The front moved forward, and Anren became the rear. Soon the north-south traffic was restored, and even bold businessmen went to Yingtan and Guixi further south.

When it was discovered that there were not many rebellious troops in Guixi, the merchants became more and more emboldened, and some people began to try the route to Geyang.

At this time, some news from the south came one after another, which indirectly proved the information obtained by the Military Intelligence Department: Yintuo really fought with Lou Shiming.

Some people say that Lou Shiming tricked Yintuo into Guangxin City and slashed him, and some people say that he assassinated him under the city gate when he entered the city, but in short, it was unsuccessful, and Yintuo still escaped with his life.

But the fire between Yintuo and Lou Shiming is certain, because there are sporadic refugees who have fled from Guangxin to Geyang, bringing the news that Yintuo has attacked Guangxin.

Is it true or false? Zhao Jingzi can't say it well. He was so anxious that he couldn't sleep every day, and he waited for the scouts to come back.

The major personnel adjustment was basically completed, and the main force of the Tsing Shirt Brigade assembled around Yingtan Fort to conduct two joint training exercises, with the aim of testing combat strength and strengthening unity within the unit.

Due to the fact that a large number of veterans of the Geyang Minfu Corps returned home for vacation, and waited for the notice of the merchant group to assign new jobs, the main force of the Tsing Yi Corps is now mainly composed of surplus cadres to defend wartime personnel.

These people were looking forward to participating in one or two more battles to gain more merits, so they were eager to try it and yearn for the upcoming battle of Guangxin Province to recover.

At the beginning of these two exercises, many problems of the novices who joined before the Dongxiang Raiders were exposed, but by the time of the second exercise, with the guidance and help of the veterans, the cooperation and rhythm of all teams had been significantly improved.

The third exercise was a long-distance and rapid march, from Yingtan to Jinxi, and then to see the performance of the troops.

This is a test of internal coordination and coordination between men and vehicles, and between men and mules and horses, as well as a test of the dispatch, command, and logistical capabilities of the whole army.

The first two drills Zhao Chongbi took Zhu Zhanji, Jiao Conghu and guerrilla Cai Gangquan to watch, the first time Cai Guerrilla showed a disdainful look, the second time was both surprised and thoughtful, Li Dan wanted to see what his expression was the third time.

On the night before the exercise began, Anren's inspection envoy Ge Sibao suddenly came. Hearing his request to see him, Li Dan was very strange and immediately asked Lu Jiu to bring him in.

There were two people behind Ge Sibao when he came in, and after they saluted, Ge Sibao said, "Sir, these two people have to be noisy to see you when they go outside Anren City this afternoon!"

"Oh?" Li Dan looked at the man: "Who are you waiting for, what are you looking for me?"

The man who took the lead looked around and didn't answer.

Li Dan smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's all my own brother here, what do you have to say?"

The man knelt down on one knee and bowed his hand upward: "The grass people's surname is Gui, and I have seen the adults. The grass people came out from above, and worshiped under the gate of Suotiangang."

"You're the one who judges the heroes?" Li Dan narrowed his eyes: "How can you prove it?"

The man did not speak, but pressed his hand to his heart, and then gestured five numbers with one hand.

"Understood. And who is he, with you?"

"Back to my lordship, this ...... I don't know his name yet, but he came with me from Geyang halfway, and he is a subordinate of Hua Waist Xiucai." The spy said with some embarrassment.

"Oh?" Li Dan heard a piece of stone (Shi Dajun's nickname) say that this Geyang guard general who intends to accept Zhao'an, but how did he get entangled with the secret agents under Shen Jie?

It's not clear what the story should be. He then turned his face and nodded at Ge Sibao with a smile: "It's hard work, and I'll let you run it yourself."

"The lowly duty felt that the matter was important, so he personally sent them over overnight, as long as nothing went wrong." Ge Sibao hurriedly replied respectfully.

"You did the right thing. Do you want to go back to Anren tonight?"

"I don't dare to leave for too long."

"Very well, then please go back first, I'll talk to him and the two of you slowly."

After Ge Sibao retreated, Li Dan asked the two people on the ground to get up and sit down, and then asked curiously, "What's going on, how did you two come together?"

The spy surnamed Gui was embarrassed to report, it turned out that he had nothing to do when he went to Xing'an, and he was careless, but he didn't expect to meet this leader surnamed Duan on the streets of Geyang and saw at a glance that he knew martial arts.

