Duan Jinzhu kept kowtowing, kowtowing, and muttered, "You are my great benefactor, my reborn parents." With that, he raised his hands, opened his bow left and right, and slapped himself until the corner of his mouth was fanned with blood. He said firmly, 'This is a cut from the previous Duan Jinzhu, from now on, the new Duan Jinzhu was born, please believe me, I will definitely change the past, I will do whatever you want me to do."

Wu Ge nodded and said, "I hope you will be a person who keeps your word." Then he ordered the guards to take him out.

Wu Ge ordered: "Please invite Captain Zhu to come." ”

Captain Zhu is Zhu Tong, one of the thirty-six people in Liangshan who rebelled with Song Jiang that year. After Jin Bing went south, he occupied Bazhou. In the second year of Jianyan, Huyan Geng took Hebei East Road, naturally including Bazhou, and Zhu Tong took refuge in Huyan Geng.

This time, Wu Ge went south to Shandong, thinking that Zhu Tong was a native of Shandong, so he brought him with him.

Wu Ge said to Zhu Tong, "Duan Jinzhu is familiar with the situation in the north, and he has been the leader of the signing army, and winning over him will be of great benefit to me to take root in Shandong." Captain Zhu, I will grant you the title of Yanzhou Assassin, and expand the local surrendered signing army into the regimental training department, if you do well, I will report to the marching department and officially grant you the history of the assassination. First put Duan Jinzhu's signing army in, and eliminate it while fighting, what do you think. ”

"Obey." Zhu Tong heard the importance of the task from Wu Ge's words, and understood the importance of rescuing a person from their actions, he straightened his waist and replied loudly: "Please rest assured, I will definitely grasp these more than 1,000 soldiers."

Zhu Tong took over the task and took a good look at Duan Jinzhu. He was originally a horse archer, a rough man, and he didn't have any words, but if he was so superficial, he could have a heart-to-heart with Duan Jinzhu.

On the day of his release, he wrote a "Letter to the Compatriots of the Signing Army", telling about the benevolence and righteousness of the Hujia Army and his own remorse, and called on the signing of the army to take refuge in the imperial court anyway.

After Duan Jinzhu's "Letter to the Compatriots" was widely posted in Zhangji Sixiang, it shook a lot to show his determination to make meritorious contributions.

There were hundreds of military weapons to take refuge, and Suo Chao drew sharp soldiers from his subordinates to build the skeleton of the team.

A few days later, Wu Ge decided to lead his troops to continue eastward. The news spread, and the people told each other. On this day, countless people suddenly gathered in front of the station, and when they saw Wu Ge, they knelt down "loudly". Wu Ge was taken aback. I don't know what's going on. They hurriedly beckoned everyone to get up, but no one would get up. A white-bearded elder kneeling at the front said in a loud voice, "General, please grant us a request."

"Tell me quickly,"

"If you leave, the gold thieves will come back, and the signing troops who were dismissed by you will also become bandits on the mountain, giving the people a way to live?" "Does my husband have any advice?" ’

"Can the army stay in Zhangji and not leave?"

Wu Ge laughed: "Don't worry, old man, I will leave the headquarters of Zhu Thorn History." "He has already made a plan to establish the Southwest Lu Regiment Training Division here, and open up the transportation link between Taihang Mountain and Shandong, and Zhu Tong stays here, supply is a problem, since the people are retained, it is in the hands of Wu Ge.

Wu Ge led his troops eastward, and after a night of rapid marching, at dawn, they rushed to the northwest of the tomb city. It was only three miles away from Caoqiao, and when he saw that the sky was already bright, he ordered the troops to camp on the spot, and looked in the direction of Caoqiao, and finally saw that the sent scouts had returned, so he asked eagerly: "How is the situation on Caoqiao?"

"Defense envoy, there is only one stronghold for signing the army."

"Hmm~a" held his cheeks with his hand, and the Sichuan character in Wu Ge's eyebrows was clearly revealed, and he was pacing and thinking at the same time.

A stronghold is not a big problem, but now to the north are Tai'an and Taishan, which are the places where the golden soldiers gather.

The regular armies of the Song and Jin sides were roughly in Jinan, Tai'an, Qingzhou, and Yingtian (Shangqiu) four cities, and the Tai'an Song army was led by Xiao Li Guanghuarong, and there were 20,000 Jin soldiers outside the city.

Wu Ge's mission was not to relieve the siege of Tai'an, but to go to Xia Xie Town, Dongping Prefecture, to join the local Song army.

Zhao Bozhen did not reign in Shandong for a long time, and the Jin soldiers invaded, and the Song army garrisons in various places became local powerful factions, especially in the southern part of Shandong, especially the Dong Ping Department of Dongping Mansion.

Wu Ge wanted to use the Hujia army led by him as the backing to forcibly subdue the local powerful factions in Shandong, reorganize them, and serve as the main force in Shandong's fight against the Jin soldiers.

Therefore, fighting with Jin Bing now is only a distraction, not a help, for Wu Ge's main task.

Wu Ge knocked on the map and said to himself: "Break through this ghost gate, and there is Sunshine Road in front of you." Suo Chao said: "The focus of the Jin soldiers is in Tai'an, and the suburbs are often paralyzed, why don't we take advantage of this and break the grass bridge during the day?"

Wu Ge explained like this, and Suo Chao said: "Obey the order." ”

"How many people are you going to take?"

"All I need is an axe."

After breakfast, a team of golden soldiers rode a big horse, followed by a donkey cart, and swaggered to the gate of the Caoqiao signing army station, the tall man signed the army sentry, and when he saw the golden soldiers, he suddenly felt three points shorter, and was about to let go, when suddenly his small eyes turned around, and he thought to himself, no, why are they all wearing hats and hair?

Just as he was in doubt, he suddenly heard a thunderous shout: "Children copy guys." ”

A guard handed the long axe to Suo Chao, Suo Chao killed the sentry, jumped on his horse, and went straight into the camp.

Suo Chao's subordinates only had more than ten horsemen, and they were like no one in the signing barracks, and went straight to the Chinese military tent.

The leader of the signing army in the Chinese army tent and the soldiers and horses of the Jin State all came out of the tent when they heard the sound, and saw a war horse coming overwhelmingly, and a tower-like general behind the horse's head slashed down with an axe.

After dealing with these two people, the signing army in the camp was leaderless, and Suo Chao shouted like thunder: "Those who surrender will not die." ”

In this way, the Kusahashi signing army was solved.

Wu Ge led the army through the grass bridge and went straight to Dongping Mansion. When the Jin soldiers swept through the western part of Shandong, the Song army in Dongping Province voluntarily abandoned the capital city and instead stationed in the nearby town of Xia Xie.

Wu Ge led the soldiers and horses, and when they arrived outside Xia Xie Town, the town had no city walls, and there were only two small roads forming a cross street in the whole town, and there were sentries standing guard at each intersection leading to the outside of the town.

Wu Ge looked at the layout of the town from a distance, and said in his heart: "This Dong Dujian is also big-hearted, and only puts sentries at the intersection, but there are no sentinels on the periphery. If it was the Golden Soldier Brigade, wouldn't it rush in? ”