When Xiao Tang and his entourage returned to the official army camp from Tongtian Gorge and Tongtian Lake, they also escorted Fang Xuedu and several small leaders of the thieves. Fang Xuedu didn't expect that the green forest thieves along the road to Taihang Mountain would really meet with the envoy sent by the official army and hand him over.

But Fang Xuedu didn't have the heart to scold Fu Xuan and others now, obviously they were also strongmen who fell into the grass, but they disregarded the morality of the rivers and lakes, and were intimidated by the officials and soldiers and betrayed their fellow people in the rivers and lakes. When he learned that it was Xiao Tang who came to escort him, who was in charge of the power to pacify Hedong, he immediately knelt down to report to Xiao Tang that if Xiao Renxia asked questions, even if he tried the villain, the villain should know everything and say everything.

Now Fang Xuedu's mood has changed very quickly, in the past, he followed Tian Hu to do evil, so he thought about how to gather the officials and soldiers to try to stumble, but now that he has been captured by the government, he immediately wants to betray other strongmen under Tian Hu's command, so that the government can open the net and pardon him for the capital crime that should have been beheaded or even Ling Chi.

Although this guy is a wall-to-wall grass, he can really be used in this situation.

Because Fang Xuedu was ordered by Tian Hu to rush to the south of Hedong Road to join the strongmen, because he knew very well about the areas where strong people flowed in several military states on the southeast side of the river, such as Gaizhou, Jiangzhou, Jinzhou, Cizhou, etc., the number of soldiers and horses, and even the hidden cottages of the thieves.

When Fang Xuedu was taken down and guarded again, Yao Pingzhong hugged his arms in the tent, and he said to Xiao Tang leisurely: "Xiao Jieshuai, that gang can be spared for the time being, and the thief who may be able to get the court's forgiveness in the future has already let him go, and now what should be done with the grass coward who follows Tian Hu and creates great evil?" ”

Xiao Tang smiled faintly, and a resolute and ruthless attitude gradually emerged in his eyes, and said: "Since it is full of evil, of course it is unforgivable!" ”

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Longjiao Mountain, which is located at the intersection of the three military states of Jiang, Gai and Jin, is named after two natural peaks, so it is called Erfeng Mountain again.

This mountain was called Sheephorn Mountain before the Tang Gaozu Wude years, according to legend, there were two sages named Sheephorn Decline, Zuo Botao originally married to Chu, but when they traveled long distance to this mountain it was the cold winter of Layue, the two were thinly dressed, and there was little ration left, Zuo Botao committed suicide and martyrdom, leaving all the clothes and dry food to the sheep's horn decline, leaving regrets to encourage the sheep's horn decline to focus on major events. Sheep's horn decay has been reused in the Chu State, just when he became famous, the sheep's horn decay that should have enjoyed the glory and wealth resolutely returned to this mountain, and committed suicide in his own righteous brother at present, and the two of them have been willing to live and die together when they are married, and the descendants will name this place Sheephorn Mountain in order to mourn the martyrdom of the sheep's horn decay for friends.

Although this mountain has changed its name in the Tang Dynasty, some strongmen and bandits have also heard allusions about this mountain, but in ancient times, the good story of the sage who died for righteousness changed its flavor in the green forest, and many grass robbers chose to gather in this place in order to show their righteousness. It was originally a place to praise the ancestors who did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives to defend the road for friendship and faith, but now it has become a poor mountain and bad water where bandits are rampant, and the people in the surrounding areas are mostly beaten and robbed by strongmen.

The evil tiger village in the mountains is surrounded by dangerous peaks, and if you want to reach the village, you must take the Pantuo trail, so even if there are a large number of officers and soldiers, it is very difficult to find the hiding place of the strongman. At this time, Lu Zhen, the owner of the cottage, looked depressed, and walked to his bedroom with his arms slumped. The rag wrapped around his left arm was soaked in red, obviously injured.

