Zhu Yuanzhang's cave is lit up, he is a very thrifty person, since he entered the mountain, he almost doesn't light the lamp much, but tonight he unusually lit the oil lamp, as if waiting for something. Zhang Yingxian on the other side of the grass curtain didn't dare to say anything, after last night's incident, she was even more afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang.

The oil lamp next door was on, and she didn't know what it meant, and she was even more frightened.

At this moment, Ma Xiaotian's voice came from outside the cave: "Brother Zhu, I have something important to report!" ”

"Come in!" Zhu Yuanzhang was in good spirits.

It seems that he is waiting for Ma Xiaotian, Zhang Yingxian's heart can't help but be a little curious, what are these two people going to do in the middle of the night? Although she was afraid, she got up gently and looked out through the gap in the grass curtain, and Akiba also looked quietly with her.

I saw Ma Xiaotian enter the cave, and as he walked, his eyes kept looking outside the cave, obviously giving Zhu Ba a look, and after Zhu Ba saw this look, he just nodded lightly and didn't say anything. Obviously, they were plotting something, to hide it from the people outside the cave, and the curiosity of Zhang Yingxian and Qiu Ye was raised to their throats.

Ma Xiaoangel finished his eyes, opened his throat, and said as if he deliberately said to the people outside the cave: "Brother Zhu, I really bothered me when I came to you in the middle of the night, I want to talk to you about the rolling wood and stone reserves in the village." ”

"Well, you got closer and said ......" Zhu Yuanzhang also deliberately said towards the outside of the cave.

The two got close together, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly took out a wooden box from the corner of the cave and put it in Ma Xiaotian's hand, with the faint light, Zhang Yingxian saw that the wooden box was a foot square, just a little bigger than a person's head, she had seen such a wooden box before, and the box she saw at that time still contained Zheng Yanfu's charred black head, and the box she saw now was obviously also used to hold human heads.

Whose head are you going to fit? Zhang Yingxian was a little confused.

At this time, Ma Xiaotian picked up a stone from the corner of the cave and put it into the box with a smile. Zhu Yuanzhang also took out a bottle of pre-prepared pheasant blood with a faint smile, poured it into the box, and the blood poured on the stone, flowing down both sides of the stone, and soon flowed to the bottom of the box, soaked out of the wooden crack at the bottom of the box, and fell to the ground ticking.

Ma Xiaotian pulled out another knife from his lower waist, and Zhu Yuanzhang also poured chicken blood on it as usual, and under the light, the blood turned dark red, flowing along the blood groove on the blade.

The two of them didn't speak, so they did such a strange thing with the light, and Zhang Yingxian was hairy all over.

"Okay......" Zhu Yuanzhang lowered his voice and said, "You can start ......"

"Hmm!" Ma Xiaotian nodded, and then he suddenly shook the blood-stained knife in his hand, and whispered in a voice that could just be heard outside the cave: "Dog thief Zhu Ba, watch me take your dog's head......"

Although he said such murderous words, his body did not move, and the knife did not move. Zhu Ba shouted: "You...... Why...... Yes! ”

Zhu Ba's terrible screams sounded in the cave, Zhang Yingxian and Qiu Ye obviously saw Zhu Ba standing in front of them, but when they heard this scream, they couldn't help but be startled, as if they really saw Zhu Ba being slashed by a knife. One master and one servant didn't understand what was going on at all, they only felt that the scene in front of them was as terrible as a nightmare, and they couldn't help but be driven by Zhu Yuanzhang's screams, and exclaimed in unison.

I saw Zhu Yuanzhang nodding at Ma Xiaotian and said in a low voice: "Go ahead......"

"Okay!" Ma Xiaotian held the blood-dripping wooden box in his left hand and the blood-stained knife in his right hand, and ran out.

He ran to the door, and a thin thug jumped out of the side of the cave, the one who followed him, and said in surprise: "Ma Xiaotian, you have succeeded?" ”

"Got it!" Ma Xiaotian proudly raised the wooden box in his hand: "I slaughtered him with a knife, and his head is in this box." ”

The thug was overjoyed: "Quick, let's go down the mountain quickly......"

The two ran towards the side of the mountain road, and at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's screams had already alarmed the people next to them, and they only heard a desperate shout from the small cave next to them: "What happened?" ”

Then the tower-like figure of Desperate Saburo appeared behind: "Ma Xiaotian, stop, what are you holding?" Hand it over to me to show ......"

The thin thug was frightened, but Ma Xiaotian was very tough, he raised the knife in his hand, and said loudly: "In this box is Zhu Ba's head, Lao Tzu killed it, hahaha, aren't you going to help him oversee me kill me?" You have the ability to come! ”

"What?" Desperately Saburo was furious: "The thief dares!" While scolding, he also pulled out a knife from his back waist and rushed towards Ma Xiaotian and the gangsters, and before the person arrived, his surging murderous aura had already surged in front of him.

Ma Xiaotian handed the wooden box in his hand to the thin thug next to him, and said loudly: "You take this, I can't fight the desperate San Lang with one hand." ”

"Hmph, you can't beat me with both hands!" Desperately Saburo shouted and slashed over. Ma Xiaotian shortened his body and rolled over, narrowly avoiding it.

