Juma River, also known as South Juma River, has two tributaries, one flows from the northwest of the city and the other flows from the southwest, and converges into one in the south of the city for ten miles, and flows straight to the southeast to flow into Baiyangdian.

Li Yan fell in love with the three confluences of the ten miles south of the city, the river is not abundant in the world, but the riverbed is full of bright grass, which is very gratifying.

The situation was tense and everything needed to be early, Li Yan immediately ordered the soldiers to dig a trench here, cut off the flow and store water, and set up camp on the shore two miles, and at the same time sent scouts south to investigate, and learned from Jia Waixiong that Zhou Yuji was in Dingzhou, southwest of Baoding at this time, and thought of what he discussed with the little eunuch, so he made a bold decision, so that the scouts bypassed Baoding and tried to contact Zhou Yuji.

One afternoon without stopping, Li Yanbu set up a camp at the intersection of the three streams of the Juma River in the south of the city, the river in front of the camp overflowed, and there were several deep ditches, the thieves could not attack the camp head-on, so they could only travel several miles east to bypass this section of water and cross the river to attack the side, but a trench was arranged there to resist the horses.

At dusk, the red lady and Wu Weiying arrived together, and the Shenji battalion was ordered to return to Beijing from outside the customs, but the baggage was too much and not as fast as Li Yanbu's horse, but it was not too slow, but what Wu Weiying didn't expect was that when there were still more than ten miles away from the capital, he had to report to Wang Jiayan, the governor of Beijing, who came with his troops, which made him very happy, and the governor of Beijing came to greet him in person, and he had a face!

Unexpectedly, it was a basin of cold water, Wang Jiayan did not come to greet him, but to send cannonballs and gunpowder supplies, and at the same time sent an order to Emperor Chongzhen to let him go south with Chang Yu to suppress bandits, and hurry up!

Go again? Why me! Wu Weiying didn't even have a chance to go back to Beijing to get a relationship with herself, so she had to rub shoulders with the capital and hurriedly go south.

After finally catching up with the follow-up troops of the unhurried red lady, they walked south side by side, and arrived in Dingzhou dozens of miles away to settle in the new city, and the rest of the people and horses camped outside Dingzhou with the Shenji battalion!

The advantage of the firearms of the Shenji Battalion shined in the battle of Ningyuan outside the Guan, and Chang Yu relied on this to defend Xishan to the death, and Wu Sangui fought inside and outside, and defeated Dolgon in one fell swoop.

After this battle, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion grew up rapidly after killing people and seeing blood, and finally had the feeling of being a bit of a strong and iron-clad man, at least not like they were teased and teased by the soldiers of other troops when they first left Beijing and went to Guanwai.

The medical soldiers of the Red Lady entered the city, and the rest of the troops were led by Qin Songwang and stationed on the bank of the river in the west of the city, the heavy artillery of the Shenji battalion was erected at the head of Dingxing City, and the men and horses camped in an empty village a few miles northwest of Li Yanbu, and more than 200 field guns were placed in the camp.

Everything is ready until late at night, all kinds of city fortifications are basically complete, Li Yanji will discuss in the city, will he take the initiative to attack tomorrow or wait for the little governor to listen to it?

Everyone has learned from Jia Waixiong's mouth that Chang Yu went to Baoding City, and he will not enter the city before leaving, if he does not return on the second day and no information comes, let them gradually advance to the south.

With the second battalion attendants, coupled with the courage and cunning of the little eunuch, Li Yan and Jia Waixiong believed that nothing would happen to him, and he could still run if he couldn't beat him.

That being the case, I'll talk about it tomorrow.

But at this moment, a scout sent information: first, the overseer has transferred troops south, second, Xushui, Rongcheng has fallen into thieves and has been regarded as an outpost, and third, the south bank of the Juma River has fallen into the traces of thieves.

Several people's spirits were shocked, Chang Yu transferred troops to the south, which means that the net will be opened in a few days, and they are not worried that the little eunuch will not be able to transfer the troops, because they know that if the little eunuch cannot be transferred, he will be slaughtered on the spot, and Shi Kefa is far worse than him in terms of means and deterrence.

