The First Great Ancestor of the Five Dynasties

Chapter 78 Capturing Li Guangbo

The road leading to Liangyuan in Anding County is in disrepair and is wet and slippery with ice and dirt mixed with it.

The mud and snow piled up on the roadside reflected white light under the sunlight, and the howling north wind blew, a little less cold in winter and more like the warmth of spring.

Zhu Xiu rode Heidan and led more than a hundred tooth soldiers. He set out yesterday and slept in a village at night. He started on the road again at dawn and finally arrived outside Liangyuan County.

Hearing that Mr. Zhu Xiaolang was going to Liangyuan on a mission, the Ya soldiers responded enthusiastically and signed up enthusiastically. Even without the transfer order from the deputy commander of Yanei, they were even willing to take some risks and follow Mr. Zhu Xiaolang to do private work.

For no other reason, Mr. Zhu Xiaolang is a kind person, has no official airs, is generous, and can get along well with his brothers. Everyone likes him.

Last time, a brother went to the salt warehouse with Mr. Zhu Xiaolang and received fifty cents. This made the other brothers extremely envious, so they hoped that Mr. Zhu would call on him and give the brothers a chance to earn extra money.
Hei Dan carried Zhu Xiu on his back and trotted briskly all the way. Spring was coming, and Hei Dan's donkey brayed especially excitedly.

Shi Xiangwen carried an iron rod on his shoulder and strode beside the donkey. His big head turned left and right, looking at the wild scenery with novel eyes. It had been a long time since he had come out to breathe.

Shen Xuemin, Yan Ping and Chen An each followed behind on a short steed. On this trip to Liangyuan, Zhu Xiu did not let Ma San accompany him and left him behind to guard the house.

"Dalang, you can beat whoever I ask you to beat later. Don't attack randomly to avoid hurting innocent people." Zhu Xiu looked at the iron rod that was thicker than his arm, swallowed his saliva, and kept telling him.

"Oh~" Shi Xiangwen opened his mouth and smiled innocently, nodding vigorously.

The iron rod was held in his big hand, as if holding a straw, light and effortless.

This crudely made iron rod was made from scraps from weapon forging, but it was not light at all. It didn't require any skills. It could just be swung to greet people.

It is most suitable for an unparalleled warrior like Shi Xiangwen who is born with great strength.

At the gate of Liangyuan County, the local soldiers guarding the gate saw a group of men and horses coming in a menacing manner from a distance. They were shocked and wanted to summon people to stop them. Suddenly they saw a fierce-looking giant man carrying an iron rod on his shoulders, like a hill. He came towards me, his legs were shaking with fear, he ducked aside and did not dare to show his head.

It wasn't until the team entered the city that the guards quickly sent people to the county government to report.

In a wine shop inside the city gate, Xue Xiuliang watched Zhu Xiu lead his troops into the city with cold eyes.

"Let's go!" Xue Xiuliang put down the wine cup and stood up to leave.

Tao Wenju, the follower beside him, hurriedly threw down a handful of copper coins and followed.

Tao Wenju was the one who was ordered to sneak into the Yangjinchuan Salt Factory to find out the news.

He wanted to go back to the salt factory to work and earn money, but unfortunately before he could escape, he was called by Xue Xiuliang and came to Liangyuan.

Since he couldn't go back to the salt factory, he had memorized the manual on production safety regulations in vain and made dozens of pennies less.

Tao Wenju took advantage of the waiter in the wine shop not paying attention, took two coins from the table, picked up the bag and ran out of the wine shop.

At the back door of the wine shop, more than ten Xue family nurses were already waiting here. Xue Xiuliang got on his horse and led his people to the county government office.

"Second Master, are we really going to attack Li Guangbo? He is a descendant of the Li family of the Dingnan Army! I heard that Li Yiyin, the Dingnan Military Envoy, is his uncle."

Tao Wenju trotted closely beside the horse, breathing heavily and chanting.

Xue Xiuliang glared at him fiercely: "Stop talking nonsense! Just follow your orders!"

"Yes, yes~~" Tao Wenju didn't dare to say any more, but he couldn't help feeling cold in his heart.

In order to put the blame on the Jiedu family, the eldest master even did not hesitate to kill his brother-in-law. He was so cruel!
Tao Wenju then thought about it. Mr. Xue did not hesitate to sacrifice his brother-in-law this time. It seemed that the battle between the Xue family and Jiedu Mansion had reached a critical point.

