The man took the silver gratefully and kowtowed to Cao Cao: "Leader Cao, you are a benevolent and righteous person, but it's a pity that my thumb was cut off by the officials and soldiers, and you are a wasted person, otherwise I would have spilled this blood, and I would be willing to go to the ends of the earth with you." I would like to remind you, the Ming army that came this time is not ordinary, there are many cavalry, and there are firearms, and the team can also fight and survive, we can suffer a big loss, you must lift it, don't fight with them. ”

"There are firearms, and there are many cavalry?" Li Guo's brows furrowed: "Then have you heard where this Ming army came from, and who is their main general?" “

"The main general seems to be surnamed Du, who is from the same state, and says that he is from Zuoying, Yansui Town."

"Same state? Last name Du? Li Guo frowned, the other party's answer was very different from his guess, Cao Cao on the side saw his embarrassed look, and said with a smile: "Brother Li, you look like a tiger when you fight, why do you usually look like a girl." If you want to die in the sky, you won't die for thousands of years, what are you afraid of? The others we Cao Cao has eaten and played have never seen it in their lives, and it is enough to die, not to mention that it may not be dead! Come, first accompany my brother and I have a glass of wine and be happy, and I will think about the troubles tomorrow! While speaking, he stuffed a wine glass into Li Guo's hand, poured him full of wine, patted the fifth lady's buttocks, and said with a smile: "Come, sing a little song quickly, let my Li brothers be happy!" ”

The fifth lady glared at Cao Cao with disgust, and took the tooth board to the side and babbled and sang, this woman was originally a Datong person, a person in the courtyard, so that a gentleman took a fancy to Na and made a small home, Cao Cao took it away when the soldiers were outdated, and accepted it as the fifth lady. The prosperity of prostitutes/women in the Ming Dynasty was naturally the north and south of Beijing, followed by the "mother-in-law" of Datong, which was the famous Yangzhou thin horse in later generations. It is recorded in the Ming people's notebook novel "Five Miscellaneous Warriors": "The nine sides are like Datong, and its prosperity and wealth are not lower than the south of the Yangtze River." And the beauty of women is the elegance of everything. There are no places in the border villages. "At that time, Daming and Mongolia have been border cities for a long time, although Datong is a border village, but it has not been armed for a long time, but has become an important border trade city, at that time, the folk spread the "Jizhen city wall", "Xuanfu teaching field", "Datong mother-in-law" for the three unique. Since this fifth lady was born in the courtyard, she is naturally good at going up and down the bed, singing and playing, and the other ladies are beyond her reach, although she has never given birth, she is also quite loved by Cao Cao. She sang a song "Xijiang Yue", poured a glass of wine, and walked up to Li Guo in a curling manner. Fu Yifu said with a smile: "Uncle Li drank this glass of wine, and then listened to the concubine sing a tune to relieve his uncle's boredom." “

Li Guo saw that the five ladies smiled before they could say anything, and when they were still four or five feet away, a smell of incense powder came to their noses, and he felt a little uneasy in his heart, and took the wine glass with a forced smile, took a shallow sip and put it aside: "Thank you, sister-in-law!" “

"Uncle doesn't drink, isn't it because the concubine can't sing well?" The five ladies rolled their eyes. smiled: "If your uncle wants to listen to something, just order it, and the concubine will sing according to what your uncle ordered!" As he spoke, he leaned in. As the saying goes, "bustards love money, sisters love pretty", these five ladies have been raised in the dean since they were children. This ushered in and sent to see it, although Li Guo was not handsome, but a young man in his early twenties had a strong physique. The heroic spirit is compelling, naturally not comparable to the bearded Cao Cao and the fifty-year-old gentleman, she subconsciously used the set she saw and learned in the courtyard in the past.

