At the banquet, Zhu Yan was talking about the war on the edge of the Song River.

"Ming Gong, this Suzhou is Taihu Lake in the west, Jinji Lake in the east, and the north and south are plains, there is no danger to defend at all, the city wall has not been repaired for a long time, when it is stationed outside, and the defenders in the city echo each other, Wang Jiedu They use troops like this, and their subordinates are really worried." Zhu Yan whispered to Song Jiang.

Song Jiang glanced at the ten knots who got along well with Gao Yu and Suzhou officials in front of him, and said one by one, "Look at who these ten knots are."

Wang Huan is a subordinate of the old breed of Xianggong, Han Cunbao is the nephew of Han Wei Junwang, Yang Wen is a descendant of Tianbo Mansion, these people say that they are martial artists, but in fact they are related to the high gates of the imperial court, and they are really the same as us.

What's more, Fang La said that it was an army of 150,000, but in fact it was only 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers, Gao Taiwei had lost several battles in the first few battles, and retreated from Huzhou to Suzhou, and the people in Suzhou were already panicking, if he was stationed outside the city, wouldn't these people in the city worry about him running again? ”

Zhu Yan sighed, shook his head, and took a sip of wine.

At this time, a literati came over, toasted Song Jiang and asked, "In person, it is Shandong and timely rain, call Baoyi and Song Gongming?" ”

Song Jiang hurriedly stood up and replied, "The bad name and foolish voice have also entered the ears of Mr., I don't know who Mr. is?" ”

The literati smiled and said, "I am the Taiwei Xixi Wenhuanzhang." ”

Zhu Yan hurriedly saluted when he heard the name: "But Mr. Wen of Anren Village? In my early years, I read my husband's masterpiece, and I couldn't wait to ask for advice in person, but I didn't expect to meet here today. ”

Hua Rong is a clever person, got up and asked Wen Huanzhang to sit down, and went to get the bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses, Wen Huanzhang gave in modestly, sat down and said, "I'm ashamed, although I have a thin name, I can't roll the name in Donghuamen, if it weren't for Gao Taiwei's promotion, I wouldn't be able to sit in this position." ”

Song Jiang said, "That's because there are traitors in the court, otherwise Mr. Daxian should be in the forefront of a hundred officials." ”

Several people praised each other, and Wen Huanzhang asked, "I don't know if Lord Song knows anything about the situation of the thief army?" ”

Song Jiang shook his head and said, "Although I have heard of it, I don't know it. ”

Wen Huanzhang nodded and said, "This thief is the leader of the Ming Sect, this Ming Sect is also known as Manichaeism, originally from the Western Regions Buddhism, during the Tang Gaozong period, there was a rebellion of Chen Shuozhen of the Ming Sect, and then there was Wu Yi and Dong Yi in Chenzhou for five generations, and it has been passed down to this day for three or four hundred years. The believers are white-clothed and black-hatted, secretly form a society, and jointly worship the Ming envoy as the god of the church.

There is one sect leader in this Ming Sect, and there are saints, light envoys, four Dharma kings, eight scattered people, four parts of heaven and earth, wind and thunder, and hundreds of thousands of personnel, so there is the trend of burning the prairie today.

Today, outside the city of Suzhou, the handsome is one of the four great kings, the Houtu Tiger King Shibao. This man is good at wielding a big sword, and is familiar with the art of war, and he is the enemy of all people.

There are generals such as Sai Zhang Fei and Lu Shi Nang under his command, let me talk slowly. ”

Song Jiang heard Huanzhang's introduction before he knew the internal structure and personnel of the Ming Sect, and he also had some understanding of the combat power of the army under the city, and even more about Wen Huanzhang, and exclaimed, "Mr. knows Fang La well, and in this war, I still need more guidance from Mr. ”

