Zhang Bao became the follower of Hong Jiaotou, and naturally began to contact Song Jiang.

Song Jiang saw that this guy had good skills and had no way out, so he thought about the back road of killing people and setting fires, so he had the heart to envelop him.

At this time, Song Jiang also wanted to take advantage of opportunities such as the imperial court amnesty, make a comeback in politics, and make contributions to the court with his loyalty and talent, this is his first choice, not falling into the grass, not together, and Chao Gai has no fundamental direction of conflict in the goal, he has no intention of harming Chao Gai to seize power at this time. Song Jiang is very righteous, and his friendship with Chao Gai is very sincere.

Song Jiang gathered these unfortunate and unfortunate Jianghu men in Chaifu, and all he pondered was to tempt and guide them in a targeted manner, take these people to join Erlong Mountain, strengthen his power and voice in Erlong Mountain, and take the opportunity to use the people gathered in Erlong Mountain to take the Zhao'an Road.

There is always a sacrifice to achieve great things. One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, but it is not to say.

Song Jiang wants to make a big deal. For the brothers who are kind-hearted, the righteous Song Jiang is still reluctant to use it as cannon fodder to dye his official hat red.

Zhang Bao, Pig Iron Buddha, and Qiu Xiaoyi are used to sacrifice, and he is not distressed. It was a thought in his heart.

Of course, the idea is not too dirty.

Song Jiang thought that he guided these people to take the road of rebellion and then recruitment, so as to give these bitter men who were wandering in the rivers and lakes a useful place and a chance to get ahead.

Taking the list of merits from the horse is the only way for the low-level martial arts. When these people survive bloody battles, put on official uniforms, and live a glorious life, they will be grateful for his leadership. Song Jiang firmly believes in this.

When Song Jiang and Kong Hou were county officials, they had too many dealings with military ruffians like Zhang Bao, and they knew this kind of person too well. Partnering to deal with Zhang Bao is a quasi.

As a result, Song Jiang's small group in Chai Province added another Zhang Bao.

He is a man who is at the end of his rope but does not give up his ambitions. Full of fighting spirit, positive speech and demeanor and vague guidance. Invisibly affects the morale of small groups.

The head of the Hong sect gradually had some ideas for a new way out in his heart, but if he wanted to achieve his goal, he had to have strong force to fight, and he was desperately trying to improve his strength. Zhang Bao and others who were bent on pursuing pleasure also had to be diligent.

They were seduced by Song Jiang's vague and coincidental words, and they had new desires, hopes, and martial arts were practiced hotly, and they each had their own gains.

At the same time, the north came to ride alone. The man is emaciated, and the horse is emaciated. It is Luan Tingyu, a teacher in Zhujiazhuang in the past.

Bidding farewell to Zhao Yue that day, Luan Tingyu made one last effort with passion and ambition to find a stage for himself to shine from the Great Song army.

But the result was so unforgiving. So ironic.

The dignified and first-class iron rod hero threw himself into the Northern Army, running around and hitting walls everywhere, suffering from mental torture and blows.

He is highly skilled, literate and hyphenated, has the ability to govern the army, and is actually a general, not that the capitals of the Northern Army are blind and look down on him as a grass warrior, on the contrary, many are willing to take him in and use him, but the work arranged is either to act as a thug in the outer courtyard of the family, or to act as a role like Yang Zhi, who used to escort the money obtained from the greedy and perverted law to loot the people's fat and ointment and send it back to his hometown. He also has to suffer from the cold words of the evil slaves of the master's henchmen and other masters.

This is not what Luan Tingyu wants.

He just wants to be a soldier in a serious manner, and he doesn't have high requirements for the starting point, even if he is only a soldier with dozens of people in the border forbidden army.

Promoted, he can rely on his real skills. Bloody battles from the battlefield with blood and life.

Unfortunately, no governor was willing to give him such an opportunity.

The officials were very disdainful and contemptuous of Luan Tingyu's refusal to be a loyal and serving general, and at the same time had to take the shortcut to promotion, and they all reprimanded Luan Tingyu for not knowing how to promote.