The leader invited him to eat in a restaurant in the name of admiring the heroes of the rivers and lakes, secretly used anesthetics to numb him, and let his soldiers carry him to the yamen.

The spy shouted that he was a member of the Tsing Yi team, and someone would come to avenge him. ap.

Unexpectedly, the leader was overjoyed, and immediately asked his subordinates to loosen their ties and soothes them with kind words, claiming that they were his own people, saying that their brother had long wanted to accept Zhao'an, and proposed to go to Anren with him.

The spy surnamed Gui will be suspicious and want to go out to get out of trouble.

Unexpectedly, along the way, this surnamed Duan seemed to be solid and walked with him and did not move, but as soon as he said at the checkpoint of the Shigang Inspection Division that this person was from Geyang, the people at the checkpoint immediately confiscated their weapons and tied them up.

Fortunately, they didn't act on their own, and sent someone to the city to inform Ge Sibaolai.

Li Dan listened to the ridicule, and he couldn't blame anything, looking at the young man and asking with a smile, "Your surname is Duan?" But it's strict?"

The young man was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly arched his hand: "I don't expect the adult to know the name below, I'm really afraid!"

"Your brother once took the martial arts test, so presumably your martial arts skills are not bad?"

Duanyan puffed up his chest: "Back to adults, my brother is also literary and martial, but he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and learning words."

Li Dan understood what he meant, nodded with a smile and said very good, and then beckoned Lu Jiu to take him down to eat something first, and then invite him to come over and talk in detail after the conversation here.

When Duan Yan went out with Lu Jiu, Li Dan turned to the spy surnamed Gui: "So, did the judge ask you to go out of the city to bring me any news?"

"Master Hui, the master asked me to come out, mainly to report on the various situations that happened over there after you left Shangrao." The spy said. It turned out that on the third day after Li Dan and the others left, more rebel troops gathered in Shangrao.

The city observed that most of these newcomers had moved north, apparently under Lou Shiming's jurisdiction. Then, from the fifth day, the enemy army on the eastern route was the main force, and the northern front cooperated, and launched a five-day fierce attack on Shangrao.

Adjutant General Yu ordered the generals to concentrate all the guns and firearms on the east city, inflicting a large number of casualties on the rebels, and put the catapults left by the Tsing Yi team on the north gate of the urn city to swim back and forth to assist the defenders in counterattacking.

On the fourth day, suddenly the enemy camp in the north of the city moved, and thousands of troops were transferred to the direction of Guangxin.

Later, I heard that it was Lou Shiming and the Yintuo Department that had a fire in Guangxin, and the two fought each other all night, and finally the Yintuo Department finally lost its support and retreated westward under the condition that the Lou army continued to arrive.

"Yintuo ran away?" Li Dan hurriedly asked, he didn't want this guy to admit defeat so easily.

"Didn't go far. They retreated to Bijia Mountain first, but Lou's army pursued fiercely, so they retreated to Maguling. Then the two armies went back and forth between the two mountains." The spy replied:

"The good thing is that Lou Shiming only left 5,000 people outside the north gate, so the scouts of the official army can sneak out of the city to find out the news. I heard that Lou Shiming put at least tens of thousands of people around Bijia Mountain, and there are thousands more in Guangxin City. The two sides will not give in to each other."

"Is it because Lou Shiming attacked Yintuo?"

"You can say that, but not all." The spy told Li Dan that Lou Shiming received Yintuo's request for Guangxin, and immediately agreed and invited Yintuo to enter the city.

Unexpectedly, Yintuo noticed an abnormality outside the county yamen and wanted to turn around and return. Lou Shiming's troops were killed, and now Yintuo stabbed the hornet's nest, and a large number of hidden Lou troops poured out to take revenge, and Yintuo slashed all the way out of the door.

"But Yintuo was hit by an arrow in the back!" The spies reported.

Yintuo, who was hit by the arrow, became more and more convinced that things were not easy, but after he fled back to his own military camp, he passed out. His subordinates were not angry, and immediately mobilized the team to capture Guangxin City overnight, but they were expected by Lou Shiming.

The reinforcements transferred by Lou Shiming counterattacked in the name of eliminating the rebellion, and defeated the Yintuo tribe one after another, and it was not until Maguling that it gained a firm foothold.

"Lou Shiming's brain is better than Yintuo." Li Dan sneered: "What happened later?" He asked.

"Silver for the next few days

Lou Shiming chased between Fanxing Temple and Xianren Rock and accidentally fell into the ambush of the other party, and it is said that he lost more than 2,000 people, so he had to stop."

