In the city of Jiyin in Caozhou, the lights are bright, illuminating the night sky like day. Now the grass army is stationed inside and outside the city, day and night.

The original Thorn Mansion in the city has also been replaced. There was a young man in his twenties, not wearing a military uniform, only a white robe, a little plain.

The boy was long and a little burly, and his steps were steady and elegant. He was handsome and very heroic. The eyes are cold and quiet, and the light is heavy.

In his left hand, he held a long sword. The scabbard was white, and even the sword spike was white. There is also a painting carved on the scabbard: "Alone in a lonely shadow, drinking alone under the moon." "It's very delicately carved and delicately detailed. It doesn't seem to be engraved on the scabbard, but it looks like it is painted between paper silks.

The boy came to a room, paused slightly, and then walked up. There were two columns of sergeants standing in front of the gate, and when they saw him coming, they all nodded in greeting.

He pushed the door open, and inside a figure in military uniform had its back to him. When the man heard the door, he turned around, still holding a letter in his hand.

"Jiang Kai, you're here. "The man in uniform is about forty years old, and he was born to look like a general. There are still three points of long-worn bookish anger in the roughness.

This young man in white is Chu Jiangkai, who has been famous all over the world for a year, and this man in uniform is naturally Wang Xianzhi who has just captured Caozhou and Puzhou.

Chu Jiang opened his fists and saluted, "Why did the general call me here?"

Wang Xianzhi handed him the letter in his hand, sat down by himself, and motioned for Chu Jiangkai to sit down.

Chu Jiangkai quickly read the letter, and then put the letter on the table next to him, and there was no fluctuation in his expression on his face.

When Wang Xianzhi saw that he had finished reading it, he said: "Now that we have taken Caozhou and Puzhou, we have also sent a letter to the people of the world. It's just that many places are still waiting, and now that we are fighting alone, I am afraid that sooner or later we will be surrounded and suppressed by the imperial court. I went to a letter with Lei Yuan, the leader of the Salt Gang, and although he hadn't started an incident in Huainan yet, he gave me a surprise soldier. ”

Chu Jiangkai read the letter, so he said, "Huang Chao is this strange soldier?"

Wang Xianzhi nodded and said, "Yes, this strange soldier is the Huaibei Salt Gang, and he Huang Chao is the gang leader." You will personally run a grievance tomorrow morning to convince this Yellow Nest to cause trouble. ”

"The Salt Gang is still divided into Huainan and Huaibei?" Chu Jiangkai heard this for the first time.

Wang Xianzhi is also from the Salt Gang, so he naturally knows some details: "Originally, there was no distinction, but a few years ago, the imperial court was closely watched, and the Salt Gang had no choice but to hide the forces of Huaibei underground and show weakness to the imperial court." Although these people are hiding, they have been acting in secret. Later, in order to distinguish between light and dark, they were called the Huaibei Salt Gang. Don't look at the people under Huang Chao's hands, but they are all elite soldiers. With that, he motioned for Chu Jiangkai to put away the letter.

Chu Jiangkai received the letter, and hesitated: "If I leave, who will ensure the safety of the general?"

Wang Xianzhi waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's okay." Now Puzhou in the north has been conquered, and the states in the south have no intention of sending troops, leaving only Yunzhou in the east, which has also broken its courage and will be taken sooner or later. You can go with confidence, even if there are one or two assassins, it will be difficult to enter this Jiyin City now. ”

Chu Jiangkai saw that Wang Xianzhi was so insistent, and he couldn't say anything more, so he went back to clean up.

After Chu Jiang drove away, Wang Xianzhi stared at the wick for a long time, and finally sighed: "Brother Huang, don't let me down." ”

The injustice sentence is not far from Jiyin City.

Huang Chao, who has been in the wrong sentence, has taken over the ancestral business since he was not in the first place. The Huang family made a living from salt and became rich because of salt.

But Huang Chao is Huang Chao after all, and being rich is not what he wants. He secretly controlled the Huaibei Salt Gang, so he had cultivated a lot of talents over the years, and the four brothers of the single family were several of them.

Since Wang Xianzhi's incident, Huang Chao's heart has been like a wave on the ground. When he was young, he wanted to make meritorious achievements and seal his wife and son, but the court was dim, and the imperial examination was like a fictitious establishment, so Huang Chao was resentful in his heart for decades.

And the words of a Xiangshi many years ago made the unruly Yellow Nest quietly dormant for more than ten years. Huang Chao also followed the words of the Xiangshi, first changed his son Huang Ding's surname to Liu, and then sent a pair of children to Zhangqiu Zou's family to learn art, and continued to make friends with heroes in the rivers and lakes in secret.

Sure enough, Wang Xianzhi easily defeated Caozhou, and he knew that the time had come. Huang Chao first asked Liu Ding to come back and assist in military affairs. also asked Huang Zhen to go to Xiangzhou to find a key person. Not only that, he has a lot of ears and eyes in Huaibei, and he has long captured the news that a large number of people from the rivers and lakes have poured into Puzhou, so he also sent the Shan brothers over early.

Not long ago, Lei Yuan, the leader of the Salt Gang, also sent him a letter, hoping that he would help Wang Xianzhi in the case of an injustice.

The relationship between Huang Chao and Lei Yuan is more delicate. According to common sense, the Huaibei Salt Gang was originally part of the Salt Gang. However, in recent decades, the Huaibei Salt Gang has become more and more independent, and it has gradually become less controllable by the helmsman of the Salt Gang.

Despite this, Lei Yuan and Huang Chao did not get entangled because of this, and the two treated each other as friends. All along, one bright and one dark, supporting each other.

Huang Chao sometimes sighs, does this really belong to his era? After all, he has passed the age of knowing the destiny of heaven. If it weren't for decades of depression, I'm afraid I would have lost my ambition by now.

