Two days later, it was already the season of autumn high and crisp, yellow drifting, but outside Runing Mansion was desolate, Zhu Yuanzhang sat outside the city, looking at the barren land around him, and couldn't help but think in his heart: My territory should be the season of autumn potato harvest now, and the people should be full of smiles.

He expected that Gao Yingxiang and the others were now ambushed on both sides of the official road between Xinyang and Runing, but he didn't know if there was already a fight. If it really starts, I'm afraid that Ai Wannian's life will not be guaranteed.

Ai Wannian's age is not young, and he is also in his sixties this year, although he is old but fierce, he is a good general who listens to the orders of the imperial court and is very willing to work. He began in the fourth year of Chongzhen, with Cao Wenzhao to suppress bandits, Chongzhen four years had participated in the pursuit of Zhao Sheng, and at that time also fought with Zhu Yuanzhang, but his reputation was not obvious at that time, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not notice him. In the fifth year of Chongzhen, Ai Wannian followed Fan Yiheng to suppress Zhang Cunmeng; and with Li Bei and He Renlong, he attacked Zhang Xianzhong, sweeping the king, etc. In the following year, he served as the deputy commander-in-chief and conscripted the Shanxi Righteous Army. Chongzhen hunted and killed the leader of the rebel army, the king's minister, and the king of the soldiers; Capture the mountain, Ji Guansuo, and the king of the world, and the court authorized him to supervise the enterprise. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, he was awarded the deputy chief soldier of Gushan and garrisoned Pingliang.

This person dares to fight, and it is precisely because he dares to fight and dare to fight, and he will never be as passive as people like He Renlong, Zuo Liangyu, and Zu Kuan, so if he encounters Gao Yingxiang on the way, he will definitely fight to the death, but it is a pity for this veteran.

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a scout running over and shouting: "Brother Zhu, the big thing is not good, an army suddenly appeared in the south, the command is unknown, Sister Xue Hongqi stepped forward to ask." There was a conflict between the words, and a female general in the opposing army was fighting with Sister Xue Hongqi. ”

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was suddenly surprised: "South? Isn't the south the direction in which King Gao Yingxiang and they went? If there is an army coming from the south, it will be a righteous army, what is there to fight? ”

The scout also said: "There is no doubt that it is indeed the rebels, they are dressed in tatters, and the weapons in their hands are also messy, but they have no banner, and they don't know Sister Xue Hongqi." It seems that I don't know which ravine it is a rookie who has just come out of the mountain. was rude to Sister Xue Hongqi, and as a result, a fight broke out. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled dumbly, although Xue Hongqi's temper was not very bad, it was not very good. Not long ago, outside Tongguan, she also had a fight with the bearded man. Bring the bearded man into the army. Unexpectedly, he turned his head and fought with people again. This woman who likes to fight is the same as a man who likes to embroider. There is nothing to say.

"Let's go, let's see!" Zhu Yuanzhang shouted, and Ma Xiaotian and more than 30 other guards turned over and got on the horse together. Wang Er, Xu Renjie and others heard that there was a lively to see, of course, they had to keep up, a group of people left the barracks, and galloped to the south, two or three miles of road passed in a flash, only to see that there were really two groups of people and horses in front of them were confronting, the north was naturally Xue Hongqi's horse bandits, but the south was a group of ragged thieves, the number was about six or seven hundred, this strength was really not good, as the scout said, it was a rookie rebel army of the new rebellion.

Such a rookie army naturally won't have any great characters, and everyone didn't think so, thinking: As soon as Xue Hongqi made a move, it was estimated that he would be captured within three or five moves.

However, when they entered the field, everyone was taken aback, only to see two horsemen running with their hooves in the field, and immediately two people in red were using their own means to attack and defend, Xue Hongqi used a scimitar, and the other woman in red made a sword, and the two swords were raised at the same time.

Because the two women were fighting, their bodies kept rolling, and everyone couldn't see the woman's appearance clearly, and they didn't know the age of beauty and ugliness, so they could only tell from their bodies that they were not old.

Xu Renjie sighed, and then shouted, "Where is the woman?" Can you fight like this with Xue Hongqi's sister? Tee is also powerful. ”

Wang Er was also amazed: "It's my wife Yingshanhong, who got on the back of the horse and put it right with Sister Xue Hongqi, and it was also three or five moves to be taken down, I didn't expect this woman to be able to fight with her horse, it's really amazing." ”

Everyone looked closely, only to see that Xue Hongqi had excellent equestrian skills, and the people and horses were one, like a part of the horse, her body was firmly rooted on the horse's back, no matter how the opponent moved, she responded with lightness. But the other woman was different, her horsemanship was not necessarily excellent, or she was not seen to use any horsemanship at all. But her body is extremely sensitive, stepping off the war horse is obviously galloping and jumping, undulating, but she seems to treat the horse's back as if it is flat ground, sitting on the horse's back for a while, standing on the horse's back for a while, and actually somersaulting on the horse's back for a while, which is incredible. There were several times when everyone was worried that she would fall off the horse, but they didn't know how to turn over and get back on the horse......

