The leader of the garrison in Sucheng County is surnamed Chen, called Chen Liu'er, a native of Yuncheng County, Jeju, before the Jin soldiers did not occupy the two roads in the west of Beijing, he was the general of Yunzhou, when the iron hooves of the Jin soldiers swept the two roads in the west of Beijing, he surrendered to the Jin State like other generals, and the 1,000 Xiang army under his command was transformed into the Han army, and soon changed the banner and became the Qi army.

1,000 people are currently stationed in Sucheng County, the military camp is located near the North City Gate, Chen Liu'er has no ambitions, and his soldiers are also mixed food, originally a box army with relatively low combat effectiveness, but now there are no ideals and goals, and the combat effectiveness is even lower.

In the evening, Chen Liuer took five or six of his men down to Rong Ji Restaurant.

Of course, Chen Liu'er knew that Zhang Rong was a general of Liangshan in the past, and now he is a strong man in the black and white places of the nearby five states and six prefectures.

He can't afford to provoke such a person, so everyone usually calls him brother and brother, Chen Liu'er has gained a lot of benefits from Zhang Rong, so he naturally turns a blind eye to some of his illegal deeds.

Zhang Rong set up a table in the backyard to invite Chen Liuer and his men to drink, night had fallen, the room was brightly lit, everyone pushed the glasses and changed the glasses, and the wine was drunk.

At this time, Chen Liu'er was already drunk and fell under the table, Zhang Rong saw that he was almost drunk, so he gave his subordinates a look, and the two subordinates helped Chen Liu'er down to sleep, he raised his glass and stood up and said: "There is a saying that has been held in my heart for a long time, don't vomit and be unhappy!" ”

The five generals were all so drunk that their faces were red, their tongues became bigger, and they stammered: "Brother Zhang wants to say anything, just say it!" ”

"I'm thinking, you are all dignified Song boys, how can you work for Liu Yu's dog now?"

This sentence was said very abruptly, so that the five generals were stunned, they looked at each other, their faces showed guilt, and the first subordinate general said: "Everyone is a fellow villager, Brother Zhang also knows ours, there are old and young in the family, and they want to go to the Great Song Dynasty, but the family can't lose it, and they can only eat this bowl of rice after being a soldier for so many years, to be honest, we also have a nest!" Being complained about at home and being pointed at outside, who doesn't have a face? ”

Zhang Rong nodded, "In that case, I'll show you the way!" ”

The five of them hurriedly agreed, and Zhang Rong said: "It's not a secret, His Royal Highness the regent of the Great Song Dynasty sent the old brother to me, hoping that I can contribute to the recovery of Jingdong and Jingdong in the Great Song Dynasty, since the Song army's counterattack is imminent, of course I agreed without hesitation."

I invited you to drink today, I wanted to cut you all one by one, but thinking of so much friendship, I couldn't bear it in my heart, Yang Er and Yang San still came out of Liangshanjun, so I persuaded me to do it, I will protect you from the Song Army as a commander in the future, if you don't want to do it, it doesn't matter, you let you go home, but if someone betrays me behind my back, hum! I know all your old bottoms, so let's just say that! I'll dig up even the ancestral graves. ”

The five of them were stunned, and at this time, Yang Er and Yang San took the lead in standing up and said: "We are also the old department of the Liangshan Army, since Brother Zhang is going to start again, our brothers are willing to follow!" ”

"Good!" Zhang Rong patted the two on the shoulder, "With me Zhang Rong, you brothers are indispensable." ”

He looked at the other three, "What about the three, do you want to go home or do you want to do it with me?" ”

"Brother Zhang, what about Chen Liu'er?"

Zhang Rong said coldly: "If you want to do great things, you can't be soft-hearted." ”

The three of them were so frightened that they hurriedly got up and said, "We have been depressed for a long time, and we are willing to follow the eldest brother!" ”

Zhang Rong laughed, "They are all good brothers!" Each of you will lead your troops to the shore of Liangshanbo to join me, and as for the family, don't worry, I have already sent someone to move them to Straw Shoes Island, where there is my manor, and they will be well taken care of. ”

Several generals were shocked that their families were actually controlled by Zhang Rong.

Zhang Rong smiled faintly, "It's a matter of hundreds of lives, I have to be cautious, as long as everyone gets on the boat, they will all be brothers in the future!" ”

The five of them had no choice but to bow down together, "I am willing to serve Brother Zhang!" ”

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Zhang Rongbing got the surrender of a thousand troops without bloodshed, and he picked out some old and weak, and got more than 800 strong people, plus more than 600 of the three of them, almost 1,500 people.

Zhang Rong occupied Xucheng County, drove away all the officials in Yunzhou, and publicly killed Li Yao, the general judge of great public resentment, erected the banner of anti-Jin righteousness, and played the slogan of 'restoring the homeland and returning to the Great Song Dynasty', infecting hundreds of people, he was the first anti-gold banner in Shandong, a hundred responses, for a time, the anti-Jin righteous people from all over the country rushed to defect, in just a few days, nearly 20,000 young people were recruited, and the people who sent money and grain were countless.

Five days later, Ruan Xiaoqi came to Xucheng County again, the county town was on a big display, morale was high, and when he heard that Ruan Xiaoqi was coming, Zhang Rong personally greeted him.

