The news that the imperial court wanted to recruit the Liangshan army soon spread throughout the capital, and in the afternoon of the same day, the intelligence point of the Liangshan army located outside Bianjing City sent this important information to Liangshanbo by pigeon letter.

At this time, Tong Guan had used the earth-shattering thunder to blow up the Xiangjian City, occupied Liangshan, and at the same time burned Liangshan Zhongyi Hall and the military villages into white ground, but the Liangshan army was not severely damaged, Song Jiang and Lu Junyi led tens of thousands of troops to hide in the vast eight hundred miles of Liangshan water.

There are more than 100 large and small islands in Liangshanshuibo, and the seven largest islands have garrisons, ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands.

The largest island in Liangshanbo is called Shibrown Island, with a radius of more than ten miles, and there are nearly 10,000 garrisons on the island, which are controlled by Song Jiang, the second big island is called Changzi Island, with about 6,000 garrisons, controlled by Lu Junyi, and the third big island is called Straw Shoes Island, with thousands of garrisons, which is also controlled by Song Jiang.

Although thousands of Lu Junyi's subordinates suffered heavy casualties in the defense of Xiangjian City, and in the end Lu Junyi's army was less than a thousand people left, the three heroes of the Ruan family, who were in charge of the navy, were dissatisfied with Song Jiang because of Chao Gai's death, and instead led thousands of sailors to join Lu Junyi's faction, so that Lu Junyi had an elite navy and the best warships in his hands.

Although Song Jiang and Lu Junyi had a deep contradiction, because of Tong Guan's pressing step by step, the two sides shared the same hatred, but they were able to unite and resist the enemy together, but as they entered Liangshanbo and the external threat disappeared, Song Jiang began to be deeply dissatisfied with Lu Junyi's occupation of too many naval troops and warships.

A few days ago, he received a pigeon letter from the capital, Dai Zong sent him the exact news in the capital, the Son of Heaven approved Yu Shen's proposal, agreed to recruit the Liangshan army again, and sent the deputy minister Zhang Bangchang as a plenipotentiary envoy to come to Liangshan to negotiate with them.

Song Jiang's dream is to be able to divide one side and be an independent prince, but his dream has been shattered by the seed master Dao, and he has to withdraw to Liangshan to continue to be a bandit, such a mountain bandit life is absolutely unwilling for Song Jiang to accept, if he can't divide one side, then he would rather surrender to the imperial court, at least he can enjoy the high-ranking officials and be the parents of a state, which is also his dream when he was a small official in Yuncheng County.

Now that the court is willing to recruit him, how can Song Jiang not be tempted, but the only thing that Song Jiang is worried about is Lu Junyi, Lu Junyi's whole family was killed by the government, and he is not in the same sky as the government, he would rather die in battle than surrender, this tough attitude made Song Jiang very annoyed.

At this moment, a soldier outside the big tent reported: "The military division is back!" ”

Song Jiang was overjoyed and hurriedly greeted him, and Wu Yong went to Yuncheng County to meet Zhang Bangchang, who had just arrived in Yuncheng today, to discuss Zhao'an matters.

"How?" Song Jiang greeted him and asked, "Have you seen Zhang Xiangguo?" ”

"Of course I do."

"Do you think he is sincere in recruiting an this time?"

Wu Yong smiled slightly, "The fact that the inferior function came back alive unscathed shows that the other party has enough sincerity." ”

Song Jiang was suddenly overjoyed, and hurriedly invited Wu Yong into the big tent, and he pushed the soldiers back, and then asked, "What did Zhang Xiangguo say?" ”

"I thought that Zhang Xiangguo was going to give me a dismount, but he was more eager than me, and personally ran out of the door to greet him, we had a good conversation, and they were willing to give the general what he wanted."

Song Jiang couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and said, "Let's talk about it specifically!" ”

"I saw the holy decree with my own eyes, and it was clearly written on the holy decree, General Feng opened the palace with the three divisions, the prince Shaobao, and added the seal to the special advance, and the specific official position was negotiated by Zhang Bangchang and us, and we can be given a choice."

"Speaking of which, how do you choose?"

