"What!? Liangshan thieves still haven't left here? After receiving the military report from his subordinates, a middle-aged man who looked very dignified changed his face, revealing a hint of incredulity.

"Yes, yes! This is the news that the scouts desperately probed in, and it is absolutely true! Huang Tuanlian, can't we cross the river? The general asked.

"Go and call that kid up, and I'm going to hear him myself!" Huang Tuanlian frowned and ordered.

The general clenched his fists and turned to go down. After a while, he brought a dusty soldier forward, and the general shouted: "Tell me all the things you have found with the regimental training!" ”

"Phase...... Xianggong, the villain crossed the river, explored all the way, and was invincible on the road, until he reached the city of the Daimyo's mansion. There are still bandits guarding it, and the villain almost made the thieves shoot to death! Fortunately, the villain was fast, and ran back to tell him desperately, for fear that the prime minister would be ambushed! After the scout finished speaking, the hopeful lord general was able to express the information that he had exchanged his life for, but Huang Tuanlian had been black-faced, and he was not considerate of people at all, but he just asked: "How many thieves did you just say there are in the city tower?" ”

"There are one or two thousand people, to say the least!" The scout was weak-hearted, he didn't fight at the time, he pulled out his horse and fled, where did he know how many people were on the tower of Ludao City. Anyway, it's true. Do their job, and they are all fine. There is nothing wrong with making the situation more serious, but how to deal with it is a matter for the commander. If the situation is simplified, it will lead to the judgment of the main general, and the light troops will advance, and when the time comes, there will be a leak, and all the responsibility will be his.

"Let's go down and rest!" Seeing that his boss was uncertain, the general hurriedly dismissed his subordinates. The scout scolded a few words and reluctantly retreated.

Seeing the scout retreat, General Pi cautiously said, "Isn't this Liangshan thief planning to settle here?" ”

"What's Ann's house? Is this a place he can occupy? Use your brain before you speak! Huang Tuanlian said angrily, "The Daimyo's Mansion is an important town in my northern land, one of the four capitals of the Great Song Dynasty, how can the imperial court tolerate banditry?" As long as these thieves are a little clearer than you, they won't do such stupid things! ”

After Huang Tuanlian finished venting to his generals, he felt a little more comfortable in his heart, and couldn't help but secretly think: "The city of the Daimyo is vast, and the city wall is dozens of miles long. There are not thirty or fifty thousand people. Who would dare to entrench here? Liang Zhongshu's urgent report said that there were only 10,000 or 20,000 thieves in Liangshan, and when the time came, they would defend the city, wouldn't it be leaking on all sides? What's more, there are still hundreds of thousands of people in the city, and if there is a disturbance when the official army is attacking the city. Didn't Liangshan kill himself? ”

scolded the boss for no reason. It will be inexplicable. Tentatively: "As soon as we received the urgent report, Pegasus rushed over, and even the baggage and infantry were abandoned. How do you know that the Liangshan thief who killed this day has been breaking the city for several days, and he still doesn't leave, is it because he doesn't see the coffin and doesn't shed tears? ”

Huang Tuanlian was also muttering in his heart, and he really couldn't figure out what Liang Shanjun was not running for.

As one of the closest state capitals to the Daimyo's Mansion, Xiangzhou Zhizhou is considered to have made a bloody capital this time, and there are a total of ten battalions of soldiers and horses (eight horses and two steps) in the city, and seven battalions of horses and horses were actually sent to the rescue.

This Huang Tuanlian rubbed on the road for two days, and received the news that the city of the Daimyo's Mansion had already fallen, and after experiencing the initial surprise and frustration, Huang Tuanlian was then ecstatic, only to feel that even God favored him.

At that time, he presumed that nine out of ten thieves would just make a fortune and leave, and it would be absolutely impossible to occupy this important town. At that time, he had the idea of winning the first battle of the city, and ordered to leave behind the baggage and the cavalry without horses, go into battle lightly, and lead the 2,000 cavalry gathered in the seven battalions of his horse army to rush towards the Daimyo's mansion. And within two days, he rushed to Ligu Town, which was only one river away from the Daimyo's Mansion.

