Chapter 157: Hidden Soldiers
The next time, the Liangshan army returned to the mountain from Dongchang Mansion, and there were no pursuers, and the money and grain of Dongchang Mansion were carried out.
However, it was said that after receiving Gao Lian's letter for help, Gao Yu in Tokyo hurriedly ordered all the soldiers and horses of Hebei Prefecture to rescue Gaotang Prefecture, thinking that he could easily defeat the Liangshan bandits.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, news came that the Liangshan thieves broke Gaotang Prefecture, and defeated the soldiers and horses rescued by Dongchang Mansion, Lingzhou, and Daimyo's Mansion, and publicly executed his uncle and brother Gao Lian in Dongchang Mansion.
When Gao Yu heard the news, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
There is only one Gao Lian who can be on the table of his Gao family, and the other uncles and brothers are either scoundrels in the market or ordinary people who are honest and honest, and the mud can't support the wall, even if he has a way, the rest of them can't be officials.
And now the matter of Lianjin to destroy Liao has become a foregone conclusion, Gao Lian is a chess piece for him to fight for, as long as the Liao comes back, Gao Lian will also be able to rise to the court, and then his Gao family will be able to go to the next level, with Gao Lian's help, his position will be more stable.
But now all the plans are stillborn, and the weapons that he allocated to Gao Lian privately are also cheaper than the Liangshan thieves.
Thinking of the hatred, Gao Yu immediately asked people to prepare horses to come to Liang Shicheng's mansion.
Liang Shicheng won the trust of the Son of Heaven, and when today's son was mediocre, he was obsessed with calligraphy and painting and other miscellaneous arts, and sometimes he didn't care about reviewing the recitals, so he asked Liang Shicheng to ghostwrite.
Later, Liang Shicheng asked someone to forge the holy decree according to the handwriting of the Son of Heaven, so he was so powerful that everyone in the court knew that he was "hidden".
After Cai Jingzhishi, Liang Shicheng has no one to compete with.
Although Liang Shicheng was a eunuch, he was quite favored by the emperor, so the emperor gave him a house outside the palace and allowed him to live outside the palace.
Gao Yu went to Liang Shicheng, and told the Liangshan thieves about the ransacking of Gaotang Prefecture and Dongchang Mansion and the killing of his brother Gao Lian, and then asked Liang Shicheng to send troops to avenge him.
When Liang Shicheng heard this, he couldn't help frowning and said: "Last year, this group of thieves robbed Cai Jing's Shengchengang and Dongping Mansion, and Cai Jing specially invited us to discuss the matter of exterminating Liangshan. I remember that I transferred the descendants of the Huyan family, right? Why didn't you exterminate the Liangshan bandits? ”
Liang Shicheng claimed to be Su Shi's widow, and he also seemed to have inherited some of Su Shi's interests, except for court battles, he was obsessed with calligraphy, painting and poetry, but he was indifferent to military affairs.
Gao Yu shook his head and said, "Cai Jing is not familiar with military affairs, but he wants to interfere in military affairs." Last winter, when the weather turned cold, Hu Yanzhuo asked Tokyo to allocate some clothes for the soldiers to keep out the cold, but was stopped by Cai Jing, saying that he wanted to spur Hu Yanzhuo's army to break through Liangshan as soon as possible. I heard some rumors that many of the sergeants in the Huyeonjoo camp were infected with the wind chill, and they scavenged all the ginger and liquor from Jeju to ward off the cold. It is thought that it was because a large number of sergeants were infected with the wind cold and lost their combat effectiveness that they were defeated by the Liangshan bandits. ”
In fact, Gao Yu also knew at this time that the soldiers and horses of Liangshan were probably very brave, otherwise they would not have broken Gaotang Prefecture, and defeated the chasing soldiers of three state capitals one after another. But now he wants Liang Shicheng to help him transfer troops to destroy Liangshan, so naturally he can't say that Liangshan is too powerful.
