"The Dabolu is coming to harass him again! Let's talk later!" Zhang Cheng said to Liu Qi, turned around and left for the main team; Liu Qi had no time to ask what he had not finished saying, and shouted loudly: "Get on the horse! Gather!" As he said, he ran to his horse, turned over and waited for the order.

When the soldiers heard the shouts of killing, the soldiers were a little panicked, but they also had been harassed by Dabolu people many times and were invincible soldiers around them. They quickly returned to peace and turned over and waited for the military order.

But until the shouts of killing stopped, no one came to send an order. Liu Qi was puzzled: 'Now the entire army is on the narrow road on the west side of the river. There are mountains to the west. Not only is it difficult for the army to pass through, but it is also very easy to be attacked by the enemy. Now that the front army is attacked, the Fengdu Guardian sent someone to warn him.' He then ordered Meng Xiaojun: "Go ahead and take a look."

"Yes." Meng Xiaojun agreed and went to the front to ask. Soon after, he returned, his expression became a little panicked, and he said to Liu Qi: "Liu Guoyi, it was indeed a harassment by Dabolu people just now; but he did not get out of the mountains and forests to attack, but suddenly more than a dozen small boats drove from the opposite shore, fired rockets on the shore, and fired several rounds of arrows before the army counterattacked, and then drove the ship downstream and fled!"

"The Dabolu people are indeed cunning!" Liu Qi cursed with a smile: "Seeing that it is becoming more and more difficult to disturb the army after getting out of the mountains and forests. Because our army has no ships, they use this method that will hardly cause casualties and can also suppress morale to hinder our army. It is easy to plot."

"But this is too small. How many soldiers can a dozen small boats carry? Even if they use rockets, they can't kill a few soldiers of the Tang Dynasty and burn much food. It's better to save the arrows and use them to guard the Bodhisattva Lao City."

"Guoyi, that's not what he said." Meng Xiaojun hurriedly said, "It's the Dabolu man who has a boat, but our army has no boat. When we arrive on the other side of the Bosathalao City, how can we cross the river to attack the city?"

"How to cross the river?" After hearing Meng Xiaojun's words, Liu Qi suddenly woke up and his face became ugly.

Walk twenty or thirty miles from where they are now, the Shijia River suddenly turned around, flowing from northwest to southeast to southwest; then walk for more than thirty miles, the Shijia River flows into the Xindu River, which flows from southeast to northwest; and the Pusathalao City is southwest of the Xindu River. In other words, if they continue to move forward, the main road will reach the end and face the Xindu River across the Xindu River.

The section of Xindu River is not wide and the water is not very deep, but it is very difficult to wade and swim. The Tang army had no ships and the Dabolu people had ships, so they were likely to be blocked on the other side and could not cross the river to attack the city.

"And," Meng Xiaojun said again: "The Protector of the Crown Capital ordered people to collect arrows shot from the ship. He found that there were signs of Tubo people on it. It can be seen that the Tubo aided Dabolu, and this battle was even more difficult to fight."

"Fake!" Liu Qi couldn't help but curse, saying, "The Tubo people deserve to die!"

"What's the point?" Meng Xiaojun asked in confusion: "What does this mean?"

"A word to curse people in my hometown has no meaning." Liu Qi explained casually and asked again: "What are the instructions for the guardians?"

"The Protector of the Fengdu has not given any extra instructions yet, just instructed to be more careful." Meng Xiaojun said.

"Suddenly, more than a dozen ships rushed out from the other side. It's fine during the day, but how about be careful at night? There are mountains to the west, so it's hard to keep the camp farther away from the river bank." Liu Qi muttered after hearing this.

But he didn't say much. Feng Changqing probably hadn't come up with a good way to prevent it, so he could only give such instructions. Liu Qi could not think of how to prevent it for the time being, so he could only call the captain and the brigade commander, tell them the new sneak attack method of Dabolu Ren, and ask them to strengthen their defense and wait for the order. Everyone agreed quickly.

After a while, the front army restored order, and the soldiers who were shot to death were buried on the spot. The injured were treated, and the fire on the carriage had been extinguished. Feng Changqing ordered the entire army to continue to march. Liu Qi's army continued to ride on the horse and moved forward slowly. He suddenly remembered what Zhang Cheng wanted to say to him just now, but he was marching now and could not go over and ask, so he could only do so.

The next three days, every day, the Dabolu people would either emerge from the mountains or rush out from the other side of the river to harass the Tang army. The river bank road was narrow and inconvenient to arrange the formation. In order to deal with the Dabolu people who were attacking the sneak attack, Feng Changqing had to order the entire army to further slow down. The journey that could be completed in two or three days was completed for five days before he arrived on the other side of the Bosathalao City.

But when he arrived here, the Tang army could not go further. Just as Liu Qi thought when he first heard that Dabolu people had a boat, most of the Tang army could not swim across the river. Feng Changqing had to order people to log and build ships, while summoning generals every day to discuss strategies to defeat the enemy.

On this day, as soon as Liu Qi settled his soldiers, Feng Changqing's personal guard came to pass an order and summoned the generals to discuss how to defeat the enemy. Liu Qi asked a few more instructions and rushed to the central army's tent. He happened to meet Zhang Cheng in front of the tent, and hurriedly saluted: "Governor Zhang."

"Liu Guoyi." Zhang Cheng also returned the gift.

"I heard that Liu Guoyi was shot by Da Bolu Ren today, but is there any trouble?" he asked again.

"No obstacle." Liu Qi smiled and said, "The arrow just brushed through the side of the neck in the morning. If the rocket hadn't been hurt at all, even the rocket would have been slightly burned and its skin was a little red, and now it has disappeared."

"That's good." Zhang Cheng also smiled and said, "It's good that it's okay." But his face became bad again. "But even though the soldiers were not killed or injured, they were still unable to cross the river to attack the city. They were really anxious."

"Who isn't it?" Liu Qi couldn't laugh when talking about this. They had already figured out that there were only four or five thousand soldiers on the other side of the river, and there were only hundreds of Tubo reinforcements. As long as the army crossed the river, they would definitely be able to break through the city; but they were blocked on the other side of the river.

Feng Changqing has tried many methods these days, but it has never been successful. A few soldiers can naturally cross the river, but the Dabolu people arranged thousands of people by the river. Once they found someone crossing the river, they immediately informed the city to join the navy camp and fight against the Tang army at the same time. The soldiers who were preparing to cross the river in the future could not cross the Xindu River again. The number of soldiers who had crossed the river was rare and could not compete with the Dabolu people. In the end, they were either wiped out or retreated to the other side.

"It seems that after the warship is built, 20,000 soldiers can cross the river in one fell swoop, and destroy the Dabolu people on the other side and destroy the Bodhisattva Lao City." Liu Qi sighed.

"But there is not much food or grass." Zhang Cheng said again: "There is only less than a month left in the army. If you can defeat the Bodhisattva Laocheng, you will naturally have no worries; but if so, you can only make a long-term plan."

"This," Liu Qi understood what Zhang Cheng meant, but he was unwilling to think about this aspect, and he was even more unwilling to respond. He suddenly remembered what he had not finished talking to Zhang Cheng that day and asked, "Governor Zhang, what do you want to say to me that day?"
Chapter completed!