Lao Cao's envoy had not yet set off, but the relevant news had already reached Lu Ren's ears. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info you must know that Lu Ren's intelligence work has always been very good, and after hearing the news, you can telegraph it, and Lu Ren will know here.

"Lao Cao wants to ask me if there is coal in his territory? Yes! Not only that, but that's too much! ”

Lu Renle put down the message. There is no coal in the territory of Lao Cao? That's not! Not to mention those scattered small coal-producing points, Shanxi, the coal town, is in the hands of Lao Cao, okay? In addition to Shanxi, Xuchang is also a major coal producer, but most of the coal mines in Xuchang are deep coal seams and are not so easy to dig.

Xun Yu on the side couldn't sit still a little and asked, "Yihao, I really want to know what else you don't know in this world?" Why do you even know so well what kind of minerals are in various parts of the Central Plains? ”

Lu Renxin said nonsense! You don't know how fiercely the countries of the world in later generations grabbed resources, and on the map of each country, where there are some minerals, it is clearly marked. If there is a real war, these mines are also the priority targets for grabbing. So don't talk about the Huaxia Continent, Lu Ren in other regions also knows it more clearly, and if you don't know, you can just check the map.

Of course, Lu Ren couldn't say this, so he just smiled at Xun Yu mysteriously, and said again: "The heavenly opportunity should not be leaked lightly." ”

Xun Yu had long been surprised by Lu Ren's style, but he still couldn't help but say to Lu Ren worriedly: "It seems that you are ready to tell Cao Mengde these things." But Yihao, you are selling things and guiding, how is this different from the enemy? ”

Lu Ren said: "Xun Gong, I think a lot of things are much more long-term than you imagined, but I really can't explain it to you, because it may be too shocking, so let's talk about something practical." In my opinion, the current Lao Cao's ambition has swelled, so I help Liu Bei and Sun Quan to form a check and balance on Lao Cao, so that he does not dare to do whatever he wants. But on the other hand, Liu Bei and Sun Quan are not good birds, if I help Lao Cao inappropriately while helping them, Lao Cao will suffer too much. In a word, these three parties need a situation of mutual checks and balances, a balance situation in which no one dares to act rashly. ”

Xun Yu nodded: "I can probably understand your thoughts." It's just Yoshiho, what are you going to do next? ”

Lu Ren said: "I don't do anything, because I really can't do anything, so accumulating my strength with peace of mind is what I want to do now." But it's not really that they don't do anything, the main focus is on Liaoxi. ”

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When Lu Ren was "doing nothing" in Yizhou, there was a small battle in Beiyouping. It may be a bit too much to say that it was a war, but to be precise, a battle between looting and counter-looting. Didn't Zhao Yu transport another batch of supplies to Beiyouping? Before the ship could reach the shore, it found that there was a war going on in the harbor.

"Rain girl! The last general is not talented, and he is willing to lead two thousand elite armor to land ashore first to attack the enemy!! ”

Zhao Yu looked at the young general next to him and knew that this girl was eager to make meritorious contributions because she had just been promoted. Thinking about it again, I felt that it was indeed appropriate for him to fight right now, so I nodded my head right away. However, the young general asked Zhao Yu for instructions, hoping that Zhao Yu could do this. Zhao Yu hesitated after hearing the young general's thoughts, and only after thinking about it carefully did he agree......

It must be explained here that the port of Youbeiping is divided into two parts, that is, the wharf is a part, and the town is a part, and it is inconvenient to use the city wall to connect them together due to the factors of terrain, technology and so on. After all, this is not Yizhou, and some things are not called a matter in Yizhou, but it is difficult to solve here. At this time, there was no one on the dock, and they all hid in the town, and Hu Qi was mainly circling the town.

Looking at Zhao Yu's fleet after a while, the fleet was divided into two pulls, one large and one small, the big one turned to the east, and the small one continued to approach the harbor. Looking at the fleet of ships approaching the port, almost all of them were Yizhou merchant ships, and as they approached the port, the sailors on board were still busy, apparently preparing to dock and unload. To put it simply, this small fleet was no different from the fleet that usually came to the port for trade, and seeing that the town was besieged, the people in the fleet planned to land to support the town.

This is actually a plan set up by the young general. Looking at the Beiping harbor shore from afar before, the young general observed much more carefully than others, and judged from Hu Cai's actions that Hu Qi wanted to fight an ambush, but unfortunately it was discovered by the observation post here in the port, but at this time, only a small number of rangers were sent to pose as if they were going to fight, and the main force had not moved. After thinking about it carefully, the young general made such a judgment, mainly because of the distance of fifteen miles, although Hu Qi could see the vague shadow of the ship when he looked at the sea with his naked eyes, most of the specific situation would not be clear.

