Yin Ruoyang and the masked man slapped each other, although they were not defeated, but they were obviously at a disadvantage. Yin Ruoyang's chest ached faintly, but fortunately, the masked man didn't make another move, so his lips were closed, and he secretly used his internal strength to open up the stagnant qi in his chest.

After a while, Yin Ruoyang eliminated the stagnation, and the dull pain in his chest had been removed, and said: "Your Excellency's peculiar palm is the only one I have seen in my life. ”

After speaking, Yin Ruoyang jumped forward, pretending to break through from the left side of the masked man, but shot a silver needle in the direction of Li Ming with his backhand in the air, and then without looking at the result, he directly grabbed the way in the direction of the Zhaimen.

The sudden change, not only did no one react to the Song soldiers surrounding Yin Ruoyang, but even Li Ming himself was stunned, the person who was about to save himself just now was about to kill himself in the blink of an eye. The masked man didn't have time to stop it, if he stepped forward, even if he could block some of the silver needles, Li Ming would still be shot by the remaining shots, and he didn't have time to think carefully in the danger, and his whole body jumped in the air, and he punched Yin Ruoyang's head.

Yin Ruoyang is worthy of being one of the top ten masters of the Great Song Dynasty, when he heard the palm wind coming, the palm power in the air turned sharply, and he shouted "hey", and his palm intersected with the masked man's fist.

This was the second confrontation between the two, Yin Ruoyang was in mid-air, and he had no way to borrow his strength, so he flipped half a somersault along the masked man's fist, fell backwards, and a mouthful of blood spurted out. The masked man fell in place, his body did not shake, his feet did not move, and he acted as if nothing had happened. Yin Ruoyang's injury this time was not light, and there were faint signs of cracking in the meridians, but he also successfully jumped out of the encirclement of the Song soldiers with the help of the masked man's palm. Yin Ruoyang forced his luck and suppressed the injury, regardless of whether he shot Li Ming just now or not, turned around and ran down the mountain. The masked man was anxious to check on Li Ming's injuries and did not chase after him.

The masked man turned to look at Li Ming, and found that the person who was now standing in Li Ming's position just now had become Liu Zixuan, and Li Ming fell a few meters away from Liu Zixuan. It turned out that when Yin Ruoyang and the masked man faced each other for the first time, Liu Zixuan had already arrived, and when he saw that Yue Yun and Yue Lei were dead, and Li Ming was captured alive, he also settled down to watch the duel between the two masters in the field. Just now, when I saw Yin Ruoyang jumping up and shaking his wrist towards Li Ming, he secretly screamed that it was not good. Although it was not far from Li Ming, it was a little too late to rush over, and in a hurry, Liu Zixuan directly picked up the scabbard in his hand and smashed it towards Li Ming's head. Li Ming's head was attacked, and his body also fell to the side, just avoiding Yin Ruoyang's silver needle, Liu Zixuan secretly said in his heart: "Luck." ”

The masked man saw that Li Ming was fine, felt a little relieved, and turned around to leave. Liu Zixuan hurriedly ran forward and said: "Thank you seniors for coming to the rescue, can the seniors leave their names, he will be useful to the juniors in the future, and the juniors will definitely work." ”

The masked man did not answer, but quickened his pace, and ran down the mountain when he left the gate. Liu Zixuan knew that his martial arts were far apart, since people were unwilling to tell him, it was useless to catch up, so he went to see how Li Ming was doing now, and didn't let his brain be smashed by himself.

After the masked man left the barracks, he tore off the face scarf around his face, mounted the fast horse he had prepared, and galloped towards Xiaqiu. If Liu Zixuan saw the appearance of the masked man at this time, he would be shocked, because the masked man was none other than Shi Luosheng.

After leaving the Dongshan camp, Shi Luosheng expected that Zhang Mancheng would take this opportunity to rob or kill Li Ming. Zhang Mancheng's situation in Dongshan is clear, except for the 500 forbidden army, the biggest obstacle is Liu Zixuan, so Zhang Mancheng will definitely find someone to contain Liu Zixuan. So Shi Luosheng handed over the army to Wang Lun and asked him to lead the army to continue to Xiaqiu, while he quietly returned to Dongshan.

