The so-called close friends are rare.
In this regard, Liu Yi should feel fortunate that with his father Liu Quansheng's precautions, he had four lifelong friends when he was a child, and all of his four close friends will be able to handle Liu Yi in the future. , Li Erniu, Huangfu Lu, Ying Cheng, and Wang Sanbao, all with sincerity, fulfilled the friendship between monarch and minister and the morality of the world, and never left Liu Yi even in his most difficult and darkest moments.
After Liu Yi and Li Erniu looked at each other and laughed, Liu Yi asked, "Erniu, why did you get up so early?"
Li Erniu said with a naive smile, "We're on patrol!"
Liu Yidao, "Is there anything unusual?"
Li Erniu replied, "Nothing unusual."
Liu Yi nodded lightly.
Then, Li Erniu pointed to each camp and returned to the old topic, "They all have their own agendas. Wang Dali is quite right. Yang Liu just wants to earn a reputation for the justice of his family and country for the Lingyuan Escort Agency behind him. He scolds Hu." The generous donation this time has the same intention. In the final analysis, these people are just wealthy and famous people in Chang'an who care about the mountains and rivers!"
Liu Yi smiled and said, "The world is bustling with people who are full of fame and fortune. Without merit or fame, how can people get the motivation to fight and fight?"
"Yes, yes! Big brother is right!" Li Erniu did not continue to dwell on this topic. He stepped forward and hugged Liu Yi's neck, and said with a smile, "Hey! What I said naturally included the Qiao who liked Big Brother. Girl! However, in my opinion, Miss Qiao is much better than the Oriental girl. If my eldest brother is willing, I wouldn’t mind Miss Qiao becoming my sister-in-law in the future."
Liu Yi punched Li Erniu on the chest bitterly, but his hand was injured by the armor, which caused terrible pain.
Li Erniu chuckled, "Haha! Brother, does it hurt?"
Liu Yi rubbed his hands, then grinned and asked, "Mei Yu and Miss Qiao, both civil and military, what's the comparison?"
Li Erniu patted Liu Yi's shoulder and said happily, "Dongfang Yu is a girl from the south of the Yangtze River. She grew up under the pampering of two generations. Although she is delicate and kind, she has a bad temper, willful and domineering, delicate and tender, and is not good at all. To make a living. Miss Qiao has the cheerful enthusiasm of Northeastern girls, she is carefree, and she doesn’t care about things so much on weekdays. She has excellent martial arts skills. Moreover, the Huhu Gang behind Miss Qiao is famous all over the world. If the eldest brother can become the Dragon Rider of Saibeili My son-in-law, who will dare to stab my eldest brother in the future?"
As he spoke, Li Erniu lay next to Liu Yi's ear and whispered excitedly, "Besides, she is big!"
"Bah! Shameless." Liu Yi glanced at Li Erniu hatefully, and then said with a bad smile, "But, I like it! Haha, hahahaha!"
After the joke, Liu Yi asked Li Erniu, "What about you? If Pingtian succeeds, where will you go, brother?"
"Haha! I'm leaving. Let's go check out the kitchen. I'm giving the cooks a day off today and I'll show them my skills." Li Erniu walked away, waving his hands as he walked, "I don't think too much about the future. I only heard that the Pingtian Order of the Five Commanderies was named Liu Yi, so I came!"
Liu Yi suddenly felt like a spring breeze, and followed up with a smile, "Hahaha! I'll go with you."
In the morning, purple gold breaks through the vast clouds, covering the embankment several times.
A lonely boat sails across the sea to make a living, so there is no need to spend leisurely time in a floating life.
The two young men with their arms around each other were like the rising sun, exuding vigorous vitality and starting a new day for the Hirata Army.
When the sun came up, more than 300 people ate the hodgepodge stewed by Mr. Liu and Li Sima. The morale of everyone from top to bottom increased greatly. Invisibly, Liu Yi's prestige increased again. Some.
Last night, Li Erniu found thirty or forty good horses not far from where yesterday's group of bandits were stationed and hoarded. This made the escorts who had been hiking all day happy, and they were all full of energy and vitality. , ready to gallop.
Just when everyone was packing up their equipment and preparing to set off, a carrier pigeon fluttered onto the shoulder of Liu Yi, who was chatting and laughing. It was a secret message from Yangliu.
