I saw Ma Yuan, who was watching Lihua and Gu Daoyuan from afar and suddenly speak to himself after whispering, was immediately shocked when he heard the words, and after confirming that Lihua was indeed talking to himself, his face turned red, and he straightened his waist in an instant, and responded loudly in the direction where Lihua was located.

Today's Lihua is no longer the little hundred generals on Yuxiao, although the past events that happened in that small pass have always haunted Ma Yuan's mind and will never be forgotten.

And looking at Ma Yuan, who no longer looked immature because of the long hair on his face, there was still a trace of the shadow of the young man in his eyes.

However, for Zhu Lihua, Ma Yuan has always been the son-in-law who is a gentleman, and a relative who calls himself "brother" and obeys his words.

After nodding to Ma Yuan, he said goodbye to everyone, and then took 20,000 recruits from Yaoping, Yicheng, Shaoliang, and Hancheng counties to march in the direction of Huangyin City.

In the middle of summer, the sun is blazing, and the outside of Huangyin City is full of abandoned farmland and empty houses.

Therefore, even Lihua, who would never let Da Lang Erlang leave him for a long time, was getting closer and closer to Huangyin City, but he was relieved to let these two white wolves, who were already as big as calves, leave his side and go to the activities around the official road.

At the beginning, when Lihua left the mountain valley, he let the two wolves go to the official road alone to wait for him, and when he met them again, he was surprised to find that the two wolves did not have any uneasiness and loss because of Yu Xin'er's disappearance.

Curious, he seemed to guess that Yu Xin'er might have seen two wolves after leaving him, otherwise, how could these two Sumeru wolves who were clinging to Yu Xin'er all day long eat and drink like a nobody.

So after feeling the emotions of the two wolves, Yu Lihua was completely relieved of Yu Xin'er's safety. At the very least, the seriously injured lover who left him may really be out of danger. Although he and Xiao Jinxing have also analyzed this similar conclusion.

Compared with the full expectation when Lihua went to Shenjing, Lihua has now lost all her illusions, but it is much easier. Because for him, all the difficulties he is about to face no longer have the expectation of others coming to help.

But then things are simpler.

Either fight or surrender, win or live, defeat or die.

Watching the two white wolves rush out of a house and get back to his side after finding nothing, Zhu Lihua's face suddenly turned cold, because he saw the blood on the mouths of the two white wolves.

He raised his hand and motioned for the group to stop and rest, and then he sent someone to investigate the house.

The guards of Lihua naturally knew that the two white wolves of General White Wolf would not harm people at will, and at this moment, the two wolves had calm faces, just obediently leaning their heads next to Lihua and letting Lihua wipe the blood from the corners of their mouths for them.

The bloodstains were not the two wolves' own, and they didn't look like they had fought with others, so the soldiers immediately knew what was going on, and they all turned around and ran towards the house next to the official road.

Sure enough, just a moment later, the soldiers carried out six corpses from the house, including men and women, old and young, and it was clear at a glance that the corpses of these murderous hands must have been a family before their deaths.

"General, these people should have died in less than half a day, judging from their injuries, they were all killed by Changge, except for the baby and the young woman who were ........"

Speaking of this, Mao Biao bit his lip and stopped talking, because the cause of death of the baby and the naked young woman who burst out of his brain did not need to be said by him at all.

Zhu Lihua nodded, then coldly glanced at the neatly placed corpses and said, "Mao Biao, how far is it from Huangyin here?" ”

When Mao Biao heard Lihua's question, he immediately arched his hand and said, "General Yu, it's forty miles away." ”

Zhu Lihua nodded and said, "You should send five hundred brothers to ride horses and take the first step, and investigate house by house along both sides of the official road, and if you find these corpses again, you will place them on the official road." If the murderer is found, there can be no mistake in arresting him immediately. ”

"Whoa!" After Mao Biao finished speaking, he didn't hesitate at all, and immediately turned around and ordered the school to gallop away.

And Lu Lihua sent more than a dozen people to instruct that after the army left, the corpses of the six members of this family would be buried next to the official road.

Subsequently, Zhu Lihua ordered the whole army to continue to set off towards Huangyin City.

Most of the 20,000 soldiers and horses behind him were people recruited from various counties in the past two months, and they had never seen people stabbed to death by weapons on weekdays, let alone babies who had been thrown to death and female corpses covered with slashing marks.

So when they left the corpses, some of them couldn't help but vomit in the marching procession.

Regarding the reaction of the soldiers under his command, Lu Lihua did not issue any orders to reprimand these recruits, because the corpses of people who were killed like this could be seen everywhere beside the official road for the next ten miles.

Some of these corpses seemed to have been dead for some time and looked to be decomposed, while others were fresh, and it was clear that they had not been dead for a long time.

