The battle on the ground of Donggou Beach was fierce, the Yellow River was fighting, landing on the beach, arrays of people were facing the enemy, heavy cavalry showed their power, and light cavalry swept wildly. From night to morning, morning to noon, the war between the two sides exceeded 100,000, and the battle was dark and the blood flowed into a river.

But at the end, when the battle was the most intense landing, there was no flag of the Hebei Army or soldiers on the battlefield. The only thing that could make Li Mi and others believe that they did block Chen Kefu was the hundreds of warships in the Yellow River Hexinzhou, which was only ten miles away from them, and the Chen-word star flying on the huge warship.

Several times, Li Mi stood on Dongguanling and saw the Chen-word star several times under the big banner with a thousand-mile mirror. Chen Kefu appeared on the five-story high warship deck wearing his iconic armor. Although the distance was too far and it was a bit blurry, Li Mi still believed that it was indeed Chen Kefu.

As for why Chen Kefu did not send one soldier and one soldier to the battle, Li Mi thought in his heart that Chen Kefu was despising him, and in the second place he wanted to kill people by using the sword. He used their Wei army troops to help him consume the Jianghuai army, Wang Xuanying, who had just defected to him. Especially after the amazing combat power of the Jianghuai army on the battlefield, Li Mi thought in his heart that he was even more convinced of the judgment of killing people by using the sword.

The strength shown by the Jianghuai Army this time was too amazing, and even Li Mi, who had been neighbors with Wang Shichong for two years, was shocked. The changes were so diverse that it could not be moved like a turtle or a hedgehog that were full of thorns, which made Li Mi worry.

Then the five thousand heavy cavalry that the Jianghuai Army suddenly used was even more shocking, and Li Mi's eyes almost fell out. At the beginning, he always thought that it was Chen Kefu's heavy cavalry in the Liaodong Pojun Camp or the Youzhou Iron Cavalry. But later he found out that the charge soldiers were obviously wearing the armor of the Jianghuai Army and fighting the flag of the Jianghuai Army. He believed with a gloomy face that they were indeed heavy cavalry of the Jianghuai Army.

This discovery made Li Mi both shocked and frightened. The Wei army has developed to this day. He has only more than 20,000 elite cavalry. Even if he adds all the other mixed cavalry together, he will not exceed 50,000 people. Among these 50,000 cavalry, there are truly powerful cavalry like the Jianghuai heavy cavalry or the Liaodong heavy cavalry. Until now, he has only pieced together a small army of only 50,000 people.

But now, Wang Shichong's son actually threw out a total of five thousand in a quiet moment, fully equipped, well-trained and highly-trained heavy-armed cavalry. How could he not be shocked? How could he not be afraid?

Not only him, Li Yuan, Shen Luoyan and others on Dongguanling were also stunned and thoughtful. If it weren't for today's battle, they would never have known that the Jianghuai Army still had such strong strength.

On the other hand, Wang Shichong has such strong strength. He took the initiative to show weakness to Chen Kefu and submitted a slander. This made them, who were planning to defeat Chen Kefu, feel a great shock in their hearts.

While worried, they were also glad that Wang Shichong, the old fox, died. Unfortunately, he had secretly accumulated such strong strength, but was poisoned to death by Li Shimin. If he knew now that his son Wang Xuanying had worked so hard for Chen Kefu, he took out all the Wang family's family's assets, and he didn't know if he would crawl out of the ground and be angry to death again.

Some people were angry, some were worried, and some were lucky, but no one would have thought that in Donggou, except for Wang Xuanying's 100,000 Jianghuai Army, there were only 600 warships from Chen Kefu and Hebei soldiers with only 5,000 people.

No one expected that Chen Kefu was blocked by the Wei army and dared to divide the troops and attack the Wei army.

War is a trick! Li Mi and others forgot that the more impossible things seem, the more likely they are. If they really studied Chen Kefu's battles in Ping Liao, they might find that Chen Kefu fought more of this kind of battle when he defeated Goguryeo.

As early as a few hours before the water battle, Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke took a total of 30,000 Hebei soldiers to land on a secret beach on the south bank of the Yellow River, and from there they passed a very secret path controlled by the Special Service Department and crossed the Mang Mountain.

The spies of the special department not only need to spy on military information, but also control the mountains and rivers in various places, draw maps, buy, assassinate enemy figures, develop spies, and send lurking spies.

With the path mastered by the Special Service Department, even the cliffs, even the forbidden area that is said to be "not even a bird can fly", even if it is called a place where there is no way to go, the soldiers of Lu and Guo are free to travel. The path they walked on is indeed a dead end in general.

Because the north of the path is directly facing the Yellow River. But ordinary people don’t know that for ordinary people, it may be a dead end. But for the Hebei Army with tens of thousands of people and a Hebei Army with an engineer unit that specializes in building bridges across mountains and rivers, as long as there is a small road, they can create a big road. Mountain streams and cliffs that ordinary people cannot cross, but they cannot stop the Hebei Army.

In order not to cause the Wei army to discover it, 30,000 people walked carefully in the mountains and streams of Mangshan in the dark. They set off on the road not long after it was dark until noon the next day that they finally climbed the Mangshan, which was only a hundred feet high and dozens of miles long.

