Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1030
When Hewu fell into a deadly battle, Fangtou Wangshi had already assembled.Hewu is only more than 30 miles away from Dongfang City, and there is Qishui in the middle. If reinforcements are really needed, at least before the Jiehu reinforcements arrive at Hekoujian, they can invite them to Hewu City.

But Xie Ai, who was on the large ship of the Chinese army, did not order the army to move fast at this moment, but sat in front of the desk in the cabin, pretending to close his eyes and fall asleep.In addition to the water flow outside the ship and the sound of drums and horns assembled by the surrounding sergeants, the sound of him tapping the desk with his nails echoed in the room, with an even and steady rhythm.

"My lord, the army of [-] people riding land and water has been assembled. As soon as the order is delivered, we will immediately head north!"

A moment later, Hu Runkuo, with his distinctive armor, walked into the room, clasping his fists and proclaiming.He is currently serving as the Sima of Jijun, and is also Xie Ai's deputy in charge of military affairs.

Xie Ai nodded slightly after hearing the words, but said in a deep voice: "After finding Ma Qiu's reinforcements, immediately send the army northward, and there is no need to report again."

When Hu Run heard this order, he respectfully agreed and was about to turn around and leave when he heard Xie Ai ask: "Hou Ze, I used deceitful words to put Xiang Jian into a desperate situation. From your point of view, Is this too evil?"

After Hu Run heard this, he was taken aback for a moment, and when he saw Xie Ai's depressing expression, he realized that after all, Xie Ai was not a hard-hearted man honed by the Dian army for a long time, and it was inevitable that he would stick to such unnecessary distractions.However, this kind of Xie Ai made him feel more at ease. If he is overly scheming and ignores personnel, it will put infinite pressure on people.

"People's status is different, and good and evil are also different. Make the king feel sorry for his own soldiers, and don't want to use them as bait to lure the thieves, but use them to set up a trap, so that my soldiers will fight on the field and avoid This is already a great kindness of the king and minister, and it is also worthy of the great governor's trust."

After Xie Ai heard the words, he smiled again, and sighed: "I hope this battle can be fully accomplished. If Xiang Jian really has red thoughts to repay me, no matter how his life or death is, I will naturally repay him accordingly."

The main reason why he wanted to solemnly invite Xiang Jian to talk about the matter before was to stick to his tenacity. As for storing the goods in Hewu, one is to win the trust of Xiang Jian, and the other is to magnify the temptation of Hewu as a bait .

The biggest problem in planning to attack Yecheng this time is to try to eliminate Jie country's home and field advantages, and it is also one of Xie Ai's intentions to eliminate all the forces around Fangtou.

The previous tricolor flag order seemed to be to restrain and win over these rural forces, but in fact it was also a kind of stocking.Although Master Wang's victories were brilliant last year, it was difficult to fully digest all the results, especially in the environment of Hebei where guest troops are fighting.

In order to prevent this part of the results from being lost or used by the enemy again, Xie Aicai focused on forming a good relationship with these village forces and even supported them, hoping to consolidate part of the scattered results by these people and avoid further loss.Now Master Wang's most difficult period has passed, so naturally he can't put these victories outside, and must take them back as soon as possible.

As for the content of the conversation between Xie Ai and Xiang Jian, it is actually mixed. His intention is true, but it is absolutely impossible to entrust such an important matter to a bandit leader who lacks trust and has a bad reputation.What's more, he is well aware of the bottom line of the governor, and he will not take the initiative to step on the line to build some private troops.

The better Xiang Jian manages in Hewu, the more people want him to die, including Xie Ai.But it is impossible for Xie Ai to act personally, because Xiang Jian grew stronger based on the three-color flag order he promulgated. A grave mistake.

If we want to achieve the goal of disintegrating the power of the villagers without damaging our own image, then we can only pretend to others to expose their evil, and at the same time, we must seize one or two positive models to praise them.This is one of the goals Xie Ai has been doing recently, so Xie Ai has taken great pains for this battle, from small things to speculate on people's hearts, to big things to adjust forces, and he has already planned and laid the groundwork from a very early age.

Hewu is not only a target of the villagers' 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 push him to increase his chips again and again, until he finally reaches a level where he cannot step down.

Just like the letter from Hewu before, Jiehu violated the border and lost the first battle.Ma Qiu personally sent someone to take action, but as a result, he couldn't even get rid of a dock wall attached to Fangtou. If he gave up on this, his reputation in Hebei would be wiped out!
And when Ma Qiu invested more, Xie Ai must also 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 at all, because he was not fighting alone.His real ultimate move and intention are not here, it is always Yecheng.

As Xie Ai expected, when Ma Qiu sent another reinforcement to Hewu, whether the wall of the dock could be conquered had aroused his great concern.He has already invested so much, and he can't afford to lose. Hewu's tenacity makes it impossible for him to guess Xie Ai's intentions, but he still has an advantage, that is, the mobile power he can use still has an absolute advantage.

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

Since you can't figure out Xie Ai's intentions, you might as well work harder on manpower.Therefore, after sending reinforcements, Ma Qiu increased the dispatching of scouts. In order to prevent the scouts from being encircled and suppressed again, the establishment of each team was expanded to five or sixty people.

Of course, Ma Qiu would not ignore the physical exhaustion of the soldiers. Fortunately, he was stationed not far from the base camp in Yecheng at the moment, and he was dispatched in turn to ensure that there was a fresh force with sufficient physical strength to go 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 middle of the night, there was a definite news from Liyang, just south of Yecheng, that the southerners had made an unusual move. A fleet of more than a dozen warships suddenly left the Liyang camp and headed north along the river.

