Deep in the dark woods, Zhao Bufan and Zhu Lian hid in the dense grass, holding their breath and quietly watching everything that happened in the distance.

At this time, the old man who sold jujube that they had met during the day was still talking to General Yuan, and from their conversation, Zhao Bufan got a lot of fragmentary information, and he understood the cause and effect of the matter with a little connection.

It turned out that the person who secretly marched with soldiers and horses was Yuan Lang, a fierce general under Wang Qing, nicknamed the red-faced tiger, with strong martial arts, and Ma Xian, Ma Jin, Teng Ji, and Teng Ji were canonized as Huwei generals by Wang Qing, and belonged to the jurisdiction of Li Kai.

Recently, Li Mao took more than 30,000 soldiers and horses to fight with Liu Zhongwu in the south of Yuxian County, but where was Liu Zhongwu's opponent, the two armies fought several times on the plain, even though the five great tiger generals were outstanding in personal force, but Liu Zhongwu was so experienced, relying on the soldiers and horses under his command are elite sergeants who have been trained for many years, and they do not use the battle to boost morale at all, but directly march into formation.

How long has it been since these bandits under Li Kai's command were integrated and trained, where can they be compared with the elite soldiers under Liu Zhongwu's command, these people under Liu Zhongwu's command are all professional sergeants, few have been soldiers for four or five years, and most have been soldiers for more than ten years, well-trained, experienced in large-scale operations, and their strength is not at the same level at all, not to mention that Li Kai still relies on Li Zhu to get to the top, but he is just a mediocre talent, and when it comes to commanding and fighting, it is completely different from Liu Zhongwu.

After several battles, Li Kai's soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses, with as many as seven or eight thousand casualties, and their morale collapsed.

It was in this situation of being forced and helpless that Yuan Lang proposed the idea of stealing Nanyang by detour, running thousands of miles, and cutting off Liu Zhongwu's grain road.

Knowing these circumstances, Zhao Bufan was really a little impressed by Yuan Lang.

Until their army continued to move forward and gradually walked away, he emerged from the grass and said with a faint smile: "Lian'er, I think this Yuan Lang is okay, he has some courage and brains, how about getting the Water Margin Army to be the commander of the army, serving the country in the future is also a way out, and now being a bandit will be killed by those famous generals in the court sooner or later, it's a pity." ”

"Don't be funny, it's light, how can it be so easy to get?" Zhu Lian rolled her eyes coquettishly.

Zhao Bufan asked rhetorically: "What's so bad?"

"Are you serious?" Zhu Lian looked over in surprise.

"If you don't tell you seriously, do you still say it's cooked?"

"Don't make trouble!" Zhu Lian patted him angrily, frowned and said: "It's not easy to look at this matter, the court is okay to say, with your prestige and power, as long as he is willing to surrender, there is no problem in keeping him, but the key is how to make him surrender? Do you have to defeat him first, and then let him betray Wang Qing, how is it possible?"

"Why can't it be?"

Zhao Bufan smiled calmly: "Wang Qing's virtue is a pure bandit to put it bluntly, in order to enjoy himself, he is not as good as Fang La, Fang La still has some goals and thoughts, what does he Wang Qing have? Three bowls of wine, brotherhood? Without the support of the same belief, how can he level a bowl of water? If he is level, Li Yi will become a general? Love and righteousness are very important, but it cannot last long by relying on love alone, when will people's hearts become single?"

Zhu Lian realized something, and his eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"Okay, we should go too!" Zhao Bufan smiled faintly, lifted the light gong and jumped away, and quickly walked away.

Zhu Lian hurriedly followed and asked urgently, "Where are we going?"

"Go to Nanyang!"

With the words, the figures of the two quickly disappeared into the dark forest.

............

Before dawn, they returned to the outside of Nanyang City again.

Zhao Bufan found a thin stone slab, and asked Zhu Lian to engrave the matter of Yuan Lang's sneak attack with his nine yin fingers, and then threw the slate to the city and didn't care about it, and found a hidden boulder to rest.

A few hours later, the sound of shouting and killing came into his ears, waking up Zhao Bufan and Zhu Lian.

