It was July 25, and as soon as the day dawned, there was a commotion in front of the City God Temple, and there were groups of big men with knives and guns, walking, and riding horses, rushing to this side. It can still be seen that there are two factions: one is that the accents of the two sides are different, one is the local tone of Yangzhou, and the other is the tone of Qilu; In front of the temple, there were more than a dozen officials who came to secretly check, and after seeing that the number of people on both sides was getting more and more, they were so frightened that they had already run away with oil on the soles of their shoes.

In the morning, six or seven hundred people had gathered in front of the temple, divided into two factions, the west was the local fireworks alliance, about 300 people, but there were ten people dressed in gorgeous costumes and black scarves in front of the formation; in the east was the Northern Fireworks Alliance, there were about 400 people, there were only eight horses in front of the formation, three people were dressed in red brocade robes, their faces were masks, and five people were dressed in green clothes, and the green scarves covered their heads, only a pair of eyes were exposed, and they looked coldly at the local fireworks alliance.

The two sides saw almost each other, and a horse flew out of the local fireworks alliance to the middle of the two sides, and a masked man sat on a horse and said in a loud voice: "In Qingyuan, the lower west gate, please come and answer Brother Liu." ”

The Northern Fireworks Alliance also flew out, and a masked red-robed man flew out, came to the middle of the two sides, raised his hand and saluted: "Brother Ximen has been doing well lately, I want to die in Brother Xialiu!"

Ximen Qingyuan returned the salute and asked: "Brother Liu has always had a good relationship with the old man, and the old man asked Brother Liu to sit in Qilu, and he never treated you at all, but Brother Liu, why did you recently lead your subordinates to the south and invade my territory, and ask the old brother to say one or two." ”

Liu Zhihui, surnamed Liu, immediately laughed and said: "Yes, this is for you to ask yourself, who told someone to destroy Hebei Shenjian Villa? That is my brother's territory, and it is the younger brother who wants to make a move, this is what we agreed in advance: You can't go out of Xuzhou, and I can't go out of the Huai River." Who is secretly probing the idea of Juyi Villa and robbing me of the business of Huilong Money Villa? It's all a good thing you have done! Since you have broken the rules, why do you have to abide by the dead rules, old man, no wonder my brother has to do this!"

Ximen Yuanqing hurriedly said: "Brother doesn't know, the incident of Shenjian Villa is just the personal work of the little apprentice Bo Yifan, brother, I have never sent a single soldier, and I have moved a knife and a gun." Since the Divine Sword Villa and the apprentice have a grudge against killing their father and destroying the door, this account must not be recorded on the head of the old brother!"

Liu Zhihui hurriedly said: "Then why is the wealth in the village in your hands?

Ximen Yuanqing looked up to the sky and laughed, and said: "Brother is wrong again, the little apprentice has no other relatives in the world now, no matter how much wealth he doesn't have, where will he put it in my place? Is there a safer place in the world than the general altar of my Fireworks Alliance? Besides, these riches belong to the apprentices, and I am just taking care of the apprentices, so how can I look down on this small Divine Sword Villa, brother! Besides, the old man has broken away from the door of life and death, has nothing to do with the imperial court, and is a free man, so uncomfortable!"

Liu Zhihui hurriedly said: "You can still say it, you not only betrayed the imperial court, but also dragged away many dead soldiers in the imperial court to be your substitute ghost and killer, you are not ashamed, are you still worthy of being the leader of this fireworks alliance?"

Ximen Yuanqing was furious when he heard this, and was about to have a seizure, but Liu Zhihui immediately rushed loudly: "Brothers of the Fireworks League in Yangzhou, don't fall for this old thief of Ximen again." He is no longer a member of the court, the fireworks alliance is no longer the old thief of Ximen, you should come to me, the court has ordered me to come and take over the fireworks alliance, brothers come quickly, let me wait together to kill this villain who has rebelled from all relatives. Brothers, please see, this is the envoy sent by the imperial court, the Marquis of Kyushu. ”

Liu Zhihui pointed to a masked man in green clothes beside him.

The man in Tsing Yi urged him to step forward and stopped in front of Ximen Qingyuan.

