Li Zicheng outside Baoding City didn't know that the little eunuch was thinking about him, but he was happy to eat meat and drink wine with the generals, the people of Dingxing County in the north had been determined to be Li Yan, Liu Fangliang personally led the people and horses to fight with him, I didn't want to see the strength of this dog thief for more than a month, but he was strong, and easily let Liu Fangliang retreat ten miles away, and it was the little eunuch behind him who was at the helm.

Subsequently, several urgent military information were received in a row in one day, and the officers and soldiers on the Texas border moved, one went north to break through the Jingzhou defense line and took Hejian Fucheng, and the other directly crossed the river to the west and advanced for a hundred miles in one day and one night, occupying Jizhou City.

This is not good news, all the thieves frowned, how do you feel that the officers and soldiers are going to be surrounded in all directions, but the military advisors Niu Jinxing and Li Zicheng have a relaxed face.

The ** who helped him unload the goods finally came, with so many homeless soldiers was really tired and out of breath, at this time he was dying, the arrival of these officers and soldiers was simply timely rain, and when the cannon fodder was almost consumed, there were few officers and soldiers left, and they were not close at all.

Immediately ordered the leaders of the thieves to send some of their small leaders to lead those soldiers and cannon fodder to form a miscellaneous army to march eastward, set up a defense line in Gaoyang County, and take the initiative to attack Hejian Mansion and grind that officer and soldier to death in Hejian Mansion.

As for the officers and soldiers in Jizhou, if they stay there honestly, if they want to go west without talking, they will kill themselves, and they don't need to send people to intercept them, and they dare to enter the thieves' den in the west for a hundred miles, you must know that at this time, the thief army stretches for hundreds of miles, and there are dark clouds covering the sky within more than two hundred miles from Baoding City to Zhaozhou in Zhending Mansion in the south, and you want to go out and dream when you rush in.

"Drink the northwest wind every day in this wilderness, when can you play with the emperor's old woman, can this Baoding City still fight......" Liu Zongmin was drunk and staggered and spoke with a big tongue, this thing has nothing to do every day in the camp, either drinking and gambling with his subordinates or playing with women, many young women from good families and yellow flowers among the homeless people were insulted by this beast.

The corners of Li Zicheng's mouth twitched: "If you are idle and have nothing to do, you can go and stretch your muscles and bones, and you can clean up those who eat idle meals as soon as possible, but remember not to really fight down, otherwise those officers and soldiers outside will not come when they know that Baoding City has fallen, and if they escape, how can we have the strength to chase them......

The generals in the tent laughed, and the moonlight in the night sky was quietly hidden in the dark clouds.

Dingxing City, which is 100 miles away from the north of Baoding City, is heavily guarded, hundreds of officers and soldiers in the city carry lamps to patrol back and forth, there are several newly dug trenches outside the city, and there are several scout teams in a radius of 20 miles in the city, and any wind and grass will be sent to the city as soon as possible.

This small city, which is only a little larger than the projectile, has taken on an unusual mission since a month ago, first Yang Tianwu, one of the leaders of the Octopus Imperial Merchant, led a grain team of about 1,000 people to avoid the thief army in the city, and then Chang Yu led four battalions of men and horses to the city, which became the headquarters of the northern defense line of officers and soldiers, and then Chang Yu led the three battalions to leave, leaving Jia Waixiong to lead the panther battalion to sit in the town.

Jia Waixiong was born in the emperor's personal soldier Jin Wuwei is a professional soldier, high military literacy, knowing the importance of Dingxing at this time, dare not have a trace of carelessness, after Chang Yu left overnight, he immediately called Yang Tianwu and the county commander Song Mingchi to discuss and decided to mobilize the people to build defensive fortifications.

Dingxing City has no moat, digging a trench is imperative, the three of them acted overnight after some discussion, Song Mingchi summoned the squires in the city to mobilize the people, and Yang Tianwu's manpower was directly transferred to the past.

The so-called call is actually requisitioned, in this era, as soon as the officials opened their mouths, how could the common people have the reason and courage to refuse, and almost all the labor force of the city went out of the city to dig ditches overnight, and took the opportunity to steal chickens and dogs in order to prevent the small night, and the panther battalion patrolled back and forth in the city and really caught a few thieves.

Jia Waixiong ordered to cut it directly, and he believed in the words of the little eunuch: use heavy codes in troubled times. At this juncture, it is even more necessary to kill chickens and monkeys, and the results are immediate.

Overnight, the people of the whole city dug three trenches about 100 meters long outside the city gate, each separated by more than a zhang, which was a nightmare for the cavalry.

