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In the spear room, which was barely sheltered from the wind and rain, there was an oil lamp on a rotten table that was randomly spliced together with some tree trunks, and the small candle flame could barely illuminate the area of the tabletop, and the three faces were grouped together, staring at a map on the table.

"Guofeng, this is a good opportunity." Chen Changfu pointed to the map.

"You asked me to take these sons and daughters to fight such a well-equipped team, if it weren't for Chen Changfu, I would definitely suspect that you were the dogleg of the official army." Tian Guofeng glanced at Chen Changfu dissatisfied: "This is not to rob, this is to send to death." ”

Chen Changfu, the third of the four Chen brothers, laughed when he heard this: "Who said that we are going to fight Zhu Youzhen, this army is the elite of the Liang army, and our little man is really not enough for others to eat." But Guofeng, don't you think this is a good opportunity for us to serve them? ”

Tian Guofeng looked at Chen Changfu with wide eyes, as if he was looking at a gorilla. After a while, he said: "Do you think that a group of bandits like us, the dignified Three Princes of Liang, will look down on us?" ”

"Of course, I didn't just rush to him and recommend myself." Another scholar dressed as a scholar who had been silent opened his mouth: "As long as you show your worth, for the current Zhu Youzhen, it is worth recruiting." ”

"We are bandits!" Tian Guofeng seems to have more respect for this person dressed as a scholar than Chen Changfu. "Born to be against them. Mr. Xu, I'm afraid it's more difficult. ”

Xu Xiang, a native of Tai'an, came to Wuyi from Tai'an three years ago, then studied at Wuwei Academy, and a year ago, together with Chen Changfu, he was sent back to Pinglu Jiedu to engage in secret work.

Tian Guofeng and Chen Changfu are the same, they are both martial artists, but Xu Xiang is a scholar of the Eight Classics, since he went up the mountain, he took over this bandit team of thousands of people, under his management, this team slowly settled down, disciplined, when to go down the mountain to grab things, when to honestly open up wasteland and hunt in the mountains, everything is arranged by him, that is, how to rob things, who to rob, are arranged by Xu Xiang.

Over the past year, this team has become famous in the Pinglu area and has become the big brother among the bandits, and the leader Tian Guofeng has naturally become the big brother of the Pinglu bandits.

"It's not difficult!" Xu Xiang shook his head and said. "With a little planning, it all makes it feel natural."

"Mr. Xu, this Zhu Youzhen is a prince, can he look down on us bandits?" Even though he admired Xu Xiang very much, Tian Guofeng still looked a little incredible.

"This Zhu Youzhen is very weak now." Xu Xiang smiled: "He came to Pinglu this time, and he only brought such a small number of people, and Hou Xiyi has a large army, Zhu Youzhen doesn't want to be a spectator in Pinglu, but wants to hold real power, naturally the more chips in his hand, the better." In my opinion, Zhu Youzhen must want to take the initiative against the customer. Eighty percent of us are from Tai'an, and we are basically from Pinglu, if we show that we are useful to Zhu Youzhen, then he will naturally want to recruit us for his own use and help him to charge into battle. ”

Tian Guofeng looked at Xu Xiang with very strange eyes, and said after a while: "Mr. Xu, Zhu Youzhen came to Pinglu, but he came to fight the Tang army. Will it be time for us to help him fight Zuo Xiaowei? ”

"Zhu Youzhen arrived in Pinglu, but he didn't necessarily fight with the Tang army. He is most likely a military supervisor. Xu Xiang smiled: "Zhu Youzhen is the third prince of the pseudo-Liang, if we can lurk around him and gain trust, it will definitely help in the future." I don't think that in the battle of Pinglu, we will be able to do what we can do with this Zhu Youzhen! ”

"If it is really as you wish, and we are recruited by him, won't we be able to be at his side? If we seize the opportunity and slash him with a knife, won't we have made a great achievement? Tian Guofeng said longingly.

Xu Xiang laughed: "First, even if we are recruited, it is impossible for us to get close to him and assassinate him so quickly. Second, Pinglu is already within easy reach for us, killing him, Zhu Wen is just one less prince, and he is also a prince who is not very valued, the credit must be there, but it is not a great achievement. Third, Guofeng, I don't want to be a short-lived ghost, I really have a chance to kill Zhu Youzhen, can we run away by ourselves? If you die, what's the use of making a great contribution? ”

Tian Guofeng was a little confused, "Mr. Xu, then what do you say we should do?" ”

"Become his person first, and then gain his trust in the process of helping him to gain greater power, one day, our Datang is going to fight a decisive battle with the pseudo-Liang, until that time, it is the time for us to show our talents, if we don't move, we will let the pseudo-Liang hurt the muscles and bones and even lie down, that is a great achievement, Guofeng, really at that time, we will return with honor, what is the difficulty of waiting for the prime minister?" Xu Wu thought.

Tian Guofeng was stunned for a long time before he said: "I haven't thought about anything to pay homage to the prime minister, and when the time comes, I will be satisfied if I can get a general." ”

"What's so hard about that?" Xu Xiang burst out laughing.

