It was indeed Chang Yu who came, and the army pulled out the camp slowly, so he took the first step, and just met those injured scouts, and learned that the third battalion of Dongchang went to Guichi to encircle and suppress the thief army, and he went straight here, and it happened that the third battalion had just finished his work.

"This Guichi City is also too small" Before the city was reached, Li Muxian and others sighed: "It's just a stone city......"

Chang Yu laughed: "This Guichi City was called Stone City at the earliest, it was Stone County in the Han Dynasty and the earliest government of Chizhou Mansion was here, and it was not an exaggeration to say that there was Guichi County first and then Chizhou City...... However, this Guichi County is indeed very small, even if it is the capital county of Chizhou."

Chang Yu looked at the stone town in front of him, which was less than two miles away, and felt that it was indeed pitiful, in fact, even if Guichi District, which had been classified as Chizhou City in later generations, was still very small and had a small population, let alone at this time.

"Bai Wang burned this place, it's really a waste, this city is backed by Pingtian Lake, and it can be used as an outpost to contain our troops," Li Muxian stroked his beard and said.

Chang Yu looked around: "There is some truth, but it is more like chicken ribs, and it has little effect."

Li Muxian disagreed: "Although this city is small, it can at least garrison 2,000 troops, if we attack from the west road, it can be outflanked from the rear, if the overseer sends troops in advance to surround the middle of the center of its intention to contain the division of troops, 2,000 soldiers and horses are eyeing the side of the overseer, why does the overseer say that it has little effect."

Chang Yu smiled: "What you said is reasonable, but there is one thing you ignore, where is Bai Wang still so many troops stationed here at this time."

Li Muxian was stunned, shook his head with a wry smile: "It's sloppy!" ”

According to Wang Tizhong, Bai Wang had nearly 20,000 soldiers when he came out of the mountain from De'an, and at the beginning the soldiers did not carry too much cannon fodder, and left nearly 10,000 in Anqingzhi, and he had nearly 10,000 on hand, and then he went north to fight Nanjing all the way before he began to coerce cannon fodder, and then when he surrendered, there were only more than 6,000 real thieves left in his hands, and those cannon fodder were dismissed by Chang Yu.

And Bai Wang's nearly 10,000 thief army stayed in Anqing for 35,000 people, and he himself had 5,000 elite soldiers plus more than 10,000 cannon fodder wrapped in it, and more than half of them were lost in a big battle with Chang Yu the day before yesterday, and the remaining elite soldiers, that is, the real thief army, were no more than 3,000 at most, and the rest were half-dead thief troops.

Cannon fodder is good for work and filling pits, but if it is used to fight the combat power, it is not worth mentioning, unless it is a super large number of people to rely on the tactics of the sea of people to play a role, so at this time Bai Wang only has about 3,000 elite soldiers on hand, he must use it on the blade, it is impossible to divide troops to garrison Guichi County, but if the cannon fodder is sent and it does not play any role, it may be countered by the officers and soldiers.

While speaking, the party entered the county town of Guichi, and the walls were full of devastation, and eight or nine out of ten of the houses in the city were burned, and the dead bodies could be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys, mostly old and weak, women and children.

"The thief has lost his conscience, and he is very hateful!" Everyone scolded bitterly, and Chang Yu sneered: "This is their true face!" Bai Wang was already jumping over the wall in a hurry at this time."

Chang Yu walked through the streets and alleys in the city, and what he saw was extremely shocking, and the anger in his heart became more and more angry, but he didn't dare to be careless, although the city had been cleaned up by the third battalion of Dongchang, and he couldn't hide in the corner where he put cold arrows.

Fortunately, this situation did not appear, and then Chang Yu went to the city head to go around the city and then stopped in the south of the city to overlook, there is a small hill not far from the south of this Guichi City, after the hills is an endless vast and boundless lake, there are islands in the mountains and lakes by the lake, and Chang Yu's head is big in the mountains and rivers.

"Governor, look" Li Muxian pointed to the lake: "Those boats should be the sailors of the thief army, this is here to keep an eye on us" Chang Yu raised the clairvoyant mirror and looked, and saw five or six fishing boats cruising in the water a hundred meters away from the shore......

"What a natural barrier" Chang Yu looked at the big lake in front of him and couldn't help shaking his head and smiling bitterly, vaguely remembering that this Pingtian Lake has nearly 500,000 square kilometers, and the lake and mountains and rivers block Chizhou City tightly, either you can fly, or you can swim to pass.

