Xiong Bonan made a note of this in his mind, got up again the next day, and sneaked across the river from Dongjun to Jijun. As soon as he landed on the shore, he noticed the tense atmosphere in Jijun.
It turned out that after the war that day, Qu Tuda once again failed to catch up with the battle, and then faced Xue Changxiong's withdrawal of the entire army, and the dispersal of all the county officials, and even fell into an embarrassing state of solitude...
So after learning that the entire Bohai County had been swept away, and that the river had become unblocked, even if a thousand or ten thousand people were unwilling, they had no choice but to retreat.
Otherwise, who knows if Zhang Xing will fight again on the plains?
Especially this time Xu Shiying was able to cross the river calmly and attack from both sides.
However, after the soldiers retreated to Chanyuan on the border of Jijun and Wuyangjun, and ensured a safe distance, Qu Tuda did not continue to retreat, but began to set up defenses right here in Jijun... Chanyuan is a point,
Neihuang to the north, Liyang to the west, plus Bowang Mountain in the middle, about 15,000 Dongdu elites, plus thousands of Jijun soldiers, formed an obvious solid triangular elastic defense zone.
As for why he acted like this, Xiong Bonan knew it without asking. It was because there was a canal connecting Qingzhang River and Qishui River through Jijun, which separated the three cities alone to the east and had no connection with the main force of the army.
The road is smooth, but Ji County is the bottom line that Dongdu must hold on to if it fails to catch it... so troops must be deployed to take necessary precautions.
Let us say that Zhangshui, especially Qingzhangshui, is almost a natural artery for Dongdu to control Hebei. This river originates from Weijun, in the black mountains behind Jijun, and flows all the way to the east of the river before entering the sea with Hutuo River.
The dozen or so counties passing through along the way are all famous and large counties.
In this case, it is only necessary to dig a canal of several tens of miles in Jijun, connecting Zhangshui to Qishui, which flows into the river in Jijun itself, so that taxable materials from the fertile land of Hebei can be easily transported to the eastern capital.
In fact, three huge storage areas have been assembled for this purpose in Jijun and Weijun in the southwest corner of Hebei.
First of all, Yecheng, the governor of Wei County, is the companion capital. There are all the regulations that should be in place in the palace. There is a governor sent by Beiya and a Jinwu guard. The palace ambassadors and deputy envoys are also complete, and the palace also has
Corresponding to the palace city, it is filled with food, gold and silver, weapons, armor, royal equipment, and even stables for royal horses.
The westernmost side of Ji County, next to Hanoi County, facing Dongdu, and across the river from Luohekou and Luokou Granary on the other side, contains decades of money and taxes from several counties in the West Road of Hebei and Shangdang areas.
, it can even be regarded as part of Luokou Cang.
On the eastern half of Ji County, next to the canal, behind Liyang City, in the area between Dagong Mountain and Tongshan Mountain, there is also a standard storage area, which stores decades of tax money and grain from several counties on Hebei East Road...
This can be regarded as a typical river mouth warehouse, but because the canal between the two mountains isolates the river channel, it can only be entered and exited from Liyang City in the northeast, so people around it call it Liyangcang.
At this moment, Xiong Bonan was standing on the bare Tongshan Mountain, condescendingly looking down at the huge storage area below.
In his field of vision, countless sergeants and civilians were working hard to carry supplies, obviously to prepare military supplies for Qutuda's tribe, and perhaps to provide some supplements and rewards to the soldiers of several counties in the west, but they were only
It was only the first two or three of the dozens of large warehouses that were opened, which was also shocking.
Surprise was followed by a sense of absurdity, then anger, and finally helplessness.
In the past, Xiong Bonan's emotions would have ended up in absurdity - the government here has so much food, cloth and copper coins that they can't even use them all, and they can't move them all, but the army is so tight on logistics rations
They had to make careful calculations, which caused complaints from the rear areas of the eastern border and made everyone on both sides unstable. For the people in Xinde County, Hebei Province, they had almost eaten all the seeds for spring plowing.
Isn't this ridiculous enough?
