Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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The county lieutenant and the head of the capital of Shouzhang County didn't dare to say no to their responsibilities, so they had to mobilize hundreds of soldiers from the Xiang army and went out of the city to wander around.After a while, everyone returned home empty-handed, reporting back to the county magistrate that the Liangshan robbers had escaped without a trace, so they never got anything.Although the magistrate of Shouzhang County knew that their report was not true, he did not pursue it.

It turns out that Shouzhang County is closest to Liangshan Park. Who in the county has not heard of the evil names of Liangshan heroes?Think back in the past, when did the big households in the county not be borrowed by those Liangshan heroes?Who in the past would not dare to pay the road money?

Two years ago, the Dongping government army led by Wang Jun and Yu Baosi fought a battle with the Liangshan bandits in Shouzhang County.

Fortunately, the official Ximenqing, who defeated the Liangshan bandits in Yanggu County, came to Shouzhang County to buy a lot of Zhuangzi and fields, so that the Liangshanbo bandits would not harass Shouzhang County anymore.This allowed the officials and common people in the county to have a peaceful life for two years.

Even the imperial guards of Dongping Mansion were no match for the Liangshan bandits. The county lieutenant and the capital of Shouzhang County only had some soldiers from the Xiang Army under their command. How could they dare to provoke the Liangshanbo bandits?

Liangshanbo robbers suddenly appeared in the management after two years, there must be something unusual, everyone in the county government was shocked and discussed a lot.

When the county magistrate of Shouzhang County was at a loss, a county magistrate by his side suggested to him, "Why don't you go to Yanggu County and ask Ximen Qing to help?"

Chapter 523 Liangshan bandit army wants to besiege the city

Xiang Chong, Li Gun, and Du Qian led hundreds of minions to lie in ambush in Shouzhang County for a few days. They planned to sneak attack and plot against Ximen Qing, but they didn't know that Ximen Qing took a detour to Dong'e County and entered Dongping Mansion. The three bandit chieftains rushed to nothing.

Angry and angry, Xiang Chong and Li Gun led their men to rob merchants and pedestrians on the road, and came to the junction of Shouzhang County and Dongping Mansion, by the lakeside of Liangshanpo.

Xiang Chong, Li Gun, and Du Qian did not intend to return to Liangshan by boat, but to welcome Chao Gai's large troops ashore here.

When Wu Yong sent them out to carry out the assassination mission, he had explained to them that no matter whether the assassination was successful or not, they would meet up by the lake at nightfall on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month and rush to the outside of Dongpingfu city overnight. During the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, when the wealthy families gathered in the city, they surrounded Dongping Mansion and wiped out all the wealthy businessmen in Yunzhou.

This time, Liangshan bandits were dispatched in full force, and they wanted to attack Yunzhou and Jeju first, taking advantage of the fact that the officers and soldiers of several states around Liangshanbo were not ready.

Chao Gai, the lord of Dazhai, together with Wu Yong, Fan Rui, Xiang Chong, Li Gun, Song Wan, Du Qian, Zhu Fu, and Li Xiaoer led an army of [-] to attack Dongping Mansion.

Song Jiang, the deputy head of the village, and Li Ying, Lei Heng, Ou Peng, Jiang Jing, Meng Kang, Du Xing, Xiao Rang, and Jin Dajian led an army of [-] to attack Jeju Prefecture.

The three leaders, Gongsun Sheng, Chai Jin, and Song Qing, sat in town to defend Liangshan and provided food for the two armies of Chao Gai and Song Jiang.

Li Jun was in charge of commanding the water army to travel from south to north on the five-hundred-mile lake in Liangshanbo, supporting the two armies from the north and the south to fight.

Chao Gai, Song Jiang and all the leaders gathered their troops and went down the mountain separately.When Chao Gai and Wu Yong led the army to land on the north bank of Liangshanbo in a naval vessel, they had already seen Xiang Chong, Li Gong and Du Qian waiting on the shore with hundreds of troops.

Chao Gai and others went ashore in the dark, and led the troops straight to Dongping Mansion. When they arrived at Anshan Town, which was only forty miles away from the city, it was already dark, so Wu Yong asked Chao Gai to station his troops here. Quiet flags and drums.

Wu Yong suggested to Chao Gai that when the gates of Dongping Mansion are opened tomorrow morning, when the people enter the city, first let the three leaders Du Qian, Zhu Fu, and Li Xiaoer lead their men into Dongping Mansion, and fight with Na Yubao. Four secret contacts, as an internal response.Then command the army to surround Dongping Mansion, break down the city from inside and outside, and take this Dongping Mansion as his own.

