Li Banghua came back with his servants and gold and silver, and as soon as Liang Shiji heard that Li Banghua had returned, he immediately went down to the city tower to greet him personally.

As soon as he entered the city gate, Li Banghua saw Liang Shiji standing at the city gate with a group of people.

"Gong Li, did you see that anti-Wang Mo asked? Then Mo asked not to embarrass Li Gong? The old man thought that you would not be able to go back with your whole body. Liang Shiji stepped forward and said.

Li Banghua glanced left and right, and said softly: "This is not the place to talk, you follow me back to the house, and I will talk to you in detail when I go to the house." ”

When Liang Shiji heard this, he hurriedly asked: "If I leave, what can I do with this city defense?" ”

"No one will attack the city, follow me back to the house first!"

As soon as Liang Shiji heard it, he immediately followed Li Banghua's footsteps back to the Li Mansion.

As soon as he got home, Liang Shiji couldn't wait to ask: "Gong Li, how are you going, how are you talking to Na Mo?" ”

Li Banghua smiled indifferently at Liang Shiji: "Brother Liang, don't blame, don't ask how polite you are to me, and you don't even ask for the gold and silver I brought." ”

"Didn't ask for gold or silver?" Liang Shiji was a little surprised, shouldn't all of these thieves be interested in getting rich, how could they not want the silver sent to the door? Is it too little?

"Gong Li, is that Mo thief disgusted with too little gold and silver?" Liang Shiji asked.

Li Banghua waved his hand and said, "No, then the anti-king Mo asks people who are not greedy for money." ”

"Not greedy for money? And he's? ”

"He only has one wife."

In the past, thieves rebelled, and most of them were people who couldn't survive, and these people were either lustful people or greedy for money.

"He is neither greedy for money nor lustful, so why did he rebel?" Liang Shiji didn't understand it.

Li Banghua saw that Liang Shiji was a little puzzled, so he had to explain to him: "I have been discussing with Na Mo for more than an hour, Brother Liang knows, how old is Na Mo this year?" ”

Liang Shiji thought for a moment, stretched out three fingers and said, "At least thirty years old, right?" ”

Li Banghua shook his head, stretched out two fingers and said, "It's not even twenty, he's only eighteen years old!" ”

"What, it's only eighteen?" Liang Shiji was stunned, he was beaten by an eighteen-year-old child and had no power to fight back.

"An eighteen-year-old boy can turn half of Jiangxi upside down, and even the former governor died in his hands, where is this person?"

Li Banghua pulled Liang Shiji to sit down and said, "I'll talk to you in detail.....

The two chatted in the study until the evening, and it was not until the family came in with food that Li Banghua stopped talking between the two.

"Brother Liang, I have reached a consensus with Na Mo Wen, early tomorrow morning, we will open the city and surrender, Brother Liang's family is in the South China Sea, then Mo Wen will not ask you about it, he will give you a small boat to let you go north to Xingan, and you will tell the court when you turn around, Xiajiang City is broken, you are desperately guarded by a group of personal soldiers to fight out of the encirclement, and the rest of the officials in Xiajiang are all killed in battle, so that Brother Liang can ensure that the family is not destroyed and his life is saved."

"What about you, Gong Li?" Liang Shiji stared at Li Banghua's eyes tightly.

Li Banghua paused for a moment and replied: "I am loyal to the emperor of the imperial court, but this heart of serving the country has nowhere to work, the ills of the Ming Dynasty are too deep, and I have no power to return to the sky no matter who comes, I have promised not to ask and serve as a military advisor in his army." ”

Liang Shiji couldn't help but bow his head after hearing this, and he said miserably: "Li Gong's whole family is in Xiajiang, and if he wants to surrender the thief, I, Liang, naturally have nothing to say, but Li Gong, are you sure that the decision you made is right?" Is that little baby really worth it for you to abandon the reputation of this life to follow? ”

Li Banghua couldn't help but be silent for a long time when he heard this, and after a while, he said firmly: "If you talk about who can save me in the Ming Dynasty, I can't say, but if you say who can win the world in ten years, it must be this little doll!" ”

Liang Shiji saw that his tone was firm, and he knew that it was useless to persuade him again, he got up and bowed deeply to Li Banghua, and said: "Since Li Gong has made a choice, then I will no longer persuade him, but unfortunately I can't see the appearance of the doll, I want to see with my own eyes, what is the difference between this eighteen-year-old boy, who can make the top three rank masters of the dignified court willing to serve!" ”

Li Banghua smiled and said, "If you want to see him, it's easy, let's go out of the city now, presumably my little friend hasn't slept yet!" ”

Liang Shiji couldn't help but be interested when he heard this, and he said, "In this case, then let's go out of the city and see each other!" ”

......

In the evening, Mo Qian sat alone in the tent and ate dinner, a bowl of rice, a bowl of tofu, and a bowl of boiled water, it was today's dinner.

The other sergeants ate about the same as him, but there was no tofu, which was worse than him, and when the army was marching and fighting, the food of the army would be much worse, basically white rice with some pickles and the like.

Sometimes the march was too hurried and there was no time to cook, so the soldiers ate instant rice, which is made from boiled and dried rice, and soaked in hot water during the meal.

