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Zhang Jiuxin's face was slightly ugly. Of course, he knew what Qin Ke meant by "more brutal methods".

"The general is right when he turns back. Although he has lost something, he and his family will be safe forever." Qin Ke's eyes gradually softened, and he said, "At least this is the best ending for your four-year-old daughter."

Zhang Jiuxin shook his head and said with a smile: "You're right. Now that I think about it, I'm a little envious of Lao Wang's elm head... I don't know what kind of luck he had this time, just waiting for reinforcements. If he had Perhaps Lin Xin won't turn against him if he gets some news about the Black Cavalry."

"Forget it, these are not important, the last question..." Zhang Jiuxin raised his head, looked into Qin Ke's eyes, and asked, "If I don't agree in the end, will you really kill me?"

"Yes." Qin Ke's eyes were resolute, and he even looked at death a little bit, as if he was really a loyal and courageous assassin who must fulfill his mission.

"Master Guo said, if you don't agree, or if you disagree halfway, you don't have to stay any longer."

"Among thousands of people, can I take my head?"

"can."

Zhang Jiuxin looked bitter, rubbed his hands, and finally made a decision: "I'll listen to you. I hope Mr. Guo can keep his promise and protect me and my family forever."

He took the helmet handed over by Qin Ke, put it on slowly, and looked back at the messy tent for the last time, Zhang Jiuxin clenched his fists.

……

The night was as cold as water, and Lin Xin paced back and forth in front of his tent, stretching his neck for a while, and chanting words for a while.

He had already lost his patience, but the assassin he sent out had not returned for a long time. He was a loyal guard who had been by his side all the time. His cultivation base was considered high in the army, and it was his last trump card.

If Zhang Jiuxin continued to hesitate, or deviated from their pre-negotiated plan, as an assassin, he would act decisively and execute the assassination mission mercilessly.

At that time, it will not be difficult to support another person to take over the 4000 people.After capturing the stables and killing Guo Kai, who else can stop them from returning to Tang?

It's just that as time passed, the bad premonition in his heart rose inexplicably.

"It's half an hour. Whether it's success or failure..." Lin Xin closed his eyes, and his five fingers that were clenched into fists trembled slightly.

"General! Here they come!"

Lin Xin was shaken all over, and when he turned his head, he saw the hundred generals on the high platform climbing down in a panic, "It's General Zhang, he brought people over!"

"He came here in person? Is Lao Xu here?" General Lin looked slightly happy.

"I didn't see him, maybe he was at the back of the line." Bai Jiang grinned.

"That's right, Zhang Jiuxin doesn't have the slightest cultivation base, and his camp is also a group of warriors who don't know how to practice. With Lao Xu's skill... even if he encounters a situation, he will not fail to send a signal." Lin Xin patted the hundred Jiang's shoulder, "Go, meet him with me!"

The generals in the tent were also anxiously waiting, but most of the soldiers under them were on the way back to Pinggu. At this time, they heard that Zhang Jiuxin brought people over, and they were all relieved.

Lin Xin walked up the high slope, looking at the orderly queue of soldiers, his heart was racing.

"As long as these people are added... the stables will definitely be broken and Guo Kai will be killed!"

Chapter 493 Tang Jun Comes to Envoy

In a large tent of a temporary military camp, five thousand generals finally reunited at a table, looking at each other with slightly different eyes.

Strictly speaking, they are already rebels.It's just that some people seem to be riding the wind and waves in front of a big boat, while some people only want to use others to block the wind and rain in the back, and some even swing on both sides, considering whether to continue to follow the boat or simply go to Another channel.

Zhang Jiuxin was originally the one swinging on both sides, but now he has changed his mind.

In fact, the death threat from Qin Ke was not the main reason for his change of mind. After all, since he had become a traitor, no matter how profound and powerful the verbal promises were, the credibility of them would be doubtful.

After leaving the big camp, even if Qin Ke is a good practitioner, is it possible that he can really take his head among thousands of troops?

