It was already noon, and Li Muxian set up a table of wine and food in the yamen to congratulate Chang Yu on his congratulations.

Although Dongliu County is a thief-controlled area, it has not been over-looted and ravaged by the thief army, at least the people's livelihood is still very good, and the materials are also very rich, not as barren and scarce as the Gyeonggi area, and even the roots and bark of the trees have nothing to gnaw, so Li Muxian easily bought a table of rich wine and food, and he specially invited a local celebrity chef to handle the spoon.

When preparing the banquet, Chang Yu went back to the room to rest for a while, to be precise, to listen to the secret report, and the eunuchs of the two palace camps sent by Fan Jiaqian were in the room at this time to respectfully answer Chang Yu's various questions.

The palace battalion was the first front-line combat force, the members were all strong eunuchs in the palace, after Chang Yu's special training became a brave and good fighting royal special combat team, which followed Chang Yu's southern expedition to the north and made great achievements, with Chang Yu's wings gradually abundant, the more resources in his hands, the palace battalion retreated to the second line to be responsible for inspecting military discipline in the army and monitoring the generals of various departments.

To put it simply, they are still Chang Yu's sharpest knife, but this knife is not used to kill the enemy, but to deter the generals under his command.

Chang Yu, the person sent by Li Yan, has already seen it, and there is not much difference in essence from the report of the Gongzi Battalion, it is just polished, and the various performances and actions of Li Yan and the generals during this period are under the supervision of the Gongzi Battalion, and Chang Yu can roughly guess the various situations at that time according to the discussion.

What was a little surprising was that he never said to Li Yan that he wanted to get rid of Liu Zeqing, but Li Yan actually took the initiative to do it for him, and the key person in the middle must be Gao Jie, because he confided in Gao Jie at that time in order to recruit Gao Jie.

To be precise, this is Gao Jie borrowing a knife to kill people, and the reason why Li Yan is willing to use it is just to share his worries.

With this kind of interesting, sensible and capable subordinates, it's really easy.

"You two can be guilty" After listening to the secret report of the two eunuchs, Chang Yu shouted lightly, and the two eunuchs knelt on the ground: "The lowly duty should be damned, and the lowly duty will be regretted immediately after the careless gaffe, and please punish the superintendent."

"If you know your sin, why do you commit it?" Chang Yu snorted coldly.

"Everyone in the army knows that the Taoist chief is a confidant of the governor and a person from Dongchang, and he didn't think so much about it at that time, so he asked and said......" The two of them were speechless, and Chang Yu sneered: "Cronies? The Governor's cronies can only be the eunuchs of the East Factory! ”

"Shame on the lowly duty, guilty of the guilt of the lowly duty" The two of them prostrated on the ground, extremely remorseful in their hearts, Chang Yu stood up: "The palace word camp is the governor's single-handed, one-handed, big and small things, he has done his best to do today, and he is also the most valued and trusted person by the governor.

"Humble and willing to be punished" The more the two heard Chang Yu say this, the more guilty they felt, and they cried on the ground, Chang Yu went up and kicked the two of them over: "The palace camp is full of men who are in the sky, when did two crying and chirping girls come."

The two quickly wiped away their tears and knelt down again.

"Go back and inform Fan Jiaqian and Hu Ling that His Majesty is not strict, his teaching is derelict in his duties, and he will be fined for three months and 20 leading sticks each."

"Dugong ......" The two of them were startled, and when they looked up and saw Chang Yu's eyes were cold, they quickly shut up again.

The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft water, Dongliu County can eat a lot of mountains and rivers, all kinds of mountain delicacies and wild food are popular after the firing of the famous chef, it can be said that the whole table of meals is not in line with Chang Yu's appetite, let go of the posture and feast, it can be said that it is much better than the imperial chef's skills in the palace.

Everyone has never eaten anything in the palace, and they are curious to ask questions, and Chang Yu is not secretive: there is more than fine, and the umami is insufficient.

In fact, there were not many people participating in this celebration banquet, Chen Wangting, Wu Zhong and others were injured and could not sit at the table, and the Chen brothers led their troops to return to the city at least in the evening, and Li Muxian was in good condition and some personal guards, and the people who ran errands and passed the dishes through the hall were the wronged bosses and salt dealers, at this time they already knew Chang Yu's true identity, and they didn't dare to take a breath when they served.

"Dugong, Anqing has been received, do we need to go west urgently, go to Wangjiang County or Pengze County......" A guard asked during the banquet, Chang Yu was silent for a while, Li Muxian became cautious after he was ordered before, and at this time, seeing the expression of the little eunuch, he knew that he had not yet made a decision in his heart, so he broke the siege with haha: "Wangjiang and Peng Ze are both a hundred miles away, and they are only a small city with a big palm, and there is no private oil and water fishing of the thief army, and the lone army cannot go deep, and after Li Yan's army comes up, it is not a hand to capture, Yes, Lord Overseer."

Chang Yu nodded: "The long words of the party are reasonable, but our family is more worried that if the thief army hears that Bai Wang defeated Anqing City, I am afraid that these thieves will plunder the city and flee, and it will be very disadvantageous to the people."

Li Muxian immediately frowned, and said in a low voice: "Is it possible that the Overseer still has to venture to go, this ......"

Chang Yu shook his head: "Our family can't go, but someone must go, the purpose of our suppression of thieves and quelling the chaos was originally to let the people live and work in peace and contentment, how can we drive the thieves away, but let them fall into a place of no return, in order to prevent the thieves and dogs from jumping over the wall and fleeing the city, we must send troops to suppress the other party."

