(I’m very sorry. I drank some wine last night in the last chapter and was in a daze when I came back to write it. In the end, I uploaded it without any modifications. As a result, there were several typos. I have modified them, but it affected everyone’s reading.
, I’m so sorry.)
Li Xuanba chuckled and sat back down in his seat carelessly. He didn't say anything proud or arrogant, but he didn't help Li Zitong up or make any similar gestures.
Qin Qiong glared at Li Xuanba, walked out of the banquet hall, helped Li Zitong up personally, and said: "Xuanba is just a fool, General Li, don't be offended."
"Hmph! If you are really a fool, how can you secure the position of commander of the Far Eastern Army's First Battalion?" Li Zitong cursed in his heart, but with a rather flattered expression on his face, he quickly said: "Commander Qin is too polite.
The general knows General Li's character. But Commander Qin must believe that those assassins just now really have nothing to do with the general."
"General Li, don't worry." Qin Qiong nodded slightly and said loudly: "This will let General Li know that the living person just now has been tortured by people from the Military Intelligence Agency, and those twelve dancing girl assassins are from Xiao Gun of Liang State in the south."
Hearing this, Li Zitong breathed a sigh of relief, and the heart that was hanging in his heart was completely relieved. He gritted his teeth and cursed: "Damn Xiao Qiang, he wants to instigate the general's loyalty to the prince. His thoughts are really vicious.
I also ask Marshal Qin to report to the prince that at the end of the day, the general will definitely lead troops to destroy Xiao Zhan’s Liang Kingdom for the prince, and personally chop off this official’s head.”
Qin Qiong was very satisfied with Li Zitong's reaction, but shook his head and said: "After you capture the two counties of Huainan and destroy Du Fuwei, you can report these words to the prince himself. I think the prince will definitely fulfill your loyalty.
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Early in the morning on the next day, Li Zitong led 50,000 horses southward and entered Huainan.
At the same time, Wei Daoer led the Gangdao Battalion all the way north. With the cooperation of Gan Ziqi's navy, he attacked the city and captured the territory. Coupled with several mutinies by the Military Intelligence Bureau, he captured the entire Geyang in half a month.
County, it seems that only Lujiang County to the northwest is left.
The successive defeats, coupled with the continuous victories of the Military Intelligence Bureau and Xiaoyu Theater in the ideological field, caused the morale of Du Fuwei's troops to be severely shaken, especially the county guards and officials below did not have much fighting spirit at all, let alone
The soldiers below are gone.
Along the way Wei Daoer passed by, except for a few generals who were loyal to Du Fuwei and led their men to death like an egg hitting a stone, most of the troops on Du Fuwei's side were looking for the wind and fled in all directions.
Then, along the way, groups of soldiers and generals began to form formations, either stationed and waiting for orders, or concentrated in nearby large cities.
But Wei Daoer did not stop, and the army quickly advanced from Geyang County to Lujiang County.
However, finally on August 21, in Hufeng County, two hundred miles away from Lujiang County, Wei Daoer encountered his first tough battle since he invaded Huainan.
The defender was Du Fuxiong, Du Fuwei's younger brother, who led 20,000 defenders to defend the city for two days. In the end, Wei Daoer ordered four super trebuchets to aim at one place and launch large-volume explosive packets. It took him one day.
The extremely thick city wall was directly blown down and flattened, and on the third day he led the army into Hufeng County through the gap.
After the city was broken, the killings quickly spread throughout the county, like a tide covering the past.
The defeated defenders organized sporadic resistance under Du Fuxiong's efforts, and were subsequently crushed without a trace in this devastating disaster. Du Fuxiong himself also died in the battle and was beheaded by Wei Daoer's general Du Xiaofeng.
This Hufeng County town is considered a big city in Lujiang County. Of course, it is still a little inferior compared to the county town.
However, because it is close to the county town, its city defense is still quite tight, and the business going from south to north has prospered here, making it have a permanent population of nearly 100,000.
In fact, Wei Dao'er could completely bypass Hufeng County and attack Lujiang County directly. In this way, he might be able to encircle the area and call for reinforcements.
However, the reason why Wei Dao'er insists on breaking through the Hufeng County is because although Du Fuwei failed successively, he has been implementing the strategy of strengthening the wall and clearing the wilderness, and Wei Dao'er advanced too fast, resulting in no food and grass to keep up with him.
, the food and fodder they brought with the army was less than three days.
And the counties and cities that surrendered voluntarily under the secret leadership of the Military Intelligence Bureau happened not to be on Wei Daoer's main marching route.