On the official road to Tai'an Mansion, an army marched slowly, and it was Zhu Youzhen and Cao Bin who led the team to Qingzhou, Tai'an Mansion, which was their first stop.

"Your Royal Highness, Wu Kejin, the prefect of Tai'an, was born in the Wu clan of Tai'an, and it is rumored that the land of Tai'an, the Wu family holds at least more than thirty percent, plus all kinds of shop business, the Wu family can be described as extremely rich." A person who came to answer, and a detailed work subordinate to Fan Sheng was introducing the situation in Tai'an to Zhu Youzhen in detail.

"Thirty percent land?" Zhu Youzhen's eyes widened in surprise, "This is a bit untrue, isn't it?" ”

"It's really hard for outsiders to know how much, the villain is from Tai'an, but he more or less knows the methods of the Wu family over the years, anyway, the Wu family is a man of his word in Tai'an." Careful work.

"Hou Xiyi doesn't care?" Zhu Youzhen said with a dark face.

"Every year, the Wu family's tribute to Hou Jie Du is extremely rich. The villain was fortunate enough to participate in an escort, and that time was worth more than 100,000 yuan. ”

"I think it's all people's fat and people's ointment!"

"Yes, so Tai'an is also the most serious place for Pinglu bandits, and Taishan bandits can be said to be famous in Pinglu. The bandit leader Tian Guofeng gathered in Mount Tai and attacked Tai'an Mansion many times. "Carefully said.

"Do bandits actually have the ability to fight Tai'an Mansion City?" Zhu Youzhen was a little surprised.

"This Tian Guofeng is quite capable, and he is very famous in Tai'an, and there are many people in the local area." "The villain was also ordered to inquire about the details of this person, this person was originally in Tai'an is also a small rich family, the ancestors have hundreds of acres of fertile land, and later was targeted by the Wu family, and the land was not purchased, so he framed this person for colluding with the Tang State, exterminating his clan, seizing his property, the Tian family, only Tian Guofeng and a few people escaped, and then there was the famous Taishan bandits. Wu Kejin has attacked many times, and at first he was able to gain something, but in the past year, he has been defeated repeatedly, but he was bullied to the door of his house by Tian Guofeng, and the soldiers and horses in Wu's hands could only shrink into the city, and he didn't even dare to go out of the city. ”

Zhu Youzhen was a little curious: "So, this person is quite capable of fighting?" ”

"From the villain's point of view, this person is very capable of fighting." "The key is that Tian Guofeng was originally quite famous in Tai'an, and there were many people who sympathized with him, and there were countless people who had the same experience as him, so in the past two years, one has become stronger and stronger, but the other can only shrink into the city." Wu Kejin asked Hou Dashuai for help many times, but where could Hou Dashuai take care of this little bandit? ”

"It's kind of interesting!" Zhu Youzhen laughed: "Is our Wu Governor's family really rich?" ”

"Of course, I heard that the toilets of Wu Governor's Mansion are all made of gold!" Fine work is very envious of the authentic.

Zhu Youzhen laughed.

As he spoke, there was a sharp sound of horses' hooves ahead, and several scouts rushed to their horses. ran all the way to Zhu Youzhen, and then turned over and dismounted.

"Your Highness, the Taishan bandits stormed Tai'an Mansion."

Zhu Youzhen glanced at Cao Bin beside him, but he really didn't expect that they were still talking about the Taishan bandits just now, and in the blink of an eye, the Taishan bandits appeared under their noses.

"How many?"

"No less than five thousand." Scout said.

"So many people?" Zhu Youzhen was also taken aback.

"Your Royal Highness, as far as I know, the elite of the Taishan bandits who can really fight, at most a thousand people, the rest, are just ordinary villagers, every time the Taishan bandits go down the mountain, there are a lot of villagers to join them, so that the number of people is more and more, once they retreat, these villagers will return home. This is also the reason why the Taishan bandits have been repeatedly exterminated. "Finely said on the side.

Zhu Youzhen glanced at Cao Bin with a wry smile and said: "This is really a bandit when you pick up a knife, and a person who enters a knife is a people, and it is difficult to distinguish between the bandits and the people, how unpopular this Wu Kejin is, so there is such a scene!" ”

"Bandits, it should still be exterminated. Your Highness, if we go and intercept the back road of the Taishan bandits, they will never be able to go back. Cao Bin said.

"General Cao, from the experience of his subordinates, this time I am only afraid that Tai'an Mansion will not be able to withstand it, I sneaked in and snooped for a while, and the Taishan bandits have attacked the city many times. As long as it comes three or five more times, Tai'an Mansion will definitely be lost. The scout said.

Zhu Youzhen pondered for a while and said, "General Cao, you lead half of the men and horses to block the back road of the Taishan bandits, and I will take the other half of the people to aid Tai'an Mansion." ”

He glanced at the already small number of people, and his face was a little different. Zhu Youzhen seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and sneered: "It's just a bandit, we are not waste snacks like Wu Kejin." ”

Cao Bin is also full of confidence, they are the most elite troops in the Xuanwu Army in the past and the current Liang Forbidden Army, a group of bandits, even if there are more people than them, how can they block their blow?