"Tell me, who are you? Why did you lie..."
Just when everyone was surprised, the red lady suddenly rushed forward, drew out the sword from her waist, pointed at the man and asked sternly.
When the man saw this, he said with some shame: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to lie..."
"Tell me, who are you?"
The red lady interrupted him loudly, and the hand holding the sword trembled slightly.
"I am Ren Zhihua, the deputy general of Duke An, but I am actually not..."
"ah!"
The red lady didn't wait for Ren Zhihua to finish what she said, and stabbed the opponent in the chest with her sword.
Ren Zhihua didn't know whether he didn't expect the Red Lady to take action or was willing to die, so he didn't dodge.
"puff!"
A stream of blood spurted out, but Ren Zhihua did not fall.
Because the red lady's long sword only penetrated for more than an inch, she stopped, and then drew out the sword again, silent, not knowing what she was thinking.
Seeing this, Gong Yonggu, who was unable to rescue him, looked at the two of them quietly, full of doubts in his heart.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was not far away, couldn't help but frowned when he saw this situation.
"His Majesty!"
At this time, when Ren Zhihua saw Zhu Yuanzhang, he knelt down and saluted hurriedly, regardless of the sword injury.
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly and said in a deep voice: "Ren Zhihua, what on earth is going on?"
Seeing the anger on Zhu Yuanzhang's face, Ren Zhihua hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, the general is following the order of Duke An, pretending to be..."
As he spoke, he suddenly stopped and looked at the red lady beside him.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the red lady had gradually regained her composure and was not like a person who was emotionally traumatized. He guessed that there was something inside, so he wanted to take the opportunity to knock away the last bit of fighting spirit from the red lady. He shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter. If you have anything to do, just ask her." explain!"
After hearing this, Ren Zhihua told the story.
It turned out that after Liu Wenbing led his army to leave the capital, he thought that Taiyuan was the center of Shanxi, and Fu Shan and Han Lin were also quite powerful there, so he planned to go to Taiyuan first, and then use it as the center to radiate to the surrounding areas and secure the route to Chang'an. Dangerous pass.
However, when he arrived near Taiyuan, he found that the rebel defense was very tight.
Therefore, he changed his route to Quwo, preparing to meet up with Li Jiantai, and then summon the landlords' armed forces to attack the rebels from the rear.
Unexpectedly, when he met Li Jiantai, he found that he had not summoned volunteers, but was busy taking back his properties and shops.
When Liu Wenbing saw this, he was very dissatisfied, but when he thought that he still needed to rely on Li Jiantai's connections, he didn't say anything explicitly and just urged him to summon the righteous army.
It should be said that Li Jiantai did have some connections. Within a few days, he recruited a large number of people including Li Yukui, Liu Qian, Yu Yin, Wang Yongzhen, and Wang Huang.
Liu Wenbing was a little happy when he saw Li Yukui, Liu Qian and others, but when he saw Yu Yin, Wang Yongzhen and others, he immediately frowned.
Because except for Li and Liu, who were originally officials from the Ming Dynasty and were relatively loyal to the court, the others were either idlers, unruly people in the world, and even some dangerous people.
Like Wang Yongzhen, his brother Wang Yongqiang was Li Zicheng's general in Yan'an. He only sent Wang Yongzhen back to inquire about the news because he heard that Li Zicheng had failed. Unexpectedly, Li Jiantai actually invited him over.
Seeing this situation, Liu Wenbing knew that Li Jiantai was not available. He wanted to leave and find another way, but he did not expect that Li Jiantai had already spread the news that he was here to recruit troops.
It was precisely because of Li Jiantai's reckless move that Liu Wenbing was assassinated several times in succession, which strengthened his determination to leave.
Unexpectedly, Fu Shan and Han Lin came with thousands of people at this time, and told him that many people were rushing here.
Therefore, Liu Wenbing gave up the idea of leaving, and instead decided to send Li Jiantai to Taiyuan to prevent him from messing up again.
