Fang La sent his personal entourage to Chang'an, and then he was guided to the front line of Shou'an. Shi Jin invited Fang La's personal entourage in, and he was given a seat in the court to enjoy tea. Fang La's envoy did not mention a word about the defeat of the rebel army, but just ignored Turning to two topics, one is that the strategic situation of the Holy Army will be very good in the future, and the other is that the Song Army is already a doomsday dynasty, oppressing the people and doing all kinds of evil. Finally, he came up with a set of theories, "I hope you can cooperate with I, the Holy Lord, cooperate sincerely and join forces with powerful forces to overthrow the Song Dynasty and rule the world together."
Shi Jin nodded, said three good words in a row, and said: "Brothers came from the south. It was a long and tiring journey. A banquet has been prepared here. Let's rest for half a day. I will talk in detail later."
After sending the envoy down to rest, Shi Jin and Wu Yong and others discussed the matter behind closed doors. Shi Jin and others had discussed the matter with Fang La before, and now they have made another decision based on Fang La's situation and the future development of the Green Forest Army. Although cooperation is a good thing in this plan, the principles and policies of the Green Forest Army and Fang La’s Holy Army are fundamentally different. In particular, the church spirit promoted by the Holy Army is inconsistent with the Green Forest Army’s new policy. At present, Fang La is in Hangzhou suffered a big loss, and the situation took a turn for the worse. However, the Green Forest Army was in great glory, and it was impossible to talk about sharing the same position in the world from now on.
Gongsun Sheng also remembered what his master had told him when he came down the mountain, and immediately told him: "My master said that Fang La is at the end of his war effort and must never form an alliance."
Shi Jin respected Gongsun Sheng's master very much, and regarded his words as "clear from the outside" and felt that "it was destined", so he made up his mind. After that, Shi Jin held a banquet for three days and three nights, calling his brothers They had dinner with them one after another, and drank the envoy very much, but talked evasively when talking about business matters. Finally, Shi Jin invited the envoy to the attic, cooked wine with green plums, and talked about the general situation of the world. When talking about the relationship between the Green Forest Army and the rebel army, Shi Jin politely declined the alliance agreement, but proposed a plan to help each other.
Shi Jin wrote back a letter and took it with the envoy, and finally sent it to the envoy as a banquet, and the alliance ended without any problems.
Regarding the alliance, Shi Jin just dealt with it carefully. The Green Forest Army took advantage of the opportunity when the officers and soldiers were busy building warships and had no time to think about it. They immediately deployed the next strategy. After discussing with Wu Yong and others, they secretly sent orders to mobilize troops. Wu Song He left Shouan with his 50,000 men and immediately rushed to Chang'an. He joined forces with Yang Zhi and Lu Zhishen in Zhen'an. A total of 80,000 men attacked the city on the border of Jinzhou. Hu Yanzhuo, Xie Qianqiu and Xu Ning led their six men. Starting from Shouan, ten thousand men marched directly to Yiyang to attack Dengzhou, mobilized Liu Quantian, and Lei Heng's sixty thousand men entered Ruzhou, attacked Liangxian, and put pressure on Henan Prefecture from the side, forming a semi-encirclement situation.
After the strategy was arranged, the troops and horses were mobilized quietly and quietly.
A few days later, when the Green Forest Army was secretly mobilized, the officers and soldiers of Henan Prefecture were about to finish building the ship. Looking at the end of winter, the weather was very warm this year. Lieutenant Gao was secretly happy, thinking that God was secretly helping Ye Chun to build the ship. After everything was done, Lieutenant Gao urged the navy troops to board the boats and practice several times. In a day or two, boats such as the big and small sea loaches were launched one after another. The commander's office in the city recruited about 10 sailors from all over the mountains and five mountains. There are more than 10,000 people. First, half of them are taught to get on the boat and learn to ride a bicycle, and the other half are taught to go to the archery tower and learn to fire crossbows.
However, in more than twenty days, the officers and soldiers' warship drill gradually became complete.
