Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 118 Dark Clouds of War

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in the hall.

Gao Qiu made a generous statement: "Today, there is Li Yan, the leader of the bandits in Liangshanbo, Jeju, who has committed great evils, murdered families, robbed warehouses, gathered gangsters, and erected the banner of 'walking for the sky'. The people believe in his words, but they don't know that the official is the emperor, and only the official can do justice for the heaven. "

Zhao Ji was shocked when he heard this, and said: "This thief is more powerful than Fangla in the south of the Yangtze River, Wang Qing in Huaixi, and Tianhu in Hebei?"

Gao Qiu replied: "That Fang La is just spreading Manichaeism and developing believers, and has no intention of rebelling against him for the time being. Although Wang Qing and Tian Hu are entangled with some villagers in the mountains to do some robbery, they are nothing to be afraid of. Only Li Yan is already I'm in serious trouble."

After hearing Gao Qiu's words, Zhao Ji also felt that Li Yan should be exterminated, so he looked at Tong Guan and said, "What do you think Tong Aiqing wants?"

Not long ago, Tong Guan sent Xihe Jinglue envoy Liu Fa to leave Huangzhou with 15 cavalry, and Qin Feng Jinglue sent Liu Zhongwu to send [-] soldiers to Huizhou. He himself stationed Chinese troops in Lanzhou to support the two groups.

Not long after, Liu Zhongwu went to Qingshuihe, built a city and guarded it, and returned. Liu Fa and Xia Youxiang army fought against the ancient bone dragon, and they were defeated and beheaded [-] levels.

After Tong Guan made such a great contribution, Zhao Ji ordered Tong Guan to be in charge of the six side affairs, and granted Tong Guan Yongxing, Yanyan, Huanqing, Qinfeng, Jingyuan, and Hexi to set up economic and strategic appeasement envoys, so the handles of the western soldiers all belonged to Tong Guan.

Zhao Ji was not asking Tong Guan what he meant, but wanted to use the Western Army to destroy Li Yan.

Since the Chanyuan Alliance, the only army in the Northern Song Dynasty with a fighting capacity was the Western Army.

Yuan Hao rebelled against the Song Dynasty, Nong Zhigao rebelled, the Li Dynasty in Vietnam rebelled against the Song Dynasty, the Xihe River opened up, the Five Routes attacked Xia, and the Qingtang Dynasty was destroyed, all of which were fought by the Western Army.

Today, although the Forbidden Army claims to be 80, which is several times that of the Western Army, everyone is more willing to believe in the powerful Western Army, including Zhao Ji.

Tong Guan glanced at Gao Qiu, and said in his heart: "Do you think that our family, like the officials, doesn't know about your son of a moth? You want our Xijun to run errands for you, and there is no way!"

Thinking of this, Tong Guan worshiped: "Your Majesty, the Western Xia is unwilling to be defeated by our family, and is stupidly fighting back. Our family has ordered Wang Hou and Liu Zhongwu to join forces from Jingyuan, Yanyan, Huanqing, and Qin Feng to attack Xia Zang. Dihe City is preparing for a decisive battle with Xixia, and at this time, troops will be dispatched..."

Gao Qiu said in his heart: "Don't think that you are the only one who can fight against the Western Army, and not all my imperial troops are full of wine bags and rice bags!"

Thinking of this, Gao Qiu interrupted the perplexed Tong Guan and said: "Such grassroots bandits don't need to raise up soldiers from the Western Army, and I can definitely wipe out that Li Yan by myself!"

No matter how stupid Zhao Ji was, he also knew that in the decisive battle over there, it would be tantamount to drawing out the bottom line for him to deploy soldiers here. He said: "Gao Aiqing has always been prudent, if he is promoted, he must be a good general."

Gao Qiu said: "This man is Hu Yanzhuo, the direct descendant of Hu Yanzan, the famous general of Hedong at the beginning of the founding of the country. This man uses two copper whips, and he has the courage of a thousand men. He is now under the control of the capital of Runing County, and he has many elite soldiers. A brave general, if you make Hu Yanzhuo a general, you will surely be able to wipe out the waters of Liangshan, and capture the leader of the bandit, Li Yan, to go to Beijing with a thousand swords. Your Majesty can give him the command of soldiers and horses, and lead elite soldiers on horseback, to clear the waters in a few days. Liangshan, the class teacher is still facing the court."

Zhao Ji came together and issued an imperial decree: "The Privy Council will immediately send someone to Runing Prefecture to call Yan Zhuo for an audience."