Although there is no wage for the requisition of people's labor, they are in charge of food. Yang Tianwu escorted tens of thousands of stone military rations for private use, but Song Mingchi said that there was still a little bit of grain in the official warehouse, and Jia Waixiong was very decisive to let people take it all, and if you don't pay your salary, you have to take care of the food, otherwise the people won't scold you.

In this year, there was a shortage of food, and doing some work and taking care of food won the hearts of the people, and they were full of enthusiasm, and they only rested for an hour and began to build fortifications in full swing.

At noon, a scout came to report that thousands of people were found twenty miles north of the city, and Jia Waixiong knew that Li Yan had arrived.

Li Yan became famous with Chang Yu Guanwai, not to mention that he turned over and washed his hands, and the benefit was the greatest, of course, what made me feel that he had reached the pinnacle of his life was that he actually faced a saint, which was a down-and-out scholar who had to be a thief, there was no honor more worthy of boasting about.

Jia Waixiong didn't like Li Yan very much, not because of his identity as a thief, the little eunuch kept telling them that Li Yan was both wise and brave, and he was a rare general, so let them get closer to each other, and several people did the same, and in the days after the end of the war outside the Guanwai, they drank together almost every day and bragged about martial arts.

Li Yan's erudition and versatility and martial arts strategy did make several people admire it very much, but this thing is all kinds of etiquette, righteousness and shame, the way of Confucius and Mencius, what kind of thing to repay grievances with virtue, convince people with reason, convince people with virtue, and listen to the few people who listened to the peace for Guiba Lala, and turned their heads to learn to listen to the little eunuch.

I all know that the little eunuchs are the most disgusted with literati, scolding them for only playing tricks on right and wrong, it's useless, Li Yan is also a literati, but Chang Yu is very happy, he laughed when he heard this, and only said that he was good, as for this kind of nonsense, just listen to it, remember that this world is always the law of the jungle, there is no reason at all, and Dan Li and virtue can't convince anyone, this world only recognizes fists, whoever is big and hard is reasonable, and others will obey you! Thousands of years of dynasties have changed, which one is not all hard fists to sit in the world, if we use that set, why should we fight bloodily, let those Wenchen go to reason with the Tartars.

Li Yan was ordered to walk slowly and always maintain a distance of thirty or fifty miles from the red lady behind, this is Chang Yu's deliberate psychological pressure tactic against the thief army, and I don't know if it has any effect for the time being.

The arrival of three thousand vanguard cavalry, so that Dingxing became crowded, Li Yan frowned, there are more than 10,000 troops behind, this small Dingxing can not accommodate at all, there is no suitable place to garrison, the northeast Gu'an is too far away from the strategic significance, more than 60 miles west is Yi County, but also too far from the battle line, Rongcheng and Xu Shui, fifty miles away in front, one to the city is small, and the other is too close to Baoding, as long as the garrison will be destroyed by the thief army, the only thing that can still be garrisoned at the moment is the twenty miles of Xincheng County (now Gaobeidian City New Town)

Although the new city is small but the distance is close, if there is a war dispatch and rescue is convenient and timely, Li Yan decided to follow up the troops to enter the new city.

"In addition to your department, there are still more than 10,000 people and horses, and there are still 5,000 Shenji battalions, and the projectile land in the new city can't fit at all" Jia Waixiong felt that the problem was still unsolved, and the establishment of a defense line should be a horizontal line between east and west, and you can't do it if you have a vertical line.

How do you know that Li Yan smiled and said: "Loading it, I said that I pointed to the Juma River in the west and south of the city, the grass and green water are fattening horses, it's a pity not to camp."

Jia Waixiong was taken aback: "You still want to camp outside the city?" ”

Li Yan nodded, and shrugged his shoulders again: "There is no city to garrison in the east and west, as you said, the defense line is not erected, and these two wings must be garrisoned" He said and pointed to the Juma River a few miles to the south: "That is a natural defense line, how can you let the thieves come easily."

Jia Waixiong subconsciously disagreed with Li Yan's approach, hundreds of miles away is an army of thieves, camping in the wild is too easy to attack, there is no danger to defend, and the camp will be broken if one is not careful, but what Li Yan said is also the truth, with the current situation, this is the best plan.

In the end, Jia Waixiong still responded, except for no other way, Li Yan's military rank is higher than him, although he is a descendant of Chang Yu, after all, he is only the commander of a battalion, and Li Yan is the general of the imperial court, and his troops were given the name by Emperor Chongzhen: "The Righteous Army" This honor is not comparable to ordinary generals, although the real power is not a party general, but the name is not inferior.

In other words, at this time, the defense of the northern front has been fully taken over by Li Yan.

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