There were 20,000 troops stationed in Sucheng County, and there was a military camp in the east, west, north and south, which was built with thick board walls, which was very strong and solid, and it was not realistic to attack Sucheng County with the strength of the Liangshan army. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the valuable targets are not only in Sucheng County, there are also two more strategically valuable targets, one is the Jishui Wharf, where there are more than a dozen large warehouses and ships, and a large amount of grain and materials are stored in the warehouses.

The second strategic target is located in the south of the city ten miles away from the Xicheng office, it is located in the south of the town is the hub of water and land transportation, the Xicheng office is actually the official office of the management of public land, in the eyes of the court and the Son of Heaven, it is the source of wealth, but in the eyes of the common people, it is the source of evil, in Yang Jian's seven years of administration of the Xicheng office, Jingdong Road and Hebei East Road have hundreds of thousands of civilians bankrupt, nearly one million hectares of private land has been converted into public land, just the tenant rent every year to the imperial court to import a large amount of food and wealth.

Because of the importance of Xicheng, Yang Jian specially built a military camp next to Xicheng, garrisoning 2,000 people.

But the target of Chao Gai's sneak attack this time was Jishui Wharf and warehouse, of course, Chao Gai could not capture Xucheng County and capture Yang Jin with a thousand knives, but it was impossible for him to endure this breath.

Attacking Jishui wharf and warehouse is the strategy he has been advocating in recent years, he believes that as long as the planning is right, fast in and out, it will be successful, once successful, it will have a huge role in promoting the prestige of the Liangshan Righteous Army, and will attract countless talents to come to Liangshan, but Song Jiang advocated low-key forbearance, do not challenge the government, and use the Fang La rebellion as a cover to accumulate strength.

Although Chao Gai eventually accepted Song Jiang's low-key plan. But it doesn't mean that he will give up his own ideas, he just recognizes Song Jiang's authority, and has to endure in order to take care of the overall situation, in fact, Chao Gai himself has personal experience, and although the courage to fight with the government is very risky, but the benefits are also great, in just one or two years, their military strength can exceed tens of thousands, unlike now, the low-key five or six years of military strength is only 5,000 people.

Without struggle, there is no influence, without influence, no one will come to defect, no one will be able to grow stronger without taking refuge, and there will be no courage to fight against the government, which is a vicious circle.

Until today, because of Liu Gao's death, the contradiction between Chao Gai and Song Jiang began to intensify, and he no longer ignored Song Jiang's low-key forbearance, and led 2,000 troops to attack the docks and warehouses.

Of course, Chao Gai is not reckless, the warehouse and wharf are located on the east bank of Jishui, and they are on the west bank of Jishui, as long as a pontoon bridge is built in the shortest possible time, the army kills it, and when the officers and soldiers from several miles away react and rush to the rescue, they have achieved their goal and retreated, then the sky-high fire burning in the warehouse will surely shock the entire Jingxi Road, and will make countless heroes and heroes who are interested in resisting the government gather in Liangshan.

At the time of the two watches, Chao Gai and Liu Tang led two thousand soldiers to the west bank of Jishui silently, Xucheng County is located thirty miles north of Liangshanbo, Jishui separates the geographical and economic environment of Yunzhou into two, the west is a large swamp and depression, sparsely populated, and the east is dense farmland and villages, at the same time, Ruan Xiaoqi led thirty small boats also along the west bank to the opposite side of the wharf.

These thirty boats are chained horizontally and boarded with wooden planks, which is a natural pontoon bridge.

Chao Gai stared at the other side of the water, the opposite bank was very quiet, there were a lot of timber piled up on the wharf, covered with tarpaulin, several large ships were quietly moored on the wharf, a hundred steps away from the wharf, more than a dozen large warehouses were lined up, and under the illumination of a few torches, there were faintly visible figures shaking.

"Do it!"

More than 100 sailors, under the leadership of Ruan Xiaoqi, cooperated very tacitly, and quickly built a pontoon bridge with boats, and in just one incense stick, a pontoon bridge with a length of 20 zhang was built.

Once the pontoon bridge was reached, there was no time to hesitate, Chao Gai immediately shouted: "Kill the past and burn down the warehouse!" ”

Two thousand soldiers rushed over the pontoon bridge like a long dragon and slaughtered the warehouse two hundred paces away.

At this moment, an accident happened, a thousand-stone cargo ship rushed from the upstream and rushed towards the pontoon bridge, and there were hundreds of Liangshan soldiers behind who did not cross the river.

At the same time, fires broke out on both sides, and dense arrows shot at the Liangshan army like a storm, and more than a thousand Liangshan troops were caught off guard, and they fell to the ground one after another, falling hundreds of people in an instant.

Knowing that he was in ambush, he used his shield to fend off the arrows while shouting, "Retreat now!" ”

'Boom! ’

The Qianshi cargo ship smashed several small boats, cut the pontoon bridge into two sections, and the Liangshan soldiers fell into the water one after another.

Liu Tang grabbed a small boat and shouted to Chao Gai: "Big brother, get on the boat!" ”

Chao Gai held a shield and a war knife in his hand, and killed more than a dozen people in a row, he saw that the officers and soldiers were swarming to kill, and his subordinates really couldn't resist, and most of them jumped into the water to survive.

Chao Gai killed several people in a row, roared, and jumped towards the boat, at this moment, a powerful arrow shot like lightning, incomparably fast, Chao Gai was taken aback, although his martial arts were very strong, but he could no longer dodge in mid-air, 'Click! The arrow hit Chao Gai's forehead and shot half an arrow, Chao Gai screamed and fell into the water.

