Chapter 1376 The Green Forest is a hero, passing by the clouds

When Fang La, Chen Hoop, Fang Fei and other Manichaean leaders quickly gathered the cultists hiding near Bangyuan Cave, and in the process of rushing out to kill, they were successively intercepted and killed by Wu Jue, Wang Yuan and other Western army generals, and broke through the siege tragically, with heavy losses in soldiers and horses. Finally, under the encirclement and suppression of the forbidden army, Fang La, who led the Manichaean people in Jiangnan, was captured by the soldiers and horses under the command of Xin Xingzong, the defense envoy of Zhongzhou, and several leaders of the sect were also captured alive. During these days, during the encirclement and counter-encirclement battles near Bangyuandong, 70,000 Manichaeans were killed.

As for the other Manichaean leader who abandoned Runzhou and led the army to the south by sea, he turned to the southeast region to invade the state and seize the county, but when the official army was transferred to the expedition, he was defeated by the forbidden army of the Song general Yao Pingzhong at the mouth of Shixia, and then Lu Shisang joined with several Manichaean remnants and fled, but was pursued by the Song army to the area of Guillotine Mountain in Huangyan County, and Lü Shisang held on for several days, but was outflanked by the Song army, and killed by a surprise attack from a high place, and the sect members of Lü Shinang were killed and scattered. Zhen Kecun and Yang Zhen, the general of the department, wore heavy armor and rushed into battle, and after the battle, he captured Master Lu alive, and the remaining leaders of the twelve gods of Jiangnan under his command were also killed.

Fang La, along with his clan and his family members, was also taken to Bianliang in Tokyo to ask for the guilt, and naturally they were not allowed to be executed for the crime of rebellion, and the vigorous Jiangnan Manichaean uprising ended in failure.

The various departments of the Song Army, the Ma Bu Army, and the envoys in the army passed down military orders, taught the people to be captured by thieves, puppet officials, etc., and the rest of the thieves were beheaded by the local city Cao. Recruiting all the officials, they all set up a peace banquet in the Muzhou Governance Office, celebrating the generals and bureaucrats, rewarding the generals and colonels of the three armies, sending orders to the vanguard leaders, cleaning up the Chaojing, and passing down the military orders.

Together with Tong Guan, the commander of the conquest army, it was originally a period when the generals of the Song army who went to Jiangnan to conquer the Manichaean tribe were looking forward to going to Beijing to return to the dynasty and receiving rewards for their merits, but in the suburbs of Qingxi County, Muzhou, another accident occurred.

It turned out that there was a prostitute named Wang Jiaojiao living in a tile kiln outside the local county seat, and the old man of the village community to which the tile kiln belonged (the meaning of the leader of the village community) reported that a Manichaean thief named Du Wei had visited Wang Jiaojiao privately, not to hide and hide, but to ask for the money and silk that he had stored in the tile kiln when he privately raised Wang Jiaojiao, a prostitute. And the old man of the society immediately reported to the officials, and immediately there were also officials and soldiers who searched for the remnants of Manichaeism, and they really tracked down a few suspicious men and women in the border more than ten miles east of Qingxi County.

At that time, the two sides fought, and those thieves were also superb in martial arts, and the officers and soldiers who went to search for them could not resist the enemy, but after a simple fight, more than 1,000 soldiers and horses finally went to help. Finally, he killed two recalcitrant thieves, but the rest still had to flee.

The Muzhou government verified the true identity of the fugitive criminal, and summoned the captured Manichaeans to identify the identities of the two thieves who were killed, and someone immediately confessed.

As for the other fugitive Manichaean leader who died in battle, it turned out to be Fang Tianding, another son of Fang La, the leader of the anti-thief Kou.

Tong Guan, the prefect of Muzhou, the envoys of the official army, and even the commander of the official army of the various ministries were shocked when they heard the report, and immediately wrote a copy of the paper, issued a document for the urgent delivery of sea catch, sent the staff of the government of the prefecture to arrest the fugitive thieves, mobilized the generals and bureaucrats who were vying for the peace banquet to celebrate, and also ordered the people of the department to chase down the remnants of Manichaeism who were on the run.

It's just that it has been delayed for a few days at that time, and the men and women who are suspected of being the family members of the anti-thief Kou Shou Fang La's confidants have disappeared like a stone in the sea. A few days later, a large number of people from Wuyi Mountain on Fujian Road and Baiyun Mountain in Wenzhou also went to the seashore in batches, crossed the sea by boat, and went north by waterway

However, all the troops of the Western Army in the Bianting Courtyard who were ordered to come to conquer the Manichaeism in Jiangnan were reported to the Bianjing Dynasty according to their great and small military exploits. During this period, except for Tong Guan who summoned Yao Pingzhong, the little lieutenant of the Western Army, who had repeatedly made military exploits, there were some unscrupulous disputes between the two, and it seemed difficult for the court to make a conclusion about the soldiers and horses of Song Jiang's troops as rewards and punishments.

