Cen Wu is 28 years old, with curly hair, rolled nostrils, a fat mouth, and some buckteeth. The appearance is ugly, but the heart is not bad, since he was a child, others bullied him, he just smiled, keeping in mind the words of his mother: people can be ugly, but the heart cannot be bad!

When his mother died in a flood when he was nine years old, he was rescued by his father and survived by his mother's scraping.

Feng Hanzi, a Taoist priest of Sanqing Mountain, took his apprentices down the mountain to relieve the disaster, and found that the child was young and ugly, but after receiving the food, he knelt down and held it to his mother and father, and he only ate some scum, so he asked him why.

Cen Wu replied that his mother and father gave birth and saved themselves, there is nothing heavier than this grace, although he is young, he has rich and powerful flesh, and he can pick bees to satisfy his hunger.

Feng Hanzi was very surprised, and felt that this child knew how to repay his kindness and answered clearly, so he liked it quite much. So he taught Cen how to identify and cook 56 kinds of wild vegetables, and made an appointment with him to meet again in a month.

When he returned, he found that although the local people had food, none of them had starved to death.

After asking, I learned that the young Wu'er of the Cen family taught the methods she taught to the children of each family, mobilized everyone to dig wild vegetables, pick bees, catch fish and crabs, and then distributed them to each family, especially the lonely widows and families who had lost their loved ones.

Feng Hanzi was silent, and finally found the Cen family, and said to Cen Wu's father that your son has the ability to do great things, and wants to take him as an apprentice for nine years, and buy fifteen acres of land for the Cen family as an offering.

Cen Wu followed his master to Sanqing Mountain for nine years, and in addition to the four books and five classics, Feng Hanzi also taught him martial arts and medical skills. After he completes his studies, he will be released to his own family.

While supporting his mother, Cen Wu diagnosed the local people and took the young people in the township to practice martial arts to protect the township. He is famous for his osteopathy, and he is good at making a steel shovel, and later he became a chief, and the name of "good ghost" reached Beiguo.

His deceased mother's surname was Kuang, and the Kuang family lived in Yangjiadu, and had been in the timber business for generations. The burning of Yang Jiadu caused the Kuang family's business to plummet, so the Kuang family hated Yintuo to the core.

Coincidentally, there is a man named Kuang Yi in his family, who is a member of Cen Wu's deceased mother and nephew, and is a member of the Chashan Society. I am bored because I have no livelihood. At this time, Cen Wu reluctantly agreed to be a tax collector and set up a card on the Huating Bridge, so he came to recruit him to be a tax collector.

Unexpectedly, the reconnaissance of the Tsing Shirt team did not find Kuang Yi in Yangjiadu, so they found this tax card, and as a result, the situation here was completely lost.

As soon as Li Dan and Gao Hanzi heard this, they felt that this Cen Wu might be able to be fought for, so they first sent a reconnaissance to discuss with Kuang Yi, and it was best to fight for Cen Wu, and quietly found a way to do it without hurting people.

In order to persuade Cen Wu, Li Dan specially brought Lei Jisheng and asked him to bring two guards to pretend to be companions and go to the agreed place to wait for the reconnaissance to contact.

However, in the middle of the night, a guard returned and reported that Cen Wu readily agreed and was willing to let the Tsing Yi team cross the bridge. Li Dan was very happy, slept steadily, got up when he was ugly, put the whole camp on clothes, used dry food, and then set off in turn.

Shi Dajun led the team first, riding on the horse full of excitement. He had just learned that the bridge had been controlled by the reconnaissance platoon, and that he could pass without further effort.

The third company took advantage of the faint light of the day, and after a while, a scout pointed him in the direction with a torch planted in the side of the road, and half an hour after setting out, he saw the bridge.

At this time, Lei Jisheng moved a stool and sat at the head of the bridge, and when he saw him coming, he stepped forward and arched his hand: "The old stone is hard, the bridge is intact, and the big drama behind it will depend on you!" ”

"Hey, don't worry! We're going to get those idiots around today! Shi Dajun returned the salute on the horse.

Lei Jisheng smiled and pointed with his hand: "These two sacks are specially prepared for Jun, please smile." ”

"What is this?" Shi Dajun asked.

Lei Jisheng stepped closer, asked Shi Dajun to lean down, and whispered to him. Shi Dajun looked up at the two sacks in surprise and said with a smile:

"Sir's clever plan, Shi is ashamed. When I go back, I will come to thank you! After saying that, he told his men to load the sacks into the cart, bid farewell to Rejisheng, and beat the horse away.

