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The man on the saddle wears iron armor, and sits down on the horse with a brass bell. The red flag is displayed in the sunset, and the sword is paved with thousands of miles of snow. The bow is bent and the magpie is painted, and the flying fish bag is half exposed to the dragon's tip; The arrow is inserted into the carved feather, and the lion pot is tightly tied to the leopard's tail. The person has a deep helmet hanging down the neck, and the eyes are slightly leaking; The horse is dressed in heavy armor with Zhu Ying, and it hangs on four legs. Pioneer soldiers, shoulder the big axe; After joining the generals, they wielded their spears. Accustomed to war, all heroes are like sub-roads; can recruit soldiers, and everyone is as brave as Jiang Wei. Thousands of horses left the state city, and three generals came to Shuibo.

Without waiting for the front army to open the road to Han Tao, the main general of the Chinese army Hu Yanzhuo, and the rear army urged Peng Xi to lead the three-way army to look at Liangshan and rush to kill, Jiang Hongfei had already received the news that the Zhao and Song Dynasty courts had sent Hu Yanzhuo to suppress Liangshan.

Shuibo Liangshan, in the Juyi Hall.

Jiang Hongfei, Sun Jing, Xu Guanzhong, Zhu Wu, Liu Huiniang and others gathered together to discuss how to deal with Hu Yanzhuo leading 8,000 men and horses to fight.

Sun Jing said: "I heard that Hu Yanzhuo is the founder of the country, the famous general Huyan Zanyan of Hedong, the descendant of the faction, the strength is strong, he is used to two copper whips, people can not approach, he is proficient in the way of commanding the army, is a good general, not to be careful." ”

Xu Guanzhong said: "Although this person's strength is not weak, it is nothing in my Shuibo Liangshan, and the real trouble is his 3,000 heavy cavalry, if he uses it properly, it can reach 100,000 troops." ”

Although Xu Guanzhong said a little exaggerated, judging from the glorious achievements of the heavy cavalry in the past, it is not impossible to have this possibility.

Jiang Hongfei reminded everyone: "This person also has a tactic, which is to teach 3,000 heavy cavalry to make a row, and chain iron rings every thirty horses; However, when encountering the enemy, shoot with arrows from a distance, and make the spears directly ram when they are close; The 3,000 chain horse army was divided into 100 teams to lock. The 5,000-foot army responded in the rear. Don't be careful. ”

Sun Jing and Xu Guanzhong said in unison: "Serial horses?!" ”

Jiang Hongfei looked at Sun Jing and Xu Guanzhong and asked, "Do the two military advisors know about this chain of horses?" ”

Sun Jing and Xu Guanzhong glanced at each other, and then Sun Jing stretched out his hand to Xu Guanzhong and motioned for Xu Guanzhong to talk about it.

Xu Guanzhong was not polite, but said: "Martial Mourning Heavenly King Ran Min is known for his bravery, the generals of his department are elite, and the Yan people are afraid of it, so Murong Ke chose 5,000 people who are good at shooting, and connected his horses with iron locks, and went forward for Fang Chen, defeating Ran Min. ”

Sun Jing then said: "This method has existed since ancient times, and it is indeed a difficult method. ”

Jiang Hongfei asked: "Then do you have a way to break the chain of horses?" ”

Seeing that no one spoke, Zhu Wu proposed, "Or you can use the Fire Ox Array to give it a try." ”

Sun Jing and Xu Guanzhong listened to Zhu Wu's idea, pondered for a while, and then shook their heads in unison.

Sun Jing said: "The Fire Ox Array is invincible against the infantry army, but it is difficult to say whether it is useful or useless against the cavalry. ”

Xu Guanzhong said: "This chain of horses, thirty horses in a company, can quickly gather, can also quickly disperse, with the fire bull formation hard to fight, it is really difficult to say who will win, huh...... If there is no other way to deal with the enemy, it doesn't hurt to give it a try. ”

Sun Jing, Zhu Wu, and Xu Guanzhong discussed for a while, but there was no good way to break the enemy.

Jiang Hongfei looked at Liu Huiniang, who had never spoken: "Huiniang, what do you think?" ”

Only then did Liu Huiniang speak: "Why rush for a while? It was he who came to beat me, and I didn't fight him, so let's wait and see him for three or five or July, and then go to war if he has a way to win. ”

When Sun Jing, Zhu Wu, Xu Guanzhong and others heard this, they all smiled.

