But sweet and beautiful things never last long, when the dawn came, the morning light flowed through the window, Li Hongji had to wake up from the good memories, and what caught his eyes was his hands that had become accustomed to the hilt of the sword and the bowstring, and he had to remind himself that it was all in the past, and that he was now a big leader in charge of thousands of people, and he had to think hard about the lives of himself and his subordinates.

Unlike Shen Yikui, Li Hongji did not carry the baggage away in advance during these days, and he believed that since his proposal to cross the Yellow River to the east was adopted, he should lead the headquarters to stay behind and undertake the most dangerous task of breaking off. In the past few days, Li Hongji has constantly sent out a small number of cavalry, regardless of horsepower, on the one hand to reconnoiter the movements of the officers and troops on the opposite side, and on the other hand, to give the enemy a false impression that the peasant army is still in place and has no sign of leaving.

But no matter how many cavalry Li Hongji sent, he knew in his heart that this illusion would not last long -- the reason was very simple, there were too many displaced people following them around the peasant army camp, and the officers and troops could send spies to mingle with these displaced people, and they could also judge the movements of the peasant army by observing the movements of these displaced people, and it was only a matter of time before they found that the movements of the peasant army were only a matter of time, and Yang He, as the governor of the three sides, would never fail to see the significance of the peasant army's eastward crossing of the Yellow River, and Li Hongji was mentally prepared to meet the onslaught of the official army.

"Uncle, someone from Shenyikui came there, and said that you should go and discuss something!" Li Guo's voice came from outside the window, and Li Hongji, who was dressing, frowned: "So early, did you say what happened?" ”

"Nope!" Li Guo pushed the door in from the outside, this young man who usually looked a little shy was particularly brave on the battlefield, and had won the nickname of "a tiger" in the peasant army, he looked at Li Hongji, and said with some hesitation: "The people who came refused to say, only said that it was something important." I have a little fellow who is the leader of the team under the two faces, and he came to our camp in private yesterday and said that God Yikui is going to do something to you, uncle, or you will say that you are sick, and you can just shirk the past. ”

"No way!" Li Hongji had already put on his clothes and picked up a white felt hat commonly used by farmers in northern Shaanxi: "It should be that the official army has moved again, let me discuss it, I know that there are a lot of nonsense rumors in various families at the moment, and the more we are at this time, the more we can't give people a handle." “

"I see that the person sent by Shen Yikui always looks at us a little weirdly, it's better to be careful with this kind of thing, don't we see less about the big pole swallowing the small pole? You can go, let me pick a hundred cavalry to follow you. “

Li Hongji, who was already about to go out, stopped, he looked at Li Guo, who was full of expectations in his eyes, and thought about it a little: "No, you stay and guard the camp!" “

Li Guo became anxious when he heard this, and said loudly: "Uncle, how can this be done-"

"Think about it, no matter how many guards I bring can I bring more soldiers than the soldiers of the old battalion of Shenyikui? If God Yikui really wants to attack me, no matter how many people he leads, he will be sent to death. The tighter you guard here, the safer I will be there. ”

Li Guo followed Li Hongji to the outside of the courtyard, watched his uncle jump on the war horse, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, grabbed the reins and asked, "Uncle, what if that god has a bad heart, what if you can't come back?" “

Li Hongji looked at his nephew, who was already in tears, and then looked at the guards who were already sitting on horses outside the courtyard, and suddenly smiled: "If I can't come back, you can take my brothers to the east for me, if you can't do it, you will change another person, and you must break a way out for us poor people!" As soon as the words fell, Li Hongji whipped Li Guo's hand on his reins, and as soon as Li Guo let go of his hand, he kicked the horse's stomach violently, and the war horse rushed out like an arrow from the string, and the guards hurriedly beat the horse to keep up. Li Guo grabbed a few steps, looked at Li Hongji's back in the dust, and shouted loudly: "Uncle, you must come back!" Tears were already streaming down my eyes.

When Li Hongji arrived at the old camp of Shenyikui, everything was as usual: lazy sentinels, horse manure everywhere on the road, tattered flags, and the leaders and guards who had squatted at the base of the wall and played leaf cards, which made his nerves that had been tense a little relaxed. When he jumped off the horse's back with agility, the Chinese army of Shen Yikui came up, stretched out his hand to grab his horse's halt, and shouted with a smile: "Yellow head, you are here, the leaders of the other families have arrived, and they are waiting for you." “

"Oh, that's a sin!" Li Hongji jumped off the horse with a smile, handed the reins to the other party, and carefully looked at the houses on both sides of the street, the open door was empty, and there was no ambush soldier with weapons in sight.

