It is said that it is a naval army, but if it is said that there are qualified warships, there is not a single one, which is basically transformed by merchant ships, plus a lot of sampan ships, and it does not have the conditions for frontal combat. Nowadays, it is more used to escort merchant ships for foreign trade, and if they do not do business, how can they get so much money to feed the army and the people.

Fortunately, there is no naval army in Tanwangfu at all, so there is no threat.

Of course, the number of people is small, and the equipment is not elite, but it does not mean that the combat power is not good. On the contrary, the land combat capability of the naval army is not low, how can it be that it has entered the state many times during the civil strife and foreign invasion to attract displaced people, during the period, along the way, there are many bandits in various places, and they are killed with real knives and real guns.

The navy is very important, but not everyone thinks so, taking ancient China as an example, in addition to modern history, there are only a handful of classic naval battles in ancient times, and water battles are rare.

Whether it is Wednesday Mountain, who is now in charge of the water army, or the soldiers of the water army, they are somewhat dissatisfied, there is no battle to fight, and there is no chance to show meritorious service, who is willing to be a low-level pawn all the time.

It's a good thing to be motivated, but if you don't solve it all the time, it will definitely become a big problem, and once you get lazy, this water army will be finished.

But it's a pity to take it out to fight a land war, after all, it's not who has the potential to become a naval army. Thinking about it, he can only be an assistant first, and then participate in the strategy of Xingwu County without being the main force.

At present, the strength of the army is not enough, otherwise Zhou Shaoyu will directly start to develop the navy, along the major rivers, the west can enter Shu, the east can directly attack Jinling, go around, you can also enter the canal into the Yellow River, directly to the north, even if you can't fight, you can still get on the boat at any time, how comfortable.

Thinking far, now I have to contact and communicate with Chenghui to see how Li Xiuning plans to fight Xingwu County. Otherwise, relying on Wuxian's troops alone will definitely not be enough.

was pondering whether to go directly to Chenghui Prefecture to communicate with Li Xiuning in person, but when the result was not long, Li Xiuning took a small team of people and horses to Wuxian County by himself.

"Hmm." Seeing Zhou Shaoyu, Li Xiuning nodded with a faint expression, this can be regarded as a greeting, Zhou Shaoyu who watched it was so embarrassed and speechless, if he didn't know her temperament, he would still think that he was hated and disliked.

"Since you're here, you're ready to attack Xingwu County." Zhou Shaoyu coughed lightly and took the initiative to ask.

"Naturally, it was because I was worried about Sister Shuozhen's whereabouts before, but now it seems that she should still be lurking in the city, since this is the case, it is natural to take it back quickly." Li Xiuning nodded, and said seemingly calmly, but can you stop gritting your teeth and talking?

I only heard her continue to say: "The Chenghui Prefecture side has been arranged, led by Gao Xiujun, and I will personally come to command the Wuxian army." ”

Zhou Shaoyu blinked, pointed at himself curiously, and wondered: "Then what am I doing?" Shouldn't you tell you the plan to discuss and discuss, and then you go back to bring the soldiers of Chenghuizhou, and I bring the soldiers and horses of Wuxian? ”

Li Xiuning turned his head and looked up and down several times before he said, "You are not in the plan, and no one wants you to come back, what is the use of asking you?" ”

"Poof...... Her Royal Highness Princess Pingyang of my family is not so skinny! "Zhou Shaoyu has a mouthful of old blood, I don't take you like this. Let's rush back with all the hard work, this old bone is about to fall apart, and as a result, you come to say, 'What do you want', it's too shocking."

Li Xiuning pulled the corners of her mouth, she almost didn't laugh, and Li Qingzhao and the others were all happy, but unfortunately Chen Shuozhen's situation was not 100% sure, just smiled a little, and then reined in.

"It's just a Xingwu County, why use so many troops to attack on both sides, although I don't know why the Tan Wangfu suddenly attacked Xingwu County, but since you dare to make the first move, you have to pay the price." The corners of Li Xiuning's mouth raised confidently, this battle, in her opinion, is not difficult to fight at all, the difference is only how to fight the most refreshing and suppress the enemy to the worst.

Hearing this, Zhou Shaoyu realized.

Previously, because he was worried about Chen Shuozhen, he only thought about attacking Xingwu County and rescuing Chen Shuozhen, but he forgot to think about the overall situation.

At present, the regular army of Tanwangfu is 28,000, plus 10,000 city defense soldiers guarding the other five counties, attacking 38,000 people.

Among them, 3,000 were guarded by the royal palace, 10,000 were garrisoned by the palace, and the remaining nearly 15,000 (there were dead and wounded in the attack on Xingwu County) were all in Xingwu County.

