Chapter 138: Holy Fire and Holy Water Come and Cast
Ximen Qing couldn't help but smile after hearing this. Although he didn't know what was going on inside, it sounded interesting. He stretched out his hand to stop the Feitian Great Sage Li Gun who was about to open the cell door and whispered: "Don't open the door yet, listen to what's inside."
doing what."
At this time, the angry voice of Shenhuo General Wei Dingguo came from inside: "How dare you, a defeated general of yours, speak against me!"
"Bah!" The red-haired ghost Liu Tang's voice sounded disdainful: "If your Fire Crow Army hadn't used firearms to attack you, if you were the only one, I would have taken your life with my sword.
You managed to escape with your life, but you still have the nerve to say that I lost to you?"
"Liangshan traitor, if I hadn't taken care of you, would I have missed the road and strayed into Mangdang Mountain?" Wei Dingguo snorted heavily: "I don't know if your gang of grass bandits can come up the mountain. I have to get away as soon as possible.
, I will send you to Lingzhou Mansion to atone for your sins!"
"Hahahaha." Liu Tang laughed loudly: "You and I are tied up so tightly that we can't move, and we are like grass bandits! Let me tell you, there are many capable people in the Liangshan Army, and they may have climbed up the mountain by now!"
Wei Dingguo chuckled and said, "The Mangdang Mountain thieves might see something bad happen and kill you first!"
"If I want to kill you, I'll kill you first!" Liu Tang yelled back without hesitation: "Let me out, at least I can ask for a favor in front of the big boss. As for you, you will die in the hands of anyone!"
After hearing this, Wei Dingguo suddenly fell silent. He gritted his teeth and struggled for a while, gasping for air. How could he escape?
Liu Tang continued to mock: "Aren't you a divine fire general? Why don't you light a fire to burn the rope?"
After a while, Liu Tang suddenly realized in his voice: "It turns out that you, the Divine Fire General, are just a false name and have no ability at all."
"Fart!" Wei Dingguo gasped and couldn't help but cursed: "My armor has been stripped off, what kind of firearms can I use if I am naked? I am not a Taoist priest who can use magic!"
Ximen Qing felt very happy when he heard this, and asked Li Gong to open the cell door. Everyone went in together and saw that Liu Tang and Wei Dingguo were stripped naked and tied tightly to two pillars facing each other.
The red-haired ghost Liu Tang was overjoyed when he saw it and said: "Haha, Wei Dingguo, what else do you have to say?"
The Shenhuo General Wei Dingguo snorted and said, "Just kill me if you have the ability. If you blink your eyes, you are not considered a hero!"
Ximen Qing asked Xiang Chong and Li Gun to untie Liu Tang first, take out his clothes and put them on, and said to Wei Dingguo: "Why did General Wei say this? A man stands upright and will die in death, but he must die in a worthy manner. What do you mean by this? You are generous.
Will you sacrifice yourself?"
Wei Dingguo looked up at the roof and said, "If I fall into your hands, what else can I say? Just give me a break."
Ximen Qing shook his head with a smile and went to untie the rope on Wei Dingguo himself and said: "General Wei, you can die if you want, but after you die, I will let my soldiers sneak into Lingzhou Mansion and spread rumors that you fell into the grass before you died.
What do you think? What will your family think? What will Shan Tinggui, the training envoy of the regiment, think? Where is the governor of Lingzhou?"
"Despicable villain!" Wei Dingguo scolded: "I thought you were gentle and polite, but I didn't expect you to be the same as these bandits, using despicable methods!"
Ximen Qing said seriously: "It is my nature to rob the rich and give to the poor. The general called us grass bandits, but he forgot that the sixteen states of Yanyun have not been recovered yet. The Liao Kingdom, including the Jin Kingdom which was just established two years ago,
He has always been obsessed with me, the Song Dynasty, and is eyeing him with covetous eyes. The general said that his skills were not used in the right way, which makes people sigh with regret!"
