Of course, Qiu Yizhi refused: "The emperor is not only the friendship of the monarch and the minister, but also the grace of nurturing. Shall I be sought glory by the Lord? Although I am now serving fish and meat, I still ask the prince not to say this again in the future. ”

The king of Lingnan praised again: "Good! You can say that again! Affectionate and righteous! The old man is looking at you more and more. I remember that a few days ago in Lingnan Road, the old man also said that one day on the battlefield, if the virtuous nephew falls into the hands of the old man, the old man will spare your life. I didn't expect this promise to be fulfilled so quickly and so early......"

Qiu Yizhi listened to Zheng Gui's words, and seemed to intend to let himself go, and he couldn't help but be a little happy in his heart, and was just about to speak, but saw two people walking around behind Zheng Gui, and said deeply to him: "Lord Wang, this Qiu Yizhi is cunning and abnormal, he can't let the tiger return to the mountain, and there will be disasters in the future!" ”

When Qiu Yizhi heard this, he looked away, and his eyes were so frightened that his eyes almost fell off - these two people were old and young, and the young one was actually Yin Tai, the son of the former Jiangnan Provincial Assassin Yin Chengliang; And that old man is Yin Chengliang himself!

This Yin Chengliang was involved in a major fraud case involving Jiangnan Provincial officials, and it was clear that he had committed suicide by taking poison with a pot of wine, but he didn't know how to appear alive by the side of King Lingnan like this today.

Seeing this great change, Qiu Yizhi couldn't suppress the curiosity and panic in his heart, and asked loudly: "Yin Chengliang, are you Yin Chengliang?" How is it still alive? ”

The old man turned his head when he heard the sound and shouted, "Of course it's me! I don't look at you little thief splitting up the corpse, even if you die, you won't be blind! ”

After that, Yin Chengliang turned to Lingnan Wang Zhenggui and gave a deep look: "Prince, the humble position was folded under the hands of this Qiuyi back then, and I also asked the prince to give this person to my father and son, so that my father and son could cut him with a knife, so as to vent the anger in my heart!" ”

Zheng Gui said coldly: "The old man has opened the golden mouth, and he wants to spare him from dying." How? Do you want to tell the old man to break his promise? ”

As soon as his voice fell, he heard Yin Tai say again: "Lord Wang, please don't forget, you were able to take Hangzhou, and suddenly appeared here, not by the fleet that my family got from the Wa Kingdom?" My Yin family has made such a great contribution, and I don't want gold and silver rewards, as long as Qiu Yizhi is a little thief, won't the prince fulfill me? ”

But I heard Zheng Gui angrily scolded: "Fart! We adults talk, what are you talking about? Without your Yin family's broken boats, wouldn't I be able to win Qiu Yizhi and the imperial brother? The old man has always been the same, when did he take back what he said? ”

Yin Chengliang and Yin Tai still didn't give up, and they had to persuade them again when they took half a step forward, but they heard Zheng Gui whisper in his throat: "Hmph!" You remember, it was the old man who won Qiu Yizhi, not you! If you don't want to follow me, listen to me! ”

Yin Chengliang and Yin Tai father and son were stunned when they heard this: If it is really as the king of Lingnan said, if they can defeat Qiu Yizhi by their own ability, why should their father and son go to the prince of Lingnan?

The two were speechless for a while, and Qiu Yizhi in the distance said: "It's not a pity for me to die, may I ask where General Zuo Cui Nan is now?" ”

Zheng Gui replied: "Cui Nan is worthy of being a fierce general, he led his soldiers to attack our army repeatedly, causing great losses to our army, but our army is outnumbered, his attack is difficult to work, and he has died in the chaos." ”

When Qiu Yizhi heard such bad news, a sense of sadness arose in his heart, and he couldn't imagine that Cui Nan, the left general who attacked everything in the north and south, actually died under the city of Hangzhou like this, and he didn't even see his last face, isn't it embarrassing?

