"The people of the city listened, and opened the city and surrendered, and did not die. Resist stubbornly, don't talk about killing. ”

Cangzhou soldiers and horses crossed the Yellow River to attack and kill the Baoding army, the first battle of Diaoyu Village, some local forbidden troops fled. Song Jiang's soldiers arrived on the opposite bank without blood, and the army went straight to Qingxian without stopping.

When the forward cavalry arrived, the gates of the city were closed on all sides, but the soldiers on the head of the city were strong, and they were all as bold as men, their hands and legs were shaking, and they were still standing with their soldiers.

When Wang Yuan, the deputy envoy of Cangzhou's soldiers and horses, arrived with troops, he saw that the gate of Qinghe County was wide open, and the leading figures in the county were standing at the city gate, waiting for them.

The other side is a stone's throw away from the Liangshan Army, and those who are guilty of corruption have long since fled, and most of the remaining gentry are self-sustaining and kind families. At this moment, together with many officials in the county, they surrendered together.

Wang Yuan also ran out of the Wuluo Academy, and there was no great future for his life there, so it was better to come to the battlefield to fight. If so, he was sent to Cangzhou as a deputy envoy for soldiers and horses. This time, he led the way and took the lead.

Immediately in front of the city gate, he looked around at a group of people and others, and said suspiciously: "Where is the county in this place?" ”

The gentry and officials of Qingxian County glanced at each other, and the county professor came forward to reply: "So that the general knows that the county's literary and public affairs are stubborn and insist on not surrendering." has been imprisoned by us in the county government. ”

Wang Yuan laughed loudly, "There are still such people who don't know current affairs. But he didn't pay attention to it, only asked someone to report to the main generals Song Jiang and Shi Wengong, left 200 people to guard the city, and led the soldiers and horses straight to the Baoding military city.

Along the way, I saw the Song army's military village several times and sent people to check it, but there were no soldiers, only countless people gathered. The army broke into Baoding, and the army entered no man's land.

The latter city is high and deep, with more than 10,000 troops stationed in it. But these are all numbers on paper, and Fan Bingguo, who knows the army there, is also a man who has no plans and no courage, and when he heard that the Liangshan army was coming, he did not convene the officials to discuss the matter first, but first took his wife and wealth and fled from the West Gate. After Wu Ming, the commander of the soldiers and horses in the city, got the news, he looked up to the sky and sighed: "The country has been raising soldiers for 160 years, and it is not easy to treat them." Today, when the society is in danger, the society is in many difficulties, and the doctors of the other generation cannot come up with a plan to save the difficulties. The scholar still abandoned the city and fled, so why risk his life? ”

After that, he asked people to raise white flags, open the city gates, close the official office by himself, throw away his troops and unload his armor, and bind himself out of the city to surrender. Wang Yuan was bloodless, and he had already seized the Baoding Army, an important place in the northern Xinjiang of the Zhao and Song dynasties. "How ridiculous, how ridiculous?"

Even if Wang Yuan had surrendered to the Liangshan Army and served for it, he was angry when he saw the current scene! "Civil officials are greedy for money, military attaches are afraid of death, the courtiers of the Song Dynasty are like this, and the Zhao family does not lose the country, so heaven will not tolerate it."

If so, the soldiers and horses occupied the Baoding Army, and the meteor scouts reported to Song Jiang and Shi Wengong that the two expected that Fan Bingguo was not a real talent, but they didn't want it to be so easy. Song Jiang said to Shi Wengong: "The former espionage department was told that no official in Baoding and Xiongzhou was willing to surrender to our army, which made me still unbelieved. Now it seems that if the officials and officials there are all Fan Bingguo's generation, then don't do it. Shi Wengong thought so.

Speaking of Naha Prefecture, Zhizhou Chen Long was a jinshi during the Daguan period, and he was quite a person. As early as when Cangzhou fell into the hands of the Liangshan army, it began to reorganize and fight.

Over the years, he also had an army of 5,000 men in his hands.

Now that he heard that the Liangshan army was coming, he discussed the strategy of war and defense with Wang Bin, the warden of the soldiers and horses, and said to himself: "There are many thieves, and they are overwhelming, so it is better to stick to it." Wang Bin is different: "No. When the thieves come from afar, they will be tired, though they are not afraid. If we don't go out of the city to face the battle, the armies outside the city will be rested, and the army's morale will be chaotic. ”

But this Bazhou is narrow, there is only one Bazhou City, and the rest are all military villages. The 5,000 soldiers recruited by Chen Long, most of the people of the local archery society, and most of their family members were outside Bazhou City, Chen Long silently did not answer.