But the current King Xiongtian is still angry, because he now knows that the warehouses in front of him are originally Hebei East Road, and even those in Bohai and plains where there are no seeds are surrendered by the people. So on the surface, they are lenient, but in fact they are extremely harsh.
The people's wealth and people's anointing collected according to the standards... It's really people's wealth and people's anointing, these things were offered at the cost of their lives.
After the two emperors of the Wei Dynasty and the Guanlong clan had enjoyed the essence in the Western and Eastern Capitals, they would rather rot the despised basic money, food, cloth, and silk in these warehouses than collect less.
So that the people can eat more food and make more clothes. Even in the year of disaster, they will not save them. When there is a famine, they will round up people, forcing the people to cry that there is no door for the sky and the supreme silence, and then they will be wiped out by a group of soldiers and horses.
It also bears the banner of officers and soldiers killing thieves.
This is not the virtue that a supreme being on land should have at all. This is simply robbery and killing. It is simply treating the people as dust and debris, and not treating them as human beings.
As for the helplessness, Xiong Bonan knew very well that this location was within the attack range of the Eastern Capital. It was a place that the Grand Master and the remaining elites of the Eastern Capital, including most of the Guanlong Army leaders, regarded as a forbidden area.
To come over, the main force must be concentrated to break through Qu Tuda, but this time is enough for the Grand Master to personally lead the soldiers from Dongdu, Weijun, and even Guanlong in Guanxi to stay and help the main force.
As for those masters like me who are condensing pills and above, of course they can come and move it freely, but how many stones and horses can they move?
It's discouraging just thinking about it.
However, after thinking about it, Xiongbo Nanfu felt that some of Zhang Dalongtou's actions were right. Some words still need to be said, and some truths still need to be explained... Looking back now, I think about the time when I was a hero and traveled north and south.
, is simply unexplained. Although I have some ideas in my mind and can do things quickly, I cannot be as thorough and clear as I am now. I know who the enemy is, what is going on, and where the key to the matter is.
At that time, I really didn’t even know why I was angry.
Suppressing all kinds of emotions, Xiong Bo went south to Tongshan, randomly found a small military school, slapped him unconscious, took a horse from the opponent, and then left Liyangcang and continued on his way, following this short road.
The canal goes all the way to Qishui, and then goes upstream along Qishui to find it in the Black Mountains.
Black Mountain is not a certain mountain, but the mountain range on the east side of Shanxi that stretches for nearly a thousand miles overlooking Hebei. Because the middle section was sprinkled with the blood of the Supreme and the meat of the true dragon, it turned into a red mountain, so it is called the north side based on its color.
It is called Purple Mountain, and the south side is called Black Mountain...that's all.
Therefore, trying to find the whereabouts of a person in the Black Mountains is not like finding a needle in a haystack, but it can also be called catching fish in a pond.
Fortunately, King Xiongtian is a good fish catcher. He knows that since Zhang Changfeng has gathered people and horses, it is impossible to get into the mountain nests that are difficult to access. At the very least, he must guard some passages so that he can easily go down the mountain to Hebei to ask for food, and Heishan
The channel in it is the most natural, simplest and most direct, and must be the former source of Qishui and Zhangshui that originate from it.
Therefore, Xiong Bonan went upstream along the Qishui River to find it.
Sure enough, on the morning of the next day, he found a clue in the blooming mountain flowers - at a mountain pass where a tributary of the upper reaches of Qishui River flows, there was actually a confrontation between two armies.
There are not many troops on both sides. The official army has two to three thousand people, and the equipment is neat. The Montenegrin army has four to five thousand people. They are obviously selected. The combat strength of both sides can be considered to be about the same.
But what's more interesting is that even these troops who are not noticed by King Xiongtian can't spread out at this time, because the mouth of the mountain col is too narrow, and the outside of the mouth is divided by the tributary, which makes it even more cramped. The surrounding mountains
They are also quite dangerous and difficult to deal with.
The officers and soldiers could only stay in an open area two miles downstream and set up camp for a while.