"Huh? Lou Shiming is too proud! Has he stopped pursuing?"

"No, just slow down and be more cautious."

But a new trouble soon appeared, and a Lou army of 3,000 men took a small road from the north to reach Zhangyan Temple first, blocking the road back to Geyang along the coast of the Yintuo army.

When the Yintuo army learned of this, they had to cross the river at Luoxi with their whole army, and defeated the Lou defenders at Goose Lake in a surprise attack, and then the main force went to the mouth of the river to station.

"When I left, I followed the tail of Lou Jun, and finally learned that they were facing off against each other in the Yintuo tribe on the north and south banks." The spy told Li Dan, "In addition, I heard that Yintuo was seriously injured by the arrow and was bedridden."

The two tigers competed, and now one has been injured, Li Dan thought that his efforts were not in vain. He arranged for the spies to go down to rest, and invited Duan Yan over.

"Brother Duan, please take a seat!" Li Dan sat across from him amicably and asked, "Last time, your brother mentioned to my department that he wanted to accept Zhao'an, and I have sent someone to Geyang, haven't you seen it?"

"I went down the road with my brother to return to the road, maybe it was a fork, but I really didn't see it." Duan Yan replied, "Because of Yintuo's defeat, his troops are retreating towards Geyang, and my brother's forces are cramped, so he is very anxious.

Although Yintuo was defeated, he still had thousands of soldiers under his command, and my two brothers were no match.

That's why my brother sent me to beg the adults to send troops to Geyang quickly. If Geyang is occupied by them first, they will definitely rely on the city to fight against the Lou family, and the city of Geyang will inevitably suffer!"

"Will they attack the city?" Li Dan was puzzled: "Yintuo is seriously injured, shouldn't it?"

Duan Yan was stunned: "My lord, Yintuo is dead!"

"What did you say?" Li Dan stood up suddenly: "Is this true?"

"If he doesn't die, how dare my brother act so boldly?" Duan Yan also stood up and arched his hand:

"Three days before I came out, I had a fast horse to Geyang, Yan Yinshuai was killed, and now the whole army is retreating to Geyang, asking us to prepare to defend the city."

"But, but ...... he died, the spies came to report that Lou's army was ambushed on the way to retreat, and if he was already dead, who is in control of the whole army now?"

Li Dan originally thought that these were all Yintuo arrangements, but now he was shocked when he heard that it wasn't, because it showed that there was a person who was still firmly in control of the whole army after Yintuo's death, and he also had the ability to bite back! Who is he?

"Hu Guangen, nicknamed the gourd head." Duan Yan replied, "This man is a loyal follower of Yintuo, and he is the most trusted general under him."

"I've heard of it," Li Dan nodded, "But isn't this person guarding Lead Mountain?"

"Yes before, but later Yintuo called him to help, and he took more than 2,000 men to the north."

"There are a thousand people left in the lead mountain?"

"That's how it should be."

Li Dan touched the soft beard growing on his chin and pondered for a moment, and then said, "You go to rest first and recover your strength. I will now convene you to discuss the matter."

That night, Feng Shen rode a fast horse and stepped into Zhao Chongbi's station in Yujiang County.

Governor Zhao knew that this person was Li Dan's scout leader, so he hurriedly put on his clothes to meet him.

"What, you said Yintuo is dead?" He was taken aback. Although he knew about Li Dan's provocation of the relationship between Yintuo and Lou Shiming, he didn't expect it to have such an effect, it was really unexpected!

"Exactly! My lord ordered me to tell you that Ge Yang wants to do it anyway, the enemy of Lead Mountain is only a thousand people, the rest of Yintuo is still breathing by the river, and Lou Shiming's pursuers are scattered within a hundred miles on both sides of the strait. This is a great opportunity to attack, and I hope you will decide!"

"Shhh Governor Zhao was a little embarrassed.

The officers and troops are not ready, it is still unknown whether Luxi will be recovered, and Zhu Zhanji and Cai Shuangwu were ordered to move from Dongxiang to Yingtan until tomorrow, which is ....... "And ...... your drill tonight?" Governor Zhao is still thinking about this.

"Lord Hui, Lord Li means that if you agree, he will lead his team to Yujiang tonight and then turn back to the south

Take Guixi and Geyang directly, and your lord can lead the officers and troops to march later."

