Deputy Director Tuo Tao promised in public that he would be fulfilled, and the poor General Huang was finally able to return to the Jingzhou army in disgrace, and together with Chen Yi, he led the remnants of the defeated army to return to his own camp. However, things have come to this point, and General Huang, who has lost all face, does not say that he will compete with the Xuzhou army for the ownership of Anhui County, that is, Deputy Director Tao temporarily decided to give up Anhui County when his head entered the water, and the little power in General Huang's hand did not think about breaking through Anhui County to kill people and seize food, so there was no need for Deputy Director Tao to ask, General Huang himself chose to withdraw the camp and withdraw the army, retreat thirty miles to the village, and wait for the choice of Liu Pan, the commander of the Jingzhou Army.

At the same time that the Jingzhou army pulled out the camp and retreated, Xu Chu and Cao also led the Xuzhou infantry to the battlefield to meet with Deputy Director Tao. And in this way, Li Shu, who has a ghost in his heart, is also in a dilemma, he wants to open the city and surrender according to the agreement of the surrender letter, and is afraid that the Xuzhou army will find out through his fraudulent surrender and his life will not be guaranteed; Break your promise and refuse to surrender Kaicheng, but the gate valve giants in Anhui County will not agree, and they are in a dilemma, and it is difficult to decide.

No matter how to enter and retreat the dilemma must also be decided, considering that the Xuzhou army has been in the city, the huge families in the city of Anhui County are all focused on the Xuzhou army, Li Shu, who has no strength to defend Anhui County, hesitated again and again, and finally fulfilled the agreement, and led the defenders in the city to lay down their arms and surrender the next morning, Deputy Director Tao assigned his cousin Tao Ji to come forward to accept the surrender of Li Shujun, and treated Li Shu very well, and the surname Cao led 5,000 infantry into the city to take over the city defense, Zhang Bang and the people, and then rewarded the soldiers of the surrendered army Jin Bao, And on the same day, Li Shu was reorganized and surrendered, willing to continue to serve in the army, unwilling to be rewarded to the peasants, and took the opportunity to dismiss most of the 4,000 local township soldiers brought by Li Shu, Li Shu panicked in his heart, but he did not dare to show fear.

In the evening of the same day, Tao Ji came forward to invite Li Shu and other generals to the camp of the Chinese army in Xuzhou to drink and feast, Li Shu saw that there were generals to accompany him, but he was not too worried, and honestly invited to the banquet, and Tao Ji did not play any tricks in the banquet field, in addition to the hospitality of Li Shu and other Anhui County generals, but also on behalf of Deputy Director Tao to Li Shu and others kind words of comfort, promised to re-reward, and also took out the gold, silver and satin on the spot to reward all the generals except Li Shu, Anhui County generals are all happy, Li Shu saw Tao Ji reward everyone but not himself, It was inevitable that there was some hesitation in his heart, but fortunately, Tao Ji immediately smiled at Li Shu and said: "General Botai must be very strange, why did he reward the generals of Anhui County for his brother, but he didn't reward General Botai alone?" Can General Botai know why? ”

"I don't dare to speculate." Li Shu replied very decently, and said with a smile: "The people of Anhui County welcomed the Xuzhou army, but it was because the Jingzhou army was brutal and unkind, poisoned the people of Lujiang, and acted for the self-protection of thousands of lives and tricks in Anhui County, and did not dare to covet the reward of the Tao envoy. ”

"General Botai is really modest, no wonder my brother is always full of praise for General Botai and looks the other way." Tao Ji, who had already learned a few acting skills from his cousin, applauded and laughed, stood up again and said with a smile: "Don't hide it from General Botai, in fact, my brother also has a heavy reward for the general, but this reward is too expensive to show in public. ”

"Too precious? Inconvenient to show in public? Li Shu was curious and greedy, and quickly got up with Tao Ji, and entered the back account hand in hand with Tao Ji in the envious eyes of the Anhui County generals.

