Puzhou City, a war cloud.

The Liangshan army had already surrounded the entire city, but they had not launched a real assault. These days there were only two tentative attacks, followed by sporadic harassment.

However, there is a lot of noise in Puzhou City.

The upper echelons of the Western Army, which had settled down a little, were even more uncertain. Some people want to fight in the city, such as the Yang brothers and Wang Yu, and want to wash away their shame. The military grain in Puzhou City is piled up like a mountain, and if you want to say that it is the whole army, it is the whole army and the people of the whole city, which is enough for a year. It's completely remarkable.

And Yao Gu and Wang Zhen are leaving. plans to return to his hometown to regroup, and then come to fight the Liangshan thieves.

That Wang Yuan is a centrist, and like Liu Zhongwu, he has not yet expressed his position.

As for Liu Guangshi, Guan Sheng, Qin Hui, Zhai brothers and others in this city, there is no half of it.

It's just that even if Liu Zhongwu succeeded in seizing power, I don't know if he was an outsider and a loser, and without the reason for the erection of WeChat, the city was still in chaos.

Some guys with a keen sense of smell fled to Xingren Mansion with their families as early as when the situation was not good, and fled to Huazhou further west, and even Puyang on the other side of the Yellow River.

And now the people in the city, excluding the former, there are still many rich families, and some of them are even following Tong Guan's army to 'kill' the 'homecoming group' that returned to their hometown. This kind of person is an enemy who is not in the same place as Liang Shanbo, but he is also more afraid of Puzhou City being broken. Coupled with those who have always stayed in the city, but have some way, these people do not go to the prefect's yamen where Liu Zhongwu is entrenched, but always go to the yamen of Juancheng County to inquire about the news, which is simply a tendency to break the threshold of the county yamen.

After all, paper can't contain the fire, and some people in the high-level want to abandon Puzhou, and rumors have spread all over the sky to break through as soon as possible! It was said that the officials and soldiers wanted to escape, and they wanted to teach the money, food, and soldiers in Puzhou City to the Liangshan thieves in exchange for a way out. This kind of 'vicious' rumor spread all over the streets, and fear spread like a plague in Puzhou City......

"General Liu! General Liu! Qin Hui chased after Liu Guangshi's buttocks and kept calling. This "conscientious" parent official seems to have been running outside for a short time, and in such weather, a layer of sweat is soaked on his forehead.

"Qin Xianggong, what's the matter?" Liu Guangshi was no better, his face was tired. He hadn't slept well for days, and not only had his cheeks become more swollen, but the man also became irritable.

After Liu Zhongwu entered Puzhou City, he immediately seized his power, and issued an order to summon Lei Ze's Jingxi Xiangyong to return to Puzhou. But he didn't let Liu Guangshi go down to rest, but gave him a dispatch to patrol the city, asking him to stabilize the law and order in the city. However, before Liu Guangshi really patrolled the city, the latter had to hand over the account books of all kinds of grain and military supplies, and then checked them one by one with Liu Xi, the supervisor sent by Liu Zhongwu.

Liu Zhongwu: This is a bit of a big bully.

Now, Liu Guangshi still has a military depot with arrows and crossbow arrows and a forage field that has not been counted, where can Liu Guangshi, who is in a very bad mood, have the patience to pay attention to Qin Hui?

But Qin Hui is also in a hurry. "Last night, the Liu family in the east of the city, the Zhang family in the south of the city, and the Du family were broken into by gangsters, killing and injuring more than 20 people, and robbing a large amount of money and soft silver money. In the past five days, this is the tenth bloody case, and if it is like this, the market will be in turmoil. ……”

If such a thing happens, if Qin Hui doesn't come to find Liu Guangshi, the city patrol envoy, who can he find? The other vulgar Qiu Ba, where do they pay attention to his little magistrate?

"Straight sissy thief! This group of pickled dragons took advantage of the chaos to rob, and if they were caught, they would immediately correct the Fa! Liu Guangshi didn't go to pick up the file on Qin Hui's ground, but only sat on the chair and scolded angrily. But then a flash of light flashed in his eyes, and he yelled outward: "Go! Report this matter to General Manager Liu, and ask him to allocate a battalion of soldiers and horses to Guan Sheng, and come to report it quickly. The people in the city are in chaos, and if they don't shake again, I'm afraid it's going to be reversed! ”

Seeing him so angry, Qin Hui didn't dare to say more, and if he saw it like this, there would be an extra battalion of people, and the security in the city would inevitably be settled, and he would be happy to accept it.

