Mo Jun wanted to go back to his hometown to arrange his family, but he was unable to go to Beijing with Li Yanqing for the time being. Li Yanqing wrote him a letter of recommendation.

The next morning, Zhou Chun sent two temporary midwife and a maid to Li Yanqing's home. Yang Liang also rushed from Tangbei Township. Everyone cleaned up and set off for the capital.

Li Yanqing fully believed Luan Tingyu's judgment. This massacre of Tangyin County was a careful planning by Song Jiang for Lu Junyi to attack Lu Junyi's prestige in the Liangshan Army. If it was implemented in Weizhou, the impact would be slightly smaller and would not resonate with the Hebei generals in the Liangshan Army. However, it would affect the plan to raid Daming Palace.

In Tangyin, Xiangzhou, the best choice is the time and region. Li Yanqing judged that Wang Ying's massacre of the city and looting in Tangyin was not a hot-headed person, but an action carefully planned by Song Jiang. However, this plan undoubtedly seriously hurt the innocent people in Tangyin County and aroused the deep hatred of Tangyin's children, including Li Yanqing.

Five days later, Li Yanqing and his party arrived in Bianjing.

In front of the Gao Mansion gate, Gao Shen and his wife who had already heard the news and waited at the door finally saw their youngest daughter who had returned safely. The mother and daughter hugged their heads and cried bitterly. Gao Shen walked up to Li Yanqing with red eyes and said, "Gao remembers the great kindness of Li joining the army, and let him repay him!"

Li Yanqing bowed and asked, "But is the son-in-law who sent someone to deliver the letter first?"

"I received a quick message from my son-in-law yesterday and was extremely worried. I didn't sleep all night. Alas! The war report in Hebei has made the court boil over the past two days. In contrast, the atrocities against Tangyin County by the bandits in Liangshan are nothing."

"But the battle in Hebei is not good?"

Gao Shen smiled bitterly, looked at the pedestrians on both sides, and said to Li Yanqing: "This is not a place to talk, let's go to the mansion to talk."

As he said that, he ordered the housekeeper to greet Yang Liang, and he took Li Yanqing to the mansion. Li Yanqing was also very concerned about the situation in Daming Mansion, Hebei, but he had not received any news all the way, and he was really worried.

In the study room, the two people were separated and the host and the host sat down. Gao Shen sighed and said, "The 30,000 army of Liang Zhongshu was defeated, and the 30,000 army was almost destroyed. He only fled back to Daming County with thousands of remaining soldiers. The emperor was very furious and had issued an order to dismiss the Liang Zhongshu."

"What about Daming County? Was it broken by the Liangshan Army?" Li Yanqing asked hurriedly again.

Gao Shen shook his head, "I heard that Daming County received an alarm in advance. Wang Renyi, the magistrate of Daming Prefecture, mobilized the 4,000-box army to guard the city strictly, but the sneak attack of the Liangshan bandits failed."

"Since Daming County has not fallen, why did Liang Zhongshu be defeated?"

Gao Shen sighed, "The Liangshan Army used a catapult to send tens of thousands of orders to the officers and soldiers' camp at night, spreading rumors that Daming Mansion had been attacked by the Liangshan Army. Not only did Liang Zhongshu not avoid the rumors in time, he even believed it himself and ordered the withdrawal of troops overnight. The morale of the army began to be severely chaotic, and a large number of deserters emerged. As a result, the Liangshan Army took advantage of the situation to launch an attack, and the 30,000 troops were defeated. If it were not for Xuzhou magistrate Zhang Shuye, leading thousands of troops to attack Jeju and implementing the strategy of besieging Wei to rescue Zhao, the Liangshan bandits would have already captured Daming Mansion."

"Who will the court decide next to send to suppress the Liangshan bandits?"

"There is no candidate yet, and the debate within the court is very fierce, because the bandits in Fangla in the south are also very serious, which makes the court a little careless. Prime Minister Yu suggested recruiting the bandits in Liangshan and concentrating on fighting the bandits in the south. However, many ministers also believe that recruiting the bandits in Liangshan now will only encourage the bandits and should be severely cracked down on them. I also support the latter, but the officials seem to be inclined to recruit them. I guess the officials have sent people to contact them."

Li Yanqing was silent for a moment, stood up and bowed, "I want to beg the Grand Marshal!"

"How can I say this? Li Zongjun is very kind to my daughter and son-in-law. As long as I can help, I will do my best!"

Li Yanqing said slowly: "If someone recommends Zhong Shidao as the commander to wipe out the Liangshan bandits, please be sure to support him!"

Gao Shen looked at Li Yanqing's resolute expression, and he seemed to understand something?

As Gao Shen said, after annihilated 30,000 officers and soldiers, the Liangshan Army was preparing to take advantage of the victory to capture Daming Prefecture. However, Xuzhou Magistrate Zhang Shuye led a 3,000-box army, pretending to be 10,000 elite troops, and attacked Jeju, one of the foundations of the Liangshan Army, directly threatening the safety of Liangshan. When Song Jiang heard this news, he had to give up his plan to attack Daming Prefecture and withdraw his troops overnight.

