Two men from Xujiazhuang, hiding behind a mountain bunk, secretly watched the situation on the official road.
Seeing that the horse bandit they invited did not take action, but instead came towards them, one of the villagers noticed something was wrong and quickly said to the other villager: "The situation is not right. Go back to the village and tell the chief steward the news."
The two villagers climbed up from the hill and ran towards the two horses not far away.
As for the miner, they had no intention of taking him away.
Unfortunately, the two of them were just ordinary villagers. When they realized something was wrong, it was too late to run away. Before they could get on their horses, they were surrounded by several horse bandits who rushed towards them on the official road.
"Good man, good man, we are all our own people, what do you mean?" One of the villagers pretended to be calm and said to the horse bandit.
The horse bandit stared at the man who spoke with a half-smile, and said, "Since you are one of our own, why are you running away?"
The village man smiled apologetically and said, "We didn't run. We didn't run. We wanted to let the horses go and eat some grass."
This is purely to fool the devil. It is freezing cold and the ground is frozen hard. There is no grass to feed the horses.
The horse bandit sneered but did not expose it.
At this time, Liu Heng, Ma Yunjiu and others rushed over.
Ma Yunjiu, who was riding on horseback, said: "These two people are villagers in the Xu family's village. The one over there is a miner from the iron yard. They were sent by the Xu family to identify you."
Hearing the word miner, Liu Heng turned his head and looked over, and said to the man squatting on the ground: "Raise your head."
"I don't dare, I don't dare. Please forgive me, my boss. I was also coerced by the Xu family." The miner knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.
"It seems he is really a miner from my iron yard. Take a look, Daqing. Do you know him?" Liu Heng looked familiar to the other person, and when he heard the other person calling him his employer, he was already sure that he was from the iron yard.
Chen Daqing dismounted, lifted the miner's chin, looked at it again, and then turned around and said: "Yes, he is from our iron yard, he should be the miner who resigned not long ago."
Liu Heng nodded, looked at the miner and said, "Is there anything I can do to you in the iron field?"
The miner shook his head.
"Then am I sorry for you in any way?"
The miner still shook his head.
"Tiechang didn't feel sorry for you, and I didn't feel sorry for you either, but you brought people to kill me."
Speaking of the latter part, Liu Heng's voice turned cold.
"My boss, please spare my life, my boss, please spare my life. The younger one was also forced by the Xu family. It was all forced by the Xu family." The miner kowtowed and begged for mercy.
The hard, frozen ground made a thumping sound when my head hit it.
There was no trace of compassion in Liu Heng's eyes, and he said to Chen Daqing: "Give him a good time."
Chen Daqing walked over, stood behind the miner, put his knees on the miner's back, held his head with his hands, and pushed it to one side, and heard a click.
Blood flowed from the corners of the miner's mouth and his breath was gone. When Chen Daqing let go of his arms, he even fell to the ground, motionless.
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When Xujiazhuang Ding saw this scene, he screamed and collapsed on the ground in fear, his face pale.
"What are you going to do with these two people? Do you want to solve them together?" Ma Yunjiu pointed at the two villagers of the Xu family.
"Good man, please spare your life, good man, please run away."
Two men from Xujiazhuang hurriedly kowtowed to Ma Yunjiu and begged for mercy.
Seeing that Ma Yunjiu was unmoved, he knelt down to Liu Heng again and kept crying and begging.
Liu Heng rubbed his chin, thought for a moment, and said: "These two people are still of some use, so let's keep them for now."
Ma Yunjiu nodded indifferently and said, "Then tie him up first!"
To him, it doesn't matter whether he kills these two people or not. They want to go back to Daliang Mountain after all. No matter how long the Xu family's hands are, they can't reach Daliang Mountain.
Two horse bandits jumped off their horses, one of them held down a Xujiazhuang man, took out a piece of hemp rope, and tied his hands behind his back.
"Give the man to Brother Liu and let's go back to Daliang Mountain." Ma Yunjiu said to the two horse bandits.
Liu Heng stopped him and said, "Ma Tou, don't rush back to Daliang Mountain now. I have something else that I need Ma Tou's help with."
"What's the matter?" Ma Yunjiu looked confused.
Liu Heng said with a smile: "The Xu family asked Ma Tou to intercept and kill me. I never thought that we knew each other. My younger brother just took the opportunity to capture the Xu family's Zhuangzi outside the city."
"What?" Ma Yunjiu said in shock, "By robbing the Xu family's village, you will really be at odds with the Xu family. The Lingqiu government will also regard you as a formidable enemy."
"Don't worry Ma Tou, my brother from the government will take care of it." Liu Heng said, "As long as we capture Zhuangzi outside Xu's city, half of the property in Zhuangzi will belong to Ma Tou."
"This..." Ma Yunjiu showed hesitation.
Having lived in Xujiazhuangzi for a few days, he naturally knew how wealthy Zhuangzi was. He really wanted to grab a piece of it, which would be enough to live comfortably in Daliang Mountain for half a year.
Hearing this proposal, he was moved.
Liu Heng smiled and said: "Ma Tou has lived in that Zhuangzi, so he should know very well what is going on there. Even if there is something you don't understand, you can still ask the two villagers in Zhuangzi. It can be said that if you know yourself and the enemy, you can win the probability of success in Zhuangzi. It’s huge.”
Ma Yunjiu looked thoughtful.
Although he didn't know what the word probability meant, he knew that as long as he was unprepared, it was very possible to defeat Zhuangzi.
After waiting for a while, Liu Hengxiao asked: "Ma Tou, what do you think? Cooperate?"
After a moment's hesitation, Ma Yunjiu nodded and said: "Okay, but there are Zhuang Ding and six or seventy servants in Zhuangzi. Will our number be a little less? My people are skilled in bow and horse, and it will be difficult to use them when they enter Zhuangzi." ability."
Liu Heng said: "It doesn't matter, I will send some people from Hutou Village to attack Zhuangzi. Ma Tou just needs to trick the village gate into opening and let my people enter the village."
At this moment, several fast horses came running from the official road.
Soon came close.
The leader, a big man, reined in the reins and said in surprise: "It's you, Ma Yunjiu."
The person who came was Chen Xunping. After he saw the bandit who was going back to get the money, he followed him. There was also a bandit from a squadron who came with him. Because he came on foot, the team was still behind.
"It turns out to be Brother Xunping." Ma Yunjiu smiled and cupped his hands.
Chen Xunping nodded, then looked at Liu Heng and said, "Master, are you okay?"
"It's okay, Ma Tou is one of our own." Liu Heng explained.
Chen Xunping nodded, his eyes full of defense.
Their relationship with Shi Yunhu, the Chinese army's camp, was well known to everyone. If it hadn't been for the encirclement and suppression by the army, there would have been a battle between them and Shi Yunhu.
Therefore, he had a bad feeling towards Ma Yunjiu, the leader of the cavalry in the Chinese army camp, and was vaguely hostile.
"Master, my subordinates have brought a squadron and they will be here soon." Chen Xunping looked at Ma Yunjiu and said, vaguely expressing a warning.
In response, Ma Yunjiu smiled lightly.
Considering the relationship between the Archer Camp and the Chinese Army Camp, it did not surprise him that Chen Xunping was so guarded against him. On the contrary, when they met, Liu Heng was very affectionate to him, which surprised him even more.
