Song Jiang was very unhappy after hearing what Dai Zong said, and then asked: "Did he ever say who was attacking Ximen?"
Dai Zong shook his head and said: "He just said that we should withdraw from the east gate first, and don't continue to fight to the death."
Song Jiang seemed to have noticed something in his heart. Two fierce lights suddenly flashed in one of his eyes, and he suddenly thought of Shi Jin's words and behavior at the banquet.
"Brother Gongming, I plan to take action tonight, but I don't have enough troops right now, so I still need my brother's help," Shi Jin said.
"I am most familiar with Yuncheng County, and I am most familiar with the city's defenses. There were only a few thousand people here at the beginning. I expected that they would not dare to intervene in Sanzhuang's affairs. Now that my brothers have defeated the reinforcements, The officers and soldiers in the city will definitely defend it. As the saying goes, don’t fight when a cornered beast is trapped, and don’t chase after a poor enemy. I don’t think the city is easy to fight, so I’m afraid it won’t be good for my brother to leave here,” Song Jiang replied.
"In this case, I also promised to avenge Hujiazhuang. Yuncheng County must be attacked. I hope brother Gongming can help me."
"You were the one who did the hard work in the previous battles. This time, leave it to me. My brothers are already gearing up for a big fight."
"Brothers, can you bear it when officers and soldiers massacre villages?"
"cannot,"
"Avenging blood and hatred, conquering Yuncheng, who will come with me?"
"I'll go," Li Kui led everyone to stand up and shouted.
Song Jiang secretly turned his eyes and took a look at Shi Jin's face. He saw that the pretty face was no longer as calm as usual, but instead felt a little overwhelmed and slightly panicked. Song Jiang raised his wine glass and said in a loud voice: "First victory in battle." Success," while watching Shi Jin hesitate for a moment, pick up the wine glass, raise the glass together with the generals sitting there, and say in agreement: "The battle is successful,"
The shock on Shi Jin's face, even now Song Jiang is sitting in this old house under the oil lamp, he still clearly remembers that at that time, Song Jiang only thought that he had grabbed the advantage of siege, which made Shi Jin feel a sense of loss. , Unexpectedly, all of this fell into Shi Jin's trap. He first said that he wanted to go, and then repeatedly persuaded me not to go. This was obviously his "play hard to get" plan. Unexpectedly, I was so eager to make a contribution that I let him go. He took advantage of the loophole again. His subsequent persuasion was no longer persuasion at all, but an attempt to provoke me. He had long expected that the city was not peaceful and that there were so many military and horse agencies in the city. Yes, he He wanted to attack the city, but what he needed was not my help, but that I should rush forward and die, using my brother as bait so that he could reap the benefits.
This is why he led his troops to the city in less than an hour. This was originally planned by him. When he entered the city, he asked my troops to throw away the east city gate that had been taken down and escape. But he sent troops to attack the east city gate. This is obviously to monopolize the battle achievements and leave no credit to my brothers and me. Shi Jin, you are so cruel-hearted. I didn't expect that you would take advantage of me again today.
When Song Jiang thought of this, he gritted his teeth angrily, and immediately slapped the table hard, causing Dai Zongsheng beside him to jump: "Brother,,"
Song Jiang came back to his senses, made up his mind, and said: "Since he asked you to withdraw, how come you are still in this situation?"
Dai Zong sighed and said: "How can we just throw away the city that our brothers finally conquered? What's more important is that all the brothers can't worry about you, big brother. If I don't see you evacuate safely with my own eyes, we won't do it." We wanted to retreat, so we unanimously disobeyed orders and went to the east city to fight, looking for the big brother all the way, but we didn’t expect to fall into the trap of those officers and soldiers on the way..." As he said this, his voice became deeper and deeper.
Song Jiang's heart skipped a beat and he said, "What happened next?"
"All...only I and a few brothers escaped, the others were afraid..." Dai Zong said this, lowered his head, sighed and said: "If I had listened to Marshal Shi's words, I wouldn't have It’s such a miserable end,”
Song Jiang was already very sad, but now he felt a little unhappy after hearing these words. He turned his eyes and stared at Dai Zong and asked, "Where are Shi Jin and others now?"
Dai Zong couldn't figure out Song Jiang's expression, so he could only tell the truth: "Smart Marshal Shi saw that the situation was not good and ordered everyone to retreat. I waited in front to cut the door panel and rushed in to escape, and then... But, brother, don't do it. I'm worried that since Marshal Shi escaped with half of his troops, he will definitely regroup and fight back,"
"Fart," Song Jiang finally couldn't help it anymore. He slammed the table and said, "If he died inside, I wouldn't worry about it. But now that he has gone with his troops, what do you want me to do?" Peace of mind,”
Dai Zong saw Song Jiang pacing back and forth on the ground angrily. For a moment, he panicked and quickly came up to persuade him: "Brother, what are you doing..."
Song Jiang glanced at Dai Zong angrily and said, "Shi Jin is a man, you know geometry,"
"I don't know much about it. I only heard about it frequently in the Yamen's bulletin, and it was also spread in the world. The bulletin said that Shi Jin had committed a heinous crime. He was cruel in nature and rebelled. He should not be punished." Although the official bulletin said this Said, but Shi Jin's good reputation was promoted in the world. However, Dai Zong looked at Song Jiang's face and did not dare to say it.
Song Jiang snorted and said: "Don't be fooled. Although people in the world say that he is a lot of good people, but..." Song Jiang paused here and said with anger and slowness: "His character is I know best. Although we are sworn brothers, I, Song Jiang, have always made a clear distinction between public and private affairs and will not show any mercy. As the eldest brother, I know his thoughts best."
