The Dongchang Third Battalion, which traveled more than a hundred miles for several days and made several killings, finally rested for a good night in Hejian Mansion. After eating well and getting enough sleep, the energy of the troops and horses returned to its peak.
When the sky was getting slightly brighter in the early morning, Chang Yu led the second battalion out of the city from the south gate. Wuzhong grabbed Lao Jiu's clothes at the city gate and said something viciously. Finally, he shook his head and walked away with a groan.
Jiang Fa was friendly with him and asked, "Why are you so unhappy?"
"I wanted to lead these guys to do more meritorious deeds and earn more money, hey..."
"The governor said that defending the city for ten days is a great achievement. This is much easier than us traveling long distances to fight everywhere. You should be happy," Jiang Fa comforted.
"How can you get out and kill people while hiding in the city?" Wuzhong hummed and rode forward. Jiang Fa twitched the corner of his mouth and couldn't help but shudder. There are rumors in the world that the Sword Saint was once a bandit. He is really fierce!
Hejian Prefecture has jurisdiction over ten counties and two prefectures. Going south to Dezhou, it passes through Xianxian County, Fucheng, and Jingzhou, which are all enemy-occupied areas. However, this small town under its jurisdiction does not have many garrison troops to support puppets to maintain law and order.
Chang Yu led the second battalion at a gallop and arrived at Xian County in the middle of the afternoon. The county magistrate Tu Yuan led more than ten of his subordinates pretending to be rebels and scouting horses and entered the city to investigate. However, there were no garrison troops. Tu Yuan killed the puppet magistrate and left with his head in public.
When they arrived in Fucheng County in the evening, they followed the same method and killed more than ten puppets, but this time Wuzhong led the team. Seeing that it was getting late, everyone was discussing whether to rest in Fucheng. Information arrived: Jizhou (now Hengshui), a hundred miles southwest (Jizhou District, Jizhou City), nearly ten thousand bandit soldiers gathered, and traces of bandit soldiers were also found in Jingzhou City ahead.
After hearing this, Chang Yu decisively ordered to rest in Fucheng. As soon as he entered the city, he immediately sealed the city gate. The two battalions each guarded the gate for the night. He led more than ten personal followers into the county government office.
"The bandits have assembled a large army in Jizhou. It goes without saying that it is to deal with the officers and soldiers in Dezhou, a hundred miles to the southeast." Chang Yu clicked on the map: "We are still less than fifty miles away from Dezhou. There is a scene in the middle. In the prefecture city, the bandits appearing there must be the vanguard, and the purpose is also to prevent the officers and soldiers from going northward."
As he spoke, he pounded the table angrily: "A force of fifty thousand men was so frightened by some bandits that they didn't dare to take a step forward. What a shame for them!"
Everyone was extremely angry. They thought about how the lone army in Taiyuan often went out of the city to fight fiercely. They thought about how powerful the five hundred heavily armored soldiers outside the pass dared to capture tens of thousands of Qing cavalry. Looking at these three troops, they felt extremely contemptuous.
"Supervisor, my subordinates don't know. Since the intruders found out that there were officers and soldiers going north, why didn't they gather a large army to wait in Hejian Mansion, but instead in Jizhou, a hundred miles away to the west?" Tu Yuan asked.
Chang Yu glanced at the map a few times, then thought for a moment and said: "The intruders went all the way north from Henan and swept across most of Hebei. They led the main force Chen Bing to Baoding City. There are not many people left in the captured city. There are only three to five hundred people in the small city, and Fucheng When he heard that officers and soldiers were going north to support Baoding, he did not move his main force south to stop them. Instead, he gathered troops nearby to fight. As expected, the tens of thousands of troops in Jizhou should have been temporarily sent from Shunde Prefecture (today's Xingtai) and Guangping in the south. It was temporarily pieced together from the Mansion (today's Handan) and so on."
"There is also Zhending Mansion." Wu Zhong added, Chang Yu rolled his eyes at him: "When we were in Dingxing, the scouts already said that the ones who captured Zhending Mansion were Ren Jirong and other bandit leaders. They pursued Zhou Yuji to Dingzhou. Why are you here? Don’t you even have ears?”
Wu Zhong's face couldn't help but turn red, looking slightly embarrassed.
"That is to say, the bandit army mobilized surrounding troops to block the reinforcements. They just arrived in Jizhou in a hurry. Their final destination is to establish a defense line in Jingzhou, just north of Texas, to prevent the reinforcements from moving north. Is this what you mean?" Tu Yuan said ask.
Chang Yu nodded and shook his head: "Not necessarily! Preventing reinforcements from going north to siege Baoding Prefecture is certainly one of the reasons, but Li Zicheng is more worried about reinforcements suddenly heading west. Although he has captured dozens of cities, big and small, the foundation is unstable and there are no troops stationed there. If the reinforcements were to go west to regain the lost territory, his efforts for several months would be in vain. If the officers and soldiers took advantage of the situation to regain Guangping Prefecture, Shunde Prefecture would form a pincer attack on him from the north, wouldn't it be very bad, so he deployed troops in Jizhou , in fact, it was to prevent reinforcements from going west, but Liu Zeqing and the cowards were really frightened by him, they didn’t dare to move forward, they didn’t dare to move around, they stayed put and even wanted to turn around and run away!”
