Tian Hu was furious and said: "What, you think that after my son died, no one will inherit my position from now on. As my younger brother, you can become the King of Jin in the future? Is that right... so you want to stop me?"
Avenge my son?"
Tian Bao was shocked and said: "How dare I have such an idea?"
Tian Hu said angrily: "It's good that you know! Hurry up and gather the army, otherwise I will kill you now."
Tian Bao had no choice but to gather an army.
Soon after, the army was assembled. As Tian Hu's "capital", Weisheng had 30,000 troops stationed. At this moment, these 30,000 people were standing there loosely, talking and laughing, without the slightest order, and the generals in front did not
I thought it was normal.
Although Tian Hu became the "King of Jin" in name and his men became the "Army of Jin", in fact they were still a group of grass bandits. At the beginning, they still had some fighting ability. However, in the past two years, the army has become more and more corrupt.
It was Li Zicheng who became completely corrupt after he came to Beijing.
Tian Hu strode up to the crowd. Although he had lived a corrupt life for two years, he was still a former hero, and he still had an intimidating aura about him.
He stood there, and everyone suddenly became quiet. Tian Hu was very satisfied with this. He took a deep breath, looked down, and said: "Brothers, my son is our crown prince of Jin Dynasty.
He was killed in Puzhou Prefecture, what do you think we should do?"
The soldiers below all had expressionless faces and said nothing. They were enjoying themselves at home before, but no one was happy to be called here. If it weren't for Tian Hu's pressure, not many of them would have come.
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The generals expressed their stance one after another, saying one by one: "Your Majesty, of course you should take revenge."
When Tian Hu heard this and saw that the general was still very obedient to his orders, his mood gradually improved and he said: "Very good, we will send troops to Puzhou Prefecture now! Fire up all the soldiers and horses in Wei Sheng,
Set off towards Puzhou Prefecture!"
Tian Bao was shocked again after hearing Tian Hu's intention to take all 30,000 people away. He thought that Wei Sheng, as the "capital", had to be without defense, but he had been scolded by Tian Hu before. If now
If he made any comments, I'm afraid Tian Hu would really kill him, so he didn't dare to say more.
Over there, Sun An, the "palace commander" appointed by Tian Hu, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, do you think we should leave ten thousand people to defend Weisheng? This is our capital after all, and our relatives are all here.
Is there no defense here?"
Tian Hu was furious and said: "Who do you think will be left behind? Who do you think will attack Weisheng? Those officials in Taiyuan City? In this winter, they are all hiding under the bedding of the beauties, who is willing to come out to fight? Humph!"
Sun An thought about it carefully and felt that what Tian Hu said made sense. The only thing that can threaten Weisheng City now is Taiyuan City and the garrison of Puzhou Prefecture. Puzhou Prefecture is where they are going now, and the troops of Taiyuan City
It is impossible for soldiers to fight in winter. In this era, the imperial court is in a bad state, and the soldiers in the imperial court are also in bad condition. Except for the soldiers and horses in the northwest, the soldiers and horses in other places generally have to pay for several people. On weekdays,
Unless forced, these officers and soldiers will never go out of the city to fight. In this winter, the weather is very cold, and the officials of Taiyuan City will never come out. Or there is a possibility that they will go out to hunt. Let them fight, that is a dream
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At that moment, no one stopped Tian Hu, so Tian Hu led 30,000 soldiers and horses and headed towards Fenyang first. Fenyang was also an important place under Tian Hu's rule, with 20,000 soldiers stationed. Tian Hu immediately ordered the Fenyang defender to ask for help.
The virtuous generals will assemble these twenty thousand soldiers.
An hour had passed before people started to arrive one after another. From morning to afternoon, people were almost there.
But Tian Hu looked at the soldiers and horses below, frowned, and said: "Suoxian, there were 20,000 soldiers in Fenyang, how come there are only 10,000 now?"
This... Suo Xian hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, many brothers have gone back to become rich men and are not willing to continue to follow us."