Wu Yong took a sip of tea and continued: "If the eldest brother wants to be a military general, he can reorganize the Liangshan Army into the Huainan Army, and the eldest brother will be the governor of the capital and the envoy of the Huainan Jiedu to participate in the battle to destroy Fangla. ”

Song Jiang hesitated slightly, "Is Taiyuan Mansion and Chengdu Mansion okay?" ”

"Zhang Xiangguo just said that the five prefectures of Tokyo, Jingzhao, Luoyang, Daimyo and Yingtian are not good, and everything else is fine, naturally including Taiyuan Mansion and Chengdu Mansion."

After a pause, Wu Yong said again: "If you don't want to be the prefect, you can also stay in the court as an official, but Zhang Xiangguo suggested that it is best to go to the place as the prefect, or as a road transfer envoy, after all, everyone can get by on the face." ”

"What is the official position of the military advisor?"

"I am the doctor of Zhengwupin Zhongsan, I can be the prefect of Shangzhou or the prefect of Xiafu, Lu Junyi is the same as me, and the rest of the loyal generals are either the prefects of the county or the commanders, and the eldest brother will be rewarded with three thousand taels of gold, Lu Junyi and I will each have one thousand taels, and the rest of the generals will be rewarded with one hundred taels of gold, five hundred horses of silk, and all the loyal generals will each be rewarded with a manor."

"What about the army?" Song Jiang asked again.

"The soldiers are either disbanded and go home to farm, but they will not be held accountable, or they will be recruited and participate in the battle to destroy Fangla, and they will be rewarded after the war."

The conditions were indeed very favorable, but Song Jiang couldn't believe it, he took a few steps with his hands in his hands, and asked, "Does the military advisor think it's credible?" ”

Wu Yong nodded, "The Son of Heaven has already edicted the imperial court in the form of a holy decree, and sent Zhang Bangchang as a messenger, which is completely different from the last secret Zhao'an, and I heard that Fang La conquered Hangzhou, I think the imperial court is eager to solve our problems, Zhao'an should be sincere, in fact, I looked at the terms carefully, except for the general's reward, the others are similar to last time, indicating that the imperial court has no unrealistic concessions, I think it is credible, but ......"

"But what?" Song Jiang hurriedly asked.

"Zhang Xiangguo demanded that we must accept all of Zhao'an, not part of them accept Zhao'an, and the other part will continue to rebel, that is to say, this time Zhao'an must completely solve the problem of Liangshan Army, which is their only condition."

Song Jiang's head suddenly became big, this is also his big trouble! His army can accept Zhao'an, but what about Lu Junyi? Lu Junyi has to fight the court to the death.

Song Jiang sat aside and was silent, Wu understood in his heart, so he asked in a low voice, "Is Lu Junyi still resolutely refusing?" ”

Song Jiang shook his head, "The day I received the pigeon letter, I asked my brother Song Qing to test him, he has a very tough attitude, he would rather die in battle than surrender, as long as the official ships dare to enter Liangshan to anchor a step, he will set fire to the ship, there is no sign of compromise, Hu Cheng also resolutely supports him to resist to the end, it is a big head!" ”

Wu Yong snorted coldly, gritted his teeth and said: "The amount is not a gentleman, it is not a husband, it is not a husband, if the eldest brother wants to succeed, he can only kill the person who stands in his way." ”

Song Jiang was still a little hesitant, and if he killed Lu Junyi, his reputation in the Liangshan Army would be completely ruined.

Wu Yong said slowly: "Lu Junyi is already tracking down the matter of that list. ”

At the beginning, in order to recruit Lu Junyi and Hu Cheng to go up the mountain, Song Jiang threw a fake list to the government, which led to the killing of Lu Junyi's family and the death of Hu Cheng's mother.

"How would he know about that list?" Song Jiang asked.

"Big brother, don't forget, Ruan Xiaowu was also involved in this matter." Wu Yong reminded him.

Song Jiang suddenly came to his senses, he nodded slowly, if Lu Junyi knew about this, it must have been Ruan Xiaowu who leaked his mouth.

At this time, Wu Yong asked again: "Does Lu Junyi know about Zhao'an?" ”

Song Jiang shook his head, "I am tight-lipped about this matter, except for you and me and Dai Zong in the capital, no fourth person knows." ”

"Then what is the big brother hesitating about? Do you have to let Lu Junyi ruin our wealth? ”

"I'm worried that Lu Junyi's subordinates will rebel and cause an internal fire in Liangshan."