As expected, Zhang Man sent assassins up the mountain, and as soon as Yin Ruoyang and the three entered the camp, Shi Luosheng found out and quietly followed behind the three. It wasn't until Liu Zixuan was entangled by Yin Ruoyang, Yue Yun and Yue Lei kidnapped Li Ming, that Shi Luosheng appeared and killed the two and severely injured Yin Ruoyang. But he still underestimated Yin Ruoyang's combat effectiveness, if it wasn't for Liu Zixuan's alertness at the last moment, Li Ming would have been killed by Yin Ruoyang.

In the Dongshan camp, Li Ming's emotions were a little excited: "I want to see General Shi and General Liu." ”

Liu Zixuan rushed to hear the news, sat next to Li Ming and said, "Master Li Zhai is in a hurry to see me late at night, I don't know what's going on?" ”

When Li Ming saw Liu Zixuan, he seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and said eagerly: "General Liu, I am willing to tell Zhang Mancheng about it." But I have one condition, and that is that you please rescue my son and my twin grandsons, who are less than three years old. ”

Liu Zixuan was a little surprised: "You still have a son and grandson?" Where are they now? ”

Li Ming was still very excited: "Zhang Mingxuan, the chief bookkeeper of Jeju City, is my son, and now their family must be controlled by Zhang Mancheng, originally I thought that as long as I didn't say anything, Zhang Mancheng would definitely have to send someone to save me, even if I didn't save it in the end, I would just die." But now that he didn't save me, it doesn't matter, he still wants to kill me, he has a murderous intention for me, my son and grandson must not be eradicated by him, General Liu, you must save them. ”

Liu Zixuan handed over a glass of water and said: "Master Li Zhai, you drink saliva first to calm down, and tell me the details of the matter, your surname is Li, how can your son be surnamed Zhang, and since he is an official in Jeju, why are you a bandit in the mountains?" ”

Li Ming took a few sips of water and slowly calmed down: "Fifteen years ago, Zhang Mancheng was transferred to Jeju to be a taishou, I was the leader of a gang in Jeju at the time, and I was later caught by Zhang Mancheng's people for committing a crime. Zhang Mancheng took office as a new official, planning to kill me Liwei, I was very scared, it was nothing if I died, but my son Li Mingxuan was only eight years old, if I died, what would he do in the future? The night before I was about to be executed, there was a sound of fighting outside the prison gate, and it turned out that it was my sworn brother Tian Bao who risked his life to save me. At this time, Zhang Mancheng personally arrived with a team of people, Tian Leopard resisted for a while, and finally because of physical exhaustion, we were both caught by Zhang Mancheng. Zhang Mancheng saw Nakata Leopard's bravery, and this time he didn't plan to kill us again, but gave us a choice, let us choose either to listen to him in the future, or to die together tomorrow. I heard that I can not die, of course I chose not to die, Zhang Mancheng is also very satisfied, in order to completely control us, let me send my son to his house, and in order to hide people's eyes, he accepted Ming Xuan as his son and temporarily followed his surname Zhang. ”

"I had no choice but to agree in order to survive, and then he secretly released us and gave us a sum of silver, so that we could gather the nearby homeless people to go to Dongshan to occupy the mountain as kings. Although I wondered in my heart, what kind of thing did you say that he was a Taishou and actually asked me to go to his jurisdiction to be a mountain bandit. But I didn't dare to have any doubts, so I could only do what he said, but I didn't expect Tian Bao to be a mountain bandit, with his help, he made several big deals in a row, and then used the money he stole to gather more displaced people, and our power also expanded rapidly. ”

"Then, under Zhang Mancheng's ingenious arrangement, we began to annex other small forces in the vicinity, and gradually became the most powerful mountain bandit in Dongshan in a few years. Zhang Mancheng was also happy to see us grow, and in order to further entrap us or further control us, he made Mingxuan an official in Jeju after he became an adult, and slowly promoted him to the position of the chief bookkeeper. ”

"Actually, I know in my heart that I am not as good as Tian Bao in terms of ability and courage, and Zhang Mancheng also knows this, but Tian Bao is not as good as me, that is, he has no handle in Zhang Mancheng's hands, so the big boss of Dongshanzhai has always been me, as our power grows, I began to worry that Tian Bao will threaten my status, so I sent him to Taohuayu."