Over the years, since Tian Hu's uprising, his subordinates have burned, killed and looted, and ransacked the homes of countless wealthy households. Each of these soldiers has become extremely rich. They have occupied the land, courtyards, wives and concubines of the wealthy households, and they no longer want to continue.
When he became a soldier, he naturally quit Tian Hu's team.
Tian Hu gritted his teeth and said: "Damn it, go find them now. If they don't want to come back, behead them all."
Suo Xian was frightened and hurriedly gathered the remaining soldiers who had become rich men. It took two days to gather all the soldiers. At this time, Tian Hu continued to move forward with 50,000 people.
The 50,000 troops have all lived a rich life for several years and have not trained for several years. At this moment, everyone is complaining, and the marching speed is extremely slow, needless to say.
Then he went to Gaizhou and brought 20,000 soldiers and horses from Gaizhou, a total of 70,000 people, with countless generals. Of course, these generals were all the heroes who followed Tian Hu in the past. Among them, the more famous ones are Ma Ling, Wu Neng, Xu
Jin, Zhang Xiong, Xue Shi, et al.
The 70,000-strong army, regardless of the quality of the soldiers, gives the impression that it is vast, like mountains and seas.
With so many troops coming towards Puzhou, Puzhou Prefecture was immediately alerted.
Zhang Yu, the prefect of Puzhou, was shocked. He hurriedly called his general and Puzhou inspector Guan Sheng over and said, "Have you notified Mr. Liu, the salt transport envoy?"
There are 50,000 elite troops stationed in Yanchi, but only the Hedong Salt Transport Envoy can mobilize the Yanchi garrison, but the Puzhou prefect does not have this right.
Guan Sheng said anxiously: "We have been notified...but I'm afraid Master Liu will not send troops."
This time Tian Hu came directly towards Puzhou City. He was not completely clueless. He did not offend Anyi County, where the salt transfer envoy was based, and he did not even dare to let the rebels go to the salt road to cause trouble.
Zhang Yu asked: "What should we do?"
Guan Sheng said: "We can only confine the city. My Puzhou City is tall and it is impossible for them to attack. After a long time, the Tianhu bandits will naturally leave."
Zhang Yu thought that this was the only way, so he locked up the city and let Tian Hu's people yell and scold him outside.
This Puzhou City is also a big city. The city is extremely tall, second only to Taiyuan City. There are also 10,000 troops stationed in Puzhou City. Although Tian Hu has many people, they cannot conquer this city.
After a few days, Tian Hu still hadn't left, but Zhang Yu was so frightened that he summoned Guan Sheng again and asked for his strategy.
Guan Sheng said: "Why don't I go to Tian Hu's military camp and ask why he attacked my Puzhou City?"
Zhang Yu thought for a while and said: "That's fine...General Guan, be careful."
At that moment, Guan Sheng was hung from the city wall and headed towards Tian Hu's military camp. This Guan Sheng was also very famous in the Water Margin, after the famous general Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms. The saying about Guan Sheng in the Water Margin is "the ancestor is the god"
"When Song Jiang heard that Guan Sheng was coming, he actually told his subordinates that he was willing to give up his position as leader to Guan Sheng. Of course, he was just showing off, but this shows that Guan Sheng's lofty status was brought by the aura of his ancestors.
Guan Yu is the most religious figure in history. Since the Jin Dynasty, people began to believe in Guan Yu. By the Tang Dynasty, "incense was burned everywhere in Kyushu", and everyone worshiped Guan Yu. By the Northern Song Dynasty, government offices also
They began to worship Guan Yu, and this custom even spread to later generations. Many police stations in later generations respected Guan Yu. After Song Huizong succeeded to the throne, he believed in Taoism, so he named Guan Yu the "True Lord of Chongning" and worshiped him in Taoist temples all over the world.