"Governor, I am willing to go" Guo Ren got up and arched his hand: "Ten people are enough"

Chang Yu smiled: "We have enough manpower, so we won't let you go so alone" He was stunned: "At present, there are only less than twenty people in the city who can use it...... Wouldn't it be a pity if the Governor had to bring in soldiers and horses, and he would have to wait for the Governor to bring in only one step at night."

"No" Li Muxian took over the conversation: "The news of our raid on Dongliu and Zhide has not yet spread, let alone worrying that the news from Anqing and Chizhou will reach there, so there is still time to transfer troops, Wangjiang is on the other side of the Yangtze River, so Li Yan can send a group of soldiers and horses to go by water, Peng Ze is on the south bank, and it is not too late for the governor to wait for the Chen brothers to return to the city."

"What the Taoist chief said is also what I think" Chang Yu nodded: "During the lunch break just now, our family had ordered Li Yan's people to go back, and ordered him to send troops up the river to Wangjiang County, Peng Ze, make a living, and arrive as quickly as possible before the thieves reacted, as for whether the people in front of our family will go, let's discuss it again."

In the afternoon, the sky was overcast, Chang Yu and Li Muxian went out of the city to the riverside wharf outside the West Gate to find a secluded shade of the hanging rod to fish, the river breeze was cool and useful, and there were people farming in Jiangxin Prefecture in the distance, Li Muxian sighed: "The people here are far richer than Gyeonggi, at least not without food."

Chang Yu nodded: "Although it is not as good as the land of fish and rice in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it can be regarded as a smooth wind and rain, and it is a pity that there are too many natural and man-made disasters in the Gyeonggi area" As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Li Muxian and suddenly asked: "Does the Taoist think that the army will continue to advance westward or return to the court?" ”

Li Muxian frowned and thought for a while before saying, "It depends on which move the Overseer will take next."

"I wish to listen to the Tao Chang Gao" Chang Yu went to the grass behind him, Li Muxian sat down cross-legged: "At this time, Anqing surrendered, Bai Wang was defeated and it was difficult to make waves again in a short period of time, although the five county towns of Wangjiang, Pengze, Hukou, Duchang, and Xingzi are still in the hands of thieves, but these are all small county towns, the thief army is only more than dozens of thieves and the group of thieves has no leader, the army is vulnerable when it comes to the city, the only difficult point is Bai Wang's thief nest De'an in the mountains, but at this time Bai Wang is defeated and life and death are unknown, and his generals are all lost, and the troops are already few, The Overseer only needs to send one of the generals, and he can sweep all the way without having to be there in person, unless he ......"

Chang Yu smiled: "Unless what?" ”

"Unless the overseer wants to point his sword elsewhere" Li Muxian also smiled: "Either for Zuo Liangyu in Wuchang, or for Jingxiang's thief army."

Call...... Chang Yu let out a long sigh and looked at Jiang Mian's eyes narrowed: "Zuo Liangyu, did our family move him?" ”

"Its mercenaries in Wuchang are self-respecting, claiming to have 200,000 troops, not advancing or retreating and waiting for the opportunity to move, if the governor and his opponent are hard to meet earlier, they may not be pleased, and even anger him, but at this time Bai Wang is defeated, his heart will be frightened, at least he does not dare to underestimate the strength of the court, but he also knows that the court has fought repeatedly in the past few months, and he may not dare to do anything to him." Li Muxian thought for a while and said in a low voice.

Chang Yu nodded: "The Taoist means that he doesn't dare to oppose now, but our family actually can't help him, right?"

"This is exactly what the poor road means" Li Muxian stroked his beard and nodded: "The timing is not right, you can move but you can't move, there is no need for the governor to be hard with him, first grind him to probe."

Chang Yu's eyes flickered: "Let him go to Jingzhou?" ”

"Yes, if he refuses to go, it means that he is still not convinced, and he is not afraid, if he goes, it means that he knows the time and knows that he has gotten off the donkey, and the governor can let him contain the Jingxiang thief army, and you can cross the Yellow River in the autumn to recover Xi'an."

"But what if he doesn't go" Chang Yu frowned: "This governor really doesn't want to spend his troops and energy on dealing with him, thus delaying the thief fighter."

"That depends on the Governor's methods, if you should kill, you will be killed!" Li Muxian seemed to be smiling and smiling, and the corners of Chang Yu's mouth twitched and chuckled: "It's not so easy to kill him, if he is wary, he is afraid that it will be difficult for this governor to set foot in Wuchang, the Yangtze River moat, 200,000 troops, he is the opposite, and this governor will be difficult to help him for a while!" ”

Li Muxian shook his head slightly, the reason why he supported the army a few months ago was to wait and see for self-protection, in fact, it was too dangerous for our Daming at that time, Li Zicheng's eastern expedition approached the city in two ways, and the 100,000 Tartar army took the opportunity to enter the pass, and Bai Wang went down the river...... To tell the truth, hehe, if the poor road also has to watch the direction of the wind, the Lord of the Heavenly Fortification Lord was born out of thin air, and fought hard for several months to ensure that I did not fall, so that the situation was clear...... Now if the news of Bai Wang's defeat reaches Zuo Liangyu's ears, he will not rebel easily, and he will not even dare to listen to the order and not move, and it is very likely that he will follow the order. ”

Chang Yu smiled: "These are all your guesses, and the governor only asks, what if he really doesn't obey the order?" ”

Li Muxian was stunned, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Poor Dao doesn't know how to deal with it for a while, but it won't start fighting, in that case, it's really cheap to sacrifice thieves and thieves, no matter what the victory or defeat is, there is no one or two years to recover, which means that you can't launch an attack on the thief army in a year or two, maybe you can't even defend it."