The bloody case occurred, and the impact was too bad, and the people in the city were panicked, and if it was not contained, Puzhou City was afraid that it would be chaotic first.

That Liu Zhongwu gathered the defeated soldiers, and set up barracks on all sides of the city, and incorporated the defeated soldiers and Puzhou's original men and horses into the camp for training.

However, this matter is not the only purpose of Qin Hui coming to Liu Guangshi today, he tentatively said: "General Liu, rumors have been spreading in the city in recent days, I wonder if Manager Liu can come forward to refute one or two rumors?" ”

Liu Guangshi had a headache when he heard this, and refuted the rumors? He hasn't even figured out which one is a rumor!

Liu Guangshi has already been excluded from the core of power in Puzhou City, and he doesn't know some things himself, so how can he refute the rumors? And looking at Qin Hui's donkey face with a touch of expectation, is this rumor refuted for the common people, or is it himself? There really isn't a good thing for a reader.

Liu Zhongwu was also furious after receiving the report, these days he was not only checking the grain and military supplies, but also making every effort to rectify the rout, and he didn't have much to do with the affairs of Puzhou City, but he didn't expect the city to become so chaotic. It is inevitable that this matter of urgency should be put in order. But he smiled at the Guan Dadao mentioned by Liu Guangshi.

just called Liu Xi to take his warrant and transferred two battalions of soldiers and horses to Liu Guangshi.

Liu Zhongwu didn't really want to take on the name of bullying children. He had originally prepared two battalions of soldiers to dispatch to Liu Guangshi, who had the title of city patrol envoy, but Guan Sheng was different.

When Liu Guangshi mentioned Guan Sheng, he was begging for favors, and Liu Zhongwu gave him back.

His youngest son admired Guan Sheng very much, but earlier Liu Zhongwu took into account the views of Tong Guan in the army, and did not recruit him for his own use.

Now that Tong Guan is far away in the Daimyo's Mansion, he is in charge of the house, so Liu Zhongwu used the excuse of reorganizing the army to transfer Guan Sheng to his own side. Although this person's name of 'Moldy Star Gaozhao' did make him a bit of an eyesore, it could not be denied that Guan Sheng's appearance comparable to that of his ancestors was too much to the appetite of martial artists. And the martial arts are superb, and he is also familiar with military books, and he is a proper soldier.

He can allocate two battalions of soldiers to Liu Guangshi, and ask Liu Guangshi to say one and two, so that this Guan Sheng will also be completely included in his command Liu Zhongwu.

At this time, a military attache in military uniform rushed into the hall, clasped his fists and saluted, and said loudly: "Report! There are also Liangshan thieves who came from the waterway of the Yellow River, and there are quite a lot of stone cannons on their boats. ”

The biggest crisis for the Puzhou officials and army has come. Why didn't the Liangshan army attack Puzhou, this is waiting for the Liangshan artillery.

Earlier, Lu Qian placed the Liangshan cannons in his hands in Liangshanbo Dazhai and Dongping Mansion, as well as Yidu in Qingzhou. But it is preparing for a decisive battle.

If the battle with Tong Guan was unfavorable, Lu Qian would lead the soldiers and horses back to Liangshanbo first, leaving the partial division to defend here, and then the main force retreated east along the Jishui by boat and resisted step by step. He wanted to see what the military discipline of the Western Army was.

According to the tradition of the old Zhao family to kill the righteous army, it is common to kill the good and take risks, plunder the army, harass the locality, and persecute the naked son to obey the thief, Dongping Mansion, Zizhou, and Qingzhou are so mixed up by the Tong Guan army, I can't guarantee that the strength of the Liangshan army will increase unabated.

His decision is like Taizu's strategy during the Liberation War, saving people and losing land, and people and land exist. In a 'protracted war', there will always be a day when the Song army will be repulsed.

Therefore, the stone cannons of Liangshanbo are all in Liangshan Dazhai and Dongping Mansion City, Qingzhou Yidu City. There is not a single body in Jeju City.