Contrary to the drums and the loud noise, the back tent of the single reading tent was surprisingly quiet, although the tent was also full of lights, there were only three people drinking and talking in the tent, a young man with a greasy head and a pink face sat in the middle, and two strong men sat opposite each other on both sides, one was born tall and fat with a big waist and ten girths, and the other was born with a face like a heavy jujube and was unusually strong. Seeing Tao Ji leading Li Shu in, the oily-haired young man first smiled politely at Li Shu, revealing a mouthful of snowy fangs, and then said, "General Botai, we have finally met." ”

"General Taoki, this is ......." Li Shu asked Tao Ji in confusion.

"Tell General Boyang." Tao Ji stretched out his hand to the oily noodles, and said with a smile: "This is our Xuzhou Thorn History, Zuo General Tao Ying, and also the cousin and lord of the lower ranks." ”

"You're the Tao Envoy?" Li Shu's surprise was not trivial, and he hurriedly knelt down on one knee in front of Tao Ying and saluted, and said respectfully: "Li Shu, the general of Anhui County, meet Tao Envoy." ”

Tao Ying smiled gently at Li Shu again, but suddenly shouted in his mouth: "Take it!" ”

Tao Ying's voice did not fall, and before Li Shu could react, the two strong men on Tao Ying's left and right had already jumped up, one left and one right pounced on Li Shu, each stretched out one hand and pressed Li Shu's shoulders, Li Shu only felt that two huge forces were pressed like an overwhelming sea, and he was immediately pressed to his knees, and then his hands were also picked up by the two strong men left and right and lost their ability to resist, Li Shu was shocked and screamed: "Envoy, what is the crime of Shu?" Why did you take me? ”

"What are your sins?" Tao Yingqing's delicate face showed a cruel smile, and he sneered and said: "Yuan Shupifu used Anhui County as bait to make the two tigers compete for food, and arranged for you to deliberately surrender and induce our army and Jingzhou Army to turn their faces and start a war under Anhui County. ”

"Wronged! There is no ...... under it. ”

Li Shu shouted loudly, but before he finished shouting, Xu Chu's big fan hand next to him had already covered his mouth, so as to avoid Li Shu's screams from alarming the generals of the former Anhui County, Tao Ying sneered and said: "Wronged? Yuan Shupifu and your wishful thinking, you think I don't know? Yuan Shupifu asked you to come forward to surrender for two purposes, one is to induce our army to go to war with the Jingzhou army, and the other is to let you take the opportunity to blend in with our army and take things from it; As for you, you don't dare to disobey Yuan Shu's orders, and you don't have the courage to confront our army by force, and you are even more afraid that the giant gate lord in Anhui County, who is committed to our army, will be embarrassed by you, and open the city gate to welcome our army into the city, causing our army to kill your whole family after entering the city. Say it yourself, yes or no?! ”

The sweat on Li Shu's forehead began to drip, but Li Shu was also a smart person, seeing that Yuan Shu's arrangement and his own scheming had been fully recognized by Tao Ying, he knew that if he denied it, he would definitely not be able to protect his head - no matter how stupid Tao Ying was, he would definitely not leave himself as a dangerous element. So after hesitating again and again, Li Shu obediently chose to honestly admit his guilt, and kowtowed to Tao Ying again and again: "Make Jun aware of everything, this is indeed the case, but the sin will also be forced, the sin will be Yuan Shu's subordinates, he arranged for the sin to do this great rebellious thing, although the sin is unwilling in his heart, but he does not dare to disobey, beg the envoy to see that the sin will sacrifice the city for the meritorious sake, spare the sin will be a life, spare the sin will be a life." ”

"For the sake of your honest confession, of course there is no problem in sparing your life." Tao Ying changed his relaxed smile and said with a smile: "As long as you honestly explain your accomplices, there is also the purpose of Yuan Shupifu asking you to infiltrate our army." ”

"No, no, the sin will be honestly confessed." Li Shu kowtowed and replied: "Yuan Shu asked the criminal general to infiltrate the Xuzhou army first, deceive the envoy into trusting the criminal general, and then wait for his order to act." As for the accomplices of the criminal general, the criminal general lost his head for fear of leaking the news, so he did not dare to let the generals under his command know about it beforehand, only the two messengers sent by Yuan Shupifu knew about it, and they were currently mixed in the army as the criminal general's own soldiers, and their names were ....... ”

Kowtowing, Li Shu honestly explained the names and identities of the two messengers sent by Xiao Yuan Sangong, and Tao Ying couldn't help but smile after hearing it, and said: "It seems that Yuan Shu's confidence in you is not very strong, and even a few deputies are reluctant to arrange for you, I'm afraid the old puppet doesn't dare to expect you to succeed." Oh, by the way, what reward did Yuan Shu promise to give you? ”

"Yuan Shupifu promised that after the deed is completed, the guilty will be General Yanglie, with a reward of 1,000 taels of gold and silver, and the leader of Lujiang." Li Shu replied.

