Chapter Ninety-Nine: Defending the Land and Keeping the People Safe

Li Zicheng and Gao Yingdeng led the men and horses to Xishan Town, Li Zicheng had more people and horses, he was worried that he would scare the people in the town, and when he was still five miles away from the entrance of the town, he asked the soldiers and horses to stand by, and only let Li Yan and Li Guo take 200 people to follow him.

Gao Yingdeng originally thought that Li Zicheng was planning to rob him, but he didn't expect that he only planned to bring such a few people over at this moment, so he was very puzzled in his heart and said, "Brother Li, why do you bring such a few people." ”

"We're here to apologize to people, and bringing so many people doesn't mean to scare people." Li Zicheng replied directly.

"You...... You're really going to apologize......" Gao Yingden said in disbelief.

"That's natural, don't come and apologize, what do we come here to do. It's not early, let's apologize quickly, and then we will meet with King Chuang and go to Shanxi. Li Zicheng said in a gentle voice.

"That'...... Okay......" Gao Yingdeng had nothing to say, so he could only take two hundred people and head to Xishan Town. With these thousands of people now, what kind of storm can Li Zicheng set off, at this moment, Li Zicheng's troops are ten times his own, and he has to apologize, how can he not know each other.

They led 400 people to the entrance of the town, and along the way, they could see the fields in the countryside and smell the smell of the earth, and many soldiers recalled their lives in those days. There is no sword and sword, and living in a peaceful hometown is no different from here. They were envious and jealous, so one of the little leaders said, "Head, there is so much grain in this field, and we happen to be short of food, so let's harvest it all." ”

"Smack!"

A horsewhip fell on the little leader's body fiercely, and immediately after, Li Zicheng said loudly: "We are a righteous army, what we want to do is to kill the rich and help the poor, and suppress the soldiers and calm the people, if we wantonly loot, what is the difference between it and robbers?" Do you think that our slogan is just talking, we must do what we say, keep our word, and let everyone in the world see that we are a righteous army! ”

"Yes...... It's ......" The little leader shuddered, so frightened that he didn't dare to say anything more.

Li Yan was by Li Zicheng's side, and he was very satisfied when he saw that Li Zicheng could do what he said. It can be said that only in this way can it be a veritable righteous army and achieve great things.

After a while, everyone came to the entrance of the town, and Li Zicheng asked people to shout, hoping that the people in the town would come out. But after shouting for a long time, there was no one to see, Li Zicheng did not lead the troops in, but just let the two minions go in to check, the minions went in a circle, and came back to report, all the people here were gone.

Hearing this, Li Zicheng nodded slightly and said, "It seems that the people in the town are worried that we will come to retaliate, so they are hiding." ”

"What Brother Li said is good, it should be so." Li Yan on the side said: "But I estimate that the people here can't go far, and there is a good chance that they are hiding in the nearby mountains." With that, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the mountains not far away.

"What the gentleman is saying, then what are we going to do now? Do you turn around and leave, or go up the mountain to find them? Li Zicheng asked.

"Naturally, I want to go to them, but I can't go up the mountain, just go down the mountain. Those people can kill and defeat the high leader, obviously they are not idle people, we get to the bottom of the mountain, they will definitely be able to find out. The eldest brother took the lead in shouting them down, knowing them with reason, moving them with affection, and seeing if he could persuade them to join my righteous army. If you persuade them to join the gang, it is naturally the best, if not, it can be regarded as a release of the past suspicions and leave a good reputation for our rebels. Li Yan said.

After Li Yan finished speaking, Gao Yingdeng understood why Li Zicheng came to apologize, it turned out that he wanted to take these people for his own use. These people in Xishan Town are really powerful, if they had known, how could they rob them, they would have invited Corporal Lixian to invite them. Now that Li Zicheng has taken the lead, with this group of people joining, wouldn't Li Zicheng's power be stronger.

If you don't raise Ying Deng, he regretted it in his heart, so he heard Li Zicheng say: "What Mr. said is right, then let's go over." ”

Li Zicheng led the people straight to the mountain not far away, and before they reached the foot of the mountain, the people on the mountain had already discovered them. The sentry man hurriedly reported to Hu Ke, Hu Ke rushed to the halfway point of the mountain to take a look, he thought that the rogue could come at least a few thousand people, but he didn't expect that he would come so much, and after a little calculation, it was estimated that it would be four or five hundred.

Seeing that Liukou had such a few people coming, Hu Ke wondered in his heart, not knowing what the other party meant. Just as he was guessing, Li Zicheng's men and horses came to the bottom of the mountain, and immediately heard the minions shouting loudly: "Heroes of Xishan Town, the leader of my family, Li Zicheng, has come to worship the mountain, please come down and speak!" ”

"It turned out to be a salute before the soldiers, that's fine, Hu will go down and take a look, see what you have to say!" Hu Ke shouted halfway up the mountain, and then walked down the mountain.

The man beside him hurriedly shouted, "Brother Hu, be careful of deception." ”

"It's okay, they can't help me." After Hu Ke finished speaking, he paused slightly and continued to walk down.

Many Ding Zhuang hurriedly followed, but they didn't stop Hu Ke, telling them to just take their places and be careful in the middle of the mountain, which was enough. I can handle the following things. Ding Zhuang has always looked at him as the head of the horse, and when they saw him so ordered, they could only do it.

