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According to Gao Yu's request, the Privy Council allocated ten documents to pay the documents, and ordered 10,000 elite soldiers under the leaders of each department of the ten knots to go to Xingren Mansion to wait for the call.

What are the ten knots?

Henan and Hebei Jiedu made Wang Huan, Shangdang Taiyuan Jiedu made Xu Jing, Jingbei Hongnong Jiedu made Wang Wende, Yingzhou Runan Jiedu made Mei Zhan, Zhongshan Anping Jiedu made Zhang Kai, Jiangxia Lingling Jiedu made Yang Wen, Yunzhong Yanmen Jiedu made Han Cunbao, Longxi Hanyang Jiedu made Li Congji, Langyu Pengcheng Jiedu made Xiang Yuanzhen, Qinghe Tianshui Jiedu made Jingzhong.

It turns out that these ten knots, in the old days, were all born in the green forest, and later they were recruited and became the envoy of the festival, they are all elite and brave people, experienced in a hundred battles.

On the same day, the Zhongshu Province set a time limit, and the Privy Council issued ten official documents, asking the ten military horses to arrive at Xingren Mansion as scheduled, and those who were slow should be dealt with according to the military order.

There is a naval army in Jiankang Mansion in Jinling, which is called Liu Menglong as the head commander. When he was born, his mother dreamed that a black dragon flew into her womb, and she was born. When he grows up, he is good at water. He once fought for thieves in the Xichuan Gorge River, was promoted to the commander of the army, commanded 15,000 naval troops, and 500 ships to defend the south of the Yangtze River.

- This naval army was originally prepared for the suppression of Fang La.

Gao Yu wants to take this naval army and ships, and come to listen to the call in the starry night.

Gao Yu sent another confidant, called Niu Bangxi, and also made him a military captain, teaching him to go up and down the river, and as soon as he was in the river, he had to come to Xingren Mansion and deliver the transfer.

There are a lot of high tent front teeth, and the seven in it are the best: they are, 800,000 forbidden troops are the head of Qiu Yue; Zhou Ang, deputy head of the 800,000 forbidden army; Cheng Ziming, the head of the Dongcheng Terracotta Division, the golden lion and the iron lion; Hu Chun, who often walks in the Goyu Mansion in Gyeonggi Metropolitan Yu; Bashan Lux Gao Chonghan; There is also a call to be Dang Shiying, and the other is called to be Dang Shixiong, and the two brothers are called to be the commanders. These people all have the courage to be unsuitable.

It is said that these people alone are not weak in strength, and they can go to Shuibo Liangshan to fight.

But Gao Yu was not so reckless.

Although Gao Yu has not dealt with Shuibo Liangshan head-on, Gao Yu has several relatives who have folded in the hands of Shuibo Liangshan, including many outstanding talents like Gao Lian.

Therefore, Gao Yu once made a serious investigation into the strength of Shuibo Liangshan.

I don't know if I don't investigate, but when I investigated, I was scared!

——Gao Yu was shocked by the strength of the legendary Shuibo Liangshan on the rivers and lakes!

This is also the main reason why Gao Yu has not avenged Gao Lian, Gao Rang, including Gao Yanei.

Now, Zhao Ji has spoken, both public and private, Gao Yu can no longer avoid the decisive battle with Jiang Hongfei.

But the older the rivers and lakes, the less courage they have.

Gao Yu had already made up his mind, as long as it was the strength he could mobilize, he would transfer it all this time.

For this reason, Gao Yu can ignore his previous suspicions, and even lower his profile.

It can be said that Lin Chong just didn't wait for a good time, if he waited until this time, Gao Yu would definitely use him.

Because Gao Yu knows very well that if he wins this battle, he will be stable in this life, and he can continue to win the wind and rain, and once he loses, his good life will be completely over.

For this crucial battle, Gao Yu even transferred Uncle Zhang, whom he disliked very much, to serve as his deputy.

Zhao Ji was also very worried about this battle, so he said to Wang Huang: "Now that Captain Gao has sent someone to invite Wen Huanzhang of Anren Village to be a staff officer, he will be sent to accompany him to the army as soon as possible." If you are willing to come down, you will be forgiven of this sin; If it is still not ambushed, it will be set by Gao Yu, and the sun will be full of arrests and return to Beijing. ”

Wang Hao wrote a draft edict and took Huanzhang to the provincial banquet.

It turned out that this Wen Huanzhang was a famous scribe, and the ministers of the court were knowledgeable, and they were all ready to drink and eat to greet him. At the end of the day, they dispersed, and they packed up and set off. There is a poem as proof:

Over the years, he has been teaching Yin Anren and holding the rope in front of the army.

