Chapter 204: Successfully Recruiting Song Jiang
Zhao Gou knelt down and waited for a long time without seeing Ye Tianlong reply, secretly raised his eyes and glanced at it, and found that the other party's face kept changing, and he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart.
After waiting for a few minutes, the other party finally replied, only to see that the other party seemed to be trying to suppress his anger, and took a deep breath before he spoke: "You don't need to worry about this matter, I have a more important thing to arrange for you to do!" ”
Zhao Gou couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard that the other party actually had more important things for him to do, thinking that this emperor of the Blue Dragon Empire was quite tolerant! Even he, the prince of the former dynasty, dared to reuse it.
But soon, Zhao Gou was dumbfounded, because the task given to him by the other party was actually to be responsible for sorting out the many Taoist scriptures left by his father.
Speaking of Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, his hobbies are indeed unique, in addition to all kinds of strange stones, he also likes to play football, and he also likes to study the Taoist scriptures, and I don't know if he wants to find some cultivation methods from these Taoist scriptures, which can make him cultivate into an immortal and live forever.
Originally, the person in charge of sorting out these Taoist scriptures was a guy named Huang Shang, and when he saw Zhao Gou, the guy who came to take over from him, he was still a little reluctant to give up on this place! It seems that I think those Taoist scriptures are actually very interesting.
However, it is obvious that Ye Tianlong feels that it is a waste of talent to let him continue to sort out the Taoist scriptures here, and this 'important' work should be handed over to Zhao Jiumei, lest this guy have the kung fu to go out and be a demon.
Soon after sending Zhao Gou away, Ye Tianlong received a letter of help from Shi Wengong and learned that the main force of the Jin army was attacking Taiyuan City this time, with about 300,000 troops.
Ye Tianlong knew that the Jin soldiers were strong and could not be compared with the thieves and armies of the Great Song Kingdom, so after learning where their main force was, he immediately prepared to gather troops and horses and prepare to meet the main force of the Jin army.
In the end, Ye Tianlong only left a few thousand regular troops in other big cities, 10,000 regular troops in Tokyo City, and he himself went to support Shi Wengong with 310,000 troops.
When he led the army to the halfway point, Ye Tianlong got the good news, that is, Song Jiang agreed to return to the Qinglong Empire. And at this time, more than 20,000 soldiers and horses who were already leading Liangshan came to join him.
Speaking of which, when Ye Tianlong watched "Water Margin", he felt that this Song Jiang was an official fan, knowing that the court was rotten and incompetent to the extreme, but this guy was still trying his best to go to Zhao'an, and then go to the Great Song Dynasty to be an official.
This may be the obsession caused by his time when he was a small official, after all, the treatment of officials and officials in the Great Song Dynasty is really a heaven and a place, Song Jiang should be very envious of those who have a serious official body, so even if he fell into the grass and became a bandit leader, he still wanted to get an official and have a good time with the addiction of the official master.
It was precisely because he knew the other party's preferences that the envoy sent by Ye Tianlong to see Song Jiang was completely in accordance with the instructions of His Majesty the Emperor, and as soon as they met, they threw out a lot of official titles and titles and rewards for Song Jiang, wanting to smash Song Jiang, an official fan, in one fell swoop.
Facts have proved that this trick is really good, Song Jiang has no power to resist, and directly surrenders to the Qinglong Empire, and leads more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command and dozens of Liangshan heroes to surrender together.
Now Song Jiang is already the viscount of the Qinglong Empire, with the rank of major general, and his official position is the prefect of Shandong and the commander of the soldiers and horses. It can be said that Song Jiang can manage both the government and the army on the one-third of an acre of land in Shandong, and he is completely the existence of the emperor of the soil.
Song Jiang also saw from the official position and reward given to him by the Blue Dragon Empire that the other party Zhao'an himself was indeed sincere, unlike the Great Song Dynasty in the original plot, after Zhao'an, he couldn't wait to send Song Jiang and his brothers to fight everywhere, completely as cannon fodder, wanting to make Song Jiang's subordinates and the thieves and Liao soldiers in various places lose both, and even better die together. After so many battles, Song Jiang's brother almost died, so he gave Song Jiang an official position, but he was poisoned to death with poisoned wine before he let his family have been in charge for a few days.
In contrast, the conditions given by Ye Tianlong are simply generous to the extreme, and Song Jiang is not stupid, so he can naturally distinguish between good and bad. Since the emperor of the Blue Dragon Empire was so sincere, he also reciprocated the favor and directly led his subordinates to help in the war.
Soon, the two armies met, Ye Tianlong rode a horse to the front of Song Jiang, and found that although this timely rain was indeed dark and short, his eyes were bright, and his face had a majestic aura, and he was not a simple person at first glance.
Just when Ye Tianlong was looking at the other party, after Song Jiang confirmed the identity of the person in front of him, he hurriedly dismounted and greeted His Majesty the Emperor in fear.
In order to be able to use this timely rain for his own use, Ye Tianlong immediately dismounted and helped him up, and then said to him with a smile: "I have long heard of the name of Song Gongming in timely rain, and when I saw it today, it really deserves its reputation!" ”
"Your Majesty has tormented the villain, although the villain has a bit of a false name in the rivers and lakes, but he is just a thief and a grass coward, thanks to His Majesty's blue eyes, he can have the opportunity to serve the country again!" Facing Ye Tianlong's praise, Song Jiang immediately responded modestly.