Chao Gai said to Wu Yong: "The arrangement of the military adviser is naturally correct. It's just that we have [-] strong soldiers, so why not be afraid of the few Bird Forbidden Army in Dongping Mansion. When they open the city gate tomorrow, they will swarm up and rush in. , wouldn't it be more enjoyable?"

Wu Yongdao: "Brother, otherwise! In the Dongping mansion, although the prefect Cheng Wanli is a useless man who has never seen a sword, there is a famous soldier and horse officer in his city, who is from Shangdang County in the east of the river. His surname is Dong Mingping. He is good at wielding two spears. Everyone is called a general with two spears. It is said that he has the courage that is unworthy of all men. In a hurry, my brothers may not be able to defeat him. Tomorrow, he must be provoked to fight, and Yu Baosi will fight against him. With the cooperation of our army, after capturing Dong Ping, the Dongping Mansion will be destroyed without attack."

Chao Gai said: "The strategist's plan! We will act according to the strategist's plan."

When Chao Gai and others led the army to Anshan Town, Ximen Qing, Lu Junyi, Wang Jin and others were attending the reception banquet hosted by the prefect Cheng Wanli for him, and Dong Ping, the military supervisor, was also invited to accompany him.

Because of the disagreement with Dong Pingping, the magistrate Cheng Wanli intentionally received Ximen Qing and his party warmly in front of him, and kept praising Ximen Qing and others for their heroic feats in defeating the Liangshan bandits and protecting the environment and the people.

Cheng Wanli told Ximen Qing that he specially invited him to come to Dongping Mansion this time because Chen Wenzhao, the former prefect, wrote to him after learning that the imperial court wanted Dongping Mansion to send troops to conquer Liangshan bandits, recommending Ximen Qing to him.

Cheng Wanli said that in Chen Wenzhao's letter, Ximenqing was highly praised, saying that in order to completely wipe out the Liangshan bandits, he must cooperate with the officials of Ximen in Yanggu County.

Cheng Wanli deliberately praised Ximenqing at the banquet, obviously demonstrating against Dong Ping, who controls the army, and suppressing Dong Ping's arrogance.How could the two parties, Ximen Qing and Dong Ping, fail to hear his implication?

Although Dong Ping was still exchanging glasses with everyone and eating wine, his heart was already filled with anger for no reason, cursing Cheng Wanli how dare he underestimate himself!

Dong Ping thought to himself, he was just fighting with Cheng Wanli, and he didn't want to send troops to attack the Liangshan bandits too early. He actually thought that he could not lead the army to defeat those grass bandits?Do I still need a village owner from Yanggu County to bring his soldiers to help me out?How ridiculous!

After hearing Cheng Wanli's words, Ximen Qing also felt a headache.Cheng Wanli, the big battle is just around the corner, yet he is still at odds with his generals!

That Dong Ping was originally a person with arrogance and evil thoughts.He suppressed and humiliated Dong Ping so bluntly, no wonder Dong Ping slaughtered his whole family in history.If Cheng Wanli keeps boasting like this, Dong Ping will probably turn against me.

snort!If it weren't for the fact that Cheng Wanli had an outstanding daughter, Ximen Qing really didn't want to care about the bad things between Dong Ping and Cheng Wanli.

Ximen Qing still wanted to use the forbidden army in Dong Ping's hands to do things for him, so of course he couldn't get into a stalemate with the soldiers and horses, so he raised his glass to toast, interrupting the prefect Cheng Wanli's words.

Immediately afterwards, Ximen Qing praised Dong Ping's prestige as a general with two guns in public, and said many words of admiration for a long time, which made Dong Ping look a lot better.The atmosphere at the banquet finally became more harmonious.

Before the banquet was over, Brother Qiao Yun sent Ximen Qing the latest information: Liangshan bandits, headed by Chao Gai, gathered more than ten thousand people, and they had already descended from Liangshan tonight, heading straight for Dongping Mansion.

What a vicious Wu Yong!The bird thief knew that I would come to Dongping Mansion on the Lantern Festival, he and Chao Gai rushed to attack the city so eagerly, did they want to block me in this Dongping Mansion too?

During the banquet, Ximenqing asked Dong Ping how many soldiers and horses he had in his hands. Dong Ping replied that there were [-] imperial troops in Dongping Mansion and more than [-] Xiang troops, totaling more than [-] soldiers and horses.

