What Gao Jie didn't expect was that Li Yan came back from Chizhou so soon, he left last night and came back late this night, and he wanted to quietly return to the camp to rest early, but he didn't expect to be approached soon.

There was not one person, but seven or eight, all of whom were Liu Zeqing's subordinate generals.

Although Li Yan is in charge, he is an indispensable existence in Anqing, even those earls and marquis have to obey orders, but he can't and doesn't want to use his official position to suppress these people, and these people are not only Liu Zeqing's cronies, but also generals of the imperial court, like Ma Huabao, Zhang Shiyi, Bai Yongfu, Gao Jinzhong, Zhang Guozhu and others are either deputy commanders or deputy generals at this time, and the strength and power of the generals should not be underestimated, not to mention that it is when the crowd is angry.

"Li Shuai, what did the Overseer say?" Everyone gathered outside Li Yan's tent and didn't listen, Li Yan had to be patient and invited everyone to the tent and served tea: "The governor said that this matter should be handled carefully, and Liu Zongbing died in battle, and he was also heartbroken, but people cannot be resurrected after death, and the overall situation should be taken seriously, and I would like to ask the court to give a generous burial......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the generals: "The thief's first Cheng Niandong must apologize with death!" Otherwise, we will not be convinced, unwilling, and disobedient."

Li Yan suddenly felt that his head was as big as a fight, so he comforted the generals: "This matter has been conveyed to the Overseer on behalf of the General, and since you are not convinced, the Overseer will come back two days later and you will petition in person, so it is good that there is no reason to be the general."

Everyone thought that Li Yan had actually indulged them a lot, and since he couldn't do this, why bother him, so he said goodbye one by one, and said that he would wait for Chang Yu to come back and protest and petition.

As soon as the generals left, Li Yan ordered his henchmen to secretly invite Gao Jie to the tent: "Ma Hua Leopard, their anger is getting bigger and bigger, and they can't hold back that something is going to happen."

Gao Jie was also anxious: "What did the little overseer say?" ”

Li Yan looked outside the tent: "The overseer said that Cheng Niandong can't stay."

Gao Jie stood up abruptly when he heard this: "Then kill him, flatten the horse and leopard, isn't their anger just right......" Before he finished speaking, he was pulled back to his seat by Li Yan: "Shhh, be quiet, let me ask you, if you kill Cheng Niandong, what do you think the thousands of thieves under him will think, will it be chaotic?" Have you slaughtered them all? ”

"Slaughtered it, the little overseer didn't do this, he killed the prisoners in Taiyuan...... You know better than me" Gao Jie disagreed, Li Yan shook his head with a wry smile: "This time is different from the past, there have been many battles in the past few months, and our troops are tight, don't you see that this southern expedition will call the emperor's personal guards...... You can't kill it now, you have to keep it to fight Xi'an."

"That'...... Then what do you say about this, you can kill but don't kill, and if you don't kill, it's difficult to calm people's hearts" Gao Jie stomped his feet worriedly: "I see, if it goes on like this, there will be chaos in less than three days."

"I came to you to discuss this matter, and the little overseer reminded me of a ......" Li Yan whispered in his ear.

The night was extremely deep, the sky was drizzling, and the patrol team on duty at the head of Anqing City carried lanterns back and forth, and the lights in the camp outside the city flickered on and off.

Liu Zeqing's handsome tent was crowded with people at this time, in addition to Ma Huabao and other generals, there was also their newest backer at this time, Gao Jie.

"Lao Tzu just inquired about the news from Li Yan that the little overseer did not agree to kill, so as not to disturb the morale of the army and these soldiers are still reused, and when they fight Xi'an, they are still expected to use them to fill the pit, it seems that this matter is difficult to do as you wish."

"We don't care about the life and death of those soldiers, what we want is Cheng Niandong to pay for his life, if the Lord Governor doesn't allow it, we will ......" It was a general under Liu Zeqing who spoke, named Zhang Guozhu, that's right, it was the Zhang Guozhu who later became Wu Sangui's subordinate and followed him against the Qing Dynasty!

"Bastard!" Gao Jie was furious and said: "What about you? Lao Tzu looks at you are all impatient, even if Liu Zeqing is alive, he doesn't dare to say that word, you still think that today's court is the court half a year ago, if you don't believe it, just say that, even if Lao Tzu doesn't make a move, you will be besieged and killed in less than half an hour! When you are the little overseer is eating dry rice, or when Li Yan is decoration, Lao Tzu remembers Liu Zeqing's old feelings, Mingli sent troops to monitor you and others, but in fact it is protection, can't you see that Huang Degong has been ready to move?"

