Chapter 30: The Soldiers Are Coming to the City
Song An felt that this was a bit strange, so he told Sun Erniang to ask her to get some wine and rice for the old man to eat, and asked Hua Fengchun to go to the small village of Qinglong Mountain on the side to find his father and ask for a hundred horse army.
When Song An and the others rushed to the mountain pass, dozens of copycat versions of "Liangshan heroes" who were guarding there heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from the mountain, and immediately ran out of the mountain.
This time they were shrewd, and they all rode fast on horseback.
Song An and Hua Fengchun chased them for more than 50 miles outside the mountain, but they never succeeded. The horses of the men were running fast, and the people on the horses seemed to be veterans of horseback riding.
To Song An's surprise, this group of copycats rushed towards the Jeju City Gate!
It was already dusk, and the guards were about to close the city gates, but when they saw them coming on horseback, they hurriedly opened the gates and let them into the city.
"What's the situation? Why did the officers and soldiers let them into the city? "The flowers are amazed in spring.
"I see, this group of impostors must be dressed up by the official army!"
Sure enough.
During the pursuit, Hua Fengchun shot down several knock-offs with arrows, and when they retrieved their heads and Daddy and others, Xiao Rang, a scholar of the Holy Hand, recognized one of them.
"Isn't this a second lamb!"
"Brother Xian recognizes this guy?" Song Jiang Road.
"I know, these two lambs are in the same village as the younger brother, and later served as a servant in the Jeju government."
"It seems that Xiao An's speculation is not wrong...... My Yangsanpo and Jeju government have always been well water does not interfere with river water, this is a tacit agreement reached over the years, why do you now ask the government officials to pretend to be strongmen and ruin my reputation of Yangsanbo...... Brother Xiao Rangxian, you are from Jeju, please go down the mountain to Jeju tomorrow to find out. ”
At noon the next day, Xiao Rang rushed back to the mountain in a rage.
"Brother, do you know who Jeju Taishou is today?"
"Who?"
"Our old enemy, Uncle Zhang!"
Song Jiang was shocked when he heard this: "When Uncle Zhang was appointed as the commander of Yuncheng County at night, King Chao Tian, the military advisor and others outwitted the Birthday Gang in Huangnigang in Yuncheng, and he was demoted by the imperial court to the gate of Jiupin City, and since then he has a grudge against me Liangshanbo. After being reinstated as the prefect of Cangzhou, when Zhu Tong and Lei Heng went up the mountain, Li Kui killed his son Xiao Yanei, and since then, this person has hated me Liangshanbo to the core. But he never thought that the road was narrow, and he actually did too much here. ”
Xiao Rang said: "When I was a child, a playmate Liu Goudan was a fellow acquaintance under Uncle Zhang's night tent, and he said that Uncle Zhang pretended to be a good man in Liangshan at night as an official and military officer, intending to stink my reputation in Liangshan, so that the surrounding villagers and pedestrians and pedestrians would discuss the change of color in Liangshan, so that I and others would fall into the situation of everyone shouting and beating rats on the street!" ”
"This thief is really bad! Brother, let's line up the troops to level him Jeju City, and capture Uncle Zhang's thief alive! Li Kui said angrily.
The brothers were also indignant and asked for war to send troops to Jeju City.
Except for Song Ahn.
Although from a subjective standpoint at this time, Zhang Shuye is an enemy who is not a common enemy, but if it is placed in the great torrent of history, Zhang Shuye is not only hateful, but also somewhat admirable.
What his year of birth and death and the words were, Song An couldn't remember clearly, and he never thought of writing it down, he only remembered that he had read it in a certain history book:
During the Jingkang period, the Jin soldiers invaded south to Bianshang Beijing, and Zhang Shuye and his two sons led 30,000 Qin Wang's troops to the north to resist Jin.
After several days of fierce fighting, Zhang's father and son soldiers killed thousands of Jin soldiers. Then he entered Bianjing and defended the lonely city.
Bianshang Jingpo was broken, and Zhang Shuye was captured by Jin soldiers with the second emperor of Huiqin. After hunger strike, he hanged himself and died a heroic martyr......
"The city of Jeju is fifteen miles in circumference, with a wall nearly three zhang high and a moat more than four zhang wide, and there are 6,000 officers and soldiers in the city to defend it. If there are no 10,000 people, I am afraid that we will not be able to win, and the people will obey the order! ”
"In!" The brothers said in unison.
Song Jiang ordered loudly: "Flower monk Lu Zhishen, walker Wu Song, red-haired ghost Liu Tang, black whirlwind Li Kui, the four of you each lead two thousand infantry troops to attack the four gates of Jeju City at the same time, and Lu Zhishen will attack the east gate of the main attack." Leopard head Lin Chong, thunderbolt fire Qin Ming, nine-pattern dragon Shi Jin, did not block Mu Hong, the four of you each led a thousand horse troops as auxiliary attacks, and the Shenhuo general Wei Dingguo led a firearms battalion, and Yunli King Kong Song Wan led a strong crossbow battalion to help the main attack of the East Gate. The prodigal son Yan Qing and the little tanhua Song An led a thousand people to the surprise attack camp to support! Leopard head Lin Chong is the main general! ”
"Yes!" The generals shouted in unison.
"Provoke the banner of the Heavenly Path, kill the minister Zhang Shuye, and kill Jeju City!"
