When Li Tingyu returned to the small temple in the city, Li Yan had already informed Wang Huan of the implementation of the plan, and the two were sitting on the stone steps outside the firewood room, whispering something softly.

Li Tingyu strode into the backyard, swept his eyes, and saw that only Wang Huan was a monk, and couldn't help but wonder: "Why are you the only one, and the other little monks?" ”

Li Yan stood up and saluted, and said in a low voice: "My lord, that Tian Xiong came over early in the morning and drove the little monks to the street to carry the corpses. ”

Li Tingyu was furious when he heard this, and said, "Let the little monks move the corpses?" Am I not asking you to come over, or to let you protect these monks? That Tian Xiong didn't deal with us, and when he learned that we were going to take the little monk away, he would inevitably change his way to embarrass them, what did you eat? ”

Li Yan bowed his head and didn't dare to say anything, but Wang Huan explained on the side: "General Li, it's no wonder that Brother Li Yan, there were many people in Tianxiong at that time, and no one had anything to do, and it was thanks to Brother Li Yan's tough attitude that he had to fight hard to draw his knife, so he left me behind." ”

Wang Huan's explanation made Li Tingyu feel a little relieved, but he was still indignant, sat down on the stone steps, and said to Wang Huan in a rough voice: "According to what you said, I have done it today, and Liu Liangzuo has promised me to take the troops of my headquarters to set off the day after tomorrow to escort the families of the army to Xuzhou." ”

Wang Huan's spirit was lifted when he heard this, and he praised repeatedly: "General Li is really wise and brave, such a difficult thing was done in an instant, I admire and admire it!" ”

Li Tingyu said angrily: "What do you admire? It was you who made the plan, and it was you who guessed that the Qing army was going to pledge your family members to Xuzhou, don't come to this set, your method made me almost show my feet, I, Li Laosan, am a military man with a big knife, but you asked me to pretend to be a pear orchard play, and I was in a cold sweat to perform this scene. ”

Wang Huan smiled: "Yes, yes, it's hard for General Li, I will award you an Oscar in the future." ”

Li Tingyu was stunned: "What to award?" ”

Wang Huan knew that he was speechless, and hurriedly changed the topic and said: "Since the first step has been successful, it is worth celebrating, but this is still the beginning of the plan, and the next steps are still very dangerous, and we have to think about it in the long run." ”

Li Tingyu was attracted to attention, immediately forgot about Oscar, stood up and said, "Yes, let's start immediately, did I ask you to find the map you went to find?" ”

The latter sentence was said to Li Yan.

Li Yan stood aside and was in a panic, and only reacted when he heard Li Tingyu call him, and immediately replied: "I have found it, and it is in my arms." "I pulled out a stack of papers from my bosom.

Li Tingyu stretched out his hand to take it, swept his eyes left and right, and said to Li Yan: "You stay here, don't let outsiders in, if something is wrong, just issue a warning." ”

Li Yan said yes, Li Tingyu took Wang Huan, turned around and entered the firewood room, and closed the door.

There was not even a table in the firewood room, so the two of them sat on the floor, and by the light from the hole in the roof, they spread out the map on the ground folded into small pieces.

"This is the marching map issued by the Ministry of War, including the thirteen roads of the country, and it is the best map I have at hand." Li Tingyu said as he slowly unfolded the map, moving gently, as if he was not holding a piece of paper, but a stunning beauty.

Wang Huan stretched his neck and looked at the brown paper on the ground with anticipation to open layer by layer, after the map was unfolded, it was about the size of a table, and the mountains and rivers on it, the city and the mountain range, were painted in two colors of vermilion ink, and the place names were marked in small block letters, and the mountains and rivers of the country were clear at a glance.

"It's not easy to get, at least officials at the level of generals, general soldiers, and local governors are eligible to get it." Li Tingyu explained why he cherished the map so much.

Wang Huan disagreed, and was even very disappointed, this kind of map, compared with the high-resolution map he used in mineral geological exploration in later generations, is just a graffiti.

However, this is the Ming Dynasty, terrain exploration satellites and synthetic aperture radar have not come out, to have such a detailed map, it is already rare, and even after the Qing troops entered the customs, the top priority after attacking the city and plundering the land is to track down the military map of the army.

Wang Huan first carefully checked the map, found the location of several landmark cities, and then took his hand as a ruler, measured between several place names, he came from later generations, and the place names of this era, compared with later generations, are somewhat different, such as Hefei, this era is called Luzhou, Wang Huan must first carefully distinguish to avoid mistakes.