The war emergencies from various places were like snowflakes. The imperial court ordered several times to urge the war, but Gao Qiu stood still despite the pressure, hoping to wait until everything was safe before delivering a fatal blow. However, Xunyang of Jinzhou, Xicheng and Pingli were lost one after another, Dengzhou's Neixiang, Shunyang, and Dengxian were captured by the Green Forest Army, and were about to approach Nanyang City. Liangxian and Longxing in Ruzhou also fell one after another, and Lushan surrendered. The situation made the court very anxious, but it couldn't be stopped even if it wanted to. The defenses of those cities were no match at all. Now that the Green Forest Army had the support of Lingzhen artillery, its attacks became more fierce and faster.
Seeing that the situation was getting worse, the court sent angels twice to supervise the situation day and night.
Gao Qiu was under pressure and had no choice but to lead all the military governors and military chiefs to swear oath outside the city. There were more than 300 large and small loach boats built, all distributed on the water. Ye Chun selected more than a dozen warships and inserted them all over the hull. Flags were sifted, gongs and drums were being sifted, and the sound of clappers could be heard. The waterwheels on both sides moved together. For a moment, under the push of the waterwheels, the ships were flying like wind and lightning. When Captain Gao saw this, he was overjoyed and couldn't help but cheer. Calling: "It looks like a flying warship. How can the bandits intercept it? This battle will be won."
"We must win, we must win, we must win," the officers and soldiers shouted in response.
Gao Qiu then took gold and silver satin and rewarded Ye Chun, and the rest of the craftsmen were given money and sent home.
On that day, Gao Qiu ordered the commander to slaughter black oxen, white horses, fat sheep, fruits, arrange gold, silver, money, paper to offer sacrifices to the water god, and set up the incense table. The generals invited the Taiwei to perform incense. Deep in my heart, I want to capture Xie Qianqiu alive and take revenge. I should mount my horse together with Zhou Ang and all the Jiedu envoys, follow Captain Gao to the side of the ship and dismount, follow Gao Qiu, offer sacrifices to the water god, burn incense and praise, and burn Chu. After all the generals had congratulated him, Gao Qiu ordered all the singers and dancers brought by the capital to board the ship to entertain and serve the banquet. Gao Qiu was not satisfied with this, and even taught Jun Jian to board the ship and fly away in the air. On the water surface, the boats were playing music and music, singing and dancing, and cruised all night long. The river was very lively. Gao Qiu was very happy to see it. He stayed in the boat that night, and the next day, they set up a banquet for drinking. After a three-day feast, the ship refused to sail, and the angel was drunk with Gao Qiu, forgetting his responsibilities.
Suddenly someone reported: "The Green Forest Army rebels wrote a poem and posted it in front of the Tutu Temple outside Henan Fucheng. Someone posted it here."
His poem wrote: When Gang Xian was determined, he led the three armies upstream, and there were thousands of loach boats, all of which came to the city to rest together.
Captain Gao was furious after reading the poem, slapped his thigh, turned over the banquet on the ship, and wanted to raise an army to attack. Gao Qiu said angrily: "If we don't kill all the bandits, I swear I will not return to the army."
Seeing that Gao Qiu was so angry and reckless, Staff Officer Wen quickly remonstrated: "The Taiwei temporarily stopped his thunderous anger because he was afraid of the crazy bandits. It was not a big deal to make vicious threats and threaten him. After calming down for a few days, the water was settled." Army horses, it was not too late to advance at that time. Now that winter is over and the weather is warm, the emperor will be blessed and the marshal will be powerful." Gao Qiu felt a little relieved after hearing this, so he went into the city with his staff and discussed how to dispatch the generals. On the dry road, Zhou Ang was dispatched to lead the army to accompany him, but he was dispatched to Mei Zhan, Kai Zhang, with a total of 10,000 troops and horses. They fought on the road in front of Shouan. Gao Taiwei first taught the troops to advance and intercept them. At this intersection, the rest of the Wen staff, Qiu Yue, Yang Wen, Chang Shi Wang Jin, Navy Commander Ye Chun, and the entourage of General Ya and other military academies, etc., all boarded the ship with Captain Gao to march.
