Song Jiang and his entourage stood at the foot of the city and sang a promise to Gao Qiu.

"Now that the imperial court has pardoned your crimes, why did you come here wearing armor to seek peace?"

Seeing that the other party was still defensive, Gao Qiu quickly sent someone to shout.

"The good commanding officer knows that we don't know what the edict means, so we dare not take off our armor."

Dai Zong accepted the idea and stepped forward to answer.

Gao Qiu thought for a moment and called the senior citizens in the city to go to the city gate to listen to the order.

Then the drums were played three times, and everyone came to the city gate together.

The angel then unfolded the edict and said:

"...I am sending an angel today to issue an edict to remove Song Jiang, Lu Junyi and other people, big and small, from the evil they have committed, and to grant them pardon..."

Wu Yong was so shrewd. He turned his head to Xiao Li Guanghuarong and said, "General, did you hear this?"

"If you refuse to let brother Song Ming go, why don't you surrender and surrender?"

He immediately drew his bow and nocked an arrow, and an arrow hit the angel right in the face.

"Reverse!"

Everyone in the city shouted in unison, and arrows flew towards the city gate.

While Gao Qiu was hiding, he quickly ordered his soldiers to open the city gate and go out to capture the rebels.

Song Jiang and others mounted their horses and left without fighting with each other at all.

After traveling five or six miles, Li Kui, Hu Sanniang and others led troops to rescue them. Song Jiang and his party immediately turned around and charged, and the officers and soldiers immediately retreated.

…

When he heard that the angel had been shot, Emperor Long Yan was furious.

Then he summoned famous generals and two thousand troops to help Gao Qiu kill the thieves.

Knowing that reinforcements were coming, Gao Qiu ordered people to cut down trees and arrest people, and built warships overnight to expand the navy.

It happened that there was a craftsman who had been robbed by Liangshanbo before and was good at building ships. When the time came for secret revenge, he drew a model of the ship and came to join him.

"Lieutenant, my family's traditional loach boat can accommodate hundreds of people inside. It is moved by human power and can move like flying. Other boats can't match it."

"The outside is covered with bamboo to prevent arrows, and a crossbow tower can be placed in the center for both offense and defense. When encountering bandits in Liangshan, if the crossbow arrows on the ship are fired together, they will be killed by thousands of arrows piercing their hearts."

"There are also small loach boats, which are equally useful..."

The craftsman talked a lot, which made Gao Qiu very happy.

"Okay, okay, I will ask you to be the shipbuilding supervisor and quickly build all the big and small loaches!"

Not long after, the imperial reinforcements arrived in Jeju.

Gao Qiu hosted another banquet in honor of the two generals, waiting for the ship to be completed.

Everyone in Liangshanbo was not idle either. They had already sent agents to inquire about the news in the city.

"If this big loach boat is built, won't it be able to conquer our Liangshan Mountains? Military advisor, what should we do?"

After Song Jiang got the news, he quickly asked Wu to discuss countermeasures.

"Building such a big ship will definitely take a long time. I'll send a few brothers to go make some trouble, and then we'll slowly get right with him!"

"That's great! Call Drum Shang Sao Shi Qian and the golden retriever Duan Jingzhu to have a walk together!"

Song Jiang had a candidate in mind.

"There are also Zhang Qing and Sun Xin, who pretend to be tree fellers and food delivery women, and sneak into the shipbuilding chores..." Wu Yong perfected the strategy again.

Everyone immediately took the order and went down the mountain to go undercover.

…

Hundreds of civilians were captured to build the ship, and it was a mess.

The policemen didn't remember their names and faces, they just beat everyone to speed up the progress.

Zhang Qing and Sun Xin grabbed a piece of wood and blended into the crowd and entered the shipbuilding workshop smoothly.

Sister-in-law Gu and Erniang Sun also changed into sloppy clothes, carried two or three earthen pots, and infiltrated into the camp.

At the second watch that night, Zhang Qing and Sun Xin used fire starters to light two carts of sawdust and pushed them forward, spreading the fire all over the place.