In addition, along the way
There has been no big battle to fight, and Wei Dao'er has heard that Huaibei Qin Shuai and that fool Li Xuanba defeated Li Zitong's main force in one battle, and directly forced the latter to offer the land of the two counties and bring 70,000
Many horses surrendered.
Seeing that Wei Daoer's eyes were hot and his hands were itching, he also wanted to fight a bigger battle, and Hufeng County was just a big piece of fat in Wei Daoer's eyes.
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At the south gate of Hufeng County, Wei Daoer pressed the hilt of the knife and walked toward the largest granary in the city, surrounded by a group of soldiers.
At the last moment, Du Fuxiong actually wanted to burn all the food and grass in the city, but was stopped by a group of people from the Military Intelligence Bureau in the city who fought to the death. For this reason, three people from the Military Intelligence Bureau died.
At this time, a pair of red and hateful eyes were quietly staring at Wei Daoer and his party in a collapsed two-story building by the roadside...
To the north of Hufeng County, the last group of soldiers crowded the city roads, frantically trying to rush out of the city.
In the market behind, the soldiers of the Steel Knife Battalion had already advanced and started fighting in the streets and alleys. In an alleyway filled with people, three cavalrymen of the Steel Knife Battalion blocked the back road, holding long guns and heading towards
Stabbing frantically from the front.
Blood flew out, and the screams of soldiers on Du Fuwei's side merged into one. Some people tried to hide below and escape, but were immediately trampled by horses' hooves to crush their arms and heads. Some people were trampling on other people's bodies.
Climbing to the other side of the wall, there were many brave soldiers among them. They mustered up the courage to fight with the Far Eastern Army, but they were easily pierced by spears before they could get close.
"General, Master Zhang of the law enforcement team has captured General Du Xiaofeng." A soldier hurried over to report to Wei Daoer.
"What, Du Xiaofeng was captured by Zhang Tielin?" Wei Daoer frowned. This Du Xiaofeng was his confidant general, commanding 10,000 troops. When he was the king of the mountain in Hebei, this Du Xiaofeng was his sixth general.
The boss even showed him life-saving grace, which can be described as a life-long friendship.
"What's going on? Although Zhang Tielin has a bad temper, he never accuses people unjustly." If it were other people, Wei Dao'er wouldn't bother to care about it, because he knew that the law enforcement team within the Far East Army was a separate system. Although he
As a general, he also has certain rights of control, but the law enforcement team has the right to kill any general who violates military discipline except him, the general, and then report him, and he also knows that these law enforcement officers are all from Snake Island, so
He was quite afraid of this Zhang Tielin.
"General, General Du Xiaofeng fell in love with a woman in Hufeng County and wanted to take her as his concubine. Unexpectedly, the woman refused to obey. Du Xiaofeng was so angry that he killed the woman's whole family."
Sound report.
"Damn it." Wei Daoer frowned even more tightly, "Du Xiaofeng, this idiot, did such a stupid thing for a woman. Does he think he was still a bandit back then?"
The soldier obviously had a good relationship with Du Xiaofeng and said cautiously: "General, Mr. Zhang said that in accordance with Article 17 of the wartime combat regulations, General Du's head must be chopped off. General, do you think you have to come forward to help Du?"
General, please put in a good word so that Master Zhang can spare his life and spare General Du's life."
Wei Daoer let out a long sigh, gritted his teeth and said, "I'm afraid that guy Zhang Tielin won't even give me face."
As Wei Daoer spoke, he heard the noisy sounds of fighting in the city coming from all directions. He was riding a war horse, ready to turn around and go to the law enforcement officer Zhang Tielin to intercede with Du Xiaofeng.
At this moment, the assassination came suddenly.
The sudden concentration of murderous intent seemed to thin the sky and block the sound. A silent sharp edge mixed with a sad murderous intention suddenly shot out from a half-collapsed small building on the side of the road. When everyone reacted, it had already shot towards Wei Daoer's body.
In front of the war horse, the sharp edge pierced through the air.
There was a roar from Wei Daoer's personal guards. The person who reacted the fastest suddenly shot an arrow from the side and behind, and the other person quickly threw a spear.
However, at that moment, it seemed that everyone's reaction could not keep up with the speed of the assassination, and the person who came was quite powerful.
In particular, the assassin was small in stature, but extremely fast. As the edge of a long sword struck him, he screamed sharply: "Gou Guan, go to hell..."
There was incomparable malice in the voice, and the sharp and shrill voice was like the crow of a night crow.
