Chapter 544: Unloading the mill and killing the donkey

The rumors spread quickly, and it didn't take long for the rumors to spread and people panic in the outer city, and at this time, Lin Haotian lost no time in setting up recruitment offices in several population concentration areas in the outer city, encouraging the people of You to move north to Jinguo, not only to divide the house and land, but also to reduce or reduce taxes.

The Jin army's Huairou policy in Huaiyang has made the local people have a lot of good feelings towards it, and now Huaiyang has been turned upside down by the new word army, and the people of You Guo, who have been forced to have no way out, have no choice but to accept the recruitment of the Jin State when they are forced to do so.

It can be said that the more fierce and chaotic the city, the more people from You Country will be recruited on the Jin Country's side.

On this day, Lin Haotian received news that the Yan-Chi coalition army was approaching Huaiyang and would arrive tonight.

Lin Haotian smiled indifferently, the advance of the Yan-Chi coalition army was also very fast, and it was only a few days later than his own to Huaiyang, but just a few days in this area, it also made him a lot of benefits for the two countries.

This battle to exterminate you is finally coming to an end, and it is time for him to start preparing to collect his troops and return to China! Lin Haotian stood up, stretched his muscles twice, and walked out of the camp tent.

Jin Cheng, who was guarding the door of the tent, bowed down and asked, "Where are you going?"

"I'm so stuffy in the camp tent, come out and walk casually!" Lin Haotian suddenly remembered something and asked, "How is Nie Xing's situation now?"

"They were held not far away, and General Jin Cheng was sending people to guard them. Jin Cheng replied.

"Take me to see!" Lin Haotian lowered his head and motioned for Jin Cheng to lead the way.

The place where Nie Xing was imprisoned was indeed not far from Lin Haotian's camp, after all, the place where Lin Haotian was located was the key place guarded by the Jin army, and it was safer to detain Nie Xing here.

Since Nie Xing was taken to the joint camp, Lin Haotian has not seen him, and when he met at this time, Lin Haotian's heart was also shocked.

Although Nie Xing is old. But it is well maintained, the head is black and thick, the face is full of red light, whether sitting or standing, the waist is straight, and it is very people who feel a sense of not being angry but threatening.

But look at him now. It was already spotted, his eyes had lost his charm, his face was dull, and he was sitting there, old and old, giving people a lifeless feeling.

The current Nie Xing is dozens of years older than the Nie Xing in Lin Haotian's impression. It's hard to imagine that just a few days can make such a big change in a person's life.

After Lin Haotian entered the account. Automatically and consciously walked to the opposite side of Nie Xing and sat down.

After a long time, Nie Xing, who had been closing his eyes, seemed to feel that someone had come in. He raised his eyes slightly, glanced at Lin Haotian who was sitting opposite him, didn't say anything, and slowly closed his eyes again.

Lin Haotian smiled indifferently, stretched out his fingers, and gently tapped the table in front of him.

Jin Cheng understood, and immediately asked the guards below to prepare tea quickly.

Nie Xing didn't speak. Lin Haotian didn't speak, and the two sat silently opposite each other. I don't know how long it took. Nie Xing suddenly squeezed out a sentence: "Has this king's confused rebel been killed by you?"

Lin Haotian's heart moved, well, Jiang is still old and spicy! Compared with Nie Xing, Nie Dan is indeed far behind.

Before he could reply, the guards brought the tea. Lin Haotian picked up the cup. He rubbed his palms lightly and said with a smile: "Childe is the hero who helped the coalition army break through Huaiyang, how could the coalition army kill Childe?"

Nie Xing stared at Lin Haotian and said word by word: "With such nonsense, it may be okay for you to deceive others." But you can't fool the king. ”

Lin Haotian took a sip of tea slowly, and his flat tone seemed to be explaining an innocuous matter, and said, "Last night, your son died in the palace. ”

"Lin Haotian, you are so ruthless...... obviously expected this kind of result, but after listening to Lin Haotian say it himself, Nie Xing still couldn't control his emotions. His head buzzed, he stayed for a moment, leaned over, grabbed Lin Haotian's collar fiercely, and shook it again and again like crazy.