Wen Huanzhang waved his hand modestly, and then said, "I said to Taiwei before, now Shibao is attacking Suzhou, Fang Qifo is attacking Jiaxing, and Fang Laju is living in Hangzhou, if there is an army that can fight well around Wuxi, Yixing and restore Changxing and Huzhou, then one can divide three places, and the other can surround the enemy of Suzhou and Jiaxing, but no one can go, I don't know what Lord Song thinks about this?" ”

Song Jiang and Zhu Yan glanced at each other, knowing that Wen Huanzhang actually hoped that they would take over the matter, the Huzhou region was among the three places, and if it was occupied, it would have a great impact on the entire battle situation, but then again, it was not easy to fall into the three-way encirclement of the Fang La army, if Gao Yu was sluggish in battle, what was waiting for Song Jiang would be besieged and died.

Just when Song Jiang was hesitating, Gao Yu came over with a wine glass and said to Song Jiang, "Lord Song, I was surprised and delighted to hear about your achievements in Yangzhou in Suzhou.

If there had been a talent like Lord Song, we would not have lost a few battles. ”

Song Jiang was taken aback when he heard this, and looked at the ten knots, only to see that the faces of the ten knots were gloomy, and he knew that it was not good.

"I really don't know that I have a good general like General Song." Wang Huan was the first to come out and hummed, "I just don't know what General Song's merits are?" ”

Song Jiang first toasted a glass of wine to everyone, and then said, "We don't dare to compare with the generals, we just want to serve the official family, and now the thieves are rampant, we will listen to the appointment of the captain, even if we are a man, there will be no complaints!" ”

Wen Huanzhang came out to play a round and said, "Taiwei, just now the student had a conversation with Lord Song, and found that Lord Song really has the ambition to serve the country. ”

Gao Yu laughed and said, "This is natural, otherwise the official family would not have sent Lord Song here to help, by the way, Mr. Wen, you said before that there is a strategy to break the thief, why not talk about it?" ”

Wen Huanzhang glanced at Song Jiang, and then said, "Now that the thief army is gathered in Suzhou, Jiaxing, and Hangzhou, if one of the generals leads the elite troops out of Yixing and restores Huzhou, the thief army will not be able to take care of the whole thing, and it will be chaos." ”

Gao Yu sighed, "The plan is a good plan, but it's a pity that there are no generals to send." ”

Song Jiang closed his eyes and thought for a while, and said, "The last general is invited to fight!" ”

"Oh? General Song is serious? Gao Yu asked with a smile.

"The last general will be able to open tomorrow, he will go to Changxing within seven days, and he will be in Huzhou within 20 days, and the last general will dare to make a military order!" Song Jiang shouted loudly.

"Good! Great! Gao Yu clapped his hands and smiled, "Come on, pen and ink are waiting!" ”

At this time, a person came out and said, "General Song is coming from Yangzhou to defeat the enemy, the thief must have known, if he doesn't show up and leave, I'm afraid the thief will be on guard." ”

Gao Yu nodded and said, "That makes sense." ”

Song Jiang said, "The last general will fight first tomorrow, and the thieves will not be suspicious." ”

Gao Yu said happily: "That's very good." ”

- The next day

Shi Bao of Suzhou Daying heard that a man and horse came out of Suzhou City and was challenging outside the wall, so he couldn't help but wonder, "Which of the ten knots?" How dare you fight? ”

Tanma replied, "Back to the big handsome, the Song army will call himself Weishan Lu Fang." ”

Shi Bao was overjoyed when he heard this, stood up and said to the left and right, "This Weishan Song Jiang, the former sect leader sent people to talk about the incident, but it didn't take long for him to be recruited, the sect leader wanted to kill him for a long time, but today he bumped into it, who dares to fight?" ”

The next one will be lined up: "The last will be wished!" ”

Shi Bao saw that it was Master Lu, nodded and said, "General Lu is going, this commander is naturally relieved, and this commander will press the formation for you." ”

Outside the camp, Lu Fang held Fang Tian's halberd, riding a war horse and galloping back and forth, and the foul words in his mouth sprayed out like Zhuge Lianba, after Lu Fang, Song Jiang took 10,000 soldiers and horses to press the formation, and Hua Rong, Cui Wenhua, Zhou Tong, Yang Lin and other more than ten leaders led the army.