Xu Renjie sighed: "This ...... It's like juggling on horseback......"

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he already knew who this woman was, so he said lightly: "That's right, it's juggling, everyone should look at it fresh, let's look at it freshly, we are towering in China, there are countless strange people in different worlds, and there are also talents who use juggling in battle like this." ”

At this time, Xue Hongqi and the woman had already hit the roadside under the woods, and the two rode through under a tree, the tree grew low, and a thick horizontal branch was horizontal in front of the two, and the height of the branch was just one foot higher than the horse's back.

Xue Hongqi was overjoyed when he saw such a trap in front of him: "See how you can avoid it." She swung her scimitar several times, and the light of the knife covered the woman's entire body, making it impossible for her to control her horse and dodge, and both of them rushed straight towards the horizontal branch.

When the horse reached the tree, he lowered his head and rushed under the branches. As soon as Xue Hongqi's body was retracted, he disappeared from the horse's back in an instant, and it turned out that he was hiding in the pedal. In addition, the woman in red is not good at equestrianism, but she has no ability to hide in the pedal, seeing that she can not avoid, to be swept by the branch around the waist, I didn't expect her body to jump, actually jumped off the horse's back, two toes lightly, standing on a thin and tough vine, the war horse passed under the branch, she couldn't catch up, had to let the war horse run away, the person stayed, the vine is very thin, the wind blows and shakes, she is so big a person to jump up, how can it not be shaken? But she actually swayed with the vines, up and down, and did not fall......

"Wow!" The generals and soldiers of the Zhu army all exclaimed.

Xue Hongqi thought that she had been swept off the horse, but when he looked back, he saw the woman standing on the vine staring at her with a smile on her face, as if she was continuing to invite the battle.

Xue Hongqi snorted coldly and said, "If you are forced to leave the horse by me, you will lose, and there is no need to compare." ”

The woman was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "My sister's riding skills are really clever, but the kung fu of her hands and feet is inevitably a little worse, and the red lady also wants to ask you about your ability to fight on foot." She stood on the vine and swayed with the wind, and the momentum was not great, and everyone saw her face clearly at this time, and saw that she was only about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a goose egg face, soft and lovely, with a clever smile, and her complexion was not white, and she had obviously been exposed to the sun and rain since she was a child, but she was matched by red clothes, and she was not black.

"It turns out that this person's name is Red Lady." Xu Renjie said: "I haven't heard of such a person, the Xingyang Conference that year, the thirteen families and seventy-two battalions, and many small groups of rogues arrived, I have recorded them one by one, but I have never seen a woman." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that this was Li Yan's later wife, the Red Lady. In the previous life, Zhu Yuanzhang wandered in the sky, but only one pair of eyes grew, he wanted to watch the general trend of the world, so it was impossible to watch a certain place or a certain person, and when he knew Li Yan and the red lady, this couple had already been famous all over the world, so it was not clear when she had an accident. I only know that she rebelled in Jigong Mountain in Xinyang during the Chongzhen period, and after the uprising, she traveled all the way to the north and rescued Li Yan in Qi County, achieving a good story.

Xinyang is just a hundred miles south of Runing Mansion, and it seems that the red lady has just gathered a crowd to rebel at this time, and then traveled north. She is a thief, so she naturally does not take the official road, but goes to the deep mountains and old forests, and Gao Yingxiang and others want to intercept Ai Wannian, they must go along both sides of the official road, so they pass by the Red Women's Army and don't see each other. As a result, the red lady directly bumped into the Zhu army scouts who stayed in Runing, and when the Zhu army scouts reported, they happened to meet Xue Hongqi who was leading the cavalry team to slip away, and a few words did not agree, so the fight started.

Xu Renjie opened his throat and shouted: "That is called the Red Lady, if you lose the horse battle, you don't have to compete anymore, and you have to lose the foot battle." He knew that Xue Hongqi couldn't fight on foot, and if he dismounted to fight, he would probably not be able to compare to this woman, but in order to protect his woman, he talked nonsense with his throat.

The red lady grinned, although she was fighting, she could smile very pleasingly, and everyone could see that their hearts were soft. It turns out that she was born in the rivers and lakes, and before the uprising, she traveled south and north with a group of jugglers, this juggling, is to talk about a typhoon, you can't dance with a sword and sword with a cold face, and after the dance, you will ask the audience for money, right? No matter how tired and bitter she is, or even if she accidentally falls and injures herself during the performance, she has to smile and ask the audience for money.

This habit has been used for many years, and it can't be changed in a short time, she and Xue Hongqi's fierce fight made her blood surge, and she was not tired, but when she stood on the vine and swayed gently, she still said with a smile on her face: "The man over there, you are talking nonsense...... This sister's equestrian skills are indeed better than mine, but wielding a sword and dancing a sword, and jumping lightly are far behind, if there is no horse, hehe...... The little sister only needs to get three or five moves, and she will definitely win. ”

When Xue Hongqi heard this, he was immediately furious, turned over and got off the jujube red horse, and said loudly: "I got off the horse, I came to fight!" (To be continued.) )