The mountains to the east of Tongling are reckless and deep, and I don't know if there is a road, but even if there is a road, it will be blocked by the big lake in the south of the mountain, so it is not impossible to lose troops from the mountains to Chizhou, but it is also too difficult, especially in summer, whether it is a scorching sun or a rainy day, it is absolutely inhuman torture.

Therefore, taking the official road is still the first choice, but this narrow path close to the mountain cliff and the Yangtze River has been heavily guarded by Bai Wang's troops and set up barriers, and it is not easy to think about it.

Seeing Chang Yu's frowns, Ma Ke coughed lightly and said: "More than 100,000 Tartars and hundreds of thousands of thieves can't stop the Overseer, the white thief in front of him is like a praying mantis blocking the car, and the Overseer only needs to give an order, and he can easily crush it into meat puree!" ”

Chang Yu tilted his head and smiled: "Does Mr. Ma really think so?" ”

Ma Ke was slightly embarrassed, and coughed lightly: "The last general lost his word, so that the Lord Overseer laughed" At this time, he realized that this little eunuch didn't seem to like others too much!

"To open the way, we have to rely more on the general soldier!" Chang Yu smiled slightly, and Ma Ke hurriedly said: "It's okay to go to the soup and fight the fire" As he spoke, he looked to the south, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, it turned out that the hundreds of thieves had reached nearly a hundred meters away, but they also stopped, because Tu Yuan and Guo Ren had already defeated those thieves and arrived behind Chang Yu!

Chang Yu whispered a few words to Ma Ke and the two of them slapped their horses forward, Tu Yuan exclaimed in the back and was stopped by Chang Yu raising his hand, the two rode half a hundred horses, and the thief army really reacted, and the three horsemen came slowly and stopped ten meters away, but it was Wang Yien, the king of Hades, who saw him frowning and scolding: "The name of the dog day is on the newspaper!" ”

Ma Ke was furious: "You just killed yesterday, you don't know Lao Tzu so quickly!" Hades' eyes narrowed: "Are you Wu Sangui or Ma Ke?" ”

"It's you Uncle Ma!" Ma Ke sneered and touched the handle of the knife with his hand: "The thief is the first to report his name!" ”

"Hades, who took your dog's life!" Wang Yien scolded: "The dog day came to ask for forgiveness, or not, kneel down and kowtow three times and shout grandpa, Lao Tzu will spare you from death......"

Childish, so damn naïve! Chang Yu listened to Ma Ke and Wang Yien scolding each other, shook his head with a wry smile, and then raised his hand to interrupt the two: "Hades King Wang Yien, one of the five tigers under Bai Wang's command, is bloodthirsty and killing, I heard that there are nearly three hundred people who died in your hands, but is it true?" ”

"It seems that the miscellaneous pieces in the king's body have sold Lao Tzu cleanly" Wang Yien smiled at this, and suddenly raised his hand and pointed at Chang Yu: "Who are you this young man?" He wondered in his heart that it was not a common person to stand side by side with Mako.

"It doesn't matter who I am, I'm just ordered to ask you a word" Chang Yu smiled slightly: "Are you willing to surrender?" ”

As soon as the words fell, he saw Wang Yien furious, and raised his knife to point: "Close your beak, do you think Lao Tzu is the same treacherous and shameless person in the king's body, how can Lao Tzu surrender to you ......" All kinds of foul language continued, Ma Ke was furious when he heard it, and he was about to lead his troops to fight, but was stopped by Chang Yu with his eyes, although Wang Yien was stubborn and vulgar, he was also a man, so he interrupted him loudly: "You have killed countless people and have a bad reputation for the king of Hades, and this governor is not talented and there are people who slaughter the name, and if you don't descend, you can see the high and low, Let's see if you, the king of Hades, took me, or did the people slaughter you and send you to see the real Hades," he said and left with a sneer.

Wang Yien didn't react for a while, but was reminded by the people around him and suddenly realized that the young man was actually the big eunuch of Dongchang! That's right, the eunuch of Dongchang is murderous and aggressive, and someone in Jingguan has a bad reputation, but he didn't expect such a spiritual guy!

