Lao Jiu led several horses to go west along the river. The name of this river is Tianguan. The river starts from Changhu outside Jingzhou City in the west and flows into Dongjing River outside Qianjiang County in the east. The water and soil along the coast are fertile and there are many villages.
Tan Ma said that the group of cavalry was two miles away, but Lao Jiu and the others had just walked a few miles when they saw a group of people riding horses leisurely along the river. After seeing Lao Jiu and his group, they slowed down. Then he rushed over quickly and surrounded Lao Jiu and the others in the blink of an eye.
This group of people were carrying swords and had fierce eyes. Zhu Chongjiu immediately became nervous and couldn't help but touch the steel knife at his waist. However, Lao Jiu looked disdainful and glanced at the group of people with side eyes and said coldly: "Who are you waiting for?"
"Who are they?" A strong man laughed loudly: "Who do you think we are?"
"It doesn't look like a good silver coin," Lao Jiu imitated Chang Yu's usual tone and said with a nonchalant expression. He thought that the group would get angry, but they burst out laughing: "This bitch has a good eye." Ah, we are indeed not good people, so who are you?"
"Can't you see?" Lao Jiu flicked his military uniform, patted the knife on his waist, and sneered.
"Oh, Goupi, it turns out they are dog officers and soldiers!" The leader chuckled, and everyone behind him also laughed.
"Knowing that I am an officer and a soldier, yet you are still so arrogant. It seems that you either don't know how to live or die, or you have a lot of background. Are you people from Li Chuang or people who just like the mountains and rivers?"
"Shanshui" refers to bandits who rely on mountains and rivers to eat.
"Who do you think we are? Are we from Li Chuang, or are we from the mountains and rivers?" The strong man in the lead said with a fierce look on his face.
Lao Jiu really couldn't tell. These days, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court do not have unified uniforms. Except for the generals with military ranks, ordinary soldiers can wear some. There are miscellaneous ones, including civilian uniforms and even Tatar military uniforms. All.
Only the subordinates of the Beijing camp or the local warlords have relatively uniform costumes.
The soldiers and horses of the imperial court are all like this, not to mention the thieves like Li Chuang and Zhang Xianzhong. They started out as thieves and wore everything, just like ordinary people and thieves.
Therefore, it is quite difficult to determine the origin of this group of people based on their clothing.
"That's a big difference." Lao Jiu chuckled and patted the handle of the knife: "If it's Li Chuang's people, we can still talk. If it's a brother who eats mountains and rivers, then I'm sorry, your death has come."
"How many of you are there?" The leading strong man looked disdainful, and his subordinates couldn't help laughing.
"That's right, there are just a few of us, don't you believe it?" Lao Jiu chuckled, slowly pulled out the steel knife and waved it in front of his eyes: "It's just one versus three, I'm just kidding."
As he spoke, the men around him also pulled out their knives and formed a circle to confront the more than 20 riders outside.
"Boy, you are so arrogant." When the leader saw Lao Jiu's unruly behavior, his heart began to beat and he couldn't help but frown: "Boy, what is your background? Chen Fulin's men are not so smart."
Chen Fulin is Wang Yuncheng's subordinate and the garrison general in Qianjiang County.
"The Chen Fulin you already know is not an ordinary friend who enjoys landscapes. He is from Jingzhou?" Lao Jiu snorted, and the leading man laughed: "The imperial court and Dashun are crossing the river to rule. You came here without telling me. What are you going to do..."
"Fuck you," Lao Jiu scolded directly: "Isn't it the king's land in the world, and where did Dashun come from? What kind of bullshit is it to transform the river into a river to rule, Li Chuang even surrendered, it's all the land of the Ming Dynasty , I will come as I please, what are you trying to do to me, but what can I do..."
"Fuck, you are so shameless, are you here to find trouble? Damn it, you are looking in the wrong place." The big man roared and his men immediately drew their swords.
"It seems they are from Jingzhou. Are you sure you want to start?" Lao Jiu chuckled and pointed at the leading man with a knife: "Go back and give the plague cow a message, saying that I will go there in two days. Jingzhou looked for him and asked him to prepare wine and wait."
"How dare you humiliate General Niu like this?" the leading man yelled angrily. In his opinion, Lao Jiu and the others were just spies for the officers and soldiers.
"Chief Niu?" Lao Jiu was stunned and then burst out laughing: "How come I heard that the imperial court only appointed Na Niu as a deputy general, so why is there such a thing as a general?"
