Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

Cui Liang's idea is very simple, which is to use the terrain advantage of the Grand Canyon to the west of Guining City to flood Yang Zhengshan's Seventh Army.

This is not difficult to do. The water flow in the upper reaches of the Yinghe River is not turbulent. It is not difficult to cut it off. The exit of the Guiningcheng Grand Canyon happens to be the channel of the Yinghe River. The exit of the canyon is only a dozen feet wide. As long as it is Once this exit is blocked, the canyon will immediately turn into a lake.

When needed, open the exit, and the river filled with water in the canyon will immediately cover hundreds of miles, turning the area around Guining City into a vast ocean.

And this matter is not difficult to operate, and only requires a few thousand soldiers to complete it.

After thinking of this method, Cui Liang couldn't help but get excited.

He thought this idea was great!

Since Yang Zhengshan cannot be defeated head-on, he can use the geographical advantages to defeat Yang Zhengshan.

No matter how powerful Ren Yang Zhengshan is, can he still stop the raging flood?

After making the decision, Cui Liang immediately took action and mobilized two thousand soldiers to go to the canyon.

On the other side, Yang Zhengshan is leading the army to march westward.

As Cui Liang thought, Yang Zhengshan planned to enter Chongshan Town West Road from Guining City.

There is nothing we can do about this, because the official road running from east to west in Chongshan Town passes through Guining City. If you want to go to Chongshan Town West Road as soon as possible, you must pass through Guining City.

After several days of marching westward, the army was only more than a hundred miles away from Guining City. At this speed, they would reach Guining City in two days.

After marching for a day, as dusk approached, the army began to set up camp on the banks of the Yinghe River.

Yang Zhengshan rode Hongyun and led twenty of his followers along the river to inspect the soldiers who were burying pots for cooking.

Suddenly he looked at the river and felt something was wrong.

The source of Yinghe River comes from the snowy mountains in the west of Qianzhong Mountain. Most of the water source is melted snow water from the snowy mountains, and only a small part is spring water in the mountains.

Therefore, Yinghe River has a very special characteristic, that is, the water flow is relatively large in summer and autumn, and the water flow is relatively small in winter and spring.

It is now the end of July, which is when the flow of water in the Yinghe River should be the largest, but the flow in front of us is very small!

This was naturally because Cui Liang cut off the river upstream, but now Yang Zhengshan didn't think about it. He just felt that something was wrong with the river water.

Yang Zhengshan found Yang Mingzhi on horseback and asked, "Is the river water getting less and less?"

Yang Mingzhi looked at the river in confusion, "It is much smaller, but the further up the river you go, the smaller the water flow becomes!"

"Look at the width of the river!" Yang Zhengshan dismounted, walked to the river, pointed at a pool of mud and said, "Something's wrong. The river has obviously become smaller not long ago. Look at the mud, it's still wet. If the current is always so strong, , the mud should have dried up long ago.”

Yang Mingzhi directly dug a handful of mud, and river water immediately emerged from under the mud. Obviously, the mud was filled with river water.

"It's indeed a bit strange. Logically speaking, the river here should be very wide. Why has it become so narrow?"

He also felt something was wrong.

Yang Zhengshan narrowed his eyes slightly. At this time, he had already thought of the Seventh Flooded Army.

"It's interesting, who came up with this plan!"

"Dad, what's wrong?" Yang Mingzhi asked in confusion.

Yang Zhengshan raised his head and looked upstream of the Yinghe River, "Someone wants to drown us with the water of the Yinghe River!"

"What!" Yang Mingzhi looked stunned.

Yang Zhengshan thought for a while and said, "Take people upstream to have a look, and be careful not to be discovered!"

"Okay!" Yang Mingzhi responded and left with more than thirty scouts.

And Yang Zhengshan wandered around the river for a long time. Many signs on the riverside indicated that the water facing the river had just receded. This further proved that someone upstream had cut off the river.

About two hours later, Yang Mingzhi sent people back to report. They checked up the Yinghe River for more than 30 miles, and the river became smaller and smaller as they went up.

By the early morning of the next day, Yang Mingzhi and the others had already explored the vicinity of Guining City, and the Yinghe River near Guining City had stopped flowing!

Although the location where the Yinghe River was cut off has not yet been found, Yang Zhengshan has determined that someone has cut off the Yinghe River upstream.

Faced with such a situation, Yang Zhengshan naturally would not let the army continue to move forward.

The army rested on the spot. It was not until the afternoon of the next day that Yang Mingzhi sent someone back to report that the location of the interception had been found. Yang Zhengshan breathed a sigh of relief.

The canyon to the west of Guining City is still more than a hundred miles away from them.

Even if water is released upstream now, they will not be flooded.

The Lord will be in the tent.

