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After Wu Song followed the Fourth Army into Yanggu County, he learned that Wu Dalang was completely right, he didn't go to heaven if there was a way, and he came from hell without a door.

Originally, Wu Song told Wu Dalang to let him hide at home honestly and never come out.

But Wu Dalang was not worried about Wu Song and found the city wall.

Coincidentally, the county Cheng came back and told the county magistrate and others that there was a problem with the relationship between Wu Song and Jiang Hongfei, and Jiang Hongfei did not issue a pardon to Yanggu County because Wu Song gave them a pardon, and everyone had to go to the public trial.

In fact, the county Cheng lied, he omitted the initiative to surrender, and Shuibo Liangshan will set up a collection of evil boxes, that is, to save the initiative to surrender, some people can actually not go to the public trial.

——In the eyes of the county Cheng, as long as he is not pardoned, he will definitely not escape the fate of being on the public trial stage, and then he will inevitably die, and his family will have to suffer.

For the county Cheng, the only chance to survive is to incite the dignitaries, wealthy families, and gentry of Yanggu County to resist the attack of the Liangshan army, and then find an opportunity to escape with their families.

Just when the county instigated the dignitaries, wealthy families, and gentry of Yanggu County to resist the attack of the Liangshan army, Wu Dalang ran to the city wall, and fortunately, he asked where Wu Song was.

Originally, if the county was in the county's words, the dignitaries, wealthy families, and gentry in Yanggu County were still suspicious, and they were hesitating whether to hit the stone with an egg and give it a go?

Wu Dalang ran over by himself.

So, the county deceived Wu Dalang, and said that as long as Wu Dalang said the true relationship between Wu Song and Jiang Hongfei, he would tell Wu Dalang where Wu Song was?

Wu Dalang really didn't think that bragging and talking big things would kill people.

Those of them who mingle in the streets, who do not brag, who does not pull up the banner as a tiger skin, and who gets into trouble because of this?

So Wu Dalang, who was in a hurry to find Wu Song, told the true relationship between Wu Song and Jiang Hongfei.

Ximen Qing never expected that he had been shrewd all his life, but in the end he made Wu Dalang, a three-inch ding, and the bark of the valley miserable, he was angry from the heart of the evil to the side of the gall, and flew up his right foot early, Wu Dalang was short, and he was kicking in the center of the nest, and he fell after looking at the ground.

Seeing that Ximen Qing kicked down Wu Dalang, other people who hated Wu Dalang for lying and killing their whole family rose up and attacked him and beat Wu Dalang to death.

After killing Wu Dalang, some people began to fear that Wu Song would take revenge on them.

Ximen Qing stabilized his mind and said: "Since Wu Song has nothing to do with the Great Sage, we are afraid that he will do something, and he alone can kill all of us, and we will kill the two unrighteous martial brothers for the Great Sage, so the Great Sage may give me amnesty in Yanggu County." ”

Some people feel that Ximenqing's crooked reasoning is a bit reasonable.

At that time, Wu Song came back, and Ximenqing and others cut off Wu Dalang's head, indicating that they would break with Wu Song and make a show for the heroes of Liangshan.

Wu Song found Yu Cheng, hoping that Yu Cheng could help him conquer Yanggu County and let him take revenge.

Laying down Yanggu County is Yu Cheng's task.

Therefore, Yu Cheng did not shirk it, and prepared to attack the city.

But without waiting for Yu Cheng to make a move, the magistrate of Yanggu County, with the idea of hitting stones with eggs, led those who didn't want to use their arms as a car, opened the city gate, put down the drawbridge, and welcomed the Liangshan army into the city.

After entering the city, after Wu Song asked Ming Wu Dalang about the cause of death, he killed Xiancheng and Ximen Qing, and killed and injured several people who participated in the killing of Wu Dalang.

The rest are all in accordance with the inherent process of Shuibo Liangshan.