Liu Yi opened it and read it carefully. He was furious, gnashing his teeth, and his eyes were split with anger. He was furious, "Jiang Feng, Jiang Ruisheng, shameless dog thieves, have angered the people. I shall eat their flesh and sleep on their skins. Dog thieves, dogs." Thief! Damn it!”
Liu Yi, who was usually gentle and never angry, actually became furious for the first time. Everyone including Li Erniu and Ying Cheng looked serious when they saw this scene.
Before anyone could ask questions, Liu Yi slapped the roll of paper on Li Erniu's hand, returned to the middle tent, and pulled down the curtain with all his strength. The sound of clanking and smashing things was immediately heard in the room. A foul-mouthed growl.
Everyone looked at each other and opened the roll of paper together. After reading it, their faces suddenly changed color at the same time, and they were all furious and righteous.
Just as Qiao Miaoqing was about to have a fit, Liu Yi walked out of the tent and roared loudly, "Let's organize our troops and set off immediately, blood for blood, tooth for tooth!"
Everyone was ordered to disperse immediately, and a few numbers were written on the scrolls that floated away in the wind: The bandits wanted to occupy the dangerous mountains and forests, slaughtered more than a hundred households in Gongyang Village, took their heads, and built a corpse temple across the road in order to frighten the Pingtian army.
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Centurion Huang Cheng, who came north with Xiahou Liuhuo, was responsible for the second interception.
Huang Cheng was a mature and prudent man. He did not let down his guard because Hirata Ling was an inexperienced young man. Instead, he made careful preparations. He did not intend to attack the people of Chisong County, but Xiahou Liuhuo arranged for him to intercept and kill him. The land is a plain, with no geographical advantage to rely on. He can only drive away more than 400 people from Gongyang Village and occupy the village as a city to resist the enemy troops.
Yesterday, I heard from the spies that Huang Qiang's team in front of him was completely wiped out. After careful questioning, Huang Cheng became sad and angry. For no other reason than that the Huang Qiang who died in the battle was his father and brother-in-law. Mother's brother.
As he was wailing, the owner of Gongyang Village unexpectedly left and came back to ask for the village. In a rage, Huang Cheng killed all the men, women, children, chickens, dogs, cattle and sheep in Gongyang Village, and took all their heads. They were cut off and piled up in the center of the official road to build a corpse temple.
Liu Yi, I want you to die!
No, I want you to die badly!
People who have been in the military for many years will always have the habit of getting up early, and Huang Cheng is no exception.
Early this morning, after he inspected Gongyangzhai, he found that the 150 herders brought from Taihao City and the more than 100 bandits recruited were paired together in a ratio of three to two, forming a group of five. , a group of twenty people, were placed at the intersection and main road of Gongyangzhai. He believed that the young man named Liu Yi must have known about the situation here and would definitely come to seek revenge.
At that time, Huang Cheng was stationed in the stronghold. With the strength of the Pingtian Army, if Liu Yi attacked, he would suffer heavy casualties. If Liu Yi left, he would attack from behind with Zhen Wenshu, the guard of the third line, to avenge the tragic death of his eldest brother.
Standing on the village tower built with stacked rocks, Huang Cheng looked far away at the official road. The red and white corpses scared away countless lone travelers. There were bursts of bloody evil in the air, even from the Qu The veterans brought over by the state also shuddered a little when they saw this.
In recent years, under the leadership of City Lord Jiang, they have basically run rampant and tyrannical in Quzhou, the vast hinterland of the Central Plains, without any scruples. Even the eight aristocratic families in Quzhou, who have deep foundations and strong financial resources, have been suppressed to the point where they can't even think of anything. Don't dare to let one go.
Therefore, this group of veterans who followed Jiangcheng to conquer the world were so dependent on wind and rain that Huang Cheng himself forgot when was the last time he held a knife to kill someone, and where was the last time someone died? when.
Looking at the line of soldiers and the flying dust in the distance, Huang Cheng, who was about to push the monument, licked his lips unconsciously, feeling both excited and scared, and ordered in a deep voice, "Send the order, the whole army is ready to fight."
