When Man Tianxing led his subordinates to do evil wantonly, in a small forest opposite Chenjiazhuang, Liu Renjie, Sun Wuxi, He Yaozong and others wore white cotton armor, white helmets and white masks, lying on the ground, and kept observing the thieves who were 100 steps away from him killing the people.

For such scenes, Liu Renjie and Sun Wuxian were accustomed to it, and they didn't care about it, they just focused on how many people and horses were in the Mantian Star Division, and who was the leader.

When He Yaozong was observing, he sometimes beat the ground angrily, sometimes made a gesture to draw his knife and rush out, and sometimes he muttered something in his mouth, saying something like 'Lao Tzu is going to kill you'.

When Liu Renjie saw He Yaozong's situation, he frowned and asked, "Yaozong, what are you doing?" Why so many things? ”

When He Yaozong saw Liu Renjie asking, his eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "Second Master Liu, you don't know, in the past, our village was ruined by this called a little red, and my family also died in the hands of a little red. ”

"Your family has suffered a tragedy, and you have resentment in your heart, I can understand it, but now we are on the orders of Lord Liu to come out to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, you are not fucking good at spying on intelligence, but you are thinking about irrelevant things here, this is not good."

Liu Renjie also thought that why Yaozong's mind was not here, so he reminded the other party.

"Second Master Liu, the little one knows the severity, and the little one hasn't forgotten to reconnoiter the enemy." He Yaozong saw that Liu Renjie blamed himself, so he defended himself.

"Oh, yes, then tell me how many real thieves there are in this group of thieves, and who is the leader?" Liu Renyu saw that He Yaozong said so confidently, so he asked.

"Second master, there are 300 real thieves in this team of thieves, and the one wearing a red coat and a big felt hat is the leader of the thieves, do you think the little one is right?"

"Hey, I don't think you kid can still reminisce about the old times that can't be looked back on, and you can't forget to observe the enemy's situation, you really have a set, it's not in vain that I took you out to experience."

"The second master's letter is like this, and the little one is afraid."

"Don't be afraid, I'll tell you something, that little red that ruined your family, the adults will kill him sooner or later."

"Second Master Liu, is this true!?" When He Yaozong heard the news, his eyes immediately lit up, and even his voice trembled.

"Naturally, I won't lie to you, but you have to keep it a secret and don't talk nonsense. The adult is densely packed in the army, if he tells the old man to know that I have a broken mouth, it will be very troublesome, I also see that you are a talent, I think you can be useful, trust you, so I told you. ”

"Second Master Liu, didn't we do the things that were planted in the army?" He Yaozong was puzzled.

"We can do such things, and adults may also find Chen Danqing to do it, so if there is a secret agent, we may not know, so it's better to be careful."

"Yes, Second Master Liu, the little one has been written down."

"Well, okay, it looks like this gang of thieves is about to go over to Anding County, no disease, you hurry up and take the path to report the enemy situation to the adults, and Yaozong and I will take people along the official road to investigate and see if there are any other thieves."

"Okay, Second Master Liu, I'll go now."

After Sun Wuxian finished speaking, he got up from the ground and walked to the edge of the woods, then untied the reins, rode his horse, and walked the path to report the news.

Sun Wuzhi left, and Liu Renjie and He Yaozong took the rest of the cavalry along the official road and went straight to the direction of Qingjian.

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Anding County is 300 miles away from Jingbian Fort, if the cavalry gallops at the limit speed, tired or exhausted a horse, they can arrive in one day and night, but Liu Renyu does not want to do this, because he just travels a hundred miles a day at an ordinary speed, and then sets up camp.

After walking like this for two days, it was already very close to Anding County, and at this time, Sun Wuxian, who had been sent back by Liu Renjie to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, returned to the army, and the 300 real thieves of the Mantianxing Department had approached Anding, as well as what these thieves had done in Chenjiazhuang.

After Liu Renyu heard the news about the enemy's situation, he left Sun Wuzhi by his side first, and then he discussed with Liu Wuguo a strategy to break the enemy.

"Brother, if we go further, we will run into that gang of thieves, how do you say this battle will be fought?" Liu Renyu asked Liu Wuguodao.

"Brother Xian, this battle is not simple, at the beginning we only had 600 soldiers, and we dared to fight with tens of thousands of thieves, but now we have more than 1,000 elite soldiers, and there are only 300 thieves. Of course, we will attack with the whole army and directly defeat the thieves. Liu Wuguo replied angrily.

"What my brother said is that of course the thieves can fight, but we still have a few issues to discuss."

"What's the problem?"

"First, how about destroying the thieves and dividing the money, grain and horses between our two divisions equally?"

"It's up to you."

"Second, the first merit of defeating the thieves will be given to my brother this time."

"How does this make it, defeat the thieves, the virtuous brother will also contribute, brother and I have the only credit, I'm afraid it's not beautiful."

"Brother doesn't have to be like this, we have more opportunities to cooperate in the future, give the credit to my brother this time, give it to me next time, let's help each other."

"What Brother Xian said is reasonable, then brother will thank Brother Xian a lot."

"It's all my own family, why should my brother say thank you. I went on to talk about the third thing, and my brother also heard it, that the thieves tattooed words on the faces of the people in order to coerce them into joining them, and if we meet such people, we should not kill them indiscriminately. ”

"Brother Xian, on the battle array, how can you distinguish the people from the thieves, and then fight?" Liu Wuguo asked with a frown.

