As soon as he opened his mouth like this, it startled Zhu Chun and Zheng, and the couple immediately widened their eyes and instantly became a little stupid.

The two adults, in a trance, are still in a dream, although they and Zhu Li haven't seen each other for three years, but Zhu Li is only sixteen years old, have you ever seen a sixteen-year-old assassin history, anyway, with the knowledge of the two of them, they definitely haven't seen it.

Just when they were dazed, like stepping on the clouds, Zhu Li welcomed the three of them into the camp, and after sitting down, they told the truth of the matter, Zhu Chun and Zheng listened to it, as if they were sleepwalking, their son, that stupid and straight boy, was so big an official, but the two of them were pleasantly surprised.

The two of them are from mud legs, although Zhu Chun has practiced a little martial arts and has a little knowledge, but his little knowledge can't withstand the surprise of a thorn in the sky.

Not to mention the surprise and pride of the two, how could the Budai monk happen to save Zhu Li's parents.

This monk is not a person who just eats and does nothing, since he agreed to Gao Su's request, he naturally can't talk and don't count, he blackmailed some money from Gao Su, and went all the way south to Chang'an.

Since Zhu Li is at war with the grass army, he might as well take refuge in Zhu Li's opponent army, as long as he pays close attention to Zhu Li's movements, this may be more suitable for Zhu Li's safety.

But not long after he joined the grass army, he was a monk again, and his identity was naturally a little detached, and it happened that Li Yanzhang sold Zhu Li's parents and Zhu Wen designed to get rid of Zhu Li, so he thought that his opportunity to break the cause and effect had come, and he was ready to take advantage of Zhu Li's danger to help him.

But he didn't expect Zhu Li to be so violent, he actually overturned five people by himself, and later slaughtered a heavyweight general, and the remaining two didn't seem to be his opponents.

In this way, he had no chance to save Zhu Li, but then he hit Zhu Li's parents with his idea, and with his identity as a grass army, coupled with his skills, he naturally came to the rescue and rescued Zhu Li's parents without danger.

Zhu Li was very happy to see that his parents were rescued, and thanked the cloth bag monk in every way, the big monk was not polite, and he did not refuse, his broken pocket was very magical, no matter how much money was stuffed into it, it disappeared without a trace in an instant, it was a bottomless pit. (In the legend of the Budai monk, there is indeed this statement about his Budai, and it is not made up by the author)

It was not suitable for her parents to stay in the army, so Zhu Li wrote to Guo Qizuo and asked him to send someone over to take his Ah Lang and Ah Niang to Shuozhou, and by the way, Ning Er's little girl went to the knot.

With her parents by her side, Zhu Li is naturally no longer afraid of Zhu Wen's troubles.

The confrontation between the grass army and the coalition army became more and more intense, Zhu Li suggested that Zheng Zheng practice fatigue tactics against the enemy, and in the grass army camp, every night, the sleeping grass army guards and officers at all levels would be woken up by the sound of gongs and drums, and when they organized their men and went to pursue, the coalition soldiers who started the attack had already run away.

Again and again, in the face of this situation, Zhu Wen divided his subordinates into three waves, taking turns to rest, and those who rested stuffed cotton wool in their ears, even if the sky fell outside, they couldn't wake them up, which resolved Zhu Li's fatigue tactics.

As the saying goes, come and don't be rude, the coalition army frequently moves, and the grass army is not to be outdone, the grass army spreads rumors, saying that Zhu Li was originally a member of the grass army, and now he is in the coalition army, and his heart is in the grass army, sooner or later he will betray the coalition army, help the grass army defeat the coalition army, etc., to put it bluntly, people have to doubt the authenticity of this matter, not to mention that the business of the partnership is difficult to do, let alone the partnership with some bad warlords.

In the face of their rumors, Zhu Li resolved it more simply, riding alone to the door of the grass army camp to fight, and even picking several fierce generals of the grass army.

The two sides come and go, the tricks fall out, the means are endless, and the fight is fierce.

Time, in a blink of an eye, came to October of the first year of Zhonghe.

The coalition soldiers fought for a long time without success, the cold winter was approaching, and no other warlords came to join, coupled with the lack of food and grass in the army, Zheng Jin decided to halve the military salary of his subordinates, of course, he was only targeting the Fengxiang army, after all, each section envoy is an independent military group, although Zheng Jin is the commander of the camp and the commander of the coalition army, he can't control their military politics.

For Zheng Jin's decision-making, other knots don't know.

In mid-October, Li Changyan, who was then the marching Sima of the Fengxiang army, used most of the soldiers to be dissatisfied with Zheng Jin's attitude of reducing his salary, and instigated them to follow him to start an incident.

The incident happened suddenly, Zheng Jin, who was alert to the fact that he had made a wrong decision, regretted not being at the beginning, but now it is too late to say anything, the army mutinied, and the Fengxiang Army, as one of the two most important armies to resist the grass army, suddenly lost its effect, and the original intention of the southern expedition to Huangchao and entering the king of Chang'an Qin is likely to fail because of his decision.

He didn't want his former subordinates to kill each other because of Li Changyan's provocation, after all, the Fengxiang Army was created by Zheng Jin, and it was also all his hard work during this period of time as the Fengxiang Jiedu envoy, with this complicated feeling, he asked Li Changyan to swear in public, as long as the other party promised to swear to the death of the queen of Nanzheng Qin, he would give up the position of the Jiedu envoy to the other party and run away alone.

After Zhu Li and others knew the truth, the general trend had gone, and the strength of the coalition army was suddenly reduced by nearly half, and the facts were irreversible.

