Chang Yu didn't sell Guan Zi and said lightly: "If Qingzhou doesn't surrender, the Tartar vanguard may attack, but if you want to attack, you have to prepare guys, and he has to prepare for the main force in the rear whether he attacks or not, so in addition to what you said about surveying the terrain and collecting intelligence, you also have to cut down trees to build siege baggage, if the rear army can besiege Qingzhou to scare the door and dedicate the city, it will be just a scare, and if you can't be scared, you will start to attack, those guys have to prepare in advance, otherwise when Dolgon arrives to rebuild, and when the rear Ming army is built, it will also arrive...... will delay the warplane".

Chen Suole and the others nodded again and again when they heard this.

"Therefore, the Tartar vanguard may not have time to attack everywhere when they are busy with these things, and of course they do not rule out the possibility of coming to Linzi, but they will definitely not come over all at once, and the Governor estimates that there are as few as dozens of horses and more than 100 horses, which is more than enough for us to deal with."

Everyone laughed.

Chang Yu said: "Secondly, you still don't know much about Jia Waixiong and Lao Jiu, although the governor told him to only defend the city, but how can the urine of the two of them honestly sit in the city and not move, if the Tartar army is here, its vanguard is only more than 2,000, and it is necessary to go out of the city to sneak attack many orders, so that the Tartars have no time to surround them."

Everyone laughed, Chang Yu looked up to the sky, and pointed to Linzi in the night of the city: "Finally, we are not guarding the city with this point, but the people of the whole city!" ”

The national crisis is the responsibility of the husband, this kind of righteousness is too noble, but the homeland is robbed, but all the people who are a little bloody will take up arms to defend their homeland and protect the lives of their families.

Listening to his words, Chen Suole and others worshiped him in a mess, and the little eunuch made him sigh at himself in terms of martial arts and resourcefulness, secretly praising how such a young genius could be born.

"Then let's wait for General Li with confidence" The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, but Chang Yu shook his head with a wry smile: "Don't worry?" Don't even think about it, this juncture can't be slackened at all, although the Tartar vanguard may not come, but after a few days, the main force of the Tartars will come, tens of thousands of troops will be overwhelming, Linzi is close at hand or there will be a small group of Tartars to come to attack, you sharpen your knives and wait."

"If a small group of Tartars comes, our brothers are really not scared" Chen Ruxin sneered, and a group of pro-soldiers next to him echoed loudly, and there was a loud uproar in the city, Chang Yu sighed: "Don't alarm the people, at least let them sleep well in the second half of the night, I'm afraid that I will be restless for half a month when the morning dawns tomorrow."

But in fact, at this time, there were already a small number of people in the city who had trouble sleeping and eating, that is, those squires and rich people, the little eunuchs had just left the county government on their front feet, and Zou Fengji ordered the officials to go to various places in the city to ask for people, and for a while the dogs barked outside the doors of the big households in the city.

Li Shiyuan went to the city, and saw the little eunuch sitting on the ground against the wall and his own soldiers were bragging nonsense, and he was stunned for a while, is this really the big eunuch of Daming East Factory? But they really don't look like it at all.

"Li Shoubei, how are they talking?" Chang Yu saw him and beckoned.

"It's inconvenient to intervene in this matter, it's all His Royal Highness the Prince of the World who is negotiating, but I have already borrowed some in the name of Heng Wangfu, and I bought some and the rest was donated by the people in Linzi City."

Chang Yu smiled slightly: "His Royal Highness the Prince seems to be loyal, but he is actually a shrewd person, does he really have a big deal?" ”

Li Shiyuan sneered: "The factory governor is very accurate, and His Royal Highness the Prince said to Zou Zhixian and others that if the big households are unwilling to donate grain, they can pay for it with silver, which has not been mentioned by the factory governor before."

Chang Yu laughed, Zhu Ci'an had a good abacus, grain was more expensive than silver and gold these days, and some big families would rather donate silver to pay for food, but they never thought that Zhu Ci'an would use the silver they donated to buy their food again! Anti-normal Yu has long said that he will not touch the silver or the money and food first, and it is not the Hengwang Mansion to make any troubles in the middle.

But Chang Yucai doesn't care what they do, as long as the soldiers have money and rations to eat in the end, you can pull the rest as you like.

After gossiping in the city, Chang Yu went to the armory with Li Shiyuan under the leadership of the yamen, and there was an unexpected joy, although Linzi County had no guards, there were a lot of soldiers, four or five hundred knives, more than 100 bows, thousands of arrows, and hundreds of shells more than Qingzhou.

