The bandits in the south also discovered the appearance of Sui army warships. Although the appearance of Sui army warships was beyond Cao Shiqi's expectations, they were not panicked, nor were they as powerless as Jiangnan would resist.

This time, Cao Shiqi led 7,000 naval troops to encircle and suppress nine strait boats. He was sure to win. Even if the Qingzhou navy arrived, they were not afraid. Cao Shiqi was even more famous and brave. He was the king of the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River was his territory.

"Fight the enemy warship first!" Cao Shiqi roared and issued an order.

One hundred and five thief warships began to turn around and head towards the coming Sui army warships.

The transaction between the Qingzhou Army and the Jiangnan Association was planned by Fang Xuanling, but the army was sent by Zhang Xuan, with a total of 10,000 navy troops and 200 warships led by the navy general Zhou Meng.

The Qingzhou Army itself had the sincerity to carry out this transaction, but the unexpected appearance of Lin Shihong's naval army during the transportation of pig iron in Liyang County and the special relationship between Lin Shihong and the Jiangnan Association forced the Qingzhou Army to be careful and made careful arrangements for this.

The deployment of the navy was just in case. If the navy was successfully traded, it would not appear. Once an accident occurred, the navy would appear immediately. After receiving the information from the bandits' fleet crossing the Jiangdu at night, Li Qingming immediately sent someone to notify Zhou Meng that this transaction was a trap.

On the water surface of the vast Yangtze River Estuary, hundreds of warships crossed and rushed in, fighting quickly together. The waves surged, the ships collided, arrows burst into rain, and screams were everywhere. When the two ships met intersected, the soldiers of the thieves jumped to the other warships. This was the usual tactic of robbing merchant ships, jumping onto the other ships to kill people and rob.

But what they encountered today was the Qingzhou Navy. The Sui army sailors had a strong combat power than the brave but lacked training. With the tacit cooperation of the Sui army soldiers, the thief soldiers who jumped onto the warship were gradually eliminated.

But no one could have thought that what really decided the battle was nine giant ships of Hengyang boats, and dozens of Thieves' Thousand-Stone Warships surrounded nine giant ships like wolves. These nine giant ships were their target this time.

As long as these nine giant ships were taken off and drove away, the battle would be over. At this time, a long wooden boat suddenly stood up on both sides of the sea. The ends of the long wooden were filled with cast iron, like a long-handled iron hammer.

Before the thieves could react, two long-handled hammers of more than ten feet hit the thieves warships on both sides. There was a loud bang, and a thousand pounds of weight hit the warships on both sides. Broken wood splashed everywhere. Several thieves soldiers were smashed into meat pie, and dozens of other people were affected by the impact, overturning and falling down the river.

The ship was smashed into a big hole, and a huge crack appeared on the deck, making a terrible breaking sound. The warship persisted for a moment, then broke into two pieces and quickly sank into the river.

Another warship also tilted its body, and was then hit hard by the big ship, and finally lying on the river.

The other eight horizontal boats also raised their huge arms and smashed them to the warships on both sides. In just a moment, nearly twenty thousand stone warships were either sunk or injured, and the wounded ship quickly withdrew from the battlefield.

Cao Shike saw it clearly, and he was shocked and said anxiously: "Send the order quickly, and the warships must not approach the enemy's large ship!"

Cao Shike had no choice but to change his tactics, first concentrate on dealing with the Sui army warships, eliminate the enemy warships, and then turn around and slowly clean up the nine straits of the ocean.

The main ship was hung on the mast of the main ship and ordered the warships that besieged Hengyangzhou to retreat. Not far away, Zhou Meng could see clearly that he had been looking for the main ship of the thief army. The appearance of the main ship of the thief army undoubtedly exposed the identity of the main ship of the thief army.

Zhou Meng said to the left and right orders: "The Rockets are ready to attack the pirate ship with the order flag!"

Cao Shike also has experience. After he issued the order, he prepared to evacuate the battlefield to prevent his main ship from being besieged.

But at this moment, a 3,000-stone five-tooth warship came from the side. This was Zhou Meng's ship, and the main ship of the Qingzhou Navy. There were more than 300 soldiers on the ship. A war drum sounded, and countless rockets were shot towards the sails. Soon, the sails of the main ship of the thief army were lit and began to burn.

"Salt down!"

The sect shouted anxiously, and dozens of bandits put their strength together to drop the burning sails. Amid the shouts, the sails fell and hit the deck. Mars splashed everywhere and thick smoke filled the air. The soldiers of the bandits immediately poured buckets of water on the burning sails, and the ship was in chaos.

Without the sails, Cao Shiqi's ship was spinning on the river surface and could not evacuate the battlefield. At this time, two Sui army warships attacked Cao Shiqi's ship left and right, and hit the head and violently hit Cao Shiqi's ship.

Broken wood flew, the ship swayed violently, time and time again, the mast broke, the deck broke, a large hole was broken on the left cabin, the cabin began to influx a lot of water, the hull slowly tilted to the left, and if it continued to hit, the main ship would be sunk by the Sui army. As a last resort, the trainer had to order a small sampan to throw it away, and he was about to go on the sampan and flee, and change the boat and fight again.

Zhou Meng had long been staring at him. When he saw the other big ship throwing the small sampan, he understood the other general's intention and ordered him urgently: "Correate a hundred crossbowmen and shoot the thief general who is about to get off the boat!"

The rope ladder was thrown down from the back boat, and more than a dozen personal soldiers followed Cao Shiqi climbed the rope ladder and went down to the small sampan. At this moment, a dense wave of arrows shot towards Cao Shiqi. Cao Shiqi could not dodge and hit more than a dozen arrows in his back. He screamed and fell into the river.