Luan Tingyu has begged hard for a circle. Realize that the Northern Army's sense of confrontation against the Liao Army is not strong, and there are very few battles. The state capitals lacked the fighting spirit and confidence to compete with the Liao army. Don't dare to fight. The governors were all stealing money for pleasure, just hoping that the frontier areas under their jurisdiction would be okay. Smoothly transferred to a good place at the end of the term.

He finally gave up on the Northern Army. The blow was so hard that even if he knew that Cangbei Military Prefecture had changed several new commanders, he didn't have the courage to try again.

He has arrogance in his heart, and he can't save face, so he still refuses to vote for Zhao Gonglian in this situation, and plans to switch to the Western Army, which has frequent wars and needs generals.

The most prestigious of the generals in the Western Army are the old and small brothers, but the most powerful generals are the Liu Fa family of the Xihe Army who are the most likely to face the Western Xia, and the war is most likely to occur. Liu Fa's troops were the largest. He has nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses in this department.

But this powerful army of the Great Song Dynasty suffered a heavy blow in the early autumn of this year, and the elite was almost wiped out.

The Western Army has now also trained cavalry. Due to the bias of Cangzhao to support, the cavalry under the old kind of strategy was the most.

Liu Fa's cavalry also had thousands, although it could not be compared with the number of cavalry of the Xia army, but it finally had the power to counterattack and pursue.

In the autumn, the younger brother of Emperor Qianshun of Western Xia, King Chage of Jin, led the army of capture to loot the Great Song Dynasty.

When Liu Fa heard the news, he led the elite of the army to patrol and attack, and as a result, he had an encounter with the handsome infantry and cavalry of Brother Cha. Cha Ge divided his army into three formations to block Liu Fa's front army, and at the same time, sent another elite cavalry to climb the mountain and go around the back of Liu Fa's army to flank him. The two sides fought fiercely for 7 hours, and Yang Weizhong, the former army of Liu Fa's army, Jiao Anjie, and Zhu Dingguo, the left army, were all defeated. Coach Liu Fa died on the spot......

This is a tragic event that really happened in history in 1119 AD, but it happened in advance in this world.

The reason for the early fiasco is ridiculous and pathetic.

Because of the cavalry, Liu Fa was bold and refused to passively defend the city as before, and took the risk of attacking.

Liu Faneng has the greatest military power in the Western Army, because he is indeed a famous general of the Great Song Dynasty, but a famous general is not necessarily proficient in how to use cavalry well. In fact, accustomed to infantry fighting, Song generals almost never used flexible cavalry.

The Xihe Army had a large-scale cavalry, not a single army, which was used flexibly in wartime, but was still organized into an infantry cavalry army according to the old three articles of the Song Army. That is, the cavalry was assigned to the infantry, and the purpose was very good, so that the infantry had cavalry to rely on to fight against the Western Xia cavalry.

The result was a real fight, and when King Chage of Jin saw the establishment of the Xihe army, he immediately treated it flexibly, concentrated the use of the Western Xia cavalry, and crushed the small and scattered cavalry of the Xihe army in one fell swoop, and the rest was to slaughter the infantry with cavalry as usual.

Daojun Zhao Ji had a bad year this year, bad luck, first the internal bandit army swept through Shandong, endangering the capital, and then the pirates ravaged the south, just relieved and wanted to live a few days of pleasure, and the west spread this terrible news, so that Daojun's little cock couldn't get up for a while.

But for Luan Tingyu, the destruction of the Xihe Army was a good opportunity for him to get ahead in the army.

There is no shortage of soldiers who dare to fight in the Western Army, and tens of thousands of soldiers have been plundered when they die, and they will soon be able to make up for the shortfall, but it is a problem to make up for the dead and capable generals.

Yi Tingyu just wanted to try his luck because of this.

But after wandering in the north for so long, earning less and spending a lot, the entanglement is exhausted, and he can't go to the northwest if he has no money. (To be continued.) )