Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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Official Ximen Qing received Cheng Zhifu's family members so graciously. Although he claimed that he wanted to relieve Cheng Zhifu's worries, so that Cheng Zhifu could work together with him to defeat the invading robbers, but following behind the official Ximen Qing, seeing The two brothers Jiao Ting and Brother Qiao Yun, who are the beautiful daughters of the prefect, don't believe that high officials are only dedicated to serving the public.

Seeing Jiao Ting's and Qiao Yun's eyes showing that nothing was said, the official Ximen Qing also expressed his helplessness.This official is really for Dongping Mansion, why do you suspect that I am for personal love and romance?

Alas~ Those who know me, the only one who knows me is "Spring and Autumn"!Those who sin against me are only "Spring and Autumn"!The merits and demerits of my senior official, Ximen Qing, will be left to future generations to judge!

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After Cheng Wanli, the prefect, learned of the news of the fall of Jeju in Shouzhang County, he immediately dispatched a fast horse to report the emergency military situation to the imperial court, and at the same time passed the information to Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Shanzhou on Jingdong Road, and Puzhou on Hebei East Road. , Gaochang Mansion, to remind all local governments to be careful.

After the news was delivered, the magistrate of Cheng arranged Zhang Wenyuan, who had escaped from Yuncheng County, to continue to be a clerk in Shouzhang County, and placed Zhao Neng, the head of the capital, into Wang Jun's army, so that he had the opportunity to fight for himself. Brother revenge.

After discussing and arranging the defense of Shouzhang County with Wang Jun, Jiang Zhong and others, the magistrate Cheng Wanli brought the subordinates of the magistrate's yamen to Yanggu County day and night, and made the county yamen the temporary of Dongping Prefecture, Yunzhou. The government office is here to command soldiers and horses to recover Dongping Mansion.

Of course, the magistrate Cheng Wanli experienced two attacks by the Liangshan robbers, and he has clearly understood that his shortcoming is that he does not know how to fight.Therefore, he invited senior officials Ximen Qing into the yamen, temporarily entrusted Ximen Qing with important tasks, and handed over the military command of Dongping Mansion in Yunzhou to this local hero who defeated the Liangshan bandits twice.

Cheng Wanli, the magistrate, also kept in mind Ximen Qing's kindness in giving up the mansion in the city for his family to live in, and expressed his sincere gratitude to Ximen Qing.

After the two discussed secretly in the magistrate's yamen, Cheng Wanli's confidence increased greatly, and he swore with Ximen Qing to advance and retreat together when facing the bandits in Liangshanpo.

Cheng Wanli and Ximen Qing agreed that the military command would be entrusted to Ximen Qing, and he would mobilize resources to provide Ximen Qing with the supply of logistics, food and bounty.

In the past few days, in Dong'e County and Shouzhang County under the jurisdiction of Dongping Prefecture, the army commanded by Ximen Qing had several small conflicts with the Liangshanbo bandits.

After Luan Tingyu and Wang Jin led their troops into Dong'e County, they encountered Li Yanjun who was besieging Dong'e County. Li Yan was defeated and fled in embarrassment, which relieved the siege of Dong'e County and joined Yanzhou in the east. .

Shouzhang County in the south was attacked by Chao Gai's army and Song Jiang's army in turn.Because of the strong defensive forces of Wang Jun and Jiang Zhong in Shouzhang County, the Liangshanbo bandit army failed to take advantage, so they had to retreat to Dongping Mansion and Yuncheng County, Jezhou.

"Popping Eagle" Li Ying has always been worried about the occupation of his manor in Lijiazhuang in Dulonggang. This time, he took the opportunity to send "Ghostface" Du Xing to lead people back to Dulonggang, intending to incite the original tenants of Lijiazhuang to rebel. .

Unexpectedly, after Ximenqing distributed the fields and tenants of Lijiazhuang to Hujiazhuang and Zhujiazhuang, these two local wealthy families had already subdued the hearts of the original Lijiazhuang people. At this time, no one would be willing to follow Du Xing, a bandit Walk?

Taking advantage of Du Xing's unpreparedness, the dealers secretly ran to Zhujiazhuang to report the news. Zhu Long and Zhu Hu came after hearing the news, captured Du Xing alive, and sent people to Yanggu County to ask Cheng Zhifu for credit.

After Cheng Zhifu rewarded the people of Zhujiazhuang, he put "ghost face" Du Xing into the death row, waiting to be executed together with other bandit leaders after defeating the Liangshan bandit army.

"Popping Eagle" Li Ying gritted his teeth angrily when he heard that Du Xing had been arrested, but he had nothing to do with Zhujiazhuang for a moment.

