Chapter 479: Three Forks
Time flies quickly, Ruohan is in the past few days, Shen Mo took out as much time as possible, accompanied her, except for dealing with affairs in the house, he didn't go anywhere, and became a glorious otaku.
At this time, Shen Mo came back from the signing room early, and Ruohan persuaded: "If there is something, I will call you in the front yard, and I will return in a while." I'm always guarding here, and I'm delayed in business. ”
Shen Mo shook his head and smiled: "Now that I haven't seen it for a while, my heart will be empty, and I can't do anything, so it's better to come back and read the official document." ”
Ruohan was sweet in his heart, and whispered: "Then you are so good, I don't speak, and I only read books." ”
Shen Mo nodded and smiled, and after a while, he heard her say again: "You say, can the two fathers catch up?" "The first child of the only son and only daughter was born, and the two old people in Shaoxing City naturally wanted to come to visit, according to their ideas, they wanted to come over last month, but at that time, Suzhou Mansion was full of Japanese robbers, both shipping and land routes were very dangerous, and they ate bandao noodles if they didn't get it right, so they silently asked them to wait first, go to Hangzhou Xixi Villa to live for a while, and wait for Hu Butang to come to Suzhou, and then follow him together, so that it can be foolproof.
"They have already entered the ground of Suzhou, which is the past two days." Shen Mo comforted his wife, who was a little anxious, and said, "Don't worry, it's too late." Saying that, he put down the official document in his hand and said with a smile: "Maybe the birth of our baby is the time when the Suzhou Japanese are pacified, which can be said to be born at the right time, and we will do big things in the future." ”
"I don't want him to be like you, to be scared all day long." Ruohan said: "I just want him to live his life in peace." ”
"Hehe, it's fine." This is a difference in philosophy, and Shen Mo naturally understands the truth of seeking common ground while reserving differences, so he smiled and diverted the topic: "I stay at home all day now, and I have become an otaku, what is there to worry about?" ”
"The thought of you dealing with a widow like Xu Hai and Ye Ma," Ruohan shuddered, "I shudder." ”
Shen Mo gently held her little hand and smiled: "Don't worry, it's going to be over soon......"
It's really about to pass, Xu Hai and Ye Ma have been fighting several times, after all, Xu Hai's skills are superior, there are more wins and fewer losses, and victory is in sight. All along, the haze that was suppressed in his heart seemed to dissipate at this moment, he showed a rare smile, and ordered to reward the three armies, and after recuperating his strength, he took Ye Ma in one go!
The whole camp was full of laughter and laughter from the beginning of the day, and the smell of wine was soaring, and it was not until the second half of the night that the soldiers were satisfied, and they fell to the ground drunk, and fell asleep with a loud snoring.
"Drunk and lying on the battlefield, Jun Mo smiled, a few people from the ancient war returned to ......" Xu Hai sat in the tent of the Chinese army, lit a lonely lamp, and was accompanied by two brothers. He held a wine glass in his hand and chanted a poem in an extremely rare way.
Xu Hong said: "Big brother, your poems are so good, you have caught up with the poet Immortal Li Bai." ”
He Xinyin, who was on the side, reminded in a low voice: "That's Li Bai's poem." ”
Xu Hong glared and said, "Now if you say it from the mouth of the eldest brother, it is the eldest brother's!" "Typical bandit logic.
