The night was dark, the wind was high, and the people were quieter, and during this good time of killing people and setting fires, a scout fire team of ten soldiers of the Mutant Army was patrolling the dark night sky with torches.

Because the camp of the mutant army was set up fifteen miles east of Yongcheng, and because it was necessary to expand the reconnaissance range as much as possible, the location of this mutant army was less than ten miles away from Yongcheng, and it was most likely to encounter the officers and soldiers who came to attack it first, so this scout fire team belonging to Du Fuwei's department was very cautious in patrolling, and did not even dare to shoot more torches, for fear that the target would be surrounded by a brigade of officers and soldiers, so they lit a torch to illuminate the road, and was ready to extinguish the torch at any time to hide its figure.

Wang Ermao sneakily walked at the end of the team, from time to time pricked up his ears to listen to the movement in the distance, even if there was a little bit of wind and grass, he was immediately ready to flee for his life, in order to have a bite to eat, followed Du Fuwei's team from Bocheng all the way to here, thousands of miles of flow down, although Wang Ermao, who licked blood on the head of the knife every day, although he had not changed some timid weaknesses, but he also practiced a body of vigilance and escape skills, so he did not die tragically under the official saber like many unlucky fellow villagers, or was caught by other bandit teams to cook human breasts, Lives to this day.

The third watch has been halfway through, and the officials and soldiers have never come to sneak attack, and Wang Ermao, who is as timid as a mouse, is a little relieved, knowing that he should be able to survive tonight, because Wang Ermao, who has accumulated a lot of experience in night patrols, knows very well that if the officers and soldiers want to sneak attack the camp of the army, at least this period will pass through here, and so far, Wang Ermao has not even seen the shadow of half of the officers and soldiers, which is enough to prove that the officers and soldiers have no plans and intentions for night attacks.

As soon as he relaxed slightly, Wang Ermao, who had been nervous for most of the night, suddenly felt a sense of urgency, and hurriedly begged Huo Chang to stop his steps and let himself do a little grain reincarnation, but Huo Chang had just agreed, Wang Ermao heard a snort behind his head, and at the same time, as soon as his vest was cold, Wang Ermao couldn't help but fall to the ground with a dog eating, screaming and falling a dog gnawing mud, and the poor inventory that had accumulated in his stomach was suddenly sprayed all over his crotch.

"What's wrong?" When Wang Ermao, who was in severe pain in his vest, raised his head with a mouth full of slush, he suddenly saw in disbelief that a tall black shadow swept past him and quickly pounced on other companions, the blade broke through the space, and a companion fell to the ground screaming, and at the same time, several black shadows also jumped out of the bushes on the side of the road, and without saying a word, he waved a knife to cut his companion, Wang Ermao was shocked, and quickly lay on the ground again, pretending to have been hacked to death.

The sound of blades and screams and scolding continued to come into his ears, and Wang Ermao, who had some experience, soon found that it was his companions who fell to the ground screaming, and it was his own fire chief who scolded and shouted at the enemy, and at the same time, the only torch also fell on the battlefield, with the light before the torch was extinguished, Wang Ermao clearly saw that the black shadow that attacked his sentry was not a Sui officer and soldier, but a few men who were also in rags.

The attackers were very good, obviously they were good at fighting, and they took the lead in the sudden attack, and soon cut down several Wang Ermao's companions, and the remaining companions did not dare to fight, so they quickly screamed and fled to the dark, those attackers chased and killed with knives, and then there was a scream of a companion who fell to the ground, Wang Ermao was quietly praying that those attackers should chase away, and an unfamiliar voice suddenly sounded, "Okay, don't chase, let them run." ”

Several attackers stopped the pursuit, and when Wang Ermao, who was crawling on the ground and pretending to be dead, was crying out in distress, the unfamiliar voice suddenly shouted again: "Dog thieves, listen up! Lao Tzu is the officers and soldiers of Yongcheng, go back and tell Sù Du Fuwei, if he doesn't get out of here quickly, he will be the one who dies next time! ”

Wang Ermao lay on the ground and didn't dare to make a sound, wondering in his heart, saying that how could the officers and soldiers dress the same as us? Then after a while, another unfamiliar voice whispered, "Brother Zhu, Du Fuwei's people have run away." ”

"Did they hear me?" The unfamiliar voice asked before.

"Probably not."

