Liu Zijin arrived at the beginning of the war. When he was at the gate, he heard the shouts of killing from the top of the city. He shouted loudly and asked the people on the city to get him up.
At this time, the war in the pass was going on, and the people in the city were all focused on the inner side of the pass. The shouts of killing covered up his shouts. For a while, no one heard his movements. Liu Zijin got angry and climbed up the steep slope with his bare hands.
His strong martial arts skills and eagerness to save people actually allowed him to climb up the cliff like a wall. Climbing up the cliff, he could have a clear view of the battle in front of the city. At the most critical moment, Liu Zijin hurriedly took the weapon from his back.
He lowered the iron bow, drew out the iron feather arrow, gathered all his strength, bent the bow like a full moon, and shot towards the densely packed enemy troops at the top of the city.
He was born with supernatural power, and he was condescending. The iron feather arrow seemed infinitely powerful. He actually shot the first one through the head, then shot through the second chest, and finally pierced the third one in the abdomen, killing three of them with one arrow.
Three times, this finally attracted the attention of both parties.
"Iron Feather Divine Arrow" was the first to notice the defenders. When they heard the ear-piercing sound of breaking through the air and saw the deadly black lightning, the soldiers who were already on the verge of despair immediately cheered uncontrollably: "The master is back.
The boss is back."
The cheers spread instantly, and the morale of the defenders on the city was greatly boosted. All fatigue and hunger were wiped away. They not only stabilized their position, but also successfully counterattacked. The enemy was frightened when they heard the name Zizijin.
The army drove down the city in one fell swoop.
Just as he was about to break the barrier, Liu Zijin fell from the sky. Wei Wuque, who was under the city, was so angry that he looked like he wanted to eat someone.
"Young Master," Yu Gui's trump card was played, and he didn't have any new tricks. He could only say: "What should we do?"
"..." After a long while, Wei Wuque said quietly: "Liu Zijin should have been in Wang Xian's hands all along. What is the purpose of that guy letting him out now?"
"It should be to defend Pingxing Pass." Yu Gui thought about it and said, "Prepare for the attack in the coming year."
"Then what should we do now?" Wei Wuque looked at the steep flat ridge, filled with regret. It would have been better if he had left more people here. He asked coldly: "Return to Guangling for the New Year?
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"Of course we have to strengthen the attack." Of course Yu Gui did not dare to say yes, and hurriedly whispered: "If the Ming army controls Pingxing Pass, we will be in trouble." He said in a softer voice, for fear of angering the young master: "
In order to maintain combat effectiveness, can we rotate it appropriately?"
"Okay..." Wei Wuque finally nodded, and there was no recurrence this time.
Yu Gui was granted amnesty and immediately arranged for the withdrawn troops to return to Guangling in batches. At the same time, a large number of Guangling troops and believers were recruited to Baiyatai to build more and larger siege equipment and prepare for the next attack.
Watching the enemy troops retreat like a tide, the people on the city finally loosened their tight grip. The surviving family members who were hugged by someone burst into tears, and more people surrounded Liu Zijin, looking at each other as if they were separated from each other...
"Brother, you are finally back, woo hoo..." The men had been waiting day and night for him, and finally they looked forward to him and sobbed: "You are finally back..."
"Brothers, I can't help you..." Looking at the scarred brothers who looked like ghosts, Liu Zijin's face was full of shame, his eyes filled with tears, and he looked completely different from the previous gods who descended to earth.
"Of course you can't help us." This sentence aroused the resentment of many people, who loudly accused him: "For the sake of a woman, I left my brothers and ran to Taiyuan. As a result, they took over my nest, causing the brothers to die."
The death of death is neither human nor ghost."
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault..." Liu Zijin didn't want to defend himself and had no way to admit his mistake.
"Shut up, all of you." Liu Xing, Liu Zijin's sworn brother who stayed in Guangling to look after the house and the leader of the people in Pingxingguan, couldn't stand it anymore and yelled loudly: "It's just a pretense for the master to escort the saint to Taiyuan. In fact, he has an agenda."
It’s just a matter of whoever thought of it and was plotted by a traitor.”
"Old Qi, please stop talking." Liu Zijin stopped Liu Xing from talking. He glanced at the brothers with different expressions, suddenly pulled out the dagger and inserted it into his left thigh with his backhand.
"Brother..." Everyone exclaimed and were about to step forward to stop them, but Liu Zijin waved his hand to signal them not to move. He gritted his teeth, pulled out the knife, and inserted it into his left leg again. Then came the third knife...
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"Three swords and six holes," Liu Xing said loudly with tears in his eyes: "The boss has three swords and six holes. I beg everyone to forgive me. Do you agree?"
"Forgive..." "Agree..." Although everyone had resentment towards Liu Zijin, they had feelings for many years and hoped that he would bring everyone a way out. So they spoke in a variety of ways.
"Well, don't let me hear another weird thing." Liu Xing glanced at everyone coldly, his eyes full of threats. After speaking, he knelt down towards Liu Zijin and said loudly: "Greetings to the master, welcome the master back."