However, he was indeed moved by Qin Ke's words, and thinking that it was Wang Xuanwei who was guarding outside the valley, he felt even more confident. As for whether he could save his life when he returned to Xingzhou, he no longer cared so much. , at least based on his understanding of Guo Kai, the scribe-like governor of Xingzhou is not a madman, and he will not blame his whole family because of his own fault...

Lin Xin sat down in the tent, and the first sentence was a bit tentative. Although the smile on his face remained the same, there seemed to be some malicious meaning hidden in the few deep wrinkles.

"Brother Zhang, I, Lao Lin, have been waiting so hard. If you hadn't brought someone here yourself, I thought...you have other concerns and don't want to do it with us."

Zhang Jiuxin smiled slightly, cupped his hands tightly and said: "I made General Lin laugh. The brothers under the tent had a little trouble and delayed some things, but fortunately they were all resolved. Thanks to General Lin, I was late." The deputy general is here, otherwise I'm afraid there will be trouble for a while..."

Lin Xin nodded, and did not ask where the "Deputy General Xu" he sent was now. Instead, he turned his attention to the thin figure behind Zhang Jiuxin, "General Zhang, this little guard brother looked at the face. ah."

Qin Ke is wearing a new armor, which fits perfectly, and the blood on his face has been washed clean. He looks delicate and immature, with a little timidity.

Seeing Lin Xin's gaze, Qin Ke subconsciously lowered his head, worried that Lin Xin would recognize him as the wounded soldier who was carried away on a stretcher.

After all, he wasn't sure if Lin Xin was very familiar with everyone before he sent these assassins to assassinate Guo Kai, or if he just randomly picked a few good soldiers and assembled a temporary "death squad"?

Zhang Jiuxin was not flustered at all, turned around with a smile and said: "The generals don't know something. If this kid hadn't been loyal, I'm afraid I would have died in the hands of those troublemakers. Alas, I think you all have cultivation bases. Ordinary people can't get close to him. If it were me, I would be powerless... So, I also intend to promote this kid, and bring him here to listen to the generals talk more. You can always learn something, right? ?”

Hearing this, the other generals all laughed, and Lin Xin couldn't help looking at Qin Ke, but he didn't bother to do any more testing at the moment, he waved his hands and said, "Where is it, General Zhang has been in the army for many years, beheading countless enemy troops. , How could it be that you have no power to restrain the chicken... Now that everyone is here, let's stop talking about those polite words and discuss how to get rid of that old man Guo Kai."

As soon as Lin Xin said this, the expressions on the faces of all the generals tightened. This is also the issue that everyone is most concerned about. If you want to surrender to the Tang army, you must first win the trust of others, and in exchange for this trust, the best certificate of surrender, It was Guo Kai's head.

In the eyes of everyone, Lin Xin stood up and walked to the corner of the big tent, made a "please" gesture respectfully to a figure in a cloak, and said, "Let me introduce, this is Tang Guo Come to envoy Mr. Zhu. He has brought General Yunhui's military order, as long as we get Guo Kai's head, he can help us contact the Tang army and ensure that we leave the valley safe and sound."

In fact, without his introduction, several generals who had entered the account earlier had already noticed this unarmored, seemingly out of place person.

The reason why he has no armor is because both he and Tang Jun know very well that if someone wants to kill him, it will be effortless at all, and he doesn't even need to use a sword. He only needs a pair of fists and feet to kill him thoroughly Transparent.

But the more than 2 Tang troops outside Pinggu are equivalent to his armor. As long as he encounters any accident, the fragile trust between the two parties will directly fall to the bottom, and the Tang army will no longer have any intention of surrendering. The Mohist cavalry cannot wait In the case of foreign aid, there is only one dead end.

"Hello, everyone." Mr. Zhu took a step forward, pushed down the cap of his cloak, folded his hands at the level of his chest, and saluted with a little carelessness, his mustache trembling slightly with his smile, It doesn't look like a fairy character, but it can make people read a little bit of cunning.

