Aspiration

Chapter 77
Li Laiheng said loudly: "General Huang is polite today, so don't be too polite, just eat with your stomach open. Your Lord Yang is strict in running the army, and you don't have the opportunity to come out for tooth-beating sacrifices on weekdays. Now, Lord Yang asked you to come out with me to walk around the rivers and lakes. Master Yang is still doing well, we can eat wherever we go. I guarantee you will not be scolded by Yang Sichang."

What he meant was obvious. He told General Huang, who was guarding the pass, that all his men were soldiers of Yang Sichang.Yang Sichang sent troops to escort his uncle, and he encouraged them to violate military discipline. With his uncle as a guarantee, Yang Sichang would not blame him.

After Li Laiheng finished speaking, he turned his head and said to the general guarding the gate: "General Huang, can you not deduct the military salary on weekdays?"

General Huang was taken aback for a moment, and then replied: "Young generals don't dare, and never withhold their brothers' salaries."

Li Laiheng looked at him, as if he had discovered a monster, and asked strangely: "You don't deduct military pay?"

"No, the last general will never dare."

"You really dare not?"

"Don't dare."

"I said, are you stupid, or are you stupid? What kind of general are you if you don't deduct your military salary? Do you hate silver? Black eyes can't see silver, don't you understand this truth?"

When General Huang was ridiculed by Li Laiheng, he didn't know what he meant, so he could only laugh, hehe, hehe, he was very embarrassed.He thought, does Mr. Li want to buy some money?That's right, he must have meant that, and was about to send a few hundred taels of silver. Unexpectedly, Li Laiheng suddenly said loudly: "Little Si, give 500 taels of official silver to this Mr. Huang. He has never withheld his military salary. He is a good man. You, Mr. Yang, are not allowed to withhold your money every month."

General Huang was dumbfounded, thinking, how can this work?Receive the gift money from Uncle Yang Sichang, spread it, and die quickly.

General Huang resigned firmly, Li Laiheng shook his head and sighed, "Oh, I can't help you if you don't want my gift. However, I want one thing from you, I wonder if Mr. Huang is willing to part with it?"

"As long as you have it, you'll be willing to do it." General Huang replied hastily.

Li Laiheng thought, if you want the head on your neck, you must be reluctant, but he won't want his head, what he wants is another person's head.

"What's the surname of this lieutenant? Seeing that you are very smart and capable, I want you to be a follower."

The school lieutenant was taken aback and joined him as a follower, couldn't it be because he reminded the general just now?
Decline, quickly find a reason.

However, this reason is hard to come by, Yang Sichang's uncle wants to be a servant by himself, he is very eager, how can you refuse?
Bite the bullet and go?Still don't know how to die.

The captain had to go with Li Laiheng no matter what he said.Because Li Laiheng knew that this person had already seen their Ni Duan, staying here would be a disaster, if they went ahead, Huang would definitely come after them.

The captain's fate was doomed. He was taken out by Li Laiheng less than ten miles away, and his throat and carotid artery were cut off by his own soldiers with a "crack" sound, and he was buried on the spot.

On the third day, we arrived at Sparrow Ridge.

The so-called mahjong ridge means a ridge where sparrows cannot fly.It's high and dangerous, and it's really impossible for one man to guard against ten thousand men.The guardian here is Zuo Liangyu's nephew, Zuo Liang.This man is in his thirties, and the official is a guerrilla general.He is guarding here because there is a lot of money, and the risk is not too great. He is a relative of Zuo Liangyu, so he has the opportunity to guard here.When he heard that a rich man passed by from Beijing, he thought, here comes the money.

This man has a characteristic, when he sees people, what he sees are not people, but money.People from Beijing often come to Western Hubei to purchase special products, so he has made a lot of money here for many years.Some people from the capital are easy to deal with, while others are more troublesome.However, this Zuo Liang is ruthless and has his uncle Zuo Liangyu as his backer. Therefore, as long as he is from Beijing, he usually plucks his hair severely. Even if it is a nobleman in the palace, he has a way to make them obedient. took out the silver.

Some people don't dare to offend in person, and they can't get the money, but he has a bad trick, he can become a bandit when he becomes a soldier.Whoever does not bribe at the gate will encounter bandits on the road ahead. In the end, a few lives and hundreds of taels of money will be gone. So, gradually the unspoken rules are known, and later, he is very Stop playing bandits.

This time, he is going to play the bandit again.Because "Yang Sichang's uncle" passed by here and asked for bribes, he didn't have the courage, but he was unwilling to see two hundred "money men" pass by him and pay for a banquet.

This time, he was the leader of the bandits himself, came out in full force, and took a detour to get ahead of Li Laiheng.

