As soon as the red sun rose, Kong Sheng and his entourage left the territory of Tianchang and marched quickly in the direction of Xuyi County. Along the way, Li Xuan always maintained a strange silence, advancing and retreating with Kong Sheng and others, without saying a word, just a faint murderous intent projected by the occasional flickering of his eyes, which made it clear that the brothers only had a cold war in their hearts.

Where is this turning enemies into friends, it is clearly a hidden killing machine!

After all, she is the county lord of the Tang Dynasty, and she is also the county lord with a title, the third daughter of Li Ju, the king of Yu, and her status is noble. No matter what means Kong Sheng used to make Li Xuan "succumb", there was still a deep unease and apprehension buried in their hearts after all: if this Fengyang County Lord turned his face and didn't recognize anyone at that time, could he really kill her and kill her?

Killing the lord of the clan is equivalent to a crazy provocation to the supreme imperial power. If the emperor and the court know, under the thunder and anger, although the world is big, there is no place for them anymore.

Moreover, Li Xuan was kidnapped and left, and it was impossible for those people under Li Xuan to sit idly by, and there would definitely be an urgent investigation report to reach King Yu's account. Li Ju, the king of Yu, now supports Pengcheng and orders Henan, claiming to have 100,000 soldiers and horses, Kong Sheng, a county commander of Songcheng who has not yet taken office, dares to touch the daughter of the king of Yu, how is this different from suicide? How is this different from hitting a stone with an egg or shaking a tree with a grasshopper?

But when it comes to this, there is no way to explain it. If Kong Sheng is guilty, they will not be able to escape the blame.

For two days in a row, Kong Sheng took the lead in hurrying on his horse, and when it was dusk on the third day, he actually galloped more than 200 miles and entered the territory of Xuyi County.

Xuyi is located in the lower reaches of the Huai River, on the south bank of Hongze Lake, which is the famous land of fish and rice in Chuzhou, and the people's livelihood is rich. However, since the start of the army in An Lushan, because Chuzhou borders Henan Province, there have been small groups of rebels who have gone south to loot and "fight the autumn wind", coming and going, walking and coming, and so on and so on and on and on, and the vicious circle has been repeated, making the people in ruins and miserable.

In the troubled times, the government was in vain, and the local tyrants and shoddy gentry wantonly raised soldiers in captivity to protect themselves, and the oppression of the people was even worse. The so-called "official coercion and rebellion of the people", those villagers, fishermen and mountain people who were robbed and plundered by the rebels and who were bullied by local tyrants to the point that they could no longer bear it, because they had no way to file a complaint and because they had no way to make a living, they rose up under the bewitching call of some "people with hearts".

Whether it's the water robbers in Hongze Lake or the bandits in Chemen Mountain, most of them all came here like this.

The Yamen of Chuzhou Mansion turned a blind eye to this. The few troops in this government are very reluctant to protect the city of Chuzhou, and they still talk about resisting the rebels and exterminating the thieves. Besides, now the world is in chaos, and it is not bad for Chuzhou, so it's chaotic, it's actually messy, it's still messy, the court can't control it, the rules don't have to be abided, the law can be thrown aside, those who should take advantage of the fire can take advantage of the fire to rob, and those who should fish in troubled waters can also fish in troubled waters.

There are even scum in the official army in the government, who are fighting with open fire, wreaking havoc in the cities and villages, and accumulating wealth in their pockets.

The cold wind howled, and the afterglow of the twilight sun shone down, plating a faint red light on Kong Sheng, who was sitting on the horse. Mu Changfeng grabbed the reins of the horse and called softly: "Childe, there is a fork in the road ahead, leading to Gusang Town in Xuyi on the left, and Hongze County on the right, we ...... Which way to go? ”

Kong Sheng groaned.

This is not an either/or question from left to right, but a calculation question - which path is shorter is more in line with Kong Sheng's choice.

Behind her, Li Xuan rode her jujube red horse, which was also a divine horse, and suddenly sneered: "Little thief, let's go to Hongze County, although we have traveled a hundred miles, we can avoid the attack of the water bandits." If we go to Gusang, once we attract the attention of Hong Ze Shuikou, the four or five of us will not be able to leave if we want to! ”

Li Xuan easily didn't open her mouth, and when she opened her mouth, she was a "little thief", and Mu Changfeng frowned when she heard it.

But Kong Sheng didn't care, he didn't care about anything with Li Xuan, he smiled, and looked back at Li Xuan: "County Lord, we are not businessmen who carry heavy money and wealth or dignitaries who drag their families, what are those water robbers in the lake doing?" ”

"We need to hurry, so we won't take a detour. Brother Mu, let's go straight to Gusang, and stay overnight in Gusang tonight. I estimate that I will be able to enter Sizhou tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. The county lord, when you enter Sizhou, you will not be far from Pengcheng......" Kong Sheng smiled indifferently: "At that time, we can let the county lord come and go freely!" ”

"Since you little thief doesn't know the hearts of good people, then let it be you. Anyway, the county lord warned ahead, if you encounter a water scourge on the road, don't blame me for not reminding you. ”

Seeing that Kong Sheng actually refuted his suggestion, Li Xuan was annoyed in his heart, but he only smiled coldly and said no more. In fact, there is no need for Kong Sheng to say, Li Xuan has already made up her mind, once she enters the range of Pengcheng and reaches her territory of influence, she must let Kong Sheng, a thief, walk around without eating!

Her current hypocrisy and grievance are completely afraid of Kong Sheng's "bad behavior", which will lead to the grain caravan being looted by the rebels. But if the caravan arrives in the garrison of Pengcheng's army, what will she be afraid of?

Kong Sheng is an ant she pinched in her hand, pinching to death or crippled depends on Li Xuan's mood.

Kong Sheng glanced at Li Xuan and waved his hand, "Go!" ”

Li Xuan's abacus, Kong Shengdong is like a mirror watching fire. But Kong Sheng is not afraid, Henan is the head of the mess, Suiyang is more of the center of the turmoil, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the emperor is beyond the reach of the whip, not to mention a king who has suffered a defeat and is afraid of the rebels.

Kong Sheng was too lazy to say. Don't look at Li Xuan's full of anger and pride, and he keeps saying that he swears to fight the thief to the death, and the Jiangbei Army is trying to turn the tide, in fact, they are all covering their ears and stealing bells and deceiving themselves. The main purpose of King Yu's retreat to Pengcheng was to preserve his strength and avoid confrontation with the rebels.

This may not simply be accused of being afraid of thieves and war, but it must be a lack of overall overall situation and strategic awareness. King Yu's retreat directly gave up most of Henan Road to the Yan army, and many local officials were isolated and helpless, and they couldn't see a trace of life, so they had to surrender the city.

If Li Juken sent troops to reinforce Suiyang and delay the process of the rebel army occupying the entire Henan and Hebei, as long as he held out for another three or five months, Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi's main counterinsurgency army would soon recover Luoyang and Chang'an, and then the situation would be very different.

Mu Changfeng laughed: "According to what the son said, let's go to Gusang." However, looking at it this way, this road has been abandoned for a long time, and there are no pedestrians to pass, so we have to hurry to avoid missing the night! ”

Wu Xian did not say anything, he took the cowhide water bladder that he was hanging from his horse, pulled up the lid, tilted his head and poured a few sips, and then handed it to his brother Wu Xie again. Wu Xie shook his head and waved his hand, signaling him not to drink.