The powerful and the Manchurian Dynasty have many old knowledges, but there is no one to recommend the sage.

Now, Wen Huanzhang, a great talent, has finally been enabled by the Zhao and Song courts.

In addition, Gao Yu knew that there were many strange people in Shuibo Liangshan, even Jiang Hongfei himself also had a lot of Taoism, and his brother Gao Lian, who was well-versed in Xuan, was killed by Jiang Hongfei in seconds.

In order to prevent Jiang Hongfei from using spells to win, Gao Yu specially begged Zhao Ji to invite two Kinmen Yuke.

Zhao Ji advocated Taoism, built the Shangqing Baozhen Palace in the palace, and recruited Taoist priests with advanced Taoism to stay.

However, there are only nine people who can serve Chen (that is, the Jinmen Yuke who directly serves Zhao Ji): Lin Lingsu, Wang Yuncheng, Zhang Xubai, Xu Zhichang, Dong Nanyun, Li Derou, Wang Chongdao, Shao Ruoyu, and Wang Wenqing.

Each of these nine people has profound spells and great magical powers.

Zhao Ji attached great importance to this attack on Liangshan, so he sent Wang Yuncheng, Xu Zhichang, and Wang Wenqing, three Jinmen Yuke, to escort Gao Yu.

Gao Yu knew that there were two generals in Lingzhou: one surnamed Tinggui, and the other surnamed Wei Dingguo.

Shan Tinggui is good at the method of immersing soldiers with water, and everyone is called the holy water general.

Wei Dingguo is proficient in the art of fire attack, and can use firearms to take people when he goes into battle, so he is called the general of Shenhuo.

Each of these two has 500 divine soldiers, which is extremely powerful.

Gao Yu felt that with three Jinmen Yuke, and two generals of water and fire, it was useless to have any strange people in Liangshan.

Xu Huai, the word Hulin, Hangzhou people's family, West Lake Wuqiao Zhuang Mingshi, Gaopingshan hermit Xu He's cousin, he was born with clear eyebrows, full of red light, square forehead slight beard, heroic spirit, not only erudite, ambitious and noble, but also extremely proficient in military exercises and marching formations.

In addition, Xu Huai has three proud protégés who are not weak, such as Ren Sen, Wei Yangyin, and Li Zongtang.

At the beginning, Shuibo Liangshan was so powerful that many officials of the Zhao and Song dynasties did not dare to go to the vicinity of Shuibo Liangshan to be officials, and even dared not go to Shandong to be officials.

Zhao Ji was furious, and personally selected ten officials, including Xu Huai, from among the personnel selected by the ministry, and sent them to Shandong for use.

At that time, it coincided with the vacancy in Yuncheng County, because it was located in the key place of Shuibo Liangshan, the environment was complicated, and official affairs were restricted, and several officials selected by the capital province did not dare to take office.

After Xu Huai learned the news, he took the initiative to fill the vacancy and serve as the magistrate of Yuncheng.

After Xu Huai took office, with his outstanding ability to govern the world and vigorous and resolute means, with the help of three protégés, it only took more than three months to build the dangerous city that his colleagues talked about into a military town with strong city defense, full storage, brave soldiers, and peace and security of the people.

This also made Yuncheng one of the few cities in Shandong that was not conquered by Shuibo Liangshan.

In the past two years, with the strong support of the imperial court, Xu Huai has trained 50,000 elites, and he also contacted Xu He and three strange women to help him.

The first strange woman is Xu Qingniang.

She is the niece of Xu He and Xu Huai, and when she grew up, she married the young talent Yan Jiao as his wife. Yan Jiao has been intelligent, knowledgeable, and strong in memory since childhood, with a gentle temperament and elegant manners, and is recognized by the Yan family as a young talent in all schools, astronomy and geography. It's a pity that Yan Jiao's fate was not good, and he died when he was in his prime, and his relatives and friends were all stunned and regretful.

In addition to taking care of daily affairs in the house, Xu Qingniang often went to her uncle's house in Gaoping Mountain to understand the Tao and study military strategy.

Xu Huai had the intention to conquer Shuibo Liangshan, but because of the lack of strategists around him, he was afraid that he would suffer a big defeat if he was not thoughtful, so he was at a loss and undecided.

After the protégé Ren Sen had insight into his teacher's intentions, he recommended the hermit Xu He to Xu Huai.

Xu Huai couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, Xu He was his brother of the same clan, who lived in seclusion in the Gaoping Mountains of Juye County, and he immediately sent someone to invite Xu He.

When Xu He left, he took Xu Qingniang with him, and the two came to Yuncheng County together, ready to help Xu Huai.

