Yangzhou City, outside the East City Gate.

More than a dozen officials of the Siyachang stood on the left side of the city gate with respectful expressions.

Shi Zheng led 1,500 elite dragons and tigers, lined up in a neat procession, and stood on the right side of the city gate with a grim expression.

Nie Zheng, under the escort of Niu Meng and others, quickly walked out of the city gate and came to the side of the rebellion team.

Seeing this scene, Shi Zheng immediately jumped off the horse, ran quickly in front of Nie Zheng, and saluted: "Alliance leader!" ”

Nie Zheng looked at him and said with a serious expression: "Shi Zheng, this time you led the people to the seven counties to quell the chaos, you must fight quickly, so that the seven counties of Yangzhou can restore tranquility as soon as possible." ”

Shi Zheng bowed his head and muttered for a moment, and said: "Alliance leader, this time to quell the chaos in the seven counties, will those land-ruffians capture or kill?" ”

"Kill!"

A cold light flashed in Nie Zheng's eyes, and he said categorically: "Anyone who gathers a crowd to make trouble and take advantage of the chaos to loot: don't be killed!" If anyone is found to be forming a gang, regardless of light or darkness, they will all be killed on the spot, and their heads will be hung on the city wall for public display! ”

Hearing this, Shi Zheng nodded deeply and said again: "My subordinates understand." ”

After speaking, Shi Zheng hesitated for a moment, and then stopped talking: "Alliance leader, I will go to the seven counties to quell the chaos, and I won't have ten days to come and go, but I am afraid that I will not be able to return to the city." There were originally only 4,000 men and horses in Yangzhou City, and now his subordinates brought 1,000 and 5 men and horses to distribute them in seven counties to guard, and his subordinates were worried that the state city was not enough to attack, and in case a large number of foreign invaders came to attack, Yangzhou City Defense was tight. ”

Nie Zheng patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I've got the news that the Dayue people in the north and south of Annan have all withdrawn to Zengzhou, three hundred miles away, and now the Dayue King Sangkang is leading tens of thousands of tribal elites to start a war with Burma, and the two sides are inseparable. You can rest assured that you will go to quell the chaos for me, and after the matter is completed, leave 200 men and horses in each county to guard it, and rush back to the state capital as soon as possible. ”

Shi Zheng looked at Nie Zheng, took a deep breath, and nodded heavily: "The subordinates will definitely live up to the expectations of the alliance leader!" ”

Nie Zheng patted his thick shoulder again and said in a deep voice: "Be careful on the road, don't let your guard down at any time!" Alright, go for it......"

After Shi Zheng bowed and saluted, he turned around like a whirlwind, and after turning over his horse cleanly, he led the elite of the Thousand Five Dragons and Tigers to leave the city gate in a mighty manner.

At the same time, more than a dozen officials who were responsible for leading the way and the people also got into the carriage and followed the team.

After watching the chaotic team gradually move away, Nie Zheng immediately ordered Niu Meng, who was standing beside him: "Help me get on the horse and go back to Jinlin Garden!" ”

Niu Meng said respectfully: "Yes, Alliance Leader!" ”

At this time, Nie Zheng suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at him, and said with a faint smile: "From today onwards, none of you are allowed to call me the leader of the alliance!" ”

Hearing this, not only Niu Meng, but even the more than a dozen dragon and tiger elites guarding the side were stunned for a moment, and looked at Nie Zheng with a puzzled expression.

"Alliance...... Alliance leader, if you are not called the alliance leader, what should it be called? ”

Nie Zheng lowered his head and thought about it, and said extremely seriously: "Da Shuai, just call Da Shuai, this title sounds more majestic and domineering, which is very in line with my temperament!" ”

"Big ...... Handsome! ”

"Haha...... Go back to the city, by the way, remember to inform Zhang Long and Chen Shou to come to see me later. ”

…………

The county hall, Jinlin Garden, inside the study.

Nie Zheng stood in front of the desk with his hands in his hands, and Chen Shou and Zhang Long stood with their heads hanging down to the left and right.

Nie Zheng looked at Chen Shou with an indifferent expression and asked, "What are the injuries of the brothers who protected me last night?" ”

Chen Shou replied, "Except for Zhao Hu, all the others died of poison." ”

After speaking, he lowered his head silently, and his mood was very lost, because among the dozens of casualties last night, there were six snipers that he had spent countless efforts and energy to cultivate, all of them were generals under his command, and they were also the most relied on by Nie Zheng.

Seeing this scene, Nie Zheng's expression was also gloomy, he was slightly silent for a moment, and sighed softly: "Good life and burial!" When the time comes, hand me over the list of casualties, and I will take good care of their families and take care of them. ”

Chen Shou nodded, still silent.

Seeing that he was so decadent and lost, Nie Zheng couldn't help but hold back what he was about to speak in his heart.

Originally, Nie Zheng was ready to reprimand Chen Shou, he had spent so much effort to equip these snipers with so many high-end weapons and equipment, just to let Chen Shou cultivate a group of excellent snipers.

But judging from last night's situation, among the snipers, except for the cripple Li Yan, the rest of the people were not qualified.