"Meet the great master, welcome the great master back." All the soldiers followed suit and bowed down, and Liu Zijin's shaky authority was once again consolidated.
"Get up quickly." Liu Zijin said with tears in his eyes: "I deserve death, but I can't die now. I can only write it down with three swords and six holes. After I finish what I need to do, I will understand.
To apologize to my brothers with death.”
"Brother..." Now everyone had no grudges and rushed to him, hugging him and crying.
The brothers finished crying and reconciled as before. Someone quickly came forward to bandage Liu Zijin. Liu Zijin didn't care about his leg injury and asked them how they managed to survive this period of time. Liu Xing briefly introduced what happened to him.
Hearing that they had run out of food a month ago and had even eaten all their belts and leather armor, Liu Zijin was surprised and said, "We have been fighting almost every day this month. What have you been eating?"
When the brothers heard this, their expressions changed drastically. Liu Zijin was confused and said, "Why, what did I say wrong?"
"No." It was time to eat, and the cook came up with a big pot. Liu Xing looked strange and said: "Let's eat first." He brought a bowl of vegetable root soup to Liu Zijin. Liu Zijin took a sip, and it was bitter and astringent.
, couldn't help sighing: "It's really hard, brothers..." At this time, the cook opened the lid of the big pot, and a burst of meat smell drifted to his nose. Liu Zijin laughed and cursed: "It turns out there is something delicious hidden, naughty..."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but wonder: "Where did you get the meat?"
The cook hesitated and refused to answer. Liu Zijin took the spoon, scooped out a piece of meat, tasted it, and said, "It's not pork, it's not beef, it's not horse meat, it's venison, what kind of meat is it?"
Everyone lowered their heads and remained silent. Finally, someone couldn't help but said: "Is the boss joking, or is he really confused? Within a few miles, what other meat is there besides human flesh?"
"Human flesh" Liu Zijin's complexion changed drastically, his stomach was filled with turmoil, and he started vomiting violently.
After Liu Zijin finished vomiting, Liu Xing brought him a bowl of water to rinse his mouth and said, "We also felt nauseous before, but we got used to it after vomiting."
"How can you eat human flesh?" Liu Zijin drank water, but still wanted to vomit.
"What can we eat if we don't eat human flesh?" Liu Xing, who had always been respectful, turned pale and asked, "Brother, do you think we have become beasts?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Liu Zijin sighed: "I just feel sorry for the brothers..." He said in a high tone: "When I come back, I won't let the brothers eat... meat anymore. Come down the mountain with me tonight.
Come on, let’s go grab a batch of food and come back.”
He spoke very excitedly, but the brothers in the group had no reaction. Liu Xing smiled bitterly and said: "Brother, we have tried our best. If we can get food, we don't need to eat human flesh..."
"Hey, there is no perfect path." Liu Zijin shook his head and said, "Maybe we can gain something this time.
"Then let me take someone to go," Liu Xing saw that he insisted on going, so he had to say: "Brother will take care of his injured leg.
"No, what's my injury?" Liu Zijin shook his head and said with a smile, "You're so unlucky, I'd better take you with you."
"Okay..." Liu Xing said helplessly.
So when it was dark, Liu Zijin took thousands of brothers out of the customs. When it was dawn, Liu Xing and others, who had been waiting for half a night on the pass, saw them driving hundreds of carts back.
"The master is back!" cheers rang out again at the top of the city, even more joyful than last time.
"Open the city gate quickly." Liu Xing hurriedly ordered people to open the city gate and welcome Liu Zijin and others in. Without his instructions, the people in Guancheng had already rushed out to welcome back the brothers who had returned home with loads.
People's laughter is like celebrating the New Year. In fact, today is New Year's Eve, or is it really celebrating the New Year...
Liu Xing counted the seizures and found two thousand shi of grain, as well as bacon, salt, cotton-padded jackets, etc., enough to sustain the three thousand people for a month.
"Divide the winter clothes and cook a pot of bacon rice. Let's celebrate the New Year too." Although he walked all night and the wound on his leg opened again, he finally saved face in front of his brothers. Liu Zijin was in a good mood and sat there giving orders loudly.
road.
"Don't do it yet." Liu Xing ordered his men. After the little ones left happily, he sat next to Liu Zijin and said, "Brother, what's going on?"
"What's going on?"
"Where did you get these grain winter clothes?"
"It's a coincidence that Lingqiu County Magistrate was ordered to transfer supplies to Datong, and we happened to bump into him. You also know how timid the officers and soldiers are. The brothers covered them up, but they left the supplies and ran away..." Liu Zijin felt a little guilty.
He smiled and saw the sneer on Liu Xing's face. He knew that his lie was too clumsy, so he had to grit his teeth and said: "Okay, let me tell you, the government deliberately asked me to rob this."
"..." Liu Xingxin said that it was true, and he couldn't hide his anger and said: "Brother, do you still think that the government has cheated you badly enough?"
"This time it's not the King of Jin, this time it's the grandson..." Liu Zijin said sarcastically.
"It's all the same," Liu Xing said angrily: "Wolves in the Northeast eat meat, and wolves in the Northwest also eat meat."