Hong Chengchou felt cold in his heart when he heard it, Yi Zi eats, and the corpses are cooked, all of which are tragedies read in books, and he doesn't want to hear about it with his own ears today. He lifted his pocket, reached out and grabbed a small handful, handed it to *** and said: "Give me a good life, remember not to teach the people to be hopeless." Then he slammed his pocket to the ground, gritted his teeth and said: "General Du, this army will send this bag of yellow rice to you as military rations, hoping that you will kill the thief and wipe out Wang Jiayin with one blow!" ”

"I will give each soldier a few grains of these yellow rice, and I will never live up to the trust of the adults."

"I can only give you two more days' rations."

Du Wenhuan stroked the hilt of the sword and said, "My lord is relieved." From this place to Shanxi, there are many mountains all the way, there are often wild beasts unseen, and a few archers are selected to shoot some goats and pheasants, which is not difficult to satisfy hunger, that is, to kill horses and eat, and will not plunder the place. ”

The old woman asked, "If this military master sees General Cao, give me a message to that kid, and teach him to kill thieves alive and not to worry about his family." ”

"What's your son's name?"

The old woman chattered: "The big name Zhang Liwei spent ten yuan to ask Mr. to get up." The nickname is the dog leftover, which was started by his father. ”

Ningsai has a hundred miles from Yangcheng, and Du Wenhuan led a thousand men and horses for ten days before arriving in Yangcheng. Yangcheng is a mountainous place, towering 800 miles of Taihang, stretching the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei and Henan, across the territory, there are Wangwu, Zhongtiao two mountains converge from west to east, the three mountains converge here, create countless strange peaks, show valleys, secluded streams, the mountains are steep, the sea of clouds is vast, the weather is thousands. Wang Jiayin's old camp was stationed at the foot of Longwang Mountain, facing the Dan River, and the village was built on the mountain, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Cao Wenzhao, who came later, saw that Wang Jiayin sent people to defend the dangerous place, and knew that it was difficult to go down, but he was unwilling to return empty-handed, so he set up camp on the opposite side of the Dan River, and the two faced each other, taking the opportunity to rest the soldiers and waiting for the opportunity to attack the cottage.

Wang Jiayin learned that Cao Wenzhao had set up a large camp, and seemed to have the intention of holding each other, so he urgently summoned his leaders to discuss. Bai Yuzhu, the right prime minister, said: "No matter who comes, let's still 'go' with one word, and when we get into the ravine, the instructor army can't catch up and can't find it." ”

The military advisor Wang said to himself: "This place is the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, it is better to pull people to Taihang Mountain, build a cottage, build a pass, and be a free and happy king, it is better than running around all day long." Eight hundred miles of Taihang Mountain, it is difficult for the officials and soldiers to encircle and suppress. ”

A tall and mighty yellow-faced man shouted and burst in, shouting, "What are you afraid of, beat his grandmother!" Cao Wenzhao, a lonely soul, how can he possess his body? Such a desperate pursuit! The big boss, let's take our men and horses to fight him to the death, see if he is good or we are good? ”

Wang Jiayin only heard the voice and knew that the person who came was Zhang Xianzhong, nicknamed Yellow Tiger, and said with a smile: "You are this fiery temper, you are always willing to fight hard, and the use of soldiers is not to fight in groups, but also to pay attention to some strategic tactics." ”

Gao Yingxiang, dressed in a white robe, strode in, clasped his fists and saluted, followed by Li Zicheng, who had a wide forehead and a dignified demeanor, and the two of them and Zhang Xianzhong were killed since Wang Zuohang, and they all switched to Wang Jiayin's men. He glanced around at everyone and nodded: "What the big boss said is reasonable, Cao Wenzhao is brave and abnormal, most of his subordinates are elite soldiers who are accustomed to fighting, and the lone army is following, they must be prepared, and they should avoid their edge first." ”

Zhang Xianzhong has a short temperament, where can he listen to it, shook his head and said: "I, Zhang Xianzhong, have never been a turtle with a shrunken head, but I was so scared that I hid and didn't dare to fight!" ”

"Since Cao Wenzhao is here, he must want to duel with us, you are so anxious, aren't you in his arms?" Wang Ziyong rolled his eyes, saw Zhang Xianzhong with his wide chin closed, and his sallow face had a trace of blood due to anger, thinking about how to persuade him.

