In late February, a group of uninvited guests came to Luochuan. This group of uninvited guests was exactly a hundred people, all of them came on horseback, and the leader was a henchman under the command of 100,000, named Pangolin. He was a rough man of about thirty-four or five years old, wearing a fish scale armor snatched from the court generals, a body of fish scales from head to toe, don't you say, it really looked like a pangolin.

When this group of people arrived at the city of Luochuan, they reported a few times with a bad attitude, saying that they were sent by 100,000 people to talk to the people in charge of Luochuan. Xu Renjie knew why they came, so he opened the city gate and let the group in, and the two sides sat down in the yamen hall and put the tea on the table, Xu Renjie said in a tone of voice: "I don't know why the pangolin brothers came to Luochuan this time?" ”

He deliberately called him "Pangolin Brother", not "Pangolin Brother", that is, he deliberately wanted to suppress him in terms of identity.

Although the pangolin was a muddy person, he also heard the meaning of Xu Renjie's words, and replied with a tooth for a tooth: "Brother Generalissimo, do you want to pretend to be confused?" A few days ago, a group of brothers in our army went out to collect food, and they were actually killed by your Luochuan villagers, don't say you don't know about this. ”

"Oh? Is there such a thing? I really don't know! "If Wang Er is here, he must admit it, and if he changes Miao Mei here, he will also admit it, even if he is replaced by Xue Hongqi, who is a woman, he also has a temper that dares to be a daring, but Xu Renjie is a hooligan, and it is natural for him to do things without admitting it.

The pangolin didn't expect him to admit it, and suddenly became half angry: "You...... You...... As a well-known leader of the rebel army, you don't even have this responsibility? ”

"What is not responsible? If I knew, I would have taken responsibility. Xu Renjie said: "Tell me, what happened?" ”

Pangolin really had never seen such an unhappy person, so he had to reluctantly tell the story: "This incident happened in Wenxi Village, and you will know the truth when you go to Wenxi Village and ask." Big brother 100,000 asked me to pass on a message. We belong to the same line of the righteous army, we should take care of each other, Xiang Yong actually bullied us, we should be the same enemy, and ask the generalissimo brother to find out this guy named Li Panlong and give us an explanation. ”

Xu Renjie pretended to listen to him carefully, and turned a deaf ear to what he said about "give an explanation", but grabbed the three words of Wenxi Village and said, "Huh? Vinxi Village? I seem to remember that this village is the territory of Luochuan, right? He turned his head and asked one of his subordinates, "Is Wenxi Village a village under our Luochuan rule, or is it under the rule of Yan'an Mansion?" ”

The subordinate said respectfully: "It's our Luochuan village." ”

Xu Renjie screamed and said, "Brother Pangolin." It's weird...... Mixed with 100,000 big brothers' men and horses to get food, how did it hit our Luochuan territory? Our Bugs Zhu and your 100,000 big brothers have had an agreement, and every grass and tree in Luochuan County belongs to our Bugs Zhu. ”

The pangolin's old face was slightly red: "That's because some of our brothers don't understand the rules...... This kind of thing happens. We originally planned to teach these brothers who don't understand the rules a hard lesson and let them apologize to Zhu Bugs, but ...... But they were killed by Xiang Yong first...... This one is a bit ......."

"What's the matter?" Xu Renjie asked.

"It's a little too much...... "The pangolin snorted, "We call ourselves righteous soldiers on the surface, but in fact, who doesn't know that we are thieves?" The thief robbed the village to collect food, which is justified, although we have crossed the line and hurt the harmony of our neighbors, but we apologize politely and accompany us. The rivers and lakes resolve the ...... But what is the Xiang Yongjun? That is the minions of the imperial court, the eagle dog, our common enemy, the generalissimo brothers...... Let's open the skylight and say something bright, this one is called Li Panlong. and the thousand townsmen he led, who must be killed. There is a village warrior in your territory, and it is also a big problem for you, right? Let's join forces and send troops to each village to search carefully. Find him and break his body into pieces. ”

It turned out that although the mixed 100,000 bandit army occupied northern Shaanxi, there were still resistance forces in various places, and there were still township warriors in many small towns and villages who were desperately resisting them, and they thought that Zhu Yuanzhang's territory also had such resistance forces, like this incident, they thought that it belonged to the local resistance forces, and they didn't know that Xu Renjie personally did it.

Xu Renjie laughed twice and said: "My territory, I can search it myself, don't worry about 100,000 big brothers, then again, you have fished over the world, didn't you just say that you want to apologize to me?" Why didn't you implement it? ”

The pangolin was dumbfounded, and apologized politely, but it was just a kind word, he really didn't think about doing it, and now Xu Renjie is chasing after this matter and asking, which makes him so embarrassed.

