The central county town is 600 miles away from the county seat of Zhenyuan, if the cavalry is one person and two horses, the Marche people do not stop, and they can arrive in two days, if the horse infantry army is mixed, the horse army goes first, and the infantry army arrives later, then it is about the same time as the infantry marching, and it takes at least ten days to complete.

Hong Chengchou's army, except for Liu Renyu's troops, are all cavalry, the rest of the 7,000 soldiers and horses, 3,000 horse troops, 4,000 infantry troops, if you go to Zhenyuan slowly, it will take at least ten days, Hong Chengchou can't wait so long, he specially ordered the infantry army to break off, escort the grain and grass to Zhenyuan, the cavalry go first, go to attack the thieves first.

Liu Renyu and Liu Wuguo's 3,900 cavalry were the pioneers and went straight to Zhenyuan.

Along the way, the sentinels of Liu Renjie's authentic cavalry unit walked in the front of the brigade, probing for ten miles, if they encountered the thieves' sentinels, they would kill them all, and if they couldn't kill them, they would also force the thieves' sentries to stay away from their own marching areas.

This kind of behavior of the Jingbian Fort Army naturally attracted the attention of the thieves.

The leader of the thieves in Zhenyuan saw that the sentinel he sent to the east was sniped by the officers and soldiers, and the area was like a layer of fog that made people unable to understand the situation, and they suddenly felt that the situation was different, which was a harbinger of the army's attack.

Red Army friends, Li Dusi, Du San'er, and Yang Laochai felt that their hearts were not stopping, so they brought Hao Lin'an and Liu Liu over to discuss the abnormal situation in Dongmian'er.

On this day, there was a fire in the hall of the county government in Zhenyuan County, burning extremely vigorously, the fire was close to the left, and there were Red Army friends, Li Dusi, Du San'er, Yang Laochai, Hao Lin'an and Liu Liu, and other thieves and other thieves, beside them, there was a young woman who was greased and powdered, her eyes were full of fear, but her face was forced to smile, and she brought tea and water to these thieves, and served them diligently.

"A few masters, now that the wind direction of the court has changed, since Yang Ye went to the throne and Hong Ye came to power, our life is becoming more and more sad, have you heard? The stars in the central county, the black gods, and the scorpion blocks, all the officials and soldiers were killed, and none of them were left, and they were not even allowed to surrender. The Red Army Fellow said wistfully as he drank his wine.

"Hong Ye likes to kill people, in the past, our leader Shen Yikui did not make any mistakes, but because he had rebelled, he almost died under his old man's knife." Du San'er followed up.

"According to what you say, if we want to surrender again, I'm afraid that Hong Ye will definitely not surrender, but I'm afraid that he will still kill us." Li Dusi frowned and said depressedly.

"Hey, that's good, surrendering left and right is death, not surrendering is death, it's better to fight to the death with the officers and soldiers to the end, and you have to pull a cushion before you die." Yang Laochai slammed the wine bowl in his hand to the ground and hissed.

"Come on, if we are arrested by the official army, we will definitely die, but the Hong Ye specially sent someone to let go, the captain and the above are all beheaded, and none of the ordinary thieves will be killed. Some of the people under our hands eat and drink with us with one heart, if it is poor, or not with us, it is really hard to say. The Red Army friend glanced at Yang Laochai and said with a sneer.

"Alas, I knew that Hong Ye was so effective in suppressing us, and he didn't rebel before, how good it would be!" Li Dusi sighed.

"Hey, now you know that you're scared of donkey days, when the gods took us to rebel, you shouted the fiercest, but now you're afraid of donkey days, don't laugh to death." Yang Laochai sneered at Li Dusidao.

"You ......," Li Dusi glanced at Yang Laochai, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

"That's it, that's it, it's come to this, don't say what you have and don't. Let me tell you, there is news from the central county, saying that the most powerful Jingbianbao army in Shaanxi is coming, and the city wall of the central county town was collapsed by them with cannons, and I also heard that they have a thing that can make people fly in the sky, which is so powerful. The Red Army friends first persuaded their brothers a few words, and then mysteriously informed their companions of the news from the central county.

When everyone heard that there was something that could fly in the sky with people, they were all surprised.

"How can there be such a thing in the world, and it can fly in the sky with people!?" Hao Lin'an's eyes widened, incredulous.

"I can't figure it out, but it's all rumors, and I don't know if it's a bluff by the officials and soldiers?" Red Army friends waved their hands.