Zhang Xianzhong shouted: "The common people made up two ballads, saying that 'there is a Cao in the army, and the west thief is afraid when he hears it', the military advisor must be afraid of Cao Wenzhao, but we are not afraid of him!" If you don't believe in this evil, you will have a happy fight with him today. ”

Li Zicheng patted Zhang Xianzhong's chest and said: "If you want to compete with Cao Wenzhao and get out of the evil spirit in your heart, there are many ways, why do you have to use brute force?" ”

"What's your idea?"

"Only set up a wine banquet on a high place, and watch the mountain scenery while eating wine, without worrying about Cao Wenzhao."

"Where could it be so easy! Cao Wenzhao chased him all the way here, how could he give up? Don't laugh at it. Zhang Xianzhong was quite unimpressed.

Li Zicheng said: "Cao Wenzhao is chasing so urgently, he must not have much baggage, he has less food from afar, and he is good at fighting quickly, but we can't hold on, see how many days he has enough food?" There is no grain and grass, and there are no reinforcements, no matter how strong his martial arts are, there is no place for him, he will inevitably retreat without a fight, do you still need to work hard? ”

Zhang Xianzhong punched his chest and said with a smile: "You still have a lot of ideas, this time you are going to crook Cao Wenzhao's nose." ”

The crowd nodded their heads frequently, and immediately burst into laughter, discussing where to put the wine. A spy rushed in and reported: "King, there is another group of Ming troops coming towards Longwang Mountain, which is only ten miles away. ”

"Who's it?"

"The little one saw the word 'Du' written on the big flag from a distance."

"This person thinks it's Du Wenhuan, why did he come from Shaanxi?" Not only Wang Jiayin, but the other people in the room were also a little surprised, and they couldn't understand for a while that Du Wenhuan would go to Shanxi. Now that the strength of the Ming army has increased greatly, whether to defend or return must be considered again, the room suddenly fell silent, everyone looked at Wang Jiayin together, all of them looked grim, only Zhang Xianzhong thought that the war was imminent, and his expression was a little excited.

Wang Jiayin pondered for a moment and said: "Although the method that Fang Cai said is good, there are also negligences. Let's stick to the danger and fight with the officers and soldiers for grain and grass, even if the grain and grass of the officers and soldiers are not much, our grain and grass will not be able to support many days. If the officers and soldiers then transported grain and grass, they would not be able to consume them. ”

Li Zicheng crossed his hand and said: "The big boss, the young general has also thought about this matter." The vegetation here is dense, and it is early summer, and there are many wild beasts on the mountain, badger dogs, hares, goats, wild pigeons, pheasants, ...... Countless people sent people to hunt some every day, not only to save rations, but also to teach the brothers to see a little fishy smell, wouldn't it be two poops? It is not difficult to support half a month and twenty days more. If the officers and troops are reinforced one after another, we will go south to Henan to raise food. There's a flat river that you can't see at a glance! Eat as much as you like with your belly open. ”

Wang Jiayin patted the armrest of the tiger skin chair, got up and said, "Okay!" Just do what you say. Hold the dangerous place, be on guard day and night, and I will see how the officers and troops will attack. ”

Du Wenhuan saw Cao Wenzhao's camp, and ordered his soldiers to camp by the river about two miles away, and brought a few personal soldiers to visit Cao Wenzhao. Cao Wenzhao has already received a report, although he is not Du Wenhuan's subordinate officer, but Du Wenhuan has been the chief soldier of Yansui, and his position is a cut higher, so he naturally has to be courteous. greeted the gate early, saluted with a high forked hand, and said politely: "There is Du Zongzhen coming, don't worry about not being able to catch Wang Jiayin." ”

