Guandi Temple in Heshui County, located on the north peak of Huayin Mountain, has long been in disrepair and dilapidated, but this dilapidated small temple that has no incense has long been ushered in a distinguished guest on October 29, 22nd year of Linde, and His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan went west to appease Liukou by holy decree.

It turned out that after Qin Fei arrived in Shaanxi, although the policy of exempting Emperor Lin De from paying taxes in Shaanxi for one year and distributing various relief funds was known to the whole province, how could those rogues be willing to trust him again because of the dishonesty of the court last time. In addition, several small leaders were lured and killed by some local officials in the name of appeasement, which made Gao Zicheng and these big leaders vigilant.

In order to move these people, Qin Fei took a lot of effort, but fortunately, the king of Yingchuan in the capital said that Cui Xiang was moved, and tried every means to send him 100,000 taels of silver and 50,000 stone of grain in time. When the leaders saw that a large number of things had been brought over, they agreed to negotiate with the court about being appeased.

Gao Zicheng, the leader of the thirteen villages of Liukou, is a cautious person, he does not want to miss this opportunity to recruit An, but also afraid that if he is tempted by the court to cut off his head again, he discussed with a few brothers, and selected the place to accept Zhao'an in a Guandi temple built on Huayin Mountain, and the two sides are not allowed to bring a soldier except for more than ten relatives.

Wang Zhaoyuan, the new governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, was still afraid that their request would be rejected by the king of Linchuan, but when he told Qin Fei with fear, His Royal Highness the county king didn't even frown, so he agreed very simply.

"They just want to test the sincerity of the court, even so, this king doesn't want so many followers, just take Master Zhou to accompany me, so that they can show them the sincerity of this king."

I have to say that His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan can be regarded as a lonely person to go to the meeting, so that several heads of the Liukou took the lead and went to half of the war, plus he himself had been in the folk market for three years, and he had dealt with the three sects and nine streams, and talked about this trick with these leaders who were born with mud legs, not only the noble bearing of the king of the dynasty, but also the slightest bit of high shelf, and the words he said were extremely down-to-earth, and he called these leaders brothers and sisters in a few words, which was very temperamental to these leaders.

Seeing that the two parties were talking happily, and when the matter of Zhao'an was about to be completed, suddenly a man rushed in with an anxious face, and said loudly: "Big boss, it's not good, the dog king of this court is cheating, we only brought a dozen people, but they sent nearly 100 elite soldiers to quietly climb up from the forest in the north, and have surrounded this mountain, I am afraid that they are about to rush in!" ”

When the dozen or so leaders heard this, they were as angry as if they had exploded, and then they looked at the face of the King of Linchuan, but they were not surprised or panicked, and they were still sitting there and looking at each other and smiling at the master he brought. Immediately, a few leaders couldn't hold back and rushed up to capture the dog king in his hands first.

Qin Fei's skills were not ambiguous, he first protected his Master Zhou behind him, then took out a firearm that had been prepared long ago from his arms, raised his hand and let it go to the sky, and immediately shocked everyone.

Qin Fei blew the gunpowder smoke coming out of the mouth of the gun, handed it behind him, stared at Gao Zicheng with his eyes and said with a smile: "Tall leader, these subordinates of yours are too uncomposed, although there are more people on this mountain, you can't even let me say a word, you have to tie me up, right?" ”

Gao Zicheng had a very good impression of this county king, but at this time, the officers and soldiers who surrounded the temple and the local gentry who had booby-trapped their rebels before made him have to suspect that this Qin Fei was also a dog king who was not well-intentioned.

"Your officers and soldiers have almost rushed to the temple gate, you are not trustworthy, and you clearly want to kill us all by surrendering, sure enough, none of you officials are good people, they are all as black as crows in the world!"

Qin Fei also slapped the table and shouted, "How do you know that those officers and soldiers were sent by me?" I am a county king, I listen to the name of the noble and loud, but I do not have an official position, except for the holy decree in my hand, I can't even mobilize a single soldier, and those people outside are not sent by me at all. Besides, I'm here—"

It's a pity that although he shouted loudly, no one would listen to him, and the dozen or so leaders rushed up in a swarm, and even the guys were copied in their hands.

