The army tossed until two o'clock before setting off, and walked for more than an hour, almost noon, and walked more than ten miles.

Walking along the river, there are many lively boats on the Huai River, but they are all on the north bank, so they don't dare to get too close.

The guest soldiers are famous, and if they are close, they say that they are spies who came to spy on military aircraft, and the archers shoot a few of them, and there is nowhere to say anything.

Liu Zeqing has already sent people to post notices everywhere, telling the people, saying that Min Yuanqi on the other side of Yunti Pass colluded with pirates, and he ordered to suppress it, and if the military and civilians and others rebelled against them, it was inevitable that the jade would be burned.

Of course, this is a strategy of differentiation, as soon as the guest soldiers arrive, it doesn't matter if you are rebellious or not, you should rob it, and kill it when you should kill it.

One of the strategies of such a metaphor is to divide the gentry and prevent the gentry from standing at the end of the Dahewei Cloud Ladder Pass. Second, it is also a shame, of course, it is not to cover up Liu Zeqing's shame, he has never done any ugly things, and many things are not ugly, but proud.

This shame is to cover up the shame of the imperial court, so there must be a name for mobilizing troops, otherwise the matter will be too ugly, Liu Zeqing is not afraid that it will be difficult to explain, but that the imperial court will be too embarrassed, so that he, a general and a dignified earl, will not have face.

Of course, it depends on whether the matter has made these towns and generals anxious, otherwise the face of the court is a fart, or it is not as good as a fart. Like Gao Jie ambushed Huang Degong, Huang Degong killed hundreds of Ding pro-army cleanly, this rush happened outside Yangzhou City, causing a big uproar in public opinion, Huang Degong was furious after getting out, and wanted to gather all the soldiers and horses to fight with Gao Jie.

Shi Kefa, who was in a hurry, jumped up and down, desperately saying peace, and then pressed this matter down.

This incident made Gao Jie have a very good impression of Shi Kefa, and he and Li Zicheng had a common enmity, so Gao Jie was the most concerned about military affairs among the four towns, and he often inspected the area of Xuzhou, urging the generals to train the troops, and later planned to use Xuzhou Town to go north to the Northern Expedition.

At the same time, he also asked his son to worship Shi Kefa as his father-in-law, but Shi Kefa cherished his feathers and introduced Gao Jie's son to Gao Qiqian, and asked this famous eunuch in the Chongzhen period to accept Gao Jie's son as his godson.

This thing is not very authentic, but fortunately Gao Jie didn't care too much.

In fact, it would be a good time for Gao Jie to make the trip, and most of Henan and Shandong at that time were extremely empty.

Gao Jie is going, and he can get dozens of state capitals and 100,000 soldiers in three months.

It's a pity that Gao Jie also died before his ambition was paid, and he was killed by his subordinates who wanted to join the enemy during his inspection, and most of Gao Jie's troops surrendered, and half fled south, and his troops disappeared.

If Gao Jie doesn't die, most of them will still not be able to defeat the Qing army going south, but if he goes south, it is unknown what role he can play with his cunning character who has been fighting for many years.

It was the beginning of summer, and the river had just recovered from its long dry season, and the river was still flowing gently, and the falling part of the bank was still bare, and it had not risen much.

To wait for another ten days and half a month, there will be continuous heavy rain, and then the rain does not stop, the river will skyrocket, the tame Huai River in front of you will become a violent beast, even if there are multiple flood discharge areas along the upstream, after the Yellow River seizes the Huai into the sea, the Huai River first rushed out of a Hongze Lake, and then through the Gaoyou Lake into the Yangtze River, the original Huai River estuary arrived at the Yunti Pass area to go to the sea, with the passage of time, the sediment into the river, not only in the Yunti Pass area gradually silted up the coast, even the original channel of the Huai River is higher and higher.

At this time, the scenery on both sides of the bank is good, when walking on the shore, the eyes are full of endless plains, the farmhouses are covered, the farmland can not see the edge at a glance, the channel is deep, the water flows endlessly, the river is green, the two banks are from the forest and the green grass, the river is not as turbid as when the water is issued, but a blue color.

Who would have thought that this river has brought hundreds of years of deep suffering to the people of the two Huai lands, and the water will rise and discharge the flood every year, and it is a big flood every few years or so that the people have no surplus wealth, and people have no permanent production, and they have become a poor and embarrassed place from the land of fish and rice, which is really due to this big river.

The people on the river, with gloomy eyes, and those who were a little less courageous, had already hurried to leave in their boats, and did not dare to walk with these guest soldiers at all.

Some of the guests were tired of walking, so they shouted and cursed into the river, and even used arrows to intimidate.

Fortunately, the river is several miles wide, and those who are driving boats in Hebei are not too worried, but the guests are so vicious that the timid ones hurriedly hold the boat and leave, and dare not stay any longer.

It was almost noon, the army horses and more than 1,000 cavalry met at a polder, Liu Kecheng had just stopped to rest, the cavalry were very tired, the war horses were even more tired, Liu Kecheng and his subordinate military attachés ordered the cavalry to untie the horse's belly belt, check the horseshoes, give the horse water, and feed the horse.

Some of the cavalry were Liu Zeqing's inner ding, and some were Liu Kecheng's own family members, plus several battalions of cavalry were mobilized in one place to make up this cavalry team of more than 1,000 people.

