After bidding farewell to Li Ying, Shixiu Yang Xiong returned to the Liangshan camp, and carefully told Du Jia what had happened in the past few days, especially conveying Li Ying Duxing's greetings.

Du Jia nodded to show that he understood, and then gently let them go down to rest, and tomorrow will officially attack Zhujiazhuang, so that they can get ready.

In order to protect Li Ying, Du Jia temporarily let Shixiu Yang Xiong go to the second-line team, so as not to retaliate against Li Jiazhuang after the people of Zhujiazhuang found out about them, which made the two of them, especially the newcomer Yang Xiong, very moved, and felt that Du Jia was a benevolent lord, and he was so lucky to follow him.

The next day, just after the fifth watch, Du Jia let the team gather, and after eating the war meal, the army went directly to Zhujiazhuang.

This time, Du Jia was unceremonious, and directly used all the elites, so as to fight down, and at the worst, it would also hit Zhujiazhuang's strength hard.

This time, the left wing of the team is the thunderbolt fire Qin Ming, the black whirlwind Li Kui and the headquarters of the people, the right wing is not blocking Mu Hong, the red-haired ghost Liu Tang and the headquarters of the people, the Chinese army is composed of the leopard head Lin Chong, Xiao Li Guanghuarong, the nine-pattern dragon Shi Jin, the killing god Wu Song and all the soldiers under his command, surrounded by the coach Du Jia, which can be described as a strong soldier.

Since the secret of the Pantuolu has long been known, many trees, especially the poplar trees that are used as markers, have also been cut down during the previous war, which has provided a lot of convenience for this march.

Just walked less than thirty or fifty steps before I heard footsteps in front of me, and there were people shouting and screaming, obviously the sentry of Zhujiazhuang found them, at this moment I saw Hua Rong next to Du Jia draw a bow and arrows, aiming closer to the fingers lightly, two arrows flew straight out like meteors rushing to the moon, and I heard two screams in front of me almost at the same time, and the two sentries who wanted to escape suddenly fell down at the same time.

The people of Liangshan immediately cheered in unison, and their morale was even higher, and then the army continued to advance, and encountered five or six more open or dark sentinels along the way, but they were all shot by Hua Rong, and they were extremely accurate and never missed.

This made it impossible to get the news in Zhujiazhuang at all, and it was not until the Liangshan brigade came to their village that they found that the guards guarding the door were sweating profusely, and hurriedly flew in to report while shooting indiscriminately.

Zhu Chaofeng and the others were also shocked when they heard this, they knew that the battle with Liangshan was inevitable, but they didn't expect it to be so soon.

Zhu Biao slapped the table and stood up angrily and said, "I remember that there were at least a dozen sentry posts arranged along the way, why didn't any of them report to me?" What a bunch of garbage, see how I clean them up then. ”

How did he know that the Liangshan Brigade had come all the way, and all the outposts they encountered had already been shot over by Hua Rong, so it was really no wonder that they were.

Luan Tingyu said in a deep voice: "Now I don't care about them, the people from Liangshan have already come, we must hurry up and fight, didn't Li Ying say that their commander was replaced by that Du Jia this time?" I'd like to see who it is. ”

Zhu Long sneered: "It's just a thief, the teacher is too exalted of him, let me capture him alive today, so that I can exchange the second brother back, I don't believe that the Liangshan thieves will not even care about the life or death of this guy, they came just in time!" ”

At this time, the villagers had already gathered, and Zhu Chaofeng hurriedly dressed them neatly and rushed out like a gust of wind.

The two armies stood in rows, and after a burst of random arrows shot at each other, they finally officially faced each other, and Du Jia carefully looked at the leaders on the opposite side, and knew it in his heart.

At the same time as he was observing the other side, the high-level people of Zhujiazhuang were also observing him, after all, the person who fought with them before was Song Jiang, and Du Jia's reputation was much better than Song Jiang, so it was also appropriate to be cautious.

This is the first time that the two sides have met face-to-face for more than two months, the previous battles were either sneak attacks or rush attacks, there has never been such an opportunity, after a moment of observation between the two sides, Du Jia broke the deadlock first, urged the horse to take a few steps forward and said slowly: "The old man on the other side is Zhu Chaofeng?" ”

Zhu Chaofeng snorted, and also took a few steps forward and said, "Yes, it's the old man, you are that Du Jia, right?" We wish Jiazhuang and you Liangshan no grievances, why bother each other for no reason? You need to give the old man an explanation, right? ”

This is the usual practice of meeting between the bosses, that is, to find a moral high ground to condemn each other, so that one of them can become a messenger of justice, of course, this is only limited to the premise that the strength of both sides is close or fearful, otherwise one party can easily destroy the other party, and there is no need to negotiate at all.

And whoever occupies the moral high ground is useful when he says that it is useful, thinking that he can make his side appear more righteous and strong, and he can also get the support of external public opinion; But it's useless to say it's useless, because the final victory or defeat is still a real battle on the battlefield, and there has never been a shortage of scenes in history where 'messengers of justice' were defeated by 'shameless demons' and rubbed on the ground.

Du Jia smiled dumbly, and pointed to the two couplets pasted on the pillars a few feet high in the gate of Zhujiazhuang - stepping through the Liangshan to capture the cover, filling in the water to catch Du Jia, and then said slowly: "Zhu old man, you have to fill in the water to catch me, the slogan is loud and loud, is this still called no grudge?" Then what do you mean to have a grudge, isn't it really waiting for you to fill in our Liangshan Shuibo? ”

Zhu Chaofeng was speechless for a moment, and he couldn't deny that this couplet was really just shouting slogans, in that case, where would the faces of his thousands of soldiers and nearly 10,000 logistical family members go? But if he admits it, it will contradict his previous words, and he will not be able to occupy the moral high ground, which will put him in a dilemma.

Seeing that the boss didn't know what to say, Song Zhe immediately helped: "Du Jia, you don't talk about these useful or useless, we Zhujiazhuang just want to deal with you Liangshan, what's wrong?" You Liangshan thieves have often attacked the state and seized the county recently, but they are repeat offenders in the imperial court, and it is natural for us to capture you. ”

After speaking, he gave Luan Tingyu a look, because he didn't expect Du Jia's eloquence to be so outstanding, even if he was verbal, he couldn't take advantage of it, so he simply did it, and this battle was of great significance, and it was very powerful in improving morale, so he directly chose the strongest master on his side.

Luan Tingyu urged the horse to fly out of the soldiers and horses of Zhujiazhuang with a stick, and shouted at the people of Liangshan: "The thieves of Liangshan, Lao Tzu Iron Hammer Luan Tingyu is also, come here and come over who can fight, Lao Tzu will not die under the gun and the nameless ghost!" ”

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