Without Lin Haotian pushing him away, the guards standing on the left and right swarmed up and pressed Nie Xing to the ground.

Lin Haotian put down the teacup, flicked the tea that splashed on the cuffs again, then stood up, and said indifferently: "Tonight, the Yan-Chi coalition army will arrive in Huaiyang, and by then, His Royal Highness King You will not be far from death, even if I am the last to visit, this time even if I am the most reluctant!"

Nie Xing struggled to get up from the ground, but a guard pressed him to death, and he fell to the ground, unable to move. His teeth were clenched, and his gums were oozing blood due to the excessive force, he glared at Lin Haotian angrily, and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Lin ...... Haotian ......"

"Well, remember my name!" Lin Haotian said as he walked out, "When I see the king of Hades in the future, I won't even know who my enemy is." Before leaving the door, he paused, turned around and said, "In the future, there will be no more You Kingdom, and the Nie clan will also be slaughtered." ”

"Ahh

For Nie Xing, Lin Haotian didn't have any mercy, the damage You Jun did to the Jin Kingdom back then was unforgettable, and the destroyed city has not recovered until now, and the culprit is Nie Xing, how can Lin Haotian not hate him?

He was walking towards his camp tent, and inadvertently saw some chaos on the other side of the gate, Lin Haotian frowned, shook his head at his guards and said, "Go and ask, what's going on!"

"Yes, sir!" said the guard, and ran quickly to the side of the gate.

After waiting for a while, he ran back with a brisk step, and said to Lin Haotian: "The outsider from the camp is Yang Jie, he said that he wanted to see General Kong Qingkong, and no matter how much the brother of Yuanmen persuaded him, he couldn't persuade him. ”

If you want to see Kong Qing, Lin Haotian sneered, okay, since you want to see him, let you see enough! He shook his head at the guards and said, "Order the soldiers of Yuanmen to let Yang Jie enter the camp, and this king will see him in the Chinese military tent." With that, he turned and walked back into the tent.

It didn't take long, and as the guards reported, Yang Jie walked in from outside. He intervened and said, "The villain has seen General Lin!"

Lin Haotian sat on the mat and didn't raise his head, just answered casually, and then asked, "I heard that Mr. Yang Jie wants to see General Kong? General Kong is not in the camp now, Mr. Yang Jie should come back another day!"

Yang Jie unconsciously clenched his fists, now he doubted whether Kong Qing was still alive? He took a deep breath, trying to calm his emotions, he said with a smile: "Actually, the villain doesn't have anything important, he just wants to ask a few things clearly." Since General Kong is not here, it is the same if General Lin is here. ”

"Oh?" Lin Haotian was happy, and finally raised his head and asked, "What does Mr. Yang Jie want to ask?"

"I heard that there was a fierce battle in the palace last night, and Prince Nie Dan was unfortunately killed in the fierce battle?"

Lin Haotian shrugged. said: "Last night, Nie Dan invited the princes to the palace for a banquet, but secretly set up an ambush and wanted to kill us and the other princes, but the result was that stealing chickens and rice was not successful. He is not a 'tragic death', but a 'self-inflicted blame'!"

"I see!" Yang Jie nodded solemnly, but secretly hated the root of his teeth.

Lin Haotian's arguments were not convincing at all, how could Nie Dan go and assassinate them? The armies of the nations had fully occupied Huaiyang, even if Nie Dan's action could really succeed. At the end of the day, it was still a dead end, not to mention that he had no chance of success at all.

Yang Jie is in the intelligence business, well-informed, and clearly knows that although Nie Dan lives in the palace, the actual control of the palace is still in the hands of the coalition forces, in this case, Nie Dan will assassinate the kings unless he is crazy.

Now Yang Jie has completely figured out that what the coalition army used to say is that 'Vayou is on the orders of the kings of various countries.' Just to expel the usurper Nie Xing from the throne, not to destroy You Guo'These words are simply false. The coalition forces not only want to abolish Nie Xing, but also destroy You Guo, and then further divide You Guo, so that You Guo will forever become a term in history.

