"Interesting, indeed." Zhang Xiaowu touched the half-inch beard on his chin and smiled.

Wu Song said: "Some gangs do rely on the royal family to live, but often the royal family loses the battle for the crown, and the gang that supports him suffers. And those gangs who bet on the right people will not end well, as the so-called flying birds are good to hide the bow, after all, the emperor has more power than the princes, and he will get special loyalty to the emperor's minions, the gold guards and the silver guards. Therefore, those abandoned gangs either endure the development or re-attach to the new prince. In fact, the so-called rivers and lakes are just interests, in order to compete for interests, everyone will fight again and again, if the emperor lives longer, the prince is more, and the martial arts battle will become more and more intense.

This dynasty is still martial, and Emperor Shengwu announced that the people should not be prohibited from practicing martial arts, so the martial arts and rivers and lakes of the Holy Han Dynasty were formed in this way. Although the imperial court supports the existence of gangs, it also has some requirements for them, the first is not to plot rebellion and harm the imperial court, the second is not to serve the dogs, and the third is not to indiscriminately kill innocents and slaughter the people.

Therefore, the gangs or various heroes and rangers, the blades in their hands are either swords and stabs, or sticks and forks, they are not allowed to wear armor, they are not allowed to hold arrows and crossbows, and they are not allowed to fight with spears and guns, once discovered, it is the crime of rebellion. ”

Zhang Xiaowu smiled slightly, throughout the ages, I am afraid that no government has allowed the people to possess ordnance and weapons, and he asked: "Those so-called demon sects, will they use military weapons and armor?" ”

After recalling it carefully, Wu Song shook his head and said, "The Demon Sect is difficult to control, but the military armor is expensive, and the Demon Sect is made of it, and it can't stop the attack of the army. Most of the so-called demon cults are just killing people and competing for the interests of the rivers and lakes, and a very small number of rebels are just mantis arms as cars, are you a vegetarian when you are the forbidden army of the imperial court? ”

Zhang Xiaowu thought of the virtue of the Sixth Regiment, so he shook his head, and said in his heart that the forbidden army is indeed elite, but there are also straw bales, he said: "Mr. Wu, what is going on with this beggar gang, what is their influence, and what is their status in the rivers and lakes?" ”

Wu Song said: "At the beginning of the beggar gang is a group of beggars to protect each other's gang, in fact, the composition is complex, some are indeed hard-working people, but some are lazy people, in the middle of the period there are Wang Xiaojian such righteous beggars, there are also some traitors and thieves of the scum of thieves and thieves, and even murderers and wanderers are mixed in, so this beggar gang is neither a righteous gang nor an evil demon in the rivers and lakes. But this Wang Xiaojian is a big husband and is quite admired by the martial arts people in the Central Plains. I have also heard about him, when he was a head catcher in Youzhou, his eldest brother secretly did a lot of bad things under his reputation, abducting and selling people, forcibly buying and selling other people's property, and even robbing people's daughters on the street. The people dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and later someone wrote down all kinds of bad things about his eldest brother and handed them to Wang Xiaojian, he was angry and arrested the eldest brother to join the official, and Yin of Youzhou Mansion sentenced his eldest brother to be beheaded, but the Wang family blamed him for not protecting him, and even his grandfather announced that Wang Xiaojian was not allowed to enter the ancestral ancestral hall. Wang Xiaojian left Youzhou gloomily, on the one hand, he was loyal to the country, and on the other hand, he was filial piety and family, and he had no face to stay in his hometown if he was anyone. ”

Zhang Xiaowu thought for a while and ordered: "In this way, you send someone to contact this nine-fingered beggar, thank him, and invite him to come to Mucheng as a guest." He paused, but thought of more, not only to thank Wang Xiaojian for this person, but also to think of whether he could use the beggar gang to roll out the intelligence system and let the beggar gang be his own eyes and ears, "If possible, let Wang Xiaojian contact the Central Plains Rangers to form a rebel army to support Mucheng, and also swear to do a propaganda for the defenders of Mucheng." We can't sacrifice our lives to kill the enemy on the front line, but the credit for the credit in the rear is on the court, and we must properly claim our own fame and fortune. ”

Wu Song nodded with a smile, he immediately wrote a letter to Wang Xiaojian, and sent it to Qi County, Daizhou.

Soon after, Wang Xiaojian received a letter of invitation from the grateful silver and Wu Song, and learned that the ghost general was preparing an army to resist the army, and invited him to form an army to support Mucheng, he suddenly patted his chair and said to the left and right: "I just said that this scholar is not ordinary, sure enough, he is a member of the army of Mucheng and a military advisor of the ghost general of Saibei." You see, this Mr. Wu invited me to go to Mucheng, and the ghost will thank him in person, and he also invited the rebels to assist, and I specially prepared it. ”

The left and right beggars helped the disciple and said, "Helmsman, do I want to go to Mucheng to support?" Now the ...... outside the border"

Wang Xiaojian said: "It's okay, don't you want to see this ghost general?" ”

"Naturally, if you don't know the face of ghosts and generals in your life, it's in vain to be a hero." The disciples said.

Wang Xiaojian said: "Let's go to Mucheng, we can't go empty-handed." Brothers of the beggar gang, the current hardships of the people in the Central Plains are all because of the pressure of the Inuyi army in the north. For the sake of the people of the Central Plains, I decided to be invited to rush to Mucheng and kill the dog with the ghost general! Are there any people who will travel with me and build a righteous army together? ”

"Helmsman, I'll go!"

"I'll go too!"

"Kill the dog, how can you miss me!"

Wang Xiaojian's brothers were highly motivated, and he immediately rushed to Daizhou Prefecture to report to the beggar gang Daizhou helmsman, and when the beggar gang Daizhou helmsman heard this, he immediately called on the other beggar brothers to kill the dog on their backs and support the ghost general Zhang Xiaowu.

The reputation of the ghost general has long spread all over the Saibei, and the northern Hunzhou, Daizhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou and other places have also heard of its name, since Wang Xiaojian was invited to form a righteous army to support the ghost general, the legend that the beggar gang is the leader of the martial arts alliance began to circulate on the rivers and lakes, and many big factions reacted to it, such an opportunity to win a good reputation, how to let the beggar gang snatch it.

The news of the so-called leader of the martial arts alliance is that the beggar gang deliberately released it, the purpose is to create the reputation of the beggar gang for loyalty and righteousness for the country, and the Jianghu martial arts have always despised the poor group of beggars called Huazi, and they never thought that this group of Huazi would do such a loud thing quietly. In order to shape their own fame, the beggar gang publicly recommended Wang Xiaojian as the leader of the righteous army, and fully supported Wang Xiaojian's move to the north.

The "advertisement" of the beggar gang was extremely beautiful, which not only made the beggar gang fly into a famous and decent family, but also made the ghost general famous, and more people in the Central Plains learned that there was a ghost general in the north of the country who was alone in the wooden city to defend against the dogs.

"If you don't know the face of ghosts and generals in your life, even if you are a hero, it is in vain!"

The famous and decent families in the rivers and lakes take it as their responsibility to defend the world, and they don't want to be robbed of the limelight by the beggars alone, so they rushed to Daizhou. Many gangs sent a large number of disciples to Daizhou to participate in the army as an opportunity to experience and make friends with young heroes in the rivers and lakes, so for a while, Daizhou became a place that martial arts people yearn for.

Zhang Xiaowu, the ghost general who was praised by everyone to resist the dogs, was busy with another thing at this moment, the funeral of the abolished prince Xuanyuan Zixun.