"That's what I said, but no matter if the official army has any powerful weapons, they will come to fight us sooner or later after they have finished fighting the rebels in the central county, and you all know that the sentinels we sent to the east were forcibly intercepted and killed by the officials and soldiers, and there must be a problem over there." Yang Laochai looked around and said solemnly.

"Originally, our sentinels sometimes ran into the officers and soldiers, and many of them could not come back, but the number of times those sentry spies who went to the east encountered the officers and soldiers was too frequent, and the closer they got to the official road, the stricter the guards of the officers and soldiers became, and they were simply impenetrable. Red Army Friend.

"I heard that there are tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, and we only have 50,000 people, and there are only seven or eight thousand capable soldiers. Li Dusi said worriedly.

"Of course what you said is reasonable, it is said that there are tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, but only a few thousand elite soldiers have come, but I want to ask you, do you think we can beat it?" Red Army friends looked around and asked in a loud voice.

Du San'er, Li Dusi, Yang Laochai, Hao Lin'an, Liu Liu and others looked at each other a few times, and they all shook their heads with a sense of powerlessness and said: "If there are 3,000 elite soldiers in the official army, our army will definitely be defeated." ”

"That's it, so the best strategy is for us to get out of the house when we see that the situation is not good, change places and go happy." Red Army friends laughed.

"I think you're right, so what are we waiting for, just run away, you say, where are we going, go west, south, or north?" Li Dusi asked excitedly.

"Not busy, not busy, whether the officers and soldiers come or not is a shadowless thing, if they don't come, we will run away, isn't it a waste of such a good place, if they come, just fight with them for a while, if our army can't resist, just hurry up and take the old brothers away, those homeless people will be left here to cut off the heads of the officers and soldiers, leaving the women to them to spoil, they are busy competing for benefits, where will there be leisure to pursue us, do you think this strategy is good?" The Red Army friends asked the group of companions with a smile.

"That's the reason." The leader of the thieves replied in a loud voice.

"That's right, if the official army really comes, let's go north, Brother Hao, Brother Liu, you are from Qingyang and Huanxian, you should be very familiar with the situation over there, let's go north, go to Qingyang and Huanxian first." Red Army friends said to Hao Lin'an and Liu Liu.

"Okay, if a few masters get there, we will be responsible for leading the way, there are just a few landlords and old wealth of the fortress has not been broken, so many of us go together, we can definitely take it, and the food in there can be enough for us to eat for a while." Hao Lin'an replied with a smile.

"Okay, it's decided, the officers and soldiers are not coming, we have to figure it out, a few masters, the officers and soldiers are trying their best to cover the road, it can be seen that there must be a problem with the road, let's send more scouts to reconnoitre, I don't believe it, can they still cover all the roads!" Red Army friends laughed.

"Isn't that right, let's send more people, carefully investigate, and see if the brigade of the official army is coming, and if so, how many people are coming?" Yang Laochai echoed.

"That's it, by the way, extremely leader, there is something I want to say, this thing of reconnaissance of the enemy is done for the big guys, you can't just let one family send someone to sentry, it's best for each family to send someone out, okay?" Red Army friends said to several leaders.

"That's natural, so let's do it." The leaders echoed in unison.

After discussing with the rest of the leaders, the Red Army comrades sent scouts and cavalry to the east in batches to see what the officers and troops were doing.

All of a sudden, there were waves of thieves and sentries heading to the east, and there were quite a few of them.

However, it was said that several bandit leaders sent a large number of sentry agents to inspect the military situation on the official road from the central county town to Zhenyuan, and the pressure on Liu Renjie's side increased sharply.

He hurriedly reported this situation to Liu Renyu.

Based on this, Liu Renyu judged that most of the thieves had already noticed that he was leading troops to approach them, and it was only the thieves who came out to spy that the number of thieves suddenly increased sharply, and he was not very flustered about this situation.

In fact, he is not afraid of the thieves at all knowing how many troops he has, because he thinks that it doesn't hurt if the thieves know, he is not afraid of the thieves at all, he wants to take this opportunity to train the soldiers.

So he ordered Liu Renjie to shrink the reconnaissance range and only reconnoiter within a radius of five miles to the left of his army.

When Liu Renjie received the order, he reduced the reconnaissance area and tightened the troops, so that the thieves were either killed or driven away, and they were never able to detect the reality of Liu Renyu and Liu Wuguo's troops and horses.