Sheng Yong, who was returning south in panic all the way, was completely disappointed by the river. He was chased by the Yan army, not only to say that he was like a stray dog, but also heard the news that the base camp Dezhou was attacked, so he hurriedly attacked Cangzhou and led the remaining troops to rescue.

It was obvious that a fierce battle had just passed on the riverside. Sheng Yong's nearly 100 naval warships were blocked at the entrance of the river and were bombarded and all sunk.

Blue smoke was emitting everywhere, and thousands of corpses of the officers were floating in the water, while dazzling Yan army flags were dancing on the top of the city of Dezhou in the distance.

Without a ship, Sheng Yong, who was less than 5,000 people around him, had to turn to march along the river bank, hoping to collect civilian ships and return to Shandong and wait for an opportunity to retake Dezhou.

At this moment, Xu Hao stood on the high deck of the ship behind a two-story warship, staring at the front, and was surrounded by nearly two hundred warship guards of various types.

Because Xu Da came out of the mountain, Xu Hao asked the King of Yan to agree to return to Liaodong in a hurry, and ordered all ships in Liaodong to mobilize 15,000 infantry to Dalian along the coastline. He ordered Mu Xi to raise all the warships under his command, and to take five thousand soldiers from Shanhaiwei to cross the Bohai Sea, one south and one north, and after joining the Bohai Bay, they went upstream together.

In Qingyun County, a abandoned ship landed, and the sea boat was driven by a small number of crew members to return on the same road. That night, 500 dead soldiers climbed the mountain wall to seize the city gate and captured 3,000 Qingyun County officials and soldiers.

The next day, he continued to march quickly. With 20,000 troops and a large number of muskets and artillery, he captured Dezhou City, which had been repeatedly changing hands and repairing the city walls in just one day. The guards led 8,000 soldiers to throw down the mountains of food and supplies and headed towards Jinan.

The navy admiral and other generals died one after another. Li Yun, a thousand navy households anchored in the port, decided to surrender collectively. It turned out that Li Yun was the cousin of Eunuch Li and had long wanted to surrender to the King of Yan. This time, Xu Hao led his troops to pick up the Yan army into the water camp.

Xu Hao obtained 500 warships in one fell swoop, and later surrounded and completely defeated Sheng Yong's Cangzhou Navy.

Mu Xi took three thousand people to ride the captured war horses and put on the armor of the official army. In order to distinguish between each other, everyone put the new style of epaulettes on them and headed straight to Guting and Pei County in Jining. Xu Hao led the fleet to follow him.

The grain ships coming and going and docking on the shore were invisible at a glance, and there were tens of thousands of ships. Xu Hao put down Qianlijing and was shocked and said, "Since the launch of the army, this canal has been the lifeblood of the official army. In the fall of Dezhou, the court hoarded food and supplies here. It seems that there are at least millions of food. Li Qiu, hurry up and report to the King of Yan to send troops to pick him up. It would be a pity to burn it."

The soldiers on the boat were secretly admiring the rare alien beauties. Baihua, who was so delicate and hot, did not care about the greedy man's eyes and said with a smile: "When will the young master keep me by my side? I am eager to see you."

Xu Hao smiled and said, "Is it not good to be free? You have become a thousand households. If you want to be windy, you will be rainy. Being an ordinary woman is not suitable for you."

"Then I will choose a man to marry, young master, don't regret it." Baihua deliberately straightened her chest.

Xu Hao smiled and said, "You have been running around for me over the past few years. If possible, I want to send you back to your hometown to be the governor of Persia. Of course, women as leaders will not be recognized by the Islamic world, and there are many difficulties."

Baihua said in surprise: "Will the lord lead troops to Persia to compete for power in the future?"

Xu Hao said: "I vaguely remember that there was a queen in Egypt. Later, she was ruled by the Roman Empire for six hundred years and was conquered by the Arabs until now. I did not want to compete for power but to get a trade route to Europe. Naturally, I hope that the local king or governor would be my own people."

"What do you mean by sir?" Baihua narrowed her eyes thoughtfully.

