Jiang Ye, who had a gloomy face, closed his mouth, and his eagle-like gaze circled back and forth on Zhang Jiefu and Le Lin, and after the three of them confronted each other for a while, Xu Ping suddenly took two steps forward and snorted at the three heroes: "Although I am greedy for life, I will not be difficult for strong people, I will go to the official position on my own, and I will not involve the three of them, but ......"

Xu Ping pointed to Zhong Guinian and Hei Baoyi behind him, and said to Zhang Jiefu and them: "It's just that my two friends still hope that Zhang Daxia will take more care of them, so that they can leave this Texas City safely." ”

Coming to find three Texas heroes is Xu Ping's way to survive in death, if the other party refuses to help, he will never believe that three people can fight out of the city. Now Xu Ping has the heart to give these three heroes a credit, in exchange for Zhong Guinian and Hei Baoyi to get out of danger. In the past, Xu Ping could still insist that he was just his businessman friend if he missed, but now because of the arrest and confession, these two people will definitely not have a way to live if they are arrested.

Le Lin hurriedly shouted: "General Xu, slow down." He was worried that if Xu Ping was tortured to confess, their brothers and sisters would have a lot to do with each other, and Zhong Guinian was unwilling to let Xu Ping die, only Hei Baoyi snorted coldly: "Why do you go out of the head, it's better to go to the city gate and kill it out of the bird city." ”

Zhang Jiefu looked at Jiang Ye angrily and asked, "Jiang Daxia, I know that you are not a person who will take revenge, how long do you have to pretend to hesitate?" ”

Jiang Ye shook his head, sighed helplessly, and slowly said to Xu Ping: "General Xu, you saved my life, if I don't save it when I die, it will really be for the sake of beasts......

After several people discussed the specific details, Zhang Jiefu summoned a confidant disciple and asked him to arrange for Xu Ping and the three of them to hide temporarily.

After Xu Ping and the others left the house, Jiang Ye stared at Zhang Jiefu's eyes and asked, "Do you want to press the treasure on the thief?" The thieves have not only ransacked us, but they also want the lives of people like us. ”

Zhang Jiefu turned around a little uncomfortably and did not speak. Le Lin on the side said: "That's why it's like this, we just want to leave a way out." ”

"Risking your family's lives for this?" Jiang Ye asked reluctantly. Helping Xu Ping escape from the city is not too difficult for these three local snakes, needless to say, the local garrison in Texas also has their relationship with the new army. But I'm not afraid of 10,000, just in case, although the possibility of this matter being exposed is small, the consequences are extremely serious.

"Today, the world!" Zhang Jiefu, who had not spoken, suddenly jumped up, pointed at Jiang Ye's nose and shouted at him: "Are you blind? ”

……

The next day, taking advantage of the night before the wee hours of the morning, Hei Baoyi and Zhong Guinian got into the empty barrels on the cart one after another. Xu Ping thanked Zhang Jiefu, who came to see him off. The latter said a few politely, and said coldly: "General Xu, in the final analysis, we are just small people in troubled times, and the people under our command also have families to eat, so we have to put our conscience aside in troubled times and do something that is forced to happen, please don't look down on us too much." ”

Xu Ping looked at Zhang Jiefu with some surprise, and he could barely see the wry smile on his face in the night.

Zhang Jiefu said again: "General Xu, Yuanbao has followed our senior brother for many years, and he is not a person who does not know how to observe words and feelings. ”

Xu Ping couldn't speak for a while, and he was about to get into the car with a few sounds. At this time, Zhang Jiefu took out two letters and handed them to Xu Ping, and said in a low voice: "General Xu, this is for the Central Plains Daxia and Heluo Daxia, they have an old relationship with Jiang Daxia, if General Xu is in the camp on another day, you might as well go to Kaifeng or Luoyang to find them." ”

Xu Ping put away the letter: "Zhang Daxia, I am no longer a general of the imperial court. ”

