With a burst of hearty laughter that was almost arrogant, Zhao Hongrun finally met the audacious thief Huan Hu.
I saw Huan Hu sitting astride the steps outside the mountain temple, holding a young woman with pale beauty in his arms, looking at Zhao Hongrun as if he was hugging her from left to right.
"As expected...as expected!"
After meeting Zhao Hongrun, Huan Hu licked his lips and said with a smile: "When I raided that camp at night, you were the only one who led the people there the fastest. At that time, I felt that you were not simple... I see, that's it.
You are King Su of Wei, Ji Run, who defeated Chu and made Sanchuan surrender..."
At this point, he touched his chin and said in surprise: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen you for more than a year, so nothing has changed... If I hadn't met you once, I would have doubted whether the Wang family in Zhengcheng just found you
A dwarf comes here to pretend."
"..."
When the Zongwei heard this, their expressions suddenly changed. They looked calmly and slowly turned their heads to look at His Highness's face. Seeing a smile slowly blooming on His Highness's face, they unanimously said in their hearts: This Huan Hu is dead.
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His Highness Prince Su's height is a taboo among taboos.
"You bastard..."
Just as Wei Jiao and others had guessed, Zhao Hongrun was scolding Huan Hu in his heart at this moment, but his face did not show the slightest emotion, and he smiled slightly: "Huan Hu, why do you want to see me?
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Hearing this, Huan Hu chuckled and said, "It's not that big of a deal. First of all, I just want to see you and ask you why you sent the Chenggao army to encircle and suppress me..."
Yes, in fact, Emperor Wei did not issue a wanted order for Huan Hu, because the Chenggao Army had already been dispatched before that. After all, General Zhu Hai of the Chenggao Army was loyal to Emperor Wei, so how could he let Huan Hu go?
This kind of bandit dared to attack Emperor Wei?
As a result, the wanted hunt for Huan Hu was dropped. After all, who would have thought at that time that the Chenggao Army, one of the prestigious Sixth Battalion of the garrison, would be at a disadvantage against hundreds of mounted bandits?
"What does this have to do with me? I didn't give the order."
Zhao Hongrun muttered to himself, but after thinking about it, he understood: Huan Hu had misunderstood.
It may be because last year Zhao Hongrun secretly asked Cheng Gao's army to refuse the aristocratic caravan in Wei State from entering Sanchuan, which caused Huan Hu to misunderstand and thought that Cheng Gao's army might be obeying his orders as King Su. But in fact, it was just Cheng Gao.
It was only the decision of Army General Zhu Hai.
"Taking the blame for General Zhu Hai for no apparent reason..."
Zhao Hongrun smiled bitterly to himself, but he had no intention of explaining. After all, when he explained, it was as if he was afraid of Huan Hu.
"Because you are a thief, and I am in charge of the army. It is natural for the soldiers to catch thieves."
Listening to Zhao Hongrun's matter-of-fact tone, Huan Hu and his subordinates who were qualified to drink and have fun together were stunned. Immediately, those knights glared at Zhao Hongrun with vicious eyes and blurted out curse words.
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However, Zhao Hongrun was not afraid, and looked at Huan Hu and the noisy cavalry bandits calmly with his hands behind his back.
To be honest, he has nothing to be afraid of. After all, there are two hundred Shangshui Qingya lurking on this hill. Huan Hu and his mounted bandits are indeed powerful on horseback, but on flat ground, especially in mountainous and forested areas like this,
There's no chance that he won't be eaten up by those two hundred crows.
What's more, at the foot of the mountain are stationed Xiang Li, Ran Teng, Zhang Ming and other merchant navy troops of thousands of people, including one overt and two undercover, and Huan Hu has hundreds of mounted bandits, so why should they be afraid?
It's just that Zhao Hongrun considered Wang Ming's safety and took action, so he didn't ask the Green Crows to take action.
After about ten seconds of dating, Huan Hu shouted to silence the group of cavalrymen under his command: "Shut up, everyone! ...How can you be so rude to King Su?"
Seeing the boss speaking, the cavalry bandits stopped talking, but still stared at Zhao Hongrun with fierce eyes.
"You guys... please retreat."
Huan Hu waved his hand to dismiss the gathering of cavalry bandits, and then invited Zhao Hongrun and said: "King Su, sit wherever you like."
