Chapter 143: Old Knife Handle

In the past few days, the majestic and dangerous Peach Mountain, the green forest and soldiers and horses gathered, and everywhere is the banner of each mountain and village. Taoshan is at the north foot of the east end of Daqing Mountain, close to Yanshan, not far from Taihang in the south, and the peach blossom village on the mountain was once one of the joining cottages of the Tiger League. Peach Mountain and Wild Fox Ridge are separated by less than 100 miles, since the hero of the old knife handle was posted, the same cottage in Daqingshan responded enthusiastically, every day there are cottage leaders with people and horses to come, Taohua Cottage has long been stationed in the village soldiers and horses, come late, stationed outside the village, has been stationed at the foot of the mountain. On every sloping meadow, there is a cottage soldier and horse camped here. Even some came late, simply set up camp on the grassland under the mountain, the tents on the mountain and the mountain were lined up, the people and horses were in groups, and at night, the bonfire was lit like stars falling to the ground, the horses were neighing, and no one knew how many passers-by gathered.

Call on all walks of life to come to gather the alliance is the old knife handle of the Taoshan Taohua Village, these days the old knife handle rides a horse every day at the foot of the mountain to greet the heroes of all walks of life, he always rides the big green horse, wears a gold lacquer mountain armor, wears a phoenix wings, and hangs a horse lance in his hand, mixed in a large group of white horse guards of Taohua Mountain, to welcome one after another to hear the heroes.

During this period of time, there has been news everywhere in the area of Saibei that the Tiger League has been recruited by the imperial court and has begun to send troops everywhere to sweep the cottages of all sizes in Yanshan. The peach blossom is close to the dam and is famine, and the old knife has always been very concerned about what happened to the Tiger League in the east. After the female leader of the Tiger League, Murong Qiangrose, went south and married Yi Feng, the ninth master, in Jiangnan, and stayed in Jiangnan and did not return north. When the news of Yi Feng taking charge of the Tiger League reached the ears of the old knife handle, he immediately increased his attention to the Tiger League, and sent several teams of men and horses to infiltrate the wilderness in disguise. Listen carefully to the LTTE's every move. Based on the experience of the old rivers and lakes, he sensed that there would be an upheaval in the Tiger League.

Sure enough, soon a series of changes took place in the Tiger League, especially after the news of the Tiger League and Baye Guren fighting in Shihe came back, which made the old knife handle more and more shocked by the young alliance leader. And the death of Zhang Sheng, half of the sky of the Tiger Alliance, and the defeat of all the eight hall masters under his command, also made the old knife feel the strength of Yi Feng, the master of the Yi Alliance, from a distance. Although he is far away in Momoyama. But he keenly judged that the Battle of Shihe was not so much the Tiger Alliance's unexpected victory over a thousand Baye Gumo Northern Cavalry and thousands of Xi slave soldiers. It is better to say that the point is actually that Ling Yun used this battle to skillfully clear the biggest obstacle to his leadership of the Tiger Alliance, Zhang Sheng, and the Eight Hall Masters and a series of people. He had no evidence, but he believed that this was the case.

At the same time as the old knife commander sent more men and horses to the Tiger Alliance, he gave an order. Let the people of Taohuazhai enter a state of combat readiness. A strong neighbor who always makes it difficult for people to sleep peacefully. The people of Taohuazhai stepped up their drills, repaired their equipment, and took strict precautions. Not only did the people in the old camp change from the original five-day exercise to one exercise every day, but even the young and old people in the village were also given weapons to carry out two-day exercises.

The old knife handle's sense of smell is very sensitive, and the Tiger League has changed greatly after the First World War of Shihe. Lingyun is completely in power. He also took advantage of the situation to seize the soldiers and horses of the Tenth Taibao and reorganize the soldiers and horses. More than 20,000 people were trained, and began to withdraw from the village to build a city, with the Tiger League's general rudder Huaihuang Town Sanlian City as the center, and established thirteen rudder new cities in the surrounding area.

