Baoding City on the northern line, Chang Yu handed over the command to Zhou Yuji and Li Yan before leaving, as for the military boss Shi Kefa retreated to the second line to defend the city, although he has the highest official rank and the oldest seniority, but after all, he is a civil official, not as good as Zhou Yuji on marching and fighting, and not as good as Li Yan in terms of strategy, but he is a good hand at dealing with civil affairs.

There are a lot of officers and soldiers in Baoding City, Zhou Yuji's descendants plus Yang Zhenwei on loan, He Chengxin has more than 10,000, there are still Jin Wuwei, Teng Xiangwei about 20,000, Li Yanbu plus Wu Weiying's Shenji battalion of more than 10,000, and there are more than 40,000 prisoners, both offensive and defensive.

In the middle of the afternoon, when Li Guo of Zhending Mansion on the southern line opened the shelf to fight Huang Degong, Zhou Yuji ordered all the troops to go out of the city and lined up on the bank of the Qingshui River for about ten miles.

Its division is the Chinese army, Jin Wuwei is the east wing, and Li Yan's department is the west wing, staring at the opposite bank.

This move naturally attracted the attention of Liu Fangliang and Zhang Nai, the leaders of the thief army behind the palace on the other side, and they paid close attention to guessing how the officers and soldiers were, and whether they wanted to take the initiative to attack? Did they find out that the main forces were retreating south? Impossible!

"Let's go through the Wanderers first!" Liu Fangliang sneered, using the displaced people to consume his combat power, and then he and Zhang Nai's main force covered the killing, although they may not be able to hit the city, but it is definitely difficult for the officers and soldiers to cross the river.

When the two of them were full of ambition, they suddenly heard the sound of cannons, and they hurriedly went out of the camp to check, but they saw that the artillery fire on the city of Baoding in the north was fired, and the displaced people on the other side fled in a hurry.

The officers and soldiers are really going to fight, what the hell are those homeless people...... In a real hurry, the soldiers came to report: the displaced people were bewitched by the officers and soldiers on the other side and did not want to be cannon fodder, so they fled in all directions, and the thief army under supervision was about to intercept them, and the other bank opened artillery to disperse the thief army, and the displaced people fled for their lives along the riverbank.

"! This can't be stopped" Liu Fangliang was furious and raised his foot to kick the pro-soldier who delivered the letter over, Zhang Nai sighed slightly: "Now the people's hearts have floated, not like in the past!" ”

"It doesn't matter if it's fucking floating or not, if you can use it, if you don't use it, you can kill it, and if you run away, you won't be able to fight, we won't be able to fight the officers and soldiers, fuck it, Lao Tzu doesn't believe in evil, and he has never been defeated since Xi'an, so he was folded in the hands of the dog eunuch."

"Report to the general, officers and soldiers cross the river!" At this time, the soldiers came to report, the two were shocked, they had put tens of thousands of displaced people on the shore before, and there were a small group of people patrolling, they thought it was foolproof, but they didn't expect that the officers and soldiers said a few words and put a few cannons and those cannon fodder fled for their lives, and the river bank defense line was suddenly set up, and the officers and soldiers took advantage of the situation to enter.

Thinking that they would take advantage of the situation, but he didn't expect that the action would be so fast, Liu Fangliang hurriedly mobilized people to meet the battle, while scolding his own soldiers, those patrols are at least thousands, why did they let the other party cross the river so easily?

This is Li Yan's cleverness, tricking the homeless people to flee for their lives, and at the same time, the field artillery of the Shenji battalion on the shore of the city also fired, and the two fires suppressed, taking advantage of the chaos of the homeless people to flee for their lives, ordered the army to take advantage of the void to cross the river, this more than ten miles of river, the thousands of thieves on the opposite bank were already scattered by the homeless, and they were suppressed by the firepower and could not rely on the shore at all, in fact, even if they relied on the shore, how could this person stop the tens of thousands of troops on the other side.