Li Tingyu didn't have so many problems, he saw Wang Huan frowning at the map, and said first: "According to what you said yesterday, we will set off the day after tomorrow, first take the road to the north, follow the official road all the way to Huai'an, find land in Huai'an, slaughter the Qing army with the same group, and then enter Hongze Lake, cross the lake into the Huai River, go all the way west, to the ground in Xinyang, and then go west to Xiangyang, from Xiangyang to the south, to Yichang, and then into the Yangtze River, from the Yangtze River upstream, to Kuimen, that is, it is done." ”

Wang Huan looked at the small block characters for a long time, his eyes were glazed, and he rubbed his eyes and said: "That's probably the case, if everything goes well, this route is the road map for us to return to Sichuan from the west." ”

Li Tingyu nodded and said: "This plan is much more complicated and distant than I originally thought of directly pulling up the team to Nanjing, and entering the Yangtze River from Nanjing." ”

Wang Huan shook his head and reminded: "It's indeed more complicated, but in comparison, it's much safer, you are raising troops to the south now, just when the Qing army is attacking Nanjing, no matter what you are going to do, first of all, you will sandwich yourself in front of the two armies, there is no one inside and outside, it is like a barbecue on a fire, there is only a dead end." ”

Li Tingyu agreed: "Yes, that's why I agree to your bold plan, little monk, you must plan well, but don't push hundreds of us into the fire pit." ”

Wang Huan smiled slightly, and looked up at Li Tingyu sincerely: "My lord, aren't I also with you?" If there is any basket, I will die as well. ”

Li Tingyu looked at him with a complicated expression, and asked in a deep voice: "Actually, you are not from SC, why do you have to help me return to SC?" The world is so big, where can you not live in peace? ”

"Didn't I say that last night? The world is so big, where can it be safe? Wang Huan asked rhetorically, "Now that there are fires everywhere and wolf smoke everywhere, most of China has fallen into the hands of the Jianzhou Tartars, I am willing to help the general, that is, to see that the general has the will to help the society and turn the tide, as well as the heroine behind the general." ”

"You mean Chief Qin? Do you recognize her? Li Tingyu was surprised.

"I've been fascinated for a long time, but I haven't had a chance to be Bayer." Wang Huan raised his head forty-five degrees and looked up at the sky, he really admired the heroine of the female middle school who marched north to Liaodong and the southwest of Nanzhen from the bottom of his heart, now calculated, Qin Liangyu should be seventy or two years old, and he can still get on the horse to meet the enemy, he is a figure like a god of war.

Li Tingyu kept looking at Wang Huan, and after confirming that he was really not performing, he slapped him on the shoulder with a heavy palm, and said with emotion: "I didn't expect that General Qin would have such an admirer as you, it doesn't matter, as long as we can go back alive, I will definitely introduce you to her!" ”

"Thank you, General." Wang Huan turned his head back to the map: "But let's review this route again, and estimate what problems we will encounter." ”

Li Tingyu saw that when he got to the point, his spirits perked up, and he pointed to the map and said first: "This, I calculated it last night, there are three problems, the first is to go to Huai'an from here, I don't know how many people the Qing army will send to accompany us, my five hundred brothers, will definitely be disarmed, purely for civilian use, how to kill the Qing army at that time, is a problem." The second is across Hongze Lake, where there are water thieves making trouble, can we find boats there? The same problem exists on the Yangtze River. Third, from Xinyang to Xiangyang, this territory is still in the hands of Li Zicheng, we are the Ming army, and it is incompatible with the thieves, how to pass is also a big problem. ”

Wang Huan closed his mouth and listened quietly, fully engaged in thinking, and then added: "Yes, what the general said is extremely true, there is still a tricky trouble, a team of five hundred people, eating and drinking along the way, how to solve it, you have to plan well." ”

Li Tingyu's brows furrowed into the word "Sichuan", almost all of them were almost combined, looking at the map with a sad face for a long time, he thought about it, and he didn't think of a way to solve the few problems he proposed, but in desperation, he heard Wang Huan speak.

"General, these problems, the villain is not talented, he has thought about it countless times in his heart, and now he has a preliminary way to solve it."

Li Tingyu almost couldn't believe his ears, he was stunned for a while, looking at Wang Huan not moving, Wang Huan smiled, attached his ear to the past, and made Li Tingyu, who was like an iron tower, almost jump with joy.

"Hahaha, it's really a smart boy, and he actually came up with such a method, but isn't it a bit despicable." Li Tingyu was happy, but a little cramped.

"There is no distinction between a gentleman and a villain in your life-and-death war, the general just prepares, and I will do it when the time comes." Wang Huan patiently enlightened him.

Li Tingyu is not a pretending and sanctimonious person, his brain immediately turned around, patted Wang Huan on the shoulder and said: "I understand, Lao Tzu has killed countless people, and there are not so many rules and regulations to circle himself. However, Wang Huan, why is your head so smart, I will have to call you Xiao Zhuge in the future. ”

Wang Huan was startled, and shook his hands wildly: "Don't, don't, I can't afford it." ”

"That's not good, you join our army, how can you command the people below without a name? How about this, the day after tomorrow, when the army is on the road, I will let you be a military advisor, so that it can be more convenient. ”

Wang Huan smiled secretly in his heart: Military advisor? A team of 500 outcasts, without even weapons, what kind of military advisor do you want?

However, he didn't mean to underestimate the white pole soldiers in Sichuan, which was the only one in Liaodong who had face-to-face with the Qing army and let go of the pure infantry army that had not lost, even if the number was seriously asymmetrical, surrounded and strangled, no one surrendered. In fact, Wang Huan grabbed Li Tingyu and didn't let go, and he wanted to help him, but in fact, he had his little Jiujiu.

So Wang Huan smiled and arched his hand: "Thank you for the promotion, Wang Huan thank you." ”

That night, Chen Ergou and Xu Goudan and a group of other little monks came back half-dead, and almost cried when they saw Wang Huan.