"! These dog thieves are smart, and they don't bite the hook! ”

Han Donghu led a small 200 men and horses to the remnants of the northern foot of Lianyunling, and joined the men and horses led by Lin Jiang, and saw that there were only a dozen corpses on the ground, and more enemies had fled into the depths of Lianyunling at night, and angrily whipped the remnants of the wall with a horsewhip.

The war to recover Chaozhou has lasted for almost a year, and most of the people in the vicinity have already left their homes and fled to other places, and there are not many people in a radius of two or three hundred miles, and there are many hills and shallow ridges in Chaozhou, which makes it easy for small groups of elite scouts to infiltrate and lurk without being noticed.

Even if Han Qian guessed that there were Liang army scouts infiltrating and lurking in the two states of Chao and Chuzhou, there was no way to find out their whereabouts, but considering that Liang Jun really had scouts lurking nearby, he would inevitably keep an eye on Li Zhihe and the others' every move at any time, so he also asked Han Donghu and them to stare at Li Zhihe and the others by waiting for the scouts who were lurking in the Liang army to reveal their flaws.

Wen Ruilin, Lei Jiuyuan, Shen Peng and others ambushed the messengers sent by Li Zhihe to Zhongli in two ways, and Han Donghu and they successfully captured their whereabouts.

In view of the small group of enemies settling down in the remnants of the northern foot of Lianyunling, Han Donghu led his troops to attack from the east with Lin Jiang, intending to startle the snakes, and he led more than 200 elites to ambush on the road from the northern foot of Lianyunling to the southwest of Haozhou.

Han Donghu thought that after the enemy was alarmed, he rushed to meet Xu Mingzhen and the Shouzhou elite, and he would definitely be able to take advantage of their unpreparedness and kill them by surprise.

He didn't expect this group of enemies to be so cunning, except for a dozen or so people scattered to break through to the west, the main men and horses fled to the depths of Lianyunling.

Lian Yunling seems to be small, but it is not something that their four or five hundred men can completely blockade and surround it.

The Shouzhou Army has 20,000 elite cavalry stationed eighty or ninety miles away, and now the situation has changed drastically, maybe a large number of enemy cavalry have scattered out to look for fighters.

In terms of cavalry, after Yang Yuanpu ascended the throne, the forbidden army was never able to form a large-scale cavalry force, let alone compete with the iron cavalry of the Liang army.

The only large-scale cavalry formation unit of the Chu army before fell into the hands of Xu Mingzhen.

Han Donghu and Lin Jiang didn't dare to stay here for too long, and when they caught three live mouths, they took advantage of the slightly blue morning light in the sky to gallop south.

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"I didn't expect Lei Jiuyuan to be in Lianyunling, I really shouldn't have withdrawn so quickly at that time, I should have continued to pursue!" After three live tortures, Han Donghu learned that in addition to Wen Ruilin, who escaped from the Chaozhou camp, and Shen Peng, the general of the general, Lei Jiuyuan, the minister of Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang, was in Lianyunling at that time, and he stomped his feet with remorse.

"People die for money, birds die for food, in the final analysis, it is the word 'greed', and the reason why all kinds of schemes can succeed is mainly to use the greed of human nature," Han Qian said to Han Donghu with a smile, "When you know that a character like Lei Jiuyuan is in the mountains, you can calm down and judge the situation, and you can be regarded as a successful art of war." ”

"Yes." Han Donghu replied in shame.

"Since Lei Jiuyuan has personally sneaked to the vicinity of Chaozhou, then Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang is either hiding in Xuzhou or hiding in Yingzhou!" Feng Yi walked over and said.

"Yes, the situation is really weird, let's not speculate too much about the opponent's calculations, just do our best!" Han Qian stood at the foot of the low mountain by the river beach, looked at the gloomy sky in the north, nodded and said.

He saw Yao Xishui in Li Zhihe's mansion, and after receiving the edict of the Queen Mother in Yandangji, he did not rush to Yueyang directly with the three merchant ships, and waited for Xuzhou Shuiying to come to meet, but rushed to meet Feng Yi and Su Lie, who had withdrawn to the mountain.

As long as Li Zhihe received the edict of the Empress Dowager, he could persuade the generals to give up the storming of Chaozhou City and not be taken advantage of by the Liang army and the Shouzhou army, and the Xuzhou water camp could enter the Yangtze River waterway in time to ensure that the remnants of the Lou Boat Army did not dare to come in to block the retreat of the Huaixi Forbidden Army, and the situation would not collapse in general.

What Han Qian was more concerned about at this time was the nearly 100,000 refugees who had fled south of Hongzepu and west of Fanliang Lake due to the war.

This also involves how Xuzhou Shuiying will gain a foothold in the Jianghuai region in the future.

On the whole, the situation in Guangde Prefecture is still tending to ease, and the old headquarters and small families of the Guangde Army, who have really been deprived of their fields and homes, add up to 14,500 people, and even if these people are moved to the eastern part of Chuzhou north of the Yangtze River, their forces are still quite weak and not enough to become the foundation for Xuzhou Shuiying to gain a foothold in Jianghuai.

