Xu Goudan did a very good job of running errands, he was mixed in the family team, short in stature, dressed around like a mouse, quickly completed the task, and then returned to Wang Huan's side in a hurry. After a cup of tea, Li Yan rushed over in a hurry.

As soon as the strong man with thick eyebrows and big eyes came up, he asked: "Senator, my lord is very anxious, and ask you if those four words mean that the Qing soldiers are going to close the net against us, and do the sheep mean us?" ”

He didn't dare to call Wang Huan's name now, and changed his name to his position.

Wang Huan raised a finger, made a silent gesture, cautiously observed back and forth, and took Li Yan to a silver cart, the two lowered their heads and pretended to push the cart, Chen Ergou Xu Goudan and others scattered around, hiding them in the crowd and covering for the two.

"The sheep does not refer to us, but to someone else." Wang Huan leaned his shoulders on the frame, as if he was pushing the car very hard, but in fact, he didn't have any strength.

When Li Yan heard this, he was first overjoyed, and then surprised: "Who else?" Who's that? ”

Wang Huan said in a low voice: "If you really want to deal with us, you don't have to work so hard, you have passed through so many states and counties along the way, just choose one with more soldiers, while we are not prepared, can we still have any resistance?" That's what it means to be in line to be beheaded. ”

Li Yan pricked up his ears and listened nervously to the following.

"Therefore, the Qing soldiers' routine of obviously driving the team to their predetermined place must be aimed at other people, and they are people who can't resist even if they know that something is wrong." Wang Huan continued: "Who is such a person in our team? ”

Seeing that he asked himself, Li Yan couldn't help but look up and look back and forth, looked at it for a while, and then lowered his head and said with some hesitation: "If you want to talk about this, I think all the people in this team meet the conditions you said." ”

"Yes, the Qing soldiers are aimed at all people, to be exact, against those rich people who drive their own carriages and have piles of boxes." Wang Huan pouted in front of him.

The team of silver cars walked in the middle of the whole brigade, in front of them was the family team that drove by themselves, which was considered a rich person, and the back was basically a family team pushing a cart, or simply relying on the family team carrying luggage on their shoulders, which was considered a poor class, and the number of people on both sides was about a scale of one to one hundred.

Li Yan's mind is not lively, but he is not stupid, Wang Huan is so little, he immediately understood, his eyes widened more and more, his face changed, and he exclaimed: "You mean, the Qing army wants to attack the rich in front?" That's the family of the surrendered army, aren't they afraid of the military department's condemnation? ”

"That's why I put this thought into it." Wang Huan explained: "As the saying goes, wealth is not exposed, but Liu Liangzuo's carriage alone is more than a dozen, and I am afraid that everyone can guess how much wealth, gold and silver are carried on it, and it is impossible to let others know, let alone other rich people." I can see that the soldiers are greedy and want to kill people and rob money. ”

Li Yan's shock was beyond words, and his brain would almost not come back to his senses for a while, this idea was too terrifying, tens of thousands of family members of the surrendered army, the army responsible for protection actually dared to guard and steal, rob and kill, he couldn't accept it in his heart anyway, 10,000 didn't believe it, but these words came from Wang Huan's mouth, but he couldn't help but not believe it.

"But, that, it can't be, right?" Li Yan stammered and stammered.

"How is it impossible, feel too shameless, too despicable?" Wang Huan glanced at him, with an expression of "young man, you are still young" on his face, and said calmly: "Do you think that the army in the world is as strict as your white pole soldiers, and they do not commit any crimes against the common people?" Don't say anything else, let's talk about the general soldier Liu you follow, is Liu Liangzuo doing less of this kind of thing? ”

Li Yan swallowed his saliva with difficulty, thought about it, and said gloomily: "Yes, I have done a lot." ”

"That's right, the Qing soldiers treat us Han people as pigs and dogs, barbaric, and robbing is nothing at all. The Ming Dynasty army will rob the common people, but the Qing soldiers can't rob the families of the Ming Dynasty's surrendered army? Wang Huan said.

"However, if the Qing soldiers do this, aren't they afraid that General Liu Bing, who stayed in the Qing army's formation, will be angry and angry?" Li Yan asked again.

"He didn't dare." Wang Huan said lightly: "If he dares, he will not surrender, so even if he suffers a loss, he can only swallow it himself." And I estimate that the Qing soldiers will be measured, and they will have to disguise themselves when they do it, such as pretending to be a mountain thief or something, they will not let people hold the handle, the target is mainly money, and there will not be too many kills. ”

Li Yan looked at Wang Huan deeply, the doubts in his eyes gradually disappeared, and after this cocoon-like analysis, he had completely believed Wang Huan's statement, and admired this young senator even more.

"So, when will the Qing army move?" Li Yan calmed down, thought for a while, and felt that this issue was very important.

Wang Huan looked at the convoy in front of him intently, and said slowly: "Surely tonight, the Qing army will choose a convenient location to camp, there is a canyon in front of this, called Tiger Roaring Valley, the terrain is narrow, when the time comes, there will be a wall at both ends, and birds will not be able to fly out, and it will be used to kill people and rob the road, which is more suitable." ”

Li Yang's face changed again, and he said with a little tremor in his tone: "Tonight? Senate, our plan is also launched tonight! What to do? Do you want to notify adults to change your plans? ”

"Not necessarily!" Wang Huan grinned at the corner of his mouth, revealing a sly smile: "We will go to Huai'an tomorrow, if we don't do it tonight, we won't have a chance." ”

"But, how?" Li Yan's thinking couldn't keep up, and he stammered again.