In order to transport the stone cannons out of Liangshanboli, they must first be disassembled, then transported to Dong'e County by water, and then transported by land to the banks of the Yellow River, and transported to Puzhou by the Yellow River waterway. Although it is more convenient than transporting it from Qinghe County to Puzhou City by land, it also requires a lot of turnover.

Liu Zhongwu's face changed. He had heard of the stone cannon in Liangshanbo for a long time, but he had never seen it before, and although he was worried in his heart, he also had a trace of luck. Now it seems that this luck is gone.

The people stood still a few days ago, sitting back and watching them reorganize and rout, but they were also using such a long time to transport the stone cannons.

Liu Zhongwu waved his hand and motioned for the officer to stand down. There was a real sadness on his face. Why is it so difficult for him to make a decision between battles and walks? That's why.

Liangshan Cannon is famous, Liu Guangshi and Liu Qi are all victims, so naturally they show him that Puzhou City can resist it?

Or the time when the Liangshan thieves guarded Jeju, he also made a lot of wooden buildings, but no one dared to guarantee that it would really work. If the wooden building had not been, Puzhou City was captured by the Liangshan thieves......

Liu Zhongwu absolutely did not want to see the scene where all the people were martyred. It's the side he wants to go.

But with him gone, the reputation accumulated by the Western Army for several generations can no longer be recovered. Unless the Western Army comes again next time and can wipe out the Liangshan bandits in one battle, this shame will really be nailed to the Western Army.

And when he leaves, he doesn't say that he died in the breakout, if he can escape alive, there is still the law of the court waiting for him. Now Tong Guan can't protect himself, but he can't remove the pot for him again. He doesn't necessarily have the good fortune he had back then.

Liu Zhongwu thought about it for a long time, and finally made him afraid of Zhao Ji's knife.

Gao Yongnian's death put him on the blacklist of today's officials. At that time, the leader of the Qingtang and Qiang people, Xi Cheng Luosa, combined with the four superintendent armies of Western Xia, forced Xuanwei Chengcheng, and Gao Yongnian sent troops to rescue. As a result, after only traveling thirty miles, Gao Yongnian was counterattacked by the Qiang people under his account, who was originally a familiar Qiang that Gao Yongnian had taken in, and Gao Yongnian trusted them, but he rebelled at this time. So much so that a generation of famous generals was captured, and was later killed by the Qingqiang prince Doropa.

Liu Zhongwu as a deputy general with Gao Yongnian sent troops to rescue Xuanwei City, after Gao Yongnian was killed, as a deputy general in the army, not only did not stabilize the army's heart and continue to complete the rescue mission, but fled all the way back to Xining, sitting and watching Xuanwei City be besieged. It was only after two months that other generals led the troops to resolve it. When this matter reached Zhao Ji's ears, he was furious, and immediately named the names of the eighteenth generals in Gao Yongnian's army, Liu Zhongwu was the first, and he wanted to send someone to arrest him and ask all of them for their crimes.

According to the culpability, Liu Zhongwu would have been sentenced to exile at least, but because he bribed Tong Guan with a lot of money, not only was he not exiled, but instead sat in the position of his former boss Gao Yongnian. This can be said to be the first thrilling event in Liu Zhongwu's life, and it is also a major turning point in his life.

More than ten years have passed, and he still remembers it clearly. And it is precisely because of this that he is even more reluctant to be questioned by the court.

However, Yang Keshi, Yang Kesheng, Wang Yu, Wang Gan, Wang Yuan and Yao Gu, as well as him Liu Zhongwu and Liu Xi, plus Liu Guangshi, as soon as these people died, the backbone of the Western Army could be said to be half broken.

Therefore, Liu Zhongwu was always hesitant on the question of whether to fight or go. But now, Liang Shanbo's butcher's knife has been revealed, and he must make a decision between fighting and leaving.

Liu Zhongwu's face changed, and Ban Xiang already had a plan in his heart.

"The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth. What kind of virtue can the Liangshan thief Kou have, and how can he create a divine weapon? ”

A group of characters gathered, and after hearing Liu Zhongwu's words, Wang Yu was the first to say that he didn't care. Yang Keshi and Yang Kesheng brothers followed closely and shouted behind them.

As staunch die-hards, the will of the three of them is as hard as steel, and they are not moved by the Liangshan cannon in the slightest. And Liu Zhongwu himself had to make a choice when the matter came, and at this time he had already made a plan in his heart.