Liang Shicheng naturally didn't know that Gao Yu was playing tricks with him, and said with a smile: "I see, this gang of thieves is also rampant, robbing the state capital several times, and now they have killed the Taiwei brothers, and they are not far from destruction." Taiwei Ming said that he would send a soldier and horse to exterminate the Liangshan bandits. ”
When Gao Yu heard this, he hurriedly said: "Now there are still many people in the court who oppose the matter of Lianjin to destroy Liao, if this matter is put in the court, I am afraid that they will take the opportunity to make trouble." ”
Liang Shicheng used the matter of Lianjin to destroy Liao that he won over Tong Guan, and then brought down Cai Jing, but he didn't want an accident in this matter, so he let Cai Jing recover, nodded and said: "What the Taiwei said is reasonable, in this way, I will ask Tong Shuxiang and other generals of the Second Imperial Lieutenant to come, and there is no need to alarm the saint for such a trivial matter." ”
Gao Yu is thinking like this, but Tong Guan is his top boss, but he can't move, so he borrowed Liang Shicheng to become an official.
Not long after, Tong Guan led Captain Ma Bujun and some subordinate officials to Liang Shicheng's mansion.
Everyone saw the ceremony, Liang Shicheng invited Tong Guan and the other two lieutenants to sit down, and asked Gao Yu to tell everything one by one, and then said: "Liangshan thieves have repeatedly robbed the state capital, which is really a big trouble for the imperial court. Now what good general can be used to exterminate this gang? ”
Everyone is a military general, and naturally they also care about some military affairs in the imperial court, knowing that there are many generals and soldiers in Liangshan, they don't dare to answer for a while.
Liang Shicheng saw that everyone didn't answer, his face couldn't help but sink, and he said sharply: "Could it be that when the high-ranking officials of the imperial court raised you and asked you to go into battle to kill the thieves, no one dared to go?" ”
Everyone now knows that Hu Yanzhuo, Qin Ming and others have voted for Liangshan, thinking that these fierce generals are all gathered in Liangshan, and they go to conquest, it is impossible to call too many soldiers and horses for them, they are all afraid and dare not answer.
"Smack"
Liang Shicheng slapped the table hard and reprimanded: "You are so greedy for life and afraid of death, how can you expect you to join forces to destroy Liao." ”
Tong Guan was not angry, he exterminated the little grass kou, how could it not be his turn to be the prime minister, he also knew the details of these forbidden army officers, but he was preparing to call the Western Army when he conquered Liao, and he was also happy to watch the forbidden army at this time.
Duan Chang, the captain of the infantry army, was a little unbearable on his face, and looked at his subordinates fiercely, hoping that someone would come out to win glory for himself.
Finally, someone stood up, but Duan Chang looked at it as the ugly county Ma Xuanzan.
The face of this life is like the bottom of a pot, the nostrils are facing the sky, the curly hair is red, and the height is more than eight feet.
A few years ago, the envoy of the Liao State entered Beijing to show off his martial arts, and there was a general who made a good bow and arrow, and for a while the court could not find a military general who could defeat him. Later, Xuanzan stepped forward and won this general with a series of arrows, which can be regarded as winning glory for the country.
King Shao loved his martial arts, so he recruited him as his son-in-law, but he didn't expect the county lord to be ugly, and he actually died with hatred. After this incident, King Shao also had some resentment towards Xuanzan, so he naturally had little support, and only arranged a yamen defense envoy for him indiscriminately, and drove him out of the palace.
Xuanzan hesitated again and again, thinking that this time might be a good opportunity to make contributions, so he couldn't help but come out and said: "The young general had an acquaintance in the township at the beginning, and he was a descendant of the late Han Dynasty's three-point righteous and brave Wu'an Wang Yan, surnamed Guan Mingsheng. The birth is the same as the ancestor, so that a mouth of the green dragon glaive knife, known as the big knife Guan Sheng. See doing an inspection in Pudong and succumbing to the subordinates. Guan Sheng has been familiar with military books since he was a child, he is well versed in martial arts, and he has the courage of ten thousand people. ”
Liang Shicheng consciously came from a famous family, and he also had a good impression of this famous general, and said happily at the moment: "When there is such a good general, he will definitely be able to exterminate the grass coward, so I will ask you to invite Guan Sheng." ”
(To be continued)