"Brother, Fang Cai Wuxiao said very clearly, the 300 thieves are all on horseback, and the rest of the people who are not riding are the people who are being coerced. All we have to do is kill the horsemen. ”

"What Brother Xian said is reasonable, then follow what Brother Xian said."

"That's very good, brother, we are still 20 miles away from Anding County, the thieves are afraid that they have already arrived in Anding City, we had better move quickly, lest the thieves break Anding County and make the people in the city suffer."

"Brother Xian, we only know that the thieves are near the county seat of Anding, but where they are, we don't know at all, I think we still need to send out a detailed work, and then investigate, get the letter, and then determine the military strategy, what do you think?"

"My brother is reasonable, there is no disease, you quickly take someone to investigate the traces of the thief, remember, do not alarm the thief, lest the thief retreat directly, and we will not be able to catch up with them."

"Yes, my lord, I will take someone to investigate the enemy."

After Sun Wuxian finished speaking, he took more than a dozen cavalrymen to pick inaccessible mountain paths and galloped all the way towards Anding County.

After Liu Renyu waited for Sun Wuzhi to leave, he summoned Yang Desheng, Zhang Tieniu, Ma Wenshan, Wang Zuohang, and Wang Xuewu to his side, and ordered: "Xuewu, this attack on the thief is a pursuit battle, and your firecrackers can't use it, just guard the baggage wagon convoy." ”

"Yes, sir." Wang Xuewu received the order.

"Desheng, Tie Niu, Wenshan. The thieves are not very strong, we don't need to fight in three layers of heavy armor, you only need to wear cotton armor to fight. ”

"Yes, sir." Yang Desheng and others received the order.

"Iron Bull, can your soldiers and horses shoot arrows with bows on their horses now?" After Liu Renyu gave the order, he asked Zhang Tieniu.

"My lord, if you ride a good horse, you can ride a horse with a bow and arrows, but if you don't ride a horse well, you can't bend your bow and release arrows. Only by hand. Crossbow, one-handed arrow. ”

"Shoot the arrow right away, how effective is it?"

"I've only shot at the target, and I can't shoot as many times as I shot the arrow on the spot."

"That's it, it's good to be able to hit." Liu Renyu first nodded in response, and then said to Wang Zuohang: "Zuohang, your soldiers and horses are in cotton armor, can you get the blade in the logistics department?" What is the quality, are you still satisfied? ”

"If you go back to your lordship, the armor and blades are new, and the quality is good, when we were soldiers in the past, we have never seen such good armor, the materials are sufficient, the workmanship is good, and it is really a blessing for us to follow the adult."

"Hey, okay, okay, don't say these things you don't want to do, you have to work hard and fight hard to kill the enemy later, so that it will not be in vain for me to take you into the regular army."

"The little one will swear to serve the adult." Wang Zuo hung his hands and clenched his fists, and said solemnly.

"Alright, I got it." Liu Renyu waved his hand, signaling that he knew, and then he ordered to all his subordinates: "You wait and remember, you will fight with the thieves later, and after defeating them, you must chase them hard, whether they are drilling ravines or woods, you must chase after me, and you must not miss a thief, you can write it down." ”

"Yes, sir, keep in mind the lowly ranks." Everyone responded in unison.

"Very good."

After Liu Renyu finished arranging the relevant matters before the attack for his subordinates, he said to Liu Wuguo again: "Brother, thieves have always been easy to win, but difficult to destroy. This time, our troops were divided into two ways, I attacked from the front, and my brother blocked the main road to Qingjian in Anding, cutting off the return route of the thieves. If the thieves are defeated, and hoping that his brother will be able to pursue the thieves, Hugh tells them to run away with one of them. ”

"This is nature, get rid of evil, brother, I still know." Liu Wuguo replied with a smile.

"That's very good, then let's go to Anding County first, and wait for the exact news of the thieves brought by the disease, and then we will send troops to kill the thieves, what does my brother think?"

"Just do what Brother Xian says." Liu Wuguo agreed.

So the two generals of the Liu family took their respective men and horses and accelerated towards Anding County.

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But it was said that the starry sky washed Chenjiazhuang and engulfed more than 700 people, but he was not enough, so he burned houses in the village near Anding County along the official road and drove the people into his team.

After the toss of the starry sky, all the villages and towns within a radius of 10 miles in the east of Anding County were burned and plundered, and more than 2,000 people in these villages and towns were all wrapped in the stars and slaughtered all the way to Anding County.

When the thieves traveled to the county seat of Anding, the soldiers guarding the gate saw that there were so many thieves appearing, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly closed the city gate.

Then the little officer who was responsible for guarding the city gate hurriedly rushed to the county yamen and reported the military situation to the county officials in the yamen.

"Master Zeng, woe to you, there is a large group of thieves outside the city, and the number is only as many as thousands, what do you say?" The officer guarding the city gate asked in a weeping voice.

"Thousands of thieves, what, what can I do with this?" Zeng Xiancheng heard that the thieves were coming, and naturally his neck shrank in fright, and he didn't know what to do.

"Master Zeng, we have been stable for more than a year without a county order, and you are in charge of the county's affairs, do you think we can hold the county seat?" The city gate officer asked mournfully.

"I'm just afraid of it! When we suppressed the thieves last year, you sent the generals out, but not only did they not kill the thieves, but let the thieves be killed. Our stable soldiers are all finished, and now with you, there are only 30 officers and soldiers. With just a few soldiers, how to resist thousands of thieves and stabilize the danger! Stability is at stake! Zeng Xiancheng sighed.