The old knife master couldn't figure out why Ling Yun wanted to accept Zhao'an and give up robbing this free and promising industry, and he didn't want to think about it. But all the arrangements made by Ling Yun made him restless day and night, and it was difficult for him to sleep and eat. When the soldiers and horses of the Tiger Alliance finally showed their fangs after a period of training and pounced on the rest of the green forest colleagues in Yanshan, the old knife could no longer sit still.

It doesn't matter if the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, or the rabbit is dead and the fox is sad, the old knife knows one thing, since the Tiger Alliance has attacked the green forests of Yanshan, then they will also attack the green forests of Daqing Mountain sooner or later. And once Ling Yun destroyed the relatively weak Yanshan Green Forest, Taoshan, which was located at the eastern end of Daqing Mountain, would inevitably bear the brunt. The whole village of Taohuazhai adds up, and there are more than 3,000 people, but there are only more than 1,000 young and strong people, and only 500 people who can be trained to fight. This point of people, dozens of miles near Momoyama, is of course not weak. Even compared with the Wild Fox Ridge rudder of the Tiger Alliance, it was not much weaker. But now the Tiger Alliance, like a tiger waking up, has gathered all the scattered soldiers and horses together, and with more than 20,000 men and horses, Momoyama is invincible at all.

People are killed by swords, but I refuse to be fish and meat.

The Momoyama family can't defeat the Tiger Alliance, so join forces with the rest of the people to fight against the Tiger Alliance.

Three more families arrived, and the old knife handle stepped forward to greet them, smiled and nodded, said a few polite words to everyone, and then invited the leaders of the three families to go up the mountain together to discuss the plan.

Although this is related to the recent rumors that the Tiger League wants to exterminate the green forests in northern Xinjiang for the imperial court, it is also related to the status of the old knife handle in the green forests of northern Xinjiang.

The old knife handle is from a wealthy family in Shandong, his real name is Zhang Qingshan, he studied at home when he was young, and later got the door to enter the office, and joined the army as the king of a county in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Later, Zhou attacked Qi in a big way, Zhang Qingshan led the county to recruit township soldiers to defend the city to resist the enemy, and finally outnumbered, the army was defeated and the city was defeated, he was seriously injured, and was desperately rescued by the generals. Later, the Turks supported the Northern Qi clan as emperor outside the Saiwai, and he went to Xiangxiang and was awarded a general. It's a pity that the Northern Qi emperor was finally betrayed to the Sui Dynasty by the Turks, and many Northern Qi civil and military forces in Saibei were captured and captured. Since then, he has led the remnants of his defeated soldiers to wander around the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain, and it is difficult to return to the Central Plains, and he has become a horse thief in the north of Saibei.

The old knife was born in a wealthy family, he was a civil official in his early years, and later he was a general, and he was able to write and martial arts, even if he was a horse thief, he was also prominent, and soon became famous outside the Saiwai and became an extremely fierce horse thief outside the Saiwai at that time. The old knife handle hated the Turks for their treachery, so they often couldn't get along with the Turks, and the Turks were also annoyed that the old knife handle was haunted and ghostly, and later bought one of his subordinate brothers with a lot of money, and the old knife handle almost died. finally escaped death, but the fierce team under his command was almost gone. The old knife handle fled for a long time, but finally found an opportunity. He rode alone into the court of the Turkic Khan and killed the man who betrayed him.

Later, the old knife pulled up another group of men and horses and continued to fight with the Turks. Later, he met Murong Ke, who was also very famous outside the Saiwai, Tuoba Hengdao, Zhang Sheng, Pei Zeng and a group of people, and the nine of them became brothers. united, and finally established the Tiger Alliance, the first green forest force in northern Xinjiang. It was they who made the Tiger Alliance once have an alliance of more than a thousand mountain forces. It's a pity that the Tigers suddenly rose. It also fades quickly.

Murong Ke died suddenly, and infighting and division ensued.

Although Murong Rose continued to fly the banner of the Tiger Alliance in the end, the Tiger Alliance she was in charge of was only a force that was less than one percent of the original. Such a veteran of the old knife handle. Eventually, I quit.