These cavalrymen can be regarded as the proud sons of the army, most of them are pro-army or inner soldiers of middle and lower-level military attachés, they are sturdy, energetic, and have a strong desire to fight and a sense of honor.

Many cavalrymen had a spear or sword hanging on the left side of their horse's belly, and a waist knife or sword on the other. There were also cavalrymen who carried bows and arrows on their bodies, and their horses also had quivers or pockets on their bodies.

Because most of the cavalry also wear armor, although the iron armor is less, but plus the water bottle dry food and other sundries, the weight of each horse is not light, after running all morning, the war horses are sweaty, tired, these horses are generally thinner, although the war horse is the wealth of the army, but also the foundation of these cavalry and Neiding, but an army is important is military discipline, otherwise the battalion soldiers also know that the battlefield martial arts are strong and have a greater chance of saving their lives, but if there is no general with strict supervision of military discipline, the soldiers are still used to playing slippery and lazy, There is no one in a hundred who truly trains consciously.

The same is true for the cavalry, knowing that the war horse is their own foundation, but except for a few people who take care of it, many cavalry just coping with things, and even some cavalry will secretly take out the allocated horse material and sell it.

Of course, the generals disdained this, their armor was stronger and thicker, their weapons were sharper, and their horses were taller and stronger.

Even when they stopped the cavalry and took care of the horses, they were more careful.

When the horsemen had done their work almost enough, they scattered their horses, and they grazed the seedlings in the fields.

At this moment, Liu Zhigan and other generals arrived with infantry, and when the two sides met, Liu Kecheng rode over to greet him.

"Lao Liu." Liu Zhigan greeted him and asked, "Did those bastards catch those bastards last night?" ”

"I'm ashamed." Liu Kecheng said very steadily: "After chasing for a long time, I only saw a few bubbles of fresh, which is really unlucky." ”

"What the fuck!" Liu Zhigan's face showed anger and said, "It's really bold to dare to sneak attack us. When you get to the Cloud Ladder Pass, you must kill all the good and the bad. ”

Liu Kecheng was silent, and Yao Wenqian couldn't help but say: "The young general is angry, and he still has to leave some experts who understand the salt drying method in the salt field, otherwise the marshal will be unhappy when he knows it." ”

The ferociousness on Liu Zhigan's face gradually subsided, nodded, and said quite seriously: "When the time comes, the people who will stay in the salt pond will be, but be careful that someone is confused." ”

Several generals all nodded yes, no matter what, they had the same opinion as Liu Zhigan, there was no suspense in this battle, and the day they arrived at the Yunti Pass Thousand Households was the end of the matter.

Everyone felt a little tired, as of today, it was the seventh day of the army, and it was only less than two hundred and thirty miles from Huai'an to Yunti Pass, and they had to think about food every day in the first few days, so the march did not exceed twenty miles a day.

Later, Liu Zeqing felt that he was walking too slowly, so he sent someone to reprimand him sternly, and these generals decided to go faster.

I went fast, but there was no military food supply, so I could only send a small number of soldiers and horses to collect food in the surrounding areas in advance, and I wanted dry food.

Of course, the soldiers were full of resentment, they used to walk slowly, and they could eat at least two hot meals a day, but now they can drink some hot water in the morning, and they can only drink cold water at noon, and only in the evening, they can go to the market towns and villages to find a way to get something delicious, so every day these battalions are thinking about setting up camp when they start out, and after noon they will walk for about an hour and a half at most, and they will clamoring to set up camp when it is still dawn.

Because of the poor military discipline and the fact that the law does not hold the people accountable, even if the generals can use military law to kill people at will, when the majority of the people who violate the military law are the majority, the generals can only compromise.

Even with Liu Zeqing's strict orders, they can only walk less than thirty miles a day at most, which is already equal to the speed of marching on the mainland.

"I expected that they would not dare to come again if they were driven away like this." Liu Zhigan said proudly.

Although everyone didn't like Liu Zhigan's arrogant attitude, they also thought so.

Liu Kecheng said with a smile: "Last night, I suddenly asked them to take advantage, I heard that they didn't even have bows and arrows." Although it was best to use knives and guns during the raid, then the fire broke out, and our rebels ran around in fright, and no one shot those defeated soldiers with bows and arrows in the firelight, some people said that the enemy rode dozens of them, and none of them could ride and shoot on horseback. I think most of these are dirt buns, and it would be good to be able to ride a horse and wield a knife and gun, but I am afraid that there is no one who can ride and shoot on a horse. ”

"That's what I said." Yao Wenqian said: "The cavalry will not chase anymore, the infantry camp will also rest, let's continue to walk after half an hour, after noon, we can walk for a while." ”

"Yes." Liu Kecheng hugged his fists and agreed.

While everyone was discussing the matter, a group of dozens of cavalry appeared on the horizon again, not far away, where there were some sentinels sent by Yao Wenqian, and more than ten cavalry were surrounded by these cavalry, and they were being hunted down and killed.

In front of everyone's eyes, those cavalry were almost surrounded, riding spears and stabbing horses, and the sentry horsemen in Shandong Town were screaming and falling off their horses, and people could even see human heads rolling down.

Far away, you can hear the sound of bones being chopped off.

"!" Liu Zhigan's eyes widened like bull's eyes, and the incident in front of him could be regarded as refreshing his cognition.

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The mental state has not been good for the past two days, slow down, sorry.