At the end of the day, Gao Qiu, who was impatient for revenge, personally urged the Privy Council to send an officer to Runing with an imperial decree to announce that Hu Yanzhuo would go to Beijing to face the saint.

After receiving the imperial edict, Hu Yanzhuo immediately packed up his armor and saddle horses, and then left Runing Prefecture Starry Night for Beijing with thirty or forty cronies.

Speechless all the way.

As soon as Hu Yanzhuo arrived in Tokyo, he was very conspicuous and went directly to meet Gao Lian who recommended him.

Seeing Hu Yanzhuo so eye-catching, Gao Qiu was very happy and asked someone to call Hu Yanzhuo in to meet him.

Hu Yanzhuo had an extraordinary appearance, and Gao Qiu was even more pleased after seeing it, so he told Hu Yanzhuo about the extermination of Li Yan.

After hearing this, Hu Yanzhuo said in a big bag: "It's not just the young general boasting, if the young general leads the army, he will be able to flatten the Liao'er puddle!"

Gao Qiu was overjoyed after hearing this, and the next morning, he called Yanzhuo to meet Zhao Ji.

Seeing Hu Yanzhuo's appearance, Zhao Ji was also moved with joy, so he gave him a snow black horse.

The whole body of the horse looks like black ink, and the four hooves are snow-white, so it is called kicking snow and black, and it can travel thousands of miles a day.

Hu Yanzhuo led the kicking Xue Wuzhao to thank Shengen, and then returned to the Dianshuai's mansion with Gao Qiu to discuss the matter of raising an army and arresting Liang Shanbo.

Hu Yanzhuo said: "Reporting to your kindness, the young general has already investigated clearly. Although the Liao'er puddle is small, there are dozens of generals and three to five thousand soldiers. The enemy should not be underestimated. The young general wants to ensure that the second will be the vanguard and jointly raise the army and horses." Go and destroy that Li Yan."

After hearing this, Gao Qiu asked, "Who is the general protecting?"

Hu Yanzhuo said: "The young generals are guaranteed by Han Tao, the training envoy of the Chenzhou regiment, and Peng Qi, the training envoy of the Yingzhou regiment. One of them has passed the martial arts exam and is known as General Baisheng, and the other is the son of a generation of generals, known as General Tianmu. The two of them have outstanding martial arts skills, and they can be the chief and deputy pioneers."

Gao Qiu said: "Since it was recommended by the general, there must be something extraordinary."

Gao Qiu said again: "Soldiers will be dispatched from your three routes, and you can use them well. I wonder how many soldiers and horses you have in your three routes?"

Hu Yanzhuo opened his mouth and said: "Together with us, the horse infantry has 1 troops each, a total of [-] people."

Gao Qiu thought for a while and said, "Leave two thousand horse troops to garrison the three places, and select three thousand elite horse troops and five thousand elite infantry to destroy Shuibo Liangshan and capture Li Yan and Ruan Xiaoqi, Lu Zhishen, Chen Liqing and Lin Chong alive Come see me!"

Hu Yanzhuo took the opportunity and said: "The soldiers of the three-way horse infantry army are all well-trained men, strong men and strong horses, I'm afraid that the armor is not complete..."

Gao Qiu waved his hand and said: "General, take my Jun Tie to the Jingshi Jiazhan Warehouse to choose soldiers at will. If the officials in the Jingshi Jiazhan Warehouse refuse, the General can come to me."

After hearing this, Hu Yanzhuo was overjoyed, and immediately bid farewell to Gao Qi, and then went to the Jiazhan warehouse of the capital to choose three thousand pairs of iron armor, five thousand pairs of cooked leather armor, three thousand copper and iron helmets, two thousand long spears, and one thousand hob knives. There are countless bows and arrows, and more than five hundred cannons and iron cannons.

Before Hu Yanzhuo returned to Runing County to pick up troops, Gao Qiu gave Hu Yanzhuo another 80 high-quality war horses, and at the same time introduced four generals to Hu Yanzhuo. General Manager. His surname is Hu Mingchun, and he is now the Metropolitan Supervisor of Gyeonggi. His surname is Qiu Mingyue, and he is now the head of the 80 Imperial Army. It's all under the command of the general... To tell you the truth, the waters of Liangshan and I have a great enmity, and I can't sleep or eat if I am immortal. If the general wants soldiers, I will give them soldiers. I also assigned four strong generals to the general, I hope the general will not betray me!"

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(End of this chapter)