The rain was falling unhurriedly, Chang Yu was sitting in the tea shop at the entrance of the village and listening to the rain and watching the flickering fire in the distance at the head of Anqing City, Li Muxian was fiddling with a turtle shell next to him and was deducing something, not far away, the guards were chatting over the fire, and the chatter Tie Hanhan was helping to roast the game before he left, boasting about how good his craft was, and the saliva was about to drip onto the meat, and was dragged aside by Wu Zhong with disgust, but the goods quickly surrounded him again: "This big brother, you have so much strength, it is greater than the strength of the cow in the rich man Zhang's house, Do you know that the cow of the rich man's house was also robbed by thieves......"

The sound of wind and rain and the sound of frolicking filled this small riverside village, Chang Yu looked around and smiled slightly, his heart was very relieved, he liked this feeling very much, it was very warm.

There was a shouting sound from the riverside, and the guards who were still laughing and playing immediately copied and added a guy to surround Chang Yu in the middle, and the other group went straight to the riverside.

It didn't take long for a group of people to come and giggle, it turned out that Li Yan asked someone to send some pickled horse meat, it turned out that he saw a fire on the other side and it was raining, guessing that Chang Yu had not left, so he asked people to send meat.

"Don't talk about it, Li Yan really has a way of being a man" Li Muxian pouted and shook his head, and Wu Zhong sighed: "If the little overseer doesn't take such a fancy to him, people will come to trouble."

"Look at the two of you," Qiao Sanxiu joked in a low voice, causing Chen Wangting and the rest of the guards to laugh.

Chang Yu likes game and doesn't like pickled meat, so he gave it to his subordinates, and he volunteered to be the best at stir-frying cured meat...... Take the initiative to go to the kitchen to brush the pot and make a fire...... Chang Yu's head was furious, and he summoned him: "Big brother, it's not too early for you to leave!" ”

"Where are you going, my family is in this village, what are you going to do, how good it is to chat with you......" Tie Hanhan was saying that he suddenly heard a faint sound of cannons in the distance, and everyone was stunned and looked at the other side, and saw that the fire over there had become much bigger, not only in the city, but also outside the city.

Li Yan is attacking the city again!

"I just attacked last night, and I fought again tonight, don't you make a show to show the little overseer" Wu Zhong frowned and said in a low voice, Li Muxian glanced at him: "If Li Yan is as shallow as you are, he would have died on the battlefield many times" Wu Zhong was angry and smashed his fist, and was grabbed by Qiao Sanxiu next to him, and persuaded him to stop after a few words.

Chang Yu naturally knew that Li Yan was not putting on a show for himself, but putting pressure on the thieves in the city, so he asked a few people who gave meat: "Who are the thieves in the city?" ”。

"Back to the Lord of the Governor, according to the captive, the thief general in the city heard that his name is Cheng Niandong......" Several people gossiped a lot about the siege of the city during this time, including how Li Yan besieged the city without attacking, and shot a book to persuade him to surrender and exert pressure.

Chang Yu nodded slightly, Cheng Niandong didn't know the historical data, but he had heard Wang Tizhong say that he was also a fierce general under Bai Wang, and he was extremely loyal.

But if you fight a war, you are afraid of encountering this kind of die-hard loyalist, if the two armies face each other in the wilderness, it will be over directly, regardless of whether you are loyal or not, but at this time, the opponent's defense of the city will not easily surrender, and you will suffer great casualties if you attack hard!

Chang Yu can't accept a big loss, even if it takes time, as long as he can reduce the loss, he is willing, after all, Daming has this little money left now, how can he go to Xi'an and Li Zicheng to fight the murderous king in the southwest alone.

So he didn't hesitate to let Li Yan lead the army to besiege the city, and Li Yan's siege of the city for two consecutive days was by no means as simple as exerting pressure. ”。

Liu Zeqing, Liu Zongbing.

Chang Yu sighed, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

It was dark and rainy, and the distance across the river was far away, and everyone stood and watched for a while, but they couldn't see that they were ugly, so they went back to the tea shed to eat meat and drink soup, and the few meat deliverers wanted to go back to the other side, Chang Yu explained to them that they would tell Li Yan to send a group of people and horses to be stationed in this village tomorrow to be responsible for transiting cross-strait intelligence.

