Hearing that the cooked duck had flew, Qianhu Shen Lian was very angry.

From receiving the news to setting off to arrest people, it is just a cup of tea, how can the goal go out so coincidentally, there must be a cat in it!

In other words, there must be someone in the brocade guard who ventilates the enemy!

The commander of Jinyiwei made Liu Neng fight with Qi Guogong on the front line, and the Nanjing Jinyiwei Yamen was headed by Shen Lian of Qianhu. But Shen Lian is only a thousand-household official after all, but his Jinyi Guards are all a group of old oilers, who originally belonged to the former Jinyi Guard's commander Lu Zonghan, and he was not convinced by him, the new Qianhu.

When Lu Zonghan was there, because he had no backer, his confidence was not hard, and Han Zanzhou, the commander of the East Factory, forcibly interfered in the affairs of the Jinyi Guard, and Shen Lian did not know how many secret agents of the East Factory were in the Yamen of the Jinyi Guard.

With a few thousand households in charge of the entire Jinyi Guard Yamen, Shen Lian felt very tired, if only Commander Liu was here, Shen Lian said secretly.

At this time, Liu Neng, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, who was nagged by Shen Lian, was wading through mountains and rivers in Jiangxi.

A group of more than 500 people went around the Fushui River to Huguang, passed through Tongshan County, bypassed the Shogunate Mountain in the south, entered the Yuanzhou Mansion from Liuyang, and entered the territory of Jiangxi.

Although there are still mountains between Liuyang and Yuanzhou, the roads are rugged and difficult to walk, which is not suitable for walking armies at all. However, Liu Neng led only a small-scale army, and there were not too many baggage materials, and it was barely possible to walk along the mountain streams.

The purpose of his trip was to go to Ji'an Mansion, find Yan Yingyuan, send the supplies he was carrying to Yan Yingyuan's army, and convey Chen Yue's orders.

The reason why the detour from Huguang to Ji'an is because the Nanchang area is entrenched by western thieves, and other places are continuous mountains, and there is no road at all.

All the way to the remote places, although there are thieves in the Huguang area, but most of the thieves are concentrated in Wuchang, the number of troops in various prefectures and counties is scarce, Liu Neng and his party have as many as 500 people, and the equipment is extremely well-equipped, and they are not afraid to encounter small bandits and mountain bandits.

Although there were small troubles along the way, they were easily solved. Half a month after starting from Jiujiang, the group finally entered the territory of Jiangxi, judging from the map, not far in front should be Yichun, the capital of Yuanzhou.

Liu Neng sent a few Jinyi guards as the vanguard, cautiously approached the city to investigate, and was surprised to see that the battle flag of the Ming army was fluttering at the head of Yichun City.

Seeing an army that suddenly appeared, the Ming army at the head of the city was like a great enemy, the banner at the head of the city was unfurled, and the shadow of the battlement was full of soldiers.

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"We are the subordinates of Lord Yan, ten days ago, Lord Yan led us from Ji'an Mansion over Wugong Mountain into Yuanzhou Mansion, and took advantage of the defenselessness of the thieves to capture Yuanzhou City in one fell swoop."

The defender of the city was a thousand-household garrison, and he respectfully reported to Liu Neng, the envoy of the Five Provinces, and it took a lot of effort to convince this person that the two sides belonged to the same camp.

"What about Lord Yan?" Liu Neng hurriedly asked. The purpose of his trip was to find Yan Yingyuan and convey Chen Yue's orders.

"Lord Yan set off five days ago and led his troops to attack Fenyi County, which should have been fought by this time." The guard's words were full of reverence for Yan Yingyuan.

Liu Neng nodded, didn't say anything more, asked the garrison to find a camp for his subordinates, provide some hot food, and rest for a night before continuing to set off.

However, before Liu Neng and his party could set off, early the next morning, the garrison asked him to say that Yan Yingyuan had returned to Yichun City.

