"What? You say that again!" Tieshan sprang up with a clang, the wine and dishes on the table were knocked to the ground, and he loudly questioned his subordinates.

  "It's General Shan's army!" the man shouted in a shrill voice.

  "Speak! What's going on? How did you find out?" Tie Feng directly grabbed his clothes and lifted him up.

  "Me... me... we..." Xiao Wu, put him down and let him clarify what's going on.

  "Hmph!" Tie Feng heard his second brother's words and slammed the man heavily to the ground.

  "This man hastily began to explain: 'Yesterday, we had agreed that today we would secretly go down the mountain to buy some private salt in the city and bring it back. When we were halfway down the mountain, we saw the birds in the forest fleeing in all directions. At first, everyone thought there was a fierce beast on the loose, so we planned to take a detour down the mountain. But Sanzi had sharp eyes and discovered that something was amiss - it turned out that the birds had been chased away by a group of people. We initially thought they were hunters entering the mountains, but unexpectedly, they were wearing Ming army uniforms. We dispersed to observe from different locations and found that all the roads down the mountain had been sealed off, with Ming soldiers patrolling everywhere. It was then that we realized things were not going well, so we hastily returned up the mountain to report back.'"

  Tieshan and the others were stunned, they had expected the extermination army to return, but no one thought it would come so quickly, and even immediately seal off the mountain, what can be done about this?

  Zhang Feng was not surprised, as Wang Zhen's hundred households had already explained that they would send troops to seal off the mountain today when they set out last night, so hearing this news now only made him sigh slightly that they came a bit faster than expected.

  "Tieshan, now that the army has arrived to quell the bandits, you should stop resisting. The King of Yan was furious when he heard about your robbery of military rations and specially dispatched over 6,000 personal guards to wipe out this northern mountain bandit lair. Why not surrender with me instead? I can still plead for leniency on your behalf." Zhang Feng suggested.

  "Damn it, I'll throw you to your grandma's bear! What kind of crappy bodyguards are you? I'm going to cut you down right now!" Tie Feng's brain heated up and he raised his knife, ready to charge over and kill Zhang Feng and the other.

  Iron Wind's eyes widened, and he suddenly fell backwards unconsciously, landing right in Ding Wu's arms. It turned out that just as Iron Wind was speaking, he had circled around to the back, taking advantage of Iron Wind's carelessness to knock him unconscious with a single palm strike.

  Zhang Feng looked at him in surprise, not understanding why he wanted to knock out his own brother. If he was afraid of hurting me, couldn't he just stop him instead? Why did he have to take such drastic measures?

  "Alas... now that it's come to this, I won't hide it from Brother Zhang anymore. We had planned to take advantage of the army surrounding the mountain to avenge our Fourth Brother, even if we couldn't kill Zhao Chuhai, we would still kill his henchmen. And my younger brother here is the only hope left for us, so we had no choice but to knock him out and use him as leverage... who knew that today was the day of the mountain's sealing..." Tie Shan sighed and said in a low voice.

  "This... why must you do this? If we go down the mountain and explain everything to Commander Qian, he will surely report it to the Yan King and investigate this matter. If Zhao Chuhu is as evil as you say, the authorities will naturally punish him according to the law, and your brothers' revenge will be avenged at that time. Why must you take action against his subordinates now?" Zhang Feng looked at Tie Shan with puzzlement and incomprehension.

  Tie Shan and Ding Wu looked at each other and smiled, saying in unison: "Nothing else, just the bond of brotherhood."

  After hearing the two men's answers, Zhang Feng fell silent. Yes, the bond between brothers is as precious as gold and can be compared to the sun and moon. Just like him and Liu Zi, Da Niu, Chen Feng, Xu Jia brothers, Wang Ping, Lao Gu and so on, although they haven't known each other for long, their feelings are deep, and they call each other brothers. If they were killed by someone, should I avenge them or not? And how should I avenge them?

  Thinking of this, Zhang Feng couldn't help but look at them with a complex gaze. If the brothers could reach such an extent, then if that elder brother who had passed away first knew about it, he would definitely cry tears of joy and exclaim that his life was fulfilling enough...

  "Zhang brothers, this time I'll go ahead and report the outcome of our revenge, whether we live or die. Can I entrust you with a task?" Tieshan asked Zhang Feng.

  "Alright, I'll definitely try my best if it's possible."

  "It's like this, I've already arranged for someone to send a letter of surrender down the mountain three hours after we leave. After all, these mountain people are innocent, and except for a small portion that has been distributed, the rest of the military rations are hidden in a cave for safekeeping. I'll give the credit for recovering the military rations to Brother Zhang, just ask you to take care of it, so that these mountain people can surrender smoothly without being killed."

  "In the next definition, I, Zhang Feng, swear that I will definitely let these people go down the mountain safely and stably." Zhang Feng said solemnly.

  "Good! I didn't misjudge Iron Mountain after all. Besides, there's another personal matter that I'd like to entrust to Brother Zhang."

  "Brother Tiěshān can also say it together, Zhang will definitely make an effort to do so." Zhang promised with a heroic tone.

  "It's like this, my fourth brother had a daughter before he left, and it was for her medical treatment that he was killed. All these years, I haven't had the face to meet her, only second brother and fifth brother are slightly close to her, so she has become somewhat introverted now. You've seen her too, Little Bottle. I want to entrust her to you because you're the only stranger she's not afraid of after all these years. Just treat Bottle like your own daughter, plus I trust Brother Zhang's character, and I'm sure you won't disappoint us brothers!" Iron Mountain explained with some embarrassment.

  "Ah! Me? With her? And a daughter?" Zhang Feng was stunned, rubbing his face that didn't even have a hint of stubble. After spending 16 years on Wudang Mountain, he had only just come down from the mountain for a few months and already had a daughter. What kind of joke was this?

  Then isn't my master sitting in the mountain as a happy and contented person?

  Zhang Feng's face was twisted in knots, he didn't know what to say, this feeling... it felt like there was a tiny bit of excitement.

  Tie Shan looked at Zhang Feng, who remained silent for half a day without responding, and thought he was having trouble, so he could only helplessly sigh and think about who to entrust the bottle to again.

  Zhang Feng is still daydreaming, imagining himself training hard and returning home to see a little kid standing at the door, shouting "Dad" in a clear voice, it's already unthinkable just thinking about it...

  "If Zhang brother is having a hard time, then I'll go find someone else." Tieshan squatted down and patted the little head of the bottle, saying helplessly.

  "Slow down!" Zhang Feng shouted loudly. "Who said I'm having a hard time? Don't worry, Tie Shan brother, handing the bottle over to me is absolutely no problem. You few can rest assured and go die, I will raise her to be white and chubby."

  "Uh..." Iron Mountain's face turned black, did I entrust the wrong person? Why does Zhang brother seem so strange now? What's with "we can all go die"? What's with "raising white and chubby ones"? Where did the heroic Zhang Xiong brother from just now go? How did he turn into this weirdo...

  Old Liu, who was watching the conversation between the two, was speechless. He had seen bandits before, and he had also seen government troops who called themselves brothers with the bandits. Now, they were actually asking the government troops to help raise the bandits' offspring? The government troops would be overjoyed... I'm afraid I haven't woken up yet and am having a hallucination...

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