Crossing the Qingshui River, looking around at the distance there are fires, it is obvious that they are all thieves patrolling, looking back at the opposite bank, the firelight over there is gradual, Chang Yu secretly said that it is not that the corpses of several thieves over there have been found, no matter what, it is not suitable to stay here for a long time.

Governor, whether to extinguish the fire or not, Jiang Fa proposed, Wu Zhong opposed, no.

After all, this place is the area where the main force of the thief army is located, and the spies are all descendants of the people and horses, and there are secret contacts between them.

However, there is also a risk in extinguishing the fire, and those who sneakily appear in the war zone during this time must be the scouts of the officers and soldiers, and they will start fighting directly without talking nonsense at all.

Chang Yu was also a little uncertain for a while, looking at the west of the thief army camp in the sky, and the head of Baoding City more than ten miles northwest was also brightly lit.

Chang Yu looked at the northeast in a pitch dark, which was close to the Baiyangdian area, with many puddles and swamps, reeds and weeds, and it was easy to hide if the thieves were encountered.

More importantly, he knew that although there were thieves and spies in the Ming Dynasty in the area of dozens of miles outside Baoding City, there were also many Ming army scouts hidden in the shadows.

After making up their minds, a few people put out the torches, ran northeast as far away from Baoding City as possible, and sneaked close to those ponds and marshes, secretly praying not to make trouble.

Just when Chang Yu was desperate to break into the line of fire, in the handsome tent of Li Zicheng, the thief battalion, the leaders of the thieves had a solemn face, and they were overwhelmed by repeated accidents in one day, and the combination of these things finally made Li Zicheng and his henchmen feel that the seriousness of the situation was far beyond expectations.

Li Yan's repulsion of Liu Fangliang in a hard battle yesterday had made them a little surprised, but they never thought that they would unexpectedly take advantage of the victory in the early morning to pursue Liu Fangliang and Gu Ying, who led the troops to advance to Xu Shui, and fled back to the camp.

In addition to being shocked, when Li Zicheng was about to transfer his troops north to level Xu Shui, an urgent report came to him, and the city dozens of miles away was taken by Zhou Yuji.

Didn't Zhou Yuji escape into the mountains when he was chased by Li Guo to Quyang County, why did he suddenly appear in Mancheng, the thieves were a little surprised and a little panicked, Mancheng and Xu Shuinai were only thirty or forty miles apart, and the combination of attack and defense should not be underestimated.

Li Zicheng felt that something was wrong at this time, there were officers and soldiers on all sides of the east, west, north and south, the east side did not move, the west side was guerrilla warfare, the north side held the position, and the south side advanced step by step, and the little eunuch wanted to do something big.

Prime Minister Niu Jinxing, military advisor Song Xiance Gu Junen and other advisers proposed that the original plan should be suspended and the tactics should be changed, that is, they should not be too passive, otherwise the territory will be slowly encroached upon and squeezed by the officers and soldiers.

The countermeasure is to take the initiative to attack, the little eunuch is in charge in the south, they sent Li Guo, Luo Hu and Gu Kecheng to join forces with Ma Shiyao, Ren Jirong, but to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the officers and soldiers in the east will not move and ignore him for the time being, but Zhou Yuji in the west and Li Yan in the north must be cleaned up. Secondly, Baoding City can no longer be so painless, when he uses a heavy fist to hammer, even if he does not fight it in one fell swoop, he will hurt his muscles and bones.

After formulating a strategic plan, he studied tactics and discussed how to divide the troops into three ways tomorrow to attack the city, one to go to Xushui, and at the same time to attack Baoding City, so that the strength and strength of the thief army at this time would fight a three-line war at the same time without pressure, and even four lines and five lines.

Since the Eastern Crusade, the thief army except Li Zicheng fought a tough battle in Taiyuan, the rest of the siege and plundering land are all by shouting, Liu Fangliang is singing all the way to win the number of mansions with two strokes at will, so although the thief army is huge at this time, but it has not been a war for a long time, and this time it is the rising star of the imperial court, the insidious and cunning and warlike little eunuch, Li Zicheng and a kind of adviser do not dare to be careless, gather wisdom and plan a day and a night to formulate a detailed battle plan for tomorrow, and when they are about to rest, the south comes to report urgently.