Yang Zhengshan summoned a group of generals to discuss.

Niuzhuang, Tang Feihu, Qin He, Xie Yuan and others gathered in the tent.

Yang Zhengshan briefly told the situation upstream of Yinghe River, and everyone started talking about it.

"Who came up with this plan? It has sinister intentions!" Niu Zhuang said with an ugly expression.

"Yes, once water is released upstream, Guining City will be the first to suffer!" Xie Yuan felt that such a strategy was too cruel.

Although Guining City is not a big city, it still has thousands of people, and there are many military households around Guining City.

If this plan succeeds, it will not only be them who will suffer, but tens of thousands of ordinary people and military households will also suffer.

Tang Feihu thought thoughtfully, "If my guess is correct, this should be Cui Liang's doing!"

"You know Cui Liang very well?" Yang Zhengshan looked at Tang Feihu.

Tang Feihu shook his head slightly, "I don't think I understand, but I know that this person has great ambitions and has always acted unscrupulously!"

Although he and Cui Liang were both lieutenant generals of Chongshan Town, they didn't have much interaction. Except when they went to Chongshan Pass, they didn't have any interaction on weekdays.

Cui Liang was Ji Feiyu's confidant. In recent years, Cui Liang had behaved a little domineeringly and didn't take his colleagues seriously at all, so they rarely communicated with each other.

Yang Zhengshan nodded, "It seems that Cui Liang has defected to the Wuliang Hu tribe!"

If Cui Liang didn't defect to the Wuliang Hu tribe, he should be thinking about how to find Ji Feiyu instead of how to defeat Yang Zhengshan.

"We found that Cui Liang had sent a message to Prince Wutuo, but the content of the message has not been confirmed!" At this time, Lu Hua said.

"What's going on with Prince Wutuo?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

Since Cui Liang has defected to the Wuliang Hu tribe, he can't treat Cui Liang with the same attitude as before.

Before, they regarded Cui Liang and Wuliang army as two enemies, but now it is confirmed that Cui Liang has surrendered to Wuliang Hu tribe, so they should be regarded as a whole.

"No movement, the camp of Prince Wutuo is still in Linqing Prefecture." Lu Hua said.

Linqing Prefecture is one of the seven prefectures in Liaoxi, located in the north of Dongsheng Prefecture. At this time, except Dongsheng Prefecture, the other six prefectures of Liaoxi have fallen into the hands of Wuliang army.

Yang Zhengshan looked at the map on the screen and fell into deep thought.

Prince Wutuo did not continue to attack at this time, but kept Linqing Prefecture without any movement?

The 200,000 troops summoned by the court have been defeated, and the remaining troops are either defending in Dongsheng Prefecture or retreating to Jizhou.

It stands to reason that at this time, the Wuliang army should either continue to attack Dongsheng Prefecture or attack Jizhou.

But for more than ten days, the Wuliang army has not made any movement, which is a bit abnormal!

"Prince Wutuo wants to run!" Yang Zhengshan narrowed his eyes and said.

"Run?" Lu Hua looked at him.

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, "Yes, they don't want to continue fighting, but want to withdraw from Liaoxi!"

Everyone fell into deep thought after hearing this.

Can the Wuliang Hu tribe defeat Darong with its strength?

Obviously it is impossible.

Although Darong has been defeated in Liaoxi, the Wuliang army seems to be unstoppable.

This is actually because the Wuliang Hu tribe took advantage of the surprise attack.

King Qing and Ji Feiyu caused chaos in Chongshan Town, and the Wuliang Hu tribe tied down the troops of Beiyuan Town, which gave them the opportunity to enter Liaoxi.

Because they attacked too suddenly, the court's reaction was a bit slow, so the Wuliang army was unstoppable.

Once the court mobilized the imperial guards, or mobilized other border troops to support Liaoxi, the Wuliang army would only be driven out of Liaoxi.

The Wuliang Hu tribe never thought of occupying Liaoxi, let alone Beiyuan Town. They cooperated with Ji Feiyu just to take advantage.

Their goal is not the territory of Darong, their goal is just to rob Darong's wealth.

The wealth of Liaoxi alone is enough for them to digest for a while.

At this time, it is their best choice to stop.

In fact, Yang Zhengshan had long thought that the Wuliang army would retreat, but he did not know Prince Wutuo. If Prince Wutuo was a greedy man, he would probably continue to attack Jizhou because of his greed.

Jizhou is a rich place in Liaodong, and the wealth of a small Jizhou is not less than that of Liaoxi.

If Prince Wutuo was a greedy man, he would most likely attack Jizhou for wealth.

But now it seems that Prince Wutuo is a determined man, and he did not lose his mind because of the temptation in front of him.

Everyone in the tent quickly figured it out and looked at Yang Zhengshan.