"So this is Mr. Zhu?" Zhang Jiuxin laughed, and also stood up and bowed his hands in salute, "General Lin usually hides deep enough... It's a pleasure to meet you."

Lin Xin frowned, but said with an apologetic smile: "The matter is very important, and Mr. Zhu has a special status, so I naturally don't want him to come out to meet people easily. Now that we are all on the same boat, naturally we don't need to hide it anymore."

Mr. Zhu followed up and said: "It's not that General Lin didn't want me to meet everyone on purpose, it's really that we have to be cautious about this matter. At that time, Mr. Guo Kaiguo was in command of the three counties. If I exposed my whereabouts and ended up dying, Why do you all come to surrender?"

"But..." Mr. Zhu gently pinched the beard around his mouth with two fingers, shook his head and said: "Since I have stood in front of you today, it proves that my country, Tang Dynasty, has indeed felt your sincerity. Sweeping aside, I can assure you that the supply of all positions in my Tang country will remain the same, and you can also receive additional awards from my Tang country to make it to a higher level."

Speaking of this, Mr. Zhu's face was even more triumphant, "Now, Xingzhou City has cut off all communication with the outside world, and the water source has also been cut off by our Tang Kingdom. Although there is a strong city, it will be broken by our Tang Kingdom's cavalry sooner or later. Wouldn't it be great for one of the generals to take on important tasks in the future and become the sheriff of a place?"

"Use the traitors of the Mo family to guard the city of the Mo family?" Zhang Jiuxin still had a faint smile, but his words revealed sarcasm, "Tang Guo really has such courage, isn't he afraid that we will defect again?"

"Old Zhang, what are you talking about?" Lin Xin's complexion turned dark, and he quickly went to Zhang Jiuxin and pulled him, then turned his head and saluted Mr. Zhu: "This... General Zhang is cautious by nature, just a little worried. Mr. Zhu, don't take offense..."

"Understood." Mr. Zhu immediately showed a full-bodied appearance, and said with a loud smile: "General Zhang is indeed thoughtful, but General Zhang's worries may not exist. Then I told you again and again that those who wished to surrender were treated as brothers and sisters, and they would never kill..."

"Originally, both the Mo family and the Tang Dynasty inherited the previous dynasty, and it is the great wish of the whole world to work together to pacify the world. What is Jingwu in the south? A half-grown child, but with a little bit of King Ye's blood, he sat on the throne After all, isn’t it the puppet of that thief Zhuge Wanling? Such a poor and lowly person dares to have the cheek to take over the rich land of the previous dynasty... Haha.”

Qin Ke shrunk his head, and his face became ugly. Although he didn't like Zhuge Wanling very much all the time, and felt that he was too scheming and disgusting, but hearing others ridiculed him like this, Qin Ke felt a little embarrassed It's unfair.

When the people of Wu State were suffering because of successive years of war, did the high-ranking people of Tang State do any good deeds?

No.

They watched with cold eyes, hoping that the gentry of Wu would waste their strength, so that they could reap the benefits in the end, and when they saw righteous men gradually appearing in the chaos of Wu, shouting for the flag and winning the hearts of the people, and finally established Jingwu in one fell swoop. , They became angry again, feeling that the fat around their mouths had become someone else's meal, and they felt aggrieved in their hearts.

That's why the Tang State sent troops to the south, threatening to pacify Jingwu within three months, kill the country's thieves, and "save the people of Wu State from fire and water"...

However, Qin Ke, who had lived in Jingwu for a few months, knew very well that the common people hated the Tang Kingdom from the beginning to the end, and no one believed their high-sounding reasons for fighting.

Therefore, they are grateful to that person.

That person stabilized the great families, put together the fragmented Wu Kingdom, and worked with the gentry to rebuild the court and restore the system. He gave the people a rich and prosperous Jiangnan where there was no war, and gave the people a full meal. A reassuring canopy was erected to accommodate people who should have been displaced like Qin Ke's family.

Qin Ke secretly sneered in his heart if he said that he would never commit rampant killing.

