Chang Yu and his entourage crossed the Qiupu River dozens of times, and it was the time when the sun was setting, but it was the end of summer, the days were long and the nights were short, and even if the sun set, it would still be nearly an hour before the sky could completely darken.

However, everyone felt that it was getting dark a little fast today, and Li Muxian raised his eyes and sighed: "The clouds have risen, I'm afraid it's going to rain."

"It's raining well" Chang Yu looked up at the sky: "If it's too big, then God will really help me." Everyone is puzzled, but Li Muxian knows his thoughts, Bai Wangbu fled in a hurry like a heavy rain in the mountains without food or drink, and when he was cornered, the army's heart would collapse, and he would even be killed to invite merit.

However, if God peed and drenched, it was not only Bai Wang, Chang Yu and his party would not have to have a chicken soup, so they ordered a hurry, and dozens of horses galloped wildly.

After the Qiupu River Road, the south side is close to the foot of the mountain, but the river beach on the north side is quite wide, and dozens of horsemen ran wildly for more than 20 miles.

At this time, the sky was gloomy and heavier, and it was drizzling, and it was very cool when it was hot, and everyone looked at the scenery along the way while walking.

"I thought I could meet a few thieves and move my muscles carefully, but I didn't know that I couldn't even see a figure after running for twenty or thirty miles" The situation was a little interested, Chang Yu smiled slightly and looked around: "If you can't see it, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist."

The situation immediately became nervous, and the governor meant to say: "...... in the mountains"

"Hao Shaoqi and Ji Ji sneaked from the middle of the river to the mouth of the Qiupu River to land and raid behind the enemy, and during the fierce battle, the thief army fled south like the mountains, theoretically the thief army west of the Qiupu River should not have been alarmed, but tens of thousands of troops swaggered in Chizhou City all day, no matter how stupid the thief army here is, they will find that Chizhou has been recovered by officers and soldiers, even if they don't flee immediately, they can't show their heads blatantly."

"Bright arrows are easy to dodge hidden arrows, these thieves are hiding in the mountains and forests......" As soon as his heart tightened, he ordered all the guards to be careless.

However, Chang Yu didn't think so, the thief army was mostly scouts outside the city, usually a group of a few people and a maximum of more than ten people, and in the face of nearly a hundred soldiers, they didn't have the courage to do it even if they had the heart.

After a few miles, the sky has completely darkened, and it is estimated that it has traveled nearly forty miles, and the guards in front of the road have reported: there is a big lake in the south of the road a few miles away, and I asked the mountain people that it was Aconitum Lake......

Mountain people? Chang Yu and Li Muxian glanced at each other, a smile appeared on the corner of their mouths, and they turned their heads and said to Guan Ren: "Your life is here."

The situation has already reacted, the thief army went north from the south all the way, and it still maintained some dignity at the beginning, but when Bai Wang crossed the river from Anqing and came north to help, there was no grass growing in the place, and all the food and people were taken away, how could he easily meet the so-called mountain people.

Aconitum Lake is close to the road and surrounded by mountains on three sides, as if embedded in the mountains, the travelers mostly rest here, there were originally several small villages near the lake and even tea sheds, but at this time it has long been empty, the villagers either fled into the mountains or were coerced by the thieves to go north.

However, the guards who were exploring the way ahead actually met a family in a village of only seven or eight households by the lake, and the heads of the households were two brothers, saying that they had returned from hunting in the mountains some time ago and found that the village was empty and in ruins...... Anyway, there is no end to the bitter water.

Then he arrived and had the two brothers tied up and hung on a tree on the side of the road and whipped them, and the two brothers were on the move, and the thieves were fine.

It turns out that this aconitum lake is a den of thieves who are responsible for relaying intelligence information, last night the officers and soldiers broke through Pingtian Lake to recover Chizhou, and the news of the scattered news outside the city soon spread to this den, and the thieves who gathered here have sneaked into the mountains to hide, but because they did not know Bai Wang's whereabouts, they were afraid that they would pass by here when they retreated, so they left two people to pretend to be villagers looking at the wind.

These two thieves are also a pair of iron Hanhan, in the dark night, they heard the sound of hooves and thought it was an outpost withdrawn by friendly troops and did not sneak away, and when they were discovered by the guards, they couldn't get out when they were alert, so they started acting, and they even fooled a few guard outposts, but they couldn't hide the old foxes like Chang Yu and Li Muxian.

After a severe beating, the two generals recruited all the people they knew, for example, there were twenty-six accomplices hiding in the mountains, and the hiding place was not far away, only three miles from the roadside of a small village.

Although the village was in the mountains, it was also near the lake, Chang Yu thought about it for a while, and then ordered Guan Ren to try his luck, and dozens of guards dismounted and sneaked along the lakeside path.

Sure enough, I soon found that the small village hidden in the mountains and forests, there was a faint fire, and the situation was simply arranged, and dozens of relatives and guards surrounded the village in three ways and then rushed to the place where the fire was shining.