The guards left behind by Yintuo before leaving are the two brothers, the elder brother is called Duan Fang, and the younger brother is called Duan Yan. The elder brother is good at martial arts and brave in battle, and the younger brother is careful and serious.

Duan Yan kept in mind Yintuo's instructions, strictly guarded the city and not be sloppy, and took the fate of his predecessor as a warning, so he got up before dawn every day, and walked through the city wall with his own soldiers from the east gate, south gate, west gate, and north gate.

Walking nine miles every day, the soldiers were miserable, but he was never tired.

This morning, he was on patrol as usual, but when he reached the north wall, he suddenly felt some fire beating in the corner of his eye. Duanyan rubbed the corners of his eyes and looked carefully, but he didn't seem to be able to see anything clearly.

At that time, the sky had begun to lighten, who would light the torch at this time?

He wondered if he had been dazzled, and continued on his way. Just after the Hongshan Gate, I suddenly heard a noise in the direction of Beiguan below.

Duanyan turned his head and looked, there were only less than 100 steps away from the horse road in the lower city. Usually he walks here and goes down, and then goes back to the county government to sleep again. But when he heard the noise, he pulled his foot back.

"What's the commotion?" He commanded his own soldiers. Immediately, someone ran towards Beiguan.

After a while, the pro-soldier came back panting: "Chief, someone outside the city came to call the door, saying that a team came from nowhere, and all the people at the Huating Bridge Tax Customs were overturned, and only one person ran out to report the news!" ”

"Team? How many people are there? "Duanyan was confused.

The composition of the chaotic army is extremely complex, many people do not have a high level of education, and they do not have much military literacy, and when reporting to their superiors, they will not be as accurate as in the army in the previous life that Li Dan has seen, and the level of the green shirt team is absolutely unique at that time.

Don't talk about being strict, even Yintuo and Lou Zishi never thought that there was still a standard for reporting this matter, so the officers and soldiers at all levels were all messy in their descriptions.

For example, a "group" can be seven or eight people, or twenty or thirty people, and a "group" may be as many as dozens or even hundreds.

However, a group or a group of strict people can be understood, after all, there are also bold and disobedient bandits outside the city, but the word "team" is difficult to say.

When he came to see the report of his subordinates, he mentioned the "team", which was at least a team of nearly 1,000 people! The question is that the north of the city is full of mountains, where can the army still appear quietly and silently?

Inexplicably, Duan Yan listened for a long time and couldn't get the essentials, and finally had to run to ask what was going on, but when he went to Beiguan, he recognized this person as Kuang Yi, who was the cousin of Cen Wu, the head of the tax customs.

At the beginning, Cen Wu was persuaded by him, this is where he is proud, as for what he does, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that this person is quite influential, and he can ensure safety from the northern part of the city.

But...... Why did this Kuang Yi come here? Seeing that the hour was almost there, Duan Yan asked someone to open the North Gate and let him in, and asked him to go up to the city to ask carefully, there was really a team of thousands of people.

"Do you see clearly? Are there really thousands? Duan Yan still found it unbelievable.

"Definitely. After the villain was caught by his cousin, he has been hiding in the dark to observe. The convoy of men and horses and the convoy was lined up all the way out of the town to see the end, and it was definitely not a team of only three or five hundred people. ”

"And whose flag are they playing?"

"This ...... Looking back, it was too dark, and the villain was not very literate, so he really didn't see it clearly. It's just that the team is very neat, and the posture is not lost to the officers and soldiers! ”

"Why do I get more confused the more I hear this?" Duan Yan was really confused, and no one had told him that there was such an armed force operating in the vicinity, unless ....... Startled by his own thoughts, he involuntarily glanced out of the city.

"Quick, hurry back to the county office!" After running a few steps, he stopped again, turned his head and saw the Hongshan Gate guard following him: "You, quickly send two people to ride to the Huating Bridge to see what happened." Just go! Hurry up and pay back! ”

When he ran into the bedroom in three steps and two steps, he saw his brother still snoring on the bed, and his belly rose and fell like a hill. "Brother, get up, get up! The Tsing Shirts are back! Duan Yan yelled.