"Sister-in-law, please respect yourself!" Li Guo's face sank. Leaning back to the side, he dodged it. He drank the half cup of residual wine, made a deep swipe to Cao Cao, and said in a deep voice: "Big leader, the little brother is shallow, if you drink it again, I'm afraid it will be a little ugly, and I will retire here!" As he spoke, he was about to leave, Cao Cao stood up with a smile, and grabbed Li Guo: "The old Five Elements Courtyard came out, just this virtue, I like her merry, if the Li brothers don't like it, let her step down, you and my brother just sit down and drink and talk." With that, Cao Cao pulled Li Guo to the inside of the tent, and the fifth lady warmed the wine for the two and then retreated, leaving only Li Guo and Cao Cao. Cao Cao said with a smile: "I also heard that your uncle, who is coarse and vegetarian on weekdays, is a figure who does great things like the brothers below, but you have learned from him ten out of ten." However, I Cao Cao is not the kind of person who can't tell the weight from the heavy and falls into the woman's pile and crisps his bones. “

When Li Guo heard what Cao Cao said, he only felt a little inexplicable, so he had to say a few perfunctory words casually. Cao Cao called a subordinate, whispered a few words, and then persuaded Li Guo to drink, looking like he was going to drink all night, Li Guo saw that he couldn't hold back the anxiety in his chest, and said in a low voice: "Big leader, since Hong Chengchou used such a poisonous plan, whether to fight or leave, you and I should come up with a way, what's the use of drinking like this?" “

"Of course it's gone!" Cao Cao smiled: "Didn't you listen to that guy?" The officers and soldiers are both firearms and cavalry, and the armor is excellent, and the ten brothers under you and me do not have a good pair of armor, if they fight hard, how can they be the opponents of the officers and soldiers? What's more, those puppies are scattered, who knows if they will stab you and me in the back? How is this battle fought? Leave early, go early, go early! “

"Which way to go?"

"To the west, of course, to the north, to a place with fewer people!" Cao Cao smiled: "Officers and soldiers Domado, let's go around in circles with them, the front will sweep away everything that can be eaten and burned along the way, and the back will not eat or drink, and it won't be long before they can hold on!" “

"And what about to the east?"

"Are you still thinking about your own uncle's idea?" Cao Cao laughed: "Let's put it this way, if everyone goes east, this is a good idea, there are many roads in Shanxi, which is better than our Shaanxi." But right now, these two of us are going east, I'm afraid that even the Yellow River may not be able to get by, and we are now saving our lives! “

Li Guo nodded, and at this time, a sharp scream suddenly came from a distance, vaguely from a woman, Li Guo was taken aback, hurriedly stood up, pulled out his waist knife and was about to rush out.

"Stop!"

A deep voice came from behind Li Guo, and he turned his head to see Cao Cao looking at him coldly.

"Sit down, let's drink!"

"But, but outside-" Li Guo looked at each other a little confused, but Cao Cao still looked as if nothing happened: "I let the little ones deal with some chores, it has nothing to do with you, let's drink ours!" With that, he poured Li Guo another glass of wine. Li Guo sat down a little dazed, picked up the wine glass and took a sip, feeling a little bitter.

At this time, two more mournful cries for help were heard outside. This time the distance was much closer, almost through a layer of tent skin, Li Guo couldn't bear it anymore, Huo stood up suddenly, and then a person rushed in from the tent door and fell to the ground. Li Guo fixed his eyes and saw that it was the fifth lady who had just sung and toasted.

The fifth lady was full of pearls and green, and her hair was like clouds, and she was a very pretty woman, but at this time she was messy and draped. His face was covered with blood, like a ghost, if it weren't for the clothes he was wearing, Li Guo would almost not be able to recognize it. When the five ladies saw Li Guo, they seemed to see a savior, and crawled over to Li Guo with both hands and feet, and called: "Uncle Li save me!" “

Li Guozheng was stunned, and two men with steel knives appeared at the door of the tent, looking at the posture of the fifth lady. Li Guo hurriedly stood up. Drawing a knife to protect the fifth lady on the ground, she shouted: "Who are you to dare to touch the family of the big leader!" “

Seeing Li Guo standing in front of the fifth lady, the two hesitated. At this time, Cao Cao behind him spoke: "You two retreat, I will deal with the matter here!" When the two men heard this, they sang a fat promise and withdrew.

"Big Boss. What's going on? Li Guo asked in surprise: "Those two are your subordinates?" “

"Not bad!" Cao Cao nodded: "Those two are my subordinates, and I asked them to kill these women." “

"Kill them? Aren't they all your wives? Why kill them? ”

"We're going to the west, it's bitter cold. Our own lives may not be saved, so why are we taking these women with us? They are used to living a good life, and they wear brocade and jade on weekdays, and there are several girls alone, do they still want the soldiers to protect them? What will the soldiers think at that time? It's better to kill it sooner and save trouble. ”

