When Hewu was trapped and defended to the death, the Fangtou Wang Division had already been assembled. Hewu is only more than 30 miles away from Dongfang City, and there is Qishui in the middle, if you really want to reinforce as soon as possible, at least before the Qihu reinforcements arrive at Hekou Stream, you can invite you to the head of Hewu City.

But Xie Ai, who was on the big ship of the Chinese army, did not drive the army to move quickly at this time, but sat in front of the bookcase in the cabin, closing his eyes and pretending to sleep. In addition to the sound of the water outside the ship and the drums and trumpets of the sergeants around him, the sound of him tapping his fingernails on the bookcase echoed in the room, and the rhythm was even and steady.

"Envoy, the six thousand troops on land and water have been assembled, as soon as the order is reached, immediately pull out and go north!"

A moment later, the brightly armored Hurun entered the room and clenched his fists. He is now the Sima of Ji County, and he is also the deputy in charge of military affairs under Xie Ai.

Xie Ai bowed his head slightly after hearing this, and just said in a deep voice: "After finding reinforcements from Maqiu, I will immediately send the army to the north, and there is no need to report again." ”

When Hurun heard this command, he was about to turn around and leave, but he heard Xie Ai ask: "Hou Ze, I will put Xiang Jian into a desperate state with deceitful words, in your opinion, is this too evil?" ”

Hurun was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and when he saw Xie Ai's demeanor, he realized that Xie Ai was not a hard-hearted soldier after all, and it was inevitable to stick to such senseless thoughts. However, this kind of Xie Ai made him feel a lot more at ease, if he was too scheming or even indifferent to personnel, it could give people endless pressure.

"People are different in their positions, and good and evil are also different. It is already a great goodness for the king's ministers to make him pity his own soldiers, and he is unwilling to use them as bait to lure the thieves, but to set up a situation with the false people, so that my soldiers can fight on the battlefield and avoid attrition. ”

Xie Ai smiled again after hearing this, and sighed: "I hope that this battle can be achieved through the whole merit, then if Xiang Jian really has the red idea of repaying me, no matter what his life or death, I will naturally repay him." ”

The reason why he wanted to talk solemnly with Xiang Jian before, the main intention was to stick to his stubborn heart, as for storing the goods in Hewu, one is to win the trust of Xiang Jian, and the other is to amplify the temptation of the bait of Hewu.

The biggest problem in this attempt to attack Yecheng is to try to erase the advantages of the home field and field battles of the Qianguo Kingdom, and it is also one of Xie Ai's intentions to eliminate the various forces around Fangtou.

The previous tricolor flag order seemed to be a trap to entrap these villagers, but in fact it was also a kind of stocking. Although Wang Shi won brilliant results last year, it was difficult to completely digest the results, especially in Hebei, an environment where the guest army was fighting.

In order to avoid the loss of this part of the battle results or use them again by the enemy, Xie Ai focused on forming these township forces and even supporting them, hoping to consolidate some of the scattered gains by these people and avoid further losses. Now that the most difficult period of the Wang Division has passed, it is natural that these achievements cannot be put out again, and must be recovered as soon as possible.

As for the content of Xie Ai's conversation with Xiang Jian, it is actually a mixed bag, his intentions are true, but it is impossible to hand over such an important matter to a bandit leader who does not have enough trust and a bad reputation. What's more, he knows the bottom line of the metropolitan governor very well, and he will not take the initiative to step on the line to build any private troops.

The better Xiang Jian runs in Hewu, the more people want him to die, including Xie Ai. But it is impossible for Xie Ai to take action personally, because Xiang Jian has grown stronger based on the tricolor flag order he issued, and it is just that he does not believe in his personal words, and if it affects the overall image of Wang Shi in Hebei, it is undoubtedly a major mistake.

If you want to achieve the goal of disintegrating the forces of the villagers, but you can't damage your own image, then you can only fake your hands on others and let people expose their evil, and at the same time, you must grasp one or two positive examples in them and raise them up. This is one of Xie Ai's recent goals, so Xie Ai has taken great pains to prepare for this battle, from small people's hearts to large force scheduling, and has been planning and paving the way since very early on.

