Let's say that since the manor decided to take Yunzhou, the first thing was handed over to Wu, and Gu Haotian and the others were all busy with the affairs of the manor. In the two successive major battles since the beginning of winter, Liangshan Manor has more than doubled the number of soldiers at once, and Tong Guan's batch of more than 20,000 people has not been fully digested, and Gao Yu sent another 40,000 or 50,000 people. Especially in the latter group, because except for the one who died, the ten knots made the others finally surrendered, and people such as Xu Jing, Li Congji, Wang Huan and others all surrendered as a whole, so there were many soldiers who chose to stay.

After more than 10 days of intense and busy work, the selection and resettlement of the troops finally came to an end. Since the escort team could not absorb too many manpower for a while, the manor management office was repeatedly streamlined after full consultation with several section envoys, and finally left 40,000 people, but even so, the escort team was more than doubled at once.

In addition to paying road fees and opening road slips, the Civil Affairs Department also made a clear promise that if they settle down in Dengzhou, they can not only get the corresponding land and housing with the road strips, but also have a settlement fee of three taels per person. Because as long as Kaichun starts to use troops against Liaodong or Goryeo, the current more than 100,000 people are greatly insufficient, and of course these good soldiers cannot be lost in vain. However, judging from the feedback from the scene, this measure is still very effective, and most of the soldiers who have road slips and road fees are willing to go to Dengzhou, and they have land, houses and settlement fees, which is indeed very attractive to most of the soldiers from the bottom.

With the rapid increase in the strength of the escort force, the expansion of the number of troops has become inevitable. In the current manor, in addition to the new soldiers, there are also many generals waiting to be placed, the previous batch also left a Bi Sheng, and later came Mangdangshan Fan Rui, Xiang Chong, Li Gon Three, Gao Yu sent more generals this time, almost most of them were surrendered or captured, in fact, there is such a result, but it is because Gu Hao deliberately made arrangements before. Because in his opinion, this group of generals is definitely much higher in skill than Tong Guan's pull, and many of them are characters who can fight with Liangshan's masters, and most of them are from the grassroots class like Shijiedu, and they are more emotionally acceptable to Liangshan's concept, so he really doesn't want these talents to be ruined, so he set a principle before the war, that is, to ask for as much as possible to be captured alive.

And the result of this battle also fully realized Gu Haotian's wishes. The generals who followed Gao Yu on the expedition, in addition to the Qinghe Tianshui Festival that made Jing Zhong die in Dongtang Village, Tongcheng Town, Wang Huan, Xu Jing, Wang Wende, Mei Zhan, Yang Wen, Xiang Yuanzhen, Li Congji and other seven people had already been surrendered in the first stage, and Liu Menglong, Dang Shixiong, and later Han Cunbao, Zhang Kai, Niu Bangxi, Qiu Yue, Zhou Ang, and Dang Shiying were all captured without exception. For these people who have real talent and real learning, since they have been captured with great effort, Gu Haotian is naturally unwilling to waste them. Han Cunbao and Zhang Kai quickly agreed to join the Liangshan camp because of the appearance of the other seven festival envoys, the most difficult were Qiu Yue and Zhou Ang, these two people were naturally unwilling to give up their original status and comfort as senior officials of the forbidden army, but soon after, when it came from Tokyo that Gao Yu wanted to behead their entire family, they suddenly became disheartened, and soon after, after the dependents of several families were picked up by the intelligence department in Liangshan, they were also dead set on Liangshan Manor.

On the morning of this day, Gu Haotian and others were discussing the expansion of the escort force in the Zhonghua Hall, but the intelligence department sent two pieces of information one after another. At the beginning of the news of the Guangling Salt Farm in Qingzhou, according to Li Jun's report, the gang of bandits who plotted the salt field were wiped out by him, and after interrogation, it was Song Jiang's subordinates in Erlongshan, but it was a pity that the two bandit leaders who took the lead, Yan Shun and Wang Ying did not show their faces and escaped. The latter is the news of Wu Yong in Yunzhou, in the battle last night, Dong Ping fled alone, and everything else was under control.