After crossing the Yellow River in front of you, it is only half a day's journey from the Daimyo's Mansion. For the Xiangzhou Army, which was ready to take the lead, everything was originally ready, and only the east wind was owed, but the strongman who did not cover the day and did not carry the ground still relied on it, and this news was just like pouring cold water into the head, extinguishing the fire of meritorious service in Huang Tuanlian's heart.

"Order the whole army, hurry up, and camp in Ligu Town in front!" Huang Tuanlian said angrily.

"Group practice, it's not even noon at this time, are we stationed for a long time or a short station?" The general was puzzled and asked.

"It's up to us how long we stay!" Huang Tuanlian sighed, when the general saw this, he immediately understood, it seems that this boss is determined to only seize the empty city, and he is secretly relieved in his heart at the moment, after all, his own family is only two thousand horse army, and the other horses are lagging behind, how can it be the opponent of the thief army that broke the Daimyo's mansion? Heroes like Wenda and Li Cheng are not defeated by others?

"Wait!" Huang Tuanlian drank the general who was about to turn around and give an order, and ordered: "Set up the camp on the edge of the town, and collect all supplies from the town." Remember, our army is the vanguard of the recovery of the Daimyo's Mansion, and the grain and grass collected will not only be used by our army, but will also be supplied with reinforcements from various states in the future, do you understand? ”

The general comprehended, it seems that the team practice this time can not win the military merits, so he wants to make a small fortune, and flattered: "The young general understands!" Do you want to contact the buyer here? ”

"You do it quietly, don't make a noise!" Huang Tuanlian was noncommittal, and admonished: "Send someone to lock up all the boats on the Yellow River for me to take care of, and then tell our men and horses who are behind to hurry up, and also, contact the three battalions of people and horses in Cizhou, and ask them to get closer to our army!" ”

When the general heard this, he only felt that the first two were easy to handle, but he had a difficulty in contacting the people of Cizhou, he thought for a long time, and asked carefully: "Group training, our states are not subordinate to each other, maybe we call them, they are willing to come?" Besides, where they have gone now, we don't know what to do! ”

"If you don't want to come over, you have to go to die, our 2,000 horse army are watching, his three battalions are less than 1,000 horses, dare to come forward to die? If you want to die, I will not stop you. If you don't want to die, you might as well come and stay with us! You don't need to look for the people of Cizhou, you go to the commander of the king, they caught a spy in the camp early this morning, and it was the scout of Cizhou. You just say that we found out that we caught the wrong one, let him go, and then tell him to bring the message back, let's join forces together to be safer!" Huang Tuanlian commanded.

Seeing this, the general nodded hurriedly, glanced at Huang Tuanlian, who was not angry but mighty, and secretly sighed in his heart: Jiang is still old and spicy. It's true!

The scouts of his own friendly army, knowing his identity, regarded him as a spy prisoner, and must have been afraid that letting him go would lead to leaks, expose his location, and ask the Cizhou army to enter the city first.

Now that the thief is not leaving, there is no need to rush into the city, but he is still worried that the thief will come to sneak attack, so it is safest to hold a group. At this time, this "spy" can be used, and he has turned back into a friendly "scout". What an indescribable cleverness!

Seeing that the general is gone. Huang Tuanlian rode on his horse and walked forward slowly, no longer having the excitement he had before, and finally rushed to the town. I saw that the prosperity of this town is incomparable. Commerce flourished. It is worthy of being one of the towns where the daimyo government set up a separate point to collect taxes, and it is no worse than the scenery in the castle of Xiangshu, and you can see the prosperous scene in front of you. Huang Tuanlian's mood is a little better, this time he can't get the great merit of recovering the Daimyo's mansion, so he can make some money and talk about masturbation.

The Xiangzhou army set up camp on the edge of the town, and after a while, there was no one in the town who came to interrogate, Huang Tuanlian was furious, thinking in his heart, "The officials of this daimyo's mansion have never died", and scolded "The people in this town don't know anything!" "I want to go to the town in person, but I am afraid that I will lose my body, so I just hold back my temper and wait for news.

Fortunately, he didn't ask him to wait long, but he saw that the general ran back happily, and reported the good news: "Tuan Lian, this famous mansion is really rich, and there are few belongings in the poor families in this town, and I don't want every granary to be full, and every family has no less than ten stones of grain!" We've come to the right place this time! ”

"You go, collect all the food in their homes, but don't touch the rich family, these people are inextricably linked behind them, don't provoke people who can't be provoked!" Huang Tuanlian admonished.