Hewu is not only a target of public attention, but also a scene of wrestling between the north and the south. As long as Ma Qiu is in the game, Xie Ai will urge him to increase his chips again and again, and finally reach a point where he cannot step down.

Just like the letter from Hewu before, Qianhu committed a crime and lost the first battle. Ma Qiu personally sent someone to take action, but as a result, he couldn't even solve a dock wall attached to the fangtou, if his people stopped here, then his reputation in Hebei would be gone!

And when Ma Qiu made additional investment, Xie Ai also had to have chips to enter the game in order to maintain a balance in the situation. But he didn't care about the outcome of the situation, because he wasn't fighting alone. His real killing moves and intentions are not here, they are always Yecheng.

As Xie Ai expected, when Ma Qiu sent reinforcements to Hewu, whether this dock wall could be conquered had already attracted his great attention. He has invested so much, and he can't afford to lose, and Hewu's tenacity makes him unable to guess Xie Ai's intentions, but he still has an advantage, that is, the mobile force that can be used still occupies an absolute advantage.

In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy will become pale and powerless, this is an ironclad fact!

Since you can't guess Xie Ai's intentions, you might as well work harder on manpower. Therefore, after sending reinforcements, Ma Qiu increased the intensity of the scouts, and in order to avoid the scouts being encircled and suppressed again, the establishment of each squad was expanded to fifty or sixty people.

Of course, Ma Qiu will not ignore the problem of physical exhaustion of soldiers, fortunately, the place where he is stationed at the moment is not far from the Yecheng base camp, and he has been deployed and dispatched in turn, always ensuring that there is a new army with sufficient physical strength that can be put into battle at any time.

Of course, such frequent transfers will cause a certain degree of panic in Yecheng, but if the real danger can be nipped in the bud, this is nothing.

In the second half of the night, conclusive news came from Liyang, just south of Yecheng, that the southerners had indeed made an unusual move, and a fleet of more than a dozen warships suddenly left the Liyang camp and came north along the river.

"Xie Ai is really a treacherous man, first set up a fort near the shore as a temptation, and then lured the wild people to mess with my ears and eyes, and covered up a lot, just to make our army far away and create a false fighter plane for it!"

After receiving this letter, Ma Qiu was not panicked, but breathed a sigh of relief, and after making up for this link, his guess of Xie Ai's deep meaning could finally be established. There is no possibility of tricking the strategy that has been seen through, and Ma Qiu is even more grateful that Ai is already poor in skills, at least in terms of tricking, it is no longer enough to let him get into the trick.

However, seeing through Xie Ai's intentions does not mean that the crisis has been resolved, and Ma Qiu is not satisfied with this passive response at all, he hopes to be able to give Xie Ai a fierce counterattack and let others suffer from ingenuity!

It is difficult to judge how many troops will be dispatched by Liyang at night. Therefore, after thinking about it, Ma Qiu first sent all the 2,000 cavalry under his command to the south, staring at this so-called surprise attack army along the river, and once the other party landed, he would kill the killer!

As for Ma Qiu himself, he led more than 100 personal soldiers to return to Yecheng to sit in the base camp, and the most important thing for him now is to keep his eyes on the merits, first ensure the safety of Yecheng Town, and then look forward to greater achievements.

Although Ma Qiu retreated to Yecheng, it did not mean that he gave up his attention to the battle in Hewu, and sent an envoy to order: "Xie Aiqiren, treacherous and impermanent, first use Hewu as bait to lure our army to be biased. In fact, the ambush and killing move in the south has now been discovered. The soldiers of Hewu must strictly inspect the surroundings, so as not to let the thieves take advantage of the opportunity, plunder the guerrilla reinforcements, and not stick to the battle. As for tackling the fortifications, pay the villagers for their work! ”

Ma Qiu realized Xie Ai's treachery, and did not think that the front-line governor could defeat Xie Ai in strategy, so he gave more advice, lest he lose, and strictly ordered the soldiers to be severely punished if they were deceived by Xie Ai and suffered too heavy losses!

