() Twenty years ago, the safflower will be surrounded and suppressed by the Qing court and suffered heavy losses (see the book of swords and enmity for details), has been living in seclusion in the desert, after twenty years of recuperation, the strength is even more than before, especially mastered the Silk Road to the west, the financial resources are extremely strong, this time Hu Fei asked for help to exchange huàn gold, because the amount is huge, Chen Jialuo personally came to trade, after meeting found that Hu Fei and Miao Renfeng both highly respected Li Yingdong, a little curious, and then inadvertently knew that the head of the Ouchi competition was willing to be a slave, Shocked, he immediately decided to meet with Li Yingdong.

The purpose of Chen Jialuo's meeting, Li Yingdong can guess one or two, it is nothing more than that the head of the competition is by Qianlong's side, and he is undoubtedly a strange soldier for the Red Flower Society, which has the ambition of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty. It is necessary to persuade him to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty together.

Li Yingdong looked down on the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, but he had some ideas about being an emperor, didn't Napoleon say: A soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier. What he wants to say is: a person who can travel freely through ancient times does not want to be an emperor is not a person with qualified ambitions.

It is not easy to change the dynasty and become the emperor, with the head of the race, he may be able to kill Qianlong lightly, but without an army and no power, changing the dynasty is undoubtedly just a dream. Now Chen Jialuo's appearance has given him a glimmer of light. Therefore, he was eager to see Chen Jialuo as soon as possible, and in the early morning, he rode out of the city with his servants and galloped in the direction of Hululing.

I didn't go far before I saw many soldiers escorting hundreds of carts in front of me. Su and Tai and his subordinates rode horses to escort on both sides.

Li Yingdong said in a low voice: "This is the territory of General Jilin, why haven't you sent troops?" ”

Daoist Lingqing returned: "I heard Liu Yuanhe say the day before yesterday that General Jilin went to other places on business, and the soldiers left behind were also transferred. ”

"Oh." Li Yingdong had a flash of inspiration, as if he realized something, but when he paid attention to it, the thought disappeared without a trace. Shaking his head, he said, "Regardless of them, let's hurry up and rush to Hululing within three days." ”

The servants agreed, and the horses galloped together, and the group soon overtook Su Hetai's escort team, ran wildly for a day, and settled down in a big town somewhere at night to rest.

The next morning, we set off again until noon, came to a village, and ate at the only restaurant in the village.

There is no good wine and good food in the rural restaurant, the wine is self-brewed sorghum wine, the taste is average, the dishes are old-fashioned, but the chicken and duck are enough, Li Yingdong was born in the countryside and has suffered hardships, so he loves to eat the delicacies of the mountains and seas, and this rural meal is also eaten correctly. While eating and observing, I found that most of the people who eat here are nearby businesses, and seeing their ruddy complexions, they are not ambiguous about the wine and food, and they know that life is very moist.

These merchants chatted while drinking, and the wine was full of people, and it was very lively.

"Lao Zhu, your braids are so beautiful, I envy me to death!"

"Hehe, where, where. I don't usually comb my hair, so it's nice to look smooth. ”

"Don't listen to Lao Zhu Hu, just fiddle with his braid at least three times a day, I heard that Hong Xia from the neighboring village is fascinated by this braid, and the blind date was successful two days ago, and the dowry has been given."

"Oops! Congratulations. ”

"Hey......

Lao Zhu Xiao's face was full of folds.

Li Yingdong looked at his smiling face, his heart was heavy, braids have become the standard for women to choose a mate, there is no doubt that people have taken braids as beauty now, it can be seen that the rule of the Qing Dynasty has been extremely stable, and the people's hearts are stable, how easy it is to change the dynasty! He suddenly lost interest in meeting Chen Jialuo.

After eating, Li Yingdong continued on the road, Li Yingdong was no longer in a hurry, and traveled all the way, Su Hetai's team surpassed him early, and seven days later came to the important town near Xiangxi Gorge (the apocryphal location). In fact, if it weren't for the patrol of officers and soldiers on the official road a few days ago, I am afraid it would have been a few days before they arrived in the important town.

Looking for a restaurant to eat, in the middle of the meal, the conversation of the people at the table next to him attracted Li Yingdong's attention, and after listening carefully, he frowned.