Officials all began to believe in Guan Yu, let alone the gangsters. So in Water Margin, when Song Jiang heard that Guan Sheng was coming, he expressed his intention to give up his position to Guan Sheng. This is like today's Europe, when the Pope heard that Jesus' son
When I want to come to church, I have to tell my subordinates that I want to give up my seat to the Son of Jesus.
Now that Tian Hu heard that Guan Sheng was coming, he was also surprised. Although Tian Hu became the "King of Jin", he was still considered a bandit and a gangster, and he often brought his brothers to worship Guan Gong.
Now that Guan Gong's descendant is here, even he must act respectful and polite.
"Please come quickly." Tian Hu said hurriedly.
Guan Sheng entered Tian Hu's military camp and said without any nonsense: "General Tian, I wonder why you attacked my Puzhou City?"
The relationship between Puzhou Prefecture and Tian Hu is relatively "harmonious". When Tian Hu first rebelled, Puzhou Prefecture also surrounded and suppressed Tian Hu many times. However, in the past two years, since Tian Hu became king, Puzhou Prefecture knew that it would be difficult to exterminate Tian Hu.
Tian Hu would have to consume a lot of food and grass to send troops, so he was too lazy to attack Tian Hu. Of course, Tian Hu would not attack Puzhou Prefecture easily. Therefore, Guan Sheng was very puzzled by Tian Hu's rash approach to breaking the situation.
"General Guan, let me ask you, was my son killed by your Puzhou government?" Tian Hu frowned.
"How is this possible?" Guan Sheng was surprised. He had no idea that Tian Hu's son had come to Puzhou, let alone killed Tian Hu's son.
Seeing that Guan Sheng's expression didn't seem to be fake, Tian Hu couldn't help but frown. The two of them said a few words casually, and then Tian Hu sent Guan Sheng out.
After that, Tian Hu still surrounded Puzhou City, while Zhang Yu, Guan Sheng and others in Puzhou City searched everywhere for the murderer of Tian Hu's son.
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Liangshan's army had already arrived at the Yellow River at this time and entered Shanxi from Hukou. Hukou is the most dangerous place in the Yellow River, but it was winter, and the entire Hukou Yellow River section had been frozen. Liangshan soldiers faced the ice from the ice.
Go to the opposite side.
The sky was gloomy, light snow was falling, and the road was very difficult to walk.
Wu Dong, Lin Chong and others were together, and at this moment Dai Zong suddenly came towards them.
"Grand Governor, there's nothing wrong with me following you. Why don't we go to Wei Sheng City to investigate for information? What do you think?" Dai Zong said.
"It's what I asked for." Wu Dong said happily.
Dai Zong has just joined Liangshan and has no specific position yet, so he has not been arranged to investigate intelligence. Now Liangshan also has its own intelligence agents, but it is snowy and the road is too difficult. He has been there for a long time and still has not come back.
Dai Zong wanted to make some contributions and increase his status in Wu Dong's heart, so he volunteered.
At that moment, Dai Zong headed towards Wei Sheng City in the northeast. His speed was extremely fast. For a moment, only his back was left, and after another moment, he disappeared.
"The divine Taibao really deserves his reputation!" Wu Dong secretly praised in his heart.
There are many masters in Liangshan, and some of them are good at light kung fu, but compared with Dai Zong, they are all more than a little behind. Even Cheng Guan, the leader of the twelve stick monks in Shaolin, has strong martial arts and practices the Shaolin Yi Jin Jing magical skill.
His Qinggong is also very different from Dai Zong.
With Dai Zong, Liangshan's intelligence capabilities have indeed been greatly improved.
That night, Dai Zong returned from Weisheng and brought information, saying: "The Governor, Tian Hu's son has died, and now he has brought all the soldiers and horses from Weisheng City and Fenyang City to Puzhou. These two places
It’s all so empty.”
Wu Dong was overjoyed and said: "That's great, we will occupy these two places now."
Hu Sanniang suddenly said: "Wait a minute..."
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The chairman of the committee was changed to the governor, please see Chapter 56 for details.