"The plan is calculated, the praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind!" Wang Huan's smile was even more cunning, and Li Yan's heart was shocked, and he said in his heart, how could this young man who was not as young as a weak crown laugh as sinister as an adult man.

He hurriedly said: "Please make it clear to the senator." ”

Wang Huan put away his smile and said with a serious expression: "The plan remains the same, just change the time, move the time to move back, the Qing army has thought about it with great difficulty, of course we can't spoil the scenery, and when they get it, we will have a salary from the bottom of the kettle!" ”

He put his mouth close to Li Yan's ear, whispered in a low voice, heard Li Yan nod again and again, and carefully recorded every word Wang Huan said.

"Got it?" Wang Huan asked.

"Understood." Li Yan was afraid that there would be mistakes and omissions, so he whispered again. checked with Wang Huan once, and after making sure that there was no mistake, he hurriedly went back to Li Tingyu to restore his life.

As soon as Li Yan left, Chen Ergou and Xu Goudan came up and asked Wang Huan with a panicked face: "General Li has been talking to you for so long, and the actions of the Jianzhou Tartars are so wrong, is there something going to happen?" ”

Wang Huan looked at the two teenagers who had saved him in danger, and his feelings were impulsive, and he almost blurted out the actions of the night, so as not to be frightened by the two, but he understood that now was not the time to say this, the young man was anxious, in case the words leaked out and leaked out, it would not be the heads of one or two people who fell to the ground. So after hesitating for a while, he finally suppressed the emotions in his heart, patted them on the shoulders with a lot of strength, and persuaded them with good words: "It's okay, it's just that the Tartars want to go to the nearby villages and towns to fight the autumn breeze, and it has nothing to do with us." ”

The two of them listened to the letter suspiciously, and some felt that it was wrong, but they couldn't say what was wrong, so they had to believe it, so they scolded in a low voice for a while that the Jianzhou Tartars were not people, and they robbed so many things in Yangzhou by closing the gate and slaughtering the city, and they didn't forget to fight the autumn breeze on the way, it was simply not a thing.

Wang Huan echoed absentmindedly, but his brain was spinning rapidly, linking the Qing army's actions along the way and thinking about it comprehensively, thinking about every detail, looking at the sun again, calculating it carefully, and after confirming it, he threw away his burden and relaxed.

"It's up to people to do things, it's up to heaven to make things happen, everything that should be thought of has been thought of, and what should be done has been done, and it depends on God whether it succeeds or not." Wang Huan secretly thought to himself, folded his hands, closed his eyes and bowed to the sky, he usually did not burn incense, and it was good to worship the Buddha's feet when he came to the end.

The official road of this era, about one zhang wide, can accommodate two horses in parallel, in some prosperous towns and near the big city of Beijing, paved by bluestone slabs, wind and rain are not hindered, it is convenient to walk, but most other places, are built of loess, the wind and dust are rolling in sunny weather, and it is muddy and difficult to walk in rainy days. And now the war is frequent, everyone is too busy to take care of themselves, the official road is even more uncared for, the cart in the baggage camp is pressed, countless beast legs and people step on it, and it is even more dusty, and the loess raised can drown people, but fortunately, this land south of the Yangtze River, the terrain is not rugged, although it is difficult for the huge team to walk, but under the deterrence of the Qing soldiers and horses, it is moving forward at a faster speed than a few days ago.

Wang Huan from the afternoon, found that on both sides of the road, there are no longer villages and towns, the jungle is barren grass, high posts and deep fields, constituting the landform of this area, the land is barren, there is no water source, this kind of place is uninhabited is normal, no wonder the densely populated place in the south of the Yangtze River, this radius of dozens of miles is deserted.

The sun gradually sank in the west, and the silently marching procession followed the official road, all the way, when the sun was setting and the sky was full of colorful clouds, a mountain range appeared in front of them.

Wang Huan's spirits perked up, his tired expression was immediately dispelled, the mountain in front of him must be the mountain range that Xu Goudan inquired about, he looked left and right, saw a hole, climbed into the silver car, stood on the car and looked forward.

I saw that this mountain range stretches endlessly, horizontally in front, like a huge gable wall blocking the way, the mountain is not very high, but it is difficult to climb over, so the winding official road winds into a narrow gap in the middle of the mountain, from a distance, it seems that the mountain was split by a sharp sword, cut out a crack, and the official road leads to the front along this crack.

Wang Huan took a look at it and jumped down, because the Qing cavalry accompanying him on both sides of the team had already rushed from the rear at a gallop, and the soldiers on the horse shouted loudly: "Lord Zuo Ling has an order!" It was getting late, and the battalions picked up speed and camped in the valley ahead! ”

When the tired people heard this order, their hearts were relieved, and after a day of walking, they could finally rest, and no one did not want to hurry into the valley, drink hot water, eat some porridge, and then quickly find a dry and sheltered place to lie down and sleep, so the speed of the whole team increased a little, and when it was not yet dark, they all entered the valley.