However, things are not as simple as Yu imagined, or underestimate the power of the thief army, Li Zicheng fled east to Henan after the Taiyuan fiasco and Liu Fangliang's East Route Army and joined forces to sweep the entire Central Plains, leaving the general Liu Rukui to guard Zhangde Mansion (now Anyang) to send troops north into Hebei, starting from Cizhou and sweeping all the way, even down several cities, Guangping Mansion (Handan), Xingtai, Hejian Mansion are all in the bag, as for the later Hebei Provincial Capital Shijiazhuang is of course also among them, but Shijiazhuang at this time is only a small soldier.

To put it simply, the entire Henan and Hebei regions south of Baoding Mansion are under Li Zicheng's control, and within 100 miles of Baoding City, it is a place that his main force can completely reach.

What's more, he showed his appearance under Baoding City, and Li Zicheng did everything possible to dig him out, first chasing and killing Liu Fangliang's men and horses, and at the same time ordering him to search for horses.

Gaoyang is on the side of the couch, and the patrol is naturally strict, even if Li Zichengzhen vigorously searched and arrested in the territory of Rongcheng Xiongzhou in the north, he did not relax here.

Even though Chang Yu's three battalions of people and horses secretly crossed the border in the middle of the night, they were still discovered by several groups of thieves one after another!

Kill! Kill them all! Messages must not be leaked.

Overnight, the three battalions crossed Renqiu, killed nearly 100 thieves and soldiers on the seventh road, and finally arrived at a village ten miles northeast of Hejian Province when it was almost dawn.

There is an ancient temple in the village, so the name is Liugu Temple Town, because of the avoidance of military disasters, ten rooms and nine empty rooms in the village, but there are still five or six monks in the small temple, Chang Yu commanded three battalions of people and horses to rest next to the temple, ordered not to enter the village after the attack, led more than ten people to enter the temple.

Several monks were very frightened, and followed Chang Yu's side, and Amitabha Buddha kept doing it, for fear that these officers and soldiers would kill people and set fire to his small temple.

"Borrow the treasure to rest and leave" Chang Yu looked at a few monks with a faint expression, although he was bored but had no killing intent, and ordered him to boil hot water to warm up the soldiers outside the temple, and then entered a Buddhist hall.

Ignoring the Bodhisattva in the Buddha Hall, several people sat down on the mat and began to discuss the next step. Killing several thieves in the territory of Renqiu will definitely attract the attention of the thieves, and they will not chase them down to this place.

Chang Yu drew a simple picture of the earth and mountain with stones, and shook his head after thinking about it, Li Zicheng has no time for me now, and there are people and things he is looking forward to.

Everyone was puzzled and asked in detail.

"Yesterday, we ambushed the pursuers of the thief army in Xiongzhou, and the thieves sent people to search in the direction of Xiongzhou, but there is definitely more than this direction, if it is not bad, Xu Shui and Rongcheng's sneak attack has been reported to him, which will inevitably attract his attention, and he will definitely order to continue to go north to investigate, and Li Yan's men and horses should also be near Dingxing County at this time, all the information is comprehensive, Li Zicheng can almost guess where we came from, and concentrate on dealing with the north."

Chang Yu explained, and everyone nodded.

"If the thief knows that the person from the north is Li Yan, I'm afraid he won't have time to take care of me and wait" Hu Ling chuckled, everyone was in a hurry, and they knew that Li Zicheng hated Li Yan to the bone.

Chang Yu smiled slightly: "Also, since the thief knows that tens of thousands of reinforcements are coming from the north, he will infer that I have returned to the camp in the north, so he will not have pursuers, even if he knows that there are Tanma killed in Renqiu, he may not think of us, even if he has suspicions, he has no time to take care of it, he wants Li Yan in the north."

"So Li Yan helped us block the knife, so how about we go down to Hejian Mansion today?" Tu Yuan proposed, and everyone asked for battle.

Going deep behind enemy lines, we need to be cautious and cautious at every step, we can't fight tough battles, we must annihilate them all if we want to fight, kill people and cut down the grass and eradicate the roots to prevent our whereabouts from being exposed.

The total number of soldiers and horses in the three battalions is only 700 people, and the field battle can be said to be invincible, and if you attack the city, it is not difficult to beat the stone city of Rongcheng in two miles, but the river is the city of Fu, and the high walls of the city are thick.