"You're laughing, your road is the farthest, and it's normal to come late!" The Chinese soldier turned his head behind him with a grin and shouted, "Are all the people dead?" Don't come over to help! With his shouting and scolding, six or seven soldiers ran over, and he handed Li Hongji's war horse to one of them: "Put more wheat and black beans, and bring the wine and meat quickly." Saying that, he turned his head to Li Hongji and smiled: "The one who is in charge of the plate, you come with me." ”

When Li Hongji walked into the house, the leaders of the peasant army were sitting around the brazier and gossiping, the sound of the door opening and closing made the conversation pause, and everyone's eyes were focused on Li Hongji. Li Hongji laughed a little uncomfortably, and arched his hand: "Brother, I'm late, let everyone wait for a long time, forgive your sins!" “

"My own brother, what do you say is not guilty, it's windy on the road, come over and bake the fire!" Shen Yikui's voice was very loud, he moved his chair to the side, the big red wolf on the side hurriedly moved a chair over, Li Hongji hurriedly took a few steps forward, sat down on the chair, Shen Yikui asked with a smile: "How, this chair is still comfortable!" “

"Comfortable, of course comfortable!" Li Hongji replied a little inexplicably.

"I don't think so, our chair is hard, I'm afraid it's not as comfortable as the official's chair!" Shen Yikui's face changed, and he shouted, "Take it for me!" Before the words fell, Li Hongji's neck was strangled by the noose, and the two leaders next to him also pounced on him and held down his hands, although he struggled, but the noose around his neck became tighter and tighter, so that he couldn't breathe, in a hurry, he kicked the brazier on the ground hard, only to hear a scream, and saw a person fall to the ground and roll, and then Li Hongji heard someone shouting: "Didn't you eat, the rope is tight." Li Hongji's eyes darkened, and he fainted.

I don't know how long it took for Li Hongji to wake up again, and his first feeling was a hot pain in his neck, and there was a person's ** sound in his ears.

"The one in charge of the plate, Leader Liu's left eye is wasted, and his right eye is enough to choke!" The doctor whispered to God, lying on the folded door panel on both sides, and was whispering, his eyes were covered with a layer of white cloth, and the exposed skin of his face was like a wasp, and there was naked red flesh everywhere, which looked very penetrating.

"These two people are really enemies, Huang Lai'er just came to the foot, and a brazier of charcoal was splashed on his face!" The big red wolf on the side whispered in his ear, and it was not difficult to hear the meaning of schadenfreude from his tone.

Shen Yikui snorted coldly and said in a low voice: "Forget it, carry the person down, I originally wanted this guy to confront Huang Lai'er, but it's good now, there's no need for it." ”

"What's the right thing!" The big red wolf looked at the other leaders and said in a low voice: "Both sides of the light are like this, who else doesn't believe it?" According to my meaning, if you don't do it, you will cut Huang Lai'er, swallow his men and horses, plus people with two faces, whether it is east or south, where can someone have a horse? ”

Shen Yikui didn't answer, he looked at the two sides of the light on the door panel, and said to the doctor: "Carry Leader Liu down and take care of it!" He turned around and walked in front of Li Hongji, picked up Shen Yikui's chin with the handle of the whip, and sneered: "Don't pretend to be dead, don't force me to splash you with cold water!" ”

"Why?" Li Hongji opened his eyes and looked directly into Shen Yikui's eyes.

"Why? You know it in your own heart! Shen Yikui turned his head and said to the two leaders next to him: "Don't get mud and break into the sky, bother the two of you to go to this old camp and there, and level it there, don't let his nephew go to a tiger Li Guo." ”

"Don't worry, you're in charge!"

"It's not wrong!"

According to the practice of the peasant army, although the big head of the loot should be handed over to Shen Yikui, but the two of them can also get a large share of the spoils, and the other leaders also showed envious eyes, and a few of them complained in a low voice. Shen Yikui waved his hand violently to stop everyone's whispering: "Huang Lai'er, do you know why I want to take you down?" “

"Humph!" Li Hongji snorted coldly, turned his head, and his face was full of disdain.

