"Supervisor there," he said, raising his hand and pointing to the west halfway up the mountain, where there was a raised rock where a few people were sitting on it, and it was impossible to find it if you didn't look closely because of the lush trees in the mountain and the darkness of the sky.

The rock was forty or fifty meters away from the valley in a straight line, and the silhouettes of several people could be vaguely seen but they didn't look at their faces carefully, and those people stood up generously when they saw that they were found.

I thought it might be the mountain people who were collecting medicine and hunting, but together they could see the guy in their hands and the unruly momentum, there is no doubt that the horse thief!

"Hey, you've been defeated by the Tartars and have taken refuge in the mountains," one of them shouted, not paying any attention to the officers and soldiers.

"You thief, didn't you expect that I would have killed you" Li Shiyuan shouted angrily, and the few people above laughed: "I can't find the mountain gate with your virtue, and I can't get in if I find you, I'm sorry, I saw the Tartar coming, and the frightened legs are hiding in the mountains to be a hero!" ”

Li Shiyuan was furious and wanted to scold, but Chang Yu stopped him, raised his head and asked, "Which mountain leader is so arrogant that dares to report his name?" ”

"Lao Tzu's Black Mountain Village, why do you really want to try it when there are many people?" After the man finished speaking, a few people around him laughed, which can be said to be extremely arrogant and did not take the officers and soldiers seriously at all, which also proves how bad the reputation and combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers have been in recent years.

"The big mountain in the west is the Black Mountain, which is particularly ......steep," Orion whispered beside Chang Yu, Chang Yu turned his head and glanced at the dark mountain, nodded slightly and shouted to the people: "I will visit when I have time."

"Waiting for you, don't forget to bring a greeting gift to worship the mountain, hahaha......" Several people laughed, the reason why they were so arrogant was because the mountain was steep, the sky was dark and the distance was far away, and it was expected that the officers and soldiers would be helpless against them.

"You can bring it over now" Chang Yu raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and the person on top said: "Then you are ......" Before the words were finished, he rolled down with a miserable scream, but he was killed by an arrow from Guo Ren, and the remaining thief disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"The lowly thief is not effective, and the crime deserves death" Li Shiyuan saw that Chang Yu's face was not good, and quickly kowtowed and confessed, Chang Yu snorted coldly, and thousands of officers and soldiers led by the dignified Dongchang Admiral were ridiculed by a few horse thieves, it was not him who was ashamed, it was the face of the imperial court and the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty!

Although it was dark and the breeze was cool, the mosquitoes were raging, and the people who bit were bitter and lit some mosquito repellent grass to get better, so they continued to march with a deep foot and a shallow foot.

There was a sudden scream from the rear, saying that someone on the mountain threw stones and injured a few soldiers, Chang Yu knew that it must be those horse thieves who retaliated, but he couldn't see them in the dark, otherwise they would all be shot.

Li Shiyuan's face was pale, and he secretly swore that as soon as the war outside was over, he would come to the mountains and kill these horse thieves!

It's just that it's not so easy to suppress bandits in the mountains, even so many modern high-tech weapons in later generations are difficult to uproot, let alone these years.

Chang Yu was slightly sullen, in addition to being disturbed by those horse thieves, the mosquitoes in the mountains were really painful, and even more fatally, he turned into a valley but suddenly it rained, and the team that did not enter the valley behind said that it was not, and the soldiers were all surprised, and Li Muxian was even more of a magic stick, pinching his fingers and fooling Li Shiyuan and Lu Xing

For Chang Yu, this is just a natural phenomenon, the air flow in the mountains is different, it is normal for a mountain to be a piece of sky, but this rain is not big or small, but it makes people uncomfortable, and he can't help but scold: It is a sunny day in the city for several days, so why do you give eye medicine to the army.

There was a warning signal from the front that he found another fire flashing in the distance, Chang Yu couldn't help frowning, wouldn't it be another horse thief, it was dark and raining around here, if the surrounding horse thieves were disturbed, it would be really troublesome.

