Chapter 261: The Three Mountains Join Forces
Let's say that when Ma Ling went south to Runing, Hu Yanzhuo was walking alone on the road to Qingzhou Mansion.
The 9,000 army, as well as the 3,000 serial armored horses that he was proud of, could not have imagined that the entire army would be wiped out in half a day, and he didn't even have time to bury the pot and cook.
Along the way, Hu Yanzhuo reflected for days, and he finally came to the conclusion that he was underestimating the enemy. From the imperial court to himself, he took it for granted that Liangshan was just a manor, nothing more than some Zhuang Ding nursing homes, and at most it was a net of some people from the rivers and lakes. In fact, when he received the order from the imperial court, he thought that the soldiers and horses of the headquarters would be enough, so he brought Han Tao and Peng Xi, but he had the intention of letting the two friends share some credit. Who would have thought that this manor would hide such a powerful strength. Those Zhuang Ding can't see anything special in the first match, but the ability to form a formation in an instant and run without chaos when counterattacking, in the current army, Hu Yanzhuo can't imagine that team has the ability to do this. What's even more surprising is that there are so many strong generals in this manor, he is conceited and extraordinary, but among the three people who directly fight, none of them can win. And Han Tao and Peng Xi are not incompetent, they were both captured. There are so many masters from this small manor, and even Lin Chong and Xu Ning, who are brave generals in the DPRK, are also in the opposing camp.
Hu Yanzhuo thought about it and was a little confused, he felt that this defeat was not just as simple as underestimating the enemy.
In the road for a few days, I didn't realize that I was on the periphery of Qingzhou, but the disaster was not a single line, this night when Hu Yanzhuo stayed in the roadside Yedian, the royal kicking snow black horse was stolen by the strongman of Peach Blossom Mountain, and he had no choice but to go to Qingzhou to find Murong Yanda and then say.
Let's say that since Qin Ming and Huang Xin left Qin Ming and Huang Xin in Qingzhou City last year, the imperial court did not send capable generals to take over, and there were already many bandits under Qingzhou's rule, but now they are even more rampant.
Originally, there were three cottages, namely Peach Blossom Mountain, Qingfeng Mountain, and Erlong Mountain, but at the end of last year, the Qingfeng Mountain bandits were surrounded and annihilated by Gu Haotian and Qingfeng Village, and the three leaders led a few cronies to go with Song Jiang, and only two mountains remained in the three mountains. But at the beginning of the year, Song Jiang's two apprentices, Kong Ming and Kong Liang, killed a rich man in his hometown, and also gathered people to go to Baihu Mountain and fall into the grass, so there were three mountains.
When Hu Yanzhuo arrived in Qingzhou City, he happened to encounter a military incident. It turned out that Kong Bin, the uncle of the brothers of the Kong family, the leader of the bandits in Baihu Mountain, lived in Qingzhou City and was arrested and imprisoned by the Murong prefect. Kong Ming and Kong Liang deceived the soldiers in Qingzhou City, so they raised all their men to attack the city.
That Murong Yanda had no plan to retreat from the enemy these days, and when he was frowning, he suddenly heard Hu Yanzhuo's visit, and he couldn't help but wonder, isn't this person attacking Liangshan? But someone else invited him in. After the two met and sat down, Hu Yanzhuo said the process of the battle of Liangshan. Murong Yanda couldn't imagine that Liang Shan had such strength, he was first shocked when he heard it, and then he was overjoyed, thinking that this was not a helper sent to the door? Then he spoke:
"Although the general broke a lot of soldiers and horses this time, it is not a crime of slow work, and there is nothing to be done about the thief's plan, and the ground under the jurisdiction of the lower official is mostly violated by grass bandits, and now the brothers of the Confucius family in Baihu Mountain are attacking our state city. The general temporarily led the troops here, first retreated from the grass outside the city, and then swept the peach blossom mountain, recaptured the imperial horse, and then arrested the Erlong Mountain. ”
Hu Yanzhuo was naturally grateful when he heard it, and even swore that he should serve his death to repay his virtue. In the afternoon of the same day, the brothers of the Confucius family in Baihu Mountain brought troops to attack again, and Hu Yanzhuo immediately rode a blue-maned horse and led 2,000 horses out of the city to meet the battle. The brothers of the Kong family didn't know the depth of the people, and when they saw that Zhou Qingcheng, who was afraid of fighting behind closed doors in the past, suddenly came out with a sign of people, thinking that they were coming to send them to death, Kong Ming shot them at that time. However, this apprentice of Song Jiang was the opponent of the descendants of famous generals in Hedong, and before he was twenty he, Kong Ming was captured alive. Then Hu Yanzhuo drove troops to cover up and kill, and the bandits of Baihu Mountain scattered and fled, and they collapsed in an instant.
