The winter wind was howling, and between the white mountains and black soil in the northeast, the leader of the Jurchen tribe, Wanyan Aguta, established Dajin, and raised troops against the rule of the Khitans. In 1115 A.D., that is, on this day in October of the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Hui of the Song Dynasty, the city of Ningjiang Prefecture of the Liao State was breached, and there was the most cruel and dehumanizing scene in the history of human warfare, and the Jurchens fully exerted the most evil side of human nature, slaughtering the soldiers, the elderly, children, and middle-aged people in the city, and some babies who knew nothing in their swaddling clothes, and humiliated women of all sizes. Ah Guta looked at all this calmly and with a smile, and thought in his heart: "Jurchen from this moment. It's really a rebirth. From the beginning of confusion and cowardice, to the current cruelty and bravery. The Jurchen tribe finally got rid of the days when they were always afraid of eating. On October 10, Aguta sent people to recruit the Bohai people of the Tieli Department under the rule of the Liao Dynasty and the Jurchens of Liao nationality (the Jurchens of the Hosuguan who were incorporated into the Liao). Capture a large number of horses and belongings. On the 17th day of October, Ah Guta feasted the ministers again, drew his sword, raised it high, and said with confidence: "Heaven bless, the Jurchens rise up and destroy the Liao State. Right now." I didn't feel the slightest worry or fear that I only had more than 3,000 soldiers.

The capital of the Great Song Dynasty, Kaifeng Bianliang City, did not appear a little depressed because of the bleakness of the winter wind. The people came and went, creating the most prosperous, richest, most dazzling, and most populous metropolis in the history of the world. Tens of thousands of soldiers of the forbidden army were brightly guarding the imperial city representing the highest institution of the Great Song Dynasty. His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty should have been adhering to the decades of hardships of Emperor Taizuwu, and seriously handled the country's government affairs and people's livelihood in the imperial city. You shrugged your back, and Wang Huang, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, immediately shrugged his back and said: "Emperor Shenzong, Emperor Shenzong, you stretched out your feet, and ''''' the coffins of Emperor Shenzong and Sima Guang, who were hundreds of miles away, trembled, and almost didn't come back to life'''''''. It's straight and few people walk."

On the outskirts of Yanggu County, in the same winter wind, Wu Song rode his horse and led sixty neatly lined up sergeants to one of the two remaining bandit dens. Only to the very center of the sky when the sun rises. Wu Songcai ordered the soldiers to sit down and rest, eat some dry food and drink some water. Wu Song saw the village of more than 100 households in front of him, and a few puffs of smoke sparsely rose and felt a little confused. But I don't know that it is because only these few families are really not good at it, so they start to make food, a pot of wild vegetables and leaves, and sprinkle a few grains of grain. There were two children standing next to them, their eyes shining. Constant swallowing of saliva in the mouth. Wu Song is a kind-hearted person, if he knew this, it is estimated that he would send someone to send some food to them, and he had already asked Wu Da to take out dozens of stones and boil it into rice porridge for people to eat. He also gave some to some of the poor people whom he knew. He also asked Xu Han, the magistrate of the county, to take out a few hundred stones of grain to help the poor people nearby. To establish the image of the county magistrate who loves the people.

Wu Song saw that the sergeants had eaten and drunk. After resting for a while, he ordered the sergeants to continue on their way, and Wu Song boosted his morale, rode his horse, and headed towards his destination.

This time, the destination is Yanlou Village, which is located in the northwest of Yanggu County, and there are more than 180 mountain bandits, more than 20 archers, and more than 100 broadsword spearmen. It is the largest bandit force in Yanggu County. The leader of the cottage, he is also the biggest boss on the underworld in Yanggu County, with strong martial arts and is known as the living king of Hades. What the exact name is, no one knows. He is only known by his nickname, the Living Hades. The Living Yama used to be the sentry commander of the Northern Army, because of his high martial arts, he often robbed the people, and once raped and killed a woman. was pursued by his boss, and then he led a few soldiers from his fellow townsman, fled to Yanggu County, and became a robber. In the past ten years, he has killed countless people, because of his strong martial arts, the government has encircled and suppressed twice, and he has been defeated. Since then, it has become even more rampant, and the nearby towns and villages are taking turns to pay tribute to money and food. No one dared to touch its edge for hundreds of miles nearby.