Xu Renjie saw that he was unwilling, and said with a smile: "Our Zhu Bugling said that if someone else gets into our territory, we don't have to be polite, and we can just get into someone else's territory...... Well...... You know what I mean? ”

The pangolin suddenly said angrily: "You threaten me? Rebelling with your head, and afraid of your threat? ”

"Of course you're not afraid of being powerful, and you're also very powerful if you want to mix up with 100,000 big brothers, so you're not afraid of us at all." Xu Renjiepi said with a smile: "But Hong Chengchou is very afraid of us, when he was surrounded by our army in Huaxian County, Hong Chengchou was so frightened that he shouted surrender, hahaha, it seems that the big brother of 100,000 is really hundreds of times more powerful than Hong Chengchou." ”

As soon as these words came out, the pangolin suddenly became stunned, thinking that Zhu Bajun took Hong Chengchou lightly, where did he dare to say half a hard word, Nuo Nuo said: "This ...... So be it...... I'll go back and cut off the heads of those bastards who have crossed the line...... As for that Li Panlong? ”

"Li Panlong's matter is my." Xu Renjie snorted: "I'm very busy, I don't have time to look for him, if you want to kill him to take revenge, send someone into Luochuan to find him, but I can explain first, Luochuan's territory is Zhu Bugling's, if anyone dares to run around on Zhu Babstar's territory, I will beat him to death if he is caught." ”

"Hey...... How can you be like that? The pangolin was furious: "You mean to shield Li Panlong?" ”

"I didn't cover him!" Xu Renjie stood up: "Didn't you tell you to look for it casually?" ”

"Then you don't allow me to enter Luochuan?"

"You can stand on the border line of Luochuan, try to stand as high as possible, see a little farther, maybe you will find it, you don't know." Xu Renjie is yin and yang.

"You bastard, I'...... I told the heroes of the world about this, saying that you are shielding the eagle dogs of the court, and see how you can stand. Pangolin said angrily.

"I will also tell the heroes of the world about your people collecting food and fishing across the border, and about the wandering in our territory, and see how you can stand." Xu Renjie snorted.

The two sides stared at each other for a while, and in the end, the pangolin lacked confidence after all, and he didn't dare to really tear his face with Zhu Ba if he was given a hundred guts, so he had to retreat with his head down.

When he walked away, Li Panlong's figure turned out in the screen behind Xu Renjie, and Li Panlong said with some surprise: "Xu Yuanwai, I didn't expect you to rather tear your face with your allies than protect me, Li is grateful." ”

"Allies?" Xu Renjie said with a smile: "The mixed 100,000 are not qualified to be the allies of our army, they can only be regarded as thieves at best, but we can be called an army." ”

Li Panlong had no objection to this sentence, and he said: "Are you really not afraid of fighting?" At this time, there is a conflict between thieves, which will give the court a chance, right? ”

Xu Renjie smiled: "When did you learn to think from the standpoint of the thief army?" Haha, I'm not afraid of fighting, it's enjoyable, and Zhu Bugs also said that if they really want to get over the territory and hurt my people, even if they give the court a chance to take advantage of it, we have to beat him for a dog day...... The safety of the people should be considered in the first place, so that they are worthy of the taxes they pay us, as for the slight advantages brought to the court by internal coaxing, we will think of overcoming them, and we must not let the people sacrifice in vain for political transactions. ”

Li Panlong was moved.

Xu Renjie continued: "Zhu Bugle also said that although the Ming Dynasty has many problems, there is one thing that is good, that is, it has backbone. For more than 200 years, the Ming Dynasty has encountered many difficulties, but it has never ceded land, no compensation, no courtiers, no harmony, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, the king dies, and a face is always guarded to death, if we Zhu Bajun want to overthrow such a court and replace it, then we must do better than the court, how can we connive at others to bully my territory and offend my people for a little profit? Whoever comes, you can beat whomever you want, and you don't have to negotiate at all. ”

Li Panlong smashed his mouth: "You are so ambitious, greed is not enough to swallow the elephant, be careful to die." ”

Xu Renjie didn't say more.

Since then, the villages in the north of Luochuan have been quiet, and there has never been any trouble with demon moths, and as long as the 100,000 people reach the border line of Luochuan, they will be cautious, for fear of stepping across the boundary. They tortured, oppressed good people, and maimed the people in various places under the rule of Yan'an Prefecture. Xu Renjie was fierce and ruthless to his 100,000 subordinates, but he was very amiable to these people, he took in all the people who escaped, allocated them houses and fields, and provided them with taro for farming.

The population of Luochuan is growing rapidly, while the population of northern Shaanxi is constantly decreasing, and it has been absorbed into southern Shaanxi by Zhu Yuanzhang's army. Mixed 100,000, Hengtian King, and Cupola Pillar are all helpless against such a strong appearance. They didn't dare to turn their faces to Zhu Yuanzhang to get back these lost people, in fact, even if they brought these people back, they couldn't support them, and it was useless. I had to open one eye and close one eye.

Zhu Jun's power was expanding rapidly, and no one could stop it. (To be continued.) )