Duan Fang was being drunk by Xiao Niang in a dream, and his cold voice frightened him to wake up excitedly, jumped up from the bed, pulled out a steel knife from the side of the bed, and shouted: "Where, where?" ”

"At the Huating Bridge." Duanyan poured a bowl of water and drank it.

"Not in the city?" Duan Fang dropped the knife and complained to his younger brother: "Then what are you talking about?" ”

"A convoy of thousands of people is only four or five miles away from the city, shouldn't my brother wake up?"

"How do you know it's the Tsing Shirts?"

"I've sent someone to check it out. Besides, isn't there just one enemy in this vicinity? He wiped his mouth strictly, and suddenly felt that something was wrong:

"It's not that ...... They went to Shangrao, how did they come back? Didn't you say that there were 100,000 troops gathered in Shangrao? Didn't you say ......? ”

"What kind of nonsense do I mean, you?" Duan Fang waved his hand impatiently: "If you are sure that it is the green shirt team, then maybe they will come back with a big defeat!" You and I can get a great achievement by sending troops to intercept and kill, what is suspicious? ”

"This, without an order, send troops without authorization, in case of defeat, we can't afford to be guilty of Yinshuai!" Duan Yan said in surprise.

"Nonsense! Yinshuai didn't give an order, but he didn't know that the Tsing Shirt team would come back at that time! After Duan Fang finished speaking, he immediately went out to greet his subordinates and gather generals.

When he came to the school grounds, the tanma who went out came back, and reported that it was indeed the Tsing Yi team that had returned, and the chariots and horses were very loud. "A lot of horses and carriages? How many soldiers are there? Duan Fang heard the clue and asked.

"There are about a thousand soldiers, the exact number is unknown, there are cavalry scouts, we can only watch from more than a mile away, and we can't get close and take a closer look." Tanma replied.

"Hey! Here's your chance! Duan Fang excitedly said to his younger brother: "I see that the number of enemies is not large, and the carriages and horses may be stealing the goods in Shangrao City and transporting them out!" Let's grab it, even if we don't have merit, we can get some benefits! Defend the city well, and wait for your brother to return triumphantly! ”

Duan Yan agreed, so Duan Fang ordered a thousand people to drive to the east gate.

Just as he was about to leave the city, a herald suddenly came: "The two leaders are not good, the enemy army occupies Wangjiangdui, and takes advantage of the morning fog to drag many ships on the south bank to the north bank."

Now there are flags and flags everywhere on the Wangjiang pile, drums and trumpets are noisy, and there are people coming and going as if they are reinforcing the wharf, and it seems that they are coming to attack the north gate! ”

The brothers glanced at each other, and they both felt a layer of cold sweat on their backs. Duan Yan said: "Fortunately, my brother hasn't left yet, otherwise wouldn't he have fallen into the thief's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain?" Duan Fang swallowed and foamed, and told the team not to go out of the city first, and his brothers came to Hongshan Gate.

Climb to the top of the city and look at the opposite side, sure enough, the boats are coming and going, and people shouting that the horses are neighing. Behind the early morning mist, I saw many flags on the mountain, and although it was nearly two miles away, I could see people cutting down bamboo on the mountain.

"Damn, this green shirt team is cunning, and they actually came with such a hand!" Duan Fang was dumbfounded.

"Brother, don't stumble, those more than 1,000 people are still on the street, what should we do? Out of town, or hold on? Duan Yan was calmer than his brother, and the critical panic had passed before he rushed to the county office.

"According to the younger brother, why don't they all be transferred, half of them go to the north city wall, and the other half are on standby under the city gate?"

"Okay, okay, that's it!" After Duan Fang finished speaking, he suddenly narrowed his eyes again: "There won't be a few suspicious soldiers on the other side, right?" You transfer the troops first, and I'll take a look. ”

In this way, Duan Yan went to transfer troops and arrange, Duan Fang continued to observe each other in the city, and the two brothers forgot that the Huating Bridge was still passing through the team, and for a while, the north gate was very busy.

It was already time to open the city gate every day, but today the city gate was opened less than a moment ago and then hurriedly closed.

When the people in the city learned that there was a war at the north gate, they were terrified when they saw that there were soldiers running north, and they did not know whether it was the official army coming, or the fire between the kings, and the whole city was panicked.

The Shi army on the other side of the river is much easier than these two brothers. After he finished arranging, he first went to the top of the mountain to go around, blow the wind, and saw the shape, layout and surrounding shape of the opposite city clearly, and then walked into the grass pavilion.