After the caravan left, Jiang Ye snorted and said, "I hope Zhang Daxia's expectations are good, although it is a gesture, but there is always a risk." ”

"Don't worry, Xu Ping's face is cold and warm-hearted, probably because of his humble background, he will be fierce when he meets people, but as long as he pretends to be pitiful, he will be soft-hearted, and he eats this set very much, if he breaks into the camp one day," Zhang Jiefu stroked his beard: "He will not bear us." ”

In the faint light of the early morning, the heavily guarded Texas City Gate slowly opened, and the carts of Jiang Ye's caravan came out of the city gate hole. Accompanying Yuan Bao was a new army commander of the fire battalion, and the fire battalion banner on this caravan was brought from the camp by order. Along the way, this Qian general manager talked and laughed with Yuanbao, and even talked about Xu Ping's deeds several times.

This long convoy went all the way west along the official road, and when it was dawn, it had left Texas a long way, and the fire battalion Qianzong and Yuan Bao said goodbye. One of the cars then pulled away from the convoy and headed straight down the path into the jungle, stopping at a secluded stream.

Yuan Bao asked the coachman to get out of the car and immediately went to chase the team on foot, and after the back of the coachman became a small dot in the distance, Yuan Bao turned out an iron rod from under the seat, jumped into the back car, and pried open the three nailed wooden barrels one by one. When Xu Ping and the others all came out, Yuan Bao pried another wooden barrel behind the car and took out all the swords and firecrackers inside. He handed these to Xu Ping, pointed to the three horses tied to the back of the car and said, "General Xu, the villain will send you here." ”

"Thank you Yuan Shaoxia."

"General Xu cherishes it." After Yuan Bao finished speaking, he turned around, untied the bundle of dry firewood from the car, and then poured oil on it and lit the fire.

The trio rode on horseback and continued on their way. After entering the Dongjiang Army activity area, Xu Ping still did not reveal his identity, and Zhong Guinian was responsible for everything. On the morning of 12 October, they arrived in Jining Prefecture.

After changing horses in the afternoon, the three of them slowed down and rode slowly down the road. During the conversation, Xu Ping and Zhong Guinian would burst into a few laughs from time to time, while Hei Baoyi silently followed behind them.

At a fork in the road, Zhong Guinian hugged his fist at Xu Ping and said, "Brother Xu, say goodbye today, I don't know when I can see you again." ”

The fork in the road to the north in front of him led to Dongchang Mansion, where Zhong Guinian's caravan was waiting for him, while Hei Baoyi and Xu Ping would enter the Henan border westward. Xu Ping straightened his body and solemnly clenched his fist at Zhong Guinian on horseback: "There is a confidant in the sea, if the end of the world is next to each other, Brother Zhong cherishes it." ”

"Brother Xu cherishes, see you in the Jinluan Palace on another day." Zhong Guinian has a sword on his waist. He is not only a disciple of Niu Jinxing, but also has the identity of Xiucai as a cover, at this time Xiucai can tie a sword around his waist, which is more convenient for Zhong Guinian, he shook the reins of the horse while clamping the horse's belly, and the mount galloped away with Zhong Guinian.

Xu Ping stared at the heroic back and walked away, and looked back and greeted Heibao: "Brother Hei, let's go." ”

……

On the second day of November, heavy snow suddenly fell on the land of Henan, and Xia Dahai looked at the heavy snow everywhere and shouted happily: "In the past three years, there has been more and more snow every year, and it seems that there will be no more major drought next year." ”

Several fellow villagers nodded in agreement. However, the snow also had some impact on their movements, and it became more difficult to find the vole's nest under heavy snow. Xia Dahai carefully searched the ground, and from time to time put a few wild vegetables and tubers into his baggage. Although he hadn't found a single vole nest or snake hole today, he searched hopefully. There is an indescribable and inexplicable premonition that supports Xia Dahai, and this feeling has been very strong since he opened his eyes this morning, making Xia Dahai believe that he will have good luck today.

