The night is getting deeper, the noise in Tongling City is still there, and nearly 20,000 troops poured in, this small city is full of people, and the neighing of war horses is very noisy, even if the top has repeatedly ordered that they must not disturb the people, but it is limited to no behavior to disturb the people, after all, it is wartime, and they cannot be too harsh to ask them to be silent.

The soldiers and horses in the city came from different backgrounds, there were Wu Sangui and Ma Ke's border army, Dongchang Sanwei, Nanjing soldiers and horses, and the king's troops, and it was impossible for the various departments to be crowded together without a little discord, and they secretly looked down on each other and competed with each other, and even friction and brawls occurred.

For this reason, Chang Yu ordered the generals of all departments to pay attention to pacifying and restraining their subordinates and not to intensify the contradictions, in fact, there is no need for him to say that no one will condone his subordinates when the big war is imminent, and in order to boost morale, these generals will go to the streets to mingle with their soldiers and comfort the wounded, and make sufficient mobilization preparations before the war.

The street was lively and noisy, the yamen was deserted, Chang Yu sat quietly in the garden staring at the fish pond in a daze, a pot of tea curled on the stone table in front of him, Li Muxian walked gently and bent down to refill the water for Chang Yu: "Chang Hou Ye has passed the prosperity, and the day after tomorrow should arrive at the latest, at that time, our army will advance, and although the thieves rely on the geographical fortifications, it will be difficult to stop the army from sweeping."

Chang Yu glanced up at Li Muxian: "When did the Taoist also learn to appease people, and still talk nonsense like this."

Li Muxian coughed embarrassedly, sat down with a glass and took a sip of tea, and sighed: "Poor Dao and the Overseer have never seen your face solemn for several days in a row, which shows the importance of your heart, hey, to put it bluntly, the Overseer's heart is not ruthless enough, as the old saying goes, mercy is not in charge of the army, righteousness is not in charge of wealth, this Lord of the Overseer should understand very well."

Chang Yu snorted: "Although the governor kills people like hemp, he will never disregard human life, fighting a war will kill people, and fighting a tough battle will kill many people, but unless it is absolutely necessary, this governor will never take the lives of his soldiers to fill the hole!" ”

Li Muxian nodded slightly and sighed: "Although it is not a last resort at this time, if the methods of the Lord Overseer do not work or have little effect, you will have to fight hard in the end!" ”

"Then talk about it" Chang Yu got up and looked at the bright moon in the sky with his hands behind his back: "This blame Bendu is still not careful enough, otherwise Bai Wang's game can be broken in a snap of his fingers."

Oh, Li Muxian was curious: "My lord, let's talk about it, let the poor road grow insight."

"When Gao Jie and the three of them go south, they should be instructed to recruit ships along the way, although it is a sparsely populated mountainous area over there, it is not difficult to get a hundred and eighty boats before arriving in Anqing," Chang Yu shook his head with a wry smile.

Li Muxian knew what he meant, and he also beat his chest: "If there is a boat, let them go down the river at this time and kill directly behind Bai Wang, we will attack back and forth, and Bai Wang will have to retreat to Chizhou even if he is in danger."

Hey, Chang Yu shook his head: "I lost the opportunity!" It has become a passive situation today".

Li Muxian hurriedly comforted him and said: "Although the Lord Overseer uses soldiers like a god, he is not a god after all, and he can't be a prophet" Chang Yu quipped when he heard this: "This governor is not a god, isn't the Taoist chief known as a half-immortal, how can you not count it."

"Hey, Lord Overseer, don't ......" Li Muxian didn't finish speaking, and saw a guard rushing over: "Lord Overseer, the thief army is moving outside the city, and General Wu and they have gone to the city."

Chang Yu and Li Muxian couldn't help but be stunned, what could the thief army do at this time, and they hurriedly went to the city with doubts.

Bai Wang began to build fortifications to strengthen his position from the siege of the city a few days ago, and he had to retreat ten miles away to hold the main road by the river.

