In Wutai Puji Temple, Ma Kuo's official ceremony was held, although the Hedong Chengxuan envoy was only a fictitious title, but it showed that Ma Kuo had stepped into the ranks of senior military attachés, and could participate in the imperial court politics, and was honored as "the minister".

Ma Kuo first accepted the edict of the imperial court and the blessing of Elder Zhizhen, and then stood in the center of the Daxiong Treasure Hall and announced to the generals under his command: "The Queen Mother, the Imperial Concubine, the Holy Lord and Huyan Xuanshuai are determined to use Bianliang as bait to attract the main force of the Jin soldiers, and on the outer line, restore the Jin, Hebei, and Luyu." And Hedong is the first battle on the outside line. ”

Ma Kuo's words mobilized everyone's enthusiasm, and Ma Kuo then reviewed the advantages of the Song army in Hedong

"Our army takes Wutai as the center, so that the village is the armor, the north of Wubei is Datong, the east is Zhen, Ding, Nantong Taiyuan, and the west is connected to Linfu, which is the place of the four wars. Here we have succeeded in creating five defense divisions, which are entrenched here, and the enemy in Hebei and Hedong will not be able to sleep. "Today, the main force of Hebei gathered in Hedong, with Puliu Ru Bosheng as the envoy, Ben Shuai as the deputy envoy, with Tianxiong, Wei Bo, Chengde, and 300,000 armor in Hedong, annihilated the Taiyuan Jin soldiers, and took the head of Wanyan Yinshuke."

"The focus of this campaign is to restore the entire territory of Hedong, not only to annihilate the gold thieves, but also to sweep away the ugly people in the mountains to protect the territory and the people."

The group of uglies mentioned by Ma Kuo is the rogues in Taihang Mountain. There were originally bandits in the mountains, and after the Jin soldiers occupied Hedong, there were a large number of defeated troops and desperate civilians who went to the mountains to be thieves. All of a sudden, being a bandit became the most promising profession in Hedong, and Taihang Mountain was known as a million bandits.

As the Song army gradually gained a foothold in Hedong and established Baojia, most of the bandits gradually descended the mountain to accept Zhao'an and became Baojia households, only nearly 100,000 people were still in the green forest.

Among them, the largest group is the three brothers Tian Hu, Tian Bao, and Tian Biao who escaped from Tong Guan Shengjie's army.

"These three brothers robbed part of the military salary of the Shengjie army, gathered in the mountains to be the king, as the people of the Great Song Dynasty, not only did not harass the Jin soldiers, but repeatedly went to Baojia to loot, our army attacked Taiyuan, and the grain and grass along the way were under the threat of these three brothers, so the three brothers of the Tian family should be eradicated."

Ma Kuo looked around at the generals: "The big war is coming, and the army is marching in, but it can't waste time in the mountains." It is necessary to get a warrior to enter the mountain alone, and be in harmony with Tian Hu's inner body, first control the leader, and the army will subdue and subdue this bandit outside. Which general would like to go. ”

A black tower-like general stood up: "A certain wish to go." The sound was like thunder.

Ma Kuo saw that it was Wu Song, the commander of the trapping camp. Ma was overjoyed, sent everyone back, explained to Wu Song in detail, and sent Shi En to lead more than 100 warriors to follow and respond.

In September, the snow had fallen on Taihang Mountain, and a man dressed as a bandit walked alone on the snow in the dense forest.

Suddenly he hummed a tune; For a moment, he was wildly caracal; Suddenly he got on his horse and galloped for a while; Suddenly, he whistled after the horse; I don't know what to say in my mouth for a moment; Suddenly, he scolded in an authentic Shandong dialect; Suddenly he ran in front of the horse, and let the horse run with him; Suddenly, he crouched down on the back of the horse, let the horse go away, and with another whistle, the horse turned back and galloped back. When the horse galloped to Yan, Yan stroked the horse's head and swayed for a while. Yan is hardly quiet at all, he really looks like a madman, and he also looks like an actor who trains horses. The strength used to walk is far less than the amount of effort that is used to go crazy.