"Bah, who cares about the deputy general of your court? I said the commander-in-chief is the commander-in-chief..." The big man roared and was about to teach the few pawns in front of him who didn't know the heights of the sky and the heights of the border, but suddenly found a dark cloud approaching in the distance, uh... ... Nearly a hundred riders came at lightning speed, and their expressions immediately became solemn: "What are you doing?"
Lao Jiu raised his head and looked around, then smiled and said: "They told you to pass a message to the plague cow. Go quickly. It will be difficult to leave if you are late."
The man's face was changing. He watched Baiqi getting closer and closer in the distance and finally gritted his teeth: "You are not Chen Fulin's people. If you want me to send a message, you have to give me a name."
"Dongchang Wei Heilangying, you, Master Jiu, are me." Lao Jiu looked proud, and the faces of the group instantly turned pale, and without saying a word, they turned around and beat their horses and left.
Just kidding, now the name of Dongchang Wei is like the reputation of the great eunuch. Wherever he throws it, the earth will shake. No one of the several battalions under his command is enough to make people heard. They are all crawling out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. What a tough soldier!
"Why did you run away?" As soon as the group left, Hao Yaoqi ran over with more than a hundred soldiers: "Are the soldiers in Jingzhou still bandits?"
"What's the difference?" Lao Jiu replied casually, and Hao Yaoqi snorted: "It's different. If they are thieves, let them stay today. If Li Chuang's people mention my name, it will be easier for them to use it."
Moreover, Lao Jiu rolled his eyes directly: "If you say that someone on the other side of the Yellow River mentions your name as a wine jar when you meet Li Chuang, maybe someone will pay attention to it. Here in Jingzhou, they are all from the Gezuo Fifth Battalion. Who is giving you a fuck! Besides, here in Jingzhou In their eyes, you are a traitor who is greedy for life and death and betrays others for glory. I don’t know whether it’s good or bad to mention your name, but you will definitely get spit on your face!”
Hao Yaoqi opened his mouth to scold, but Zhu Chongsheng quickly interrupted: "It's Niu Wancai's man."
"The net is cast quite far." Hao Yaoqi frowned: "The people from the fifth battalion are really the best at guarding the gates and guarding the courtyard. They keep a close eye on the border."
"So what, now that I'm here, I want to see how he drives me away." Lao Jiu snorted, and Hao Yaoqi looked into the distance: "What are you planning to do, go over now?"
Lao Jiu turned around and looked around: "What the hell, it's still nearly two hundred miles away from Jingzhou. There is no city, no village, no oil or water to catch in the middle of the journey. And we have to let the brothers have a good rest. They suffered a lot last night. , By the way, were you okay last night?"
"Have an egg." Hao Waiqi became angry at the mention of this. He spent much of the night before settling his men in several villages within a few miles. He had more than a thousand cavalry under his command, scattered among three or four The village is still stretched thin, but it can barely accommodate itself.
"That's alright. Since it's hard to do well if you step over the boundary, then just rest your strength and go over there. If you block it, you'll kill it!" Lao Jiu looked unruly.
"I'm afraid they won't let An Sheng rest enough." Hao Yaoqi chuckled, and Lao Jiu raised his eyebrows: "There are still things to do in Jingzhou..."
"Do you think there are still two hundred miles to Jingzhou, and Niu Wancai's heavy troops are just waiting in the city, and he just sends out some scout horses to escape?" Hao Yaoqi curled his lips and looked at Zhu Chongsheng: "Scholar, You said this is the truth."
Zhu Chongsheng nodded: "General Hao is right. The news of Wuchang sending troops to march westward has probably reached central Sichuan by now. It is impossible for Jingzhou not to know about it. Now that we know it, how can we not be prepared? Maybe we encountered this probing horse." It’s not an accident.”
"You two mean that there should be a large army ahead?" Lao Jiu narrowed his eyes into a straight line. Zhu Chongsheng and Hao Yaoqi looked at each other: "Nine times out of ten!"
"Good guy, I'm looking down on your bottle of wine." Lao Jiu nodded slightly, looked towards the west, and Hao waved his flag and said, "I am soberer than anyone else when I don't drink."
"Explore, if ten miles is not enough, explore twenty or thirty miles. If you encounter any obstruction, do it." Then Lao Jiu ordered several scouts to increase the scope.