"It's strange, how did several bandit leaders flee after two operations."

Gu Haotian looked at it

After the report, he said to himself.

Wen Huanzhang persuaded: "A little bit of a role doesn't matter, let him go." ”

The rest of the people also echoed, and Gu Haotian was relieved. Everyone picked up the topic again and continued to discuss, but at noon, the intelligence department hurriedly sent another piece of news, and Gu Haotian was a little uncalm when he saw it.

It turned out that night, after Dong Ping was defeated, the intelligence department immediately sent people out of the city to find out his whereabouts, and one of the personnel searched for his traces in the north of the city, and followed him all the way to Dong'e County, but found that he had a good conversation with a black dwarf man in a hotel. This spy is also clever, at that time, he was quietly sitting at a nearby table with a merchant, and Dong Ping, who had heard it many times between meals, called him Brother Gongming. Let's say that the intelligence department is all clever people, and when I heard it, I thought what kind of person this was, so I watched Dong Ping go with him after drinking, and immediately reported to the manor in a hurry.

When Gu Haotian saw this information, he was very surprised, there was no doubt that the black and short Gongming brother must be Song Jiang, but wasn't he in Erlong Mountain in Qingzhou, how could he come to Dong'e in Yunzhou! At that time, he had a faint guess in his heart, with the urine nature of this guy, he must have smelled something peculiar to come over, maybe it was related to Liangshan Manor. Especially if Dong Ping followed him, it was very likely that he would provoke trouble in Yunzhou, because in the original trajectory, it was these two people who collaborated to slaughter Cheng Taishou's family.

Let's say that everyone was stunned when they saw Gu Haotian holding a piece of information, and thought that there was some major military situation, until Wen Huanzhang took the information and read it, everyone understood that it was Dong Ping who took refuge in Song Jiang.

"It's like a gathering of things, these two people are thick-faced and black-hearted, and they just happen to be in one place."

Wu Yong knew these two people very well, and he sneered coldly at the moment.

But Xu Guanzhong had the same doubts as Gu Haotian, and he said to himself:

"How could Song Jiang appear on the ground in Yunzhou, and what unbearable intentions did he have?"

"This guy will see the wind and rudder, the recent movement of our manor is a bit big, maybe you hear some wind, and it may not be necessary to use some tricks on us."

It was Wu Yong who spoke again, and he saw this Song Jiang more thoroughly than those present.

Gu Haotian and Wu Yong had the same idea, and he immediately ordered:

"Song Jiang appeared near Liangshan, there is always no good thing for our manor, but with his little strength, he will definitely not be able to shake us, at most it is just to get some information to sell himself in front of the court officials and add some bargaining chips for his surrender. What I'm watching out for now is Yunzhou City, with his brain, he must be able to guess that Yunzhou City is the people of our manor, and it is estimated that he will join forces with Dong Ping to be unfavorable to Yunzhou. Director Wu, you should go back over there and let the other 2,000 people from the Second Regiment also go over to cooperate with you, this time it will teach them a big lesson, and also let that Song Sanlang understand that this Liangshan is not something he can covet. ”

After some arrangement, it was already noon, and everyone dispersed to eat first. Gu Haotian left Wu Yong behind, and called someone to move in time, and explained it in detail, and the two went separately.

Let's say that Song Jiang stayed well in Erlong Mountain, why did he suddenly come to Yunzhou? It turned out that in recent days, he kept hearing the news that Liangshan Manor had defeated the imperial army, and he always felt very angry in his heart, in his opinion, Liangshan was just an isolated island, how could it be the opponent of the imperial army? It should have been wiped out a long time ago, how could it be so tough! So he wanted to come and find out, touch the reality of Liangshan, and see how the old boy was born; the second is to find an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, so as to use it as the capital to recruit peace to the imperial court; The most important thing is that with the continuous increase of personnel, the area around Erlong Mountain has been looted by them, and it is very difficult to supply materials. The reason why Yan Shun and Wang Ying were sent to Qingzhou to grab salt was also a helpless measure

, unexpectedly, I didn't grab anything, and I lost a lot of manpower. Therefore, finding a new place to eat has become Song Jiang's top priority, and Yunzhou and Jeju are the hometowns of fishing and rice, and they are also his old nests, so he wanted to explore the reality here.