When did the thin gangster ever see such a scene, holding the wooden box and not knowing what to do, he started to come to the barrass.

In the dark night, the gangsters didn't see it very clearly, I saw that desperate San Lang and Ma Xiaotian you knife, I slashed with a knife, less than three knives, Ma Xiaotian fell downwind, and was beaten in an all-round way, and when it came to the fifth knife, desperate San Lang seemed to stab Ma Xiaotian in the chest and abdomen, Ma Xiaotian screamed, turned over and fell, and shouted loudly when he fell: "I can't do it...... You go quickly...... Led down the mountain......"

The thin thug woke up like a dream, exclaimed, and ran away.

Desperately, Saburo abandoned Ma Xiaotian on the ground, chased after the gangsters, and shouted: "The thief is leaving, hand over the box......" During the brief fight just now, Zhu Yuanzhang's henchmen also came out of the cave, in addition to Ma Xiaotian, there were also thirty-four henchmen, these people seemed to take a few breaths to figure out what was going on, and then they also shouted and chased after the gangsters.

The gangsters were so frightened that they ran away with the box, and the others were thin and thin, but they were flexible and fast, and the desperate Saburo and the thirty-four guards behind him couldn't catch up with him, so he ran back to the mountain pass where the gangsters and scoundrels gathered. More than fifty gangsters and scoundrels had been waiting impatiently, and when they saw him running back, they still held a box in their hands, and were about to ask, when they chased after Desperate Saburo and others.

The skinny thug exclaimed, "Run, everyone...... Zhu Ba's head is in hand...... But Ma Xiaotian was also killed...... Desperate Saburo is so powerful...... Run......"

Although the gangsters and scoundrels don't know the situation, they still know that they are very powerful, and they don't need anyone to give orders at the moment, a group of people roared in unison, and ran down the mountain when they retreated, they had already planned and prepared to run, so they ran up quickly, a group of people ran down the mountain road quickly, and they all ran out of the distance in an instant, and the thin guy ran at the end with a box, although he was so tired that he couldn't breathe, but the box in his hand was related to being promoted to get rich and marry a wife, that is to say that he would not lose anything.

The one in front fled, the one in the back chased, and the two groups of people ran down the mountain at once.

It wasn't until these two groups of people ran away that Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiaotian appeared on the edge of the cliff. Ma Xiaotian rubbed his buttocks and shoulders, and pouted: "Third brother has so much strength, I took a few knives from him, and I almost lost my life." ”

"Ha, people are still merciful, they are playing fake with you, if you really want to fight, two knives are enough to kill you." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "You have to practice your martial arts for me." ”

"Yes!" Ma Xiaotian nodded respectfully and said: "If I don't fight with the third brother, I really think that my martial arts are good, but I found out that I am still far behind." That's right...... Brother Zhu, how long will they have to chase and escape? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "My order to Desperate San Lang is that he can't really catch up, but he has to make the other party think that he is about to be caught up...... Frightened, they fled for their lives, and did not have time to open the wooden box to see the authenticity of the heads inside, so they drove them from the top of the hill to the camp of the officers and soldiers, and only then did they retreat to the mountain. ”

When Ma Xiaotian heard this, he couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Yang Hong received the wooden box, opened it and saw that it was a blood-stained stone, I don't know what it will look like." ”

"Well, I think...... He will probably be so angry that he will kill all these people and hang the heads in front of the camp......" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "Fooling the court officials with fake heads is to despise the court and cut ......"

Ma Xiaotian sighed: "Brother Zhu, in fact, if you want to kill these guys, just block them in the cave and kill them all?" Why bother making such trouble, it's a fake fight and a fake chase, what a bother. ”

"No way!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "Although they want to kill me, they are all villagers of Baishui after all." If they had killed me, the soldiers and civilians in the cottage might have killed them to avenge me. But if they don't succeed, we will find out and arrest them, and the other soldiers and civilians in the cottage will intercede for them...... Do you think so? ”

"This ......" Ma Xiaotian Khan: "Indeed! ”

"So, I can't kill them, I have to borrow someone else's knife." Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "Tonight's incident must be tightly sealed news, and no one can know that I used a fake head to trick them into going down the mountain." Tomorrow, let's not tell the soldiers and villagers that they want to kill me, just that they went down the mountain by night to surrender......"

"Why help them hide it?" Ma Xiaotian was surprised: "Obviously they want to kill you and then go down the mountain, let's announce this matter, there is no problem." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "I just said that they wanted to surrender and go down the mountain, but in a blink of an eye, they were killed by the angry Yang Hong, and this matter fell on the ears of the people on the mountain, which will make them feel that surrender is an absolutely unfeasible way." It can be further confirmed that the story of Zhao Yu being killed by officers and soldiers is true, which makes everyone on the mountain have no heart to surrender. ”

"I see!" Ma Xiaotian suddenly realized, until now, he finally understood Zhu Bugling's strategy, this is really killing two birds with one stone, an extremely clever strategy! At this moment, he once again felt deeply heartbroken for his leader's ability to handle everything with a wave of his hand.