He Xinyin had no choice but not to fight with this rough man, and turned to Xu Hai: "This poem is more than tragic, not passionate, and it doesn't seem to be very auspicious." ”
Xu Hai nodded slowly and said, "Just like my mood now, it's really mixed and sad." ”
Xu Hong said strangely: "Big brother is winning every success, and it looks like it's about to be done, and he should be drinking happily at this time, but how can he be 'pathetic'?" ”
The big tent was very dark, only the lonely lamp was like a bean, but it was even more obvious that Xu Hai's eyes were shining, he was silent for a long time, and then said slowly: "I am thinking of being a sworn master, we gathered 50,000 horses, thousands of boats, and swords and guns, what a majesty that!" He sighed and said, "But now? The 20,000 ghosts who touched Hu Zongxian's head broke and bled out, and they had already smeared oil on the soles of their feet and fled back to their books; Xin Wulang is finished on our side, and Ye Ma can't get through today. In the blink of an eye, only our side was left, and it was also a heavy loss. In the end, he whispered with great difficulty: "It's like the sky is falling all around, and the foothold under your feet is getting smaller and smaller, and you may fall to pieces at any time." ”
Xu Hong couldn't think of his eldest brother so much, so he said arrogantly: "The sky is falling, and the brothers are holding on; The ground is sinking, the brothers fill in, and the eldest brother is as stable as Mount Tai at all times! He Xinyin also made such a statement.
Xu Hai looked at them with emotion, nodded and said: "Fighting tiger brothers, father and son soldiers, you are my Xu Hai's backer!" ”
While the brothers were talking sensibly, there was a sudden sound of light and urgent footsteps outside, and a subordinate dressed in black came in and whispered, "General, here you are!" ”
Ye Ma felt very bitter, he was born as an authentic maritime merchant, and his strategic planning and logistics supply were his strengths, so although he had a vote of brothers, he had always relied on Chen Dong and Xin Wulang in terms of command, but now that they are gone, he can only rely on himself...... So he knew that he couldn't beat Xu Hai head-on, and if he didn't want to lose, he had to outwit him. has been pretending to be unable to support it, and has been defeated...... You don't have to do it on purpose, because you were beaten up and suffered heavy losses, so it's really much better than acting.
The effect seems to be good, Xu Hai was really paralyzed by him, thinking that the victory was in his hands, and the whole camp carnival tonight made Ye Ma, who had been enduring for a long time, see the hope of winning.
Then he ordered all the soldiers and horses, the people were ranked, the horses were wrapped in hooves, and quietly approached Xu Hai's camp, and endured the mosquito bites for half the night, and finally around the ugly hour, the noise in Xu's camp was replaced by snoring. Ye Ma sent spies to check, and sure enough, they all slept like dead pigs, obviously unprepared.
Ye Ma's younger brother Ye Nan was overjoyed and said: "God help me, I ...... me."
Ye Ma glanced at him helplessly, and shouted in a low voice: "Rush in and capture Xu Hai and Xu Hong alive!" The rest surrender and do not kill, and those who resist die! "After all, he was a businessman, and he still has ridiculous kindness...... His soldiers rushed up and silently rushed into the enemy camp!
Seeing that he was about to approach the Xu Hai subordinates in the open space in the camp, the front soldiers screamed and disappeared.
The people behind were stunned, and the next moment they saw that there were countless traps between them and Xu Hai! Those who have been trampled through, with big mouths open in black holes, seem to be monsters that choose people to devour. But more of them are not stepped on, which makes people unable to see them, but they feel even more terrifying.
Seeing this scene, Ye Ma's hairs stood on end, and he let out a terrible scream: "We have been tricked, quickly withdraw it!" ”
But it was too late, as soon as his words fell, he heard the drums around him, and suddenly there were torches in the dark camp, and Xu Haijun, who was hiding in the tunnel, suddenly came out, and surrounded Ye Ma's people in it.
The drunks all got up, and although they were full of alcohol, everyone had clear eyes and obviously did not drink.
Under the internal and external attacks of Xu Haijun, the offensive and defensive positions were shifted on the field, and more and more Xu Haijun shouted and rushed out from all directions, surrounding Ye Ma and others.
Surrounded by all the troops, the brightest place of the torch was the majestic General Xu, only to hear him laugh and say: "Ye Mazi, don't come to harm!" ”
"Big brother, I'll take you to break out......" Seeing that the defeat was decided, Ye Nan said anxiously.
Ye Ma looked around with a pale face, only to see that Xu Hai's army was everywhere, where was there any way to escape? He completely lost his confidence, shook his head and sighed: "Forget it, don't make senseless sacrifices......"