A few days ago, Song Jiang took Kong Liang to Jeju, but he didn't expect to go out of Dong'e Chengnan that morning, but he met Dong Ping with a horse down, he felt that this person was not an ordinary person, so he showed his set of thick black mastery, and sure enough, Dong Ping was quickly hooked up by him.

In the afternoon of the same day, Song Jiang and Dong Ping were full of wine and food, and found a secluded inn to live in.

Song Jiang said: "Brother, my brother just thought all the way, the three thousand guest troops that suddenly appeared in Yunzhou City are very suspicious, and in my opinion, they are definitely not Jeju soldiers." ”

"Oh! But what do you say? Dong Ping saw that he hurriedly asked.

"Brother, you think, Jeju is now defeated, and there are a lot of idle manpower, even if there is, they can't rush to Yunzhou in two or three days, and the nearest is Yuncheng County, where I am most familiar with after a few years, when did it have such an elite thousands of soldiers. Therefore, it seems to me that these soldiers could only come from one place......"

"But where did you come from, brother, please tell me quickly?"

Dong Ping listened to Song Jiang's analysis, and suddenly felt very reasonable, and couldn't help but be more anxious.

"Liangshan!"

"Liangshan!"

"Yes, within a radius of dozens of miles, only Liangshan has such strength, and my brother can expect that the people of Yunzhou have been deceived by the Liangshan thieves."

"Straight sissy thief! Cheng Wanli was really blind, and he didn't know that he had lured the wolf into the room, and he was still attacking the master, and he should have broken the corpse into thousands of pieces. ”

Dong Ping suddenly realized when he heard this, the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and he couldn't help but slam his fist on the wall, but it was angry and smoky.

"Brother is angry, this matter is unpredictable, if it is planned properly, it may be a great achievement."

Song Jiang stroked his three-inch short beard with one hand, and looked like he was in his chest.

"Brother, what do you say?"

"Brother, think about it, if we can take down Yunzhou City and escort those bandits and criminals to the capital together, what will happen if we suddenly have such a happy event after the repeated defeats of the imperial court?"

"It's really good, but the soldiers and horses who came to capture the city?"

"This brother doesn't have to worry about it, my brother has his own way, but the head of the city has to find some internal responses, and it will be convenient for him to act when the time comes, I want you to be the capital prison for many years, and there should always be a few henchmen in it."

"This will naturally have ......"

"That's it!"

At that moment, Song Jiang said a plan to Dong Ping, and he only listened to it. The two of them only rested for a while, then packed up and left the store.

Let's say that in a mountain village called Huangyaling on the border between Yunzhou and Gunzhou, thousands of mountain bandits have suddenly gathered in recent days, and dozens of mountain people who originally lived there suddenly suffered an unwarranted disaster. Song Jiang and Dong Ping rushed for two days, and then came to this place, it turned out that what gathered here was the belongings of nearly 10,000 people that Song Jiang had accumulated in Erlong Mountain in recent years, and it was he who sneaked into here with these people a few days ago, wanting to take advantage of this place to peek into Yun and Jierzhou, and take the opportunity to find out the news of Liangshan.

In the city of Yunzhou, when Song Jiang returned to Huangyaling, the nobleman surnamed Wu and Master Tian, who had been back in his hometown for a few days, came back. Two days later, with his "help", Master Tian borrowed another 2,000 men from Jeju, and the troops in Yunzhou City were greatly strengthened. At the same time, a thin man also slowly approached the mountains near Huangyaling.

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