The morning light is slight, and the Yongji Canal outside Daming City.

This place has become the base of the Youzhou Navy, but above the river surface dozens of feet wide, thousands of sails are like clouds and masts are like forests, covering the sky and the sun.

The naval army battle flag with the word Zhao on the bow of the ship is flying.

Hundreds of flat-bottomed tugboats were heading north along the Yongji Canal to Daming. These tugboats arrived with nearly 50,000 stones of grain and grass from Liyang Warehouse and supplied to more than 100,000 troops for food. The continuous grain in Liyang Warehouse not only greatly saved Li Chongjiu's current insufficient reserve of military rations, but also far easier from Liyang to Daming to Daming, traveling from waterways to Youjing to Daming, saving thousands of miles of road turnover and saving waste of manpower and material resources.

It can be seen from this that the capture of Li Yangcang is of great significance to Li Chongjiu's conquest of Mingzhou this time.

Among a grain ship, more than a dozen ships with striking corners were carried by the bows, and they were slowly moving on the river. The warships were three-layer decks, which were much larger than those of the two-layer decks.

Amid the flat-bottomed tugboats, a warship with a head higher than the head was parked towards the pier on Yongji Canal.

There were already a general of Zhao army waiting on the dock. The auxiliary army at the dock and the temporary civil servants were transporting grain and rice from the grain ships, and everyone was very busy.

Finally, the ship was docked and anchored. The Zhao army dozens of leather-armored infantrymen held their shields to the dock to be on guard, while blocking the view of outsiders.

This scene made the boatman, sailor, and the servants on the dock unable to help but look at each other, wanting to see who was coming, such a big formation.

But then another grain ship arrived, and everyone couldn't help but get busy again.

After the ship docked, Li Chongjiu, Xue Wanshu, and Li Wenxiang disembarked from the ship. Zhang Xuansu, Guo Xiaoke, Li Deyi and other Zhao army generals were welcomed by each other on the shore.

Li Chongjiu looked at Daming Wharf and unloaded grains up and down. He was very satisfied with the busy scene and asked Zhang Xuansu: "How is Daming City alert?"

When Zhang Xuansu heard Li Chongjiu say this, he immediately knew that Li Chongjiu was concerned about the safety of the army's food and heavy land. At that moment, Zhang Xuansu said: "Since Liu Heita abandoned Daming, our army's 20,000 troops have entered this city, and Guo. The two generals Li set up formations on the Mingshui River thirty miles away. The city of Daming is absolutely safe."

Li Chongjiu nodded, and at this time a general came forward to see him and said, "Li Deyi, pay homage to King Zhao."

Li Chongjiu helped the other party up and said warmly: "Xiao Ke's advancement was so fast this time, which was really beyond the expectation of the orphanage, thanks to Li Qing's help."

Li Deyi lowered his head and said, "The King of Zhao praised him, but he was ashamed of being accused of taking responsibility."

"Okay," Li Chongjiu looked at Zhang Xuansu and said, "Li Qing's proposal to reward. Has the Secretariat come down?"

Zhang Xuansu said, "It's not that fast yet."

Li Chongjiu said, "I won't wait anymore, I will issue an edict to confer Li Qing as Marquis of Pingyuan."

Li Deyi immediately thanked him. Guo Xiaoke saw Li Deyi’s reward on the side, and his face looked quite proud, but he seemed to have no intention of praising him as the general. He was a little surprised.

"I would like to ask King Zhao to enter the city to rest." Zhang Xuansu said.

Li Chongjiu waved his hand and said, "No need, I will keep Xue Wanche, and suddenly I led 15,000 troops to guard Liyang, and monitor Henan, Yu Wenhua and Li Tang. So this time, Daming's troops were limited, and this was our army's grain storage. Although our army had the support of Liyang's military rations, this place must not be taken away by Liu Heita, otherwise it would repeat the mistakes of the battle of Yuan Cao Guandu. Follow me to take a look outside the city."

Li Chongjiu inspected Daming City Defense on one side. The granary was built in the city. The military rations transported from the wharf were continuously transported from the east gate to the granary. The granary was closely guarded by soldiers on all sides, and the preparations for setting fires and moisture were also very comprehensive.

All this depends on Zhang Xuansu, who has been in charge of military affairs in Daming City.

Xue Wanshu asked, "Do you dare to ask if the king is going to use Daming as the camp for the battle to attack Mingzhou?"

Li Chongjiu asked back: "Why does Xue Qing think so?"

Xue Wanshu said: "There are three benefits to the name of the name: the name is the border of Yongji Canal, which is convenient for water transportation, mobilizing troops and transporting military rations; the second is the convenience of geographical advantages, you can connect to Liyang when you go south, Linqing when you go west, and Mingzhou when you go east; the third is the granary here, and you should set up heavy troops to guard it."

Li Chongjiu shook his head and said, "I am not in Daming, but in Mingzhou."

Xue Wanshu asked in surprise: "Does the king want to take charge of this battle yourself?"

Li Chongjiu asked back and said, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Xuansu said from the side: "Your Majesty, it's not a day or a day to attack Mingzhou. I think it's better to send a general to do it."

Li Chongjiu said, "The battle to siege Mingzhou is related to the success or failure of Hebei. How can I stay out of the matter? I pretend to be others. I don't need to persuade me anymore."