After some discussion, Chang Yu still felt that he would try it, and Tu Yuan would fight, to be exact, he was born in the thief army, and he was familiar with the way, so he went to the city to rest and recuperate, and if he couldn't deceive, he immediately fled south.

In order to keep the incense unextinguished, the monks in the temple really tried their best to serve, arranged a wing room for Chang Yu and a few people to rest, and boiled hot water to supply the soldiers outside the temple.

Sleeping until almost noon, Tu Yuan left the Black Tiger Camp and went straight to Hejian Mansion, Chang Yu was sent by the village leader, and Wu Zhong was humming beside him.

Chang Yu looked sideways: "What do you want to do?" ”

"This live black wolf battalion can also be done" Wu Zhong's whole temperament has changed greatly since he led the troops, and he is very belligerent, and he even doesn't fight for a day, and he feels uncomfortable.

Chang Yu glared at him, and was about to reprimand a few words, when he suddenly thought of something: "Look at your idle eggs, go and give Tu Yuan a hand" said in a low voice.

Wu Zhong was overjoyed, transferred the black wolf camp and left.

Chang Yu returned to the temple and put tea on the table and chatted with Chen Wangting and others, waiting for the good news, the eunuch army of the palace battalion was herding horses and patrolling the village, and the monks were preparing lunch for them......

Hejian, in ancient times, was the country, Ming was under the jurisdiction of more than ten counties, a month ago it was occupied by the thief army Liu Fangliang, leaving 300 soldiers to guard the actual torture, ordinary people were only attacked and disturbed at most, and the squires were mostly ruined and killed, and it was miserable.

Liu Fangliang's leader Zhong Wanfan was ordered to garrison Hejian Mansion, spending every day drinking, torture and killing people for fun, although it did not disturb the common people on the surface, in fact, all the bad things were done, and they were lustful.

Gradually, the people saw through the so-called "waiting for the noble and lowly, and the land is exempt from endowment", but in fact, the robbers were also, but the entire Central Plains was plagued by thieves, and they dared not speak out, let alone resist.

At noon on this day, a cavalry of about two hundred men came from the north of Hejian City, the formation was scattered, the clothes were disheveled, and the thieves guarding the gate were not alarmed, after all, at this time hundreds of miles were their territory, and the other party was a small group of men, so they went forward to inquire which friendly army, but was scolded bitterly, and shouted for a quick drink to entertain them.

Seeing this, the guards didn't dare to talk back, let alone stop it, let him enter the city, and at the same time rushed to the mansion to inform Zhong Wanfan.

The leader of the bandits scolded and led his troops into the city, and when he saw more than ten guards in the doorway, he shouted angrily: "What are you looking at? ”

The guards saw that his burly and tall face was like evil, how dare he reply and dodge his eyes, but he angered the bandit and killed one person with a knife: "Lao Tzu asked you something."

The remaining thieves were all shocked, and they all stepped back and drew their knives, and those who were bold said: "Under the command of our Cihou, how can you be so presumptuous? ”

The bandit rolled his eyes: "Liu Fangliang didn't dare to put one in front of Ruhou, what kind of hair did you count."

It turned out to be Liu Zongmin's subordinates, the gatekeepers were startled, and they were speechless, Liu Fangliang has become famous recently, but Liu Zongmin is a lawless and violent person who doesn't even pay attention to Li Zicheng, and no one dares to provoke him.

Seeing that the thieves guarding the door were afraid and didn't dare to speak, the bandits immediately divided a group of people into the city after entering the city, and then the thieves guarding the door realized that something was wrong, could it be that they came to grab the battlefield territory?

However, Zhong Wanfan, who was having lunch, had to report that a friendly army had entered the city, which was particularly arrogant, and he wondered in his heart that if he came from the west or went north, whose men and horses would go south, could it be that Cihou sent someone to change the guard, and it was unlikely.

When he was really about to go to see it, someone hurriedly came to report that it was Liu Zongmin's subordinates, Zhong Wanfan was shocked, and he didn't dare to slack off, Liu Zongmin had a hot temper, and his subordinates were also a stinky virtue, and they really started to do it without saying a word, and it was extremely unreasonable.

Although he wondered how Liu Zongmin's subordinates could come here, he still hurriedly went out to greet him, and as soon as he left the mansion, he saw a group of people rushing from the opposite street, and his brows couldn't help frowning.