The second strange woman is Wang Gongren.

She is also a lady from a famous family, although she has lived in a deep boudoir for a long time, she is very talented and strategic, good at making suggestions, and even arranging troops.

Wang Gongren's husband is a scholar Wang from Yuncheng County.

After Mr. Wang's death, Wang Gongren has been living in the mansion and staying at home.

Liangshanbo originally had indescribable clear springs and green streams, strange rocks and strange peaks, twilight and clouds, spring and autumn colors, and it was a good landscape.

When Bachelor Wang was still alive, he was known to have a habit of landscapes and often traveled to Liangshanbo. I also invited a famous Mr. Danqing to draw hundreds of scenery pictures of Liangshanbo, frame them into albums, and hide them at home.

Moreover, Mr. Danqing was the most happy to paint landscapes, and he actually painted the front and back, left and right, inside and outside, front, back, and side of Liangshanbo, with a total of more than 630 pictures.

These maps are similar to the real topography of Shuibo Liangshan.

This will undoubtedly be of great help in attacking Shuibo Liangshan.

After Xu Huai knew that Wang Gong's family had this picture, he went to ask Xu He and Xu Qingniang for the picture.

But Wang Gongren is widowed at home and doesn't see a man.

Xu Qingniang and Wang Gongren are still related.

So, Xu Qingniang took the initiative to ask Ying to see Wang Gongren for a picture.

When Xu Qingniang came to ask for a map of Liangshanbo, Wang Gongren not only presented the full map, but also promised to help Xu Huai and them attack Shuibo Liangshan, and he also wrote to his cousin Mrs. Jia, asking her to send troops to Liangshan Houguan as a response when Xu Huai attacked Shuibo Liangshan.

This third strange woman is, Mrs. Jia.

She is a thoughtful, good at recognizing people and things, and proficient in dispatching troops, and her husband is Zhang Ji, the general of Shandong Zhenfu.

Zhang Ji was cowardly by nature and had mediocre qualifications, and he relied on the merits of his ancestors to sit on the position of general.

However, Zhang Ji is very self-aware and knows the ability of his wife Jia, and he will obey her words and never refute them.

Therefore, Shandong's army and military affairs are under the control of Mrs. Jia.

Knowing that Xu Huai had the intention to conquer Shuibo Liangshan, Mrs. Jia, who was worried about Shuibo Liangshan, the largest thief force in Shandong, happily said that as long as Xu Huai made a move, she would mobilize more than 100,000 forbidden troops, Xiang troops, and township troops in Shandong to enter the back pass of Liangshan, and would personally take command and sit in the army, arrange troops, and reflect the virtual and the real.

In short, although Xu Huai is only a small Yuncheng magistrate, his subordinates have gathered a force that is not weak to suppress Liangshan.

It's just that Shuibo Liangshan's power is too big, so Xu Huai really doesn't dare to act rashly.

Now Gao Yu wants to personally exterminate Shuibo Liangshan, of course, he can't let go of Xu Huai, who is not weak in suppressing Shuibo Liangshan.

In order to get the help of Xu Huai, the force that suppressed Shuibo Liangshan, Gao Yu even did not hesitate to surrender his identity and invited Xu Huai to Beijing to discuss the plan to exterminate Shuibo Liangshan.

After Yun Tianbiao was defeated by the Liangshan army that day, he took the initiative to join Gao Yu.

When Gao Yu learned that Yun Tianbiao and Shuibo Liangshan had a murderous enmity, he gladly accepted Yun Tianbiao.

In the past few years, Yun Tianbiao has been working under Gao Yu, and Gao Yu later transferred Yun Tianbiao to the Qingnan region of Qingzhou to fight against the Liangshan heroes of Qingzhou.

Yun Tianbiao stayed in Qingzhou for several years in vain, he grew rapidly based on Fengyunzhuang, and recruited two forces that were not weak for Gao Yu.

The first of these is Zhengyi Village.

Zhengyi Village is a private force in the Qingnan area, which was formed by Ha Lansheng, a wealthy man in the village.

Shuibo Liangshan held high the banner of Tianxingdao, and what he did was to kill the rich and help the poor.

Moreover, Qingzhou is the second largest base of Shuibo Liangshan, and the strength of Shuibo Liangshan in Qingzhou for the Tianxing Road can be imagined.

As a result, many wealthy people in Qingzhou went to Zhengyi Village, which held high the banner of anti-Shuibo Liangshan in the Qingnan area at that time.

This also makes the number of villagers in Zhengyi Village as high as more than 45,000 people, and the soldiers are brave and large-scale, in addition to the strong martial arts Haransheng, there are also Ha Yunsheng, Sha Zhiren, Mian Yixin and other three fierce generals.