Xu Hao smiled and said, "If you want to return to your hometown, then I will help you with your help. Occupy the capital of Egypt and make you a queen. At that time, whether the king dies or lives is in your mind."

Baihua smiled bitterly and said, "Young Master is so proud of me. Baihua is just an ordinary woman. She doesn't understand politics anymore."

Xu Hao said: "Then stay in China. Politics is the ugliest thing, and those who play power often die from power."

"Kill!" At this moment, Mu Xi, who had been mixed into the dock, began to lead people to rush. Three thousand elite soldiers attacked everywhere, and the canal transport soldiers who had almost never fought a war were immediately shocked and scattered.

Xu Hao sent a hundred fast ships to block the retreat of the grain ships. All the large warships raised their sails and flew on the oars. The Yan army on the side of the ship shot and killed the resisters.

"Blast the city gate." Mu Xi chased the escaped official army and rushed to the city gate. Taking advantage of the chaos, he simply piled up explosive packs on the grain truck and pushed them under the city gate in a sparse rain of arrows.

Boom! The not-tall and sturdy city gate immediately collapsed, and it also destroyed the resistance of the military and civilians. People fled outside the city to cry and shout for their parents.

Qian Fei, the military general defending the city, gathered 3,000 people to rescue him, and was fired by the 5,000 musketeers who were disembarking. Qian Fei was so scared that he watched one-third of the soldiers die on the spot, and quickly shouted: "Surrender, we surrender."

Xu Hao did not get off the boat. Under Baihua's gaze, the Yan army gradually took control of the situation and ordered: "Transfer all the food, military, and equipment onto the boat and go to Cangzhou along the canal."

There are so many things that only carry on board, appease the boatman, etc., and at least six or seven days are required. A large number of reinforcements will come to the two sides of the Taiwan Strait at any time. This is related to the life and death of the official army. Who dares to neglect it?

The problem is that Xu Hao is really reluctant to burn it all. Even if he is robbed back by the government army, how could he bear to burn it?

As the saying goes, people die for money and birds die for food. Now what Xu Hao needs most is to ensure that all parties have accurate information, and then consider staying or leaving according to the movement and stillness. He cannot destroy the lives of his brothers for the sake of the hard work of the people.

However, Xu Hao was confident that he would defeat tens of thousands of officials. As long as he did not encounter heavy encirclements of more than 100,000 people, he could escape unscathed by firearms and rivers. At most, he would give up the seized materials.

At the same time, Zhu Di, who was victorious, sent envoys to report the victory to Beiping, but the hundred people sent were blocked by more than 10,000 government troops stationed in Shanjia Bridge on the south bank of the Hutuo River, and the road was blocked.

The messenger returned that night to report, and Zhu Di kept his father-in-law. He led his troops north to attack his camp, but he defeated him in a battle.

The entire army then moved to Louzi Camp, and Xu Da, who received the news, said: "Xu Hao asked to send troops to support him. Then I took 20,000 people to attack Cangzhou and open up the canal. Wu Jie, who is stationed in Zhending, is an incompetent person. Even if Chen Hui and Qu Neng are not allowed to do so, Wu Jie was defeated by Sheng Yong, and the entire army was disloyal and moral, and there was no need to worry about 100,000 people."

Zhu Di asked humbly: "I heard that Sheng Yong has been defeated. I will not dare to leave. I will not be able to resist the city and hold on to it."

Xu Da smiled and said, "How can Wu Jie be your opponent? The opponent has difficulties with the other party. You can sit close to you but dare not fight, and your official position is not guaranteed."

Zhu Di smiled and nodded, and ordered Zhu Gaoxu to follow his father-in-law to lead 20,000 cavalry to Cangzhou at night. He targeted Qu Neng and Chen Hui's radical character of daring to fight and fighting, and ordered the entire army to deliberately disband. He went everywhere to find food, creating the illusion of emptiness of the camp for the enemy.

Some lieutenants dressed up as civilians, took the village women and children to pretend to hide from the Yan army, and fled to the city, claiming that the Yan army was getting food everywhere and there was no news in the camp.