"Lao Ji is in the bush, and his ambitions are thousands of miles. The martyrs are in their twilight years, and their hearts are strong. ”

Huang Chao paced in the courtyard with his hands in his hands, he looked at the hibiscus in the courtyard, and recited Cao Mengde's "Turtle Although Shou" over and over again. He didn't like the poet, but he liked it as if it had been written for him.

Huang Chao also likes hibiscus and is as tough as him.

He was waiting for Wang Xianzhi for more than a year. Although Liu Ding has returned.

"Big brother, big brother!" Huang shouted, trotting all the way to the yard. After he saw Huang Chao, he gasped heavily, "Sure enough, as you expected, Wang Xianzhi ...... Someone was already in the living room. ”

Huang Chao was not surprised, nor excited, as planned. He just nodded and headed for the living room.

Entering the living room, Huang Chao saw a young man in white with a sword sitting inside, looking radiant.

The young man saw that the person was coming, and knew that it was Huang Chao coming, so he got up and saluted: "General Wang Xianzhi's account of Chu Jiang Kaite came to visit Huang Gong. ”

"It turned out to be Chu Shaoxia, Chu Shaoxia's reputation is far away, fortunately I will be lucky!" Huang Chao replied boldly, but muttered in his heart, "Wang Xianzhi actually sent Chu Jiangkai to come, although he was full of sincerity, I was afraid that the war there would also be tight." ”

Chu Jiangkai presented the letter and clarified his intention. During the conversation, Chu Jiangkai was neither humble nor arrogant, and his demeanor and bearing were very comparable. Huang Chao really rejoiced in this young man's heart, and he only hated that he couldn't take it for his own use.

Huang Chao read the letter, but deliberately waved his hand and said: "Now General Wang holds Cao and Pu Erzhou, tens of thousands of elite soldiers under his account, and even ten commanders, crisscrossing thousands of miles. Huang is just a businessman, not to mention that he is old, what can he do to help. ”

Chu Jiangkai secretly thought when he heard this, "If it is said that General Wang is now difficult to support alone, I am afraid that he will not be able to persuade him." ”

So he got up and said: "Now that the court is in a daze, the traitors are in power, and the people are miserable. I think that Huang Gong was talented and dedicated to serving the court, but he was played with by Xiaoxiao, and his ambition was difficult to pay, and the chrysanthemum poem was even more famous. Now that General Wang has taken the lead and his success is imminent, isn't Huang Gong willing to grow old in the countryside and plant trees and flowers all day long?"

Chu Jiangkai's words were like a hanging river, sonorous and powerful. Although Huang Chao knew that this was a method of agitation, he was able to grasp his mind. Huang Chao's expression was agitated when he heard this, which stimulated the long-standing heroic spirit of Ganyun in his chest.

With Lei Yuan's suggestion, Wang Xianzhi's invitation, and his own ambition and unwillingness, Huang Chao naturally accepted it very happily. He laughed: "Chu Shaoxia went back and told General Wang that Huang was a little prepared, and he would go to Jiyin City immediately to help him fight against the Tang Dynasty!"

When Chu Jiangkai heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief in his chest and said goodbye to Huang Chao.

Huang Chao couldn't keep it, so he had to let him go back. He stroked his long hair and sighed in his heart: "This son is really a hero, a young man, a masterpiece among people." I'm afraid that within this Kyushu, there are few people who can compare. ”

Chu Jiang drove out of the Yellow Mansion, jumped on his white horse, and galloped back to Jiyin City. This white horse was also given by Wang Xianzhi, who traveled all over the world and got this extremely rare white horse in the Western Regions.

The horse was white and snow-dyed, without a trace of variegation. He is tall and handsome, and can travel thousands of miles a day. And climbing the mountain and crossing the water, such as walking on the ground. Later, Wang Xianzhi got Chu Jiangkai and gave him this divine horse.

Chu Jiangkai named it "Pang Yun", which was taken from a sentence in Li Taibai's "Sending Friends to Shu": "The mountain starts from the human face, and the cloud is the first born by the horse." ”

Before he had galloped far, he saw a horse in front of him galloping towards him. Chu Jiang opened his eyes to take a closer look, and saw that the man was wearing grass army armor and carrying a long knife. So he took the reins and stopped to the side and waited for the man to come near.

After he saw Chu Jiangkai, he hurriedly said in a loud voice: "Brother Chu, General Wang has something to say to you." ”

Chu Jiangkai listened and asked, "Xiao Shangshuai, what's so important that you still bother to run away by yourself?"

This person is Shang Rang, one of the top ten voters of the Grass Army, and he is also Shang Junchang's younger brother. Just because the army called his brother Shang Shuai, he called him Xiao Shang Shuai. Chu Jiang Kai saw that Shang Rang personally came to pass the word, and knew that the stakes were not small.

Shang Rang replied: "There are a lot of people from the rivers and lakes in Puzhou, and we didn't pay attention to it at first. But my brother sent news today that many people from the Martial Arts Sect and the Green Forest Gang have come here in the past few days, and the purpose is not yet clear. General Wang is afraid that there will be chaos in Puzhou, so he wants you to go and help my brother to shock a person or two. ”

Puzhou is currently the first vote under Wang Xianzhi's account, and Shang Jun is in charge, and if it is said that he can contain and guard against the official army, he is naturally safe. But now that a large number of rivers and lakes have poured in, it has made him a little difficult to control.

Although Chu Jiangkai didn't understand why so many people from the rivers and lakes suddenly entered Puzhou, he knew that Puzhou had a great deal to do. He didn't dare to slack off, so he immediately bid farewell to Shang Rang and went to Puzhou.