Chapter 217: The Situation Expands
Leaving Zhongdu County all the way to the north is the hilly area, this area is hilly and undulating, the woods are dense, sparsely populated, it is a good area for bandits to infest, Li Yanqing rode a horse along the official road slowly, the head is the scorching sun, the weather is very dry, a gust of wind blows, the official road immediately blows dust, making it difficult for passers-by to walk, the official road is lined with grass and shrubs on both sides, and then there is a large forest in the distance. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Li Yanqing didn't dare to be careless at this time, he put his bow and arrows across the saddle, and watched vigilantly the movements in the woods on both sides, he had walked for more than twenty miles, and still nothing abnormal happened.
At this time, a sharp whistle came from the woods, and more than a dozen men with weapons appeared on the official road in the distance, Li Yanqing immediately reined in his horse, and the other party finally came.
He looked back again, and saw more than a dozen people running out of the woods dozens of paces behind him, blocking his future and back road, but there were not many of them, less than forty in total.
Li Yanqing has adjusted the bow and arrows to the best state, ready to shoot arrows at any time, what he cares about now is not the bandits in front and back, but the archers in ambush in the woods on the east and west sides, since the bandits in front and behind have no archers, so where are the archers on the other side?
Li Yanqing quickly found the answer, the archer was on the west side, and he saw more than a dozen figures swaying in the woods, and they stopped in an instant, obviously raising a bow and crossbow aimed at him, but Li Yanqing was not worried, since the other party wanted his horse, the other party would not release the arrow at the critical moment.
At this time, a man yelled in front of him, and saw that he was wrapped in gauze around his neck, which was Yang Hu, the fake head of the capital who was cut by him yesterday.
But Li Yanqing was not concerned about him, but the general next to him, I saw that this person was also riding a horse, with a spear in front of the horse, about thirty years old, lean and thin, dark skin, wearing a black hammer armor of the Song army, wearing an iron helmet and a sash, looking like a black charcoal from a distance.
Yesterday, the scribe taught Li Yanqing how to identify the status of the Liangshan bandit generals, one is to look at the mounts, there are very few horses in Liangshan, only fast horse spies and generals above the command can ride horses, and the second is to look at the armor, small leaders like Yang Hu are not qualified to wear armor, and only generals above the command can wear armor and helmets, Liangshan has a total of 30 commanders, they each have their own responsibilities, like the three heroes of the Ruan family belong to the system.
If the other party is wearing a silver helmet, it is the core general of Liangshan, there are a total of ten people, called generals, and there are only two generals wearing golden helmets, Song Jiang and Chao Gai, they call themselves generals, and there are a total of 5,000 bandits under their command.
The general in front of him was obviously one of the thirty commanders, and Song Jiang sent eight commanders down the mountain to inquire about various intelligences, and the commander in charge of the southeast direction was called Liu Gao, that is, Yang Hu's top boss.
Liu Gao is nicknamed Black Impermanence, and his brother red-haired ghost Liu Tang is also a coward in Liangshan, but he belongs to the core generals, and Liu Gao himself is one of Chao Gai's henchmen, responsible for intelligence exploration in the southeast, and at the same time raising military funds for Liangshan, Zhongdu County is under his jurisdiction.
Yesterday, he received news from his henchman Yang Hu that a black-faced young man rode an extremely strong white horse through Zhongdu County and cut Yang Hu's throat.
Not to mention that his subordinates suffered a big loss, Liu Gao couldn't sit idly by, just because the other party had a horse, he would also be tempted, the old lord Chao Gai has been distressed by the lack of a good mount, and he once confessed that he was looking for a good horse for him, and he also confessed, so it happened that Yang Hu wanted to seize Li Yanqing's mount by unscrupulous means.
At this time, Liu Gao looked at the war horse under Li Yanqing's crotch, and saw that this white horse was snow-white, without a single miscellaneous hair, and it was majestic, with slender limbs, and it was a rare BMW.
Liu Gao was overjoyed in his heart, now he could let the old lord get his wish, he looked at Li Yanqing again, and saw that he was wearing a golden crown and a lilac samurai uniform, and the fabric seemed to be woven with extremely expensive flowers, Liu Gao also had a little knowledge, he knew that this kind of flower training was more expensive than Shu brocade, and the people who wore this kind of cloth were either rich or expensive, plus the other party had a black face and white eyebrows, and he looked quite different, so he was cautious in his heart.
