It's as if between heaven and earth, only you and I are left.

Dai Yingying leaned on Xu Liang's shoulder, and her heart gradually became steady.

At that moment just now, when the leader of the thieves, Wang Hu, raised his head, Dai Yingying felt that her heart was about to stop beating, and it was at that moment that she really felt that she cared so much about the man who copied the knife and fought the enemy.

All along, in her heart, although Xu Liang was born as a scholar, he was not as elegant as those righteous gentlemen she thought in her heart, he was a little shameless, he clinged to the powerful, recognized a fat official surnamed Huang as an uncle, tried his best to please, stammered, and sent money and things to other people's families from time to time; He was also greedy for money, and after Jianchang convicted the Tan brothers, he wantonly embezzled the family property, knowing that the officials of the Ming Dynasty could not do business, and the family still wanted to run a Liang Ji with a good business; He was also very timid, very afraid of death, and regarded his life as more important than anything else, going in and out of the guards, saying that he had moved his father Dai Feng with rhetoric, and deceived himself into being a guard for him for more than a month; Although he was a literati, he had no literary appearance at all, spoke straightforwardly, used vulgar words, and wrote extremely ugly handwriting, twisting like a dog......

is such a person, no matter what, he can't match the image of a man's husband in Dai Yingying's heart. Originally, after being a guard for a month, she had nothing to do with her, but when she heard that he was going to Shaanxi Zhenyuan as an official, she said to her father Dai Feng that Shaanxi was far away, and strong people were rampant, and it was really unsafe, so she followed her to Zhenyuan in such a nonsense way.

In fact, at this time, Dai Yingying's heart was already a little concerned about Xu Liang, but she knew that Xu Liang had a new wife, and she claimed to be a female middle school, and she categorically had no reason to be small with others, so she deliberately kept a distance from Xu Liang along the way.

Then I didn't expect Xu Liang to propose to worship herself as a teacher with Huang Ziren and others, but others were fine, how could she be Xu Liang's master? If she becomes a master, when the two meet in the future, Xu Liang will be a disciple again, how will she deal with herself?

And just now, she and Wan Zong killed the enemy side by side, and when she turned around and saw Xu Liang carrying a steel knife and actually rushing to the front, slashing with the tall and strong thief leader, her heart was in her throat, and then she was terrified, she didn't know how she would feel if Xu Liang was injured or died? How should I face the profound words of Mrs. Xu in the city: "Miss Dai, the princess will be handed over to you......"

Leaning on Xu Liang's shoulder and feeling Xu Liang's breath, Dai Yingying secretly decided that as long as he could watch him at all times and be small, he would be small again.

Xu Liang naturally didn't know what Dai Yingying was thinking, and felt that Dai Yingying's body was shaking, so he patted her gently. After a while, Huang Xiancheng, Director He, Wan and others surrounded him, and Huang Xiancheng coughed lightly and said, "My lord." ”

Dai Yingying came to her senses when she heard this, and immediately left Xu Liang and walked aside with a red face.

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

"Now that the thieves have retreated, the gates should be open." Huangxian Cheng Road.

Xu Liang looked at the sky, shook his head and said: "It's going to be dark now, it's not clear whether the thieves really retreated, you wait to rescue the wounded first, tidy up the defense, the city gate is closed first, and then tomorrow to see if you send people out of the city to clear the truth." ”

Huang Xiancheng nodded yes, arched his hand, and went down to arrange for someone to treat the wounded.

Wan always pointed to the wounded and wailing thief soldiers in the city and asked, "My lord, there are still many injured thief soldiers in the city, how should we deal with them?" ”

Xu Liang snorted coldly and said, "Whether the enemy is dead or not, what does it have to do with me." Dry it overnight, and wait for tomorrow to make a decision. ”

At that moment, Wan General led people to rearrange the defense of the city, Huang Xiancheng and He and others gathered the Ming soldiers who died in the battle and rescued the wounded, Huang Ziren and Mao Yujie also came from the direction of the north city gate to report the battle situation to Xu Liangyu.

The north gate is not the main battlefield for the thieves to attack, although there are also confrontations, but most of them are harassment, and the two sides shoot at each other for a while above and below the city, and they damage each other.

Huang Ziren was wearing the battle armor that was taken off from the bronze man of King Han's Courtyard, looking majestic, and when he saw that Xu Liang's body was covered with blood, and the official robe on his body was almost broken into strips of cloth, he couldn't help but turn pale with shock, and stepped forward to take a closer look, and saw that Xu Liang was not seriously injured, so he was relieved.

