The soldiers of the Liangshan Army gathered in the open space at the east end of the village, which was the meeting place of the village's Spring Festival, and not far away there was a land temple that was about to collapse.

Zhang Cen stood on a high place, silently waiting for the soldiers to assemble, and waited for a quarter of an hour, and finally a dozen soldiers ran out of the village, leaving only more than 2,300 soldiers, and the camp was only an hour and a half, and the soldiers fled more than 1,700 people, and I am afraid that by dawn, the army would have only more than 1,000 people left.

The soldiers huddled together in a chaotic manner, and everyone craned their necks, waiting for the main general to speak.

Zhang Cen sighed in his heart, and slowly said to everyone: "Now, I don't want to deny it, our combat effectiveness has been lost, once the enemy army is fully attacked, we will be slaughtered, so I have something to tell you clearly, Shen County and Gaotang County failed to rescue twice, and the owner of the village will not rescue the third time, even if we go to Texas, we can only rely on ourselves to escape."

There is a box army in Texas waiting for us, and at least a thousand cavalry are following us like wolves ten miles behind us, and they will hunt us down at any time, but we have no food, and everyone will be hungry tomorrow morning, and I don't know if we can grab food in front, or if the Texas army is waiting for us in front....."

Zhang Cen's voice was a little choked, he endured his grief and continued: "We are actually cornered, the future is dark, even General Guan is gone, I will give you a choice now, if you want to leave, want to escape by yourself, I will not stop you, if you want to continue to follow me, I can only try my best to take everyone to break through and escape, see if you can find a fishing boat by the Yellow River, everyone choose!" Half an hour later I set off. ”

There was silence for a long time, 'Dangchang! With a sound, someone put down their weapons and turned to leave the team, and then more soldiers began to silently take off their armor, put down their weapons, and left in twos and threes.

Zhang Cen did not stop him, calmly waiting for everyone's choice, even the deputy general Guan Sheng also left, everyone no longer had any nostalgia, more and more people left, about a quarter of an hour later, there were only more than 300 people left in the team, all of them were the old brothers who followed Zhang Cen in Liangshan at the beginning, Zhang Cen couldn't help but sigh, hugged his fists and said to everyone: "I, Zhang Cen, am sorry for everyone!" ”

"Big brother, don't say this, we want to enjoy the blessings together, and we will share the difficulties, it's a big deal that we will go up the mountain again to be the king and live a happy life!"

Everyone shouted together: "Big brother, go up the mountain!" ”

Zhang Cen nodded, "Since everyone thinks so, then pack up the armor and find a way to cross the river and go to Qizhou to occupy the mountain and become the king!" ”

Zhang Cen also let go, and he had no shame to see Song Jiang, so he simply broke away from the Liangshan army and went to his hometown Qizhou to occupy the mountain as the king again.

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The 1,000 cavalry led by Li Yanqing was in the woods three miles away from the Liangshan Army, and the soldiers did not rest, but maintained a combat state, riding horses and holding spears, and were ready for battle, and 500 infantry had been dispatched and distributed at various intersections, responsible for strangling the fleeing Liangshan Army soldiers.

Li Yanqing's face was expressionless, staring coldly at the dark village in the distance, he already knew that a large number of soldiers had fled on the other side, and the military spirit of this Liangshan army had completely collapsed and was about to perish.

At this time, a soldier rushed over, bowed down and said, "General Qiyu, we have captured the enemy's adjutant general!" ”

As soon as Li Yanqing turned around, he saw Guan Sheng being pushed up by the soldiers, and someone behind him was leading his horse and holding his weapon, and Guan Sheng was caught by the soldiers of the Xuanwu Battalion who were ambushed on the periphery with a trawl net.

Guan Sheng was embarrassed and indignant, turned his face and said nothing, Li Yanqing looked at him silently for a moment, and ordered left and right: "Let him go!" ”

"You.... You're going to let me go? Guan Sheng looked at Li Yanqing in surprise.

Li Yanqing said lightly: "You are from Zhaozhou, Hebei, I hope that one day you will organize the township soldiers to block the iron hooves of the Jurchens, go!" ”

The soldiers untied the ropes of Guan Sheng and returned the war horse and the broadsword to him, Guan Sheng glanced at Li Yanqing deeply, and urged the horse to run into the distance.

Wang Gui was a little worried behind Li Yanqing and said, "What if he defects to Song Jiang again?" ”

Li Yanqing shook his head, "His only way out is to return to his hometown to farm, if he is lucky, the court may let him go, if he is unlucky, it is his own problem." ”

"But what if someone in the imperial court uses this matter against the general, saying that the general will release prisoners of war privately?"

Li Yanqing glanced at Wang Gui coldly, "You have to remember one thing, you can't look ahead and backward in the future, you are always worried about this and that, then you can't do anything, understand?" ”

Wang Gui was ashamed and said: "I understand the humble position. ”

The sound of horses' hooves sounded in the distance, and a cavalry spy galloped over, "General Qiyu, Zhang Cen has left with the soldiers." ”

"How many are there?"

"About three or four hundred!"

