Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Fight to the Death
"You go and make it clear to those two faces, and let him appoint someone to arrange for him to recruit him."
"What if someone doesn't do it? No, there must be people who don't do it, these people are usually not convinced by each other, and if they choose this, others will definitely not do it. “
"This time I brought more than a dozen people, all of them first-class heroes! If someone doesn't know how to lift! When Liu Cheng said this, his right hand slashed downward: "Then."
Give them a good look! ”
"You're just a dozen people! There are nearly a thousand people outside! ”
"So what?" Liu Cheng sneered: "Wealth and danger are sought, how can there be such a thing that is not tied to the trouser belt?" Anyway, in the end, just leave one who can clean up the mess, these people are all staring at each other, I'm afraid they won't be able to prevent us from coming out. ”
"And how did your people get in?"
Liu Cheng looked at the two-sided light lying on the kang with more breath and less breath: "The place where I live is a yin house, and there are more than a dozen white wooden coffins in the backyard, which should be prepared for the village. “
"Okay, take a gamble!" Du Guoying gritted his teeth: "As soon as I shouted inside, you rushed in!" “
"Don't worry, with mental calculations or unintentional, we will win!" Liu Cheng laughed, and the light in the house was projected from the window, clearly reflecting his back in the courtyard, and at that moment, Liu Cheng's figure stood tall like an emperor.
Liu Cheng and his subordinates live in the ancestral hall located at the back of the mountain, which is quite far away from the village, so that Liu Cheng and his people can live comfortably, and they don't have to worry about being seen by idle people and other people to see the news leaked out.
Liu Cheng silently counted the number of people in the hall, there were fifteen people even counting himself, he pulled out his waist knife and threw it into the coffin that was already full of weapons, and said in a deep voice: "Rank, there is still a chance to quit now, I need two people to go back and tell the Inspector." “
No one spoke, and for most people the way back to the Ming military camp was just as dangerous, but there was no benefit left behind to fight to the death. Liu Cheng nodded, and casually pointed to two people: "There are six horses outside, each of you bring three, and walk two roads respectively." “
"Yes!"
Watching the two of them walk out of the house, Liu Cheng looked at the rest of the people and said something that everyone didn't understand: "Now it's up to us Thirteen Arhats!" ”
Outside the courtyard of the two sides of the light, seventy or eighty pro-soldiers are divided into six or seven piles to sit around the fire, they are all the leaders of the house, because the yard is too small, can not accommodate so many pro-soldiers, these leaders are waiting to inherit the position of the two-sided light, all of them regard others as potential competitors, do not want to see other people's pro-soldiers in the courtyard, their own outside. As a result, all the pro-soldiers squatted outside the courtyard to monitor each other, but the courtyard was empty.
Just when these pro-soldiers wanted to look at it coldly, a group of people walked over, and a few people behind them were carrying a white wooden coffin, and they should be nearby villagers in their clothes. One of the nearest fire-roasting soldiers stood up and asked, "Where did you come from, fools, you are not afraid of rushing around!" ”
In order to prevent others from recognizing himself, Liu Cheng hid in the crowd carrying the coffin, and handed over the task of talking to people to Du Gu. ”
The soldier was about to scold, but a person behind him grabbed him, whispered a few words in his ear, and turned back to Du Gu and shouted: "That's right, this is it, you send this coffin to the courtyard, be smart!" ”
"Great!" Du Gu responded, turned his head and shouted to the person behind him: "Hurry up, hurry up!" ”
The pile of pro-soldiers in front let go of Du Gu and his party, and the back pile was too lazy to get in the way, these people were basically the henchmen of those leaders, and they more or less knew that the two faces of the light had been seriously injured and dying, so they preconceived that this coffin was called by someone to prepare for the two faces of the light, and their attention was all on each other, where would they think that there was Liu Cheng, a third party hidden behind.
