"Who the hell are you paying back? Of course I'm one of my own! You're so big, I know what your number is." A big man on the boat was lying on the bow. Hearing the sound, he got up, lit an oil lamp and hung it on the bow of the boat, cursing at the shore. Five or six big men came out of the cabin, all of them looked fierce, "I was almost caught by the officers and soldiers for fucking them, but I managed to save my life... who doesn't know me?"
"I don't care who you are. If you don't follow the secret code, you will be treated as officers and soldiers, and you will be killed." The bandit soldiers on the shore yelled and cursed. However, these words made several big men on the boat angry: "Kill me, how brave you are, do you know?" I am a member of Marshal Bai. Three days ago I was ordered to go to Anqing to inquire about the news. I was chased and intercepted by officers and soldiers. Twenty brothers had to go through life and death before eight of them could escape. Now they are about to be slaughtered by our own people as soon as we come back!"
The leading man on the bow of the boat jumped directly to the shore while cursing, walked to the thieves, pointed to his heart and said: "Come on, stab here, come on..." Several strong men on the boat also jumped on: ", come on. , Kill me and see, your fucking passwords change every day, how can I know today’s password if I don’t know how to pinch or calculate..."
"Oops, it turns out they are the brothers of Marshal Bai... one of our own, misunderstanding, misunderstanding." The sentry was a little scared when he saw the other party's aggressive and confident look. These seven strong men were all tall and burly with fierce looks on their faces. It looked like he was one of his own, and they knew that Bai Wang had recently sent dozens of expedition horses up the river from land and water to Anqing to get the news. It was obvious that this group of troops had suffered a secret loss and escaped death. He was holding back his anger, so he had better not mess with it. Their good.
"Fuck, where are the food for the brothers? I haven't eaten for a day and I'm so hungry." The leading man cursed, and the sentry smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Now we are short of food and grass. We only have a small share today." We have eaten them all early, so the brothers should go back to the city to beg for food." The sentry leader sighed, and then one of his subordinates suddenly muttered: "Since you don't remember today's password, then you know the password three days ago... …”
Before he could finish his words, he was slapped unconscious by the leading man: "Damn it, this was the secret code from three days ago, is it right?"
"That's right, that's right." When the sentry leader saw this, he quickly persuaded the big man with a wry smile; "Don't give him ordinary knowledge, he is just a deadbeat..." He was still complaining in his heart that this subordinate was really worthless and incompetent. , didn’t you see that these few people were simmering with anger and worried that they had nowhere to vent their anger...
"Hey, why do you look familiar to me?" At this moment, a sentry next to him suddenly pointed at the leading man, frowning and racking his brains, "You are, you are that..."
"Whatever they say, eating from the same pot certainly looks familiar!" The leading man laughed and scolded and walked towards the man, but the sentry leader breathed a sigh of relief. Since his brothers knew each other, he definitely didn't run away, and he felt so sad in his heart The last bit of doubt was gone.
"You are Hao Yaoqi! You are King Chuang's subordinate!" The sentry suddenly remembered and screamed. The leading man chuckled: "It seems we are really familiar with each other." He put his arms around his neck and made a click. It was broken.
Hao Yaoqi...didn't I hear that he surrendered to the imperial court? The sentinel leader felt sharp pain in his heart as soon as he thought about it. A sharp blade stabbed him more than ten times in the blink of an eye. Before he died, there were bursts of screams in his ears. , looking out of the corner of his eye, the brothers around him fell one by one.
"General Hao, it seems that you are really a famous person in the bandit army. I never thought that you would be recognized by a bandit army here." A dark, strong man just stabbed one person to death and said with a smile. This person turned out to be Ji Jike, and the leading man turned out to be Hao Yaoqi!
"Everyone who knows me is an old friend, so I feel a little sorry for killing him." Hao Yaoqi chuckled, and there was no hint of any embarrassment on his part. After all, an alcoholic who would kill his wife just as he asked would care about an old thief. Soldier?
But why did Ji Jike and Hao Yaoqi come here?
After the Qingtong River was captured, Chang Yu and other generals learned about Chizhou’s natural geographical advantages and began to discuss how to fight. The result... was suppressed. A big move.
A strong attack will inevitably lead to heavy losses. Not to mention the city, there are only three or four large rivers and lakes ahead. Each river is a natural chasm. If you want to cross the river, you will have to sacrifice hundreds of lives to fill the gap. Bai Wang can rely on these rivers to defeat the officers and soldiers. Chang Yu couldn't accept the waste of money.