Shenhuo General Wei Dingguo always had a heart to be loyal to his emperor and serve the country. He often discussed military affairs with Shengshui General Shan Tinggui. The Song Dynasty had Liao and Jin in the north and Xixia in the west. They fought on multiple fronts and felt stretched. He often lamented the poor employment of the court and the war.
Endlessly.
Now after hearing Ximen Qing's words, Wei Dingguo lowered his head and fell silent, thinking to himself.
Wu Song listened to the side and said: "What my brother said is true, but now that the imperial officials are in power, they only care about making money for themselves. Who cares whether we fight or not?"
Xiang Chong and Li Gun were originally good citizens of nearby counties and counties. If they had not been angered and killed the evil officials, they would not have occupied Mangdang Mountain and Luocao as bandits, so they were thoughtful after hearing this.
The red-haired ghost Liu Tang said carelessly: "General Shenhuo, since you have your heart, why not defect to Liangshan instead of suffering the stigma in the officialdom?"
"Shan Tinggui and I are in this small Lingzhou, what's the use of our skills?" Shenhuo General Wei Dingguo suddenly realized: "The guy in front of me is worried about the country and the people. He must be ambitious, so we might as well follow him."
"If I go to Liangshan to Luocao, there are three conditions."
When Ximen Qing saw Wei Dingguo relenting, he immediately said with great joy: "If you have any conditions, general, you might as well tell me."
Wei Dingguo looked at Ximen Qing and said: "First, I went to Luocao in Liangshan, not with anyone else, but with you; second, my family members are still in Lingzhou; third, I have a very good relationship with Shan Tuan Envoy, if
If he doesn’t go up the mountain, I won’t go either.”
Ximen Qing smiled and said: "These three things are easy to do. I see that you are good at using firearms. I happen to have some ideas to communicate with you. Just follow me. As long as you come forward to persuade me, the single-group trainer will definitely be tempted, but you can train with the single-group
Just take the envoy's family members and go up the mountain together."
When General Wei Dingguo saw that Ximen Qing had answered everything, he turned over and knelt down with great joy. Ximen Qing smiled and helped him up. He first asked Li Gong to get some clothes and told Wei Dingguo to put them on. Only then did they meet each other.
"General Wei has lost his trace, so the training envoy of the single regiment will definitely send manpower to look for him." Ximen Qing analyzed: "I will go with you and persuade the training envoy of the single regiment."
Wei Dingguo said with a look of shame on his face: "General Shenhuo is just a nickname. Mr. Wei is also a low-ranking regiment trainer. Don't call me general again."
"Haha, in time, you may not be able to be a general, why should you be rigid?" Ximen Qing said: "Since you have followed me, then we should treat each other as brothers."
Wei Dingguo nodded in agreement, and everyone came out of the dungeon. Fan Rui restrained the remaining minions and went down the mountain together to meet Chao Gai, the king of the tower.
When Chao Gai saw that Ximen Qing had indeed said that Wei Dingguo had defected to Liangshan, he was overjoyed: "The village has gained another good general. This is the result of a good brother."
Ximen Qing explained the conditions proposed by Wei Dingguo again. Chao Gai nodded and agreed, and the whole army rested on Mangdang Mountain. Ximen Qing, Wu Song, and Shi Qian were still together with Wei Dingguo, the general of Shenhuo, and they started from the blood-blowing soldiers.
I gathered twenty people and came to Qingshui River.
Wei Dingguo's rouge horse was gone. At this moment, a war horse had been replaced. He pointed the way and said: "Twenty miles south of here, there is a wooden bridge. You can cross the river from there."
Wu Song nodded and said: "When I first saw that the original wooden bridge was missing, I never thought that it was demolished by soldiers trained by a single regiment."
"This is an ordinary water attack strategy." Wei Dingguo explained: "Use stones and mud bags to block the water in the upper reaches, so that the water in the lower reaches is smaller, and the enemy can be lured to cross the river. The obstacles can be removed halfway, the water can be released to attack, and the enemy can also be cut off.