After giving the order, a cold wind blew up from Huang Cheng's back. His instinct that he had crawled out of the dead told him that someone was taking the opportunity to make a sneak attack.
The experienced Huang Cheng didn't even turn around. He hurriedly slapped the nearby stone pile on the left, and took advantage of the momentum. His body drifted sideways to the right. In mid-air, Huang Cheng glanced coldly to the left, half a foot away. Outside, a dagger was thrust straight into the place where he had just landed. With such force, he stabbed a huge hole in the wall of the village opposite where he had just stood before he stopped.
Seeing that he missed a hit, the wrist of the soldier who was ordered to hold Huang Cheng down turned vertically and horizontally. The blade of the sword was turned horizontally, and he slashed hard to the right. The sword of the soldier who held the sword and killed him made his body move. Huang Cheng, who was flying in the air, was unable to dodge or avoid.
Huang Cheng was shocked in his heart, but he let out a cold snort. Just when the Hengjian of the Tiger Scoundrel was about to hit him, Huang Cheng's left foot landed on the ground. After falling to the ground, his left foot quickly bounced up. With that weak friction, He pushed forward and punched out his right fist, hitting the back of the tiger-killing soldier's wrist quickly and accurately.
The tiger-blaming warrior did not expect Huang Cheng to turn from defense to offense. Unprepared, the sword fell out of his hand and his right wrist was dislocated. The pain turned his lips white.
Huang Cheng gained the momentum and immediately took advantage of it. He saw that his right hand turned into a fist and clawed, clasping the right arm of the tiger-slaying soldier like a goshawk. His left hand stretched forward to press against the tiger-slaying soldier's neck. With both hands, his right hand suddenly and quickly With a tug, the right arm of the Tiger Rebuker was torn off by him.
The pain of breaking bones and separating flesh made the tiger scolding soldier's eyes almost split, and he stared at Huang Cheng with his eyes like knives.
Huang Cheng ignored the ferocious look on the face of the tiger-blaming warrior. He hugged the grass with a rabbit in his left hand and directly threw the tiger-blaming warrior off the tower. When the tiger-blaming warrior fell in mid-air, Huang Cheng picked up the sword on the ground and fiercely The ground was thrown hard at him, and the head of the dead soldier was nailed to the stone ground outside the stronghold, his brains splattered, and he could not die anymore!
The tiger scolder was also a man. From beginning to end, he never uttered a cry.
Above the rivers and lakes, in the battlefield, the transition between hunters and prey is like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves!
At this time, two other tiger-killing warriors climbed up the wall and floated toward Huang Cheng like ghosts.
Huang Cheng, who had torn apart a tiger-reprimanding soldier, had no time to feel proud and taunted. He straightened his back, flashed his body, stretched out his hand and pulled out the Huanshou knife, making a defensive posture.
The other two tiger-repelling warriors who were killed in the battle approached Huang Cheng three feet away, and immediately attacked with their swords, entangled with Huang Cheng.
Huang Cheng is worthy of being a veteran of hundreds of battles. He relies on the realm of armor removal and is unparalleled in power. The sword in his hand is suddenly fierce and soft, and the two tiger-repelling warriors who were slashed feel as if they were struck by lightning. Their whole bodies trembled violently. They couldn't see ten moves. The two of them will lose.
Two people were not enough, so three more came. For a while, the five tiger-killing warriors were fighting evenly with Huang Cheng.
Huang Cheng concentrated on dealing with the five dead soldiers and no longer had the energy to direct the battle. He captured the king first. This was Liu Yi's first move against the bandits in Gongyang Village.
The remaining nine tiger-repelling warriors who were hiding in the dark appeared one after another, quickly cleared away the remaining bandits on the wall, and then stood on the city ladder and fought with the bandits who tried to reinforce Huang Cheng. For a moment, These thieves are unable to move forward.
Liu Yi rode his horse under the Gongyang Village and looked at the corpse temple built by hundreds of innocent people in the distance, with tears in his eyes.
Forty years ago, you defended your country with your sword and sought favor from heaven.
Today, you slaughtered the village with swords and slaughtered hundreds of people.
What a wealthy man! Family!
Since you are no longer the one that the people look forward to, then you should disappear in the hands of our generation!
Some people died, but not completely...