But I heard Lingnan King Zheng Gui continue: "General Cui is worthy of a brave general, and our army is also exhausted, so we can barely win." The old man of General Cui's body has been ordered to be properly collected, and after the old man conquers Luoyang, he will be buried again. ”

Qiu Yizhi cursed secretly: Didn't General Cui die in Jiangnan because you rebelled? Are you embarrassed to say that you are selling pets in this market?

However, he still has these soldiers under him, including Lin Shuhan, Wei Chi Jiming and others, who are now pressing under the Wuzhi Mountain, the so-called "people are under the low eaves and have to bow their heads", Qiu Yizhi had no choice but to suppress the anger in his heart, and said: "Since the prince intends to forgive the juniors, why don't the juniors just sharpen their faces and ask the prince to let the more than 200 people around me go?" ”

Lingnan King Zheng Gui looked at the soldiers gathered around Qiu Yizhi, and saw that although this group of people were all bloody, the killing intent in their eyes was not lost, and their morale was not down, and immediately reminded him that a few days ago, Qiu Yizhi relied on these two hundred people to highlight the stone city, the basin, and Lingnan, and finally confronted him head-to-head here.

Although the number of this army is small, it is not easy to deal with, and Zheng Gui was unwilling to let them go so easily.

However, Zheng Gui has the best face in life, since he has already spoken to the fullest, and Qiu Yizhi is begging him as a junior, so if he refuses to agree, it will be too ungraceful.

Zheng Gui suddenly thought that if he released Qiu Yizhi today, then the world would inevitably spread his magnanimous reputation, and then the heroes of the world would inevitably defect to him, and the great cause would be twice the result with half the effort.

So Lingnan King Zheng Gui pretended to laugh heartily and said, "Okay! The old man is a person who wants to be the son of heaven, and today I will reward you with a big face in advance! I spare your men! You can take them back and fight another day. But the old man is not an unreasonable indiscriminate person, if he is caught by the old man next time, the old man will not have such patience! ”

Qiu Yizhi listened, a heart that seemed to have fifteen buckets shaking constantly, finally settled down, and was afraid that Zheng Gui would change his mind temporarily, so he hurriedly said deeply: "Okay, I will thank the prince for my brothers!" ”

After that, Qiu Yizhi pulled Zhao Chengxiao and ordered him to quickly organize the army to retreat.

Zhao Chengxiao counted the soldiers and horses, and suddenly asked: "My lord, there are enemy troops everywhere now, where should we retreat?" ”

Qiu Yi was stunned and said, "Go home, go back to Shanyin County." With that, he turned around and made a gesture towards Zheng Gui, the king of Lingnan, and led the soldiers to stride due west.

Yin Tai, who was standing in the middle of the Lingnan army, saw that Qiu Yizhi was about to leave, and he was anxious, so he shouted loudly in Zheng Gui's ear: "Lord Wang, why did you let him run away?" ”

Zheng Gui sneered: "What's the point of letting him go?" If there is a fate, the old man will still envelop him and do things for me! ”

When Yin Tai heard this, a sense of jealousy rose in his heart, and he shouted even more hoarsely: "He Qiu Yizhi is my enemy, don't forget, you can only win this battle by relying on our family's fleet, why do you dare to let him go?" ”

"Why? Just rely on the sword in the old man's hand! Zheng Gui suddenly pulled out the saber at his waist, placed it flat on Yin Tai's throat, and said viciously, "What is your fleet?" It's just a bunch of pirates gathered together. If you give them a tael of silver, the old man will dare to give two taels, three taels, and four taels. The old man will kill you now, and see if they will say half a more 'no' word!" ”

Yin Tai was still aggressive, but he was frightened by the behavior of the king of Lingnan as if the wooden man was motionless, fortunately, his father Yin Chengliang was a person who had been in the sea for a long time, and hurriedly stepped forward to intercede: "Lord Wang, the dog is young and ignorant, and he has offended the prince Huwei, and I ask the prince to forgive me!" ”

King Lingnan roared in a low voice with a calm face: "Huh? What did you say? ”

Yin Chengliang reacted quickly, and hurriedly changed his words: "Offending Tianwei, offending Tianwei is offending Tianwei......"