There is a wooden plaque in the grass pavilion, which reads "Theme Lu", as for which stone army is written, I don't feel at ease. This inscription is not so much a pavilion as a two-room thatched house with only a north wall. Shi Dajun instructed the guards to bring him a wine bag, but he didn't drink it in his hand.

"Why don't you drink it?" The guard asked.

"What are these boys doing?" Shi Dajun raised his chin and pointed to the opposite side.

The guards looked closely and saw that the city was quite bustling with people coming and going. "Yo, they seem to have increased their troops!" He shouted.

Shi Dajun looked through the binoculars and smiled: "Sure enough, the rabbit cubs have transferred their troops to the north gate!" Wow, that's half the story! ”

"But...... They're not going to call, are they? Someone said worriedly.

"Lao Tzu has already arranged it, if he dares to come, he will not be allowed to stand and go back!" Shi Dajun asked left and right: "Have you left a boat for them?" ”

"Stay, stay!" Someone hastened to reply: "According to your request, two or three boats at the north gate were left unmoved." ”

As he was talking, someone shouted, "The city gate is open, and someone is going out!" "Hurry up and watch. Sure enough, about four or five hundred people came out from behind the barrage wall of Beiguan, and after forming a group outside Beiguan, they marched in the direction of the wharf.

Shi Dajun jumped up with laughter, patted his hips and shouted: "My son is really good, it is really as my father wishes!" Later, he called his own soldiers: "The deal is here, the sons and daughters come with me!" ”

He still had the tone of being a water bandit back then, and the soothing officer had a crooked nose in the back, thinking that he would have to give this stone a good training when he turned back! Of course, that will have to be said after the battle.

It was none other than Duan Fang, the elder brother of the two brothers. The more he looked at the castle tower, the more puzzled he became, and decided to take some people across the river to find out.

Duan Yan was not at ease, so he ordered 700 people to come out, 300 followed Duan Fang to cross the river, and he brought the rest of the people to suppress him.

The original ferry wharf was occupied by others and could not land, so they had to go down the river for 300 steps to a gentle beachhead on the west side of Wangjiangdui and stopped.

Duan Fang brought more than 100 people to gain a foothold on the beach, and on the one hand, he asked the boat to go back to pick up the people behind, and on the other hand, he immediately divided the people into three parts, three small semi-circular formations to guard the beachhead.

Before the formation was completely completed, I heard someone in the woods laughing: "A group of bandits will also form a formation?" It's really funny! Sons, let's put out our array to give him insight and insight! ”

"Yes!" There seemed to be about a hundred people in the woods responding in unison, and then a bamboo flute sounded, and the people in the forest shouted out.

Duan Fang thought that the other party was going to kill, so he was shocked and shouted: "Be careful, defend!" The front row clenched his knife and gun, staring nervously at the front. I saw a group of people in blue clothes and pants and green cloth buns rushing out, and soon formed two or three rows, with shields in front and long soldiers behind.

Duan Fang was stunned for a moment, thinking that this is it? But then the bamboo flute changed its tune. As soon as these people in front of them moved somehow, they immediately turned into two large circles.

The third sound of the bamboo flute, the big circle array has changed, the middle is the head of the goose, and the left and right sides of each side of the six small arrays like wings arrangement. The third bamboo flute sounded, and the goose's wings were tightly retracted and shrunk into an arrow.

Everyone here grew their mouths and changed as if they were watching their opponents play magic, and then they saw the man on the head of the goose come out and throw two iron whips to the ground:

"I drove this mountain, no! Hey, this is the territory occupied by Grandpa Shi, those who crossed the river, who are you waiting for and what are you doing? Get your name in! When Zhen Fu heard it in the back, why did he turn back to the tone of the lake bandits?

But this time he confused Duan Fang, how could he listen to this person's mouth full of rivers and lakes, could it be that it came down from a mountain? "This hero is the defender of the city in Xianai."

He took the initiative to step forward, came to a distance of more than ten steps away from the Shi army, and arched his hand: "My subordinates have come to see the banner on this mountain early, and report to me that I know, because I don't know which hero it is, and it is the responsibility of a certain person to defend the land, so I came to visit!" ”

As soon as he opened his mouth, Wen Zou also stunned the Shi army on the other side, for some reason, this person looked at the five big and three thick, but he opened his mouth so humbly and politely? Shi Dajun suddenly felt ashamed of himself in his heart.

