Feng Jiye's troops used sand boats loaded with artillery and a large amount of baggage, and the march was very slow, chasing for three days, but they did not chase anything, but burned and plundered all the way.

Three days later, Feng Jiye felt as if he had walked into an uninhabited wilderness, and the people along the river had already fled cleanly when they heard the news.

Standing on the deck, his eyes were full of grass and trees, green fields, lush woods, and pale reeds on the shallows of the river.

The sound of the oars churning in the water was a bit lonely, and the screaming of birds made the sky very empty. More than 2,000 people of the Xu army on the shore were gathered together, and there didn't seem to be many people.

At this time, except for the cities and markets where the population is concentrated, the people in the countryside are really sparse.

But Feng Jiye had no intention of enjoying the scenery, and such a dull and tasteless march made him feel anxious.

He stood bored for a long time, facing a light boat rowing in, a martial artist boarded the flagship deck, saluted with fists, straightened his waist and pointed to the northwest, "General Feng, please look, the section of the river in front is unusual. ”

Feng Jiye looked at it for a while and said, "That white thing is the reed waters?" ”

Wu Fu said: "Exactly, in the three-mile-long river in front, there are three tributaries in front and back, and the waterways are complicated; And the river surface is full of reeds. The forests on both sides of the bank are deep and densely wooded. This terrain is very easy to hide land and water soldiers, and it is necessary to guard against it. ”

Feng Jiye's expression was serious, and he muttered: "There are too many woods and reeds, and the scouts can't search for a while. There weren't hundreds of people who spent days and nights searching for nothing. ”

Wufu said: "General Feng is wise! ”

The fleet and the horses continued to move slowly, and the endless reeds and jungles became more and more clearly visible. Another military general approached the flagship in a small boat and asked Feng Jiye if he had stopped marching.

Feng Jiye thought for a moment and said, "Keep going!" ”

"General......" said the general.

Feng Jiye said irritably: "What are the centaurs doing here? ”

The military general hurriedly admonished: "Beware of ambushes! ”

Feng Jiye waved his hand: "The water comes to cover the earth, and the soldiers will block it!" Order the whole army to be on alert! ”

"Order!"

The sound of bells, drums and shouts on the river was lively for a while, and then it gradually became quieter again. The oars on the large and small boats are still stirring the river unfast, and the boats floating on the cool green water continue to go upstream.

Feng Jiye couldn't dislike the hot weather anymore, took his helmet and put it on, and put his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist. The gaze is very slow and observing.

The people around them seemed to hold their breath, waiting to pass through this invisible-looking water. One of the guards on deck freed his hand and silently wiped the sweat from under the brim of his iron helmet. Time is passing very slowly.

After a long time, suddenly the sound of many people shouting came from a ship in front of me.

Feng Jiye immediately turned his head and asked loudly, "What happened?" ”

Someone replied: "General, it seems that the ship has hit something, and we can only wait for the report from the people in front!" ”

Feng Jiye immediately decided: "Ring the bell and order all ships to stop advancing!" ”

The river was noisy again.

After a while, I saw two bamboo rafts emerge from the reeds, water and grass, and then more board boats and bamboo rafts appeared on the river at once, and first went straight to a wounded boat with a crooked mast, shouting loudly in all directions.

Feng Jiye shouted: "Prepare for war!" ”

He looked up and saw that a row of triangular flags on the flagship building had just been replaced by black flags to indicate a halt to advance, and the continuous ringing of the brass bells had not stopped. At this time, the drummers in the cabin beat the war drums ......again.

After a while, the sound of "bangbangbang......bang" cannons mixed in, and the small cannons and muskets on the various sand boats rang out, and the smoke of gunpowder spread rapidly on the water like white mist.

"Papapa......" Feng Jiye heard the sound of firearms volleys also sounding in the woods on the shore. The Xu army's infantry set fire to the guns, and the explosions in the forest were bursting one after another, one after another.

Feng Jiye stood on the deck with his sword in all directions, observing the scene in front of him with cold eyes. He believed that the water surface was open and it was convenient for the firearms to display their firepower, and the situation should be slightly better; What should be worried the most is that the soldiers and horses in the woods on the shore are very dense with grass and trees, and there are too many obstacles, and it is impossible to avoid short-handed combat! In close combat, it is obvious that the large number of people plays a big role.

At this time, someone rowed over and shouted: "General Feng, there are sharp wooden stakes in the river, and two boats have hit the seepage!" ”

Feng Jiye responded with a wave of his hand.

A deafening explosion on the deck of the flagship made his ears buzz. After the guns were fired, other loaded sub-gun mounts were pushed onto the side of the ship. The soldiers shouted and pulled out the bright copper cannon from the cast-iron cannon and replaced it with a new one. After Feng Jiye led the troops, he learned about these forbidden weapons, the power and range of the sub-mother cannon are far less than the cast bronze cannon, but it is lighter, and it can be placed on a small boat, and it is enough to deal with the sampans of the Jiaozhou naval army.

After the artillery fire, the smoke of gunpowder drifted away slightly, and Feng Jiye dimly saw the enemy soldiers holding wood on the water and shouting, and the wooden planks and bamboo poles on the river were everywhere, and it was a mess.

A large fire was lit in the reeds not far away, but there was no wind in the air, and it was difficult for the fire to spread. There was chaos all around.