Ma Shiyao's people finally came, and the displaced people in Zhending Mansion gathered to make a rebellion, with tens of thousands of people, besieging the city and asking for food at this time.

Hearing the report that all the thieves were shocked, it was far more panicked than when he learned that Zhou Yuji was full of cities, because the rebellion of the displaced people was really tricky, and a mishandling could ignite the prairie fire.

Li Zicheng had no good plan for a while, so he asked the herald to return to Zhending Mansion overnight to tell Ma Shiyao, and not to act rashly, first delay to stabilize the people's hearts, and slowly try to do it, and then ordered Li Guo, Gu Kecheng and others to hold their troops first and not immediately start a war against the officers and soldiers, and first help Ma Shiyao to quell the chaos, because he knew that behind this sudden civil unrest was the shadow of the little eunuch.

The herald soldiers were in a hurry, but Li Zicheng and other thieves were still at a loss, and they had thought of the means they had been using to deal with officers and soldiers, but now they were treated by their own way, and they reaped the consequences.

Where did it come out of nowhere, a half-immortal, the gossip confuses the crowd to catch and kill, why worry, how to become a big deal for fear of this...... Liu Zongmin was as drunk as ever, and his mouth was full of nonsense.

Li Zicheng gave him a blank look, if you still use you to kill, it is really determined, how can you kill hundreds of thousands of homeless people in Baoding and the two prefectures, do you have the ability to kill them all? We can't kill it all, we don't need officers and soldiers to suppress us, it's over.

Liu Zongmin looked disdainful, the homeless people were all timid and afraid, and the rest of the hundreds and thousands of them were scattered, so they still dared to make trouble......

If there is no one behind the instruction, the method can be done, but this day will gather tens of thousands of people, it can be seen that there are people behind the trouble, if we start to kill people but in the hands of that person, spread rumors, saying that the rebels slaughtered the people, the small ones will immediately set themselves up as kings, gather people to resist, and the big ones will lose the hearts of the people, and the efforts of the past few years will be in vain...... Niu Jinxing took over the conversation and said eloquently, and everyone in the tent nodded again and again.

I am uncertain, the gelding dog in the south at this time and the civil unrest situation is not small, but I want to go in person, Li Zicheng got up, about to order the soldiers to prepare to accompany him, but was stopped by Niu Jinxing, the lord do not panic, Bohou and Zhenshan camp have gone south, together with Gu Kecheng, Ma Shiyao, etc., the gelding dog is with the help of the civil unrest can not turn up any big waves, now Li Yan is being eyed by the tiger, Zhou Yuji and the city is full of peeps beside the couch, Baoding City is not yet down, the Lord is in charge of the overall situation here.

Li Zicheng was silent, uncertain for a while, Niu Jinxing proposed to let Song Xiance go south, Bo Hou is brave and resourceful, and the military advisor is cautious, calm and sophisticated, enough to deal with the current situation, the lord should stay and preside over the overall situation.

The rest of the people persuaded each other, Li Zicheng finally nodded and stayed, and ordered Song Xiance and Gu Junen to get up and go to Zhending Mansion immediately, and then ordered the whole army to fight, and tomorrow send troops to attack the city and break the enemy in three ways, and clean up this side while the spark in the south has not yet burned the plain, and if there is a change, it is good to deal with it with all your might.

The crowd will disperse, Li Zicheng can't sleep for a long time, this feeling has been there in Taiyuan, it is the deepest fear in his heart, what are he afraid of?

Why did the situation suddenly become a little tricky, Li Zicheng regretted that he was too light on the enemy, if he had broken Baoding City early and sent a large army to bulldoze Li Yan's defense line early, he would not have been in a hurry now, after all, Yelang thought that he had seen through the tricks of the officers and soldiers since the beginning of his freshman year, and he still underestimated the eunuch and thought that he was fighting at home, and he had the right time and place, but then this time the situation suddenly changed and he regretted it, and it was too late.

Just when he sent a large army south to snipe officers and soldiers, sent military divisions and civilians to be chaotic, and was full of pride to fight a third-line war, the little eunuch had already secretly crossed the blockade line and went north to Baoding City.

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