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The slaughter of his own soldiers, no matter what the reason is, is good to say or not to hear, if this reputation is really confirmed, it will be greatly detrimental to the future development and growth of Jiang Hongfei and Shuibo Liangshan.

And, in fact, no matter who commands the Ninth Army, it is impossible for this rabble of a large group of ruffians and ruffians to become a strong army capable of fighting tough battles, it can only fight a dozen tailwind battles at most.

From the very beginning, Jiang Hongfei did not think of leaving the black sheep of the Ninth Infantry Army, but was ready to wait for the end of this battle to send the Ninth Infantry Army to Naitou Mountain, out of sight and out of mind.

That's why Jiang Hongfei tossed Li Kui casually.

Anyway, if Li Kui really tosses and something happens, it will be Li Kui, a temporary worker, who is behind him, what is Jiang Hongfei doing?

However, Li Kui is not really a reckless man who only knows how to kill, after he suppressed the soldiers of the Ninth Army, he ran to ask Hu Cao's people for a large amount of wine and meat, saying that Jiang Hongfei promised him that if he didn't give it to him, he would smash Hu Cao.

Hu Cao's people came to Jiang Hongfei for instructions, and Jiang Hongfei knew that Li Kui wanted to slap those soldiers and ruffians of the Ninth Army, and then give a sweet date to those soldiers and ruffians of the Ninth Army, so as to win people's hearts.

Jiang Hongfei instructed: "Give him whatever he wants." ”

It's only been more than a month, Jiang Hongfei doesn't believe that those soldiers and scoundrels of the Ninth Army can still feed themselves poor? Drunk poor? At this stage, stability is more important than everything.

And since the Ninth Army has eaten and drunk its own, it is bound to work for itself.

Therefore, the next day, Jiang Hongfei called Li Kui and said to him: "There is a Zhangjia village more than ten miles away from here, and you take the Ninth Army of Infantry and the Seventh Army of Ma to kill all the men in this village for me." ”

Li Kui seemed to have an unintentional mouth and said: "People are a good village, why do you want to slaughter him?" ”

Jiang Hongfei explained: "When my Liangshan army attacked the Daimyo's Mansion, many people in the Daimyo's Mansion City fled with their families, and some lawless people actually took advantage of the chaos to gang up as thieves, intercepting and robbing on the road, and some even pretended to be my Liangshan heroes to rob everywhere, and those who ran out of the Daimyo's Mansion City were all attacked by these gangsters, almost half of the victims were killed and plundered, and the gangsters also set fire to the houses outside the city, and the light and candles were lit up overnight, and I have already taught people to find out, these gangsters slaughtered all the men in Zhangjia Village, is entrenched and lustful in Zhangjia Village under the banner of my Shuibo Liangshan, how can I sit idly by and teach him to ruin my reputation? ”

As soon as Li Kui heard that this was the case, what else was there to say, he drank good wine and ate good meat, and besides, he came to help Jiang Hongfei fight, otherwise Jiang Hongfei wouldn't have given Li Cheng and Wenda to Naitou Mountain for nothing? Therefore, Li Kui didn't talk nonsense anymore, but immediately returned to the camp to rectify the soldiers and horses, and fought with Ma Qijun.

Actually-

There are several reasons why Jiang Hongfei wants to slaughter the gang of gangsters who dare to do evil in the name of the heroes of Liangshan in Zhangjia Village:

First, Jiang Hongfei had to deter the ruffians of the Ninth Army again, this was about to fight a big battle, and they couldn't let them make trouble at a critical time.

Ernai, the number of this gang of gangsters exceeds 10,000 people, it is not a small army, the key is that they are still in the war zone, Jiang Hongfei is afraid that this armed force that is not under his control will become a variable that changes the outcome of the victory, Jiang Hongfei does not want to fold in the hands of such a group of small people.

Third, Jiang Hongfei had to kill chickens and monkeys, let those who dared to pretend to be heroes of Liangshan to do evil, see what the end of this would be, and use them to deter the people in the city of the Daimyo Mansion who were still loyal to the Zhao and Song dynasties, as well as those soldiers and ruffians who did not take refuge in Shuibo Liangshan, so that they did not dare to gather people to make trouble.