Ximen Qingyuan was shocked, and there was a panic in his heart, Ximen Qingyuan knew that the magic power of this Kyushu Marquis was vast, and no one in the door of life and death had ever defected to escape the punishment of the imperial court, and it was said that they were all handled by Kyushu Hou, but in the door of life and death, it was only rumored that no one had seen or recognized the Marquis of Kyushu. I don't want this person to be in front of my eyes today. But Ximen Qingyuan is bold and bold, and the whole world can make him afraid and fearful, so he has not encountered it so far, so although he is a little worried in his heart, he is not all, so he laughed wildly: "Joke, if you want to kill the old man, I think who dares to come! Liu Zhihui, you don't want to spew blood, and you don't want to be a female cockroach! This fireworks alliance was originally set up by the old man, and he has his own agreement with the imperial court, how can you and other treacherous people know." Besides, how can you talk nonsense about the affairs of the imperial court? I am afraid that this Marquis of Kyushu is also what you asked someone to fake! How can you allow you to talk about the confidential affairs of the imperial court, and how can he, the Marquis of Kyushu, let you go? The old man still said the same thing, as long as you lead your troops back to Shandong, the old man should let you go, and the previous things will be written off, and we will have to wait for the demarcation of the territory in the future, otherwise, don't blame the old man for being ruthless!"

Liu Zhihui laughed and said: "I don't know who is dead or alive! Then let the horse come, and we will have everything done!"

Ximen Qingyuan sneered, turned the horse back to the team, and Liu Zhihui also returned to the team.

The two sides set up their own battle formations, and at the sound of an order, each side raised their swords and guns to fight, and the fighting continued until the afternoon, and there were already one or two hundred dead and wounded on both sides.

The two sides were fighting fiercely, and suddenly someone shouted: "The officers and soldiers are coming, flee quickly!"

The people on both sides looked up, and sure enough, they saw that the cavalry under the pressure of the four blacks had surrounded the Chenghuang Temple, and what was even more terrifying was that the officers and soldiers who came were all Mongolian tower soldiers armed with big swords and wolf tooth gangs and dressed differently from the Han people, and they were actually Mongolian troops in Xuzhou. The fireworks alliance on both sides suddenly became chaotic and ran in all directions. I saw that one of the generals in the official army was talking to each other in a high place, and the Mongolian soldiers all put their swords and spears on their horses, took out their bows and opened their bows and arrows; after a chaotic round of arrows, they urged their horses to rush up with knives and sticks, and they rushed back and forth several times, except for dozens of people who desperately escaped, the rest of the people were cut and killed.

After a gust of wind, a hurried horse bell sounded in the distance, and more than a dozen horses came, which were Ren Tianqi and others and local officials in Gaoyou County.

It turned out that Ren Tianqi went to Gaoyou County that day to see the county commander Sun Qiang and the general soldier Hui Ying, and set up a plan to eradicate the fireworks alliance, secretly transferred thousands of officers and soldiers, and asked Hui Ying to send officers and soldiers to disguise themselves as the subordinates of the fireworks alliance to go out to fight and rob the field, and took the initiative to find the subordinates of the two factions of the fireworks alliance to cause trouble and fight. And so it went on and on. Ren Tianqi went to Dechengde Villa that day and saw that there were people lurking in the village, and when he went to visit at night, he happened to meet Zuo Lengmi and You Chichan going out, so he pretended to be Ximen Hongyun and others to stop him. Since then, both sides of the fireworks alliance thought that the other party had gathered people to eat them once and for all, so they were busy transferring people from all over the world to Gaoyou, and they all wanted to settle the situation in one fell swoop, but unexpectedly, they were caught by the officials and soldiers, it was the praying mantis catching cicadas, and the yellow finch was behind.

Ren Tianqi saw that the battle was over, and hurriedly urged the horse to come, and got off the horse to take a closer look at the scene, but did not see Simon and Bo Yifan, and the stone in his heart fell to the ground, and he hurriedly ordered all the soldiers to immediately start cleaning up the battlefield and doing the aftermath work. When the people heard the news, they rushed to help clean up the battlefield.

Ren Tianqi took advantage of the darkness and ordered someone to follow a little red to the Chengde Villa to get the gold and jewelry there, and burned the villa with another fire. The only few nearby households were also affected by the fact that the fish pond no longer existed, and no one knew where they were, perhaps having died in the sudden fire.