While the two of them were talking like this, Xie Guerrilla came in. Listening to the two bosses excitedly, you and I gave a general introduction to the situation.

Xie guerrilla said, "I agreed to lead the troops into battle. But there is one condition, please add me two hundred more archers."

Wan Zhifu saw that Zhao Tongzhi did not object, and nodded in agreement: "Okay, there is no problem. So when do you expect to be able to send troops?"

"Naturally, the sooner the better. From here to Dong Qi's residence, the road is not close." Xie Guerrilla said that he was going to come to Yutu and explain it to them, telling them how to achieve suddenness.

"This guy is very alert, and he needs to march all night from here to his station, and no one can guarantee that no one will give him a message in between. If he knows we're coming at him, he might turn around and slip away, and that's a big problem!

I can't eat it in one bite, and I don't know how many moths this guy will make in the future!" Wan Zhifu and Zhao Chongbi glanced at each other and said that it made sense.

They know that if they don't fight, they must be rounded, like such old bandits, staying is the bane!

Guerrilla Xie is a veteran of about 40 years old and has been on the battlefield for a long time. There are also two scars on his face. It looks kind of scary. However, his experience is not to be said, and his words are reasonable and worthy of reference.

In his opinion, Shikou is a high hill facing the lake on three sides, and at the top of the long mountain, you can overlook the surrounding dozens of miles, and further south, only Meitangyu on the side of Wunigang is slightly higher.

Therefore, Dong Qi hid in Shikou because of the terrain advantage.

During the wet season, the officers and soldiers will be spotted by the enemy's lookout sentries when they dispatch large ships of the navy, but now it is the dry season, and a large area of meadows at the bottom of the lake is exposed when the lake recedes, and the grass that does not exceed the head can cover the personnel, so that the officers and soldiers can approach on foot at night.

"It may rain again today and tomorrow, and it won't rain much, but it's enough. As long as there is no big moon shining!" Xie Guerrilla said, the scar on his face shook twice.

"How do you know it's going to rain?" Zhao Chongbi was surprised and asked, "Are you sure?"

Xie Guerrilla heheed twice and patted his leg: "Those who have been injured in battle know what it feels like, don't worry, you can't be wrong!"

So everyone decided, and Xie Guerrilla immediately went back to arrange and began to order troops in the school field in the city.

Zhao Tongzhi immediately sent people to ride horses to cross the Changjiang River to the east, passed through Longfeng Station to Raofeng and other places, and ordered Rao Feng to garrison thousands of households to lead 300 guards and local villagers to rush to Lefeng Town to set up defenses, and ordered a total of 300 guards from Raobu and Zibu to rush to Chengjialing with Xiangyong to deploy defenses.

The purpose of both routes is to prevent fish from escaping to the east and southeast mountainous areas and entering the mining area.

The prefect was responsible for arranging the rations, dispatching ships from Shuanggang, Lianhu, Gudu, and other places, and sending troops to Xikou to land tonight.

After the plan was discussed, Zhao Tongzhi first went to Pojiang Gate, and the same messenger from Yu Gan here explained the details, and then repaired the letter and asked him to bring it to Li Dan.

Zhao Chongbi hurried to the south gate, saw the staff officer sent by Li Dan on the Flower Bridge, told him about the troops sent here, and wrote a letter, instructing him to tell Li Dan to take Lulu Port and Wuni Town in time, close the gate, and let Dong Qi not join the two departments of Tatehuazi.

The staff officer put the letter in his satchel, saluted, and turned to leave.

Zhao Chongbi was surprised to see his series of actions completely different from the official army, this was the first time he had close contact with the members of the Tsing Yi team, and he felt that the other party's capable, concise, and unpretentious style.

Then Zhao Chongbi returned to the city tower and saw Wan Dajun standing there stretching out his head to look down.

He walked over with a smile, looked side by side with the prefect at the pointed and wide-bodied, narrow-tailed steamer, and after making a splash, turned around like a big carp and rumbled in the direction of Yugan.

Wan Zhifu slapped his hands and sighed, "It's really a good ship, but it's a pity that there is only one!"

Zhao Chongbi listened and thought about it and said, "I thought that the ship they sent to Dongtang to intercept Dong Qi should also be this kind of high-speed steamer." Then there was a joke:

"When the war subsides, Brother Yuntai (Wan Da Jun) may wish to buy it from Li Dan for his own use. I think it must be very beautiful to take this boat into Beijing, which is not only enviable, but also attracts the attention of women!"

