On the night before Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng met in Changping, in the Funiu Pass of Luonan County in northwest Henan, in the desolate mountain col with severe frost and wind, there was an almost bare mountain, on which there was only a tall ancient cypress, which was standing alone among several large stones.

On the fork of the sheep intestine path next to the ancient cypress, a cavalry of about 200 people stood in the night wind of Funiu Mountain with a cold and solemn expression. In front of these cavalrymen, there stood a particularly tall horse, and by the bright moonlight, it could be seen that it was a dragon horse covered in iron gray and with white curly hair spots on its neck.

Some careless people, just a cursory glance at the horse's coat color, will take this war horse as Li Chixin's crotch under the black horse, in fact, this war horse is just the father of the black horse, the name is more attractive than the hairstyle of the black horse, because of the name of the horse owner, the father of the black horse is called the oolong horse.

Now riding on the oolong horse is a man with a white pointed old felt hat on his head, a majestic figure, looking at his age should be seven or eight years older than Li Chixin, almost thirty-two or thirteen years old; some careless outsiders just take a cursory glance at this big man, full heavenly court, high nose bridge, slightly raised cheekbones, thick eyebrows and deep eye sockets, no need to look at his broad shoulders, you must think that this is a close relative of Li Chixin's family. That's right, this is the famous thief Li Zicheng in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the second uncle of 'a tiger', and the second father of Li Guo in northern Shaanxi.

Li left the tree in a circle and returned to the brothers behind him. Seeing some people napping in the saddle, he looked at the crowd and said, "For several days we have either marched or fought with our pursuers, and the men and horses have not been rested. Tonight, everyone will sleep happily in the middle of the night, and as long as we rush from the vicinity of Tongguan tomorrow and return to northern Shaanxi, the officers and soldiers will no longer be able to surround us. ”

His tone was calm and his expression was also relaxed, completely chatting with the villagers, "The officials and rich families never thought that we would go back to northern Shaanxi, and at that time, we will leave if we want, rest if we want, and no longer worry about feeding food and grass." ”

After Li Zicheng finished speaking, he looked at his righteous son Li Shuangxi and the soldiers of the standard camp beside him. Although there are not many words, the amount of information in these few sentences is very large, and the effect of agitation is greater than that of the chaplains on the beach of Kuah. When I heard that I was going back to my hometown, I had money, food, and beautiful eyebrows, and no one felt cold, tired and drowsy anymore in an instant.

Li Shuangxi just slandered his father-in-law's sentence, "For a few days, we either marched or fought with the pursuers, and the men and horses did not get rest", he said in his heart: "It is not the tiger camp of the eldest brother, and the chasing officers and soldiers are fighting in the back of the Funiu Mountain, and we are about to run out of the mountain......

I think it can be imagined, when Li Zicheng's majestic eyes looked at him, he waved his arms and shouted at the soldiers who were burning with passion, "We will definitely be able to follow King Chuang to rush through Tongguan and fight back to our hometown! Not to mention that Sun Chuanting's officers and soldiers are in the way, even if there is a sword mountain and sword forest in the front, we can also rush through." Hmph, if anyone is cowardly, without this aggressiveness, it will not be my father Li Chuangwang's people!"

Li Zicheng nodded with satisfaction and said, "That's good, that's right." In the past few years, we have broken through how many states and counties in the government, how many officers and soldiers in the imperial court, and how many descendants of the old Zhu family have been killed. Sun Chuanting, this turtle grandson, can't stop us from going home!"

"King Chuang, I heard that Sun Chuanting personally greeted us at Tongguan, but is it true?" asked Li Shuangxi's partner in the Boy Scouts, the young general Zhang Nai.

Seeing Zhang Nai's discernment, Li Zicheng was happy for a while, and he said loudly, "Yes, he brought some turtle bastards to greet us at Tongguan." Maybe Hong Chengchou is also ahead. How is it, Zhang Nai, are you a little timid?"

The encouragement in Li Zicheng's tone and tone made a group of standard camp pro-soldiers eager to try. Zhang Nai's neck screamed, "Cowardly, when have I ever been cowardly? I also plan to capture Sun Chuanting alive to avenge our King Gao Chuang!"

"Okay, Xiao Zhang Nai! You're right, you should settle blood accounts with Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, and avenge our King Gao Chuang!" King Chuang praised the little guy in his heart, he patted Zhang Nai's shoulder and shouted to boost morale, and at the same time he thought in his heart: "This kid is really good, he has been trained, he knows to pick up the legacy of Lao Tzu and make up for the lack of revenge, so that his standard camp will never be discouraged!"

A young cavalryman leaning next to Zhang Nai smiled confidently and said, "Of course, when I meet Sun Chuanting, I won't spare him lightly!"

Li Shuangxi naturally hit the railroad while it was hot: "In my opinion, we will kill Sun Chuanting's men and horses tomorrow, but it is not easy to catch him." ”

"Why?" Zhang Nai and Li Shuangxi's questions and answers interpreted the terrifying battle that the soldiers of the standard camp were about to face into a relaxed game of whack-a-mole, making many people forget their fear when facing a strong enemy.

Li Shuangxi said on the ground, "Because my horse has not been fed for many days, even the little white dragon that Brother Hay gave me is still not full." His grandson's horse is well fed and fast, and my little white dragon may not be able to catch up. ”

Everyone laughed when they heard what they said, and the laughter dispelled people's worries about tomorrow.

"Get on the horse!" Li Zicheng thought that the time was almost up, so he ordered everyone.

Watching Shuangxi and Zhang Nai get on the horse, he himself flew on the oolong horse. Just now, Li Shuangxi mentioned Li Guo's gift of horses in his words, which made Li Zicheng's heart very uncomfortable.

Shuangxi and Zhang Nai are both brave generals who were drawn from the Boy Scouts by their nephew Li Guo. Both of them are seventeen years old this year, Shuangxi is a few months older than Zhang Nai, he is much quieter than Zhang Nai, and his figure is half a head taller, so Zhang Nai always likes to listen to Shuangxi among the two of them.

Two years ago, he saw that Shuangxi and Zhang Nai were particularly brave and martial arts in battle, so he transferred their nephew Li Guo out of the Tiger Ben camp and put it beside him.

"Now by my side, there are too few brave and loyal generals like Guo'er," Li Zicheng thought in his heart distressedly, "It's a child like Shuangxi and Zhang Nai, and he is also a top few people, but Guo'er is still nowhere to be found for his Hong, where are you now!"