It turned out that Su Hetai was seriously ill, so the escort team was stranded at the Pang Yang Inn, and General Cha was in a hurry every day to scold the officers and soldiers. And these people at the next table are the officers and soldiers who have complained slightly.

Li Yingdong and other officers and soldiers left after eating, and said in a deep voice: "Su Hetai is as strong as a bear, and the possibility of serious illness is very small, I am afraid that it is a plan to repair the plank road in the dark, let's not stay here, and go to Hululing immediately." ”

As soon as the slaves took Li Yingdong as the leader, naturally there would be no objections.

After eating, everyone came to Xiangxi Gorge, went straight to Hululing by waterway, and saw countless green forest people along the way, waiting for Su Hetai to escort the team, some people will say that these people can go to the town to rob gold, it is indeed true, but that is not a robbery, but a rebellion, these green forest people are not so bold.

Li Yingdong thought of the officers and soldiers patrolling the road, and had a guess in his heart that the officers and soldiers might have come for these green forest people, and asked the slaves: "Do you know all the green forest people you met on the way?" How many good people are among them? ”

The slaves looked at each other, among which Jiang Laoquan's teachers and students were the most familiar in the Central Plains, and most of them were familiar, and said: "Most of these people are Jiangyang thieves, horse robbers, and they do things recklessly without a little chivalry, and they are not worthy of the words of good people." ”

Old Boxer Jiang had a disdain in his eyes, obviously disapproving of these people.

Chivalry has an accurate interpretation in modern times: with a strong sense of social responsibility, patriotism and love for the people, wit and bravery; Helping the poor, punishing evil and promoting good; Be righteous and willing to help others; When the road is uneven, walk for the sky.

Li Yingdong felt that the people in the rivers and lakes could help the poor and help the poor, even if they were chivalrous people, these people in the green forest undoubtedly did not have this habit, and the idea of warning dissipated after a turn in his mind.

There are servants such as Jiang Lao boxer on the waterway, and those people in the green forest are still relatively bright, and they all avoid and dare not provoke, and they go down to the Xiangxi Gorge, go to the land and continue to ride horses, it is another day's work, and the gourd ridge is in sight.

At this time, just as Li Yingdong expected, several giant warships appeared in Xiangxi Gorge, and the person headed by the giant ship was the general of Jilin, and a large number of troops were also assembled on the nearby shore, and it was a posture to wipe out these green forest people.

At the same time, Li Yingdong and the servants heard the sound of killing in the distance, and the sound of swords clashing was incessant. Quietly approaching the mouth of Hululing, he saw many masked people surrounding Su Hetai's escort team in the mouth and besieging it. There were dead bodies everywhere, masked men, officers and soldiers, and it was clear that the siege had been going on for a long time.

Li Yingdong found that Su Hetai had surrounded more than 50 carts escorted, with archers responsible for long-range shooting inside, and elite soldiers wearing leather armor and thick-backed machetes in their hands on the outside. Su Hetai and his cronies and subordinates were in the middle. is in harmony with the art of war, there is no chaos in attacking and defending.

On the other hand, there are a large number of masked people, but there are no people who are proficient in command, they rely entirely on crowd tactics, and now the number is only half more than that of Su and Tai, and it is difficult to predict who will win and who will lose.

Li Yingdong asked in a low voice: "Win more with less, this is very similar to the style of the Qing court to fight, is there a race manager in this gang?" ”

The servants looked and looked and shook their heads.

Isn't it the team of the race manager? Li Yingdong had a question mark in his mind.

At this time, someone in the masked man has opened his mind, and he has sent a butterfly dart to destroy the archer. Su Hetai shot down the butterfly dart, and flew out with a flick of the steel gun, flashing like lightning, and it had already passed through the chest of the masked man who had sent the hidden weapon, and the remaining momentum was not reduced, and he stabbed the two to death one after another before stopping.

At the same time, Su Hetai came over and grabbed a stick to sweep thousands of troops, it was really powerful, and there were three people hanging on it, still like lifting weights, like wielding straw sticks. It was obviously not the first time that the masked people had seen this trick, and they dodged for a while.

Su Hetai took advantage of the situation to return to the defense, and before leaving, he threw off the dead corpses, one of the dead corpses was not tightly masked and fell down, he saw that the masked man's body was shocked, and scolded angrily: "Emperor Lao'er, you can't die well!" ”