The wicked people in Yanggu County have all received their due retribution.

For example, the county Cheng, such as Ximenqing, not only did they die, but their homes were also raided, all the men in their families were on the public trial table, and few could come down, and the women in their families all became sinners and would be redistributed by Shuibo Liangshan.

It is worth mentioning that the ten friends in the meeting were all wiped out, but it was the magistrate of Yanggu County, who always tried his best to maintain the law and order of Yanggu County, and finally withstood the pressure to sacrifice the city, because he protected the safety of the people of the city, and was not tried by the public, not only that, but he was also absorbed by Shuibo Liangshan and continued to serve as the county magistrate of Yanggu County.

After Wu Song buried Wu Dalang, he went up to Liangshan and met Jiang Hongfei, whom he hadn't seen for six or seven years.

What Wu Song never expected was that after six or seven years, Jiang Hongfei not only did not get as old as him, but lived younger and younger, and now he looks like a sturdy guy in his twenties, not at all like a person who is already thirty-five years old.

And Jiang Hongfei didn't expect that Wu Song, who was only thirty years old, had grown old like this.

Jiang Hongfei looked at Wu Song now and sighed, and heard that Wu Dalang died unexpectedly, which made Wu Song mourn and change.

Jiang Hongfei asked Wu Song to rest for a while, and then went to the Ninth Infantry Army, that is, the infantry army that originally entered Jeju Mansion under the control of Zhao Neng and Zhao De brothers, to serve as a deputy commander, to help the army improve its strength, and also stabilize the military spirit of this infantry army that had not been under the control of Shuibo Liangshan for a long time.

In general, Jiang Hongfei is no longer close to Wu Song, but Jiang Hongfei still misses the old love, gets along with Wu Song, and also gives Wu Song a good way out.

And with Wu Song's ability, work hard for a year or two, and convince Zhao Neng and Zhao De, he may be able to become the commander of the Ninth Army.

As for directly letting Wu Song be the commander, it is impossible, others have worked hard for so many years or made great contributions to Jiang Hongfei before they became the commander, why did you Wu Song become the commander as soon as he came, what does this make others think?

Wu Song was very satisfied with Jiang Hongfei's arrangement, wasn't this much better than his original nominal command of a hundred people, but actually only led twenty or thirty people?

To be honest, the main reason why Jiang Hongfei arranged Wu Song like this is that Wu Song is a first-class qi refiner in the end, and his heart is relatively stable, so it's a pity not to use it, and Zhao Neng and Zhao De's abilities are really not enough to support an infantry army.

Anyway, Jiang Hongfei can't push out a talent who has already arrived, especially at this time of employment.

There is nothing to say, Wu Song is grateful to Jiang Hongfei for ignoring his past suspicions and not resting, so he went with the Ninth Army to attack the city for Shuibo Liangshan.

Before Jiang Hongfei returned from Quanzhou, he ordered Sun Jing, Zhu Wu, Xiao Jiasui, and Xu Guanzhong to take action and immediately take Shandong and Hebei.

Now, Jiang Hongfei is back, and most of Shandong has become the territory of Shuibo Liangshan, and the remaining areas that are stubborn are water mills, and they can't be in a hurry.

The focus of the next stage is to capture Hebei, and the first two important towns are Kaide Mansion and Daimyofu, and then continue to fight upwards and seize the entire Hebei ......

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During this time, Wang Hao shuttled back and forth between the Chongzheng Hall and the capital hall almost every day.

There is no way, the four great Kou are in trouble at the same time, and it seems to have the intention of carving up the territory of the Zhao and Song Dynasty, and the country and society of the Zhao and Song Dynasty are crumbling.

Zhao Ji really doesn't understand, how did the originally good Zhao Song Dynasty suddenly become like this?

After dinner that day, another unfortunate news came that Deng Xunwu, a member of the Privy Council, had died of illness.