The drought has eased dramatically last year, and the 60-year-old village chief said that he had never seen such a heavy snow fall in a winter in his life. After the autumn harvest, the wolf-like servants requisitioned most of the grain, but the peasants were still unable to pay off the arrears accumulated over the years. The famine had not gone away because the drought had eased, the farmers still had nothing to eat, and before winter came, the women and children had stripped the bark of nearby trees and caught all the small animals they could find.

I heard that Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, was besieging Luoyang, and all the actions of the Ming army to relieve the siege of Luoyang in the past few months had failed. Pedestrians on the road coaxed that the Bianjun army was defeated by the Bianjun army last month, and the battalion commander Liu Zongmin pursued the scattered Ming army until it reached the Tiger Prison Pass, and the Bianjun fled here to barely gain a foothold with the help of Xiongguan. The Ming army in the west either fled and surrendered, and had been swept away by the invading army.

Xia Dahai and other men have also begun to search for food in the wild recently. This year's harvest is nearly 20% more than last year's, and people's situation is a little better than in previous years, and every family has hidden some grain privately, as long as they find a way to dig out a few more vole nests and catch a few more hibernating snakes, they may be able to survive this winter. Xia Dahai pondered how he would never be forced to eat soil again this year, although eating Guanyin soil can make people survive the most difficult days, but many people will fall ill because of this, and even be born and died.

"Eat his mother, wear his mother, and the king will not pay for food when he comes." Xia Dahai finally dug up a vole nest and hummed softly in his mouth with joy. His hands had been frozen to the point that he had lost his senses, but Xia Dahai still carefully picked out every seed in the rat's nest from the soil and put it into his bag with joy: "What a bodhisattva blessed!" ”

On the way home, a few fellow villagers talked and laughed, and after a while, they arrived at the entrance of the village. Today, it was very quiet at the entrance of the village, and the children did not come out to play in the snow. Xia Dahai just felt a little strange, and a thunderous shout beside him scared him into a tremble. With this shout, several big men with sticks and guns suddenly jumped out from the side of the road, and in the blink of an eye, Xia Dahai felt that he had been hit with a few sticks. He instinctively clutched his head as he fell to the ground, and his back suddenly lightened, and his pocket had been snatched away.

When Xia Dahai stood up, he saw clearly that there was a group of soldiers from Zhengzhou around him. Several fellow villagers were pushed and shoved into the village, only to see that the men and women of the village were gathered here, and about 40 officers and soldiers of Bian's army were eyeing each other. An officer with the appearance of a hundred households sat in front of the crowd fiercely, accompanied by Qi Deyuan, a small official of the government who usually came to collect grain. Qi De nodded at the hundred households after counting the heads, and a few soldiers dragged the village chief out of the kneeling crowd.

The white-haired village chief didn't dare to struggle, but begged bitterly: "Master Jun, there is really no private food in the village." ”

Without waiting for the commander to give the order, the soldier pushed the old man to the ground, threw off his whip and whipped him on the back. The village chief let out a loud cry, but as the heavy whip sounded, his cry grew quieter and quieter until it was completely inaudible.

Seeing that he had wasted a lot of effort, the whip-wielding soldier spat at the deceased fiercely and scolded: "Diao Min." ”

Baihu waved his head, and several soldiers came over, staring at the young girl in the crowd with impunity, and soon someone began to pull one of them out of her parents' side, while her father whispered obediently, "It is her blessing that the military master looks at her." ”

Another Bianjun soldier next to him also reached out to pull a woman who was protecting the child, and the woman pushed the child holding her thigh tightly into the hand of the man next to her without saying a word, and silently followed the soldier out of the crowd. Seeing that the soldiers under his command dragged the women away one by one and the villagers still did not react, the hundred households got angry, glared and scolded: "Diao Min! ”

Xia Dahai lowered his head and remained motionless, thinking in his heart: the government has already killed the village chief and spoiled women, and it is said that if you kill one or two more people, you can get by: "As long as it is not my turn-" Xia Dahai lowered his head.