A giant bat with a wingspan of more than four meters, a group of snipers equipped with thermal imaging scopes, except for Li Yan, no one has discovered its existence?

If it hadn't been for Li Yan's early warning, if he hadn't been cool-headed and looking for an opportunity to shoot in danger, he might have been a corpse.

Thinking of this, Nie Zheng secretly sighed and instructed Chen Shou: "Chen Shou, you wait to take a pair of people out of the city, responsible for watching the wind and spying on the news, I will inform you when you will come back." ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

Looking at Chen Shou's dejected back, Nie Zheng shook his head and sighed secretly: "This son is embarrassed to be of great use......

Slowly turning his body and looking at Zhang Long, who had not spoken, Nie Zheng asked: "Let you lead someone to seal the mansions left by the Dayue nobles in the city, how about it, can you copy out valuable things?" ”

Zhang Long shook his head and said: "There are a lot of valuable antique jade and other things, but there is not a lot of gold copied out, and it is estimated that those Dayue monkeys took them all away when they ran away." ”

Nie Zheng nodded and said: "Expected things, gold in troubled times, gold in troubled times, only gold is the most worthwhile thing to carry in the war, and everything else can be discarded, these Dayue people also understand this truth." By the way, Zhang Long, you weren't injured last night, were you? ”

Hearing this, Zhang Long shook his head, looking a little depressed.

Seeing this, Nie Zheng couldn't help but ask, "Why are you like Chen Shou, wilting so unpleasantly." ”

Zhang Long glanced up at Nie Zheng and muttered, "Captain Chen was very disappointed last night, and he said that you may not trust him again in the future." ”

Nie Zheng was stunned, he never thought that Chen Shou's mind would be so sensitive. After a moment of silence, he said, "What nonsense, by the way, how is Zhao Hu's injury?" ”

Zhang Long said gloomily: "Huzi was kicked by the thief last night and broke three ribs and was seriously injured, but I am afraid that he will not recover in half a year." ”

Hearing this, Nie Zheng's heart tightened, he took a deep breath, and said: "From now on, you don't have to care about anything, accompany Zhao Hu every day, take good care of him for me, no matter how many expensive medicinal materials you need, just go and get them directly." ”

Zhang Long nodded, still bowing his head in frustration.

Seeing this, Nie Zheng couldn't help frowning and said, "What do you want?" Why are they all going to die, can you give me a little spirit? Where did the lively Zhang Long run away? ”

Zhang Long slowly raised his head, looked at Nie Zheng with a gloomy expression, and said slowly: "Big boss, do you think that Zhao Hu and I are very useless?" ”

Seeing him call himself a big boss, Nie Zheng's heart trembled, his expression softened, and he said softly: "Why do you think like this? Why? ”

Zhang Long's eyes flickered a little, as if he was recalling something unforgettable, and muttered: "Zhao Hu and I grew up in Heifeng Village with the big boss since we were children, and the old village master taught us martial arts, saying that we must protect the young master well in the future, and we can't let you have any accidents, so since we were children, Zhao Hu and I swore that we must use our lives to protect the safety of the young master." I still remember when I was a child, the young master had to go to the tree to dig a bird's nest, in order to be afraid that the young master would fall down, Zhao Hu and I lay under the tree to make the young master a meat pad. The young master wanted to go to the back of the lynx bear cub, but provoked the mother bear to chase all the way, Zhao Hu and I struggled to block, so that the young master successfully escaped, although we were scratched by the mother bear that time, but Zhao Hu and I are still very happy, because we have the ability to protect the young master.

Later, we grew up slowly, and the young master also became the big boss, and we also followed the big boss down the mountain to do business around, went to Wanhualou to drink flower wine, once, when the big boss was doing business in Wulizhuang, he was ambushed, and the three of us fell into the trap pit more than two zhang deep, and the enemy's pursuers in front of us were coming, Zhao Hu and I were stunned to grit our teeth and fold out of the human wall, and sent the big boss out of the trap pit, although we were caught in the end, but we protected the big boss. In the past, Zhao Hu and I were very confident, thinking that as long as we stayed by the side of the big boss, we would be able to protect the safety of the big boss and not let the big boss have any accidents......"

Speaking of this, Zhang Long took a deep breath, looked at Nie Zheng with tears in his eyes, and said in a low voice: "However, since the big boss walked out of the Black Wind Village, we were horrified to find that your steps are getting higher and higher, and there are more and more people around you, and Zhao Hu and I can't reach your heels even if we stack up a high human wall, we can't protect the big boss now, and the big boss doesn't need our protection more and more, I'm afraid that one day, the big boss will be farther and farther away from us, so far that it's difficult for us to see you, the big boss... …”

Zhang Long's words suddenly made Nie Zheng's nose a little pantothenic, Nie Zheng exhaled deeply, tried to calm his emotions, and then walked quickly to Zhang Long, hugged him tightly, feeling the corners of his mouth twitching, Nie Zheng patted his shoulder, and said in a firm tone: "I am your young master, I will always be your young master, you are my follower, you will always be my follower......"

(To be continued.) )