People in the world say that there is a Wanzi Castle on Liangshan, and this Wanzi Castle means a small city with twists and turns, that is, a castle built on the mountain-shaped topography, and such a place has been inhabited for a long time. When Wang Lun, a white-clothed showman, occupied this place, he expanded it on the original basis, so that this place slowly formed a certain scale and became a place where bandits were entrenched.

Later, Chao Gai and others robbed Liang Zhongshu to Cai Jing's birth gang, due to the leakage of the news, they were pursued by the imperial court and forced to defect to Liangshan, but because Wang Lun refused to accept, they conspired to murder Wang Lun, seized the cottage, and also changed the atmosphere of indiscriminate killing of innocents in Wang Lun's era, and became a thief, won the support and love of the surrounding people, and expanded his power, so as to build many buildings such as barracks, checkpoints, guest rooms, warehouses and so on the mountainside.

Today's owner Song Jiang was originally a small official in Yuncheng County, and secretly had close contacts with the green forest heroes on the rivers and lakes, and had a high reputation among the green forest heroes.

Song Jiang is also a very ambitious and ambitious person, since he went up the mountain, Chao Gai has completely taken a back seat, he is presiding over all the big and small things, more and more heroes are also listening to him, they are attacking the rich Zhuangzi and the imperial court prefecture and county, using ruthless means to force people with ability to join, so that Liangshan ushered in rapid development, Wanzi City has also been greatly expanded again, dry villages, water villages, livestock breeding factories and so on have been built, as if Wanzi City has become a self-sufficient place.

Although the so-called sparrow is small, the five organs are complete, the most important place in Liangshan Wanzi City is, of course, the Zhongyi Hall on the top of the mountain, which is the place where the leaders gather, and is also the symbol of the highest power of Liangshan, which is similar to the court hall of Kaifeng in Tokyo, which has been initially built as early as the Wang Lun period, and later expanded several times, and the momentum is quite magnificent.

However, its original name was Juyi Hall, which took the meaning of brothers gathering righteousness and roaring mountains and forests, but Song Jiang has now changed it to Zhongyi Hall, and also erected a banner for Tianxingdao outside the gate, and it is also a banner for the court to eliminate treachery, only against traitors, not against the emperor.

As the supreme ruler of the Liangshan bandits, Song Jiang of course lives in the core behind the Zhongyi Hall, which can also be said to be the safest place in Liangshan, but unfortunately Song Jiang was worried last night, and he didn't sleep all night, and after dawn, he walked directly to the banner of Tianxingdao, looking into the distance, and one stop was a small half a day.

Wu Yong, nicknamed Zhi Duoxing, is a military advisor on Liangshan, who was Chao Gai's henchman earlier, and later became Song Jiang's henchman, and is also one of Song Jiang's closest people, he participates in big and small things, and today Wu Yong is busy and anxious to prepare for the upcoming war.

"Brother Gongming, I see that you have stood here for a long time without saying a word, but what is there to worry about?"

"Huh?"

Song Jiang woke up from his contemplation, looked back, and saw that it was Wu Yong, and immediately sighed.

"Has the military advisor already arranged the robbery of the camp?"

"It's been arranged just now!" Wu replied softly.

Song Jiang nodded, his dark face showed a look of worry, and he looked into the distance again. "Since Brother Dai Zong went down the mountain with Zhang Shun and Zhang Heng brothers last night to investigate, I always feel faintly uneasy in my heart, and now it's almost noon, and they still haven't heard from him, I think the leader of the stronghold under the mountain may have really had an accident, and now I just hope that Dai Zong, Zhang Heng, and Zhang Shun can return safely!"

Wu Yong looked at Song Jiang's face carefully, did not answer, lost the source of information, and he also couldn't figure out what was going on outside.

After waiting for a long time, Song Jiang saw that he was silent, and couldn't help but answer: "Zhao Bufan, who came with troops this time, can fight well and resist the Liao State in northern Xinjiang for many years, and his reputation is extremely high, I really like his ability, if he can join Liangshan, it will definitely make us prestige, if the court recruits in the future, the brothers will also have more capital and a better way out, what do the military advisors think?"

Wu Yong understood Song Jiang's words and knew that this meant that he tried to force Zhao Bufan to fall into the grass, but Wu Yong had already weighed this road in his heart, and he couldn't find a breakthrough after thinking about it, so he shook his head with a wry smile: "It's difficult, it's very difficult!"

"What about Zhao Bufan's wife and children, but there is a clever plan to invite them to Liangshan and force Zhao Bufan to return to Shun?" Song Jiang asked casually, because he had forced others to go to Liangshan in the past, so he had such thoughts.