It's very tempting, but Lao Zhao is hesitant this time. The Tsing Shirt team has never lost a battle, which is not only enviable, but also makes people worry more and more day by day, worrying that such a record may be completely wiped out if they lose one day.

Zhao Chongbi knows in his heart that although he is a "yellow belt", he doesn't just want to do whatever he wants? First of all, you suddenly went south, what about the emptiness that appears here? Where can Shi Shuai find a team to fill in the blanks?

Even if other teams are transferred, what if Yang He sees that he can get out of this loophole, all his efforts are wasted, and the silver and bamboo baskets spent by the court are empty? He understood that if that was the case, it would be useless to tie any yellow belt around his waist!

When Feng Shen returned to Li Dan dejectedly, the exercise team had already begun to set off.

"What, didn't agree?" Zhao Jingzi asked.

"I guessed." Li Dan nodded and sighed, "The situation on the battlefield is changing, it may be an opportunity, or it may not be at all."

"My lord, why don't we go together and see if we can convince him?"

Zhao Jingzi was still thinking about using his fellow family affection, Li Dan smiled: "It's useless. It's not that the opportunity is bad, it's that you can't do this! The officers and soldiers were not ready, the troops were not in place, and the supplies had not arrived, so it really made no sense to force them to go south now.

Once it is stuck and the rear cannot be transported, the morale of the army will soon fluctuate, and defeat is imminent." Li Dan knocked on the leather armor with a horsewhip:

"It's a good opportunity, but it's useless if you don't take advantage of it. Tell Duan Yan that the army is not ready and cannot go out at the moment, either his brother will withdraw or lead the team to surrender anyway, and I will send someone to answer it, or they will continue to lurk and wait for the team to arrive next spring."

Li Dan looked at Zhao Jingzi: "Please tell him, if it is not a last resort, I hope that his brother will not withdraw first, but support that Hu Guangen to block Lou Shiming's attack as much as possible, so that the Lou family's forces cannot continue to develop westward."

"Yes!" Zhao Jingzi felt deeply regretful, what a good opportunity. But as Li Dan said, an opportunity that cannot be used is not an opportunity.

Joining now is not impossible for the Tsing Jersey team, but it is very risky. Moreover, if the officers and soldiers do not appear, it will cause the lone army to go deep into the situation, and once the surrounded green shirts can only quickly withdraw by their own mobility, then this leap forward will become a meaningless march.

Duan Yan was also helpless when he heard about this decision, so he had to give up his hand and say, "Then go back and discuss with my brother first, and see the situation before making a decision."

"That's it," Zhao Jingzi pointed to Feng Shen behind him, "Feng Senjun will arrange a small boat to take you back to Geyang, so that the road can be faster."

Then the boatman will stay at the place you have agreed to near Goyang, and if you have any decisions or news, you can let him bring it back and let us know."

"Understood!" In this way, even if a communication channel between Geyang and Yingtan was established, Duan Yan would not be a trip in vain, he breathed a sigh of relief and left with Feng Shen.

Because of the arrival of these two people, the situation around Shangrao seemed to have cleared a layer of fog, and it became clear at once.

Li Dan believes that Duan Yan is the internal leader of Yintuo, and generally does not easily spread the news that affects morale and stability such as the casualties of the leader, so Li Dan and others are inclined to the truth of Yintuo's death after analysis.

Then there is a big question ahead: what will happen to Yintuo after his death?

"My lord, I think there are two possibilities." Li Dan said to Governor Zhao, "One is that the rest of Yintuo and Lou Shiming's troops continue to fight, which will weaken the Lou family's strategy against Shangrao.

Another possibility is that they can't be stopped or even eaten by Lou Shiming, then the Lou family's forces under Lou Shiming's leadership may have been directly bordering us to the west."

"Isn't it possible that after Lou Shiming eats this lump, he won't return to support his father's strategy to attack Shangrao?" Zhao Chongbi frowned and asked.

"My lord, that Lou Shiming is not happy for the Lou family to be the king, and he doesn't like the eldest brother's instigation of his father, which is a contradiction within them."

"He doesn't want his father and brother to be king?" Governor Zhao was interested: "Is there a way to recruit peace?"

"It's not time yet."

Li Dan shook his head: "The Lou family is now powerful, and they have never suffered a big loss like Yang He. If it can annihilate its main force or defeat most of it, then it can be talked about Zhao'an. After all, peace is built on victory!"

Governor Zhao nodded frequently when he heard this, but the topic of recruiting An Lou Shiming still left a place in his mind.