Although the plan to attack Daming Prefecture failed again, the Liangshan Army still won a huge victory in the Bozhou Battle and won countless armor, baggage and food. Song Jiang took the opportunity to expand his army, so that the Liangshan Army's strength could be rapidly increased to 80,000, and Song Jiang's personal prestige also reached.

At this time, Song Jiang no longer continued to expand his territory. He needed to integrate the internal situation and completely establish his absolute authority in the Liangshan Army.

Xucheng County, Yunzhou, is the prefecture of Yunzhou, and it is also the ruling center established by the Liangshan Army after the Liangshan Army went down the mountain. It is the capital of Song Jiang. In order to get rid of Chao Gai's influence, Song Jiang had transferred the foundation of the Liangshan Army from Liangshan to Xucheng, and called himself Yungong. He built the Zhongyi Mansion covering an area of ​​about 200 acres in Xucheng County as the military yamen of the Liangshan Army.

In the past two days, an infuriating news spread among the leaders of the Liangshan Army. Lu Junyi betrayed his purpose of acting on behalf of heaven in Xiangzhou and openly slaughtered the city and plundered the people's wealth.

The way of heaven is to lose more than enough, and to practice the way for heaven is to rob the rich and help the poor and attack corrupt officials. This has always been the purpose of gathering righteousness in Liangshan. Therefore, when the Liangshan army attacked cities and plundered villages, it is never allowed to massacre the city. It usually suppresses corrupt officials and gentry, seizes their money, and does not violate the poor people.

However, Lu Junyi's massacre of the city and looting undoubtedly violated the Liangshan Army's purpose of rebellion, which made many generals angry. However, under the pressure of Song Jiang's request for unity, this matter did not expand or openly become, but dissatisfaction was surging in the dark.

At noon that day, military advisor Wu Yong found Lu Junyi. Although Lu Junyi was in a public opinion storm, he was still very calm and calmly treated all kinds of dissatisfied eyes and accusations.

"I'm disturbing the second village leader to rest!" Wu Yong walked into the room and bowed and smiled.

Lu Junyi was reading a book. When he saw Wu Yong coming in, he put down the book and stood up and smiled and said, "Where is the military advisor, please sit down."

Wu Yong sat down with a smile, and Lu Junyi asked Yan Qing to serve tea again. "Some criticism has occurred recently against the second village leader, and the Song village leader expressed deep regret!" Wu Yong pondered for a moment and said his purpose straightforwardly.

Lu Junyi smiled faintly, "I am the head of the Northern Expedition Army. The army has committed massacre and looting. I have some responsibility, but I believe that the leader of the Song village has investigated the whole story."

Wu Yong sighed, "The Song village master asked Wang Ying, and he also admitted that it was difficult to control the army after the attack on the city. He was originally to attack corrupt officials of the wealthy families. Unexpectedly, the soldiers did not grasp the right measure when arresting the gentry and county magistrates, and accidentally injured some people. Wang Ying had already confessed to the village master, and the village master decided to demote him to the throne. Although the second village master was not responsible for this matter, the incident happened after all. If there was no expression, I was afraid that the brothers below would not accept it!"

Wu Yong's implication is that Song Jiang admitted that the responsibility is on Wang Ying and has dealt with Wang Ying, but as the main general, Lu Junyi cannot stay out of the matter and must bear the corresponding responsibility.

Lu Junyi knew it well, and he didn't expose it, so he smiled and asked, "Then how should the Master Song decide to punish me?"

"It's hard for the Master Song to deal with it! Let me discuss with the Master the second master to see what methods will not hurt the brothers' affection nor will it go against the purpose of Liangshan."

Speaking of this, Wu Yong looked at Lu Junyi with a consultation. Lu Junyi sneered in his heart: "Since Wang Ying, the person involved, has been severely punished, how can I stay out of the matter? Let me be demoted to the commander-in-chief, and then inform the entire army to let everyone take it as a warning. What does the military advisor think?"

Wu Yong was secretly happy and still said hypocritically: "This is not good! Notifying the entire army will damage the prestige of the second village leader."

Lu Junyi shook his head, "If Liangshan wants to accomplish great things, of course, it must be fair and strict. The military discipline is as good as a mountain. Even if I am the leader of the Song village, it is no exception. This is my official statement. I will write a letter of self-blame and admit my mistakes to the soldiers of the three armies."

Wu Yong said for a while: "It's enough to have a notice. The second village leader should not write any self-blame letters."

"no!"

Lu Junyi insisted on the railway line: "Since the main village is doing business, how can I let General Wang be wronged and blamed? This matter must be made public and everyone knows what happened. I have decided on this matter, so Military Secretary Wu will not persuade him again."

Lu Junyi's tone was full of danger. He was just waiting for a moment. If you Song Jiang is not kind, don't blame me Lu Junyi for disregarding the overall situation and making the matter public completely so that everyone can see who is planning behind the scenes?
Chapter completed!