After crossing the Yellow River, Chang Yu and his entourage ran more than ten miles and finally exhausted themselves, looked up and saw that the scorching sun in the sky was already in the air (from 1 pm to 3 pm), wiped the sweat beads on his face, Chang Yu ordered to find a place to dismount and rest.

In front of them is a village named Qiaozhuang, the villagers saw that there were officers and soldiers to their own panic, but they knew that the officers and soldiers just dismounted at the entrance of the village to unload the saddle, and then entered the village to ask for water, and the other Qiu did not commit any crimes, and could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, they soon became panicked again, because the officers and soldiers told them that the tens of thousands of Tartar troops would soon arrive and flee quickly, and that they would either run east to the sea or west to the mountains, and that they would not be able to go to the south and north anyway.

In the blink of an eye, chickens and dogs jumped in the village.

"Factory father, Lao Jia and Lao Jiu should also be withdrawn this time," asked the little eunuch who looked at the big characters lying on the ground under a tree.

Chang Yu squinted his eyes and snorted, according to the plan, Lao Jia and Lao Jiu could evacuate after they crossed the river, of course, if they could delay it for a while, they would delay it for a while, and the anti-normal Yu expected that the Qing army would inevitably be forced to be stunned, and they couldn't react for a while.

Fortunately, Kangkler's uncle and nephew were too suspicious, and they were dragged by Jia Waixiong and Lao Jiu until noon, so that Chang Yu ran more than 50 miles to cross the Yellow River in one go, and he also ran more than 20 miles before the Qing army reacted.

As for whether the two battalions under his command will be caught up by the Qing army after they are evacuated, he is not worried at all, because he has long been instructed that if he is closely pursued by the Qing army, he will not have to go south and immediately flee to the east and west.

Those who fled the east road could follow the coast to cross the Yellow River and detour back to Qingzhou Mansion, and those who fled to the west road went directly to Jinan to stand by, and the little eunuch also expected that if the two battalions fled to the two wings, the vanguard of the Qing army would not divide their troops to pursue, because their mission was to go to Qingzhou Mansion! How could it be possible to divide the troops to chase after hundreds of Ming troops halfway, and miss a major event.

I have to say that Chang Yu has already put the context of the Qing army.

"Factory father, we will not be able to catch up after crossing the Yellow River at this time," Guo Ren asked again, but he was worried in his heart, and his eyes looked due north from time to time.

Chang Yu smiled slightly: "There are only more than 200 places in Qingzhou Mansion in the south, there are no hills and a flat river in the wilderness, let's spread our legs and run for two days, and at this time, the Tartar pioneers are also thrown six or seven miles away by us, and it is difficult to catch up!" ”

Guan Ren finally breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good, let's run when we rest, let those dog tartars eat soil behind."

Chang Yu laughed: "Take a break and pull out."

But Kangkler's uncle and nephew didn't think so, and they were deeply ashamed to learn that they were being played by the little eunuch, so they gathered troops and horses to cross the river and chased them all the way.

The Qing army already had spare strength and the physical strength of the men and horses after a night of rest, and they were like arrows off the string under the wild gallop, and they chased the war horses for twenty miles in one breath and were tired and had to slow down, but they didn't see a Ming army around, and the uncles and nephews were itching their teeth, but they didn't know that Lao Jia and Lao Jiu were crossing the Yellow River at this time.

Besides, the little eunuch who rested outside Qiaozhuang Village left the camp on time, and at the same time, the people in the village fled west with their families and mouths.

Chang Yu and his entourage hit the horse and hurried, and when the village warning stopped, stopped and stopped until dusk, it had entered Guangrao County, and it was Qingzhou Mansion in the south hundred miles, and Jinan Mansion was hundreds of miles away in the southwest.

After not seeing the pursuers, he knew that he had thrown away the vanguard of the Qing army, and this afternoon he was really tired enough to choke and run away from the wind and sun, so Chang Yu decided to find a place to rest for a while.

There is no village and no shop in the wilderness, and I saw that there was a forest in front of the right that was about to go, and the sudden jingle in the air slid by, and everyone was stunned So, suddenly saw nearly 100 people gushing out from a few miles away from the left and right, Chang Yu instantly remembered a word in his mind, Xiangma!

Ringing horses are horse thieves, Shandong specialties from the Han Dynasty, there are countless historical records and almost every twenty or thirty years there will be a large group of thieves haunted, as for why Shandong out of the ringing horse, the reason is different, in the final analysis, it is because of poverty! The Yellow River has been diverted almost several times a year or even more than ten times a year in Shandong, and the people are not able to make a living, which naturally breeds thieves.

But it is also a large agricultural province, and its neighbors Hebei and Henan are not having a good time, but there has never been a similar situation, so some scholars think that it is related to the local traditional culture of Shandong.

What is the traditional culture, say two fun, the thief who was regarded as the ancestor of the thief is the Shandong people, the Mo family thought originated in Shandong, the Mo family's "everything is more valuable than righteousness" and the most important thing in the thief culture is the word righteousness.

Anyway, anyway, Shandong is more than Xiangma, and most of them are concentrated in the mountainous areas of central and western Luxi, and there are fewer in Jiaodong Peninsula and northern Lubei, which is also something that makes the little eunuch puzzled.

However, he ignored the fact that at this time, the world was in great drought and chaos, and thieves were most rampant.

The ringing horse robbed the money and reported the door to the house with the ringing arrow, and everyone who heard it was frightened, but the little eunuch was more curious, and he had not seen the name for a long time.