The free salt policy implemented by Jiedu Mansion undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to the Xue family.

Without the support of salt and profit, the power of the Xue family will be greatly reduced. Sensing the approaching crisis, this prompted Xue Xiuming to have crazy thoughts!

Tao Wenju had served the Xue family for many years and knew many secrets of the Xue family. He also understood the importance of salt to the Xue family.

He had seen with his own eyes the busyness of the Yangjinchuan Salt Factory, and secretly received a pound of white salt two days ago.

The white salt produced in Yangjinchuan is of good quality, without any bitter taste, and it will not be mixed with gravel.

Jiedu Mansion holds the salt factory, which is equivalent to holding a golden mountain. In the future, Jingzhou will no longer be short of salt. How long can the Xue family survive without salt profits?

Tao Wenju was a smart man, and he sensed a trace of danger from this confrontation between the Xue family and Jiedu Mansion.
The gate of Liangyuan County Government was closed. A few town soldiers sat lazily on the stone steps in front of the door, chatting and laughing with their spears in their arms. The spear heads were stained with rust and were not as bright as the hoe of an old farmer cultivating the land.

One of the town soldiers untied his belt and urinated on the stone statue of Haechi in front of the Yamen, causing the other town soldiers to laugh.

It can be seen that the rebels are rampant, lawless, and contemptuous of the government.

Zhu Xiu and his men arrived just in time. Seeing this situation, he couldn't help but became furious: "Yan Ping and Chen An! Capture this man!"

The two came out in response, Yan Ping kicked the town soldier's bare buttocks, knocking him to the ground, Chen An rushed forward and pinched his hands.

The rest of the soldiers were shocked and didn't know where this group of troops came from. They stood up in a hurry, some drew their swords and some raised their guns, trying to form a formation to fight.

"Bold! The Commander-in-Chief of the Zhangyi Army is here, but you are resisting each other with swords. What's the point? Do you want to rebel?"

Zhu Xiu sternly reprimanded, held up the token, and ordered people to unfurl the flag of Zhangyi Army.

Several town soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay, not daring to move rashly, some sharp-eyed ones saw that the momentum was wrong, and fled into the county government through the ear door to report.

"Disarm them and tie them up!" Zhu Xiu waved his hand and ordered, opened the gate and led his men into the county government office.

Li Guangbo also came with the town troops, and the two sides met in the open courtyard behind Yimen.

There are quite a few town soldiers, a total of three to four hundred people. It seems that Li Guangbo has brought all of them with him.

Li Guangbo is 20 years old, has braided hair, wears a leather cloak, has a protruding forehead, high cheekbones, dark complexion, and a typical appearance of the Dangxiang ethnic group.

There are four party warriors beside him, who are personal guards who have been with him all the way from Xiazhou.

When the Jiedu Mansion got together a year ago, Zhu Xiu and Li Guangbo met, and they didn't talk much, but they could feel that this party boy had a deep hostility towards him.

"Li Guangbo! Put down your weapon quickly and follow me back to Anding to meet the handsome man!"

Li Guangbo was tall. Zhu Xiu saw him in the crowd and took a few steps forward to shout.

A group of town soldiers surrounded him, drew their long knives and confronted the tooth soldiers.

The local town troops are of the nature of regiment training, half farmers and half soldiers, and their weapons and equipment are usually the inferior to those of the feudal town soldiers.

As for Li Guangbo's group of soldiers, all of them were holding steel knives and wearing thin armor.

Shen Xuemin whispered: "I heard that the Xue family often sent people to Liangyuan to reward the troops. I am afraid that this group of soldiers has already been branded by the Xue family."

Zhu Xiu nodded, with a gloomy face. He glanced at the soldiers and saw hostility in their eyes.

Secretly gestured to Yan Ping, asking him to remind the Yabing brothers to be on guard.

After Zhu Xiu finished shouting, Li Guangbo on the opposite side did not react at all. A pair of bloodshot eyes stared straight at him, with an abnormal flush on his face and his expression seemed to be very excited.

"There's something wrong with this kid!" Zhu Xiu muttered.