He said to one of his henchmen: "You go and ask the other party where he came from, and just say that I don't want to hurt his life, let him get off the horse and leave." ”
Xiao Xiao ran away, thirty steps away from Li Yanqing and shouted, "Who are you?" ”
Li Yanqing scolded: "You don't care who is in this ya, the subordinates in this yaya have been captured by you, and Lao Tzu will be released immediately, otherwise Ben Yanei will kill Liangshan and rip off Song Jiang and Chao Gai, the two dog thieves!" ”
Xiao Xiaoxiao's face changed greatly, and he rushed back to report, Liu Gao was suddenly furious, since he toasted and didn't eat and drink, he didn't blame him for being ruthless.
He urged the horse to run towards Li Yanqing, at this time, Li Yanqing was ready, and when the other party was still a hundred steps away from him, he immediately urged the horse to gallop to the side, and two consecutive arrows shot towards Liu Gao, the speed of the two arrows was incomparably fast, and it was in front of Liu Gao's eyes in the blink of an eye.
Liu Gao was taken aback, and hurriedly dodged sideways, one shot above his left shoulder, but he couldn't dodge the other arrow, the second arrow hit his left chest, although he was wearing black hammer armor, but Li Yanqing used an armor-piercing arrow, the tip of the arrow was spindle-shaped, thin and long, and could be shot through the gap in the armor.
The second arrow, 'Poof!' The ground shot into Liu Gao's left chest, causing him to scream in pain, but what was really fatal was the third arrow that was immediately shot, this arrow calculated the direction of Liu Gao's side, just when Liu Gao was screaming in pain by the arrow in his left chest, the third arrow had arrived, hitting Liu Gao's face, this arrow pierced Liu Gao's head, Liu Gao was killed immediately, 'Plop! With a bang, the corpse fell from the horse.
Li Yanqing was as fast as a horse, he picked up the spear on the ground, and stabbed Liu Gao's war horse in the buttocks, the war horse neighed miserably, and spread the four hooves Li Yanqing's war horse galloped, so that Liu Gao's war horse became a shield.
Li Yanqing prostrated himself on the white horse, galloping on the horse, more than a dozen crossbow arrows flew over his head, and suddenly, Liu Gao's war horse neighed, he was hit by three arrows in a row, and fell to the ground.
He unleashed his spear, flipped up and down, and stabbed several people in a row, although his marksmanship was far from comparable to his archery, but it was enough to deal with these little minions.
At this time, dozens of minions were stunned, Liu Tong was hit by an arrow, he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, this black face was extremely fierce, and he was killed by Li Yanqing in a panic to open a gap and rushed through the blockade.
More than a dozen crossbowmen rushed out of the woods, aiming at Li Yanqing's back with their crossbows, Li Yanqing turned around and shot five arrows in a row, and one of them would fall to the ground screaming for each arrow, so frightened that the rest of the crossbowmen threw themselves on the ground, and when they got up to look for it again, Li Yanqing had already run away.
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Liangshanbo was called Juyeze in the Sui and Tang dynasties, it is the largest lake in the Central Plains, although the vicissitudes of the sea have changed several times, Liangshanbo is still the largest lake in the Central Plains and Shandong, the waves are vast, endless, spanning Yunzhou and Jeju, with a radius of nearly 1,000 miles, and is also known as Liangshanbo of 800 miles.
The shore of Liangshanbo Lake is covered with reeds for more than ten miles, and there are hundreds of islands of all sizes and more than a dozen fishing villages.
Liangshan is located in the northwest corner of Liangshanbo, Liangshan is dozens of miles in radius, the terrain is precipitous, the mountains are dense, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, for more than 100 years, Liangshan and Liangshanbo have been the paradise of bandits, there are more than a dozen bandits of large and small, living by looting and fishing and hunting, since the Song River went up the mountain, he spent five years to unify the bandits of Liangshanbo, and reorganized into the Liangshan Righteous Army.
In recent years, Yang Jian established the Xicheng Institute in Yunzhou, and frantically plundered the land, water, and forest resources, resulting in the bankruptcy of countless peasants, and more and more people fled into Liangshan to fall into the grass, which made the Liangshan Righteous Army rise in momentum, and had 5,000 troops and controlled more than 100,000 people.
In the afternoon, dozens of sentinels on the southeast road transported Liu Gao's body back to Liangshanbo, and Ruan Xiaoqi, who was in Zhaoxian Village, Liangshanbo, was shocked when he received the news, and hurriedly sent a pigeon letter to Liangshan Dazhai, and arranged for a boat to send Liu Gao's body to Liangshan.