Being able to eat a bowl of tofu is already a very hearty dinner, and the bowl of tofu in front of me is specially bought by the chef from the homes of the people in the countryside. 、

Mo Qian was drenched in some light rain today, and the cook was afraid that the king would get sick, so he went to the village a few miles away to buy four pieces of tofu.

Mo Qian did not refuse these kindnesses of his subordinates, because his physique was indeed not very good, and his predecessor body was really poor.

These days, he stayed in the barracks every day, and he traveled a long way, and when it rained, Mo Qian's small body was a little unbearable.

Reaching out and picking up a piece of tofu and just about to put it in his mouth, suddenly the soldiers outside came in and reported that the old man had come again in the afternoon.

As soon as Mo Qian heard that Li Banghua was going and returning, he immediately got up and prepared to go to the camp gate to greet him.

"Gong Li, you won't say hello when you come, and you won't wait for me to greet you outside the door."

Li Banghua laughed and said: "No need, I'm not without feet, just come in by myself!" ”

Mo Qian smiled and looked at Liang Shiji beside Li Banghua.

He said, "Li Gong, who is this?" ”

Li Banghua introduced: "This is Liang Shiji of Qingjiang County, that is, the current city guard of Xiajiang County!" ”

When Mo Qian heard this, he was taken aback.

"It turned out to be Lord Liang!"

Liang Shiji glanced at Mo Qian carefully a few times, and said: "Sure enough, it is a hero who is a young man, and he can beat Xie Xuelong to the point that he has no power to resist, and Li Yulong is defeated and fled, it's not easy!" ”

Mo Qian smiled embarrassedly and said, "Thank you for the compliment, please sit down, please sit down, you haven't eaten yet, eat something at my place?"

Li Banghua touched his stomach and said, "Just about to have dinner, my brother Liang had to come to see you, saying that he wanted to see what you looked like as a young man, no, I'm still hungry!" ”

"In that case, what are you waiting for, come on, prepare a meal!"

Li Banghua and Liang Shiji sat down on both sides, and when Liang Shiji saw the bowl of rice and tofu on the coach's desk, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

"King Mo usually eats this?"

"On the march, it's a luxury to have this meal!"

Liang Shiji nodded, "I can share weal and woe with the soldiers and not engage in extravagance, the old man only knows now that we are not wronged, you can be so simple as the commander of the righteous army, where can your soldiers not work hard for you."

Brother Meng Yan, I'm afraid you and I can't be like this descendant, you can be so simple! ”

Li Banghua couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and he said: "Otherwise, why do you think I would risk losing my reputation for more than 60 years and choose to be a thief? ”

"Hahaha, if all the thieves in the world are like him, then it will be my blessing to China!"

"That's right, it's a pity that a thief like Mo Xiaoyou is afraid that it is rare to meet a person in a thousand years, what is Gao Ying, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng's generation, what thirteen families and seventy-two battalion heroes, I think they can't even compare to a finger of my little friend, what else will they do besides burning, killing, looting and destroying?

My little friend is different, in the places he occupied, the people have fields to plant, food, clothes to wear, thieves like him, read all the history books, I'm afraid you can't find a few, right? ”

Liang Shiji nodded approvingly.

He said: "I now understand why he, a young man less than twenty years old, was able to sweep through Ganxi and Ganzhong in less than a year, Brother Meng Yan, congratulations!" ”

"What's the joy of it?"

"Finally the Lord!"

"Hahaha!" Li Banghua couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh when he heard this, and this laugh made his thirty years of anger in the Ming Dynasty disappear.

Early in the morning of the second day, Mo Qian led an army of 9,000 into Xiajiang County, and Liang Shiji, the defender of Xiajiang, 'desperately escaped from the encirclement' under the escort of his own soldiers, and finally captured a small boat and escaped from the Ganjiang River.

Liu Zhengyi, the county governor of Xingan, saw that the person was his colleague Liang Shiji, and hurriedly asked: "Lord Liang, why do you look like this?" ”

Liang Shiji said breathlessly: "The rebels broke through the Xiajiang, and my three thousand brothers were wiped out!" Xiajiang self-aware county Peng Ji and the following officials have all died in the country! ”

Liu Zheng knew as early as yesterday that there was a big battle outside the city, and the 3,000 officers and soldiers who had fled back from the battlefield of Maaoshan had already told him the news.

Liu Zheng learned that the thieves had set up an ambush on both sides of the official road, and after the 10,000 officers and soldiers who had beaten them lost their armor, they immediately sat on the ground in shock.

The official army fought a big defeat, and the news naturally couldn't be hidden, so Liu Zheng immediately gathered the defeated troops outside the city and gathered all of them to defend the city for him.

Now seeing that Liang Shiji, who was defending the city in Xiajiang, was also defeated, Liu Zheng immediately realized that the eyes of the thieves were about to be aimed at his Xingan County.

Liu Zheng didn't dare to delay, and immediately wrote a letter to send someone to Nanchang, the provincial capital, to ask for reinforcements!

Liu Zongxiang, who was recruiting troops in Nanchang, couldn't help but be angry and almost went directly to see Emperor Taizu after receiving Liu Zheng's distress letter.

"Li Yulong, this guy, misleading the country!"