"Okay, get the officer's shoe and throw it on the corpse. Also, search the bodies of these dead bodies and take away valuable things. ”

In response to the promise, several attackers began to search for the body, and there was also the sound of footsteps in Wang Ermao's ears, and then a hand touched Wang Ermao's body, and at that moment, Wang Ermao's heart also suddenly rose to his throat, for fear that the attacker would find out that he was pretending to be dead. Fortunately, that hand just turned Wang Ermao's body to the front, reached into his arms and searched carefully, and searched for a few hard-earned money that Wang Ermao had finally accumulated, and also took away the tattered iron knife beside Wang Ermao.

"Brother Zhu, you are still tall, Gaojiazhuang is tall." Another voice suddenly sounded, chuckling and said: "The person who pretended to be an officer and soldier to kill Du Fuwei was angry, and let the officers and soldiers carry the black pot for us, Du Fuwei probably couldn't have dreamed of it, in fact, it was our people who did it." ”

"I haven't had enough gas!" Brother Zhu said viciously beside Wang Ermao: "Rob our sheep and wine, kill our brothers, and dare to bully our Miao Haichao Miao brother, when I have the opportunity, I must slaughter Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyi, the two dog thieves, and let our big brother Miao be the king again!" ”

"That's right, our big brother Miao shouldn't have defected to Du Fuwei, a dog thief, he should have slaughtered Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyi, swallowed their team, and became the king himself! Brother Zhu, you can often meet with Brother Miao, and if you have the opportunity, you have to persuade him to kill Du Fuwei and become the king again! ”

"I have already persuaded it, Brother Miao is just kind, he doesn't say anything, if he had sent a word, I would have slaughtered two dog thieves a long time ago!"

Talking in a low voice, several attackers quickly left the scene of the fight and hurried in the direction of the camp of the mutant army, but Wang Ermao still endured the severe pain in his vest and lay motionless on the ground, afraid that those attackers would turn around and come back and find that they were not dead, and his heart was even more shocked, "It's Miao Haichao's person!" It was Miao Haichao's people who pretended to be officers and soldiers to sneak attack us, and they still wanted to kill Du Fuwei! Kill Uncle Fu! ”

I don't know how much time passed, there was finally a noise in the distance, several patrols of the mutant army rushed to the scene with torches, and after repeatedly confirming that the person who came was Du Fuwei's team, Wang Ermao got up from the ground, and cried loudly with a handful of snot and tears: "I'm not dead yet!" Come and save me! Come and save me! Take me to King Du, I have something important to report to the king——! ”

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It is conceivable that Du Fuwei was angry when he learned about this, regardless of the serious injuries on Wang Ermao's back, he directly lifted Wang Ermao's hands into the air, and yelled and asked Wang Ermao if he was sure that those attackers were Miao Haichao's subordinates pretending? Wang Ermao swore with tears and curses, saying that if he said half a lie, he would be killed by five thunderbolts in the sky and have no place to be buried! Du Fuwei was even more furious, slammed Wang Ermao on the ground, pulled out his knife and shouted, "Miao Haichao!" Lao Tzu fucks your mother's eighteenth generation ancestor! ”

"Slaughtered Miao Haichao! Slaughter that dog mongrel! ”

A large group of Du Fuwei's godsons also roared, and several of them with particularly impulsive personalities directly pulled out their knives and shouted to order the army to assemble, and the No. 2 person, Fu Gongyi, quickly stood up, first drank the heralds who went to gather the army, and then immediately turned to Du Fuwei, and said quickly: "Brother Du, you calm down, don't say that there is no evidence for this matter, even if it was really Miao Haichao's people who did it, it has nothing to do with Miao Haichao." ”

"Not much yet?" Du Fuwei roared: "Yesterday killed more than 100 or 200 of my brothers, and last night killed six of my brothers!" If you keep going like this, will you kill me tomorrow?! ”

Fu Gong Yi was in great difficulty, but in order to unite and avoid infighting, Fu Gong Yi still insisted: "Brother Du, it makes sense for you to be so worried, but you must not lead the army to find Miao Haichao, that will only make our team completely split!" If it is really his person who did it, let him find out and execute him for questioning, if he does not admit his account, or if there are any bad intentions, it will be more convenient for us to do it. ”

Feeling that Fu Gong Yi's words were reasonable, Du Fuwei also immediately adopted Fu Gong Yi's suggestion and sent someone to invite Miao Haichao to come over the camp to discuss the matter. However, Fu Gongyi and Du Fuwei underestimated the caution of Miao Haichao's team, the first evening Miao Haichao's team and Du Fuwei and other troops had a fire and infighting, this day was not yet dawn, Du Fuwei sent someone to invite Miao Haichao to come over the camp to narrate, even if it is a kind character such as Miao Haichao himself, it is inevitable that there are some doubts about Du Fuwei's true purpose, Miao Haichao brought here from Xiapi is even more vigilant, resolutely opposed Miao Haichao to be invited, Miao Haichao felt reasonable, so he refused Du Fuwei's invitation under the pretext of being unwell- After all, although Miao Haichao's personality is good, he doesn't want to die in vain.

