Gexian Township, on the road leading to the township.

More than 60 people are riding horses.

At first, it was a middle-aged man wearing an official uniform of the Yuan Court and a hat on his head, followed by a person who was also wearing an official uniform, but in terms of rank, it was obviously a lot worse, but it was only a hundred households.

The two teams behind him were distinct: more than a dozen of them followed behind the Yuan Dynasty official in the lead, with a murderous aura of blood and fire between their gestures, obviously the elite of a hundred battles; The fifty men on the other side, although they were also strong and round-shouldered, were certainly inferior to the dozen or so horsemen next to them, and they obediently followed behind a young man.

"Lu Baihu, your nephew knows a lot about the method of military training, and these dozens of militiamen are all well trained." The officials in front looked at the militia and couldn't help but admire.

The young man in leather armor had a calm expression, and said with a smile: "General Chen praised it falsely, the personal cavalry behind the general is the elite of a hundred battles, and the militia under my uncle is far inferior, which shows that the general is well-trained and worthy of being a famous general in the world." ”

Hearing this, General Chen laughed, these pro-soldiers are naturally elite, they are all screened from the army that has counterinsurgency experience, and they are not many soldiers who can fight, although it has nothing to do with his training or anything, but who doesn't like to listen to compliments? Lu Baihu smiled on the side, and secretly praised this young man for his extraordinary bearing and proper words.

That young man, naturally, is not his nephew, he claims to be Yan Ling, and the fifty people behind him are all his clan soldiers, I have to say that he is indeed properly trained, and he is not much stronger than his crooked and cracked militia.

At this time, it was already the fifteenth year of Zhizheng, and the rule of the Yuan Dynasty in the south had almost completely collapsed, and many places spontaneously organized "militias" and "regimental training" to resist the rebellion.

Don't think that these landlords and squires are loyal to the Yuan court, to be precise, they built fortresses and private soldiers, just to protect themselves, although they still nominally serve the Yuan Dynasty as Zhengshuo, in fact, there are not many people who really work hard, most of them are just a group of wall grass, whoever has the upper hand will follow whom.

And Lu Baihu is not anti-Yuan, but he is extremely disgusted with this general named Chen Yexian and plotted to kill him.

In the original history, it was this militia Baihu Lu Demao who killed Chen Yexian when he broke away from the army with more than ten personal soldiers.

And Yan Ling's arrival slightly shifted a trace of history: he decided to join forces with Yan Ling, but the Yan family killed people.

You must know that Chen Yexian still has an army of tens of thousands, and later led by his nephew Chen Zhaoxian, Lu Demao did such a thing, once it spreads, the consequences needless to say, there may not be anyone left in the entire town, Lu is indignant, but the risk is also extremely great.

Therefore, the conditions given by Yan Ling are very sincere: after the matter is completed, he only needs Chen Yexian's head, and will spread the word that this person was killed by him, which is equivalent to attracting Chen Zhaoxian's firepower away, and Lu Demao can get rid of this villain who disgusts him to the extreme, as long as he helps to disguise it, it is quite cost-effective.

A few people talked and laughed and rode their horses, and Lu Demao's palms gradually appeared with sweat.

The time to make a move is about to come, and there are already clan soldiers waiting on the side of the avenue, just waiting for a few people to arrive at the designated position, and then release the signal to move.

"Smack." The horse's hooves fell, Chen Yexian didn't notice the stone that seemed to be a sign next to him, and the horse didn't take a few steps before a whistle arrow pierced through the clouds and neighed sharply.

"Brush!" Almost at the same time, Yan Ling and his clan soldiers unsheathed their long knives at their waists and attacked the soldiers around them.

Those Yuan troops regarded them as their own people, and they were defenseless at all!

Of course, they are soldiers in a hundred battles, but the people of the Yan family are five times as many as them, and they have already surrounded them quietly, and under a few combined blows, even if someone reacts, they are also inserted into a sieve by the blades from all directions.

Yan Ling's long knife pierced through Chen Yexian's back of the heart and stabbed him in the chest.

"You ......" he looked back, stunned, as if surprised why the other party had done so.

Blood splashed on his face, but Yan Ling's face was still unwavering, he had already seen blood. He pulled out the long knife, and as soon as the blade turned, he cut off his head, and the headless corpse suddenly fell off the horse, and behind him, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground was endless, it was Chen Yexian's personal soldiers.

"The head of the Yan family is so courageous." Lu Demao applauded on the side, with a smile on his face, this way of vanity and grievances disgusted him.

Yan Ling smiled: "Lu Baihu, happy cooperation." You can go back. ”

Without hesitation, Lu Demao rode his horse away, and now he wanted to leave his relationship as clear as possible.

The thieves suddenly arrived, our forces failed, and the general was killed. He even figured out why.

Yan Ling commanded the clan soldiers to bury the corpse, and at the same time brought a rather ornate wooden box that had been prepared a long time ago, and put Chen Yexian's head into it.

"Master of the house, what are we killing him for?" The commander of the clan soldiers came over, it was his henchman, Yan Liuwu.

"It's a gift." Yan Ling smiled mysteriously.

This is a gift to Zhu Yuanzhang.

This Chen Yexian is not a miscellaneous fish such as passerby A and Song Bingyi, he is an important general who commands an army of tens of thousands of yuan, but not long ago, he was a subordinate of the Red Turban Army.

This person was originally a general of the Yuan court and the state, and was captured and surrendered by Zhu Yuanzhang in the battle of Taiping City, so Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to write a letter of persuasion to his subordinates, but this person played a trick, the letter was ostensibly to persuade them to surrender, but in fact it was all about stimulating them, wanting his subordinates to refuse to surrender.

What's funnier is that even though he wrote so, all of his troops surrendered.

The next thing, simply put, is to rebel, surrender, and rebel again, and he successfully won the high praise of Vice Marshal Zhu Zuo: "This thief is deceitful, and he is the most untrustworthy." ”

You can imagine how much Zhu Yuanzhang hates this guy.

More importantly, in the battle of Jiqing in September, Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou led the army to attack Jiqing, and Chen Yexian, who pretended to return to obedience, rebelled again and joined forces with the Yuan army to refuse the battle, Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou were caught off guard, and the Red Turban Army was defeated, and both of them were killed.

Needless to say, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know how happy he was in his heart, a marshal and a right deputy marshal were originally firmly pressed on his head, but now, this Red Turban Army finally really belongs to him.

But at least on the surface, he must be grief-stricken, swearing not to share the sky with Chen Yexian, at this time, Yan Ling came with his head, wouldn't it be a great achievement?

This is the Yan family's second investment, the best stock at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang.