How could Ma Xianglin waste such a good opportunity? The white-pole gun in his hand burst out with a torrential rain of pear blossoms, slamming into Wang Er's left body. Wang Er took a deep breath and wanted to flatten his body back to dodge, but under the unstable center of gravity, this flash slowed down by half a minute, only to hear a soft pop, and the white pole gun pierced Wang Er's left shoulder, fortunately, Wang Er hurriedly jumped forward and defused most of the attack, but this shot had injured him a lot, and blood gushed out......

Wang Er was taken aback and hurriedly retreated. Ma Xianglin was unforgiving, and with a stroke of the gun, he left Wang Er's shoulder. Then he stabbed Wang Er in the chest, making it clear that he was going to assassinate him on the spot.

Wang Er's shoulder was wounded, and he was powerless to defend, and he saw that he was about to splatter blood for five steps, when another iron rod next to him stretched out, and it was Ma Xianglin's white-pole gun, which turned out to be Yingshanhong who came to help.

Wang Er hurriedly shouted: "Stupid mother-in-law, go away, you are not his opponent." ”

Where was Yingshanhong willing to give in, he took out a few sticks in a row, attacked in a round, forced Ma Xianglin away a few steps, and then turned around and picked up Wang Er and ran. It turned out that she also knew that Wang Er's martial arts were far superior, Wang Er was not an opponent, and she came up in vain, so she tried her best to fight a set of rapid attacks, and hurriedly wanted to flee with her husband on her shoulder.

Xu Renjie on the top of the mountain saw that the situation was not good, and he panicked, and hurriedly called the guards around him to go up and rob people. It turned out that he also followed Zhu Yuanzhang's example, and trained more than 30 guards around him, and he did the same. He felt that this was the style of the general, although these dozens of guards were not as strong as Ma Xiaotian and others, they were also quite good at defense, and dozens of people rushed forward together. Helping Yingshanhong block the way to retreat, the group grabbed Wang Er back, only to see that Wang Er was extremely injured, and the blood flowing from his shoulders stained half of his body.

Xu Renjie was frightened and lost his will to fight. Hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops......

It stands to reason that it is very difficult for Ming Jin to collect troops in this kind of melee, and the enemy army will let you escape easily, and it is strange not to bite your tail and chase you for more than ten miles. In fact, Ma Xianglin also thinks the same way, he can't wait to break Xu Renjie's lewd thief into pieces. Seeing that Zhu's army retreated to the other side of the hill. Naturally, he desperately chased to the top of the hill.

But as soon as he reached the top of the hill, he froze, and standing on the top of the hill he could already see the village on the other side, and it stands to reason that what he saw now should be the wreckage of a burned village. However, this is not the case. The Tujia village is intact. It wasn't burned to ashes, the black smoke was just a pile of firewood piled up outside the village.

Other words. Zhu Jun didn't really set fire to the village, they just made a fake picture of burning the village, and actually cut a lot of firewood here and deliberately disguised it as a burning village.

It took a lot more energy to do this than burning the village, and they had to prepare a large amount of firewood to camouflage the burning of the village in a very short time, so they sent a thousand soldiers to do it, otherwise, there would be an extra thousand Shaanxi soldiers on the hills. If there are so many enemies, whether Ma Xianglin can burst to the top of the mountain in the chaos and stab Wang Er, it is uncertain.

Ma Xianglin has never seen this kind of thief army, he would rather trouble himself than really hinder the livelihood of civilians, he couldn't help but lie on the top of the mountain, originally planned to order the death pursuit of the thief army, but at this time he said loudly: "Poor Kou Mo chase, hurry up and go to our Tujia village to see if anyone is injured or killed, and whether the little girls in the village have been taken away by thieves." ”

After a while, Xu Renjie withdrew with the defeated Zhu army, and Ma Xianglin led the troops into the Tujia village, only to see that the village was intact, not a single door was kicked out, and no utensils had been moved......

Not long after, the Tujia people who had fled up the mountain returned to the village, and an old village chief came to meet Ma Xianglin. Ma Xianglin hurriedly asked the old man, is there any loss in the village, how are the Tujia sisters?