……
An army of more than 10,000 people rushed to Jeju City.
A flagpole was erected on a carriage at the front of the procession, and the apricot yellow flag on the pole "Walking for the Sky" swished in the early winter mountain wind.
Riding on a horse and walking with the army, Song An was very entangled.
Uncle Zhang's thing, if he doesn't beat him all over the ground to find teeth, and let him stink Liangshanbo's reputation, then in the future, Liangshan heroes will become rats crossing the street in this area, and everyone will shout and beat them, not to mention the development of hotels, hospitals and other industries to generate income and make money.
But if he really killed this guy, he still couldn't bear it.
As far as the country and the people are concerned, this guy is a real man with blood and backbone. Such people deserve to be revered.
But Dad and the heroes of Liangshan don't know and can't know Uncle Zhang's feat a few years later.
With the current strength, even if Jeju City is impregnable, it can be taken.
It was impossible for Song An to stop the attack of the heroes of Yangsan on Jeju City, and he could not stop it. For Uncle Zhang's night, the heroes of Liangshan don't want to eat his flesh and sleep his skin.
Let's act cheaply, if you can save it, you can save it, if you can't save it, you can't pull it down, anyway, Lao Tzu tried his best!
Since serving as the Jeju Taishou last month, Uncle Zhang has arranged for horses to be visited at various intersections outside the Yangsan Mountains, and he can know as soon as there is a disturbance in Yangsanpo.
When the Liangshan army had just come out of the mountain, Zhang Shuye received a report from Tanma.
On the one hand, he ordered the officers and troops defending the city to immediately step up the defense of the city, and on the other hand, he urgently appealed to the Privy Council for help for six hundred miles. At the same time, the people of the city were ordered to quickly evacuate from the city to avoid innocent people being implicated in the war.
There are tens of thousands of residents in Jeju City, how to evacuate after three or two hours, when the Yangsan army arrived, I saw the crowds under the gates of each city, under the command of the officials and soldiers, the villagers helped the old and the young to evacuate outside the city with large bags and small bags.
As soon as they saw the Liangshan army coming with a murderous aura of yellow dust in the sky, the villagers immediately panicked and rushed to the city gate together, and the situation immediately got out of control, when even many people were squeezed to the ground.
With no one to help them, and no way to help them, the people who were squeezed to the ground could only scream and let them be trampled by thousands of people, and eventually became a cold corpse......
Uncle Zhang, who was guarding the tower of the city gate, was anxious when he saw this scene, but he let him tear his throat and shout for the people to evacuate in an orderly manner, but no one responded.
Seeing that the Liangshan army was only a few hundred meters away from the city, he helplessly looked at the people under the city who were rushing out like a flood that burst the embankment, and roared at the Liangshan army: "Liangshan thieves, the two armies are fighting and the people have nothing to do!" If you haven't lost your conscience, let these innocent people go, and after they have completely withdrawn from the city, you will fight to the death with my Uncle Zhang! ”
"Wait for death, you birds!"
Li Kui was a killing machine, he rode on a horse and raised the two big plate axes in his hands, and rushed to Lin:
"Sect Leader Lin, while the city gate is open, we might as well go straight in! Kill Jeju City without leaving a piece of armor behind! ”
Wu Song, Lu Zhishen, Liu Tang and other generals also proposed to attack the city immediately.
Lin Chong raised his hand and shouted at Uncle Zhang Yeyao: "Uncle Zhang's old thief!" I, Liangshan, Bo for the heavens, this time I sent troops just to get rid of you, the thief who insulted my Liangshan's reputation, and not hurt the people! When the people in the city are withdrawn, I, Lin Chong, will take your dog's head again! ”
At this point, Song An still admires Lin Jiaotou very much, showing the majesty of a man is to show his sword when facing enemies and opponents, rather than bullying the weak, this is a real man and a real man!
And at this point, Li Kui's guy is far behind, he doesn't care if he kills people, whether you are old and weak, women and children.
It was also Uncle Zhang's move that made Song An firm in his desire to spare his life.
It's not that Song An himself is so compassionate and fraternal, it's just that he admires Uncle Zhang, the old dog, is a man and a real man. The big husband should be like this, that's it.
Looking at the people who swarmed out, Li Kui couldn't hold it back, and several times he held a plate axe and wanted to step forward to kill, but Lin Chong called him back.
Looking at the Liangshan army gathered three hundred meters outside the city, Uncle Zhang sighed at night: "I didn't expect that this group of Liangshan thieves still has some humanity. ”
An hour and a half later, the last of the people went out of the city.
The drawbridge was raised and the city gates closed.
Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, and Li Kui completed the encirclement.
Ten catapults and twenty bed crossbows of the firearms battalion and the crossbow battalion were at the head of the battle array, followed by infantry troops carrying ladders and shields, siege engines, and archers.
They were followed by infantry and horse armies with swords, guns, and shields in their hands.
Zhang Shuye divided the 6,000 soldiers and horses into four, 2,000 at the east gate, 1,000 each at the other three gates, and 1,000 at the mobile gate. In the face of nearly three times the enemy, he had no fear, and his soldiers and generals were all righteous and awe-inspiring. Armed with swords, guns, swords, and crossbows, he was ready for battle.
"Arrows and artillery fire in unison, kill Jeju City!"