The next morning, Li Cheng got up and walked outside, and saw two teams of minions practicing on the flat ground under the hillside, this Li Cheng is a native of Xiongzhou, located on the border of Song and Liao, in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, he began to set up bow and arrow clubs in Hebei, northwest border states, and coached the militia, which is extremely prevalent in these states and counties. This Li Cheng, as one of the leaders, naturally has an eye, and after looking at it for a while, he nodded secretly, these minions have been trained quite methodically, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, far better than ordinary officers and soldiers, no wonder this gang of thieves can crisscross the prefecture and county, but tens of thousands of officers and soldiers have nothing to do with them.

"Brother Li Cheng got up so early!" A voice came from behind him, and Li Cheng looked back, but it was the black-faced man who clashed with Song Jiang yesterday, who seemed to be called Xiao Qi. Li Cheng arched his hand and smiled: "I was born with a hard life, and when the time comes, I will be itchy all over my body, so I have to get up!" ”

"It seems that Brother Li Cheng is also a sufferer!" The black-faced man arched his hand and smiled: "In Xia Ruan Xiaoqi, since he was a child, he has been fishing in this Liangshan Bo for a living, the government has covered the fields, and those who enter the lake to fish have to pay taxes, and the villain can't stand this anger, so he took a few brothers to kill the tax collector and voted for Brother Song!" ”

"I see!" Li Cheng's gaze swept over Ruan Xiaoqi's shoulder, only to see that it had been wet with dew, and knew that the other party must have been waiting outside for a long time, and there must be something important to find him. So he pretended to know nothing and asked, "Brother Ruan, I don't know what Brother Song's arrangements are today?" ”

"Brother Li Cheng has just arrived, and I don't know much about the topography of Liangshanbo, so I am a local and I came to take Brother Li Cheng around!" Ruan Xiaoqi said with a smile, intentionally or unintentionally, he put aside the three words "Brother Song".

"It's hard work!"

Li Cheng got on the boat, the two minions behind him shook the oar, Ruan Xiaoqi turned out a small table in the cabin and put a jar of wine, two large pieces of cooked meat, some cooked broad beans, and said with a smile: "The little brother is a greedy person, I will drink on the boat later, so I will give advice?" ”

"Thank you Brother Ruan for arranging!" Li Cheng sat down with a smile, Ruan Xiaoqi took out a wrist knife from his waist, chopped the piece of cooked meat, and explained while eating and drinking: "This Liangshan Bo was originally a part of Dayozawa, the Yellow River flooded repeatedly during the Renzong period, and the flood rushed to the foot of this Liangshan Mountain, so there is this Liangshan Bo, with a radius of more than 800 miles, and countless ports, even if there are 100,000 officials and soldiers, what can I do?" ”

Li Cheng looked around, and sure enough, as Ruan Xiaoqi said, looking at the surface of the water, the vast soup soup, endless, under the faint water vapor, you can see the reeds everywhere, and you can't see the path to come and go. If Song Jiang and the others were hidden in this Liangshan Bo, no matter how many officials and soldiers there were, there would be no way.

"Sure enough, it's a blessed land made in heaven!" Li Cheng said with a smile.

"It's not bad to say it's made in heaven!" Ruan Xiaoqi said with a smile: "If it weren't for the Zhao Guanjia in Tokyo who trusted the ministers and engaged in the Kutian Office, and forced the people near Liangshanbo to live in misery, how could we be so happy." Speaking of this, Ruan Xiaoqi laughed: "At present, the people in the vicinity hate the people in the official mansion to the core, as long as there are strangers in the middle of it, someone will immediately report to the mountain, otherwise with hundreds of us, what can we do?" ”

When Li Cheng heard this, he couldn't help but nod secretly, if the official army wanted to enter Liangshanbo, they would definitely send a detailed work to collect intelligence and hire locals as guides, but the locals hated the government so much, as long as they pointed out the wrong place when leading the way, the official army would be a dead end. Hearing this, Li Cheng couldn't help but secretly congratulate himself that Zhou Ping was not in a hurry to send troops, and sent himself over first.

"Brother Li Cheng, why did you let the good officials and soldiers go to Liangshan to settle down for the grass?" Ruan Xiaoqi asked suddenly, a pair of eyes staring at Li Cheng's eyes for a moment.

Li Cheng was stunned when he heard this, and immediately realized that the other party was taking the school exam, this Ruan Xiaoqi was born as a fisherman, and his surname Shui must be excellent, he was from the Northland, and he could only let the other party fish and meat on this small boat, obviously the other party deliberately asked himself this question on the boat. He laughed: "Didn't I already say it to you yesterday, or I'll say it again!" So he went to Xiangzhou to visit his relatives and happened to learn that Xue Jiazhuang was recruiting strong men, so he went to defect alone, but he had a conflict with the Xue family brothers, and in a fit of anger, he robbed the death row of the government and rescued Bai Sheng to go to Liangshanbo to explain it one by one. In the end, Li Cheng smiled and said, "What, Brother Ruan, is there anything else to ask?" ”

"I can't imagine that Brother Li Cheng is so reckless!" Ruan Xiaoqi laughed: "If you endure this breath, aren't you already a master in the official mansion now, why do you need to come to this Liangshan to fall on the grass?" ”

"If you can endure that evil breath, it won't be me!" Li Cheng poured a big sip of wine: "Besides, in the yamen, the whole person grovels and kills a good man, how can there be a pleasure of drinking wine and eating meat on Liangshan!" ”