It can be seen that this army, which is under the banner of "Li" and obviously has poor combat effectiveness, is in trouble.
"Today is the fourth day." Li Qingchen, the newly appointed deputy envoy to the Yecheng Palace, was sitting in a simple tent, wearing only plain brocade clothes, and his face was a little pale against the background. "Zhang Changfeng is so shameless, he actually changed his mind at the last moment, and even
We need to add supplies, money and food... If I had known, I wouldn't have allowed you to go look for Xu Shiying so early. You should have gotten the person out first."
Qin Bao on one side was fully clothed, but not wearing a helmet, and his figure was even taller and majestic. At this time, he was sitting on a bench wiping his big iron gun with a coarse cloth. His expression did not change when he heard this: "Say something.
It should be right. Since Xu Shiying is back, it means that the master of the gang will be here soon. I want to ask him a word first, and it will be a statement in the future. Besides, there was nothing wrong... I was in Liyang at the time, and I received a letter from you.
It’s just a river.”
"Yes, it's useless to complain at this point. We have to find a way." Li Qingchen thought for a while and forced himself to calm down. "I don't think I can agree to Zhang Changfeng like this, otherwise this guy will only think that a strange thing is a good thing to live in, and he will get worse!"
"I agree, we must take action!" Qin Bao was obviously much more straightforward.
"But we must consider using a rat weapon. Zhang Changfeng has actually been working together for two years to concoct pills, and has also recruited many good players." Li Qingchen pointed out a few key points. "And the mountain pass is too narrow..."
"There is a way." Qin Bao folded up the oilcloth, managed to put it away, and then stuck the iron gun on the ground, and there was a faint electric light jumping on it. "You attack first, and you will be defeated at the mountain pass, and then retreat with the military supplies."
, scatter some along the way to lure him to chase... Isn't this what he came here to ask for? And I took a hundred or ten elite people to hide upstream in advance. When you pass by together, I will come here to raid here, and vice versa.
If we hold the mouth of the mountain col, it will be us who will guard the hole and it will be his turn to be anxious. If he relies on his cultivation to come to me alone, then I will take care of him. Even if he cannot be taken care of, I can still point to the col.
He followed his tribe back home and asked him to make friends."
"That's all it can do now, but you have to be careful..." Li Qingchen thought for a moment and was silent for a while. After a while, he reminded. "There are many of them. No matter how hard we chase them, there will definitely be enough behind the col."
My subordinates, when the time comes, they will be attacked from both sides, and those who have been blocked from returning will also try their best to win! You have to say it yourself, Ningdan versus Ningdan, I don’t know how troublesome it is."
"Ningdan vs. Ningdan, let's try my weight." Qin Bao answered simply and stood up. "Without further delay, I will go prepare it and hide it directly upstream."
Li Qingchen had no choice but to nod.
Qin Bao put on his helmet and carried a big iron gun to the tent door. He stopped and looked back: "Li Twelve..."
"What's the matter?" Li Qingchen raised his head in surprise.
"They all said that after you were injured, there was no hope of condensation in this life?" Qin Bao asked seriously, holding a gun and holding a knife. "Is it true?"
Li Qingchen hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "I asked Zhong Cheng personally, and he said that the previous injuries, especially the abdominal injuries, really hurt the foundation of my body. There will definitely be an impact, but that is from the level of Dan Ning.
In the beginning, the emphasis is on attaching equal importance to life and body, and cultivating both body and mind. As long as you have good luck and experience, and then your Tao mind is clear, it is still very possible to step forward and continue to soar into the sky."
At this point, Li Qingchen paused and continued: "In other words, the road is not broken, but it is more than half narrow, and it is easy to break and collapse, just like when we encountered this mountain pass this time."
Qin Bao nodded, and then reminded again: "Use less idioms and allusions, speak simply and firmly...otherwise others will just think you lack confidence."
Even though Li Qingchen boasted that he had all kinds of psychological preparations, he never thought about the problem from this perspective. He just felt that the other party was looking for trouble because of his lack of education, so he waved his hand indiscriminately.
In this way, the next development of things is self-evident.
