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Chapter 1256
Caishui River.

Hao Gou'er moved his legs, and his whole calf was sunk in the mud.

He was not used to wearing armor, and felt that it was too difficult to walk.

Suddenly someone stretched out his hand to him, he looked up and saw that it was Fan Xueyi.

Since the Northern Expedition, Hao Gou'er had been following Fan Xueyi, and he felt that he was good at everything, planning money and food, arranging routes, repairing the city wall, defending the city and fighting. The key is that Fan Xueyi was clearly still a very young scholar.

Taking this opportunity, he couldn't help asking out the doubts in his heart.

"General Fan, why do you know everything? The general also asks you many things."

"I learned it." Fan Xueyi said, "I learned it in the Military Academy."

"Military Academy?" Hao Gou'er couldn't help asking: "What is that?"

"You haven't heard of it. It's been a few years since it was organized, and there are only 120 students. Some are generals in the army, and most of them are like me, in the logistics team or the staff office." Fan Xueyi said: "It's too easy to sacrifice yourself on the battlefield if you don't have battle experience. I will recommend you to the military school later."

"Can I?"

"Okay, didn't you kill a Yuan soldier? You're still young, and you've read books, it's fine."

"But, but when I learn it, isn't the battle all over?"

Fan Xueyi grinned, patted Hao Gou'er on the back, and said, "Don't worry, there will be battles for us to fight in this life. After regaining the Central Plains and pacifying the world, we also need to expand the territory and stabilize the Quartet."

Hao Gou'er looked at Fan Xueyi with admiration, and said, "Thank you General, if I hadn't met General, how could I have such an opportunity."

"It's your father who worked so hard to let you study, that's why..."

In the middle of Fan Xueyi's speech, he suddenly stopped.

He had already heard the whistle sounding ahead.

Then, various orders came over.

"Yuan Jun is chasing after us!"

I saw that while Fan Xueyi was organizing his own defense, he did not forget to remind the commander in the past that he should send someone to Zhengzhou to ask Lu Xianggong for support.

It's not too far from Zhengzhou city...

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"Mr. Lu! Mr. Lu!"

On the Zhengzhou City Tower, Lu Xiufu woke up suddenly when he heard someone calling him.

Unknowingly, he fell asleep sitting on the stool. When he woke up, he felt his head was heavy and his mouth was bitter.

"What's the matter?"

"Report from the scouting horse, Boyan is already thirty li outside the city."

"understood."

"Also, a soldier ran back to report that he was seriously injured, and he kept thinking about seeing you, Mr. Lu. But..."

"But what?"

"He said that the people from Zhongmou County were besieged in Yuhu Lake, but most of them were peasants. How could they escape so far? I'm afraid it wasn't Boyan's plan?"

Lu Xiufu immediately got up and said, "Go, go and have a look."

There was a smell of medicine in the wounded barracks, and moans were everywhere.

A wounded soldier was lying alone in the room, his clothes were half mud and half blood.

"Lu, Mr. Lu..."

"Don't worry, tell me the specific situation..."

Lu Xiufu still treated people with courtesy, after listening to the matter carefully, he went back to the public house to think for a while, then summoned the generals in the city again, and said: "I plan to send troops to rescue the soldiers and civilians in Yuhu Lake. "

"Lu Xianggong, judging by the situation, I'm afraid it's too late. After all, Boyan has a lot of soldiers and horses, and most of them are just civilian husbands."

"It's too late, I have confidence in them."

Lu Xiufu not only had confidence in the officers and men of the Tang army, but also had confidence in Fan Xueyi from what he heard about the military situation.

Fan Xueyi is not only his subordinate, but also his student, and he knows him very well...

~~
Boyan marched to [-] miles away from Zhengzhou and set up camp again.

He sat in the big tent and listened to the news sent back by Tan Ma, and then pondered for a while on the map, and said to himself: "Lu Xiufu? Do you also use civil servants to fight like the Song Dynasty?"

In his eyes, Lu Xiufu's defensive arrangement was barely passable, but very ingenious.He has no talent for fighting, but is very patient and careful.

To break through such a defense, Boyan is confident, but it will take time.

He had already lured Zhang Jue to the east of Kaifeng, and he himself took a time lag to attack Zhengzhou.

Presumably even if Zhang Jue reacted, he would not let the defenseless Kaifeng City not attack.

But in fact, Boyan doesn't care about the gains and losses of a city or a place at all.

He was the one who voluntarily gave up Zhengzhou City at that time.The reason why they want to take it back today is to weaken the Tang army and show Song Guo its power, so that Lu Wenhuan can boldly send troops to Meng Jindu.

Once the Tang army entangles with the Song army, he can lead his troops northward, destroying the Tang army's supply line along the way, and then annihilate Li Xia's main force.

And Lu Xiufu, who guards Luoyang, has a high official position, great reputation, and is soft and weak, which is just used to establish his prestige.

Thinking of this, Tanma hurried into the tent.

"Prime Minister, Lu Xiufu has left the city!"

Boyan couldn't help being surprised, then smiled lightly and asked, "Where did he escape?"

"It's not that I escaped, but I went to Yuhu Lake in the north..."

Boyan was really surprised this time. He turned his head to look at the information and poems about Lu Xiufu collected on the case, and murmured: "Civilian, dare?"

