There was a sudden sound of geese chirping in the sky, Li Laiheng looked up, and saw a flock of geese flying slowly overhead in a herringbone formation. "The geese are flying south again!" Raehyung thought, and his excitement calmed down slightly. It has been almost a year since Azig was defeated last year, Xingshan retreated to Dangyang. In the past year, the ranks of the rebel army have been slowly growing, but the food and salary expenditure of so many men and horses has made Laiheng a little stretched, and there is almost no strength in the base area to dare to resist Laiheng, which means that there are no more "rich people" to plunder. Moreover, its own production has not yet been restored, and it seems that it is not feasible to take the larger city capital, first, the defenders are too strong, and second, the city is relatively strong. The year before last, he lost a large number of men and horses because of the attack on Jingzhou, which caused a great loss of vitality.

Thinking of this, Lai Heng immediately clamped his legs and urged the horse to run towards the camp to the west. There's so much more for him to deal with!

It was almost noon, and the outside of Xingshan Dazhai was already full of men and women, crowded and crowded. The infantry soldiers have a variety of banners, standing on both sides of the road. Lai Heng walked up from the crowd to a platform that had just been built, this platform was originally a mound of earth, and it had been converted into a prison beheading platform by Lai Heng's instructions, and a tall elm tree stood more than ten zhang away, as if he also wanted to witness what happened to this person who betrayed the country and the nation.

I saw seven or eight infantry diverging a way from the dense crowd and escorting the master to the prison platform to kneel down with shouts. Then he saw the master Yi dwarf to the ground, almost fell, and kicked him with a knife and axe, "Kneel well!" The master was startled, as if he sensed that the time of death had come, but his hands were tied behind his back, and he couldn't kneel straight, so he had to nod his head to the ground and tilt there. Someone in the crowd couldn't help but scold:

"Son of a bitch, a bad breed!"

The people behind pushed forward, you hugged me and squeezed, fortunately they were stopped by the infantry, so as not to mess up the order, at this time only to hear a voice on the stage came down, "The traitor master surrendered to the Qing soldiers, recognized the thief as his father, sentenced to behead, and displayed outside the camp gate for three days!"

Immediately after the prison beheaded, only a cannon sound was heard, and the whole audience was shocked, making three or five war horses neigh, and then they heard Liu Shun shouting, "Prepare the knife and axe hands!" The two sword and axe men dragged Da Da Yi up from the ground, carried him to a place five or six feet away from the prison beheading platform, and made him kneel facing due south.

The second cannon sounded, and the knife and axe hand on the right pulled out the sign of "Traitor Gao Dayi" inserted in the neck of the master, threw it on the ground, and then walked away.

At this time, the master was already paralyzed on the ground, and the people around him were holding their breath without the slightest sound.

Three cannon shots rang out, and the axe man on the left grabbed the prisoner's hair with his left hand. And another shout, "Kneel!" At this time, everyone saw a flash of white light, and the head of the traitor master Yi had rolled to the ground, and blood burst out.

The people and soldiers suddenly burst into earth-shattering applause. "Good!"

The executioner took two steps forward, stooped down and lifted the traitor's head, and walked towards the beheading platform.

At this time, Li Laiheng, Liu Shun and others got up together, got off the prison platform, and walked to the big tent in the camp. Next, the head of the traitor will be hung outside the camp for three days. This is the order of the general, and the fate of a traitor.

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Just after the first watch, in the southwest of Huangliang Town, a township eunuch entered the courtyard of the mansion, and the lights were bright. A huge plaque is hung outside the main entrance of the hall, inscribed with several large gold characters of "Zhongyi Hall". The inside and outside of the house are heavily guarded, and there seem to be people in the east and west wings. Is there going to be something big?

In the main room, several generals in armor and military uniforms were deliberating. On the main seat facing the south sat a pink-faced scribe in soft armor with a sword at his waist, about the age of his early thirties. This person's surname is obvious, he is the twin brother of the previously mentioned Wu Yingzhao, and he is also the head coach of the village in Dazhai in Huangliang Town. The other three are Mao Shoudeng, Lang Wu and Wang Jincai of Gufu Town, because the military situation has been extremely urgent, Jingzhou may attack at any time, so these three people came to ostensibly communicate with Wu Ming first, the main purpose is because Mao and Wang rely on their old qualifications in the righteous army, and want to win the military leadership position of Huangliang and even the surrounding areas from the hands of Wu Ming.