Zhao Hongrun looked around and frowned when he saw the remains of eaten bones all over the ground.
However, he still chose a relatively clean place and sat on the ground.
Seeing this, a strange look flashed in Huan Hu's eyes, and then he patted one of the girls in his arms and said lightly: "Hey, why don't you pour wine for His Highness Prince Su?"
The girl came to Zhao Hongrun timidly and poured wine for Zhao Hongrun with trembling hands.
Her eyes obviously revealed this message: Help me, save me.
Zhao Hongrun looked the girl up and down, and saw that although her clothes were messy, her clothes were still intact, and her expression was not as desperate as those poor women in the corner. From this, it can be seen that this girl must not have been raped yet.
Insulted by the tiger.
"Is she the daughter of the Anling family?"
Zhao Hongrun sighed secretly, then stretched out his hand and pulled the girl to sit next to him.
The girl was startled, then understood and sat down next to Zhao Hongrun obediently.
Seeing this, Huan Hu laughed strangely and said jokingly: "It's straightforward enough. I like happy men!"
"..."
Zhao Hongrun's calm eyes trembled slightly, then he changed the subject and said, "Huan Hu, if you have anything to say, just say it. I don't have time to talk nonsense with you."
"Hey hey hey." Huan Hu laughed twice, then pushed the other girl in his arms aside, leaned forward, crossed his hands on his knees, and said seriously: "Ji Run, Huan wants to be with you Wei
The country has a general named Dangdang.”
"Huh?"
Zhao Hongrun was slightly startled when he heard this, looked at Huan Hu doubtfully, and asked in surprise: "You want to defect to my country, the Wei Dynasty?"
Not to mention, Zhao Hongrun actually thought about whether to recruit Huan Hu. After all, Huan Hu could cooperate with Youma to rebuild Wei's cavalry army. However, when these words came out of Huan Hu's mouth, it inevitably made Zhao Hongrun feel a little different.
idea.
"Why, can't you survive in the bandit business?" Zhao Hongrun said with a smile.
"It's not easy to get along." Huan Hu curled his lips and said: "It's not easy to be a thief these days. The rich nobles all have their own soldiers. There are hundreds of us, but we may not be able to fight. Come to think of it,
If we go, we can only rob civilians, but how much money can civilians have in their hands?... I remember when I first sneaked into your Wei State from Yishan, I robbed a civilian family. That was shabby... In the end, I didn't get anything, and I still didn't get anything.
I left a few sheep for that family..."
"..."
Zhao Hongrun snorted lightly, feeling that Huan Hu was really interesting.
He did not doubt the authenticity of Huan Hu's words. After all, it didn't make much sense whether Huan Hu would lie to him or not.
Furthermore, it is true that Zhao Hongrun had not heard of the Huan Hu Cavalry bandits plundering the Wei people a while ago.
It can be seen from this that these people also have professional ethics: they only attack the rich.
It's not that he has noble moral character, it's just that he has nothing to gain by robbing civilians.
No, the Wang family of Anling was in trouble. The team with more than a dozen carriages suddenly became the prey of Huan Hu.
At this time, the crying girls in the corner attracted the attention of Zhao Hongrun and Huan Hu.
Zhao Hongrun looked at Huan Hu expressionlessly, with an expression like this: After doing such a thing, do you think I will still recommend you?
Perhaps because he understood Zhao Hongrun's expression, Huan Hu shrugged and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. Brothers, we've been holding back for too long... We originally wanted to catch a few women in Sanchuan, but that team is now called the Sichuan North Archer Cavalry."
The clan cavalry is still chasing me... Fifty thousand cavalry, damn, they almost died..."
"Bosile?"
The appearance of General Bosile, the commander of fifty thousand Sichuan Northern Archers, appeared in Zhao Hongrun's mind. At the same time, he was slightly surprised: Bosile, who held fifty thousand Jie tribe cavalry in his hands, was actually thrown away by Huan Hu?
Zhao Hongrun's eyes became solemn, because this meant that Huan Hu was better at using cavalry than Bosile, who was born in the Jijiao tribe, and he also knew how to use cavalry.
"Those are also the soldiers under your command, King Su, right?" Huan Hu looked at Zhao Hongrun with a smile, and then said with a frivolous expression: "For the sake of the soldiers under your command who almost chased me out of the house several times, please recommend them to me.