The intelligence department of Shuibo Liangshan had already found out that Hu Yanzhuo had only brought 8,000 men and horses here, and there was no naval army at all.

In the face of 800 miles of Shuibo, Hu Yanzhuo's 8,000 men and horses did not dare to divide their troops at all - if they were divided, they would be broken by the Liangshan army, and the key was that even if he divided his troops, just this little man and horse, he would not be able to stop the people of Shuibo Liangshan from entering and leaving.

It can be said that the people of Shuibo Liangshan take the 8,000 people of Hu Yanzhuo seriously, and they are a thing; Don't take them seriously, they have no influence on the people of Shuibo Liangshan at all.

At the beginning, Guan Sheng led an army of 15,000 and blew the cold wind next to Liangshanbo for more than a month, without an inch of progress, which is the best example.

Therefore, not to mention that Jiang Hongfei and they have no way to defeat the chain horse now, even if they have, they can also avoid the battle for a period of time, so that Hu Yanzhuo and them are in a hurry to fight, just like Guan Sheng and them at the beginning, when they saw the Liangshan army fighting, they were so happy that they immediately rushed up with the whole army to send them to death.

Although it is not the first time that everyone has seen Liu Huiniang's calmness and directing to the point, Sun Jing and others still admire Liu Huiniang, an extremely smart woman.

At the same time, Sun Jing and others became more and more aware of why Jiang Hongfei was so eager to get Liu Huiniang and why he immediately accepted Liu Huiniang regardless of it.

Since there was no hurry, and everyone didn't have any good way, Jiang Hongfei asked everyone to disperse first.

Then, Jiang Hongfei sent someone to find Tang Long.

Although because Hu Yanzhuo didn't bring the navy over, Shuibo Liangshan could not be in a hurry to study the way to crack the chain of horses, but there is a way, there is a way to be prepared, of course, Jiang Hongfei must first grasp a method of cracking the chain of horses, so that it will be foolproof.

And others don't know how to crack this chain of horses, how can Jiang Hongfei, who is familiar with the Water Margin, not know?

Not long after, Tang Long came to the Juyi Hall.

As soon as he saw Jiang Hongfei, without waiting for Jiang Hongfei to speak, Tang Long took the initiative to say:

"The elder brother doesn't send someone to teach the younger brother to come over, and the younger brother also wants to recommend himself. The first dynasty used this chain of armor horses to win. If you want to break the formation, you must use a hook and sickle to break it. Tang Long's ancestral painting is here, and if you want to create this hook and sickle, you can start immediately. It's just that although Tang Long can hit this hook sickle, he won't make this hook sickle. If you want to find the person who will make it, there is only one person in the world, my uncle and brother Xu Ning, his family's ancestral hook and sickle marksmanship, do not teach outsiders, or on horse, or on foot, there are rules, and the end is elusive. ”

Jiang Hongfei said: "I called you over for this reason. ", and then asked: "After you go up the mountain, do you still have contact with Xu Jiaotou?" ”

Tang Long replied truthfully: "When I first went up the mountain, I also contacted him a few times, and the younger brother also gave him some gifts, but later, the younger brother was afraid of bringing trouble to his family, so he contacted less and less, and he has stopped contacting him in the past two years." ”

Jiang Hongfei understands Tang Long's choice, which also shows that Tang Long is mature.

Jiang Hongfei said to Tang Long: "You explain what you are doing, I will send Yan Qing, Shi Jin and Deng Fei to go with you to Beijing to learn this hook and sickle with Xu Jiaotou, you tell Xu Jiaotou, as long as he helps me Shuibo Liangshan break the chain of horses, I Jiang Yan will owe him a personal favor, he wants to be promoted, I will teach him to be promoted, he wants to get rich, I will teach him to be rich, if he commits a big crime, I will keep him safe." ”

Tang Long received the order, and then went down to prepare.

Jiang Hongfei called Yan Qing and the others again and said to them: "I sent you to Beijing to teach you to learn this hook and sickle, break the chain of horses, and don't make any extraneous branches." ”

Yan Qing and Shi Jin are both extremely smart people who learn things relatively quickly, and Jiang Hongfei believes that as long as Xu Ning is willing to teach, they will definitely be able to learn how to use the hook and sickle gun very quickly.

