Outside the gate, Yun Mengwei and the others were not wearing armor, they were wearing thick and wear-resistant black cloth clothes, and key parts such as the chest and back were lined with cowhide.

Li Sangrou and his party, except for Li Sangrou, are also dressed in the same clothes, Li Sangrou is dressed in black, and he is still dressed usually.

She also had this unmarked black coat of cowhide that she tried on, it was too cumbersome, and her greatest advantage was agility, and this dress was not for her.

All of them are double horses, with dozens of pack horses, and they are checking and sorting out for the last time.

Li Sangrou and Dachang came out, and each checked their luggage, Li Sangrou saw that everyone was fine, looked at Qiao An, and signaled that it was okay.

Joan waved his hand, and everyone got on their horses and headed straight to the east.

Their team, the men were the most elite, and the horses were the most elite, and when they reached the place where the water of the water joined the river, half of the sun was still on the horizon.

Joan motioned for everyone to dismount and rest.

On the bank of the river, more than a dozen boats were already waiting, and when they saw Qiao An and others coming, Commander Shao of the sailors guarding the shore hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Li Sangrou dismounted, went straight to the thickest and tallest tree, climbed to the highest three times and twice, held on to the branches, and looked carefully at the river and the other side.

Qiao An and Shao Commander stood under the tree, looking up at Li Sangrou, who was standing extremely tall.

Commander Shao looked up, and then turned his head to look at the river, the river was empty, and the other side was too far away to see, what was this to see?

Li Sangrou slid down the tree, Qiao An took two steps over, looked at Li Sangrou, Li Sangrou shook her head, "I can't see anything."

Let's go over this time, should we rush to Jiangdu City as soon as possible, the sooner the better, or go all the way to see all the way? Li Sangrou then asked.

"Gotta look all the way. If General Huang's headquarters could not return to Jiangning from Jiangducheng, they had to go up the river, and when they arrived here, the marshal arranged for ships to cross the river. Joan motioned to where they stood.

"Then it's best to see where Wu Huaiyi's department is now?" Li Sangrou's question is more like a statement.

Qiao An nodded, "Yes, in addition to this, Dashuai said, around the third year of junior high school, Cao Mengqing's department was in Yicheng, this one was originally going to cross over and be stationed in Hefei City, and now, it should also be in this area, this one must be the elite of the Liang army."

Da Shuai said that according to the deployment of Nanliang, he felt that in addition to Cao Mengqing's department, there should be other departments that were ready to cross the river.

After we go over, it's best to explore the opposite area first, and then go to Jiangdu City. ”

"Well, cross the river directly from here, there is a big wharf opposite, it is very lively, now, maybe it is full of Nanliang army, we have to avoid it." Li Sangrou looked at Commander Shao.

Commander Shao nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, the wharf opposite is very lively, Liang Jun crossed the river from this wharf, and the ships that withdrew on the 12th are now also moored on the wharf." ”

"Let's go down the river along the north bank of the river and the south beach, cross the south beach and cross the river again." Li Sangrou pointed to Jiang Xinzhou.

"In the east of the South Beach, the south bank of the river is full of tidal flats, and it can't be close to the shore, and the tidal flats are deep and shallow, and some places expose the river surface, but not here." Commander Shao hurriedly shook his head.

Li Sangrou beckoned to the strip and the big head.

Two men rushed over in a few steps.

"At the east end of South Beach, is there a place where I can land?" Li Sangrou looked at the channeling strip and the big head and asked.

"Yes!" The big head replied very simply.

"It's just that the section on the shore is not easy to walk, it is thin and soft, and it is also sharp stones, and the horse can't get through." Seamless conversations.

"It's the same as the shit beach, exactly the same!" The big head is taken back again.

"It's as far away as a shit beach?" Li Sangrou asked.

The big head nodded with the channeling strip.

"It's only as far away as two springboards, just use the springboard to build a road." Li Sangrou looked at Qiao An and Commander Shao.