"I will show you as General Yangwu, with a bounty of two thousand taels of gold and silver, and a hundred pearls." Tao Ying said without blinking his eyelids: "Besides, how about sealing you as the Taishou of Lujiang?" General Li Shu, are you willing to surrender to me sincerely? ”

"Lujiang is too guarded? Envoy, do you want to seal the crime for Lujiang Taishou? Li Shu's mouth opened wide in disbelief, until Tao Ying smiled and nodded to confirm, Li Shu finally came back to his senses, and quickly kowtowed to Tao Ying again and again, expressing his loyalty: "Sin will be willing to surrender to the lord sincerely, willing to surrender to the lord sincerely, go to the soup for the lord, go to the knife mountain and the oil pot, and serve the work of dogs and horses." ”

"Good." Tao Ying nodded with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "But there is no need for you to go to the soup, as long as you continue to pretend to be loyal to Yuan Shu for the time being, act as an internal response for Yuan Shu, and maintain secret contact with Yuan Shu." How's that, got it? Lujiang Li Taishou? ”

"Understood!" Li Shu nodded vigorously very smartly.

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After the hidden danger of Li Shu was settled and the troops were successfully reorganized and surrendered, Deputy Director Tao, who was worried about the war in Shucheng, wanted to immediately lead the army back to Shu County, but the scout Tanma suddenly came to report that Liu Pan personally led an army of 6,000 from Zongyang and had already joined Huang Jie's team 30 miles away from Anhui County, and Tao Ying had to change his plan and send Song Kai to envoy the Jingzhou army to negotiate with Liu Pan again, and still expressed his willingness to give half of the money and grain of Anhui County in exchange for friendly relations with the Jingzhou army, so as to avoid further expansion of the conflict -- fortunately, the distance was not far. Not much time is wasted.

Song Kai was sent out, the city defense was in charge of the surname Cao, and Wei Yan was staring at the Danyang soldiers in the army, and even the reception of the gate lords of the Shi clan in Anhui County was picked up by Tao Ji - Tao Ying also wanted Tao Ji to accumulate some experience in this area so that he could stand alone in the future, so it was rare for our busy deputy director Tao to have some free time to rest. However, some people always like to be cheap, they want to rest when they work, and they miss work when they rest, and our deputy director Tao is unfortunately such a person, who is only idle in the barracks for a morning and shouts that he is bored, and wants to find something to pass the time.

"Since the lord is bored, then we might as well go into the city and take a stroll." Xu Chu, the former lieutenant in charge of Tao Ying's security, suggested, "I heard that Anhui County is one of the few big cities in Lujiang, and the market is quite prosperous. ”

Deputy Director Tao, who is accustomed to seeing high-rise buildings, is actually not much interested in the streets and markets of this era, but considering that he will soon rule Lujiang, it is not bad to understand the local customs and folklore, so Deputy Director Tao nodded after a little calculation, and ordered: "Okay, go into the city for a walk, but don't wear military uniforms, change into civilian clothes, and bring thirty guards to protect secretly, don't disturb the people." ”

Xu Chu agreed, and quickly arranged for thirty of the best guards to change into civilian clothes with him, dressed as ordinary people and followed Tao Ying into the city, Tao Ying also changed into a Confucian shirt, wore a curtain to cover the short hair on his head, and took a roll of bamboo slips to decorate the façade, carried a long sword, dressed up as an unscrupulous literati who traveled around all day long, did not do business, and liked to flirt with folk girls, led Xu Chu and others out of the camp from the side door, and swaggered into the city of Anhui County - the conscience of heaven and earth, Our Deputy Director Tao really just wants to understand the customs and folklore of Anhui County, and there are no other evil and bad purposes.