Therefore, they first thought about whether they could outflank the enemy's rear in a roundabout way, but there are no ships at hand, and they can't do it even if they want to. What's more, with the lessons learned from the past, Bai Wang's people are watching on the Yangtze River, and even if you have ships, you can't outflank them as you wish.
So... we don't have a boat, we can't outflank him from behind, what about Li Yan!
Li Yan's army is hundreds of miles apart in Anqing, which is actually behind Bai Wang, just across the river! It happened that they were still preparing for war and had not yet begun to attack the city. They had the time, energy and ability to send an elite force to sneak attack from behind.
So that night the scouts crossed the river, changed horses, and galloped all the way to pass the general order to Li Yan. After receiving the military order, Li Yan immediately summoned his generals to discuss who was most suitable to send.
The generals were eager to make contributions and volunteered one after another. Among them, Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo were the most vocal and the most fiercely contested. The reason was simple. The two of them had been suppressing bandits in the Anlu area and had rich experience in adapting to the surrounding geographical environment and fighting against thieves. They should have been the best. Candidate.
But at this moment, someone came in with some help, and that was Hao Yaoqi!
Hao Yaoqi set out from the capital and went all the way south. Except for a brief mission to collect money in Jinan, he spent the rest of the time recruiting troops because Chang Yu agreed to his and Ji Jike's promise to form an army of their own.
After traveling thousands of miles to the end of the field, the fighting on the other side of the Yangtze River was in full swing. Here Gao Jie and others also fought several tough battles and had achievements in their hands. This made Hao Yaoqi, who had just formed an army and urgently needed military achievements as a foundation, couldn't sit still and wanted to They started arguing with Huang Degong and Liu Liuliangzuo.
And he has a better reason. He is from the thief army and is not a thief army general. He is more familiar with the thief army's fighting methods and even some habits than Huang and Liu. He is more qualified for this task. After all, this time Instead of attacking them in a brazen manner, they had to sneak them over. They would encounter the rebel army's overt and covert sentries along the way. If Bai Wang was discovered in advance and Bai Wang was alert and prepared, it would be meaningless.
Huang and Liu thought for a while that Hao Yaoqi was not more suitable, so they withdrew from the fight. Li Yan took advantage of the situation and asked Hao Yaoqi to be responsible for the sneak attack. However, knowing that his actions were too careless and not precise enough, he asked Ji Jike to go with him. He mobilized thousands of elite soldiers from the army to go to Chizhou as a surprise force.
However, Li Yan was also short of boats at this time. More than a thousand people needed more than a hundred boats, but he only had less than thirty boats on hand. The rest... he used rafts instead. Anyway, it was much easier to go down the river.
Since it was a sneak attack, we couldn't cross the river and go north openly. After all, there were countless spies of the rebel army watching on the other side of the river from Anqing. If they were to discover us, it wouldn't be in vain.
So Li Yan ordered Hao Yaoqi and Ji Jike to drag the boats and rafts back more than fifty miles along the original route, and lurk near Sturgeon Town where Gao Jie and the three fought bloody battles. They waited until dark before launching themselves into the water and going down the river.
When daybreak was about to break, they went to the shore to hide. Hao Yaoqi led a few people ashore to find a fisherman and asked about the location. He knew that it was still thirty miles away by water to reach Jiangxinzhou in the north of Chizhou, so he had an idea.
When it got dark, Hao Yaoqi led his troops to continue drifting for more than 20 miles. It was already late at night, and he estimated that they were almost at the end of the field. Based on his experience, he naturally knew that the bandit army would set up checkpoints everywhere along the river, so he ordered the army to Hiding on the bank of the river, he and Ji Jike led a few soldiers to come out to spy on the rebels and clear the way ahead, taking down three sentry dens in one go.
And all this is part of Chang Yu's calculation.
Chang Yu was not a god, so he didn't know who was coming, but he could guess that the unexpected soldiers would arrive tonight, so he did everything he could to attract Bai Wang's attention in the east of the city, making him think that the soldiers might launch an attack at any time. He didn't dare to relax for a moment, but he didn't know that at this time, a strange army from Anqing, a hundred miles away, had drifted in the dark along the Yangtze River tributary to the Qiupu River mouth northwest of Chizhou City and was quietly landing.
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