As soon as these words came out, Ye Ma threw down the sword in his hand, and saw that the master abandoned the sword and surrendered, and the will to resist of his subordinates disappeared like boiling soup and pouring snow, and they all disarmed and surrendered.
After returning from the big victory, the tent was raised again, but Xu Hai's face was not happy, and his subordinates pushed Ye Ma, who was tied up with five flowers, into the tent and asked him to kneel for the general, but Ye Ma resolutely did not kneel.
"Fuck!" Xu Hong was angry at the time: "It's not honest when death is coming!" Then he will use the back of his knife to beat the leaves.
"Stop!" But Xu Hai shouted in a deep voice: "Don't be rude to Ye Dangjia." Then he got up and said, "Stand down, all of you!" ”
"Big brother...... Xu Hong said a little aggrieved: "Why are you so polite to him?" ”
"Hmm......" Xu Hai let out a nasal voice, which was a precursor to his anger.
"Yes." Xu Hong nodded helplessly, and said to the subordinates behind him: "You guys go down first." ”
"You go out too." But listen to Xu Haidao.
"Hey......" Xu Hong was bored, so he had to go out with his subordinates.
Only Xu Ye and the others were left in the big tent, Xu Hai got up and walked in front of Ye Ma, looking down at him with incomprehensible eyes.
Ye Ma looked at Xu Hai fearlessly, and when he saw him put his hand on the hilt of the knife, he couldn't help but swallow and spat out: "If you want to kill, you can chop it." ”
"Good!" Xu Hai let out a low snort, and saw a cold light flash, and he had already completed the action of drawing the knife and returning the sheath.
Ye Ma closed his eyes, waiting to taste the taste of death, and only felt relieved, but he didn't see where Huangquan Road was for a long time, so he had to open his eyes and see that his body had been roped away and he had regained his freedom: "Which one are you singing?" ”
Xu Hai sighed and said, "Old man, I also have to do it as a last resort, please don't blame me." As he spoke, he took his arm and said, "Come, sit down and say." ”
"Hmph......" Ye Ma snorted, sat down with a big sword and golden horse, and said hatefully: "Don't be a general, send me to be a companion with Xin Wulang, and lead your glory and wealth!" ”
Xu Hai sighed and said: "You are different from Xin Wulang's animal, the two of us have been running boats together since more than ten years ago, coming in the wind and going in the waves, and how many lives and deaths have passed together, although they are not brothers, but they are better than brothers." "Today's General Xu is extremely sad.
As soon as Ye Ma asked him to speak, his face was complicated for a while, and he said hatefully: "But you don't treat me as a brother for a long time!" ”
"You're the one who didn't treat me as a brother first!" Xu Hai also said angrily: "If you hadn't sold Xu Hong's troops first, would I have been able to turn against you!" The more he spoke, the more angry he became, and he raised his clenched fist and said, "The idea of beating my wife several times!" Are you still a human being! ”
"What do you say? I sell Xu Hong's troops? Ye Ma was dumbfounded: "The idea of beating your wife?" Ye Ma also clenched his fists and said angrily: "You bastard who refers to a deer as a horse and reverses black and white!" Obviously it was your idea to beat my wife! Sell me and Xingoro's troops! ”
"You hit!" "You sold it!" The two of them didn't give in to each other, and they didn't know who swung their fists first, but they really fought.
Ye Ma, who was thin and small, was not the opponent of Xu Hai, who was tall and tall by himself, and was knocked to the ground by him three times and five divided by two, holding a fist with a vinegar bowl, and said hatefully: "Do you admit it?" ”
Ye Ma snorted, spit out two broken teeth and said, "Who are you and Ye Ma?" Brother and wife, I still know the truth that you can't be deceived! There are many women in the world, no matter how good your wife is, I am not rare! ”
"Then how can you say to Shen Mo, how good my daughter-in-law is?" Xu Hai's fist was about to fall.
