Zhu Yuanzhang led a group of leaders to go out of the mountain village and went to the foot of the mountain to welcome the Eight Kings.

"Brother Zhu, what are the virtues of these eight kings? Why should we go down the mountain to welcome him and let him go up the mountain by himself!" Xu Renjie was a little dissatisfied.

"I just deliberately refused to let him go up the mountain..." Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "Wang Jiayin and his subordinates, I don't want to put any of them in our village! If he uses the name of worshipping the mountain to enter the village and cannot stay on, it will be very troublesome. If we attack them, we will lose the reputation of the world. If we don't take action, it will be very troublesome. If we don't take action, they will not leave. I will take the initiative to welcome him down the mountain and block the excuse of him going up the mountain."

"There is such a thing?" The simple leaders such as Wang Er, Lion Dog, Miao Mei, and Yingshanhong all showed an incredible expression on their faces. They were too straightforward and couldn't see many twists and turns. Only when Xu Renjie heard Zhu Yuanzhang's words, he suddenly understood: "Yes! We need to prevent others from being fooled."

The group soon met Zhang Xianzhong at the foot of the mountain. He was taken by Sanlang, so he did not climb the divided villages next to him. He walked directly to the foot of the main village. Zhu Yuanzhang came down the mountain and met Zhang Xianzhong directly.

In his previous life, Zhu Yuanzhang also met Zhang Xianzhong when he was wandering in the sky, but that was Zhang Xianzhong who had made his fortune had already gained tens of thousands of soldiers and was full of energy. However, at this time, Zhang Xianzhong was just a new leader of the rebel army, and his spirit and temperament were a little different from that in his previous life.

I saw that he was of medium figure, ordinary facial features, wearing an ordinary thick linen cloth, and a messy beard under his jaw. At first glance, he didn't look like a leader at all, but rather like a miscellaneous soldier in the rebel army. He looked no different from other miscellaneous soldiers.

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang coming down the mountain, Zhang Xianzhong laughed and walked forward a few steps, saying loudly: "Is it Baishui Zhu Ba himself? Wow, he is so fucking young... Look at you, you are about the same age as me?" He said, "Fuck" and "I" was very vulgar. Although most of the leaders under Zhu Yuanzhang did not react, Xu Renjie frowned. Obviously, he didn't like such people.

Zhang Xianzhong was born in 1606, and the third year of Chongzhen was 1630. He is only twenty-four years old now, and he is still a very young man. Zhu Yuanzhang's body was also twenty-four years old this year, which is as big as Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhu Yuanzhang hugged and clasped his fists: "I am Baishui Zhu Ba!"

"You can do it!" Zhang Xianzhong laughed: "I'm about the same age as me, and I have more troops under my command than me. It's not that I've been begging Wang Jiayin as my elder brother, maybe I'll come to vote for you too, hahahaha..."

After hearing what he said, everyone couldn't help but look at the bandits following him. The number of people was indeed not large, just under seven or eight hundred or one thousand. Zhang Xianzhong had only been in the army for a few months, and it was good to have such a small amount of money.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to talk too much nonsense with him, so he asked straight in one fell swoop: "Eight Kings, what are your plans for entering Huanglong Mountain this time?"

"Plan? You can get rid of it!" Zhang Xianzhong's face was filled with a sense of hostility: "Damn Hong Chengchou, defeated Wang Jiayin for two consecutive times, and beat me up with a bruised face. I had no choice but to escape into Huanglong Mountain..."

"Then are you planning to stay in Huanglong Mountain?" Zhu Yuanzhang's tone continued. This was the situation he didn't want to see the least. If Wang Jiayin and his gang wanted to stay in Huanglong Mountain, they would have to have a dispute with Zhu Yuanzhang's village. At that time, either you swallow me or I swallow you, and there was no second way to go.

"God knows!" Zhang Xianzhong laughed: "This mountain where birds do not shit, I don't want to stay here... The colorful world outside, I don't want to be happy? Why should I stay in this egg mountain... But Brother Wang Jiayin has already rushed in. If I don't come in, I have to be surrounded by officers and soldiers outside the mountain, fucking the egg!"

Speaking of this, he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with a squinted look, and laughed: "You are interesting. You can actually stay in this broken mountain. If I had changed, I would have been out of the mountain long ago."

Hearing that he did not stay, Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little relieved and carefully recalled the history he had watched. Zhang Xianzhong had indeed not been stationed in Huanglong Mountain. This is good, there is no conflict of interest, so that's easy to say. Zhu Yuanzhang bowed and pointed to a small hill in the distance, and said, "Brothers of the Eight Kings, you have come from afar and are chased by officers and soldiers. It must be very hard. I set up some camps on that hill. If I don't dislike it, I'll go to the hill to rest."

His words were changed to any rebel leader who was beaten like a dog by the officers and soldiers and felt warm, but Zhang Xianzhong was not an ordinary person. His ideas were different from those of ordinary people. In a certain way, he and Zhu Yuanzhang belonged to the same type of people - heroes! Such people are particularly good at catching details from other people's words and guessing other people's thoughts.

