Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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Unexpectedly, after suffering consecutive bad luck, Yang Zhi couldn't get along in the officialdom, and in the end, the official became smaller and smaller, and he became a robber.That guy is really a disgrace to the generals of the Song Dynasty!

Unlike Yang Zhi, the "green-faced beast" of the Yang family, Hu Yanzhuo, the "double whip" of the Huyan family, was doing well in the imperial army.

Although Hu Yanzhuo is good at martial arts, he never went to the border of Xixia and Liao to endure hardships and suffer hardships. He bled and sweated for fame. Instead, he casually mixed up among the forbidden army in Bianliang City, Tokyo, and then came to the city near Bianliang City, Tokyo. Runing County is under the control of the capital.

Yang Zhi and Hu Yanzhuo were both descendants of generals. Gao Qiu expelled one of them from the imperial army and refused to reuse them, but the other was recommended to the emperor to be promoted and reused. How big is the gap between people?

Chapter 544

On this day, after eating and drinking, Hu Yanzhuo was sitting in the yamen of the Commanding Army Division of Runing Prefecture, when he heard a report from his disciples: "There is an imperial decree to announce that the general will go to Beijing, and there is an appointment."

After hearing this, Hu Yanzhuo and the officials of this state hurried out of Guo to welcome them to the Commanding Army Division.

Hu Yanzhuo warmly entertained the officers of the Privy Council at the banquet. He found out that the Liangshanbo grass bandits on the East and West Roads of Beijing caused rebellion. Dongping Mansion, Jeju, Xuzhou, and Danzhou fell one after another. For the grass bandits in Liangshan Po, the Taiwei Gao Qiu recommended Hu Yanzhuo in the court, and wanted to promote him as the commander of the army and horses, and let Hu Yanzhuo lead the eastward expedition.

After hearing this, Hu Yanzhuo was secretly delighted, the money that the Taoist's family usually gave to the commander-in-chief Gao Taiwei's envoy finally received a return.This expedition, you can wait for the opportunity to get more benefits!

For these generals, it is not willing to go to the border to gain fame with a knife and a gun, but it is still a good job to lead the army to suppress the mob uprising in the country.After all, compared with the regular army of Khitan and Xixia who are well-equipped and brave in combat, the combat effectiveness of the peasants who rose up or the thieves who gathered in the mountains and forests in the country was much worse.

Suppressing these thieves and rioters not only has a lot of military exploits, but also takes the opportunity to reap local benefits, which is a rare job for Hu Yanzhuo.Therefore, Hu Yanzhuo secretly rejoiced, and made up his mind to take his brother with him, taking this opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune.

After the banquet, Hu Yanzhuo hurriedly packed up his helmet, armor, pommel horse and equipment, led thirty or forty servants, and went on a mission together, leaving Runing Prefecture, and went to Beijing in the starry night.Yu Lu had nothing to say, so he got off his horse early in front of the Diansi Mansion in the inner palace of the capital, and came to see Gao Taiwei.

That day Gao Qiu was sitting in the palace of the Commander-in-Chief of Dian, and the doorman reported: "Runing prefecture announced to Hu Yanzhuo, and he saw him outside the door."

Gao Taiwei was overjoyed and called to come in for a visit. After the condolences were over, he was rewarded.That night, Hu Yanzhuo secretly sent a lot of thank-you gifts to Gao Taiwei's mansion from his home.

In the early morning of the next day, Taiwei Gao Qiu led his recommended general Hu Yanzhuo to the court and introduced him to the Taoist emperor.

Song Huizong, an artist emperor, was also very particular about the appearance of his officials. If he was placed in later generations, he would be a member of the Appearance Association and an emperor who looked at his appearance.Emperor Huizong of Song liked good-looking courtiers the most, so his close ministers were either extraordinary in appearance, or had distinctive features in appearance. In short, they had to satisfy Song Huizong's aesthetic taste.

In the court hall, Song Huizong saw that Hu Yanzhuo's appearance was extraordinary, and his face was moved with joy, so he gave a horse that kicked Xuewuzhao.The horse's whole body looks black, its hooves are snow-white, and it can travel thousands of miles a day, so it is called "kicking snow and black horses".

After Hu Yanzhuo thanked him, he followed Taiwei Gao to Dianshuai's mansion to discuss the matter of raising an army to destroy Liangshanbo.

Gao Qiu said to Hu Yanzhuo: "General Huyan, when this Taiwei recommended you to conquer the grass bandits in Liangshanpo, he boasted to the officials that the general will be successful in no time. General Huyan, don't let the emperor down. , Let the officials and the Taiwei be disappointed!"

Hu Yanzhuo replied: "The kindness is great, the villain will never forget it! The villain vows to serve his death in return for his virtue, and he will do his best to wipe out the grass bandits and live up to the entrustment of the benefactor."

