Chapter 91

The "Third General" Li Yi was methodically wiping his knife, his hands were very steady, and he did not tremble at all.

But the woman beside her was not so calm, and her peach-like face became pale, and she kept trying to say something, and even raised her hand once or twice, but finally put it down again, and sat silently in the shadows that the lamp and candle could not shine.

As the name suggests, the Plains City was built on a plain with no mountains or dense woods within a radius of hundreds of miles, so it was not easy to hide an army. Even if Li Yi was extremely careful, he only hid his more than 1,000 soldiers and horses in a ravine forty miles away, and this was already the limit of what he could do.

He used to be the leader of a certain group of rogues roaming around the Gaotang and the plains, and since their big leader was nominally attached to the Black Mountain Army, his name has also changed slightly, and he has become the third general, and recently, he has been promoted to the general of this army.

This sounds like a good thing, but you can't think about it, in the final analysis, the reason for his promotion is that Liu Bei borrowed this army from Gongsun Zhan killed the two eldest brothers on his head, and thousands of rogues scattered for a while, and finally only this little person in his hands remained.

He survived because he was shrewd and cautious, and he was well-connected, and he didn't go head-to-head with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. And when life and death were at stake, Liu Ping helped him and settled his soldiers and horses.

Since then, he has carefully shuttled back and forth between Pingyuan City and Biandangou, relying on Liu Ping's protection, and he has spent these few months peacefully.

However, he is not a rat in the gutter after all, he is the general of the Black Mountain Army, and he has to take revenge on this blood feud.

For example, tonight, the moon is dark and the wind is high, which is a good weather for killing people and setting fires.

But in Liu Ping's view, whether it is Li Yi or the Black Mountain Army, there is actually no difference between him and Liukou.

The fire two days ago, and the man, were the man's handiwork.

He wrote a secret letter to Li Yi to go into the city to discuss how to eradicate Liu Bei, how could he have thought that Li Li would sneak up at night to have a tryst with the widow? was hit by Ma Liu again?

A widow has two lovers, and it is actually okay to fight with each other and be jealous, but it is inevitable that she will alarm the neighbors and even the soldiers, and then Li Li's identity will inevitably have an accident. From this point of view, this person immediately killed Ma Liu's mouth, and then set fire to the house to destroy the corpse, which can be regarded as a proper disposal. But the sky did not fulfill his wish, there was no wind that night, the fire was not strong, and a husband came to stir up the situation, which made Liu Bei aware of the clues.

There is always a rogue in this vicinity, he knows it, Liu Bei also knows it, so he will station the barracks outside the city, and now Zhao Yun has led hundreds of ranger scouts, wandering around to find out this army of soldiers and horses.

Did Zhao Yun find this group of rogues first, or did he take advantage of the emptiness in the city to eradicate Liu Bei first?

He has 200 private soldiers, although 100 are in the other courtyard, and there are 100 healthy servants in the house. As far as he knew, there were only these 180 people in the Pingyuan County Government.

Therefore, with only more than 100 people to attack the county government, although he is not completely sure, he can also give it a try.

But Liu Ping is a cautious person who plans and then acts, since he wants to meet Liu Bei Tu, he must go all out.

Zhao Wu went to assemble private soldiers, so it was another henchman who quietly walked in.

"The host...... Zhang Chengwei has a letter to arrive, everything has been done, just wait for the ugly time to pass, raise the torch as a signal, and the city gate can be opened. ”

Liu Bei is an outsider, and he is an outsider who refuses to show weakness to the local heroes.

This meant that it was extremely difficult for him to fully control the city, he wanted to repair the city defenses, he wanted to reclaim the wasteland, he wanted to extinguish the rogues in the vicinity, he wanted to do too much, but there were too few officials loyal to him. One is not careful, and it will reveal a fatal weakness.

"Finish my heart tonight," he said with a reserved and indifferent nod of his complicated thoughts, "Be careful in everything. ”

The recent news in the city may be that Ma Liu had an accident, considering that Ma Liu was beaten by her before, this matter is still a little embarrassing.

After Ma Liu's sister-in-law heard that Ma Liu was killed, she almost wanted to pounce and tear her up, but immediately after, Tian Xiancheng told her about some trivial matters at the time of the crime, such as ......

Ma Liu was killed at the little widow's house, which looks very much like the love killing, of course, it may also be killed by the gangsters, but in any case, Lu Hangyu, who has been playing with his colleagues, has no chance.

Of course, the most important point here is that Ma Liu was killed at the Little Widow's house.

