Water Margin Survival

The starry night is silent, and the lonely moon is in the sky.

Suddenly, a group of men and horses rushed out from behind the hill, with an astonishing momentum.Seeing that there were hundreds of riders in this team, the dozens of flaming torches in the procession were forcibly born on this dark official road, grabbing a piece of light.

Suddenly, a white-clothed scholar at the front of the team raised his hand, slowed down his horse, turned his head and said loudly: "Let's rest for a while, and go on the road again at dawn!"

Only the voices of orders were heard one by one, and someone passed the order of the village master to the ears of every brother in the team.

Wang Lun rode his horse out of the queue and came to the side of the road. Then he jumped off the horse, looked at the snorting BMW lovingly, and stroked the mane on the back of its neck.

"It's good to take a rest and put down the horsepower, brother! At our speed, we should set off after dawn, and we should be able to catch up with General Lin around noon!"

Huang Xin followed the village lord Wang Lun, led the Beidi BMW behind him to the side of the road, and looked back to check the situation of the car from time to time. He saw that the BMW had been galloping for a long time, but it didn't show signs of fatigue at all. , as if to show off his ability in front of the new owner.

Qin Ming's reaction was exactly the same, he looked back at his own BMW with a smile, and couldn't help sighing in his heart: What a rare and good horse!I think he is a general, who doesn't love horses?To say that he is also the general manager of soldiers and horses of Yizhou, and the horse he rode in Qingzhou before is considered one of the best horses in a hundred, but if he wants to compare it with the BMW in front of him, it is simply incomparable.

It really deserves to be a steed from the north. Qin Ming heard that this horse was specially selected by the Cangzhou Chai officials and given to brother Wang Lun.This kind of rare BMW is naturally hard to find. It is said that there are only more than 30 horses in total. It was too late for me to go up the mountain at home. I didn’t have such a good horse. I didn’t know that Zhu Gui and Zhu Fu brothers insisted on changing horses with myself and Huang Xin. He said that it was a waste of using such a good horse, which made the two of them very embarrassed, and Yang Lin, the golden leopard, followed their example and wanted to change horses with Shi Jin, and everyone pushed back and forth, In the end, seeing that they were really sincere, with Wang Lun's consent, everyone's hospitality was hard to turn down, so they had to be ashamed.

With this encounter, these leaders of the horse army, who were indebted to the horses, have deepened their feelings for the brotherhood on Liangshan.

"Dalang, Guizhai was originally not far from Fangzhou (at this time it should be called Baokang Army, because the original name of the Water Margin is still called Fangzhou, which is today Shiyan Fangxian), have you ever heard of Wang Qing who fell on the Fangshan Mountain? Seeing that Shi Jin and Zhu Wu also followed, Wang Lun turned around and asked.He thought how could he not be familiar with this Fangzhou, since he was next to his hometown in his previous life.

Shi Jin and Zhu Wu looked at each other and smiled, but Shi Jin replied: "That guy is dreaming of yellow beams, and he wants to be the leader of the Eighteen Villages in the Green Forest, but he is so ambitious and talented. A lecherous rascal, he has also recruited us before, how can I wait to look him in the eye!"

Zhu Wujian also said: "This guy was originally a deputy soldier in the Kaifeng mansion. He was dispatched out of the capital for female sex. Later, he fell into the grass for some reason and annexed the original village owner Liao Li on Fangshan. Immediately Mainly self-reliance, using Liao Li's cottage as the foundation, this guy attacked the state and broke the county, recruited 2000 people on the mountain, known to the outside world as [-], contacted heroes everywhere, many cottages on Jingbei Road respected him as great, I once watched The solicitation letter he handed over to the Shanzhai shows that he has a lot of ambition in his words!"

Wang Lun smiled wryly and shook his head. He felt that Wang Qing seemed to be the one with the halo of the leading role. He thought that he had worked so hard, but he didn't want to attack the prefectures and counties. , causing unnecessary trouble.But this Wang Qing didn't care about it, without any scruples, he ransacked Fangzhou as soon as the grass fell, and the court didn't respond, letting him play freely.

Although he is in the heart of the Song Dynasty, Fangzhou is only a thousand miles away from Tokyo, and even closer to Xijing. No one cares about him, and he is allowed to play with himself, which leads to his self-confidence bursting in the future. Occupy the state capital, and finally open the mansion and become the king, set up a banner, and call himself the king of Chu.

The village owner surnamed Du who robbed the Yanjiao this time, is it possible that he will be the number one general under Wang Qing in the future, Du Po?Otherwise, Wang Lun really can't think of anyone else who has the surname Du Qie in the Water Margin on the North Jingbei Road, and can restrain him with his skills. Qing's boat did not.

He wanted to call his brother Yuan Lang, who had been taking care of him, to vote in Dazhai when he returned home, but after he returned home, Yuan Lang had already voted in Du Po's stockade, and Du Po wanted to stay. He, he just refused, which made it difficult for Yuan Lang to be a man in the middle. Seeing that Du Yu just didn't let him go, Yuan Lang took the responsibility and secretly released one of his followers. danger.

