The 12,000-strong army of bandits was defeated, almost annihilated, the commander Gao Lian was killed, the deputy marshal Hu Yanzhuo treasoned, and the news that the state commanders were either killed or captured soon spread to Bianliang, Tokyo, but it was not the imperial court that got the news first, but Gao Yu,

It is said that Gao Yu fainted immediately after hearing the news, and after waking up, he hurriedly asked the people who came to report the news about the whole process of the bandit coalition army to suppress the Liangshan bandits, and as a result, he understood that the defeat of the bandit coalition army was largely defeated by Gao Lian's stubbornness and self-use, jealousy and jealousy, and couldn't help but regret that he should not let Gao Lian be the boss, but regret was useless, the main and deputy commanders of the bandit coalition were recommended by him, and now the commander died in battle, the deputy marshal was treasonous, if the court pursued it, it was he Gao Yu who should bear the brunt, Gao Yu knew the sinister process of this matter, and he couldn't do the glory and wealth of this life and even the life of his family would be ruined, so he immediately started to save himself overnight.

That night, Gao Yu visited Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng and others overnight, and prayed for help as much as he could, Gao Yu is a traitorous minister, since he has always been embarrassed with these people, everyone does not want Gao Yu to be convicted and lose the post of Tai Lieutenant, so as not to fall into the hands of the opponent for this important position, since he accepted the heavy gift to him full of promises, and agreed to help him tomorrow morning, Gao Yu went away with trepidation,

But after he left, Cai Jing and Tong Guanfu also staged two more acts that he didn't know.

Cai Jing then knew that the thief of the Liangshan thieves that the imperial court was going to exterminate a while ago was Zheng Linfeng, who he had been looking for for a long time, and that day Zheng Fei disappeared without a trace after escaping from Cai's mansion, Cai Jing thought that Zheng Fei was either dead or incognito under fear, and gradually forgot about him, but he never expected to suddenly get news of him, and it was such a thing! How did that mysterious Zheng butcher become a Liangshan thief and how did he have this kind of strength that can break the imperial court's army of more than 10,000 people, Cai Jing couldn't figure it out, but one thing he knew very well was that if he still wanted to capture this Zheng butcher alive, then now he must kill Zheng Butcher! Always cautious, he has already smelled a hidden danger from Liang Shan's great victory this time, and he will do everything he can to nip this threat in the bud!

And Tong Guan was taken aback, of course, he didn't show it in front of Gao Yu. He didn't expect that the imperial army would fail, since that day Zheng Fei refused his appeasement, he had already regarded Zheng Fei as a dead man, thinking that even if the imperial army could not catch Zheng Fei this time, at least it would be able to level Liangshanbo and chase Zheng Fei like a lost dog. As a result, he didn't expect that he had waited for such a result, and he didn't realize until now that he had underestimated Zheng Fei and his Liang Shanbo, and they had once again completed a miracle that seemed impossible. But this kind of thing made Tong Guanyu angry and ashamed, he couldn't tolerate this kind of thing, he also made the same choice as Cai Jing, he also wanted to exterminate Liang Shanbo, at all costs, even if it was himself!

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Early the next morning, the news of the defeat of the bandit coalition finally reached the imperial court, the Manchu Dynasty was in an uproar, the emperor Long Yan was furious, and the officials also wrote to ask for a thorough investigation, the emperor scolded Gao Yu in court for his incompetence, Gao Yu repeatedly sued the guilt, broke the blood on the head of the head kowtow, wept bitterly, and begged the emperor to punish himself,

Gao Yu is a very good "playmate" of Emperor Zhao Ji, but Zhao Ji is a soft-hearted person, when he saw Gao Yu like this, half of his anger was immediately dissipated, but he was also quite embarrassed, and he didn't know how to give Gao Yu the steps.

At this critical moment, Cai Jing and Tong Guan immediately came out to ask for mercy for Gao Yu, and only put the responsibility on the traitorous Hu Yanzhuo, saying that if it wasn't for Hu Yanzhuo's defection, the coalition army would never be defeated.

Gao Yu seized the opportunity and immediately prayed to Zhao Ji to let him make meritorious contributions, and he wanted to personally lead a large army to exterminate the Liangshan thieves and the shame of the bloody court.

