"The Jiangning Army has arrived?" Liu Zongmin was startled at first when he heard this, and then his expression darkened. He pushed away the two women who were dressing for him, grabbed the robe on the side and put it on his body, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go with me to meet the King of Chuang."

Two quarters of an hour later

Li Zicheng, who was disturbed by his dream, sat by the bed, yawning while listening to Liu Zongmin's report, looking at Liu Zongliang standing in front of him, saying, "Brother Zongliang, according to your estimate, how long will the Jiangning Army arrive in Jiading County?"

Liu Zongliang said without hesitation: "Returning to the King's Word, what I saw today is the vanguard of the Jiangning Army. All of these people are cavalry. As for their infantry, I did not see them, but according to my experience, the Jiangning Army pays great attention to the cooperation of infantry and cavalry. Generally speaking, the distance between infantry and cavalry will not exceed fifty miles. According to this calculation, the Jiangning Army's army will arrive at Jiading County as early as tomorrow evening and the next day."

"So, we only have one or two days to prepare." Li Zicheng pondered for a moment, and a trace of light flashed in his eyes: "Brother Zongmin, since the Jiangning army is coming, we should leave too. In this way, two hours later, I will lead the large infantry and horses to set off first. You will lead your headquarters to set off this evening. We will meet with Li Laiheng in Wuxian tomorrow, and then the troops will be sent to Suzhou."

When Liu Zongmin heard Li Zicheng let him leave in the evening, he was stunned, and his face looked a little ugly: "King of Chuang, aren't we going together?"

Seeing Liu Zongmin's unhappy expression, Li Zicheng knew that Liu Zongmin had a bad idea and quickly explained: "Brother Zongmin, don't get me wrong. I asked you to leave later, but I didn't want you and Brother Zong Liang to do something for me. It wouldn't be too late to wait until this matter was gone last night."

"Oh, is there anything else that the King of Breaking did not do?" Liu Zongliang was also confused.

"Of course there is." Li Zicheng's face became ferocious: "Although the wealthy families in Jiading County have been almost confiscated by us, the people in the city must still have a lot of gold, silver and food at home. All you have to do is to find out all the people's food before tonight, and not leave a grain of rice to the Jiangning Army."

"this……"

Liu Zongmin and Liu Zongliang looked at each other: "The King of Chuang... It's almost noon now. It's probably too much to empty the food and treasures of the people's homes at such a time?"

"Hurried? I don't think so." Li Zicheng cracked his mouth and showed a yellow teeth and sneered: "I have a way here to enable you to achieve your goals quickly..."

I have to say that the battlefield is the best teacher. After fighting with the Jiangning Army so many times, although the bandits have never won, their understanding of the Jiangning Army has also risen to a new level, at least not as ignorant as before.

Li Zongliang had a good guess. Eighty miles away from Jiading County, Li Yan was leading the cavalry battalion of 5,000 infantrymen and Cao Yingmao was advancing towards Jiading County.

As the first time he led the army to fight after joining the Jiangning Army, Li Yan knew very well that this operation was not only Yang Feng’s trust in him, but also a test. If he could complete the task successfully this time, his future in the Jiangning Army would be bright. But if he ruined the mission, although he would not be able to pull himself to the end, he probably would have been in the position of Zanhua for a long time.

Although it is good to be a pseudopa, both in terms of status and salary, and can meet Yang Feng frequently, for a person with lofty ambitions, he will never be willing to waste his youth in this position.

Today, Li Yan was wearing a set of steel armor like an ordinary Jiangning army sergeant, a green steel helmet on his head, and a saber and a three-eyed musket hung around his waist. Although he became sweaty due to the march for most of the day, he was still standing next to the official road with energy, looking at the sergeant passing by the official road, with a look of emotion in his eyes.

Once upon a time, his ideal was to pass the Jinshi exam and be called a glorious civil servant of the Ming Dynasty. But in the end, not only did he fail the Jinshi exam, but he became a bandit and became a thief with Li Zicheng.

But God seemed to be joking with him. After being a bandit for a few days, his fate turned around again. He actually became a seventh-rank official in the Ming Dynasty. Now he even took officers and soldiers to encircle his former boss. This is the wonder of the world.

"General, the front line does not receive reports. The bandits' posts have been deployed very frequently in the past two days. There have been many conflicts with our posts. Both sides have suffered casualties, but in general, our injuries are relatively minor."

"oh……"

Li Yan thought for a while, and his eyes gradually became brighter and he called out a messenger, "Tell General Cao Yingmao immediately that the bandits are going to run away. Let him speed up and attack Suzhou Prefecture immediately. If he encounters bandits on the road, he should not be polite to fight me to death, and he must not show mercy."

"Here!"

The messenger responded, immediately pulled the reins of the horse, and the war horse neighed and ran forward.

Looking at the direction where the messenger disappeared, Li Yan murmured: "King of Chuang, King of Chuang, you probably want to attack Suzhou. If it weren't for our Jiangning Army, you might be able to succeed, but now you can never take Suzhou.

Come, I will send the order from this official, and the team will speed up and move forward quickly towards Jiading County..."

Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin thought they were already very alert, but they never expected that the people led the Jiangning Army this time were their old acquaintances, and this old acquaintance knew them quite well, so just as Liu Zongmin, who had finished the assignment of Li Zicheng, calmly led his troops to evacuate to Wu County, they were caught up by the cavalry led by Cao Yingmao at noon the next day.

"kill……"

The first person to catch up with Liu Zongmin's troops was a group of hundreds of people under Cao Yingmao. When they saw the bandits in charge of the palace, they fucked the guy and killed him without saying a word.

Accompanied by the sound of muskets, more than 300 bandits in charge of the palace fell down a large area of ​​muskets, and the rest of them made a panic cry and retreated in all directions.

"Catch up and kill them..."

The leader Qian shouted loudly and chased forward with hundreds of cavalry...

At the same time, Li Yan, who had just entered Jiading County, couldn't believe his eyes when he looked at the scene in front of him.

The four gates of Jiading County were wide open, and the Jiangning Army easily entered the city, but when Li Yan led the army into the city, the scene he saw was shocked.

The vast Jiading County town is silent, and it is no exaggeration to describe it as dead silence. The originally wide streets are full of corpses, whether it is the elderly, women or children. The corpses have their faces and their eyes are wide open. It is obvious that they were all panicked before they died.

Seeing this, a word surged in Li Yan's heart.
Chapter completed!