The west of Suning is Lixian, and the west of Lixian is Qizhou.

Fortunately, Lao Jiu didn't know where Chang Yu was, otherwise he would definitely die if he went rashly, there was a thief's den in the center, and two hundred people crossed the border, and there were dead and lifeless.

And at this time, Chang Yu was also taking care of himself, extremely embarrassed.

Qizhou already belongs to Baoding Prefecture, and it is also the hardest hit area of 300 miles, but wherever the towns are located, there are displaced people gathered, Chang Yu escaped from under Li Guo's nose, and rode his horse to the north for more than 20 miles to the outside of the city, and was dumbfounded.

If the homeless people on the banks of the Hutuo River are said to be crowded with people, it can be said that the blue sea and the sky are turbulent, and the boundless is really endless, and what makes several people even more nervous is that there are small groups of thieves wandering among the homeless people everywhere to maintain order, and one by one the fierce gods are arrogant and arrogant, and they wantonly scold the homeless.

A few people did not dare to pass through the homeless people, beating horses to detour from the west, after passing through Qizhou City, you can still see the endless sea of people, along the way villages, towns, rivers and wilderness are homeless people gathered.

What's more, several people were repeatedly interrogated by the thief patrol, not because their identities were revealed, but because the four detectives actually brought a girl to pass on the message, which is really suspicious.

And every time at this time, Wu Zhong has to squeeze his eyebrows, with a lewd smile on his face, looking like you know, those interrogating thieves really will, and some even took the opportunity to rub oil and wanted to touch Nangong Yu, but was blocked by Qiao Sanxiu's detective, which was left for General Quan: "You have eaten leopard gall!" ”

This is naturally the excuse that Chang Yu taught him, and sure enough, those thieves didn't dare to make a mistake when they heard Liu Zongmin's name, Liu Zongmin was famous for his brutal killing, killing court officials and killing squires, and the people never had a soft hand, even killing their own people did not change their faces, and if they were not happy, they would cut it if they were brought over, and the name of brutality was unknown to everyone in the whole army.

When she brought Nangong Yu out, it was because she had just lost her parents and stayed alone in the center of the city, restless and insecure, and she could also be used as a cover, but she wanted to go back to the city after a circle, but now she has become a burden when she goes all the way north in the tiger's den.

At this time, although he can prevaricate the past, Chang Yu knows that as he gets closer and closer to Baoding City, the inventory will become stricter, and if he is not in order, he will reveal flaws, and the consequences will be unbearable.

Anxious all the way to the north, until dusk finally arrived in Qingyuan County, Chang Yu decisively decided to abandon the horse and walk, this is already the heart of the thief army, he dare not take too many risks, it is most appropriate to hide among the homeless.

Fu River is also known as Qingyuan River, the name of Qingyuan County originates from this, Qingyuan is the ancient city than Baoding City earlier, Ming is under the jurisdiction of Baoding Mansion is more than 20 miles apart.

The crowd of displaced people on the riverside is like a mountain, Chang Yu and several people looked north from the river, and saw that the small city of Qingyuan was submerged in the boundless crowd, and he couldn't help frowning, knowing that a few miles ahead was where the main camp of the thief army was located, and he was worried about how to pass through the camp to the north of Baoding City and Li Yanbu round.

Here, Chang Yu was frowning about crossing the line of fire, but he didn't know that the heaven and earth that were being killed on the northern defense line changed color.

However, he said that Li Yan hated Liu Fangliang that day, and secretly plotted against him, and ordered his troops to advance to the south to expand the buffer area of the defense line with the attack as the defense, and the preparations were complete overnight, and the troops were sent south at dawn.

According to the report of the secret agent, Liu Fangliang was deflated the day before yesterday and retreated dozens of miles to Xushui City, because the city was small and his troops camped on the bank of the river a few miles south of the city, Li Yan decided to give him a heavy blow, personally led 5,000 cavalry, 8,000 infantry, and at the same time went with more than 50 field guns with the artillery of the Shenji Battalion.

At ten o'clock in the afternoon, a few miles north of Xushui, Gu Yingbu resisted, first used cannon fodder to provoke his front and then used the main force to attack the south according to Li Yan, but he didn't know that Li Yan was humiliated and murderous the day before yesterday, so that his subordinates were killed regardless of the thieves.

When the two sides fought fiercely, Liu Fangliang led his troops to arrive, and attacked from the west flank in an attempt to detour to the north to cut off his rear road, at this time Li Yan's troops Qin Songwang led the main force of infantry to kill, and a bloody battle was dark.

Both sides held their breath in their hearts, gritted their teeth and fought hard to give in, and the battle of 10,000 people spread for several miles, and the sound of killing was deafening and could be heard more than ten miles away.