"Just let these rich people go?" The general asked.

"You go, in the name of our Xiangzhou reinforcements, pay homage to each family, invite these rich families to come to the camp at night, and let's invite them to dinner!" Huang Tuanlian said with a smile, "Let's rush to the aid of the starry night to save them from fire and water, it is impossible for these guys to come without being polite and empty-handed!" ”

When the general heard this, he turned around and beckoned a thousand people in the camp, and followed him into the town to collect grain, and it didn't take long to make this market that was still lively and lively just now a chicken and dog scream, and women and children cried, and it didn't take long for there to be no one on the street, and each house closed its door, praying for their own gods and Buddhas to drive these mourning stars out of the town.

"Dao Chief, the shop is about to close, please let the old man do it for your convenience!" A Taoist sat at the window on the second floor of the hotel, looking at the strange scene staged in the street without saying a word.

"Little second brother, let me ask you, who are these rebels? Isn't it a Liangshan thief? The man smiled back and asked unhurriedly.

Xiao Er was originally going to drive him away, but when he heard the words in his mouth, he said angrily: "Master Dao, although the old man is a master of Youfang, if you want to insult the heroes of Liangshan, don't look at me as a runaway, if I beat you, I will spit on you!" ”

When the Dao man heard this, not only was he not angry, but he laughed loudly and asked, "What benefit did Liang Shanbo give you to speak for them like this?" I'm not afraid of being known by the government and causing a lawsuit! ”

"Master Dao, I don't know when you came to our Daimyo Mansion, haven't you heard such big news?" Xiao Er asked rhetorically.

"You're interrogating me!" The Taoist priest smiled and said: "Poor Dao just came from Zhaozhou early in the morning, I only heard that the people of Liangshan broke the Daimyo's mansion, but the others don't know the way, and I hope that the little second brother will solve his doubts!" ”

Xiao Er was a little puzzled in his heart, he was the one who received this person when he entered the store, and there was no livestock to walk, how could he walk dozens of miles in the morning? It must be that this Taoist lied, and he didn't want to say much at the moment, but said: "If the Taoist chief doesn't leave, I will ask someone to close the door and put the board on the board!" ”

"Your thin door panels can only prevent gentlemen, how can you prevent these rebels?" The man shook his head, put down a minot, and said, "If I ask and you answer, this ingot is yours." ”

Xiao Er looked at the silver, with a longing look in his eyes, just thought about it, and said: "I really want to take this money, but I just want me to say bad things about Liang Shanbo, I'm afraid that if I take your money, my tongue will be sore!" ”

The man laughed and said, "It doesn't matter if it's good or bad, I just need to listen to the truth!" ”

"This is what Dao Ye said!" The little two grabbed the silver in his hand and shouted downstairs: "Close the door, this one wants to avoid in our store!" ”

"What did you just say, I didn't hear about it?" The man asked.

"Elder Kai said that I said good things about Liang Shanbo, and I am not afraid of asking the government to know the lawsuit, right?" Xiao Er looked at the Taoist and asked, seeing that the Taoist nodded, Xiao Er said disdainfully: "When will the prison of the Daimyo Mansion be closed for millions of people, I will shut up again!" ”

The Taoist priest smiled and said, "What do you mean, dare everyone in this famous mansion say good things about Liang Shanbo?" ”

Xiao Er shrugged his shoulders and said, "If you don't believe it, just go and say hello, but whoever has a conscience will not scold him!" At this time, the street outside was even more fierce, Xiao Er stood at the window and looked at it, spit and said: "These officers and soldiers, saying that they are here to catch thieves, the thieves have not seen it, and they have made the people restless first. ”

"Liangshan has sent food to the people again? Now such a large city, let alone a population of more than 100,000 households, how many stones did Wang Lun give to his family this time? The chief asked with great concern, as if he knew the inside of Liangshan very well.

Xiao Er only looked at the situation outside the window, gestured with two hands, the Taoist saw it, stood up, jumped out of the window, Xiao Er was stunned by this sudden incident, for fear that something would happen to this Taoist priest, he hurriedly stretched out his head to look out of the window, but where could he still see his shadow, leaving only a sigh of the Taoist priest floating in the air: "The official is like a bandit, a bandit is like a relative, what kind of world is this......" (to be continued......)