When entering the May, the atmosphere in the city of western Liaoning suddenly became tense, and a group of troops stationed in various places began to assemble in the county from all over the place, after gathering into a large army, and then with countless baggage to pull out, looking at the direction of their advance, all the people of western Liaoning understood that the battle that had been rumored about the eastern army to capture Langya seemed to be about to begin.

Since Ye Zhong came to the county town of Liaoxi and began to train the army, this rumor has spread far and wide, what is Langya? That is the fiefdom of the Ye family, where are the people of the Ye family now? One is the wife of Gao Yuan, the governor of Zhengdong Prefecture, and the other is the brother-in-law, and this Ye Chong is the No. 1 general under the Ye family at the beginning.

The people of Liaoxi feel that Langya should belong to Zhengdongfu.

With the strong rise of Jishi City in recent years, the status of Liaoxi City is declining year by year, but this does not hinder the pride of Liaoxi people, because Gao Yuan is a native of Liaoxi, with the full implementation of the policy of Zhengdongfu in Liaoxi, under the rule of Zhang Shouyue, Liaoxi, which even struggled to raise tens of thousands of soldiers, is now rich, especially Liaoxi City, which has become an important channel to connect Zhengdongfu and other cities of Yanguo.

There are too many people, and naturally there are all kinds of birds, even if the supervision institute under the command of Cao Tianci will come to clean it after a while, but there are always fish that have slipped through the net and survived.

Xu Yanmao is one of them. It has been two full years since he came to the city of Liaoxi, two years of fear and fear, two years of trembling, making this young official of Yan Lingwei, who was also high-spirited in the past, look much older than his actual age, he is not yet forty, but he looks like a fifty-year-old man.

He used to have a bright future, but because of the mission of escorting Ye Tiannan and his wife from Langya to Jicheng, there was a big leak, which not only made Ye Feng, who was still young at the beginning, escape. The entire Yan Lingwei led by him who was in charge of escorting was overturned, which was completely unforgivable for people engaged in secret spy work, not to mention, in the end, Ye Tiannan and his wife both died in the carriage, before the palace.

Xu Yanmao's future will naturally be dark from now on. was first driven directly from the promising headquarters officials to the school leader of any district in Langya, and then was thrown to Liaoxi City by the commander of Langya County as a scout.

Liaoxi City is almost the hell of all spies, because this is the old nest of Gao Yuan's family, and now it is one of the most important cities under Gao Yuan's control. It is often seen that the spies of various countries are captured alive and snatched back.

Xu Yanmao is still a capable guy after all, he has been in Liaoxi for two years, and every time he is purged, he has escaped safely, because his identity is really impossible to check, he plays a homeless person, after arriving in Liaoxi City. After the first two or three months of fear, he managed to turn himself into a real coolie, carrying a flat burden every day. With a sweat towel on his shoulder, he gathered at the city gate like many homeless coolies, waiting for business to come to his door.

There are many merchants in the city of western Liaoning, and the amount of goods in and out is very large. This also gave them a huge market for these coolies, who lived in a chase shop for five cents a night, and ate pickled vegetables and steamed buns and tofu soup. Eating a meal of meat once in a while can be regarded as improving your life. The handsome and dashing Commander Xu is now a coolie with a big waist and round shoulders, hair on his face, and black stripes on his body.

No one will ever recognize him anymore. After arriving in Liaoxi, he cut off the upper and lower families designated by his boss to contact him, and became a completely lonely ghost.

He was supposed to be the person in charge of Yan Lingwei in Liaoxi City, but his subordinates couldn't find him at all, and his boss in Langya couldn't contact him anymore, so he completely submerged himself.

This slightly extreme cover strategy proved to be completely confirmed in the later facts, and he saw with his own eyes that those who were supposed to be his subordinates were arrested by the Supervision Yuan one by one.

They knew that there was such a person as themselves, but they had no way of knowing where they were, and the Supervisory Yuan could not find out.

Xu Yanmao and another coolie carried a heavy box onto the carriage, then leaned on the box, tore off the sweat towel on his shoulder, and wiped the sweat stains on his face. These days, their business is very good, because a large number of military baggage was transported out of the city, transferred to the army stationed outside the city, and then these troops took these materials and began to march in teams, for more than ten days, Xu Yanmao has seen more than a dozen teams drive away from outside the county.

The army of about 20,000 people is almost all the strength of the Eastern Army in the entire Liaoxi County. In other words, Ye Zhong sent almost the entire Southern Group Army under his command.

In the two years in western Liaoning, Xu Yanmao made the military system of the Eastern Army clear, and also saw the training and organization of the Eastern Army, in a few years, the reason why Ye Chong only recruited 20,000 people was not because he couldn't recruit people, but the rules for recruiting soldiers in the Eastern Army have become stricter and stricter. There is no qualification for being recruited into the ranks.