Qiao An looked at Commander Shao.

Commander Shao looked at the big head and asked the channel, "Is this place you said good to find?" Look at today, it's cloudy, and you can't see anything at night, but you can't turn on the lights. ”

"Easy to find!" The answer was very simple, "After crossing the river, I will take a three-board look for it with the big head, find it, look at it, and then bring the big boat over." ”

"Then try?" Commander Shao looked at Qiao An, Qiao An glanced at Li Sangrou and nodded.

Five hundred Yun Mengwei and a thousand horses have already boarded the boat in turn, Li Sangrou and Qiao An got on the boat, had a good meal, and when it got dark, Commander Shao issued an order, and seven or eight boats took anchor and set off quietly, sticking to the north bank of the river and going down the river.

Before and after the hour, several boats approached the south bank, dropped anchor, put a small three board down, the big head and the channeling strip dragged a rope, neatly fell to the small three boards, connected to the big boat with a thin rope, rowed the small three boards, and leaned towards the shore.

It didn't take long for the big head to pull the rope, pull the little three boards back, and shake the rope to signal the boat.

The boat lifted the anchor, seven or eight boats lined up in one, followed behind the small three boards, slowly approached the shore, one by one put down the gangplank, paved, more than a dozen Yunmengwei sentinels got off the boat first, checked the vigilance everywhere, and the rest of the people led the horses to disembark in turn.

After one boat was disembarked, the men and horses on the other boat came over the boat and disembarked in turn.

Commander Shao saw the last boat from the first boat, watched the last horse go ashore, watched the people retract the gangplank, and the boat retreated and returned to Jiangbei.

Yun Mengwei and everyone gathered to rectify, and it was already around the beginning of Yin, Qiao An and Li Sangrou discussed a few words in a low voice, divided Yun Mengwei into ten teams, heard each other, and went up the river.

It was almost dawn, and the sentinels found a dense forest far away from the people, and the Yunmeng Guard Team was not far apart, resting in the woods.

Li Sangrou changed her clothes, took the grasshopper, Xiao Luzi and the black horse, embellished dozens of steps behind Li Sangrou and the grasshopper, and walked towards the smoke in the distance.

After walking for two miles, the sky was bright, in front of a forest, flags were waving, and a large camp was spread out in front of Li Sangrou.

"Boss." The grasshopper gently poked Li Sangrou.

Li Sangrou snorted, "Call sister." ”

Well, the grasshopper immediately shouted first.

In front of the forest, more than a dozen grooms, leading pack horses, with a large basket on the horse's back, seemed to be mowing the grass.

"Check it out." Li Sangrou groaned slightly, and said in a low voice with the grasshopper.

The grasshopper snorted, hung his head, looked cold and timid, followed Li Sangrou, and went to the dozen or so grooms.

The horsemen were mowing the grass and talking, looking very relaxed and leisurely, and they only glanced at Li Sangrou and the grasshoppers from a distance.

It is densely populated, one village after another, and there are many people coming and going.

Li Sangrou walked as she looked at a dozen grooms unabashedly, looked at a leader-like one, went straight over, walked five or six steps away, bent her knees and said with a smile: "Uncle, are you the people of Wu Dashuai?" ”

"Huh! Do you still know Wu Dashuai? The leader-like groom straightened up and looked Li Sangrou up and down.

"You're back!" Li Sangrou looked surprised, "Then, let me ask you about someone, uncle, do you know where Hu Wangcai and Big Brother Hu are?" Where to find him? ”

The groom leader laughed, "I haven't heard of it. ”

"Why haven't you heard of it, he is in the army of Wu Dashuai, he rode a black horse, big and tall, very good-looking, he ......"

"Xiao Nizi, in the army of Marshal Wu, there are more than a dozen or hundreds of thousands of people, where did I hear about it?" The head of the groom looked at Li Sangrou, laughing and shaking his head.

