Since Hou Meng was killed in Rencheng County, Song Jiang suddenly realized that the imperial court had the idea of compromising with himself, although Zhao'an did not succeed, but in order to obtain greater negotiation costs and raise the threshold for negotiation, Song Jiang launched a spring offensive, divided his troops into several attacks, successively occupied Yanzhou, Puzhou, Qizhou and Zizhou, and increased troops to the Daimyo's Mansion in an attempt to seize the Daimyo's city and exert greater political pressure on the imperial court.

But what Song Jiang was waiting for was a new round of encirclement and suppression by the imperial court, the imperial court has appointed the prince as the commander, and the master Dao as the deputy marshal, ready to lead an army of 30,000 to conquer the Liangshan army, which made Song Jiang shocked and angry, he vowed to let the imperial court taste the fiasco again, and only 30,000 troops wanted to exterminate themselves.

Liangshan Army is also actively preparing for the upcoming war, in the room, Song Jiangzheng and Deputy General Lu Junyi, military advisor Wu Yong discussed countermeasures, although there was a rift between Song Jiang and Lu Junyi because of some events, but in order to deal with the upcoming attack of officers and soldiers, Song Jiang had to take the initiative to soften his posture and reconcile with Lu Junyi.

Wu Yong unfolded a map and said to Song Jiang and Lu Junyi: "Our biggest advantage is to control Liangshanbo, and the grain transport fleet of officers and soldiers will inevitably pass through Liangshanbo, and how to make full use of our own advantages is still the key to our victory this time." ”

"Does that need to concentrate the army?"

Lu Junyi said: "At present, our army is too scattered, the strength of Sucheng is less than 20,000 people, and it is easy to be broken by each one, although the other party only has 30,000 troops, it is still difficult to deal with if it is clenched into a fist." ”

Song Jiang pondered and said: "If we withdraw our troops, the several states and counties we occupy this month will be lost, it is better to selectively concentrate, some states and counties can be abandoned, but the states and counties with large populations and fertile land are better to be retained, we mean that we will concentrate 80,000 troops and leave 20,000 troops to occupy important states and counties." ”

At this time, a soldier outside the door reported: "General Qiyu, urgent news from the Daimyo's Mansion!" ”

"Come in!"

A soldier walked in quickly and presented a pigeon letter to Song Jiang, Song Jiang slowly unfolded the pigeon letter and read it, and said to the two: "It's Guan Sheng's pigeon letter, and the imperial court has sent troops to the Daimyo's mansion." ”

Wu Yong and Lu Junyi glanced at each other, and the two asked in unison, "How many troops are there?" ”

Song Jiang shook his head, "They don't know either, but it is clear that a thousand cavalry have appeared." ”

The Liangshan army and the officers and soldiers fought four battles, and they all knew the configuration of officers and soldiers better, generally one to five, one cavalry corresponds to five infantry, if it was a thousand cavalry, then there should be 5,000 infantry, indicating that 6,000 officers and soldiers had entered the Daimyo's mansion, which was obviously a firefighting team.

"How?"

Lu Junyi asked, "Is the Daimyo Mansion guaranteed or not?" ”

Song Jiang got up and walked a few steps, looking at Wu Yong inquiringly, Wu Yong thought for a while and said: "At present, we have 6,000 garrisons in the Daimyo Mansion, and there are 3,000 garrisons in Bozhou, I suggest temporarily abandon Bozhou and concentrate the army in the Daimyo Mansion, even if there are 6,000 officers and soldiers, we may not lose, I think we can understand the details of the imperial army this time through the battle of the Daimyo Mansion, and provide a good idea for our next military deployment." ”

Song Jiang nodded, Wu Yong's suggestion went up to his heart, seeing the big from the small, through the battle of the Daimyo's Mansion, he knew how to move next.

He said without hesitation: "Then fight and transfer the army of Bozhou to the Daimyo's Mansion!" ”

Wu Yong hurriedly gave Song Jiang a look, and Song Jiang realized that he had not asked Lu Junyi's opinion at all, so he hurriedly made up for his mistake and asked Lu Junyi again, "What about General Lu's opinion?" ”

Lu Junyi said lightly: "Since the owner of the village has decided to protect the Daimyo's Mansion, I have no opinion, but I don't vomit at all!" ”

"General, please!"

"Our intelligence is too weak, we don't know anything about the officers and soldiers going north to the Daimyo's mansion, and we still don't know anything about the current situation of the officers and soldiers preparing for war, and we will suffer a big loss if we fight with our heads covered in this way."