After half a pillar of incense, Liu Fangliang's troops were finally invincible, after all, the morale of the rout in the first battle yesterday was low, and most of his troops were homeless cannon fodder, although there were descendants as the main force, it was difficult to defeat Li Yan's monstrous fighting spirit.

So he decided to retreat strategically, and he didn't believe that Li Yan dared to pursue it alone.

He guessed correctly, of course Li Yan didn't dare to pursue deeply, he was almost deceived yesterday to go to the aid of Baoding City, how could he be fooled again, and today he went south just to cut his breath and expand the buffer area.

Liu Fangliang let the cannon fodder and the partial division of the palace, he and Gu Ying led the main force to retreat, but just after traveling a few miles, they suddenly saw the fire of the large camp on the south riverside, and a cavalry came to kill them.

Heavy cavalry!

Holy! The two of them couldn't help but exclaim.

In fact, at the same time that Li Yan sent troops to attract the attention of the thief army, Jia Waixiong led the Black Panther Battalion to detour from the east to the rear of the enemy, and rushed into the thief army camp to kill people and set fire to the fierce battle between the two sides.

Liu Fangliang made two fatal mistakes, one was to underestimate the enemy, he didn't expect Li Yan to dare to send troops south, and the other was that he didn't camp in the city because he was afraid of the city's troubles.

Although there are only more than 200 people in the Black Panther Battalion, it is a heavy armor in the body, brave and good at fighting, and a fierce pawn with one as ten, after the retreat of the thief army, there are pursuers who are already panicked, how can they have the heart to fight at this time, and they will collapse at the first touch.

Li Yan led the main force to cover and kill, and the blade passed through no grass, and he directly killed Liu Fangliang and Gu Ying, who lost their armor and abandoned their armor, and chased them to ten miles away.

A great victory, the morale of the officers and soldiers was greatly boosted, and even some soldiers began to be a little fluttering, since the surrender, thousands of miles outside the pass to kill the Tartars, and then non-stop to the south to kill the thieves, the same hand knife fell without ambiguity, the former colleagues killed the fart and urine, can't help but shout the righteous army!

They are righteous teachers who have been given the title by the emperor!

However, Li Yan is extremely calm, this time Liu Fangliang is defeated and retreated, there will soon be a violent retaliatory counterattack, although Li Zicheng wants to lure him closer, but he can't tolerate this thorn hurting people repeatedly, and he must break him.

But Li Yan was also ruthless, he wanted to fight hard with Li Zicheng once, in addition to the turbidity in his heart to come out, he also felt that the horn of the great siege was about to sound, and the big war was about to fight, what if the bright means also let Li Zicheng know his true ability, and also show the court his determination!

Ming Jin collected his troops and asked the horses to rest in the abandoned camp of the thief army on the riverside, while sending people into the city to clear the field, all the people were forced to drive away within an hour, and then ordered Qin Songwang to lead 3,000 troops to garrison Xushui City and deploy more than 50 field guns of the Shenji battalion in the city.

He also ordered the army to dig several trenches outside the city to build defensive fortifications, until the dark was completed, Li Yan led his troops to retreat to the north of the defense line on the bank of the Juma River, just at this time to explore the Malay report, the west of Zhou Yuji's has been ready to capture the city.

Zhou Yuji was pleasantly surprised after contacting Li Yan when he was embarrassed, and planned to capture Mancheng at that time, but the situation was unclear and he was worried that exposing his whereabouts too early would attract an army of thieves to surround him, so he hid in the mountains to inquire about Li Yan's news.

A day later, Li Yan secretly sent a letter, and laid out the plan for the encirclement discussed with the little eunuch before, and told him the general situation at present, he established a defensive line in the north, and there were reinforcements in the southeast, and at this time, the little eunuch was laying a net in the south to prepare for the encirclement, so that Zhou Yuji could see the opportunity to act and prepare in advance.

Zhou Yuji was overjoyed after reading, summoned his subordinates to discuss, a group of people held a wooden stick on the ground for a long time, the situation was suddenly clear, at this time the three friendly forces in the southeast and north were in place, only waiting for his western wing.

After some deliberation, Zhou Yuji decided to capture the city.

The city is forty miles northwest of Baoding and Xu Shui in the north just takes advantage of the horn and the straight-line distance between the two places is only more than 30 miles, with the two cities as the outpost and Dingxing County behind the main line of defense, the attack and defense can be combined to advance and retreat.

Just do it, although the city is only more than 40 miles away from Baoding City, but because of its proximity to the mountainous terrain, it does not have much military effect on the thief army, and there is no large force of thieves stationed there, only a few rest bases for exploring horses.

Therefore, when the Ming army spies sent the information to Li Yan, Zhou Yuji had already led his troops into Mancheng, and was busy recuperating his men and horses to build city defenses.

Li Yan is happy, all parties are in place, just wait for the little eunuch to give an order, and they will go all out to besiege and kill the thieves, but where is the little eunuch at this time, and when will the order be given?