"Of course you don't want to say it, and if you don't have any evidence, I'll let you die convinced!" Shen Yikui said, took out an object from his arms, shook it in front of Li Hongji, and asked, "Do you know what this is?" ”

Li Hongji looked at it coldly, and saw that the flower silk was sandwiched and the white linen was the bottom, as if it was an official confession, he had been a post guard in the post station for many years, so he naturally recognized it.

"It's a confession, so what? Do you want to take refuge in the imperial court and take me to make a petition for your name? “

"Phew!" Shen Yikui spat and scolded: "I haven't given birth to your femme fatale yet." How can you send tens of thousands of our brothers to the Yellow River to feed the fish for your own black yarn hat, how vicious is this! “

Hearing this, Li Hongji seemed to have fallen into a five-mile fog, and asked rhetorically: "Where does this start, your body was not searched from me, why do you say that I want to be an official of the imperial court, isn't this a bloody mouth?" ”

"Humph! How careful you are Huang Lai'er, you can't find it on your body. Shen Yikui sneered: "But you use your official position to buy two lights, and you want him to help you persuade everyone to cross the river to Shanxi, and when we cross the river halfway, the officers and soldiers can secretly attack." But I don't want to be two-faced, but it's not a wolf-hearted thing like you, otherwise our tens of thousands of brothers will be lost in your hands! ”

"This is just two sides of the story, how to do it accurately?" Li Hongji retorted: "You let him confront me!" ”

"Confronted? Of course you are not afraid of confrontation, just now he received a brazier from you in the face, his eyes are blind, and he doesn't know if he can save his life or not, how to confront you? Shen Yikui sneered: "Okay, you said that you are lying to you on both sides, so why do you want to lie to you?" Where did this come from? Could it be that the two-faced light turned to the government to change his body to harm you? Why didn't you hurt so many people just now, but you kicked the brazier on his head, did you want to kill his mouth? “

Li Hongji was suddenly stopped by a series of questions from Shen Yikui, and he found that he had fallen into a well-arranged trap, no matter how much he tried to defend and struggle, it would be useless, but would allow himself to fall deeper and deeper into this trap, and finally perish.

"Now you won't believe what I say! I, Li Hongji, have made up my mind since the day I went out, and I will fight with the Zhu family to the end in this life, either I die or he dies. As the saying goes, people will see people over time. ”

Li Hongji's defense immediately aroused the anger of the onlookers, and one of them arched his hand to Shen Yikui: "The one who is in charge of the plate, hand this guy over to me, I will chop him alive, and the heart and liver will be made into sobering soup for the ranks!" ”

"Yes, chop him alive!"

"Still thinking about it for a long time? Lao Tzu will kill you alive now! “

"Brothers!" Shen Yikui opened his arms, suppressed the shouting and scolding of everyone, pointed at Li Hongji and said: "And leave him alive, and when his old camp is copied, his nephew Li Guo will be captured and the uncle and nephew will be chopped alive together!" “

"Yes, it's still thoughtful in the palm of the plate!"

On the fire, the light on both sides had passed out, but even in his sleep, the muscles of his face twitched slightly from time to time, and bright red muscles and white tendons were exposed under the skin burned by the charcoal fire, which looked extraordinarily oozing. Several leaders gathered around him, and they looked at each other warily, and the atmosphere in the room was tense.

"How?" Liu Cheng greeted Du Guoying, who came out of the house, and he was not qualified to go in to check.

"What else can I do, that surnamed Liu was splashed with charcoal fire, and he has more breath than a dead man, hey, except for such things when things come to an end!" Du Guoying stood aside and sighed in a low voice, no wonder he was so anxious, in order to prevent the matter of Zhao'an from leaking out, Shuangmian kept even his closest subordinates in the dark, and everything was for Du Guoying, a "newcomer", to contact. Now that everything is ready, he has become like this, so how can Du Guoying not be angry.

"Brother Du, I still have a way, but I don't know if you want to try!" Liu Cheng looked at the leaders who were crowded around the kang and whispered to Du Guoying.

"What are you selling at this time, what do you say, I'll do it!" Du Guoying said hurriedly, he knew very well that Liu Cheng could go back to be his president of Qian, could he be a thief for a lifetime?