It is a common thing to encounter strong winds on the river, and there are often a few days that can not sail every month, Yang Chao himself did not encounter a strong wind from Taiping Mansion to Yangzhou, and his luck is already good, this time his soldiers just happened to meet, and it cannot be said that the luck is too bad.

This is normal natural conditions, and a large-scale water march is basically inevitable to run into it.

But war waits for no one, and when you feel that the right time and place and people have the right people to fight, the enemy is gone.

When it is time to fight, no matter what happens, we must fight with firm confidence, and this is a strong soldier.

When Huo Qubing attacked the Xiongnu royal court, he didn't say that the wind was strong, Yue Fei didn't say that the grain and grass were not enough, and Qi Jiguang didn't say that the rain was heavy when the rain stopped, Hou Junji attacked the Turks, and Li Shuo attacked Caizhou and didn't complain about the heavy snow.

Huo Quai's illness was without supplies, the lone army went thousands of miles deep, Yue Fei had no food and grass, the infantry attacked the Jurchen cavalry and Jiancheng, and Qi Jiguang ran to wherever there was news of the Japanese invaders.

What is now in front of Yang Chao is just that the backup has not arrived, but there is a strong city in front of it, but the other party is a cavalry, so he is afraid of the tail, and he has to pretend to be the destiny of heaven, which is really ridiculous.

Therefore, if you want to fight, you must fight, at least you have tens of thousands of well-trained veterans who have gone through the battle formation, at least you have sufficient food and salary, and you can be called well-armed.

So I set out overnight.

At this time, the canal flow is favorable, and the Yangtze River has spring water, so it flows backwards into the canal, and the boats do not need to sail when they walk.

The speed is also very fast.

Starting from the location between Yangzhou and Guazhou, it is only more than 20 miles, and an hour later, I have already seen Yangzhou City standing silently in the dark.

Yangzhou City is not quiet, constantly watching the fireworks rolling, although you can't hear the howls of the people, but you can imagine what the Qing army is doing.

Murder and arson, murder is indispensable arson, because when conniving at soldiers to loot, they have already released the devil in their hearts. Their hearts are full of destructive desires, even if they are suppressed, I am afraid that some people can't help but set fire.

At this time, there were only sporadic flames in Yangzhou City, which already showed that the military discipline of the Qing army was much stronger than that of the Ming army. You must know that Zuo Liangyu robbed Wuchang, and in the end, a fire burned Wuchang City to the ground.

Except for the flames in the city, the city walls were pitch black, and the situation of the Qing army could not be seen at all.

I sent someone to investigate, and came back to say that there was no Qing army patrol in the near distance.

This is good news for Yang Chao. Because it is very likely that the Qing army is really defenseless.

Since entering Jiangnan, there has basically been no resistance, but there are countless people like Liu Liangzuo who have surrendered with the army, like Zhang Tianlu, Zhang Tianfu, Li Qifeng, Gao Qifeng, Hu Shangyou, Han Shangliang, etc., all of whom are at the level of the general soldier, but they are willing to take the soldiers and cut their hair. Kneel and lick the new master, and go to be a slave.

Therefore, Duoduo has careless capital, and he has the qualifications to look down on Jiangnan soldiers and horses.

"Xie Fei listens to the order!"

Thinking of this, Yang Chao immediately ordered.

Xie Fei immediately came out of the ranks, he is now the commander, and he is the commander of Yang Chao's personal army, needless to say about martial arts or something, he is still one of the best masters in Yang Chao's army, as for the credit, he rescued the prince from Beijing. This kind of credit leaves no one to say.

So Yang Chao transferred him to the pro-soldier team, and directly from the general manager of the banner to the general manager, no one had any complaints, but felt that he should be a thousand presidents.

"You bring a hundred elites. Sneak into the city, the camera opens a city gate! ”

Xie Fei didn't ask anything, and directly responded.

It's not difficult to enter the city, Yang Chao can get in how he gets out of the city, and the warehouse outside the city probably hasn't been decided yet. Where the secret passage should not have been discovered, as for the exit inside, when Yang Chao left, it had already been dealt with, and it was impossible to be discovered.

Xie Fei soon set off with a hundred pro-soldiers with the best martial arts and who had been in battle many times.

The secret passage was indeed intact, and the soldiers who escaped with Yang Chao quickly found the entrance to the warehouse, and then led people to get in one by one.

Soon they entered the cellar and climbed up to it.

When I got to the exit, it took a lot of effort, because the entrance couldn't be opened.

The entrance passage can only allow one person to pass through, and several people have been replaced in a row, and after exhaustion, the entrance above can be regarded as open.

It turned out that there were many things pressed against the entrance planks, and the entrance planks had long since been burned out.

That's right, when Yang Chao was leaving, he asked the broken soldiers to set a fire and burned the house down, the beams of the wooden building collapsed, and many tiles covered the entrance.

After clearing the entrance, the first soldier crawled out, his eyes were covered with charred rubble, but the courtyard of the big family was not completely burned down, and the backyard was only half missing, but at this time it was a mess, and it was obviously patronized.

And from time to time, there were voices outside, the sound of women and children crying at night, and the sound of crazy shouting and killing, as if the next door of this big family was experiencing a tragic slaughter.

Obviously, this is close to the marina and is the richest area.

