Li Zicheng leaned into Gao Yingxiang's ear and whispered: "Zhu Babao has evil intentions and wants to pinch our family members in his hands, so that we can become his puppets." ”

Gao Yingxiang nodded and responded in a low voice: "This person is indeed not to be underestimated, we can't agree to this condition." ”

Zhang Xianzhong over there also laughed twice: "This is the real coaxing fool to jump off the cliff, which is even more excessive than us." ”

Only the old Hui Ma Shouying's face remained unchanged, he still held his fists, and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Brother Zhu is willing to help us take care of the old and weak women, that is very grateful, but the tens of thousands of old and weak women under my command are all Hui and Mongolians, I am afraid that you will not be able to take care of them." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "There is nothing that I can't take care of, I already know a lot about the Hui people." The Hui people and Mongolians in the Suide area lived a hard life, and whenever the wheat was ripe, they would take their wives and children to migrate, and rely on gleaning ears of wheat or selling medicine to make a living...... I have already taken in tens of thousands of desolate people, and I have placed them in the old village of Huanglong Mountain, hmm...... This time, the army also happened to bring a few desert recruits, so you can meet them. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, and several recruits went up to the wall, these people were exiled from northern Shaanxi to Zhu Jun's territory not long ago, they stretched out their heads, saw Lao Huihui, and immediately shouted: "Brother Lao Huihui, do you recognize us?" We are the ...... of your next door"

Lao Hui looked up and saw that he really recognized that these people were the Hui people of Suide, because their family background was relatively good, they did not follow Lao Hui to revolt at the beginning, but stayed in Suide's hometown, but did not expect that after many years, they would inevitably break their home. He had to throw himself into the army of thieves.

"Are you all right now?" Lao Huihui hurriedly asked, ethnic minorities are different from the Han nationality, because the number of ethnic minorities in the total population is very small, so they are more inclined to live as a group, compared with the Han people, their small circle is more serious, and they are more intimate and united with each other, so Lao Huihui has eight or nine points of sincerity in this inquiry.

The recruit hurriedly said: "It's a good time here for Eighth Brother Zhu, we were penniless when we first came, and Eighth Brother Zhu took us in." Rations were distributed to all the old and young in our family, and 'seeds' of fields and new crops were also given, so that my family could support themselves, and the food owed could only be returned to Zhu Baba after the autumn harvest. ”

When Lao Huihui heard this, he was moved: "You don't talk nonsense! ”

The recruit said, "Swear in the name of Allah." I don't have a lie. ”

Most of the Hui beliefs are Islam, and in this religion Allah is the supreme being, and swearing in the name of Allah is almost impossible to lie. Hui Hui attaches more importance to faith than the Han people. If a Han Chinese says, "Swear in the name of the Buddha", nine times out of ten they are fooling people. But if you swear by Allah, nine times out of ten it is true.

As soon as this oath was made, he couldn't help but reply in disbelief, and he saw the recruit's neat and clean clothes. and obviously full of food and energetic, I can't help but believe most of it.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang added: "You put the old and weak women with me, and then the light soldiers and soldiers fought with the officers and soldiers, and then come to me after you win, and I will return your old and weak women to you." They will never be detained and not returned. ”

Lao Hui smiled bitterly: "I don't dare to believe what you say." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Believe it or not, I can only do this, in short, I, Zhu Ba, am the territory occupied by the division of troops according to the Xingyang Conference, even if everyone from all over the world comes together, it makes sense that I don't open this gate." If you really want to force me to open this door and fight with me, we might as well recall the thirteen families and seventy-two battalions who participated in the Xingyang Conference, and come together to evaluate and judge, so that everyone can tell whether you are right or I am right. ”

Everything can't be lifted by a reason, the Xingyang Conference decided that Zhu Jun should go west, and now other people want to fish in, it is indeed unreasonable, and Lao Huihui and others have nothing to do.

Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "I am now helping you fight for a chance to win the battle, as long as you throw away the old and weak, with your marching speed, you can definitely get rid of the boss of the officers and soldiers...... Officers and men have to bully men and women every time they go to a place, kill good people and make meritorious deeds, and they will also be subjected to many difficulties by local officials, but after you get rid of the old and weak women, you can move as fast as lightning, and it is not difficult to make a few holes in the net composed of 70,000 officers and men. ”

After a pause, he said: "If I detain your old and weak women, and don't say whether I can use it to blackmail you, just say that the food eaten by tens of thousands of people will cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, if this is not to help you, then what is it?" ”

After listening to it, Lao Hui frowned and was silent, and after thinking for a long time, he raised his head and said seriously: "Okay, then I will believe in Brother Zhu, and hand over the old and weak women of the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo to you, and let you take care of them, and I can go back to the army to deal with the officers and soldiers." ”

Gao Yingxiang saw that Lao Hui responded to the promise, and he was also quite moved, and decided to do the same, but Li Zicheng was anxious, and came to his side and said: "Uncle Gao, this matter must not be allowed, if you hand over your family to others, it will be equivalent to being pinched by someone." ”