Recommendation?... I don’t ask too much. Just give me a fiefdom and military power of ten thousand people. In return, I will guard that territory for you in Wei. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a barbarian or a Korean.
, Song, Qi, Chu, it doesn’t matter who the opponent is.”
Zhao Hongrun looked at Huan Hu, and then said calmly: "Okay, that's fine... You ask your subordinates to put down their weapons and follow me, and I will introduce you to the court on my behalf."
The smile on Huan Hu's face froze when he heard this, and he chuckled and said, "That's good. Please King Su, please make arrangements for us, and we can go directly to the fiefdom."
"Heh." Zhao Hongrun chuckled twice and said calmly: "I understand what you mean, that is to say, you don't want to defect to my Wei Dynasty, but you want to seek some benefits from my Wei Dynasty..."
"I can help you fight against Korea." Huan Hu said with a smile.
"No need." Zhao Hongrun shook his head slightly and said calmly: "It's good for a dog to bite people, but if it's not obedient, it's useless."
Zhao Hongrun took the opportunity to scold him, and the smile on Huan Hu's face faded. He snapped his fingers, and immediately, several thieves brought out the tied up Wang Ming from the mountain temple.
"Woo, woo woo..."
Wang Ting was very excited when he saw Zhao Hongrun. Unfortunately, his mouth was stuffed with cloth, so no one could hear what he was saying.
But it probably means: Save me! Save me!
"What now?" Huan Hu looked at Zhao Hongrun with a half-smile.
Zhao Hongrun glanced at Wang Ting, who was under control, shook his head with a chuckle, then looked at Huan Hu and said, "Are you threatening me?"
Huan Hu chuckled and said, "Forget it, how about it?"
Zhao Hongrun shook his head and said lightly: "It's impossible!"
"Oh." Huan Hu nodded exaggeratedly, then stood up and took off the cloth from Wang Ting's mouth.
Immediately, Wang Ming said urgently: "His Royal Highness King Su, His Highness King Su, please save me..."
After shouting a few words, seeing that Zhao Hongrun was unmoved, Wang Ting showed a look of shock and anger on his face, and scolded: "Zhao Hongrun, if you don't save me until you die, I, the Wang family, and my sister will not let you go."
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After hearing this, Zhao Hongrun finally raised his head, but instead of facing Wang Ming, he faced Huan Hu: "Huan Hu, are you going to kill or not? If you don't kill, why don't you replace me with one of my men?"
Beside him, Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao drew out half of the sword from his waist in time.
"..." Huan Hu stared at Zhao Hongrun. Perhaps he felt that Wang Ming, who was scolding Zhao Hongrun at the moment, was too noisy, so he stuffed the ball of cloth back, and then said in a solemn voice: "Are you serious... you don't want to support Huan?"
"If you sincerely defect to me, I can consider it. In this situation, it is absolutely impossible." After saying that, Zhao Hongrun glanced at Huan Hu and said in a deep voice: "Now there are two ways for you: either you kill me.
Wang Ting, I have already surrounded the army on this mountain, so I will go up the mountain to kill you and catch you and all the rest; or, if you keep him and these women, I will let you go..."
"..." Huan Hu suppressed his smile and stared at Zhao Hongrun intently. After a while, he said in a regretful tone: "What a pity. I thought I could make friends with King Su. Well, well, well, Huan just let this guy go...
…For the sake of King Su.”
"Eh? Are you really letting it go?"
Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a moment and watched in shock as Huan Hu took a knife and cut off the rope on Wang Ting's body.
However, just as Wang Ting, who was ecstatic, took off the cloth ball in his mouth and rushed towards Zhao Hongrun, he saw Huan Hu smiled teasingly, waved his knife, and chopped off Wang Ting's head.
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Suddenly, blood splattered everywhere.
Poor Wang Ting did not know what happened and became an unjust ghost. The head that fell to the ground still retained a look of joy on his face.
At that moment, Zhao Hongrun and others were stunned.
At this moment, Huan Hu kicked Wang Ming's head away, then hit Zhao Hongrun on the shoulder a few times with the back of the bloody sword, licked his lips, and looked at Zhao Hongrun with a playful look.