Deng Xunwu was an old minister of the Three Dynasties who resolutely opposed the destruction of Liao by Lianjin and the recovery of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and was also one of the few ministers of the Zhao Song Dynasty who knew how to soldier, and was regarded as one of the mainstays of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

But at this critical moment, Deng Xunwu died.

When Zhao Ji heard the news, he felt even more uneasy.

Fortunately, Tong Guan and Liu Yanqing led the army to the south quickly, first occupied Zhenjiang, and then fought bloodily to defeat Jiangning Mansion and other important towns along the Yangtze River, and held the Yangtze River to prevent the rebel army from the southeast from going north and threatening Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Tong Guan issued a reward order in the name of Zhao Ji in Zhenjiang: those who capture or kill Fang La or Fang Baihua alive will be rewarded with official defense envoys, 100,000 spirit stones, and 10,000 silk silks.

Unfortunately, this has little to gain.

Tong Guan sent back the news that the reason why the southeast was able to launch such a large-scale riot was actually caused by Huashigang, and the people in the southeast had been plagued by Huashigang for more than ten or twenty years, which led to the withering of all industries and the boiling of public resentment.

Zhao Ji didn't expect that the catastrophe in the southeast was caused by a small hobby of his.

After Zhao Ji received Tong Guan's report, he immediately issued an edict to dismiss Zhu Mian's father and son and their relatives.

But the people of the southeast didn't buy it.

In order to help Zhao Ji exonerate himself, Wang Hao and others said: "The southeast rebellion was not caused by Hua Shigang at all, but it was because Tong Taifu was unfavorable to suppress the bandits, so he was entrusted to the official family. ”

Tong Guan's suppression of bandits in the southeast is indeed very unsmooth, and it can be said that one step at a time.

Zhao Ji chased after him tightly, and Wang Hao and others in the court also gave Tong Guan eye medicine.

There was no way, Tong Guan could only hand over the "Zhu Family Crime Record" distributed by Jiang Hongfei to Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji saw that Zhu Mian's family not only had more than 300,000 acres of land deeds, but also spiritual stones, spiritual weapons and other property (not counting antique calligraphy and paintings and other treasures that are not easy to calculate), and a rough calculation turned out to be no less than 20 million yuan, no less than 200,000 silk silks, more than 400,000 stones of grain, no less than 10,000 sets of fine armor, more than 3,000 good horses, and a total of tens of thousands of various livestock. Zhu Mian's home is similar to the imperial palace.

Let's look at the many sins committed by Zhu Mian's family in the southeast by collecting flowers and stones for him.

Wang Hao and the others could no longer speak for Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji finally knew how much trouble his little hobby had caused.

Soon, Tian Hu's acquisition of the jade seal of the country also reached the Jingshi.

Tian Hu by hyping the jade seal of the country, and the Zhao Song Dynasty lost the national fortune, he will replace the Zhao Song Dynasty, fooled a large number of people to follow him to revolt, so that his strength increased sharply in a short period of time, and now there are 600,000 soldiers and horses, known as one million, occupying most of the area in the east of the river, not to mention, but also began to cross the Yellow River towards Shaanxi, the goal is directed at the Guanzhong Plain.

At the same time, Wang Qing was also expanding his influence on the Sixth Route in the Northwest, and it seemed that he had the intention of occupying the Guanzhong Plain first.

Wang Qing currently occupies almost a quarter of the territory of the Zhao and Song dynasties, has 300,000 troops, and has great war potential.

Although Jiang Hongfei does not claim the title of king and does not hold high the banner of rebellion, he has also begun to capture Shandong and Hebei.

These four great Kou turned the Zhao and Song Dynasty upside down.

Zhao Ji engraved the names of Shandong Jiangyan, Huaixi Wang Qing, Hedong Tianhu, and Jiangnan La, on the wall of Ruisi Palace, and he lost sleep almost every day and was haggard.

