After listening to Wu Yong's report, Song Jiang couldn't say a word for a long time, he realized that he had done a stupid thing, so that Wang Ying slaughtered the city and confirmed the conspiracy he planned, no wonder Lu Junyi never stopped Wang Ying, he was waiting for the opportunity to fight back.

Song Jiang had a wonderful idea, he demoted Lu Junyi and Wang Ying, and then slightly misled the announcement, it was easy for people to have an illusion that although Wang Ying was greedy for money and harmed the people, he was acquiesced in by Lu Junyi, so that even if Wang Ying was wronged, Lu Junyi's prestige would suffer a serious blow.

But Song Jiang didn't expect that Lu Junyi would personally write a letter to the generals to explain the situation, which was tantamount to making the facts public, so ordinary people would easily guess that it was he Song Jiang who planned this conspiracy to slaughter the city.

Song Jiang was extremely anxious in his heart, such a result was definitely not what he wanted, since he couldn't defeat Lu Junyi, he would never want to lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot.

Song Jiang paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, and finally he sighed and said, "Military Master, what should I do about this matter?" ”

Wu Yong had already thought about it for Song Jiang, and he said slowly: "This matter is nothing more than three choices, either continue to resist hard, no matter what Lu Junyi says, Gongming insists on his responsibility, and let the generals comment on the merits themselves......"

"What are the consequences of this?" Song Jiang asked.

"I'm afraid that those who support Lu Junyi will support him more, and those who support Komeito will also support Komeito even more."

"It means that the Liangshan Army will be more divided?"

Wu Yong nodded, "It will indeed be like this!" ”

"So what's the point? I don't want to adopt this plan. ”

"The second plan is for Komeito to personally go and have a good talk with Lu Junyi, and the two sides choose a compromise plan that can make this matter a satisfactory solution."

Song Jiang's face sank, isn't this plan just to let himself admit his mistake to Lu Junyi? How can it be!

"What's the solution?"

"And then there'..... There is no way to let this matter go unchecked, and Wang Ying should not be punished, just act as if nothing had happened. ”

Song Jiang was silent for a long time and said, "Will Lu Junyi give up?" ”

"Keeping quiet is his usual style, and if he were smart, he probably wouldn't have used this to provoke Komeito."

Song Jiang took a few steps with his hands in his hands and sighed, "But you need to use one thing to distract the soldiers!" ”

At this moment, a soldier reported at the door: "Qiqi village master, Dai Dutong has an urgent matter to see!"

Dai Dutong is Dai Zong, who is responsible for the intelligence of the Liangshan Army and is also one of Song Jiang's henchmen.

Song Jiang nodded, "Let him in!" ”

After a while, Dai Zong hurriedly walked into the room, knelt down on one knee and said, "There is a big matter to report to the owner of the village!" ”

"What's the matter?"

"The humble post got the exact information of Bianjing, and the imperial court sent Hou Meng, the governor of Bozhou, to come to Yunzhou to negotiate with the Liangshan army, most likely to recruit our Liangshan army."

"Ahh

Song Jiang exclaimed, he and Wu Yong looked at each other, this news came in such a timely manner.

........

Outside the northern part of Sucheng Prefecture is a low, hilly strip of wooded areas, and a flat official road leads through the hills to the north.

In the evening of that day, a young man who looked like a woodcutter carried a bundle of firewood on his back and ran quickly through the mountain forest, and after a while, he ran down the dirt slope, and then through a pine forest, and after half an hour, he arrived at a hill closest to the county seat, and stood on a large tree and looked at the county seat.

At the foot of the mountain is also a forest, which stretches to about 200 steps from the city, and in front of the woods near the official road are houses one after another, various inns, taverns, snack shops, etc., one after another, and all kinds of signs and wine flags are hung high.

This young man is Li Yanqing's subordinate Yang Liang, he came to Xucheng County to do a big thing on Li Yanqing's order, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, the head of Xucheng County is very quiet, even the soldiers who usually patrol outside the city are invisible, most of the shops have closed early, the guys and the treasurer have returned home, and the entire outside of the city seems deserted.

Yang Liang waited on the top of the mountain for about half an hour, and when night finally fell, Yang Liang took out a bow and a pot of arrows from Chai He and rushed down the hillside.

He ran about a hundred paces from the city wall, quickly climbed a large tree, and at the end of the tree he lit a fire with a fire sickle, and then lit a rocket, and he immediately opened his bow and arrow, and shot an arrow into the sky, and the rocket made a red light in the sky, just like a firework lit on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Yang Liang immediately jumped off the tree and ran back to the hill, he sat on the hill while gnawing on dry food, while waiting patiently, although he joined the army and told him that after an hour of archery, someone would come to him, but he was still suspicious, even if the person he was looking for saw the rocket, how did he know where to find himself?

After waiting for about half an hour, when Yang Liang was about to fall asleep in a daze, he suddenly felt a tap on the shoulder, and he jumped up.

Behind him was a tall, lanky soldier with a short stick in his hand, and he grinned, revealing a row of snow-white teeth.

"You shot the rocket!"

"Who are you?" Yang Liang took a step back in fright, and grasped the hilt of the knife in his hand.

The man is Luan Tingyu, he and Li Yanqing have made an appointment, if Li Yanqing has something urgent to find him, he can shoot a rocket outside the north city of Xucheng, and with Luan Tingyu's leopard-like keen observation, it is easy to find Yang Liang.

