Chapter 208 Why can their cannons fire so far?

Zuo Lengchan always had a question: why could Xin Qiji write about riding horses so majestically?

Thinking back to those days, the soldiers were armed with swords and spears, and they were as fierce as tigers!
Yuan Jia hastily, sealed the wolves to live in the Xu, and won the rush.

Forty-three years later, I still remember the beacon fire on Yangzhou Road.

But looking back, under the Buddha's raccoon shrine, there is a sacred drum.

Who can ask: Lian Po is old, can he still make a living?
Zuo Lengchan couldn't understand it. He had also taken his fellow junior brothers on a long-distance raid on horseback, with nearly twenty riders, but he had never felt that way!
However, today, he finally understood why Xin Qiji was able to write such magnificent words.

When he leads a thousand cavalrymen galloping across the plains, one can deeply appreciate this heroic spirit of being as powerful as a tiger!

The flags on the four mountains are like rolling clouds in the clear sky, and the hooves of thousands of horses are coming like a sudden rain.

Zuo Lengchan led the way, followed by a thousand cavalrymen.

What is Shaolin and Wudang?
What is Sun and Moon Sect?
Do you dare to resist my cavalry battalion with the roar of tigers and lions and the mighty momentum?
Ou Zanghua was riding a horse, accompanied by five thousand infantrymen, including three hundred cannons and one thousand muskets. The rest were spearmen and shield and sword soldiers, marching in a mighty procession on the plain.

Gao Kexin rode back on his horse, dismounted, half-knelt on the ground and saluted, saying, "Report to Lord Ou, no enemy troops have been found in the thirty miles ahead."

"Investigate further and report back!" Ou Zanghua nodded and said calmly.

"Yes!"

Gao Kexin responded, stood up and ran to the horse, flipped over with a graceful movement, and rode out at full speed.

Tianjin Youwei arrived in Jinzhou unimpeded. Ou Zanghua immediately took over the city defense and dispersed a large number of Night Guards. Together with the Beggars' Gang, the two lines, one visible and one hidden, provided him with a lot of intelligence.

A few days later, Peng Ze led the Taiyuan Guard to enter Yuzhou. Qiu Yue fought two battles with Liu Liu's infantry battalion, killing more than 700 bandits and capturing more than 1,300.

Liu Liu didn't care about the life or death of the infantry battalion at all. He led the troops around Baoding Prefecture for more than ten days.

Ou Zanghua looked at the map and didn't understand what Liu Liu was doing. Why was he running around the map like a headless fly?
Suddenly, he remembered the news from the Beggars' Gang that Liu Qi had gone all the way to Li County.

Liu Liu seemed to be rushing around all the way, but he intentionally avoided the location of Li County.

"Is it Qizhou or Boye?"

Ou Zanghua narrowed his eyes, suddenly turned his head to look at Zuo Lengchan and asked, "How far is Qizhou from Boye?"

"It should be about forty miles." Zuo Lengchan said after thinking for a while.

"How about Qizhou to Lixian?"

"That must be about seventy or eighty miles away."

"I see." Ou Zanghua immediately understood Liu Liu's plan and immediately sent a message via carrier pigeon to tell Qiu Yue his calculations.

Two hours later, Qiu Yue received the news. He sat in the big tent, looking at the map calmly: "Li County..."

Sanhe stood aside and said as if he had suddenly realized something: "So that's why Liu Liu wanted to go to Qingyuan County. He was worried that we would find Liu Qi hiding in Li County."

"If Liu Qi's new force suddenly attacks us from behind when we are fighting Liu Liu, we will be attacked from both sides and will be unable to resist."

"General, why don't you leave Liu Liu behind and go straight to Li County to kill Liu Qi first!"

"Where is Censor Peng?" Qiu Yue did not answer but asked.

"A carrier pigeon sent a message yesterday that Censor Peng has arrived in Zhending Prefecture." Sanhe replied immediately.

Qiu Yue said indifferently: "Order Censor Peng's troops to approach Qizhou, and order Ou Keqing to take Li County and arrest Liu Qi!"

Sanhe was stunned, and asked hesitantly: "General, isn't it a bit risky for Ou Keqing's troops to capture Liu Qi's troops?" "It doesn't matter. Ou Keqing is not a weak scholar. He has also attacked the rebels at night." Qiu Yue recalled the smooth and graceful Tanhua Lang, and said calmly: "And his intelligence is more accurate than ours, so you should worry about us, not him."

Sanhe was stunned for a moment, then nodded in confusion.

When Qiu Yue's order reached Ou Zanghua, he laughed, looked at Ling Xiao and Zuo Lengchan and said, "It's time for us to make a contribution!"

"Pass the order down, move to Suning County tomorrow and cross the river."

"Yes!"

Liu Qi was sitting in the county government office of Li County. This time he brought a cavalry battalion of 1,000 men and four infantry battalions of 2,000 men.

After entering the county town, he ordered as usual that no one should stop using swords for two days and everyone could do whatever they wanted in the city.

In just twenty-four hours, countless families were broken up and countless people wailed.

But Liu Qi didn't care. He wasn't the one to rule the world. The more chaotic the world was, the better it would be for them brothers.

As the saying goes, heroes are made by current events. If there are no current events, create one yourself!
A bandit soldier ran in, half-knelt on the ground and reported: "Second leader, the scout sent a message that Qiu Yue has been led to the direction of Qingyuan County by the leader."

"it is good!"

Liu Qi laughed and said, "Let's continue investigating and see when Big Brother will arrive in Boye County. I can't wait to kill Qiu Yue."

"Yes!" The bandit army responded and quickly retreated.

That night, Liu Qi tortured the young daughter of the magistrate of Li County until she was breathing heavily. Out of spite, he had the girl carried out and thrown into the woodshed at random.

He drank two bottles of wine and fell asleep drunk.
"Second Leader"

"Second leader!"

With a crisp "pop" sound, Liu Qi felt a burning pain on his left cheek, and then he opened his eyes with a hint of drunkenness.

At first glance, he saw a man with a face as red as a date, a pair of bright eyes and a fierce look staring at him.

"Um?!"

Liu Qi was startled, then he realized that this man who looked like Li Kui was his subordinate Niu Zhong.

He pushed Niu Zhong away, yawned and scolded: "Niu Zhong, are you sick? Why did you wake me up so early in the morning? Do you know that I went to bed at Chou time last night?"

"Second brother, something bad has happened!"

Seeing Liu Qi about to fall down again, Niu Zhong quickly grabbed his shoulders, shook him, and shouted, "We are surrounded!"

"What did you say?" Liu Qi was stunned, and the remaining drunkenness disappeared.

"An imperial army has arrived outside the city and is ready to fight." Before Niu Zhong finished his words, he heard a series of explosions not far away.

Liu Qi immediately pushed Niu Zhong away, took the clothes off the hanger, threw them on, and put on his coat handsomely: "Let's go and take a look!"

As soon as the two men walked out of the yamen, they saw four artillery shells flying in the distance, hitting a civilian house and causing an explosion.

Niu Zhong quickly protected Liu Qi and moved him to a safe place. As Liu Qi ran, questions popped up in his mind: Why can this army's artillery fire so far?

Or has their artillery battalion already reached the city of Lixian?

But if he had reached the city wall, why didn't any soldiers come to remind him?
(End of this chapter)