Wu Song is now like an unscrupulous bandit. After several days of day and night, he had marched into the deep mountains and old forests of Taihang Mountain. That night, he tied his horse and dug a pit to sleep.

In the middle of the night, he was suddenly awakened by a long hissing from his mount, and Wu loosened the reins that were tightly tied to the tree to prevent it from breaking free. Then he hid behind a large tree, drew his sharp dagger, and continued to look around.

Then the horse again neighed in terror and struggled twice to break free. Then it bent its legs and trembled so much that it could not stand, and it was about to collapse in despair. Wu Song was surprised for a while, and muttered in his mouth: "Damn, what, such a big majesty, it scared a live dragon horse into paralysis!" ”

Before he could turn back, there was a loud roar, and a large Siberian tiger swooped out of the bushes, with sharp teeth and tail erect, rushing towards the horse. The tiger's tail swept against the bushes, making a loud noise and making snow powder splash.

The horse was so frightened that it did not cut or kick, and stared at the attacking enemy with its head hanging and its eyes, and let out a low whine from its nose.

It was the first time Wu Song had seen a live tiger, and it was so close. He had come to eat his horse again, and this sudden panic made him angry, and his heart was pounding, and the dagger in his hand trembled a little with his heart.

Seeing the tiger pounce on his mount, he snatched the axe from the victory hook, stuck the dagger in his belt and ran two steps.

When the tiger saw Wu Song, he turned around, pressed his two paws on the ground slightly, pounced on his body, and pulled down from mid-air.

It's too late, it's too soon; When Wu Song saw the tiger pounce, he only flashed and flashed behind the tiger. The tiger had the hardest time seeing people behind him, so he put his front paws on the ground, lifted his waist and hips, and lifted them up. Wu Song only flashed, flashing to the side. When the tiger saw that he couldn't lift him, he roared, but it was like a thunderbolt in the middle of the day, and it shook the hill and moved, and the iron rod was also upside down like a tiger's tail and only cut it.

Wu Song flashed to the side again. It turned out that the tiger took people just a pounce, a lift, and a cut; When the three can't be caught, half of the temperament is gone. The tiger couldn't cut it again, roared again, and came back in a bag.

When Wu Song saw that the tiger had turned over and came back, he picked up the axe with both hands, and slashed down from mid-air with all his strength. I heard a muffled sound, which was slashing at the back of the tiger's neck.

The tiger was wounded, and became more and more ferocious, and became sexual, and turned over and pounced again. Wu Song had to let go of the axe, and only jumped again, but retreated ten steps away. The tiger happened to put its two front paws in front of Wu Song. With both hands, he grabbed the tiger's top flower skin and pressed it down. The tiger was anxious to struggle, but Wu Song tried his best to hold it down, and he was willing to put a little looseness there.

Wu Song looked at the door with one foot on the tiger's face, and only kicked in his eyes. The tiger roared, and made two piles of yellow mud from under him, and made a dirt pit. Wu Song pressed the tiger's mouth straight into the yellow mud pit. The tiger ate Wu Song, but he had no strength.

Wu Song grabbed the top flower skin tightly with his left hand, stole out his right hand, pulled the dagger from his belt, and stabbed it against the tiger's top door.

The tiger was in pain and struggling, Wu Song picked up his fist and punched the tiger sixty or seventy times, and the tiger's eyes, mouth, nose, and ears burst out with blood, and he couldn't move, only his mouth was panting.

Wu Song let go of his hand, pulled the axe from the tiger's back, split the tiger's head alive, and saw that the tiger's anger was gone, so he stopped.

Wu Song took two steps forward, stepped on the tiger's back with his feet, and kicked twice, and the dead tiger was already limp. He himself was like a tiger, his whole body was limp, his limbs had no strength at all, he sat on the snow in a drape, he couldn't climb up, his legs and hands trembled even more, he lay on his back on the snow, trying to recover from the excessive tension. He turned his head and looked at the frightened and paralyzed horse, which was now very calm, and was leisurely eating the forage. Wu Song was relieved with joy, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, rested for half a night, put the dead tiger on the horse, and continued to follow the secret mark left by the fine work to find the Tianhu brothers.