Hu Ke walked down the mountain and stopped when he was still fifty steps away from Li Zicheng's men. He clasped his hands into fists and said loudly: "In Xia Hu Ke, I don't know what you are waiting for?" ”

"It turned out to be Uncle Hu, the first swordsman in Guanzhong, did I say it!" As soon as Li Zicheng heard Hu Ke report to his home, he couldn't help laughing, and then urged himself to step forward, and said loudly: "No wonder my brother Gao Yingdeng was defeated, with Uncle Hu sitting here, no matter who it is, if you want to make a living here, I'm afraid you won't be able to get any cheap." ”

Hu Ke is quite famous on the green forest road, especially in Shaanxi, almost all the people in the green forest know his name. Although Li Zicheng said that he was not a Taoist before, he was just a post man, but he liked to practice martial arts, and he also knew a lot of people on the Green Forest Road, so he had heard of Hu Ke's name. However, Li Zicheng has not seen Hu Ke, but his uncle Gao Yingxiang and Hu Ke have had a relationship, Gao Yingxiang used to do business on the green forest road, and it is not uncommon to know Hu Ke, if Gao Yingxiang knows, Hu Ke is here, it is estimated that he can slap Gao Yingdeng, and then come in person.

When Gao Yingdeng heard Hu Ke's name, he was also shocked, and secretly said in his heart, he was really unlucky, he knew that Hu Ke was here, how could he rob here. It's not a shame to apologize to Hu Ke, wait a minute, and I'll go up and apologize in person.

"This brother is polite, Hu Ke is just a vain name, and he has no ability to ascend to the sky. Now that Shaanxi is in turmoil, Xishan Town is Hu's hometown, and since then, it is just to protect the land and the people and protect the rural fathers. Hu Ke said loudly.

"Brother Hu, it was really our fault that my brother came here the day before yesterday to do nonsense, and I came here today to apologize to Brother Hu." After Li Zicheng finished speaking, he turned over and dismounted, and bowed to Hu Ke.

"There's no need to apologize, Brother Li is a person who does a big business, Hu is just a pawn in the countryside, and he really can't afford Brother Li's gift. This matter has passed, according to the rules of our road, this is called no fight, no deal. In the future, if there is any use to get Hu's place, just open his mouth, Hu will definitely do his best. Hu Ke said.

"With Brother Hu's words, self-achievement is not in vain. There is a sentence that I don't know if I should say it now. Li Zicheng said with his fists clenched.

"Brother Li, but it's okay to say." Hu Ke said.

"At present, there is a great drought in Shaanxi, corrupt officials are rampant, and the people are not happy. Brother martial arts is strong, is the first hero in my Guanzhong, such a hero, how can he be buried in the mountains, self-intentioned, please brother out of the mountain, and we together to help the world, I don't know what my brother wants? Li Zicheng said proudly.

"Hu Ke is just a wild man, he has no ambitions, he just wants to protect his father, Brother Li is good, Hu has received it, but he doesn't dare to obey his fate." Hu Ke politely refused. Hu Ke has seen a lot of what the rogues have done, and he is not necessarily much better than the official army. Besides, if he joins the rogue, what will happen to the blind date parents in the family, can't they follow together, so many old and weak women and children, let them leave their hometowns, wouldn't it make them kill themselves. If you leave your fathers and fellow villagers behind and leave by yourself, then if other rogues arrive, who will protect them. Therefore, Hu Ke believes that he must not go.

Hearing that Hu Ke was unwilling to join, Gao Yingdeng was overjoyed, don't look at him admiring Hu Ke, but he also didn't want Hu Ke to join Li Zicheng's troops. If that's the case, Li Zicheng, whose strength is already strong, is bound to go to the next level, and then in the future, he will not have to look at his face to act.

Li Yan saw that Hu Ke was reluctant to follow, so he hurriedly patted his horse and stepped forward, came to Li Zicheng's side, he jumped off the horse, first bowed, and then said: "No, Li Yan has seen Brother Hu." I have heard the prestige of Brother Hu for a long time, and when I see it today, I know what it means to be famous. Brother Hu is a hero in the world, he should have great ambitions, how can he be blind, now the world is turbulent, corrupt officials are rampant, and the people are safe, although it is the husband's doing, but after all, it is only a small righteousness. It is the great righteousness to help the world and save all the people from fire and water. Why did Brother Hu sacrifice the big righteousness and take the small righteousness? ”

Hu Ke glanced at Li Yan a few times and said, "Whether it's righteousness or small righteousness, Hu Ke just wants to protect his family, and everything else doesn't do anything else." Do you have anything else, if not, forgive Hu Ke for leaving first. ”

"Slow!" Li Yan hurriedly shouted: "Brother Hu said that he just wants to protect his family, then Li Yan wants to ask more, the current chaos in Shaanxi, does Brother Hu think he can be alone, today we are gone, and when we come to the next day, either the officers and soldiers are short of food, and they come here to rob, or there are fallen grass robbers here, can Brother Hu deal with it?" As long as the war continues and the corrupt officials are not eliminated, it will be difficult for the world to be peaceful, and Brother Hu's family will not be able to be stable. Brother Hu is a dignified seven-foot man, how can he have the ambition of Gou An for a while, why don't you kill all the corrupt officials in the world with us and others, and return the people of the world to a peaceful and prosperous world? ”

"What does the world have to do with me? Hu has made up his mind, so you don't need to persuade him anymore. There is Hu in Xishan Town, who dares to go wild here, you have to ask Hu about the knife in his hand first. Speaking of this, Hu Ke pulled out the steel knife behind his back, grabbed a knife flower casually, and said: "Hu said goodbye." ”

After that, he ignored Li Zicheng and Li Yan anymore, turned around and left.

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