After waiting for four days, Li Yan knew that Li Zicheng and others were going south with their troops, and they got a notice taken down from Zhuxian Town. し【Update fast&nbp;&nbp;please search】Seeing this notice aimed at declaring that he and the thieves had reached a tacit understanding, he knew that Li Zicheng would not come to him for trouble for the time being, otherwise he would not have to withdraw his troops to the south while posting a counter-notice.

Of course, Li Zicheng took the initiative to withdraw his troops, so naturally he would not go south quickly, but slowly marched south, and looted the prefectures and counties along the way again. As for those county towns that have been recovered by the official army, they will fight down again, eliminate the officials and troops there, strike at the gentry and wealthy families there again, and raise grain and grass materials.

Especially Yang Wenyue, who is now running to Runing Mansion with his troops, and Zuo Liangyu, who is stationed in Nanyang and Xinyang, are their key targets this time.

Zuo Liangyu returned to Nanyang after breaking through from Zhuxian Town, although he was afraid of the pursuit of Li Zicheng's righteous army, but after all, these places could solve his food and salary problems, so he did not rush to withdraw his troops back to Xiangyang. On the one hand, he asked the troops from all over the country to send scouts to pay attention to the movements of the rebels, and on the other hand, he tried to collect money and food, and was ready to retreat at any time. After all, he has an army of 300,000 under his command, and no one will listen to him without money and food.

And Yang Wenyue first ran to Suizhou, and Li Zhong was ordered by Li Yan to send them to Kaifeng, but Yang Wenyue's subordinates refused to go at all. They had just escaped from the tiger's mouth, and naturally they did not want to enter the fire pit again. In view of Li Zhong's tough attitude in asking them to leave, and he had already surrounded them, they discussed it and went to Runing Mansion in the south. It was King Chong's fiefdom, so naturally he could get some food and money, and he avoided the thieves for the time being.

Li Yan immediately asked Huang Desheng to assemble his troops, suddenly rushed into the city, and rushed onto the city wall before Chen Yongfu's subordinates could react.

His troops had been prepared for a long time, and as soon as they reached the city walls, they began to drive away the defenders there. Those officers and soldiers were ignorant and didn't know what was going on, but naturally they didn't want to be coerced.

"What are you doing?!" A hundred general scolded.

Li Yan's subordinates didn't care what their official positions were, so they directly rushed forward and beat the officers and the surrounding soldiers with spears as sticks, knocking down the officers and the surrounding soldiers, and then took a bundle of ropes and rushed to the front again.

At this time, there were no warning signals, and there were not many troops on the city wall, only more than two hundred. Therefore, Huang Desheng's 3,000 people went up, and naturally quickly controlled the entire section of the city wall. And they were well prepared, even if they encountered a counterattack from Chen Yongfu's men, they could resolve it well, so there were only a few injured in the whole process. As for Chen Yongfu's subordinates, most of them were wounded, but they were all skin injuries.

The troops from Xicheng and Dongcheng wanted to come over for reinforcements, but Li Yan had already prepared here, and when the defenders on both sides came, they had already set up bunkers on both sides. Moreover, a crossbow arrow was fired, which also made Chen Yongfu's subordinates dare not rush hard. Although the arrows were removed, the force was still not small, and a few of them were shot in the head and face, and blood was already visible.

"If you dare to move forward, you will be a real guy!" Li Yan's subordinates warned loudly.

And Chen Yongfu's subordinates didn't know what was going on, and the friendly army that was dealing with the thieves together a few days ago suddenly grabbed the city defense today? They were at a loss for what to do, and they didn't want to risk the impact of death, so they had to retreat a little, keep a safe distance, and go to inform them Chen Dashuai.

After waiting for two quarters of an hour, Chen Yongfu finally came over with a large number of troops. However, at this time, Li Yan had already controlled this southern city, including the city gate, and placed four cannons behind the bunker at the city gate, so that Chen Yongfu did not dare to come hard.

Chen Yongfu did not go to see Li Yan immediately, but waited with a black face. Another quarter of an hour later, Gao Mingheng and other civil officials came, and the Chengzheng of the Zhou Wangfu also came. After everyone arrived, they went to Dongcheng together to meet Li Yan.

"Li Yan!" After Chen Yongfu and the others saw Li Yan in the southeast corner, the newly arrived inspector Yan Yunjing asked sharply: "Do you want to rebel?!" ”

This inspector stayed on the north bank of the Yellow River for more than a month, and waited for the definite news that the thieves were no longer nearby, and only yesterday did he finally dare to cross the Yellow River and come to Kaifeng to take up his post.

For this newcomer to the Imperial History, Li Yan directly ignored it. He hugged his fists at Chen Yongfu and said: "General Chen, when I was fighting with the thieves before, my subordinates were shelled by your people, causing more than 30 casualties, you have to explain to me and my subordinates!" ”

Chen Yongfu said lightly: "It's just a mistake, Vice General Li doesn't need to be so excited, right?" I advised General Li that it was better to withdraw his troops from the city now, otherwise the consequences would be serious. ”

"Accidental injury?" Li Yan sneered: "Your soldiers are all experienced in a hundred battles, and the thieves were still more than three hundred steps away from the moat at that time, I'm afraid this reason is unreasonable, right?" ”

Chen Yongfu said casually: "On the battle array, anything can happen. ”

"The situation at that time was that none of the thieves were injured, but the army I marched under the walls suffered casualties." Li Yan said coldly: "If Mr. Chen doesn't give me an explanation, Li will not be polite." I will find all the people who were on this wall four days ago, and I hope that General Chen will not obstruct them. ”

"Li Yan!" Chen Yongfu said angrily: "Don't mess around! Attack the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, and regard them as complicity! ”

Li Yan sneered and said, "By the way, this is it." Li is just finding out the rebel thieves, and he has nothing to do with others! Give you half an hour, you can't hand over the people, then Li will have to find it himself! Ladies and gentlemen, don't blame Li for being ruthless! ”

After Li Yan finished speaking, he took his soldiers down the city and went back to the barracks outside the city. This attitude is already obvious, if you don't hand over the people, then you will have to fight.

"It's arrogant!"

"Undisciplined, audacious!"

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All the officials were indignant and scolded Li Yan loudly. However, the generals around Chen Yongfu were very quiet, they made eye contact with each other, but they did not make a sound.

Chen Yongfu didn't hear his subordinates' call for battle, not even a word of complaint, he knew that something was wrong. He looked back at his men, and none of his men, except for his son, close or distant, bowed their heads, and none of them said anything.

"What are you doing in a daze?! Go back and prepare! Get out our cannons and gunpowder and drive them off the walls first! Chen Yongfu ordered dissatisfiedly.

General Zhang clenched his fists and said in a low voice: "Dashuai, they have occupied the city wall, and we can't beat them." For the sake of a few people, it is not worth it to let the sons and daughters accompany the funeral. ”

"Dashuai, Li Yan has been ready for a long time, you see, they are even ready for artillery and tiger squat artillery, whether it is offensive or defensive, we will suffer. Think again. Wang Guerrilla also held his fists and persuaded him.

Chen Yongfu glanced at Chen De, who was also unsightly, with a pale face, and scolded in a low voice, "Stupid!" After that, in the stunned eyes of the officials, he pushed away his subordinates and went down to the city angrily.

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