Seeing that Li Qingyuan had no intention of leaving, Wu Sanniang asked curiously, "What are you waiting for?" ”

"I'm waiting for them to come back and then head east." Li Qingyuan now feels like a super military strategist, and he has a feeling of annihilation between talking and laughing.

After half an hour, sure enough, the Qing army came back, and then when he arrived here, he didn't hesitate to chase east, Li Qingyuan thought about what the big official said just now, his face should be very painful this time!

After the army, Wu Sanniang asked, "Can you go now?" Shall we go south? ”

"Why don't we go east or south?" Li Qingyuan asked confidently.

"Because we're going home, huh? Do you want to flee back to the mountains? Didn't you say that? Wu Sanniang didn't understand why Li Qingyuan asked this.

"So, our enemy thinks the same way, then what awaits us in the south will be to continue to be surrounded and intercepted, and finally surrounded again." Li Qingyuan said as if he had seen through everything.

"So what do you say?" Wu Sanniang was a little incomprehensible.

Li Qingyuan opened the hastily drawn map and said: "So we have to go the other way, let's cross the canal and fight here!" By taking this place, we will not only get the much-needed logistical supplies, but we will also be able to break out of the encirclement! ”

"Linxi?" Wu Sanniang couldn't believe it.

"Yes, this is the old county town of Linqing, although it is not big, but it is enough for thousands of us to repair, and we will jump out of the encirclement of the Qing army when we lay here." Li Qingyuan said confidently.

Wu Sanniang nodded: "Well, I listen to you!" ”

"Good! Then you go first, leaving two teams to follow me. Li Qingyuan looked at the surrounding reeds and said.

Wu Sanniang was stunned and asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

Li Qingyuan said: "I want to put a fire here, if the fire is set well, at least it can buy us three days of repair time." ”

"You're going to burn this reed?" Wu Sanniang was a little stunned.

Li Qingyuan nodded: "Not only the reeds, but also the 10,000 Qing troops in the reeds!" ”

"Then be careful!" Wu Sanniang looked at Li Qingyuan with a complicated expression.

Li Qingyuan nodded and smiled at her: "Don't worry!" You first go to the canal to find a boat and cross the river overnight! Command the men to leave half of the gunpowder. ”

Wu Sanniang left with the large army, and Li Qingyuan commanded the two teams to sprinkle gunpowder in the reeds, and the gunpowder was scattered in a criss-crossing line, and finally converged.

Two hours later, it was already four or five o'clock in the night, and the Qing army returned to this crossroads again.

While sending out a sentry, Shu Hed returned to the crossroads, intending to wait for the news to be transmitted before going to the nearest place, the soldiers were looking for a place to rest in the reeds, and they were tired from running all night.

When the soldiers dispersed, Li Qingyuan picked up the fire fold and sneered, he can be a first-class member with such an IQ, but this is just the case.

After saying that, he threw the fire fold on the gunpowder, so the gunpowder ignited the reeds, and the fire line was in a semicircle all the way to the direction of the Qing army, and the northwest wind at the end of September was strong, and the fire took advantage of the wind to burst up.

When the Qing soldiers reacted, the fire introduced them and surrounded them, the Qing army howled and cried, and Shu Hede was even more scorched by the fire, and escaped with the help of fast horses.

It's just that less than one-fifth of the more than 10,000 Qing troops he brought can run out, in fact, if Shu Hede dared to pursue all the Qing troops in Linqing, then Li Qingyuan would not have fought like this in this battle.

After setting fire, the army pursued, and it would definitely be able to defeat the Qing army in one battle and lay the foundation for victory, but Shu Hede still had 20,000 troops left in order to encircle and suppress the remnants of the bandits in Linqing City!

So now Li Qingyuan can only run, but Shu Hede is also very injured after this incident, and on the one hand, he pleaded guilty, and on the other hand, he actively organized the roundup of the remaining thieves in Linqing City.

When Li Qingyuan came to the river, he saw dozens of large and small boats transporting the rebels back and forth, and when Li Qingyuan came, two-thirds of the way had passed.

After two more trips, the people were finally transported, and in order to prevent these boatmen from informing, Li Qingyuan ordered all the boats to be dragged ashore and all the boatmen to be taken away! Look at the time, there is still more than an hour before dawn.

Li Qingyuan pulled Wu Sanniang and said: "We must open the city gate as soon as Linxi opens the city, I will leave first with two thousand people, and you take the rest of the people to follow quickly." ”

Wu Sanniang nodded, Li Qingyuan selected two thousand sturdy guys, and ran towards Linxi City with a wave of his hand, Linxi is only more than twenty miles away from the canal, once this was Linqing City, but later because of the canal, Linqing moved to the east of the canal, and it became a larger town.

Although it is not a county seat, the scale of the town is still there, and it is the gateway to Hebei, so there is a thousand total points here, and the city gate is opened at sunrise every day, and the rules of closing the city gate at sunset are still retained.

Li Qingyuan stopped at dawn in a small forest outside the city, and first sent ten people to blend in with the crowd that was about to enter the city, while Li Qingyuan himself tidied up his official uniform, rode a horse and walked towards the city gate with more than two hundred Qing soldiers swaggering when he saw the sunrise.

When they arrived in Linxi, the city gate had just opened, and the soldiers saw a group of Qing soldiers coming, and hurriedly greeted them: "Master, where are you from?" ”

Li Qingyuan came up with a whip: "What you don't have the eye to see, the matter of the master is also what you can ask, where are your thousands of households?" Hurry up and get over! ”

The more Li Qingyuan swaggered like this, the more he walked forward without fear, the more these people did not dare to move, not because they were cheap, but because the children of the Eight Banners were like this, and they had never treated the Han people as human beings.

In this way, Li Qingyuan swaggered through the city gate, Li Qingyuan looked at the defenders of the city gate and scolded: "Why are you just a few!" What about the others? Will any of you be able to hold the gates? There are bandits in the east! ”

"If you go back to your master, we have 300 people at this post, and we are divided into four gates, so we have 50 people on our side." A man who looked like an officer came out to answer.

"What are you?" Li Qingyuan skimmed him disdainfully.

"If you go back to the adult, the small one is the city gate guard." The officer said.

Li Qingyuan looked at it, remembered a sentence from a novel, and sneered directly: "It's finally a bird!" Call all your people, and I'll see if you have a false report! The bully doesn't know how to count, four doors and one door are fifty, four doors are only two hundred, and the other hundred people were eaten by you? ”

"Master, you are a nobleman, in addition to guarding the city gate, we also have to set up checkpoints outside the city, so the remaining 100 people are at the checkpoints in the north, south and west." The general hurriedly explained, and while explaining, he lined up his subordinates for the adults to review.

Li Qingyuan nodded and asked, "It's all here?" ”

"Yes, master, it's all here!" The general said with a waist.

"Good brothers! Test their mettle and see if they'll be scared to pee their pants when they see real guns. After speaking, Li Qingyuan first pulled out the knife and put it on the neck of the general.