When he reacted, Chang Yu and his party were far away, and his subordinates clamored for him to chase and kill, if the eunuch was captured, it would be a great achievement, but it was obvious that Wang Yien was still sensible, and it was not easy for the eunuch to earn such a great prestige, and his dozens of horsemen could go deep into the position without being stopped, which shows the strength of their combat power, not to mention that their cavalry was extremely strong and fast like the wind, and it was difficult to stop and chase, so they also gave up and reported to Bai Wang.

At this time, Bai Wang was frowning by the river and looking into the distance, Wang Yien stood behind him and said a lot, Bai Wang only shook his brows when he heard that the little eunuch had arrived, and the others were indifferent, Wang Yien was puzzled when Bai Wang raised his hand and pointed to the other side: "Look, the one who sent him to death is here!" ”

The drizzle was cloudy, and the vision was not good, Wang Yien didn't care about hearing Bai Wang say this, so he squinted his eyes and looked carefully at the opposite bank, and he could vaguely see the figure stretching for more than ten miles, and he was suddenly surprised: "Officers and soldiers? He, they are going to Anqing? ”

"Not really!" There was a sneer on the corner of Bai Wang's mouth: "The dog eunuch wants to do a two-pronged approach, but he doesn't know that Lao Tzu has already asked Cheng Niandong to sharpen his knife and wait, and he will kill as many as he wants."

Wang Yien's face looked a little good, and he laughed a few times: "It's not much, it is estimated that there are more than 10,000 people, and it looks like cavalry, but it is useless for cavalry to go to Anqing...... Hey, where did the imperial court get so many cavalry? ”

"Maybe the Dog Emperor has transferred all the cavalry from the north, but it's just ...... Hey, hey, hey" Bai Wang laughed: "This is not as good as riding a pig with cavalry here!" ”

The people around him laughed, and Bai Wang looked up at the sky: "As long as the rain is not heavy, the officers and soldiers will be helpless against us." The crowd agreed.

The soldiers and horses that Bai Wang saw were naturally not Gao Jie and others, but the Shenji Battalion and the Guards Battalion sent by Li Yan to Anqing for reinforcements, and the two marches were not hidden, and they happened to walk on the other side of Tongling because they could only stick to the river because they avoided mountains and lakes, and they happened to be looked at by Bai Wang, but they thought they were the vanguard of the officers and soldiers, but they didn't know that the real pioneer, Gao Jie and the others were fighting with Cheng Niandong.

As soon as Chang Yu's military order arrived last night, Gao Jie was impatient to attack overnight and was dissuaded by Liu Zeqing, because the night battle was extremely unfavorable to them, after all, the geographical location here was really complicated, and it was necessary to be fully prepared to fight with the thief army on the muddy road between the Yangtze River and Shitang Lake, which was less than 100 meters wide but nearly 20 miles long.

The most basic preparation is to let the soldiers eat and drink well, and do full pre-war mobilization, as a veteran Gao Jie, they understand that this is the most basic but also the most important link.

So he did not launch an attack that night, but let the soldiers sleep well in the middle of noon before they began to assemble to prepare for the attack, at this time the sky was drizzling and extremely cool, it was really a good day to fight, Gao Jie smiled, Liu Zeqing frowned, looking at the road between the rivers and lakes in the distance, his eyes narrowed into a line.

The three of them have already discussed, Huama Liu is stationed in Sturgeon Town to be responsible for the palace, and Liu Zeqing and Gao Jie are concentrating their forces to seize the twenty miles of rivers and lakes, step by step, steadily, and never rashly advance.

When it was nearly noon, Liu Ze counted 500 cavalry and 500 foot soldiers as the vanguard, and Gao Jie led the same troops to march south along the Jianghu Road.

"Don't rush in, even if it's a mile or a mile forward!" Liu Zeqing advised, Gao Jie disagreed: "You are the pioneer and break the enemy first"

Liu Zeqing sighed: "Since I am a pioneer, I should be the first to make a contribution, and you are optimistic!" ”

Gao Jie laughed: "If you break the enemy, you should take the first credit for you."