When the gong sounded, 200 of Li Laiheng's people were tightly surrounded by 600 people. Li Laiheng almost burst out laughing when he saw it. Isn't this a good thing to send?
This Sparrow Ridge is a pass for everyone, so why don't I take it down?

"Hey! This tree was planted for me, and this road was opened for me. If you want to pass by, leave money to buy the road."

Zuo Liang wore a black gauze, picked up a few bandit words from somewhere, and pretended to be a bandit here.

Li Laiheng smiled lightly, and didn't bother to play tricks with him. He raised his hand, slashed hard in the air, and roared in a low voice: "Kill!"

The bandits had never seen such a businessman before, and in the blink of an eye, everyone had a sharp knife in his hand.Before they had time to raise the knife, they felt a cold and tingling pain on their necks, and then their minds went blank.

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

Everyone had three goals, and almost at the same time, the entire army of six hundred officers and soldiers was wiped out. The whole process took less than a minute.

Six hundred corpses were quickly moved deep into the woods.

Kill a carbine.There were only dozens of people in Guanshan. They thought that General Zuo had finished his work and the bandits had returned, so they hurriedly opened the gate.

And they made the last of the dead.

No one is alive.Li Laiheng left 50 people to stay at this pass.

On this road, it is of course a good thing to leave your own people on these passes. In this way, there is a secret retreat behind the enemy, which is a good way.However, the other side of a good thing is a bad thing. Li Laiheng only has 200 people in total, and there are only 150 people left here, so there are only [-] people left. It is hard to say how difficult the road ahead will be.

The front is Ling Fei crossing, there are more than 1000 enemy leaders there, and the terrain is dangerous. If you can't grab this ferry, you can't fly across the river.

Lao Jiu reminded Li Laiheng that the most critical place along the way is Lingfeidu. This is not only a control card to prevent smuggling, but also a traffic artery and a regular military hub.To the north, you can enter Shaanxi; to the south is the only road to Xiangyang; after passing Hexi, to the southwest is the route to Changde and Yuezhou, Hunan.The guard here is a general, a cautious and diligent person.

It was evening when we arrived at Lingfeidu. Li Laiheng claimed that he was a military unit from Xiangyang, and he had an urgent business trip to Guanyin Town.Guanyin Town is Zuo Liangyu's old camp.

The pass is not a problem, Lao Jiu is ready.It's just that if you want to get past Ling Feidu's defenders, there won't be any mistakes in the middle.Lingfeidu is an important ferry on a tributary to the north of the Han River. Because the front is where Li Zicheng is active, and a large number of officers and soldiers are stationed in the west, this ferry is also the front line, and the investigation is very strict.

Now, Li Laihengyi could no longer pretend to be a rich man from Beijing, let alone Yang Sichang's uncle. He could only pretend to be a school officer in Yang Sichang's Xiangyang camp and deliver military orders to Guanyin Town.

Lingfei Ferry, on the west side of the ferry.

General Cao Xun is patrolling the defense.He is an officer who came to take over the defense of this ferry three days ago, and he is a general.

The change of this situation was beyond Lao Jiu's surprise.His intelligence is that the military chief of the defense here is named Cui, how could he have thought that the surname was changed to Cao three days ago?

General Cao Pian was sent by the Xiangyang Camp to replace General Cui in order to strengthen Ling Feidu's defense.Cao Pianjiang is the general in Yang Sichang's standard battalion. Recently, Yang Sichang's hand in Sichuan has given him the energy to think about Li Zicheng's affairs. On the one hand, he dispatched Zuo Liangyu, the main force who exterminated Zhang Xianzhong, to Huguang, and on the other hand, he kept urging himself When he learned in Sichuan that Zuo Liangyu had wiped out Li Zicheng's headquarters in the Yunxi area, he issued seven orders in a row, one of which was to order every pass, ferry, and fortress to step up their defenses so that Li Zicheng would not be killed. Escape from the Yunyang area.

His order was that if the giant bandit Li Zicheng broke through any pass, all the defenders of this pass would be executed.

Such an overbearing order.Everyone trembled at this order.

General Cao was ordered to guard Ling Feidu because of his trust in him.

"Without my order, Master Yang himself is not allowed to switch and let him pass through this place." General Cao's order reached the ears of the two thousand defenders.

Two thousand defenders!Instead of just a thousand.

In the evening, Cao Pianjiang received a report, "General, there is an army of officers and soldiers on the east bank to make a transition."

"What army?"

"A small army from Xiangyang has less than 200 people."

"Huh? Came from Xiangyang?" Cao Pianjiang wondered, whose army is this, and why are they going to Hexi?
"Prepare the horse!" He wanted to cross the river to see who it was.

(End of this chapter)