- It's just a chain of horses, you don't need to learn the full hook and sickle technique, as long as you know a simple hook and sickle technique, it should be enough, too advanced, those minions may not be able to learn, with Yan Qing and Shi Jin's cleverness, they will never fail to complete this task.

And Deng Fei was completely shoehorned in by Jiang Hongfei, mainly to let him increase his ability, so that he would have more self-preservation power and be more reused by himself in the future.

As soon as Tang Long and the others left Shuibo Liangshan with their front feet, Hu Yanzhuo led the troops to Liangshanbo with their back feet.

The next day, Hu Yanzhuo lined up next to Liangshanbo, and at the place where the horns of the three-way painting sounded, the war drums beat like a deaf sky, and the Song army began to call for battle.

But even if the soldiers of the Song Army under Hu Yanzhuo hammered the war drums, there were no Liangshan heroes and birds, and even the people here in Liangshanbo should live how they lived.

——After experiencing Guan Sheng's attack on Shuibo Liangshan, Hu Yanzhuo came to attack Shuibo Liangshan again, and for the people here in Liangshanbo, there is really nothing to make a fuss about.

Hu Yanzhuo led an army of 8,000 to call for three days next to Liangshanbo, but no one looked at them.

From the fourth day, Hu Yanzhuo deliberately pretended to be slack, wanting to lure Liang Shanjun to take the initiative to attack him, and then he would fight back.

But Hu Yanzhuo has been installed for three days in a row, and there is still no one to bird them.

How did Hu Yanzhuo know that their small movements were all seen by the people of Shuibo Liangshan with a clairvoyant mirror, and the strategy he thought was clever was similar to that of a child in the eyes of the people of Shuibo Liangshan.

Guan Sheng, Xuanzan, and Hao Siwen all smiled bitterly when they saw all this!

It was only then that they knew that they were similar to clowns jumping off the beam at the beginning, and as soon as they arrived at Liangshanbo, they were doomed to lose.

Hu Yanzhuo knew about Guan Sheng's experience.

Seeing that the Liangshan army dealt with them in the same way as Guan Sheng and them, Hu Yanzhuo also began to pee yellow and foamed his mouth.

- Hu Yanzhuo feels that he may be about to follow in the footsteps of Guan Sheng.

Actually-

Before Hu Yanzhuo came, he didn't think about laying down Shuibo Liangshan at all.

- He doesn't even have a boat, how can he exterminate Shuibo Liangshan, which is protected by 800 miles of water?

Moreover, Hu Yanzhuo has 8,000 men and horses, and it is simply a fool's dream to exterminate Shuibo Liangshan, which has 120,000 water, horses, and infantry troops.

Zhao Ji and Gao Yu don't understand military affairs, they will have such extravagant hopes, and it is reasonable to say that he is not such a mallet, how can he not know that this is not a fair contest at all?

But then again, it was precisely because Hu Yanzhuo knew that it was an unfair contest that he would lead the army over.

In Hu Yanzhuo's mind, the Liangshan army in this battle occupies an absolute advantage in time, location, people and numbers, and there is really no reason to avoid the battle.

As long as the Liangshan army dares to fight, he will use the powerful chain of horses to defeat the Liangshan army a few times, eliminate some of the Liangshan army, and it is best to capture a few leaders of Shuibo Liangshan, and then lead the army to victory on the grounds that there is no water army to help the battle.

At that time, Gao Yu took revenge and was angry, he Hu Yanzhuo made meritorious contributions, received rewards, was promoted and made a fortune, and also got Gao Yu as a big backer, and then was reused by the Zhao and Song courts.

At the same time, he called for Yan Zhuo to suppress Shuibo Liangshan, which drew an end, whoever is willing to come to Shuibo Liangshan in the future will come, anyway, he will never come again, unless the Zhao Song court can give him 100,000 troops, well, at least 570,000 troops, and there must be a strong naval army, plus many ships.

However, what Hu Yanzhuo didn't expect was that even if Liang Shanjun already had an absolute advantage, Shuibo Liangshan still used the same way to deal with Guan Sheng, and didn't give him a chance to fulfill his little wish at all.

In this case, can Hu Yanzhuo not get angry?

As a last resort, Hu Yanzhuo learned Zhuge Liang to send Jiang Hongfei a piece of women's clothing.

Don't say that there is a historical story in front of this, even if there is not, the heroes of Liangshan can also see that Hu Yanzhuo deliberately sent women's clothes to Jiang Hongfei to humiliate Jiang Hongfei in order to let Liangshanjun quickly fight with him.