A terrible chain reaction appeared, after learning that Miao Haichao refused the invitation, Du Fuwei immediately ordered the whole army to prepare for battle in anger, and summoned the major thieves who were in charge of the army alone to their own camp to discuss matters, Miao Haichao's team noticed that Du Fuwei's troops were assembled and on guard, and they also immediately assembled their teams to prepare for war, and other thieves who voluntarily or were forced to join Du Fuwei's team were not fools, except for two thieves who reacted more slowly to Du Fuwei's camp to meet Du Fuwei, the rest of the big and small thieves were not fooled, All of them hurriedly assembled their teams to prepare for battle, and more than a day ago, they were a harmonious group of mutant people's troops, and almost in the blink of an eye, they fell into a situation of fragmentation.

In this erosive situation, Du Fuwei's group of godsons of course advocated striking first, and hurriedly relied on the strongest force to send troops to kill Miao Haichao to avoid a worse situation, but fortunately, Du Fuwei was somewhat calm, and did not impulsively order the troops, but chose to ask Fu Gongqi for advice, and after hesitating again and again, he decided to go to Miao Haichao's camp alone to explain the misunderstanding to Miao Haichao, so that Miao Haichao could deal with the perpetrators again, and everyone reconciled and reunited.

Du Fuwei is still in a close relationship with Fu Gong Yi, so he naturally did not let Fu Gong Yi take this risk, and arranged for his most useless godson Tian Baishe to send Miao Ying to implement Fu Gong Yi's plan, although Tian Baishe was also greedy for life and afraid of death, but he had no choice but to go to Miao Haichao's camp and explain the misunderstanding to Miao Haichao.

Tian Baishe, who was able to escape from Chen Yingliang's butcher's knife, was of course good, and this time was no exception, Miao Haichao, who could be regarded as a man of great righteousness, listened to his explanation very calmly and carefully, and immediately suspected that this matter was done by his own generals, and immediately summoned the generals under his command to ask who had done such an illegal thing, and asked them to stand up and confess their guilt. As a result, Miao Haichao's generals shouted that they were wronged, and flatly denied that they had done such a thing, but none of them suspected that this was a third party to set up a blame, and they all believed that a companion had done such a beautiful thing in order to vent his anger - this is not because Miao Haichao's generals were too stupid, but because the fire last evening made Miao Haichao's team and Du Fuwei's feud too deep.

No one confessed to the crime, Miao Haichao could only threaten to kill him after finding out the culprit, and at the same time asked Tian Baishe to go back and report to Du Fuwei, saying that he would definitely do his best to find out the real culprit and make amends to Du Fuwei, Tian Baishe hurriedly said goodbye and left. As soon as Tian Baishe left, Miao Haichao's generals began to inquire about each other, and asked each other with smiles whether the other party took revenge, Miao Haichao was suddenly even more furious, but the generals under his command asked confidently: "Brother Miao, isn't it right to do this?" Yesterday, those sons of bitches robbed us of our wine and meat, and killed hundreds of our brothers, what's wrong with killing them to take revenge? ”

Miao Haichao was speechless, so he had to ask, "Did you really do it?" ”

Everyone shook their heads again, and a few others said: "Brother Miao, don't ask, the brother who did this is also because he is loyal to you, you find him out and hand him over to Du Fuwei's dog mongrel, and those brothers will be loyal to you in the future?" ”

Miao Haichao was speechless again, and only said after a while: "But how can I explain to Du Fuwei?" ”

"I don't need to explain." Almost all of the close confidants said so, "It's a big deal to divide the family, let's take the team and fight the world by ourselves, anyway, he Du Fuwei is not from Zuo Junxing's family, we have knives, guns and teams, and we are afraid that we will not find food to eat?" ”

