"Since the establishment of our Liangshan Manor, we have always done benevolent and chivalrous things, and you will know this as long as you inquire about it a little time on the rivers and lakes. Now our manor has taken in all the persecuted and homeless people, including the Hebei refugees, the Jianghuai disaster victims, the Jingdong hungry people, and the innocent people who are oppressed by the government. I said it's useless, if you have time to walk around the manor, you can see that the Houshan Market is not far from here, and you can go there later. ”

"But why do those officials in the court say that we are grass cowards? For we are not doing what they want! Hebei border troubles, Jianghuai floods, spring famine in Jingdong, displaced people, disaster victims, hungry people, life and death, what are these officials doing? They took the opportunity to hoard grain and raise prices, so as to forcibly seize the people's fertile land and forcibly seize the people's children. You are all sons of poor people, and I believe that everyone knows this and has experienced this. However, what our manor did was to take in and provide for these displaced people, disaster victims, and hungry people, although what we did was limited, but it had touched their interests, so these people said that we were grass cowards. ”

Gu Haotian stopped when he said this, but the officers and soldiers fell into deep thought, they all came from the bottom of the society, and they had experienced these tragic things to some extent. The second strong son thought of the girl who was sold in the disaster year, and he couldn't help but burst into tears.

What's more, these officials and gentlemen have done misdeeds, sought money and killed people, but reversed black and white to criminalize the victims, assassinate and kill them, and their behavior is despicable and unspeakable. I don't know if you have heard the name Lin Chong, he is the head of the 100,000 forbidden army in Tokyo, the disciple of Zhou Tong, the hero of Kansai, such a great husband, but because he was the son of Gao Yu, the captain of the court, he fell in love with his daughter-in-law, and was forced to match Cangzhou, and sent people to take his life again and again, all of them are men of flesh and blood, I ask you, if you encounter such an encounter, can you endure it? ”

"I can't bear it!"

A group of officers and soldiers were immersed in Gu Haotian's narration, and suddenly they asked and immediately roared.

"Such a shame that any big husband can't bear it! This Lin sect leader later led his family to the capital, and now he is in our manor. One of the reasons why Gao Taiwei wants you to requisition my manor this time is that he wants to take this Lin sect leader to justice. Do you think it's worth working for such an evil official? ”

"As the descendants of Yan and Huang, we should shed blood and work hard for our relatives, for our homeland, and for the Han family, how can we be driven by these corrupt officials and corrupt officials!"

After Gu Haotian finished speaking, the entire tent was silent. For a long time, the second and second strong man suddenly asked:

"This Langjun, I want to join Liangshan Manor, do you want to take it in?"

"Close! As long as it is a bloody man, we will take it in, and not only yourselves, but also all those who have families. ”

The captives in the tent had already thought about and had the intention to surrender, and they were worried about the safety of their families.

Moreover, Han Tao and Peng Xi have not been restrained since they went to Liangshan, and the two of them thought about it all night without sleep, and this morning they were thinking about a group of subordinates, so they went to the prisoner camp to visit, and they also heard the noise in this tent and rushed over, and just watched the whole process, and the two were really shocked. For a while, they all thought of what Lin Chong said last night, and suddenly felt that it was really not worth it to work hard for that Gao Taiwei, and thought that the future of returning from defeat was uncertain, so they all had the idea of returning to obedience. At this time, Gu Haotian came out of it, looked at each other, and then knelt down together, and said:

"We are deeply guilty of being deceived and aided by the authoritarian traitors, and now we are willing to return to Liangshan Manor to atone for our sins, and ask the petty officials to take them in."

"The two generals looked at Liangshan, and they couldn't help but be overjoyed."

Gu Haotian couldn't think of the words in the tent, but he reaped an unexpected joy, and hurriedly helped the two of them up.

At this time, Xiao Jiasui also heard the news, and after hearing it, he congratulated him again. Gu Haotian explained his misunderstanding of setting up the treatment point in the prisoner camp, and asked him to organize the prisoners to visit the scene in the Houshan Market to understand the truth. Then he asked Han Tao and Peng Xi to go back to Zhonghua Hall to talk together, but he didn't want the two of them to voluntarily stay to help with the prisoners and persuade them to surrender, Gu Haotian naturally couldn't ask for it.

In the afternoon of the same day, Xiao Jiasui organized more than 2,000 captives to visit the Houshan market and the guard barracks, and these people learned about the living conditions of the people of Liangshan on the spot, felt the military discipline and military prestige of the escort team, and the income of equipment, and the leading role of the two generals.

Immediately, the Civil Affairs Department, the Military Administration Department, and the Intelligence Department selected reliable personnel from among the surrendered personnel, and accompanied by the manors of the estate, they went to various places to collect their families.

Runing Mansion is located in the south of Jingbei Road, a large city in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and a large part of the soldiers and horses who went to Liangshan this time came from this place, so there were many people who returned to Runing to receive their families.

Let's say that in Runing City, in front of the mansion of Hu Yanzhuo, a Taoist priest came to this day, and I saw him arrive at the gatehouse and hand over a letter, and after only a moment, someone hurriedly came over and invited him in.