In Gao Qiu's words, Hu Yanzhuo did not forget the emperor's kindness, but Hu Yanzhuo never said a word of gratitude to Gao Qiu. His answer made Gao Qiu very satisfied, and he deserved to be an outstanding general.Gao Qiu nodded, and asked Hu Yanzhuo if he had a plan to defeat the enemy.

Hu Yanzhuo said: "Master En, the villain observes that there are many soldiers and generals in Liangshan Po, and the horse is inferior to the spear leader. You should not underestimate the enemy. The villain begs to be the second general to be the vanguard. If you bring the army and horses to the other side, you will surely achieve great merit. If you make a mistake , as a felony."

After hearing this, Taiwei Gao didn't understand that Hu Yanzhuo had attained the Tao by himself, he was going to ascend to heaven, and he wanted to support his own brothers.Maybe among the generous gifts received last night, there was a gift from the person recommended by Hu Yanzhuo.

Selling favors is Gao Taiwei's strong point, he pretended to be overjoyed and asked: "Who is the general protecting, who can be the vanguard in the front?"

Hu Yanzhuo reported: "The villain is the training envoy of the Chenzhou regiment. His surname is Han and his name is Tao. He was originally from Tokyo. Pioneer. There is another person who is a training envoy of the Yingzhou regiment. His surname is Peng Mingqi, and he is also from Tokyo. He is the son of many generations of generals. Vice-Pioneer."

On the south side of Jingji Road under the jurisdiction of Bianliang in Tokyo, it is next to Chenzhou, Caizhou and Yingzhou on Jingbei Road.Hu Yanzhuo was in charge of the capital in Runing County, Caizhou. The people he recommended happened to be the two envoys of the neighbors, Chenzhou and Yingzhou, and they both belonged to Tokyo, so Peng Qi also came from a generation of generals. .If it is said that Hu Yanzhuo, Han Tao, and Peng Qi are not brothers who hang out together for a long time and wear a pair of trousers, Gao Taiwei will never believe it.

This is a blatant promotion of talents without avoiding relatives!Gao Qiu thought to himself, Hu Yanzhuo is really loyal, he would think of giving credit to his brothers if he has merit.Who gets the credit for these benefits, isn't it all decided by Gao Li?Gao Qiu received Hu Yanzhuo's generous gift, so he naturally wanted to sell Hu Yanzhuo a face to support his brother.

Therefore, after listening to Hu Yanzhuo's words, Gao Taiwei said with great joy: "If Han and Peng will be the vanguard, why worry about the mad bandits not being wiped out!"

On the same day, Gao Taiwei issued two ultimatums to the Dianshuai's mansion, and ordered the Privy Council to send people to Chen and Yingzhou to call Han Tao and Peng Qi, and hurried to Beijing.

A few days later, the two generals had arrived in the capital, and they came to Dianshuai's mansion to meet the Taiwei and Hu Yanzhuo.

The next day, Gao Taiwei led all the people to practice martial arts in the imperial teaching field, and they all went to the Palace Commander's Mansion to discuss important military matters with the officials of the Privy Council.

Gao Taiwei asked: "You wait three times, how many people are there?"

Hu Yanzhuo replied: "The Three Route Army has five thousand horses and ten thousand infantry troops."

Gao Taiwei said: "The three of you will go back to the prefecture in person, select [-] elite cavalry troops and [-] infantry troops, and set off on a date to conquer Liangshanbo."

Hu Yanzhuo said: "The horse and infantry soldiers of the three routes are all well-trained men. They are strong and strong, so there is no need for the commander to worry. But I am afraid that the armor is not complete. I am afraid that the date will be missed, and it will be inconvenient to take the crime. I beg for your kindness." grace."

Hu Yanzhuo is taking advantage of the opportunity at this time.On weekdays, the imperial court did not lose a penny of military expenses for the Imperial Army of the Three States, so why is there a lack of armor now?Could it be that the military expenditures issued in the past have been corrupted by the three of Hu Yanzhuo?

If there is an upright official from Yushitai present, I am afraid that he will slap the table to question Hu Yanzhuo, and then write a letter to impeach such cunning and shameless local generals.But how can the majestic Grand Commander Gao Taiwei have the same knowledge as those poor scholars?

Gao Taiwei said: "Since that's what you said, the three of you can go to the armored storehouse of the capital, regardless of the number, choose armor, armor and knives at will, and lead them to go. Make sure that the army and horses are in order, so as to fight against the enemy. Before leaving the army On this day, I sent an official to take a look."

Taiwei Gao Qiu is generous to the country, allowing that shameless Hu Yanzhuo to take military funds at will.The three of Hu Yanzhuo have benefited, how can they lose the share of Taiwei Gao who is discerning?