Song Jiang said for a while: "I will urge Dai Zong and let him strengthen intelligence, after all, it is difficult for us to get access to the upper echelons of the imperial court, and it is difficult to get some key information." ”

"Actually, I don't mean that, I think there are only a few official roads to go out of Bianjing, we open an inn and teahouse on each road, and we can have a general understanding of the army movement, so as not to use the method of estimation to determine how many reinforcements from the Daimyo Mansion are coming? What if it's not six thousand? ”

Song Jiang's face was a little unbearable, so he had to deal with it: "I'll review this matter again!" Follow General Lu's advice as soon as possible. ”

………..

About ten miles south of Shen County, there is a Yellow River wharf that is not very large, and its opposite bank is Yanggu County in Puzhou, although this wharf is not big, but it is very important to the Liangshan Army of the Daimyo Mansion, and all the material replenishment and personnel transportation of the Liangshan Army of the Daimyo Mansion are from here.

In fact, it is also the only Yellow River wharf in the Daimyo Mansion, and the Daimyofu does not attach importance to the transportation of the Yellow River, and most of its transportation goes south from the Yongji Canal, but the significance of this wharf to the Liangshan Army is extraordinary.

At noon, more than a dozen large ships sailing from the other side of the Yellow River were unloading their cargo at the wharf, and this time they were all sending firearms, including fire crows, fire crows, rockets, and so on, which were tens of thousands, and there were also a number of siege ladders, which numbered more than 300 planes.

These were war materials sent to capture the Daimyo Castle as soon as possible, and although the situation in the Daimyo Mansion had changed subtly, the material delivery of the Liangshan Army was still going according to plan.

At this time, a rapid sound of horses' hooves rushed from far and near, and more than a dozen Liangshan soldiers who were unloading their goods stood up straight and looked at the sound of horses' hooves, and a boatman squatting on the bow of the boat 'quack! He laughed, "You actually got a horse?" ”

None of them paid attention to the sound of horses' hooves, they did not know that the war was coming, and in a moment, the cavalry was dozens of paces away, and the dust was flying, and it was impossible to see how many troops had arrived, and at this moment, an arrow 'swished' from the dust! The shot came, and the Liangshan army led by him was caught off guard, and the arrow hit the front chest, and he screamed and fell on his back.

Everyone on the dock froze, at this time, dozens of arrows were fired, the boatman and the unloading soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and the remaining soldiers came to their senses, turned their heads and ran wildly, only for a moment, the cavalry team rushed to the dock, Wang Gui shouted: "Don't chase the enemy, burn the ship and burn the dock first!" ”

A soldier suddenly pointed to the firearms stacked on the dock and shouted, "All heads, they are all firearms!" ”

"Fuck it!"

Wang Gui scolded and shouted: "Don't set fires, throw all firearms into the Yellow River." ”

The soldiers dismounted one after another and began to throw away their firearms, and dozens of soldiers rushed onto the boat, driving out the boatmen hiding in the boat, and dozens of boatmen squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, one by one trembling with fear.

The soldiers quickly threw the unloaded firearms into the river, and they began to light the torches and threw them at the big ship, which still had half of the firearms unloaded, and in a few moments began to explode violently one after another, blowing up a dozen large ships and three hundred siege ladders and sinking them into the Yellow River, and the cavalry set fire to several large warehouses full of grain on the docks, and the warehouses soon began to burn.

"Withdraw!" Wang Gui shouted, turned around and left.

"Dutou, what are they going to do?" A soldier asked, pointing to dozens of boatmen who were on their knees in fright and begging for mercy.

Wang Gui glanced at them, shook his head and said, "Spare their lives and leave quickly!" ”

A hundred horsemen galloped away like a gust of wind, and it was not until they were far away that dozens of boatmen got up and fled in all directions, and the ships were destroyed, and they had to flee home.

Half an hour later, Guan Sheng, who heard the explosion, led more than 1,000 soldiers to the wharf of the Yellow River, where the wharf and ships were completely blown up, but the warehouse was still burning, and at least half of the grain in it was still intact.

Guan Sheng hurriedly shouted: "Quickly put out the fire!" ”

The soldiers rushed to the Yellow River and began to scoop water to put out the fire, and in a forest two miles away, Li Yanqing led a thousand cavalry to look coldly at the Liangshan soldiers who were busy fighting the fire, and only then did they attract a thousand soldiers, just enough for them to stuff their teeth.

Li Yanqing turned back to Wang Gui and Niu Gao and ordered: "Attack!" ”

The trumpet sounded, and a thousand horsemen burst out of the woods and struck at the docks, two miles away.

Li Yanqing immediately shouted at the 1,000 infantrymen, "Follow me!" ”

He also led dozens of cavalry to rush out of the woods and rush towards Shen County, if Shen County reinforcements came to help, they would just fall into the net of his infantry.