He never forgot the scene of killing the prisoners in front of Jinzhou, but because the generals present had been trapped in Pinggu and had no communication with the outside world, they believed the nonsense of the envoy of Tang Guolai for granted.

Qin Ke stood quietly, listening to what they said, but his mind was no longer in this tent.

He was silently counting the time, waiting for the moment when he needed to be shocked, waiting for the beginning...or the end of everything.

The brazier in the tent provided full warmth, and smelling the slightly pungent charcoal smell, Qin Ke's wind vision technique had sent the movement far away outside the tent to his ears.

Chapter 494 Murderous Intent

a quarter of an hour ago.

Soldiers in armor in the battalion started to make a fire and cook by the light of the torches.

The stables can't be attacked for a long time, but people are iron and food is steel, so you can't stand at a distance and kill them with fiery eyes.

The horse meat was gurgling in the pot, and a few handfuls of wild vegetables picked from the mountains were scattered, and the aroma of the broth gradually wafted away.

Just thinking that these horse meats were originally the war horses they rode and fought, they couldn't help but feel a little sad. Some soldiers ate and ate, and their eye circles became red, and the fragrant taste in their mouths gradually changed. Get weird.

A team of about 200 people came all the way, and a hundred generals standing in front had a smile on his face, and wooden carts full of wine and horse meat lined up behind him.

After approaching, the hundred generals shouted to the resting soldiers: "Brothers! General Zhang ordered everyone to work hard today, let me bring some wine and horse meat over, and reward you well!"

Almost as soon as the voice fell, everyone pricked up their ears.

In the military camp, the word "reward" has always touched people's hearts, because it means that they will get something beyond the supply, including food, drinks... Perhaps these things are very common to the dignitaries, but in the In the military camp, when soldiers can only eat dry pancakes and fried rice with salty sauce most of the time, these extra "gifts" are very precious.

Although the battalion has started killing horses and there is horse meat to eat all day long, but in order to make everyone last longer, the horse meat distributed by the quartermaster every day can only make people half full. There have been complaints in the military as well.

So once they heard about the reward, most of the people approached excitedly, looking at the wine and horse meat on the cart one by one and couldn't control their excitement.

Alcohol has always been banned in the army, but the resentment of being besieged in Pinggu for so many days has already overwhelmed everything. Even if the alcohol in these cars is the only thing left in the army, reinforcements can't wait. What's the point?

"Don't grab it, I have it all, don't grab it." The hundred general took a bag of wine and a large piece of horse meat from the car, handed it to a hundred general under Lin Xin's tent, and said with a smile: "Brother, I'm tired today Is it broken?"

"Isn't it?" The man complained: "We can't get in, but General Lin won't let us back down."

"It's okay. General Zhang is here now, and he ordered me to bring wine, water and horse meat. The brothers have worked so hard, so they simply open up and have a big meal." The hundred generals grabbed the man's shoulders, "But General Zhang said …Brothers, don’t quarrel with the generals in the room, for a while, go to the east to make trouble, and if anyone wants to sing a song at that time, you can do it.”

The man laughed loudly, and said to one of the subordinates who were drinking heavily: "Look, drink some, don't let me get drunk! Let's go, take the brothers to the east, quarrel with the general, and be careful not to kick me to death!" you."

Then, he looked around and said, "Take your things, everyone go to Dongying to stay."

"Yes..." There was a sporadic response from the crowd, most of them were already immersed in the joy of drinking and eating meat, giggling and moving quickly.

As the horse meat and drinks in the cart were robbed, the soldiers headed for Dongying, which was the farthest from the Chinese army camp.

The hundred generals gathered the people he had brought to clean up the cart and the mess on the ground, and there was a slight sound of gold and iron colliding in the straw on the cart.

"Why is there so much noise outside?" In the tent, Lin Xin frowned and said.

Hearing this sentence, Qin Ke's heart tightened suddenly, and he subconsciously took half a step forward, but then stopped fiercely, pretending that nothing happened.