And if we can get the 100,000 refugees gathered in Shiliang County, the situation will be completely different.

"Lei Jiuyuan and Wen Ruilin were attacked by Han Donghu, so they could only send someone to contact Xu Mingzhen in a hurry, and he led the Shouzhou cavalry to insert into the southeast of the Wujian Mountain Range to block the retreat of the Right Shenwu Army, and the situation is still extremely favorable to us - should I go to see Zhou Yi now?" Feng Yi asked.

Although he failed to catch Lei Jiuyuan, Wen Ruilin, and Shen Peng, the information obtained from the torture was also extremely crucial.

As long as Shouzhou Jingqi directly penetrates into the area of Yandun Mountain and Turtle Peak in these two days, it will inevitably find a way to annihilate the main force of the Right Shenwu Army that stayed in the north of Yandun Mountain and Turtle Peak at this time in a short period of time, then they can arrange manpower to encourage the displaced people in the southeast of Yandun Mountain and Turtle Peak to move to the area along the river.

It is also the only way that after the Xuzhou water camp enters the Yangtze River waterway, these displaced people and refugees can be used by Xuzhou.

However, if they really want to achieve such a goal, there is another prerequisite, that is, they must control a city along the river that can be defended, and accept these displaced people and refugees, and even the old headquarters of the German army and their families can temporarily avoid it.

Otherwise, under the trampling of the cavalry of the Liang army, tens of thousands of displaced people would have no ability to resist. In particular, once the Liang army saw through their intentions, even if they could not drive these displaced people to Haozhou or Chaozhou, they would most likely carry out a merciless massacre.

Han Qian and Feng Yi have chosen the target of Tangyi County, which is more than 50 miles west of the mountain and across the river from Jinling City.

Tangyi County used to belong to Yangzhou, after the founding of the Emperor Tianyou, Tangyi was included in Chuzhou, and later it was Jinling located on the north bank of the Yangtze River in the Liuhe County area.

In the territory of Tangyi County in the world, the mudflats are continuous, the lakes are vertical and horizontal, there is no constraint of the embankment, every summer and autumn, the north bank of the Yangtze River is flooded, although it is close to Jinling, but it is quite dilapidated.

Although Tangyi County is not close to the north bank of the Yangtze River, there are several relatively open rivers passing through its territory, and the navigation conditions are good.

At this time, Tangyi County, in addition to the county order, county officials, county lieutenants and other officials appointed by the imperial court, as the gateway to the north of Jinling, is also an important node connecting Chu and Chao in the south of the Yangtze River, and is also responsible for preventing the movement of the Huaidong Army.

After the war of cutting the domain, as the Marquis of Yu, the capital of the Left Dragon Bird Army, Zhou Yi originally led his troops to garrison Hengzhou, and also served as Hengzhou for a time, but after Li Zhihe was transferred to Ezhou Assassin History, he led a part of the Left Dragon Bird Army to the north into Ezhou, and after Shao Heng's military and political power was controlled by Chai Jian, Zhou Yan's life under Chai Jian was not easy.

After Yang Yuanpu ascended the throne, Zhou Yi was transferred to Jiangzhou Assassin History.

Jiangzhou is a big state, and the rank of the assassin is the fourth grade, Zhou Yi has to occupy this position, and it cannot be said that Yang Yuanpu is harsh and unkind, but except for a small number of family soldiers, the soldiers and horses that Zhou Yi brought from the cottage at the beginning were almost completely separated from him.

Zhou Yiqi still prefers to lead the army to fight.

This time, the state soldiers were recruited to assist the main force of the Huaixi Forbidden Army, and it was originally supposed to be the state Sima or the soldiers or the soldiers to join the army and lead the state soldiers to reinforce the army, but Zhou Yi personally led more than 3,000 Jiangzhou soldiers to rush over.

It's just that for most of the year, Zhou Yi has not had the opportunity to fight, and his troops have always been stationed in Tangyi.

Feng Yi thought that he would go to see Zhou Yi, in addition to persuading Zhou Yi to defend Tangyi County with 3,000 Jiangzhou soldiers, he also had to persuade Zhou Yi to stand on the side of Xuzhou and accept the old troops of Zuo Guang's German army and a large number of refugees who were about to flee south from Shiliang County.

Only in this way can Tangyi County mobilize more military forces to resist the enemy's attack.

"I'll go see Zhou Yi in person." Han Qian said with his hands in his hands.

"Wouldn't it be too risky?" Feng Yi asked with some hesitation.

Although the early cottage forces were only used by Yang Yuanpu under the persuasion of Han Qian, the relationship between Zhou Yi, Chen Jingzhou and other cottage generals and Han Qian was naturally closer, but people's hearts were unpredictable, and Zhou Yi, Chen Jingzhou and others were not shallow by Yang Yuanpu's favor.

Who knows if Han Qian walked into Tangyi City alone, would Zhou Qian have a different idea?

"A character like Zhou Yi can't be deceived by tricks, there are some things to tell him, only I go over in person is more appropriate." Han Qian said indifferently.