"You know for sure! This is what he gave me, uncle, you can see it at a glance, you have to point out me, where can I find Brother Hu? Li Sangrou took a neatly wrapped dry fried piece from the burden she was holding, stroked it lovingly, and handed it to the head of the groom.

The groom took it, turned it over, and looked at the sign behind the oiled paper.

A few horsemen next to him leaned over and also stretched out their heads to look at the oiled paper bag.

The head of the groom saw the sign clearly, sighed, and handed the dry food to Li Sangrou, "Don't look for it, it's dead." ”

"Huh?" Li Sangrou's eyes widened, she looked at the head of the groom in disbelief, and kept shaking her head, "Impossible!" ”

"It's the former army, how can there be a few living horsemen, sigh and shake his head.

"We have lost the battle, and we will almost die in one battle." The head of the groom looked at Li Sangrou, who kept shaking his head with pity, and didn't believe it at all, and sighed repeatedly, "The front army rushed to the front, and none of them came back, the entire battalion was empty, all empty, all gone, don't look for it, can't find it, go home." ”

"I saw him a few years ago, that is, in the month of Layue, a few days before the Chinese New Year, he said that he would definitely come back alive, and said that when he came back, he said......" Li Sangrou's tears fell, "Uncle, where did he die?" I want to ......"

Li Sangrou choked up and couldn't go on.

"On the other side of the river, can't you get by, alas, you have already married?" The head of the groom looked at Li Sangrou sympathetically.

Li Sangrou choked up and couldn't tell whether she shook her head or nodded, "I don't believe it, how could it be!" No, it won't! ”

"If you want to open a little, it's not just you, Brother Hu, who is dead, all of them are dead, more than 100,000 people, all of them are dead, and the horses are gone.

Alas, go back, go home, I don't know when the other side will call, go back, go back. The head of the groom sighed and waved at Li Sangrou.

Li Sangrou choked up and thanked him, turned around, and walked back while sobbing.

The grasshopper held his hands, looked stupid, wiped his eyes a few times, turned around, and walked back.

After going around in a circle, Li Sangrou took the grasshopper, followed by Xiao Luzi and the black horse, and walked through the village to the other side of the large camp.

In the woodland outside the village, Li Sangrou looked at the two big thatched pits about a hundred steps away from the camp, and next to the thatched pits, there were more than a dozen soldiers squatting in a circle, her eyes narrowing slightly.

"That's a lot of dung, there must be more than a dozen trucks!" The grasshopper looked at the two big pits and calculated that it was worth a lot of money.

Li Sangrou ignored him, only staring at the soldiers who came and went and squatted in the pit.

In this barracks, there are at least 70,000 or 80,000 people, and this big open-air pit is quite lively.

Since it's lively, there's a chance!

Li Sangrou didn't wait long, and a soldier put on his pants, looked around, didn't go back to the camp, and shook over to the forest where Li Sangrou was hiding.

Li Sangrou raised her hand at the grasshopper to signal, and the grasshopper quickly climbed a tree and guarded the surroundings.

Li Sangrou hid behind a tree, watched the soldiers rush into the forest step by step, hid behind a tree, looked in the direction of the camp for a while, exhaled slowly, trotted, and went straight to the village.

Li Sangrou pulled out the black silk silk bundled inside, watched him run past the tree where she was hiding, and rushed forward and put the silk silk around the soldier's neck.

"What's your name? Which team and which army? Where are you going? Li Sangrou pulled the silk silk from behind, leaned over to the soldier's ear and asked.

The soldier struggled hard, kicked desperately, grabbed a branch from the ground and stabbed it backwards.

Li Sangrou tightened the silk silk and used his arm to break the soldier's neck, turn him over, and quickly take off his clothes.

"Boss wants to go in and have a look?" The grasshopper looked at Li Sangrou and jumped down from the tree to put on the clothes of a soldier and asked.

"Well, you hide the body and wait for me right here. If you hear movement in the camp, run and leave me alone. Li Sangrou dressed, tidied up again, and went to the camp.