A hundred men cautiously climbed up to the entrance of the cave.

Then they groped their way out of the merchant's house, and as luck would have it, the courtyard seemed to have just been robbed, so they did not encounter a single soldier.

Until he arrived at the door, Xie Fei leaned on the door and listened carefully, and found that the sound next door had disappeared, and there were no other sounds nearby, so he finally waved his hand and led people out.

After going out, go straight to the Xu Ning Gate in the southeast corner of the city wall, outside this city gate, is the bend of the Grand Canal, the Grand Canal makes a bend here to the west, and will go south when it reaches the Rujiang Gate.

Xie Fei led people to stick to the foot of the wall, and quickly rushed to Xu Ning Gate, and after approaching the city gate, he found that there were a group of defenders at the city gate.

They never fantasized about the situation where the Tartars were not defended at all, and the Tartars were careless, and in a place like the city gate, they would definitely send troops to guard it.

But there were not many soldiers, but there were more than a hundred.

Xie Fei tightened the team, and everyone moved forward in a dense formation, intending to catch the other party off guard.

"Stop! Whose men are you? ”

A man with a Liaodong accent asked.

The other party obviously didn't think that Xie Fei and the others came in from outside the city, and thought that they were their own people.

Xie Fei had an idea: "We are Xingpingbo's subordinates. ”

The other party obviously didn't know who Xing Pingbo was, and said angrily: "What a gut! You have crossed the line, I don't know that this is the territory of the White Han Flag? ”

Xie Fei's pace slowed down, at this time, the two sides were still five zhang away, and there were only a few torches at the entrance of the city gate, so he couldn't see his face clearly at all.

Xie Fei immediately said: "The villain has taken a fork in the road at night. Please also ask the grandfathers of the Eight Banners to forgive their sins, and we will leave. ”

The Tartar officer apparently did not admit it: "Take a fork in the road? Hmph, I think I've found the right way! Brewed, I know that there is oil and water in the east, so I just came over when I touched it, didn't I? ”

Xie Fei confessed: "Uncle Qi, the little ones are really going through the fork in the road, can't they just go." ”

Although he wanted to leave, his footsteps still slowly moved towards the city gate.

"Humph! All the armies have drawn their territory, why don't they go to the river when they take the fork in the road, they can't afford to provoke the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners, and the Eight Banners of Lao Tzu and Han are easy to bully, right? Tell you this Han dog, although Lao Tzu is called Han Baqi, but Lao Tzu is a banner person, not a Han person, and you can't afford to provoke it. ”

Xie Fei said: "Yes, yes, the villain will take people away!" ”

The general of the Han Eight Banners said angrily: "Do you still want to leave after scolding? Let you go, Lao Tzu will not be laughed to death! ”

Xie Fei pretended to cry: "But the little one really made a mistake, I didn't grab anything, so Uncle Eight Banners spared the little one." ”

At this time, Xie Fei had already walked to a certain place, and spread out his hands to indicate that he was empty-handed.

The general of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty snorted coldly: "It's better if you don't grab it." Come here, guard the city gate for Lao Tzu! ”

Xie Fei was stunned, he didn't expect such a good thing.

But pretended to be unwilling: "Don't be uncle, the little ones will go back, and they will never come again." ”

The general of the Eight Banners grabbed Xie Fei: "It's not such a good thing, since you're here, don't leave, let Lao Tzu stay here, dare to leave a step before dawn, tomorrow Lao Tzu will kill you, I know that you are a person under Xingpingbo, I can find you." ”

Xie Fei bowed: "Yes, yes." ”

The Eight Banners general was shocked by Xie Fei, and immediately waved his hand: "Brothers, go!" Let's go and have fun, it's too late, but it's going to be robbed by the grandson surnamed Tian. ”

The generals of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty cheered one by one.

They are the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, entering the city to divide the territory and looting, although it is not as good as the mansions of the big salt merchants by the small Qinhuai River, but close to the canal and the city gate, it is also the residence of some rich merchants, and the oil and water are also sufficient, I don't expect to be able to rob the salt merchants, which is reserved for the masters of the Eight Banners, and it is enough to rob these rich merchants on the edge of the city, the only disadvantage is that there is no soup to drink if you are one step late.

Xie Fei watched the Eight Banners generals leave, and sighed in his heart that he was too lucky.

What he didn't know was that the generals of the Eight Banners were just a small leader, and they were assigned to the job of guarding the city gate by lot, and they had already died of depression, wishing that someone would replace him, and he didn't know that at this time in the city, these Han Eight Banners also began to be arrogant, they used to be bullied by the Eight Banners, and they not only had to fight with the Eight Banners when they charged, but sometimes they had to do miscellaneous work for the Eight Banners when they were marching.

But after entering the customs, they received too many Ming troops, and they handed over the work such as miscellaneous labor to the Ming army, and they also developed the habit of bullying the Ming army, and they also knew that these soldiers were ninjas one by one, no matter how they were bullied, they would be fine.

It wasn't until the Han Eight Banners disappeared into the darkness that Xie Fei quietly stepped on the city wall.

Then a hundred of them fumbled, gently removed the deadbolt from the gate, and carefully set it aside.

Then they were nervously prepared, ready to deal with any change that could happen at any time, until the news came from the city, and they would open the city gate as quickly as possible. (To be continued.) )