Qin Yiming and Liu Guoneng confronted each other in Lishui for a few days, but neither side moved, the strangest thing was a pontoon bridge on Lishui, which was used by local people to travel and travel, and no one burned it.

"General, if we don't burn the pontoon bridge, what should we do if the officers and soldiers come to attack?" A sentry looked at the pontoon bridge on the river, and felt that this pontoon bridge was a disaster, and the pontoon bridge should be burned or dismantled, otherwise it would be honestly not complete.

"General, this pontoon bridge can't be burned, if we want to continue to move forward in De'an Mansion this time, we still have to take this pontoon bridge, and the officers and soldiers don't destroy the pontoon bridge, we burn it, doesn't it seem that we are afraid? This will certainly have a great impact on the morale of our rebels. The other whistle said.

"What Liu Sentinel said is reasonable, this pontoon bridge really can't be burned!" Liu Guoneng said.

Liu Guoneng felt that what this person said made sense, he couldn't burn the pontoon bridge, otherwise it might have an impact on the morale of the righteous army, and now he had an army of 60,000 people, and there were 10,000 people on the opposite side, what was there to be afraid of, but it was not a way to confront him like this, he still had to find a way to cross the river.

"General, I think our army will cross the river in a big way tomorrow, and we have collected almost all the ships around here in the past few days, and when our army presses over, those officers and soldiers will definitely retreat without a fight!" The Liu Sentinel team was very proud when they heard that Liu Guoneng praised him, so he continued to express his opinion.

"No!" Liu Guoneng immediately objected and continued: "On the other side, Qin Yiming, who made the Eight Kings suffer a big loss, is still careful. ”

Liu Guoneng is quite good with Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai in the righteous army, but he is not right with Zhang Xianzhong, mainly because Zhang Xianzhong is too murderous, according to Zhang Xianzhong's so-called seven killings theory, living people should die, and so is he Zhang Xianzhong.

Liu Guoneng is a person who has been instilled by the feudal idea of loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, and he is quite disdainful of Zhang Xianzhong, a vulgar and shameless person who raids people's ancestral graves. Zhang Xianzhong was defeated in Anlu County, and Liu Guoneng received the news that he was happy to see Zhang Xianzhong planted, and at the same time, this also let him know that Qin Yiming, the person who let Zhang Xianzhong plant his heel was on the other side of his river, so he was also cautious and did not dare to venture forward.

If it were other defenders, such as Zuo Liangyu and others, he might have crossed the river, but on the other side was Qin Yiming, but he had a lot of concerns, this Qin Yiming was scheming, he still had to be careful.

Over the years of cavalry rebellion, Liu Guoneng knows the importance of mobility, so he attaches great importance to his war horse, this war horse is too difficult to get, his team of 60,000 people, there are only 2,000 war horses, now in June, the weather is starting to heat up, Liu Guoneng will let the people below take the war horse to the river to bathe every day, so that these war horses are comfortable, and to feed good forage, these more than 2,000 war horses are all high-quality stallions, not those cheap mares, must be well served.

Song Xiance won Qin Yiming's trust, and Qin Yiming didn't mind, as if he treated him like a friend, he still often called him a stick, he used to be called a stick, he would definitely be angry, but now that Qin Yiming calls him a stick, he doesn't mind.

Song Xiance understands that it seems that the two sides are facing each other here, and the battle is tense, but in fact, they are not nervous at all, because both sides are under an equal strength, and no one dares to attack easily, this pontoon bridge is a proof, Liu Guoneng has many people, but the combat effectiveness is not strong, Qin Yiming has few people, but the combat effectiveness is much stronger, and no one dares to attack easily under the equal strength.

Song Xiance had nothing to do, so he walked around aimlessly. I saw a few soldiers leading their horses towards the river, and they were still talking happily.

"Really? Each of your thousand military households has fifty acres of land? A soldier asked.

"Of course, we used to be poor, and we didn't have any clothes to wear out, but now, you look at the new clothes on my body, my wife made them for me, which daughter of this family was willing to marry into our thousands of households before, now it's different, we live well, naturally there are women who are willing to marry, I married my daughter-in-law last year!" Another soldier had a smug look on his face, telling about the earth-shaking changes in this De'an thousand households, these simple military households, they are now just a food and clothing, but compared to before, their lives have indeed changed too much, because more people have not even eaten.

"Hey, it's really enviable, I thought that our Lord Li was the best official in the Ming Dynasty, but I didn't expect this Lord Qin to cherish the poor military family even more!" The soldier said.

"Hehe, who's to say it's not?! But you Master Li are not bad, and you can see how you live! I thought you were Lord Li's family before, but when I think about it, I think it's impossible, it's impossible for a guard commander to afford so many family members! ”

"We are not family members, we are all big soldiers, we have no family members in Weiyang, Lord Li has been our commander for many years, many of the tuntian fields in the guard have been occupied, and the remaining tuntian is not enough to feed us, Lord Li took us everywhere to loot big households, and he never took and intercepted the money he found, and they were all shared by the big guys, and we were barely able to survive, compared to you."

"Don't you still have the fertile fields of Hanyang Mansion in Weiyang? How can it be taken by others? ”

"Hey, the fields in Hanyang Mansion are estimated to be eight or nine out of ten owned by the prince of Chu, and the prince has hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, where is there so much fertile land in Wuchang Mansion."

