"How not? Brother Wang Jiayin was bombarded to the west of the mountain for this reason, but he didn't expect that Zhang Cunmeng had not learned to be obedient without getting mud. Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "If you want to unite, you can only unite one or two rebels quietly, and you must not play so big......"

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang mention the union again, Xue Hongqi's heart instinctively became vigilant. She is not an ambitious leader, she doesn't want to do anything like she doesn't get muddy, and she doesn't want to ride on top of others, but she is also a person who likes freedom and is unrestrained, and she doesn't want to ride a person on her head...... Although the other party is the famous Baishui Zhuba, she doesn't want to be his subordinate.

Xue Hongqi's face changed slightly!

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were so sharp, he immediately caught her subtle reaction, his tone changed, and he smiled: "But my temple is a bit small, and it may not be able to accommodate a heroine like you, so forget about the joint venture." ”

"Whew" Xue Hongqi breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang followed up and launched a psychological offensive: "Sister Xue Hongqi, where are you going next?" ”

"I didn't think about it, wandering around!" Xue Hongqi smiled: "We are horse thieves, and we have long been used to it on horseback." ”

"But you are no longer a petty horse thief leader, and in addition to your two hundred or so brothers who come and go like the wind, you have thousands of men who depend on you for food." Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the more than 4,000 rogues led by a city and a cloud.

These rogues are not Xue Hongqi's henchmen, speaking of their joining, there is also quite a drama: a few days ago, Xue Hongqi, who likes to be free, took the horse thief to pass by Yuhechuan, and happened to encounter the local poor uprising and trouble, the reason is simple, spring is coming, and the government posted a notice to levy spring taxes, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the people of Yuhechuan, and a large number of unorganized and undisciplined poor people jumped out and tossed around.

Interestingly, none of the more than 2,000 poor people dared to take the lead.

In other words, the risk of an ordinary miscellaneous soldier uprising was not too great, except for Hong Chengchou, Du Wenhuan and other more ruthless officials who would kill the rebel army without leaving a piece of armor, most of the court officials would only kill the leader of the rebellion, and then dismiss the ordinary miscellaneous soldiers back to their hometowns.

With this premise here, there is a lack of heroes like Wang Er and Zhu Ba among the troublemakers, so there is a situation where the dragons have no leader, just at this time Xue Hongqi crossed the border with horse thieves, so more than 2,000 troublemakers stuck to Xue Hongqi like kraft candy, saying that she should be their leader.

If Xue Hongqi had been a little smarter, she would not have taken over more than 2,000 burdens, but she was not smart enough, not to mention taking over this group of guys who used her as a shield, but also according to the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, seeking a way to live for more than 2,000 people. With so many people to eat, it is impossible to do without money. So Xue Hongqi led them to attack Anding City, and it happened that the poor people in Anding City were also competing with the rich people to make trouble, so he became Xue Hongqi's internal response and broke the city in one fell swoop......

After the city was broken, she only grabbed more than 500 taels of silver in the county warehouse, and she wanted to rob a few rich people to rob the rich and help the poor. But the rich people in the city are not fools, they relied on the protection of the village warriors to escape before the city was broken, and not a single ingot of silver was left for Xue Hongqi.

Xue Hongqi didn't make much money, but more than a thousand poor people in the city joined her army, which made the burden even heavier. Well, although the burden is heavy, if there is a city to rely on, take advantage of the spring to plant some land, and in the autumn can harvest some food, but this territory is not so easy to occupy, Yansui general soldier Wang Chengen soon rushed to regain stability, although the number of Xue Hongqi's army has changed from more than two hundred to more than four thousand, the combat effectiveness has not necessarily improved much, I heard that Wang Chengen is coming, more than 4,000 miscellaneous soldiers are shouting to escape, she has no choice but to abandon Anding City, move south, and then I heard that the monkey robbed a large amount of money, This was tantamount to a lifesaver for Xue Hongqi, who was in embarrassment, and she ran to snatch the money of the monkey in a hurry......

In short, she is having a very difficult time now, Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the thousands of mouths to eat, and suddenly Xue Hongqi was so worried that she couldn't do it, and her heroic face was covered with a shadow, and she couldn't stretch it.

Seeing her expression become like this, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that there was a play, and said seriously: "Sister Xue Hongqi, how easy is it for you to wander around with so many mouths to eat?" Although we can't do it together, it's still good to be neighbors next to each other, so we might as well build a county town on the edge of my territory, take root, and we will take care of each other. ”

This remark made Xue Hongqi quite moved, yes, although I don't want to join Baishui Zhu Ba's men, but if I am on a turf with him, it is not bad to be a neighbor, if the officers and soldiers beat me, he will help me, and if the officers and soldiers beat him, I will help him, without the need for joint ventures, the combat effectiveness of the two can be gathered, which is also a good means of survival.

