Water Margin begins as a captain in Yanggu County

Chapter 40: What a glutton! What a glutton!
Dongping Prefecture, Dongping Prefecture.

Then Dong Ping cursed: "There is no one in Yanggu or the government office. If you can't find your man, go find Su Wu. If you find Su Wu, won't everything be over?"

Yun Liwan, who was in a state of panic, just nodded repeatedly: "That's the truth, that's the truth...but now...that fellow Su Wu can't be found..."

"Alas... you are such a good-for-nothing!" Dong Ping sighed, pacing back and forth, and cursed again: "Even worse than a good-for-nothing!"

As soon as he stopped walking, Dong Ping waved his hand and said, "Let's just wait and see. He is a captain, and he will eventually return to the government office, either the prefectural government office or the county government office... Just go back to Yanggu County first, gather the troops, and wait at the city gates. Once you see him, kill him on the spot."

"Ah? Kill like this?" Yun Liwan was less crazy than Dong Ping.

"What? Now that things have come to this, it's either him or you who will die. It's fine if you die, but you also want to involve me. Why don't you kill him and keep him alive?"

Dong Ping was really furious.

"After killing..." Yun Liwan was trembling with fear.

"What's wrong with killing him? Didn't he bring the Liangshan bandits with him? What are you afraid of? If he dies, won't you be able to say anything? He's just a small captain, how capable can he be? Who would take him seriously? Even if he comes to Dongping Prefecture, as long as he shows up at the city gate, I will kill him on the spot... What are you afraid of?"

"Okay, okay, okay, okay, I'll do as the general says. I'll go back to Yanggu and wait for him..." Yun Liwan nodded again and again.

"Wait..." Dong Ping suddenly raised his hand.

"Just follow the general's orders..." Yun Liwan just bowed and saluted.

"Do you have any capable people under your command?" Dong Ping was smart. When it came to military affairs, he was no mediocre person.

Yun Liwan looked embarrassed...

"What a good-for-nothing! Good-for-nothing!" Dong Ping cursed again, and then said, "When we see someone, I'll teach you to let him run away. I'll go with your hundred or so elite soldiers."

Yun Liwan was about to burst into tears: "Thank you, General!"

Dong Ping was still unhappy: "If it weren't for your usual filial piety, I wouldn't bother to care about you even after you died."

"I bow again to the general for his great kindness!" Yun Liwan started crying.

"Get out!" Dong Ping waved his hand, took a deep breath, and watched Yun Liwan flee in panic. Then he stood up and went to make arrangements himself. Manpower had to be prepared at all four city gates.

As soon as Su Wu appears, he must be killed on the spot and must not be allowed to escape again.

Killing people is not without trouble, but that is just trouble. Not killing people is a crisis. Weighing the two evils, this is the only way.

Suddenly, groups of soldiers came and went in the city...

From that perspective, it seemed like something might have happened.

Naturally, someone went to report to the prefect Cheng Wanli: "Sir, I don't know why General Dong suddenly dispatched troops to various gates... There are quite a lot of them..."

Cheng Wanli immediately jumped up from his seat and said, "Oh no, oh no... Could it be that the guy has become alert?"

"Ah? My husband..."

Cheng Wanli's lips trembled slightly, his face slowly turned pale, and he just asked: "In the city...where in the city...go find a place, a secluded place, where no one knows, quickly..."

"My husband, this is..."

"Go quickly! No...where do you live?" Cheng Wanli was really panicked.

"I live in the North City..."

"Hurry, hurry, find a carriage and wait at the back gate of the government office. Go quickly, I will stay at your house for a while..."

Cheng Wanli also knew that Su Wu would bring troops from Daming Prefecture.

But... when the real fight started, Cheng Wanli felt as if his life and death were at stake. What if Su Wu's side did not fight effectively?

No one in the city can stop Dong Ping...

I still have to hide first, hurry out and hide. Actually, it's very smart. This Cheng Zhifu really has a sense of crisis that the civil officials of the Song Dynasty lack...

For the first time, he truly felt the danger of troubled times.

Regardless of what the clerk thought, Cheng Wanli just took his family and secretly went out from the back yamen to hide.

Dong Ping was also really concerned. He rode his horse himself and wandered between several city gates. He also dispersed several of Su Wu's subordinates who knew Su Wu to different gates.

I waited for a whole day, but it didn't come.

I waited until the next day, until mid-afternoon.

Ximen suddenly saw a group of people approaching slowly from afar. It turned out that someone had already reported to Dong Ping.

Dong Ping rode his horse quickly over and stood on the city wall to look into the distance.

It was also because the terrain outside Dongping Prefecture was relatively flat, and the view from a high vantage point was very far, with things clearly visible several miles away, so a sudden attack was impossible.

The person next to Dong Ping asked, "General, you didn't receive any letter saying there will be any troop movements recently?"

Dong Ping was also puzzled. All the people in Dongping Prefecture were under his command. How could he mobilize troops from other prefectures without the order of the Privy Council?

Could it be...that the prefect Cheng Wanli did something in private?
Even so, it is impossible to travel to and from Tokyo so quickly.

"You, ride a horse and go ask..." Dong Ping waved his hand.

Then I saw a rider running out of the city, galloping to meet them.

Seeing a rider coming out of the city, Suo Chao frowned and asked, "I'm afraid they are prepared..."

Su Wu immediately suggested: "It's okay. I will hide in the rear army. The captain can just tell him that the Minister of the Central Secretariat learned that the Liangshan bandits were captured by the Dongping government office and he is very important. He specially sent someone to take someone to Daming Mansion. The Minister of the Central Secretariat wants to come and interrogate him personally."

"What if he asks me why so many people came?" Suo Chao asked again.

"The captain said that the big bandits in Liangshan are not ordinary people. He Tao of Jizhou has already lost all his troops. We must be on guard against them, especially those bandits!" Su Wu said again.

"Brother, you really have quick wit and great strategy..." Suo Chao nodded with a smile.

Su Wu took Wu Song and turned to hide in the rear army.

The man just came forward and asked a few questions. Suo Chao answered them one by one, and then the man turned around and ran away.

On the city wall, he reported to Dong Ping.

Dong Ping was immediately angry: "It seems that Su Wu really sent the person to the government office? So he asked Cheng Wanli to hide him? Cheng Wanli is very calculating, and he even wanted to send the person to Beijing... I guess he is afraid that I will do something?"

This makes sense.

"General, what should we do? Should we let them in or close the city gates?"

Dong Ping's mind raced, he looked around, and said, "Gather all the brothers, and go with them to fetch the man! Let's see if they can fetch this man..."

"General, are we going to...fight with them?"

Dong Ping glared at him angrily: "Does he dare to fight with me? Just ask the people in Shandong and Hebei, who doesn't know the reputation of my horse?"

"Of course they would never dare to..."

Dong Ping turned back and went to the steps of the tower, shouting, "Bring me weapons and armor, and prepare the horses! Who is that...leader of the troops?"

"It's... that... Suo Chao, the military commander of Daming Prefecture!"

"Who?"

(Reporting to all the brothers, I have advanced four places and am now 19th on the new book list. Goodbye!)

(End of this chapter)