As for the thief army's search for Chang Yu's whereabouts and re-occupation of Xu Shui and Rongcheng, it was learned that it was inferred that reinforcements from the north had come from the north, and the reconnaissance had begun at this time, with Li Zicheng's virtue at this time, there would be a large army tomorrow, and there would be a battle within three days.

Prepare for battle!

Li Yan sent orders to the three armies, looking very excited and inexplicably melancholy, with different aspirations, and his former colleagues have become enemies of life and death.

As expected, Li Yanbu rested for a night and a half and finally got accurate information at noon the next day, more than 10,000 thieves marched north, and the commander hung the flag Liu and Gu, which had reached 20 miles away.

Hanging the banner of the word Gu is either Gu Ying or Gu Kecheng, or the two of them come together, there are many people surnamed Liu in the thief army, but only three or four people are on the stage, Liu Tiren was injured and captured in Taiyuan, Liu Zongmin is the former army commander cannot be in person, then there are only Liu Fangliang and Liu Zhong.

Liu Fangliang's Eastern Route Army has made great achievements, and his reputation today is unsurpassed, but he may not come in person, Li Yan guessed that it is very likely to be Liu Zhong who was named Ping Nanbo by Li Zicheng.

It's just that Li Yan still guessed wrong, Liu Zhong was actually left by Liu Fangliang in Lu'an Mansion to guard the Changzhi area, and it was Liu Fangliang who came. Although he guessed the wrong commander, Li Yan was convinced that the other party should know that this army was led by him after a day and a night of reconnaissance.

At this time, within a radius of 100 miles of Baoding City, it can be explained that the secret is full of horses from both sides, concealing their whereabouts from each other, and when they meet on a narrow road, they will inevitably fight, and even impersonate each other, and Li Yan's identity is exposed by some officers and soldiers spies, the reason is very simple, the secret agents under his command are thieves, and it is not excluded that some traitors who took the opportunity to slip away or were captured and confessed.

Li Yan doesn't care about the exposure of his identity, since he has changed his mind and will serve the court well, he will never be soft on what should be killed, and he also knows that Li Zicheng will never spare him.

In the afternoon, the thieves lined up several miles away, confronted each other across the river a few miles east of the officer and soldier camp, and sent men and horses to pass the word and invite Li Yan to talk.

Li Yan looked at each other across the river, so he only asked: "Is it Liu Zhong?" ”

The other party informed that it was Liu Fangliang and Jin Hou Guying.

Li Yan was silent for a while, and said to the comer: "Let him prepare to die, and leave his whole body with his colleagues!" ”

For some reason, everyone who followed the little eunuch became very arrogant.

Liu Fangliang was furious when he heard this, and immediately ordered a fierce attack! But how did he know that Li Yan's phoenix nirvana was reborn, not only his mentality changed greatly, but even his equipment was changed to a cannon, and his strength increased greatly.

Liu Fangliang was shocked, Nima's even field artillery came out, this way of playing is rare but simple and practical, the thief army is timid, and at this time, Li Yan ordered his troops to cross the river to kill the thief, the thief army was defeated, and the pursuit was more than ten miles.

Cannon fodder?

Chang Yu's subordinates all know this word, and Li Yanzi also knows that although he is sure that he will win, it is still unexpected to defeat Liu Fangliang so easily, and he immediately realizes that this is just the cannon fodder of the thief army, which is used to consume his own armament and military strength.

Shibei three days should be impressed, to say surprised or Liu Fangliang, he and Li Yan have worked together for many years to know its strength, Li Yan is a strategist, not in charge of the army, but there is a pro-army under his command, although the number is small, but the military discipline is strict, but the military discipline of the army combat power is generally higher than those of the army with loose military discipline, so the combat power is superior in the thief army.

But Li Yan's strength in front of him is far greater than that of his thief army, almost the entire army is cavalry, with swords, armor, bows and arrows and other armaments, and even special field artillery, this strength is only available in King Chuang's troops! I thought that the cannon fodder brought this time could at least make him break his muscles and bones, but he didn't even break the skin!

After being shocked, he hurriedly sent someone to tell Li Zicheng that this kid is terrible now, and it is better to send some cannon fodder over to mix some hard stubble in, he wants to fight with Li Yan well!

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