Before the personal soldiers could go down to rescue, the rear of the three thousand stone warship hit and crushed the sampan. More than a dozen personal soldiers were also killed and injured, and fell into the water.

Cao Shiqi was shot in the back of the neck by one of the arrows and fell into the river. He never woke up again. He was dragged into the bottom of the river with heavy armor. The Yangtze River bandit died in a melee.

Without the command of the main ship, the bandits began to form their own formations. The Qingzhou Navy warship cooperated with tacit understanding, and with twice the strength of the bandits, the water battle began to fall one side. Before nightfall, more than a dozen bandits warships fled the warships in a hurry and became survivors of this water battle.

In this battle, more than half of the six thousand thieves were killed and injured, more than forty warships were captured, and more than 30 warships were sunk, including the main ship of the thieves, and the main general of the thieves, Cao Shi begged to die in this water battle.

This was also the battle with the worst casualties of Lin Shihong. The hundreds of sand ships of the Jiangnan Association and the large amount of food and cloth on the ships became the spoils of the Qingzhou Navy. This was the case that he could not steal a chicken and lost a handful of rice. Both Lin Shihong and the Jiangnan Association suffered unprecedented huge losses.

At the third update, the Qingzhou Navy fleet, together with nine Hengyangzhou ships, left Hudouzhou, rushed north to return to the East China Island base for rest. The East China Island has become the most important transit place for the Qingzhou Navy.

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The Bird Valley in Xihe County, Bingzhou, is the old nest of the Bingzhou bandit Wu Duaner. Li Yuan, who served as the Hedong Captain, led 20,000 troops to encircle and suppress the largest rioters in Bingzhou.

Wu Duaner turned out to be just a rioter who occupied the mountain and became the king, with only more than a thousand minions under his command. However, since he went down the mountain to capture Jiexiu County, his team quickly expanded to more than 50,000 people in just one year. They fought families and robbed food in Xihe County, Shangdang County, Linfen County and the southern part of Taiyuan County, which was extremely harmful.

As the envoy of arrest, Li Yuan's main task was to destroy this rioter.

In a valley about eight miles west of Jiexiu City, Li Yuan led a 20,000 army to ambush at both ends of the valley. Behind a large rock, Li Yuan seemed a little worried. This was the ambush battle, which was the strategy offered by his second son Li Shimin. He led 3,000 soldiers to provoke Wu Duaner's old nest Jiexiu City and lead Wu Duaner into this valley.

Li Yuan first did not know whether the plan could be successful, and secondly, he was worried about the safety of his second son Li Shimin.

Liu Wenjing, a counselor next to him, smiled and said, "Mr. Li doesn't have to worry about Erlang. Erlang has made every decision. This battle will definitely be completed."

Li Yuan sighed softly, "I hope!"

During this operation, Li Shimin conducted a full investigation in advance. Wu Duaner urgently needed a group of Mingguang armor and equipped with the personal guards. However, the transaction with the Guanlong nobles failed. Li Shimin led 3,000 old and weak soldiers wearing Mingguang armor to Jiexiu County to challenge, and he would definitely lead Wu Duaner into the siege.

Li Shimin also tested that there was no problem with these old and weak soldiers running ten miles, and they would lose their strength after running ten miles, which would ensure that Wu Duaner could not catch up with them in a short period of time, so Li Yuan's ambushed on both sides of the valley eight miles away.

At this time, Liu Wenjing whispered to Li Yuan: "If all the bandits of 50,000 people are surrendered, Mr. Li can choose his elite troops to join the army, and he can obtain at least more than 20,000 troops."

This suggestion came to Li Yuan's heart, and he was also having this idea. Li Yuan pondered for a moment, for fear that Gao and the others would secretly report to the emperor.

Liu Wenjing sneered, "Now that the world is in chaos, the tyrant monarch is hiding in Jiangdu, and the military power is in Yu Culture and the hands of the court. Even Zhang Xuan can't control the capture of Liaodong, can hesitate to Taiyuan? Now it's time to raise an army, so when will the Duke hesitate?"

Li Yuan sighed in his heart. Even if he wanted to start a military force, Wuchuan Mansion might not agree!

But he couldn't say this to Liu Wenjing.

At this moment, there was a shout from afar. The dust was flying in the east, and a defeated soldier was rushing to escape here. The general led by the leader rode a white horse, wearing a silver helmet and a long spear, and was Li Yuan's second son Li Shimin.

A hundred steps behind them was a pursuer, chasing him tightly.

Li Yuan suddenly became excited and shouted: "They are here and prepare for the fight!"

Li Shimin ran a little embarrassedly. After all, his three thousand men were all old and weak. After running for seven or eight miles, he was already a little exhausted.

A hundred steps behind them, the bandit leader Wu Duanerzhen led tens of thousands of troops to chase after him. Wu Duaner was about forty years old, with a big beard and a very rude appearance.

He happened to secretly buy Mingguang Armor with the Guanlong Dou family, but failed. Dou's refusal to deal with him, which made him extremely upset. He always wanted to use Mingguang Armor to arm his personal guards, but he couldn't think of it.

But he didn't expect that today he accidentally discovered that the three thousand old and weak soldiers who came to challenge were all wearing bright light armor, which made him overjoyed. At this time, he didn't care whether there would be ambush and wanted to capture these soldiers from Taiyuan alive.

"Don't escape, surrender and not kill!"

Wu Duaner and the soldiers shouted behind, but did not notice the changes in the terrain. They gradually rushed into the ambush circle of Li Yuan's army. Mobile phone users should visit http://m.piaotian.net
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