Shen Xuemin looked at it carefully and said hurriedly: "I have heard that Li Guangbo has the habit of taking pills. He sends people to Qizhou every month to purchase a pill called Yuyang Pill. Before, he was in trouble because of taking pills. Later, he robbed civilian girls on the street and had a conflict with the county government officer."

Shen Xuemin's face became increasingly sad. It seemed that since Li Guangbo took office two months ago, he, the county magistrate, had suffered a lot.

Zhu Xiu was surprised. He didn't expect that this boy would become a drug addict at such a young age. He was indeed a playboy. "Li Guangbo, you"

Just as Zhu Xiu was about to speak, Li Guangbo's red eyes flashed with madness. He drew his sword and shouted, "Kill! Whoever takes Zhu Xiu's head will be rewarded with a hundred gold coins!"

The town soldiers, who had been ready to move for a long time, rushed forward with a clatter and brandished their swords.

"Form up! Protect Vice Envoy Zhu!" Yan Ping yelled, holding his sword in front of him to protect Zhu Xiu and retreating. Chen An led his tooth soldiers and stepped forward with their shields raised.

The fighting broke out instantly, and under the heavy reward, the Liangyuan soldiers were all fierce and did not take the military orders of Jiedu Mansion into consideration at all.

Although the tooth soldiers are few, they are all capable and diligent in training. Their combat literacy far exceeds that of the town soldiers. They travel lightly and have a lot of swords, shields and weapons.

More than a dozen side shields were erected in an orderly manner, forming a shield wall in the blink of an eye, blocking the first wave of attack by the soldiers.

"Kill!" Chen An roared, slashing down a town soldier with his sword. The tooth soldier brothers stabilized their formation and began to counterattack.

Yan Ping and Chen An were not old enough yet, but they were already veterans in the Ya army. They had been following Shi Kuangwei in battles for four or five years.

The ferocity with which they fought was completely inconsistent with their usual youthful faces.

Zhu Xiu was stunned for a moment and then recovered. She was shocked and angry. She never expected that Li Guangbo would dare to provoke a fight. Looking at his posture, he clearly wanted to kill him!
"Zhu Xiu, I want to fight too!" Shi Xiangwen leaned on the iron bar and shook his big head. Looking at the fierce and lively fight in front, he felt itchy.

Zhu Xiu took a deep breath and pointed at Li Guangbo, who was wielding a knife crazily in the crowd: "Dalang, have you seen that man? Capture him. Don't beat him to death, but keep him alive!"

Shi Xiangwen glanced at him and grinned: "I know."

Taking a step forward with his iron pillar-like legs, Shi Xiangwen turned back and said naively: "What should we do with those people?"

He pointed his big finger at the group of fierce soldiers.

Zhu Xiu took a deep breath, with a stern look on his face: "Kill whoever stops you!"

Shi Xiangwen smiled again, nodded his head heavily, and strode towards Li Guangbo.

Boom~ Shi Xiangwen swung the iron rod, and three soldiers who were raising their swords to chop were hit by the iron rod. Their chests were immediately sunken, blood spurted to death, and their mud-like bodies flew upside down, knocking over the surrounding soldiers.

When Zhu Xiu saw this scene from a distance, a chill ran down his back. Shi Dalang could be called a human bulldozer on the battlefield of cold weapons!

The stick that was swept out lightly had a force of hundreds of kilograms!
Shi Xiangwen crushed the swarming soldiers, sweeping the iron rods left and right, and smashed the soldiers over.

They were horrified to discover that this giant young man with a silly smile on his face was simply a god-like existence!

The town soldiers howled in agony and fled like shit, and no one dared to come closer.

Li Guangbo was over six feet tall and could be considered majestic. Unfortunately, he seemed to have taken too many drugs, and his mind became a little unclear, and his face was full of ferocity.

Instead of running away, he rushed towards Shi Xiangwen with a knife.

On the surface, it seemed to be a peak showdown between fierce men, and even Zhu Xiu was sweating.

After all, even Shi Kuangwei once lamented that although Li Guangbo was stubborn, he was quite brave, and he was worthy of being a descendant of the Li family of the Difficult Army.

Shi Xiangwen was tall and strong, but his movements were not slow at all. He held the iron bar across his chest and blocked Li Guangbo's hard-fought knife.

The blade rubbed against the iron rod and created a series of sparks.