On the school ground, Shi Xiu and Liu Tang are training soldiers, almost half of the time they are wearing leather armor, holding spears and knives, Yunzhou has been in war for many years, almost every household has a little stock, these are all donated by the people, but there are many colors and colors, and it doesn't look uniform.

Ruan Xiaoqi said with a smile: "Big brother, it is not easy to raise 20,000 troops in just five days!" ”

Zhang Rong glared at him, "I need armor now, you promised." ”

"Many of your soldiers have armor!"

"It's all old goods left from the past, things from more than ten years ago, and the knives are rusty."

Zhang Rong glared at him, "Don't talk this nonsense, do you kid give it or not?" ”

"Of course, I'm here to take you to get weapons, I need ships."

"No problem, we have more fishing boats!"

Ruan Xiaoqi took out another pigeon letter and handed it to him and said with a smile: "You are so loud that even Marshal Du is alarmed, this is his official title, you can see for yourself!" ”

At this time, Shi Xiu and Liu Tang both came over, Shi Xiu heard that there was an official, and hurriedly stepped forward, Liu Tang was a little reserved, and put on a look of not caring, but his ears were pricked up, it was about their future and wealth, how could they not care?

On the pigeon letter, it is clear that Zhang Rong is the general of Dingyuan of the fifth grade, the first-level commander, and Feng Shixiu and Liu Tang are the captains of the six-rank Zhaowu, the second-level commander.

The three of them are overjoyed, this is still the beginning, they have obtained high positions, as long as they resist gold and make meritorious contributions, there will definitely be no problem to be promoted to another level.

Especially Zhang Rong, with a smile on his face, Song Jiang Zhao'an was only a fourth-grade official, or a false position, they were all deputy envoys of regimental training of the eighth and ninth grades, county lieutenants, etc., but now Li Yanqing generously gave him the actual position of commander of the fifth grade, so how could he not be moved.

Zhang Rong solemnly saluted to the south, "The humble post must live up to the expectations of the marshal of the capital, resist the Jin soldiers, and recover the homeland!" ”

Ruan Xiaoqi said with a smile: "Send thirty fishing boats with me to Jinan Mansion to move soldiers!" ”

Zhang Rong and the three of them were stunned, how could they be in Jinan Mansion?

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At night, thirty large fishing boats quickly drove northeast along Jishui, and Zhang Rong personally led three hundred of his men to follow Ruan Xiaoqi to carry the armor.

At this time, Zhang Rong already understood why Bingjia was in Jinan Mansion, it turned out that the ship transporting Bingjia came from the sea and entered Jishui, because there were 5,000 garrisons in Jinan Prefecture, and the ships did not dare to go too deep, so they could only stop in the area of Boxing County, Qingzhou.

On the bow of the ship, Ruan Xiaoqi slowly said to Zhang Rong: "The reason why Marshal Du attaches great importance to you is because Liangshanbo is an extremely important strategic node, once the army of the Song Dynasty appears on the Shandong Peninsula, Liu Yu will inevitably send a large army from Bianjing to support, grain and grass logistics must take the waterway, Liangshanbo is the only way for the other party's logistics fleet, so the task of intercepting the logistics fleet of the puppet Qi army will be handed over to you." ”

Zhang Rong suddenly realized that the main force of the Song army was preparing to go north by sea, which was a strange move, and it would definitely catch Liu Yu off guard.

He thought for a moment and said, "If it's just to intercept grain and grass, five or six hundred people are enough, why do you need to recruit a large army?" ”

Ruan Xiaoqi shook his head, "Marshal Du is far-sighted, his vision is in the overall situation of the world, his request must be reasonable, not that we can imagine it, we just have to obey the order." ”

Zhang Rong nodded silently, for the first time in his heart, he had a sense of awe for Li Yanqing.

Two days later, thirty fishing boats arrived in Boxing County, Qingzhou, there was no garrison along the river, and it was quite far away from the county seat, even the officials would not come, only to see two large sea ships moored alone on the north shore, Zhang Rong's eyes lit up, these two big ships have at least 3,000 stones, when there is also such a big ship in Liangshan Bo.

At this time, Ruan Xiaowu appeared at the stern of the boat and waved to them, the fishing boats approached the sea boat, removed the black canopy, there was a special spreader on the big boat, above the spreader was a wheel, more than a dozen soldiers pulled the rope, and slowly hung the boxes and straw bags from the big boat, the boxes were loaded with armor and war knives, and the straw bags were spears.

After filling a fishing boat, and then loading a second fishing boat, at this time, Ruan Xiaowu stepped off the boat and said with a smile: "Lao Zhang, your first battle may begin, Jinan Prefecture has begun to mobilize troops from all over the country, and the five hundred garrisons of Qingzhou have rushed to Jinan this morning. ”

Zhang Rong also knew that the 5,000 garrisons of Jinan Prefecture were scattered in various prefectures in peacetime, and it would take at least three or four days to gather together, and it would take one or two days to reorganize, so there was no time at all.

He asked again, "How are we going to fight this battle?" ”

Ruan Xiaowu laughed, "Have you forgotten?" How did our Liangshan Army fight the official army back then, and this time it is still the same. ”

Zhang Rong nodded, he knew how to fight the first battle.