Gao Yingxiang shook his head and said: "Otherwise, this is not enough to retire the officers and soldiers, and I have no choice but to do it." ”

Li Zicheng secretly screamed in his heart, Gao Yingxiang is the big man after all, once he makes up his mind, Li Zicheng is inconvenient to persuade him, although he knows that this is not appropriate, he has no choice but to say: "Then let's do it, Uncle Gao, after repelling the officers and soldiers, please be sure to get all your family members back, no matter what these family members say, no matter how much they want to stay with Zhu Ba, we must get them all back, otherwise we will have nowhere to stand." ”

Gao Yingxiang nodded and said, "I promise you this." ”

The two discussed and decided, and also expressed their willingness to hand over the old and weak women, only Zhang Xianzhong refused to agree, he snorted coldly: "If you want to die in a hurry, let it be you, Lao Tzu doesn't believe in this evil, Lao Tzu went south to see if the officers and soldiers could clean up Lao Tzu in the mountains and mountains." After saying that, Zhang Xianzhong separated from the army alone, led his troops over the Lushi Mountains, and went towards the two lakes and the southwest.

Zhu Yuanzhang accepted Gao Yingxiang and the old and weak women of the old Hui Army, arranged for someone to send them to Li Qingshui, and concentrated them in the deserted county town for unified management. Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng were reduced to 20,000 elite soldiers at once, and the 5th Battalion of Gezuo led by Lao Huihui was also reduced to 10,000 elite soldiers. Without the drag of the old and weak women, I suddenly felt light.

Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that these guys were not the opponents of the officers and soldiers, so he and Xue Hongqi took 10,000 elite soldiers out of Tongguan and joined forces with them to discuss the strategy of repelling the officers and soldiers-

The eighth year of Chongzhen, the autumn ......

The allied forces of Zhu Yuanzhang, Xue Hongqi, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Lao Huihui entered the Lushi Mountains and were stationed in the old site of Babaozhai, intending to use this place as a temporary base to fight a guerrilla war with the officers and soldiers.

The Lushi Mountains are not precipitous mountainous areas, and it is not enough to use them as a base area, but it is more than enough to be used as a temporary guerrilla base. The camp of 40,000 troops stretched out in a row, undulating in the mountains, which was quite spectacular.

Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and others didn't know that there was an abandoned cottage here, they all felt novel, and asked Zhu Yuanzhang how he knew, of course Zhu Yuanzhang wouldn't tell them, just laughed and didn't say anything.

That night, the bright moon was hanging high, Xue Hongqi was sitting alone on a small hill, the night wind blew her red clothes, the hunting sounded softly, she sat alone in the middle of the night, only felt desolate in her heart, and couldn't help crying secretly. At this time, I suddenly heard footsteps behind me, but it was Xu Renjie who came over and smiled at her: "Sister Ma Bandit wept alone in the middle of the night, if your brothers saw it, I don't know how they would feel?" ”

Xue Hongqi was ashamed, quickly wiped away his tears, and hummed: "The wind blows the sand into the eyes." ”

Xu Renjie smiled, sat down beside her, and said in a low voice: "Don't pretend, I know you can't get married and cry in a hurry." ”

Xue Hongqi was speechless.

Xu Renjie smiled evilly: "How about marrying me?" I can fight and do business, and this kind of good man is rare. ”

Xue Hongqi shook his head: "I only be a wife, not a concubine, your family already has a beautiful wife and concubine, but there is no place for me." Unless your wife dies of a sudden illness or runs away from someone else, I don't want to marry you. ”

"Wow, let me tell you casually, you actually took this into consideration?" Xu Renjie Khan: "You still curse my wife for dying and then curse me for being a cuckold, do you talk like this?" ”

Xue Hongqi snorted: "I'm such a woman, I'm not convinced that you bite me?" ”

Xu Renjie Khan was speechless.

After being silent for a while, the two suddenly saw a woman walking around under the hill from a distance, by the moonlight, they could see that she was good-looking, with a beautiful face and a fiery figure, she walked very carefully, taking one step at a time, making sure that there was no one left and right, and then continued to walk, it seemed that she did not want to be seen. She didn't know that there were two men watching her on the top of the hill above her.

Xue Hongqi said in a low voice: "It's strange, aren't the old and weak women all taken in by us?" Why is there still a woman in the army of thieves? ”

"Aren't you a woman?" Xu Renjie also laughed in a low voice.

Xue Hongqi snorted: "I'm talking about the old and weak woman, not a female general like me, this woman's steps are vain, it is clear that she is not a practitioner, she must be a family member, so I have this question." ”

Xu Renjie spread his hands and said, "Okay, let's be serious!" That's the woman who broke into Li Zicheng, and I don't know if it's a wife or a concubine, the surname is Xing, and I don't know the name of the girl, I only know that it's called Xing's, don't look at people who don't know martial arts, but people are smart and wise, and they can calculate accounts, and they are responsible for managing military funds in the army, and they pay food and grass to soldiers every day, so they will bring them to fight with them. And...... Chuang Wang Chuang and the old Hui Hui just put the families of the soldiers with us, and their immediate family members are all with the army...... People are guarding against us. (To be continued.) )