"Is it finally raining?"

Looking at the sky, Xiao Feng said. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Crackling, the rainstorm smashed towards the ground, and the thunder rolled in the sky, as if the thunder god was patrolling the Three Realms, declaring his powerful power to the world. Occasionally, a series of dragon-like lightning suddenly burst out, making the dark sky momentarily immersed in daylight.

More than three days have passed since the capture of Wuxiang County, during which she sent her scouts to patrol the entire Wuxiang County on horseback day and night to ensure that the other party is coming.

Now the city of Luzhou has also finished harvesting the wheat all over the ground, probably because this time there are the Red Phoenix Army to help manage the farmland, and large-scale organization of the people to harvest, so this year's harvest has increased by more than three percent compared with previous years, but it makes the farmers smile and celebrate the new beginning.

"It seems that the opponent will not attack in a short time. After all, it was the rainy season, and the muddy water on the mountain road was overflowing, and there was a danger of the mountain rock collapsing. In the face of such a scene, presumably that He monk Ba would not be willing. Standing beside him, Zhao Chen replied.

He has lived in this Luzhou for more than ten years, so he naturally knows that whenever he comes to July and August, this Luzhou will fall into continuous heavy rain.

It lasts for more than a few weeks, the rain is extremely rapid, and because of the rugged nature of the mountain, a lot of rain accumulates in many places, and the stones are soaked and softened by the rain, forming mudslides to block the mountain path.

In the face of this situation, even the mountain people who were familiar with the terrain and environment did not dare to walk without permission, let alone the Mengyuan Tartars who were not familiar with mountain warfare at all.

You must know that if you rashly march in this dangerous situation, then it is very likely to pay the price of total annihilation.

Xiao Feng was also glad and said, "Thanks to this rain, otherwise we would have started fighting by now." ”

After all, the Red Phoenix Army has just been formed, and although it has the support of the old men in the past, it will take some time to train those recruits to be useful. Moreover, the Chinese Sect has just been established, and it will take considerable energy to integrate it with the Red Phoenix Army.

Now this torrential rain just stopped the other party's march, but bought her a certain amount of time.

And in the following days, Xiao Feng naturally had to put a lot of effort and energy into training those soldiers to a useful level.

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On the other side, when Zhong Wei saw this majestic rain, he was also frightened, and secretly thought: "If my father insisted on attacking that day, I am afraid that we will be wiped out today." Then the two princes who swept through the hall immediately became a little angry, and asked, "What did you ask for when you came to my father today?"

"Tell my brother-in-law. I have been under my uncle's care for a long time, but I have been wandering here for too long. Therefore, he wanted to leave this place and return to Hara and Lin to meet the Great Khan. After all, I've been away from Dadu for too long, and I'm afraid that my uncle has already started to worry. Lowering his head, he suddenly saw that he didn't face the ferocity of Zhang Hongfan and Bagdadi.

Monk He sighed, and then took out a roll of sheepskin from his bosom, handed it to the Sudden Sight, and said, "In that case, then you might as well present this letter to the Great Khan on my behalf and let him decide." ”

"The little nephew will naturally report the details of this place to the Great Khan. Of course, I also hope that this uncle will be victorious, successfully destroy the Red Phoenix Army, and kill the Red Demon. ”

After taking the parchment roll, he suddenly put his right hand on his chest, and left here with a typical Mongolian farewell gift. And Zhong Wei and He Monk Ba also returned the same salute, watching him take Zhang Hongfan and several servants and brave the rain to go north.

After suddenly seeing the figure of Du could no longer be seen, Zhong Wei sneered: "Sure enough, it's a coward." It's just that after seeing that we are in decline, he immediately chose to flee? This guy, I don't think he has the majesty of his father at all. ”

"If he wants to leave, let him go, at least it will save him from getting in the way of this army. Just looking at the rain, I'm afraid that I will have to let that red demon continue to stumble for another month or two. Monk He also sighed in his heart, and his eyes were still worried.

It's only been half a year, and the Red Phoenix Army has grown like this, although he is eager to annihilate the Red Phoenix Army, but now the rain is in a hurry to stop the army and return to the camp.

