Li Yan's stay in Suizhou made Su Jing and the gentry in Guide City very dissatisfied, and kept sending letters to urge Li Yan to hurry up and lead troops to Guide City.

These letters will naturally be intercepted by the thieves outside the city, so the thieves also know that Li Yan is going to bring troops over. So a small group of thieves began to defect to the big ones, and the big ones also began to contact each other so that they could deal with the upcoming Li Yan together.

Although Li Yan's strength is not big, there are not many generals, and he is not as famous as Zuo Liangyu. But the name of Guide Mansion is still very loud, even louder than the previous name of Gao Yuanheng and Gao Chuangzi. Gao Yuanheng's reputation is famous because Gao Yuanheng himself is charging into battle, and he is very powerful. But Li Yan's strength is the strength of the entire military formation. Needless to say, the defense of the city is naturally invincible, and the field battle outside the city is also invincible.

Yuan Shizhong, Yuan Laoshan, and Shi Qian, who were active in Guide Mansion, had more and more subordinates, and they also contacted and held a meeting in a village outside Guide City to discuss how to deal with Li Yan's arrival.

The three of them used to do their own things, and they usually had some small frictions. But now, in order to deal with Li Yan's arrival, they finally sat together and wanted to deal with Li Yan together.

Yuan Laoshan and Shi Qian have all fought with Li Yan, and they know how powerful Li Yan is, while Yuan Shizhong has only seen Li Yan's mysterious weapon. So in this meeting, Yuan Laoshan and Shi Qian were the masterminds, and Yuan Shizhong just listened. After two days of discussion, the strategy was finally decided.

When drinking to celebrate the plan, Yuan Shizhong said: "I have seen Li Yan's unique weapon, which can smoke and smoke, and can break a sheep's head twenty steps away. ”

Shi Qian said suspiciously: "Really? Twenty steps, smashing the head of a sheep? He couldn't imagine what it was, what it would take, how much force it would take to break the sheep's head. If it is said to be a hidden weapon, it cannot have such great power.

Yuan Laoshan thought for a moment and said, "There is smoke and fire. Could it be a firebolt? ”

Yuan Shizhong shook his head and said, "But I didn't see the light of the fire rope." However, it is somewhat similar to the shape of the firecracker. It is true to say that a shotgun can hit a target of twenty paces, but the weapon Li Yan holds is only a ruler long. ”

Shi Qian took a big sip of wine and said impatiently: "That weapon, is it only Li Yan who has it, or does his army also have it." Li Yan is very strange, he will make a lot of his good things and equip his subordinates. First it was a crossbow bolt, and then there was that chain mail. That's a precious thing, even if it's a general, if you get one, it's like a treasure, and you can make it an heirloom. But the last time I saw Li Yan's troops in Suizhou, I saw that all the soldiers in their first row were there. ”

"Oh?" Yuan Laoshan was interested and asked, "Are there really so many?" ”

Shi Qian nodded and said, "I saw it with my own eyes, so is it fake?" ”

Yuan Laoshan immediately said: "Then we have to pay a lot of money this time, even if we can't praise Li Yan, it's good to get a few collars of chain mail." ”

Shi Qian nodded and said, "That's right, as long as they can fight, they can retreat." ”

Yuan Shizhong reminded: "If they have so much chain mail, their combat power must be very strong." ”

"So it's up to Yuan Da to be in charge then." Shi Qian looked at Yuan Laoshan and said.

Yuan Laoshan said with a smile: "Don't worry, this time we are not a hard attack." Since they are so powerful, I don't believe they won't come. ”

"Come, drink" Shi Qian picked up the bowl and said, "When we catch and kill a few of Li Yan's subordinates, we will also be able to have protective armor." ”

Suizhou City, inside the barracks.

Li Mu assisted Li Zhong in completing the deployment of Qixian County, and also came to Suizhou with his guards and a group of baggage. He also brought some cavalry with him this time, but they all came on foot. They came here to receive the horses.

Although the Shan Qian general manager of Suizhou was seriously short-paid, he also kept fifty war horses. Except for the ten horses that Li Yan left for the officers and the heralds, the rest were handed over to the cavalry. With the addition of these forty war horses, his cavalry team has more than ninety war horses. The number of cavalry was one hundred and fifty men, and there were still more men and fewer horses.

"Fourth brother, the cavalry are here." Li Mou said: "I also brought a batch of ammunition and crossbow arrows. Enough food, right? ”

Li Yan nodded and said, "It's enough now." Wait a few more days, transfer the rest of the cavalry, and we'll get down to business. ”

"Aren't you going to push through slowly?" Li Mu said suspiciously: "This Suizhou has just been half controlled." ”

Li Yan said: "Su Jing has been urging, and the officials and gentry in Guide City are also urging. We must fight a few battles first, suppress a few batches of thieves and bandits, so that the other troops of the imperial court have no excuse to come to Germany to help suppress them. Zuo Liangyu has already entered Henan, Yang Wenyue of Baoding has also come, and it is said that Shaanxi will also send troops. ”

Li Mu said: "Let them in, anyway, those officials and soldiers are also going to loot, and there is not much difference between them and thieves." When those officials and gentry suffer losses, they will know that we are good. ”

"Now that the Guide Mansion is in ruins, if it is looted by these officials and soldiers again, there will not be many people left." Li Yan explained: "With our current strength, a small conflict is okay, but if it is a big fight, it will be difficult to say." Our top priority now is to integrate the Guide Mansion as soon as possible, and we must have enough troops to have the strength to compete with the imperial court, and we can also block the attacks of big thieves like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. ”

Li Mu nodded and said, "I listen to the fourth brother." But are we running out of troops? ”

Li Yan said helplessly: "There is no way, there are only so many, at most, plus Huang Desheng's team, that is, less than a thousand people." But if we control the entire Guide Province, there will be no problem with 30,000 troops, and then we will be able to deal with all kinds of problems more easily. ”

Li Mu completely agreed with Li Yan's statement and said, "Then let's fight." I heard that Chen Yongfu was promoted to the chief military officer, and his son Chen De was also promoted to a guerrilla general. That guy would be tricky, and he put the credit for shooting Li Zicheng on his son's head. Let his son, in less than a year, be promoted by two levels. ”

Li Yan thought for a moment and said, "He shouldn't take the initiative to trouble us." This time his loss is not small, and he should take a break for a while. Li Xianfeng and Wang Shaoyu were both arrested, the position of governor was still vacant, and other generals should not take the initiative to come. As long as we don't let the thieves enter our territory, and then clean up the thieves in Guide Mansion in a short time, we will have time to control Guide Mansion. ”

He paused for a moment and continued: "Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong killed two vassal kings in a row, and the thieves everywhere were encouraged and became more and more bold. And the elite soldiers of the imperial court are still in Liaodong, and the soldiers and thieves who stay in the pass are all half a catty and eight taels, and they may not be able to go all out to suppress the thieves. The chaos in the world is about to begin. ”

"It's good to mess up," Li Mu said with some excitement: "It's good to fish in troubled waters when it's messy." ”

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