Observing the training of the Eastern Army at close range, he also felt frightened again and again, the training of the Eastern Army is not a secret, including the current standing army of Yan State, which is also using lofty training methods, but in Xu Yanmao's opinion, I am afraid that it is similar in appearance but not in appearance.

The Eastern Expeditionary Army seems to have a centripetal force that is difficult for the Yan Army to have, and the combat effectiveness of the Eastern Expeditionary Army trained by the same training methods and the same cruel training seems to be much stronger.

Xu Yanmao had quietly spied on a confrontation exercise of the Southern Group Army, and it was hard for him to imagine that in a confrontation exercise, there were dozens of casualties, and only then did the Yan army definitely hold the leading generals accountable, but in the Eastern Army, it seemed that it was normal for the wounded to return to the army or retire after treatment, and those who died during the training were also sent to the martyr's hall by them, enjoying the same treatment as the soldiers who died on the battlefield.

20,000 troops to conquer the east, at least more than double the Yan army. Fang can compete with them on the battlefield, this is Xu Yanmao's evaluation of the two sides as a whole.

20,000 Southern Group Army poured out, and countless baggage, grain and grass, also continued to follow, the war, must begin, these days, Xu Yanmao felt that the hard work of the past two years was finally not in vain, he completely mastered the number of the opponent's army. The route opened, as well as the state of logistical preparation, and the mobilization of the entire Liaoxi County, now he also knows it by heart.

It's time to leave, the war is about to begin, and going back with this information is enough to explain to your superiors.

Xu Yanmao hated Ye Tiannan and hated the Ye family, so he also hated Gao Yuan. hated the Zhengdong Mansion and the Zhengdong Army, if it weren't for them, how could he have fallen to such a point. Thinking of his family who was still struggling in the capital, he trembled with hatred all over, and he had no contact with his family for two years, nor did he have any contact with his boss. I'm afraid they all think they're dead, right?

With this information, he returned to Langya County, General Hu Yanchao was a famous general in Dayan, with tens of thousands of troops under his command. There are also tens of thousands of elites who withdrew from Donghu at the beginning, which are heroes who have fought with tens of thousands of Donghu soldiers in the city of western Liaoning, with this accurate information, General Hu can have a target to defeat these rebellions one by one. Only by completely defeating these bastards can you feel comfortable with hatred.

"Lao Xu, what do you want? Get the money, well, it's your share. The coolie leader came over and threw a few pieces of silver to Xu Yanmao, "If you want to say, you still have to make money by working for these soldiers, and you can give a lot of money, and you don't bargain, it's much better than those cunning merchants." ”

Xu Yanmao was excited, and suddenly came to his senses, "Yes, yes, it's a pity that there are not many such good things!" ”

"Who said that, when I went to collect the money just now, the head of the soldier in charge of this place also said that there will be more supplies to be shipped next, we don't have to worry about doing work this year!" The coolie leader lowered his voice and said.

"Will more supplies be brought here?" Xu Yanmao was stunned.

The coolie leader lowered his voice, "Yes, I am also happy to hear it, I wanted to ask a few more words, but the soldier was impatient, and drove me out, I kept an extra eye, and listened quietly outside, and listened to them inside, saying that they still need to transfer people from Panshan, or cavalry, and need more materials, grain and grass, I wanted to listen to it for a while, but a soldier came outside, so I quickly slipped away, if this annoyed them, maybe this work will not be done for us." ”

Xu Yanmao's heart tightened, Panshan, where is the control range of the Eastern Group Army of the Eastern Army, do they want to transfer the cavalry under the command of Helan Xiong of Panshan to come over, if this is the case, it means that the focus of the attack of the Eastern Army this time is really in the direction of Langya.

It is very likely that Langya's wealth is a good place in the entire Dayan, second only to Tianhe, and because of the special relationship between Langya and Gao Yuan, it is normal for Gao Yuan to point the spearhead of his attack in this direction.

"Lao Xu, let's go, let's get together a little bit of each of us today, how about a good drink?" The coolie patted him on the shoulder and laughed.

"Okay!" Xu Yanmao nodded again and again.

"Let's go, let's go, seeing that it's going to be dark, it's late, but you can't enter the city." The coolie leader beckoned everyone to the gate of Liaoxi City in the distance.

Xu Yanmao silently followed at the end of the line.

Originally, there was no curfew in Liaoxi City, and the city gate was also like a stone city, which was not closed day and night, but since the beginning of this month, a curfew has begun, and the city gate is also closed after dark, and it is not allowed to be opened unless there is a heavy military situation.

"Hey, my stomach hurts!" Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the city gate, Xu Yanmao suddenly covered his stomach and shouted, "Boss, I'm going to, you guys go in first, I'll come right away." ”

The coolie leader glanced back at him, "Hurry up, when the city gate closes, you kid will have to curl up in the city gate cave all night." ”

"Okay, okay, go first, boss, leave me a seat, and I'll be right away." Xu Yanmao lifted his pants and ran into the bushes in the distance. (To be continued......)