Compared with Xiao Tang, the co-owner of the Green Forest and Several Mountains, who has lived up to the emperor's grace and now gathered all roads to oppose the army and confront the imperial court, Song Jiang is already insignificant, and it is not enough to arouse the suspicion of the traitors in the DPRK and China. However, in addition to Su Yuanjing and other courtiers in the court, they were also deeply disgusted with such green forest powerhouses who were recruited by the imperial court as officials. In the previous battle, he was defeated by Xiao Tang several times, and now he was transferred to Jiangnan to quell the Manichaean bandits, which was a meritorious service, but Song Jiang led his troops and horses to intercept the leader of Manichaeism, Lu Shinang, but he did try his best to fight to the death, and his troops and horses also suffered heavy casualties

Originally, Song Jiang was only awarded the position of a nominal partial teacher, and he was not promoted to Pinjue, and the leading brothers under his command were all white-bodied. Now there is no high-ranking traitor and other power traitors to make an obstruction and provoke framing, and even Zhao Ji in the DPRK and the central government also read that if Song Jiang is rewarded, it is not in line with reason, but if he is held accountable for the defeat, Liangshan's gang of Zhao'an is indeed fighting to the death against Xiao Tang, collecting and suppressing Jiangnan, and bearing more hardships, which is the loss of most of the loss, if it is punished and punished, it seems that it does not show the emperor's compassion. However, during this period, Song Jiang seemed to have made up his mind, and when the class teacher returned to Bianjing, he wrote the above table and reported it to the official family

Fu Nianchenjiang and other foolish and mediocre talents, lonely and vulgar officials, committed boundless crimes, and were fortunate to receive great grace. How can the heavens and the earth be rewarded, and the broken bones are enough to be rewarded! The femur humerus tried his best to get out of the water to get rid of evil; Brothers are of one heart, loyal and righteous, and protect the country and the people. Jingdong Road fought against the Xiao Tang thief army, Yangzijiang tried his best to stop the Manichaean people, although he tried his best to die, how could he have repeatedly tasted defeat, overturned the army and killed the generals, ashamed to show the performance of micro merits, Nai Yuan lost his brother and sibling Jiang day and night, sorrowful at dusk, looking down on the grace of heaven, and bowing to the holy book, so that the dead were all blessed, and the living were sheltered. The number of dead is recorded and heard on the table. Chenjiang begs to return to the field, willing to be a farmer, and is a gift of His Majesty's benevolence. Chenjiang is invincible!

Song Jiang played like this, but also taught Zhao Ji to figure out how to place the remnants of the leaders under his command. Those who survived and were recruited by the imperial court, if they were awarded the title of knight, the one who taught their descendants, the inheritor of the official title, or the temple that was given to the emperor, there was no need to think about the sacrifice, Zhao Ji then waved the pen, approved the book, and preached to Song Jiang and other subordinates, but those who died in the king's affairs ordered the tombs to be sealed, and it was not without merit. Although Song Jiang gathered the thieves to commit crimes, he had his own reasons, and he also had the merit of leading his subordinates to return to obedience and abandon the darkness and turn to the light. Since recruiting An, he led the army to offset all kinds of war merits, and the holy grace was merciful, forgave the sin, and gave two hundred taels of gold and silver, ten tables of brocade, and the rest of the main and deputy generals, each gave one hundred taels of gold and silver, and five tables of colored satin, and the rest of the soldiers, gave fifty pieces of money and ten horses of silk, and each ordered to return to his hometown and serve as an errand for the people

In other words, the meaning of the imperial court is to tell Song Jiang that the leaders under your command who died fighting for the country will grant them a name, as for those of you who survived, there is no hope for being an official, and after some of your rewards, you will return to your own homes and return to good citizens, thinking that you should no longer be a big crime of gathering in the green forest and opposing the court.

After Song Jiang received the approval of the official family's decree, he also sighed in his heart, and the day when he traveled to Bianjing with his soldiers and horses was the day when he dispersed and returned to his hometown. On the day of parting, Song Jiang got drunk with the few remaining brothers who followed him, and the next day he and Song Qing and Li Kui carried the royal belongings, luggage, clothes, and rewards, and left Tokyo.

It's just that Songjia Village, Yuncheng County, Jeju, Jingdong Road, is very close to Shuibo Liangshan, and Song Jiang has fought against Xiao Tang after all. Even if Xiao Tang didn't come to look for him, I was afraid that Song Jiang would be worried that Liang Shanbo might not have anyone to settle old accounts with him, and Sha Mo would also sell his property and move to another place to settle down.

Except for Li Kui, who is still following Song Jiang and is willing to be a gang of idle, as for Wu Yong, Dai Zong, Dong Ping, Du Bao, Zhu Fu and others after being pardoned for their original sins, they are scattered everywhere and are temporarily missing.

When the Jiangnan Manichaean uprising led by Fang La still ended in annihilation, and the imperial court did not reward or punish Song Jiang, and dismissed the news of the remnant leaders and soldiers and horses under his command when it reached the side of Shuibo Liangshan on Jingdong Road, Xiao Tang felt it for a while, and also sighed, "The people of the time are hard to love fame, but they are afraid that the fame will not end, and Song Jiang has not been promoted and rewarded, but he will be hated and suspicious of the rights and wrongs of the rivers and lakes in the past, but in fact, for him, this can be regarded as a better destination, right?" ”