I probably never dreamed that after this dead ghost husband was knocked out of the house, he could still try to knock on the door of a good house with a blue nose and swollen face, and finally succeeded in dying under the peony flower, and he was also a ghost [

So the shrew changed her face in an instant, threw the body in the county government, turned around and left! But what's the use of the county government asking for a corpse! He is a prodigal and frivolous person, the brothers in the clan have long had nothing to do with him, and those friends who drink and meat refuse to come out to fill this big head, and in the end, Liu Shanren came forward, not only paid a sum of money for his burial, but also gave his wife and children a sum of money for the sake of him having worked as a helper in his own house for a few days.

The city praised each other, who didn't say that Liu Shanren was kind? Even she has to thank this Liu Shanren, after all, she is quite afraid that Ma Liu's sister-in-law will think of touching porcelain everywhere and carrying the corpse in front of her house.

The first half of the night passed, and everything was calm. I returned to the county hall, drank a cup of hot water, nibbled on half a piece of cake, and then started the night patrol with my colleagues who had changed shifts.

"If you want me to say that Ma Liu is dead," muttered his colleague, "but unfortunately the little widow doesn't know what happened to her." ”

“…… I've heard this in the middle of the night. ”

"Normal, that's what the men in the city say."

“…………………………”

After walking around the city twice for more than an hour, my colleagues were still muttering about that bit of.

"You don't know, that little widow's waist, hey—"

Near the east gate, the fire gradually brightened, and the footsteps gradually sounded, and the two of them stopped talking in unison.

Since coming to this era, she didn't have much idea about other possibilities, and she remembered the time when the gate closed very well. The city gate will be closed at the end of the day, and if you want to enter the city again, unless you wait until the next day, no one will be able to see whether the city is a friend or foe, and the city gate will definitely not be opened.

It is said that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are stationed outside the city, could it be that these two people ran in in the dark to eat twist flowers?

The colleague had a torch in his hand, and he could not move forward, so she left him to hide in the corner, and she quietly took a few steps forward......

She hadn't seen Zhang Fei, but it was obvious that the man with his head wrapped in black cloth and several scars on his face didn't look like Zhang Fei at all.

The soldiers who followed him into the city were not like Liu Bei's people, they were ragged and fierce, more like rogues than regular soldiers.

But the soldiers on both sides just ignored and let them in!

"You go to the county hall to report the news," she slipped back to the other husband, "and say that there are thieves entering the city, it matters!" ”

Such a big event is not common in Plains City, and it can even be said that it is not encountered in a hundred years, so the husband nodded in fright, and just took a step with his leg raised, he remembered an important question.

“…… What about you? ”

She turned her head, the fire shining over her indifferent face.

"I'm going to see," she said, "and by the way, remind them to be careful of the candles." ”

There is usually a little omen before the conspiracy, and Liu Bei was originally a very vigilant person who never missed the subtleties.

Although everyone tried to convince him that there were no more rogues around the plain, he could not rest assured that he would always inquire about the price of grain at the markethouse, that he would keep an eye out for the people of the villages outside the city, and that he would do his best to keep in mind all the things that were in the city.

Although he is still unfamiliar with the management of the city, he is already an out-and-out old revolutionary, so he is very good at military affairs, how much grass a horse usually eats, how much grain a soldier usually eats, and how much this grain and grass consumption will increase in wartime, he is quite familiar with it.

Therefore, he had calculated these days that in addition to his soldiers and horses, there was an army of more than 2,000 men hidden near the plain, and the cavalry of which was almost negligible.

This is a rogue bandit, the speed of the march is bound to not be fast, he stationed the barracks outside the city, one is to exterminate the bandits, and the other is also to have the intention of not wanting to disturb the people.

But he really didn't expect that this tributary Kou came out of the flat ditch forty miles east of the city, walked twenty miles overnight, hid in Liu Ping's courtyard, and then quietly walked another twenty miles tonight and came to the plain city.

But at this time, he didn't have time to worry about this news, because what was even more urgent was that there was another team of more than 100 people, coming towards the county government with open fire!

Liu Bei, nobody! was lucky enough to get a plain order, but it was just because he had a good relationship with Gongsun Zhan, even if his subordinates were fierce generals like Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, now that they were all dispatched, leaving him in the county government, what could he do? !

Everyone lit torches at night, even if there was only a team of more than 100 people, a long dragon running over in the dark night naturally had a kind of fiery momentum, which gave Liu Ping great comfort.

He can't just wait for Li Di's soldiers and horses, although Liu Bei's barracks are stationed in the west of the city, and the Black Mountain Army enters from the east of the city, as long as the fire is together, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei will definitely wake up and enter the city immediately!

The west gate of Pingyuan City was guarded by Liu Bei's own soldiers and horses, and the first thing Li Di did when he entered the city was not to kill Liu Bei, but to go to the west gate to kill all the soldiers, and change his cronies to guard the city, so that Liu Bei's soldiers and horses could be locked outside the city! Therefore, he had to rely on his own private soldiers to capture the county government first, and get rid of this commander who was not liked by him.