Fortunately, there was a false alarm, Orion said that it was a village, but there was a cottage of real horse thieves around, and he also stretched out his hand to show Chang Yu, and the fire could be seen faintly flickering, presumably the torches of the officers and soldiers marched to attract their attention.

Li Muxian suggested resting in the village in front of him and waiting for dawn before leaving, after all, there are several horse thieves around, if they go crazy and suddenly make a move, this dark officer and soldier are not familiar with the surrounding terrain, and they will suffer a secret loss if they can't keep it.

Chang Yu was also very entangled, and called Lu Xing and a few people to ask them for their opinions.

"What a horse thief, even if it occupies the right time and place, we have 3,000 soldiers who are several times more than the horse thief, and we are afraid of it, and let's find out the situation of the horse thief, this black and dark They also don't know our depth, and it is impossible for us to do it inexplicably!" Ma Qianli, the commander of Teng Xiangwei, analyzed, after all, he was a soldier, and if he talked about his resourcefulness, he might not be as good as Li Muxian, but if he talked about the experience of marching and arranging, he was not comparable to running the rivers and lakes.

Since this is the case and the military situation in Qingzhou is urgent, Chang Yu ordered the soldiers to continue the march, striving for dawn to reach the big valley of Prince Mountain.

Chang Yu is miserable to climb over the mountains and forests, and Jia Waixiong and Lao Jiu in Qingzhou City are also dignified, and the mountain rain is finally coming.

The two of them had the heavy responsibility of defending the city, and they did not dare to have a trace of slack in the city to eat and sleep on the city walls, and yesterday Kangkler's performance in the city gave them the opportunity to train their troops, and they tossed until the evening, and Jia Waixiong did not let the village Yong go down to the city to rest until late at night, and he and Lao Jiu led two battalions to be on duty in the city.

There was nothing to do all night, the two battalions took turns to rest at dawn and went up to the city to look, and the horse thief leader Qin Fugui came to Jia Waixiong to pinch his arms and rub his legs to please him as much as possible, this goods were ordered to maintain law and order in the city, but he was also conscientious, and ordered those thieves under his command to strictly abide by military discipline and not to pick out any thorns.

"Is Qin Fugui happy to be an officer and soldier or a horse thief?" Jia Waixiong likes to make fun of him when he has nothing to do.

"There is an egg for being happy, you have to have food to eat this year, our brothers used to be happy, but after eating the last meal, we were dizzy from hunger, and everyone shouted and beaten, but now it is different, we are officers and soldiers, not only do we have military salaries but also food and drink, hey, three meals of porridge a day, sometimes add broth, and eat ...... nest" Qin Fugui looked satisfied.

Lao Jiu was stunned: "It's okay to eat and drink, you have military salaries, who promised it?" The little overseer didn't make it for you! ”

Oh, cough cough, Qin Fugui was slightly embarrassed: "Then it's not a military salary, it's a reward for silver, I heard the palace housekeeper say that King Heng said that all the soldiers who defend the city have a reward for silver, although we are not regular officers and soldiers, but also, hehe, right, the two bosses......"

Seeing that the Qing army is approaching the city, the city will be destroyed at any time, and the timid King Heng used all his connections to call on the rich gentry to donate money and food, and he is even more regardless of the cost of money and food, and set up more than a dozen porridge sheds near the four city gates, of course, not all the people in the city can eat, only the kind of township warriors and guards who go to the city can.

Of course, if you want to fight, you want to eat a full stomach, in addition, Hengwang Zhu Youdi has gone to the city several times to boost morale, of course, he didn't come empty-handed, Chang Yu's two battalions of silver and reward silver were each given as much as ten taels, Jia Waixiong and Lao Jiu both took as much as one hundred taels, and even said that after the war, one thousand taels would be offered, of course, at this time he didn't know that his eldest son had promised ten thousand taels per person in Linzi......