Li Guo was stunned by Cao Cao's somewhat ridiculous logic, and he was going to kill him if he couldn't take it? But wasn't it you Cao Cao who snatched them? Are they pigs and sheep, not people like you? Cao Cao seemed to see Li Guo's thoughts, stood up and said, "Brother Li, you have a good martial arts, a sense of righteousness, a brain, and don't want to die in a fight." But that's not enough. This world is unreasonable, when do you think those corrupt officials and gentry have ever explained a little reason to us? If you want to take your brothers to fight their way out of this world, you have to be ruthless enough. Not only must you be ruthless to the officials and masters, but also to yourself, what others can't do, you can do it, in order to make a way out. ”

"But, since you can't take them away, why don't you let them go? It's also a human life! ”

"Released?" Cao Cao sneered: "Why did everyone tie their heads to the waistband of their trousers and follow Lao Tzu to rebel?" Isn't it for the sake of drinking wine and eating meat and sleeping with beautiful women? Now that I'm going to Westfandi, I want everyone to lose the women and good things that I robbed, how can everyone be willing? If I wasn't the first to kill a woman and burn what should have been burned, someone would think I was hiding somewhere, and if everyone was like that, it wouldn't be over? “

Li Guo was speechless by Cao Cao's words, he knew that the other party was wrong in some places, but he couldn't refute it, so he could only say to himself in his heart that if Uncle Zicheng was here, he would definitely not do it. Suddenly, a scream woke Li Guo from his thoughts, and he turned around just in time to see Cao Cao wiping the blood on the knife with the clothes of the fifth lady, and the young woman who had been flirting with him a few minutes ago was already lying on the ground, her neck had been cut open and blood was pouring out of it. Li Guo walked to the fifth lady and squatted down, seeing that the signs of life were rapidly disappearing from her round eyes, he suddenly felt an inexplicable discomfort in his heart, to be honest, he didn't have a good impression of this lowly woman, but he still felt a burst of sadness for her death. He was silent for a while, then suddenly imitated the monk he had seen when he was a child, folded his hands and prayed in a low voice for a while, then reached out and closed his eyes for the deceased, and said in a low voice: "You will be reincarnated into a good family in the next life, don't suffer like this!" “

As Cao Cao recounted, after killing several of his ladies and burning unnecessary luggage, the tame mimic leader of his men quickly dressed lightly and left the camp for the northwest that night. This lone team moved quickly, and by the morning of the next day they had crossed the dividing line between Qingyang and Pingliang, and as long as they walked a few days ahead and went northwest along the Liupan Mountains out of Xiao Pass, the Ming army would pose much less threat to them. But this last leg of the journey was also the most dangerous, as the headquarters of the trilateral governors, Guyuan, the capital of Pingliang Province, was the core of the entire northwest frontier system of the Ming Dynasty. The city was once called Dayuan, Gaoping, Xiaoguan, Yuanzhou, Guyuan, west of the Liupan Mountains, the Jinghe River valley that flows through this place is an important passage from the northwest into the Guanzhong Plain, the ancients called it "the left control of the five plains, the right with Lanhui, the yellow stream around the north, Kongtong blocking the south, according to the shoulders of the eight counties, the key to the three towns". For more than 200 years, the Ming army built countless walled cities around it to defend against invasions from both directions in Huangzhong and the Mongolian steppe.

But to their surprise, this weak lone army did not encounter any interception, and in the few forts they passed, the few garrisons in them had been emptied, leaving only the old and weak, women and children, and they had a hard time defending the fortress, let alone posing a threat to this group of thieves. As we get closer to Guyuan, the signs of this are becoming more and more obvious.

"Brother in the victory village, what happened? Why is there no one in the village! "A little leader of thieves, speaking in the local vernacular, shouted loudly to a walled city by the roadside.

"Who is your brother! The thief who should cut off his head! A middle-aged soldier stood on the wall and scolded that he was missing an arm, maybe that was the reason why he was able to stay.

"Don't say it so ugly!" The little boss was also not annoyed: "My hometown is separated from here by a mountain beam, maybe it was an ancestor hundreds of years ago, and I really can't go on this road." If we use knives and guns, our ancestors will not be happy to see it underground! ”

The one-armed soldier snorted coldly, and did not continue to scold, the defender behind him was either only a half-grown child of twelve or thirteen years old, or an old man over fifty, who was not able to withstand the blow of the thieves outside, since the other party had already shown goodwill, it would be quite unwise to provoke the other party to provoke an attack. (To be continued.) )