In front of the Liangshan Juyi Hall, Liu Tang wailed and cried on the corpse of his brother, and the surrounding generals were silent, this was the heaviest loss since the establishment of the Liangshan Righteous Army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Big brother calm down, we can't be rash, this matter needs to be considered in the long run!"

Chao Gai was dizzy, turned around and yelled at Song Jiang, "It's not your brother who died, of course you don't care!" ”

Song Jiang was silent, and at this time, Wu Yong hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded: "Big brother, don't be excited, we must avenge this revenge, but we must find out who the enemy is, otherwise we will kill a bunch of people by mistake, but the enemy will be at large, wouldn't it be chilling!" ”

Chao Gai also realized that he had said the wrong thing just now, he let out a long sigh, turned and walked away to the inner hall in anger.

Wu Yong said to Song Jiang: "The eldest brother was angry just now, don't take it to heart the second brother!" ”

Song Jiang smiled bitterly and said, "I can understand his pain, after all, Liu Gao has been with him for many years, and we must find out about this matter." ”

"Actually, it's not very difficult to find out about this."

"Do you have a clue?"

Wu Yong nodded, "Let's go to the inner hall and talk!" ”

In the inner hall, Chao Gai was sullenly drinking tea, Song Jiang and Wu Yong were asking Yang Hu, Yang Hu knelt in the hall and said: "Liu Tongzhi knew that General Chao wanted a good horse, so he instructed us to pay attention, yesterday at noon a young man rode a horse appeared, this person is very alert, saw through our strategy, almost injured me, I went back to report to Liu Tong, Liu Tongzhi thought that this person would definitely go north, so he led his brothers to ambush on the road, and sure enough, intercepted this guy, but this guy was strong in archery, but Liu Tongji was injured, We couldn't stop him, and we broke nine brothers. ”

"Where is his accent from?"

"It seems to be a Beijing accent, but it's not very similar, this person has a different appearance, black face and white eyebrows, which is very rare."

Wu Yong and Song Jiang glanced at each other, and a thought arose in their hearts at the same time, 'Could it be him!' ’

"What's his name?" Wu Yong asked again.

"He didn't say anything, he just kept claiming to be Ben Yanei, and he also said that we arrested his entourage and asked us to hand over the people!"

Song Jiang frowned, turned around and asked Chao Gai, "Big brother, have we arrested anyone recently?" ”

Chao Gai shook his head, "I haven't arrested a single person since this year, or did it happen to another cottage?" ”

At this time, Dai Zong walked in quickly and presented the two arrows to Song Jiang, "Lang Zhong took out the arrows, please take a look at the village owner." ”

Song Jiang took the arrow and took a closer look, only to see that these two arrows were made extremely exquisitely, at first glance, they were from the hands of famous craftsmen, and the arrows were gilded, and the arrows were generally gilded.

Song Jiang was taken aback, "This turned out to be Yang Jian's arrow!" ”

"What did the second brother say?" Chao Gai hurriedly stepped forward.

"Of course I'm not saying that Liu Gao was shot by Yang Jian, it's just that the black face and white eyebrows remind me of a person."

"Who?"

"Yang Jian, the eldest of Yang Jian's nine righteous sons, he is black-faced and white-eyebrowed, born with a different appearance, and has always been ruthless."

"That's right! Since this is Yang Jian's arrow, Yang Jian gave the arrow to Yizi again, and this dog mongrel actually shot my brother to death. ”

Song Jiang looked at Wu Yong, and when he saw that Wu Yong was silent, he asked, "What do you think?" ”

Wu Yong said slowly: "I always feel that there is something strange here. ”

"What's so weird?"

"First, if it is really Yang Jian's righteous son, how can he be single-handed, where is his entourage?"

"Didn't you just say that? Their entourage was captured by us, and they asked us for people, which is a good explanation, why did the military advisor still say that it was strange? Chao Gai's tone was a little displeased.

"That being said, it is unconscionable that all the retinues were captured, at most some of the retinues were caught, and secondly, they generally do not shoot people with arrows engraved with their names......"

Without waiting for Wu Yong to finish speaking, Chao Gai immediately interrupted him, "Only sneak attacks will use arrows that are not engraved, if it is an upright confrontation, it is normal to use the arrows of engraved names to raise thousands of dollars, I will use the arrows of engraved names to shoot the enemy, the explanation of the military advisor is too far-fetched, with all due respect, if the military advisor is afraid of Yang Jian and finds various reasons to shirk it, the military advisor does not have to be like this, just say it directly." ”

Wu Yong's face became very embarrassed, and Song Jiang next to him hurriedly relieved the siege and said: "Wu Junshi didn't mean this, Wu Junshi just wanted to say that it was best to investigate clearly, and then think about it in the long run." ”

Chao Gai sneered, "I'm afraid this is what the virtuous brother meant!" The second time I said that it was planned for the long term, and it was not resolved in the end, so I said just now, it was not your brother who died, of course you don't care! ”

After saying that, Chao Gai stood up and walked quickly, Song Jiang's face changed, and he couldn't say a word for a long time, of course he knew what Chao Gai was referring to?