After all, this place is not the dry and rainless environment of West Asia, nor is it the cold climate of the Northland, Luzhou, which is located in the Central Plains, is a typical temperate monsoon climate, and it will rain heavily in June and July every year. During the period, there are few sunny days, the weather is occasionally a downpour, followed by the scorching sun, "June day baby face", although it has been June at this time, but this Luzhou is in this situation.

If it rained heavily during the siege, their proud bows and arrows would be unusable due to the loss of elasticity, and the muddy ground was strewn with stones, which also had a great impact on the cavalry's ability to move.

If it is a hand-to-hand fight, in this dense jungle, it may not be the opponent of the Red Phoenix Army, which pays attention to cooperation.

After previous battles, they had long known that the Red Phoenix Army attached the most importance to hand-to-hand combat, especially in the jungle, far surpassing the Mongol cavalry. Often a small team of thirty or fifty people, they can take advantage of the terrain, traps, and the cooperation of the warband, and they can deal with the cavalry led by a centurion, and they will be completely retreated by the opponent.

Fighting against the Red Phoenix Army in this environment would be a nightmare for any Mongolian cavalryman.

What's more, the Red Phoenix Army is familiar with the terrain, and only needs to build a dam in a certain area to store water as a lake, and wait until the other party attacks to blow up the embankment, so that it can catch the water and crush the entire army. In the past, Guan Yu had the ability to "flood the Seventh Army", and with Xiao Feng's ability, it was not difficult to reproduce this scene here.

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"Is it raining?"

Frowning, Zhang Shijie looked at the sky.

At this moment, the sky was extremely overcast, accompanied by thunder, which made this dense rain cloud even more hideous.

The soldier next to him asked, "General, then let's go back here?"

"No, just go straight ahead. ”

Categorically vetoed, Zhang Shijie pointed to the city not far away and said. In the hazy rainstorm, they could vaguely see each other's black city walls, which were the location of their enemies, the existence of a city called Yueyang.

"Just like that, but we haven't completely defeated each other yet!" the rest of the people were stunned and said one after another.

According to the previous order, they made this trip to prevent the destruction of Luzhou by the army in Pingyang Prefecture, so they rushed to cross the Qinshui River and came here day and night, the purpose of which was to stop the other party's actions.

One of them clashes with them I don't know how many times before they pressed each other near this floating mountain.

"What the other party relies on is the supply of Pingyang Mansion, as long as Pingyang Mansion is not cut off for a day, then the other party can continue to fight. And our supplies are limited, although relying on the 'Tiger Squat Cannon' as the first battle, we repelled the attack of the opponent's large army, and then drove it back to suppress this Yueyang City. However, if we continue to entangle, our gunpowder and food, grass and weapons will be consumed, and the other party will be supplied by Pingyang Mansion, and it will be dangerous at that time. ”

Said calmly, Zhang Shijie looked at the soldiers next to him, at this moment their clothes were all wet, although it was the time of the fire in July, but because the rain was too much, he was still a little shivering, if he was soaked in the rain for a long time, he was afraid that he would catch a cold.

He immediately said aloud: "And we now have little grain and grass left in the army, and the weather is cold, so it is better to capture the Pingyang Mansion, so as to ask for a shelter for your brothers." ”

Excited by his words, all the soldiers shouted: "Take Pingyang Mansion!"

After making a plan, the group immediately abandoned the enemy on the mountain and quickly ran towards Pingyang Mansion. Probably because of the heavy rain in the sky at this time, the normally gentle Tongjun water is like a flash flood at this moment, not only the water potential of the river has increased sharply by more than a few percent, but the speed of the river is also much faster.

Before, the other party took advantage of the convenience of this river to ensure that there was enough food and grass to replenish.

Zhang Shijie simply broke into the dock directly, took down the big ship used by the other party to transport grain and grass, and ordered all the 1,000 soldiers and horses under his command to board the warship, and placed the tiger squat cannon on both sides of the battleship, driving those squirrels to shake the oars, and along the Fenshui all the way south towards Pingyang Mansion.

The rain became heavier and heavier, but they did not hesitate at all, and made their way south.

The fighting became more and more intense.

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"Is this Fenzhou?"

Looking at the warships in front of him, Wang Yunde was extremely surprised.

Each of those warships was about three zhang high and dozens of zhang long, and the boat gang was close to the waterline, and it was heavy that I don't know how many things were loaded. In the shipyards on both sides, some dim lights could be faintly seen, and some laughter came from time to time, and it was obvious that some of them were resting inside.

