It is said that Hu Yanzhuo took dozens of guards and sergeants all the way to Bianliang, and then went to the Taiwei Mansion to meet Gao Yu.

Gao Yu was drinking tea in the mansion, and the doorman suddenly came to report, "Runing Prefecture Hu Yanzhuo asks to see." Gao Yu was happy and angry when he heard this, he was so happy that Hu Yanzhuo, who had traveled far away, came so quickly, and he was angry that Gao Lian, who was much closer to Tokyo than Hu Yanzhuo, had not arrived until now, and there was an immediate difference between the two of them.

Gao Yu immediately announced into Hu Yanzhuo and personally went out to greet him, after a polite condolences, Gao Yu let Hu Yanzhuo live in the house temporarily, and when Gao Lian arrived, he would go to the court together to see the saint, Hu Yanzhuo said, "Lord Qiyu, I have learned about the Liangshan thieves on the way here, I heard that there are more than 3,000 people, and I heard that Liangshan Bo occupies 800 miles of water, the mountain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so you must not underestimate the enemy, and you want to beg to protect the second will be the vanguard, I don't know if it can?" ”

It turned out that Hu Yanzhuo thought about it three times on the way here, and finally realized that there was only one way to prevent Gao Lian's mistakes, that is, to bring as many of his cronies as possible, and even if Gao Lian commanded blindly, he could secretly instruct his cronies to act.

Gao Yu asked, "I don't know who the general wants to protect?" ”

Hu Yanzhuo continued, "One will train Han Tao for the Chenzhou regiment, who was born in martial arts, and made a jujube wood plastic, known as General Baisheng. The other will be the Yingzhou regiment training envoy Peng Qi, who is the successor of the general, making a three-pointed knife, is also outstanding in martial arts, known as the Tianmu general. These two are both wise and brave, and with the help of the two of them, the bandits will get twice the result with half the effort! ”

Gao Yu was naturally overjoyed when he heard this, he is now trying to help Gao Lian to suppress the bandits smoothly, so as long as he can help this expedition, he is willing, don't say that Hu Yanzhuo wants to add two of his cronies, even if he adds ten or eight, he agrees, anyway, the boss is cheap, and how to calculate the battle merits in the end is also up to himself, and the cheap can't fall into other people's homes.

Gao Lian immediately agreed to Hu Yanzhuo's request, immediately called the sergeants, took Di Wen, and ordered them to rush to Chenzhou and Yingzhou to train Han Tao and Peng Qi to come to Beijing in the starry night.

Since he talked about this matter, Gao Yu asked Hu Yanzhuo, "How many people are brought with this expedition?" ”

Hu Yanzhuo thought for a while and said, "Since there are more than 3,000 people in Liangshan, there are at least 9,000 officers and soldiers!" In short, the more the better, maybe you can scare the thief into timidity and surrender without a fight. ”

Surrender without a fight? This is naturally the most ideal result, Gao Yu hurriedly asked, "General, how many people are in your department?" ”

Hu Yanzhuo said, "Two thousand men and horses, including five hundred cavalry troops and one thousand five hundred infantry troops. ”

Gao Yu nodded slowly after hearing this, "Gao Lian also has 2,000 state soldiers, so it is enough to mobilize thousands of state soldiers from nearby states and counties!" ”

Hu Yanzhuo saw that Gao Yu seemed to be responsive to his needs, and his heart couldn't help but move, and after thinking about it, he said cautiously, "There is another thing to ask for help, although there is no shortage of people in our department, but there is a lack of enough armor and weapons, I don't know ...... adults?" ”

Gao Lian understood what Hu Yanzhuo meant, such as today, whether it is the forbidden army or the box army, in addition to the serious phenomenon of empty salaries, the various materials allocated by the imperial court have also been stripped layer by layer, resulting in a serious shortage of clothes and armor weapons issued by the imperial court when they are really issued to the army, and even if they are in hand, they are mostly defective products and cannot be used at all.

Hu Yanzhuo is not only telling the truth, but also trying to use this to ask himself for some real guys to equip his subordinates.

People are always selfish, Gao Yu understands the difficulties of officers like Hu Yanzhuo very well, but this is not difficult for Gao Yu, in order to win over Hu Yanzhuo to really work for himself, Gao Yu immediately smiled and said, "General don't worry, I will immediately send someone to open the Jingshi armor arsenal and allocate enough weapons and armor to you, what do you think?" ”

Hu Yanzhuo was overjoyed, with these things to guarantee, it didn't hurt even if the biggest credit for the bandit was not counted on his head, and he immediately thanked Gao Yu and lived in the Taiwei Mansion with peace of mind.

After a few more days, Gao Lian finally arrived, why did he come so slowly? It turned out that it had just snowed heavily, the weather was very cold, and the road was difficult to walk, so Gao Lian didn't want to ride a fast horse to get on the road, so he came in a comfortable carriage.