The group returned to the backyard of Zhenyuan County, Feng Suqin saw Xu Liang's appearance, frightened, wiped her tears and arranged for her subordinates to dare to boil water to bathe Xu Liang, and when they heard about the scene of Dai Yingying saving Xu Liang, they quietly pulled Dai Yingying to the side and said something, and when Xu Liang changed his clothes and came out, he felt that Dai Yingying's face seemed to be a little different.

That night, the defense of Zhenyuan City was still tight, and countless wounded rogue soldiers under the city wailed all night.

Early the next morning, the soldiers guarding the city found that a team appeared in the distance, and hurried towards the original city, and after ringing the bell to warn, when the team got closer, they recognized that the Ming army led by Hong Chengchou, the prefect of Pingliang, had arrived. The little school at the head of the city hurriedly ran to report to the county magistrate.

Hong Zhifu brought a total of more than 500 Ming troops around him, the thieves retreated from Pingliang Mansion soon after they took people out of the city, all the way to inspect the counties under the rule, Jingzhou has been broken by the thieves, Jingzhou Governor and his subordinate officials were all killed in battle, and the people in the city were killed and wounded. It's just that by the time Governor Hong arrived, the thief had already withdrawn from Jingzhou City.

Governor Hong stayed in Jingzhou for one night, rearranged the defense, and rushed to the next place, Zhenyuan County, as soon as it was dawn the next day.

Originally, Governor Hong was ready to face the tragic situation of Zhenyuan City, but when he got closer, he saw that the banner of the Ming Dynasty was still flying on the head of Zhenyuan City, and the defenders on the head of the city were also Ming soldiers, so he couldn't help but be surprised.

More than 500 Ming troops came to the city of Zhenyuan, and saw that the corpses were all over the city, mourning all over the field, spears, swords, and wooden shields were thrown all over the ground, dozens of wounded and undead war horses were still screaming helplessly, and the whirring wind was mixed with the screams of the thief soldiers who were injured but not dead but could not escape.

Obviously, a day ago, there was a big battle under the castle of Zhenyuan.

His soldiers went to call for the city gate to be opened, but they learned that the city gate had been bricked and dead, and it was necessary to know the order of the county lord to open it. Hong Chengchou listened, secretly surprised, while waiting for the city to open, Hong Zhifu waved his angry hand and ordered: "Check the thieves under the city, and those who have not lost their breath will be shot." ”

Xu Liang heard the soldier's report, hurriedly climbed the city tower with Huang Xiancheng and others, and saw that the Pingliang prefect had arrived, while ordering someone to open the city gate, while accompanying the Hong prefect at the head of the city, and told the situation of yesterday's battle in detail.

After the battle was finished, Xu Liang and Huang Xiancheng found that the soldiers under the prefect of Hong were checking the thieves lying under the city one by one, and from time to time they pricked another shot, and they were unmoved in the face of the thieves' begging for mercy.

The two were shocked: "My lord, why is this?" ”

Hong Chengchou's eyes were full of fierce light, and he said hatefully: "This time the thieves attacked the county, robbed money and food, killed the people, and the crime was monstrous, and there was more than enough to die." ”

Huang Xiancheng at the head of the city said puzzledly: "But, my lord, now that these people have been defeated, they have surrendered since Angelica, and since they have surrendered, wouldn't it be too cruel for your lord to do this again?" ”

Hong Chengchou shook his head and raised his head and said loudly: "Even if the thieves are forced by the shape and abandon their weapons and surrender, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not return to their old business and make trouble again in the future." Instead of bothering to clean up the mess in the future, it's better to kill it now! ”

"However, since ancient times, killing and surrendering is really an ominous act...... Huang Xiancheng advised.

I saw that Governor Hong's thick eyebrows were upside down, and he glared and scolded: "Petrophic! Now that the Ming Dynasty is full of holes, how can a single killing and surrender lead to this?! ”

Huang County Cheng saw that Governor Hong was angry, and he didn't dare to say more.

A quarter of an hour later, the south gate of Zhenyuan opened, Xu Liang went out of the city to welcome Hong Chengchou, the prefect of Pingliang, into the city, he glanced at the periphery of the city, the five hundred soldiers brought by the prefect of Hong were still patrolling all corners, and when they saw the undead thief soldiers, they mercilessly made up a shot, and couldn't help but secretly say, this Hong Chengchou is a ruthless person.