Song Mingyue

Chapter 242
"Mr. Jing'an is here!"

Lin Chong looked at Zhao Hao who was slowly walking in, with a surprised expression on his face.

In his imagination, Duke Jing'an, whom Lu Zhishen admired so much, must be at least 30 years old, but what appeared in front of him now was a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old.

While he was hesitating, he heard all the Jin Yiwei shout: "Mr. Jing'an is here, you can surrender before you hurry up!"

Lin Chong stared at Zhao Hao in a daze. Hearing the shouts of the Jinyi guards, he just woke up like a dream. He suddenly pushed the golden mountain topple over the jade pillar, and knelt down on the ground with a plop: "The former commander of the forbidden army's spear and club, Lin Chong, a sinner, pays homage to Jing Jing." An Gong!"

Zhao Hao laughed, strode forward, and supported Lin Chong: "Instructor Lin, you don't need to be polite. In the past, the instructor was oppressed by Gao Qiu's father and son, so he had to go to Liangshan. This is not the instructor's crime, but Gao Qiu's sin." Also! Fortunately, Gao Qiu and his son have been put to death, and the teacher's grievances have been resolved, why don't you join the heroes and surrender together, and serve the country!"

Lin Chong turned around slowly, looked at those Liangshan heroes covered in blood, opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

"The old general is here!"

At this moment, with a bell-like shout, everyone looked at him, but it was an old general with gray beard and hair who walked in slowly.

Small species of husband!

The hearts of all Liangshan generals jumped.

Although Zhao Hao's official rank is high, although he has been in the limelight recently, in the minds of all the Liangshan generals, he is still a little bit worse than the powerful and famous Xiao Zhongxiang who shocked the Western Qiang.

The Zhong family army has guarded the frontier for generations and has a reputation of hundreds of years. These Liangshan generals are all warriors, how can they not know?

I saw all the people in Zhongchao bowed their hands: "Everyone is a hero!"

All the generals of the Liangshan army hurriedly returned the gift.

I only heard the teacher Zhong said slowly: "Mr. Jing'an is a relative of the great Song Dynasty. He is a nobleman. Although he has only been an official for one year, he beheaded Gao Qiu and his son, subdued Tong Guan's eunuch, and restrained Cai Jing's old thief. There are all upright ministers in the court." Admiration; once led three hundred light cavalry, crossed thousands of miles of Liao land, helped the Jin army defeat [-] Liao army, awed the female straight people, sent them back with gifts, and presented the letter of credence, all the three armies were sincerely convinced; He tried his best to resolve the disasters in the west of Beijing and rescued millions of people in the west of Beijing. After that, he angrily beheaded more than a hundred corrupt officials and evil officials. You all have good skills, why not surrender on the spot, submit to the imperial court, serve the country, honor your ancestors, and live up to this life!"

Hearing what Master Zhong said, everyone looked at Wu Yong with different expressions.

Wu Yong walked out of the crowd slowly, walked straight to Zhao Hao, and suddenly knelt down on the ground: "May I surrender to Duke Jing'an!"

When everyone saw it, they didn't hesitate anymore, they threw down their weapons one after another, bowed their heads and bowed down: "May I surrender to Duke Jing'an!"

Zhao Hao was overjoyed and hurried forward, helping everyone up one by one.

"Wu Yong, strength 35, intelligence 92, politics 82, leadership 72, health 89."

"Suo Chao, force 89..."

"Xu Ning, force 86..."

"Shi Jin, force 84..."

"Yan Qing, force 83..."

"Sun Li, force 82..."

"Li Ying, force 81..."

Just as Zhao Hao happily inquired about the attributes of the generals, a strange look flashed in the eyes of Mr. Zhong.

All the generals of Liangshan clearly said "willing to surrender to Duke Jing'an", but not to the imperial court. This is really not a good thing for Zhao Hao.

……

Eight hundred miles of water mooring Liangshan.

The Dongting Lake and even Poyang Lake in later generations are only more than 100 miles away, so many people simply don't believe that there is a lake of [-] miles in Shandong, and they think it was invented by Shi Naian.

In fact, in the Song Dynasty, Shuibo Liangshan was really close to a radius of [-] miles.

In the first year of Kaiyun in the later Jin Dynasty after the Five Dynasties, the Yellow River burst in Huazhou (now the old Huaxian County in the east of Huaxian County, Henan Province).

In the third year of Tianxi in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River burst again in Huazhou, "Li Chan, Pu, Cao, Yun, poured into Liangshan Luo", and the area of ​​the water park continued to expand.In the [-]th year of Xining, the river broke through Caocun, Chanzhou, and flowed east to Luoshan, Liangshan.

In the fifth year of Yuanfeng, the river broke through Zhengzhou, overflowed into the Diaoma River in Wugou, Lijinyang, and was classified as Liangshanluo.

In the seventh year of Qingli, Han Qi went out to know Yunzhou and passed by Liangshanbo. There is a poem describing the vastness of the water town of Zeguo, which can be verified with the narration in "Water Margin":

"The giant marsh is boundless, and the boats are full of support. The fisherman is frightened and the cymbal blows, and the waterfowl carries the flag.

Pumi is like a port, and the mountains are like Peng.I don't know that in the lotus root, mosquitoes and horseflies suffer during the day. "

It was only later that the Yellow River returned to its original course, and the water park and Liangshan gradually shrank, and finally became what the later generations looked like.