At the beginning, Kong Qing took the initiative to find him and asked him to help the coalition forces, and he also believed that his old boss would never be a traitor. Presumably, he was also deceived by the coalition forces at that time, and now that the coalition forces have torn off the mask of hypocrisy, Kong Qing, who has been kept in the dark, will be in a very dangerous situation. This is the reason why Yang Jie came to Kong Qing.

But now that the coalition forces have been saying that Kong Qing has left Huaiyang to perform other tasks, Yang Jie, who knows the sinister hearts of people, has already had a premonition that Kong Qing is afraid of being more than lucky.

Figure this out. Yang Jie's heart was like a knife, and he hurriedly lowered his head, afraid that Lin Haotian would see the layer of mist in his eyes.

Yang Jie didn't dare to show the true emotions in his heart, because he didn't want to lose the last chance to take revenge.

"Since that's the case......" After a while, Yang Jie raised his head, smiled at Lin Haotian and said, "Then the villain won't bother the adult, the villain will leave first!" As he spoke, he bowed to Lin Haotian again.

No matter how happy and angry Yang Jie can cultivate, he can't hide the murderous intent that naturally exudes from his body after all, and Lin Haotian's intuition has always been very keen on this point.

He bent his eyes, waved his hand with a smile, and said, "It's rare for Mr. Yang Jie to come to the barracks, why rush back and sit for a while......

Before he could finish speaking, the curtain of the tent suddenly opened, and Zhang Li walked in from outside. Seeing Yang Jie in Lin Haotian's tent, Zhang Li looked very surprised and asked, "Brother Yang, why are you here?"

Yang Jie glanced at Zhang Li deeply, and then said with a smile: "Actually, it's nothing, I came to the barracks to find General Kong, and I happened to be met by General Lin, so I was invited by His Royal Highness by the way." ”

"Oh, that's right. Zhang Li said with a smile: "Brother Yang came at an inopportune time, General Kong has already gone to the western counties to persuade the local defenders to surrender, and he is not in the barracks now. Right, sir?"

While speaking, she was already snuggled up to Lin Haotian like a kitten, and her little hands kept rubbing against him.

Seeing this, Yang Jie immediately turned his gaze to the side and said, "General Lin, it seems that the villain is really inconvenient to bother anymore, so he has left!"

Lin Haotian squinted his eyes, looked at Zhang Li who was leaning beside him, and then looked at Yang Jie, who wanted to leave, he was silent.

Only when he acquiesced, Yang Jie gave another salute and slowly retreated outside the tent. When he was about to leave the tent, he seemed to suddenly remember something and said: "By the way, General Lin took good care of the people in the outer city, and instead of harming Youren, the Jin Army tried his best to protect it, and the people were very grateful to General Lin for his kindness, so the villain dared to invite the adults to eat at the cold house tonight, which can be regarded as the villain's gratitude to General Lin instead of the people." ”

Lin Haotian was stunned for a moment, then smiled, lightly tapped his forehead and thought about it, nodded in response: "Mr. Yang Jie, please rest assured, tonight, Ben Shuai will definitely go to your teahouse." ”

"The villain is waiting for His Highness!" Yang Jie said politely, and then turned to leave.

Watching Yang Jie leave, Lin Haotian did not send someone to intercept him, but looked sideways at Zhang Li beside him. Smiled and asked, "Did you do it on purpose?"

Zhang Li's face was full of confusion, and she asked, "Why did the adults say this?"

Lin Haotian said with a smile: "Pretend to be intimate with me in front of Yang Jie." Then I gave Yang Jie an excuse to leave immediately.

Zhang Li shook her head, looked at Lin Haotian with resentful eyes, and said, "Why do I want to pretend to be intimate with adults in front of Brother Yang?

Lin Haotian was not distracted by her topic at all, he stood up and looked down at Zhang Li. said calmly: "I know that you are Yang Jie's subordinate, and you have a deep relationship with him, but now, Yang Jie has the idea of killing me, you have to make a choice, either follow me or follow him." Tonight, I will send a large army to besiege Yang Jie's tavern. I won't let go of any of the people inside, you can choose for yourself!" After speaking, he walked out of the hall without looking back.