In order to relieve the pressure, the two deliberately laughed, and unconsciously walked several miles close to the position, that is, the place where the thief army tried to dig a ditch to drain and block the enemy, and at this time, the opposite thief army also gathered thousands of soldiers and horses to sharpen their knives Huo Huo was waiting to fight.

When the two were observing, the scout in front of them came to report: the thief army was a defense officer, and the cavalry drove straight into the riverbank, taking the rocks from the river beach, covering the road for two or three miles!

! Gao Jie's eyes widened angrily and he couldn't help but scold: "The thief is hateful!" This kind of trick is made out".

Liu Zeqing also smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Do everything, this technique seems familiar" Gao Jie turned his head and glanced at him: "You mean my brother?" ”

Liu Zeqing shrugged: "Don't talk about it, how to fight in front of you?" ”

Gao Jie sneered: "Could it be that we can't kill him without cavalry?" Liu Zeqing nodded, without Zhang Butcher, we have to eat this pork, and turned his head to look at the northwest, and couldn't help but snort coldly: "As long as Huama Liu doesn't drag his feet, our brothers won't be able to suffer a big loss."

When Gao Jie heard the prestige, he could vaguely see the figure on the side of Shitang Lake in the northwest, knowing that it was the thief army that had been dispatched, and it was obvious that he wanted to outflank him from the back.

"The intersection of the village is very wide, and the flower horse Liu can cavalry to resist the enemy, there is no worry over there, let's just do our own work" Gao Jie retracted his gaze, Liu Zeqing nodded: "It's not early, let's do it first" and then ordered an attack, more than 1,000 officers and soldiers dismounted and rushed towards the opposite side on foot, Gao Jie immediately ordered his subordinates to go, and the thief army did not show weakness, waving his sword to meet him, and in a blink of an eye, he fought together.

Cheng Niandong made the greatest use of the terrain to restrain the cavalry of the officers and soldiers, so that the officers and soldiers lost the advantage of horse warfare and could only abandon their horses and fight, but they were in the middle of the battle, as bandits, their combat effectiveness was not inferior to the officers and soldiers, and even sometimes affected by morale, they were even higher than the officers and soldiers, after all, for many years, the officers and soldiers had not fought any battles on the table, otherwise they would not have made the thief army bigger.

The sound of killing together, the two armies rushed forward one after another, the swords and swords were screaming endlessly, as far as the eye could see, there were fighting figures everywhere in the river, beach and lake, everywhere in the mud, some people in the chaos of rocks lost their weapons and killed each other with stones, and some even had entered the water, pressing the other party into the water and trying to drown......

Gao Jie is belligerent, seeing the fierce battle, he can't help but want to fight into the battle to have a good time, but the terrain is really unbearable, there are rocks and mud everywhere, and the war horse can only be cut down as soon as he enters it, so he has to stop watching and cheering!

The killing on the rivers and lakes is fierce, and the sturgeon town of ten miles behind him has also started a battle, as Liu Zeqing expected, as long as they attack, the thief army ambushed in the west will inevitably come, but this time the flower horse Liu has been prepared, when the thief army is still a few miles apart, he has gathered the cavalry to block the intersection, and the cavalry rushed over under the order before it approached, although the thief army was brave and brazen, in the case of not having an advantage in the troops, the cavalry was unstoppable with foot soldiers, and it was scattered in an instant.

However, they were worthy of being bandits, although they were scattered, they did not retreat, and they also deliberately led the war group to the swamp by the water, so that the officers and soldiers were stuck in the mud or could not move or were inconvenient to maneuver.

At first, the officers and soldiers were indeed a little flustered, but Liu Liangzuo was also a veteran of a long war, and he had a lot of experience in fighting with the thief army in Luzhou for several years, so he immediately adjusted his tactics and ordered some soldiers to abandon their horses and fight on foot, cavalry charged the enemy, and infantry fought.