Hearing only a burst of drums, Lu Shisang poured out of the camp with a soldier and horse.

Lu Shisang held up the Zhangba snake spear, and shouted loudly, "You wait for the Weishan Caokou, when you don't know the sky, you will go down to the faint monarch of the Dao, and you want to fight with us, I will kill you today!" Who went to take this guy's head? ”

A general slapped his horse out and shouted loudly, "Gao Ke stands here!" Come by common name! ”

Lu Fang shouted: "Weishan Lu Fang! ”

The two guns and halberds were raised at the same time, and they fought together, and there was no winner or loser in more than ten rounds.

That Gao Keli thought in his heart that this was the first battle with Weishan, and he must win, so he sold a flaw, dragged the spear upside down, and returned to the horse and left.

Lu Fang was overjoyed when he saw this, and shouted, "The thief will leave!" "Rushed forward, I didn't want Gao Keli to be a master of bows and arrows, holding a spear, secretly taking a carved bow, taking a hard arrow, dragging it all over, and shooting at Lu Fang's face with an arrow, Lu Fang couldn't dodge, ah, ah, fell off the horse.

Gao Keli wanted to cut off Lu Fang's head when he returned to the horse, but he didn't know how to annoy the first general of the Weishan army, and the general shouted, "Only when you can shoot arrows?" Before the words fell, the arrow was like a meteor, Gao Keli couldn't dodge, was shot in the forehead, and also fell off the horse.

Song Jiang and Lu Shisang shouted for help at the same time, and the two sides fought for a while, each injuring nearly a thousand soldiers and horses.

Back in Suzhou City, Song Jiang was overjoyed to learn that Lu Fang was only seriously injured, and let Lu Fang stay in Suzhou to recuperate, bid farewell to Gao Yu on his own, and prepared to kill Changxing non-stop by night.

Gao Yu was about to let go, but was stopped by Wen Huanzhang and said, "Lord Taiwei, that thief is not an ordinary person, if you come to fight next time, but you don't see a soldier under the command of Lord Song, wouldn't you be suspicious?"

Looking at it from below, it is better to let Lord Song leave a soldier and horse, and then order one or two people in the ten knots to supplement Lord Song's team. ”

Song Jiang frowned, this is to mix sand.

Gao Yu looked at Song Jiang and asked, "I don't know what Lord Song thinks?" ”

Song Jiang said hehehe: "Listen to the order of the captain." ”

Gao Yu said, "I heard that Lord Song has a general under him, surnamed Hua Mingrong, known as Xiao Li Guang, with him, I think the thieves will think that Lord Song is in the city." ”

"Brother Hua Rong?" Song Jiang exclaimed.

"Such a general, I'm afraid Lord Song is also reluctant, it's okay, I sent Xu Jing, Li Congji, and Mei Zhan to lead 6,000 troops to help you, and I think I can make up for the loss of your department's combat strength." Gao Yu said with a smile.

Xu Jing, Li Congji, and Mei Zhan were out at the same time, and without waiting for Song Jiang to speak, they said to Gao Yu, "Obey the order of the Taiwei General!" ”

After speaking, several people looked at Song Jiang together, a layer of fine sweat broke out on Song Jiang's forehead, and he pretended to smile and said, "Obey the order of the Taiwei General!" ”

——

"Brother Huarong, these two thousand brothers all came out of Weishan with us, and they will be handed over to you, Shibao's martial arts are extraordinary, and there are many good generals under his command, so you can't underestimate it.

Taiwei and the others have some misunderstandings about us, you are in the city, remember to bear with us. For the brother..."

Outside the gate of Suzhou, Song Jiang held Hua Rong's hand, tears flowed straight down, and Hua Rong was also tearful when he saw it, and said with relief, "There are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Suzhou, and there are ten knots to guard, the younger brother is safe here, only the elder brother is fighting in the south, the sword and gun have no eyes, the younger brother is not around, the elder brother should be more careful." ”

The two of you say a word, I say a word, as if they are a couple who are about to separate, and the three of Xu Jing who are watching it next to them are also a little moved.