Wu Yong thought for a while and said: "Liu Tang, Sun Li, Wu Song, Lu Da and others don't have a deep friendship with Lu Junyi, they won't make trouble, at most they will scatter and leave, the Ruan brothers have a relationship with the eldest brother, and they will never participate in the internal fire, mainly Lin Chong and Hu Cheng, Lin Chong is going to the east coast tomorrow to inspect, we can invite Lu Junyi and Hu Cheng to discuss military affairs when Lin Chong goes to inspect, and then see if the eldest brother can do this?" ”

Song Jiang took a few steps, and finally gritted his teeth, if he wanted to do great things, he could only lose the righteousness of his brother.

He immediately turned around and ordered: "Go and find Wang Ying for me quickly!" ”

.........

In the afternoon of the next day, Lu Junyi received a military order from Song Jiang, saying that the imperial court had sent the general Zhang Lu to lead 300 warships and 30,000 sailors to Liangshanbo to support Tong Guan, and asked him and Hu Cheng to go to Daying quickly to discuss countermeasures.

Lu Junyi did not doubt it, he also thought that the imperial court would inevitably send naval warships to clear the Liangshan Water Army in the next step, and now most of the warships were in his hands, Song Jiang of course had to discuss with himself how to deal with it, so he called Hu Cheng and took dozens of personal soldiers to the camp on Shibrown Island in a dozen small boats to discuss the military situation.

Hu Cheng has been promoted to general and served as Lu Junyi's lieutenant general, sitting in the sixth deal in Liangshan, behind Song Jiang, Lu Junyi, Wu Yong, Lin Chong and Liu Tang.

But Hu Cheng didn't want to stay in Liangshan anymore, because Ruan Xiaowu told him one thing, that he was arrested by the government because of a list, and that list was written by Song Jiang, with his name and home address on it.

Only then did Hu Cheng know that Song Jiang was forcing him to go to Liangshan, and he himself did not reject Shangliangshan, but his mother died in prison because of this incident, if Li Yanqing hadn't rescued him in time, his daughter would have been sold into a brothel as a prostitute.

This made Hu Cheng hostile to Song Jiang in his heart, and also made him see through Song Jiang's hypocrisy and viciousness, if it weren't for the overall situation, he would have left Liangshan in a rage.

Lu Junyi also promised him that as long as he defeated Tong Guan's army this time, he would let him leave with his daughter.

"Daddy, since it's dealing with the enemy's navy, why doesn't Song Jiang invite the second uncle to discuss together, he is the commander of the navy!"

Yu Qing'er was extremely smart, she suddenly found out that there was something unreasonable in this, why didn't she let Ruan Xiaoer, the leader of the navy, come to discuss it.

Yu Cheng smiled, "Speaking of which, Uncle Lin should also come with him, but he is going to inspect the east coast today, and of course the second uncle will also be in charge of the navy." ”

"As long as the fifth and seventh uncles are in charge of the water army, I think the second uncle should come."

"Maybe the Lord of Song Zhai doesn't want to see him!"

Hu Cheng could guess the reason, the three heroes of the Ruan family abandoned Song Jiang to be loyal to Lu Junyi, how could Song Jiang not be annoyed, Song Jiang should still be angry, and he didn't want to see the three Ruan brothers.

Hu Cheng's explanation was more reasonable, but Hu Qing'er still didn't believe it, and after a while, more than a dozen small boats arrived in front of the Shibrown Island wharf, Lu Junyi had already gone up, beckoning to Hu Cheng, Hu Cheng smiled and said: "Qing'er, let's go up!" ”

"I don't want to see that disgusting bantam, father, go! I was waiting on the boat. ”

"I wouldn't have let you come if I had known."

Hu Cheng didn't force his daughter, so he went ashore directly.

"Daddy!"

"What's wrong again?" Hu Cheng looked back at his daughter.

Hu Qing'er bit her lip and said, "If there is no problem with Daddy entering the military camp, I will send someone to tell me." ”

"You're thinking nonsense again."

"I didn't! Daddy...."

"Alright! All right! I see, no problem, I'll send someone to tell you. ”

Hu Cheng shook his head, and walked away quickly with a few entourage, Hu Qing'er looked at her father walking away, she had an inexplicable worry in her heart.