He looked at the bow and rocket beside Yang Liang, and said with a smile: "If you are sent by my junior brother Li Senjun, then that's right." ”

Yang Liang immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and he confirmed again: "You are ...... Luan Guanren? ”

"I just, say it! What is the matter with my brother looking for me? ”

Yang Liang hurriedly took out a note from his hair and handed it to Luan Tingyu, Luan Tingyu took the note and asked, "What other messages?" ”

"My family joined the army and said that he would remember his brother's help, which is the original words of joining the army."

Luan Tingyu laughed, "There is a price for finding me to do things, even the junior brother is no exception, and I will find him to settle accounts slowly in the future, what other message is there?" ”

"Nothing else."

"I'm leaving, take care of yourself!"

After speaking, Luan Tingyu flashed into the woods and soon disappeared without a trace.

Yang Liang waited for Luan Tingyu to go away, so he threw his bow and arrows in the ravine, picked up the firewood, and strode towards the west.

............

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the business of various taverns in Bianjing is particularly prosperous, and the Song people have the custom of keeping the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve, and on this night, many tea houses and restaurants will be open all night, and many families are relatives and friends who gather together and drink in a certain restaurant until dawn.

Business in Qingfeng Lou is also booming, with a full house of guests, and in a private room on the third floor, Li Yanqing and four friends are gathering to drink and celebrate the New Year.

Although this should be a festive day, the atmosphere of this year's Chinese New Year's Eve is a little depressing, both Tang Huai, Yue Fei and Wang Gui are relatively silent, and the tragedy that happened in Tangyin County has brought them a huge blow.

Niu Gao, who was sitting on the side, was not reckless, he saw that the three of them were in a bad mood, so he didn't shout, just drank in a sullen voice.

Tang Huai was the first to bear the brunt, his beloved grandfather was killed by the bandits, and his cousin and aunt also died at the hands of the bandits.

Although there were no casualties in Wang Gui's family, their mule and horse shop was ransacked by bandits, with tens of thousands of losses and half of their family property taken away.

As for Yue Fei, he blamed himself in his heart, as the head of the township soldiers in Tangyin County, he was not there when his hometown was catastrophic, and half of his men died in the chaos.

"I heard that the imperial court is planning to recruit the Liangshan bandits." Tang Huai said in a hoarse voice.

Yue Fei raised his head and looked at Tang Huai in surprise, "Is the news accurate?" ”

Tang Huai nodded, "The news is exact, Lao Li has also confirmed it." ”

'Bang! Wang Gui slammed his fist on the table and scolded, "The weak and incompetent shit court knows how to negotiate and compromise, and those who really have the ability don't need it, and they use those wine bags and rice bags all day long, can they not fail miserably?" ”

Yue Fei was taken aback, and hurriedly dissuaded, "Ah Gui, the wall has ears, don't scold the court!" ”

"Lao Tzu is going to scold, since the founding of the country, the Liao State has ceded land and paid compensation to Xixia to send New Year's tribute, is this kind of nest still doing less? Now that even a group of rabble bandits have to negotiate peace, what the hell is the future of this eggless court? ”

At this time, Li Yanqing said slowly: "The peace negotiation will not succeed!" ”

"Why?"

Four pairs of eyes looked at him together, even Wang Gui didn't care about scolding, he looked at Li Yanqing with wide eyes, "Old Li, how do you know?" ”

Li Yanqing drank a glass of wine and smiled faintly, "It's very simple, the Liangshan army is in the limelight, the price they offer the court can't afford it, and the court's opposition to peace is also very loud, once the price of the Liangshan army is too high, the Son of Heaven retreats, and the opposition faction will inevitably have the upper hand." ”

Yue Fei hesitated and said, "What if Song Jiang's price is not high?" ”

"This can't be caused by Song Jiang, dozens of generals under him, all of them are all under the control, which is equivalent to all commanders, although there are countless idle officials in the imperial court, but it is really impossible to take out dozens of commanders at once, and Song Jiang also knows that once the Liangshan army is disbanded, they kill so many local officials, they will die without a place to die, he will definitely not disband the Liangshan army, and this is absolutely intolerable to the imperial court, so I am not optimistic about this recruitment."

Li Yanqing just analyzed the pros and cons of Zhao'an for everyone, but he knew the real reason why Zhao'an would inevitably fail.

"If Zhao'an fails, will the imperial court continue to suppress bandits?" Tang Huai asked.

"That's for sure, I hope this time it's the kind of handsome who will come out in person!"

"Then I'm going to war, too!" Tang Huai stood up suddenly.

Wang Gui slammed his fist on the table, "Chong Shuai goes, of course I have to go, and I have to go if I don't take the martial arts test!" ”

Niu Gao has always regretted not staying in the intelligence camp, resulting in him still being a small officer, Wang Guidu is already the head of hundreds of subordinates, and he has an official rank, he will not let go of this opportunity, he also shouted: "I will go with you too!" ”

Li Yanqing saw that Yue Fei was a little hesitant, so he smiled and said: "This is just my guess, besides, even if the imperial court decides to suppress the bandits, it will have to wait until after the beginning of spring, and the martial arts will be over at that time, I don't think it will affect everyone's martial arts." ”

Yue Fei nodded slowly, if it didn't affect the martial arts, he also wanted to participate in this crackdown on bandits.