The two women on the other side, who had finished cooking long ago, also took advantage of everyone's rest to sneak out and light firewood and charcoal, echoing their husband-in-law.

Just like those ordinary people, even if the corvee is heavy, they dare not leave anything to ignite the fire. Only the rebels in Liangshan have such thoughts.

The flames spread wantonly and soon ignited the huts where the craftsmen and civilians lived. For a moment, everyone did not want to put out the fire, they all climbed over the fence and ran for their lives.

"The shipyard is in trouble!"...

Gao Qiu woke up after shouting for help. He quickly got up and directed his soldiers to put out the fire.

"Report! Commander, there's a fire on the tower!" A spy came to report.

"It seems that the thieves are going to attack the city, so the tower must not be damaged! Follow me to put out the fire!"

After hearing this, Gao Qiu immediately became anxious, mounted his horse and led all the soldiers to the direction of the city tower.

After walking a few steps, another spy came to report, "There is a fire in the west grassland!"

As a last resort, they dispersed some of their troops and rushed to the west of the city.

These two fires were originally set by Shi Qian and Duan Jingzhu.

In order to get a share of the credit, they each chose a place to set fire to, so that they could cooperate inside and outside.

By the time the three fires were extinguished, it was already dawn.

After suffering a loss this time, Gao Qiu finally had the foresight and sent extra manpower to be on guard to carry out the shipbuilding project to the end.

…

In the blink of an eye, winter is approaching.

But God is kind to me. It is a warm winter this year.

Gao Qiu was secretly happy and speeded up naval training to prepare for war.

Until late winter, the imperial court mobilized all its troops and headed towards Liangshanbo to kill.

On the lead boat, the Great Loach, hung two big red flags with fourteen large golden characters embroidered on them: "To stir up the sea and turn the rivers into huge waves, to stabilize the country and extinguish the flood demons."

The large characters sparkle in the sun, dazzling people's eyes, adding an inexplicable intimidation.

"Anbang established the country and destroyed the flood demon..."

"It's a pity that Chao Gai, the king of Hong Tian, ​​has died a long time ago. What kind of Hong demon is there to be destroyed?"

Yu Daoxian was the infantry leader, so he naturally panicked when the navy was fighting.

With his eyesight, he naturally saw the words on the loach boat early, and he couldn't help but express his feelings.

But on the Songjiang side, the three heroes of the Ruan family, including Jiao Tongwei who came out of the cave, Tongmeng the mirage, Li Jun the river dragon, Zhang Shun, the boat fire boy, and other sailor leaders, got in one by one under the cold weather.

into the water.

On the other hand, the soldiers of the imperial court did not dare to "winter swim" during this solar term.

The people who entered the water had no opponents and were allowed to move freely. Immediately, each of them held a long iron chisel and dug several holes into the bottom of the Loach boat.

"No, the bottom of the boat is leaking! Move quickly!"

The officers and soldiers on the Great Loach moved to the deck one after another.

Gao Qiu climbed up and down and came to the side of the boat, calling for help from the rear boat.

"Lieutenant, I'm here to save you!"

At this moment, a man emerged from the water. His hair covered his face, so he couldn't tell who he was. He only expressed his loyalty.

"Who are you……"

When Gao Qiu saw someone coming to rescue him, he couldn't help but get closer.

But the man suddenly got angry, grabbed the scarf on his head with one hand and his belt with the other, and threw him into the water with a splash.

"What a great boatman Zhang Shun! Now he has made a great contribution!"

Others didn't know who held Gao Qiu, but Yu Daoxian, who was looking out from the top of the mountain, saw it clearly.

Zhang Shun escorted Gao Qiu by water and returned to the village smoothly.

After losing their commander, and the main battle generals losing their lives one by one, the imperial army no longer had any will to fight, and they all begged for mercy.

Song Jiang quickly sent an order to Dai Zong, asking him to rush to various battlefields and not to kill too many soldiers, which caused the lives of many soldiers.

And all the subordinates including Wen Wen and the singing and dancing girls on the sea loach were kidnapped and taken to Liangshan.
Chapter completed!