He didn't play dumb riddles with Zhang Li, he simply picked everything out and threw the question of his position to her. If the Jin army besieged the tavern tonight, it was obvious that Zhang Li must have revealed the news. She chose to side with Yang Jie, and if Jin Jun could successfully strangle Yang Jie's party tonight. It shows that Zhang Li is still inclined to her own, and there is no news.

Lin Haotian left, leaving the dumbfounded Zhang Li in a daze in the big tent.

Since she has been by Lin Haotian's side, she does know much more news than Yang Jie. Jin Cheng secretly executed Kong Qing, Zhang Li had heard about it, but she didn't dare to say it. At this time, she already knew that the purpose of the coalition was not simple, and it was by no means simple to let Nie Xing step down. The facts proved that her guess was correct, and then Nie Dan was killed in the palace, and the princelings were strangled by the coalition forces.

Until this time. Zhang Li did not regret that she told Lin Haotian about the waterway, the rise and fall of You Guo was not important to her, she was very fortunate to meet Lin Haotian, a man who made her very excited.

But today she heard that Yang Jie was taken to Lin Haotian's camp, she couldn't sit still, she knew that with Lin Haotian's personality, he would inevitably kill everything, and he would not let go of Yang Jie, who knew a lot of inside information.

Yang Jie treats her like a brother and a father, she was only taken care of by Yang Jie when she was just over ten years old, and all the martial arts she learned were taught by Yang Jie, she can have today, it is completely given by Yang Jie, the latter is in danger, she can't help it, so there is a scene just now.

Now Lin Haotian is tantamount to pushing her into a dead end, on the one hand, the man she loves, and on the other hand, the biggest benefactor in her life, how does she choose?

I don't know how long it took for Zhang Li to come back to her senses and look around, there was no longer Lin Haotian.

She returned to her tent like a walking corpse, shrank into the corner, and sat slowly on the ground, not moving for a long time.

At this time, she was also making a painful choice in her heart.

If she chooses Lin Haotian and turns her back on Yang Jie, she is afraid that she will hate herself for the rest of her life, and if she chooses Yang Jie and betrays Lin Haotian, she thinks she will never be happy again in her life. After thinking about it, she still stood up, took the paper with ink, and quickly wrote down a line of words: Tonight, Lin is not coming, the Jin army will arrive, flee quickly!

After drying the ink, she carefully formed the paper into a thin roll, and was about to tie it to the carrier pigeon, but suddenly she felt that something was wrong, and she put away the paper roll and wandered around the camp as if nothing had happened.

Zhang Li is an intelligence worker, good at tracking and tracking, of course, she is also a master of anti-tracking and anti-tracking, she seems to wander around casually, but she is actually observing whether anyone is following her. She was disappointed by the results, but no.

She really hopes that someone will follow her, which means that Lin Haotian does not trust her, and she is always suspicious of her, so that although it will be difficult for her to pass on the message to Yang Jie, at least she can feel more comfortable, but the fact is that Lin Haotian trusts her so much.

Zhang Li, who was unwilling, also made a special trip to the camp and walked to the outer city of Huaiyang, but through her secret observation, she still did not find anyone who was following her. In the end, she could only give up, returned to her camp, and struggled a lot, and finally decided to release the carrier pigeon and send a message to Yang Jie. She didn't want to let herself live in regret and pain for the rest of her life, and chose to betray Lin Haotian, it was naturally best for him to be considerate of himself, if he couldn't understand and execute himself, it would be just a hundred.

Zhang Li, who was born in intelligence, will not leave the carrier pigeon, and the carrier pigeon she uses has also been trained by Yang Jie for a long time, so she knows how to avoid danger.

She watched as the carrier pigeon flew higher and higher, gradually turning into a small black dot in her sight, and then disappearing completely.

This whole day. Zhang Lidu was so worried that when it came to the evening, she was even more restless, and she turned her heart to the end, so she simply went to Lin Haotian to see what was going on.

When Zhang Li arrived. Lin Haotian is playing chess with Jin Cheng in the big tent.

Lin Haotian was not surprised by Zhang Li's uninvited arrival, and said with a smile: "Zhang Li, why are you here tonight?