The simultaneous riots of the four great Kou disrupted Zhao Ji's strategic deployment of sending troops to the Northern Expedition to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, and made Zhao Ji worry about the instability of the country.

Zhao Ji brought Wang Hao and other important ministers to discuss the countermeasures to exterminate the four great Kou every day.

After the analysis of Zhao Jijunchen, although Tian Hu and Wang Qing are not small in strength and power now, their opponents are the most capable Western army of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

The Zhao and Song dynasties had four forbidden armies, namely: the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, the Hebei Forbidden Army, the Northwest Forbidden Army (i.e., the Western Army), and the Jiangnan Forbidden Army.

According to the original assumption of the Zhao and Song dynasties, the Western Army should be weaker than the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army and the Hebei Forbidden Army in terms of both numbers and combat strength, but slightly stronger than the Jiangnan Forbidden Army.

However, with the development and historical changes, the Western Army was only weaker than the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army and the Hebei Forbidden Army in terms of numbers, and even weaker than the Jiangnan Forbidden Army, but in terms of combat effectiveness, the Western Army deserved to be the strongest existence in the Song Army.

Over the years, the Western Army has also produced many good generals, such as Di Qing, Chong Shiheng, Zhe Kexing, Wang Shao, Zhang Qi, Chong Ge, Wang Hou, Chong Shidao, etc.

The Western Army not only expanded the border and rivers for the Zhao and Song dynasties, opened up Longyou, restored the Silk Road, opened more than 3,000 miles of territory, defeated millions of enemy troops, and almost destroyed the Western Xia.

There are four main reasons why the Western Army is so strong:

First, the biggest difference between the Western Army and other Song armies is that the military system implemented by the Western Army is not the art of war and the method of changing wars, but making an exception to allow generals to lead an army for a long time, allowing an army to be stationed in one area for a long time, and there is no need to regularly transfer to other places and garrison Beijing divisions.

In this way, the generals and soldiers of the Western Army know each other very well, are very familiar with the local customs and geographical transportation, have a high executive power and the prestige of the generals, and have a strong sense of belonging, and the army is like a big family, so as to maintain strong combat effectiveness.

The generals of the Western Army can also be passed down from generation to generation, which is completely different from other Song armies that "do not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the generals", which has slowly formed several famous families that have led the soldiers for several generations, such as the Zhejia Army, the Yang Family Army, the Chongjia Army, the Liu Family Army, the Xin Family Army, and so on.

Second, although the source of troops of the Western Army came from all parts of the country, it was mainly composed of young and strong people from Shaanxi and Guanzhong, and the proportion of Guanxi became larger in the later period, and they were rough and tough, hard-working, and many of them were in the same county and township, or even the same nationality and village, and their social relations were close and solid, and they were very brave and tenacious in battle, and they were not afraid of sacrifice.

For the officers and soldiers of the Western Army, the fight against the Western Xia is to defend their hometown, so the enthusiasm and enthusiasm for joining the army to fight are very high, plus the famous generals are numerous, well-trained, well-equipped, and the rewards are often very rich, so the Western Army often dares to go deep into the Hanhai Gobi for thousands of miles, and do a big roundabout interspersed with mobile operations, which is quite heroic in the Han and Tang dynasties!

Third, the Western Army and its location in Shaanxi Shangwu became a trend, many families have served in the Western Army for life for several generations, all their lives and property are in the Western Army barracks, the father dies and the son succeeds, life is endless, many men do not live to be 30 years old, as the Yang family will describe the 12 widows in the West, a bunch of young widows in the Western Army gather and live everywhere, depending on each other, take care of each other.

It should be noted that the Western Army has many sources, not all of which are Han soldiers, but also many Tubo and Qiang soldiers, as well as local box soldiers, township soldiers, Orions, etc., which is a kind of military joint defense mechanism, but the core of combat effectiveness is the Western Army composed of Guan, Shaanxi, and Qingzhuang.