Zheng Gui was slightly deflated and said: "The old man has always been the same when he speaks, if you are so noisy in the future, I am afraid that I will not have such a good temper." ”

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However, after Qiu Yizhi retreated to the west, he ran all the way, running for hundreds of miles day and night in one day, and saw that there was no trace of the Lingnan Army around, so he gradually reassured, and chose a dilapidated land temple outside the small village and set up camp.

Zhao Chengxiao counted the number of people, among the eighteen personal soldiers and two hundred villagers, forty-four were seriously injured, and none of the rest were not wounded, fortunately all survived, and none of them died.

The fortunate news in such misfortune did not make Qiu Yizhi much happy, he silently listened to Zhao Chengxiao's report, nodded silently, and ordered: "At the moment, we haven't run far yet, I'm afraid that the enemy army is not far away." It was not time to recuperate, so Brother Zhao told the brothers to work harder, be on guard, and wait until we returned to Shanyin County, and then we would have a good rest. ”

Zhao Chengxiao agreed, and then retreated to arrange.

Uncle Lin watched Zhao Chengxiao leave, unfolded the folding fan and was about to fan it twice, only then did he remember that his most cherished fan on weekdays had been torn apart in the chaos, so he had to retract it and said: "It's right for adults to lead the army back to Sanyin temporarily, but I don't know what plans I have in the future?" ”

Qiu Yizhi took a rotten branch and shook the bonfire in front of him, and said, "I'm in a state of confusion, I haven't thought of this yet, and I'm going to ask Mr. for advice!" ”

Lin Shuhan replied: "What world have you not seen?" Today is just a defeat, why are you so discouraged? ”

Qiu Yizhi smiled bitterly: "Mr. taught a lesson." However, what I am frustrated about is not the loss of the defeated army today, but since I entered Lingnan Road, this incident has not been strange one by one. Mr. think about it, that Wen Honghui is obviously dead, but he actually came back to life by the side of King Lingnan. Yin Tai escaped, Yin Chengliang should have died, how could he also borrow the corpse to gather under the tent of the king of Lingnan. I don't know what weird things are going to happen in the future. ”

Uncle Lin smiled coldly: "There is nothing strange about this. The imperial court has searched and arrested for so many years, and it has not been able to find out the identity of this Heavenly Venerable Sect Master, which shows that he is extremely alert and secretive, and it is indeed not possible to drown in a pool of rivers. And that Yin Chengliang, who has been working hard in Jiangnan for 20 years, is not completely helpless to play some tricks to change his appearance......"

Halfway through his speech, he suddenly paused, and then said, "These people are all defeated under the adults, and it's not a big deal for the frightened birds to gather together." I think it's a good thing for adults! ”

Qiu Yizhi looked at Lin Shuhan suspiciously, and asked, "Mr. Lin's words are exaggerated, what kind of good thing is my enemies gathering together to deal with me?" ”

Lin is Lin Shuhan subconsciously unfolded the broken fan, hurriedly closed it, and said with a smile: "When the enemies of adults get together, what big thing can they achieve with their own ghosts?" It's just a good thing to let the adults catch them all, so that the adults don't have to ask around to find their traces? ”

Qiu Yizhi smiled bitterly: "Sir, this is too optimistic, right?" As soon as Hangzhou was lost, the whole province south of the Yangtze River had no danger to defend except Nanjing, and the imperial court had lost half of the country, and there was no money, grain, and tax land, and I don't know when it will be able to quell the rebellion. To put it mildly, the winner is in whose hands, there is no certainty! ”