Almost didn't fight, the girl ran away, the officers and soldiers crossed the river easily, and landed less than three miles, Liu Fangliang and Zhang Nai's army arrived, and the enemies saw each other, and they didn't let go and started fighting directly!

Li Yan's tactic this time is not to play tricks, and directly advance and crush with large forces, he calculated that even if Li Zicheng's palace descendants are the main force, they will definitely not have many troops! What's more, the main force is not elite, and the most elite Li Guo and Luo Hu are in Zhending Mansion hundreds of miles away.

Li Yan's expectation was good, Li Zicheng thought that the officers and soldiers of Chencang did not find out, and would only stupidly shrink in Baoding City and pray that the thief army would be thankful if they did not take the initiative to fight them, and they would never take the initiative to attack, so although Liu Fangliang and Zhang Nai's two main forces were left, the strength was not more than 10,000, and he felt that the homeless people could confuse the enemy, but he didn't know that he was seen through by Chang Yu early, so that at this time, the officers and soldiers suddenly attacked, and the speed was completely unexpected, and they were not even able to resist at the first time.

"I'm afraid that the master's clever plan has been seen through by the officers and soldiers" Zhang Nai couldn't help but sigh when he saw that the officers and soldiers suddenly ran over directly with a large force, Liu Fangliang also looked up to the sky and scolded, the dog eunuch Duan Tai was so cunning.

Knowing that they were invincible to the officers and soldiers, the two retreated more than 10 miles while fighting, and set up a second line of defense in the camp of the former thief army to divert the Qingshui River, in an attempt to prevent the officers and soldiers from pursuing the main force south.

Zhou Yuji led his troops to chase and kill for nearly ten miles, and as for the two miles away from the Qingshui River, he ordered the whole army to suspend the fire and make food to rest the men and horses, and then summoned the generals under his command to discuss how to break its defense line.

The thief army is not much, only more than 10,000, but it relies on the river to defend the danger and we will attack the casualties are large, if you divide the troops to cross the river elsewhere, the thief army is difficult to take care of, and dare not fight and will flee, Li Yan offered a plan, Zhou Yuji nodded from it and ordered Qin Songwang to lead his troops to cross the river along the east for ten miles, Yang Zhenwei led his troops to cross the river for ten miles west, and the rest of the army attacked head-on to attract the attention of the thief army.

The battle started in the evening, this plan really worked, Liu Fangliang and Zhang Nai relied on the river to think that they could hold the worst until tomorrow, but as soon as the battle began, the officers and soldiers used field artillery fire to suppress, and then launched an attack, which made people can't help but scold, how to go with artillery on this dog day.

The officers and soldiers were suppressed by artillery, and the troops were superior, and the thief army was already difficult to resist, but at this time, the spies came to report, and there were officers and soldiers crossing the river for ten miles on the left and right, Liu Fangliang and Zhang Nai were shocked, and if this Nima was outflanked by both sides or outflanked by the rear, the whole army would be wiped out.

But at present, the troops at hand were already stretched and could not divide the two wings to meet the battle, so the two had no choice but to order a retreat, and fled while the night came.

The officers and men successfully crossed the river and occupied their large camps to recuperate. Li Yan and Zhou Yuji discussed, made a fire to make food and slept a lot, and got up early tomorrow to chase again!

Qizhou (now Anguo City) is in the south of Baoding, one hundred and fifty miles away from the city of Zhending Prefecture, has the reputation of "medicine capital", and is one of the three prefectures under the jurisdiction of Baoding Prefecture.

At this time, the three layers of water inside and outside Qizhou were crowded with people, and Li Zicheng secretly traveled nearly 100 miles from the south of Qingyuan to Qizhou at night, and his soldiers and horses and the homeless people drowned this medicine in a blink of an eye.

Li Zicheng entered the city to rest, and the puppet government in the city set up a banquet to entertain him, and knocked on the side during the banquet, after all, Li Zicheng suddenly turned back and made them tremble, is this a defeat and is leaving, if he wants to escape, the officers and soldiers will settle accounts with themselves and others......