Sure enough, Wu Jie, who had long wanted to show his skills, was very happy. In addition, he was repeatedly scolded by the court for being incompetent in the past two years and was absent from his time to spend money. The pressure on him was too great, so how could he dare to let the King of Yan be unscrupulous in Hebei? Therefore, he decided to go out and attack the Yan army without preparation.

On March 7, Zheng Heng, the commander-in-chief who spyed on the intelligence, reported that Wu Jie led his army to be stationed on the north bank, 70 miles away from the Yan army.

Zhu Di said to the generals: "The thief does not overestimate his ability and wisdom. He wants to fight, just like a breasted dog attacking a tiger or a female attacking a goose. Even if there is a fight, he will die and follow him. Moreover, Sheng Yong has been defeated, and now he is here again, which is the result of God's will."

He ordered the entire army to cross the river in the dark, but unexpectedly, the commander Lu Rong said: "Today, the ten evils are defeated, and the military strategists are afraid of, so they should not send troops."

Zhu Di frowned and said, "I am seeking war thousands of miles away, but I am worried that the thief will not come out. I have tried to lure them all. Now that he is outside, it is the autumn when the thief dies. The time is no longer available, but the opportunity is easy to lose. Now that the opportunity is like this, how can we slow down? If you are slow down, the thief retreats. The city is strong and the food is enough. If you attack it, you will not respond to the battle, but you will not be able to retreat. If you want to retreat, you will be blocked by it. If you are restrained from small taboos, you will eventually miss the big plan."

After saying that, Zhu Di took the lead in crossing the river and found that the river was deeper and the cavalry could cross it, but the infantry's baggage might be flooded by the river. Therefore, Zhu Di ordered the cavalry to walk upstream and the infantry's baggage to cross downstream.

The generals had no choice but to follow, and thousands of cavalry splashed and crossed the river smoothly. After walking twenty miles with the King of Yan, they met nearly a thousand scouts of the official army. After a brief confrontation, they each withdrew their troops.

Zhu Di was afraid that Wu Jie would retreat to Zhending overnight, and once again, he personally led hundreds of cavalrymen to go around the enemy's back, and forcibly broke into the enemy's formation in the second half of the night.

The official army was prepared for a long time. In order to deal with the invincible firearms of the Yan army, hundreds of wooden watchtowers were built, which were as high as four or five meters and very strong. Wu Jie stood upstairs and looked at them, commanding the official army to fire crossbows and shoot the Yan army.

Thousands of arrows came towards Zhu Di like rain, shooting a flag like a hedgehog, and the Yan army suffered many casualties. At this time, tens of thousands of cavalry came overwhelmingly, dragging the official army despite the casualties.

After more than two hours of fighting, when the sun just emerged, Zhang Fu's Divine Machinery Camp finally arrived. With a cannon, Wu Jie's self-solid watchtower suddenly turned into huge fires.

In this battle, the official army lost 60,000 people. Wu Jie and his defeated generals retreated to Zhending and were no longer able to pose a threat to the Yan army. Coupled with Sheng Yong's miserable defeat, no one in the north could stop the King of Yan from moving forward except for the Northwest Army, which was watching the tiger fight.

The next day, Zhu Di sent someone to return the military flag with arrows like hedgehog hair to Peiping, and wrote a letter to tell the prince to collect it carefully and leave it to future generations to see, so that they can know that it is difficult to control disasters today.

Gu Cheng, the veteran general who has been through the battlefield, has been with Zhu Yuanzhang since he was a child and has seen various fierce battles. Seeing this battle flag, he was moved to tears and said to the prince: "I have been in the army since I was a child and have fought many times. Now I am old and have never seen this battle."

On the other side, Xu Da sent people to sneak into Cangzhou City from the river. After making a promise, the frightened generals surrendered. After entering the city, Xu Da asked Zhu Gaoxu to go south to support Xu Hao without stopping. Zhu Gaoxu was eager to make contributions and left his father's instructions behind him, leaving his grandfather to stay in the city. He sent a hundred personal soldiers to protect him, but in fact, Xu Da disappeared the next day.
Chapter completed!