He could never tolerate himself being deflated at the hands of one person and then ridiculing at his colleagues. Even if he gave up the possibility because he was conservative, he didn't feel sorry.

After the war between the two sides, because there was no harassment from the villagers, the mobility of Maqiu's department was exerted to the extreme, and communication became smooth. Almost every half hour, new military intelligence returns.

With the order of Ma Qiu'er's life, the battle ahead was also going very smoothly, and the Qihu reinforcements found reinforcements from Fangtou in Qishui in advance, and had formed a trap in a river bay, and the situation of Hewu was already lonely, and it was a matter of time to conquer it.

And this time did not make Ma Qiu wait too long, and by the evening of the fourth day of the battle, Hewu was finally conquered. Xiang Jian died in the battle, while another part of the remnants broke out of the siege when the city was broken and was flowing upstream of Qishui.

In this process, Fangtou sent several reinforcements, and now there are nearly 10,000 people trapped in Qishui, and they have been trying to break through the blockade of the Qijun army, but several impacts have been fruitless.

Now there is a problem, the seizure of Hewu is really too amazing and rich, there are nearly 100,000 tons of grain alone, and the reserves of various other goods are also amazing! With such a huge amount of capital captured, the front-line combatants were directly stunned!

In fact, not only the front-line personnel, even Ma Qiu was shocked for a while when he heard this astonishing number. You must know that he has been sitting in Yecheng for a long time, and he has been living a hard life, and it is not easy to raise the army himself, and he is also responsible for supervising the construction of Yecheng, and a grain of millet even has to be eaten in half.

However, the crane dock is just a dock wall attached to the head of the fang, how can it store such an astonishing amount of goods?

After this question was born in his mind, Ma Qiu subconsciously substituted himself into Xie Ai's sinister intentions to imagine a little, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat: Xie Ai was confused by goods, not to mention those short-sighted villagers, who even counted him in the bureau, and wanted to trap his army with these goods, so that he would be willing to give up the advantage of cavalry and die of protecting food!

Thinking of this, Ma Qiu was already shocked in his heart, and he no longer dared to sit in the back, and immediately ordered: "Order the soldiers of Hewu, under the premise of not affecting the army, take as many goods as you can." If not, burn it on the spot! ”

Although Ma Qiu has already given the order, he also knows that the wealth is moving, if only his soldiers who participated in this battle are still down, those villagers are willing to sit back and watch such a huge amount of goods being burned?

You must know that in the process of fighting, Ma Qiu's army was mainly responsible for blocking reinforcements, and it was the villagers who really lost their troops and defeated Hewu. If you ignore the feelings of the people and set fire to it, it is very likely that the two sides will directly break out in Hewu!

And the Fangtou reinforcements were difficult to advance before, and they were really just blocked? Or are they just trying to preserve their strength, waiting for this moment to encircle and annihilate them?

"Xie Ai's treacherous plot is so good!"

After discovering that Liyang had sent troops, Ma Qiu thought that he had gained insight into Xie Ai's sinister intentions, but he didn't expect that the real killing move was actually buried after the destruction of Hewu City!

Therefore, after issuing that military order, he realized that something was wrong, and in order to avoid internal strife on the front line, he was ready to personally lead the reinforcements. But if even he was dispatched, how could he be content to set most of the goods on fire?

After a little muttering, Ma Qiu ordered people to closely monitor the movements of the Jin army in Liyang, and he did his best, and at the same time ordered people to carry a large number of chariots and horses to transport all the goods of Hewu back.

Now there are still 4,000 cavalry left in Yecheng, plus Hewu's army and villagers, that is nearly 10,000 field warriors, even if Xie Ai has any treacherous schemes, how dare he attack these nearly 10,000 cavalry in the wild at will?

Since he dared to take the bait, then he dared to swallow the bait in front of the other party, so that Xie Ai could taste the bitter fruit of stealing chickens and rice!