After all, if Jiang Hongfei develops smoothly in Shandong, then Jiang Hongfei's next target will definitely be one of the four corners of Hebei, so that Jiang Hongfei is expected to win the world.

Hebei is surrounded by mountains and seas, surrounded by mountains and seas on three sides, the Central Plains in the south, the vast sea in the east, the Taihang Mountains and the Yanshan Mountains stretch for thousands of miles, surrounding its west and north sides. Several major rivers in Hebei originate from these two mountain ranges, cutting through the mountains and forming traffic channels, which also form some dangerous passes.

Wang Mang's new dynasty broke out in the Green Forest Red Eyebrow Uprising, and the Liu Xiu family of the Nanyang Hao clan followed the Green Forest Army to raise troops.

Later, Liu Xiu's elder brother Liu Xuan was killed, and Liu Xiu found a reason to leave Liu Xuan and go to Hebei to develop after the first emperor moved the capital to Luoyang.

After Liu Xiu arrived in Hebei, he got the support of Shanggu and Yuyang counties, married Liu Yang, the king of Zhending, and forced the landing of hundreds of thousands of Tongma peasant army, and his strength increased greatly.

Liu Xiu, supported by the generals, established the Eastern Han Dynasty in the Qianqiu Pavilion in Yancheng, Hebei, that is, the emperor's throne.

When the heroes were competing for the Central Plains, taking advantage of the internal disputes between the two major forces of the green forest and red eyebrows, Liu Xiu found a unique way, bordered Hebei, and established his own base.

Subsequently, Liu Xiu adopted a policy of devouring, first consolidating Hanoi and then taking Luoyang, seizing the strategic points of Kwantung, defeating the Red Mei Army and gaining the world.

Therefore, Hebei can be used as a place for Longxing.

The key is that Hebei is the closest place to Longxing in Shandong, where Jiang Hongfei is located, and it is also the place of Longxing that Jiang Hongfei has the most hope of seizing in the future.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei must manage his good reputation here in Hebei and lay a certain mass foundation, so as not to be difficult to enter here in the future.

As for snatching back the loot that was snatched by those gangsters that originally belonged to Shuibo Liangshan or something, it was a trivial matter.

It is only said that after Shi Bao and Li Kui received the order, under the leadership of the scout, they quietly came to the outside of Zhangjia Village.

This gang of gangsters is just a group of villains who take advantage of the fire to rob, and they don't have too strong military ability.

Shi Bao observed with a clairvoyant mirror for a while, and after making sure that there was no ambush in Zhangjia Village, he decisively ordered a direct attack.

Then, the Ma Seventh Army led by Shi Bao and Ma Lin took the lead, and Li Kui and Liu Tang led the Ninth Infantry Army, and the two armies immediately rushed into Zhangjia Village.

Shi Bao strictly implemented Jiang Hongfei's order, as long as it was a man in Zhangjia Village, he would not ask, and would be slaughtered directly, leaving no one behind.

However, the main task of the Seventh Army of Ma was to smash the gangsters in Zhangjia Village and prevent them from forming combat strength, and it was the Ninth Infantry Army led by Li Kui and Liu Tang who was really responsible for slaughtering these gangsters.

I saw that Li Kui, who had turned into a bear-like orc, was holding two plate axes in both hands, slashing one by one, one axe at a time, killing people like hemp.

And the Ninth Army, these ruffians, are the best at fighting this kind of downwind war, they scream and kill into Zhangjia Village, and cut down when they see a man.

As for Ma Qijun's task after that, it is to prevent these gangsters in Zhangjia Village from escaping from Zhangjia Village - whoever dares to run outside the village, they will shoot whoever they want.

In less than three hours, the gangsters in Zhangjia Village were killed by the Ninth Infantry Army.

The men of Hu Cao and the men of Bing Cao then took over Zhangjia Village, and they cleaned up the spoils, counted the exploits, and pacified the persecuted and frightened women.

