Early the next morning, Yang Wu received the news that Qin Pei had sent someone to bring that Qian Biao had joined the reinforcements from Hangzhou. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yang Wu couldn't help frowning, if the news was true, if Qian Biao was not caught, it would take too much energy to completely eliminate his forces.

"How are the enemy reinforcements from Hangzhou doing now?"

"Qi Qi Shizi, the enemy reinforcements are relying on the naval army at the mouth of the river to confront our army."

"Confrontation? That is, they did not withdraw to go? Yang Wu looked happy and hurriedly asked.

"This ......," said the messenger, "it was true when the little one came, but it is not known whether the enemy has retreated now."

Yang Wu smiled and said to Wang Maozhang and the others: "That's it, the enemy must have deliberately released false news to make us mistakenly think that Qian Biao had escaped safely." They have a master in the army! But his plan, while good, overlooked!

Wang Maozhang was a little disappointed when he heard the news that Qian Biao had escaped just now, but after listening to Yang Wu's words, he hurriedly asked, "What did you ignore?"

"If Qian Biao has already joined the enemy, then why don't they retreat to Hangzhou immediately, and what are they doing here? Are you waiting for us to come forward and destroy them? Yang Wu said with a smile.

"So, Qian Biao must not have joined them yet, he must be hiding somewhere near this Deqing."

"Chen Fan, Fan Sicong, you two each bring five thousand people to reinforce General Qin Pei, just confront the enemy army and prevent them from breaking through!"

"The rest of the parts are scattered to search, and you must find Qian Biao!"

"The last general obeys!"

After listening to Yang Wu's judgment, the generals were in high spirits and went to various places to search.

For them, catching Qian Biao means being promoted and making a fortune; As for Yang Wu, if he can capture Qian Biao alive, it will be much easier to pacify Liangzhejiang in the future, so he can't afford not to pay attention to it.

When the Huainan army went out one after another to arrest Qian Biao, they didn't expect that Qian Biao actually took out the means of evading the arrest of the government when he was a salt dealer, gritted his teeth all the way and persevered, and now he has escaped from Deqing County and entered Anji County to the west.

Anji County is not far from Deqing, and it is also the county seat below Huzhou, but unlike Deqing, it is still under the control of Liangzhejiang.

When he arrived here, Qian Biao was finally a little safer, but he still didn't dare to reveal his identity, let alone enter the county seat easily.

You must know that people's hearts are unpredictable now, if someone recognizes him and then sells him to the Huainan Army as a way to wealth, wouldn't it be a tragedy.

Fortunately, now the news that the Huainan army and the two Zhejiang armies are fighting in the neighboring counties has not yet come, so Qian Biao and three guards bought a few clothes from a village to change into, and dressed up as ordinary people, so they dared to enter the city.

However, he was safe for the time being, and Qian Biao began to think about the safety of Hangzhou's reinforcements again.

He was sure that Hangzhou would definitely send reinforcements, but he didn't know how many people they would send and what the current situation would be.

The best thing to do is to hurry back to Hangzhou, or at least spread the news that you are safe.

It's a pity that he doesn't even dare to reveal his identity until he returns to the side of someone who can fully believe in it, so how can he deliver the news?

"Continue south, to the Yijin Army!" After a short rest, Qian Biao took his three guards and set out on the road of escape again.

Deqing.

After continuing to search for two days but finding nothing, Yang Wu couldn't help but doubt his judgment, could it be that Qian Biao had really returned safely, but for other purposes, the reinforcements from Hangzhou had not withdrawn?

"Your Highness, according to the latest news, the enemy forces in the four prefectures of Muzhou, Wuzhou, Mingzhou, and Taizhou have begun to march towards Hangzhou, and only the troops of Yuezhou have not been mobilized. It seems that they are ready to abandon these four states and stick to Hangzhou and Yuezhou. At this time, Wang Maozhang proposed another possibility: "Your Highness, could it be that Qian Biao has already joined the enemy army, but in order to buy time for the Sizhou army to rush to Hangzhou, he stayed here to confront our army?"

"Huh?" Yang Wu, what Wang Maozhang said is really possible, and in the case that Qian Biao was not caught in the first three days, the possibility of catching him again is indeed getting smaller and smaller.

"Your Highness, it's better to immediately raise troops and rush to the mouth of the river, join General Qin Pei, and destroy this enemy reinforcement force of 8,000 people first!" Wang Maozhang persuaded.

Yang Wu frowned and groaned, and couldn't help but sigh and said: "That's the only way, pass the order, gather the troops, and prepare to march east to engage the enemy army!"

At the same time, in Qian Chuanying's camp, Luo Yin was also persuading him to withdraw and return to Hangzhou.

"Third son, Yang Wu is cunning, and now our army continues to stay here, which makes him suspicious, so in the past three days, instead of coming to fight our army, he has stepped up his search near Deqing."