But on their own side, there are more than 20,000 soldiers in Chenghuizhou, in addition to a total of 5,000 in Wuxian County and cottages, and 6,000 people in the naval army. Not to mention, this is still the case of not recruiting strong men and recruiting cottage people.

To take Xingwu County, the troops of Chenghui Prefecture are enough, even if you add these thousands of people in Wu County, it is just the icing on the cake and will not be of great use. But what if it was used for other purposes?

"Good way!" Thinking about the joint, Zhou Shaoyu praised, in this way, it is time for Tanwangfu to cry. However, Zhou Shaoyu's face fell, and he said weakly and pitifully: "What, it's really none of my business?" I'm just useless? ”

Li Xiuning looked at Zhou Shaoyu, thought for a while, and then looked at Wednesday Mountain, and suddenly improved the original plan.

On that day, Wuxian began to recruit young people in the city, and they were all on a voluntary basis. In view of the prestige of Shanhuai Pavilion, even though many people resisted joining the army and did not want to fight with the forces of the Tan Palace, there were still many people who voluntarily applied for the recruitment.

However, in fact, it is not necessary to use so many manpower at all, after all, the main force is still recruited from the cottage, and the residents there have at least a certain degree of training, which is not elite, but it can be used.

Speaking of which, at the beginning, the cottage was intended to be developed as a basic plate, and now it is also built as solid, but unfortunately it has not played a big role so far, but has become a research and development and production base, as well as the existence of reserve training.

After some combing, coupled with the original strength, it has actually expanded to more than 25,000 people, and it is also thanks to the training of a group of low-level generals in Chenghuizhou, and Li Xiuning also brought a batch this time, otherwise it will not be able to manage, and it will be chaotic before it is fought.

Leaving 500 regular troops and 4,500 strong men to stay in Wuxian, the remaining 20,000 people are ready to march as soon as the time comes.

On the third day after the conscription of young people, Gao Xiujun raised troops in Chenghuizhou, 20,000 infantry, 3,000 cavalry, and 10,000 auxiliary soldiers (in fact, it was the temporary young man in charge of logistics), a total of 33,000 people, known as 50,000.

However, after arriving in Xingwu County, the cavalry of the original 3,000 people disappeared.

Not long after, Zhou Shaoyu received these 3,000 cavalry in Wuxian County, but unfortunately, he could only take away 500 cavalry, and Li Xiuning had to take the rest.

On the Xingwu County side, after finding out that the Chenghui army was pressing, he suddenly panicked, closed the door, and then sent a messenger to report straight to the capital city. As for somewhere else? I'm sorry, I can't take care of it.

However, Gao Xiujun didn't seem to have any intention of attacking directly, and directly put on a typical encirclement of three ques and one camp, with a posture of taking his time and not being in a hurry.

The offensive and defensive battle of Xingwu County once again seems ordinary, but in fact, it is a very meaningful beginning.

The Great Liang is heading for defeat, but in any case, it is the orthodox dynasty in the world after all. Whether it is Chenghui Prefecture or Tanzhou, both parties are under the control of the Great Liang on the bright side, but in this case, the two parties sent troops privately without the instructions of the Great Liang Imperial Court, and its impact was still very great.

If it were a normal period, this kind of private transfer of troops would be 100% part of the existence of the Nine Clans, but now, even if the Great Liang Imperial Court wants to ask for guilt, it is powerless, and it is far away.

This move means that the control of the Great Liang has declined, and the prestige has fallen again and again, Gao Yuyao is good at playing with balance and weakening, but she forgot that when the prestige of the Great Liang court is squandered, even if there are many soldiers and generals on the surface, it is just an attic in the air, and it can collapse at any time. However, Gao Yuyao, who almost turned the court into her Yiyan Hall with strong means, no one reminded her of this.

The offensive and defensive battle in Xingwu County has not officially begun, Feng Ji, who received the news, was extremely concerned, and secretly issued a secret order, if Xingwu County cannot be defended, it will retreat, and it must be decisive to retreat, and it must not cause too much loss.

There are only so many troops, and if most of the casualties are killed or injured at one stop, it means that the situation in the future will definitely be difficult. There is no need to waste too many troops for the sake of a chicken-ribbed Xingwu County.

Of course, this matter will only be informed to the top general sitting in Xingwu County, so as not to spread the news and affect morale, as for the chief general of Xingwu County, it is Qin Yiliu's father Qin Kaijiang, yes, Feng Ji still trusts him very much.

However, before anything happened in Xingwu County, a scout came to report that there were traces of suspected cavalry in Xuefeng County.

This situation made Feng Ji a little annoyed.

Before the capture of Xingwu County, half of the army of Tanwangfu was stationed in Xuefeng County, which is located in the north of Xingwu County.