There were nearly 100 ships of this size, all of which were moored along the banks of the river along the Fenshui.

"It should be. Looking at the fleet in front of him, Jiang Li couldn't help frowning.

At this moment, beside these large ships, the soldiers who slipped away were already wearing heavy armor and holding steel knives, even though the torrential rain was pouring overhead, but they still insisted on stationing in place, guarding the surrounding environment, as if they were afraid that something around them would break into the fleet.

Wu Qing looked at everything in front of him, and he didn't feel sad: "Seeing that the other party is so heavily guarded, I'm afraid that with our strength of only five hundred people, we are not the opponent of the other party at all." Just by a light sweep, he had already seen that there were dozens of martial arts masters in this fleet, all of whom were at the same level as Zhao Chen, among them, there were several who were not inferior to him in Zhenyuan, and faintly one of them had a strong aura, not even worse than the two of them, Guo Cheng.

"So what do we do next?" Wang Yunde asked.

Obviously, it is not possible to attack directly, after all, they only have five hundred people, even if they have the help of tiger squatting cannons, if they disturb those martial arts masters entrenched here, they are afraid that they will be defeated by the other party in an instant. According to Xiao Feng's order, they came to cut off the connection between Taiyuan Mansion and Fenzhou and Pingyang Mansion, not to send them to death.

"Let's go into the city and check the situation. Of course, when it comes to security here, there are the two brothers. ”

Jiang Li said to Wang Yunde and Wu Qing, and then took a few clever soldiers to remove their armor, drop their swords, and leave the place where the garrison was located with only a few hidden daggers, and headed towards Fenzhou.

Obviously, at this time, the most important thing is to talk about the situation here, and Xiao Feng is not Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Kuo, who are talking on paper, and she is quite aware of the efficiency of intelligence transmission in this medieval era, but she has given a few people considerable power to deal with them on the spot.

How to act, it is entirely up to them to act.

After that, Xiao Feng only needed to know what was going on in various places.

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"It seems that the rain will not stop for a while. ”

Xiao Xing stared at the rainstorm in front of him, a little lucky.

If it weren't for the fact that even if they had concentrated their efforts and harvested all the wheat in the fields, if they had been hit by this torrential rain, they would have been afraid that the harvest of the entire farmland would have dropped by about seven or eight percent of what it had been.

One percent is tens of thousands of stone grain, so she can't help it.

However, the old farmer next to him still looked sad, and his forehead, which was covered with ravines like farmland, was also tightly wrinkled: "It's just that according to this way, I'm afraid that there will be flooding here this year." "As a farmer of all traditions, his mood is like the weather in the sky, happy when it's sunny, irritable when it's sunny, and gloomy when it's raining.

The mood constantly changes with the weather, and it is simply seared into the depths of the farmer's body, and even becomes a kind of heredity.

Watching the sky and eating was not a lie in ancient times, but a real fact.

"Waterlogging?" Xiao Xing's heart tightened and asked in a low voice.

"That's right. Usually, it rains at this time. If the rain is like this, then there will be waterlogging. And every year for years to come. The old farmer replied with sorrow.

"Is it a flood?" his heart tightened, and Xiao Xing suddenly felt bad.

Luzhou is located in the Taihang Mountains, which is a basin. In the event of such a majestic rain, a large amount of rain will gather in the depression, in other words, if this rainstorm continues, then the entire city of Luzhou will fall into an ocean.

Houses were washed down, people and animals drowned, if such a thing was allowed to happen, then it would really be a disaster for the entire Red Phoenix Army.

Thinking of this, she became more and more worried, and hurriedly ordered Ma Yundong to send people to the reservoir they had built before, focusing on the changes in the water level and whether the embankment was stable. If this library is washed away because of the continuous heavy rain, then the entire Luzhou City will fall into the water, once the entire Luzhou City is flooded, the loss will be unimaginable.

At that time, let alone repel the Mengyuan Tartars, it will be a question mark whether the Red Phoenix Army can continue to stand here.

The heavy rain, although they have not been attacked by the enemy, but this continuous rain is constantly eroding the foundation of the Red Phoenix Army, if they can't hold on, then they may completely collapse anytime and anywhere. (To be continued.) )