When the living king heard that the army had come to conquer, he brought the two chieftains and all the minions to watch. When Wu Song arrived at the gate in a neat array, the Living Yama King was shocked. The secret path is not good: "I was born in the army, and when I saw that the array on the opposite side was neat and the orders were the same, compared to my original elite army, I was not far behind, and I thought that the number of people on the opposite side was not much, and it must be elite soldiers, so I didn't dare to fight." At this time, Yang Hu, the second leader of the cottage, said: "Brother, these boys. Dare to attack the village. I went to meet him for a while, and took the head of the leader and offered it to my brother... The second leader, Yang Hu, is a stout man, because when the living Hades robbed him, he saw him use a spear, which was very powerful, and he fought with the living Hades for thirty or forty rounds, regardless of victory or defeat, and led Yang Hu to the mountain to worship as a brother, and let him be the second leader of the cottage. Yang Hu has done a lot of bad things for himself, and he can be regarded as making a lot of contributions to the cottage. A few days ago, the Living Yama King also rewarded Yang Hu with a handsome girl of seventeen or eighteen years old. When the Living Yama King saw that Yang Hu wanted to fight, he wanted to refuse, but he was afraid that it would chill the morale of the brothers on the cottage, so he nodded, patted Yang Hu on the shoulder and said, "Be careful", and ordered Yang Hu to fight. I also want to see the depth of the other party, and if the other party is leading a straw bag, I will wave the army down. Cover it up. Let's see who will dare to encircle and suppress them in the future.

But seeing Yang Hu come out with a gun, Wu Song used a heavy plan, first shot the other party in the heart with a flying knife, and then shouted: "Die", and cut off the man's head. shouted loudly: "Surrender or kill" was about to open the gate of the wall, and the living king of Hades was terrified. The little minions were also shocked that the six gods were without masters. When the living king of Yama saw that Wu Song was coming to snatch the gate of the wall, he ordered the archers to release their arrows, and saw that the little minions were so frightened that the six gods were left without a master, and no one shot dryly. He rebuked and cut off the head of a frightened archer, and shouted and ordered everyone to shoot arrows. The crowd drew their bows and shot arrows. Wu Song saw the other party shooting arrows, and he couldn't open the gate of the walled wall.

Wu Song ordered sixty sergeants to shout: "Those who kneel on the ground and abandon the blade will not die, and he will use his strong bow to aim at the bandits standing on the wall, and shout: "Die" saw a minions who were shooting arrows lose their lives, and more than ten voices came down, and more than ten bandits fell to the ground with arrows. All the archers on the mountain were shot to death by Wu Song, and the minions on the mountain were so frightened that they no longer had the courage to resist, and they all fell to their knees. At this time, Wu Song opened the gate of the village, rode forward on horseback, and shouted: "Death", the living king of Hades was about to resist, and suddenly a flying knife hit the back of the heart, and then his head was cut off. Wu Song picked his head and shouted: "Those who kneel and bow their heads live, and those who get up and raise their heads die" and then occupied the camp. Then he ordered someone to find the county order to report the good news. The county order was overjoyed, and immediately sent someone to count the money and grain in the village, ordered someone to carry it, and escorted the prisoners. Back in the county