After everyone ate and drank enough, Chang Yu decided to spend the night here tonight, and the guards took his tea shop as the center to rest in the surrounding houses, of course, there are light and dark sentinels everywhere in the village.

That Tie Hanhan was full of food and drink, but he still had to pull everyone to talk nonsense, if it was on weekdays, it would not hurt that he would be happy in everyone, but at this time, Chen Wangting was worried that he was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, and it was always inappropriate to stay here, so people drove him away.

It rained a lot this night, but Chang Yu slept very soundly, he liked to listen to the rain and sleep, the sound of the rain could make him relax, so he slept until the second half of the night, and when he got up to pee, he found that the rain had stopped, and there was no movement on the other side, and everything was so quiet when he looked around.

The guards on duty were changing shifts, but Chang Yu was not sleepy and walked slowly to the riverside, Song Luoshu and Qiao Sanxiu hurriedly followed: "The overseer is careful of slipping down"

The ferry was dark, but the river could be vaguely seen, Chang Yu looked left and right and suddenly asked the two behind him: "What do you say people are doing in this life?" ”

Song Luoshu turned his head to look at Qiao Sanxiu.

Qiao Sanxiu touched his head and frowned: "Fame and fortune? ”

Chang Yu shook his head: "Maybe everyone's pursuit is different, but Bendu thinks it's for a sense of achievement."

A sense of accomplishment? The two were a little confused, but they didn't ask when they saw that Chang Yu didn't speak.

When the sky was slightly bright, Chang Yu and his entourage got up early to wash up a little and then turned over and left, Tie Hanhan chased after him from behind, I burned the pot of wild vegetable soup and didn't drink it before leaving......

He was echoed by the sound of horses' hooves drifting away.

The road was muddy, and everyone let their horses go slowly along the river for several miles, and the sky was bright and bright, but it was a cloudy day with dark clouds rolling and rain at any time.

Tie Hanhan was not wrong, after everyone walked along the river for a few miles, the Yangtze River turned a big bend ninety degrees to the south, and the river beach was difficult to walk and could only stay away from the river bank, but they found that there were really big lakes and swamps all over the place, and there were only more than 100 meters in the middle to walk, fortunately, Chang Yu had long been accustomed to this kind of terrain.

How do you know that after walking for a few miles, everyone couldn't help frowning, and the big place in the middle of a river and a lake on both sides was still full of hills and ravines, knowing that it was a very difficult mountain road that Tie Hanhan said.

It is indeed difficult to walk, it is originally a bumpy mountain road and slippery after the rain and the hills are overgrown.

However, it is surprising that there are countless villages and villages along the way in this hilly area of dozens of miles, and most of the villagers live and work in peace and contentment, but after thinking about it, I guessed that Bai Wang broke the mouth of the lake and Pengze when he came out of De'an, and the two counties of Pengze were adopted at that time, not plundering the people or robbing the people, until Chang Yu sent troops from Nanjing to break Wuhu, when the thief army was tight, he began to coerce the people to act as cannon fodder, but obviously it did not affect here.

It was drizzling again near noon, and Chang Yu and his entourage rested in a big village on the side of the road, and asked the villagers to borrow a big pot of boiling water to drink.

The villagers didn't know whether they were officers and soldiers or thieves, anyway, they weren't so afraid, and they would even chat a few words, which made Chang Yu sigh in his heart, the thief army was not completely unpopular with the people, otherwise there would not be such a big market.

Everyone ate hastily, and the villagers asked for directions and learned that this place was only more than 20 miles away from Dongliu County (now Dongliu Town), so they were vigilant and ordered the guards to enter a state of combat readiness, but Chang Yu didn't think so, looking at the local people's quiet appearance of the years, they knew the paralysis of the thief army in front, and they definitely didn't know that Chizhou City had lost the news that Baiwang had collapsed, and maybe they didn't even know that Anqing was besieged.