And this Taoist priest is Ma Ling, the new deputy director of the intelligence department of Liangshan Manor, when the surrendered officers and soldiers returned to their hometowns to pick up their families, Gu Haotian knew that Hu Yanzhuo would not dare to return to Beijing, and he said that he would go to Qingzhou, so he agreed with Wen Huanzhang and others on a plan. Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian imitated the handwriting and seal of Huyan Zhuojun's Chinese book, wrote a family letter, and sent Ma Ling to Runing to trick his family to the manor, and then forced him to go up the mountain.

This Ma Ling took the letter and related tokens, and only a few days after he used his body to arrive in Runing, and after exploring Hu Yanzhuo's residence, he went to submit the letter according to the plan, not wanting it to work. At this time, he followed his subordinates to the back hall, but saw a woman in her early thirties sitting in the hall, and an old servant in her fifties standing next to her, both of whom looked anxious.

It turned out that the two of them got the book at the right time, but after reading it, it was a letter written by their own master, saying that the army was defeated in Jeju, and now they have returned to Yangsan Manor, and they are afraid that Gao Taiwei and others will harm their families, so they brought the letter to get Yangsan for reunion.

The two of them were in a hurry, and hurriedly summoned the Taoist priest who had delivered the letter in, and when they saw him coming from the hall, and after taking a seat for tea, the woman asked anxiously:

"Daoist, where did this letter come from?"

"In Xia Ma Ling, he is a friend of Gu Haotian, a petty official in Liangshan Manor, who happened to visit friends in the manor recently, and this letter was sent here by General Huyan."

"My general's courage and strategy are unparalleled, how can he be defeated?"

At this time, the old servant on the side suddenly asked, seeing that although he was old, his demeanor was majestic, and he thought that he was also a member of the army when he was young.

However, this was difficult for Ma Ling, who watched the beginning and end at the scene that day, and naturally said it vividly.

The old servant heard that there was no flaw at all, especially the chain of armored horses stuck in the mud, hooked and sickled, hooked and hooked legs and hooves, and listened as if he was in the scene, and there was no doubt about the defeat of the army. But he asked:

"Since you are here to pick up your family, why don't you see my general's own soldiers coming?"

"The battle of Liangshan was very tragic, and the general's own soldiers were injured a lot, and even the general himself was hit by an arrow in his shoulder. The remaining few guards have to take care of the general's injuries, and the other is afraid that they will show their faces in the city and be recognized by others, which will not be beautiful at that time. ”

Ma Ling recounted the set of statements that had been prepared for a long time, and then took out a book from his arms and handed it over, which was the "Art of War" that Hu Yanzhuo brought with him on weekdays.

Of course, the woman and the old servant recognized this thing, and after reading it, they believed it a few points, but after all, the matter was very important, and they hesitated for a moment, and then Ma Ling said:

"The lady can't believe it, there is a way to prove it, there are not a few sergeants who returned to Liangshan Manor with General Huyan this time, and now many of them have returned to their hometowns to get their families, and there are many in this Runing City, just send the family center to secretly go to investigate, you will be able to know."

When the woman heard this, she felt reasonable, so she asked Ma Ling to rest in the house, and the old servant sent someone out to investigate.

In only half a day, several people came back to report, saying that many old units in the army had come back to fetch their families, and some of them had quietly gone out of the city. When the woman and the old servant heard this, they believed it in their hearts, but the woman knew her husband's temperament very well, and she said to herself:

"My husband is a loyal martyr, and he has always said that he is loyal to the monarch and protects the country, how could he do such a thing this time?"

"The lady's words are wrong! You must know that this Liangshan Manor is by no means an ordinary mountain and grass Kou, the people gathered there are the most intelligent and wise people with lofty ideals in the world, and the poor people know that there are Wen Huanzhang, a famous man in the capital, Xiao Jiasui, a descendant of the Liang Dynasty, Zhao Ding, a bachelor of Hanlin, Xu Churen, an old minister of the two dynasties, Lin Chong, the head of the forbidden army, Xu Ning, a teacher of the Golden Gun Class, Qin Ming, the commander of Qingzhou, Yang Zhi, the successor of the Yang family, and so on. When Huyan first came to Liangshan, he had the same thoughts as his mother, but after getting acquainted with these people, he thought that it was worthless to work for this court and monarch, and he suddenly woke up. ”

Unexpectedly, this Ma Ling has been with the people of Liangshan for a long time, and he has also told a lot of truths. The two people of the Huyan family were also stunned when they heard this, and after thinking about it for a long time, they made up their minds. On the same day, he quietly dismissed unrelated personnel, and only took more than 20 core family members to follow Ma Ling, along the Rushui River to the south of Huaishui, and then went north to Liangshan through the canal after Huaiyin.

A few days later, a small gossip spread to the city of Tokyo, and Hu Yanzhuo, the commander of Runing, together with Han Tao, the envoy of the Chenzhou regiment, and Peng Xi, the envoy of the Yingzhou regiment, led an army of 9,000 to surrender the Liangshan Manor because they were dissatisfied with the imperial court.

A few days ago, Taiwei Gao Yu got a report from the Jeju Prefecture, saying that the imperial army was defeated in Liangshan, and he already doubted the ability of those grass cowards, and when he heard the news, he suddenly understood that the two sides had already colluded, and he couldn't help but be angry. had no choice but to write to the state capitals of Jingdong on the one hand, and wanted Hu Yanzhuo and others; On the one hand, he reported to the imperial court and asked to send a large army to clear out the Liangshan bandits.