Early the next morning, Kou Xu and the others came to An's Nest and told Longtao Ranch that there was a mole and discussed countermeasures together.

Long Tao knew that the traitor and the four great Kou were really Li Mi's treacherous plan to deal with Shang Xiuxun and Li Xiuning at the same time.

In the original plot, Kou Xu and the others got the help of Lu Miaozi's mask and the "Flying God", they could incarnate as others, and they could climb over the cliffs to enter and exit the ranch at will, which secretly helped the ranch resolve the crisis, saved Li Xiuning, and easily destroyed Li Mi's plan.

Now that Lu Miaozi is no longer there, the mask and the "Flying God Escape" have also been taken away by Long Tao, and the two of them will naturally not be able to go out at will, if they insist on helping, they will inevitably expose their true identities.

Long Tao instructed them to just guard the inner fort, and not to take action until necessary, and he would discuss with Shang Xiuxun about the rest of the measures.

Originally, Li Mi's plan to deal with Shang Xiuxun could be said to be nine out of ten, because the traitors he set up in the ranch were not only the concubines of the great housekeeper Shang Zhenxinna, but also the third deacon Tao Shusheng, who had a very high status and knew Shang Xiuxun's whereabouts well.

In the original plot, if Xu Ziling hadn't appeared in time, Shang Xiuxun would have almost fallen into the hands of the four great masters.

Now, because Long Tao knows the other party's entire plan, he can naturally ensure that Shang Xiuxun is okay, and he can also take the opportunity to kill the four big guys.

After noon, the thieves first appeared at the west entrance of the ranch, and after receiving the news, Shang Xiuxun immediately summoned the chief butler, the four deacons and other ranch leaders to discuss with Long Tao.

Tao Shusheng, the third deacon in charge of intelligence work this month, first reported on the situation of the thieves, and the tall middle-aged strong man with a pair of goat's eyes said arrogantly: "There are about two or three thousand thieves, and a group of rabble is really arrogant. ”

Long Tao put on a look of completely believing his nonsense, and said: "Since this is the case, it is better for Yan to lead his subordinates to attack from the east entrance, and the field owner will lead his troops to attack from the west entrance, and then meet in the middle and kill the thieves who come to attack without leaving a piece of armor!" ”

Shang Xiuxun nodded and said, "That's it." Then he arranged the duties of each of them and assigned the troops.

Long Tao came to the mouth of the East Gorge, and it was the chief butler Shang Zhen who guarded the pass.

He looked at the bunchs of thieves on the hillside outside with a solemn face, and said in a deep voice: "The information is wrong! There are no less than 7,000 thieves in front of me, and there are still people and horses in the dense forest behind, and the thieves at the mouth of this gorge are only afraid of no less than 10,000 people! ”

Long Tao knew that this was in order for the other party to drag him here, so that the person who infiltrated the ranch could pretend to be Shang Zhen and cooperate with his new traitor's concubine to trick Li Xiuning into taking the bait.

"The big steward just needs to keep this place safe, and I and the owner of the farm have a detailed plan to deal with the thieves outside."

Shang Zhen frowned and said: "The ranch is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the old man can promise that he will never let them attack, what I am worried about is whether the owner of the farm will also encounter an unexpected large number of thieves." ”

Long Tao smiled: "It's okay, Yan will take someone to take a look." ”

As soon as a thousand cavalry appeared outside the mouth of the East Gorge, they attracted thieves all over the mountains, although they were scattered, but they were victorious, and they attacked the strict cavalry from all directions.

Long Tao led the warriors to fight and retreat, and slowly retreated to the forest area to the west.

Sure enough, as he expected, the thieves did not chase after him, but returned to the mouth of the East Gorge and continued to put on a posture of a large army pressing the border, the purpose of which was naturally to drag Shang Zhen.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Long Tao ordered Meng Cai to lead the army to continue westward and stand by at the mouth of the West Gorge, using fireworks and rockets as the signal to raid the thieves.

He himself climbed over the cliffs and returned to the inner fort of the pasture.

Li Xiuning's Huanlu Garden is an independent courtyard surrounded by high walls, located on the east side of the atrium, with trees and deep scenery.

Long Tao flew into the Huanlu Park, swept his spiritual sense, and after confirming the small building where Li Xiuning lived, he went straight to the eaves of the building opposite the small building, and saw a man hiding there, monitoring the movements of the entire Huanlu Park.

The man was startled and looked up at him.

Long Tao saw that he was long and jade, and his appearance was quite handsome, and he shouted: "Who is the thief? How dare you trespass on Pegasus Ranch! ”

After speaking, the person walked with the knife and slashed straight over.

The man saw that his knife was extremely powerful, and his face was shocked, and he pulled out two armguards, one short and one long, which were worthy of stabbing him, and at the same time, listening to his tone, he seemed to be a ranch man, and his mouth hurriedly shouted: "Your Excellency, slow down, under the firewood......

When Long Tao saw that he used the arm guard, he was basically sure that he was Chai Shao, and heard him call out the word "Chai", and said that it was you who was looking for it, and he slashed it out with all his might, and the powerful knife qi suddenly pressed back the words behind him.