Speaking of this, the general on the side spread out the map in front of Li Chongjiu. Li Chongjiu pointed at the sheepskin map with a horse whip and said, "Liu Heita stationed heavy troops in Yongnian City to build a strong city. If our army wants to attack Yongnian City, it must first sweep the periphery, erect it as an isolated city, and then work together to attack. According to the plan, our main generals and Xu Shiji continued to fight Mingzhou together with north and south."

Xue Wanshu said, "Your Majesty, although Li Shentong is defeated, Li Tang may still intervene in the Hebei incident."

Li Chongjiu was on the map and said immediately: "Send the order and order Ying Hefu to lead 30,000 cavalry to take down Wu'an for me, cut off the reinforcements from the Shangdang direction of Li Tang, and tie my pockets up!"

The autumn wind is getting colder, and this battle between Zhao Xia has been dragged into October.

The Yellow River ushered in early winter, with piles of dark gray clouds pressing down on the earth. At dusk, winter rain fell from the sky, and gray rain fog enveloped a bare forest. Old trees stood gloomy in the rain, and crows cried from time to time on the branches, which was particularly desolate and cold.

The three thousand rooms of Qia Shu's army received the cavalry of Xi's army and marched in the rain.

Qi A Shu has always been glad that the cavalry and horses of Xi's army were all nailed to the horses. Otherwise, in the past seasons, the horses would easily rot from their hooves.

"stop!"

Qi A Shu touched the raindrops on his face, and Zhuma looked around vigilantly. At this moment, the rain gradually stopped, the sky became darker and darker, and the surroundings were pitch black, and the entire earth was completely covered by misty gray mist.

"What's wrong with the military leader?"

Qia Shu said, "No, I'm getting quieter along the way, and I don't even have a figure. This is so strange."

The generals on the side pulled their horses one after another, and said, "The army leader is so cautious, I think it's okay."

Qia Shu scolded: "How many wars have you fought? What do you know? This Han area does not have to be on the grassland, and it will not be so crowded for a hundred miles. What's more, I heard that this Wu'an County has a large population in the Han area."

"drive!"

A fast horse galloped over, and it was the cavalry scout of Shidexi's army.

"Military Master! On the opposite side of the mountain, I found many torches, as if the people were rushing in the rain."

After hearing this, Qia Shu ordered the Xi cavalry in the room to lead all the horses into the forest to hide, and led his light cavalry to investigate.

Qia Shu came to a valley full of dense forests and hidden in a valley. Looking up, he saw soldiers wearing gray clothes holding torches on the hillside like long dragons marching on the stretching hills.

Qia Shu said, "This is the enemy, not a friend!"

"Do you want to avoid it?"

Qia Shu said, "These people came from the south and from the north, but they went to the west, obviously heading towards Wu'an. It was probably the Xia army's troops."

After hearing this, the generals said, "Go to Wu'an, so they think the same as ours, and they all want to rob Wu'an."

Qia Shu said, "That's right, since you encounter it on the road, you can't let them go."

As the vanguard of the 30,000-strong army of British Hefu, Qia Shu, his troops were given a light cavalry in the Xi army. He encountered the Xia army's reinforcements to Wu'an halfway.

The two armies met on a narrow road halfway. Qia Shu continued to fall in the night, and suddenly ambushed Zhang Junli's troops.

The two armies fought fiercely in the rain for an hour, but the ambush went smoothly. It was very dark. The two armies each raised their torches and fought in a mess. After fighting for a while, they each found something wrong, so they broke away from the battle. After paying the price of more than a hundred casualties, they did not take advantage.

So the two armies set up camp.

After dawn the next day, Ying Hefu led the main force of the grassland cavalry to the vicinity of Wu'an City. After hearing that the Xia army was also interested in robbing Wu'an, he immediately sent 10,000 troops to seize Wu'an City, and he led the main force to fight the Xia army with Qia Shu.

Twenty thousand grassland cavalry lined up in the east of Wu'an, while Zhang Junli's troops had less than 5,000 troops.

Zhang Junli retreated to the narrow valley to camp, which made Ying Hefu's military strength advantage unable to be developed. The two armies fought fiercely from the morning to the evening, for four consecutive hours, and the sky was dark.

Just when Zhang Junli died heavily and Ying Hefu was about to capture Zhang Junli's camp, Liu Heita led the reinforcements of Xia army in Mingzhou to arrive and launched a fierce attack on the flanks of Ying Hefu's troops. At that time, the wind and rain were as dark as it suddenly rained heavily. After learning that Liu Heita's reinforcements arrived, Zhang Junli's soldiers also fought back frantically.

The Ying Hefu army was torn apart from the flank by Liu Heita. Ying Hefu knew that he was unable to defeat the enemy, so he immediately ordered the withdrawal of the troops. The cavalry of the Xi army retreated from the battlefield in the dark.

Liu Heita defeated Ying Hefu in the Battle of Wu'an, but Ying Hefu sent 10,000 cavalry to break through Wu'an City.

However, Liu Heita defeated the grassland cavalry that was feared by the Xia army in the Battle of Wu'an, but gave the Xia army a shot of a heart-warming attack, which also gave the Xia army, who had been losing their troops and land in the Battle of Hebei, a chance to breathe.

Although Ying Hefu was a minor defeat, he also conquered Wu'an, so he placed the memorial of apologizing and the memorial of conquering Wu'an and sent it to Li Chongjiu.

At this time, Li Chongjiu led 20,000 troops to mongzhou and marched to Handan City.
Chapter completed!