Not long after, someone from Hu Cao found Li Kui and said to him: "Your soldiers have secretly hidden many seizures, please ask Li to teach them to take them out, otherwise not only will they not be able to count their merits, but they will also be subject to military law." ”

When Li Kui heard this, he yelled at the ruffians under his subordinates: "What did you rob, hand it over quickly, otherwise you don't need military law, the master will teach you to eat an axe first!" ”

Li Kui, the killer, is extremely terrifying in the eyes of Xiao Bing, others kill people by counting, he kills people by platoon, and he never makes sense when he kills, let alone hesitates.

Those military ruffians who were afraid of Li Kui could only obediently hand over the spoils they had robbed.

Of course, it is not excluded that there are some bold guys who have the audacity to hide a few small trophies.

There is no way to do this, Hu Cao's people and Bing Cao's people can't be searched one by one, that will really chill the hearts of these military ruffians, after all, they have to be used to charge into battle when they turn back, and they can't be allowed to defect.

After quickly calculating the merits, according to the rules of Shuibo Liangshan, the rewards of the Seventh Army of Ma and the Ninth Army of the Infantry were directly issued.

This undoubtedly alleviated the dissatisfaction of the ruffians and scoundrels of the Ninth Infantry Army with Shuibo Liangshan.

The people of Bing Cao cut off the heads of all the gangsters, and the people of the Ninth Army piled up the corpses of the gangsters and the corpses of the people of Zhangjia Village and set them on fire.

- It's not that the heroes of Liangshan don't want to separate them, but they really can't tell who they are, so they can only be burned together.

Subsequently, the heroes of Liangshan returned to the city with more than 10,000 heads, along with the women who were victimized.

Jiang Hongfei asked people to put these more than 10,000 heads on the cross street, and then posted a post next to them to explain what was going on.

And some of the women who were victimized were from Zhangjia Village, and some ran away from the city of Daimyo's mansion.

Jiang Hongfei ordered that those women who were willing to go home were allowed to go home, and those who were unwilling to go home, or who had nowhere to go, could stay in Shuibo Liangshan, and Shuibo Liangshan would help them arrange jobs and choose new mates for them.

After this incident, especially with the terrifying Jingguan shock, the security of the Daimyo's Mansion suddenly improved.

Then, everything fell into place.

On the third day when the heroes of Liangshan entered the Daimyo's Mansion, the 400 regular army and 400 auxiliary troops of the Wolf Howl Mountain Village arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion under the leadership of the Qinglong God Yan Guang, the White Tiger Kantian Ba, and the Vermilion Bird God Dong Kai.

Also arriving on the same day were the 400 regular army and 400 auxiliary troops led by Lu Fang and Guo Sheng of Shadow Mountain.

Another day later, Hua Rong, Fu Yu, Jiao Ting, Li Zhong, and Zhou Tong led most of the Ma Fifth Army, most of the Ma Sixth Army, most of the Third Infantry Army, and all of the Fifth Infantry Army to the Daimyo's Mansion.

- Actually, Jiang Hongfei did not transfer Hua Ronglai, but wanted Hua Rong's deputy Zhuo Mao to lead part of the Ma Fifth Army to participate in the war, and let Hua Rong, Cao Zheng, and Luan Tingyu continue to sit in Qingzhou, after all, Qingzhou is also very critical, but as soon as Hua Rong heard that Shuibo Liangshan was going to fight such a big battle, he left Zhuo Mao and all the auxiliary armies of the Ma Fifth Army and all the auxiliary armies, and handed over everything in Qingzhou to Cao Zheng and Luan Tingyu, and personally led the men and horses of Qingzhou to join the war.

Also arriving on the same day were the 3,000 men and horses of the Qingyun Mountain branch led by Aiye Leopard Di Lei, iron-backed wolf Cui Hao, and hungry insect Yao Shun.

That night, Wu Yong led the 5,000 men and horses of Nai Tou Mountain and also came to the Daimyo's Mansion.

After that, some reinforcements from Shuibo Liangshan came one after another.

is like the Zhuang soldiers of the three hundred Gaojiazhuang led by Jiang Hongfei's cheap old man Gao Baozheng.

For example, under Jiang Hongfei's covert operation, Zhao De, who had been promoted to the commander of Jeju soldiers and horses (Zhao Neng served as the commander of the Jeju Command Division), led the 500 Yangsan Army that entered Jeju.