"Big brother, I didn't expect this Song Gongming to be so affectionate and righteous." Mei Zhan said with a sigh.

Xu Jing nodded and said, "Known as timely rain, nicknamed Hu Baoyi, there is really no vanity under the fame." ”

Song Jiang took the soldiers and horses of the headquarters and the 6,000 men and horses of the Xu Jingqian brothers about 20,000 people, and came to Changxing City around Taihu Lake, Zhu Yan used gold, silver, grain and grass as bait to deceive the main force of Changxing guard Qian Zhenpeng, Xu Jing's three brothers were on the left, Cui Wenhua and other generals were on the right, covering up on both sides, and killing the two generals of Jin Jie and Xu Ding on the spot, so frightened that Qian Zhenpeng did not dare to defend the city and fled to Huzhou.

Song Jiang rectified for a day, leaving 1,000 soldiers and horses to defend the city in preparation for the remnants of the army, and continued to kill Huzhou with the remaining soldiers and horses.

But Song Jiang's rectification of the soldiers and horses of this day, has made Huzhou on guard, Huzhou guard is Gong Wen, he has less than 3,000 soldiers and horses, and most of them are logistics firehead army, knowing that the Song army killed from Changxing, hurriedly defended the city, and sent people to send a letter to Shi Bao and Fang Qifo.

Shi Bao was shocked when he heard the news, and he was afraid that he would lose the way back, so he sent Lu Shisang back to help.

Lu Shisang offered a plan: "This is the plan of the Song army to encircle Wei and save Zhao, since this is the case, why not plan it?" ”

When Shi Bao heard this, he felt reasonable, so he let the army pretend to be panicked, and sent reliable people to Suzhou to surrender.

Gao Yu of Suzhou was overjoyed when he learned that Song Jiang had been killed in Huzhou and Shi Bao's army had been in chaos, and smiled at Hua Rong, "General Song is really the dry city of the country, and I will ask for credit for you one day." ”

Wen Huanzhang felt that something was wrong and said, "Lord Taiwei, that Shi Bao and I have also fought several times, and he is a general who is familiar with the art of war, not to mention that Huzhou has not been restored by our army, even if it is really restored, he should retreat slowly, how can he be so flustered?" I'm afraid this is his trick. ”

Gao Yu was defeated by Shi Bao a few times, and was about to take revenge, but he did not agree with Wen Huanzhang's suggestion, but smiled and said, "It seems that Mr. Wen, like other scholars, likes to be indecisive, and as a general, he must be decisive!" Pass me on the order! When the thieves retreat, cover up the past immediately! ”

Shi Bao saw Gao Yu's plan, first lost three battles in a row, lost Qizhai, until he led Gao Yu to a depression in Wujiang, this place is full of lakes and swamps, Shi Bao's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses surrounded from all directions, Gao Yu saw the plan, anxious and angry, fortunately Wang Huan and others were killed, opened the horse and opened the road, only to kill a bloody road escaped.

Shi Bao was reluctant to let Gao Yu go back, so that the three armies chased together, when he was about to arrive in Suzhou City, a soldier and horse were killed, intercepted Shi Bao, and was the first to be a silver-armored white horse, first to pick the general Zhuo Wanli under the account of Lu Shisang, and another arrow to kill the partial general Yan Yong, and then an arrow, the banner of Lu Shibao was shot down, frightened; Lu Shisang didn't dare to chase anymore, and when he asked later, he learned that it was the first general of Weishan, Xiao Li Guanghuarong.

Gao Yu went back to count the men and horses, and found that he had lost more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and folded Xiang Yuanzhen and Wang Wende, two generals, ashamed and ashamed, and cried, only Hua Rong was worried, this Shibao did not besiege Suzhou again, but went back to Huzhou, and I don't know if Song Jiang can stop it.