After several times of probing and attacking, the Liangshan bandits found that the coalition forces of Ximen Qing and the official army were a tough one, and it was really difficult to talk about it.

The leaders Chao Gai, Wu Yong and Song Jiang all returned to Liangshan Po Mountain to discuss the next attack target.

"Tuota Heavenly King" Chao Gai lost several brothers in Dongping Mansion this time. After taking down Dongping Mansion, he sent the heads of the "Demon King" Fan Rui and four others back to Liangshanbo for burial.Therefore, he was determined to continue attacking the remaining counties of Dongping Mansion, capture the prefect Cheng Wanli alive, and avenge his brothers.

Xiang Chong and Li Yan felt resentment towards Dong Ping because of Fan Rui's death.But now that Dong Ping has joined the gang and become brothers, the two can only transfer their hatred to Cheng Zhifu and support the continued attack on Yanggu County.

Chapter 541 Explosive Soldiers Madman Chai Jin

Among the leaders of Liangshan, apart from Xiang Chong and Li Yan, who supported Chao Gai, Li Ying also agreed to attack Yanggu County this time.Li Ying's move was of course to rescue his brother Du Xing, and he also intended to take down Dulonggang and return to his hometown.

As far as Song Jiang is concerned, his deep hatred lies in Qingzhou.

Good brother Huarong, apprentices Kong Ming and Kong Liang, and buddies Yanshun, Wang Ying and others all died in Qingzhou. Qin Ming, Bingmadujian Huang Xin and the others hated them to the bone, and in their dreams they wanted to catch them and peel them off.

When discussing the target of the attack, Song Jiang proposed to attack Yanzhou from the north to the south.After defeating Yanzhou, join the army again, attack Qingzhou in the east, and then take advantage of the trend to conquer Weizhou, Mizhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou and other places.

Song Jiang's reason was that the people in the area from Qingzhou, Mizhou to Dengzhou were tough, and there were many bandits and pirates. Occupying these states could recruit desperadoes and expand the strength of Liangshan Army.In the future, relying on the states along Jingdong Road, they can go north to Hebei and south to Jianghuai to compete with the government and army.

From the point of view of the separatist regime and the future, Song Jiang's choice may not be a favorable choice, and it is even quite consistent with some of Ximen Qing's plans.However, the first person to stand up against him this time turned out to be the official Chai Jin who had the best relationship with him.

After Song Jiang captured Jeju City, "Little Whirlwind" Chai Jin immediately went down the mountain to Jeju.Here and there, Chai Jin finally showed his talents, showing his abilities different from other Liangshan heroes.

This "little whirlwind" Chai Jin is worthy of being a descendant of the royal family and aristocrats of the previous dynasty. He has the demeanor of a noble family, and he does not look like the robbers of Liangshan heroes at all.After he entered Jeju City, he displayed political means far superior to those of the thieves. He actually calmed down the panicked wealthy businessmen in the city, and raised a lot of military funds for the Liangshan army without bloodshed.

Afterwards, Chai Jin took his desperadoes from Cangzhou, Hebei Province to various counties in Jeju. This action actually led him to mobilize and recruit tens of thousands of mobs, and they joined the Liangshan Army with him.

This guy Chai Jin may have been thinking about how to add chaos to the court for decades, and coupled with the mysterious identity of the descendant of the previous royal family, his ability to incite people to rebel is outstanding among the thieves in Liangshan.This ability also made the Liangshan army who pulled the flag to rebel even more inseparable from Chai Jin, which undoubtedly increased Chai Jin's weight in the Liangshan army.

Chai Jin told the leaders that the reason for the uprising was that the imperial court imposed violent taxes on the East and West Roads of Beijing and the West Huainan Road, and exploited the people, which caused the people in the two places to be unstable.The Liangshan army took advantage of the chaos to rise up, occupy the land of the two states, and use the chaos to expand the army by [-].

Therefore, the goal after raising troops cannot be changed. They should fight south along the Jingdong East Road and Huainan West Road, recruiting people who are dissatisfied with the imperial court from the states along the way.

In this way, within a few months, hundreds of thousands of troops can be recruited, and the power will shake the world.At that time, you can attack Bianliang City in Tokyo on Gyeonggi Road to the west, and seize the throne of the current Taoist Emperor Bird.Even if they can't take down Bianliang in Tokyo, who can control Liangshan's army going south to Jiangnan or north to Shandong and Hebei?May I ask, the world is so big, where can't we go?

Chai Jin's proposal really has the goal of turning the Song Dynasty upside down. Compared with Chao Gai, who was born in Lizheng and is so short-sighted and still stays in a state of Dongping Prefecture fighting with the officials and soldiers, he doesn't know how much broader his vision is.Even Song Jiang, the mafia elder brother who was born as a county magistrate, was far less courageous than Chai Jin in the matter of rebellion.

