daily life has become more and more absurd. The Spring Water City and Hundred Flower City occupied by him have long been boiling with public resentment, but under the violent oppression of the Hongbo Army, they dare not speak out.

At the end of July, Zheng Qiyan calculated a good time to open a dam to discharge the water from the reservoir that had been built long ago, and sent another team of soldiers and horses to block the lower reaches of the Qiushui River.

The foundation below the other side of the Qiushui River was dug by scouts lurking in the past. The flood flooded the opposite bank, and the Gu insects buried by the flood wave naturally lost their effect.

The ironclad soldiers followed the flood to attack the city, and they did twice the result with half the effort, and they were really powerful and unstoppable. However, in one day, Hong Bo's army was defeated and fled into the mountains, leaving behind almost the entire city of spoils.

Zheng Qiyan did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, the terrain of the 100,000 mountains is steep, and Hong Bo has a master who is good at playing Gu worms, and he rashly drove his troops into the deep mountains, which is too dangerous.

He arranged for his subordinates to clean up the battlefield, count the spoils, and report the success. He also sent another team of men and horses to escort hundreds of wagons of war booty to Beijing.

As soon as the good news arrives in Beijing, Pingning builds the Three Marquis Mansion in the north of Anjing, and the tide rises in an instant, and the people who give gifts can go around the city for three weeks, and the guests are full every day.