Liu Tang was shocked and shouted urgently: "Ruan Qi, the eldest brother has fallen into the water." ”

Ruan Xiaoqi also saw it, he plunged into the water to look for Chao Gai, but after looking for two back and forth, he didn't see Chao Gai's shadow, at this time, thousands of officers and soldiers rushed to the shore and released arrows into the river together, Ruan Xiaoqi was caught off guard and was shot in the thigh by an arrow, so helpless, he had to give up looking for it and swim to the opposite bank.

Not long after, Chao Gai's body had been found by the officers and soldiers downstream, and thousands of soldiers cheered together.

In a small forest a hundred paces away, Li Yanqing put away his bow and arrows, turned his horse and walked away silently into the darkness.

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At dawn, when Yang Jian heard that he had shot the head of the Liangshan thief, he was overjoyed, and immediately ordered his head to be taken and hung on the city tower to show the public.

At this time, Liangshan was a miserable storm, 2,000 soldiers participated in the sneak attack, but more than half of the losses were lost, and only more than 900 people fled back, and more importantly, Liangshan's spiritual leader Chao Gai died under the arrows of officers and soldiers, which made Liangshan's generals endlessly resentful and sad.

In the Juyi Hall, Song Jiang cried so much that his eyes were bleeding, and he fainted several times, and was helped into the inner hall by everyone, and Song Jiang's mood gradually stabilized.

The mood stabilized a little, and Song Jiang said to Wu Yong: "In this battle, Liu Tang and Ruan Xiaoqi are not good for the protectors, I am ready to severely punish the two of them, beat them up and drive them out of Liangshanbo, what does the military advisor think?" ”

Wu Yong was taken aback, "Second brother can't act recklessly!" ”

Of course, he understands Song Jiang's thoughts, since Chao Gai is dead, Song Jiang can seize the opportunity to rectify Chao Gai's old department, Liu Tang is Chao Gai's first confidant, and to drive him away is to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys.

Wu Yong hurriedly said: "I understand the meaning of the second brother, but now is not the time, now we need to appease and buy people's hearts, if they do not obey the second brother in the future, it will not be too late to clean up." ”

Song Jiang pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "It's okay, Liangshan's rules are too chaotic, and they need to be rectified well, my eldest brother always stopped me before, but now that he has gone, I have no constraints." ”

"The second brother is right, but the reality is that when the second brother needs to show benevolence and righteousness, if they can avenge Brother Chao, then they will be dead set on the second brother in the future."

Song Jiang's face was embarrassed, Yang Jian was a powerful man in the dynasty, he couldn't even stammer, how could he still avenge Chao Gai?

Fortunately, if he really burned the warehouse and offended Yang Jian, Yang Jian would not give him good fruits to eat after recruiting him in the future, and he was a little embarrassed for a while.

At this time, a small colonel rushed to report: "Qi to the owner of the village, more than a dozen generals such as General Lin and General Liu outside asked to see the owner of the village." ”

These people are all from Chao Gai's old department, Song Jiang knew why they were looking for him, but he couldn't see it, so he had to give Wu Yong a look, and the two walked out of the inner hall.

In the courtyard of the middle hall, Lin Chong, Liu Tang, Bai Sheng, Gongsun Sheng, and Ruan's three heroes and other more than a dozen generals gathered together, Lin Chong is the old department of Chao Gai, and the fourth position of Liang Shanbo, after Chao Gai's death, he became the leader of the old department of Chao Gai.

Song Jiang walked out, and more than a dozen people shouted together: "Please give the village owner an order to attack Xu County immediately and recapture the body of the eldest brother!" ”

Song Jiang sighed and said: "I don't want to take back the body of my eldest brother, but we only have more than 4,000 people now, how can we be able to defeat 20,000 officers and soldiers, we can only send them to death if we go now!" ”

Lin Chong took a step forward and said: "Although the owner of the village is worried about a certain reason, but Liangshan is full of grief and indignation, and the morale of avenging the eldest brother is high, on the contrary, the Song army has not fought for a hundred years, all of them are greedy for life and afraid of death, the art of war is cloudy, the mourning army will win, as long as we fight with the heart of death, we will definitely defeat the enemy army, if the owner of the village is really worried that the enemy can not be defeated by the Song army, then we can attack the Xicheng place, as long as there is an enemy prisoner of war in our hands, we can exchange for the corpse of the eldest brother." ”

"This ..... Let me think again! ”

Lin Chong and the others glanced at each other, they all saw that Song Jiang was not sincere, and he refused to fight even Xicheng, let alone fight Xucheng, everyone was a little disheartened for a while, Lin Chong sighed, and simply hugged his fists and saluted: "If the owner of the village is unwilling to take responsibility, then we will go to fight Yang Jian to the death, and we are willing to die with Brother Chao, please take care of yourself." ”

After speaking, Lin Chong and the other generals turned around and left, and everyone saluted, "Take care!" ”

They followed Lin Chong, and Song Jiang suddenly became anxious, isn't this just a breakup? He hurriedly shouted: "Please stay and listen to Song Jiang's words!" ”

Everyone stopped, Song Jiang was helpless, at this critical time, he didn't show his determination, so he had to take out an arrow and said: "I, Song Jiang, will definitely lead everyone to recapture the body of Brother Chao and bury it in Liangshan, if you violate this oath, it will be like this arrow!" ”

After speaking, he broke the arrow into two, and everyone was overjoyed, bowed down and said: "I am willing to listen to the dispatch of the master of the village, and I will never give up!" ”