After Wu Yong heard this, the bitterness on his face became even stronger.

"Brother Gongming doesn't know, Zhao Bufan is not only young, but also born as an orphan, there is no old mother, no children, only one wife, Zhu, was originally the daughter of Zhu Bocai, the imperial city secretary, and she has been in Kaifeng recently, there are countless master guards around her, and there is no chance at all!"

Song Jiang was silent.

After a long time, he didn't seem to give up, and opened his mouth again to ask, "Then does he have anything he loves very much? Can you lure him up the mountain?"

Wu Yong shook his head helplessly, and cautiously replied: "Brother Gongming, maybe the younger brother has limited knowledge, this Zhao Bufan really doesn't have any special habits, according to the known news, his two major wishes in life are to rejuvenate the country and conquer the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun!"

"Then can you set up a bureau to fabricate evidence of his betrayal of the imperial court, so that the imperial court forces him to fall into the grass?" Song Jiang remembered the trick he had used to subdue the imperial court generals before.

This time, Wu Yong hesitated slightly, and thought for a long time before replying: "Maybe you can, but you need to act at the opportunity, if you can defeat him first, and then send someone to disguise him to kill some people and the families of the surrounding prefecture officials, then he will become the target of the public, and when he is cornered, he can naturally force him to come to my Liangshan!"

Song Jiang nodded lightly, said no more, and looked at the sky calmly, no one knew what he was thinking.

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North of Liangshan, south of Yanggu County, there is a county called Shouzhang, this is a famous city, there have been a lot of heroes, such as the late Eastern Han Dynasty Chen Liutai Shou Zhang Miao, the five dynasties and Gao Siji of the same name of the iron gun Wang Yanzhang were born here, used to be a large county with a large population, but unfortunately in recent years it has gradually deserted.

Although the heroes of Liangshan have not invaded here, and the people can barely get by, but after all, there is inevitably a poor word, after all, there are Liangshan heroes, who dare to come here to do business, who dare to trade from here, for a long time, talented people have gone to other places to find a way out, and this prosperous county town has slowly declined!

When Song Jiang was tormented by the persecution of Zhao Bufan, Zhao Bufan had already brought the captured Dai Zong, Zhang Heng, and Zhang Shun here, and put them all in the county prison, and at the same time secretly ordered Shouzhang County to close the city gate and implement martial law in the whole city.

In fact, not only Zhang Shun and the three were imprisoned here, but all the intelligence leaders of the four strongholds on the periphery of Liangshan were imprisoned here, with a total of twelve Liangshan leaders before and after.

Such a big harvest, of course, the first merit is to belong to the time migration, when he sneaked into Liangshan to do a few months of fine work, it can be said that Liangshan has been thoroughly explored, this expedition, Zhao Bufan let him secretly follow the army forward, and the army stayed outside Yanggu City for three days, one is for repair, and the other also has the effect of paralyzing Liangshan heroes.

In fact, on the day when the army first began to camp and repair, that is, when Zhao Bufan entered Yanggu County to play, Lu Junyi, Shi Wengong, Yang Zhi and other six generals secretly took dozens of guards battalion masters to take the lead. They changed into the clothes of ordinary people, and under the guidance of the times, they pulled out the four hotels on the outskirts of Liangshan with lightning speed, and captured the eight intelligence leaders of Liangshan.

After that, they divided into four teams and continued to ambush in four hotels, waiting for the army to come and converge, and at the same time also ambushing Liangshan to report.

In order to distinguish between the Liangshan bandits and the ordinary people, they hung up a sign of closure in each hotel, so that the people of Liangjia would leave quickly when they saw the sign, but the Liangshan spies scattered outside would not, after all, this is the stronghold where they reported the news to the leader, even if they saw the sign of closure, they must go in to investigate, so that they can confirm whether the other party is a Liangshan bandit, if so, then come back to one, and immediately destroy one!

If too many people come to investigate at the same time, they will quietly hide, anyway, it is easy to do, even if they are discovered, it is just a withdrawal, it is not trivial, not to mention that ordinary Liangshan minions can't find anything at all, so it has been smooth.

Yesterday evening, Zhao Bufan took Wu Song and others to the Xishan Hotel quickly, and was very happy to learn that the battle was fruitful, and at the same time, it was expected that Liangshan Song Jiang would definitely send a capable leader down the mountain to check if he could not get the information, so he asked the hotels everywhere to continue to squat in ambush, and strive to catch another group of people, but he didn't think that Zhang Heng, Zhang Shun and Dai Zong happened to go to the Xishan Hotel to investigate, so they were captured alive by him.