The corpses were neatly stacked on both sides of the official road, and Zhu Lihua still only ordered his soldiers to wait until the army had passed before burying the corpses.

I saw that on this day's march, with the cicadas and insects on both sides of the official road, among the 20,000 newly recruited troops, everyone was left in a dripping cold sweat.

"My lord, I caught 286 soldiers who were breaking into the house and robbing the people's property, killing people and plundering property, and I asked the general to show me how to deal with it."

At night, Mao Biao led his subordinate soldiers who were ordered by the generals to investigate and arrest the murderers of the people and returned to the tent of Lihua.

He thought that the furious Zhu Lihua would immediately order the murderers to be executed, but after all, he only got the order of Zhu Lihua to detain the murderers and go to rest first.

Mao Biao, who was in a daze, had to leave, while Zhu Lihua, whose face was as heavy as water, sat in the tent and thought about what he was going to do next.

Originally, Zhu Lihua could have entered Huangyin City before nightfall, but he didn't do this, he just ordered to set up camp in a place called Huang Tiandang five miles away from Huangyin.

This place is a percussive plain through which the yellow water flows, and the riverside is full of dense reeds. Like other ordinary riverside plains, countless people originally lived here. Most of them have been cultivating the fertile land here for generations, or enjoying the rare calm of the yellow water, and have made a living by fishing for generations.

Like the small fishing village that Qiuzi sent people to find, this is also one of the few places on the bank of the Yellow Water where you can take a boat out of the river, so the population here is naturally much denser.

Perhaps, because Huang Tiandang is too close to Huangyin City, the residents here are only harassed and plundered by the Qin soldiers in the city, but there are not many cases of killing people and setting fires.

But Rao was like this, and when the people saw the arrival of the army of Lihua, they closed their doors and curled up in their homes to pray for the shrine they were enshrined.

This night, the generals of Hedong, who had rushed to Huangyin City not long ago, rushed to the camp of Lihua one after another under the leadership of Gao Yunce.

They were quite puzzled by the way they camped outside the city without entering the city, and at the same time, they were all keenly aware of the slightest mistake.

Sure enough, after eating countless closed doors, Gao Yunce and the others had no choice but to return in disgust, because they got an order from the barracks Zhongli Hua, just explicitly asking Xi Zihui to enter the barracks to see him, while the others returned to the city to wait for their news, and did not need to stay in front of the barracks all the time to wait.

After watching Xi Zihui enter the military camp of Lihua with a solemn face, except for Wei Yuanqi, who led 30,000 troops to guard the Huangtian Fortress, and Xu Xiaoyang, who led 20,000 troops in Xiaoshui to guard against the Qi Fang Rong people and guard the Eight Ways of Heaven.

Gao Yunce, Liang Qingshu, An Moran, Wei Huan, Wei Mu, Li Ji, Tang Yuan, Liu Jaw, Niu Yong, Huang Yunhe, Xin Tong'er and other generals who followed Lihua's southern expedition and northern war had to leave the barracks after looking at each other.

They didn't understand in their hearts, but they were very curious, what did this Lihua do to keep his descendants and generals out, but only let Xi Zihui, who had served halfway, enter the camp for secret discussions.

Although they didn't feel it like it in their hearts, they all knew that Lihua was a person and a style, so they didn't complain, but returned to Huangyin City under the leadership of Gao Yunce and Liang Qingshu.

"General, Xi Zihui's recruitment this time has lived up to the trust of the general, and a total of 40,000 recruits have been recruited in less than half a year, and they have all been sent to Huangyin City and other places to participate in the city defense and garrison ....... various passes."

After Xi Zihui came to the military tent of Zhu Lihua, he was immediately keenly aware of Zhu Lihua's displeasure, although his own chief general was expressionless and just motioned for himself to sit down and talk in detail, but how could a person like Xi Zihui be stupid enough to obediently obey orders.

If Lihua listened to the slander or what he did made him unhappy and wanted to get rid of him, then he would be too wronged.

It must be known that the killing of the noble patriarch of all counties in Hedong, although the order from Zhu Lihua did not mean to blame him, he also knew that this matter was too extensive and had too deep an impact.

Not to mention that killing the nobles has violated the taboo in the world, even if this matter spreads to the nations, Na Lihua will also carry the black pot because of himself, so that the nobles of the world will regard him as an enemy.

So in his opinion, it may not be a good thing for Zhu Lihua to ask himself to enter the barracks alone. And the failure to keep it is the crime of Lihua wanting to settle accounts after the autumn and hold himself accountable for the crime of cutting first and then playing.

Therefore, Xi Zihui did not wait for Lihua to speak, and hurriedly reported to Lihua what he had done after coming to Hedong County, and at the same time made his contributions to Lihua clear one by one, so that Lihua could remember his own merits when dealing with himself, and let him fall lightly.