The thief knew what he meant, and tried his best to appease the army, saying that the return of the army was not a defeat but to consolidate the territory, and the weather warmed up and the plague was raging in the capital and other places, and it was not suitable to go deeper, and even if he returned to the army, the court was unable to go south to recover the lost territory.

Everyone will be suspicious, thinking that Li Zicheng has been in a few places for more than a month, and it is time to consolidate it, so they don't think about it anymore, the banquet is mostly sycophant, and drunk and singing are happy.

Happy times are always very short-lived, and Li Zicheng, who had just dispersed the dust all the way to the banquet, was about to rest when he had a quick horse to report: Ma Shiyao, Ren Jirong turned against the water, and Li Guo was defeated and captured.

Li Zicheng was shocked when he heard this, and smashed the objects in the room in a fit of rage, he couldn't accept this fact for a while, and he still couldn't accept it until Niu Jinxing and others who fled in a hurry explained the cause and effect in detail.

Why did the backbone members Ma Shiyao and Ren Jirong turn against the water, how could elites like Li Guo and Luo Hu be defeated, and how could they be calculated by a big boss, and why did the little eunuch suddenly go to the south when he was obviously in the north, he could fly or have a clone, or was he putting smoke bombs from beginning to end, and his real body was always in the south, and this big pit was dug by him.

Anger is anger, how to deal with the unfavorable situation is the most important, Li Zicheng convened the generals to discuss, and everyone was furious when they heard this, and they scolded the little eunuch for being treacherous and cunning, and shouted that they would immediately send troops to save Li Guo.

"Ma Shiyao has surrendered, Zhending City will inevitably fall into the hands of officers and soldiers at this time, and it will inevitably shrink into the city at this time...... If the siege of the city is delayed, once Li Yan in the north knows that we will rush to the south, we will rush to chase after us, and we will be able to go again! Gao Yigong looked embarrassed.

Liu Zongmin snorted coldly: "Even if you add Ma Shiyao's people, there are only more than 30,000 officers and soldiers over there, and there are still more than 50,000 troops at the moment, and the displaced people have no plan, he can't stop it at all, even if the siege is a matter of a moment, it won't take much time at all, once the city is broken and Li Guo is saved, and then it is not too late to slaughter the city and plunder, even if Li Yan in the north knows that we are leaving, he will send troops to chase, Liu Fangliang and Zhang Nai, are they decorations!" ”

Although Liu Zongmin and Li Guo are at odds, Li Guo is a thief army general with great influence, and he is Li Zicheng's godson, Li Zicheng will definitely save him, he just shows his attitude and is a favor.

"What do you think, Prime Minister?" Li Zicheng asked Ji Niu Venus.

Niu Jinxing touched his chin and pondered for a while: "Although the south is defeated, there are still 20,000 soldiers gathered in Cihe at this time, and there are still more than 50,000 main forces on our side. ”

"How difficult it can be to fight in a real Dingfu City," Liu Zongmin shouted loudly in dissatisfaction.

Li Zicheng gave him a blank look: "You listen to the prime minister quietly first."

Niu Jinxing continued: "General Liu, don't forget that the dog eunuch is in Zhending Mansion at this time, how can he be so easy to fight in Zhending City, not to mention that many of our siege baggage are discarded under Baoding Mansion...... If you want to break the city quickly, it is extremely difficult, if you delay it for too long, Li Yan in the north will chase after you! ”

"You are a god when Li Yan is a god...... Liu Zongmin snorted coldly, and suddenly heard that there were pro-soldiers from outside to report, and after entering the hall, he hurriedly said: "Li Yan led tens of thousands of troops to chase and kill, and broke through two lines of defense in a row, and it has reached Qingyuan County."

Everyone was stunned! Just raised his feet and chased after him, the darkness of the bullshit Chen Cang, it is obvious that people have already seen through their intentions, but they just pretended not to know, the reason why they didn't chase at that time was only because the soldiers and horses were tired just after the war, so they waited for one more day for the people and horses to recover and kill here!