The moment of lore finally came, and Li Yanqing immediately shouted: "Catch up with the enemy, kill no matter what, and get Zhang Cen's head, remember the great merit, and the reward will be one hundred taels!" ”

A thousand cavalry suddenly launched, and they rushed up to the official road, and pursued them to the north like a lightning speed, and twenty miles ahead of them was the border of Texas, and they wanted to annihilate this desperate army before the border of Texas.

Running less than ten miles, Wang Gui was the first to spot the figures of hundreds of people in front of him, and he shouted: "Just ahead, brothers, follow me to kill!" ”

A hundred paces away, the desperate Zhang Cen and three hundred soldiers opened their bows and arrows, Zhang Cen shouted, they shot the last round of arrows, and watched in despair as thousands of cavalry swept towards them.....

On the last day of March, which lasted more than a month, the 10,000 Liangshan troops entrenched in Hebei were completely wiped out by the Xuanwu battalion army led by Li Yanqing, the main general Zhang Cen died under Wang Gui's knife, the whereabouts of the deputy general Guan Sheng were unknown, and the 10,000 Liangshan troops in Hebei were completely wiped out.

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Wuzhang River is also called Guangji River, is a direct waterway through Liangshanbo in Bianjing, and is also the most important transportation channel for Kaifeng Mansion to Jingdong Road, several battles to encircle and suppress Liangshan Army, a large number of logistics materials of officers and soldiers are transported to Yunzhou from here.

The 30,000-strong army of the Planter Dao this time was no exception, and hundreds of ships loaded with grain, grass and various strategic materials stretched for more than 20 miles, mobilizing thousands of slender men to pull the fleet slowly along.

The 30,000-strong army marched in formation on both sides of the strait, waving flags and waving the sky, overwhelming the sky, the marching war drums rumbled and beaten, and the low sound of trumpets came from time to time in the ranks, invigorating the morale of the troops.

This expedition, nominally the prince is the commander-in-chief, but the prince is the country's capital, and it is not suitable to go out of Beijing, so the prince is only the title of the commander of the remote lord, indicating that the imperial court attaches great importance to this suppression of bandits, but the person who really leads the army is the veteran general, and Zhang Shuye also has to be reused, serving as the marching Sima, plus a veteran general Zong Ze in charge of logistics and military affairs, this expedition, the imperial court is bound to win.

In the afternoon of this day, the army arrived in Jiyin County, Heungin Province, and after walking a hundred miles, the team will enter Jeju. ”

He is not in a hurry, but to fight steadily and steadily, but this does not mean that he will not surprise his troops, and he will send Li Yanqing to Hebei to suppress bandits, which is a sharp soldier he sent, a wonderful finishing touch in strategy.

The 30,000-strong army soon set up a large camp, with 200,000 spears planted around it, and thousands of peripheral scouts deployed to defend the camp layer by layer, turning the camp into an iron barrel.

In the camp, the seed master Dao was discussing the strategy of marching with Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze, although the seed master Dao marched in a high-profile manner and created momentum, but he was extremely cautious in the use of troops, and he would not despise the Liangshan army, he knew that he only had 30,000 people, far less than the 100,000 army of the Liangshan army.

Seed Master Dao pointed to Liangshan Bo on the map and said: "Liangshan Shuibo is eight hundred miles in radius, there are dozens of large and small islands in it, all valuable islands are controlled by the Liangshan Army, we failed to attack the Liangshan Army twice before, and lost thousands of warships, according to the information I have gotten, there are about five hundred ships in the hands of the Liangshan Army, of which more than one hundred are in the Yellow River, and the rest are hidden in Liangshan Shuibo, in addition to a few hundred warships, they also have eight thousand soldiers, distributed on the eight islands of Liangshanbo, very hidden, If we rashly enter the Liangshan water, our fleet will inevitably be wiped out, there can be no doubt about this. ”

Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze glanced at each other, and Zhang Shuye asked in surprise: "How did the old general get the important information about the number of warships and the number of sailors?" ”

Seed Master Dao smiled slightly, "It was obtained by Li Yanqing before, not only do I know that they have eight thousand sailors, but I also know which eight islands they are located on." ”

He pointed to the map and said, "Do you see it, this is the detailed map of Liangshan Shuibo, there are more than 20 islands that can be garrisoned, and I have indicated the eight islands, Shibrown Island, Changzi Island, Shuangxing Road, Straw Shoes Island, ......, Liangshan Army has eight water camps, which are distributed on these eight islands, and there are 2,000 troops on the mountain, and there are about 10,000 garrisons in the entire Liangshan nest." ”

Uncle Zhang's spirits perked up, with such detailed information, why worry about the chaos and bandits, he hurriedly asked, "How does the marshal plan to enter the army?" ”

Seed Master Dao pointed to a location on the map about ten miles away from the mouth of the lake and said: "This place is called Dawang Village, only ten miles away from the mouth of the lake, only two miles away from the official road, it is the closest place between the Wuzhang River and the official road, I plan to station the camp here, take Juye County, and then use Juye County as a logistics center to fight a few hard battles with the Liangshan army." ”

At this moment, a pro-soldier in the big tent reported urgently, "Commander Qiqi, there is an urgent war report from Hebei!" ”