The gray-haired member of the Special Service Division in front of the team bowed to Lu Shishen, "General, if you climb over this small hill, you can already go down to Mangshan in front. Then there are village farmlands in front, and twenty miles eastward will be Luokoucang City."

Lu Shishen patted the guide's shoulder heavily. He knew that although this old man was a member of the Special Service Division, he was actually just a spy on the outside of the Special Service Division developed in various places. However, his gratitude to this old man was still from the bottom of his heart. If it weren't for his leadership, they would not have found such a path in that secret mountain.

Crossing the mountain means that their mission is half completed.

During this trip, Lu Shishen brought 30,000 troops to cross the Mang Mountain. Their mission was to bypass Li Mi's army and go from behind to Luokou Cang City. Then, with lightning-thunderous forces, he captured Luokou Cang City, which had only 20,000 defenders left.

According to the information from the Special Service Department, Luokou Cang City had stored a total of 20 million stones of grain and grass at this time. This amount made Chen Kefu feel a little moved. However, it might be possible to capture Luokou Cang, but it is unlikely to take away the grain and grass here.

Luokou Cang City is about twenty miles upstream of the Luo River estuary into the Yellow River. It is the largest granary built in the Sui Dynasty. There are 3,000 grain kilns that can store 8,000 stones of grain. Cang City is close to the Yellow River and the canal, making it easy to transport. On the other hand, it happened to be built on the edge of the Luo River, and the grain in the warehouse is also very convenient to transport to the eastern capital Luoyang.

In terms of defense, the northeast corner of Luokou Cang City is only forty or fifty miles, which is the Sishui Hulao Pass. Twenty miles southeast is the Baihua Valley connecting Luoyang and Xingyang. Only twenty miles northwest corner is only twenty miles ahead, and there is a natural danger of the Yellow River, and then there is a Mangshan as a screen. The southwest corner is less than twenty miles away, which is Yanshi, the eastern barrier of the Eastern Capital City.

Geographically speaking, there is the Yellow River, Mangshan to the north, and Luoshui and Fengshan to the south. The two mountains and two waters intersect, and there are two gates to stay together. This is a dangerous place with easy transportation, easy defense and difficult to attack.

However, now, the Hebei Army, which was unpredictable, suddenly crossed the Yellow River from the north without road, crossed the Mangshan Mountains, and appeared in the northeast corner without troops. It was only more than twenty miles away from Luokou Cang City.

Moreover, at this time, Luokou Cang City, which had 20 million stones of grain and grass, had only 20,000 people.

Perhaps Li Mi would never believe that there would be any danger in Luokoucang. After all, on the three passages leading to Luokoucang, he gathered 120,000 people in Luokou, and 50,000 people in Baihua Valley. Even Yanshi to the west also had 50,000 people. Luokoucang City was surrounded by a 220,000 army around, and it was extremely safe no matter what.

In April, the warm sun was in the sky. In a valley at the foot of the mountain to the south of Mang Mountain, Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke led 30,000 Hebei troops were hiding everywhere nearby.

After inspecting the posts everywhere, Lu Shishen returned to the camp, and Guo Xiaoke had just returned from the other side. There were still many lieutenants in the army who had gathered in the camp.

Just when they arrived here, the siege sent out in front suddenly responded, and teams of troops suddenly drove out from Luokou City and headed north. Everyone was startled at that time, thinking that their whereabouts had been discovered by the enemies in Luokou City.

As soon as the camp tent was lifted, Zhang Xiaowei of the scout camp strode in.

"I've found out clearly. Those soldiers were not coming to us, they were going to Luokou to reinforce."

Guo Xiaoke was slightly stunned, "Can it be verified?"

Captain Zhang nodded, "My people grabbed two tongues and interrogated them separately. Both of them were right. They did receive Li Mi's military order to rush to Luokou to reinforce. There were 10,000 people who had just left the city, but now there are only 10,000 people left in Luokoucang City. General, this is a good opportunity, why don't we attack the city directly."

"According to the plan, our Hebei army has 50,000 people. In addition to 30,000 people crossing the Mang Mountain and bypassing Li Mi to sneak attack Luokou Cang, His Highness will also lead 15,000 people to attack the same empty Hulao Pass. General Zhang led the remaining 5,000 people and the fleet, and pulled Wang Xuanying to attack Luokou. Although Wang Xuanying had 100,000 people, Li Mi also had 120,000 people in Luokou. Why is Li Mi suddenly urgently pulling troops from Luokou Cang City to reinforce? This is a bit abnormal." The army Sima said in confusion.

Lu Shishen slapped his thigh, "No matter what his situation is, in this way, there are only 10,000 people left in Luokoucang City, and our chances of winning have increased by three points. Since Li Mi has dispatched troops to reinforce, it means that Luokou is fighting very well. No matter whether he is really fighting or a feint, our mission is to take down Luokoucang. It is not conducive to the raid during the day. General Guo and I have decided to let the soldiers go to bed and rest immediately. When it gets dark, we will attack Luokoucang City immediately!"

"Abide by the order!"
Chapter completed!