He glanced at the mountain that Zhu Yuanzhang pointed at, turned around and looked at the main camp behind Zhu Yuanzhang. The corners of his eyes were twitching inadvertently. From Zhu Yuanzhang's small act of asking him to station him on the mountain next to him, he could see: People don't welcome him! The hard words in his mouth are all polite words. The potential line is, you pass by quickly and get out of here, don't be upset.

"Hey... Zhu Ba!" Zhang Xianzhong laughed, as if he wanted to say something, but looked at the row of leaders behind Zhu Yuanzhang, and then looked at the neatly lined up on the counterfeit village to "welcome" his military formation... Zhang Xianzhong said nothing, but just bowed and said, "Thank you for the camp you prepared. I'm so tired that I'm just sleeping beautifully, hahaha... I'm sorry, brother, help me guard the camp..."

"Um!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes met Zhang Xianzhong's eyes. At that moment, a small aura seemed to explode in the air. The two of them fought each other with sword-like eyes, arousing an invisible vortex. The air between them was encircled by this vortex and subtle condensed.

Finally, Zhang Xianzhong turned his head away. He was not afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang, but the thousands of troops neatly arranged behind Zhu Yuanzhang... If he fought here, he knew that he had no chance of winning, so he wisely chose to give in.

In an instant, the two of them used their own army as bargaining chips to pass a move, but this move was so hidden that no one except them knew that the leaders on both sides had fought an invisible war.

"Let's go! Go to the mountain prepared by Brother Zhu Ba for us to rest." Zhang Xianzhong turned around, shouted at his subordinates, and happily ran towards the hill with the group of desperate people behind him.

Seeing Zhang Xianzhong leading the team to the mountain he arranged, Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly in his heart. This person is indeed a hero. At least one thing he is better than a hero, that is, to know practice. There is an old Chinese saying that those who know the times are heroes. If he was facing a person like Wang Er or Miao Mei, he might strongly ask to go to the main village to take a look, then there might be a conflict. But Zhang Xianzhong was different. He judged the situation very quickly. He made a judgment just after just a glance, and chose to give in... This is the quality that a person must possess to succeed and reach a high position.

"No one who can make a name for himself is a good person... This guy is full of swearing, seems rough and generous, but his heart is very delicate!" Zhu Yuanzhang made such an evaluation of Zhang Xianzhong.

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But Zhang Xianzhong walked into the tent prepared for him with a smile on his face, and sat down on a bed of straw mats that he had temporarily set up. As soon as he sat firmly, his face darkened, as if he was charcoal. He shouted to the outside: "Yichun, are you outside the tent? If you are there, come in!"

With his call, a young boy got into the camp. This was a ten-year-old child named Li Yichun, from Yulin, Shaanxi. During the uprising of Zhang Xianzhong, he followed him to revolt and was taken over by Zhang Xianzhong as his adopted son. There were three other children who were accepted into him, with different ages. Li Yichun was the third child among them.

He is smart and studious, and smart and brave. In Zhang Xianzhong's heart, he is a talented person who can be cultivated. Therefore, whenever there is anything important, he will send his adopted son to deal with it.

Of course, this son is not his favorite son. His most beloved adopted son is Sun Kewang. He is the oldest of the four adopted sons. Zhang Xianzhong generally does not let Sun Kewang do something too dangerous to avoid him from being in danger.

To put it simply, it means that Sun Kewang takes advantage of it, and Li Yichun will do the dangerous things!

"Yichun, don't rest. Hurry up and contact a few other people, call Wang Jiayin, Zijinliang, Chuangwang, Cao Cao... all of them, come to me to gather here... This Baishui Zhu Ba... Hey, it's so evil, I can't deal with him alone. When the brothers come, I want him to look good."

"Entertainment Father, what happened? I think Brother Zhu Ba is good, he also gave us a rest in the tent." Li Yichun asked a little naively.

"You little kid knows nothing..." Zhang Xianzhong kicked Li Yichun with a slap. Of course, he didn't use much strength. This kick was a bit like the way the adoptive father taught his child a lesson.

Li Yichun said oh, and then said seriously: "Entertainment father, although the child doesn't understand now, as long as you teach the child, I will understand!"

"Ha, you will say, go quickly, I will teach you slowly when I go back." Zhang Xianzhong waved his hand and drove Li Yichun out of the tent.

Li Yichun left the camp, tied his clothes and trousers tightly, got into the grass, then silently estimated the direction, and ran out towards the direction of Wang Jiayin's main force.

His young figure just disappeared from a distance, and Zhu Yuanzhang's figure turned from the side of the mountain. He looked at the direction where Li Yichun disappeared and sighed: "Sure enough... Zhang Xianzhong is going to bring reinforcements... and the person sent to bring reinforcements was actually Li Yichun... Hehe... Who would have thought that this inconspicuous child would become the most dazzling general in the late Ming Dynasty in the future?"

Li Yichun, the child, was later changed to Li Dingguo, and together with Zheng Chenggong, resisted the Qing army's entry into the Central Plains, and was called the two pillars of the Southern Ming Dynasty!
Chapter completed!