As a very prestigious Jianghu in northern Xinjiang, in fact, the old knife handle is only in his early fifties. Years of life outside the Cypriot have stained his face with the color of wind and dust, but although he has been wandering outside the Cypriot for many years, he has been until now. He has always maintained the elegant demeanor of the children of the Shandong Shi clan. The clothes are neat and full of style. After going through so many tribulations, it only grinded away the edges and corners of his scholars, but it made him hide the ruthlessness and decisiveness in his heart, not arrogant or impatient, far-sighted, and resolute. And he is better at grasping people's hearts than ordinary green forest leaders. Know how to buy hearts and minds and gain support. Because of this. The old knife's men were willing to serve him and live and die for him. Even the other green forests on the road, when the old knife handle is mentioned, it will often give a thumbs up and praise a sentence of benevolence and righteousness. Therefore, this time, the old knife put the hero on it, and suddenly heroes from all walks of life in northern Xinjiang came one after another.

Before the hero sticked, the old knife handle also muttered for a long time.

Since Murong Ke's death, the old knife has withdrawn from the Tiger League, and has maintained an attitude with the Tiger League for many years. But this time, he couldn't sit idly by. Yi Feng took over the position of the leader of the alliance and was recruited by the imperial court, which already made the old knife handle very unhappy. Although Qi was destroyed by Zhou at the beginning, Sui inherited it from Zhou, and Sui bought the Turks to betray the Northern Qi in exile at the beginning, which also made him never forget. Second, Ling Yun's methods were too drastic, and he directly killed Zhang Sheng and others by killing people with a knife, which made the old knife handle a little unacceptable. Although he also disliked Zhang Sheng's person, he felt that Zhang Sheng liked to play some tricks, but after all, he was also a brother who had been married at the beginning, kowtowing and drinking blood wine together, but now Ling Yun directly borrowed a knife to kill all of them, and Ling Yun later gave all the thirteen Taibao brothers to Yin, two of them were unknown in life and death, and ten were under house arrest, which made it difficult for the old knife to agree with Ling Yun's character.

Of course, if it's just like that, although he doesn't look happy, he is just unhappy at best.

But Ling Yun's subsequent series of actions made him extremely uneasy. Seize power, reorganize the army, train the troops, and then attack the Yanshan cottages!

Why did Yi Feng do this, he could guess some, attacking the cottages, first, to train troops, second, to seize grain, third, to seize the cottage population, and fourth, to clear the surrounding cottages in Huaihuang, which can not only deterrent the effect, but also clear the way for his border city plan, provide a safe trade route, and kill birds with one stone.

It's just that Ling Yun counts birds with one stone, but his old knife handle wants to become one of those birds, but he is unwilling.

When they arrived at the cottage, the leaders of the various families entered the Juyi Hall together, everyone ranked their seniority, sat down in order, and the old knife said a few cold words, and said: "Everyone, Yi 13 is now aggressive, first killed his uncle Zhang Sheng and others, and then imprisoned his righteous brother Zhu Taibao, and now he is sharpening his knife Huo Huo, and he is taking Yanshan colleagues to open the knife, Yi 13 is so arrogant and domineering, he doesn't put others in his eyes at all." Today, the Yanshan rivers and lakes are killed, if we don't react, when he raises a knife and kills us, who will save us? At this point, people are swords, but how can we be willing to be fish and meat? Yi Thirteen's children are extremely arrogant, today, a certain invites all of you to come, just to form a bloody alliance and crusade against Yi Thirteen together! ”

As soon as the words of the old knife fell, someone immediately responded, "Destroy Yi Thirteen, and each family will equally share the money and food population of the cities with famine!" ”

This sentence shouted out the hearts of the village owners, and the cottages responded to come, not only Ling Yun threatened them, but at the same time, the wealth of the Tiger Alliance was also coveted by everyone. It's just that there was no one who took the lead in the past, but now there is an old knife handle to take the lead in the initiative, and everyone naturally responds with a hesitant response. (To be continued......)