Hu Qi saw the shadow of the ship but did not retreat, it was very likely that he had expected that Zhao Yu's fleet would definitely support the town. Under normal circumstances, these horsemen should have retreated as soon as they saw the shadow of a ship at sea, rather than besieging the town here. The most important thing is that Hu Qi is not the main force besieging the town now...... Therefore, the young general immediately judged that the main target of these Hu cavalry was not the town, but Zhao Yu's fleet. After all, the things in the town are limited, and the goods in the fleet cabin are all good things, which means that Zhao Yu's fleet is the main target of Hu Qi.

From such an angle, the young general suggested that Zhao Yu take advantage of the fact that the fleet was still some distance away from the port, and pretended to divert on the sea surface by taking advantage of Hu Qi's lack of binoculars to not be able to see the real dynamics of the ships. After that, the 2,000 men led by the young general pretended to sail to the port as ordinary merchant ships, and Zhao Yu's main fleet pretended to continue to march eastward, as if it was going to Liaodong for trade. Anyway, in recent years, the trade between Yizhou and Liaodong has not been small, so it should be easier to deceive Hu Qi.

Without further ado, let's just say that after the young general's fleet docked, the sailors on the surface pretended to be very stunned by the dilapidated environment of the dock, so they didn't even take the sampan to land. After a while, the young general saw that Hu Cai, who was lurking outside the harbor, had not moved, and became more and more sure that Hu Qi wanted to ambush him, so he instructed his subordinates to follow the strategy set before, first set up a sampan and then led a dozen people, pretending to go ashore to see the situation on the city wall in the harbor, and the anchors of each ship were thrown into the water one after another. In a word, it is necessary to lure out the main force of Hu Qi that is lurking outside the port.

After a dozen people got off the ship, they wandered around indiscriminately, and then they "discovered" the main force of Hu Qi lurking outside the port, and then rushed back to the ship after an "exclamation", and the sailors on each ship were busy getting on anchor and setting sail to prepare to "run away". Seeing this situation, the main force of Hu Qi, who was lurking, was willing to let the fat that was about to reach his mouth run away? Then they roared out and rushed to the shore, followed by a rain of arrows on the ships, intent on preventing the sailors from anchoring and setting sail. As long as the boat can't leave, isn't the stuff on the ship all in the pockets of the riders?

Unfortunately, the ships now docked at the shore had no intention of sailing away, and the sailors who anchored and set sail were just pretending. With the whistling of the horsemen, the sailors hid in the cabin together.

Looking at the many horsemen, they were almost completely ignorant of the boats, so it was not until they rushed to the front that they found that although the boats were docked, they could not get up for a while without a sampan, and as a result, they did not know how many men and horses were crowded on the shore so big.

Some of them were smarter, and of course it was possible that they had seen something related here in the port, so they dragged the wharf's own sampan from the warehouse of the dock nearby and began to ride on the boats. It's just that in this way, the already crowded and chaotic Hu Qi is even more chaotic, because they all want to squeeze into the boat one by one, and only in this way can they grab the good things first.

The young general hidden in the ship saw that the time had come, and immediately ordered the whole ship to start moving. At the sound of the drums of the boats, many of the horsemen found that some warriors who were almost all wrapped in iron armor poured out of the boats, and their sharp spears in their hands were stabbing at each sampan.

Yizhou has always been known for its sailors, and the current situation is actually not much different from hand-to-hand combat on the side of the ship on the water, in other words, it is the specialty of the Yizhou soldiers. Anti-audience Hu riding, their specialty is fast horse riding and shooting, when they really step on the sampan, there is no obstacle may be better, but when they encounter obstacles, they will even stand a little unstable. Therefore, in this fight, the Yizhou soldiers stabbed people with spears one by one, but it was difficult to rob the boat and ride it.

Don't mention any about people fighting, the sampan is sturdy, but the area is too small to stand a few people. As soon as the front is blocked, the back is problematic. And the Yizhou soldiers are enough to make a bad ...... It should be said that he was bold enough. The stabbing surface of the spear was too small and it was a bit weak to stab only one at a time, so some people simply swept the spear horizontally, and swept it all along Hu Qi's legs.

Come on, this is a sampan that can't stand up to a few people! As soon as the person in front is swept down, the person behind will immediately be tripped up, not to mention that Hu Qi is not good at sampans? So as long as someone falls down on a certain sampan, there will be human dominoes immediately, and then the sound of falling water is endless.

Hu Qi, who had squeezed into the sampan, fired arrows on the opposite boat, but soon found that the arrows they shot were of no use to these iron-clad Yizhou soldiers.

Strictly speaking, the iron armor on the Yizhou soldiers who are attacking now is a protective armor similar to the plate armor of the medieval European knights, but the main material is like glue, and then a layer of steel plate is inlaid on the outside, which should be regarded as an alloy. While ensuring considerable defensive strength, the weight of the armor was reduced as much as possible. Originally, these armors were specially transferred by Lu Ren to the cavalry that Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying were going to form, but he didn't expect to use them at this time...... (To be continued.) )