Chai Shao's face changed miserably, and he raised his arms to gather all his strength, and struggled to block in front of him.

With a loud bang, the arm guards shattered inch by inch, and Chai Shao flew out upside down like a cannonball, falling the open space in the center of the courtyard.

Li Xiuning, Li Gang, and Dou Wei rushed out of the building together and ran to the place where Chai Shao landed, and more than a dozen of Li Xiuning's personal guards also appeared in the courtyard, showing their bows and crossbow blades, pointing at Long Tao.

Long Tao calmly jumped into the courtyard, Li Gang got up to greet him, his face was extremely solemn, "What does the Divine Sword King mean?" ”

Long Tao replied: "I received a secret report that there are traitors in the ranch who collude with outsiders with the intention of being unfavorable to Miss Xiuning, so I came to investigate, and saw this person sneakily hiding on the roof, it seems that he has bad intentions, what, Brother Li knows this person?" ”

Li Gang said in a deep voice: "He is the son of Chai Shao, who is responsible for protecting Miss Xiuning, and he is also the future husband of Miss!" ”

Long Tao frowned and said, "Since Miss Xiuning is accompanied by such an important person, why don't you introduce it to the mall owner?" ”

Li Gang was stunned and speechless for a while.

Chai Shao secretly protected Li Xiuning, and they didn't explain it to Shang Xiuxun at all, after all, Li Xiuning's status is noble, and it is indispensable to guard against others, and it is understandable that they are secretly preparing one-handedly.

But this matter was picked out, and it was inevitably a little embarrassing, and Li Gang didn't know how to answer for a while.

Long Tao continued: "If you had explained Brother Chai's identity to the owner earlier, there would have been no misunderstanding at the moment. ”

"Misunderstanding?" Li Xiuning screamed, Huo Di got up, drew out his long sword and pointed at Long Tao, and said fiercely: "You killed Brother Shao, do you want to take it with you if you misunderstood?" ”

Chai Shao was shocked by Long Tao's heart, and he was already out of breath in mid-air, and he couldn't die anymore after landing on the ground.

Long Tao said: "Yan came here with the original intention of protecting Miss. ”

Li Xiuning burst into tears, her beautiful eyes were completely filled with anger and hatred, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Don't talk nonsense!" Kill for life, kill me! ”

More than a dozen crossbow arrows shot out at the same time, flying towards Long Tao fiercely and quickly, Li Xiuning's long sword also stabbed over, and before the sword arrived, the cold sword qi was already coming.

Dou Wei put down Chai Shao's body, waved the heavy iron staff without saying a word, and swept towards Long Tao.

Li Gang shook his head, sighed, and also drew his double swords and attacked.

Long Tao first slashed the arrows with a big knife, shook with his body, took two steps back, avoided the first round of attack of the three, and shouted at the same time: "Don't the three of you make sense at all?" ”

Li Xiuning shouted: "You kill people without asking, and you still have the face to reason!" The long sword of his hand surged as Long Tao retreated, and he stabbed him in the chest fiercely.

Long Taoxin said that you scolded very wrongly, but Lao Tzu couldn't admit it, laughed in his mouth, and shouted: "You have to inch in!" Don't think that Yan is afraid of your Li family! ”

The left palm was slapped out, and the palm wind swung Li Xiuning's long sword to the side, just blocking the double swords attacked by Li Gang, and with a wave of the big knife in his right hand, Dou Xian's heavy iron staff should be broken.

Dou Xian held a half-truncated staff in his hand, his body fell forward involuntarily, and he hurriedly stopped the fall, Long Tao kicked out, Dou Xian hit the shoulder and foot, and threw it out sideways.

Long Tao took a step forward, swung his knife around, and swept Li Xiuning and Li Gang.

The three swords of the two were stabbed at the same time, there was a clanging sound, the three swords broke at the same time, and both of them also retreated, Li Gang's skill was slightly worse, his face turned red, and he spit out a small mouthful of blood.

More than a dozen guards of the Li family were only ready for the second round of arrows at this time, because Li Xiuning and the others were all within the attack range, and the crossbows were only aimed at Long Tao and did not fire.

Long Tao raised the big knife flatly, and the sword qi locked on Li Xiuning from afar.

"Stop!"

A loud shout sounded, Kou Zhong quickly rushed in, first glanced at Li Xiuning with concern, and then turned to Long Tao and said, "Boss Yan, what's going on?" ”

"You're just in time." Long Tao pointed to Chai Shao's corpse and asked coldly, "Let's see if that person is the person you said was colluding with the traitor?" ”

"Chai Shao!" Kou Zhong took a step forward, and after seeing that it was Chai Shao, he exclaimed, "Boss, you...... You killed Chai Shao? ”

Long Tao said in his heart that it was not for you kid, but he said: "I came here with good intentions to report the news, but I found that this person was sneaking on the roof, and killed him by mistake, but these people insisted on letting me pay for my life, hum, what a joke!" If you want my life to be lenient, you are not qualified enough! ”