Compared with the war outside Tongling City, the corpse mountain and the sea of blood, a river separated by a hundred miles away from the Anqing City shows a quiet time, there is a lake named Ling Lake in the north of the city, the locals call the big lake, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers on the shore of the big lake camp here to enclose the water of Anqing City, the state of mind of the thief army in the city is unknown, but the officers and soldiers outside the city are very leisurely, every day except for logging and building cars, the other time seems to be playing, there are people who gather to chat and gamble on silver, and there are people who play in the lake and catch fish, and the coach Li Yan goes around the city every day with the generals to watch around the city in the morning, noon and evening, Other than that, there was no other movement.

Tens of thousands of troops outside Anqing City have their own origins, Li Yanbu, Huang Degongbu, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Wenbing, the three lords led by the personal guards, it can be said that they are very tough, and the generals are also very domineering, but these people are all under the command of Li Yan and they all have to give him some face.

However, there is such a special team, which is not under the control of Li Yan and can even supervise Li Yan.

The palace camp of Dongchangwei is also the old camp where Chang Yu started.

The palace battalion is a very special existence, both a eunuch soldier and a son of Dongchang, he can fight on the horse, and he can investigate the case when he gets off the horse, but now he has retired and no longer has to rush to the front line, and he was appointed by Chang Yu to supervise the army, but unlike the previous prison army, he does not interfere in military affairs and only manages military discipline.

Tens of thousands of troops are uneven, let's not talk about what happened to the officers and soldiers below, just look at what kind of generals Gao Jie's group are, the so-called upward and downward effects of these officers and soldiers in the past can be said to be no different from thieves or even worse, although this period of time has been slightly convergent, but Chang Yu wants not to converge, but to correct!

If Li Yan alone relied on the strength of Li Yan alone, at most, it would only make them more restrained, but the deterrent effect of the arrival of the Gongzi battalion was different, and everyone in the army knew that although the Gongzi battalion was a eunuch, they were all fierce soldiers with great achievements, which people did not have a few lives in their hands, not to mention that they belonged to Dongchang, that is, some generals said to take it, and to rectify some big-headed soldiers, it was really said to kill them.

On this way, the Gongzi Battalion is responsible for supervising military discipline does make Li Yan a lot easier, along the way, whenever there is a disturbance to the people, the Gongzi Battalion is a beating, a beating according to the death, and a serious direct killing, for a while, the army regards the Gongzi Battalion as a powerful ghost of the King of Hades, and when he sees it far away, it is far away from the camp, and the Gongzi Battalion is also happy and quiet.

After arriving outside the city of Anqing, the surrounding villages were ten rooms and nine empty, and the soldiers did not disturb the people if they wanted to, nothing more than gathering people to gamble or fight or something, these palace battalions turned a deaf ear, and had nothing to do for several days, and the commanders Fan Jiaqian and Hu Ling simply took people to hunt in the mountains to the west, and the life was quite comfortable.

During the days when the officers and soldiers besieged the city, he was busy with the city defense from morning to night, mobilizing the people to demolish the houses and transport wood and stone to the city, mobilizing the rich gentry in the city to donate money and food, and going up and down the city more than a dozen times a day, striving to ensure that no water leaks.

Cheng Niandong was fierce all the time, telling them that we could win, we could repel the officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers were simply unable to capture Anqing City, and even soon the reinforcements of Bai Dashuai would come......

seems to be full of confidence and victory, but I am more and more anxious.

The officers and soldiers besieged the city for several days and did not start the siege as he expected, but did not hurry to make all kinds of siege equipment outside the city, and did not seem to be in a hurry at all...... The Eastern Road Rebels were not in a good situation.

Half a month ago, Bai Wang crossed the river on the other side of the river and went north to attack the city of Nanjing, so as to attract the firepower of the officers and men, so as to gain time for consolidating the Anqing regime.

It was only later that the bad news suddenly spread that Wang Tizhong surrendered to the imperial court and led his troops to fight back, and Cheng Niandong felt that there was Bai Wang in charge of the officers and soldiers there, and he would definitely stop prosperous.

Therefore, when he learned that the officers and soldiers galloped overnight and held Tongling in his hands one step ahead of Bai Wang, although he felt sorry, he still did not panic much, Bai Wang made the best use of all kinds of dangerous terrain, and it would be difficult for the officers and soldiers to go further!