He alluded to the fact that after the pacification of Raozhou, the Wanzhifu would be promoted for merit, and maybe he would be received by the emperor. Wan Zhifu was also happy, and pointed at him and said:

"I know, it turns out that you, Zhao Anliang (Zhao Chongbi), are Li Dan's agent, and you are dedicated to helping him sell ships?" The two laughed. Thinking that Dong Qi, who had repeatedly done evil tomorrow morning, would be destroyed, they were both nervous and looking forward to it.

The strength of the government was indeed not bad, and two hundred large and small ships gathered outside the south gate that night, and led the officers and soldiers to board the ships and go along the waterway to Xikou.

The premise of this method of fighting is that the officers and troops have the advantage of the troops, so that the opponent will lose one thing and the other will finally collapse in a hurry, then the officers and troops can take advantage of it.

Qianhu Hou Jin and 800 people set out first, they took a small boat through the narrow waterway at Xikou into the lake area, and finally disembarked at Ganquanzhou, interspersed with Guzhu to the south, and ambushed on the road from Shikou to Lion Rock to prevent the enemy from returning to the old lair.

It's the farthest and most time-consuming of the road.

Try to sneak into Xinfeng in the early morning with 400 people, because Xinfeng left 40 inspectors and more than 100 guards, and they had to use the help of these loyal forces to hide behind the temple mountain for a whole day, and then serve as a flank assist for the night of the main attack.

Another 100 households with 300 regiments were sent to Dongtang to ambush and cut off the enemy's land passage. Xie Guerrilla personally led the main force, and 200 regiments (as auxiliaries carrying supplies) set out to land at Xikou in the evening of the next day.

After a night of stop-and-go, they stalked among the grass and reeds, sometimes dry and sometimes wet underfoot.

Fortunately, Zeng Yan, who arrived in Xinfeng in advance, sent an inspector who was familiar with the road, and led them to the Hongbu post with great difficulty, and borrowed this small mound only a few zhang high to rest.

A scout came forward, and the rest of the people hurried to eat, drink, sleep, and prepare for the battle.

It was really raining lightly in the sky, and Zhao Chongbi was already soaked inside and outside after following all the way, but because he participated in the actual battle for the first time, his eyes were full of irrepressible excitement.

Xie Guerrilla brought two hundred households to find him, and whispered, "Let's go in later, and the lord and this Zhu Baihu will stay and guard the entrance."

"Do what? Do you think the official can't carry a knife?" Zhao Chongbi asked dissatisfiedly.

"No, someone has to be here."

"And what about him?" Zhao Chongbi pointed to another hundred households.

"He's going to defend the Yellow Quagmire, and the enemy may break through from there."

Zhao Chongbi rolled his eyes, and said to the hundred households with a smile, "Let's change, I'll go to the Yellow Mud."

"Your Excellency......."

"What are you afraid of?" Zhao Chongbi smiled at Zhu Baihu: "Isn't there still him by my side?"

Xie Guerrilla licked his lips, nodded and said, "It's okay! Adults need to remember that there is a bamboo bridge behind the Yellow Mudpool, which must be guarded.

However, there is a shoal twenty steps outside the reservoir on the south side, and the people from the inspection department said that they can wade through the water at this time, and people who are not very familiar with the local area are not very clear.

The lake bandits have been entrenched here for many days, and it is hard to guarantee that they will know about it, so please pay attention to this!"

Zhao Chongbi responded, and after Xie Guerrilla left, he asked Zhu Baihu, "How many people do you bring?"

"In reply to my lordship, I gave two hundred and forty lowly men."

"Okay, how about you and I each take half of the bridge and the ford?"

"By your lordship's command!" Zhu Baihu was simply and immediately agreed.

Seeing that the color in the sky was gradually becoming less and less dark, Zhao Chongbi was a little anxious: "What's the matter? Why don't you attack yet?"

Zhu Baihu pursed his lips and smiled without answering. Zhao Chongbi only found out at this time that he seemed to be very young, only about eighteen or nine. The upper lip has a faint short beard, and the beard on the lower jaw is still soft.

"Don't make a sound, start wearing armor, Captain Wu and Shi Chang to the front of the queue!" The herald whispered and ran backwards along the line.

