The team of tens of thousands of people, mixed with people and vehicles, meandered on the official road over the mountains and mountains, like a bloated python, standing at the head of the team, and could not see the end of the team at a glance. In the first two days, when walking to the dense mountains and forests, from time to time someone took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Qing soldiers, rushed out of the queue, plunged into the grass and woods on the side of the road, and fled regardless of the intention of not going to Xuzhou. For these people, Wang Huan understands very well, most of them are the families of local soldiers near Yangzhou, their homeland is difficult to give up, and they would rather take the risk of escaping than leave their homeland, people in this era have a concept of hometown, even if their home is poor and broken, they will not abandon it and become a refugee who has left their homeland. Unless it is like SXHN in the Chongzhen period, when there is a major drought and can no longer live, it will wander to other places.

Whenever such a situation is encountered, as long as the Qing cavalry cruising on both sides of the team finds it, they immediately shout loudly, pat the horse to catch up, no matter how the human legs run, can not run the four-legged horse, the Qing soldiers will soon chase, as long as they enter the range of the bow and arrow, immediately shoot an arrow, almost no arrows, and then slowly pass, cut the head back, hang on the high pole to show the public, such a high pole after the head is hung more than a dozen, the situation of escape is slowly reduced.

As long as there was an escape of the battalion, the food supply for the day was immediately halved, and in the second case of escape, the whole team sat together, and the captain and captain were whipped twenty, and the other nine households were whipped thirty. This kind of horse whip is not an ordinary horse whip, it is a long horse whip with thorns, used to tame a fierce horse, whipped on a person, a whip is a piece of meat, twenty whips down, basically half a life is left, thirty whips will kill people, the execution is the Eight Banner soldiers, the hands are vicious, and dozens of people are killed on the first day.

Under such brutal suppression of blood and death, the entire baggage family battalion was shrouded in an atmosphere of terror, and no one dared to disobey the orders of the Qing army.

When the team crossed the border, the state officials and county officials directly arranged for the people to pack it in sacks, put it in a carriage, and respectfully hand it over to Tuhai.

On the evening of the third day, the team arrived in Anyi County and collected grain, but the Qing army was very disciplined, did not enter the city to harass, and at most stationed at the edge of the city, which relieved the people in the city. However, Tuhai does not enter the city, and those state officials and county orders appointed by the Qing court can't ignore the rules, and they are all in a hurry to send wine, meat, vegetables, and vegetables to the military camp*** Tuhai and others eat and drink lewdly.

Tu Hai drank wine and ate meat in the camp tent, and at the same time hugged the dancing girl and sighed to Sule and others: "This Jiangnan is fucking good, look at this woman, she is so fucking tender that she is dripping water!" ”

He pinched the buttocks of the woman in his arms, and the woman exclaimed, causing everyone to laugh lewdly.

Tu Hai's mouth was full of oil and water, and he took advantage of the situation to rub it on the woman's chest for a while, and then said with a smile: "This road is hard for everyone, you can't even enter the city, but you can't indulge in the flower world of Nanban." ”

The generals hurriedly complimented, it doesn't matter, as long as you follow the leader, there will be more time to eat and drink spicy food in the future, and it doesn't matter if you lose anything.

Tu Hai was happy to hear this, and said loudly: "As long as the things are transported to the place this time, Prince Yu said, give us three days off, let me wait and act at will, everyone, this is a three-day fortune for us to send his mother, when the time comes, I will take everyone to a good place, rob his mother for three days, everyone has to bring gold, silver and jewelry back, and have to lead a string of slaves!" ”

The Manchu sergeants in the tent suddenly lit up with their eyes and chanted in unison for LinkedIn Ming! Tuhai laughed, beckoned everyone to drink in a big bowl of wine, people were bold and courageous, and soon, the soldiers in the tent were hideous, shouting and screaming, drunkenly rushed forward, and snatched the women who were dancing in the middle into their arms.

Sitting at the bottom of the county, Anyi County Ling County Cheng and others, blushing and not daring to make a sound, not because they were embarrassed to watch this Spring Palace play, they may be more exciting than this performance in their own homes, but because this county order and county Cheng are all the former Ming Dynasty's Anyi County Dian Shi II Lieutenant Officer, after the Qing soldiers went south, the original Ming Dynasty county order had already run away, they opened the city to meet the Qing army, and the Qing court immediately appointed these people to be promoted to the county order and county Cheng, and they became the officials of the Qing Dynasty, which was very common when the state and county bureaucrats appointed after the Qing army entered the customs. Although he is a Qing official, he is still a Han person, and when he listens to Tuhai Minghuo's wild words, he feels a fever on his face, and no matter how thick his face is, he is also a little embarrassed, so he has to lower his head and say nothing, and the old monk sits in a daze.

The tent of the Chinese army was in full swing, but it was dark and dead silence in the baggage camp outside, and the people who had walked for a day had already fallen asleep, and they would have to get up early tomorrow, and if they didn't rest, maybe they would have to eat whips tomorrow if they walked slowly.

It was silent, except for the sound of insects chirping and the almost inaudible noise coming from the big tent in the distance.

Wang Huan and Li Tingyu hid in a quiet tent, looking at a map spread out on the ground with a flickering candle.

The map is densely covered with mountains and rivers, and an ink-colored line starts from the black dot in Yangzhou and curves upwards until it reaches a smaller dot, next to which "Anyi" is neatly written in small block script that is almost invisible.