The soldiers who went in and out of the thatched pit hung the sign on their waists on the gate when they went out, and when they came back, they took the sign and tied it again.

At the gate of the Yuan, the soldiers on duty leaned against the gate, or looked stunned, or two people muttered together, or held guns, kowtowed and napped, and neither looked nor asked the soldiers who came in.

Li Sangrou's eyes narrowed slightly, Liang Jun at this time, compared with when he was outside Hefei City, this spirit is too far behind.

These soldiers on duty who were distracted with guns were supposed to check every soldier who came back from squatting in the pit against the waist card, whether the name on the report belonged to the right one, whether the appearance and height were right, and they could only be put in.

Now this slackness, as well as the mouthy of those grooms just now, it seems that this camp is in chaos, chaos at the top, and only then dare to be so slack below.

Well, that's good!

Li Sangrou swaggered into the gate, looking at the waist cards hanging in three or four rows, in the middle row, there was one hanging, most of the front was empty, and the back was empty for half a row, looking quite lonely.

Li Sangrou reached out and took off the lonely waist card, and tied it to the belt as she walked.

The military camp in front of him was exactly the same as the much larger military camp outside Hefei City, and Li Sangrou went straight to the direction of Shuai's tent.

The layout of the camp is no different from that outside Hefei, but the atmosphere in the camp is very different from that outside Hefei.

Li Sangrou swaggered, came from behind the handsome tent, looked at the handsome tent out of the corner of his eye, and turned to the front.

At the door of the handsome tent, two people dressed as staff members were arguing with red faces, and the soldiers passing by next to them slowed down one by one, and listened to the quarrel with their ears open without squinting.

Li Sangrou also looked average, slowing down, not squinting, and listening with pricked ears.

From this half of the handsome tent, hearing the half of the handsome tent, Li Sangrou turned around, raised his feet and paced back, and then listened.

A ten-man next to him gave her a thumbs up, followed her, turned around, paced back, and then listened to the excitement.

Li Sangrou heard the handsome half of the tent again, but this time she didn't turn around again, and went straight back in the direction she came from.

Walking to the gate of the Yuan, Li Sangrou hung the sign on his waist, walked out of the Yuanmen, and went straight to the two big thatched pits, turned around the thatched pits for half a circle, and plunged into the woods.

Looking at the grasshoppers who came up, Li Sangrou commanded, and while walking, he took off the outermost Nanliang military uniform, handed it to the grasshopper in a group, pressed the skirt from the grasshopper's hand, and tied it around.

Li Sangrou took the grasshopper, followed by the black horse and Xiao Luzi, and rushed back to the woods where Yun Mengwei was resting.

Qiao An, who was leaning against a tree and sitting and resting, saw Li Sangrou and immediately stood up to meet him.

Li Sangrou greeted Qiao An and said directly: "The remnants of the retreat from Jiangbei are four or five miles away from here, and they have camped there since they retreated across the river, and they have not moved."

I snuck into the camp and happened to hear the two counsellors arguing.

If one says that he has no will and acts without permission, even if his whole family and clan take their own lives, they can't afford it. He also said that the matter of retreating across the river must not be decreed and must be kept secret so as not to affect the morale of the army.

The other said that waiting here all the time was to delay the war, but this statement didn't count.

It seems that after they retreated, they have been waiting here without saying a word, and the rest of the departments are also stationed in place, saying that they will wait until the imperial court gives the will, and then take the next step according to the will. ”

"Wait until the will ...... Then we'll have two more full days! Joan calculated very quickly, and her eyes lit up.

"At least there is one more day, and now, except for that camp, other places in Nanliang, other people, don't know that Wu Huaiyi was defeated and died, and the northbound army has retreated to Jiangnan, let's leave quickly!" Li Sangrou's tone was pleasant.

Qiao An raised his hand in a hurry, and after half an hour, everyone got on their horses and set off, rushing straight to Jiangdu City.