Although the main gate is tightly closed, the county government is so big, as long as they set up a long ladder and climb over the wall to enter, they have a way-

In the midst of the fire and noise, the figures seemed a little chaotic.

People kept climbing the wall, people were being stabbed down by long poles, but people were also climbing in, so there were screams.

Liu Ping wiped his sweat, complacent for a while, and anxious for a while, but he finally thought of an idea.

"Help me to the house!" He pointed to the mansion behind him, "I want to see if that old leather has been beheaded!" ”

In Liu Ping's place, Liu Bei is not called a martial artist but "Lao Ge", which is naturally a contemptuous title, but he rarely thinks seriously about Liu Bei's humble background, and he has been in the army for a long time, what is his skill.

He struggled to climb onto the roof, and looked anxiously at the scuffle in the county mansion, when the black-clothed man in the courtyard was pulling out the long sword from Zhao Wu's abdomen, and dodged to avoid the sneak attack behind, with a backhand sword, and another sword!

Liu Ping didn't know anything about the war, and the fire in the courtyard was chaotic, and it was difficult to see the comings and goings of those figures. But he still couldn't suppress a wave of despair and anger in his heart - among these people, only Liu Bei's skills were the clearest and most conspicuous, and each of his swords carried a mountain-like oppressive force, which made people unable to catch or dodge!

…… It was a true swordsman who would not be defeated by his rabble.

After thinking about this clearly, Liu Ping set his eyes on the east of the city urgently, as long as Li Li can bring his more than 1,000 soldiers and horses here, as long as Li Li attacks, everything will be fine!

Chapter 92

Marching at night is a chore, and if you are not careful, you will fall behind, escape, or even a soldier will be frightened and shout, causing the whole army to collapse, and the more demoralized the army, the more likely these headaches will be.

Therefore, Li Cheng was careful in everything, although he entered the city as soon as possible, he did not immediately send the soldiers and horses to the west city gate, but waited for the last soldier to enter the city, the city gate was closed, and everything was in order, and then set off quietly.

After all, there is only this one chance, Liu Ping is broken, and so is he, how can he not be vigilant?

A fire lit up at the city gate, and the people around noticed it, and half a figure quietly poked out of the window silk, and then quickly retracted.

Thinking that he could hide - Li Yi laughed in his heart, when this city falls into the hands of the Montenegrin army, the men and women in this city, money, silk and gold goods, will become the spoils of the Montenegrin army.

This can't even be regarded as self-inflicted, because these are all promised by Liu Ping himself, except for the Liu family and a few powerful families, the rest of the people are Liu Bei's accomplices, and they should all be punished with the harshest punishment.

His brow furrowed as he casually withdrew his gaze from the houses near the city gate.

A man walked out of the long, narrow and dirty alley.

The man was dressed in the muslin cloth worn by the county government officials, and the top and bottom were new, but he didn't hold up his body at all, and he only felt that he could be blown down by a gust of wind, and he looked even more like a woman from a distance, and when he looked closely, he found that he was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy.

Looking at the dress, and then looking at the things in his hand, the identity of this person is about to come out - the husband who played the watch, and for some reason, he walked over in a daze, and he was about to go out of the alley.

"It's dry, be careful of the candles," the young man's gaze looked over one by one from the faces of the Montenegrin army who had already entered the city gate and were repairing in a group, "You should not enter the city at night, and besides, you should not light so many torches." ”

…… I'm afraid this is not a fool.

Of course, the job of changing husband is annoying and tiring, which is very boring for normal people, even if it is nothing to find a fool with a slightly rigid brain to do this job, so Li Li does not plan to talk nonsense with him.

His index finger tapped a little, and a cronie next to him stepped forward.

There was no need to utter the order again, just watch his finger from right to left, gently swiping through the cool night air, and his cronies would already understand.

It's naturally okay for this husband to leave a life, but if he doesn't leave a cleaner one, a thin, ordinary, and maybe even a little stupid teenager, what reason is there for him to spare a life?

…… What's more, although the man's face is inconspicuous, his words and deeds always seem to provoke him somewhere. Therefore, when he watched his cronies pull out the ring head knife, step by step forward, and stab the young man in the chest, Li Yi didn't have any pity in his heart.

"Poof—"

After a muffled sound, there was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground at the entrance of the alley.

But Li Di didn't even bother to look at the young man, but had already turned around and frowned to see how many soldiers had not yet entered the city outside the city gate.

“…… Checkmate! ”

Li Yi let out a casual "um", and then realized that there was a hint of surprise in the voices of the guards beside him! By the time he turned abruptly, the boy had come out of the alley completely, his countenance, his gaze, and the sword in his hand in the range of the torches.

He stepped on the corpse of that cronie and walked over step by step.