Du Wenhuan laughed and said: "This town has long heard that 'there is a Cao in the army, and the west thief is afraid to hear it', the general is famous, and the town is still worried about getting in the way, but Hong Junmen Jun did not dare to disobey, and specially came to see the general kill the thief." ”

"It also depends on the power of the head town." The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and entered the big tent side by side, Cao Wenzhao asked, "Which Hongjunmen is Lord Zongzhen talking about?" ”

"Lord Hong, the governor of Yansui, has just been promoted to the governor of the three sides, and Brother Cao still doesn't know?"

Cao Wenzhao smiled bitterly: "After breaking up with You Zongzhen, I have been chasing Wang Jiayin, either drilling ravines or climbing dirt slopes, how can the news be known so quickly?" ”

Du Wenhuan looked at the map unfolded on the table and said, "Can the general be successful?" ”

Cao Wenzhao shook his head and said: "Wang Jiayin built a camp on the mountain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and he plans to lure him out and attack him in ambush, they may not be fooled." ”

Du Wenhuan nodded and said: "If they can't hold on, it will be more tricky to fight with us to consume food and grass." The town came in a hurry, and there was not much grain and grass with him, and the general was in a hurry, and he didn't think there was much surplus food. Sun Tzu said: If the army has no baggage, it will die, and if there is no food, it will die. This battle is not easy to fight! ”

Cao Wenzhao told him the central matter, but he couldn't think of any clever plan for a while, looked down at the map, and the two were silent. After a long time, Cao Wenzhao sighed and said: "Not to mention the loss of troops in the storming of the cottage, there is no certainty of victory, and if you are a little negligent, you will escape to Wang Jiayin." As the saying goes, if Wang Jiayin has the courage to fight, with the spear in his humble hand, he will not let him go! ”

"He's hiding far away, how can you get close?" Du Wenhuan shook his head again and again, and suddenly came to his senses: "Do you have a soldier named Zhang Liwei under your account?" ”

"Zhang Liwei? Oh, I remembered that half a year ago, he came to the camp gate late at night, mistook the patrol for a spy, and caught and interrogated, but he was very hard-mouthed, only said that he wanted to see Lord Futai, and did not say anything else, and tied up the patrol camp overnight, and the next day he learned that he was coming to join the army. Only then did the lowly office remember his name, and the town knew him? ”

"I have never met, but this person is a fellow villager with Wang Jiayin, so he can be sent to Wang Jiayin's side to go undercover, thinking that he should be guilty. I wonder if he has the guts? ”

Cao Wenzhao immediately ordered someone to call Zhang Liwei, and Du Wenhuan was quite disappointed when he saw that he had a short figure and a very obscene shape. When he came forward to pay his respects, he asked, "Do you still have an old lady at home?" ”

Zhang Liwei was both surprised and delighted, and wondered: "How do adults know? My mother also raised a son for the villain. ”

"You have a sister who has been kidnapped by thieves?"

"My lord......" Zhang Liwei looked at Du Wenhuan in surprise and was speechless.

Du Wenhuan said: "When I came to this town, I saw your wife, and she asked this town to give you a message, teaching you to find your sister's whereabouts with peace of mind, and not to worry about your family." ”

"My lord, my mother is her...... I think my sister's eyes are almost blind. ”

"The old man is fine." Du Wenhuan saw the corpse of a child with mutilated limbs in front of his eyes, and he couldn't help but feel sour when he thought that his family had killed Shen Yiyuan.

"Thank you, my lord, the villain is relieved. My sister-in-law was kidnapped by Wang Jiayin's subordinates, and now it has been half a year, and I don't know whether she is alive or dead. ”

"If your sister is still alive, do you want to save her?"