However, Liu Wenbing also knew that Li Jiantai was greedy for life and feared death. If he was only allowed to go, even if he agreed under pressure, he might cause trouble if no one supervised him.
In order to get rid of Li Jiantai and solve the assassination trouble at the same time, Liu Wenbing thought for a while and merged the troops of Han, Fu and others with his troops and divided them into three to form three teams, consisting of him, Mao Weizhang and Ren Zhihua respectively. Three men in command.
Then he gave his private seal and waist badge to Mao Weizhang and Ren Zhihua, asking them to pretend to be themselves so that no one could tell where he was.
After doing all this, he took Ren Zhihua and Li Jiantai to Taiyuan.
After they arrived in Taiyuan, they heard that the Red Lady was disarming landlords in various places.
Liu Wenbing was worried that the righteous troops who came to join would be attacked, so he asked Ren Zhihua to stay in Taiyuan while he led his troops to respond.
Unexpectedly, just after Liu Wenbing left, the red lady arrived in Taiyuan and caught Li Jiantai who was recruiting troops with great fanfare.
After Ren Zhihua heard about this, he was about to try to save Li Jiantai, but he never thought that Li Jiantai had already betrayed them, so that he was caught off guard by the red lady.
Fortunately, his soldiers pretended to be him and lured the Red Lady and others away, so he managed to escape.
Then he hurried to notify others, but was a step too late every time, and was caught by Li Yan in the end.
After Ren Zhihua was arrested, he was already determined to die. In order to prevent Liu Wenbing from being hunted again, he took the name of An Guogong.
Unexpectedly, after Li Yan learned that he was Liu Wenbing, she did not hand him over, but hid him in the boudoir without telling the matchmaker.
It only took one day for the Red Lady to find out about this. She immediately scolded Li Yan and wanted to behead Ren Zhihua.
I don't know what Li Yan was thinking, but she actually said that she and Ren Zhihua had already been privately engaged for life, and that they were pregnant with each other's flesh and blood, so she begged.
The red lady was furious after hearing this, but in the end she was persuaded by Li Yan and agreed to let Zhihua go, and then asked her personal guards to send him out of Taiyuan.
Not long after Ren Zhihua left the city, he met Liu Wenbing who came after hearing the news.
Then he followed Liu Wenbing and sneaked into Taiyuan, preparing to assassinate the conferred Li Jiantai. Unexpectedly, he met Li Yan again.
So Liu Wenbing asked him to continue pretending to be himself, while he led his men to attack and kill Li Jiantai.
In order not to make the Red Lady and others suspicious, Liu Wenbing also deliberately disfigured a guard who was similar to him in order to confuse the public.
After assassinating Li Jiantai, Liu Wenbing wanted to rescue him, but accidentally discovered that his false identity was more conducive to causing internal strife among the rebels.
So Liu Wenbing asked Ren Zhihua to continue acting as Duke An, while he and Mao Weizhang contacted the rebels outside, and occasionally deliberately spread some news to let Niu Jinxing and others know that Liu Wenbing was not dead, aggravating the conflicts among the rebels.
Later, the red lady didn't know if she had discovered anything, so she asked Li Yan to take him away from Taiyuan.
Just at this time, Liu Wenbing also sent a message asking him to bring some information to Gong Yonggu, so he came to Yu County with Li Yan.
Because of the fake corpse incident, he hid in a cave with Li Yan. Unexpectedly, while he was waiting for Li Yan, the Red Lady suddenly appeared and brought him here.
After listening to Ren Zhihua's story, Zhu Yuanzhang understood why the red lady was so excited before.
"So it wasn't the Red Lady who saved you, but Li Yan?"
At this time, Gong Yonggu said in a somewhat surprised voice.
Ren Zhihua was stunned when he heard this, and said with some confusion: "Why, Li Yan told you that it was the Red Lady who saved me?"
After he said that, he looked at the red lady with some embarrassment.
When the red lady heard this, she understood immediately and couldn't help but let out a long sigh in her heart.
