"Lord Commander-in-Chief, his subordinates sent scouts deep into the enemy's territory, but they did not find any trace of the enemy, and even the civilian people were moved, leaving only a large number of traces of the northward migration."

In Xianjia Village, Wu Jian, the general manager of the green camp, reported to Han Shangliang, who pondered for a moment before he said in a deep voice: "I heard that Su Wei promoted the so-called policy of apportioning the land into the mu in the two counties, and many people were attached, and those people who moved north were Diao people who belonged to the thief army, and they should be killed to set an example for the people of the two counties, deter the people of the two counties, and teach the people to abandon the darkness and turn to the light." ”

When Wu Jian heard him say this, he immediately understood what Han Shangliang meant, his eyes lit up, the corners of his mouth hooked slightly, and said: "Don't worry, Lord Commander, his subordinates will severely punish the people of Xianjia Village, deter the Quartet, and make the people of the two counties return to their hearts." ”

Han Shangliang nodded with a smile, he has a reasonable reason for this, even if he goes back, even if he is blamed by Tong Guoqi for harming the people, he has something to refute, and it is a big deal to stuff a little more money to the new governor, anyway, the money is also taken from the squire and landlord of the second county.

After Wu Jian revealed Han Shangliang's meaning to his subordinates, the soldiers cheered up one after another, and drove along the mountain road to Yongchun County, they didn't encounter even a single figure along the way, and the green battalion soldiers at the bottom didn't feel it, but Wu Jian, who was walking in front on horseback, was a little flustered.

He recalled the tragic situation of Nan'an Garrison Qianzong who was seriously injured, and then looked at the lush and dense woods around him, and the more he walked, the more panicked he felt, for fear that a group of rebels would jump out of the woods in the next moment, shouting at them to kill them.

However, they still arrived at Nan'an in the river without danger, which is a stream six kilometers away from the county seat of Yongchun, and there are dotted residential settlements on both sides of the river.

The bridge across the river was also burned down from the other side, leaving only a small half of the bridge on the south bank.

Wu Jian also sent scouts to look for other bridges that could be crossed within a few miles of the surrounding area, but the entire bridge on the river had been burned, and if you wanted to bypass the river, you would have to go up several kilometers against the river to reach it.

Even if you bypass the end of the Qiangxi, there are still a few continuous mountains to the north of the source, which is far from being as fast as directly crossing the Qiangxi and passing through the valley road to Yongchun County.

Therefore, Wu Jian demolished the dwellings on the south bank of the river, built a temporary pontoon bridge, and sent several scouts to cross the river to investigate, and only after making sure that there were no ambushes on the north bank of the river, he was relieved to build a stronger bridge.

At the same time, he also sent someone to report the situation here to Han Shangliang in the back, and when Han Shangliang arrived with his army, a bridge had been erected on the water surface of the river that could allow three people to pass through at the same time.

Of course, this was far from enough, and Han Shangliang's 5,000 green battalion soldiers immediately dispersed, knocked down the surrounding trees, built a bridge over the river, and also built a temporary camp on the south bank - although it was still close to Shenshi at this time, Han Shangliang still decided to rest for a night and wait for the next day to cross the river.

In order to further obtain the specific military information of the Qing army, he personally led the general's guards to leave the Gudao station, rushed to the north bank of the river, and climbed the quadrangular forest on the north bank of the river before dark.

Looking down at the busy Qing army camp on the south bank of the river, Su Yan silently estimated the number of Qing troops in his field of vision, as well as their equipment.

The Qing army spread for miles in the camp on the south bank of the river, and countless white tents were erected, and soldiers wearing only a single coat or even shirtless shuttled between the tents, and their weapons were casually set up in front of the tents.

Look at the Qing soldiers patrolling outside the camp, they are basically wearing cloth clothes and armor, carrying bird guns on their shoulders, and waist knives, and the popularity of firearms is extremely high.

Su Yan remembered that in his previous life, there was an article on the Internet saying that the popularity of firearms in the Qing army was actually higher than that of the Ming army, especially the Han Eight Banners and the Green Battalion were the most equipped, but the Qing Dynasty emperor gradually reduced the equipment of the Green Battalion in order to prevent "house slaves", and even did not allow them to equip them with heavy weapons.

This is also the reason why Su Yan looked around and didn't see even a trace of a single artillery.

Su Yan personally came to the front line to determine whether the Qing army was carrying artillery, and now that he confirmed it with his own eyes, he was relieved, as long as the Qing army was not equipped with artillery, then he still had an advantage in firepower.

It's just that the firearms of the Qing army are still a bit troublesome on this scale, and the riflemen under Su Yan's command count the three hundred gun-wielding recruits, and the total number of them is only 340, even if you add the 240 line infantry in the system space, there are no more than 1,000 people.

This huge numerical disadvantage, even if Su Yan's side has an advantage in weapons, it will not be able to make up for it.

Just when Su Yan was still observing the Qing army camp, inside the Qing army camp, a scout quickly broke into Han Shangliang's big tent, knelt on his knees, and said, "Lord Commander, someone is observing our army's camp on the four corners of the forest on the other side of the river!" ”

"What?" Han Shangliang, who was still looking at this map, immediately turned his head to look at the scout and said, "But Su Wei's spies? ”

"I don't know, from a distance, it seems that there are dozens of riders." The scout replied.

Hearing this, Han Shangliang hurriedly ran out of the big tent over the scout and looked at the mountains on the north bank of the river, but the sky was a little dark at this time, and he didn't see the person in the scout's mouth at first sight.

At this moment, the scout also followed, and he pointed in the direction where he found someone, and said, "Lord Commander, there it is." ”

Han Shangliang looked in the direction he was pointing, and then looked closely, as if he could faintly see dozens of cavalrymen dressed in red on it.

Seeing this, Han Shangliang slapped his thigh and said: "Dozens of cavalry, it is very likely that they are the big names in the Su rebel army, sons, order a hundred cavalry, and cross the river with me to pursue the rebels!" ”

With Han Shangliang's order, a hundred Qing army light cavalry were immediately assembled, and Su Yan, who was observing the Qing army's camp on the four-corner forest, also noticed this abnormality, and when he saw those Qing cavalry running towards the bridge, he immediately understood.

"It seems that the Qing army has discovered us." He said with a smile.

"General, it's time for us to withdraw, we only have 24 cavalry." Chen Ying opened her mouth to persuade at this time.

"It's okay, our friendly forces are around here." Su Yan waved his hand, not caring, but he didn't refuse Chen Ying either, and said, "Go down the mountain, go down to meet the Qing army." ”

"Yes."

Chen Ying hugged his fists and promised, although he wondered where there were other friendly troops in the vicinity, but he still didn't ask about it, and led the general's guards to escort Su Yan down the mountain.

While descending the mountain, Su Yan also summoned the two teams of line infantry through the system space, and asked them to ambush in the mountains and forests below the mountain first, waiting for the Qing cavalry to kill.