The two chatted all the way, and when they arrived at the river, they began to bathe the horses and rub their backs, at this time the peasant army on the opposite side happened to be doing the same thing, and they didn't know what was going on, Song Xiance suddenly heard the horses on the opposite side keep calling, and they were very surprised, and then ran closer to look at the horse's buttocks, and laughed, it turned out that the two horses on his side were two mares.

Generally speaking, the stamina of the mare is much worse, and the physique is not as strong and large as the stallion, so the best war horses are stallions, and Qin Yiming's side, because of the shortage of war horses, the mares are also mixed in, mainly poor, mares are much cheaper than stallions, and they are guards, and they don't have to fight everywhere with those thieves, so they stuff a lot of mares indiscriminately, or that sentence, there is not much difference between a stallion and a mare, but there is a world of difference between having a horse and not having a horse, so Qin Yiming does not dislike the mare at all!

After discovering this matter, Song Xiance immediately looked for Qin Yiming, Qin Yiming was thinking about how to defeat Liu Guoneng at this time, at least to defeat him, so that Suizhou Wei had a quiet environment to continue to develop.

"My lord, there are too many thieves in this way, I'm afraid we don't have much chance of winning if we fight it, so we can only defend!" Fierce as a tiger staring at the sand table without blinking an eye.

Qin Yiming nodded, there is a river between the two armies, it is indeed difficult to cross the river safely, and even if the river is crossed, there is no certainty of victory.

"It's really difficult, do we have enough food and grass? If you keep going like this, how long can you last it? ”

Fierce as a tiger proudly said: "Lord Qin, don't worry, food is not a problem, I have 30,000 stone of grain stored in the state guard, which is enough for the army." ”

Qin Yiming nodded, Li Cheng was envious beside him, 30,000 stones of grain, he couldn't think about it.

"Qin Wufu, Qin Wufu, I have a plan!" Song Xiance rushed in, with excitement on his face.

Everyone was distressed, seeing Song Xiance breaking in like this, it seemed that he had run a short distance, and his chest kept bullying, panting, thinking that something was wrong.

"Sir, what's the matter? In such a hurry? Could it be that something has changed? Li Cheng asked respectfully.

"No, nothing has happened, I was just walking by the river, and I noticed the thieves' horses barking on the other side, so I came to consult with you." Song Xiance had joy on his face, which made everyone very incomprehensible, the stallion of the thief on the opposite side called, what was there to be happy about?

Everyone didn't quite understand why Song Xiance was happy, but Qin Yiming knew that this Song Xiance must have bad water in his stomach, and maybe there would be any moths if he didn't do it.

"Divine stick, is there any bad water in your stomach?" Qin Yiming's smile was weird, but it made Song Xiance feel that this martial artist knew himself better and better, and he instantly felt a feeling of fish and water in his heart.

"Haha, you still know me, I do have a bit of bad water, and this bad water doesn't pour out and it makes it uncomfortable, there are more than a thousand war horses on the other side, I'm sorry for myself if I don't steal it!" Song Xiance said with a smile, he had almost rested at this time, and began to light his own dry tobacco.

"What? Stealing war horses? How is this possible? The war horses are specially guarded and raised, how to steal them? Li Cheng and Meng Ruhu didn't dare to think about it, staring at the bull's eye, their heads shaking like rattles.

Only Song Xiance and Qin Yiming laughed, Song Xiance was in his chest, and Qin Yiming fully believed in how bad this Song Shenzhu was.

On the second day, Song Xiance ordered people to search the entire military camp and found as many as 500 mares, and more than 100 ponies.

Everyone was very strange, what was this Song Xiance going to do, but Qin Yiming didn't stop it, so they didn't dare to stop it, and in the afternoon, Song Xiance ordered people to lead these mares and those foals to the river, waiting for the horses on the other side to appear.

"You are all ready for me, when the horses come over, the thieves may come from the pontoon bridge, you must be ready, you must not shoot now, so as not to frighten the horses, and only shoot when the horses run over!" Song Xiance ordered sternly, he was worried that the thief army would come over to grab the horses, so he arranged firearms in advance.

Song Xiance's behavior fully aroused everyone's interest, Qin Yiming, Li Cheng, Meng Ruhu, Yang Jiuyi and others were all watching from the riverside, but everyone waited for a long time, and there was no movement at all, which couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

"Young master, is this reliable, bring a few mares over, and you can attract the opposite stallion to cross the river?" The little monkey hugged Ah Hua and stared at it for a long time without moving, and couldn't help but be suspicious.

"Look at it, I'm not very good at this horse, but Song Shenstick hasn't disappointed me, he said it should be feasible!" Qin Yiming didn't know if it would work, but he believed in Song Shenbao.

At this time, Song Xiance ordered the person leading the horse to start whipping the mare and foal, those mares and foals began to neigh, the desolate scream, that is, Qin Yiming felt pitiful when he heard it, especially those foals, the little monkey couldn't bear to look at it directly, and looked distressed like a tiger, just like asking Qin Yiming to step forward to stop it, but Qin Yiming was unmoved and continued to wait.

After a while, a miracle really happened, and the horses on the other side of the river, who had come out to bathe, became irritable, and they tried to break free from the reins, even if the people who kept the horses tried to appease them, but it did not seem to work, and when one horse took the lead in running, the other horses began to run, and the horses that broke free galloped towards the mares, most of them crowded the pontoon, and a few paddled directly across the river.

"Young master, look, it's coming, it's really coming!" The little monkey screamed excitedly, watching more and more horses coming over, more than a thousand horses, the galloping scene, which made people extremely excited.