Chapter 159: Descending the Mountain Tiger

After conquering Qingzhou, Shi Jin persuaded Qin Ming and Huang Xin with good words.

There was also news from Qizhou and Zizhou that the officers and soldiers of Qizhou were defending the city, but under the fierce attack of Lin Chong's troops, it fell in just one day.

Zizhou fled because Zhao Mingcheng abandoned the city, and the soldiers and civilians in the city directly opened the city and surrendered, and Guan Sheng's soldiers and horses occupied Zizhou without a single shot.

It took two days of hard work, divided the troops to conquer all the counties in Qingzhou, Shi Jin Liujin leopard Yang Lin as the Qingzhou soldiers and horses supervisor, divided 3,000 troops, and sent Sun Li, Luan Tingyu, Xie Zhen, Xie Bao, Sun Xin five people to lead 5,000 troops to fight Weizhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou, Yang Zhi, Luda, Kong Ming, Kong Liang led 5,000 troops to fight Mizhou, Yizhou.

Shi Jin took Hu Yanzhuo, Han Tao, Peng Xi, Hua Rong, Qin Ming, Huang Xin and others to return to Jeju with more than 1,000 soldiers and horses.

Chen Da and several other soldiers and horses also successively divided into divisions, leaving only the fire-eyed and fierce Deng Fei, Moyun Golden-winged Ou Peng, and Tiedi Xian Ma Lin each with 3,000 soldiers and horses to serve as the soldiers and horses of Dongping Mansion, Qizhou, and Zizhou.

The Tai'an Prefecture Soldiers and Horses Metropolitan Supervisor was also replaced by Shi Yong, the general of Shi.

Wu Song was replaced after a few days as a soldier and horse supervisor, and he was not unhappy.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Shi Jin left all the fierce generals under his tent to expand his territory.

Compared with guarding a place, Wu Song is more willing to expand his territory and make contributions.

At the beginning, Shi Jin planned to send some fierce generals to guard the state capitals to prevent the Song Dynasty soldiers and horses from counterattacking.

However, after deciding on a plan to seize the world, Shi Jin decided to concentrate all his efforts on capturing Tokyo, and then consider the issue of defense.

The news that Dongping Mansion, Qizhou, Zizhou, and Qingzhou were successively captured by Liangshan soldiers and horses reached Tokyo, which also shocked the government and the public.

The traitors in the court and the central government knew that Liangshan was powerful. But he didn't expect that Liangshan would be able to capture four state capitals in a few days.

Jeju is only more than 500 miles away from Tokyo, and there is only Heungin Mansion in the middle, and the Yangsan rebellion scared the emperor Lao'er to the core. If you want to transfer Tong Guan back to sweep away the Liangshan thieves first, lest Liangshan come to Tokyo.

However, Cai Jing, Gao Yu and others persuaded the emperor, in their opinion, the city of Tokyo is high and deep, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the copper wall is impregnable. Don't say that Liangshan is a thief, even if the Liaoguo Iron Cavalry came to Tokyo, he didn't want to take Tokyo. Moreover, the Liangshan soldiers were obviously directed at the state capitals of Shandong.

Compared to the Liangshan thieves. Fang La, who used Manichaeism to deceive people's hearts, was the big trouble for the imperial court.

Tong Guan has already hit Fang La's lair, if he withdraws his troops at this time, give Fang La a chance to breathe. Soon Fang La will be able to make a comeback and cut off the money and grain of the imperial court.

Fang La dug Cai Jing's ancestral grave, and Cai Jing naturally wanted to get rid of Fang La.

In the eyes of the traitors, the Liangshan thieves occupied Shandong. Wait for Tong Guan to lead the Western Army back. Exterminating the Liangshan bandits must be like pouring snow on the soup.

The people of the world also know that the heroes of Liangshan are not comparable to Tian Hu and Wang Qingzhi, and once they are powerful, they can become the most powerful anti-king in a few days.

When Shi Jin led the troops back to Jeju, Sun Li's soldiers and horses had already conquered Weizhou and the two counties in the territory, and the lieutenant Chi Sun was newly appointed as the supervisor of Weizhou's soldiers and horses, leading 1,000 troops to defend Weizhou, Sun Li, Luan Tingyu, Xie Zhen, and Xie Bao continued to lead their troops eastward to attack Laizhou and Dengzhou.

Every other day. Yang Zhi also sent back the news and conquered Mizhou. Maotouxing Kong Ming served as the supervisor of Mizhou's soldiers and horses, Mizhou is much larger than Weizhou, with four counties under its jurisdiction, and the distance is also far, and it will take some time for Yang Zhi and others to sweep away the counties.