Zhang Limei's eyes wandered, she looked at Lin Haotian and Song Hao, although her heart was up and down, but she still had a charming smile on her face, and asked softly: "The concubine didn't disturb the adults and Mr. Chu's Yaxing, right?"

"Presumably, you are worried about Yang Jie's life and death, right?" Lin Haotian suddenly asked. Then he didn't give Zhang Li a chance to refute, and continued: "I have sent out the army to exterminate Yang Jie's party, and I will know the result soon." ”

Zhang Li sat down beside Lin Haotian, slowly snuggled on his shoulder, and said softly: "Adults have always done things safely, and I believe there will be no accidents this time." ”

Lin Haotian smiled on his back, and scraped Zhang Li's face with the tip of his index finger. smiled: "Borrow your auspicious words." ”

Jin Cheng was stunned when he heard the conversation between the two of them, and thought for a moment. He put the chess pieces he picked up back in place, looked at Lin Haotian puzzled, and asked, "If the last general is not mistaken, Yang Jie is the one who helped the adults infiltrate Huaiyang, right?"

"It's him!"

"Why are you still ......?"

"Although he was kind to me at the beginning, he now hates me to the core, and he knows so many things. Can't stay. Lin Haotian's expression was helpless, but his tone was extremely cold, without any emotion.

"Understood!" Jin Cheng smiled, didn't ask any more, and continued to play chess with Lin Haotian.

Wait for Lin Haotian and Jin Cheng to finish playing two more games of chess. It was already nightfall, Jin Cheng felt that the time was not early, and was about to let Lin Haotian rest, when the voice of the guard suddenly came from outside the tent: "My lord, General Shao Lin asks to see you!"

"Oh?" Lin Haotian perked up and raised his head: "Please General Shao come in!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the curtain of the camp tent was opened, and Shao Lin, dressed in military uniform, walked in, with a wooden box in his elbow. He strode to Lin Haotian's approach, intervened to give a salute, and said, "The last general will see your lord!"

As Shao Lin came in, Zhang Li's heart also rose to her throat, and according to her guess, Shao Lin was the main general sent by Lin Haotian to besiege Yang Jie.

Sure enough, Lin Haotian waved his hand to Shao Lin to calm him down, and then asked, "How are things going?"

Shao Lin didn't squint, didn't look at Zhang Li next to Lin Haotian, and said to Lin Haotian with a straight face: "Lord Hui, the last general will strangle Yang Jie's party of twenty-three people at Yang Jie's house!" As he spoke, he handed the wooden box between his elbows to the table, opened the lid of the box, and said, "This is Yang Jie's head!" As he spoke, he turned back to the tent and shouted, "Bring it in!"

As he spoke, two more Jin soldiers entered the tent, and at the same time, a large wooden box was carried in, which was filled with bloody human heads.

Lin Haotian was overjoyed when he heard this, stood up, walked to the table, and looked into the wooden box, although the human head inside had a hideous expression, it could still be recognized, it was indeed Yang Jie.

Then, he walked around the table and looked inside the big wooden box, looking at a few severed heads with their faces exposed, he vaguely remembered that they were the guys in Yang Jie's teahouse.

He nodded appreciatively to Shao Lin and said, "This matter is well done, take a credit!"

"Thank you, sir!" Shao Lin intervened again.

Lin Haotian glanced at the two people beside him, Jin Cheng was obviously not interested in human heads, and he was used to this kind of bloody thing, so since Shao Lin opened the wooden box, he didn't even look at it, and he looked completely calm, while Zhang Li was diametrically opposed, his eyes fell motionlessly on the head of the person in the wooden box, and his stunned expression couldn't tell whether it was back or joy, and the whole person was stunned in place, unable to come back to his senses for a long time.

The corners of Lin Haotian's mouth raised, walked back to Zhang Li, patted her shoulder, and sighed faintly: "I really didn't misunderstand you, and you really didn't disappoint me!"

He doesn't care or care about what Zhang Li has done that day, he only cares about the results. Now the result is that Yang Jie and his subordinates were indeed killed by their own soldiers, which is enough to prove Zhang Li's innocence and her position on herself. (To be continued......)