Wu Song told the magistrate of the county, ordered someone to carry the heads of the living king of Hades and Yang Hu, and took thirty soldiers to the last bandit den. Jin Dou Zhai went away, and when he arrived at the front of the village, Wu Song ordered people to throw the heads of the two thieves into the village, and then ordered the bandits in the village to disarm and surrender, otherwise the two thieves in Yanlou Village would be the end. Jin Dou Zhai is located in the north of Yanlou Zhai ten miles nearby, there are one hundred and ten bandits in the village, the owner of the village is called Jin Dabiao, is a man about thirty years old, because in the early years, killed a bully, the bully's family made money, and killed him when the government wanted to arrest him, after he heard the news, gathered several brothers from the same township, and killed the whole family of the bully. On the mountain for bandits, a few years ago, the living Yama came to the fire and, he was good at using a big knife, and the living Yama, killed more than 50 rounds, regardless of victory or defeat, and later after negotiation, willing to nominally serve the living Yama as the boss, regularly filial piety to some money, grain, wine and meat, divided the boundary, agreed to the alliance. One is in distress, and the other must come to the rescue. A few years ago, he also went to help the living king of Hades defeat some officials and soldiers. This time I suddenly saw the heads of the living Yama King and Yang Hu, and I didn't receive any signal, but when I saw that the blood on the two heads had not dried up, I knew that it was difficult to resist, so I ordered someone to tie myself up, opened the gate of the village to surrender, and knelt down when I saw Wu Song and said: "The villain has done a lot of evil, and he knows that it is difficult to live, and his brothers in the village are all hard-working people, and he is willing to die, and he only asks the general to leave a way for the brothers to live.".

Then he wept bitterly and fell to the ground. Wu Song knew that Jin Dabiao was usually a decent person and rarely killed the merchants, so he promised to spare him from death, and then sorted out his belongings, money and food, and escorted them all back to the county. Wu Song told the county magistrate about Jin Dabiao's situation, and then asked the county magistrate to give him a way to live. The county magistrate knew that Jin Dabiao was also forced to be a bandit, so he agreed to Wu Song, and then told Wu Song to let Jin Dabiao change his name to Wu San and be exempted from the crime. Stay with Wu Song and obey orders.

The seizures of the two cottages were as follows: 340 taels of gold, 23,000 taels of silver, 45,000 taels of copper coins, and 8,900 stones of grain. Jin Dou Zhai: 4,500 taels of silver, 13,000 copper coins. 5,500 grains. It was three hundred and forty taels of gold, twenty-seven thousand five hundred taels of silver, and fifty-eight thousand pieces of copper. 14,400 stone of grain.

This time, the two thieves were broken, and the bandits in Yanggu County have all been cleared, and Wu Song reported to the county order: "On the way to suppress the bandits, I saw that there was little cooking smoke in the people's homes, and the people were hungry. Today, there are many bandits in the county, why not give the surplus food to the poor people, so that all the people in the county can feel the kindness of the county, and when the people set up a monument and set up a shrine, the grace will be passed down through the ages. When the court knows your virtue, it will definitely treat you differently and use it even more. Xu Han was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately agreed.

Wu Song said: "Enxiang can recruit the people, repair the roads in the county, and then send people to record merit and distribute grain, so as to ensure that the grain can reach the poor people. When the roads in the county are smooth, there will be great governance, and the grace will be fame and fortune. Xu Han Daxi immediately ordered Wu Song to supervise the implementation of the policy of taking 10,000 stones of seized grain for this time. Here it is said that the next stone of grain is about 97 catties, and 10,000 stone is 970,000 catties.

Xu Ming gave 8,000 copper coins to Wu Song, 5,000 copper coins to the county governor, the main body, and the county lieutenant, and took 340 taels of gold and 2,000 taels of silver to the state capital to make points and report the merits. 5,000 silver, 7,000 copper coins, and 3,000 stone of grain were entered into the treasury, and the county's officials and accompanying meritorious personnel were rewarded. The rest is pulled into his own house. So the whole county rejoiced.

After Wu Song took 10,000 stone of grain, he summoned the squires of various towns and towns and warned them that the grain obtained from the bandits this time would be used as a reward for the people who built the road, and that everyone could take 10% of it as a hardship fee, and the rest was not allowed to embezzle a penny, otherwise he would definitely let his family be ruined.

Wu Song rode a horse to inspect everywhere for several days in a row. If you see a person who is greedy for ink, you will be punished. At this time, Wu Song was also well-known, and his friends in the rivers and lakes gave him a nickname: white-faced Zhong Kui. Wu Song