Chapter 545 Hu Yanzhuo's Great Victory

Hu Yanzhuo received the Jun decree and took people to Jiazhankuguan to support.This guy is backed by the Taiwei Gao Qiu, and he really opened his mouth to fight hard in Jiazhan Kuli.

Hu Yanzhuo selected three thousand pairs of iron armor, five thousand pairs of cooked leather vests, three thousand copper and iron helmets, two thousand spears, one thousand hobs, countless bows and arrows, and more than five hundred artillery pieces, all of which were loaded. car.These military funds are enough for Hu Yanzhuo to arm a group of unarmed peasants into a heavily armed army.

On the day of leaving, Gao Taiwei allocated another [-] horses.The three generals each rewarded gold, silver and satin, and the three armies closed the food rewards.Even though the battle was imminent, the three of Hu Yanzhuo couldn't hide the joy of harvest on their faces.

Hu Yanzhuo, Han Tao, and Peng Qi all won the military certificate of victory. After bidding farewell to Taiwei Gao and the Privy Council and other officials, they left Bianliang City, Tokyo with a large amount of military funds they earned.

After leaving the city, the three of them got on their horses and returned to their own prefectures.Before Hu Yanzhuo left, he sent two generals, Han Tao and Peng Qi, to Chenzhou and Yingzhou respectively, and the troops of the three states were scheduled to meet in Chenzhou.

Because the northeast of Chenzhou is Yingtianfu in Nanjing, and the army is closest to Yingtianfu from there, so Hu Yanzhuo will join forces there to go to Yingtianfu.

More than ten days later, the three groups of soldiers and horses gathered in Chenzhou.Hu Yanzhuo then locked the capital into armor, helmets and knives, flag guns and saddle horses, and made a series of iron armors, military weapons and other things, which indicated that the three armies were ready to serve the army.

Gao Taiwei sent two officers to Dianshuai's mansion to watch.It's over to reward the three armies, Hu Yanzhuo

Now start the army, arrange the soldiers and horses to go out of the city.The pioneer of the former army "General Yusheng" Han Tao, the leader of the Chinese army "Double Whip" Hu Yanzhuo, and the rear army urged the "General Tianmu" Peng Qi.There are more than [-] elite soldiers including the three soldiers of Mabu, and they rushed to Yingtianfu in Nanjing in mighty force.

Hu Yanzhuo's luck was good. During the time when he gathered troops back and forth between Bianliang and Runing County in Tokyo, Nanjing Yingtian Mansion was not violently attacked by Liangshanbo robbers, so he waited for his rescue without any danger.

Song Jiang and Chai Jin's plan was to incite the people and coerce the rioters along the way after capturing Shanzhou and Xuzhou. After expanding the army, they marched to the southeast Huaiyang Army, captured Xiapi, and then entered the fertile Huaihe River Basin.

For Yingtianfu in Nanjing, which is heavily armed, Song Jiang's bandit army had no intention of attacking it.Song Jiang and Chai Jin are not stupid. With their current strength, they are not enough to fight all the way west to Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Because military strategist Wu Yong is still assisting Chao Gai to consolidate the territory he has occupied, so Jiang Jing, the military strategist in Song Jiang's army, is the "magic fortune teller".

Along the way, it was Jiang Jing who advised Song Jiang, allowing him to conquer Jeju, Danzhou and Xuzhou one after another.

When the Liangshan army captured Xuzhou, Jiang Jing planned for Song Jiang again, asking him to send troops to bluff, go to the villages around Yingtianfu in Nanjing to rob a lot of money and people, and use suspicious tactics to confuse the officers and soldiers of Yingtianfu in Nanjing and the Song court.

Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing is extremely important to the Song court, and Jiang Jing's attack will surely save him, and it will definitely attract the attention of the court to Ying Tianfu.However, the Liangshan Army took the opportunity to sneak the brigade into the territory of the Huaiyang Army, and took down the Huaiyang Army in one fell swoop.

Song Jiang adopted Jiang Jing's strategy and sent "Moyun Golden Wings" Ou Peng to lead his troops into the territory of Yingtianfu in Nanjing, harassing towns and towns everywhere, bluffing.

Although there were many forbidden troops stationed in Yingtian Mansion, they were frightened by the Liangshan bandits attacking the city and looting the mansion, and none of the brave generals dared to lead the troops into battle.

When "Double Whip" Hu Yanzhuo crossed the Guoshui River with reinforcements and entered Yingtian Mansion from Chenzhou, Ou Peng, who got the news, quickly burned, killed, looted and returned to Xuzhou.Let Hu Yanzhuo's army not even catch a single figure of the Liangshan bandit army.

Although dispatched [-] troops and did not cut off the head of a single thief, Hu Yanzhuo still led the army into Yingtian Mansion under the grand welcome of Yin Tianfu Yin.