Seeing that Liu Zongmin did what he said and arranged for himself to go to Huizhou Mansion so quickly, Tian Jianxiu, who was still a little worried, put down his hanging heart.

To be honest, after yesterday's defeat, whether to go into the city to see Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu also hesitated for a long time.

If Tian Jianxiu had more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in his hands before the defeat, he would naturally not be afraid of Liu Zongmin, but after the defeat, he only had dozens of personal soldiers under him.

However, after weighing the pros and cons, Tian Jianxiu also figured out that instead of risking staying in the field and being discovered by the Ming army, it was better to go into the city to find Liu Zongmin, and he still understood the truth that the two powers should harm each other.

And Tian Jianxiu also kept an eye on it, and as soon as he entered the city, he spread the news of his defeat into the city everywhere, which also told Liu Zongmin in disguise, even if you kill us people, you can't wipe out so many rebels in the city.

Sure enough, after entering the city, Liu Zongmin not only entertained him with delicious food and drink, but also sent himself out of Ning Guofu very considerately and quickly the next day, just ......

Looking at the city wall of Ning Guofu, which had gradually turned into a small black dot, Tian Jianxiu turned his head and followed the team in front of him with some melancholy.

Seeing this, a personal soldier couldn't help but comfort: "Tian Ye, you don't have to worry too much, the military advisor once told you that as long as we can block the Jiangning Army for ten days, we will complete the task, even if our losses are a little bigger, but presumably King Chuang will not say anything." ”

"I'm not worried about that."

Tian Jianxiu shook his head, raised his horsewhip and pointed to the wheel prints in front of him that had pressed deep ruts into the road and asked, "Do you know what these big cars are filled with?" ”

The soldiers pursed their lips, they had been bandits for so many years, if they didn't even have this knowledge, they would have starved to death a long time ago.

"Isn't Tian Ye making fun of the villain, if these carts are not filled with gold, silver and jewelry from Ning Guofu, the villain is willing to take off his eyeballs as bubbles."

"Hmm!"

Tian Jianxiu nodded.

"Since you can tell what it is, do you think those Jiang Ning troops will let such a large sum of silver pass in front of them?"

"Huh...... That's right! ”

The soldier's face immediately changed, and he immediately remembered the cavalry that had left them almost all on the battlefield yesterday. If it were them, they would not let go of such a large piece of fat slipping away from them.

"Tian Ye, are you saying that we have been targeted? It's just that those Jiang Ningjun shouldn't have thought that we didn't take the official road, but picked this inaccessible path to Huizhou Mansion, right? ”

"Hmm."

Tian Jianxiu shook his head solemnly, "As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, before we were attacked yesterday, didn't we think that we were already a few miles away from Ning Guofu, and the Ming army would not set up an ambush at such a close distance?" But the result? ”

The soldiers stopped talking, and yesterday's fiasco was like a steel needle that kept stinging his heart.

"You go and inform our brothers immediately, all of them retreat to us, and if we find any traces of the Ming army later, we will run immediately, understand?"

"Tian Ye, it's not that serious, if we do this, let people know how we will behave in the future?" The soldier hesitated.

"If you don't even have your life, you be a!" Tian Jianxiu was so angry that he slapped him on the head and scolded, "Go!" ”

"Yes!" Seeing Tian Jianxiu angry, the soldiers didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, and hurriedly ran away.

This convoy has hundreds of large vehicles, and in order to protect the safety of this convoy, Liu Zongmin also specially arranged 2,000 men and horses to escort it, led by a general manager named Deng Qing.

Since this head of Deng Qing's department can be appointed by Liu Zongmin as the person in charge of escorting gold, silver and jewelry, he is naturally not a fool, and the actions of Tian Jianxiu and others were soon known to him.

Hearing the report from his subordinates, he just sneered lightly: "A group of defeated troops who were frightened by the Ming army, in order to avoid the eyes and ears of the Jiang Ning army, we specially picked a small road, more than a hundred miles around, if this can still be detected by the Jiang Ning army, then what else is there to say."

I didn't expect Tian Yenuo's big name to be so timid. Tell the brethren to speed up and make sure to get to the place where we are staying before dark, and to make peace with the brotherhood who will meet us? ”

"Understood!"

It turned out that Liu Zongmin had worked hard to get this batch of things to Huizhou Mansion safely, and he actually notified Li Zicheng in advance and asked him to send someone to pick him up, which was his greatest confidence.

Just when Tian Jianxiu and the others were anxiously following the convoy, the team led by Yang Feng also came to a place more than ten miles away from Ning Guofu, where Yang Feng met Cao Yingmao, who had been waiting here for a long time.

Seeing Cao Yingmao coming up, Yang Feng's face showed a smile: "General Cao has worked hard. ”

Cao Yingmao reported with a solemn expression: "Grandpa Qiyuguo, the last general is fortunate not to be dishonored, and the more than 3,000 thieves who escaped from Anqing Mansion yesterday were completely annihilated, but unfortunately Cao Yingmao ran away." ”

"I can't blame you for this, Cao Yingmao and these people have been thieves for half their lives, if they pick up the ability to escape, one of the people present is counted as one, and there is no one who can compare to him. Although your troops failed to kill Tian Jianxiu this time, they were able to completely annihilate his men and horses, which can be regarded as avenging the people of Anqing Mansion who died in vain that night. ”

Yang Feng dismounted as he spoke, pointed to the looming city in front of him and asked, "Then it must be the city wall of Ning Guofu, it is worthy of being a rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is quite spectacular." ”

Cao Yingmao asked, "Grandpa Guo, are we going to attack the city immediately?" ”

"What's the hurry?"

Yang Feng glared at him.

"Have you forgotten our strategy?"

"The general of the Duke of Chuan, the army immediately set up camp next to the city, I want to see if these rogues dare to go out of the city to fight our Jiangning army, if not, it will not be too late for us to attack the city in ten days."

"Whoa!"

Cao Yingspear responded, and consciously followed behind Yang Feng with a group of officers.

There was a sound of horses' hooves, and a cavalryman ran towards them at a rapid pace, and soon one of them jumped off his horse and shouted, "Report ...... Some of the brothers found out that this morning a large convoy had left the city and disappeared after entering a small road, and judging from the prints of the carts, these large carts were loaded with gold and silver and other valuables. ”

"What?"

"Good!"

As soon as they heard this, the eyes of all the officers immediately lit up.