This is the agitation method of a red fruit.

But even though they knew all this, there were still many Liangshan heroes who were so angry that they jumped to their feet, shouting that they wanted to go to war and cut off Hu Yanzhuo's head for Jiang Hongfei.

——These Liangshan heroes can't figure it out, they obviously occupy an absolute advantage, why should they avoid fighting, and their lord will be humiliated by Hu Yanzhuo?

When Jiang Hongfei saw it, he accepted it without blushing and without a heartbeat, and then said to the left and right with a smile: "What the enemy is afraid of, I rely on." If he forced me to fight, how could I teach him to be good-hearted? ”

Then, Jiang Hongfei said to the envoy sent by Hu Yanzhuo: "You go back and tell Hu Yanzhuo that I was only going to dry him for three or two months, but now, I'm afraid that I will have to go for half a year." ”

The envoy went back and told Hu Yanzhuo, Hu Yanzhuo almost didn't spurt out a mouthful of old blood!

It's still half a year, and if he doesn't have any results here, Zhao Ji and Gao Yu will not allow him, and maybe he will be convicted of dereliction of duty.

"How can this be a good ?!!!?" Hu Yanzhuo was completely out of options.

That night, Ling Zhen was ordered to arrange the red-clothed cannons that he, Jiang Hongfei, and Liu Huiniang had studied together with Jiang Hongfei and Liu Huiniang in the small village on Yazui Beach, and then he personally used the clairvoyant mirror to calibrate the crosshairs one by one.

The second watch was ten, and when the Song army of Huyanzhuo was sleeping the sweetest, these thousand red-clothed cannons fired in unison!

Immediately, a thousand shells pierced the silent night like a meteor shower, enveloping the scorching barracks.

Due to the previous plan of neglecting the enemy, and Hu Yanzhuo would never have thought that the Liangshan army would be able to attack them from a distance of 800 miles of water, and then did not take precautions in this regard.

As a result, this thousand cannons caught Hu Yanzhuo and them by surprise, and in just one round of attacks, the Song army killed and wounded hundreds of people.

That's it, because the Song army soldiers under Hu Yanzhuo, Han Tao, and Peng Xi were well-trained, reacted quickly, and used the aura cover to defend at the first time when they were attacked, otherwise their casualties would definitely be greater.

The next day, Hu Yanzhuo hurriedly led the army to retreat for ten miles.

No, Hu Yanzhuo and they were shelled again that night.

After Hu Yanzhuo sent people to investigate, he learned that the people of Shuibo Liangshan had actually loaded these red-coated cannons on the ship, and as long as they were within a certain range of Liangshanbo, they would be attacked by the artillery of the Liangshan army.

Later, Hu Yanzhuo led the army to retreat to a place twenty miles away from Liangshanbo, which was considered a little safer.

But even so, the Liangshan army still shelled Huyanzhuo's military camp every day and night.

If the Song army was on high alert, the Liangshan army would be a fake artillery bombardment, and if they dared to relax somewhat, the Liangshan army would push the red-coated artillery ashore and bombard Hu Yanzhuo's barracks, and if Hu Yanzhuo dared to lead a large army to capture Ling Zhen and Shuibo Liangshan's Shenji army, they would be ambushed by the Liangshan army.

In short, Liang Shanjun did not fight with Hu Yanzhuo's subordinates head-on, but also kept harassing Hu Yanzhuo's subordinates, making them not eat and sleep well.

Seeing this, Hu Yanzhuo couldn't help but be a little envious of Guan Shenglai, after all, Guan Sheng was still able to rest well at that time, and it was a luxury for them to want to sleep well.

Now, Hu Yanzhuo can only kneel and beg the gods and Buddhas of Mantian, hoping that Jiang Hongfei can show mercy and send Liang Shanjun out to fight him.

But what Hu Yanzhuo didn't know was that no gods and Buddhas heard his prayers at all.

On the contrary, because Xu Ning, who Jiang Hongfei used to break his chain of horses, had an accident, his battle with the Liangshan Army had to be postponed.

The key is that before Jiang Hongfei left Shuibo Liangshan, he deliberately explained to Xu Guanzhong, who stayed behind: "The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and I disturb, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase, in short, tell Ling Zhen and the others that they must not be taught to stop ...... by Hu Yanzhuo."

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