After Dai Zong went up the mountain, he only knew that Song Jiang and Chao Gai were in harmony but not in heart. The mountain was divided into two rows, and most of them supported Song Jiang. Naturally, he also supported Song Jiang to replace him and become bigger and stronger. However, Dai Zong never thought that Song Jiang would actually Shi Jin also denounced him as an old enemy.
Song Jiang looked at Dai Zong who was silent and said, "Let me ask you, he told you to withdraw earlier and you went to the east of the city. Did he withdraw?"
"No," Dai Zong said and shook his head.
"Is it you who rush in front, or he who rushes in front?"
"Shi Jin said that my brother was ambushed by officers and soldiers. We were very anxious, so naturally we rushed ahead."
Song Jiang was not happy when he heard this. Instead, he slapped his thigh and said angrily: "Look, look, this is his insidiousness."
Dai Zong lowered his head and said, "My little brother is stupid."
Song Jiang waved his hand and said: "It's not your fault, it's because this guy is too cunning. Don't say that you are no match for him. Even I fell into his trick and brought my brothers into this Yuncheng city full of traps. I, Song Jiang, can't help you." As he said this, Song Jiang suddenly shed two lines of tears.
When Dai Zong saw his elder brother crying, he felt like a knife was cut in his heart. He quickly knelt down and said, "Brother, it's all the younger brothers who are useless."
Song Jiang said with tears in his eyes: "You are useless. This villain is using the method of 'stimulating generals' and 'playing hard to get'. He wants me to bring my brothers to die, but he doesn't want me to come. Now he wants me to come." He wants you to abandon the city and take advantage of your brothers' loyalty to me. He actually wants you to be his human shield and bait."
"This,,," Dai Zong heard what Song Jiang said and thought about it carefully. Brother Song Jiang's words were not unreasonable. He was shocked and said immediately: "Brother, is it possible that this guy is not of the same mind as us?" ,"
"More than just one intention," Song Jiang said through gritted teeth: "He has ulterior motives, like an ant attached to a mutton. If there were no great benefits here, how could he leave the Green Forest Army and take the risk of coming here alone at night?" After saying this, Song Jiang was helped Sitting down, Song Jiang continued: "This is all a conspiracy. It was their plan when Shi Qian came here. Think about it, Shi Qian is a man who is unique in the world of Qinggong. He can fly over walls and walls, and even heard that he is pregnant with 'floating on the water'." ', but such a person was captured alive in Zhujiazhuang, and Yang Xiong, who was traveling with him, Shi Xiu's Qinggong and body skills were not as good as him but escaped instead. Brother, don't you think this is strange,"
Dai Zong thought about it carefully, and it made sense. Even if a person with excellent qinggong couldn't beat him, he would still be able to escape better than those two.
"This is what Shi Jin arranged before, so that he can have a grand reason to come to Liangshan," Song Jiang said here, feeling more and more resentful in his heart.
Dai Zong seemed to have been prompted, and quickly reacted and said: "Could this be a joint effort between Chao Gai and Shi Jin?"
"Would it be possible? It's obvious," Song Jiang said: "Shi Jin came here to rescue Shi Qian, but secretly he wanted to invade Liangshan."
"But why didn't he bring any soldiers?" Dai Zong actually believed Song Jiang's words. At the moment, he was just surprised at Shi Jin's boldness.
"Shi Jin has always been a conceited person, he likes taking risks, and usually likes to be alone, so some of his plots to frame people are unknown to the world, but he came here this time, brought Lin Chong, brought Kui Er, and now he rescued Shi Qian, take a look at these three characters. Lin Chong turned out to be the instructor of the 180,000 Imperial Army. You know this. He is very capable. He is the one man who can stop ten thousand men. But you don’t know that Kui Er, it turns out that he is very capable. He is a tough gangster, good at assassination, with cruel and vicious methods. Shi Qian is unique in his qinggonggong. No one on the rooftop is his opponent, and he is even better at stealing information. With these three people, he is more powerful than those thousands of troops. Well, moreover, he is good at words and can persuade Chao Gai to send troops to him. Look at him now, isn’t he leading the troops of Chao Gai’s tribe? Look at him setting up another camp. His ambition is not obvious enough. Well," Song Jiang said, getting excited and becoming more and more incoherent.
Dai Zong listened one by one and said in shock: "Then he... just wants to disintegrate our power so that he can dominate Liangshan,"
Song Jiang suddenly turned his eyes and looked at Dai Zong and said: "You also understand, this guy just wants to dominate Liangshan. Do you remember what he said at the banquet? He said that he had captured Chang'an and was now recruiting troops to prepare for conquests. ," After saying this, Song Jiang paused, looked at Dai Zong more seriously and said: "Think about it, is it easier for him to kill him from Yongxing Army Road to Bianliang, Tokyo, or from Liangshan to Bianliang?"
"Of course it will be easier for Liangshan to kill him," Dai Zong said.
"That's it. He wants to ambush a surprise army here and fight his way into Bianliang, Tokyo. As long as he cuts off the head of the imperial court, the world will be in chaos and it will be his time to rule the roost alone. No one can stop him. His ambition was over,"
"Even if Bianliang cannot be captured from here in one fell swoop, it will still be enough to pose a threat to the imperial court. At that time, the imperial court must have made a choice and transferred a large number of troops to Tokyo, and they conquered from the east to the west along the Yongxing Military Road.
It’s much easier,” Dai Zong said.
Song Jiang was inspired by Dai Zong and felt that what he just said was a bit absolute. However, Dai Zong's words hit the mark, and he thought a lot more at the moment: "Liangshan is located between Bianliang in Tokyo, Damingfu in Beijing, and Yingtianfu in Nanjing. It is closely connected with these
The important place is not far away. If he leads his troops to attack the east and west in these places, he will definitely gain something."