At night, dark clouds obscured the bright moon, the stars were dim, and hundreds of large ships were still anchored on the water surface of the Yellow River in Hei Momo. At night, the wind was strong and the water surface was slightly rippled, causing the ships to undulate on the water surface, and thick cables slapped at the mast.

The lights in the cabin were soft, and the incense burner in the corner rose, and a faint sandalwood filled the cabin. Li Mi was walking back and forth in the cabin with her hands behind her back, feeling extremely irritable. The two sides had been confronting each other for a day. He wanted to get ashore from elsewhere, but he found that as soon as the ship moved, the other party's cavalry would follow, which left him helpless. More importantly, he only brought 20,000 troops, but the other party had 10,000 defenses.

But if he goes back like this, he is unwilling to give up. He will give it a try anyway. At this time, he is waiting for the darkness to see what news the water ghost can bring to him.

At this time, footsteps sounded outside the cabin, Li Mi was excited, and a personal guard reported at the door: "Your Highness, the Chief Secretary of the House sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that there was something important to report."

Li Mi was stunned. He thought that there was news from the water ghost. Unexpectedly, Changshi Fang Xuanzao sent someone to deliver the letter. He immediately ordered: "Bring the sender in!"

Soon, a military officer was brought in and knelt down on one knee, "See Your Highness the King of Wei!"

"Where is the letter from the Chief Secretary?"

The military officer took out two letters and submitted them. Li Mi received two letters. One was sent by Fang Xuanzao, and the other letter was actually written by Lu Chu, the Zuo Pushe of Jidu. He blinked his eyes and suspected that he had read it wrong. It was indeed true that it was a letter written by Lu Chu to him.

Li Mi was puzzled and waved her hand to let everyone go down. Then she sat down and opened the letter. He read Lu Chu's letter first. The letter actually hoped that he could surrender to Emperor Tai. He would recommend himself as the King of Wei and the general in charge of foreign military affairs. This surprised Li Mi very much. He pulled out Fang Xuanzao's letter and read it again. Only then did he understand the reason. It turned out that there was an internal strife in Dongdu.

Lu Chu, Huangfu Wuyi, Duan Da and other groups of assistant officials had a deep conflict with the upstart Wang Shichong, and they had reached the point where the incompatibility of water and fire. Lu Chu and others wanted to lead them to the Dongdu to help them compete with Wang Shichong. They only attacked Luoyang City not long ago. Now they actually wanted to surrender, but they could think of it.

But then again, this was also an opportunity. Li Mi walked in the cabin with his hands behind his back. He was thinking about his development in the past few years. Although many of the officials in Henan Province surrendered to him, not many of them were sincere. This can be seen from the fact that they never wanted to come to see him. The population tax report he gave was perfunctory and untrustworthy at all.

On the contrary, when Li Yuan entered Guanzhong, he immediately became very powerful, and his power developed rapidly, but he was very stable. The same was true for Yang Yuanqing's entry into Hedong. In just less than two, the officials in Hedong were convinced and went to Taiyuan to meet him, which shows what people wanted.

After all, he did not receive support from the landlords, Li Yuan received support from the Guanlong nobles, Yang Yuanqing received support from the Shandong gentry, and Xiao Xian received support from the southern gentry and grew rapidly. Li Mi only received support from some lower-level farmers because of the release of grain, but fighting for the world, the support from the lower-level farmers was meaningless.

Therefore, Li Mi can never become orthodox. In the eyes of the world, he is just the leader of a bandit. I remember that Liu Bei was so sharp that he wanted to be the title of emperor uncle, that is, to be the name of orthodox. Cao Cao used the world to order the princes to seek orthodox in order to seek orthodox. If Li Mi wanted to win the world, he had to take the orthodox road.

Lu Chu's letter undoubtedly touched Li Mi's worries. Why can't he accept it? He fought over Wang Shichong, learned from Cao Mengde, and used the emperor to command the princes. He had great righteousness and had the reputation of orthodox, and he could get the support of the landlords in various counties in Henan Province. He wanted money, food, and soldiers. Those landlords had the hands of Qing Zhuang Ding and slaves.

He looked at Fang Xuanzao's letter again, and Fang Xuanzao also suggested that he submit to Luoyang and find a way to control Emperor Tai, so that he could not only eliminate the great enemy Wang Shichong, but also occupy Luoyang without bloodshed, and gain the reputation of orthodox. The time is right in the future. He kicked Emperor Tai away with one kick and ascended the throne and became emperor himself. It can be said that he could kill three birds with one stone.

Thinking of this, Li Mi resolutely decided to surrender Emperor Tai. Fang Xuanzao in the letter advised him to send 10,000 stone of rice to Luoyang first to win people's hearts. Now the rice in Luoyang is very expensive, and rice is worth tens of thousands of dollars. Li Mi immediately wrote a letter to Lu Chu, stamped his seal, and wrote another letter to Fang Xuanzao, and ordered people to find the soldiers who had just delivered the letter.

Li Mi handed the letter to him and said, "These two letters will be sent to the Chief Secretary of the House immediately and let him do as arranged in my letter."

The sergeant took the letter and took it away, bowed and left. Li Mi breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, he was distracted and suddenly he was not so anxious about the Hanoi County sanctuary.

But Hanoi County still has to fight. Although it is good to get it, there is no regret for not getting it.

Under the cover of night, more than a dozen vehicles and ships began to quietly depart. These were ships full of soldiers, a total of two thousand soldiers. Their mission was to land on the pier.