The way back.”
Ximen Qingdao: "That's right. It seems that General Shengshui's reputation is not in vain. The training envoy of Shan Tuan sent people to find you and disappeared. He must not dare to return to Lingzhou easily. He must have camped on the other side of Qingshui River and waited for several days.
"
Wei Dingguo nodded and said: "I think so. But I didn't expect that I would come back like this."
As Ximen Qing said, Shan Tinggui, the general of Shengshui, failed to find Wei Dingguo and simply set up camp by the Qingshui River, hoping that Wei Dingguo would find his own way back.
This expedition was in such a hurry that each soldier only had three to five days of dry food. When they got up on the second day, some soldiers were hungry and ran out of dry food. Instead, they went to grab other people's food rations. There were several soldiers in one morning.
During the fight, Shan Tinggui was furious, and each side struck with twenty military sticks.
"Wei Dingguo is nowhere to be seen, and the army rations are not enough. We will have to wait for another day at most. Tomorrow we will have to break camp and return to Lingzhou, and we will have to find some army rations on the way."
Shan Tinggui thought for a while, and was about to give orders to go down, so as to appease the morale of the soldiers, when a soldier reported: "Some nearby villagers heard that the officers and soldiers came to surrender the invaders, and they said they wanted to donate some cattle and sheep to use as military rations."
Shan Tinggui was overjoyed and was worried about military rations when someone came to his door. He was just dozing off and brought pillows to him. He hurriedly brought two soldiers to welcome him out of the camp.
I saw a white-robed gentleman looking at me with a smile in the open space in front of the camp. There were more than 20 people next to him, who must have been servants. There were three or five horses. There were no cattle, sheep, or carts.
food.
Shan Tinggui was suspicious and stepped forward and shouted: "Where did you come from to break into my military camp?"
These people were Ximen Qing and his party. Seeing Shan Tinggui asking questions at this moment, Ximen Qing replied: "We are from a nearby village. We are working hard to suppress the bandits. The food will arrive soon. There is a person here who claims to be with Shan Tinggui."
We are familiar with each other, so I brought along the follower and group trainer to meet him."
Shan Tinggui was confused when he heard that, when he saw a person flashing out from behind Ximen Qing, with his hat pulled very low on his head. Just as he was about to ask, the person pushed his hat up slightly, revealing a familiar face.
"Wei..." Shan Tinggui saw that Shenhuo General Wei Dingguo used this method to meet him. He obviously had a reason to do it, so he hurriedly swallowed the remaining three words of Tuan Lian Shi deeply and winked.
He signaled and said falsely: "Why! You owe me money and you still dare to come see me!"
While saying this, Shan Tinggui stepped forward and grabbed Wei Dingguo unceremoniously: "If you don't see Sanbai Guan today, don't even think about leaving!"
Seeing that Shan Tinggui was a bit quick-witted, Ximen Qing was secretly amused and pretended to persuade him: "We are acquaintances after all. I will pay for him for all the money he owes. It's not easy for old friends to meet each other, but the Tuan Lian envoy didn't invite us to sit in the tent."
What?"
Shan Tinggui put down his hand and nodded: "That's good, please come in!"
The soldiers behind him felt strange why Shan Tinggui was so happy when there were no cattle or sheep. He welcomed Ximen Qing and his party into the camp inexplicably. Ximen Qing pulled Shan Tinggui, Wei Dingguo and others into the tent, and the others
They all guarded the tent door to prevent others from prying into it.
After discussing inside for a while, Shengshui General Shan Tinggui came out and ordered: "Bring out the camp! The entire army returns to Lingzhou!"
"The training envoy of Wei Tuan has not returned yet, why don't you wait for him?"
Faced with the soldier's inquiry, Shan Tinggui rolled his eyes and said, "I'm doing something, do you need to ask me about it?"