This army, fighting on the mainland, is almost invincible, and they can even kill the enemy, old and weak, women and children.

As for the last reason, the Western Army has been fighting in the south and the north all these years, and their combat experience is extremely rich, far from being comparable to other Song armies that have not fought for one or two hundred years.

With such a Western Army on top, Tian Hu and Wang Qing should not be able to make too many waves in a short period of time.

Judging from the current situation, even if Fang La and Fang Baihua cannot be exterminated in a short time, it will not allow the rebel army in the southeast to go north to threaten the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Looking at it this way, only Jiang Hongfei can really pose a mortal threat to the Zhao and Song dynasties, after all, whether it is Shuibo Liangshan, Shandong or Hebei, it is too close to the Gyeonggi region.

On the third day of the third month of the third month of the third year of Song Xuanhe, at three o'clock on the fifth watch, the important ministers of the Zhao Ji Dynasty all gathered in the waiter pavilion. When the drum sounds, each according to the product, the Dan Qi is divided. The worship dance and living have been completed, and the civil and military classes are arranged under the jade steps.

Zhao Ji said in a deep voice: "Jiang Yan's Kou is a big trouble in his heart, and he must not be eliminated. Who shares my worries? ”

After speaking, Zhao Ji looked at Gao Yu.

Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use soldiers for a while.

Over the years, Zhao Ji has promoted Gao Yu a lot, making Gao Yu from a ploppy to the commander of the palace of the Zhao and Song Dynasty, and also gave him the official title of captain.

Now, Zhao Ji needs someone to share his worries, and Gao Yu is in charge of the 800,000 Central Forbidden Army, so he is bound to share his worries and solve problems for Zhao Ji.

Gao Yu knows this.

Moreover, Shuibo Liangshan and Gao Yu have a deep personal grudge.

Gao Yu also felt that it was time to make a decision.

So, Gao Yu came out of the class and said: "Weichen is not talented, I am willing to follow the work of dogs and horses to suppress this coward." Take the Divine Decree. ”

Zhao Ji said with great satisfaction: "Since Qing is willing to share his worries with me, Ren Qing chooses to choose military horses and fight as soon as possible." ”

Gao Yu played again: "Liangshan is more than 800 miles in radius, and it is impossible to move forward without boats." The ministers begged for the holy decree to cut down wood plants near Liangshan, and ordered craftsmen to build ships, or use official money to buy civilian ships for war purposes. ”

Zhao Ji said: "The secretary is in charge, and the secretary is in charge, and he will do it if he can, and be careful not to harm the people." ”

Gao Yu played: "Weichen dares! Only tolerate grace in order to succeed. ”

Zhao Ji ordered someone to take the brocade robe and gold armor, give it to Gao Yu, and choose another auspicious sunrise teacher.

On the same day, hundreds of officials retreated, and Gao Yu called Zhongshu Province to pass on the history of the house, preach the holy decree, and decide to allocate the army.

For the sake of insurance, Gao Yu deliberately said to the Privy Council: "The former has ten envoys, and most of them have made contributions to the country, or conquered the ghost country, or cut the Western Xia, and Dajin, Daliao and other places, and are skilled in martial arts. Please lower the command, and the difference will be ......"

In addition to the ten knots, Gao Yu also transferred Zhang Shuye's father and son, who can fight well, Shan Tingqi and Wei Dingguo, the two generals of water and fire, Yun Tianbiao, who has a big enmity with Shuibo Liangshan, Xu Huai, the magistrate of Yuncheng County, who has been clamoring to exterminate Shuibo Liangshan, Zhengyi Village, a civil force in Qingzhou, and Ape Arm Village, an armed force in Yizhou, Shandong, that is, Jiang Hongfei's cheap old man Chen Xizhen, and so on......

It can be seen that Gao Yu fought hard this time, organized all the forces against Shuibo Liangshan that he could mobilize, and prepared for a decisive battle with Jiang Hongfei......

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