Wang Huan raised the brush in his hand, looked at the line he had drawn, and said in a deep voice: "The time is about the same as we estimated, and we will be able to reach Huai'an tomorrow night." ”

Li Tingyu frowned and said: "We can't enter the city, otherwise our plan will not be implemented, we have to find a way to slow down the trip, disrupt the Qing army's marching plan, and let the team camp in the field tomorrow, so that we can take advantage of the opportunity." ”

Wang Huan raised his head and said, "Yes, General Li has any good ideas?" ”

Li Tingyu was stunned, looked at Wang Huan in amazement, and was bored for a long time before saying, "Isn't this your responsibility?" ”

Wang Huan couldn't cry or laugh, this bearded man left everything he could do to himself, and this hand-shaking shopkeeper was really beautiful.

Smiled helplessly, Wang Huan lifted his sleeves, took out a package of oil-paper wrapped medicinal powder, and shook it at Li Tingyu.

Li Tingyu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "This is a croton laxative and a drug collected from Yangzhou City?" ”

Wang Huan said: "Yes, I left a bag of drugs on my body, and the rest are with you." ”

Li Tingyu said: "Yes, don't worry, it's well hidden, and the Tartars can't find it." ”

He slapped his head suddenly, lowered his voice and shouted, "You mean, you will give them medicine tomorrow morning, so that they will take laxatives and not be able to walk, delay time, and at night they will not be in the village or behind the store, so they can only camp in the wilderness!" ”

Wang Huan looked at the bearded man and sighed: "If you give it to them tomorrow morning, they are wary, how can they be drugged at night?" ”

Li Tingyu was stunned again, and he didn't know what to say with his mouth open.

Wang Huan put the medicine bag back in his sleeve pocket and said in a low voice: "It's not for people to eat, tomorrow at noon, find an opportunity to mix croton into cattle and horse feed and give it to the animals pulling the cart." ”

Li Tingyu patted his head again and suddenly realized.

"Don't feed all the animals, it's too obvious, it's easy to arouse suspicion, just feed a little bit to the cows pulling the silver cart, the Qing soldiers focus on the silver cart, as long as the silver cart goes slowly, the whole team has to slow down." Wang Huan continued.

Li Tingyu nodded again and again: "This is no problem, the grooms are all our people, and it is easy to do something." ”

He looked at Wang Huan and said with a smile: "In terms of conspiracy and trickery, I am really inferior to you, your skills are used here, but they are very useful." ”

Wang Huan twisted his body unnaturally, this should be a word of praise, how could he hear it so awkwardly. Diverting the topic, he said, "Is there any news from the people who sent out?" ”

Li Tingyu hurriedly stopped laughing, and said: "There is news coming back this afternoon, people have entered Hongze Lake, and they are trying to get in touch with the water on the lake, there should be no big problem." I've dealt with them before, and as long as we have real money, these bandits will help us find ships. ”

Wang Huan reminded: "I'm afraid that they will eat black, and they will want our lives after receiving our money, so we have to be careful." ”

Li Tingyu smiled again, and said confidently: "Don't worry, when it comes to fighting and fighting, these brothers under my command have never been afraid of anyone,"

Wang Huan nodded, agreeing with Li Tingyu's bold words, in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, in addition to Sun Chuanting's Qin army, Yuan Chonghuan's Guanning iron cavalry, Jianzhou soldiers and horses and Saiwai Mongolian cavalry, and the troops in Guannei, there are only a handful of strong armies that can be compared with SC white pole soldiers, and in terms of infantry troops, they are unsurpassed, so Li Tingyu's words are well-founded.

Li Tingyu waved his hand down, made a gesture of cutting off his head, and said hatefully: "Tomorrow night, we will send the meat, wine and food brought from Yangzhou City, pretending to be looted from nearby villages." The Qing soldiers are arrogant, these days every day big fish and meat, let them eat white rice is not used to it, see the wine and meat we offered, there will definitely be no doubts, when they eat the meat adulterated with medicine, sleep on the ground and do not distinguish things, that is when we do it! ”

Wang Huan continued: "Then put on the color of the Qing military uniform, buckle the helmet, take the weapon, and march to the shore of Hongze Lake overnight. ”

Speaking of this, the two looked at each other, suppressed the excitement in their hearts, and laughed in a low voice.

The silence outside the tent was still there, and the noise in the distance was still faintly heard, but when it reached the ears of the two, it was as pleasant as the enemy's dying revelry.

The next morning, before dawn, the people of the baggage camp got up, the joy in the military tent last night had nothing to do with them, the civilians were only worried about three meals a day and the continuation of life, as long as they could walk to the destination safely and find a place to stay, then thank God.

Wang Huan and the others also got up early, busily tied up the tents, packed up the sundries, ate the gruel sent by Li Tingyu, and waited for the order of the Qing soldiers to set off.

After the meal was finished, the things were packed up, but the Qing soldiers did not come, and the little monks sat on the ground bored, watching the morning star on the horizon slowly dim, and the rising sun slowly radiating golden light under the horizon, wondering.

Wang Huan's heart throbbed inexplicably, when the matter came, nothing could go wrong, all the arrangements had been put in place step by step, and the previous efforts were abandoned if there was a little accident.

Chen Ergou was very strange, and said to Wang Huan and the others: "It's strange, the Qing soldiers have come to urge them every day before dawn for the past three days, why is it almost dawn today, and they haven't come yet?" ”

Before he finished speaking, he heard a commotion in the distance, and a captain walked through the tents scattered throughout the camp with his voice in his voice, shouting as he went: "Lord Zuo Ling has an order, the team will be delayed for two hours!" All battalions rest in place, and are not allowed to move around without authorization, and those who violate military law will be engaged in it! ”