Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

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In the fifth year of Zhenghe, Meng Chunchu.

At the end of the New Year, the cold weather has subsided slightly, the mountains in the lake have lost their silver coating, and the winding mountain roads are being repaired. Last winter, God was kind, and the lake was not frozen. There were many caravans coming and going, but they were all persuaded to leave. Leave and find another way.

Although the imperial court has not yet attacked, it does not allow others to pass by. As long as these traders are not robbed of their belongings, they can go around for several miles without any complaints. Those with boats will find other ways to go by land. Looking for another way, there were countless businessmen in Yun and Jizhou for a while, and the only section near the water in the middle was extremely quiet.

One day in the middle of the day, the fleet returned from the sea and stopped in the water village. It brought back a large number of horses, as well as wild medicinal materials and wild ginseng, all bought by the Jurchen tribe, which were larger than those in Zhongyuan Pharmacy. There is a lot of it, and the medicine is very powerful.

"Brother Yao Gang is going to be happy." Lu Bu pressed the horse's back, looked at the mouth of the horse, and turned to Deng Fei, who looked tired: "The armor and riding gear over there need good horses. The previous chapter He got a lot of war horses from Zengtou City, but the ones he can use are only thirty or fifty, which means that the war horses you got from Liaodong are good, with excellent endurance and load-bearing capacity, otherwise he would not even have enough people in Yidu."

Deng Fei perked up and his fiery red eyes had a look of satisfaction: "In this way, the more than 200 horses this time plus the 300 from last time can form a battalion of heavily armored horse troops."

Lu Bu laughed loudly and patted Deng Fei on the shoulder: "It would be fine if that were the case." He shook his head and did not correct Deng Fei's misunderstanding: "It's a pity that it takes too much to raise these people. Now I can only raise a city with all my strength." about."

Turning around and walking forward: "These are not complete armored cavalry, they are all done reluctantly. These are the big money makers."

A few people who had returned from overseas were walking behind. Deng Fei and Hu Cheng looked at each other. The man with red eyes turned to the front and whispered in a low voice: "You tell me."

The Feitian Tiger nodded and said, "I still have something to tell my brother."

The figure in front turned back slightly: "What's the matter?"

Hu Cheng breathed in the air that smelled of water: "I heard something when I was in Liao. In the autumn of last year, a Jurchen named Wanyan Aguda rebelled against the Liao and shot Liao general Yelu Xie Shi. We captured Ningjiang Prefecture City the next month, and when we left, we heard that the Liao Dynasty was going to send a large army to attack, and we didn't know what to do at this time."

Deng Fei nodded: "I was still thinking of asking someone to come back first to report the news, but we are separated by the ocean and there is nothing we can do. We can only wait and return together."

"The Jurchens rebelled against the Liao Dynasty?"

The steps forward did not stop. Hearing the words, he just turned around and looked back, and continued to move forward: "That land is like this. It goes on and on endlessly. Today this family will be on stage and tomorrow that family will be on stage. As long as the sword in your hand is enough, Li, there are many people coming to worship me in the mountains, fields and grasslands."

He looked to the side with a strange smile on his face: "Even if he was still fighting a moment ago, as long as he is timid enough to kill, he will still be willing to crawl at your feet."

Hu Cheng and Deng Fei looked at each other in confusion: "Brother, are you not surprised? Although I don't want to admit it, the Liao Dynasty is much stronger than the Song Dynasty. Now a tribe has rebelled and won one after another. I don't know what it will be like if it gains power in the future."

"Now it has nothing to do with us." Lu Bu shook his head and stepped on the road up the mountain: "These things are for later. We will focus on the encirclement and suppression of the Song Dynasty in front of us first. Zhu Fu sent news..."

Turning his head to look at the water village at the bottom of the mountain, his eyes were bright: "Next month, Song Ting will be here."

Everyone looked at each other, nodded, and bowed their heads.

……

Everyone who had been busy for a while was told that a banquet would be held in the Juyi Hall in the evening, and the place that had been idle for some time became lively again.

The sound of the cold wind whining at night was a bit loud, and the closed door was blown by the wind and made a loud noise from time to time.

The cooks coming in and out braved the strong wind and placed the dishes on the table, lighting the candles in the rough porcelain trays below to heat them, and the heroes who entered the hall from time to time greeted with smiles on their faces.

Not long after, Lu Bu's tall and majestic figure entered the hall, and the banquet began, and the hall suddenly became chaotic.

"What!? The Jurchens rebelled?!" Xiao Haili's loud voice echoed in the hall. He couldn't help but stand up in shock, his eyes widening under his bald head.

Deng Fei, who was sitting next to him, quickly stretched out his hand to grab him and pulled him to sit down: "What's wrong with shouting! Isn't it normal over there?" "That's normal!" Xiao Haili couldn't accept it. , refuted, poured a bowl of wine and drank to calm down his shock, muttering to himself: "How dare these barbarians..."