When Du Gu arrived at the gate of the courtyard, he knocked on the door according to the code of three into two sections according to the prior agreement, and Du Guoying, who had been waiting in the courtyard for a long time, hurriedly opened the door, pretending to be impatient: "Why is it so slow?" If you delay things, will you bear it? ”
Du Gu hurriedly thanked him, and Du Guoying shouted: "Don't move in yet!" ”
As soon as the courtyard door was closed again, Liu Chengcheng ripped off the outer robe on his body, revealing the iron armor inside, and shouted in a deep voice: "Du Gu, you take five people to guard the hospital door, and you are not allowed to let one person in without my order." ”
"Yes!" Du Gu responded, and then led his subordinates to block the coffin behind the door, so as not to be knocked open by the enemy, Liu Cheng saw that his subordinates had taken out the weapons in the coffin and were ready to stop, so he said to Du Guoying: "Lead the way!" ”
Du Guoying took Liu Cheng and his party all the way to the backyard where the two lights were, and at the corner of the alley that was about ten meters away from the backyard, there were three soldiers squatting next to the brazier to roast the fire, and when they saw this group of people rushing towards this side murderously, they immediately felt that something was wrong, and the one headed stood up and shouted: "Du Guoying, what are you doing here?" ”
Before the words fell, Du Guoying had already grabbed a step and slashed at his neck, stuffing the second half of the other party's words in his throat, one of the two people who were roasting the fire on the ground pulled out a knife to kill Du Guoying, but was stabbed to the ground by Wang Xingguo in the chest, and the other person ran away when he saw this, and was shot in the vest with an arrow, and rushed all the way into the backyard with an arrow.
The medicine pot on the charcoal stove made a fluttering sound, and the brown-black medicinal juice poured out of the gap between the lid and the edge of the medicine jar, and landed on the charcoal fire, making a hissing sound. The doctor hurriedly picked up the medicine pot from the charcoal stove and walked to the table. The brown and black medicinal juice flowed into the bowl, the doctor blew it slightly, walked to the side of the earthen kang, and an assistant had already helped the patient's upper body up, and the doctor scooped a spoonful to the patient's mouth, and said in a low voice: "Take a sip, take the medicine to get better!" ”
The patient's parched lips twisted twice to reveal a slit, and the doctor carefully poured the liquid from the spoon into the patient's mouth, but most of the liquid did not be swallowed but overflowed from the corners of his mouth.
"Humph!" He Wenhu, who was sitting on the windowsill, jumped down, while pulling out his saber and grinding it carefully with a whetstone, while scanning the other people in the room with a vicious gaze, his actions immediately touched an invisible boundary in the room, and the other people either stood up or blocked the tables and chairs in front of them, looking tense.
At this moment, the door of the house was suddenly slammed violently, and a hurried voice was immediately heard: "Open the door, open the door quickly!" “
The people in the house are all looking at each other with vigilant eyes, and everyone's eyes are full of confusion, and the people who are qualified to inherit the two-sided light position are all in the house, could it be that someone wants to do it? But now that people haven't lost their breath, even if they do it, it's a little early, right?
Just when everyone was suspicious, the door was knocked open, and a person pounced in and fell to the ground, but the sharp-eyed one had seen clearly that it was a guard guarding the backyard, He Wenhu rushed forward to help him up, only to feel that his hands were wet and slippery, and when he looked at it, he had been hit by an arrow in his back, and his blood was soaked with blood.
"Du, Du Guoying is here, hurry, run!"
After the guard said this, his head was crooked, and before everyone in the room could figure out what was going on, they saw Du Guoying with seven or eight men in armor and soldiers rushing in, and they instinctively took a few steps back and stood beside the fire kang with light on both sides.
"Du, Du Guoying, are you going to rebel?" He Wenhu was the most courageous, he forced himself to suppress the anger in his chest, and shouted with all his strength, he secretly hoped that the soldiers outside the courtyard could hear his voice and rush in to save people.
Du Guoying's face was pale, but he didn't answer, and several other people saw that it was cheap and shouted loudly. At this time, a voice came from behind Du Guoying: "It's better to speak quietly, my subordinates are all timid, if they are so scared that their hands shake, everyone will be very ugly." As he spoke, the first few people spread out to both sides, revealing the three-eyed guns lit by the arquebuses in the hands of the two people behind them, and looked at the black hole and pointed at themselves, and everyone's faces immediately became as pale as rancid milk.
"Du, Leader Du, everyone is their own person, if you have something to say, why do you want to get to this point!" The other said, his body and voice trembling, like the few dead leaves on the jujube trees in the yard.
