Li Shenfu said on the side: "Brother, since Liu Heita went north to attack Yuchi Gong, what should we do? If Qiyu Culture and take advantage of the situation to attack Mingzhou, it would be great."

Li Shentong turned around and said, "I won't be like this. I jumped into the fire pit where the Zhao and Xia army fought fiercely. Lord Tang was going to take Luoyang. We are just a pawn who explored the way and attacked Mingzhou. Wouldn't we do it for Li Chongjiu?"

Speaking of this, everyone laughed. Li Shenfu smiled and said, "I just said that."

Li Shentong looked around and said immediately: "What we need to do is to maintain the balance of power in Hebei, attack and destroy Yu Culture, and support Liu Heita not to be destroyed by Li Chongjiu. As long as Hebei maintains this, after the Tang Lord attacks Luoyang, he will then send troops to Hebei and Shandong. At that time, Li Chongjiu will not be able to turn the world if he has the help of the grassland cavalry, even if he transfers 400,000 Turkic cavalry, he will not be able to turn the world."

After hearing what Li Shentong said, everyone nodded.

Cui Mingan said, "King of Huai'an, should you ask the emperor for advice on this matter?"

Li Shentong said: "According to the truth, I have already arrived in Chang'an for the request for official documents. However, the emperor entrusted someone with the full authority of Shandong. I decided here to make the following strategy. First, I will destroy Yu culture and then support Liu Heita, and third, I will protect the land of Henoi."

After hearing this, everyone bowed their heads and said yes.

Li Shentong was full of confidence and said with a smile: "Now we might as well watch the wall and station troops here to see how Liu Heita destroyed Yuchi Gong. If Liu Heita defeated us, we would attack Yu Culture and. If Liu Heita was defeated, we would send troops to aid Xia."

Xindu was the rule of Yizhou in ancient times, and Yizhou was the leader of the nine provinces. In ancient times, Yao, Shun and Yu were all capitalized in Hebei, so it was called Jifang, which was a synonym for the ancient Central Plains.

For Liu Heita, the location of Xindu County is extremely important. It is connected to Hejian County in the north, Qinghe River in the south, and Wu'an County in the east, Zhao County in the east, Xiangguo County, Yongji Canal in the west, and the Yellow River circumference.

Liu Heita's 20,000 elite soldiers rushed from Yongnian City, Mingzhou to Changle County, Xindu County. Liu's soldiers walked lightly, but it took only three days to reach Changle County. It was a very fast time, which also showed the elite of Liu Heita's army.

Now outside Changle City, Liu Jun soldiers tied red scarves on their heads and stood all over the mountains with fiery red battle flags. A strong sense of fighting enveloped the entire mountain.

Liu Heita looked at the Yuchi Gong's men in the mountains, and his face showed a solemn expression. His brother Liu Shishan asked Liu Heita: "Brother, all our elite troops are coming. Together with the soldiers of Xindu County, there are 30,000, which is three times that of Yuchi Gong. He can do his best to attack the enemy in one go, why did the eldest brother hesitate at this time?"

Liu Heita looked at Liu Shishan and said, "Why don't you know what you said? It's just that Yuchi Gong, who knows that the soldiers are few, does not retreat here, isn't it a fraud?"

Liu Shishan heard the words and said, "Brother, you don't know that Zhao people have been winning continuously. They are really arrogant. Yuchi Gong heard that he was a soldering general under Li Chongjiu and never took people seriously. This time he even captured Li Tang's Gucheng. This is equivalent to pulling out Li Shentong's face in public. I think he was not aware of his life and death, and deliberately provoking our army here."

Liu Heita looked at Liu Shishan and said, "I'd be fine if this is true."

General Zhang Junli said, "General, but Li Chongjiu's grassland cavalry is still in Youjing. As long as Gao Yang is not lost, there is no need to worry about his cavalry going south. This Yuchi Gong is the fat meat delivered to the door."

Liu Heita nodded and said, "That's right, are the divisions ready?"

Liu Shishan clasped his fists and said, "I'm ready, just wait for the general to give his order."

Liu Heita nodded happily and said, "The whole army attacks!"

Just as the drummer next to Liu Heita was about to beat the drum, suddenly a man from the foot of the mountain rushed up the mountain in a hurry and said, "Let's go, General, something is wrong."

Liu Heita's eyes sterned. Seeing that the other party was Ling Jing, he said, "What are you doing when you don't stay in Mingzhou? In such a hurry, was Gaoyang City broken by Li Chongjiu, or was Gao Yaxian being rebelled by Li Chongjiu?"

"None of them." Ling Jing shook his head, and the man was still gasping violently.

When Liu Heita heard that Gaoyang City had not been lost, he laughed and said, "Since Gaoyang City has not been lost, what can I be afraid of?"

Ling Jing looked pale and shook his head and said, "General, you don't know. Today, Li Chongjiu used more than 20 fire ships to burn the iron chains on the Changlu City River. His naval ships had already moved south along Yongji Canal."

Liu Heita was shocked when he heard this and said, "It turned out to be Yongjiqu!"

The Changlu County of Hejian County, now close to Yanshan County, is always an important transit place for Hebei Salt Road, and from Yongji Canal to Luoyang Capital. Because it is adjacent to Yongji Canal and the salt industry, the place travels from south to north and has a prosperous business, which also led to the imperial court's establishment of a water gate here to supervise ships traveling from south to north.

There are now a raging fire on the river surface outside Changlu County. The Xia Navy stationed in Changlu County and the previous Hengjiang iron chain are now burning on the river surface. Half of the ships sinks to the bottom of the water, and the other half is blazing with fire. Corpse floating on the river surface shows that a fierce battle has just been experienced here.