Seeing this, Master Zhou did not hesitate any longer, he had already filled the gunpowder into the gun again, and immediately raised it and fired another shot at the ground, which hit the feet of one of the leaders, so that those leaders stood still for a while, and did not dare to take a step forward for the time being.

He exclaimed, "Do you have any brains? My Royal Highness took the risk of coming alone to discuss with you about appeasement, even if you really want to say it without believing it, you can't choose this time, if you don't wait for the officers and soldiers outside to rush in, the two of us will be cut down by you first, and then stupid people will not make such foolish deeds that cut off their own back road, you think about it. ”

The leaders looked at me, I looked at you, exchanged glances with each other, and one of them said, "Didn't you bring firearms?" This is obviously prepared. ”

"Are you a pig's brain?" Qin Fei scolded unceremoniously. "Am I the only one who brought weapons here, so what are you holding in your hands? Besides, this fire gun looks so powerful that it actually takes a long time to make a sound, and even if I really want to use it against you, kill two at most, and you will chop it into a pulp. ”

Master Zhou followed: "My county king has always been suspicious of the queen mother, and he has never had any real power, although this time in order to show the sincerity of the court, he has to send His Royal Highness here, but he has sent two eunuchs in black to monitor my Royal Highness." I'm afraid that these officers and soldiers were deliberately sent by the two eunuchs of the black-clothed guards, in order to borrow your hands to get rid of my highness. ”

The other leader didn't believe it: "Nonsense, it is a eunuch who dares to harm the king of the county?" ”

"Why don't you dare, if this is what Empress Dowager Sun instructed them to do? Today, the saint still has no children, if it weren't for the Empress Dowager Sun's obstruction, my Royal Highness would have been made the crown prince a long time ago, 'how can others be allowed to sleep soundly next to the couch', then once the Empress Sun seized the opportunity, how could she not deal with our Royal Highness to get rid of him? ”

"If you hurt my Highness today, not only will you be used as a gunman, but you will also commit a serious crime. Originally, you just gathered people to loot because you didn't have enough to eat, which is understandable, but if you hurt His Royal Highness the dignified county king, do you think the court will be open to you again and lenient? Dare to hurt the royal bloodline, that is a big crime of the Nine Clans! ”

Qin Fei saw that every word in his words was inseparable from his own safety, and his heart was greatly moved, and he quietly held his hand, although he was in danger, he felt warm in his heart.

While he was moved in his heart, he didn't miss the various looks in the eyes of the leaders. He saw a scholar-like person leaning over to Gao Zicheng's side and whispering a few words to him, Gao Zicheng's expression moved slightly, but he shook his head.

"Tall leader," he said with a smile, "you must be thinking that whether this officer or soldier was sent by me or not, it would be absolutely cost-effective to take me as a hostage or something." Yes and no? ”

Gao Zicheng did think so in his heart, although what the master of the King of Linchuan said also made some sense, but he still felt that it was more reassuring to catch these two people in his hands first, so he gave a look to a powerful leader beside him, and the man immediately shouted: "You say this, it's just a one-sided statement, who knows if it's true or false, seeing that the officers and soldiers are about to arrive at the temple gate, it is better for you to go out with us and confront them face to face." ”

Qin Fei glanced at him slantedly, and the corners of his mouth crooked to reveal a sarcastic smile, "Tall leader, are your subordinates full of shit in their heads?" Still going out to confront each other? If I show up, and the officers and soldiers first shoot me to death with an arrow, and then rely on your heads and take the opportunity to exterminate you all, who will you confront and reason with? ”

"Haven't you seen that the group of officers and soldiers outside wants to destroy both of our families, come to a pot, why don't you hurry up and let your dozen brothers guard the temple gate first, as long as they can hold out for a while, someone will come to save us."