After pulling away a few women, the soldiers began to pull the men again. The first person who was pulled over said that he had no grain to hide, and that Qi Deyuan listened and said a few words briefly: "Diao Min, bury it." ”

The soldiers pushed the man into a pit that had been dug and began to fill him with earth. When the man was in the pit, he still defended himself bitterly: "Master Jun, the villain has no food, he is a good citizen, a good citizen." ”

A shovel of soil drowned out the man's last defense, and after burying the man, Qi Deyuan asked the soldiers to pull another one out of the crowd, and after a few brief answers, the soldiers pushed the man down the pit and began to bury the soil. Xia Dahai didn't dare to take a breath, staring at the ground under his feet, listening to the poignant pleading: "Master Jun, the villain is a good citizen, the villain is really a good citizen." ”

A few more words, the officers and soldiers should leave, they will not rush to kill, every time it is like this, kill two or three people, spoil the women again, and then it is time to leave - the pleading of the villagers is still in his ears, but Xia Dahai found that he seemed to be relieved.

Unexpectedly, when the two soldiers filled the pit, Baihu suddenly ordered the third one to come out, and the man collapsed to the ground as soon as he left the team. ”

This time, Qi Deyuan didn't even go to ask questions and answers with this person, and Baihu shouted to his subordinates: "Dig five more pits!" ”

"Ask for peace and security!" A sudden roar sounded like thunder, accompanied by the sound of hurried horses' hooves.

Xia Dahai, who was kneeling on the ground, didn't have time to look up, only to hear a panicked howl from the direction of the hundred households: "The thief is coming!" ”

The chaotic sound of horses' hooves and shouts was followed by the sound of blades cutting through the air, and the sound of huge fiery guns. Xia Dahai raised his head and saw a big man in Tsing Yi riding on a horse picking up a knife and cutting a Bianjun soldier to the ground; And there was another knight behind this big man, and as soon as the fire gun sounded in his hand, he knocked the hundred households who were about to climb on horseback to the ground, and then the knight drew his long sword from his waist......

"The thieves are coming!" Qi Deyuan, who always seemed invincible, was running to the end of the village with his hair scattered, and the village was full of crying fathers of Bianjun soldiers shouting to their mothers: "Thief, thief is coming." ”

The screams of the soldiers made Xia Dahai's blood boil in an instant, he jumped up from the ground, and pounced on an officer and soldier in front of him who was at a loss for what to do, and after pressing the soldier to the ground, Xia Dahai snatched the knife from the soldier's hand and slammed it into the chest of the original owner. As the knife was pulled out, the soldier's blood spurted out a meter high and splashed on Xia Dahai's face. He turned his head and saw that his fellow villagers were still kneeling on the ground, looking at him blankly one by one, Xia Dahai shouted, "What are you waiting for? Don't you dare to come out, won't you still run along? ”

This shout made the faces of the fellow villagers change color, and several young people let out a roar one after another, jumped up and pounced on the weapons that the officers and soldiers had thrown on the ground.

In the blink of an eye, the shouts of "The King is coming" and "The thief is coming" resounded over the village. Xu Ping swung his sword and slashed down a disheveled officer who had just rushed out of the house, and then caught up with a Ming soldier who tried to escape from the village, first after being knocked over by a horse, and then with his right leg trampled into the ground by a heavy horse's hoof, and let out a scream that was not like a human voice.

When Hei Bao crossed the village and slashed all the way to the entrance of the village on the other side to intercept the deserters, Xu Ping drew his sword, turned his horse's head and returned to the entrance to defend it, and cut down the officers and soldiers who tried to escape from here to the ground.

In front of Xu Ping, the people of the village chased and killed the officers and soldiers as if they were crazy, and beat them to death with sticks by the threshold and the well.