As a result, the old man spoke: "Before these thieves came, they actually sent a scout to the outside of the village, and shouted that they were coming soon, and told us to avoid it quickly, and there would be a war at this time, so don't hurt us by mistake." They also told us not to worry about our belongings, and they would take good care of them. We didn't believe it at the time, but when we heard that the thieves were coming, we had no time to take away many of our possessions, so we fled them up the mountain...... Seeing the smoke here, we thought that the thieves were burning the village, and many children were crying, but we didn't expect to be bold to see it later, but we saw that the thieves had not entered the village at all, which was really incredible. ”

The old man said: "I have lived for such a long time, and it is the first time I have seen such a well-behaved Han soldier, this is more regular than the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, where is it like a thief, isn't it General Ma who made a mistake?" ”

Ma Xianglin was speechless-

Outside the Jianmen Pass, Zhu Yuanzhang sat in front of a small cliff, looking at the towering Jianmen Pass, his brows furrowed tightly. In fact, before entering Sichuan, he had thought that Jianmen Pass would be a big problem for himself, and he faintly hoped that the imperial court would make some low-level mistakes and arrange a very weak army here at Jianmen Pass, so that he could easily take down Jianmen Pass and enter the Chengdu Plain.

It's a pity that this wish has not been realized, the general arranged by the imperial court here is the famous general Zhang Ling in Sichuan, the crossbow general, this person's reputation is only a little lower than Qin Liangyu, although he is almost seventy years old, but his arms are powerful, he can open two stone hard bows, and he can hit a hundred shots, and the Sichuan soldiers under his hands are also extremely brave, which is really quite troublesome.

A few days ago, several spies of the Zhu army approached a very close place under the Jianmen Pass to peek at the situation in the pass, but they were shot by Zhang Lingzhang with a bow and arrow, one arrow at a time, and all of them were killed, so frightened that other spies in the Zhu army did not dare to approach the Jianmen Pass again.

Zhu Yuanzhang carefully looked at the Xiongguan in front of him, shook his head, and finally put his hope on Xu Renjie's side, hoping that he could smoothly go around the back of Jianmen Pass from the Yinping Ancient Road, so that he would no longer have to bother attacking this troublesome place.

When he was distracted, a guard came over and reported: "Brother Zhu, Bai Yuzhu is here with a supply team again, but this time he didn't put down the grain and grass and left. It's about seeing you. "This guard is Zhu Yuanzhang's old brother, who has followed him since the uprising, so he doesn't call him a general like other soldiers, but calls him Zhu Bugs, and has a sense of closeness.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his face showed a different color, and he said with a smile: "He wants to see me again?" Every time he wanted to see me, he brought some strange people, the first time he brought Li Jieqiong, and the second time he brought the little mute. What inexplicable things did he bring with him this time? ”

The guards laughed at what they heard. Holding back a smile, he said: "It's not a woman with him this time, at least I didn't see a woman next to him, but there are two masked weirdos, anyway...... Not a woman! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang listened. Sure enough, two masked weirdos came? That's a ...... What is good about him? He was a grain carrier. It's not a transporter. What does it mean to always bring people to yourself?

After a while, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the tent with the guards, only to see that Bai Yuzhu had been waiting here for a long time. Zhu Yuanzhang was not interested in him, but he was a little curious about who he had brought, so he turned his head to look behind him. Sure enough, there were two strange people standing there, both of them were wearing purple robes, which looked like Zhu Jun's battle robes, and their faces were covered with masked scarves.

In the Zhu army, there was always only Xu Renjie who was masked alone, but after the Zhu army occupied the whole of Shaanxi, Xu Renjie also took off the face towel, and now there are no generals in the Zhu army who like to be masked.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt a sense of calmness from these two people, the smell of blood refined by a hundred battles, it was obvious that these two people were good hands, at least they were people who crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Who are these two people?" ”

Ma Xiaotian and the guards couldn't help but take two steps forward slightly, separating them between the two and Zhu Yuan, in case they would make some unfavorable moves.

saw the two of them bow slightly and salute Zhu Yuanzhang: "General, it's us!" Big and small two Cao. ”

