"Strike the front camp sideways and kill!" Hu Biao wiped the sweat from his forehead and shouted fiercely: "Central camp is coming forward, and the crossbowmen are ready!"

Since taking over as commander of the Third Army of the Wuning Left Army, Hu Biao has never been relaxed. In the past two months, he has only been resting for two or three hours every day, and has been with the soldiers for food and sleep training, which has greatly narrowed the distance between the two sides.

The soldiers who turned from Huai Youjun to Wuning Army were basically from Huainan. Logically speaking, they should not be very adaptable to the climate in the north, but they are slightly different in Yunzhou.

Because Yunzhou's neighboring north is the largest zodiac Juyeze, with a radius of hundreds of miles. The water and sky are the same color, and the reeds cover the shore. The climate in summer is humid and hot, especially the neighboring counties such as Xuchang, Sucheng, Pinglu, Shouzhang, Leize, Juye and Yuncheng, are more affected by the climate of the Juyeze lake. The winter is far colder than that of the counties far away from the lake in the same area, but the summer is far hotter than other counties, especially the humid weather.

So in Yunzhou, the Huainan soldiers were more adaptable to this place than the Huainan soldiers. On the contrary, Hu Biao, a serious man from Yanbei, could not stand the weather.

However, for the Tiandi masters, this small problem is not a problem. Over the past few months, the momentum of the Third Army of Wuning Left Army has not only not deteriorated because of the departure of the former commander Chai Yong, but has risen because of Chai Yong's promotion and Hu Biao's ability.

Especially Hu Biao vowed that as long as he could win the two cities of Shouzhang and Xuchang, the soldiers of the Third Army of Wuning Left Army would be awarded merits (xuntian) by the Duke of the County. Because after the battles between Huaibei and Yanyunyi, the governor's office of Huaiyou (Wunning) was still commenting on the military merits of each army. The Third Army of Wuning Left Army itself had great achievements in the Northern Expedition. If he could make new contributions in the battle to attack Yunzhou, he would definitely be the first to win the favor of the Duke of the County and award merits.

This half-true and half-false motivation really made the soldiers of the Third Army of Wuning Left Army excited. Think about it, many of the soldiers of the Wuzhou Army who first followed the county duke also obtained honor fields in Shouzhou for their military merits. After the county duke merged with the Luhao Prefectures, they did not award honor fields again because of the lack of military achievements of each army. Now the Northern Expedition has ended, and the only war is the attack of Yunzhou and Haizhou. Being able to get such an opportunity is undoubtedly a great opportunity for the Third Army of Wuning Left Army, and they must not be missed.

The battle with the lake bandits began after entering Sucheng. However, with the superior forces of the Wuning Army, the lake bandits quickly withdrew from Sucheng, but launched fierce resistance in Xuchang.

In Hu Biao's opinion, this level of resistance is actually nothing. After all, this place is still far from the lake area. The reason why Zhu Mao gave up here was not because he had no ability to recover, but because he was unwilling to spend his troops here. Once he occupied this place, he had to face endless harassment from the lake bandits. This became an unbearable weight for Zhu Mao. It would be better to abandon this place and keep Yanzhou.

But for Hu Biao, this is not a problem.

The food, jerky, weapons, armor, medicine, and military personnel that have been continuously replenished from Yanzhou has never been cut off. It can be said that after every battle, it can be quickly replenished.

In the past month, there have been no less than ten battles with lake bandits, large and small. The losses of the Third Army of Wuning Left Army were not small. There were no less than 500 dead and more than 800 injured. However, the Third Army of Wuning Left Army was able to maintain a full squad.

Moreover, through this series of wars, the Third Army of Wuning Left Army has become more and more accustomed to the Lake Bandits' War.

From the initial mutual victory and defeat, gradually becoming the best. The strategy of splitting and advancing and attacking was almost a battle of defeat for the lake bandits whose combat effectiveness was significantly inferior to that of the Wuning Army.

The support of Pinglu County made Pinglu and Sucheng form a horn, and the squeeze from east to west forced the lake bandits to begin to shrink towards Shouzhang and Yuncheng.

"Cao Zhilun, you will lead the Right Camp and the Back Camp to attack from behind, so as to defeat them in one fell swoop!" Seeing that the Left Camp and the Middle Camp had firmly absorbed these more than 2,000 lake bandits, Hu Biao was also very happy.

Although there have been many wars over the past month, most of them have been small battles of hundreds of people.

The lake bandits are extremely cunning. Once they find that the situation is wrong, they will immediately withdraw. Relying on the advantage of the territory, they will escape repeatedly.

Sometimes they even took advantage of their unfamiliarity with the geographical conditions to fight back, which caused considerable losses to the Third Army of Wuning Left Army. The most tragic battle directly caused more than 200 casualties in the rear battalion.