At the head of the city, everyone went down to the city, Changyu Zongma Lake, here are overgrown with weeds, deep forests, and thick leaves, the three battalions and the guards did not dare to carelessly spread around the four guards, and if they really found the thieves hidden in it, they began to hunt and kill.

A few miles east along the lakeshore is the lofty mountains and mountains, which are becoming more and more difficult to travel, but they have found many bandit troops moving around here, perhaps this is a hidden stronghold for them, or it may be forced by officers and soldiers to flee here, and it is a long time of fighting.

Lao Jiu returned from the front: there is no way to go another 100 meters, if you want to continue to abandon the horse and walk, Chang Yu ordered to turn back, leave the lakeside to find a flat place and run westward, on the way to meet many villages are all populated, the crops are flourishing but no one takes care of them, which makes Chang Yu secretly make a decision in his heart, a quick decision, let the people return to their homes and farm as soon as possible, and the longer the delay, the longer the harvest is feared.

It was nearly noon, the sun was shining, Chang Yu and his party passed the county town of Guichi and then walked along the lakeside forest, and saw that there were more than ten boats in the lake following closely in the water, obviously monitoring them.

Chang Yu ignored this, continued to travel west, and after half an hour, he arrived at the riverside and circled around the periphery, knowing the surrounding geography by heart.

In fact, the west side of this Pingtian Lake is very narrow, like a long bottleneck stretching to the river, originally it is still a few miles away from the Yangtze River, but the Yangtze River divides into two tributaries here one after another, and forms two river islands in the middle of the river, and the tributaries bend to Tianping Lake, so that there is only a distance of more than 100 meters between the two waters, but at this time it has been dug by Bai Wang into a river, and there are thousands of people on the opposite bank who are still digging the mound platform and are busy building fortifications.

The lake rushes into the river, the water flow is turbulent, like a reservoir opening the gate to release water, not to mention that there is no boat, that is, there is a boat that can be washed into the Yangtze River in a blink of an eye, and everyone who watched frowned.

"This lake has just broken through the water and the water flow is turbulent, if you wait for three or five days, it may become a thin water and a long stream, and it will not be too late to attack again at that time" Tu Yuan thought for a while, Chang Yu shook his head: "The big lake in the east has enough water, and it will flow like this for a month, not to mention that there are several big rivers in the upper reaches of this lake, and the water flow will not become smaller."

When everyone heard this, their faces became more solemn, and they wanted to get closer to observe, and the thief army on the high platform on the opposite bank began to release arrows to force them back, and they were stopped by Chang Yu when they wanted to fight back, and they raised the clairglass and looked at it for a while, and turned their heads to Li Muxian and said: "Did the Dao Chief find that the narrow section is only a few tens of meters, and the terrain on both sides of the break is very wide, which can accommodate thousands of soldiers."

Li Muxian nodded: "Although we can attack with thousands of soldiers here, the other party can also have thousands of soldiers on the other side", and said with a smile: "Just to fight for the bottleneck of dozens of meters, I don't know how many people will die here."

"Hey, hey, why did the Taoist start to be compassionate and compassionate, didn't he say that there were immortals in the war the day before yesterday, and said that Bendu's heart had softened" Chang Yu smiled, Li Muxian smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I thought I would be numb when I saw more dead people, but over time, my psychology ...... There is a kind of unspeakable discomfort, very depressing."

Chang Yu remembered what he said to Su Jing in the early morning, maybe Su Jing suddenly wanted to leave not because she was in a hurry to carry out the task, but because she saw so many dead people, she couldn't bear it, she didn't have Li Muxian's Taoism, so she had to leave quickly.

This kind of psychological pressure is similar to the post-war traumatic stress syndrome in later generations, except that although people in this era are conscious, they do not know where to come from and how to treat it, so they can only rely on hope and religion.

"There will be deaths in the war, and there will still be many deaths in this one, but as long as our move is successful, this battle can be done once and for all, and Bai Wangbu will disappear in Chizhou, and we will go to the mountains to drill the forest again" Chang Yu sneered at the corner of his mouth, Li Muxian stroked his beard and nodded, but Tu Yuan and the others couldn't understand what they said again, after all, this is the most confidential matter, and few people know about it.