"Huh?" Zhu Yuanzhang heard their voices, and then he recognized that it was Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao's uncle and nephew who spoke, and he was surprised at first, and then he understood, they finally planned to follow him? So he opened his mouth and asked, "It turned out to be General Cao, who are you dressed like this?" ”

Cao Wenzhao smiled bitterly: "A few days ago, the general should have also received it and disappeared, and the Manchu Tartars detained the pass again, this time the momentum of the pass was more fierce than the previous times, although the imperial court had already sent Lu Xiangsheng to meet the ...... But...... Alas, many monsters in the court pulled Lu Gong's hind legs, it seems...... I'm the Ming Dynasty...... It's precarious. After thinking about it for a long time, we decided to go to the general's side to listen to it, and do our best to help the general pacify the world as soon as possible, and then go north to fight against the Tartars. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang had already guessed that he was going to say this, but he was not surprised, but asked lightly: "Aren't you loyal to the imperial court?" Now come and help me, a thief, how did I turn that corner in my heart? ”

After the second and second Cao glanced at each other, Cao Wenzhao turned to Zhu Yuanzhang and said seriously: "What the imperial court looks like now...... Alas, it is simply a quagmire, the emperor is suspicious and fickle, and the order is changed. All officials have their own thoughts, and they only know about party struggles. The generals are greedy and afraid of death, and they support their own troops...... The two of us have watched it for a few years, and finally came to a conclusion that the imperial court will not be able to hold on, and in a few years, the imperial court's strength will be exhausted in Liaodong, and the Manchu Tartars will definitely be able to enter the customs...... At this moment, there must be a great hero who has the responsibility and means to stand up and revitalize the mountains and rivers in order to protect our Han people from being bullied by the Tartars. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled slightly: "So, you think that I am the big hero?" ”

Cao Wenzhao shook it to the end: "Exactly!" In the past few years in Xi'an, we have seen that the people live and work in peace and contentment, the government affairs are clear, and the morale of the Zhu army is high and invincible. If the whole world is like this, if you give the Qing people a million soldiers, you will not want to enter the customs. Therefore, we have also figured out that instead of helping the imperial court of the twilight West Mountain, it is better to help you revitalize the mountains and rivers......"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little happy in his heart, and put the second Cao under house arrest in Xi'an, so that they could see the territory governed by Zhu Jun every day, and feel a different atmosphere from the imperial court every day, they could see the shortcomings of the imperial court more and more, and see the advantages of Zhu Jun.

Moreover, these two generals have a lot of experience in fighting against the Tartars, which can just make up for the lack of experience in fighting the northern nomads of the Zhu generals.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Bai Yuzhu again at this time, and felt much more pleasing to the eye. It's rare that this guy has also brought useful people to himself, if he brings any more Li Jieqiong, a little dumb and other inexplicable guys, I don't know what kind of chaos will be in this army.

I was about to praise Bai Yuzhu for a few words, but I saw Bai Yuzhu reach into his arms, take out a letter, and hand it to Zhu Yuanzhang: "General, this is a letter written to you by Ma Zhixiong, the big shopkeeper of our official rice bank, asking me to hand it over to you personally." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang heard him say solemnly, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Isn't there something wrong with Mi Xing?" He was shocked. Rice is an important strategic deployment that it uses to regulate and peacefully prepare food prices. This is a major event related to the livelihood of millions of people in Shaanxi, if there is any demon moth in Mixing, he will be unstable in the rear, and it is not good that Sichuan has not taken it. Instead, they lost Shaanxi. That's the joke.

Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly took out the letter to read it carefully. At this glance, he almost fell to the ground in anger, and it turned out that Mi Xing had nothing to do at all. This letter is just a letter of thanks, the front is full of nonsense, what to say thank Zhu Yuanzhang for helping the Ma family, and thank Zhu Yuanzhang for finding the third miss of the Ma family in Sichuan, and now the third miss has returned to Xi'an under the protection of Bai Yuzhu, which is considered safe. Ma Zhixiong wrote a full page of gratitude.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't cry or laugh: "This kind of letter also says that you must 'hand it over to me in person', it is simply a painless letter, which scares me......" He said while opening the first page, but the things on the second page surprised him, and what was written on this page was actually that Ma Zhixiong already knew that Du Shan had transferred Ma Xiaosan to Zhu Yuanzhang before he died, and Ma Zhixiong agreed very much. He expressed great anger at Miss Ma San's refusal to recognize this marriage, and said that in the name of his eldest brother, he ordered Ma Xiaosan to marry Zhu Ba, with a marriage certificate attached to it, as well as Miss Ma San's birth date.