Zhang Liwei looked at Du Wenhuan blankly, not knowing how to answer. Cao Wenzhao said: "Lord Zongzhen wants to order you to pretend to be looking for your sister, join Wang Jiayin's camp, wait for the opportunity to assassinate, and then raise the fire as a signal, and cooperate with the outside to break the thieves together, are you willing?" ”

"The villain is willing." Zhang Liwei straightened his chest and said, "When will you leave?" ”

Cao Wenzhao said: "You pretend to be a flower child, and when you see the thief soldiers, you only say that you are looking for your sister everywhere, and you can't talk nonsense." Tomorrow morning, pass from elsewhere. ”

The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Zhang Liwei came to Wang Jiayin's old camp with a dog beating stick, a tattered clothes, and a pickled begging bowl. Wang Jiayin sneered: "This place is not less than a thousand miles away from my hometown Fugu Huangfu Chuan Xiaokuanping, how can there be villagers looking for it?" Bring me in and listen to his accent, and I will understand. ”

Wang Jiayin sat on the tiger skin chair, watched Zhang Liwei push in, kicked his legs weakly, knelt on the ground, and asked, "Which village are you from?" ”

"Yaoyuan Village."

"How far is it from my hometown?"

"Thirty-five miles on the main road, twenty-three miles on the small road."

"Humph! Listening to you, it's not a Fugu accent, it's clearly a spy mixed in by the officials and soldiers. Come on! Give me forty pounds and see what kind of accent he cries out in pain. ”

The two big men knocked Zhang Liwei to the ground, Zhang Liwei glared angrily, and argued: "Five miles of different townships, ten miles of different customs." How can my accent not be the slightest different? ”

"Hmph, don't tell the truth anymore, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

Zhang Liwei lowered his heart, closed his eyes and shouted: "It is said that a good man protects the three villages, how can you treat the villagers like this, how can you have the slightest affection for the villagers?" I'm blind! ”

Wang Jiayin shouted: "Don't do it yet? ”

The big men raised their sticks and beat them, and suddenly heard a miserable cry behind them: "Don't beat!" Before the words fell, a pretty woman rushed out, came up in front of Zhang Liwei, and said hatefully: "If you want to beat me to death first." The two big men hurriedly stopped.

Wang Jiayin said: "What are you doing out here, such a flower is also worthy of your pity?" Beware of soiling your clothes. ”

"He's my brother, what's wrong with me being distressed?" The woman took Zhang Liwei's hand and said with tears in her eyes: "Brother! How did you get here? Is my mother okay? ”

Zhang Liwei opened his eyes wide, and saw that the beautiful woman in front of him was really his own sister, but she was a little fatter, and her eyebrows and eyes had not changed much. ”

The beautiful woman was Zhang Liwei's sister, who was taken captive by the minions and dedicated to Wang Jiayin. Although she and Zhang Liwei are compatriots of the same mother, they have been smart since they were children, with a good face and a graceful body, and Wang Jiayin is very fond of her. Seeing this scene, he knew that it was really the eldest brother, so he hurriedly untied the rope with his own hands, ordered Zhang Liwei to bathe and change clothes, and put wine to suppress the shock. In order to please the woman, so that their brothers and sisters often meet, he ordered Zhang Liwei to be the commander in front of the tent, and he was introduced as a confidant, and he went in and out of the big tent at will. When the military advisor Wang Ziyong, Gao Yingxiang and others learned of this, they did not suspect it.

For a few days, Wang Jiayin always discussed countermeasures with others, Zhang Liwei had no chance to start, and saw that he was burly, he might not be able to deal with it alone, so he had no idea for a while, so he left the big tent and went to the backyard to find a sister to gossip. Just entered the courtyard, but saw a knocker in the courtyard, a man came out, looked around, hurriedly walked towards the moon gate, saw his face changed greatly, stunned in place, did not know how to greet. But there was a woman in the house who said hatefully: "If you leave so soon, you are happy, and you will make others so miserable!" The voice was delicate, and I couldn't help but feel half of my body.

