Riverhouse.

In the palace, Liu Zeqing stood in the courtyard with fragrant tea in his hand and looked at the new branches of the flower tree in front of him: "Spring is going to summer, it was supposed to be when the horses were released, but they couldn't move in this dead city."

"Lord Commander-in-Chief, I feel at ease here to eat, drink and play" Yi Xinzhi smiled: "It's much better than drinking the northwest wind outside."

"What kind of bullshit black wolf camp do you mean?" The corners of Liu Zeqing's mouth twitched and he sneered: "Not dead yet?" ”

"Although he is not dead, he is not far away" The henchman smiled: "It's like a stray dog outside."

"Where did you wander?" Liu Zeqing took a sip of fragrant tea, then raised his hand to pour the remaining tea on the budding buds of the flower branches, and withered in a blink of an eye.

"It is reported that it should be in the west of Sunning"

Liu Zeqing sighed, turned around and entered the lobby: "There is a ruin, let them linger over there and wait for death."

The henchman frowned: "Lord Commander, if this matter is known to the little eunuch, will he find trouble!" ”

Moreover, Liu Zeqing rolled his eyes: "What can he do with me without evidence, it is his subordinates who do not measure their own strength, and they should bear the consequences of acting without obeying military orders, and what does Lao Tzu do."

said and smiled coldly: "What's more, the little eunuch is in trouble now, and he can't protect himself, and he still cares so much about giving his subordinates anger?" I'm sorry, if I really don't know how to lift, I'm not used to him."

The henchman casually echoed but was also confused: "What do adults mean when they say that they are difficult to protect...... I heard that Huang Degong and Gao Jie in the south have been invincible all the way to the west, advancing for hundreds of miles, and the size of the lower city is more than ten times, which can be described as being in the limelight."

Liu Zeqing laughed when he heard this: "Mu Xiu will be destroyed by Lin Feng, just because he is too strong, so he will soon be in trouble, think about Li Zicheng in Baoding Mansion, Zhending Mansion has more than 100,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of displaced people, the momentum is unprecedented, is it all decoration, how can he be allowed to go so single-handedly, although the little eunuch is staring at the soldiers, in fact, Li Zicheng simply turned a deaf ear, and he can't wait to let us swarm over to die......"

I have to say that Liu Zeqing can become a bigwig, although his character is poor, he still has vision, and he can easily gain insight into Li Zicheng's thoughts, so that the cannon fodder and officers and soldiers will be stumbling, and he will reap the benefits of the fisherman.

"So the little eunuch with those two fools rushed more fiercely, the more the death period is not far away, the Zhending Mansion is the old nest of the thief army, once it falls into the idea of it, it will be difficult to come out, if it is not expected that the thief will throw the bait almost, it is time to transfer the main force to go to a showdown, the thief army is strong and depends on Huang Pifu's little man and horse enough to stuff the teeth, the eunuch is still too tender, relying on the courage of the young and vigorous moment, this time he will be calculated to suffer a big loss."

said with a smug face: "You see that Ben will be stationed in the river far away from the main force of the thief army, except for some bait deliberately come to attack and disturb, you have seen a large number of thieves, so the farther away the safer, once the situation is serious, you can withdraw in time."

"My lord is smart, the thief wants to use the homeless people to fight with us, the adult is here to sit firmly in the Diaoyutai and watch the thief and the little eunuch fight to the death, if the little eunuch wins, we take advantage of the situation to go north, if the thief wins, we will retreat to Jinan, this back and forth has been ordered to participate in the war, and it is unscathed, killing two birds with one stone is really high!"

Liu Zeqing looked smug and smiled.

Suning is fifty miles west of Hejian Mansion, it is a projectile city, it has been in ruins by the military disaster, and many people in the city have fled, leaving only dozens of families to survive.

At dawn yesterday, a cavalry of about 200 people came here, so that the people in the city were panicked, but they saw that the cavalry soldiers were full of fatigue and were very depressed, but after entering the city, there was no attack, and the people were slightly relieved.

That's right, this force is the black wolf battalion led by Lao Jiu, originally ordered by Chang Yu to garrison Hejian Mansion and the thief army in several bloody battles until reinforcements arrived, but Liu Zeqing immediately seized power after entering the city and became the boss and clashed with the black wolf battalion, thus forming a beam.

Liu Zeqing occupied the granary of the military camp, and the black wolf battalion had to support itself, and he could survive by camping in the courtyard of a rich gentry and receiving food from the squires in the city.

But just hide in the city like this?

Lao Jiu went to the city every day to look into the distance, and he could always see several bandit armies attacking and harassing the surrounding area, and he went to see Liu Zeqing several times and asked him to send troops to suppress the thieves.

Liu Zeqing always said a sentence and had his own ideas to send him.

After several times, Lao Jiu was furious: "Since you were ordered by the Governor, why did the Pinghejian Mansion stand still and let the thieves attack and disturb?" Liu Zeqing, who finally provoked him, was furious, and said that Lao Tzu's dignified general soldier wheel got your fingers, so far the two tore their faces and broke off their contacts.

In fact, although Liu Zeqing swore in front of Chang Yu, he actually kept prevaricating, because there were almost no thieves in Hejian Mansion at this time.

The thief army swept most of Hebei from Henan all the way north, but its main forces were in Zhending Mansion and Baoding Mansion, and they were all divided on the north-south axis.

For example, in Cangzhou, which is under the jurisdiction of Hejian Mansion in the east, almost all of them are infested with small bands of more than ten people, and they plundered everywhere, making chickens and dogs uneasy.