"try to find
Die." Wei Dao'er shouted loudly, and the big cloak on his body roared in the air. In the afternoon, war horses and men stood up on the streets, and a ball of white light seemed to explode in the air.
Wei Dao'er made a "ha" sound, drew his sword and slashed. The sword in his hand brought out a dazzling light. At the last moment, he steadily blocked the assassin's sword, and in an instant, a strong force came out of his sword, directly killing him.
The attacking assassin was shocked and flew backwards.
At this time, Wei Daoer and the soldiers around him saw clearly that the person who came was a thin young woman who was not masked. She was quite beautiful and good-looking. She was holding a long sword in her hand and her eyes were red.
She rolled around on the ground several times with a look of resentment on her face. As soon as she stood up, she was surrounded by a group of soldiers, and then more than a dozen spears were stabbed at her.
"ah…………"
Although this woman has good strength, she mainly relies on her fast movement. Being surrounded at this time, she is like a bird in a cage with nowhere to dodge.
At this time, she screamed, and although she tried her best to dodge and block with the sword in her hand, she didn't last long before she was stabbed in the shoulder, and a moment later, he was forced into the ruins on the roadside.
In the blind spot, several spears pierced her body, almost lifting her up.
But she didn't seem to feel any physical pain. She held the long sword in her hand, looked at Wei Daoer, blood came out of her mouth, and shouted loudly: "Guan Gu, your soldiers killed my whole family, and I can't even be a ghost."
Let you go, ah..."
In the end, she wanted to point the sword in her hand at Wei Daoer, but as soon as she made the move, she was directly thrust into a sieve by a group of soldiers, and she died on the spot.
"My soldiers killed her whole family..." Wei Daoer's face turned livid after hearing the woman's last words.
The soldier next to him who came to report the news quickly said with a grimace: "General, this woman is the woman that General Du is interested in. At that time, General Du asked his men to kill her all over the house, but he did not kill her. I didn't expect her to come here."
Assassinating the general deserves death."
Wei Daoer's face turned ugly, and he gritted his teeth and said: "This woman's martial arts is not weak. Who is her family? How many people has this damn idiot Du Xiaofeng killed?"
The soldier hesitated for a moment and said, "This woman's surname is Huo. The Huo family is a well-known local martial arts family. General Du killed more than a hundred members of this family."
"Du Xiaofeng really deserves to die..." Wei Daoer cursed like this, feeling very angry in his heart, but when he thought that Du Xiaofeng had saved his life, and their friendship was like that of brothers, he finally sighed and continued to turn the horse's head,
Went to find the law enforcement officer Zhang Tielin.
But before Wei Daoer could speak, Zhang Tielin clasped his fists and said, "If General Wei wants to intercede with Du Xiaofeng, I would like to advise General Wei not to say this, so as not to embarrass the general and not give him face."
"These damn words of yours have already embarrassed me, okay!" Wei Daoer cursed secretly in his heart, suppressed the anger in his heart, cupped his fists and said politely: "Master Zhang, Du Xiaofeng has made many meritorious deeds along the way, and he was beheaded again today.
He has accomplished a great service by killing Du Fuxiong, the guard of Hufeng City. Besides, he was a life-saving benefactor to this general. Can Mr. Zhang spare his life?"
"Lord Zhang, you can rest assured that he will definitely not be a good general. We will demote him directly to a soldier, strictly discipline him, and even let him rush to the front in every battle to atone for his merits."
Wei Daoer's posture was very low and his words were very polite, but Zhang Tielin was not moved at all, without even the slightest hesitation, he shook his head directly and said: "General Wei, Du Xiaofeng seriously violated military discipline. According to the law, this officer
He can be beheaded on the spot, but by not beheading him immediately and waiting for General Wei to come and see him for the last time, I have already opened a wide net and considered the friendship between the general and him."
Wei Daoer's face suddenly became even more ugly, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Master Zhang, why don't you give me even this thin noodles?"
Zhang Tielin sneered and said: "General Wei may not know that the house Du Xiaofeng put out was not an ordinary people's house."
Wei Daoer snorted coldly: "I naturally know that they are a famous local martial arts family, but so what, when did our Far Eastern Army put a small martial arts family in our eyes?"
Zhang Tielin sneered: "The person who reported the news to General Wei probably didn't tell General Wei that the Huo family had joined the Wulin Guild a few years ago and was considered one of our own. Even this time, the food and grass in the city were not burned by Du Fuxiong. They
Their family merits are so great that the three people who died in the Military Intelligence Bureau were actually members of their Huo family."