Li Qingchen summoned an envoy and presented himself as a descendant of the Guanlong clan. He shouted and scolded Zhang Changfeng on the spot, saying that he would rather not have Niuda than be manipulated like this by an abandoned pawn of the other side. He only asked Zhang Changfa to push the cart to serve him.
Chief Niu went to look for Zhang Xing to see if Zhang San could give Zhang Changfeng, a descendant of the Zhang family, some face?
The envoy had no choice but to go back. As soon as the word "abandoned soldiers" came out of his mouth, Zhang Changfeng's face darkened. Then, as soon as he said that, he mentioned pushing a cart and serving urine and urine. There was a noise outside. It was actually Li Qingchen who sent hundreds of people to follow the envoy and directly launched the attack.
They made a surprise attack and tried to seize the mountain pass. However, they were discovered by the Montenegrin army who had set up a jam here and resisted on the spot.
In the Black Mountain military camp behind the mountain col, Zhang Changfeng was laughed out of anger again for a moment, but he did not panic and called up his cronies around him to say:
"Then how dare Li Twelve, a loser, to mock me? And come to attack me secretly? Although I have had ups and downs in the past two years, I have been involved in the overall situation in Hebei several times, and I have a pill in my belly during the battle.
...You know, he is a good person. He was considered a talented person in the Eastern Capital in the past. However, he has no discernment and only wants to go against Zhang Sanlang. As a result, he was stabbed in the waist by someone who helped him... The matter of Ningdan is too mysterious.
We won’t say it, but even if he condenses his elixir in the future, with this kind of injury, he will probably have to go to Beiya to be the governor in the future! What are you using to show off to me? What are you using to attack me? In the past few days,
I obviously didn't take his life out of past affection, okay?! Now, let me go out with you and take this guy's life together, so that he can know who is really romantic and suave!"
A group of close friends and heroes around them shouted loudly after hearing the words. They each held their swords in hand and followed Zhang Changfeng, nicknamed "Fengliu General", to kill the general. Even the envoy hurriedly put on his armor and chased after him.
The entrance of the mountain col was already narrow and could not spread dozens of troops. At this time, Zhang Changfeng's Huang Feng Zhenqi, which was cultivated in Dan Dan, was really flying sand and rocks. It was unstoppable. The officers and soldiers held on for a while, but only a few people died, so they followed the previous steps.
He ordered him to flee back in embarrassment.
And there was no need to follow up to lure the enemy. General Fengliu was so angry with Li Twelve that he was unwilling to give up. He actually chased him out personally, and dispatched his troops to let the follow-up troops follow, along the pass of the mountain pass.
The river in front of us went straight downstream, and soon it reached the army camp in the open area, which was only two miles away.
Here at the army camp, Li Twelve originally wanted to evacuate and lure the enemy. At this time, seeing the yellow wind rolling in the spring, Zhang Changfeng actually led his troops directly to the front, and countless other troops poured out one after another along the river and on the wild road.
, as if he was going to attack the camp directly, but his scalp was numb for a while, so he could only hold on.
If he can't hold on at this time, it will be self-defeating, and he will become a real collapse after a false defeat.
However, there was no situation where the bead curtain was rolled back at all, because when Zhang Changfeng chased him out in person and arrived in front of the official camp, the camp was obviously in danger. Even though there were many Black Mountain military troops swarming forward at the mountain col, Qin Bao
He also took action decisively.
Suddenly, shouts of killing started from upstream. The Black Mountain Army who had just left the mountain pass heard the noise and looked around in surprise. They saw only a hundred people coming from the upstream. They seemed to be trying to seize the pass, so they laughed.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a bolt from the blue suddenly occurred.
It was a literal bolt from the blue. Many Montenegrin troops saw it with their own eyes. The hundreds of people arrived more than a hundred steps away. The leader was the only rider in the wilderness. He was wearing black lightless heart armor, including the man and the horse.
The lightning flashed and caused thunder, as if it contained some kind of vitality that was as unpopular as that of the "romantic general" in the family.
I was also shocked.
