Liu Wei did not completely follow the path pointed out by the Liu Fan brothers.

Instead, it meanders in that direction like an earthworm, moving left and right, south and north.

Everywhere he went, he would enter the village.

While taking a look at the local people's conditions, find out if there are any thieves around.

And basically there are no surprises in this matter, almost everywhere.

It's just that the scale of the thieves is large and small.

In less than twenty days, Liu Wei's notoriety spread throughout the thief circle in Hongnong County.

Located in the north and south of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River watershed, Lushi County has a complex mountain system and complex terrain, but it is most famous for the three mountains of Kunshan, Xiong'er and Funiu.

There is a pavilion on Bears Ears Mountain, which has no name, but there is a plaque engraved with a fat man with a round face.

At this moment, the moon is in the sky, but this pavilion is particularly lively.

Two campfires lit up almost half of the col, one with a bear on top and the other with a deer on it.

More than a dozen men who stood far away and looked at it, almost no different from the savages, sat around the pavilion, hugging left and right, eating wine in large bowls, and eating meat, the scene was extremely messy.

The first person was a fat man with a round face, exactly like the one engraved on the plaque.

The fat man rubbed the body of the woman beside him twice, wiped the grease off his hands, and said to everyone, "Ladies and gentlemen, I have eaten the wine and the meat, and I will wait for a discussion of business." ”

"The imperial court doesn't care about Han Sui and Montenegro, but it is eyeing us and others, this is bullying us and being weak!"

Someone in the audience immediately shouted: "Aren't we just weak and easy to bully, small families, even if we are all added up, we are less than one-tenth of the strength of the Black Mountain thieves, and it makes sense for the court to bully us!" ”

The round-faced fat man tugged at the corner of his mouth with a flowing beard like a ponytail, snorted heavily, and said, "Could it be that you are really waiting to die?" I've heard that the soldiers and horses of the imperial court came directly from Jing Zhaoyin. ”

"Jing Zhaoyin was almost turned upside down by them, and even those who killed people and stole goods were caught and cut down by them!"

As soon as these words came out, more than a dozen people in the audience gasped.

"Xiong Zhen (pi): You didn't mean to scare me?" A man in the seat, wrapped in sheepskin and clothed, asked.

The round-faced man who was called Xiong Zhen snorted coldly, squinted his eyes and scolded: "Is it necessary for labor and management to lie to you?" I will not hide it from you, do you know who this commander is? It's really scaring you to say it! ”

"Who?"

"Don't really scare us!"

"Tell me about it!"

At the urging of everyone, Xiong Zhen looked around at everyone and said, "It is He Miao, the general of the chariot cavalry, and the army led by him is said to be the Yulin Army. Some of you don't even know who the general is? But the general should always know, right? The general of the chariot cavalry is the younger brother of the great general He Jin. ”

"However, it is said that the general has been cut down by His Majesty the Emperor because of the defeat, but this is not something we should care about. Labor and management are just telling you that our lives are really in danger now. ”

Everyone gasped again, and everyone changed color.

"The fate of Jingzhao Yin's thief is the fate of what we are waiting for, I wasted so much effort to invite you here, but not to feast you. Ladies and gentlemen, we should find a way to protect ourselves! The round-faced Xiong Zhen said earnestly.

"You still have suspicions, but I tell you, I'm really panicking now!"

Someone in the audience said: "But our troops are only hundreds or thousands, without armor and self-defense, and there are not enough swords and guns, how can we compete with the imperial army?" ”

"If we form an alliance, there should be 10,000 troops, but we can rob the treasury first, and then compete with the imperial army." On Xiong Zhen's right hand side, the only middle-aged man dressed as a scribe in a shabby hat said.

As soon as his words fell, someone scolded and said: "Labor and management have long known that Lu Wen is a straight thief, and he has recognized a father with Xiong Zhen, as expected." ”

"Speaking of which, do you still want us to listen to you?"

Lu Wen glanced at the person who spoke with cold eyes, "Han Sui and Ma Teng will have hundreds of thousands of troops because they have the capacity to accommodate people, and even Sanfu dares to attack, so that the imperial court does not dare to touch them in the slightest." And you are only worthy of this robbery and petty theft. ”

The man sneered in the blink of an eye, "You are a straight thief, you are still the king of the mountain, robbing the house, I don't think you are a few points higher than our mud legs." ”

"Shut up!" Xiong Zhen sighed deeply, "Today's alliance is to discuss major matters, not for you to quarrel." If you don't want to leave, a certain family has never wanted to force one of you. ”

After everyone's eyes were not eyes and noses were not noses, one of them said, "Xiong Zhen, Lu Wen, I want to know if what you two said earlier is true or false?" ”

Xiong Zhen rolled his eyelids, "How many times do you want labor and management to tell you?" 如果有所怀疑，你回你的山头，继续享你的福去便是，没有必要掺和此事。 Could it be that you still want labor and management to use my dead Ah Weng and give you a poisonous oath? Something that dogs don't eat. ”

The crowd hesitated again.

"I agree to an alliance!" A man sitting at the end of the line suddenly said, "The news that Master Xiong knows may not be comprehensive, and there may be not one, but three, soldiers and horses dispatched by the imperial court. ”

"A few days ago, I took my brother to plunder a passing merchant, and the leader told me that there was a man surnamed Ding who was also leading an army and was in our farm. There was also a road that my brother overheard while he was out walking, somewhere in the north, there was a general surnamed Liu. ”

"Now with the news that the bear leader just said, I guess that the imperial court may be too slow to kill people with military horses all the way, and want to encircle us on three sides."

