Chapter Eighty-Six
Under Hua Rong's journey day and night, it took only two days for a team of hundreds of people to arrive at the preset location.
During this period, Song Jiang had been looking for an opportunity to sneak away and report to Wu Song, but because there was no road map, he could only be in a hurry.
Arriving at the destination, Hua Rong immediately sent scouts to investigate the location of Wu Song and the others.
A few hours later, the scout drove back and drew the location of Wu Song and the others as a road map and handed it to Hua Rong.
Hua Rong was discussing relevant matters with Liu Neng in the tent at this time.
Seeing that the road map showed that it was only more than 20 miles away from Wu Song and the others, Hua Rong pondered for a while and said to Liu Neng: "Liu Zhizhai, I suggest that the front-line officers and soldiers should be notified of the fireworks tonight, and start to flank the front and back, so as to catch the fugitives off guard." ”
Liu Neng touched his chin: "Attack tonight, will it be too hasty?" You see, our soldiers have been on the road for two days in a row, and it is when people are tired and tired, so it is better to rest for the night tonight, and wait for the soldiers to recuperate, and then attack tomorrow. ”
What Liu Neng said also has some truth, and the military power is in his hands, so Hua Rong can only obey the decision.
At dinner time, Hua Rong took a dry food and came to Song Jiang and handed it to him: "Brother, eat something, you haven't eaten much in the past two days." ”
Song Jiang glanced at the dry food and shook his head: "Brother Xian, you can eat, I don't have much appetite." ”
He has been anxious about Wu Song and others all day in the past two days, how can he have the heart to eat.
To say that Song Jiang is a person, although he is a little stubborn and foolish, and finally killed a number of Liangshan heroes, but it is indeed true that he values love and righteousness.
Hua Rong sighed, took back the dry food, and sat next to Song Jiang.
"Brother Xian, I just saw the scouts sent out come back, did they find the location of those fugitives?" Song Jiang asked.
Hua Rong nodded: "I'll be ready to attack tomorrow." ”
"Ugh." Song Jiang couldn't help but sigh lightly.
Hua Rong heard it and asked suspiciously, "Why is my brother sighing?" Could it be that there is someone in the group of fugitives that my brother knows? ”
Hua Rong didn't know that Song Jiang and Wu Song knew each other.
Song Jiang opened his mouth, wanting to tell Hua Rong the truth and begging Hua Rong to let Wu Song and them go, but looking at Hua Rong's serious expression, he finally shut up and shook his head.
At night, Song Jiang, who was preoccupied, sat alone by a bonfire.
Looking at the blazing bonfire, he wondered if he should take a risk and ride out to find Wu Song and them later.
At this moment, two soldiers passed by him while talking.
"Where are you going this big night?"
"Send Liu Zhizhai the road map that the scouts have probed out in the afternoon, and the attack will be launched tomorrow, Liu Zhizhai wants to take a look at it and make a battle plan."
The two gradually walked away as they spoke, but Song Jiang saw something fall from a soldier.
He picked it up and found it to be a rolled-up piece of paper.
He just wanted to shout at the soldier to come back and get it, but he opened it and looked at it, and found that it was actually the road map that the soldier said!
His mood suddenly became excited, and when he looked around, and saw that no one had noticed him, he crept over to the horse he was riding, untied it, and led it out of the camp.
Song Jiang thought that he had done all this unknowingly, but he didn't expect that all of them would be looked at by the two soldiers who had just walked away.
The two soldiers glanced at each other and immediately went their separate ways, one to tell Liu Neng and the other to tell Hua Rong.
It turned out that all this was planned by Liu Neng's wife.
Liu Neng's wife was arrested on the mountain because she knew the relationship between Song Jiang and Wu Song and others, and she also knew that Song Jiang and Hua Rong were both people who valued love and righteousness, so she gave Liu Neng a plan:
sent cronies to deliberately drop the road map to Song Jiang to pick up, and Song Jiang would definitely go to report to Wu Song and others after picking it up;
Send someone to inform Hua Rong again, and Hua Rong will definitely go after Song Jiang.
Then Liu Neng led the soldiers to follow, slandered Hua Rong and Song Jiang as accomplices of the fugitives, and killed them on the spot, killing two birds with one stone.
Sure enough, Hua Rong heard from the soldiers that he saw Song Jiang riding out late at night, and he immediately chased him out on horseback alone.
Liu Neng and his wife looked at Hua Rong's back at the door of the tent, and they all laughed sinisterly.
"Official, when are we going to chase after you?" Liu Neng's wife asked.
"Don't worry, let them run for a while, it's best to wait until they meet with the group of fugitives, and then we will change the name to justice."
After Liu Neng finished speaking, he ordered his cronies to gather the hundred regular soldiers.
He didn't plan to take those Turkish troops with him in this operation, first, he didn't look down on them, and second, after all, those Turkish troops had been taken by Hua Rong for so long, and when he heard that he was going to catch Hua Rong, he didn't dare to guarantee that there would be any moths.
Soon, a hundred regular troops were assembled in full gear.
Liu Neng calculated the time and felt that it was time to chase after him, so he waved his hand and signaled the soldiers to set off.
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On the other side, Song Jiang quickly rode his horse and rode at the fastest speed, and soon came to Wu Song's camp.
"Who?!" The minions who were keeping vigil in the camp found Song Jiang and immediately shouted.
Immediately, more than a dozen minions with weapons in their hands surrounded them.
"I'm Song Jiang, and I'm looking for your leaders in a hurry!" Song Jiang hurriedly replied loudly.
The minions approached and recognized Song Jiang, and immediately turned around to inform Wang Ying of them.
Hearing that Song Jiang was coming, Wang Ying and Wu Song hurriedly greeted them.
"Brother Song, didn't you go to Qingfeng Village? How did it end up here? Wang Ying asked suspiciously.
"Let's not talk about these things first, I came here this time to tell you something very important, get out of here quickly, hundreds of soldiers and horses have been dispatched from Qingfeng Village, and they have come to your rear, and they want to cooperate with the Jeju officers and soldiers on the front line to flank you back and forth!" Song Jiang said urgently.
As soon as Song Jiang's words fell, Hua Rong's voice suddenly came from behind him: "Brother! ”
Hua Rong pointed at Song Jiang with a look of disbelief.
Song Jiang turned his head abruptly and saw Hua Rong behind him, he never expected Hua Rong to follow.
Wang Ying and the others saw Hua Rong's dress, recognized it as someone from the government, and prepared to rush forward with a weapon.
Song Jiang hurriedly stopped Wang Ying and the others: "Leader Wang, stop quickly, this general is my brother!" ”
Hearing Song Jiang say this, Wang Ying and the others stopped, but they still looked at Hua Rong with a wary face.
"Brother, how did you get mixed up with this group of fugitives?" Hua Rong ignored Wang Ying and them, looked into Song Jiang's eyes and asked.
"Brother Xian, I also have to be in love, you are my brother, they are also my brother, I really don't want to see you kill each other." Song Jiang said with an embarrassed face.
Hua Rong opened his mouth and just wanted to speak, when there was a rush of footsteps behind him.
When he looked back, he saw torches reflecting a heavily armed soldier.
The soldiers came to a place not far from Hua Rong and stood in two columns, and then Liu Neng walked out of the middle with his wife.
"Tut-tut, Hua Zhizhai, I really misunderstood you, I didn't expect you to keep saying that you are loyal to the official family on weekdays, but behind your back, you are in a gang with fugitives wanted by the imperial court." Liu Neng looked at Hua Rong and sneered.