In Tokyo, Zhu Gui personally led Dai Zong and Le He to lead the fine people of the Intelligence Department to dig tunnels, but Shi Qian and Bai Sheng did not bring them because their hands and feet were not clean and they were good at gambling.

However, the progress of digging tunnels was obviously slower than expected, and it was easy to carry gunpowder into the city and buy houses near the city walls, but the sound of digging tunnels had to be avoided not only by officers and soldiers, but also by neighbors, so it could only be carried out in noisy daylight.

In the evening, in the dead of night, work must be stopped.

In addition, the open space reserved inside the Tokyo City Wall is even wider, and it is more than ten zhang from the yard they purchased to the bottom of the city wall.

After learning about the progress of Zhu Gui and others, Shi Jin sent Lin Chong, Hu Yanzhuo, and Wu Song to lead troops to fight Puzhou, Shanzhou, and Xuzhou successively, and let the little overlord Zhou Tong, the tiger general Li Zhong, and the demon king Fan Rui of the mixed world be the soldiers and horses as the eunuchs.

By the end of March, Sun Li and Luan Tingyushun defeated Laizhou and Dengzhou, and Yang Zhi and Luda also attacked Yizhou.

The two-headed snake Xie Zhen, the two-tailed scorpion Xie Bao, and the one-man Mars Kong Liang were respectively the soldiers and horses of Laizhou, Dengzhou, and Yizhou.

Sun Li, Luan Tingyu, Yang Zhi, and Luda all returned to Jeju to listen to orders.

In a month, Yangsan occupied 14 state capitals in Jeju, Tai'an, Dongping, Qizhou, Zizhou, Qingzhou, Weizhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou, Mizhou, Yizhou, Puzhou, Shanxian, and Xuzhou.

In order to let the people of the world know about the strength of Yangsan and the decay of the Song Dynasty, Jeju also printed a newspaper announcing the state capital occupied by Yangsan.

The people of Shandong saw the autumn wind of Liangshan sweeping away the leaves-like offensive, and they were even more convinced that Nioh would rule the world, and countless strong men flocked to the recruitment offices set up by various state capitals to enlist in the army.

However, the conditions for recruiting soldiers in Liangshan were very high, and there were other brothers in the family to support their parents, wives and children, and they had to be between eighteen and forty years old, and they had to be physically strong to enlist in the army.

The Intelligence Department also sent the newspapers printed in Jeju to other state capitals, so that the people everywhere were eagerly waiting for the arrival of King Nioh with his troops and the distribution of land to them.

The erosion of Shandong also made the emperor have no intention of playing, and scolded the ministers for their incompetence and the decay of the forbidden army on the Jinluan Palace every day.

The ministers of the court and the central government did not dare to speak, although many people looked down on Tong Guan, a eunuch, and felt that Tong Guan's achievements in the west and Jiangnan were all due to the good fighting of the Western Army, and if they were allowed to command the Western Army, they could do better than Tong Guan. But now the Western Army can no longer be deployed, so all the ministers in the DPRK and China can only be turtles with shrunken heads.

The emperor was also angry that there were no available soldiers in the country, and cut Gao Yu's official position, but he did not ask Gao Yu for his crimes.

The emperor also did not transfer Tong Guan to the north, because Tong Guan won consecutive battles in the south of the Yangtze River, and Fang La was defeated all the way back to Muzhou from Hangzhou, Fuyang, Xincheng, and Tonglu.

Under the city of Muzhou, the Western army dug tunnels and blew down the city wall with gunpowder and captured Muzhou.

Fang La retreated to Qingxi County with the remnants of the Manichaean sect.

The other line of soldiers and horses of Tong Guanfen has already conquered Shezhou, and Fang La has formed a two-sided attack.

Tong Guan was also very optimistic in his recital to the emperor, guaranteeing that Fang La could be exterminated within half a month.

In fact, Tong Guan didn't have a bottom in his heart, but he was afraid that the emperor would let him go north to fight the Liangshan bandits, and then the extermination of Fang La would fall short, and the Western Army would not be able to attack Liangshan again.

Although the Western Army fought successively, the Manichaean congregations were very stubborn, and after the battle reached Muzhou, the Manichaean congregations fought to the death in order to protect the holy land, and the Western Army suffered heavy casualties. After trekking thousands of miles north, it is impossible to fight Liangshan again, so Tong Guan wants to destroy Fang La first in one go.

Everyone is very confident in the defense of the city of Tokyo, because the city of Tokyo was built to defend against the Liao State, and even if the Liao State came over, it would not be possible to capture Tokyo in a short time, let alone Liangshan. (To be continued......)