Zhang Liwei recognized that the man was Wang Guozhong, the leader of Wang Jiayin's guards, so entangled with Wang Jiayin's woman, he must have hooked up with each other a long time ago, and when he came over, he said in a low voice: "You are so bold, the big boss is discussing in the front, but you are running to the back to ask for a bargain, if it spreads...... You know what to expect. ”

Wang Guozhong was already frightened, his face was white for a while, and he was frightened, kneeling and begging: "My brother, you are a master, let my brother go this time, my brother will be a cow and a horse and remember my brother's kindness." ”

Zhang Liwei smiled, pulled him up, and booed: "Don't go quickly!" Wang Guozhong also ran away.

Just entered June, there was not much food left on the mountain, and there was no sign of withdrawal of the officials and troops under the mountain, Wang Ziyong took Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others out to hunt, and they did not come back at noon. Wang Jiayin was hungry, and took Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong back to the backyard, and the woman had already cleaned up the wine and rice, braised pork, oily meat, meatballs, and egg soup...... Eight large bowls. Wang Guozhong stood at the door, Zhang Liwei entered the room and sat down, looking at Wang Jiayin's impatient appearance, put on two large bowls, poured two full bowls of spirits, and said with a smile: "I heard that the amount of wine in charge is amazing, how about a competition?" ”

Wang Jiayin was cool about the things in the cup, he was addicted to alcohol, he drank it all in one bowl, he didn't want to drink on an empty stomach, the amount of alcohol was greatly discounted, his eyes were a little glazed, and he was about to eat vegetables, Zhang Liwei stretched out his hand and said: "Drink a double number first." Wang Jiayin didn't care, he drank the wine again, and a hot fire in his stomach burned, he gritted his teeth and cheered: "Good wine!" ”

"This is an aged Fenjiu, although the wine is strong, but the taste is mellow." Zhang Liwei shouted outward: "Add wine!" ”

Wang Guozhong agreed, came in with a porcelain altar, put the altar down behind Wang Jiayin, took out a thin rope from his arms, and slammed it on Wang Jiayin's neck. Wang Jiayin snorted, twisted his right elbow and struck out, Wang Guozhong was caught off guard, right in the middle of the door, flew backwards five or six steps, fell on his back, and still held the rope in his hand.

"Don't let go!" Zhang Liwei pulled out a sharp knife and stabbed it in the chest, Wang Jiayin reached out and pulled the rope, raised his leg and kicked the table over, the ping-pong made a chaotic sound, the dishes and bowls were shattered, and the food was scattered on the ground. When he saw the sharp knife stabbing him, he dodged and dodged, but he was too close, and the sharp knife stabbed Ru in the abdomen, but he didn't have the handle. When the woman came up from the kitchen to bring rice, she was so frightened that she hid her face and screamed, and the bowl of rice in her hand fell to the ground, but it was not broken, and she turned around on the ground several times. Wang Jiayin roared in pain, his right palm slashed down, and hit Zhang Liwei's heavenly spirit cover, Zhang Liwei fainted when he boarded, his hands clenched the sharp knife tightly, and he used the power of his body to fall down, and picked the sharp knife upward, Wang Jiayin screamed miserably. The woman snatched forward, I don't know whether to take care of her husband, or to hold her brother, pull the clothes of the two and cry, Wang Jiayin's face was hideous, her right palm turned over, ten fingers were like hooks, locked her throat, only a few squeaks were heard, the woman's throat was pinched and cut for him, wow, spurted out a few mouthfuls of blood, and fell to the ground......

After a while, Zhang Liwei woke up quietly, with a splitting headache, he supported himself to get up, and saw that Wang Jiayin, his sister, and Wang Guozhong were dead, and the blood flowed all over the ground, and hurriedly went out of the courtyard gate, and saw more than a dozen guards gathered in one place, pushing Pai Gow in a noisy manner, hurriedly turning into the path, climbing a mountain, taking out three ringing arrows, and putting them into the sky, his head was dizzy, and he collapsed under a big stone, and vaguely heard a burst of shouting and killing......