"You've got a lot of strength as a man." Shi Xiangwen muttered naively, with a dazed look on his face that seemed a little more serious.

He held his hands together, drew a circle on his chest with the iron rod, unscrewed Li Guangbo's long knife, and then swiped the stick with a horizontal blow, and the wind of the stick whined and whistled, hitting Li Guangbo's belly.

With a muffled groan, Li Guangbo lay on the ground hugging his stomach, his back arched into a crooked shrimp.

His face turned blue, he made a sound of vomiting, and vomited out a large pool of filth, with a strong stench of sour meat and wine.

Shi Xiangwen was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect that just as he was about to start a serious fight, his opponent would be beaten to the ground with a stick.

"You can't do it, you better not bear the beating." Shi Xiangwen picked up the iron bar in disappointment and shook his big head.

Li Guangbo hugged his belly and curled up, trembling all over and unable to speak.

"Hey, don't die, Zhu Xiu won't let me beat you to death." Shi Xiangwen was a little anxious, his thick eyebrows tightened and he made a loud sound.

"Da Lang, bring people here!" Zhu Xiu shouted from a distance.

Shi Xiangwen scooped it up with a big hand, carried Li Guangbo like a chicken and strode back.

No one in the surrounding town dared to stop him.

Yan Ping and Chen An led the tooth soldiers to press forward step by step, roaring: "Put down your weapons, kneel down and ask for surrender. Those who resist will be spared death! Those who resist will be beheaded on the spot for rebellion!"

The rest of the soldiers were so frightened that they threw away their weapons and knelt down with their heads in their hands.

Zhu Xiu kicked Li Guangbo hard several times, gritted his teeth and said: "Count the wounded and see how many casualties the tooth soldiers have suffered!"

Li Guangbo provoked a military chaos that could have been avoided. The more Zhu Xiu thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and he kicked him hard again.

"Did I kick this bastard to death? Why can't he move?" Zhu Xiu was startled, and Li Guangbo huddled up and lay motionless on the ground.

Shen Xuemin hurriedly knelt down to check his breathing, and said in a dumbfounded way: "He is asleep."

"." Zhu Xiu stared, speechless, with veins twitching on his forehead. He kicked Li Guangbo several times with all his strength, but why did he kick Li Guangbo to sleep?
Did this guy take too many drugs, or is there something wrong with his footwork?
"Tie him up!"

Angrily, Zhu Xiu kicked a few more times and pointed at a group of town soldiers squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands, "And these rebel soldiers, all of them have been tied up too!"

There was a sudden noise outside the county government office. Shen Xuemin went out to check, and hurried back after a while: "Oh no, a large number of Dongshan villagers gathered outside the county government office, saying they wanted the government to give an explanation for the poisonous salt poison! "

Zhu Xiu patted his forehead, why were things all crowded together? As soon as he arrived in Liangyuan, troubles came one after another.

"The most important thing is to appease the people first."

Zhu Xiu thought for a while, called Yan Ping and said in a low voice: "Send this group of rebel soldiers back to the camp and tell them that they will all stay in the camp safely. If they still dare to gather people to cause trouble, they will be killed without mercy! There are not enough soldiers in the town. Sir, we don’t have enough manpower, so we can’t have any more conflicts with them. Leave two smart brothers to watch, and you can lead them back."

Yan Ping nodded knowingly, and went down to do so.

"Chen An, lead your people to imprison Li Guangbo and two other party members, arrange for doctors to treat the wounded, and clean the courtyard.

Magistrate Shen and I went to meet the villagers. "

After the arrangements were made, everyone was busy.

In the west corner, Tao Wenju witnessed a bloody fight with horror.

"The old master's plan is really vicious. He wants Li Guangbo to kill Zhu Xiu. If Zhu Xiu doesn't die, then Li Guangbo will die. Then he will put the blame for Li Guangbo's death on Zhu Xiu and Jiedu Fu!"

Tao Wenju wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and finally figured out the conspiracy set by Xue Xiuming.

As long as Zhu Xiu arrives with his troops, no matter what he does, he will definitely suffer in the end.

"The Zhangyi Army is going to be in trouble this time!" Tao Wenju muttered, retracted his head, walked through the gap in the wall, and went to Xue Xiuliang to report the situation.

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