"Xie Ai is indeed a treacherous person. He first set up a strong fort near the bank as a temptation, and then lured wild people to come out to confuse my eyes and ears. There are many covers, nothing more than to make our army far away and create a false attack opportunity for them. That's all!"

After receiving this letter, instead of panicking, Ma Qiu breathed a sigh of relief. After making up this link, his deep guess about Xie Ai's actions was finally established.There is no possibility of tricking the tricks that have been seen through, and Ma Qiu is grateful that Ai is at the end of his skills. At least in terms of tricks, it is not enough for him to fall into the trap.

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 counterattack Xie Ai fiercely and let him suffer from ingenuity!

It is difficult to judge in the middle of the night how much troops Li Yang sent out.So after thinking about it for a while, Ma Qiu sent all the [-] cavalry under his command to the south, staring at this so-called surprise attack army along the river, and killing them as soon as the opponent landed!
As for Ma Qiu himself, he led hundreds of his own soldiers back to Yecheng to sit in the base camp. The most important thing for him now is to keep his eyes on the merits, first to ensure the safety of the town of Yecheng, and then to look forward to greater achievements.

Although Ma Qiu returned to Yecheng, it did not mean that he gave up his attention to the Hewu war, and sent an envoy again to order: "Xie Ai, who is treacherous and impermanent, first used Hewu as a bait to lure our army to favor. The killer move of ambush in the south has now been seen through. Hewu officers and men must strictly check the surrounding area, so as not to let the thieves take advantage of it, raid the guerrilla army to fight for aid, and don't stick to it. "

Ma Qiu understood Xie Ai's treachery, and didn't think that the frontline governor could outwit Xie Ai in terms of strategy, so he gave more instructions, lest there would be mistakes, and strictly ordered the officers and soldiers who were severely damaged by Xie Ai's bewitching, Then there must be severe punishment!
He absolutely cannot tolerate being defeated by one person repeatedly, and then being ridiculed by his colleagues.Even if he gave up the greater possibility because of conservatism, he didn't feel it was a pity.

After the war between the two sides, because there was no restraint and harassment from the villagers, the mobility of Ma Qiu's troops was maximized, and the communication became smooth.Almost every half an hour, there will be new military information sent back.

With the orders from Ma Qiuer, the battle ahead went very smoothly. The Jiehu reinforcements found reinforcements from Fangtou on the Qishui ahead of time, and they had already formed a barrier at a bend in the river. Hewu was isolated. It has been done, and it is a matter of time to conquer it.

And at this time, Ma Qiu didn't have to wait too long. On the evening of the fourth day of the war, Hewu was finally conquered.Xiang Jian died at the head of the city, while another part of the remnants broke out when the city was broken, and were fleeing upstream of the Qi River.

During this process, Fangtou sent several reinforcements, and now there are nearly ten thousand people trapped on the Qishui. They have been trying to break through the blockade of the Jie army, but several attacks have failed.

Now there is a problem, the seizure of Hewu is really amazing and rich, there are nearly [-] hu of rice and grain alone, and the reserves of other goods are also astonishing!Such a huge amount of funds was seized, and the frontline fighters were stunned!

In fact, it's not just the frontline personnel, even Ma Qiu was stunned for a moment when he heard this astonishing number.You must know that he has been in Yecheng for a long time, and he has been living a hard life. It is not easy for him to raise an army, and he is also responsible for supervising the construction of Yecheng. He even eats a grain of millet in half.

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

After this question came up in his mind, Ma Qiu subconsciously substituted himself into Xie Ai's sinister intentions to imagine a little bit, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat: Xie Ai's goods are not only confusing those short-sighted villagers, This is even counting him in the game, using these goods to trap his army, making him willing to give up the advantage of the cavalry and die defending food!
Thinking of this, Ma Qiu was terrified in his heart, and he no longer dared to sit back, and immediately ordered: "Order the Hewu officers and men to take away as much goods as they can without affecting the army. If not, burn it on the spot!"

Although Ma Qiu had already given the order, he also knew that money moved people's hearts. If only his soldiers were involved in this battle, those villagers would be willing to sit back and watch such a huge amount of supplies be burned?
You must know that during the battle, Ma Qiu's army was mainly responsible for blocking the reinforcements, and it was the villagers who really lost their troops and were about to take down Hewu.If they ignored all sentiments and set fire to it, it is very likely that the two sides would immediately break out in Hewu!

And the Fangtou reinforcements had been struggling before, was it really just blocked?Or is it that they are just waiting for this moment to surround and annihilate them in order to preserve their strength?
"Thank you Ai for your treachery, it's so far!"

After discovering that Li Yang sent troops, Ma Qiu thought that he had seen Xie Ai's sinister intentions, but he didn't expect that the real ultimate move was buried after the Hewu city was broken!

So after issuing that military order, he realized that something was wrong, and in order to avoid internal strife on the front line, he planned to personally lead reinforcements.But if even he is dispatched, how can he be satisfied with setting most of the supplies on fire?

After pondering for a while, Ma Qiu ordered people to closely monitor the Jin army's movement in Liyang, while he gathered the rest of his troops, and at the same time ordered people to bring a large number of chariots and horses to transport all the Hewu supplies back.

Now there are four thousand cavalry left in Yecheng, plus Hewu's army and the villagers, that is a total of nearly ten thousand cavalry, even if Xie Ai has any treacherous schemes, he dares to attack these nearly ten thousand cavalry in the wild ?
Since he dared to take the bait, he dared to swallow the bait in front of the other party, and let Xie Ai taste the bitter fruit of not being able to steal the chicken!
(End of this chapter)