But it wasn't over yet. The horse's black armor flashed with electric light, and it took dozens of steps forward. It came to a steep rock wall without stopping at all. It turned out that the man and horse were one, wrapped in true energy, lighting up the mountain, and leaped up.
, then he went to the mountain col entrance and smashed it down.
No matter how stupid the Black Mountain troops at the mountain pass were, they knew that this was going to cost lives. They became even more frightened and scattered in all directions.
Unexpectedly, before the men and horses fell, a large iron gun flashed with lightning, accelerated from mid-air, and landed in the crowd of Heishan soldiers at the entrance of the mountain col. It immediately killed and wounded several people, and the crowd was even more likely to explode. Immediately afterwards, the men and horses
As soon as they arrived, the knight in black armor pulled out the big iron spear, flashed the electric light, and waved it around, unstoppable. Even the mount on his crotch actually went crazy in the electric light, opening his mouth to bite, kick and pull.
Just like a dragon colt.
In a moment, the casualties of one man, one horse and one gun exceeded the casualties of the previous small-scale battle. The Black Mountain Army crowded at the entrance of the mountain collapsed completely and fled one after another. The people outside the entrance desperately jumped into the road that was only a few feet away.
It was not an exaggeration to go into a river that was wide and one foot deep. The tribesmen in the mouth simply stepped on it early, but were killed in the mountain col by more than a hundred elite officers and soldiers who came casually.
For a moment, the blood overflowed and gathered into a stream, soaking into the mountains and fields. It was only covered by the green grass in spring and no blood could be seen. Only when it flowed into the river in front of the entrance did a lot of red colors roll up.
From the mouth of the mountain col, there were constant wailing and begging for mercy.
At this time, Zhang Changfeng, who heard the noise in front, quickly retreated. Halfway through, he saw the struggling survivors and floating corpses in the river. He was even more stunned. Only then did he realize that he had fallen into a trap. Li Twelve only turned his back after receiving strong support.
, he hurriedly grabbed a deputy general and asked the other party to delay the officers and soldiers behind him. Then he personally stirred up the yellow wind, jumped up, mobilized his troops to come back for reinforcements, and tried to recapture the pass of the mountain col.
When he came to the entrance, the romantic general only asked his subordinates to follow him, and at the same time shouted for the soldiers on the other side to come and attack him. Then he ignored it and took the lead in leaping in relying on his cultivation of pill condensation.
Entering the entrance of the mountain col, Zhang Changfeng recognized the leader of the other party at a glance. Without making any noise, he directly rolled up his life energy, waved the long knife in his hand, and exerted the power of a romantic general, and then fought hard to kill him.
When Qin Bao saw the other party's true Qi cultivation, he naturally knew that the real master was coming, so he didn't say a word. He saw the other party coming in mid-air in front of him, approaching only a few feet away, and suddenly he let out a loud roar, like thunder, and at the same time his whole body became calm.
Thunder energy surged out, and accompanied by lightning and beeping sounds, he actually jumped into the air with heavy armor and horses, brandishing a huge iron gun, and fought hard to attack.
Zhang Changfeng was frightened when he saw the opponent's power, but he didn't have time to restrain himself, so he struck the opponent in the air.
And under the blow, Zhang Changfeng felt his whole body numb, his eyesight turned black, and the hand waving the weapon simply lost all consciousness. In fact, his body and mind lost the care of controlling his energy in mid-air, and he could only try his best to rely on his survival instinct.
Just release the body-protecting energy.
Then, like a rag doll, he was knocked down by the opponent's entire spear and long knife.
The body-protecting energy is still there, but he’s not dead this time?!
But the opponent was unyielding. After falling from the horse, the huge iron gun wrapped in some kind of zhenqi that obviously had a paralyzing effect hit him repeatedly. Zhang Changfeng could only do his best to use his zhenqi to resist on the long knife in his hand.
After condensing the elixir, the little vitality of heaven and earth comes to take a breather.
But at this moment, suddenly, or in no time to react, a sharp pain came from his leg. In an instant, Zhang Changfeng broke through the protection of his body's true energy, almost bursting into tears.