"Mr. Gao is angry, we, we are also angry for a while, and we don't choose to speak" The generals saw that Gao Jie was angry, so they all got up and persuaded each other, Gao Jie snorted coldly: "Since the little overseer has spoken, this matter cannot be done, you wait...... At least not explicitly".

Hey, the generals were stunned, and vaguely heard Gao Jie's words, Bai Yongfu took a step forward and arched his hand: "Please also ask General Gao to guide the maze."

Gao Jie sighed: "There will be a nest of bears, but Lao Liu is such a calculating person, why are his subordinates all stunned like you", and said in a low voice: "If a thief can attack Lao Liu, you can't do it secretly, what can the little overseer say when the rice has become a cook, a thief is a general, and he is not a big man, he can't kill you all for Cheng Niandong."

"Yes, one life for one life, the little overseer's bowl of water must be leveled" The generals said a word and I said crookedly, Zhang Shiyi waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet: "This matter should be considered in the long run, but it must be fast, before the overseer returns, it must be secret, first to hide from Li Yan, and finally ......" said and looked at Gao Jie: "The thief leader can't shrink in the barracks, how can we have a chance to start."

Gao Jie frowned and thought for a while: "Leave this matter to Lao Tzu."

This night, all the generals under Liu Zeqing's account were sleepless.

And hundreds of miles away in Chizhou, there are also many people who can't sleep.

Before Chang Yu left Chizhou, he ordered that the army should not enter the city if it was camped outside the city, and Lu Daqi did not violate it when he acted as an agent for military affairs, and before he left, he repeatedly told Xu Hongji, who was temporarily acting for military affairs, not to violate it.

Xu Hongji is an absolute boss, even Chang Yu has to give him three points of face, after all, he is the existence of the Guogong, but this big guy has now learned to be a low-key man, and he has fought all the way from Nanjing to here, and he has already admired the little eunuch.

After Lu Daqi and Wang Ti led their troops westward, Chizhou City was what Xu Hongji said, and whether it was Wu Weiying or Wu Sangui, Ma Ke and others left, they were inferior to him in terms of seniority.

However, at this time, Bai Wang was defeated and died, they stayed in Chizhou to wait for the order, but there was actually nothing to do, Xu Hongji couldn't sleep in the military camp and lived in the yamen, Wu Weiying also entered the city under the pretext of being old, but Wu Sangui, Ma Ke, Hao Shaoqi, Ji Jike and others who were born as military generals stayed in the camp outside the city.

There are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Nanjing City, under the command of Xu Hongji's generals, they should eat and play in the camp honestly, as for Jin Shenghuan, he was originally Zuo Liangyu's subordinate general, and then he was ordered to guard Jiujiang with Lu Daqi to guard De'an's Baiwang nest, and finally went to Xuzhou to suppress bandits, and went around a big circle and returned to Lu Daqi's hands to listen to the order.

As for Wu Sangui and Ma Ke, the two originally had three or five thousand cavalry each, but they suffered a lot of losses along the way, at this time Wu Sangui was only able to fight three thousand, and Ma Ke was originally less than two thousand, which made the two extremely distressed.

On the contrary, Hao Shaoqi and Ji Ji are the most stressless among the generals, the two went all the way south from the capital, recruiting troops and buying horses while walking, and there was no chance to compete with those bigwigs, who knew that Chang Yu had an order, and the two formed a death squad from Anqing to return to the horse gun to kill Bai Wang ** in Chizhou, although the two suffered heavy losses, they made a great contribution that everyone envied, with this skill, the south has been perfect.

In addition, there are also the three battalions of Dongchang in Chizhou City, that is, Tu Yuan, Jia Waixiong and Lao Jiu, Chang Yu left the three battalions before, ostensibly to let them go into the mountains to assist in the pursuit of Bai Wang and train the troops by the way, but in fact, it is to monitor the soldiers and horses, after all, there are too many people and horses, and they are too mixed.

The identity of the three camps of Dongchang is special, simply put, everyone respects and stays away, does not offend you but does not warm up with you, the three camps are also happy and quiet, others are either stationed in Tianjing Lake or Baiyang River, Qiupu River, he is different from the other to run north and camp on the riverside.