"Ji'an soldiers are preparing for the Dao, Yan Yingyuan has seen Commander Liu!" After inspecting Liu Neng's seal letter, Yan Yingyuan bowed to Liu Neng. Although Yan Yingyuan is a five-grade soldier, his official rank is far lower than Liu Neng, the commander of the Jinyi Guard. What's more, Liu Neng came on the orders of Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi in the Five Provinces.

"I don't know what the order of Lord Jinglu is, Ying Yuan will definitely swear to serve." Yan Yingyuan said solemnly, he knew that the reason why he was able to go from a small ninth-grade master to a fifth-grade master was that Chen Yue, the prince of Qi, was an important reason for his super-level promotion and appreciation. In a sense, he, Yan Yingyuan, was already Chen Yue's person.

Unlike some officials who were born in Jinshi, Yan Yingyuan, who struggled to get out from the bottom of the ranks, is very realistic and not so high-minded, he deeply knows that if he wants to go further in the officialdom, he can't do it without a strong backer.

Looking at the slightly short but lean and energetic soldier in front of him, Liu Neng heard his respect for Chen Yue from the other party's words, and Liu Neng had a smile on his face.

However, Liu Neng didn't say much, but first handed Chen Yue's order to Yan Yingyuan.

The order was very simple, Yan Yingyuan was to contain the thief army from the south and try to attack Nanchang Mansion in order to share some pressure on the Jiujiang battlefield. Liu Neng was already familiar with this order, and he just carefully watched Yan Yingyuan's expression as he watched the order.

What made Liu Neng other than Liu Neng was that Yan Yingyuan's expression did not change much, and after reading it carefully, he folded the letter and kicked it in his arms.

"After the orders of Lord Liu, the lower officials will do it even if they are desperate." Yan Yingyuan said resolutely.

didn't talk about the conditions, didn't put up difficulties, so resolutely agreed, so the smile on Liu Neng's face became even bigger.

"Lord Yan's courage and loyalty, this official admires him very much."

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Liu Neng is a person who sees people and talks about people, and Yan Yingyuan even started from the bottom of the small officials, and he didn't say anything about receiving people and things. Although both of them are big officials, they are not literati, and they do not have the kind of pedantry that literati have.

From Yan Yingyuan's understated words, Liu Neng was shocked to learn that Yan Yingyuan's power had grown to a great extent.

After receiving the appointment of Chen Yue's military preparation, Yan Yingyuan could finally control the army in the name of righteousness, and with a little means, he eliminated the influence of the original Ji'an prefect Ma Shoude on the army, and included the entire Ji'an army under his command. He had the order given by Chen Yue, and after punishing a few gentry who resisted the order, all the troops dared not obey.

In a short period of time, Yan Yingyuan's subordinates grew from more than 1,000 to tens of thousands, and he immediately began to distribute troops to attack the various states and counties captured by the thief army, and in less than a month, all the prefectures and counties in Ji'an Province were recaptured from the thief army.

However, just as Yan Yingyuan led the army and prepared to attack Linjiang Mansion along the Ganjiang River, Zhang Xianzhong sent the general Feng Shuangli to lead 50,000 troops to Linjiang and blocked Yan Yingyuan's way.

The two armies fought, each won and lost, Yan Yingyuan was unable to break through Feng Shuangli's interception, and the soldiers were stopped in Xiajiang County, Linjiang Prefecture.

After consideration, Yan Yingyuan left more than half of the army to garrison the Xiajiang River and confront Feng Shuangli, and he returned to Ji'an Mansion with more than 10,000 people, went up the Lushui River, crossed the Wugong Mountain and broke into Yuanzhou Mansion, and went down the Yuan River from Yuanzhou to Linjiang Mansion directly. Taking advantage of the fact that the main force of the thief army was pinned down near Xiajiang County, Yan Yingyuan played a large move of hundreds of miles. happened to meet Liu Neng and his party who came from Huguang over the mountain.