Li Qingyuan patted him on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry, as long as this battle is won, don't say 3,000 strokes, 5,000 strokes, if we lose, we estimate that it will be difficult to save our lives, and we don't need to talk about any weapons." ”

Fan Wei asked in surprise: "No, aren't you going to save people?" Why is this like a decisive battle with the Qing army? ”

Li Qingyuan smiled: "Then how do you think it was fought?" ”

Fan Wei was frightened and asked, "No, didn't you fight the Qing army last time you rescued me?" How did you ...... this time?"

Li Qingyuan frowned and looked at him: "Why is there no decisive battle?" How did you get out without destroying the 4,000 Qing army? Last time, the Qing army was surrounded separately, and this time more than 30,000 Qing troops were surrounded at the foot of the mountain, and we either broke the Qing army, or we estimated that we would have to explain there. ”

Fan Wei looked at the army around him and asked, "The Qing army has 30,000, so we really have a few people, can we do it?" Why don't we go find more people and save them first? ”

Li Qingyuan frowned and looked at him: "Fan Wei, if it wasn't for me and Sanniang sacrificing our lives to save you, how could you be today, you can't be ungrateful!" ”

Fan Wei said a little embarrassed: "I didn't say I wouldn't go, it's not ...... Isn't there too much Qing army, can't we be sent to death if we can't fight? ”

Li Qingyuan thought about it and said, "Do you know how many troops we dispatched to fight the Qing army of 4,000 last time? The troops participating in the previous battle were less than 2,000 people, and we won an overwhelming victory against more than twice the Qing army, although it is now 10,000 against 30,000, but I believe that we can still achieve victory this time! ”

Fan Wei muttered: "10,000 against 30,000, how to fight?" ”

Li Qingyuan shook his head helplessly: "Don't worry, I won't let you fight, you can help me contain a part of the Qing army from the flank and don't let them attack my front with all their might." ”

Fan Wei nodded and shook his head and asked, "How much can you contain?" Can't solve any problems? ”

Li Qingyuan rubbed his head and said: "You hold a little more banner and pretend to be three or five thousand people, plus he wants to surround Sanniang, the two of you can contain five or six thousand troops if you say the least, so the pressure on my side will be much less." ”

Fan Wei nodded: "Okay!" Then it's decided, then you have to be careful, if you win this time, will the Qing court have no army? ”

Li Qingyuan looked at him in surprise and asked, "Who are you listening to?" ”

Fan Wei said: "I haven't heard anyone say it, I just think that there are a lot of tens of thousands of troops......

Li Qingyuan looked at him like a fool and said: "The Qing army has at least 600,000 green battalion soldiers, how can it be more than 200,000 in the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, and there are also about hundreds of thousands of Tusi private soldiers and township soldiers from all over the country, how many do you count!" ”

Fan Wei was stunned and asked, "Why are there so many?" ”

Li Qingyuan asked, "How much is this?" There are 40,000 Li people in the Qing Dynasty, and one of them can have four million soldiers if they are soldiers, and the most terrifying thing is not that there are more than one million soldiers, but that if you kill one million, he can recruit another million in the blink of an eye, and if you kill two million, he can recruit two million, and you can't kill them endlessly, what do you say? ”

Fan Wei thought about it for a moment and said, "Run? ”

Li Qingyuan didn't want to talk to this waste now, and strode forward, Fan Wei hurriedly chased after him and said, "I'm joking, what do you say to do?" Tell me about ......"

Li Qingyuan took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart and said: "Of course, it is a quick battle, not giving the other party time to breathe, or cutting off the other party's financial and human resources, and exhausting his strength......"

Fan Wei was stunned and asked, "Human and financial resources?" ”

Li Qingyuan patiently explained: "Eighty percent of the Qing Dynasty's finance and taxes come from Jiangnan, so as long as the Qing court occupies Jiangnan, there will be no money available, and the people in the world have the most in the Central Plains, as long as these provinces with large manpower are occupied, the Qing army will have no one to use......"

Li Qingyuan looked at Fan Wei with a confused face, and shook his head, this guy is really a piece of rotten wood, it seems that it is really not a simple matter to cultivate a group of anti-thieves, and it is not even easy to do it yourself.

At the beginning, Wu Duyan was like this, and now Fan Wei is like this again, which makes Li Qingyuan lose most of his confidence in cultivating anti-thieves.

Li Qing was seven days away from the place where Wu Sanniang was surrounded, and the troops were training in the queue while marching, and Li Qingyuan hoped that when they arrived at the place, these soldiers could at least form a decent formation.

Fortunately, these soldiers are all voluntary, and they are all children of farmers, and they can endure hardships, even if they participate in the training a little later than Fanwei's soldiers, but the queue is much stronger than them.

The troops walked for six days and were resting in a mountain depression, Li Qingyuan received the news that there was still fighting on the mountain, Li Qingyuan breathed a sigh of relief, he was still fighting, that is, he was still alive, but it had been more than ten days since Li Qingyuan received the news, plus the time it took for the news to come out, Sanniang had been surrounded on the mountain for at least half a month, Li Qingyuan planned to advance directly to the outside of the Qing army camp, and first forced the Qing army down to consider the next step of the strategy.

The troops walked another fifty miles, and at a distance of twenty miles from the Qing army's camp, the front encountered the Qing army scouts, and the front also sent scouts to start a scout battle with the other side.

It didn't take long for the Qing scouts to suffer heavy casualties, and the Qing army camp also received news that there were a large number of bandit reinforcements.

The Qing army immediately left a small number of troops to watch the mountain, and the other troops went down the mountain, intending to defend against the attack of Li Qingyuan's troops.

And Li Qingyuan saw that the Qing army had withdrawn, but he was not in a hurry, and first set up a camp steadily, looking like he was going to confront the Qing army for a long time.

The Qing army didn't know how many enemies there were at first, and it was really nervous for a while, but when it heard that the other party only had 10,000 people, it was very disdainful, but the sky was already dark, and the Qing army planned to wait until tomorrow to send troops to deal with this wave of bandits.

Both sides sent out a large number of scouts that night to prevent themselves from being stolen, but neither side did so after defending the camp all night.

Li Qingyuan's side is because everyone has been marching for eight or nine days in a row, and they really don't have the energy to engage in any sneak attacks.

The Qing army was also very tired from attacking the mountain for half a month, and had no physical strength to do this at all, and the two sides did not do this on guard against each other.

Early the next morning, Li Qingyuan's troops finished their meals early and waited patiently in the camp for the Qing army to send them to the door.

The reason why Li Qingyuan did not take the initiative to attack was because Li Qingyuan felt that the other party might not attack him with all his forces, so that Li Qingyuan could eliminate part of the Qing army in advance and share the pressure of the decisive battle.

At eight or nine o'clock in the morning, the Qing army only had troops leave the camp, and only 10,000 came this time, which was exactly in line with Li Qingyuan's expectations.