Rao is Zhu Yuanzhang's two lives, and when he saw such a letter, he couldn't help but smile wryly, what is this? I'm fighting the world on the front line, and I'm thinking about the big things in the world, but what kind of mess are you people thinking about in the rear? Nothing to mess with.

Zhu Yuanzhang turned the first page, only to see that the third page was a small yellowed piece of paper, on which was written the birth date of Miss Ma Jiasan, the real name of the boudoir, Zhu Yuanzhang finally knew that the name of Miss Ma Jiasan was Ma Xiuling. He couldn't help but think that Queen Bigfoot's maiden name was Ma Xiuying, and the third lady's name was Ma Xiuling.

Putting down the letter, Zhu Yuanzhang's mood slowly calmed down, since it was already like this, he had no intention of changing anything, but Ma Zhixiong's actions made him a little unhappy, this guy wanted to use his sister to marry, back then he once promised Ma Xiuling to Pengcheng Zhang Douyao's son, wanting to get a solid ally for himself, and now he is marrying his sister to himself, and wants to turn himself into a "relative of the emperor", why is this person always thinking about these drill camps? Won't he use all his talents for the right thing? Could it be that if he does the rice business, he can also get his favor?

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said to Bai Yuzhu: "I have read this letter, you go back and tell Ma Zhixiong, think more serious things in your mind, it is okay to climb up through your own strength, but it is not a clever way to sell your sister to climb up." ”

Bai Yuzhu heard what he said, and a few beads of sweat suddenly fell out on his face, it turned out that he escorted Ma Xiuling back to Xi'an all the way, and he naturally knew everything about this matter, and persuaded Ma Zhixiong to give his sister to Zhu Ba also had his own idea, and in the future he wanted to take Ma Zhixiong, the "imperial relative" to form a strategic alliance, and now although Zhu Yuanzhang said Ma Zhixiong, it was as if he gave him a slap, which made Bai Yuzhu a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "The general has learned the right lesson, and the brother has to go back and scold Ma Zhixiong well, How could he, the sister of an old girl, be able to get into the eyes of Brother Zhu, and this family matter was still withdrawn for him. ”

What he didn't expect was that as soon as these words were said, Zhu Yuanzhang was unhappy again, and said angrily: "Why is Miss Ma San an old girl?" What a good girl, where did you provoke such comments? This family affair...... There's no need to retreat, so be it. ”

Bai Yuzhu snorted miserably, even if he was stupid, he could see that Eighth Brother Zhu had a good impression of Miss Ma San, he was patted on the horse's leg, and he deserved to be kicked, thinking: Ouch my mother, now I am really not a person inside and out, yes, you can eat indiscriminately in the future, and you can't talk nonsense.

Bai Yuzhu went back to Xi'an in a huff, leaving only the second Cao by Zhu Yuanzhang's side.

Zhu Yuanzhang took the marriage letter, as well as Ma Xiuling's birth date and boudoir real name, straight hair, at this moment, a soldier ran in crookedly, shouting: "General, the big thing is not good, the generalissimo leader encountered the white pole soldiers in Sichuan on the Yinping Ancient Road, the leader of the army is Qin Liangyu's son Ma Xianglin, the generalissimo leader suffered a defeat, the second brother Wang was seriously injured, and the eldest sister Yingshanhong was also slightly injured. ”

"What?" Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly asked.

The herald hurriedly talked about the battle of Yinping, and explained the process of the battle between Xu Renjie and Ma Xianglin in detail. After Zhu Yuanzhang listened carefully, he couldn't help but sigh and said: "Xu Renjie's strategy is good, he has won a strategic victory, and successfully deceived the enemy into leaving the garrison pass, but ...... Our army lost ...... in martial arts" (to be continued.) )