"Haha! Your Song Gongming's loyalty and righteousness can be seen from the banner of 'doing the right thing for heaven' that you played, the faint monarch of the Great Song Dynasty is blind, and he can't see your Song Gongming's determination to serve the country, my eyes are not blind, naturally I can't let a talent like you go to the rivers and lakes anymore, and waste the years! ”
The group of heroes behind Song Jiang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the emperor of the Blue Dragon Empire talking happily, after all, they were afraid that the other party would dislike their eldest brother's grass background, and now it seems that His Majesty the emperor values their eldest brother very much, and he doesn't dislike his grass background at all. In this way, their eldest brother should be able to be truly reused, instead of being consumed on the battlefield as cannon fodder for the imperial court. Naturally, these people can follow their eldest brother to mix a good messenger in the court and enjoy the blessings.
Speaking of which, many of the people under Song Jiang were actually officials and soldiers of the imperial court before! So in fact, I am not very enthusiastic about being a bandit, and I still want to be able to recruit an with their eldest brother Song Jiang, continue to mix with the establishment of the imperial court, and eat the imperial grain with peace of mind.
For example, Song Jiang's current strongest Xiao Li Guanghuarong and Thunderbolt Qin Ming are all such people who agree with Zhao'an, so Song Jiang agreed to return to the Qinglong Empire, and he did not encounter much obstacle in the cottage.
After Ye Tianlong finished talking with Song Jiang, he handed over a lot of spare armor and weapons carried by the army to Song Jiang, so that he could arm his brothers, after all, this time they were going to deal with the powerful Jin soldiers! If these Liangshan heroes were to rely on their original simple equipment to fight the Jin soldiers, wouldn't they be sent to death!
And the heroes of Liangshan who got those excellent equipment couldn't help but feel more at ease, after all, in the eyes of many of them, their lives are probably not worth this set of good equipment at all! If the other party really wants them to die as cannon fodder on the battlefield, there is no need to give them such good equipment.
After the two armies converged, it took only two days to rush to the vicinity of Taiyuan City, where Ye Tianlong met Jin Bing for the first time.
This is the light cavalry of the Jin army, which seems to be responsible for guarding the perimeter of its large army, and the number is about three hundred horses.
And what happened to bump into them was a heavy cavalry of the Blue Dragon Empire, about 500 people, led by Li Zhong, a tiger general.
It stands to reason that a light cavalry unit encounters a heavy cavalry, and the number is less than that of the other party, and the normal way is to immediately get rid of the other party by relying on the speed advantage, after all, it stands to reason that the combat power of the heavy cavalry must be stronger than the light cavalry.
But because these golden soldiers have been winning battles before, from generals to small soldiers, they have completely swelled, after all, they used to dare to rush an army of tens of thousands of people with a few hundred people! And he was able to win.
So this time when they found that the enemy only had 500 horsemen, this golden soldier didn't pay attention to it at all, and directly charged towards this cavalry unit of the Blue Dragon Empire.
Seeing this, Li Zhong, the tiger general, couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately led his cavalry to meet him, preparing to completely eat this group of enemy cavalry who were not able to do anything.
As an old man who joined the Blue Dragon Empire relatively early, Li Zhong's current strength has long been different from his previous strength, and at this time, his cultivation has reached the innate level, which was just broken through a few days ago, and it is precisely because of the breakthrough in cultivation that the ambition in Li Zhong's heart has also swelled. This time, he was specially used as the vanguard, leading a cavalry force of 500 people to explore the road in front.
And as a vanguard, it is indeed easy to encounter enemies, not long after today's departure, they ran into such a group of arrogant enemies.
"Die!" Li Zhong roared, opened his bow and arrows, and shot an armor-piercing heavy arrow at one of the Jin army generals led by the opposite.
After following Ye Tianlong through a lot of battles, Li Zhong's archery skills at this time were already very good, even on the high-speed galloping war horse, this arrow still accurately hit the chest of the Jin army general. Then the armor-piercing heavy arrow that blessed Li Zhong's innate true qi easily tore through the iron armor piece on the Jin Army's general's chest, piercing into his chest, and finally the arrow came out from his back. The whole person was carried out of the horse by the huge force carried by the arrow, flew back for several meters and then fell heavily to the ground, and then was trampled into a pile of flesh and blood by the war horses of the other Jin State cavalry who followed closely behind.
And these cavalry of the Blue Dragon Empire brought by Li Zhong also mastered the skills of riding and archery, and at this time they also released arrows one after another, and before the cavalry of the two sides had formal contact, fifty or sixty cavalrymen of the Jin Kingdom had been shot off their horses. After all, these are light cavalry, and most of the armor on their bodies is some leather armor, which can't block the arrows fired by the well-equipped cavalry bows of the Blue Dragon Empire.
However, in the face of such huge casualties, those Jin State cavalry did not have the slightest intention of retreating, but quickly took over the command by another young general, and also quickly rushed towards the cavalry of the Blue Dragon Empire on the opposite side while releasing arrows.