~~
On the muddy land where the river was flooded, people kept getting shot and fell down.

The cavalry of the Yuan army had abandoned their horses and chased after them on foot.

The soldiers of the Tang army ran while carrying their crossbows, and kept looking back at the pursuers, ready to shoot them at any time.

But the range of bows and arrows is farther than their crossbows. The Yuan army didn't chase too close, but just kept firing arrows.

From time to time, some unarmored civilian husbands were shot on the ground, making the rest of the people feel even more panicked.

Until they were chased to the edge of Yu Lake, with the lake water behind them, there was no way out.

"Array! Fight them!"

Fan Xueyi turned around and was the first to line up facing the Yuan army.

At this time, he raised his head and saw the general flag held high in the Yuan army formation, and he recognized that it was the flag of Ali Hague.

"Brothers, do you know? It is Wan Hu from the Yuan Army who is chasing us now, which means that Wan Hu from the Yuan Army can also fight us with food transporters. When our reinforcements come, we will beat them to pieces. !"

This boosted morale a bit.

Fan Xueyi shouted again: "Don't be too nervous after we line up, we can stand to rest and eat something. In this kind of terrain, the Yuan army is unwilling to rush up. They think we have reached a dead end and will surround us and force us to attack. We surrendered. But they didn't expect that we had rations and reinforcements!"

Soon, several other school generals also passed on these words to the soldiers.

"Don't look at these Yuan troops who are fierce on the surface, as long as we refuse to surrender, they will be even more afraid of us!"

It is bad for civil officials to control military generals, but if scholars have learned how to fight seriously or military generals have studied books, it will often have a different effect.

……

A little bit of time passed, and it was dark and bright again.

Hao Gou'er couldn't tell that this was the first few days since he encountered the Yuan army.

Most of the peasants who were on the same team as him were already dead, and when he looked at the team of peasants, except for his father, there were few people he was familiar with.And he himself was injured, and he got sick from soaking in muddy water for too long.

Finally, seeing that they would not surrender, the Yuan army began to blow horns to urge the soldiers to attack.

Mud and blood splashed all over the battlefield.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Hao Gou'er threw down the crossbow in his hand, stuck to the spear several times, and didn't know if he had pierced the Yuan soldiers.In the confusion, he saw that the armor on Fan Xueyi's body was split, and his body was covered in blood. He threw away the spear in fright, and dragged Fan Xueyi back.

"Hiss... Xingbang, tell them again, it's the one you said, Grandpa Yue defeated the golden soldiers here, we won't lose, we won't lose, we can't surrender, if we surrender, we will die..."

Fan Xueyi was a little dizzy, he kept talking, but he still wanted to get up and move forward.

This situation frightened Hao Gou'er even more.

suddenly.

"what is that?!"

"It's over!" Someone howled and shouted: "More Yuan troops are coming, more!"

Fan Xueyi, who was seriously injured, was shocked, and hurriedly said: "Xingbang, help me quickly, what is that... mother, mother, Boyan? Boyan, what is he here for? What is he here for?"

Hao Gou'er was even more frightened.

Just when he was at a loss, there was another voice in the team.

"Here we come, here we come! The reinforcements are here, and it's Mr. Lu!"

……

At this time, if you zoom out, you can see two groups of soldiers and horses marching towards each other on the muddy land beside the Cai River.

And Lu Xiufu's military strength is obviously less than that of Boyan.

He didn't even wear any armor while riding a horse. He was only temporarily in charge of guarding Zhengzhou City, unlike Boyan who was the commander-in-chief of the three armies.

But in terms of momentum, Lu Xiufu is not inferior at all.

With a sullen face, he ordered the soldiers and horses to move forward even though they were already very close to Boyan.

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"stop."

Boyan raised his hand and ordered the soldiers and horses to stop advancing.

After all, this place is too close to Zhengzhou City, he has just arrived, and he is not sure if there is an ambush around.

Moreover, Yuhu Lake is located in the northeast of the city, and the surrounding area is full of muddy land with flooded rivers, which is not conducive to his army's deployment.

"He's quite courageous."

Talking to himself like this, Boyan faintly sensed that something was wrong, so he recruited a team of scouts, and ordered: "You go to the east to explore again, I suspect that someone lent Lu Xiufu's courage..."

Ali Haiya from the north also rode up to meet him, saying: "Prime Minister, in half a day, I will be able to annihilate the three thousand Tang troops who escaped from Zhongmou."

"They are not important now. What you have to think about now is whether to annihilate Lu Xiufu here."

Ali Hague turned around, raised the binoculars, and said, "Let's see if he escapes back to the city in time."

"Don't worry, let's confront him first, and then I will send troops to take Zhengzhou City first."

Ali Hague didn't know what Boyan was worried about, but he felt that Tang Jun was really difficult.

~~
At the same time, ten miles outside Zhongmou City, there were two Yuan army scouts galloping westward.

However, several cavalrymen of the Tang army had already caught up with their horses and shot crossbow arrows one after another.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

Not long after the two Yuan army scouts fell to the ground, they saw dust and smoke billowing in the rear, and more cavalry from the Tang army had already arrived.

The generals commanded troops and horses to re-siege Zhongmou City, and some cavalry began to go south to block the road.

"Quick! Don't let anyone report to Boyan..."

(End of this chapter)