He has seen bandits, on the way to Taiyuan, he took the knife they practiced at that time, and the thieves have also seen it, Li Zicheng has fought hundreds of thousands of battles, this horse thief...... Fresh.

"Enemy attack, vigilance" and Chen Suole, Chen Ruxin, several pro-soldier commanders immediately shouted when they saw this battle, in fact, there is no need for them to say, the pro-soldiers have brushed and brushed their swords, drew their swords and bows, and tightly surrounded the little eunuch in the middle.

But the little eunuch didn't seem to be nervous at all, and even had a smile on his face, and stretched out his hand to push away a personal soldier who was blocking his view.

"There are only flags waving on both sides, where is the main master" Chang Yu raised his hand and pointed to the woods due south, and sure enough, dozens of horses walked out of the woods slowly.

"There are only more than 100 horse bandits, even if we are tired, we can break them in one fell swoop, just wait for the factory to order," said in a low voice beside Chang Yu.

Chang Yu's eyes narrowed, and the corners of his mouth showed a sneer: "Don't worry, the horse thieves are different from the ferry gangs, they are cruel and ruthless, and they can do everything, not to be underestimated."

In fact, in later generations, Chang Yu's "glorious deeds" of Shandong horse thieves were like thunder, and there was no need to mention the heroes of Liangshan in the Song Dynasty, and Sun Meiyao in the modern Republic of China blew up the railroad tracks to block the train and kidnap foreigners to shock the world.

Of course, they kidnapped Zhou Yanru and did not harm him, but sent him gold and silver back to Beijing to say good things to recruit Li Qingshan, Zhou Yanru took money to do things, and Li Qingshan was also recruited as he wished, but he rebelled repeatedly and was killed, which is all an afterthought, but it can be seen that the Shandong horse bandits are fierce.

Chang Yu crossed the line of fire from Tianjin and only led the two battalions under his command to be separated by dozens of miles at this time, and there were only his own soldiers left, and his personal soldiers were formed when the thieves were suppressed in Zhending Mansion, and nearly 100 were selected from tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, but only sixty or seventy people remained with his birth and death in this month.

Although the soldiers are all one in a million, but in the past two days, they have been running wild day and night, tired and even exhausted, facing the horse thieves around him, although he may not lose, Chang Yu does not want to damage the soldiers and horses and fight these horse thieves in vain, it is better to solve it peacefully!

At this time, the sky has not completely darkened, and dozens of meters away Shang Ke can roughly see the outline of the horse thief's face, but it is not all fierce and vicious, but it is not a good stubble, and his straddle horse with knives, guns and clubs is very arrogant. As Chang Yu said before, these people are different from those local snake gangs in the ferry, horse thieves raid houses, kill people and set fires are commonplace, and they have seen blood.

Just like in front of you, you even dare to rob officers and soldiers!

Dozens of horsemen who came out of the woods in the south slowed down and stopped fifty paces away from the officers and soldiers, Chang Yu asked the guards in front of him to get out of the way, but was stopped by Chen Sole: "The factory supervisor must not be in danger, and he will go to his humble position."

Chang Yu snorted: "You have little experience in the rivers and lakes, you can't handle them, rest assured, the thieves and the hundreds of thousands of Tartars are not afraid, what can the horse thieves do to me" After speaking, he beat the horse out of the ranks, and secretly said that it would be good if Wu Zhong was here. Chen Suole and the others were about to keep up when he raised his hand to stop them, so they rode alone.

After walking twenty or thirty steps, he can clearly see the appearance of the horse thief in front of him, with a burly figure and a fierce face, which is very consistent with the rough image in film and television dramas.

Chang Yu's eyes were poisonous, and he could see that the current few were the leaders of the horse thieves, but he couldn't tell who was the boss for a short time, so he smiled and hugged his fists and said: "Is it a mistake in charge, we are officers and soldiers."

Hahaha, the horse thieves laughed, and one shouted: "Make no mistake, it hasn't been open for a few days, how can you still have the heart to pick and choose, just eat it."

It was clear that these horse thieves did not take the officers and soldiers seriously at all.

"The boss must have made a mistake, we are all poor soldiers and penniless, and we have no money to honor you" The thief laughed louder: "Poor? These dozens of horses and armor are all treasures to us! ”

Chang Yu was stunned on the ground, and the horse thief looked at him and laughed: "Boy, go and tell you the head, either give the money for the passage today, or leave the war horse armor, or let's do a fight" The bearded man shouted loudly at the top of the duck, he saw that Chang Yu was young and thought he was an errand runner.

"Is there no other way?" Chang Yu frowned, and the bearded man said very cheerfully: "Yes!" ”

Chang Yu's eyes lit up: "Please speak."

"Come into the gang of us, drink wine and eat meat together!" The bearded man said with a smile, seeing Chang Yu stunned, he said disapprovingly: "Many of the brothers in our team were soldiers before, to be honest, it is better to join the gang than to work hard in the court, have no money, no food, and no one to bury them!" ”

Chang Yu's expression was solemn, and he nodded slightly: "What the boss said is not unreasonable, it is really a ...... to be an officer and soldier these years Hey, but I have a better proposal, should you listen to it? ”

"Oh, let's listen," the bearded man seemed to be very interested, maybe he also thought that it would be better to negotiate the deal without using a knife, after all, once the fight started, people would die, although he didn't pay much attention to the officers and soldiers, but those dozens of strong bows made him very jealous.

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