"Hey, don't you think you're a thief who can still export a chapter? Admire, admire! He arched.

Hearing him say that he was a "thief", Duan Fang smiled bitterly but was not annoyed, and replied:

"Ashamed, ashamed, don't hide the hero, Duan Mou's appearance was acceptable when he was young, and he became famous at the age of sixteen, but he became more and more vulgar later. In the year of participating in the township examination, the examiner actually discredited a certain person's fame because of this, saying that he was so inconspicuous that he could not see the Son of Heaven. Alas! ”

"Yo, you've ever been lifted? Is there such a strange thing? That...... Why did you become a thief? ”

"Which one was born to rebel?" Duan Fang sighed: "My two brothers have both studied literature and martial arts since childhood. I thought, if the text is not good, then I can always take the martial arts test, right?

As a result, the two brothers went to the exam that year, and the examiner accepted a bribe from another candidate and carried that person up, and my brother became famous.

The guy in the examination room obviously lost to my brother, and we were angry, so we exposed the examiner's bribery, and all the candidates went to his door to make trouble.

I didn't want to cause a big disaster here, so he not only invalidated my ranking, but also called my brother wanted to rebel. Helpless, isn't this the only place in the world that can accommodate the two of us? ”

Shi Dajun also sighed when he heard this, and told him: "In the next stone, Shi Dajun is also, you can call us a stone." I was originally a subordinate of Tatehuazi in Poyang Lake, and I voted for the Tsing Shirt team this summer.

We are a rough man who can't compare to your brother's all-round talent in civil and military affairs, but because he killed a taxman who took the opportunity to rape a widow, he was said to be a tax-resistant mind, so he had to hide in the lake and do something about cutting the path.

Now I am with Li Sanlang of the green shirt team, but I see the blue sky through the clouds and mist, and I have to say goodbye from Jiupin! ”

"Oh?" Duan Fang's eyes lit up, he looked back at the people behind him, and then lowered his voice and said, "I don't know if the virtuous brother can be recommended on his behalf?" ”

Shi Dajun's eyes also lit up, he knew that if he could move the two brothers to sacrifice the city, the credit would be much better than carrying a few heads back! But who isn't a thousand-year-old fox?

After all, his Shi army has been wandering in the lake for ten years. Although the person in front of him said so, he didn't know whether he was sincere or not, and he didn't know what his purpose was.

Besides, he remembered his mission, don't worry too much, just occupy this mountain and make an offensive posture. So he shook his head and whispered:

"I was only ordered to attack the north gate, and the military order is like a mountain, please don't blame it. As for Jun Ruo's willingness to accept Zhao'an, it is not unprecedented. When I return to the camp tonight, I will see the lord and tell him in detail, and it is up to the lord to decide whether to contact or not, what does my brother think? ”

"That's great, if Brother Xian really succeeds in this, my brother will definitely have a good reward!" Duan Fang puffed out his small eyes seriously and said.

"But now this scene has to be cooperated with the brother stage and we can finish the performance." Shi Dajun said softly: "You have to make sure that your subordinates can't see the flaws." ”

As he spoke, he lifted the double whip in his hand and shouted: "Since you don't descend, you don't need to say much, come, come, how about you and I fight for three hundred rounds?" ”

"Which one is afraid of you? Don't go, bear with me! Duan Fang said and walked back to the team, it turned out that he made two short-handled double-knife axes, but two personal soldiers each carried one for him.

Majestically carrying a pair of axes back and standing on the beach, Shi Dajun and the others couldn't help but applaud when they saw it. "A stone, how about your two whips try my double axe?" The end side moves with an axe.

Shi Dajun was overjoyed, his hands were itchy suddenly, and he jumped off the field and shouted: "The surname is Duan, do you have a nickname?" ”

"There is a certain number called Flower Waist Xiucai!"

Shi Dajun looked at his waist, it turned out that he was plain, only the waist was surrounded by a leopard skin trimmed brocade to defend his waist, and the embroidery on it was Fusang, but he was not a flower waist showman? smiled: "It's not good, it's not good, it's supposed to be called an ugly whirlwind!" ”

"Hugh has to say more!" The two stopped talking nonsense, and each raised their weapons and stepped forward, and "ping pong" fought together. The two strong men both bit their beards and twisted their eyebrows like fierce looks, and the sergeants on both sides were thrilled.

Some people died, but not completely......