Later, he was besieged by Li Yan and lost contact with Bai Wang, although he did not know the battle situation on the east bank, but his heart began to hairy, because the officers and soldiers here were too calm, just imagine if Bai Wang counterattacked Tongling on the east road and broke the city to the north, the officers and soldiers here would inevitably return to the army to rescue, for them, the safety of Nanjing City was far greater than that of Anqing City, which had fallen into the enemy.

Since there is no movement here, it means that the east road may still be in the glue battle, and Bai Wang, who has rich combat experience, can be caught in the glue war, what is the origin of the officers and soldiers over there?

However, it is certain that Bai Wang has not yet defeated Chizhou at this time, otherwise he will either retreat south to De'an or come to aid Anqing, Cheng Niandong stood at the head of the south city and looked at the rolling Yangtze River and felt very irritable, recently it may be rainy in the upper reaches of the river, the water is rising and the water is turbulent, even if Bai Wang comes to help from the other side, it is not easy to cross the river, how can tens of thousands of officers and soldiers outside the city easily let him get his wish.

Perhaps, it is necessary to prepare for a protracted war.

In comparison, Li Yan outside the city is indeed much easier, but it is also loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and the relaxation on the outside is for the thieves in the city to see, which is a psychological tactic, and secretly seize the time to make siege equipment, while calculating siege tactics with Zhu in the future, where to attack, who will attack, how to attack, and how much the bottom line of acceptable casualties is in the calculation.

But one thing is that Li Yan is really not in a hurry to attack the city now, if the war on the east road is unfavorable, even if he is not fully prepared, he will immediately let Bai Wang return to the army to rescue, but in recent days, when he heard the news that Bai Wang was going to surrender, Li Yan couldn't help laughing and said to everyone: "The plan of delay" Zhang Qingzhen was still worried about whether the little eunuch would be tricked, but Huang Degong understood Chang Yu: "He will only plan the plan, and he has never seen anyone take advantage of him when he plays tricks."

Li Yan concluded at that time that Bai Wang's delaying plan must be to prepare for a big war, and sure enough, good news came last night, Chang Yu led his troops to fight with Bai Wang for a day, and his troops were defeated, and Bai Wang fled to Chizhou.

The generals were overjoyed when they heard the news, and they were affected by their emotions and persuaded Li Yan to hurry up and attack the city, after all, many people have not made an inch of success in the south so far, and they are all counting on fighting Anqing to earn military merits.

But Li Yan was not in a hurry at all after hearing this good news, the officers and soldiers on the East Road were unstoppable, Bai Wang was too busy to take care of himself and was unable to help Anqing, then he could be fully prepared to do it again, and during this period, he would exert psychological pressure on the thief army in the city, even if it could not make it mentally collapse, but it would be a great blow to its morale, and there might even be a surprising accident.

Li Yan, who was born as a strategist, naturally also has many means, such as when the night first fell, Cheng Niandong, who had just returned to the yamen from the city to rest, was smoked by a letter of surrender sent by his own soldiers.

The letter was shot in by the officers and soldiers outside the city, written by Li Yan himself, yesterday Bai Wang's fiasco and most of the soldiers and horses were tied up in the city of Chizhou at this time, and the general should find another way out, and he was not to blame for going out of the city and surrendering......

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However, the soldiers told him that in addition to this letter, the officers and soldiers outside the city also shot in a lot of surrender documents, saying that the defeat of Baiwang on the East Road was limited to three days to surrender to Cheng or the army would attack the city, and said that if there was a person who abandoned the secret and surrendered to the Ming, the reward would be a thousand taels and the official could be added, and the thieves in the city whispered endlessly.

Cheng Niandong was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly took people to the city, afraid that the army's heart would change, and he didn't dare to go down to the city again.

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Explain the so-called problem, under normal circumstances, Chang Yu will call himself the governor of the army generals or unfamiliar court officials or formal occasions, close people, familiar people or some top bosses will call themselves our family, Dongchang's subordinates or relatives will call him the governor, the governor, the generals or general officials in the army will call him the governor, and the people who are awesome, such as some princes and nobles and even important ministers in the court, will call him Chang Gonggong.