"General Wu, you must know very well that this time the three of us transferred the area from the mouth of the gorge to the Yellow Grain, and the troops can be described as overwhelming, almost three times the strength of your defense area. Once the soldiers of Jingzhou or Sichuan attack, how can you resist it personally, and you must not rely on the troops of our Gufu Town! So what do you think......" Mao Shoudeng said this, couldn't help coughing repeatedly, spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, shook his head, and then wanted to continue to open his mouth, but he obviously interrupted him directly with a wave of his hand.

"Everyone, it doesn't matter to me where your defense area is, the dispatch of troops is all up to the general, and you have no right to dictate in front of me, but then again, if you can sincerely cooperate with me, I will not object, that's all, please go back, send off!" Gou obviously had a very tough attitude, and suddenly four powerful soldiers came in from outside the door.

Mao Shoudeng knew that it was useless to say more, so he had to "hum" and throw his sleeves out, and the other two walked out after him. Out of the house, they each rode on the war horses handed over by their own soldiers, and the group left Dazhai quickly.

Gou obviously looked at the back of Mao Shoudeng and the others leaving. He shook his head helplessly. "The Thirteen Families Army is really a bit of a detached man."

On the way back, Mao, Lang, and Wang didn't speak, and when they were about to enter the village, Mao Shoudeng looked at the direction of Huangliang Town and coughed a few times, spit out thick phlegm, and threw out a sentence: "It's obvious, let's ride a donkey and read the record book, and we'll see!"

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It still has to go back to September 18.

At the same time, a warship with full sails sailed towards the temporarily expanded pier on the opposite mountain, and the men and horses on the warship were all neatly armed. The person at the head was Li Xuexiu, who was transferred to guard the Xiling Ferry. He came to visit early this morning to personally inform Hongxia that everyone had expressed a warm welcome to their arrival, and that the general ordered Hongxia to temporarily garrison troops against the mountains to prevent soldiers and horses from coming from Jingzhou and Yidao (now Yidu).

After a short meal, the warship docked, and Hongxia immediately greeted Xuexiu with several female soldiers with bows and swords. Hongxia and the others had not yet built a house in a hurry, but simply set up some tents out of wood, and the men did not even set up tents. Hongxia led Xuexiu to the mountain. Along the way, Xuexiu carefully looked at the surrounding terrain. There are many trees on the mountain, and there are many people and horses lying in groups under the trees. Not far away, a large area of flat land was filled with smoke, dozens of men were busy preparing breakfast, Xuexiu took the opportunity to ask Hongxia:

"Hong Shuai came from the victory in Sichuan this time, how many people did he bring in total?"

"What victory, it's just a fluke, along the way, I saw people displaced and starved to death on the side of the road, I and the matchmaker really couldn't bear it, so we recruited a lot of hungry people, untrained, combat effectiveness is really not strong, let General Li smile, the number of people, about 10,000." After Hongxia finished speaking, she showed a helpless and slightly frustrated look.

Li Xuexiu noticed Hongxia's face. He said, "Hong Shuai doesn't have to worry about it, I believe that the situation will get better soon."

"I hope so." Hongxia said as she let Xuexiu into a larger tent.

The host sat down, asked the female soldiers to serve tea, chatted about how to defend the palace together, and talked about some family routines in the army, and Xuexiu said goodbye.

It happened that at this time, I met many soldiers, carrying pigs, leading sheep, and picking wine, which was very lively.

When Hongxia saw it, she hurriedly said, "The general is too polite!"

"This is a special order from Mrs. Zhenyi, Hong Shuai doesn't have to mind." Xuexiu replied, beckoning the soldiers who were waiting on the shore to get on the boat in turn. Xuexiu and Hongxia hugged each other's fists, cherished each other, and then sailed away.

After a while, the boat had returned to Xiling Ferry, and Xuexiu immediately arranged to explore the horses, whistle the horses, and strengthen the camp.

However, he said that at this time, Li Laiheng had returned to the Maolu cottage, and had also met his grandmother Mrs. Zhenyi, met with Song Qingping, talked about some military information, and knew the favorable and unfavorable situations of Yougong, Shoujun, Gui Huaiyuan, etc., especially Wang Guangxing's surrender to the enemy, which made Li Laiheng extremely annoyed. So he asked the Changping army and horses to retreat to Ruan Longde's hundred cities, while Xingshan was still dominated by Liu Shun Xiaobao, plus the general Tian Zhongshun was garrisoned. Niu Xi, Pi Xingyong, Li Yong and others returned to the old camp, and Wu Ying rushed back to Huangliang Town with 500 cavalry in the starry night, and since then, the enemy and us have been at peace for the time being.

However, this is just a moment of tranquility before the mountain rain is about to come.

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