When I came out this time, I brought eight leaders, Qin Ming, Shi Jin, Huang Xin, Zhu Wu, Jiao Ting, Li Kui, Lu Fang, and Chen Da, plus Lin Chong who had already left the mountain ahead of time, and these nine people brought two thousand horses with me. Army, dealing with a cottage of 700 people should be a matter of hand, I am afraid that Du Po has already contacted Wang Qing at this time, and I am afraid that it will take some setbacks.

Although the cottage now has [-] horses, it only has [-] horses. What's more, there are some changes around Liangshan at this time, and the movement is not small. When the four generals, Ning and Yang Zhi, called for the battle, in order to stabilize the foundation, I still asked them to stay at home and reassure myself.

"General Qin, what do you mean by the imperial court changing Yanzhou into a state at this time?" Wang Lun looked at Qin Ming and said.

"Brother, according to my opinion, Liang Shanbo's reputation has risen this year, but that's just a name in the Jianghu. In the eyes of the imperial court, it has not attracted so much attention?" Qin Ming replied.

Huang Xinjian pondered for a moment, then said: "The upgrade of Yanzhou to Xiqing Mansion is probably just an internal decision of the imperial court, and it should have little to do with our cottage!"

Wang Lun nodded thoughtfully. He vaguely remembered that at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial court raised the organizational system of several prefectures. As far as Jingdong Road is concerned, the current Yunzhou will be upgraded to Dongping Mansion in a few years, and Qingzhou Qizhou on the edge will be upgraded to Jinan Prefecture, replacing Qingzhou's current status as Luzhi on Jingdong East Road in one fell swoop.It's just that this Xiqing mansion didn't impress him much, and he didn't know whether his own butterfly wings changed the status quo, or the trend of history was developing step by step.

The information Zhu Gui sent was indeed timely. At this time, Yanzhou had not yet been reorganized, so he got the exact news.It is said that after the new prefect is in place in the next year, the city of this state will be upgraded to a prefecture, and the prefect of a state will also be changed from a prefect to a prefect.

Although the Song Dynasty did not determine ranks by position, unlike later generations, when you became the mayor of a prefecture-level city, you clarified the treatment at the department level.It should be noted that this is not the case in the officialdom at this time. It is not uncommon to see third-rank magistrates, and fourth-rank magistrates are not uncommon. It depends on your personal qualifications. The promotion is also wider than that of Zhizhou.

"The Eighth Battalion (commander) came here in succession, and the Hebei Frontier Army under the command of Ma Junsi is full of guards. It's a bit strange!" Huang Xin sighed at this moment, he is also a veteran, yes The transfer within the Forbidden Army is naturally familiar.

"But why not? I think this new magistrate has a lot of background!" Qin Ming sighed: "Originally, Yanzhou only had three battalions stationed in the imperial army, and it was still organized as a bodyguard and infantry division. According to the information obtained by Brother Zhu Gui, it seems that the imperial court There were also soldiers and horses coming over. At this time, the Xiang army in the city was mobilized and began to build camps. According to the specifications of this barracks, it is estimated that there will be no less than eight battalions of infantry coming. "

The so-called residence refers to the forbidden troops stationed in various state capitals, and the food, as the name suggests, is because the border areas cannot support so many forbidden troops, and some of them will be stationed in the rear for a period of time every year to reduce the logistical pressure on the front line. When they arrived in a new place, they were only stationed temporarily, and they might leave someday.

It is precisely because of this news that Wang Lun did not bring Lu Zhishen and other generals out this time. Although the border of Yanzhou is not connected with Liang Shanshuibo, the location of his capital city is less than a hundred miles away from the east bank of Shuibo. The trend of this government is still worthy of people's attention.

These eight battalions of horses have a solid 4000 men and horses, each of which has a horse distribution rate of more than [-]%, which is more than double the average horse distribution rate of [-] to [-]% for the Tokyo Horse Army, and the number is unknown, but at least The infantry, whose number was not less than the eight battalions of the cavalry, plus the original three battalions of infantry and several Xiang troops in the city, numbered over ten thousand. For Wang Lun, he really had to be careful.

It seems that in the future, I can no longer go down the mountain alone at will, otherwise, once I leave the huge cottage, there will be no leader in the crowd, and it will be very inconvenient to convey information when encountering important events.Fortunately, the garrison in the city of Yanzhou did not arrive at this time, and the new magistrate did not take office either. The former magistrate was just a monk hitting the clock for a day, so there was a gap to take advantage of.

Wang Lun was thinking about the matter, but he didn't realize that the sound was already on. Wang Lun greeted the soldiers who had rested for a while. Everyone got on their horses again and galloped away according to the road map left by Lin Chong.Everyone walked for another half a day, and as Huang Xin estimated, at noon, the clamor of thousands of people could already be heard, Qin Ming heard it, and shouted: "Not good, I heard this The voice of Jin Ge, could it be that they are fighting?"

After Wang Lun listened carefully, he felt that something was wrong, so he hurriedly mobilized his men and horses and rushed forward. After a while, the crowd turned out of a slope, and suddenly saw a group of more than [-] people on a large flat ground in front of them. The horse army is driving thousands of infantry to fight.Then there was a very heroic general who was not the leopard head Lin Chong, but who else? (To be continued.)