The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Muzhou, northwest of Qingxi County, Bangyuan Cave.

Bangyuan Cave, also known as Bangyuan Cave, is about forty miles wide and deep, and spans dozens of miles.

There are many mountains outside it, the road is winding and tortuous, and there are mostly cliffs on both sides, and the terrain is dangerous and steep.

The caves in it are connected, some are big and some are small, some are deep and some are shallow.

In the front of Bangyuan Cave, there is a hill called Jianmen Ridge, which is the barrier of Bangyuan. To the north of Jianmen Ridge, there are two mountains. way.

On the south side of Jianmen Ridge, there is a small path hidden on the mountainside, which is a secret way to get in and out of Bangyuan, called Nanshan Pass, from here you can take a rough road in the mountains to reach Bangyuan directly.

The Nanshan Pass is covered by lush bamboo forest, so it is very hidden, and it is extremely difficult for people who are not familiar with the terrain to find it.

It is now more than ten days after the Battle of Muzhou, Liu Yanqing led more than 5 soldiers in his headquarters, and he could bring [-] soldiers in savings, Yao Pingzhong led [-] soldiers, and Zhao Yu sent Du Po to lead another [-] soldiers, a total of [-] More than [-] people attacked Bangyuan.

Because the terrain was unfamiliar, soldiers and horses were stationed at Jianmen Ridge, and then sent out scouts to investigate inside.

But for two or three days in a row, none of the scouts sent out came back. I don't know if they lost their way in the mountains and were eaten by wolves, tigers and leopards, or there were bandits ambushing everywhere in the area of ​​Bangyuan, and they were captured and killed. .

Liu Yanqing hurriedly discussed the matter, frowning worriedly, and Kecun waited for humanity: "The encirclement and suppression in the mountains has always been done with more soldiers and fewer soldiers, and the number of soldiers is used to make up for the disadvantage of the terrain. According to the calculation of Fang La's previous strength, there are at least a dozen of Yuandong in this group now. There are 20 bandit troops, and now we only have more than [-] soldiers and horses, and the investigation is laborious, so how do we attack?"

All the generals were silent, this kind of thing is obvious, no one can think of a good way.

At this moment, the small school outside the tent suddenly came to report: "Commander, there are countless black crows in the distance, flying the king's flag, and an outpost general came to deliver an order, saying that His Royal Highness King Yun has arrived!"

Liu Yanqing was taken aback when he heard the words, and hurriedly stood up: "Did King Yun come to help Yuan?"

Zhe Kecun and Yao Pingzhong next to each other looked at each other, thinking that as expected, they returned to Hangzhou to reorganize the army after defeating Muzhou. Zhao Tuo once said that the king of Yun would probably come to pick peaches and take military merits, so they should be more cautious.

Yao Pingzhong secretly glanced at Liu Yanqing, seeing his astonished look, he couldn't help but secretly frowned.

At this moment, King Yun's outpost general arrived, and all the generals saw that everyone except Du Po recognized that it was Liu Guangshi.

Yao Pingzhong couldn't help curling his lips, thinking that the father and son tipped off the news, and even pretended to be surprised, the Liu family is too thick-skinned.

Apparently it was Liu Yanqing who sent a secret letter to Zhao Kai to report the military situation, even if he didn't want to curry favor with Yunwang Zhao Kai, he still had to think about his own son.

Liu Yanqing has 14 children, the most outstanding of which are the eldest son Liu Guangguo and the second son Liu Guangshi. Liu Guangguo is in the tent at the moment. Once Fang La is captured with the army, the military exploits are proper, but Liu Guangshi followed Zhao Kai in Hongzhou. If Zhao Kai didn't send troops all the time, he won't get anything in the end.

So Liu Yanqing wrote a letter. Naturally, this letter could not be written directly to Liu Guangshi, but to Zhao Kai, reporting the current battle situation, saying that almost all of Zhejiang and Zhejiang were recovered. Whether to come or not is Zhao Kai's own decision, he didn't take the initiative to invite the three kings to send troops in his letter, but he estimated that ten out of ten of them would come to fight for success.

At this time, Liu Guangshi saw the ceremony and said: "Commander, King Yun's galloping troops to suppress the bandits have arrived not far from the tent. Please come and greet him, Commander."

Liu Yanqing immediately said "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Zhe Ke was embarrassed to watch his performance, and couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, while Yao Pingzhong raised his eyebrows in disdain, and the two followed him out of the big tent.

After a while, Zhao Kai walked in surrounded by a group of people. The wild road was rugged, he was wearing a long robe, the hem of the shoes and robe was dirty, and there were grass sticks and thorns hanging on it, he looked dusty.

He was excited at the moment, but he didn't care about these side details. If he couldn't bear this kind of dirty and dirty, he would have to take a bath and change clothes immediately.

He was anxious about military merit right now, military merit was more important than anything else, and with military merit, he would have the confidence to fight Zhao Huan completely.

The Emperor Daojun had thought of replacing the crown prince long ago, and he had also mentioned him in private. Not to mention that all the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty supported him, there were seven or eight out of ten, and the remaining [-] to [-] percent were mostly neutral factions.