"That's right, I'm the one who likes to be reasonable, and I don't like to be rough the most!" Liu Cheng walked out from behind Du Guoying with a smile, made a group gesture to everyone, and said with a smile: "Introduce yourself, Liu Cheng, the commander of the standard camp under the command of Yang He, the right attendant of the Ming Army, and the governor of the three sides, is so fortunate to see the rank today!" ”
The faces of the leaders of the peasant army became more and more ugly, if they met on the battlefield, even if Liu Cheng had a greater advantage, they would rush up and fight to the death, but just a few minutes ago they regarded each other as enemies, and in the blink of an eye, it was a bit impossible to turn around against the enemy side by side.
"Ahem, Mr. Liu Qian!" One of the biggest leaders of the year forced a smile and said, "What are you doing here?" You know, there are thousands of people out there, and even if you kill a few of us, you won't be able to kill them. “
"This one is bad, but I am an envoy of the court invited by your leader." Liu Cheng smiled and said to his subordinates: "Put away all the weapons, you don't have any physique at all!" “
"Yes!" Liu Cheng's subordinates all put away their weapons and stood in two compartments, but the two men with three-eyed guns were still standing by the door, intentionally or unintentionally, facing the people in the house.
"How? The rank can finally be trusted with the sincerity below! Liu Cheng smiled: "If you don't believe it, you can ask Leader Du, General Liu sent him to contact Inspector Yang, if you still don't believe it, you can ask you who is in charge of the plate." ”
The leaders of the peasant army looked at the two-sided light lying on the kang that was more breathing than the dead, and then looked at the three-eyed gun facing them, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, what is the point of what Liu Cheng said is true or false? Could it be that you still really want to verify it? The oldest man just now said: "Mr. Liu Qian, my family is in charge of the plate now, what else can I ask?" ”
"So what?" Liu Cheng said with a smile: "The Inspector said, who can lead the soldiers and horses to return to the imperial court, the one who will fight against him is the general of Ningxia Town, the dignified four-grade master, and the jade belt and scarlet robe to protect the descendants, but I don't say which person's hat must fall on the head of this general." ”
Those leaders are not fools, they immediately understood Liu Cheng's current meaning, their breathing suddenly became heavy, before it was just to compete for a grass head king, but now it is the military attache of the imperial court, the dignified four-rank master, the temptation of victory is not only a hundred times.
"Lord Liu!" Unconsciously, He Wenhu's title to Liu Cheng became much more respectful: "You mean that anyone can do that-?" With that, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the two sides of light on the kang.
"That's nature! Your Excellency the Governor is rewarded for meritorious deeds, and whoever of you has done meritorious deeds will be rewarded. Liu Cheng arched his hand with a smile: "Rank, after the matter is completed, you have to take care of the lower officials!" ”
"I am willing to obey the command of Lord Liu!" One of the leaders shouted.
"The villain is willing too!"
"I do, too!"
Everyone stretched out their arms, and they thought about a fact almost at the same time, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they had to make a statement at this time, because Liu Cheng only needed one person now, and if he didn't move quickly, he would be squeezed behind by his companions, and the consequences would go without saying.
Liu Cheng looked at these leaders with a smile, he observed carefully for a while, and finally pointed to a man who was squeezed behind and spoke a little: "This is the master, it's you, please come over!" ”
The man walked over a little stunned, he was the least outstanding among these people, and he stammered a little when he spoke, just like that, he was just in an instinctive crowd mentality, where did he think that Liu Cheng actually picked himself.
"What do you call this master?"
"My surname is Liu, my nickname is Donkey, your name is Liu Donkey."
"It turns out that this head of the house has the same surname as me." Liu Cheng laughed, stretched out his hand to grab the arm of the donkey Liu, and pulled it to his side: "I don't know where the hometown is, maybe five hundred years ago, you and my ancestors were still scooping spoons in a pot." “
"Deserved, deserved!" Liu Donkey was surprised and delighted, he didn't know how this adult took a fancy to him, could it be that he really had something extraordinary. Liu Cheng pulled the Liu donkey out of the door as he spoke, and before going out, he glanced at Du Guoying and said in a low voice: "Let's do the errand!"
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The two of them chatted outside the door for a few moments, when they heard a terrible scream coming from inside the room, followed by the dull sound of swords slashing against muscles and bones and muffled curses. Liu Donkey'er's face turned pale all of a sudden, and he stretched out his hand to pull the door, but was stopped by Liu Cheng: "Leader Liu, you are doing something inside, if you stain your clothes, it's not good." ”