It was really a den of thieves, more than 20 thieves were eating meat and drinking soup in an iron pot in the yard when they suddenly heard a loud drink, and when the thieves panicked, they found that they had been surrounded by a group, and some people were about to burst out and were immediately shot, and the remaining thieves no longer dared to move and crawled on the ground to beg for mercy.

There are exactly twenty-six people, looking at the iron pot and smiling, a pot is served!

The rain gradually became heavier, the sky was extremely dark, Chang Yu decided to temporarily rest in the small village by the lake to avoid the rain, and when he went into the mountains to arrest the thief, he continued to interrogate the two fine works, and learned that not long ago, Bai Wang had sent several small works to Anqing to inquire about intelligence, but the other side of the river has been blocked by officers and soldiers, not to mention that the thieves sneaked into Anqing, they can't even cross the river, so they can only be in a daze across the river.

And from the mouth of the careful work, I learned that the Yangtze River made a ninety-00-degree turn in the north-south direction and then turned again to the east and west of the city, thus forming two Jiangxinzhou, and Jiangxinzhou went twenty or thirty miles west to the city where Anqing City was located, and there were many thieves in the state who tried to use it as a springboard to infiltrate the other side to find out information.

"Is there a big army of thieves ahead? Are there any dens along the way? Li Muxian asked, the spy had been beaten and was dying, and asked what to say, there was no large army of thieves who were scattered and detailed, and the total number of people should be more than 100 scattered everywhere, and all the larger villages and towns along the way had their footholds.

Seeing that there was no more useful information, Chang Yu ordered Chen Suole to drag the two out and slaughter them, and it didn't take long for Guo Ren to press more than 20 thieves to return triumphantly, but seeing Chang Yu raised his eyebrows: "What are you bringing them for?" ”

Guo Ren was stunned and then patted his head, and led these people to the bushes at the foot of the mountain, and all of them were beheaded.

The rain was falling in a hurry, and it seemed that it would be impossible to stop for a while, so Chang Yu decided to stay by the lake tonight to rest, and took his personal guards to carefully search the village from the inside to the outside several times, and then set up a light and dark sentry before returning to the house where Chang Yu was: "Governor, do you want to send someone to explore the way?" ”

Chang Yu looked at the rain curtain outside: "There is no big threat ahead, don't let the brothers suffer, rest well and wait for the rain to stop tomorrow before we go, and see if anyone dares to stop us on this road."

Guo Ren snorted, sat down in a clean place next to him, and asked sideways, "Dugong, are we going to Anqing?" ”

Chang Yu raised his eyebrows: "Anqing is difficult to cross across the river, and there is Li Yan's army over there, what are we going to do?" ”

"Li Yan can't besiege the city for a long time, won't the overseer go to help?" He smiled.

Chang Yu smiled: "If Li Yan can't attack for a long time, what can the governor do if he goes" These words made the situation stunned, but Li Muxian bit his lip and said nothing, he was a little jealous.

In the early days of Chongzhen, there were actually a lot of capable military generals, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou, Wang Qiaonian, etc., which can be described as talented, and any person can be alone, but after more than ten years of war, these people died and surrendered, so that in the later period of Chongzhen, the court was no longer available, looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, there was no one who could take out the hand, although there were some pillars such as Shi Kefa and others, but the loyalty was more than enough talent, and the generals in the army also had their own small calculations, and they were watching the collapse of the Ming Dynasty for the new master.

This is also one of the main reasons for the final collapse of the Ming Dynasty in history, because of the lack of a person who can turn the tide.

And Chang Yu appeared, some people questioned how he was a fighter in his previous life who crossed over and was so good at fighting, which is a bit outrageous, in fact, if you think about it carefully, does Chang Yu really know how to fight?

In the early stage, he relied on being familiar with this period of history to be able to strike first, and to formulate countermeasures in advance, that is, to seize the opportunity everywhere and take advantage, in terms of intelligence and experience, he was even inferior to some veterans in the army, such as Wu Sangui, Ma Ke and others, and even inferior to Li Yan.

It's not that Li Yan is embarrassed to brag about how awesome he is, the so-called tiger monkey in the mountains is the overlord, and there are no outstanding capable people in the court or the army at the end of Chongzhen, and Li Yan's talent is prominent in comparison.

First of all, he is definitely a first-class think tank, from the series of actions he planned in the four years with Li Zicheng, it can be seen that his talent, very systematic and far-sighted, by no means Li Muxian is comparable to this dog-headed military advisor, although Li Muxian is well-informed but mostly smart, and occasionally has strange tricks, but it is much worse than Li Yan in the overall control, after all, Li Yan is not only smart but also has four years of experience in the army, and he has participated in the planning of many battles with Li Zicheng, and Chang Yu is not as good as him in terms of experience.

And the reason why Chang Yu can be on par with Li Yan is not that he is smarter than Li Yan, but because he has an innate advantage, he has hundreds of years of knowledge over him, and his way of thinking is completely different, and Li Yan's thinking still has the limitations of the times after all.

So Chang Yu never felt that he was better than Li Yan, so he always valued Li Yan and let him stand alone, because in the current Ming Dynasty, Li Yan is definitely the top.