Wei Zhaode sat on the navy side, looked at the commotion over there, and shrugged: "As expected, brother Xiao Haili is the most unacceptable."

"Who makes him always look like a Liao man who is destined to be a Jurchen?" Ruan Xiaoqi smiled mischievously, drank a bowl of wine, rubbed his face and said, "But when it comes to being unacceptable, I actually can't accept it."

Wei Zhaode looked over with doubtful eyes, and Ruan Xiaoqi continued: "Didn't brother Qiao Lie bring his mother back last time? Who would have thought that his mother is a matchmaker, running up and down the mountain, and has already matched more than a dozen people? My wife was jealous of my brother’s marriage, and begged her to help me and my fifth brother find a wife.”

Ruan Xiaowu was drinking, and when he heard the words, he spat on the ground with a "poof!" "Ahem! What do you mean?! I want to find a wife for me? How could I not know?"

Ruan Xiaoqi glanced at him: "I asked you to come back without greeting me first. You certainly don't know about this. Aunt Qiao has already gone to several villages at the foot of the mountain and has taken a fancy to a few women. I have been here these two days. Pick.”

Ruan Xiaowu was shocked: "I don't want it! I don't want to be controlled by my mother-in-law like my second brother."

Ruan Xiaoer, who was drinking over there, glared at him. Wei Zhaode, Li Bao and the two brothers Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun laughed so hard that they beat their chests. Ruan Xiaoqi looked at the four of them and suddenly sneered: "Don't laugh either. , you have been getting close to my family recently, I see that the four of you are the only one, and I am thinking of finding a mother-in-law for the four of you to carry on the family lineage. I even talked about this with Aunt Qiao two days ago."

The smiles of the four people gradually faded, but Ruan Xiaowu laughed: "This is only right, I can't be the only one to suffer."

"You guys..."

Hip-hop laughter, shouts of drinking and punching, and soft conversations continued to echo in the hall. Lu Bu, who was at the top, poured tea into a bowl and said to Yu Cheng beside him: "You also go down and eat and drink with others. Today It’s okay, you don’t need to stay here with me all the time.”

"Thank you, brother." Yu Cheng held his hand. He had already been drooling at the aroma of the wine. At this time, he received permission and walked quickly to Dong Xian and Di Lei: "Wait for me... How can you two use glasses? Come on? People, change the wine jar!"

……

"It's nice to be young."

Li Zhu, Wu Jiao and others sat next to Lu Bu, watching the lively banquet in the hall. They talked mostly about the imperial court's upcoming crusade. After all, the war was already on the table. How about the training of the new army? Whether the brothers who went up the mountain have integrated in, how many troops from Bianliang are coming here, how the Daming Prefecture will send troops, how to deal with Yingtian Prefecture, whether the navy can be sent to kill the imperial navy first, whether there is enough food and fodder, whether the newly built Tang Hengdao has been used After the installation is completed, these things must be reviewed several times every day. Otherwise, if there is a problem in one link, it will be irreversible.

"... Let Wu Hu make another batch of arrows, and the Firearms Bureau prepare more rockets. Distance will still win the battle on the battlefield. Being able to shoot farther and more accurately than others is a huge advantage."

"What my brother said is that there are not many sulfur and other materials at the Firearms Bureau, and I don't know how much they can make."

“Create as much as you have, as much as you can.”

Lu Bu, who was talking to his colleagues, raised his head and looked at the familiar faces in the hall: "In addition, the cavalry must be mobilized, and the infantry must also be mobilized. Almost no one in the village has experienced such a large-scale war, so they must be mobilized in time." They adjust their emotions and don't have trembling hands and feet when going into battle, as this will lead to death the fastest."

Li Zhu breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Wu Jiao. The middle-aged Taoist over there nodded and said, "Hey, let's try it with Brother Wu Jiao... By the way, brother, I sent a letter to that Wu Jiao before. My friends asked me to come over, but I might not be able to come.”

"Huh? But what are your worries?" Lu Bu glanced at him and didn't blame him. Everyone has their own ambitions, and there are many people who don't want to fall into the trap. If this kind of thing is put to him, he thinks that he is probably not willing to do it, so he doesn't want to do it. No feeling of irritation.

"That's not the case." Li Assistant's expression was a little strange: "He was originally going to come, but something unexpected happened and he died in the west of Beijing, so he couldn't come."

"That's all, it doesn't matter." Lu Bu waved his hand and smiled: "In life, it is inevitable that you can't help yourself, so don't be harsh."

Several people were talking about something, and someone hurriedly opened the hall door with a piece of news and looked at the figure of the superior walking over.

(End of this chapter)