To the disappointment of Deputy Director Tao, because of the war that had just been experienced and may continue, the market in Anhui County was very depressed, most of the shops on both sides of the road were closed, and there were not even a few passers-by on the street except for the Xuzhou soldiers who patrolled back and forth.

Fortunately, it is probably the reason why Anhui County is quite rich, the successive Anhui County guards have spent some money and grain on the city defense of Anhui County, and built the city defense of Anhui County quite strongly, the height and solidity of the city wall have exceeded the Lujiang County Zhishu City, Deputy Director Tao nodded, and it was inevitable that such an idea was born, whether to move the county governance of Lujiang County to this Anhui County? Moreover, Anhui County also has the advantage of Anhui water, which can be directly connected to the Yangtze River to facilitate the development of the water army, but considering that the Xuzhou water army has just begun to be built, and Anhui County is located in a relatively remote area that is difficult to control, Deputy Director Tao temporarily dispelled this idea.

From the east gate all the way counterclockwise to the north of the city, Deputy Director Tao, who felt more and more bored, was about to go out of the city and return to the camp to sleep, but there was a noise on a street in the north of the city, Deputy Director Tao was worried that it was the Xuzhou soldiers who clashed with the people in the city when they patrolled the city, so he walked into the street, and led Xu Chu and others all the way to the scene. When he checked the situation again, Deputy Director Tao was relieved, it turned out that the noise here was not caused by the soldiers in Xuzhou, but a group of people who looked like family members were arguing with another group of people in front of a house, and the two groups of people led by family members were a rich son and a middle-aged rich man.

The content of the dispute between the rich man and the middle-aged rich man seems to be for marriage, the rich man's entourage Ding Ti has a wild goose, which looks like he wants to accept the color to propose marriage, and the middle-aged rich man leads the family to guard the door, saying that he will not allow the rich man and his party to enter the door, and the middle-aged rich man keeps saying nonsense such as refusing to climb high, and seems to refuse to agree to the family affairs, and the rich man with oily hair and face full of silver evil pesters the middle-aged rich man, and keeps calling him uncle, A hippie smiley man begs a middle-aged rich man to accept a gift.

This kind of trivial matter should not have attracted Tao Ying's attention, but the rich man's words made Tao Ying, who was extremely bored, interested, and the oily rich boy said so, "Uncle, the little nephew is sincere in coming to the door to ask for marriage, no matter how good the uncle you give the daughter to the little nephew, the little nephew only asks to marry one of your daughters, only one of your daughters." ”

"Whatever you marry? Is there anyone else in the world who proposes such a marriage? ”

Tao Ying was amused when he heard it, and was about to step forward to ask about the situation, when a wave of splash suddenly flew out from behind the middle-aged rich man, drenching the oily rich boy all over his body, and then, a crisp and beautiful girl's voice sounded, "The surname is Li, if you still want to have a face, get out of me immediately!" I want this girl to marry you, dream! If you don't roll again, this girl will have to wash her feet and serve her! ”

"Miss Wan'er, we finally meet again." The rich boy was not angry because he was drenched in the autumn wind, and he was like Deputy Director Tao with a smile on his face, and said with a hippie smile at the back of the middle-aged rich man: "Miss Wan'er, don't be so ruthless, I don't deserve you that point?" Our two families are a good match, and they are a natural pair....... Yes! Pretty girl! ”

Speaking of this, the rich boy became as excited as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and shouted loudly: "Girl Liang'er, you have come just in time, I have good news for you, my father is about to be promoted!" Xuzhou's Tao envoy Jun has already agreed, just waiting for the Xuzhou army to take Lujiang, my father is too guarded by Lujiang, and the entire Lujiang is also my father's final say. ”

"Lujiang Taishou?!" Tao Ying was stunned at first, and then immediately came to his senses - this rich boy is Li Shu's baby only son, Li Guan! Then Deputy Director Tao couldn't help but have a feeling of elevated blood pressure, and scolded in his heart, "Good for your mother's Li Shu, Lao Tzu secretly named you Lujiang Taishou, is planning to let you set Yuan Shu, you fucking dare to expose this matter?" And let your stupid son go around? If Yuan Shu's meticulous work hears it carefully and stabs Yuan Shu, if it doesn't work, Lao Tzu will have to suffer a big loss in turn! ”