Originally, this Lu Zhen was nicknamed the nine-headed bird, he was eight feet long, extremely brave, and good at making a cooked copper nine-section chain stick, and 100 people could not approach him. To say that Lu Zhen was still a strong man who had resisted bandits, in the early years, several villages around Longjiao Mountain were broken by thieves, and Lu Zhen helped the same thief patrol to arrest him. After only three or five days, he was captured by Lu Zhen and killed the thief, smashed the nest and destroyed the hole, and wiped out the strong man. Later, Lu Zhen became famous, and he was also made a head by the county government.

It's just that Lu Zhen became more and more arrogant and arrogant, and later Tian Hu led the thieves to make chaos everywhere, and Lu Zhen saw that the official army could not be counted on, and it was difficult to stop the thief army independently, and instead occupied the Longjiao Mountain Evil Tiger Village that he exterminated that year.

At this time, Lu Zhen found out that he was a robber who didn't think about good and evil, and only cared about killing people casually, but he was also unbridled and happy, and he killed him with a knife when he saw which birdman, and he caught and enjoyed it when he saw it, and he was the head of the county government who reached out and asked for money, how could he feel such a happy life that could kill and take away?

Originally, Fang Xuedu and Fan Yuming also asked him to join Tian Hu, and Lu Zhendang, who was unwilling to live in a cottage on the border of Jinzhou, decided to help Tian Hu do great things. Murder and arson of the gold belt, if most of the state capitals in the south of Hedong Road can cede land and build a country, and they can kill people, rob money, and prostitute themselves, and be extremely happy, and they can also mix with the founding fathers and court officials to do it, wouldn't this be a big deal?

It's just that since some time ago, Lu Zhen faintly felt that something was wrong, and promised to lead him to join Tian Hu, Fang Xuedu and Fan Yuming, but now there is no news, and several new fierce officers and troops have been added to the borders of Jinzhou and Gaizhou.

Originally, Lu Zhen also planned to go out of the mountains to rob the surrounding counties, towns and villages according to the original means, but he happened to bump into an official army all the way, and after a fierce fight between the two sides, Lu Zhen, who was originally from the brave martial arts, found that his minions could not resist the group of officers and soldiers who were like wolves and tigers. Lu Zhen, who suffered a big loss, led the remnants to flee back to the evil tiger village in Longjiao Mountain, thinking that even if the officials and soldiers were unstoppable, but they only had to hide in the cottage by relying on the dangerous location of the mountain, and it was expected that it would be very difficult for the officers and soldiers to even find their hiding place, how could they easily break it?

However, now the imperial court seems to have noticed that the bandits on Hedong Road are rampant, and the officials and troops who have recently left for the left are far better at fighting than those weak generals in Hedong at that time.

Lu Zhen is a two-faced and three-sword temperament, and he said that he was defeated in the previous time, just because he was outnumbered, but relying on my martial arts to guard the key terrain, I only need to show my skills in front of the officials and soldiers, if the government has the heart to recruit peace...... You might as well just give in for a while. At that time, whether I am an official or a thief, it is all up to my own wishes, and it is said that trees will die and people will live, so that not only can I keep myself well, but I can still live very happily in the future.

Just as Lu Zhen was thinking, a minion in the village came to report to him: "Brother, the leader of Fang Xuedu has led a group of soldiers and horses to come to our big village. ”

Lu Zhen frowned, and scolded: "This guy said that he was going to take our brothers to defect to Tianhu, just waiting to collect a few more strongmen and horses, but Lao Tzu waited for a while and didn't see any movement!" Now that the officers and soldiers are arrested, this birdman has come to the door again! ”

However, Lu Zhen thought to himself that it was still unknown whether Tian Hu would succeed or not, and with the gathering of strongmen from all walks of life, not only could he fight against the officials and troops to the end, but it would also be more convenient for him to play his own worth, whether it was against Tian Hu or the government.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhen snorted coldly and said: "That's it, since we have promised that guy to go to Tianhu to do a big thing, we must also be true to our words in the green forest." Go and let him and the men into the village, and then teach him to come to the hall to meet me!" ”

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Lu Zhen, a character who has appeared in both the original book and Mei's collection of "Water Margin", has a rough reference to the nickname, origin, martial arts, temperament and other settings from the ancient book Water Margin......