May 23, the next morning.
Liu Yu led Li Feng, Tian Jin, Zhao Kun and more than a dozen bodyguard cavalry to the direction of Linzi City. He wanted to conduct a personal investigation.
Liu Yu and his party had been cautious, lest enemies suddenly appear in front.
Liu Yu estimated that they would reach Dong'anping on the east bank of Zishui River in an hour.
They did not encounter even a shadow of the Jin army along the way. They only found many villages on the roadside where they passed. Most of them had been plundered. From time to time, they could see people lying dead on the roadside, and even many Donglai people. Corpses of army soldiers.
Next to a small burned village, Liu Yu and the others found two people hiding in an abandoned dry well.
After Li Feng and others hung the two men out, they interrogated them.
Only then did Liu Yu learn that since yesterday, many soldiers of the Donglai Army who had retreated from Linzi had begun looting along the way. Because they were just running for their lives in a panic, these defeated soldiers had no food or money, but they did not dare to go. Those small villages along the way were in bad luck due to plundering near the heavily guarded powerful manors.
At the beginning, these defeated rebels only grabbed some rations. After slowly gathering a lot of people, these unruly rebels began to loot. At this time, they not only grabbed food, but also grabbed money. When they robbed women, after encountering the resistance of some people who were reorganized into households, the rebels began to kill and set fire to the women. After robbing, burning and killing, these rebels ran to nowhere without knowing where they were.
Liu Yu saw that the two people were so frightened that their faces were pale, and he knew that he could not ask anything else, so he asked his guards to give them two pancakes and a small bunch of five baht, and let them go to their relatives and friends.
Liu Yu led the cavalry to continue moving forward, and the small villages along the way were also damaged to varying degrees.
I didn't even meet anyone along the way, but I found some hiding figures in some fields far away from the roadside. When they discovered that Liu Yu and the others had stopped to observe, these figures quickly disappeared into the vastness. Among the grass and trees, Liu Yu knew that most of them were people from nearby villages fleeing from the rebels.
Soon, Liu Yu and the others arrived near Dong'anping, and could already clearly see the Dong'anping city wall.
"Shiro, look, it's a little strange. There are actually soldiers guarding the city wall?"
Li Feng said to Liu Yu.
Liu Yu had also seen many soldiers on the walls of Dong'anping. He clearly remembered that the defeated soldiers of the Donglai Army he met yesterday said that when they passed by Dong'anping, the guards and soldiers in Dong'anping were all Already escaped.
At this time, there were actually soldiers guarding Dong'anping City. It might be that Youzhou soldiers had entered the city, but if this was the case, then why didn't Liu Yu and the others encounter any scouts from the Jin army when they were marching so close to Dong'anping?
Regarding this strange situation, Liu Yu asked Li Feng to quietly get closer to check.
Soon Li Feng used the cover of summer weeds to get closer, and soon came back to check.
"Look at the clothes of the soldiers on the city, they are ours. The city gate is closed and you can't see what's going on inside, and there are no people coming in or out."
The news brought by Li Feng made Liu Yu even more confused.
Liu Bogen was defeated the day before yesterday, and even the defenders of Dong'anping ran away. There was actually a group of Lai troops who regrouped and occupied Dong'anping City.
You must know that Dong'anping and Linzi are only separated by the Zishui River. Although the Zishui pontoon bridge was burned down, a new pontoon bridge can be built in three to five days at most. The Lai army is in danger of death. Who has the courage to gather the defeated troops and continue to stay under the eyes of the Jin army in Youzhou?
"Maybe you can tell whose tribe it belongs to?"
Liu Yu looked from a distance and found that there was no distinguishable flag erected at the top of Dong'an Pingcheng.
"You can't tell, but the clothes they wear are all the crimson clothes from the Yexian warehouse. They must be our people."
Li Feng said with certainty.
During the Western Jin Dynasty, each state and county needed to prepare its own military uniforms, armor and weapons. Although the central court had unified standards and formats, there would be great differences when it came to the production of each state and county. This one in Donglai Junye County Because the clothes of the Jin army were made of local dyes from Donglai, the colors were very different from the clothes of other prefectures and counties, and they had obvious characteristics.
"In that case, let's go and see which brave man has such courage."
Liu Yu smiled slightly and said to the cavalry around him.
"Keep your eyes open and be alert."
After saying this, Liu Yu rode his horse and headed towards the east Anping city gate.
Soon, the soldiers at the top of Dong'an Ping City looked down and quickly spotted a dozen cavalrymen coming towards the city gate among the trees in the distance.
When Liu Yu and his party came to a distance of thirty steps from Dong'anping City Gate, they all stopped their horses. Many people had gathered on the top of Dong'anping's city gate, and a small leader began to shout loudly.
"Who is coming?"
Liu Yu felt that there was no need to conceal his identity.
"Donglai Liu Jixing. Let your military leader come out and answer the question."
Liu Yu looked familiar at the leader of the soldiers at the top of the city. He must have glanced at him once or twice in the Donglai Army before.
When the leader of the soldiers at the top of the city heard that the person coming was Liu Yu, a famous member of the Donglai Army, he hurriedly told Liu Yu to wait and then went to report back to his general.
After only a short while, two generals with bright clothes and armor appeared on the top of the city. One of them had a goatee, and he recognized Liu Yu at a glance.
"It turns out to be General Liu Jixing, the most powerful general of our Donglai Army, the lieutenant general of the Fu Army!"
Goatee said very happily.
"General, wait a moment. I will order people to open the city gate and invite the general to enter."
Liu Yu also recognized the general at the top of the city. His name was Shen Kan. He was a powerful man who defected to Liu Bogen when he raised his army in Donglai. He was considered the earliest veteran in the Donglai army, but he was not very strong and had nothing to do with it. Too strong a voice and presence.