Chang Yu is very puzzled, there are so many stocks in the small projectile land without soldiers and generals, Li Shiyuan explained, originally Linzi also had a garrison, fifteen years when the Qing army came to Qingzhou Mansion to sweep, he transferred the guards away to guard Qingzhou City, after the first war the damage was serious only 800 remaining, so that no soldiers were sent to guard Linzi, and even let the Liukou take advantage of the loophole to destroy the county government, the former magistrate was rebuilt and transferred away, Zou Fengji made great efforts to make such achievements after taking office.

In this way, Zou Fengji is indeed a rare capable official, Chang Yu nodded secretly.

It was already early in the morning, and Chang Yu saw that Li Shiyuan was tired and asked him to go to the county office to rest, after all, he was busy running around this day.

One day? Chang Yu was suddenly stunned, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, indeed, he had only been in Qingzhou for a day, and he was busy except for a nap in the afternoon, but it seemed that he had done a lot of things after a long time, but it was really just a day.

Chang Yu slept all afternoon, and the soldiers also slept almost all day, at this time there was no sleep, and he was in high spirits but had nothing to do, so he went up to the city again to blow the wind, looking at the night sky due north, and chattering Li Yan didn't know where he was now.

Hundreds of miles away in the same time and space, Li Yan also didn't sleep, not because of the pain of the wound, but because he encountered an extremely tricky thing at the moment, which made him helpless and upset.

As Chang Yu expected, the shortage of military food became Li Yan's biggest headache, the little eunuch patted his ass and left, he led the army to chase Dolgon at the beginning of the luck, the grain and grass can still reach Qingzhou for three days, as for how to get grain to the ground in Qingzhou.

But the day after the little eunuch left, he found out that something was wrong, he couldn't get to Qingzhou City in three days, not because he didn't want to go, but because Dolgon wouldn't let him go at all.

After Dolgon knew that the Ming army saw through his intention to go straight to Qingzhou, he sent a vanguard to rush to the city, and then ordered Kong Youde to lead more than 10,000 troops to the palace, and dragged the Ming army behind, so that it could not rush to Qingzhou, and second, to keep the Ming army away from the main force so that he could plunder along the way.

In this way, for almost a day, the army led by Li Yan almost did not move, that is to say, when Chang Yu entered the territory of Wudi County and found the vanguard soldiers and horses of the Qing army, Li Yan was still in Hancun (now Huanghua City) in the east of Cangzhou and Kong Youde confronted the men and horses, while Dolgon led the main force to leave all the chickens and dogs in the surrounding villages and towns along the way, and robbed while walking.

Although Li Yan has more than 30,000 cavalry, Kong Youde is not more than 10,000, but he doesn't want to fight with him, and even knows that even if he tries his best, it is only half a catty and eight taels, and it is meaningless to increase casualties, and Kong Youde obviously thinks the same, so the two armies face each other less than ten miles apart.

This is not a way, Huang Degong jumped up and down in a hurry to ask for battle, Li Yan hesitated, Zhou Yuji was also difficult to choose for a while, obviously saw through Dolgon's intentions, but he could only consume it like this, watching him rush towards Qingzhou and go farther and farther, the three of them were angry and helpless.

In the end, we still have to fight, otherwise it will always be difficult to solve the siege of Qingzhou, not to mention, if you stay in this wilderness where there is no village in front of you and no shop in the back, you will starve to death without food or drink.

But Li Yan also knew that even if he fought, it would be impossible to defeat the Qing army in one fell swoop, and at most move forward, but let alone three days, I am afraid that he will not be able to reach Qingzhou in ten days, or that after three days, there will be no food and grass at all, and he will not need the Qing army to fight him.

That's going to have to be fought too!

After Li Yan and Zhou Yuji and Huang Degong discussed, they decided to give Kong Youde a big scene, with Tu Yuan, Hao Shaoqi, and Ji Jike leading 10,000 frontal battles for the vanguard, Huang Degong, and Zhou Yuji each led 10,000 from the two wings, and at the same time sent more than 1,000 cavalry west to Cangzhou to borrow grain.

Going to Cangzhou to borrow grain is Li Yan's helpless move, the east is the sea, the back Tianjin is too far, the front of the Tartar locust transit don't say not to go, even if the past scum is not left, only Cangzhou in the west can be sought.

Cangzhou is also a shit luck, some time ago the thief army went north because it was located in the east, although it was affected but did not hurt the foundation, the thief army did not enter the city, this time the Qing army went south to plunder because of the rush to Qingzhou and passed by him, twice saved from the catastrophe, and now their own people come to ask for food.

"What if you don't borrow it?" Cheng Ming, the commander of Teng Xiangwei, who was in charge of borrowing grain, asked Li Yan.