Gao Yu was angry in his heart after knowing the truth, fortunately, this time it was just a trivial matter to suppress bandits, if he was an emergency military situation in the future, Gao Lian would have committed the crime of slacking off the army!

Gao Yu reprimanded Gao Lian fiercely, and finally told him again without worry, although you are the commander of this expedition to suppress the Liangshan bandits, but you are only a name, and you have to listen to Hu Yanzhuo more in everything, and the experience of leading troops to fight is much richer than yours.

Although Gao Lian was full of promises, he was very unconvinced in his heart, and the secret cousin also looked down on me too much, and after I won a big victory this time and won a million fortunes, you will definitely be impressed by me!

Subsequently, Gao Yu led Gao Lian and Hu Yanzhuo to meet, and went into the palace to meet the emperor on the same day.

Emperor Longyan Dayue officially appointed the two as the chief and deputy marshal, and according to Gao Yu's suggestion, he ordered Qizhou, Bozhou, Yunzhou, Jezhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, and Puzhou around Liangshan to send 1,000 to 2,000 state soldiers each, together with the Huyanzhuo Department and the Gao Lian Department, a total of 12,000 men and horses, and sent Liangshan Bo to swear to avoid banditry!

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Under the holy decree, Hu Yanzhuo led Han Tao and Peng Qi to immediately rush back to Runing Prefecture to rectify the army, and Gao Lian returned to Gaotang Prefecture with the holy decree and notified Qizhou, Bozhou and other prefectures.

At the same time, Zheng Fei, who was far away in Liangshan, also received the details of the imperial court's arrangement to expropriate himself, and the news came so quickly that it was even three days earlier than Gao Lian's return to Gaotang Prefecture, which was the credit of the personnel of the Investigation Bureau? No! The Bureau of Investigation is not strong enough to be able to detect the situation in the palace,

So where did this news come from?

It was one morning, before dawn, the door of the Nanshan Hotel under Liangshan suddenly rang, the guy who slept in the lobby immediately had a sense, came to the door and asked who was outside, but no one answered, the guy quietly opened the door to see, only to see that there was no ghost outside at all, the guy was confused, just thought that he had just heard wrong, when he was closing the door, he inadvertently looked under the door, only to see a letter on the ground,

The guy picked up the envelope strangely, took out the letter paper inside and looked at it, and was immediately stunned, and hurriedly entered the house to wake up Zhang Beidou and handed the letter to him.

Zhang Beidou was also sleepy-eyed, and he was completely awakened when he read the letter in a daze, and he didn't even sleep, so he hurriedly put on his clothes and quickly went to Liangshan to hand over the letter to Zheng Fei.

It turned out that what was written on the letter was nothing else, but the detailed arrangements of the imperial court's expedition to Liangshanbo, including the composition of the commander-in-chief and the various departments of the army!

It's just that this letter is not signed with the name of any writer, that is, an anonymous letter, but Zheng Fei can guess who wrote it, and he can't help but feel a little moved in his heart, he treats him like this, but he is still willing to send himself such a timely and important information, this help is even more precious!

Zheng Fei also knew that the person was taking a huge risk by doing this, so he immediately ordered Zhang Beidou to return to the hotel quickly, and strictly ordered everyone who knew about this matter to take care of the door of their mouths, and whoever spread the word about this letter would definitely be severely punished!

Next, Zheng Fei immediately summoned Lu Zhishen, Deng Yuanjue, Chao Gai, Wu Song, Lin Chong and other senior generals in the Juyi Hall and told them about it.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is how the imperial court has been arranged this time, what do you think?"

Lin Chong first asked, "Big Boss, is this information accurate and credible?" ”

Zheng Fei nodded, "It should be credible." Zheng Fei saw that Hu Yanzhuo was the deputy marshal, and brought Han Tao and Peng Qi, and knew that it must be true, this is almost the same arrangement as when Hu Yanzhuo came to attack Liangshan, but the commander has become Gao Lian,

Wang Yin first smiled and said, "It will take 12,000 men to attack such a small cottage as ours, and the emperor Lao Tzu really looks up to us." ”

Lu Zhishen then shouted nonchalantly, "Except for Hu Yanzhuo's two thousand men and horses, there is still some threat, and the rest are just Qunzhou soldiers, and there is nothing to worry about!" Give the Sprinkle family 2,000 people, and the Sprinkler family can drive away the 10,000 people! ”

Everyone laughed, without the slightest nervousness and anxiety before the big war,

Zheng Fei also smiled easily, the current enemy, what is terrible is not the disadvantage in numbers, nor the gap in overall strength, the most terrible thing is fear and timidity, but now everyone is not afraid, morale is strong, this battle is also at the right time!

It's time to lead the army!