"Mr. Lu, isn't this tactic just to encircle three and miss one? Want to drive us south and catch them all? ”

Lu Wen's face changed slightly, he glanced at Xiong Zhen, and said: "What Leader Jin said is right, this should be a typical way of fighting around three and missing one, but is it a bit overkill for the imperial court to use such tactics to beat us?" ”

"What's the big deal, look at Jing Zhaoyin." Xiong Zhen said weakly, "One way of military horses, we and the alliance may be useful, but if it is three roads, how can we fight?" ”

"Find a way to get out of trouble first, and then go west!" Lu Wen lowered his head and thought for a moment and said.

Xiong Zhen immediately understood what Lu Wen meant, and went west to Liangzhou to make a living.

He slapped his knee hard, scolded and said: "It seems that there is only so much to step on the horse, but it's a pity that I spent years building the cottage!" ”

What these three people said had noses and eyes also made the others a little moved.

There were many people who suspected that these three people were uniting to calculate them, but they did not dare to gamble.

After that, the others sparsely expressed their attitudes,

With the exception of three who were consistently resolute, everyone else agreed to form an alliance.

At dawn, Lu Wen looked at the three people who had left and said to Xiong Zhen: "Do you want to take the opportunity to kill them and swallow their people?" ”

"Forget it, let them go. Maybe they can help us hold back the imperial army for some time, so that we can get a way out. Xiong Zhen said.

Lu Wen nodded, and was about to speak, when a farmer carrying a nou suddenly rushed up on the mountain road.

"Oh no, the official army is calling!"

"Oh no!"

The farmer shouted out of breath as he ran.

His voice echoed throughout the mountain in an instant.

Suddenly, sparse footsteps sounded on the mountain road and in the dense forest, and countless human heads poked out.

Xiong Zhen stepped forward and kicked the farmer to the ground and scolded: "What the hell are you shouting, how many people are there in the official army?" ”

"I don't know, it seems that there must be a few thousand people, all of them are cavalrymen with one man and two horses, wearing black armor, and they look old and scary." The dark-faced farmer flipped up from the ground and said quickly with a glare.

"All cavalry?" Lu Wen asked.

The farmer nodded repeatedly, "Ah, it's all on horseback." That horse is fat, if I had such a horse, I would definitely raise it as my own son! ”

"Shut up!" Xiong Zhenpu slapped the farmer's head like a fan, and scolded, "The imperial army is coming, do you still have time to think about this?" ”

"What's wrong with me going up the hill to dig wild vegetables?" The farmer asked, glaring.

When Xiong Zhen heard this justified reason, he immediately became angry, "Labor and management split you bastard first, I'll let you go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, and you dig your Ah Weng's grave!" ”

Lu Wen hurriedly stopped Xiong Zhen and said in a low voice: "This is a good way, try to fight a dozen first, if not, disguise yourself as a farmer and run away!" ”

Xiong Zhen was stunned, "...... Good! ”

……

"Is there really a bear on Bears Ears Mountain, called Xiong Zhen? It can't be just one bear, right? ”

Liu Wei sat in the courtyard of Likui Sanghong and asked with a look of surprise.

Sang Hong is a middle-aged man who is honest at first glance, and when he replies, he stumbles for a long time before he can brew a complete sentence.

"Will ...... General, no, it's not a bear, there are many bears on Bears Ears Mountain, but only one hurts people. Sang Hong said.

Liu Wei: ???

On the side, Xun You understood, and explained to Liu Wei with a smile, "General, Sang Likui should mean that the thief on Bears Ears Mountain is called Xiong Zhen." ”

Sang Honghan smiled and nodded again and again, "This Xiong Zhen is originally from Nanli Township, and his real name is Wang Gui." A few years ago, because he robbed a little daughter-in-law, he went to Bears Ears Mountain and fell into the grass, that is, at that time he changed his name to Xiong Zhen. ”

Liu Wei asked, "Is there a pavilion chief, a rank, a husband, a third elder, and a person here to participate?" Just tell the truth! If there is deception, the court will ask you for your crimes, and if you report illegality, the court will reward you! ”

"My army of 6,000 is here, no matter how fierce the thieves are, don't want to survive tomorrow!"

Sang Hong's face was embarrassed, and he rubbed his hands uneasily, "I...... I'm ......."

"They wouldn't know I told the truth, would they?"

Liu Wei laughed, "Do you think I'll tell them, is this what you said?" ”

"It should ...... No. Sang Hong muttered to himself, and then said: "I don't know about anything else, but the third elder and Youyi seem to have received a lot of benefits from Xiong Zhen." ”

"We often have outsiders passing by in this place, and the three elders and Youji will be warmly welcomed every time, and then every time it is dawn, these people disappear. They kept saying that they were gone, but I knew that they had actually been taken captive by Xiong Zhen. ”

After listening to this, Liu Wei smiled disdainfully: "After walking for so long, it is the first time I have encountered a thief with a bit of brains, not only does he not eat the grass by the nest, but he even knows how to use the grass by the nest as a cover." ”

"Yinglin, take someone on a trip, and invite the three elders and Youyi here!"

"Yui!"