As for the sweat medicine in the wine was caused by his whim, because a large number of sweat pills were found in this Liangshan stronghold, he out of curiosity, he drugged the water, wine, and food of the Xishan Hotel, and after finding out that Dai Zong and others were coming, he also strictly forbade Gao Zhong and others to take action, so that they all hid, and had the intention to try the effect of sweat pills.

With the arrest of Zhang Heng, Zhang Shun and Dai Zong, the operation also ended successfully, Zhao Bufan knew that after Dai Zong and others disappeared, Liang Shan would never dare to send people to investigate at will, so it was impossible to have more opportunities, out of caution, he ordered four teams of people to quickly rush to Shouzhang to assemble, so as to come to this Shouzhang County.

For the next two days, he hid in the county government of Shouzhang County, and did not reappear until the army successfully arrived in Shouzhang.

Since the county seat of Shouzhang is only more than 100 miles away from Liangshan, the generals have just arrived with the army, and they have asked for battle, but Zhao Bufan not only refused everyone to go, but directly let the army enter the county, directly shrinked, and did not even set up camps.

Although the generals were confused, no one would disobey his military orders, so they all hid in the county town with their breath.

This is a full ten days, seeing that it is the beginning of March, Zhao Bufan still did not show any intention of marching, and the officers and men in the army are becoming more and more confused, and they can't understand what kind of medicine he sells in the gourd, and only a few generals such as Lu Junyi and Shi Wengong have some understanding, including the new staff member Wen Huanzhang.

On this day, after Zhao Bufan routinely inspected the city defense, under the escort of Gao Chong, Yan Qing, Hu Sanniang and others, he slowly returned to the county government with Wen Huanzhang, and waited until he sat down in the back hall of the county office, and the maids brought tea and snacks.

"Mr. Wen, in what way do you think Liangshan will fight us?"

Wen Huanzhang is indeed a person with a hidden strategy, not the kind of person who wastes his reputation, he also knows some of his thoughts from Zhao Bufan's deployment these days, and admires Zhao Bufan very much, and knows that this inquiry is also testing him, so he laughed confidently at the moment.

"The advantages that Liangshan relies on are nothing more than three points, one is that the military is stronger than ours, the second is that the navy is flexible and mobile, and the third is that there is a natural danger of Shuibo, all the strategies they are most likely to implement are nothing more than night attacks, defending according to the danger, or with the help of familiarity with the terrain near Shuibo to ambush, Lord Zhongshu is not camped in the wilderness, but hiding in this Shouzhang County, I am afraid that these three points have already been considered in detail, why bother to test his subordinates!"

These words have the meaning of rhetorical questioning, but they are also clearly expressing their hearts to Zhao Bufan, which means that he knows everything in his heart, and he is quite proud.

If you are a narrow-minded person, you will definitely be dissatisfied with Wen Huanzhang's straightforward temperament, but the environment in which Zhao Bufan grew up made him have a big heart, and he is not afraid that his subordinates will say too much, but he is afraid that his subordinates will have no goods in their stomachs and will not be able to say some practical problems!

There has always been a lack of people around him who can help with advice, but Zhu Wu, the Shenji military master who was subdued from Huazhou earlier, is okay, but the situation of leading troops to conquer Liangshan this time is very complicated, and he is afraid that Tong Guan will come in chaos in northern Xinjiang, so he finally chose to leave Zhu Wu behind, at least Zhu Wu is much more reassuring to assist Lin Chong in northern Xinjiang, although Zhu Wu is a good man in the rivers and lakes, but he is one of the few people who are willing to specialize in the art of war battle array, and he has a set of intrigues or marching and fighting.

At present, this Wen Huanzhang is obviously also a genuine talent, and there is an effective staff member by his side, where will Zhao Bufan be unhappy, he knows that to achieve great things, it is by no means a few capable people around him, so he cares about talents very much, and immediately couldn't help but get up and walk to Wen Huanzhang's side, and personally picked up the teapot and poured tea for him.

Wen Huanzhang was taken aback, and hurriedly got up and said, "Lord Zhongshu is polite!"

"Eh! I like the most capable person in my life, Mr. is a great talent of chest armor soldiers, you are willing to follow me, don't say pour you tea, let me bring you foot washing water, but anything I can give, you can give Mr., just ask Mr. to try his best to help me break the thief, help me revitalize the Great Song Dynasty, and help the world!"

There are a few people in high positions who can make such a move, and Zhao Bufan's sincerity really moved the depressed Wen Huanzhang, and immediately bowed deeply and made a big salute. "Lord Zhongshu is broad-minded, Corporal Lixian, will become the backbone of the Great Song Dynasty, the student is just a few unambitious mountain village husbands, thanks to the importance of Lord Zhongshu, how dare not worry about Lord Zhongshu!"