The evening breeze blowing across the broad lake brings a touch of coolness to this hot summer night.

Under the huge banner of "Walk the Way for Heaven", there is the Juyi Hall, the political center of the Liangshan Army.

It's just that the Juyi Hall, where there were many heroes and heroes in the past, is now a lot less.

In the Gathering Hall, several huge horn lamps illuminated the hall, but there were only a few people sitting on the dozens of high-ranking chairs.

Song Jiang looked gloomy, and sat on the big tiger-skin chair in the middle, with Lu Junyi's seat next to him empty.

On both sides are Chai Jin, Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, Hu Sanniang, Hua Rong, Zhang Qing, Zhang Heng, Shi Xiu, Zhang Shun, the three Ruan brothers, Zhu Wu and others.

On the table in front of Song Jiang, there was an open letter.

Seeing that the crowd had sat down, Song Jiang slowly raised his head, looked at the crowd, and said in a difficult voice: "Now our army has been defeated several times by the government army, and most of the captured brothers have surrendered to Duke Jing'an. He and Chief Lu have surrendered, and now Lord Jingan has sent someone to send a letter to Zhu Gui, and spread it to the village, intending to recruit us, what do you guys think?"

Everyone was silent, you looked at me, I looked at you, with different thoughts, but no one spoke.

However, in half a month, the strength of the Liangshan army was reduced by half, and the elite and generals were reduced by [-]% to [-]%. Some died, some surrendered, and all the territory outside was lost, so they could only retreat to the Liangshan River.

Fortunately, Song Jiang led the crowd to break out of the siege. On the way, he encountered Chai Jin who pretended to attack Xiangcheng head-on. The two armies merged into one place and retreated to the Shuibo Liangshan base.Otherwise, if the Song army overtakes Chai Jin's more than [-] soldiers and horses, I am afraid that there will only be more than [-] soldiers and horses left in the entire Liangshanshuipo.

For Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, Chai Jin, Hua Rong, Zhang Qing and others, they were originally officers and soldiers, and now that the officers and soldiers came to recruit security, it would be no problem to go back.Moreover, I heard that Mr. Jing'an is extremely fair and approachable. If he can go back and say that he can show his ambitions, become a high-ranking official and shine on the lintel, he is naturally willing.

It's just that those heroes who came from the rivers and lakes don't think so.

After a brief silence, everyone began to discuss in low voices.

After a long time, Guan Sheng jumped up and said: "Even Chief Lu and the military adviser have surrendered, why don't we recruit them as well, now that my brother over there has also become an officer, can't he still fight with his brother?"

Before the voice fell, a person came up against the table and said angrily: "In the past, we made an alliance with blood and became brothers. Now that he has surrendered, it means that the love is exhausted. If we meet in battle in the future, we will meet again." No brotherhood! Now that the court has no way, we still have [-] to [-] soldiers and horses, and there are [-] miles of water moored in the sky. It is difficult for the Song army to fly over even with wings. Stay by the water and be happy!"

Song Jiang saw that it was Chuan Huo'er Zhang Heng.

When he looked over there again, he could see a group of navy generals, including Langli Baitiao Zhang Shun, Hunjianglong Li Jun, and the Ruan brothers, all of them showed dissatisfaction on their faces.

Everyone debated for a while, but most of the navy generals came from the rivers and lakes, they were used to living a happy life, and they deceived Zhao Hao that they were all land soldiers and had no navy, so they refused to surrender.

Everyone's argument is arguing, after all, they don't want to hurt their brother's peace, so they broke up unhappy.

……

Liang Shanshui is moored, and the waves are thousands of miles away, stretching as far as the eye can see.From time to time, there are a few water birds swimming by on the water, and there are also white cranes soaring in the sky, which is a beautiful picture of the water town.

It's just that usually there are fishing boats on the lake, and there are loud or crisp fisherman's songs from time to time, but the lake is empty at this moment.

Because on the shore of the lake, a large group of armored soldiers stood in the dark, and they were the soldiers and horses of Zhao Hao, Duke Jing'an of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although the Zhao'an letter had already been circulated, Zhao Hao naturally wouldn't just wait in Xiangcheng for Song Jiang to come and surrender.

Looking at the sparkling Liangshan water pool, Zhao Hao couldn't help but gasp. With such a big lake, without a large number of boats, he could only look at the lake and sigh. Even if he knew that the Liangshan army was hiding in the lake, there was nothing he could do.

So far, the merit system has not been able to manufacture boats. Even if it is known, those who came are all horse infantry, none of whom are familiar with water warfare. If more than ten thousand soldiers and horses drive boats into the unknown water, I am afraid they will be killed by the fishermen. The main Liang Shanshui army dug through the bottom of the ship and fed the bastard.

He turned around slowly, looked at Wu Yong, his eyes were full of solemnity, and asked: "Now there is no news from the leader of Song Dynasty, I wonder if the military master has a clever plan to persuade all brothers to come and be recruited?"

Wu Yong stared closely at Zhao Hao with a pained look in his eyes, but saw that the other party's eyes were clear, showing no sign of dodging. Feeling at ease, he finally said slowly and with difficulty: "At the end of the day, I will revise another letter, and I will definitely Let the brothers from all families come and surrender."

PS: Today's update is a bit late, and finally the double update did not break its promise. The main reason is that I resigned. Not only did I not get my salary, I didn't even get the reimbursement I should have been given.

(End of this chapter)