There are two major factions in the Liangshan Rebellion, the Yanzhou faction and the Yunzhou faction, which are divided according to the origins of the two leaders, Chao Gai and Song Jiang, Song Jiang is a native of Yunzhou, and a group of his subordinates are called the Yunzhou system, and Chao Gai is a native of Yuncheng, Yanzhou, and a group of his subordinates are called the Yanzhou system.

In the era of Liangshan's secession, Chao Gai was the largest force in Liangshan, far more than Song Jiang's power, no matter his qualifications and time in Liangshan are longer than Song Jiang, but Chao Gai always feels that he is narrow-minded, shallow, and his appeal in the rivers and lakes is far inferior to Song Jiang.

But as time went on, the two began to diverge in their philosophies, and their biggest disagreement was that they treated his subordinates with sincerity, regarded all his subordinates as his own brothers, and shared their troops and property with heart-to-heart, which was also the reason for his high prestige.

However, Song Jiang did not agree with this way of treating people, he thought that this would make the tail bigger, and it would make the generals sit big, especially the generals would have their own troops, which would form a division in the future, so Song Jiang hoped to take back military power and establish a hierarchical system to manage the three armies.

Although the concepts are different, Chao Gai still supports Song Jiang to take power, and Song Jiang also tries his best to use his scheming and skills to entrap Chao Gai's generals, so Liangshan is still relatively harmonious internally, at least on the surface.

But at the beginning of the year, when recruiting Lu Junyi and Hu Cheng to go up the mountain, Chao Gai was dissatisfied with Song Jiang for the first time.

The reason is that Song Jiang did everything he could, although he successfully recruited Lu Junyi and Hu Cheng up the mountain, but the two families were ruined and their wives separated, although Song Jiang finally apologized for this, but Chao Gai left the seeds of dissatisfaction in his heart.

Tonight is Liu Gao's death, and the contradiction between the two has reappeared.

Song Jiang couldn't help but let out a long sigh, "Taking care of the overall situation, how difficult it is!" ”

Of course, Wu Yong understood Song Jiang's thoughts, no matter whether Liu Gao was killed by Yang Jin or not, Song Jiang didn't want to go to war with the officers and soldiers, now the time for the uprising was not ripe, they still needed time to continue to grow their strength, and now they had to endure it, but Chao Gai didn't understand Song Jiang's good intentions.

Wu Yong groaned and said: "There are indeed many suspicions, for example, since Yang Jin knows that there is danger in the north, why didn't he find a few subordinates in Zhongdu County to go north, maybe when his father sent an army south to respond, he gave me the feeling that he was deliberately causing trouble." ”

"He didn't mean to cause trouble, the reason for this incident was that we wanted to seek his horse, Yang Jin went north normally, but our people intercepted him, what if he didn't kill people?"

Song Jiang said helplessly: "It doesn't matter if he is Yang Jin or not, the key now is how to deal with the aftermath, how to persuade the eldest brother and Liu Tang, and other brothers in the Yanzhou department." ”

"If Gongming goes to talk to the eldest brother again, tell him the stakes, and let the eldest brother understand Gongming's hardships, now is not the time to move troops, and at the same time promise to avenge Liu Gao in the future.

"Now he's angry, I'll talk to him when he calms down a bit."

Song Jiang shook his head and left depressedly, at this time, Wu beckoned Dai Zong forward and whispered to him: "You go to the capital, inquire about Yang Jin's situation, and see if he is in the capital?" ”

"The military advisor still thinks there is something wrong with this Yang Jin?"

Wu Yong nodded, "He has a lot of suspicions, but every suspicion can be explained, and I can't convince the eldest brother and Gongming, the best way is to see if Yang Jin is still in the capital and find direct evidence." ”

"Good! I'll go down the mountain to the capital. ”

Dai Zong walked quickly, Wu took a few steps with his negative hand, and said to himself: "What does this so-called Yang Jin want to do?" ”

At night, Song Jiang was sitting in the room burning his feet, and suddenly, a personal soldier stumbled over and said urgently: "Village master, General Chao Shang has led his troops down the mountain." ”

Song Jiang was taken aback and stood up.

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