On the contrary, because the officers and soldiers had the support of Tongling City, the army was in the city at night and in the daytime, and the reconnaissance cavalry even sprinkled dozens of strands outside the city for 12 hours without stopping, strictly controlling the infiltration of the thief army's secret agents, and even approached the edge of the thief army's position for a time.

It can be said that the officers and soldiers in the ten-mile area between the position of the thief army and Tongling City have absolute control, but just after nightfall today, the thief army suddenly sent a large force of cavalry from the position to kill the officers and soldiers outside the city.

The thieves took advantage of the victory and chased outside the city and began to hunt and kill the officers and soldiers scouts, because the sky was dark, the guards on the city did not know the situation outside, and they did not dare to open the door when they heard the sound of killing, and those officers and soldiers could not enter the city and had to flee to the north, and the thieves also chased the north of the city, it was really bold, and they were not afraid of the defenders going out of the city?

Not only is he not afraid, but the thief army actually made a provocative move, hundreds of horsemen to the city suddenly opened their bows and arrows to hit the defenders at the head of the city, a surprise but also aroused the anger of the defenders, immediately released arrows to counterattack, condescending to shoot a burst of thieves, the queen of the cang, did not retreat, but poured more and more thieves, it is estimated that there are at least 3,000 people, and there is still a fire in the distance, there is a tendency to besiege the city!

Chang Yu looked around the city, and Ma Ke said what had just happened next to him, and then looked puzzled: "Lord Overseer, why did the thief not defend his actions despite the danger?" ”

"It seems that the thief is in a hurry" Chang Yu smiled, and Li Muxian behind him continued: "If it is not bad, it must be that the news of Gao Jie and the rest of the army besieging Anqing was learned by Bai Wang, and he is going to besiege Wei to save Zhao!" ”

"There is another possibility" Wu Sangui walked over: "That is, Bai Wang's reinforcements have also arrived!" Chang Yu nodded in agreement, this is only a hundred miles to Chizhou, Bai Wang's side is in a tight position and will definitely send reinforcements over, although Chizhou does not have many troops but can't stand a lot of cannon fodder, although these cannon fodder are not good at fighting, but they are first-class experts in filling pits.

"Then how should we deal with it, we can't just let them besiege the city and be the main one" Lu Daqi frowned, Chang Yu's eyes fought: "Why not?" It's better for him to come than to hide in that turtle shell" The generals agreed, and Wang Tizhong even shouted to send troops to fight immediately, but Chang Yu shook his head and stopped: "It's not too late to wait until dawn, this ghost with a black light knows if Bai Wang has dug a pit waiting for us to ......" As he spoke, he frowned: "Not good!" ”

Everyone was shocked and hurriedly asked what was the matter.

"Boat, our ship!"

Previously, Chang Yu asked Li Muxian to go south to pick up the Shenji Battalion, but he knew that he was intercepted by Bai Wang's sailors, and suffered heavy losses, so he had to order Wu Weiying to return along the original road, and then go to pick up when he was on the other side of Tongling, so he recruited ships again, and even ran for nearly 100 miles before he got back a group of fishing boats, waiting for orders by the river more than ten miles north of Tongling.

If the fishing boat over there is destroyed, the Shenji Battalion can only watch the other side have a weak heart, and without the help of the Shenji Battalion, Chang Yu can only fight a tough battle and fill the pit with human lives.

This is a strategy that he will never use when he is forced to do so, so in order to ensure that the fishing boats are not discovered, he decided to send troops out of the city to drive the thieves away.

The generals asked for battle, but Li Muxian and Lu Daqi had different opinions: "My lord, it is late at night and dark at this time, it is not appropriate to rush to send troops, and we have arranged manpower by the river, once we see the thief army approaching, we will sail away from the dock, so why take any more risks."

Chang Yu frowned: "The incident happened suddenly, I'm afraid that the other side is not prepared, and I have to give them a wake-up call" Although Li Muxian knew the reason, he was still worried that the risk of sending troops was too great, and at this time Ma Ke proposed: "The four city gates are opened at the same time, and each department is killed by force, and then send people to take advantage of the chaos to go to the riverside to give orders, which can not only hit the prestige of the thief army but also notify the fleet to transfer, killing two birds with one stone."

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