As long as he has enough military merits, it will be a matter of course to change the crown prince!

Zhao Kai sat down in the handsome chair, and after a few greetings, he listened to Liu Yanqing's report on the military situation. When Liu Yanqing said that none of the scouts he had sent had returned, and that he was suspected of being captured and killed by the bandit army, he couldn't help saying: "The bandit leader Fang La Starting in the mountains, most of the villages below the source were taken by the bandits, and if they were all killed, the bandits would have nowhere to stay outside, so they could only run back to the cave, and the army would be able to drive straight in."

Liu Yanqing said: "King Yun's plan is very good. The leader of the bandit started the incident in the name of the Devil's Cult. Every village and every village in this gang is involved. If you kill them, there will be no mistakes."

Then he said that the source of the gang is deep and vast, and the mountains are densely forested and rugged, so it is difficult to find the entrance of the cave by marching troops. It is rumored that the cave is connected with nine twists and turns, and there are few soldiers in the cave, so there is no available plan.

Zhao Kai raised his head and thought for a while, then suddenly recalled the book of the Art of War that he had brought with him before he set off, which recorded such a situation, and he couldn't help saying: "This is not easy, just set fire to the mountain, burn all the grass and trees on the mountain, and there is no forest left. It’s dense and rugged, and all the openings will be exposed!”

Liu Yanqing hurriedly clapped his hands applauding, Zhao Kai continued: "It's hard to make a series of chains in the cave, it's too wide and deep, and the mountain smoke may not be enough, as for the lack of soldiers, it doesn't matter, you can try it out first, if you don't succeed, wait for Tong Guan to come and attack together kill."

It is useless to release smoke in the Bangyuan Cave, not to mention that the inside extends in all directions and is tens of miles long, but the direction of the mountain wind is changeable, and this kind of ventilating cave is always blown from the inside out, I am afraid that if the smoke is not fanned in, the smoke will Song Jun was all fumigated.

Zhao Kai didn't know what Zhao Kai was talking about, in fact, he did too much homework this time, in Hongzhou he not only drank and had fun, listened to beauties singing and dancing, but also read a lot of military books.

Grinding the gun in front of the battle, you are not happy, even if you know it but don't know why, you can still take it out and use it reluctantly.

As for not going to Jiangning to sit in town after coming here, but running to Hongzhou, I also learned from military books, how to avoid the edge and so on, and then learned that the oriole is behind, and when the bandit suppression is about to end, come and harvest immediately.

Liu Yanqing couldn't stop complimenting and flattering Zhao Kai, so Zhao Kai felt complacent and ordered: "Take a rest overnight, and tomorrow we will capture and kill all the bandits hiding in the nearby villages, and then we can go to Bangyuan and set fire to the mountains!"

In Hangzhou, Zhao Tuo sat in the government office, looked at the secret letter sent back by Yao Pingzhong, and couldn't help laughing. Zhao Kai really came to pick peaches, but the timing was not very good, it seems...a bit early.

Zhao Kai's strategy of killing villages and burning mountains is too brutal, and he is suspected of killing innocent people indiscriminately. As for whether there are bandits hiding in the villages, the answer is naturally yes, but it is impossible to think about whether they are all bandits.

However, Bangyuan is the place where Fangla started the uprising, and the four villages and eight neighbors have already fought against dissidents. Many people believe in Mingjiao, but they didn't join the army in the uprising.

Are these people guilty?According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, there must be crimes, and they can be counted as the accomplices of the anti-thieves.

Fang La's act of rebellion and proclaiming himself emperor and what he did, once these people are caught, they will basically be sentenced to death.

However, there must be some who did not believe in the Ming religion and did not collude with the bandit army. After Zhao Kai's order went down, he would probably die unexpectedly.

Zhao Tong heaved a long sigh, he couldn't stop this matter, at most he could restrain Yao Pingzhong from doing it, but that was all, Zhao Kai had [-] soldiers under his command, he couldn't order, and he couldn't command Zhao Kai either.

Sitting in the government office, he asked Zhang Xian to lead people to bring General Lu up. General Lu was imprisoned in the state prison after the war before, and he was interrogated twice in the middle, but General Lu kept silent, and he was not like the city. He yelled at him like that at the beginning, and he didn't say anything even if he asked, Zhao Tun was a little confused about his identity.

Later, Fang Gu was called, and Fang Gu's so-called "insect poison" had been removed at this moment. Zhao Tang gave him a credit, and the official position was said to be granted after returning to the court. Fang Gu had already betrayed Fang La, so how dare he say half No words.

Fang Gu recognized General Lu, so he revealed General Lu's identity when he came up, General Lu couldn't stand it anymore, so he sprayed Fang Gu bloody.

Zhao Tang asked Fang Gu to go down, and then looked at General Lu up and down. General Lu was Fang La's military adviser and the most strategic figure under Fang La's command. Moreover, General Lu was a student of Tai Tai, and he was also the person who read the most under Fang La.

General Lu stared at Zhao Tun with resentment on his face.

Zhao Tun smiled and said, "General Lu, I have heard about you. You were punished and never hired because you wrote to the court to punish Zhu Xi, right?"