"When have I ever seen silence?" Ye Ma said angrily: "You think they are all the same as you, they like to step on two boats!" ”
"You haven't seen him?" Xu Hai was stunned for a moment and asked, "Really?" ”
"Nonsense, ask my men, have I ever left them?" Ye Ma's tense body relaxed, and he sighed and said, "Xu Mingshan, you fool, you have been deceived!" ”
"You didn't send someone to Zhoushan to pick up my wife?" Xu Hai put down his fist and said with Ye Ma's collar.
"No, how many times have I told you, no!" Ye Ma said: "When you ran the single gang back then, you saved me several times, and I have always remembered this kindness." So even if you have no one in your eyes, squeeze me, and bully me, I will endure it, even if I know that you are going to surrender to the official army, I only say, 'Everyone has their own ambitions', and I never thought of stopping you, why are you so good at it? ”
Looking at his expression, Xu Hai intuitively felt that he was not lying, and couldn't help but be a little confused, sat on the ground, held his head in his hands and said, "Wait, wait, it's messy." As he spoke, he patted his cheeks vigorously and said, "Let's start from the beginning and see what went wrong." ”
"Where to start?" Ye Ma said.
"From the beginning, Xu Hong led the army south to Wujiang, right?" Xu Haidao: "It's really not what you mean by falsely telling me?" ”
"Of course not, I only received an order from you to let me and Xin Wulang go to Shanghai City, and at that time you said why are you so kind." Ye Ma said.
"I never gave this order...... Xu Hai's face became gloomy and said: "I thought you did it, so I cut off contact with you, and then the envoys from the government arrived, and they showed me the letter from the old shipowner." ”
"I've seen that too," Ye Ma nodded, "It also scared me, that Wang Xijue also said that you are ready to surrender......"
"I just promised to meet Shen Mo, but I didn't think about surrendering at that time." Xu Hai frowned and said, "You too, and you won't send someone to ask." ”
"Why didn't I send someone?" Ye Ma said angrily: "I sent Ye Nan to your camp to ask, but your good brother-in-law told him that you went to negotiate with the government and were ready to accept Zhao'an, so I was convinced!" ”
"Liangshan?" Xu Hai's face darkened suddenly, and he raised his voice and said, "Find me the three masters!" The guards outside answered, and hurried away.
The two continued to dig down, and found that Zhang Guan and Li Dai were endless, until the end, and finally came to a terrible and obvious conclusion, we were tricked by others...... is like Ren Tanghui and Liu Lihua in "Three Forks", they are obviously comrades on the same path, but because of a little misunderstanding, they fought in the black light...... But between Xu Hai and Ye Ma, there was no Jiao Zan, so they didn't find out the truth of the matter until they separated the winners and losers.
There is also the biggest difference, Ren and Liu are purely misunderstood, but the two of them must have been calculated.
has fought until the fish is dead, only to find that he was played with between applause, such an opponent is too terrible...... The two of them couldn't help but feel cold all over their bodies, and they were all speechless...... They want to say, what a grievance! But I also feel that I am not wronged at all...... The silence was broken by the sound of hurried footsteps, and the guards outside said in a hurry: "General, I can't find the third master, and his wife is gone." ”
"Sure enough, it's him......" Ye Ma said in a deep voice.
Although Xu Hai didn't want to admit it, he couldn't help but admit it, the pain of being deceived by his relatives tore his heart and lungs at once, making him lose his temper and say: "I'm going to kill that bastard!" ”
Ye Ma said calmly: "Let's see if my sister-in-law is not there first, don't be hijacked." ”
This is very likely, Xu Hai's hands and feet were cold in an instant, and he asked with difficulty: "Husband... Person... This? ”
"Madame is here." The voice of the guards outside made him feel a little relieved, and he immediately got up, drew his sword and said, "Brother Ye, let's join forces, and we will go to Suzhou!" ”
Ye Ma smiled bitterly: "It's late, it's late...... That silent plan is so elaborate that it must be ready to deal with us. "He is very sober-minded, and he still says, one is gone, both are defeated, one is lost, the other is long, how can he beat the official army?
As if to confirm his words, a scout rushed in in a panic and said, "General, we are surrounded......"
(To be continued)