The area between the three counties of Xuchang, Sucheng and Pinglu is low and floods occur suddenly when the rainy season comes. Many times, except for local elderly people, it is difficult to explain where there are swamps, where there are highlands, and where they can pass. The lake bandits use this terrain to continue to fight with the Third Army of Wuning Left Army, which has led to the unsuccessful goal of the Third Army of Wuning Left Army of Xuchang City.

However, this situation has been greatly improved after Wang Xu became the acting governor of Yunzhou.

Although the local gentry in Xuchang and Sucheng, in counties such as Xuchang and Sucheng, had to cooperate with the lake bandits due to the great power of the lake bandits, these gentry were still eager to suppress the lake bandits and restore the government's rule.

Therefore, when Wang Xu, the patriarch of the Wang clan who was very famous in Sucheng, became the chief of Yunzhou, Xuchang and Shouzhang immediately took action and began to secretly contact the Yunzhou governor's office, which had Sucheng as the temporary prefecture, in order to restore the two counties of Xuchang and Shouzhang as soon as possible.

Even the two counties of Juye and Yuncheng, which are the largest in the lake bandits, had gentry secretly sent people to contact Wang Xu in order to obtain the understanding that the Yunzhou governor's office had to cooperate with the lake bandits.

Once the government army and local gentry cooperate, even if it is secretly cooperate, the situation will immediately change.

After learning about the strength of the Huaiyou (Wunning) army, local gentry from various counties in Yunzhou also realized that now is the best time to solve the problem of Juyeze bandits in one fell swoop. As long as the Huaiyou (Wunning) army can adopt the current method of battalion and Baojia joint positioning, step by step, from easy to difficult, it is entirely possible to completely compress the lake bandits into the lake area.

Since the Duke of the County still has a powerful Huaiyou Navy, according to Xu Gong, even the Chaohu water bandits in the south, which are not inferior to the Juyeze River bandits, were frightened by the reputation of the Duke of the County, and then recruited and incorporated into the Huaiyou Navy. Then, how could the Juyeze River bandits escape the Tianlu net announced by the county?

It is precisely based on this that the gentry in all counties of Yunzhou were enthusiastically looking forward to the rapid recovery of the two counties of Xuchang and Shouzhang, and even accelerated the attack on Juye and Yuncheng, completely drove the water bandits into the lake, and finally completely eliminated the bandits.

Cao Zhilun was Hu Biao's deputy and the deputy commander of the Third Army of Wuning Left Army. This officer who grew up from the Desheng Army was very murderous. He had a little resistance to Hu Biao coming to the Third Army of Wuning Left Army. However, with Hu Biao's tough performance and leading by example, he quickly won the respect of Cao Zhilun and the relationship between the two quickly became closer.

Cao Zhilun's Mo Dao quickly tore open the defense line of the lake bandits. Although the lake bandits also realized that the surprise attack from the rear was very dangerous, relying on their military strength and the familiar terrain of the houses in the village behind, they were still unwilling to fail, so they were still making tenacious resistance.

This hit Hu Biao's mind. He was afraid that the bandits would turn around and flee. Bypassing this village, there would be another wilderness, with undulating swamps and reed land, making it difficult for the army to achieve results after entering. If the other party was willing to rely on the village to fight, even if this kind of street fighting would be quite tragic and cruel, Hu Biao would be willing, at least to achieve the goal.

However, the lake bandits were obviously not as simple as Hu Biao imagined. After escaping into the village, they realized that it was difficult to reverse the defeat. The lake bandit leader quickly changed his decision and quickly fled from the west of the village into the swamp. With the familiar terrain, he quickly got rid of the Wuning Army's pursuit.

Although there are local fishermen as guides, it takes time to concentrate several battalions of troops. Once the pursuit is too small, it is easy to be backfired by the enemy. Therefore, Hu Biao would rather seek stability at this point. He has learned lessons in this area before.

Seeing that it was difficult to pursue the enemy, Hu Biao also decisively issued an order to suspend the pursuit and organize the team.

This place is only more than ten miles away from Xuchang County, but it is also the area with the most serious bandits. Basically, every village has a relationship with the lake bandits, or some of them are young and strong.

The dense streams and swamps, and many people make a living by fishing and hunting, make these people born to live by water. Once they have no place to live, or are entangled by lake bandits, they become lake bandits. This is natural.

"Sir, this is Dangtou Village, with less than 30 families. Basically, they are old, weak, women and children, and young and strong are all swept away by the lake bandits." Cao Zhilun wiped a bright silver blade with his fingers and said proudly: "This battle has been considered by the lake bandits. In the future, they may never dare to fight us head-on."

"How many beheads? How many prisoners?"

"Beheading 422, captives, 167, and there are still a few who are afraid they won't survive." Cao Zhilun inserted the hilt of the knife into the ground and put his hands on his hips. "Mr. Wang asked us to send all the prisoners to Sucheng for unified screening and labor reform. If there is a bloody case, we have to be interrogated and concluded. This is a waste of my energy. If I think of it, I will just kill them all, which is also a warning to others."
Chapter completed!