Zhao Ji was overjoyed, and immediately gave Gao Yu the step down, and approved Gao Yu's invitation, but it was already deep winter at this time, which was completely unfavorable to sending troops, so he only let Gao Yu prepare first, and then go to war after the beginning of spring in the next year, and then ordered to arrest Hu Yanzhuo's family, but naturally a few days later, news came that Hu Yanzhuo's house was empty.

Then, after Gao Yu retreated from the court, he thanked Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng and others.

Unexpectedly, within two days, the Liangshan thieves in the surrounding states and counties of Liangshan rushed to attack, and the urgent music that had no soldiers in the state flew to the capital like snowflakes.

Then first Yunzhou was lost, the court was shocked, and then Jeju City was almost lost, fortunately Zhizhou Zhang Shuye led the troops to resist to keep the state city, the court just breathed a sigh of relief, but unexpectedly two days later, the news of Qizhou and Xuzhou lost on the same day came together!

In this way, every day or two, the imperial court will receive the news that several states and counties have been lost, and the speed of this loss has completely exceeded the reaction time of the imperial court. Another example is that the imperial court just ordered Linlu Linzhou to send troops to reinforce a certain state and county today, but a few days later, news came that there was no need for reinforcements on this road, because that state and county had been broken by thieves.

Seeing that Jingdong West Road is falling first with a terrible speed race, Liangshan thieves are approaching Tokyo, Zhao Ji is naturally angry again, the image of Wen Erya in the past is gone, every morning can hear his angry roar, the Manchu Dynasty warriors are in danger, no one dares to say a word to Zhao Ji, and then Cai Jing, Tong Guan, these "loyal" old ministers gave Zhao Ji an idea, and immediately ordered Beijing Daimyofu, Nanjing Yingtianfu, Hebei East Road, Jingdong East Road, Huainan East Road immediately transferred troops to the states and counties bordering Jingdong West Road, and made every effort to block the offensive of the thieves, and because the Liangshan Tiandao Army had no intention of attacking these places, as a result, naturally no news of the fall of any prefectures and counties came a few days later, Zhao Ji was a little relieved, and felt that the Manchu Dynasty only Cai Jing and Tong Guan could be trusted.

It can be said that the successive falls of the states and counties in the east and west of Beijing are directly related to the fact that he rashly organized these states and counties to conquer the Liangshan thieves but wiped out the whole army, so that the empty troops of the states and counties could not stop the attack of the thieves, Gao Yu was also sitting on pins and needles every day, and he entered the palace every day in fear to ask for guilt, and his forehead was swollen out of a big bag, Zhao Ji also hated itchy, but he was still reluctant to punish him, but he just asked him to hurry up and prepare for the second expedition in the coming year. Get ready to regain Jingxi Road.

In this way, the Great Song Dynasty rose up in Liangshan, and the shadow of the fall of Jingxi Road ushered in a year, but at this slightly dangerous time, Zhao Ji and the Great Song Dynasty should have worked hard, seized the time to find the cause of defeat and prepare for the war in the coming year, but Zhao Ji, who was greedy for pleasure and great joy, did not do so, he still ordered the city of Tokyo to put up lights, extravagantly welcome the New Year, and whitewash the power of the Quartet and the Celestial Empire. Well, Zhao Ji, who forgot the scar and forgot the pain, actually ordered that the money could be spent first from the military expenses for the preparation of the Liangshan bandits in the coming year, and Gao Yu, who was the commander of the conquest and suppression, did not stop this absurd behavior, but strongly agreed, in order to curry favor with Zhao Ji, the news came out, which caused the military ministers who still had a conscience in the court and the people with lofty ideals to be angry, knowing that I was afraid that such a toss would delay the recovery of Jingxi Road from the thieves in the coming year, but it was also helpless.

Sure enough, in March of the year of Zhenghe, it was supposed to be the day when the imperial court redeployed the army to recover the Jingxi Road, but there was a serious shortage of military spending, so it had to be delayed for more than a month, and in April, when the military budget was finally made up and the army could be mobilized, a thing that shocked the entire imperial court again, and was even no less than the rise of the Liangshan bandits, gave birth to another ......!