……

Jingshi, teaching team

Today, another group of officers and hundreds of recruits graduated, and after Song Jianjun gave a lecture to these officers and soldiers, they would rush to their respective posts to take up their posts: "Open peace for the Holy Son of Heaven, and all the kings will work hard." ”

In the library of the teaching team, two young officers of the New Army, sitting at the table, discussing the battle examples, these two people are named Chen Zhe and the other is Han Dake, the two are old acquaintances, they were recruited by Yang Zhiyuan a few days ago, and announced that they will be taught tactical courses by Zhendonghou himself.

There were two other people who studied with them under the command of the Marquis of Zhendong, one of whom was Jin Shentong, the commander of the direct guard. Chen and Han succeeded in getting the other person to be in the same group as Jin Shentong, which made them both greatly relieved.

"General Xiaojin has always looked down on us, his chin is always raised to the sky, and he ignores us, hmph, isn't it just that he has a good father and marries a good daughter-in-law?" In the spare time of the discussion, Han Dake talked about their classmates: "I'm really sorry for Lao Zhao, but every time I am with General Jin, I feel uncomfortable." ”

"Zhao Yixing has the best temper, since this is the case, let him be perfunctory." Chen Zhe seemed more dissatisfied than Han Dake.

Han Dake flipped the map of the Battle of Texas, shook his head and said: "This battle General Jin should really be scolded, although General He told him to be careful, if the situation is not good, he will withdraw first, but this is inevitably too careful." If he had moved faster, the rebels would have had no chance of turning the tables, if it hadn't been for Xu ...... Xu Ping rushed down the mountain in time, and the fighter plane was almost missed by General Jin. ”

Raising his head, Han Dake saw disapproval on Chen Zhe's face, and asked in surprise, "Do you think General Jin fought well?" ”

"I didn't say that, I think what you said is wrong," Chen Zhe's face was full of disdain: "This is not a problem of delaying the fighter at all." ”

"What's that?"

"Well, Brother Han, you know that I was from the Jingjin Battalion during the Battle of Shandong, General Wei and General He all ran away, and I was a deputy general manager at that time, and I was a Hanmen, and no one listened to me, so I organized more than 300 brothers I met along the way and fled back with them. As a result, the road was surrounded by more than a thousand thieves, and after fighting hard for half a day, it was about to die, and suddenly the direct guards came to kill, which was considered to have escaped. ”

"General Kim saved your life?" Han Dake's eyes widened, he had never heard Chen Zhe mention this matter.

"It's General Kim's men, not him, but at first I thought it was a life-saving grace, and I was very grateful to them." Chen Zhe sneered: "Later, after returning to Beijing, our surviving brothers also pooled money to invite them to drink, and one of the guards drank too much, and when he went out to relieve me, he said proudly to me, saying that their guards were all cavalry, and they always arrived at the last moment - they actually found out that we were fighting with the traitors a long time ago, but they have been standing by and watching, waiting for my brothers to be killed and wounded before they came out to pick up the credit for this life-saving grace and the relief of the siege." What else did the drunk guy say, Texas is like this, good, very good, they have done a great job, more than 200 of my 300 brothers died, leaving more than 100 orphans and widows, more than 400 old people who lost children, I also died nine times in my life, and I almost died. ”

Han Dake was even more surprised: "Did you report it to the military judge?" ”

"Report? What to report? Report Hou Ye's son-in-law or his personal guard? Chen Zhe sneered again: "I joined the army to fight for a wife and a cute son, wealth and glory, I don't want to end up like Xu Ping." I haven't said it to anyone, except for Brother Han, you don't want to reveal it, as long as you remember to keep an eye on it when you partner with Zhiwei in the future. ”

Han Dake was silent for a moment, and gently put down the map in his hand: "It's a pity for General Xu." ”

"Everyone has their own fate, don't think too much, don't learn Xu Ping." Chen Zhe threw his attention back to the various documents on the table: "Work hard, after the Hou Ye appoints us as a battalion officer, those generals will have to climb over and lick our boots, and beg Lao Tzu to give him a position, God, how I look forward to this day." ”

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