Zhu Youzhen sat cross-legged on the blanket and stretched out his hand to signal Xu Xiang to sit on the opposite side of the low table in front of him.

"Don't dare!" Xu Xiang bowed and said.

Zhu Youzhen smiled: "If Tian Guofeng or Chen Fu came, naturally there would be no seat, but since you are a scholar, it will be different, and now I am also a scholar, sit down!" ”

"In that case, thank you Third Highness!" Xu Xiang smiled slightly and sat down generously.

Zhu Youzhen stared at the other party for a long time, and nodded meaninglessly.

The scholar in front of him is really a little bold.

"Since you're a scholar, you should know your current situation, right?" The smile on Zhu Youzhen's face disappeared, and although her tone was not as sharp as it was, it was full of oppression.

"Of course I do." Xu Xiang bowed slightly and said: "For those of us, it doesn't make much difference whether we die today or tomorrow, the day we go up the mountain, it's equivalent to pinning our heads to the waistband of our trousers, and when we will die and when we will finish." Luckily, there are companions to help bury this stinky skin, but if you are unlucky, there is nothing to complain about feeding wild dogs, jackals, tigers and leopards in the violent corpse wilderness. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Xiang smiled and continued: "More importantly, can you pull a few cushions before you die, if the weight of the cushion is heavy enough, it will be better." ”

"Hey, that's threatening me." Zhu Youzhen didn't laugh angrily: "Then do you think that if you all have to die tomorrow, then how many of my people can you pull to back?" ”

"His Highness's soldiers and horses are all elite, and we have carefully calculated that there is really a time when we can fight for between five hundred and eight hundred people of His Highness." Xu Xiang said very seriously.

They've really figured it out! Zhu Youzhen's heart sank, Cao Bin and him are almost the same estimates.

"In fact, the Third Highness himself is from the army, and he has fought many battles than us mountain bandits, how we are, you can know at a glance. We are all wild people, and the only advantage is that we are not afraid of death. Xu Xiang said.

"Since you are a wild road, why do you think you can fight so many of my elite subordinates?" Zhu Youzhen said: "Maybe it's far less than you think. ”

"There are many wars, there are many killings, and there is always some experience, that is, the wild way, and I have found some ways. Isn't there a saying that calls the master to death with a fist? Xu Xiang smiled and said: "Third Highness, we have also calculated, as long as one person escapes alive, don't forget to avenge the brothers in this life." ”

"Looking for me?" Zhu Youzhen laughed.

"Yes!" Xu Xiang looked at each other very seriously: "If any of our people can escape, it will be either Tian Guofeng or Chen Fu, if the luck is good enough and both of them escape, then Your Highness will have fun in the future, not afraid of being stolen by thieves, afraid of being let by thieves, right?" Only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand miles of thieves! ”

Seeing Xu Xiang seriously threaten herself, Zhu Youzhen laughed happily: "Then what do you think I should do?" Let go of a path for you to leave. ”

"If this is the case, the Taishan bandits will definitely remember the kindness of the Third Highness, and they will be rewarded in the future!" Xu Xiang nodded.

Zhu Youzhen laughed a little breathlessly.

"In my life, I have fought countless wars, and I have killed people without counting, how can I be threatened by others! Xu thought, do you think I will be threatened by you? ”

Xu Xiang was silent.

"There is no food or water on the mountain, I don't need to attack the mountain, just wait for you at the bottom of the mountain. Waiting for you to break through. I can drive the Tai'an soldiers to dig earth into ditches and build earth into walls under the poor mountains, and trap you alive. You can live for a few days without food to eat, and how long can you survive without water to drink? Zhu Youzhen sneered: "So you can only break through, but as long as you do this, even the Tai'an soldiers can give you great damage, and you have to fight my five hundred elites, do you think too much?" ”

"Since Your Highness told me, we will naturally break through immediately, but Your Highness hasn't done this yet." Xu Xiangdao.

"If so, will I still let you go back?"

"If I can't go back, they will naturally know the result, and the breakthrough will naturally start immediately!" Xu Xiang said: "And in my opinion, if we break through now, those Tai'an soldiers will definitely be happy to watch you fight with us on the side, even if they send troops, they will not be able to work hard, so that we may be able to escape a few more people." ”

"Yo ho, it looks like I really can't do anything about you!" Zhu Youzhen is really happy.

"Your Highness, I still know a little about your situation, you don't have many elites on hand, and you will never be willing to lose these precious human hands in our hands." Xu Xiang said seriously.

"A mountain bandit, what do you know about me?" Zhu Youzhen's face changed slightly.

"I'm a reader. You said that. Xu Xiang smiled and said: "Even if I am a bandit in the mountains, I am not blind or deaf, and we still have a lot of people outside." You can hear some of it more or less. ”

Zhu Youzhen stared at the other party for a long time, and nodded: "It didn't disappoint me, you are a talent, what are you the number one among the Taishan bandits?" ”

Xu Xiang stretched out two fingers.

