After Long Tao left the helm of the Zhuhua Gang, he went straight to the city gate, he didn't want to make too much noise, so he only cut down a dozen or so soldiers guarding the gate and rushed out.

Zhang Shihe returned to the garrison, sent troops to pursue him, and reported to Yu Wenhua on the other, and issued wanted warrants to various counties and counties to arrest Yan Kuan.

Of course, at this time, the rebels were everywhere, and the wanted warrant could not enter the sphere of influence of the rebels at all, and it was only useful in the territory controlled by the Sui military government.

After Long Tao left Yangzhou, he first went eastward and entered Taizhou, which was already Li Zitong's territory, crossed the Yangtze River from Taizhou, and slowly went south.

The world is in turmoil, thieves are everywhere, many rebels are also thieves who are difficult to change, looting everywhere, and the Sui army that has suffered defeat, is even more adulterous and plundering, doing all kinds of evil, all kinds of gangs of all sizes have also taken advantage of the situation, oppressing one side by open or covert means, grabbing their own interests, in the troubled times, the unlucky is still the poor people at the bottom.

Long Tao walked slowly all the way, just the pitch-black big knife on his back provoked a lot of thieves to come and rob it, in this troubled world, a weapon can still be sold for a lot of silver taels.

These thieves have naturally become ghosts under his knife, and when he lacks silver, he will occasionally go to the thieves' dens along the way to rob them, or go to the territory of some gangs, and when they encounter them bullying, they will fight back, and they have also defeated or killed many slightly famous martial arts figures.

Along the way, Long Tao gradually became famous, because the dragon slaying knife was too conspicuous, so he had the nickname of "black knife".

His itinerary was slow, and he had been staying in Kunling, Wujun and other places, and the name of "Black Knife" gradually spread in the area of the estuary of the river.

Of course, he has not yet defeated a real master, but he is quite famous for his domineering and ruthless sword skills, and in terms of fame, he can only be regarded as a beginner in the ranks of martial arts masters.

In order to match this name, Long Tao deliberately grew a beard and turned into a rough and unruly man.

In the troubled times of "Datang", reputation is still very important, only after really breaking into a well-known name with its own strength, the world will recognize, like Kou Xu and the others, in the early days, others only regarded them as two lucky gangsters, and looked down on them at all, until the two joined forces to kill the "Qingjiao" Ren Shaoming, they gradually established their status in the rivers and lakes.

Long Tao didn't deliberately find some stronger opponents to improve his reputation, after all, he still had to wait for those two boys to learn "The Secret of Eternal Life" and step into the rivers and lakes to completely unfold the plot.

This area is actually under the control of Shen Faxing, but at this time Yang Guang is not dead, this person has not yet rebelled against Sui, and is still a Sui general.

Long Tao wandered around this area with a wanted warrant on his back, and occasionally encountered the Sui soldiers who captured him, and naturally he killed them all.

On this day, Long Tao came to a wharf in Changzhou, lazily lying on a big rock and looking at the hundreds of ships parked on the seashore, among which a huge ship was far away from the ships and parked on the periphery.

The appearance and flag of the giant ship are unique and exotic, and Long Tao's heart moved, remembering the Dongming faction giant ship in the original book.

At this moment, the sound of breaking wind behind him sounded, and two figures swept quickly, standing on Long Tao's left and right sides, staring at him coldly.

Long Tao rested his head on the big knife, and casually swept his eyes, and saw that the two were about thirty years old, looking alike, like a pair of brothers, and they were dressed the same, both dressed in blue strong clothes, with a long whip wrapped around their waists.

The man on the left shouted in a rough voice: "Yan Kuan, you know that you are a person on the wanted list, and you still swagger around Lord Shen's territory, and you also openly kill officials, do you deceive us Lord Shen and have no one under him?" ”

The man on the right side: "We have also heard about your affairs in Yangzhou, and there may be grievances in it, but you are also a person who has mixed up on the road, how can you understand the reason, you have been wandering in the place of Lord Shen with a wanted warrant, didn't you fall in his face?" Now I will give you two ways, one is to leave Lord Shen's territory immediately and don't let us see you again, and the other is to leave my head and let my brothers exchange it for a bounty! ”

Long Tao was still lying down, looking at the sky with his eyes, and asked lazily: "Are you two also official lackeys?" ”

"Although we are not from the official mansion, we are guests under Lord Shen's account, and we should share our worries for him!"

Long Tao rolled his eyes and sneered: "Uncle, I can go wherever I want, don't say it's just a Shen Faxing, even if the Heavenly King Lao Tzu comes, he can't order me!" ”

"Presumptuous! I don't know what the sky is high and the earth is thick! The two drew their whips, and the man on the left shouted, "Rise up and die!" ”

"Humph! Get your name in! Long Tao snorted coldly: "Let's see if your two dogheads are worth the uncle's knife!" ”

"Ignorant fanatics! I'm afraid you haven't seen the Qishan faction's Liuyun whip! ”

"Remember, we are Lian Fan and Lian Chu of the Qishan faction, don't forget when you report to the King of Hades!"

Lian Fan, Lian Chu?

Long Tao thought for a while, and remembered that there seemed to be such two people in the original book, and they should just appear for a short time to level up Kou Xu and the others.

At this time, the long whips of the two were less than a foot away from Long Tao's chest.

Long Tao stretched out his two hands, accurately grabbed the two whips, and with a little luck, he scattered the energy attached to the long whip.

The two of them were shocked, hurriedly retrieved the long whip, and when they pulled it, they found that the tips of the whips had been tied together by Long Tao in the blink of an eye, and they were even more shocked by his swift and incomprehensible methods.

Long Tao sat up suddenly, picked up the big knife and swung it half a circle, the Lian brothers only felt a cold lower body, and their trousers suddenly fell off, revealing their smooth buttocks.

The two of them saw that the blade was close to the body, just cutting the belt of their trousers, knowing that the other party's subordinates were merciful, and they were even more shocked by the accuracy of Long Tao's use of the knife.

"Get out! The next time I meet you, I'll cut your eggs! ”

The two of them carried trousers in one hand and dragged the whip tied together in the other, pulling and pulling and running away, looking indescribably funny.

Long Tao couldn't help laughing when he saw it.

"That strong man, can you come to the ship for a while?"

A crisp voice came.

Long Tao turned his head to look, and saw a beautiful girl standing on the stern of the giant ship, dressed as a maidservant, smiling at him.

"Did the girl call me?"

The maid nodded and said, "Exactly, my wife wants to invite the strong man to come on the boat." ”

Long Tao jumped to the stern of the boat and landed beside the maidservant.

The maid was obviously shocked by his light body skills, and after being stunned, she smiled and said, "Master Yan is so skilled!" Please come with me. ”

Long Tao's eyes swept around, and there were more than a dozen strong men in white samurai uniforms patrolling back and forth on the deck, and he was even more convinced in his heart that this ship must be a giant ship of the Dongming faction.

Dongming faction is located in the overseas Ryukyu Islands, to do weapons trading for a living, the owner of the faction is Dongming lady Shan Meixian, the island by the woman in charge, when the man and woman get married, it is called the man marrying into the woman.

It is rumored that every spring and autumn, they will go inland to select some young men with good qualifications, bring them back to the island to be trained, and then match them to the women on the island.

"Could it be that he showed his hands just now, and was taken by Mrs. Dongming?"

Long Tao walked in with the pretty maid, and recalled the appearance and personality of Princess Dongming Shan Wanjing in his heart.