A personal soldier opened the baggage and took out the leather armor to help Zhu Baihu put it on. "Don't you have armor on you?" Zhu Baihu suddenly asked. Zhao Chongbi uncovered the collar, revealing the chain soft armor inside.

Zhu Baihu was stunned, he didn't expect Zhao Chongbi, a civil official of the fourth grade, to follow the march here and wear armor all the time

, I can't help but arch my hand in admiration.

Zhao Chongbi smiled, reached out and took a weapon from the hand of his entourage, the front end wrapped in a black cloth belt.

"You don't have to worry about this side when the fight starts later, I'm not a powerless scholar!" Zhao Chongbi told him.

At this time, the procession began to move, and one by one the people hunched over the grass and trees. After a while, a wooden bridge was crossed, and several corpses fell on the side of the bridge.

Zhao Chongbi guessed that it was the enemy Luo or Sentinel who had been killed, but with just a glance, he ran towards Xie Guerrilla, who was waving to him.

"My lord, there's the Yellow Mire over there." A soldier dressed in the uniform of the inspection department showed him the way beside Xie Guji.

Zhao Chongbi looked up and looked there, and in the hazy morning light, he saw some trees and white walls over there. He nodded, waved his hand behind him, and the group left the group and hurried south. Look at the book

After running out for more than two hundred steps, Zhao Chongbi remembered that he didn't ask if there was anyone stationed inside, but it was too late to turn back, so he had to grit his teeth and rush forward.

When he was about to arrive at the entrance of the village, there was a sudden gust of wind, and it happened that Zhao Chongbi was about to cross a ridge.

He jumped down, and he heard the sound of his follower "oops" behind him, followed by another arrow, which sank into the dirt and shook its tail feathers.

Zhao Chongbi looked angrily to the left front, speeding up under his feet, and took off the cover of the weapon and threw it to the ground, which turned out to be a steel gun with a foot in the head, with two yellow tassels at the end.

Then the third arrow arrived, and he hit the ground with the tip of his gun.

"Whoosh", someone shot an arrow from behind, and someone in the big camphor tree fell "ah". Zhao Chongbi turned around, but it was Zhu Baihu who shot the arrow on the ridge.

"I'll go to the bridge!" Zhu Baihu shouted, turned around and led people to the southeast.

At this time, Zhao Chongbi couldn't stop and ran straight into the street, and almost collided with a bandit at the intersection. The guy turned his head and ran, but Zhao Chongbi rushed forward and stabbed him in the back of the heart, and he lost his breath after two convulsions.

"Your Excellency, are you alright?" A sentry commander caught up with him, stepped on the corpse and helped him pull out his gun.

"Quick, half of the people searched for the remnants of the enemy, and the rest hurried to the place about twenty steps behind the pond to search, where there is a shallow beach to cross the river, and there are people in ambush nearby to stop any lake bandits who want to cross the river!"

"Obey!" The sentry commander pointed three soldiers to follow Zhao Chongbi, and he hurriedly led people to the river.

The soldiers immediately began to take control and search the village. Running a little too fast just now, Zhao Chongbi gasped a few times with his gun, and then he remembered the three arrows, and he didn't feel a little afraid.

A chief flag officer came and reported that the captives had confessed to the village that there were more than 50 people in the village, and that more than a dozen had been killed and captured, and that most of the 30 had been hiding in the house of a wealthy family and resisting stubbornly.

"As long as you dare to show your weapons at you, we won't have time to chew our tongues with them. Hide in the house and smoke it if you don't come out!" Zhao Chongbi knew that this was just a warning post and was of little value.

Sure enough, as soon as they saw the officers and soldiers hugging firewood, the people in the house were frightened and shouted, and soon lost their weapons and went out to kneel down and surrender.

As soon as I finished my work here, I saw a shout from the west to kill Zhentian, and soon a soldier ran to shout, "My lord, here, here, there are so many people, all running this way!"

It turned out that Zhu Baihu had experience, so he asked his subordinates to learn from the enemy to climb the camphor tree and set up a lookout post, and immediately came down to spread the news when they saw the enemy's situation.

Zhao Chongbi left ten people to guard the prisoners, and the rest followed him to the entrance of the village.