Of course, considering that Wuxian is also the other party's, it is completely possible to march to Hengwu County in the northeast of Wuxian, but because it is already a Fucheng further north, Tanwangfu did not send heavy troops to guard it, because support can appear from Fucheng at any time, and the premise is that Hengwu County can hold on for a certain amount of time.

However, in the current situation, it is very likely that there are cavalry in Xuefeng County, and the intention is likely to be to attack Xuefeng County, so that Xingwu County will be directly dumpled with the triangle of Chenghuizhou, Wuxian, and Xuefeng County.

How can that work!

Feng Ji gritted her teeth, squeezed out 3,000 people from Fucheng, and then sent an urgent order to Xingwu County to transfer 2,000 back to Fang Xuefeng County. After doing this, Feng Ji really had a headache, how good it would be if she had a cavalry army herself, even if there were not so many people.

However, before she could breathe a few more breaths of relief, a piece of latest news directly made her a little dizzy.

I thought that Wu County's move to recruit young people was to encircle Xingwu County, but I never thought that Wu County sent 12,000 troops, with 4,000 of them as the vanguard, galloping at night, and raiding Hengwu County, the defenseless Hengwu County was broken almost instantly!

It's not right, it can't be said to be defenseless, but the combat power and vigilance are under the heart, even if Feng Ji ordered the vigilance as the king of Tan, but the local officials didn't take it so seriously. In the final analysis, I still think that whether it is Chenghuizhou or Tanzhou, they are all ministers of one dynasty, no matter what, they should not call directly.

So, aha, that's it?

There is only one Hengwu County between Fucheng and Wuxian County, which seems to be very close, but in fact, the jurisdiction of Hengwu County belongs to a long and narrow shape, the length is relatively long, and the width is narrow, in addition, strictly speaking, there is also a part of Jianchu County between Hengwu County and Fucheng, but the scope is not large.

But no matter how close it is, Feng Ji can't send troops to rescue, because they have all been defeated.

"It's not good, Jianchu County is in danger!" But Qin Yiliu on the side suddenly exclaimed.

Sure enough, Li Xiuning took 2,500 cavalry and 1,500 carefully selected foot soldiers to march at night, easily captured Hengwu County, and waited until the afternoon of the second day, when the follow-up troops arrived, and the vanguard army was all repaired, leaving 5,000 young men to stay behind, and then went straight to Jianchu County in the west without stopping.

However, in the previous dynasty, Jianchu County was the capital of Tanzhou, named Chuzhou. It is the location of the city, the high walls of the natural city are strong, perhaps the original city of the previous dynasty has long been dilapidated, but it has been more or less renovated, and the news of the destruction of Hengwu County has been learned, and the city gate has been closed in advance and entered a state of rigidity.

The emergency attack failed, Li Xiuning didn't care, this was in the plan, even if she could take it, she would deliberately release the water and let Jianchu County carry it for a while.

As for the previous recruitment of young people, it was not to let them really participate in the war at all, but to facilitate the defense of the city. In addition, there are more people who can pretend to be powerful and scare the Tan Palace.

Wu County will keep a part, Hengwu County will keep a part, and when Jianchu County will take it, it will also have to stay part.

And then, is there another part......

Xuefeng County, mountain stream.

Zhou Shaoyu took a sip of the water of this small stream formed by a mountain spring, which was cold and sweet, and it felt really good, a little sweet! I decisively changed all the spare water in the space.

After preparing for enough rest, Zhou Shaoyu turned over and laughed loudly: "Brothers, let's go, let's go and harass again." ”

"Hey...... "The morale of the cavalry team of only 500 people is not low, and the atmosphere is very relaxed, it doesn't look like they came out to fight at all."......

Also, now there are only two thousand people in Xuefeng County, even if the young and strong are recruited, there are six or seven thousand, but so what? Zhou Shaoyu didn't plan to take the city at all.

This kind of unconventional team, even decent archers can't come up, as long as they don't run to the bottom of the city wall to let people smash it, they can basically play as much as they want, and every cavalryman carries a bow and arrow.

Of course, it is still necessary to do a little more camouflage to make people feel as much as possible that there are more than just that.

For example, shouting and shouting arrogantly ran to the city to shoot a few waves of arrows, and then walked far away, and then circled back, creating a false impression of taking turns to harass.

Except for being a little tired, it's not difficult.

"Report ...... It has been detected that there are troops marching in the direction of Xingwu County, and the number is about 2,000. In addition, 3,000 people from the northwest are heading towards Xuefeng County. ”

Hearing the scout's information, Zhou Shaoyu blinked and said with a smile: "That's it?" Forget it, the strength of the Tan Wangfu is not much. Alright, mission accomplished, it's time to fight a tough battle! ”

(End of chapter)