General Lu snorted coldly: "The dog king, if you want to kill or cut, just send me, why bother talking!"

Zhao Tong shook his head: "If I want to kill you, I will kill you at the head of Hangzhou city, why wait until now?"

General Lu was taken aback when he heard the words, Zhao Tun was telling the truth, he woke up once when he was in the city of Hangzhou, and saw corpses all over the place, not only Wang Gong Laofo died, but also Pang Wanchun and Deng Yuanjue died in the city.

Zhao Tong said again: "General Lu, seeing how young you are, who else is in your family?"

General Lu didn't answer, he was a bit confused about Zhao Tong's intentions, he didn't kill him in the city, and he still didn't kill him now, he thought to himself, there was nothing worthy of Zhao Tong's use.

He is neither the nephew of the Shenggong, nor the direct confidant of the Shenggong. He can be appointed as a military adviser only because he has read a lot of books. No matter the Mingjiao or the Holy Dynasty, a well-educated scholar like him is needed.

He is not self-deprecating, he can see all this clearly, but it does not prevent him from hating the corruption of the imperial court, from hating the rich people who made Jiangnan into a mess, and from believing in Mingzun and using the light. For the most sacred goal in my heart.

Zhao Tang saw that he was silent, and said again: "You are a scholar, so the king will talk to you as a scholar."

General Lu frowned: "I haven't read those pedantic books for a long time."

Zhao Tang ignored his quarrel, and just continued: "You are both a student and a student of the imperial court. It is no problem to know the ancient history and history. This king asks you, do you think people like Fang La and others can achieve great things?"

General Lu didn't expect Zhao Tama to ask this question, he thought he was going to use the great principles in the book to suppress himself, but who knew that he looked down on Sheng Gong in his words, so he said angrily: "How can Sheng Gong be underestimated!"

Zhao Tong said, "I just ask you, do you think he can achieve great things?"

General Lu took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "It's a pity that Sheng Gong didn't listen to me. If he listened to me and went straight to Jiangning, what would happen today!"

Zhao Tong shook his head: "So what? Even if Jiangning falls temporarily, how can you hold it? You are a rebellious army, you can't control things, you have no laws, and the internal chaos is in turmoil. How can it last long in the army?"

General Lu said angrily: "You can say nothing about nothingness. If you don't go to Jiangning, you can say whatever you want! If you go to Jiangning to seize the natural barrier of the Yangtze River, you can go straight to Tokyo in Zhongzhou, and if you retreat, there is a natural barrier to confront each other. It won't last long. It will not be too late to legislate at that time! Your Zhao and Song courts are extravagant and corrupt, and the foolish emperor reuses traitors, using flowers and stones to labor the people and waste money, making the whole of Jiangnan a mess, and the people are in dire straits. Your court of the Zhao family!"

Seeing his excitement, Zhao Tang stretched out his hand to touch his chin, and said in another way: "General Lu, why do you think Fang La didn't listen to you and went straight to Jiang Ning?"

General Lu froze when he heard the words, his emotions suddenly weakened as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and he said resentfully: "The Holy Duke is not confused, but he wants to catch Zhu Xi first and avenge the people in the south of the Yangtze River, so he won't listen to me. Say, Sheng Gong is the king of benevolence and righteousness!"

Zhao Tong said: "How can you act on your will when it comes to military and state affairs? Fang La has such a temperament, once he makes a mistake, he will make two mistakes, and if he doesn't listen to you once, he will make two or three times."

General Lu glared at Zhao Tun, then turned his head and remained silent.

Zhao Tang smiled: "It's all right to be a sect leader, and his ability is only as good as this, but what kind of rebellion, what's the matter? This king sees that he has neither the virtue nor the image of a king!"

"You!" General Lu turned his head angrily: "Don't be complacent, Shenggong will fight back to Hangzhou sooner or later, and then go down the Yangtze River to capture the faint king and overthrow your court!"

Zhao Tun smiled slightly, and waved his hand to the front, Zhang Xian immediately came over and mentioned General Lu and walked out.

When he got to the door, Zhao Tong suddenly spoke again: "Now the two counties of Zhejiang Province have all been recovered, Fang La has retreated, retreated to help the source, my Great Song Heavenly Army has been besieged layer by layer, and the rebels are wiped out overnight. Competing in the Central Plains is just yesterday's work, a sweet dream..."

"What did you say?" General Lu shouted back desperately after hearing this, "You're lying to me, it's impossible, it's absolutely impossible!"

He wanted to struggle to turn around, but Zhang Xian grabbed the rope behind him and pushed him out...

The next day, Zhao Tong received a battle report from Tong Guan, and he defeated the bandit army of Xianyou Lu Shinang, killing [-] to [-] enemies. Lu Shinang jumped into the sea and fled with dozens of cronies, but his whereabouts were unknown. Eastern Zhejiang has all been recovered, and Tong Guan's army has begun to return since the report.

Another day later, I received a secret letter from Yao Pingzhong, saying that Liu Yanqing massacred the surrounding villages of Bangyuan according to King Yun's strategy. Couldn't put it up...

(End of this chapter)