The more exciting Tao Ying was still behind, and the rich boy shook off the Xuzhou military plane in public, and even threatened the middle-aged rich man with a smile: "Uncle, did you hear what you said just now?" Tao Zhijun appreciates my father very much, and now the city of Anhui County is full of Tao Yuanjun's Xuzhou army, if my father shakes out the collusion between you and the Yuan Shu thief army or ......the Jingzhou thief army, hehe. ”

"Li Gongzi, you ......, don't talk nonsense." The middle-aged rich man obviously had a weak temper, and when he was frightened by that Li Gongzi, his face turned a little pale, and he hurriedly distinguished: "Li Gongzi, please be cautious, you are just a cold man, no official and no position, how can you collude with the thief army?" ”

"It could be." That Li Gongzi smiled as fiercely as Deputy Director Tao when he ordered the demolition, and said: "The last time the Jingzhou thief army attacked Anhui County, I heard that there was Jingzhou Annihilation in Anhui County who tried to open the city gate to welcome the Jingzhou thief army into the city, and my father has been investigating this matter and found that this matter seems to be related to some people in your family, uncle...... ”

"Whew." There was another wind sound, but this time it was no longer a splash that flew out of the door - it was simply a wooden basin, and it just smashed on the hideous smiling face of Li Gongzi, and then the pungent girl's voice sounded again, "Li Guan!" You shameless dog, you want to frame and frame my family, you ....... ”

The spicy girl couldn't scold anymore when she scolded here, because Li Gongzi had already covered his little face and howled like a pig, and blood was still flowing from the palms and fingers covering his little face, which frightened the more than 20 followers brought by Li Gongzi and shouted for a while, and the middle-aged rich man was also frightened and pale, and hurriedly asked Li Gongzi: "Li Gongzi, Li Gongzi, how are you?" Didn't hit it there, did it? ”

"Didn't hit there?!" That Li Gongzi howled like a wounded beast, and when he let go of his hand, not only was his hands covered with blood, but the lower half of his face was also covered with blood, which looked very miserable and terrifying, and he howled madly: "Lao Tzu's nose is broken, his nose is broken!" Surnamed Qiao, we are not done with today's business! ”

"Childe, childe, it's the little girl who is rude, please forgive the child, please forgive the son." The middle-aged rich man was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and he ordered repeatedly: "Quick, quickly send someone to invite Langzhong." ”

"It's not as simple as inviting Langzhong!" Li Gongzi, whose nose was smashed and bleeding, took the opportunity to roar: "Come on, take down this surnamed Qiao for me, send it to General Cao, and then tie up his two daughters!" ”

"No!" The entourage brought by Li Gongzi suddenly agreed, and his expression was excited to hold down the middle-aged rich man first, and then rushed into the door even more excitedly, five or six housekeepers in the middle-aged rich man's house blocked him, and immediately received a lot of punches and kicks from them, and several of the housekeepers brought by Li Gongzi also simply pulled out their waist knives, and the situation expanded instantly, and the girl's screams suddenly sounded in the door.

Seeing this, Deputy Director Tao really couldn't stand it, and patted Xu Chu, who was also full of anger next to him, and pointed at the Li Gongzi and ordered: "Go, knock out a few of his teeth, and drive his people away, but don't reveal your identity, and don't ask for their lives, I want to see if he Li Shu is qualified to serve as the Taishou of Lujiang." ”

Xu Chu didn't speak, nodded vigorously and then strode forward, quickly rushed to the face of Li Gongzi who was covered with blood, and without saying a word, he picked up a fist the size of a vinegar jar and punched Li Gongzi's mouth hard, and the dull sound of flesh and skin impact sounded, and the unlucky Li Gongzi suddenly flew backwards in volley, and blood and a few yellowish teeth also spurted out of the unlucky Li Gongzi's mouth at the same time............ "Who ...... and hit me?" Who dares to ...... and hit me? I'm ......, my dad is Li Shu! My dad is Li Shu!! ”

(To be continued)