Murong Yanda was on top of the city tower, witnessing Hu Yanzhuo's extraordinary bravery, hundreds of grass robbers were driven away in just a moment of incense, and he was overjoyed for a while, and since then he has been treated as a guest, and let him lead thousands of horse infantry troops to sweep the grass robbers in Peach Blossom Mountain, Erlong Mountain and other places.
Li Zhong, Zhou Tong of Peach Blossom Mountain, Deng Long of Erlongshan and others are naturally not Hu Yanzhuo's opponents, and they have all been defeated in several battles, and everyone is in danger for a while.
And because of the defeat of the city that day, Baihu Mountain was not taken seriously by the officers and soldiers, but was at peace for a while. After Kong Liang fled from Qingzhou City in a hurry, there were only dozens of cronies left around him, and when he was sad, he suddenly remembered his master Song Jiang in Black Pine Ridge, so he ordered his cronies to collect the remnants of the army to defend Baihu Mountain, and rushed to Black Pine Ridge to find the master to move the rescue soldiers.
Let's say that after Song Jiang and others left Qingzhou last year, they took Yan Shun, Zheng Tianshou, Wang Ying, Hua Rong, and more than 100 remnants of Qingfeng Village to Heisongling. Chao Gai is a grateful person, so he took him in without saying a word, and let him sit in the second position. And this Hei Saburo will toss, for several months on the grounds of supplementing the cottage money and food, with people often go down the mountain to solicit some small cottages, and gradually gather more than 1,000 people, and also recruited the flying Yaksha Qiu Xiaoyi, pig iron Buddha Cui Daocheng These two scum, the leader and minions who are close to the Black Pine Ridge, have greatly exceeded Chao Gai's manpower, and the influence in the cottage has faintly overshadowed Chao Gai's momentum. It is also thanks to Wu who used wit to unite Liu Tang, Yang Lin and others, and maintain Chao Gai's prestige everywhere.
On this day, Kong Liang, who had been traveling for several days and nights, rushed to Heisongling, and when he saw Song Jiang, he wept bitterly and asked Song Jiang to send troops to save his brother for revenge. And Song Jiang is now unable to be the master of his own house because he is in Chao Gai's territory, but this time is a wonderful opportunity, so he cried and begged in front of Chao Gai. Chao Gai, a loyal and upright person, could not bear such a scene, so he ignored the opposition of Wu Yong and others, raised all the cottage troops, and went to Qingzhou.
After several days of hurrying, the team arrived at Baihu Mountain in a short time, at this time when Peach Blossom Mountain and Erlong Mountain were in pain when they were attacked by Hu Yanzhuo, this Song Jiang was shrewd, and he immediately sent troops to rescue. Although Hu Yanzhuo is strong, the tiger is difficult to fight the wolves, and Hua Rong, Liu Tang, and Chao Gai all have good martial arts, but they can't take advantage of several battles, and they are gradually forced back to the city. Because of this, Song Jiang was vigorously sought after by Li Zhong, Zhou Tong, Deng Long and others, and the name of timely rain was unique among the people in Qingzhou for a while.
On this day, Song Jiang held a banquet on Baihu Mountain, invited the leaders of Peach Blossom Mountain and Erlong Mountain to discuss the attack on Qingzhou City, Li Zhong and Deng Long surrounded Song Jiang to flatter and flatter, and there were countless praises, but he was very proud, but Chao Gai was left out and no one cared.
"Straight lady thief, we worked hard to come to the rescue, but we have fulfilled the fame of the black guy, so that it is easy to teach people to be noisy, Mr. Jia Liang, and talk to Brother Chao Gai, let's go back to Black Pine Ridge."
Liu Tang really looked unconvinced, and quietly found Wu Yong and said.
"I'm afraid that he will get in the way of his feelings and don't want to do it."
In today's situation, Wu Yong naturally understands that Song Jiang has a large number of soldiers and has become the actual leader, and at this time, when the troops are divided, Song Jiang's people will definitely say that his belly is too small, and Chao Gai is a loyal and upright person, and he will definitely not allow it.
Liu Tang also knew that this road was impassable, and he was depressed for a while. Wu Yong told him to carefully protect the safety of Chao Tianwang, and he would take a look in advance.
Let's say that after a feast that day, Song Jiang mentioned the matter of the three mountains joining forces to attack Qingzhou City, and everyone has been suffering from the officers and soldiers recently, and at this time they have the opportunity to vent their anger, and they are all gearing up. Song Jiang pretended to push Chao Gai to be the leader, but before Chao Gai could speak, Deng Long said with the strength of wine, if we talk about going into battle, we will only serve Brother Gongming. As soon as this remark came out, it was immediately responded to by Zhou Tong and Kong Liang.