Who knew that when I arrived at the entrance of the village, my brain was two circles bigger, and the enemy did not plan to enter the village at all, some of them went north, and some of them were about to be smarter, but the number was not much, but they were separated to the south. Dare to love this village is useless to them!

"Follow me!" Zhao Chongbi was in a hurry, if they rushed through the shallows and escaped, his face would be lost! He took the lead and rushed in the direction of the yellow mud pool.

At this time, the yellow quagmire was already shouting and killing. The ambush suddenly appeared, and the bandits were taken aback when they saw the ambush here, and hurriedly resisted, and the dozen or so officers and soldiers who fled to the other bank and jumped out of the grass were instantly slashed and killed.

But the hope of life is ahead, and the lake bandits still break out stubbornly

Strong combat effectiveness, although they are scattered, have no formation and no command, but everyone is fighting to the death, and there are more and more of them.

When Zhao Chongbi arrived, he just cut into the other party from the side behind, which did cause some confusion.

But these people were obviously experienced old bandits, and three or five of them surrounded everything to fight against the officers and soldiers, and sometimes a dozen of them could not hold it.

Suddenly, another group of enemies rushed in, this time the officers and soldiers were attacked on their backs, and the situation was reversed, and the officers and soldiers began to fall one by one.

The gun in Zhao's hand began to be wet and slippery with blood, and he shouted encouragement to his subordinates and adjusted the manpower to the weak spots.

One of the bandits saw and noticed him, and shouted, "Kill him, that's a yellow belt!" So bandits began to rush towards this side desperately.

Zhao Chongbi snorted, and suddenly stabbed an elderly bandit in the ribs, and then shouted: "The descendants of Emperor Taizu have only died in battle and never surrendered!"

When the soldiers heard this, two shields immediately approached him.

"Don't come, go ahead and kill the thief, leave me alone!" As soon as he finished speaking, an arrow arrived with the sound of the wind, and was knocked away by the big gun.

"Guts and rats, scheming with dark arrows, what a hero!" After Zhao Chongbi finished scolding, he felt a sinking in his waist, it was another feather arrow, fortunately he failed to penetrate the armor, he took out the arrow with his mouth, dodged the other arrow, but slipped sideways and fell to the ground.

"Yellow Belt Child, take your life!" A fierce man smashed the soldier with his shield and picked up the hammer in his hand, but his eyes suddenly widened, an arrow came out of the back of his neck, and his body fell with a "clang".

Zhao Chongbi looked up at the shore and saw that it was Zhu Baihu again. He fired three arrows in a row to shoot three people, turned around and dropped his bow and shouted, took a simple knife thrown by his subordinates and rushed into the crowd, cutting melons and vegetables like invincible.

The twenty or thirty people who followed behind also shouted and rushed into the enemy group. Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, the morale of the officers and soldiers was great, and Zhao Chongbi also got up, picked up his gun and returned to the battle.

A quarter of an hour later, with the arrival of hundreds of officers and soldiers chasing and annihilating, the remaining lake bandits finally could not hold on, or jumped into the river, or knelt down and surrendered, and those who stood lost their heads.

Zhao Chongbi came to Zhu Baihu, who was sitting on the ground and grinning at him, and stretched out his hand to pull him up. "Brother, how can I thank you for saving me twice?"

"Where is the duty of the lowly duty." Zhu Baihu replied.

"What a duty." Zhao Chongbi nodded: "I remember you." After saying that, he looked back at the body of the strong man and shouted, "Pull a captive over and confess, who is this guy?"

Soon two captives were dragged over and thrown on the ground, and after a while, a small flag came over and saluted: "Congratulations, my lord, that guy is Dong Qi, he thought that no one knew about this road, and he didn't want to die in the hands of adults!"

"Find a few more people to see if it's the thief!" After Zhao Chongbi finished speaking, he pointed at Zhu Baihu: "But this is the credit of Zhu Baihu's divine shooting, I don't dare to grab the credit!" Everyone found several people to identify it, and finally determined that this was really Dong Qi.

"Well done!" Zhao Chongbi patted Zhu Baihu on the shoulder appreciatively, and gave a thumbs up: "Zhu Baihu walked through Yang in a hundred steps, shot the bandit handsome Dong Qi, and a simple knife was like entering a no-man's land, avenging many murdered blind dates. Let's give him a hello!"

"Good!" Hundreds of people on the riverbank cheered loudly, startling birds on both sides of the river, flying and wandering for a long time.