"Well said, well said!" Ruan Xiaoqi suddenly laughed, maybe it was an illusion, Li Cheng felt that the discomfort that had been on his back since he got on the boat had disappeared. Ruan Xiaoqi laughed for a while, suddenly put the wine glass on the table, and said hatefully: "But some people in the cottage are happy and happy, but they are thinking about throwing themselves into the yamen all day long, and they will be a dog wagging their tails and begging for mercy!" ”

Li Cheng was stunned when he heard this, although he also felt that there was a lot of dislike in this cottage from the incident on the Fenjin Pavilion yesterday, but he never expected that it had developed to such a point, Ruan Xiaoqi said these words in front of him, obviously dissatisfied with Song Jiang's desire to accept Zhao'an. But it's not clear whether he said these words from the bottom of his heart or whether he was just deliberately acting in front of himself and wanting to test the truth. So Li Cheng just lowered his head and didn't speak. That Ruan Xiaoqi didn't say much, just poured himself a cup of self-drinking, and after a while, he already had a pound of old white wine, although he had a good amount of wine, his black face was already red. Li Chengzheng wanted to open his mouth to persuade him to eat some snacks, but Ruan Xiaoqi suddenly stood up, lifted the wine jar and walked to the bow of the boat, and sang loudly: "The old man grew up in Shijie Village, and his surname was born to kill." First behead the corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the Jingshi will dedicate to Zhao Wangjun! The words sung by Ruan Xiaoqi are very vulgar, and they don't conform to any rhythm, but the sound is cracked through the clouds, and it naturally has a special appeal.

After Ruan Xiaoqi finished singing, he raised the wine jar and drank bitterly, drank six or seven sips of wine, he threw the wine jar into the water, and jumped into the water, and suddenly there was no one. Li Cheng was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly stood up and said to the swaying minion: "Leader Ruan is drunk and falls into the water, and you still don't save people?" ”

The minion smiled and said: "The people of Liang Shanbo know that the three brothers of the Ruan family are all surnamed Haoshui, even if they tie up their hands and feet and throw them into the water, they can't drown, let alone drink a few glasses of old wine?" Leader Li is not in a hurry, he will come up in a while! ”

Li Chengzheng was shocked, and suddenly heard the sound of water on the right side of the boat, and a person came out, it was Ruan Xiaoqi, and he saw that the water only flooded between his chest and abdomen, as if he was stepping on an invisible step. He touched the splash on his face and said with a smile: "I just drank a few glasses of old wine, and the gaffe made Brother Li laugh!" As he spoke, a boat came up.

"Brother Xiaoqi is such a good man, it's too late to admire, where can I laugh!" Li Chengruan and Xiaoqi looked at each other and smiled, and the meaning of the two was self-evident.

Jeju, school field.

Hundreds of soldiers were wearing armor and armor, marching and retreating according to the flags on the platform, and the sound of solemn orders, golden drums, and shouts of killing merged into one. All this is a very strange thing for the people of Jeju City, since the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State formed the Tanyuan Alliance, the two countries have been at war for more than 100 years, in the vast territory of the Great Song Dynasty, the only place where the war has continued for a long time is the Shaanxi Five Roads. In this way, Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong are the best soldiers in the world, Hebei Road has naturally become an empty shell, Jeju's garrison forbidden army should not say that it is three days and one, even a month may not be able to practice once, the soldiers have become the slaves driven by the main officers, Pingyueli everywhere to build houses, trafficking goods, in order to earn money, especially Jeju is located on the canal, convenient transportation, merchants from all over the world gathered, this situation is particularly serious. Therefore, Xue Liangchen and Zhou Ping spent a lot of effort to select more than 300 people in the army with a total of 3,000 soldiers and 600 horses, and spent a lot of money to recruit more than 100 people, and gathered 500 people to train in the school field.

"Ah Ping!" On the stage, Xue Liangchen's face was very serious: "How do you see these soldiers training?" ”

"It's going to take at least a month to go into battle!" Zhou Ping observed carefully for a while, and replied in a low voice: "As soon as the command is given, the formation will begin to scatter, and if you see the thieves, you will definitely be scattered." It's a pity that I waited for the newcomers and didn't have the prestige of grace and righteousness, otherwise the time could have been shorter! ”

"Hmm!" Xue Liangchen nodded and sighed: "I didn't expect that the soldiers of the Heavenly Son of Heaven were not as good as the Zhuang Ding in our Zhuangzi. ”

"Lang Jun, you don't know anything!" Zhou Ping smiled bitterly and said: "The Zhuang Ding of Zhuangzi are all members of your clan, and they are kindly and righteous, like brothers and sisters, and they will naturally command Ruyi when they go into battle." But these forbidden soldiers are running and working hard, just for the warmth of their own family, and the court's income is meager, so you let them go into battle to kill thieves now, how can this work? ”

"That's right, Han Xianggong is really confused, Ping said that he deducted half a bucket of wheat, a few liters of corn, and grudged the soldiers, but when he started the war, he took out the money to recruit some utility into battle, which would only make the sergeants and utility suspicious. How can we work together when we fight? "Webb looked at the collection today, and then looked at the recommendations arranged, I can't help but feel quite ashamed, the editor arranged so many recommendations for me, but the results are average, I really feel quite ashamed! I hope that the collection can grow quickly, and it is worthy of the recommendation of the editor's arrangement.

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