Section 28 Fighting Tigers Up the Mountain
At Puji Temple in Wutai, Ma Kuo was held. Although the envoy of Chengxuan of Hedong was only a false title, it showed that Ma Kuo had entered the ranks of senior military officers and could participate in the major affairs of the court and was respected as the "Envoy Prime Minister".
Ma Kuo first accepted the imperial edict from the court and the blessing of Elder Zhizhen. He then stood in the center of the Great Hall and announced to his generals: "The Empress Dowager, the Concubine, the Supreme Emperor and the General Hu Yanxuan are determined to use Bianliang as bait to attract the main force of the Jin soldiers, and on the outside, restore the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan. And Hedong is the first battle on the outside."
Ma Kuo's words mobilized everyone's enthusiasm, and Ma Kuo then reviewed the advantages of Song army in Hedong.
"Our army takes Wutai as the center and makes the villages form Baojia. Wutai is located in Datong, Dongxia Town, Ding, Nantong Taiyuan, and west Linfu, which is the place of four battles. We have successfully created five defense departments here and occupied it, making the enemies in Hebei and Hedong unable to sleep or eat." "Today, the main forces of Hebei gathered in Hedong, with Puliu Rubosheng as the recruitment envoy, and our general was the deputy envoy, Tianxiong, Wei Bo, Chengde, and 300,000 Baojia from Hedong, annihilated the Taiyuan Jin soldiers and took the head of the Xiang Shang of Wanyan Yinshuke."
"This battle focuses on restoring the entire territory of Hedong, not only to annihilate the Jin thieves, but also to wipe out the ugly people in the mountains to protect the territory and the people."
The ugliness mentioned by Ma Kuo are the bandits in the Taihang Mountains. There were bandits in the mountains. After the Jin soldiers occupied Hedong, there were a large number of defeated troops and desperate civilians who went to the mountains to become bandits. For a moment, becoming bandits became the most promising profession in Hedong, and it was known as one of millions of bandits on the Taihang Mountains.
As the Song army gradually gained a foothold in Hedong and established Baojia, most of the bandits gradually went down the mountain to receive recruitment and became Baojia households, with only nearly 100,000 people still living in the green forest.
The largest of them is the three brothers Tian Hu, Tian Bao and Tian Biao who escaped from Tong Guanshengjie's army.
"These three brothers robbed some of the pay of the Shengjie Army and gathered together in the mountains as kings. As a citizen of the Song Dynasty, they not only did not harass the Jin soldiers, but also went to Baojia to plunder many times. Our army led Taiyuan, and the food and grass along the way were under the threat of these three brothers. For this reason, the three brothers of the Tian family were eliminated with all their strength."
Ma Kuo looked around the generals: "The war is imminent, and the army is in the fight, but it cannot spend time in the mountains. A warrior must enter the mountains alone and match the inner responsibilities of Tian Hu. First, the army will suppress the leader and subdue the bandits outside. Which general is willing to go."
A general like a black iron tower stood up: "I wish to go." The sound was like thunder.
When Ma Kuo saw that it was Wu Song, the commander of the camp of the trap. Ma Kuo was happy and sent everyone back, and explained to Wu Song in detail, and sent Shi En to lead more than a hundred warriors to follow him.
It was already snowing in Taihang Mountain in September, and a bandit-like man was walking alone on the snow in the dense forest.
The horse was humming and sometimes squatting; sometimes squinting wildly; sometimes riding on the horse and running for a while; sometimes whistling behind the horse; sometimes whistling something in his mouth; sometimes pulling the authentic Shandong cursing; sometimes running to the front of the horse and letting the horse run with him; sometimes squatted behind the horse, letting the horse go away, and the horse whistled again, and the horse turned back to the horse and ran back to the horse. When the horse ran to the horse, the horse stroked the horse's head and slapped for a while. The horse was almost not quiet at all, really like a madman, and like an actor practicing horse. The strength used by the horse in walking was far less used in the crazy action of squirting.
Wu Song is now like an unscrupulous bandit. After several days of day and night, he has already entered the deep forests of Taihang Mountain. That night, he tied his horse and dug a pit to sleep.
In the middle of the night, he was suddenly awakened by a long hiss from his mount. Wu Shuang tightened the reins tied to the tree to prevent it from breaking free. Then he hid behind a big tree, pulled out a sharp dagger, and continued to look around and explore.
At this time, the horse was terrified again, and struggled to fight the reins twice, but it did not break free. Then it turned out to be trembling and could not stand. It was about to fall down in despair. Wu Song was surprised and said in a mutter, "Damn, what's the matter, such a great power, scared the living dragon foal!"
Before he could turn around, he suddenly roared and a large Siberian tiger rushed out of the bushes, with sharp teeth and tails standing up, and rushed towards the horse. The tiger's tail swept into the bushes, making the snow powder splash everywhere.
The horse was so scared that it was neither digging nor kicking it. It lowered its head and stared at the evil enemy who was rushing towards it, and let out a low whine from its nose.
This was the first time Wu Song saw a living tiger, so close to him. He was coming to eat his horse again. The sudden fear made him feel angry and his heart beat pounding. The dagger in his hand also trembled with his heart.
Seeing the tiger pounce on his mount, he took a quick copy, untied the axe from the Desheng hook, inserted the dagger in his hand on his belt, and ran two steps.
When the tiger saw Wu Song, he turned around, pressed his claws slightly on the ground, looked up and pounced on him, and rushed down from the air.
It was a long time to say that, and then it was soon; Wu Song saw a tiger pounce, flashing, flashing behind the tiger. The most difficult thing to see a tiger behind him, so he put his front paws on the ground, lifted his waist and hips, and lifted it up. Wu Song flashed, flashing on the side. When the tiger saw that it was not lifted, it roared, but it seemed like a thunderbolt in half a day, which made the hill move, and the iron rod was like a tiger's tail and stood up and cut it up.
Wu Song flashed aside again. It turned out that the tiger was just pounced, lifted, and cut; when it was not caught, its energy disappeared first. The tiger could not be cut, and then roared, and it would come back in batches.
When Wu Song saw the tiger back, he raised his axe with both hands and slashed from the air with all his strength. He heard a muffled sound, slashing the tiger's neck.
The tiger was injured and became more fierce. It became more and more fierce. It turned over and then pounced on the future. Wu Song had to loosen the axe, jumped again, but retreated ten steps away. The tiger happened to put its two front paws in front of Wu Song. Its hands grabbed the tiger's top and the arms were pressed down. The tiger was about to struggle, but Wu Song tried his best to hold it back, and it was willing to put it a little loose.
Wu Song looked at the tiger's face with his foot, kicking his eyes randomly. The tiger roared, climbed up two piles of yellow mud under his body, and made a dirt pit. Wu Song pressed the tiger's mouth straight into the yellow mud pit. The tiger lost some strength after eating Wu Song.
Wu Song grabbed the top flower skin tightly with his left hand, stole the right hand, pulled the dagger from his belt, and stabbed it at the tiger top gate.
The tiger struggled in pain, and Wu Song swung his fist and punched the tiger sixty or seventy times. Blood burst out from the tiger's eyes, mouth, nose, and ears, and he couldn't move, and he could only breathe in his mouth.
Wu Song let go, pulled out the axe from the tiger's back, and split the tiger's head. Seeing that the tiger's aura was gone, he stopped.
Chapter completed!