The two hurriedly got up and hurried to the Nanyang City Gate, and suddenly saw a fierce fight.

Half of the soldiers and horses led by Yuan Lang were trapped in the East City Gate, half were blocked outside the East City Gate, and their heads were densely rained with arrows and rolling stones, and there were two imperial soldiers and horses outside the city from the left and right, obviously they were ambushed, and the casualties were extremely heavy, and the water in the moat was dyed red.

The shouts of killing, screams, and the drums of war were deafening......

"It's miserable!"

Looking at it from a distance, Zhu Lian couldn't bear it and sighed silently.

Zhao Bufan was accustomed to it, and casually found a tree, jumped on it and lay down in the canopy, calmly watching the battlefield over there.

"It's not like this in the war, but it's far worse than the cruelty of the battlefield in Northern Xinjiang, the Liao people and the Jin people are really terrible, slaughtering cities and destroying villages at every turn, and piling people's heads into small mountains are common, and you haven't seen it. ”

Zhu Lian blinked, and then jumped to sit down beside him, and said with a smile: "You just look at it like this, what if Yuan Lang doesn't stand out of the encirclement?"

Zhao Bufan said leisurely: "If he can be captured alive, or break out of the encirclement, then I will give him a way out." ”

"What if you die?"

"Since he chose to be a bandit, he naturally has to pay the price, and death is his life. ”

“......”

The two sat in the canopy chatting without a pair, and before they knew it, more than half an hour had passed, and the battlefield in the distance had gradually come to an end, and Wang Qing's army had been completely defeated, with more than 6,000 dead and wounded, and only a few people scattered and fled.

Yuan Lang, who was covered in blood, also stood out from the siege, but was chased and killed by the imperial court generals, and in the end he fled alone.

Running for dozens of miles like this, Yuan Lang saw that he had gotten rid of the chasing soldiers of the imperial court, so he gradually slowed down, and saw a clear stream in a blink of an eye, he immediately ran over with a dry mouth, quickly put the weapon aside, tore off the broken armor, squatted down and picked up the stream and gobbled it up.

After a while, he seemed to have drunk enough, washed his face with water, gradually calmed down, and sat down on the ground with a long sigh.

"Why did the imperial court know that I attacked Nanyang, what went wrong?"

Puzzled, he looked up at the sky, and there was an indescribable boredom on his rough face.

"Now that I have returned from a miserable defeat, my brothers under my command have also been killed and wounded, and that stupid man Li Yi does not know what to do with me. ”

Speaking to himself, he took a deep breath, grabbed his weapon and was about to get up and hurry, but he didn't expect that a magnetic voice suddenly came from the left front.

"I think you'd better not go back, there's no future, the brothers you brought up are gone, what can you do if you go back in this situation, who will give you some soldiers and horses?"

"Who?"

Yuan Lang was frightened and angry, and suddenly looked for the sound, but saw a man and a woman sitting on the stones by the stream in front of him on the left, both looking young.

"Who are you, and what are you doing?"

Of course, this man and woman are Zhao Bufan and Zhu Lian who came with them, since they saw Yuan Lang escape, they have been keeping their distance and following, which can be said to have witnessed Yuan Lang flee here from the breakthrough.

Seeing that Yuan Lang looked nervous, and his rough face was full of ferocity, Zhao Bufan waved his hand leisurely: "Don't stare at me, what I said is the truth, you lost the battle, you broke thousands of soldiers and horses in your headquarters, and naturally there is no good fruit to eat when you go back, and why are you working for Wang Qing?"

"You can't take care of it!"

Yuan Lang snorted angrily, and didn't want to make any extraneous things in his heart, so he turned around and left.

Zhao Bufan jumped forward, stopped in front of him in a few steps, and smiled.

"You can't go!"

"What a quick light work!" Yuan Lang's eyes froze, his whole body tensed, and the whole person fell into a state of alert: "Who are you? What do you want?"

Zhu Lian followed lightly to him, and said with a faint smile: "Yuan Lang, surrender!"

"Fart!"

Yuan Lang was also enraged by them, and suddenly waved a pair of ink steel and killed them viciously......

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