The original purpose of Zhengyi Village was only to defend against the Heavenly Walk of Shuibo Liangshan.

Later, Yun Tianbiao expanded his military operations in the local area and included all the villagers and villagers of Zhengyi Village under his command.

Also, Halal Mountain also voted for Yun Tianbiao.

The Halal Mountain Bandit is the largest gang of thieves in Qingzhou except Shuibo Liangshan, the big leader is the brocade scale python Ma Yuan, and there are five leaders and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under the tent, including Feilian Emperor Fuxiong, Fierce Lang Helian Jinming, Black God Wang Bochao, Iron City Wall Zhou Xing, and Ghost Sorrow Yong'er.

Yun Tianbiao carried out three large-scale encirclement and suppression of Qinghal Mountain, and the soldiers and horses of his department suffered heavy casualties, and four leaders, including Wang Bochao, Zhou Xing, Lai Yong'er, and Helian Jinming, were killed one after another. However, under the weight of Yun Tianbiao, the two leaders of Ma Yuan and Huang Fuxiong, surrendered to Yun Tianbiao with the remnants.

Yun Tianbiao, who obtained the soldiers and horses of Zhengyi Village and Qinghal Mountain, has now become the climate again, with a total of more than a dozen generals and sixty or seventy thousand horses.

To exterminate Shuibo Liangshan, Gao Yu summoned Yun Tianbiao and his men and horses as soon as possible.

The Monkey Arm Village in the Yizhou area of Shandong Province was originally just a local bandit force that caused trouble to the locality, and was vigorously founded by Ping Mine, and the scale was originally only six or seven hundred people.

After Gou Huan and others occupied the ape arm village, the scale was expanded, developing to four or five thousand people, but the nature still did not change much.

It wasn't until Chen Xizhen went to the Ape Arm Village that he established three basic rules for the cottage: first, you must not be enemies with the official army; 2. Villages and towns must not be looted or civilians harmed; 3. It is forbidden to have unauthorized access to gangsters such as Shuibo Liangshan.

So far, the armed forces of the Ape Arm Village have changed from the nature of bandits to a civilian force formed for self-protection.

Although Chen Xizhen's only daughter Chen Liqing married Jiang Hongfei as a concubine and gave birth to three sons to Jiang Hongfei, Chen Xizhen hated the heroes of Liangshan who robbed the rich and helped the poor, did the right thing for heaven, and eliminated harm for the people.

As for why, the reason given by Chen Xizhen is very screwed, that is: since he is loyal and righteous, he will not be a robber; If they are robbers, they will not be considered faithful.

If you find some far-fetched reasons, it can only be that Chen Xizhen's younger brother Chen Xiyi, when he competed with Lin Chong for the position of the head of the 800,000 forbidden army, was broken by Lin Chong with a heavy hand, and died more than a month later, so he had a grudge against Lin Chong, the leader of Shuibo Liangshan.

In short, Chen Xizhen didn't know what evil he had fallen into, that is, he was bent on making enemies of Shuibo Liangshan.

Chen Xizhen occupies the ape arm village as a support, and gradually develops and grows.

Today, there are also leaders such as Tang Meng, Zhen Dayi, Gou Huan, Zhen Xianglin, and Fan Chenglong, as well as 20,000 or 30,000 horses.

Later, Jiang Hongfei heard that Chen Xizhen was in Ape Arm Village, and sent Liu Guang to invite Chen Xizhen to come to Shuibo Liangshan to join the gang.

But Chen Xizhen drove Liu Guang out and threatened that even if he starved to death, he would not go to Liangshan Mountain.

Gao Yu heard about this, and took advantage of Chen Xizhen's relationship with Chen Xizhen, who was once his "master", to get in touch with Chen Xizhen, and not long ago recruited Ape Arm Village.

But even if these three powerful forces were recruited, Gao Yu was still not at ease.

Before leaving Bianliang City in Tokyo, Gao Yu summoned his confidant Ji Anbang, the military and horse capital supervisor of Jingdong who governed the Five Route Military Prefectures, and he and his friend Tie Fangliang each led more than 10,000 horses to help in the battle.

In the end, Gao Yu also brought a very potential young general, Liu Qi, to help him command the pro-army.

Total: Gao Yu brought more than a dozen strategists this time, more than 200 generals, and an army of 340,000, known as millions.

Gao Yu went to the imperial camp again, selected 15,000 elite soldiers as his own pro-army, mobilized sufficient grain and grass, and straightened his clothes and armor for several days, and made banners, but he did not have time to set off......

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