There is also the regular army of the 400 infantry and eight armies led by Zou Run.

It is no exaggeration to say that for this battle, Shuibo Liangshan has made sufficient preparations.

As the reinforcements from Shuibo Liangshan arrived on the battlefield one after another, and the defenses were arranged, the Song army was still slow to move.

Seeing this, Jiang Hongfei and the others all shook their heads.

It's been so long, and the reinforcements from the Daimyo's Mansion haven't arrived yet, so needless to say, the Song Army must have missed the best time to rescue the Daimyo's Mansion.

On this day, all the major events have been decided, and Jiang Hongfei, who is just waiting for the Song army to dispatch, can finally spare a day to do an important thing that he has wanted to do for a long time.

So, Jiang Hongfei called Wang Lun, Sun Jing, Zhu Wu and others to give advice, and then only took Gao Liang and Yan Qing and left the Daimyo's Mansion in a very low-key manner.

Out of the Daimyo's Mansion, Jiang Hongfei and the three of them looked at the northwest road.

It was only two or three miles away, and after some cottages and hills, there were already remote and winding roads in front of them.

The three of them dismounted and walked, and Jiang Hongfei also chatted with Yan Qing about the person they were going to visit this time, that is, a master who was suspected of being the author himself-Xu Guanzhong.

Yan Qing said: "The villain's friend is proficient in the art of war, martial arts, and strategy, knows everything about qinqi, calligraphy and painting, and is proficient in Khitan, Jurchen, Dangxiang, Tubo, and Mongolian Chinese, and is an all-round talent in literature and martial arts. The most rare thing is to know the geography of the world, have traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, can be called a "living map", and the master has similar skills. During the Zhenghe period, he seemed to have responded to the name, and he got the name of the martial champion......"

While Jiang Hongfei and Yan Qing were chatting, the three of them went out of the mountain path and turned a big stream.

After walking for more than thirty miles, Yan Qing pointed to a place with his finger and said, "In the lofty mountain of Wuna, it is where the villain's friend lives. ”

Looking at the mountain and running a dead horse, this looks at the mountain road not far away, and it took more than ten miles to reach the mountain.

When I looked up, the mountain peaks were beautiful and the streams were clear.

Yan Qing explained to Jiang Hongfei that this mountain was called Dashan, and the ancient Dayu sage guided the river and was here. The Book of Books says, "To the greatest," and this is a testimony. It is now a local area of Jun County, Daimyo Prefecture......

The conversation is complicated.

Let's say that Yan Qing led Jiang Hongfei and Gao Liang around a few mountain mouths and came to a mountain recess, where there were three or four miles of square and flat places.

In the midst of the trees, there were two or three grass huts.

There are several huts facing south of the stream.

Surrounded by bamboo fences outside the door, the firewood is half covered, the bamboo is pine, the red maple and the cypress, the forest is dense before and after.

Yan Qing pointed to a few huts and said, "This is the residence of the villain's friend." ”

Jiang Hongfei looked at the bamboo fence, a yellow-haired village boy, wearing a collar of cloth jackets, was cleaning up some dried pine branches and piling them up under the eaves.

Hearing the sound of horses, the village boy stood up and looked out, and called strangely: "There must be a horse passing by here?!" ”

When I looked closely, immediately behind, it was the owner's friend Yanqing, the prodigal son.

The village boy hurriedly ran into the house and wanted to inform Xu Guanzhong.

No, Xu Guanzhong, who has a strange appearance and a cool and elegant demeanor, already knows that someone is coming, he greeted him out of the door, greeted Yan Qing with a smile, and said, "Brother Xiaoyi, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Yan Qing returned the salute, and then said: "The younger brother has changed to a new master, and he is specially recommended for Brother Xu." ”

While speaking, Yan Qing arched his hand at Jiang Hongfei and said, "Brother Xu, this is ......"

I didn't want to, but Xu Guanzhong answered with a smile and said: "Gaishen Buddha, Heavenly Great Sage, Righteousness, Bo Yun, Tianzhen, Qiankun, Shuibo, Liangshan Dazhai, Jiang Yanjiang Hongfei, Xiao Ke knows ......."

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(End of chapter)