Everyone still has confidence in Zheng Jin, but for the freshly baked Li Changyan, they don't have any respect at all, and Li Changyan, who has just become the envoy of the festival, is in high spirits, and he will not stick to other people's cold butts with a hot face.

The coalition army disintegrated in Weinan, and Li Changyan rushed back to Fengxiang with the Fengxiang army, while the rest of the coalition army was forced to retreat to Fuping due to the reduction of military strength.

Fuping is Guanzhong Chi County, the city of Yiting, the city wall is tall and heavy, the city is rich in grain and grass, and it is indeed the best garrison for the coalition army to deal with the grass army at present. (The counties of the Tang Dynasty were divided into ten grades: red, second-red, gi, ci, wang, tight, upper, middle, middle-lower, and lower, and chixian was the largest county.) ）

The grass army pursued to Fuping, and saw the tall and open city wall of Yiting, so they had to be stationed outside the city, and did not dare to attack rashly, although the Fengxiang army drove away, but there were tens of thousands of troops in the city, and the siege battle, the casualty ratio was too high, neither Zhu Wen nor Meng Kai were willing to pay this price.

However, they were unwilling, but some people were not happy, Huang Chao strictly ordered Zhu Wen and Meng Kai to drive these Qinwang troops out of Guanzhong a year ago, otherwise he would not be able to sleep well, so he also added tens of thousands of troops to the two.

After the Yiting siege battle arrived at the order of the Huang Chao, it broke out, countless grass troops carried the ladder and pushed the battering hammer to rush to the Yiting city, all the four city walls had grass army siege, the coalition army on the city wall was also not to be outdone, Fuping is a big county, very rich, there will be no shortage of grain and grass, in the absence of a shortage of grain and grass, Zhu Wen and Meng Kai even dared to attack the city, they were happy to see it.

All of a sudden, above the head of the city, thousands of arrows were fired together, boiling oil was continuous, and the sassal wood and boulder were falling from the sky in an endless stream, and the wailing sound of crying father and mother, and the hustle and bustle of shouting and charging were instantly resounding through the sky, shaking the four fields, and even worse, they didn't even have time to make a sound, and they were smashed into meat pies.

Zhu Li's nearly 10,000 infantry surrendered and gathered came in handy, and Zhou Dewei and Shi Yan took turns to lead them to rush to the city, sharpening their will in blood and fire, and refining their transformation from ordinary farmers to professional soldiers.

To be honest, if you don't fight, Zhu Li definitely doesn't want to fight, they are all ordinary people of the Han people, killing and injuring each other, and losing each other, these are all the heritage of the Central Plains, is it easy for a person to live to the battlefield from birth, my father and mother have worked hard for several years, and some people didn't even survive a second, so they completely reincarnated in the underworld, and all the nurturing of one or twenty years was in vain.

But this big battle is not transferred by his will, Huang Chao has to fight, the grass army has to fight, and Zhu Li is forced to defend himself, which is also a last resort.

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Zhu Li wrote to Guo Qizuo in August, asking him to send someone to the army to welcome his parents back to Shuozhou, and Guo Qizuo did not dare to ignore Zhu Li's parents.

He has been carefully selecting the people to greet him, and now Gao Yuan is guarding the head, and Zhang Guiba is guarding Yanmen Pass, these two people must not move; Gaosu expeditioned to Yinzhou, and the manpower under his command was already stretched, and there was no one to transfer.

And Huo Qing and Zhang Guihou went to Saiwai, and every time they went out, they didn't know when they would come back, they were unpredictable at all, and they couldn't find anyone, and ordinary people went, and he himself was not at ease, so he had no choice but to turn to Fan Yang for help.

Wei Chijin received Guo Qizuo's request, it was already in early September, and this time it was nothing else, but to go to welcome back Zhu Li's parents, as Wei Chijin who hung all his heart on Zhu Li, this is a big deal, and it must not be ignored.

But she also has her own plans, since Zhu Li is a rotten wood that is not open, then she has to put down her arrogant figure and use some means, I have to say that the women of the Tang Dynasty dare to love and hate, and women do not let their eyebrows go, and in some respects they are better than men.

She took Mrs. Wei Chi and rushed to Shanyang first, and after placing her mother in Zhu Li's Assassin Mansion, she set off with the two of them, of course, accompanied by Wei Chi's army, more than 1,000 elites who were brought from Hongzhou to the north.

After more than a month of trekking, they had just arrived at the boundary of Fuping, and the scout came with news that Zhu Li had happened during the time when King Qin had gone south, and all the details had been reported to her.

Only then did she know that Fuping was fighting, and the beaten side turned out to be Zhu Li's coalition army, carefully analyzed Zhu Li's current situation, she decided to temporarily stand still, find a hidden place to station, and pay close attention to the war in Fuping, she is more than 1,000 people, say more, say less, and can also be used as a surprise soldier at a critical time, this is her plan.

However, this waited for nearly a month, from the beginning of October to November, Fuping's siege battle still did not stop, and the reinforcements of the grass army continued to go to Fuping, with a momentum of swearing to take Fuping, which made Wei Chijin worried.

But her more than 1,000 people, let alone go to the rescue now, it is difficult to just rush to the city, even if they are lucky enough to rush in, how many people can be left at that time, and what role can it play?

Therefore, she had to suppress the uneasiness in her heart and continue to wait, only hoping that Zhu Li and they could resist, seeing that it was almost the end of the year, and the temperature in Fuping fell relatively quickly in late autumn and early winter, as long as it was carried for a while, the grass army would not be able to continue to maintain such a momentum.