"Put!" One of the generals pointed his sword at a boat in the distance. More than a dozen sharpshooters pulled out the bowstrings, their heads held high and their postures were almost the same, Feng Jiye could see that the soldiers of the forbidden army were really well-trained, and the sound of the strings of "bang ......" was like the vibration of the strings.

The screams of arrows in the distance were quickly drowned out by the explosion of light artillery with "bang, bang, bang......" flames.

In less than an hour, the sampan rafts on the river no longer appeared, and the enemy soldiers could not ambush and besiege them in this way. There are artillery fire and bows and arrows in the distance, and there are guns and guns in the distance, and the shield cannot withstand it!

The surrounding warships shouted words to repel the enemy soldiers.

Feng Jiye asked, "How are the people on the shore?" ”

When the smoke cleared, a small boat rowed in, and the people standing on the boat did not have time to get on the flagship, so they clasped their fists and shouted: "The enemy soldiers have not broken through our heavy infantry formation, and they have fled!" ”

Feng Jiye breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and looked back at the generals of the forbidden army on the left and right, and said: "The men and horses of the Tiger Ben Army are really good, and Lao Tzu still underestimates you." ”

When the generals heard the exaggeration, they shouted: "These infantry troops, we are facing the elite heavy cavalry of the Liao State in front of the formation, dealing with the barbarian army, and we can beat them to the ground without firearms!" ”

"Hahaha......"

The sound of cannons died down, and there were only sporadic gunshots. Xu Jun cleaned up the battlefield, rescued the wounded soldiers and people who fell into the water, killed the enemy soldiers who did not run away, and stayed on the river surface where the hidden pile was installed for half a day before passing through this treacherous place. By that time, the sun had set over the treetops in the west.

Feng Jiye sent a formation to camp in a place with an open line of sight.

That night, the generals gathered in the Chinese military tent to discuss a lot, and three or four days after leaving the "Taiping Village", everyone gradually became confused.

A general muttered: "In this current situation, nothing can catch up, and only by waiting for the enemy to attack can we fight." Get farther and farther away from the camp, go deep into the enemy's territory, and win a few battles as well as go back. ”

Feng Jiye stroked his palms and said loudly: "The chaotic army along the road is all rats, and leading the elite soldiers to work hard for this military achievement will undoubtedly drive the tiger and kill the chicken!" ”

Everyone asked, "What is General Feng's opinion?" ”

Feng Jiye opened a picture with a simple line, and tapped his finger on it three times, "Luocheng!" ”

"Wow!" The tent immediately boiled, and everyone's expressions became exaggerated, some were shocked, some were puzzled, and some just shook their heads.

The civilian officer of the army immediately objected: "No! We are the vanguard army, the number of men and horses is very small, thousands of miles away from the country, the mountains and seas are wide, and we have not decided in advance to fight a decisive battle with the Jiaozhou army, let alone attack the enemy's capital as soon as we come?! ”

"Bang!" Feng Jiye raised his hand and slammed the iron cup to the ground, and the thing immediately flattened. He was furious and said angrily: "Lao Tzu is the main general!" It's Changshi Zheng Xianchun and Deputy General Zhang Jiankui who are present, can they have the final say? Yes! ”

Immediately there was silence in the tent, and the civil servant was silent. Naturally, no one in the other generals spoke on this firehead.

Unexpectedly, Feng Jiye was a moody person at all, and he was still angry just now, and in a blink of an eye, he said seriously: "The enemy soldiers are vulnerable, but we are not familiar with life, we can't find it, and we can't catch up." However, humanity is that monks can't run the temple, and there is a place where we have made great achievements...... Luocheng! ”

"Three thousand fine armor is enough to destroy its country!" Feng Jiye's eyes were red, and he couldn't suppress his excitement, "I have taken a closer look more than once, with a dignified array, many enemy soldiers are not opponents. We can easily defeat the enemy, and now that there are some heavy artillery in the cabin, why can't we attack the city? ”

There was a middle-aged military general who carefully persuaded him: "General Feng is brave, resourceful, and courageous. But to storm the town, we must first besiege the city, we are less than 3,000 people, how to besiege the city? Under the city of Chen Bing, there are enemy borders on all sides, there is no food route and retreat, and the scouts can't move an inch, even if it is a tiger and wolf army, how to fight under the high wall? ”

Feng Jiye said: "The fortifications of Luocheng are far from the cities in the Central Plains, so don't worry about them." As for the surrounding strongholds, aren't they the places where our troops 'collect' grain? The Dingkou obtained can still be driven up to dig up the earth and siege the city......"

He didn't wait for his subordinates to speak, and immediately asked categorically: "The merit of destroying the country (Jiaozhou has been founded by Da Quyue), are you unmoved?" Three thousand fine armor annihilated the country and spread all over the world, wouldn't the people of the world talk about it? Glory to the ancestors, success and fame, just today! ”

Obviously, what Feng Jiye said before had little effect, but the last sentence really moved the generals present. Generals are not greedy for merit? It was like the sun rising in the west!

Only the civilian official of the army said: "The military power is in the hands of General Feng, if General Feng insists on going his own way, the lower official has to immediately send a fast horse to respond and inform Zheng Changshi." ”

Feng Jiye said angrily: "Mother, what's the love!" ”