"After Tian Bao left, I kept thinking about what Zhang Mancheng supported us for, and then I figured out that as long as Dongshan has been in trouble, he can receive a large amount of additional military expenses from the imperial court every year, and at the same time, he can also pay less taxes to the imperial court, and he can also have his own private soldiers in disguise in the name of recruiting city defense troops. But if we are exterminated, he will have none of these, so he will also secretly help us avoid the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court. ”

"After that, more and more mountain bandits in the Dongshan area were annexed, and the current five major forces were gradually formed. But except for our Dongshan Village, the other four families have no direct contact with Zhang Mancheng, because we are the only ones directly supported by Zhang Mancheng, and the reason why he left the other four is also worried that our power is too big to control, and on the other hand, it is also to create an atmosphere of rampant banditry in the Dongshan area. ”

Li Ming said this and took another sip of water: "You all know what will happen in the future." ”

Liu Zixuan was also shocked after hearing this, the Taishou of a county town can be regarded as a feudal official, and he will actually raise his own self-respect for his own selfish interests, no wonder for so many years, the Great Song Dynasty has been at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the Chu State. If there are a few more local officials like Zhang Mancheng, no matter how powerful Deng Yuanjue's "national pillar" is, I am afraid that in the end, it will not be able to support the collapse of the Great Song Dynasty.

Liu Zixuan thought for a while and said: "Master Li Zhai, you can rest assured that you will recover from your injuries first, and now General Shi will lead the troops to encircle and suppress Dong Liang and An Zhihai, I only have five hundred people here, and I have to protect your safety." Once I go to the city to save your family, there will be no one to protect you. You have also seen the assassins tonight, and their martial arts are not weak, and this matter has to be considered in the long run. ”

Li Ming said hurriedly when he heard this: "General Liu, you can't think about it in the long run, Zhang Mancheng will kill Mingxuan and them." ”

Liu Zixuan patiently explained: "Don't worry, listen to my analysis for you, as long as you are not dead, Zhang Mancheng will not dare to kill your family, if you kill him, will you be forced to confess?" In addition, I can't let Zhang Mancheng know that you have told me about the matter between you, if he knows that the matter is leaked, he will not sit idly by, and will definitely kill your family first, and then find a way to kill us. The only way to do this is to let out the wind, and say that you were shot by the assassin's silver needle, and now you are unconscious and dying, and only then can you delay time. I will write another letter and ask people to send it to the General's Mansion and Tiandaomen respectively to report the situation here, and also ask a few colleagues to go down the mountain to help me, try to take down Zhang Mancheng without blood, and also rescue your family. ”

After listening to Liu Zixuan's analysis, Li Ming felt that this method was feasible: "What the general said is reasonable, then I will listen to your arrangement, and I will do my best to cooperate where I need to cooperate." ”

Liu Zixuan nodded and let Li Ming have a good rest. I returned to the camp and wrote letters about the situation here and sent them to the General's Mansion, the Heavenly Sword Gate and the Shiluo Ascension Place. At the same time, he sent someone to inform Guo Xu in Jeju City, and he was also wary that Zhang Mancheng would attack him.

Liu Zixuan was not a reckless person, after all, he also studied with Shi Luosheng in Shi Pre since he was a child, but later he was with Shi Luosheng for a long time, and he took the idea of everything, and he was too lazy to think about it. Later, Wang Lun also came, and there were even fewer places for him to think about, and now that these two people are not there, it is not bad to analyze and deal with them by himself.