Miao Haichao was silent, and said secretly in his heart: "Look at Du Fuwei's reaction, if he is smart and doesn't care about this matter anymore, then that's it." If he must force me to hand over the family, it will be a big deal to divide the family, and the brothers are right, if I hand over my faithful brothers, who will be willing to die for me in the future? ”

The message brought back by Tian Baishe made Du Fuwei's anger rest for a while, and after listening to Fu Gongyi's patient persuasion, Du Fuwei also decided to give Miao Haichao a little time, and wait for him to find out the real murderer. At this time, it was already bright, and Du Fuwei remembered that he had asked Chen Yingliang to hand over 10,000 stone of grain, 5,000 pieces of money and 5,000 pieces of cloth, and he did not see Chen Yingliang send someone to contact and negotiate, so Du Fuwei immediately decided to send troops to the west, and personally went to Yongxian County to force Chen Yingliang to hand over the money and grain. At the same time, in order to prevent accidents, Du Fuwei sent someone to ask Miao Haichao to personally lead his troops westward and go to Yongxian with him to ask for money for the reroute.

In order to avoid further misunderstandings, Miao Haichao agreed to Du Fuwei's request, personally led 3,000 troops out of the camp, and joined forces with Du Fuwei to go out of the army, but the rift that had appeared could not be repaired in a moment and a half, out of prudence, Du Fuwei ordered Miao Haichao to serve as the striker as the general manager, and he led 5,000 troops to walk behind, and kept a certain distance from Miao Haichao's team very carefully. As a result, Miao Haichao took the order, and the old subordinates under Miao Haichao muttered in their hearts, extremely suspicious that Du Fuwei deliberately wanted to use himself as cannon fodder and send him to death in front, and the gap between him and Du Fuwei's team was deeper.

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After the scouts sent the news to Yongcheng, Chen Yingliang also immediately ordered the army to be fully guarded, ordering the army to strictly guard the city camp, and never leave the fortifications to protect one step without the order, at the same time, Chen Yingliang also personally climbed the tower at the west gate of Yongcheng, urging the government soldiers led by Li Cai and Li Huaishen to guard the city, and the camp outside the south gate continued to be handed over to Ma Sanbao to command the new army to hold on, and at the same time protect important facilities such as docks and camps.

As soon as he was ready to defend the city, the team of the mutant army had already appeared in Chen Yingliang's field of vision, and saw that the enemy was divided into two teams on the city tower, and the distance between them was quite far away, Chen Yingliang was of course happy in his heart, but he was not in a hurry to decide on tactics, but waited patiently for the two teams of the enemy to arrive at the city, and then saw the enemy lined up in front of the two formations, Chen Yingliang was very happy to call Qian Xiangmin to the front, and asked: "Look at it, the team in front of the formation is Miao Haichao's team, right?" ”

Because of the distance, Qian Xiangmin climbed on the railing and looked at it for a long time, and then said in surprise: "It's Miao Haichao's team, but Chen Tongshou, haven't you seen Miao Haichao's team?" How do you know it's them? ”

Chen Yingliang smiled, and smiled extremely happily, and then ordered: "Lord Qian, you go to the city again, use the hanging basket to go down to the city, play a white flag to see Miao Haichao, and ask him to come over and answer." Dong County ordered, you immediately have people prepare twenty more sheep and twenty jars of fine wine, and send them to the West Gate to wait. ”

Dong You, who was holding the assessment power in Chen Yingliang's hands, immediately agreed, and immediately rushed down to arrange it personally, but Qian Xiangmin's old face was once again longer than a donkey, and he said tremblingly: "Chen Tongshou, what if Miao Haichao doesn't agree?" ”

"It's okay, you just have to go over and talk about it, and you can come back after that." Chen Yingliang ordered casually, and said with a smile: "And you can rest assured that Miao Haichao will definitely agree." ”

Qian Xiangmin took the order with a sad face, and Yun Da Shaoqing, who had been following Chen Yingliang, was thoughtful, and whispered to Chen Yingliang: "Virtuous nephew, do you want to go out to sow discord in person?" Isn't that too much of a trace? ”

"It's okay, I'm sure." Chen Yingliang replied with a smile, and then looked at Yun Da Shaoqing's obscene old face, Chen Yingliang's heart moved, and he hurriedly said: "Uncle, can you meet Miao Haichao with me in a while?" When the time comes, I will say a few disrespectful words, uncle, don't mind. ”