When Staff Wen saw that Gao Qiu liked the big ship and wanted to accompany it, he was afraid of making the same mistake again, so he admonished: "The commander-in-chief can only supervise the cavalry army and march by land. He cannot board the waterway and lead the dangerous territory himself."
Captain Gao waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter. I couldn't figure out the key points the first time and the second time. Is there any weapon on the water? That's why I lost people and horses and broke many ships. Now I have built so many good ships. If I don't
I will personally supervise how to capture this bandit. We are about to fight to the death with the thief, so you don’t need to say anything."
Since Staff Officer Wen arrived under Gao Qiu, he has been quite frustrated and has been treated like a shoestring by Gao Qiu. He didn't know it before, but he didn't know where the pass was until he got here. It was all because his good friend Han Cunbao was forced to surrender to the enemy.
He then heard that the staff had learned to protect themselves wisely and did not dare to speak again, so they had to follow Lieutenant Gao on board the ship. Gao Qiu dispatched thirty large loach boats, led by the pioneer Qiu Yue, and fifty small loach boats to open the way.
He ordered Yang Wen, Chang Shi Wang Jin, and Navy Commander Ye Chun to take charge. They set up two big red embroidered flags on the first boat and wrote a letter with fourteen golden characters: "Change the sea, turn the river and create huge waves, stabilize the country and destroy the flood monster." On the Chinese military ship, it was Mrs. Gao
The lieutenant, accompanied by Staff Officer Wen, led the singing and dancing girls to defend the Chinese army. On the forty or fifty large loach boats, they laid out green oil banners, handsome flags, red top covers, yellow yue and white flags, and Chinese military equipment.
, on the boat behind, Yang Wen was ordered to suppress the battle.
It was mid-January, and the cavalry army was ordered to go ahead. Qiu Yue, the pioneer of the navy army, was on the lead boat. He set off first. Flying clouds and fog rolled in, hoping for longevity. But he saw the sea loach boat: arrow holes in the front and crossbows in the top row.
The building has the shape of a mirage rushing against the waves, and the momentum of a kun whale when moving through the water. It is densely covered with dragon scales, with twenty-four winches lined up on the left and right; the shark's fins are evenly divided, and eighteen kinds of weapons are lined up in the front and back. The cover is made of green cloth and purple bamboo.
Making a cover for the ocean, rushing back and forth like a flying shuttle, turning around and fighting to bully the fast horse.
At that time, Qiu Yue, the vanguard of the navy, mobilized the ships and ordered the small loach boats to be lined up on both sides to block the left and right sides of the fleet, while the large loach boats were arranged in the middle, hoping to advance in Shou'an. All the generals were like crab-eyed cranes.
At the top, I just looked ahead and rushed to the territory of Shou'an. The officers and soldiers in front reported that an unknown ship had appeared. The officers and soldiers on the ship looked from a distance and saw a group of ships coming in the distance. There were only fourteen or five people on each ship.
, all wearing armor, with a leader sitting in the middle, and on the three boats in front were three white flags, with the words: "The waves are white and smooth,"
Qiu Yue looked down from the boat and didn't care. He thought that these guys dared to challenge people just by relying on such a small boat. It was like hitting an egg with an egg against a rock. Qiu Yue waved his command flag and immediately told the fleet to speed up, ignoring the coming people.
After receiving the order, the vanguard troops immediately asked the engine crews at the bottom to go all out and accelerate forward. These big ships suddenly rushed over like tigers descending from the mountain. The huge waves stirred up by the hulls were a little higher than those of the small boats, but Zhang Shun
They smiled and waited, not afraid at all. They expected the boat to be approaching. Before the huge waves rolled and submerged the boat, they shouted together and jumped into the water. The armors were floating lightly on the water. It turned out that from a distance,
The gleaming military uniforms turned out to be made of gold and silver foil.
Just when the officers and soldiers were rushing towards them, Shi Jin and Wu Yong knew the details and made arrangements in advance, waiting for the officers and soldiers' ships to arrive.