The soldiers defending on the dock have decreased by 80%. The Sui army camp was stagnant two hundred steps away. Most of the soldiers went back to the camp to rest. There were only two thousand crossbowmen on the dock. They collapsed in their clothes and slept on the shore, wrapped in blankets. Dozens of sentries were vigilantly monitoring the movements on the river surface, but the night was dark, and the brigade of ships was hundreds of steps away, and they could not see them. Only within a hundred steps could they be discovered by the soldiers surveillance on the shore.

Suddenly a rocket shot out from the river surface, which was particularly bright in the night sky. This was the alarm issued by the Sui army patrolling the river surface. An enemy ship was approaching the shore. Several patrol soldiers jumped up and went to the camp to report that the alarm bell sounded on the river surface. The crossbowmen sleeping on the river bank woke up from their dreams, raised their crossbows, and watched the appearance of the enemy in the river vigilantly.

Xu Shiji happened to go out to patrol the camp. When he met the soldiers who reported the news, he immediately urged his horse to run to the shore and looked at the situation in the river. At this time, the shadow of Hei Tongtong's ship appeared on the surface of the river. It should be still a hundred steps away, but was quickly heading towards the shore.

"Fireship strikes!"

With the order of Xu Shiji, more than 50 fire boats anchored on the shore immediately sailed towards the heart of the river. These were small boats, filled with firewood and turmeric oil. Each boat was driven by two Yellow River ghosts wearing black shark skins and hit the head-on by more than a dozen large ships along the strong north wind.

The boat was extremely fast and approached the Wagang Army's large ship in a moment. The soldiers shouted and the soldiers fired arrows one after another. The arrows fell like heavy rain, trying to stop the boat from getting closer, but ineffective. The water ghost held a shield and continued to move forward. When about ten steps away from the big ship, the boat started to burn, and the water ghosts dived one after another, leading the boat toward the big ship in the water.

The fire burned rapidly, and the tincture oil poured into the water, forming a sea of ​​fire in the water. Several water ghosts could not escape and were burned to death in the water. In an instant, more than a dozen large ships were trapped in the sea of ​​fire, and the big ships also began to burn. The soldiers on the ship were burned unbearable and jumped into the river to escape, but the sea of ​​fire on the water made it difficult for them to escape and eventually died in the water and fire.

The entire water surface turned into a sea of ​​fire, with thick smoke rolling and spectacular momentum. Even the Sui army and the others themselves did not realize that tincture oil could burn on the water surface. Tens of thousands of soldiers gathered on the shore, scrambling to look at the sea of ​​fire on the river surface. From time to time, a wave of cheers came, which must have been an enemy ship being ignited. Xu Shiji stared at the water surface, his lips clenched. Although the fire was spectacular, he could not laugh out loud, and his heart was filled with sorrow.

Li Mi stood on the building boat, staring at his ship struggling in the sea of ​​fire, the fire burned into the sky and was extremely tragic. Only five of the eighteen large ships escaped with flames, and the remaining thirteen large ships, most of the more than a thousand soldiers died in the sea of ​​fire, and only a small part was rescued by the patrol ship sent by Xu Shixu.

Li Mi stared at him for a while and sighed with a sigh. He had heard that Yang Yuanqing's turbid oil was extremely powerful, and it was indeed hopeless. If his ship was burned, he might have died on the north shore. He was already discouraged and turned around and ordered: "Tell me the order, and the big ship turned around and returned to Mengjin Ferry."

Hundreds of large ships began to turn around one after another. In the vast night, some ships sailed to the other side, and a few ships sailed towards Zhongtanzhou in the middle and southwest of the Yellow River. It was a sandbank in the Yellow River, built with Heyang Pass, and was occupied by Li Mi's naval army. It can be regarded as a naval base of the Wagang Army in the Yellow River.

On the north shore, news came from the patrol ship that all the Wagang army had evacuated, and the soldiers were suddenly filled with joy. Xu Shiji's face also showed a smile. Li Mi retreated, and the threat of the Wagang army was temporarily eliminated, but he also knew that in fact, the ships had not been evacuated, and some of the ships should still be on Zhongtan Island.

At this time, a general Du Yanglang whispered to Xu Shiji: "General Xu, we must take back Heyang Pass, otherwise it will always be a threat to Hanoi County."

Xu Shiji nodded, "No hurry now, wait until the Yellow River freezes in winter before starting!"

He turned around and ordered: "The messenger immediately went to report to the general manager, and Li Mi's army had been forced to retreat south."

Dou Jiande's army was defeated west of Jia County, forcing Dou Jiande to withdraw the 30,000 troops besieged Xinxiang and retreated to Gongcheng County. After rectifying the army, he still had 40,000 troops, which was equal to the Sui army. Dou Jiande had some conflicts. He wanted to give up fighting for Hanoi County and withdraw his troops back to Hebei, but the losses of more than 30,000 elite troops made him feel deeply impressed, making him unable to accept this fact and gain nothing. Will he just withdraw his troops like this?

He also wanted to increase his troops and fight again, but he was afraid of suffering greater losses. This was a gambler's mentality. He was unwilling to lose money and wanted to get back the capital, but he was also afraid of losing more. This contradictory mentality made him trespass.

At this moment, Dou Jiande received information. A Sui army of 20,000 people entered Hanoi County from Taihang Xing and was coming quickly towards Xinxiang County. Dou Jiande knew that this was the arrival of the Sui army's reinforcements, so the Sui army's military strength had reached nearly 60,000. If it continued to fight, it would probably not be as simple as fighting for Hanoi County. The war would burn to Hebei.

Dou Jiande judged the situation and finally decided to evacuate Hanoi County. He wrote a handwritten letter to Yang Yuanqing, and the army left Gongcheng County that night and returned to Hebei.

A battle for Hanoi County ended with Dou Jiande's failure.

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