"Fortunately, since they are still searching now, it means that they have not found the king yet, and perhaps the king has broken through safely. If our army retreats at this time, the enemy will definitely think that the king has really returned safely. In this way, no matter where the king is now, he will be safer! Luo Yin stroked his gray beard and said with a smile.

After spending these two difficult days, Qian Chuanying's eyes were already bloodshot and exhausted at this time, and she was completely forced to persevere.

"If we withdraw at this time, what if my father hasn't reached safety yet?" Qian Chuanying hesitated.

"Third son, you are underestimating your father. When your father was selling illicit salt, he was hunted down by the government, and the situation is not much better than today. But how in the end? It's not that your father escaped, but that he finally built the foundation he has today. So, O thy father, treacherous slippery! Don't worry, don't worry! Luo Yin laughed, his laughter was very treacherous.

Qian Chuanying was helpless, and only Luo Yin, an old man, dared to say that about his father.

However, when Luo Yin said this, he couldn't help but have a kind of expectation in his heart.

"Now that the troops in Mingzhou and other places are about to arrive in Hangzhou, let's withdraw before the main force of Huainan is pressed!"

"Mr. Luo, you said, how about we take advantage of the arrival of the troops from various states now and concentrate our forces here to fight a decisive battle with the Huainan army?" At this time, Qian Chuanying suddenly said.

Luo Yin was taken aback, and hurriedly persuaded: "No, not to mention that even if our army concentrates its troops, it will not be able to compare with Huainan in terms of troops; Even when the strength of the troops is equal, which general in our two Zhejiang armies can fight with Yang Wu now? ”

Qian Chuanying was silent, although he made great contributions in the Wuyongdu Rebellion last year, and he considered himself to be a person who knew the soldiers, but if he was compared with Yang Wu, a young man who was nearly ten years younger than him, his so-called "knowing soldiers" was not very reliable, at least he did not have much confidence to fight with Yang Wu.

As for the other generals, Gu Quanwu, Cheng Ji, Du Jianwei, Fang Yongzhen and others may still be able to fight Yang Wu, but now they are either captured, killed in battle, or their whereabouts are unknown.

After thinking about it, Qian Chuanying never thought of a general who could match Yang Wu in the field battle, and the idea of a decisive battle with the Huainan army could only be abandoned.

"Command all departments, get ready, and start withdrawing in half an hour!" Qian Chuanying finally decided.

The time of the retreat of the two Zhejiang armies was chosen very timely, just before the arrival of the main force led by Yang Wu. Qin Pei led his troops to pursue, but the two Zhejiang armies were popular along the river, covered by naval warships, and the pursuit did not achieve much effect.

By the time Yang Wu led his troops to arrive, the two Zhejiang armies were already far away, and it would be a little difficult to catch up with them.

At the same time, because of the sudden retreat of the two Zhejiang armies, Yang Wu felt that Wang Maozhang's judgment might be right, and the enemy army was indeed buying time for reinforcements from all over the country to rush to Hangzhou, which made him a little annoyed.

However, the matter has come to this point, Yang Wu had to order to stay in Deqing to rest first, as soon as the army has been marching for days, the soldiers also need to rest; Second, it also takes a certain amount of time to transfer grain and grass from the rear.

He planned to use Deqing as a logistics base, first hoarding enough grain and grass here, and then considering further attacking Liangzhejiang, after all, Qian Biao was not so easy to destroy.

"General Zhang, you lead your subordinates to capture Anji County, and leave some troops to garrison!" Yang Wu ordered Zhang Kezong.

Since Deqing is ready to be used as a logistics base, Anji, a county close to Deqing, will naturally have to be defeated. It's a pity that before Zhang Kezong led his troops to attack Anji, Qian Biao had already fled with his three guards.

Yijinjun is the Lin'an City of later generations, and it is Qian Biao's hometown. More than a year ago, it was because of the repair of the moat for the Yijin Army that caused great dissatisfaction in Wuyongdu, which directly led to the occurrence of the Wuyongdu Rebellion.

However, although the rebellion in Wuyongdu was caused by this, Qian Biao's favor to the people in his hometown has not diminished in the slightest, and because of this, the people here are his absolute supporters.

Only by escaping here did Qian Biao feel completely safe.

At this time, in the barracks, Bao Junfu looked at the old man in front of him who claimed to be the king of Yue, and was a little incredulous.

Only a month ago, he had met Qian Biao, who was full of energy, with a round face and great dignity; At this time, the person in front of him seemed sluggish, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like the powerful King of Yue.

However, Bao Junfu also knew that no one dared to pretend to be the king of Yue in the Yijin Army, and he also heard the news that Qian Biao was besieged by the Huainan army in Deqing and finally broke through, so he couldn't help believing it.

After Qian Biao cleaned up and put on new clothes, the majesty and bearing on his body made it even more apparent that the person in front of him could not be anyone else except Qian Biao.

"Lonely, I'm back!"

Qian Biao announced his return in a deep voice, and at the same time ordered Bao Junfu to spread the news that he had returned to the Yijin Army, so as to stabilize the hearts of the people in all parts of the two Zhejiang.