Everyone suddenly realized that Li Zicheng had garrisoned troops on the northwest border of Hebei and Shandong, firstly to prevent officers and soldiers from going north to rescue Baoding Prefecture, and secondly to prevent them from going west to regain the lost territory in his backyard. .
Chen Wangting lowered his eyebrows and suddenly said: "In this case, when the governor went to Dezhou to mobilize troops, he did not go north first, but went directly to the west to regain the lost territory. In this way, he could break into the bandit's position. How could he not panic when there was a fire in the backyard? This It should be regarded as besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao in the art of war."
"It's kind of interesting, right?" Chang Yu sighed slightly. When he learned from Shi Kefa outside Baoding City that the reinforcements were not coming, he made up his mind and formulated a rough strategy: following Ning Yuan's example, Shi Kefa was in charge of the inside and he was in charge of the outside. The difference was There is no Xishan Fortress outside Baoding City. He wants to fight guerrilla warfare and go to Dezhou to mobilize troops to fight a roundabout war!
Li Zicheng besieged Baoding with a heavy army, so he surrounded Baoding with several groups of troops and gradually regained the lost territory. It is ridiculous that Li Zicheng bit off more than he could chew. He could not digest such a large territory in a month, and he did not have so many troops to defend it. Chang Yu is determined to set a fire in his backyard and then blow his anus violently.
The way south passed through Jingzhou, and the scouts had detected an unknown number of bandit troops. It was expected that the vanguard from Jizhou was setting up a defensive line, or was bluffing to scare the officers and soldiers from reinforcements.
How to get there? Everyone felt a little headache, but then they became proud again. Tens of thousands of cavalrymen of the Qing army had done this, so why should they be afraid of some thieves? They just went over in a big way and saw if they could stop them.
The decision was made, Chang Yu ordered the whole army to rest well, eat well and sleep well, and leave the city early tomorrow morning to go south, pass Jingzhou and enter Dezhou to mobilize troops and generals for a big fight.
The second battalion left the city early the next morning. The people of Fucheng, who had been nervous all night, let out a long breath, thinking that these officers and soldiers had indeed done nothing wrong in autumn, and the sun had really risen from the west.
Tu Yuan led the Black Tiger Battalion to clear the way forward. When he was more than ten miles away, he saw more than ten cavalry approaching. He thought they must be spies for the rebel army, so he waved and shouted to come.
The thieves didn't know the depth of the enemy and saw that they were dressed strangely and were neither soldiers nor thieves. They didn't want to approach, but they saw that the other party was not hostile and that they were friendly troops coming from the north, so they came in response to the call.
"Brothers, who are you from..." Just as the leader of Tanma spoke, an arrow shot through the air and passed through his head. The rest were shocked and just about to run away, but they were all shot dead immediately.
Pooh! Tu Yuan spat: "I'm sending you on your way!"
The further he went south, the more thieves he met. Tu Yuan's tricks were widely used. If he could deceive him, he would kill him. If he couldn't deceive him, he would chase and kill him. Anyway, he was already close to Dezhou. After breaking through, four or five groups of thieves were killed within twenty miles, and their whereabouts were finally exposed.
It was still ten miles away from Jingzhou City. There was a large river blocking the road. The banks of the river were green and the water was shallow. There was a drought and the water was shallow. The second battalion of men and horses waded across the river. Looking at Jingzhou City in the distance, they saw a group of men and horses running towards them.
Chang Yu glanced coldly and said calmly: "Kill him."
There are about a thousand thieves. It should be the thieves stationed in Jingzhou City. They heard that there were unknown people coming from the north. They killed them when they encountered them. They sent a team of troops out of the city to investigate. Unexpectedly, the thieves didn't say a word and just went straight to the city. Just do it!
Chang Yu took the lead with the heavy armored cavalry from the Gongzi Battalion and easily broke through the opponent's formation. Tu Yuan led the Black Tiger Battalion to cover up the attack. The more than a thousand thieves were no match for these two battalions of tiger and wolf divisions. They were defeated in the blink of an eye and marched towards Jingzhou City. Escape.
As for the two miles below the city, it was clearly visible that there were thieves watching on the city. Thousands of them were visible in the darkness. Everyone couldn't help but take a breath: There are thousands of thieves stationed in such a small city, how crowded it is!
As the saying goes, those who are tough are afraid of those who are aggressive, and those who are aggressive are afraid of losing their lives. Seeing this unknown army and horses with murderous intent, easily breaking through a thousand with only three to four hundred troops, the bandits in the city were so frightened that they could not retreat, and allowed the troops outside the city to break up and shout to the sky. Even if they call the ground, they will not come out to rescue.
However, Chang Yu did not pursue them blindly. When they were two miles away from the city, they passed by them and headed straight south. The bandits on the city watched them helplessly until they disappeared before they dared to open the door and withdraw their troops.
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