Thinking of this, her heart burned: "Little sister wants to ask Eighth Brother Zhu, is there any county near here that is suitable for little sister to occupy?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled slightly: "Walking south from the Chengcheng city I occupy, there is a city called Dali, I think it is quite suitable for you." ”

"Da Li?" Xu Renjie, who was standing behind Zhu Yuanzhang, thought about it: the location is south of Chengcheng, west of the Yellow River, and north of Tongguan...... It is no exaggeration to say that that city is the south gate of Chengcheng, and Zhu Bugs threw Xue Hongqi to help us guard the door.

It is true that she is guarding the south gate, but Zhu Yuanzhang said that it is not the same at all, he smiled kindly: "The east of Dali is the Yellow River, it is impossible for officers and soldiers to attack from the east, the north is the Chengcheng I occupy, I can help you defend the north, you only need to hold the west and the south, so it is easy to take root." ”

Obviously, he asked his family to help him guard the south gate, but when it came to Zhu Bugs's mouth, it became his own help to guard the north gate. Originally...... You can say it in a different direction. In fact, there is no need to defend the north at all, because the north of Chengcheng is the Huanglong Mountain Range, and it is impossible for officers and soldiers to come from the north, the east is the Yellow River, the west is Baishui, and if there is another Xue Hongqi in the south, Chengcheng will be safe on all sides......

Xu Renjie has mountains and rivers in his chest, and when he heard it, he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was coaxing the blind to jump off the cliff, but Xue Hongqi was not so smart, she didn't have a geographical map of mountains and rivers in her mind at all, what Chengcheng, Baishui, Dali, she couldn't figure out where it was, and she couldn't tell the difference between north and south, east and west, so it was natural that she didn't know that Zhu Yuanzhang was fooling her.

On the contrary, she was moved by Zhu Yuanzhang's sentence "Help you guard the north", clasped her hands into fists, and said gratefully: "It's really worthy of Baishui Zhu's eighth brother, if it's really righteous Bo Yuntian, my little sister listens to you, so I'll go and get Dali, and we will be good neighbors in the future." You helped me defend the north, and of course I will help you defend the south! ”

"Good! A gentleman's word! ”

"Whip the horse!"

When Xu Renjie heard this, he felt that Xue Hongqi was stupid, he shook his head and sighed twice, sighing for the sake of this stupid woman.

How did Xue Hongqi know what was on his mind, seeing that his expression was strange, he suddenly made a mistake, and snorted coldly: "Generalissimo Leader, what are you doing here?" Do you think I can't keep the south side? Don't look down on people too much! ”

Xu Renjie spread his hands: "No...... I think you'll be able to defend the south side! There's no one better than you to guard the south side. ”

"Hey, this time you're talking to each other." Xue Hongqi squeezed his fist at Xu Renjie.

"Oh my God, I can't stand it!" Xu Renjie quietly retreated to Zhu Yuanzhang's side, biting his ear and saying with a wry smile: "Brother Zhu, can such a stupid woman really attack Dali?" Since we made a fuss in Baishui and Chengcheng, the government has strengthened the defenses of the surrounding cities, right? With her rabble, it will be difficult to take down the city that the officers and soldiers are on full guard. ”

"It's because she feels that it's difficult, and she will rely on us in the future! Slowly it will be used for us. Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "Let her suffer a loss and hit the wall first, and then you can help her, a small city like Dali will be handed over to you." ”

"Wow? Let me command the siege? That's great! I'm going! Xu Renjie was overjoyed, and the corners of his mouth grinned to his ears.

"But the premise is that she is beaten back by Da Li first...... Hold your horses! Zhu Yuanzhang patted him on the shoulder: "There will be more battles you have to fight in the future, while the scale of the current war is not large, it is true to learn more." ”

The two of them are whispering here, but Xue Hongqi over there is already impatient, she is the kind of straightforward and heroic woman, since she has set the goal of attacking Dali, she can't wait to fly to Dali City within a day, and immediately take that city as her own, I really don't want to delay for a minute.

"Eighth Brother Zhu, then ...... Could you please show me the way, how can Dali go? ”

It's not clear to the south, east and west, you don't know where Dali is, so you really want to go? Woman! Feed! Anyway, you can also ask how many officers and soldiers there are there, and how many feet of the city wall is...... Xu Renjie was sweating profusely, is it so unreliable to run the rivers and lakes to be a horse thief?

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled faintly: "Don't worry, Dali is not close, we are now located in Luochuan, we have to cross Luochuan to Baishui first, and then cross Baishui to enter Chengcheng, and then go south from Chengcheng to Dali, these places are my territory, let me take you on a trip, I hope you can restrain your subordinates along the way, don't mess around in my territory." ”

Xue Hongqi clenched his fists with both hands, and said with a full flavor of the rivers and lakes: "Brother Zhu, don't worry, the little sister understands the rules of the rivers and lakes, whose mountains are whose water, and who opens the road and who buys the road money...... There are rules for this, and the little sister will never dare to make trouble on your turf. ”

(To be continued)