After Ximenqing heard this, he secretly calculated in his heart that the Forbidden Army and Xiang Army in Hebei and Shandong were lack of training, and their combat effectiveness was not as good as that of bandits.With Dong Ping's 8000 people, facing [-] Liangshan bandits attacking the city, it would be good if they could hold the city.If he insisted on sending troops to fight against the robbers, he might not be the opponent of the Liangshan robbers.

From this point of view, I have no choice but to help!

Ximenqing made up his mind, and solemnly introduced Lu Junyi, Wang Jin, and Jiao Ting to the prefect Cheng Wanli and Dong Ping, the military commander, and said how good their three martial arts skills are. Dong Dujian shared his worries and temporarily joined Dong Ping's army to participate in the battle against Liangshan bandits.

Ximenqing concealed Wang Jin's experience in the Western Army. He didn't say that Cheng Wanli, the magistrate, and Dong Ping, the military supervisor, knew about Wang Jin's experience in the Western Army.When they heard that Wang Jin used to be the coach of the 80 Imperial Army in Tokyo, they couldn't help but look at Wang Jin with admiration.

As for "Jade Unicorn" Lu Junyi and "Faceless" Jiao Ting, they are both well-known in the Jianghu. Cheng Wanli, the magistrate, doesn't know about this, but Dong Ping has heard of their names.

Looking at these three capable people around Ximen Qing, Dong Ping also put down his contempt for Ximen Qing.

Chapter 524 Being Rich is Being Willful

Ximen Qing knew that the Liangshan bandits were all desperadoes, and their usual way of using troops was to send a few leaders into the city as internal responses, and open the gates of the city to let the bandit army enter the city.

That Yu Baosi had already colluded with the Liangshan bandits, needless to say, the spies of the bandits entering the city would definitely contact him and cause chaos in the city together.

As long as you keep an eye on Yun Baosi, it is not difficult to destroy the siege plan of the Liangshan bandits.Ximen Qing handed over this task to Brother Qiao Yun.

Now, what is needed is to master a certain amount of officers and soldiers, so that they can act in the city in a legitimate manner.

Ximenqing proposed to let his brothers fight side by side with the government and army against the bandits in Liangshan. Of course Cheng Wanli, the magistrate, couldn't ask for it, so he wanted to distribute troops to Ximenqing and other local heroes.

Although Dong Ping, the superintendent of soldiers and horses, did not dare to underestimate Ximen Qing and the others, how could he be willing to give up the military power in his hands?In order to perfuse Cheng Zhifu, Dong Ping reluctantly allocated two thousand Xiangjun to Ximen Qing and others, and asked them to assist him in fighting.

Those Xiang troops usually do some handyman repairing the city and repairing the gates, and they have almost no military training.Such an army can only be used to fill up the numbers, Dong Ping did not intend to take them into battle, so he handed over these burdens in his eyes to Ximen Qing and others.

No amount of mosquitoes is meat!Ximenqing didn't dislike the incompetence of the Xiang army that Dong Ping threw to him.What Ximenqing wanted was just a signboard for the army, so that his army could pretend to be the army of Yunzhou to attack the robbers in Liangshanbo.

Although it is true that the combat effectiveness of the 80-armed army was low, Ximen Qing brought the 200-strong Imperial Army coach from Tokyo, and Wang Jin, the mighty general of the Western Army, came forward!Moreover, Ximenqing also brought two hundred elites during this trip, and Wang Jin took these [-] people to integrate the two thousand Xiang army, which would definitely improve their morale and combat effectiveness.

Because he knew that the Liangshan bandits would kill outside the city tomorrow, Ximenqing proposed to Cheng Zhifu and the capital supervisor Dong Ping that he hoped to enter the Xiang Army barracks tonight and receive the two thousand soldiers.

Ximenqing told Cheng Zhifu that his brother could get acquainted with these soldiers earlier, and he would be able to cooperate with Dong Dujian to conquer Liangshan bandits sooner in the future.

Cheng Wanli, the magistrate who was determined to wipe out the Liangshan bandits, made meritorious service for the imperial court, and sought a bright future in the future, heard that Ximen Qing was actively working for him, and immediately agreed with a smile on his face.

Dong Ping also had no objection to this, so after the banquet was over, Ximenqing sent someone to accompany Lu Junyi back to the restaurant to rest, and then he, Wang Jin and Jiao Ting followed Dong Ping to the barracks, and took over the two thousand cadres. Served Xiangjun.

In the night, the gathered two thousand troops stood sparsely on the school field, looking dissatisfiedly at Dong Dujian who woke them up from their slumber.

Dong Ping hurriedly handed over the 2000 people who were tall, short, fat and thin, who didn't look like soldiers but coolie porters to Ximen Qing and the others, and then returned home.