At this time, a sergeant suddenly flew to report, but Wang Yuan had already led the men and horses to the city.

After he captured the military city of Baoding, Song Jiang sent a military order, telling him to continue to go to Bazhou to kill. Along the way, I passed through several military villages, and there were no soldiers to resist, and he said bluntly: "The soldiers are fast and must not be stopped." "Two days and nights, I rushed to the city of Bazhou.

The Liangshan Army Brigade has arrived at the bottom of the city, and Chen Long and Wang Bin have gone to the gate to see it. Wang Yuan raised his whip and shouted: "My king raised 200,000 strong troops to sweep Hebei, and the Baoding army went down without a fight, why don't you and the others surrender early?" The king of my family, Shengming, must be appointed according to their talents; And if you are obsessed and break the barrier, the jade will be burned! ”

Chen Long and Wang Bin were all furious, and Wang Bin said: "Today, the thief will close the city and defend himself without attacking, which is not a good intention." The last general will lead troops to attack him. Although Chen Long was angry, his mind was clear, and he said: "We were ordered to defend the city, but all for the sake of merit, if we are unable to win the battle today, if we lose our teachers and lose the country, although death is useless." ”

Wang Bin changed color and said: "Xianggong will take the credit of protecting the city and winning all of it, and he will take the battle to defeat the enemy in the end, please do your own thing." Then he led his headquarters out. This Wang Bin is quite powerful, and Chen Long has been able to train 5,000 soldiers in the past few years, relying on his strength. But they can't force it.

The army was killed, and Chen Long thought that Wang Bin was fighting, but he didn't know that he had already surrendered Wang Yuan. Wang Yuan asked a battalion of soldiers and horses to change into the uniform of the Song army, and Wang Bin led him back to the city, and then Bazhou City went down. Wang Bin saw Chen Long and shouted, "I have descended on the road!" ”

There were only more than 100 personal soldiers left around Chen Long, who still fought with his own soldiers, pointing at Wang Bin and scolding him sharply: "An ungrateful thief, what face does he have to see the world!" I was born as a Song minister, and I should be a Song ghost when I die! "Yan Ba personally held a sharp blade in hand-to-hand combat, slapped the horse and rushed to kill, was shot several times, bloody robe armor, sat down and fell down, and was immediately captured alive by the Liangshan army.

When Wang Yuan saw Chen Long's fierceness, he admired it in his heart, and he was vaguely better. said: "Chen Xianggong is a true talent, when you know that the rise and fall of the country has success or failure, you are just the power of one person, why don't you refuse to conform to the times?" ”

"And the father-in-law's wife and little father are all in the city, and if you don't think about yourself, don't you want your wife, children, and father to lose their lives?"

From Wang Bin's mouth, he knew that Chen Long was filial piety, and at that moment someone entered the palace to take his father, wife and children. Chen's father was over sixty years old and was sick in bed, so Liang Shanjun didn't dare to slack off and carried the bed to the front. Wang Yuan asked him to persuade Chen Long to surrender, the father and the son are young, and Hugh should be stubborn. But he didn't want Chen's father to say nothing, and praised his son for what he should do.

"Old man, are you not afraid of death?" Wang Yuan was furious.

"If I die with my son, why should I be afraid?"

"The old man lived for a long time, but I don't know that the Chen family has not yet been crowned." But it is Chen Long's sons, who are now fourteen or fifteen years old. Now I was trembling with fear.

Wang Yuan looked at Chen Long's wife's room again, "Mrs. Chen is not in her forties, is it possible that she is willing to go to Huangquan?" ”

"The husband is a loyal minister in the world, how can a concubine not be a loyal wife?" As for a pair of sons, Chen said: "There are eggs under the nest." If you know after death now, and see your parents, wouldn't it be your wish! ”

Wang Yuan sighed, imprisoned all his family, and turned to return to Song Jiang quickly. Then, Song Gongming issued a decree to transfer Wang Bin and the more than 3,000 troops who were still willing to serve as soldiers in Bazhou after the war into his own hands.

Shi Wengong divided his troops to the northeast and went to recruit the Xin'an army. The other place is larger than Bazhou, but the layout is the same. The location is still east of Bazhou, northeast of the Baoding Army. Its east side is Cangzhou. Li Long's family was loaded into a prison car and sent to Cangzhou first.