Gao Zichengcai didn't believe him, and said anxiously: "My brothers are all at the bottom of the mountain, even if they see the movement on the mountain, I'm afraid it's too late." ”

Qin Fei raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Who said it was up to them?" Since this king knew that the two eunuchs who came to Shaanxi with me were uneasy and kind, how could he not be prepared at all? I have already arranged a group of strange soldiers to keep an eye on this Guandi Temple, and if there is any change, they will come to our rescue. ”

Although he said these words with a smile, he was extremely indignant in his heart. Although he knew that it was not strange that Sun Hou's party would use any indiscriminate means against him, it was inexplicable to see that they did not forget to engage in infighting and deal with themselves first at such a juncture.

He would rather live the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, rather than see the party of Sun Hou ignore national affairs like this, but only care about their own selfish interests, misleading the country and the people.

It's just that what he didn't count was that although the number of officers and soldiers who rushed over was only a hundred or so people, there were fifty of them who were good at martial arts, and they had already jumped over the earthen wall and rushed into the temple. The team he arranged, although there were also hundreds of people, rushed over in time, but compared with these martial arts masters, it was suddenly a little insufficient.

What's more, those martial arts masters are all coming at him, if he hadn't explained the benefits and disadvantages to the leaders of those peasant armies before, and was desperately protected by them, and he had a magic weapon in his hand, I was afraid that he would not be able to parry it for a long time, Rao is so, he is also in danger at this time.

Seeing that there were more and more officers and soldiers around him, those rogues saw that the officers and soldiers were powerful, although they didn't want to be punished by the nine clans with the black pot of murdering the king of the county, but in the end, it was important to save the life in front of him, and they no longer ignored those officers and soldiers for him as before.

Seeing this, Qin Fei knew that something was wrong, gritted his teeth and fought hard, while retreating, and saw an opportunity to fly up and jump onto the eaves, but he was hit by a goshawk by an officer and soldier, and he was forced to fall to the ground, and immediately seven or eight weapons were cut at him.

He only parried the blades in front of him, but the man who had forced him back before hid behind him, and stabbed a sword secretly. Seeing that the tip of the sword was about to touch the back of his heart, he heard a loud "boom", and the man looked at the ball of blood on his chest in disbelief, and fell to the ground.

As soon as Qin Fei heard the movement behind him, he knew that Cai Wei had also come out, and he couldn't help but feel anxious. He had long regretted that he shouldn't have brought her to such a dangerous situation, but he was even more worried about letting her alone in Chang'an with the two eunuchs sent by Empress Dowager Sun, so he still used her □□ to change her appearance, and turned into Master Zhou and brought her along.

But I don't want him to miscalculate that An Chengxu would rather kill by mistake than be ruthless, so that both of them are in danger. If he was alone, he would be trapped in a sea of swords and fires, and he would not be afraid of the rain of bullets, but Cai Wei ......, he must not let her be hurt in the slightest, he was afraid that if he failed to protect her in the chaos, he repeatedly told her not to come out after hiding in the statue in the temple.

But she still didn't listen to him, ran out, and saved his life.

He slashed two swords, cut off a circle of blades in front of him, and left a bloody wound on each of the officers and soldiers in that circle, and when he looked back, he saw Cai Wei riding on a horse and holding another horse in his hand.

Qin Fei had a heart-to-heart with her, and without waiting for her to say anything, he flew over and jumped over, landing right on the horse, and the two of them ran towards the back door with the reins.

These two horses were the mounts they had when they came, and Cai Wei insisted on tying them to the back door, but they came in handy. The officers and soldiers had come on foot to conceal themselves, and as long as they had mounts, they could escape.

There are four or five zhang behind the Guandi Temple, which is the cliff, there is no way to go, but there is a road to go down the mountain from the left and right sides. But as soon as they rode out of the back door and walked a few steps to the right, they saw dozens of officers and soldiers suddenly appear in the woods on both sides, and they all fired arrows at them.

Qin Fei hurriedly jumped in front of Cai Wei to block the arrow for her, but she didn't think that her mount was hit by an arrow in the leg, and with a flick of her front hooves, she was thrown out and fell straight towards the cliff.