Poor Zhang Changfeng, Zhang Changfeng tried his best to look, but he actually saw the ugly-looking war horse covered with leopard spots under the opponent's crotch. At this time, two rows of huge sharp teeth were exposed, and he bit his unprotected calf directly, and also
Make a tearing gesture.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Changfeng was completely helpless and could only use his whole life to beg for mercy: "Hero, let me go! I must be an old friend of Li Twelve! There are four to five thousand people and Niu Dake who can help you get promoted."
The use of!"
Qin Bao had no expression on his face. He deflected the opponent's weapon with one shot and hit the opponent's other calf with another shot. Then he pinched the sarcoma under the neck of the spotted leopard beast under his crotch, making the latter relax.
At this time, Zhang Changfeng had already passed out from the pain.
After a while, Li Qingchen, who had launched a hasty pursuit, hurriedly came around the river from behind. Seeing this scene across the river, he was speechless. He could only exhale a long breath and sigh loudly from a distance:
"Qin Er, do you know that since Zhu Shou fell into the snow in Liang Yuan that day, this is the first time I have seen Ning Dan's legs broken and dropped so quickly!"
Qin Bao raised his voice and answered with rare unscrupulousness: "Let's walk in formation with my three hundred strange scriptures. Within a quarter of an hour, we will be in front of the great master. I dare to walk through the tower like a fish through water!"
His voice shook the mountains and fields, but Li Qingchen was silent.
Not only Li Twelve, but also the official army and the surrounding Black Mountain Army were all silent and regarded as gods.
A moment later, just as the officers and soldiers gradually came to their senses and were about to cheer, at the steepest and highest point on the mountain next to the col, someone suddenly laughed loudly, mixed with true energy, and the sound was louder than Qin Bao's:
"I'm afraid Qin Erlang has underestimated the status of a grand master! However, with such handsome kung fu and such condensed cultivation, he can be proud of himself for once! Why not treat the grand master as nothing for a moment?"
At this point, the man obviously paused, and then continued: "In the past, when we were on the river, gold, stone, and mud were rolling together, but I didn't expect you to be such a good piece of iron! Good! Good! Good! But also not good!"
At the end, the sound became louder and louder, so that the top of the cliff was filled with purple air, and the surrounding fields echoed like thunder. Qin Bao and Li Qingchen, plus countless officers and soldiers, the Black Mountain Army were all surprised, but many people guessed who it was.
The man did not try to be mysterious and directly reported his name:
"Help leader Xiong Bonan is here! I have taken out leader Niu and placed him somewhere else! As for who you want to do business with, find the rightful owner! Anyway, the enemy and us are clearly distinguishable. Leader Niu has never done anything like a half-day uprising against the Wei Dynasty. Prisoner! Today, Heishan came to pick up his brother. The scene he saw on the road was quite exciting. The only thing that is a pity is that a man of Zhang Longtou's ability, a brother who has been taught by his own words and deeds, is actually happy to violently attack Wei Yingdog. Fall for yourself!
"It's not just a pity, it's simply ridiculous!"
After saying that, a piece of purple air was seen rolling, and then a stream of light flashed, driving a purple train across the sky. After a few bursts of laughter, it disappeared deeper into the mountain.
Qin Bao and Li Qingchen's expressions changed early, and now they each remained silent for a long time without moving.
After an unknown amount of time, Qin Bao came to his senses, brandished the huge iron gun in his hand, and suddenly shot Zhang Changfeng, the "romantic general" who was pretending to be dead in front of him, into his lungs.
The children of a pitiful family had once studied under the southern slope, had been courteous in the Eastern Capital, had divided states and counties for a while, and had survived the most difficult two years of the Hebei Rebel Army, but because of a moment of greed, they died. At the mouth of Wuming Mountain Col.
No one cares.
PS: I washed the dishes for the first time in four days. I washed them for almost half an hour, and then threw away five big bags of garbage... At that time, I felt like I had no sheep these days, but due to psychological effects, I had phantom sheep symptoms.