The Liangshan Army has now pacified the Baoding Army and Bazhou, while the Xin'an Army has become an isolated island, facing Qi on three sides and Liao on the other.

Shi Wengong's battle was not so much a fight as a persecution. Meng Xiyan, the commander of the Xin'an Army, is a well-known clay sculpture from near and far.

Since he took office two years ago, he has been getting by and has achieved nothing.

If so, the Xin'an army is not comparable to Bazhou, and it can have 5,000 soldiers who can still be used. The Xin'an Army is a piece of tofu dregs, which can be broken with one blow.

It has only been five days yet, Song Jiang has entered the boundary of Xiongzhou, and when he thinks about it, he feels that the speed of the war is beyond imagination.

Xiongzhou is different from Bazhou, and the area is far larger. This place was originally known as Waqiao Pass, and it was placed at the end of the Tang Dynasty to prevent Khitan. At that time, in the northeast of this pass, Yijin Pass and Sikou Pass were connected with Yijin Pass, which were collectively called "three passes". Zhou Shizong Chai Rong seized this place from the Liao State, and later changed Waqiao Pass to Xiongzhou.

This place is located in the lower reaches of Yishui, connected by rivers and lakes, and has convenient waterway transportation. From this to the west, you can go to the important town of Baozhou [Baoding in later generations, but not Baoding in the Northern Song Dynasty], the east can follow the Juma River into the sea, the north can go straight to Youzhou along the river, and the south runs through the towns of Hebei, which has an important status. Due to the low-lying terrain, there are rivers and lakes everywhere on the saline-alkali ground, and the surrounding areas are plains, and there are no big mountains and rivers to rely on as a basis for defense, and it is easy for the enemy to take advantage of. In order to enhance the ability of border defense to resist the enemy, such as "because of the land of Pize, the water is blocked", the Xu, Bao, Sha, Tang and other rivers in the nine rivers are blocked, forming a large number of water anchors, which are connected to each other, and form a north-south defense line. Later, the water area gradually expanded, and finally became a water Great Wall with 800 miles of twists and turns along the river and a width of 60 miles. This Great Wall on the water has provided a lot of cheers for the three passes such as Xiongzhou, and has played an important role in stopping the southern invasion of Liao.

However, the Song Jiang army did not attack from north to south, but from east to west.

The Red Walled City was the first military fortress garrisoned by the Song army encountered by the Song River, located on the west bank of Yishui, and a part of the Song army was also stationed on the east bank of the river. During this period, there was a suspension bridge connecting the two shores.

It's just that these soldiers didn't see the shadow of the Liangshan army, and their hearts were already in chaos.

"I heard that the Liangshan bandits captured the Baoding Army without blood, and now the Xin'an Army and Bazhou are also occupied by them?"

A Song soldier next to him shook his head and said, "I'm afraid this Zhao Guan's family is not saved." I didn't see the official flee cleanly, leaving you and my small people behind, and the ground was defeated. Looking at the soldiers in this battalion now, is it possible that there are still people who fight to the death for Zhao Guan's family? When a monk hits the clock for a day, and guards it, Liang Shanjun is really coming, you and I have two legs. ”

"Cao Tuanlian is not still on the other side, and he swore in public yesterday that he would ...... with Liangshan Army, fight to the death? ”

"If you can believe the words of an official, you can fly pigs. Those bird officials are full of nonsense, and they can't believe it. ”

Zhang Erlang's words are reasonable. I can't believe the words of the official. What's more, the army's heart was in turmoil early, and Cao Tuanlian had three heads and six arms, and he couldn't show it here. ”

A group of people were talking about the excitement here, until one of them suddenly felt that something was wrong, and he seemed to hear the sound of horses' hooves galloping in his ears. At that moment, he listened to the ground, and the next moment he jumped up and shouted: "Liangshan thief, it is Liangshan thief who is killing and running......

As he spoke, he threw away the spear in his hand and ran straight towards the suspension bridge. The surrounding sergeants were stunned, and then they all got up and ran towards the suspension bridge. In an instant, the entire camp was in disarray.

Later generations have a saying: Those who flee by the wind are brave, those who flee when they hear the wind are brave, and those who mishear and flee are brave.

I don't know if these soldiers in Xiongzhou are brave, middle, or brave?

If Wang Bin led two or three hundred cavalry to the other side, he saw the Song army camp on the east bank of Yishui, the gate of the wall was wide open, and the soldiers in it were chaotic and unbearable to witness. "Come, go and tell them to surrender."