The reason why there was a large army of thieves in Hejian Mansion was that it was the city of Fu, and the thieves set up a defensive line here to block the officers and soldiers from going north, but they didn't want to be deceived by Chang Yu from the rear, and then Jingzhou County on the front line was destroyed by Liu Zeqing, and the thieves in the territory were not satisfied with the large-scale counterattack on Hejian Mansion City, Lao Jiu led his troops and the people in the city to defend to the death, and when Liu Zeqing's army arrived, the thief army dispersed, and then retreated north to lure it deeper.

To put it simply, in fact, Hejian Mansion at this time except for Renqiu and Gaoyang in the north and Baoding Mansion in the west have a large number of thieves, the rest are small bands of rogues, although Liu Zeqing was ordered to recover Hejian Mansion, in fact, it is only a city of Jingzhou, Hejian Mansion is to take advantage of the situation to occupy the magpie's nest, and then stop, drink tea in the mansion and watch.

After Li Zicheng learned that Hejian Mansion was restored by the officers and soldiers, he did not take it to heart and sent a large army to fight a fierce battle, but let people attack and harass him repeatedly to lure him to go deeper, but Liu Zeqing was old and cunning, and he didn't want to go deep alone before the situation was unknown, and he didn't want to be the pawn of the little eunuch as cannon fodder, so let the thief army attack and harass him is to sit on the cloud platform and remain motionless.

And Lao Jiu didn't have such good concentration, and he still appeared every day after turning his face with Liu Zeqing, and saw that the thieves were brutally abusing and killing civilians outside the city in order to provoke the officers and soldiers out of the city, and even molested women in public and then brutally killed.

After all, the black wolf battalion is from the ranks and soldiers, and he followed the little eunuch to fight in the south and the north, and was influenced by it to be jealous and hateful, how could he bear it when he saw this, since Liu Zeqing did not leave the city, the black wolf battalion came out!

So Lao Jiu led his troops out of the city to kill the thieves, the black wolf battalion is known as the strongest combat power of the four battalions of Dongchang, although it is not a heavy cavalry, but it is more than enough to deal with these small groups of Liu thieves, and he returned triumphantly after chasing and killing more than ten miles in one breath, but he found that the city gate was closed, no matter how he shouted, he did not open the door, and even opened his eyes and said that the way of nonsense was unknown was the thief army pretending, and he would say that the thief army was eyeing the city outside the city, and if the door was opened, he was afraid that he would take the opportunity to enter.

"In my lifetime, when I kill this fang to vent my hatred" Lao Jiu gritted his teeth angrily with the brothers in the black wolf camp outside the city, seeing that it was dark Liu Zeqing just didn't open the door, so he had to leave to find another place, otherwise once he was targeted by the thief bureau, he would be like a wolf pack of sheep that had fallen behind, and the consequences could be imagined.

However, Lao Jiu is not very familiar with the geography around the river, there are large bandits entrenched in the north, the nest of the thieves in the west, and several small cities in the south are burned to ruins by the thieves (in fact, Liu Zeqing did it) Then go to the east.

But I didn't know that there was no town a hundred miles east of the river, and the nearest Cangzhou was a hundred miles away, and more importantly, the black wolf camp was more than ten miles away from the east, and it was lost and deviated from the north and encountered a thief army.

So after a fight, the fight stopped until dawn was exhausted, at this time inexplicably went around to the west of the river, saw that there was a city in front of it and did not have to explore it carefully, but found a ruined city, and under the inquiry was Suning, dozens of miles to the west of Lixian is the boundary of Baoding.

Lao Jiu and the others couldn't help but feel a chill, the main force of the thief army was close at hand, but there was a shortage of food and few soldiers, if there was no danger to defend the ruins of a large number of thieves, they were only afraid of danger.

"It's all Liu Zeqing, this dog mongrel, it's a big deal, follow the thief, go back and break the Hejian Mansion to kill this old dog," someone under his command was angry.

Lao Jiu angrily reprimanded: "I'd rather die than be a thief, if there is another word of a thief, I will not be forgiven" The subordinates hurriedly confessed, but they were angry and couldn't choose to speak.

"Liu Zeqing's old thief, this Liang Zi is over, and if the little overseer doesn't treat him, Lao Tzu will also want to kill him" Lao Jiu gritted his teeth, he was convinced that Chang Yu would definitely be angry for his subordinates, and he also believed that Chang Yu could cure Liu Zeqing, thinking that his own head Jiang Hao had been operating in Datong for several years and was known as the king of Datong, and the little eunuch was still fledgling at that time and said that he would kill him, not to mention the power at this time, as long as he got Liu Zeqing's handle, he dared to get him.

Yes, looking for the handle of this old dog first, Lao Jiu suddenly realized that just relying on these things in front of him, Liu Zeqing had all kinds of reasons to prevaricate the past, and Chang Yu didn't have enough reasons to kill him, at most he gave some painless admonitions.

There must be enough evidence to bring down this guy, Lao Jiu suddenly thought of Liu Zeqing's arson in Hejian Mansion to harass the people and take the opportunity to plunder, at that time he was still in the city Liu Zeqing had no scruples, so was the destruction of Jingzhou really done by thieves? There are also two small cities in the north of Xianxian and Fucheng under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou that were also burned to ruins, and the thieves fled in all directions when they were defeated, and they still had the mind to set fire to the city?

There is a lot of article in it, Lao Jiu felt as if he had caught something, so he ordered his subordinates to rest on the spot, and begged for some food from the people in the city to barely solve the problem of food and clothing, and then led his troops south.

He wanted to go to the south to verify the slaughter of the city, and then go to Chang Yu to complain, if he stayed here for fear of death and Liu Zeqing would be killed, but unfortunately he didn't know that Chang Yu was in Qizhou (Anguo) at this time, which was a hundred miles away from him to the west.