On the other hand, Zhang Jiuxin was still calm and composed, with a lazy smile on his face: "It's nothing, I arranged for someone to bring some wine and meat over. I heard that there are not many people here, and the horse meat is also small. Brothers always have to eat and drink enough to eat." Fighting with strength, this can be regarded as... I am sorry for being late."

"I see." Lin Xin clapped his palms and laughed, "Brother Zhang is considerate, but he forgot about our table. We have been waiting for Brother Zhang to come over, but we haven't eaten yet."

Of course, everyone in the tent also responded with a smile, saying yes one after another.

Zhang Jiuxin nodded and said with a decent smile: "Wait a moment, everyone. The horse meat is raw. The people I ordered should have already cooked it. When the meat is cooked and the wine is warm, it will be served immediately." Come up. Before you know it, it’s winter, and drinking some wine is just right to warm you up.”

At this time, Mr. Zhu frowned, and said in a low voice: "This...drinking in the army, isn't it good? Now that Guo Kai's head has not been removed, he indulges his subordinates in the army to drink alcohol. If Guo Kai takes the opportunity At this moment……"

"Mr. Zhu, don't worry." Zhang Jiuxin waved his hand and said, "Guo Kai has only 2000 men under his command, but after I join forces with General Lin, there are more than [-] men. Guo Kai can not only shrink in a stable as a tortoise, but also Do something?"

"General Zhang is right. That old man Guo Kai will only be able to defend the city for the rest of his life. Brothers are tired all day today. Let's rest for a night and recharge your energy. You will be able to win the battle tomorrow!" Hu Tian sat in Lin Xin On the left side, a pair of eyes kept wandering between Zhang and Lin.

At this time, Lin Xin looked at Zhang Jiuxin quite pleasingly, and he opened his mouth and shut his mouth as his brother, but it made Qin Ke want to laugh at the side.

He lowered his head and said in a voice only he could hear: "There is still a quarter of an hour..."

A quarter of an hour may seem short, but for some people it is a moment of life and death.

In the barracks, the flames of the bonfire and the starlight in the sky washed away the sharpness of the long knife. In the silence, the throats of the two guards spattered blood almost at the same time.

Under the severe pain, they opened their mouths, but they couldn't speak at all.

Because their throats are bleeding, and countless blood is pouring in after the trachea ruptures.

And above their mouths, there is a hand with a leather glove. As that hand continues to exert force, their bodies are involuntarily dragged backwards, leaving two lines on the ground that appear to be struggling. Very confusing traces.

"One, two, three, you go from east to north, four, five, six, you go from south to east..." Bai Jiang's voice was low and sharp, like a knife in its sheath slowly The sharp edge was revealed, but not completely spit out.

No one knew that if the knife was to be drawn out of its sheath, it would inevitably be stained with the blood of many people.

Most of the troops in the barracks had been transferred, but there was one unit that he could not transfer away.

Lin Xin's personal guard camp.

This army has fought with him for many years, going through life and death, unless the whole army is wiped out, otherwise it is impossible to leave his side, it can be called his diehard faction.

If you want to kill Lin Xin, you only need Zhang Jiuxin to yell, and the guards will naturally swarm to the big tent, and it is almost impossible to do it quietly.

Zhang Jiuxin used himself as a "hostage" to deal with several generals in the big tent, in order to give them time to pull out this thorn.

In the countless deep darkness, the bright silver knife lights are constantly shining, and the corpses seem to be corroded by ghosts, and they are dragged into the darkness one by one, disappearing without a trace.

A group of dark clouds rose, silently covering the stars, as if a heavy rain was brewing, and it might pour down at any time.

Facts have proved that a quarter of an hour is indeed too tight. Even if the 200-man team tried their best, it would still take a lot of effort to deal with General Lin's personal guard camp.

Even, if they hadn't taken the lead in the raid, they might have to pay a big price.

"Twenty were injured, where are the dead ones?" Hearing the report from his subordinates, the hundred generals frowned slightly, "There was no big commotion, right?"