Chao Gai had no intention of being the leader, but he was a little embarrassed by Deng Long and others, but fortunately, he was not scheming, so he said at that time that he was capable of resourcefulness and incompetence, and only the charge was the most suitable. Song Jiang pushed for a while, and then pushed the boat down the river.
In the scene, Liu Tang and Yang Lin were angry and didn't dare to speak, Wu Yong just watched coldly, and there was another person in the seat, who didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, just drank stuffy wine, and this person was Hua Rong. In the past few days, as Song Jiang's subordinates have increased, he has gradually reduced his reliance on Hua Rong, and Hua Rong, a person who is clean and arrogant by nature, can get together with characters like Wang Ying, Cui Daocheng, and Qiu Xiaoyi, so he is becoming more and more incompatible.
The next day, Song Jiang gathered three or four thousand people from the three mountains and rode three or four thousand people, and drove to the outside of Qingzhou City. Murong Yanda panicked again, and he hurriedly summoned Hu Yanzhuo to discuss countermeasures.
"General, the grass is menacing, but what should I do?"
"It doesn't matter, the grass and the thieves are all rabble, as long as they hold on to the city, and then let people transfer reinforcements to neighboring states and counties, the thieves will retreat."
Although Hu Yanzhuo was outnumbered, he was quite confident in defending the city, Murong Yanda listened to his heart, and the two agreed on a rescue strategy, and Hu Yanzhuo immediately took more than a thousand steps to ride out of the city to meet the enemy.
Let's say that when the Sanshan coalition army was showing off its might outside the city, it suddenly heard the sound of cannons in the city, and then the city gate opened a sign of men and horses, and the first member of the tiger general was Hu Yanzhuo, only to see him riding forward and shouting:
"If your subordinates are defeated, who dares to fight with the master?"
There was no answer from the leaders of the three mountains in front of the formation, Song Jiang couldn't help but be embarrassed for a while, he looked around, and asked in a deep voice:
"That brother dares to meet the enemy?"
But he saw that Cui Daocheng smiled and said: "King Huangtian's martial arts are strong, and he has no defeat against that guy in the past, so he just took the lead." ”
Liu Tang and Wu Yong were furious when they heard this, but Huang Gai couldn't shirk it, so they said:
"I'll go to my own house to meet this guy!"
After saying that, the two of them fought together in one place, but after only fifty or sixty times, Chao Gai gradually became overwhelmed, but none of the leaders of the three mountains stepped forward to respond.
"Straight thieves, a gang of rape and slippery birds, what kind of heroes are called heroes in vain!"
Liu Tang scolded angrily and rode his horse away, and Hua Rong was about to go out, but seeing Liu Tang rushing ahead, he knew that he was not an opponent, so he took out his bow and arrow and was secretly on guard.
In the battlefield, Hu Yanzhuo had already won the battle, and at this time, he saw that the other party had killed another person, but he was unwilling to let go of the opponent in front of him, and a pair of water-mill eight-sided steel whips swept away. Chao Gai was just when he was timid, and when he saw two whip shadows coming fiercely, and when he hurriedly dodged, he was whipped in the right shoulder, and he saw his body shake and fall off the horse. Hu Yanzhuo saw that he was overjoyed and raised his whip to take his life, but at this critical juncture, he saw an arrow shadow galloping, and he hurriedly waved the whip to block him. In an instant, Liu Tang urged the horse to arrive, Hua Rong also raised his gun and went out of the battle, and Hu Yanzhuo saw that there was no more chance to collect his troops and go back to the city.
However, there was a rush in front of the Sanshan coalition army, Liu Tang escorted Chao Gai back to the formation, and Yang Lin and Wu Yong hurriedly stepped forward to help him dismount. Then Song Jiang also walked over quickly at this time, and asked with concern:
"My brother is injured there, why don't you be careful, if you don't have the ability to fight the enemy, you should retreat!"
"The Lord of the Song League has countless strong generals, why didn't he send someone to answer earlier, but let his brother be in danger alone!"
Liu Tang said a word, and Wu Yong and others supported Chao and went back to their camp without looking back.
Song Jiang hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Brother Chao Gai's injury is actually sudden, who is not heartbroken in the family, but Brother Liu Tang is overstated. ”
These words were said frankly, but the black face was not ashamed at all, and the people around him were all complimented.
Let's say that Hua Rong just returned to the horse and stood in front of him, looking at the ugly drama in front of him, he only felt cold in his heart.