Faced with the three proposals, the military adviser Wu Yong neither supported his old friend Chao Gai nor the deputy village master Song Jiang this time, but unexpectedly stood with Na Chai Jin again.

Wu Yong's reason for supporting Chai Jin is also very simple, because he saw Chai Jin's ability to instigate riots, and believed that Chai Jin's proposal could expand the strength of Liangshan Army as quickly as possible, so he supported the southward attack on Huaixi proposal.

As another important figure in the Liangshanbo cottage, Gongsun Sheng, the "Ruyunlong" who has the closest relationship with Chao Gai, did not choose to attack Yanggu County to avenge Fan Rui, but also agreed to go south to Huaixi.

However, Gongsun Sheng added a proposal. When the army went south, Dongping Mansion and Jeju, which had already been won, were the north-south barriers of Liangshanbo, and they could not be easily given up.And in order for the Liangshan Army to turn back to Jingdong Road in the future, it is now necessary to send people to the states on Jingdong East Road to secretly develop forces, and to cooperate with Liangshan's army to go northward in the future.

Because the people on Jingdong Road all worship Taoism, Gongsun Sheng intends to go out in person to develop believers in various parts of Shandong for future use.

"Ruyunlong" Gongsun Sheng saw that Chai Jin used the descendants of the former royal family to collect desperadoes and expand his strength, so he couldn't sit still.Gongsun Sheng is determined to disregard Master Luo Zhenren's restraint on his behavior, use religion to fool the people, and form an army of believers.

In ancient China, using religion to spread rebellion was also a common method, so Gongsun Sheng's proposal was unanimously approved by Chao Gai, Song Jiang, Wu Yong and others.

After the leaders had finished their discussions, they immediately redistributed their troops and went about their own business.

Chao Gai, the owner of the village, stayed at Liangshanbo, Dongping Mansion and Jeju.Li Ying, Lei Heng, Xiao Rang, Jin Dajian, Song Wan, Song Qing and other local leaders followed Chao Gai to defend and consolidate the land he had won.

Dong Ping, as the former military commander of Dongping Mansion, stayed as the chief general of the Liangshan Army guarding Dongping Mansion.

The deputy village masters Song Jiang and Chai Jin led troops to attack the Xuzhou and Huaiyang troops on Jingdong Road to the south, and went straight to the Huaixi area to recruit troops.

Xiang Chong is from Peixian County, Xuzhou, and Li Yan is from Pixian County, Huaiyang Army. They are familiar with the terrain, and this time they went south with Song Jiang's army.Although Du Qian is a native of Jeju, he had defected to Chai Jin when he was living in the rivers and lakes, and Chai Jin also brought Du Qian with him this time.

Because this trip south, there are many rivers and lakes along the way, and the Huainan area is even densely covered with water networks, so Song Jiang also brought Li Jun, the general of the navy, with him.

"Mixed River Dragon" Li Jun will lead a water army down the canal, enter Weishan Lake, cooperate with the Song Jiang army to attack Xuzhou and Huaiyang army, and then enter the Huaixi area along the canal.

As for the remaining navy in Liangshanbo, it was temporarily handed over to the commander of "Yufangan" Meng Kang, who was responsible for transporting troops and supplies between Dongping Mansion and Jeju.

Liang Shanbo's deputy military division "Ruyunlong" Gongsun Sheng led a group of brothers to act alone to infiltrate the states on Jingdong Road.

Ximenqing made up his mind to defend Yanggu County, Shouzhang County and Dong'e County, and was not in a hurry to launch an attack on Liangshan Army.So when the Liangshan bandit army shrank back to Dongping Mansion and Yuncheng County of Jezhou, he did not let Hu Sanniang, Luan Tingyu and others launch a chase, but kept confronting the Liangshan bandits, waiting for the arrival of various officers and troops.

Within a few days, Yue Fei and others rushed back to Yanggu County from Tangyin County following Brother Qiao Yun Xingye and joined Ximen Qing's subordinates.

At this time, the Liangshan Po bandit army led by Song Jiang and Chai Jin had entered the territory of Xuzhou.

Chapter 542 Prime Minister Wang Fu exploded in anger

In the city of Bianliang in Tokyo, in the province under Zhongshu's door, Shao Zai Wang Fu looked at the several urgent reports in his hand, and was so angry that he slapped the table and cursed.

In the past few days, because of the disturbance caused by a group of robbers in Liangshanbo, there has been an endless stream of urgent military reports from the east and west roads in Beijing.