On the north of Yongji Canal, hundreds of large and small water boats covered the canal river. The fiery red flag of Zhao, inserted across the bow of the ship, was like sparks spreading from afar, covering the entire river from afar.

The troops transport ships opened the way forward, loaded with Zhao soldiers, and the ships that were deeply in the water were food ships that ate the Zhao army. Nearly ten thousand elite cavalry of Zhao army along the river were walking along the river. The Zhao army's Wansheng army and the elite cavalry of the cavalry regiment raised fire to burn the Xia army and piled up military funds at the port, turning the port into a white land.

"Report to the king, our army has captured Changlu County."

Li Chongjiu and Zhang Xuansu were on a large ship. When Xue Wanche reported, they all nodded.

Ji Chuan asked on the side: "The Xia army is mostly in the navy here. The navy is destroyed and the water pass is broken. It is difficult for Changlu County to not surrender."

Xue Wanche said, "The county magistrate originally had to resist stubbornly, but was killed by the county magistrate in the city. The county magistrate surrendered with his skull opening door, so he did not have any effort."

Li Chongjiu looked at Zhang Xuansu and said with a smile: "I remember the county magistrate, it is your inner supporter who instigated the rebellion."

Zhang Xuansu nodded with a smile.

It turned out that Li Chongjiu personally led an army of 30,000, but did not go straight to Gaoyang City from Youjing by land, but boarded a boat at most of Yongnu County and went south from Yongji Canal by water.

Before, Li Chongji had already ordered Lin Dangfeng, and Zhou Bo had recruited hundreds of water-transported merchant ships and grain ships in Youjing. This time, Li Chongji went to Yongji Canal, and used these hundreds of ships to load his 20,000 infantry and 30,000 troops for one month's military rations. Then he ordered the cavalry of the Tuqi regiment and the Wansheng Army to advance along the river along the ship, and to advance along the land and water to directly attack the downstream of the Yongji Canal.

Zhang Xuansu spread the map and said, "From Changlu County to the south, you need to go through Gonggao, Xindu County, Wuyi, Qinghe County, Zhangnan, Wucheng, Qingyang, Wuyang County, Yongji, Guantao, you can reach Daming east of Mingzhou, from Daming to the south, and pass Neihuang to reach Liyangcang."

Looking from the map, the Yongji Canal is like a link, connecting all the Hebei heavy cities. Mingzhou is Liu Heita's base camp, and Liyang Cang has food and fodder to replenish.

Zhang Xuansu smiled and said, "Liu Heita stationed in Gaoyang City with elegant wise men, but he was just a way to eliminate our Hebei grain route. Our army transported grain through Yongji Canal, so the troops, money and grain can be reached from the canal and continuously to Mingzhou. Why not be afraid that Liu Heita will destroy our grain route?"

All the generals smiled, and even Ji Chuan could not agree with Zhang Xuansu's opinion and said, "When Yang Guang built the Yongji Canal to transfer the grain from Henan to Youjing for the purpose of transferring the Liao army. Our army used waterways to transport grain twice the result, and could directly attack the Mingzhou, Liu Heita's confidant. Liu Heita did this, how dare he leave Mingzhou and support Gaoyang and Xindu could only trap Mingzhou. Our army divided several troops and could sweep across the cities in Hebei, isolated Liu Heita in Mingzhou, and defeated him in the last battle."

Li Chongjiu nodded and said, "It should be like this."

Just now, Xue Wanshu reported: "The water barriers on the river surface have been removed, and the navy can go south with the flow."

Li Chongjiu nodded and said, "I recruited civil servants from Changlu County, and sent boats for the navy and trainers. As for generals such as Wugunai, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, etc., if you encounter a stubborn enemy, you don't have to fight. Just pass by the city. Our army's target is Mingzhou, not in the county around the canal."

Afterwards, Li Chongjiu's hundreds of ships, loaded with military rations and horses, hung sails, and headed south along the Yongji Canal. Generals such as Wugunai, Qin Qiong, and Luo Shixin led cavalry to advance with the ship.

When the Xia army on both sides of the Yongji Canal saw the Zhao army passing by, they were frightened and dared not go out of the city to intercept it. Li Chongjiu recruited 10,000 civilians from Changlu County and pulled the fibers with the ship.

Li Chongji Navy's Navy went south along Yongji Canal and arrived in Gonggao County, suddenly heard that the waterway ahead was blocked.

It turned out that Gonggao County was stationed by Dong Kangmai, a general under Liu Heita. The Gonggao County naval army had twenty small boats and five hundred naval troops.

Dong Kangmai heard that Li Chongjiu's main army arrived along the river. He immediately ordered all the navy troops to sink ships on the river to stop Li Chongjiu's army from moving south. But Dong Kangmai did not expect that,

Li Chongjiu had been prepared for this move, and the five thousand civil servants recruited came forward to cooperate with Li Chongjiu's naval army to clean up the wreck.

The civil servant went directly to Li Chongjiu, pulled the shipwreck and dragged it to the shore. Dong Kangmai wanted to dispatch troops to attack and destroy the civil servants to clear the ship, but saw a large number of cavalry on the shore, and immediately retreated.

In just one hour, the water surface was cleaned up and dried up. Li Chongjiu's naval army continued to move south, while the Xia naval army sank in vain.

Xia Jun Dong Kangmai was on a hill in the distance, watching the Zhao naval army storm and heading south along the canal, and he was about to vomit blood.

Later, the governor of Zhangnan County of Xindu County announced his surrender to Zhao State, and Li Chongjiu's army was even more unobstructed. The army advancing by water seemed to have entered an unmanned land. The garrisons of Wuyi, Wucheng and Zongcheng counties along the Xia army canal only dare to retreat to defend the city, but not leave the city.
Chapter completed!