"The second place, the first is naturally Tian Guofeng, that Chen Fu listens to you?" Zhu Youzhen said with a smile.

"Actually, Tian Guofeng is also obedient to me, because I am a scholar." Xu Xiang said proudly: "Since I went up the mountain, the Taishan bandits have been Taishan bandits, and they used to be just a group of mountain bandits!" ”

"It makes sense." Zhu Youzhen nodded: "Jing Xiang is also a scholar, but he is better than thousands of troops." Xu Xiang, what you said is not bad, I am indeed willing to lose manpower for you, and I also appreciate you, originally I only admired the bravery of Tian Guofeng and Chen Fu's archery skills, as well as the bravery of those bandits, but now I appreciate your mind even more. I want to take you guys, how about it? How can I make you willing to be my subordinates? In fact, to put it bluntly, you only have two ways now, either you die, or surrender to me and become my subordinate to have a way to live. ”

Xu Xiang seemed to be a little stunned, and only said after a while: "Most of us have a deep blood feud with Wu Kejin, if His Highness is willing to put the heads of Wu Kejin and his family in front of us, we will surrender and be loyal to His Highness from now on." ”

"Looks like you have something else in mind?" Zhu Youzhen picked up the cup on the table, took a sip of water and said, "I can't do it, right?" ”

"If it weren't for that, how dare we believe that His Highness really recruited us instead of tricking us down the mountain to disarm and surrender and then settle accounts after the autumn, we have seen a lot of such things." Xu Xiang sneered: "We would rather fight to the death than die like that." At the very least, fighting to the death will give us more dignity. Those of us who have never been respected by others in our lives, then on the battlefield, we may be able to get some. ”

Zhu Youzhen applauded softly: "That makes sense." Go back and wait for my news. ”

It seemed that he didn't expect Zhu Youzhen to agree so happily, Xu Xiangleng was stunned for a while before saying: "Your Highness, don't think about a delaying plan first, so that you can dig a ditch and build a wall at the bottom of the mountain." ”

"What is there to deceive you, the poor mountain is so big, can't you see it? Just see me have these moves, and you can naturally attack them! Zhu Youzhen smiled and said: "Go back and tell Tian Guofeng and Chen Fu that I promised you to exchange Wu Kejin's head for your loyalty." ”

Walked out of the big tent, accompanied by the fine work, out of the opponent's defense line, and the two bandits who received him converged and went to the mountain, the cool breeze blew, Xu Xiang only felt a chill in his back.

Zhu Youzhen is much more difficult to deal with than she imagined, and she is also much more shrewd. If it weren't for the fact that everything had been arranged a year earlier, something would have gone wrong today. Zhu Youzhen in reality is obviously different from the information provided to him by the internal guard.

After carefully recalling the previous answers, Xu Xiang confirmed that he had performed perfectly and did not show any flaws, so he relaxed a little.

When he returned to the mountain, he saw Tian Guofeng and Chen Fu, and he waved his fist vigorously.

"It's done, let's wait to see a good show, and when the show is over, let's go down the mountain to meet the master!" Xu Xiangdao.

Tian Guofeng and Chen Fu both laughed.

Tian Guofeng and the other three on the mountain sat cross-legged on a high place, staring at the bottom of the mountain and waiting to watch the play.

In the big tent, Zhu Youzhen did not rest, but asked people to bring a pot of wine, where to sit, and slowly poured it alone.

And in his big camp, although the lights were not lit and it was extremely quiet, in every tent, all the soldiers were wearing helmets and armor, and their weapons were placed beside them, and outside the big tent, the war horses did not even take off their saddles.

It wasn't until the fifth watch that a horse came from afar and drove into the camp and hurriedly ran into Zhu Youzhen's big tent.

"Your Highness, it's done." The messenger said excitedly: "General Cao is finished. ”

Zhu Youzhen drank the wine in the cup cleanly and stood up suddenly.

"Pass my order, the whole army will attack and annihilate Wu Kejin's department."

In the camp, the remaining two thousand soldiers left the camp in silence, stepped on the war horses in silence, and then left the camp in groups, and after a while, the sound of hooves suddenly rose, and the two thousand elites killed Wu Kejin's Tai'an soldiers with lightning speed.

Poor Wu Kejin was on the mountain with the Taishan bandits fighting him here as a breakthrough point to fight out of the encirclement, where did he think of the real killing move, but it was from what he thought was his friendly army.

Two thousand cavalry slaughtered into the Tai'an soldiers, it was really like slaughtering chickens and sheep, and when the sky was bright, the entire Tai'an soldiers had been slaughtered cleanly.

On the top of the mountain, Tian Guofeng and Chen Fu were also dumbfounded.