After Xuanzan received the order, he came to invite Guan Sheng all night.
When Guan Sheng heard that there was such an opportunity, he thought that his sworn brother Jing Muyan and Hao Siwen had no way to serve the country, so he invited him to come to Tokyo with him.
When the three of them arrived in Tokyo, they went straight to Liang Shicheng's house.
Liang Shicheng was practicing calligraphy in his mansion. Hearing Guan Sheng's arrival, he asked someone to lead him in.
The three of them entered the mansion and saw Liang Shicheng writing there. They did not dare to say anything and just stood there waiting obediently.
After Liang Shicheng finished writing the letter, he put down his pen and looked up. He saw a person in the middle who was eight feet five or six feet tall, with a thin three-willow moustache, two eyebrows entering the temples, a pair of red phoenix eyes, and a face as heavy as a jujube.
Needless to say, the man in the middle is Guan Sheng, who indeed looks like his ancestor Guan Yu.
When the three of them saw Liang Shicheng put down his pen, they hurriedly saluted.
Liang Shicheng was also a talented person. When he saw Guan Sheng's extraordinary appearance, he fell in love with him and asked, "How young is the general?"
Guan Sheng also learned about Liang Shicheng's authority from Xuan Zan's words, and quickly said respectfully: "Two out of thirty young generals."
Liang Shicheng nodded and said: "You have already reached the age of 30, but you have submitted to the subordinates. If you can wipe out the Liangshan grass bandits this time, I guarantee that you will become a seventh-grade general. If you make more achievements in the future, it will not be difficult to restore the glory of your ancestors."
The rank of military attachés in the Northern Song Dynasty was much lower than that of civil servants. Even Gao Qiu, the commander-in-chief, was only called a Taiwei from the rank of second-rank, horse, and infantry officers. In fact, it was a bit too much. They were only commanders of the fifth rank.
The envoy and the commander are also the seventh rank.
Xuan Zan was only from the eighth rank, but when he heard that Guan Sheng would become the seventh rank after his victory, he was filled with envy.
When Guan Sheng heard this, he quickly thanked Liang Shicheng.
Liang Shicheng asked again: "How many troops and horses do you need to wipe out the Liangshan bandits?"
On the way, Guan Sheng and Xuan Zan had carefully inquired about the military and horse generals that the imperial court had used to conquer Liangshan. They also considered how many soldiers and horses they needed. They then said: "The young general heard that the Liangshan bandits were plundering the state capital, and they gathered a lot of troops.
If we want to do our best, I'm afraid we will need at least 15,000 elite soldiers."
Liang Shicheng was not familiar with military affairs. He only knew that the Forbidden Army was called 800,000 people. When he heard that Guan Sheng only wanted 15,000 people, he immediately said: "Okay, I will give Tong Guanxiu a letter. You can take it and ask him to give you the following instructions."
Just mobilize the troops and horses."
Guan Sheng and the others resigned from Liang Shicheng and came to visit Tong Guan with Liang Shicheng's letter.
Tong Guan saw the handwritten letter from Master Liang and did not dare to neglect, so he asked the Privy Council to allocate Jingdong within a time limit. Fifteen thousand elite soldiers from Hebei gathered in Xingren Mansion, and Tokyo also allocated grain and grass to Xingren Mansion.
After Guan Sheng received the document, he and Hao Siwen came to Xingren Mansion to declare praise. When the soldiers and horses gathered, they were divided into three armies. Hao Siwen was the vanguard and Guan Sheng was the general of the central army.
Come to Liangshan to kill.
Seeing that it was still more than forty miles away from Jeju City, we came to a place called Fengwei Slope, with a large forest at the foot of the slope.
Hao Siwen was also a person who had learned eighteen kinds of martial arts since childhood and was familiar with the war manuals, but he had never put them to use. Knowing that the soldiers and horses of Jingdong and Hebei were mobilized at the same time, he could not hide it from the Liangshan spies. After entering the territory of Jeju, he secretly increased his vigilance.
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When they arrived at Fengweipo, Hao Siwen saw that the forest was unusually quiet, so he immediately reined in his troops and sent someone into the forest to check.
Li Kui, Jiao Ting, Xiang Chong, and Li Gun led a thousand regiments of soldiers to ambush in the woods, preparing to intercept the officers and soldiers when they passed by.
Li Kui was already tired of waiting. Seeing Hao Siwen stop his troops and send people to the forest, he said: "The military advisor's plan has been seen through. Let's rush out and kill him for a while."
Hearing this, Jiao Ting hurriedly said: "The military advisor has ordered that if we are seen through, we will withdraw from the forest and they will not be able to catch up."
Li Kui was knocked down several times by Jiao Ting, and he became a little afraid of him. He smiled and said: "If you don't dare to fight even when the officers and soldiers meet each other, I will go back and be laughed at by my brothers. Besides, the King of Heaven promised me to be the vanguard in the first place. I will fight in the first battle."
Nor does it violate military orders."
However, Xiang Chong also wanted to make meritorious deeds and said in support: "What brother Tieniu said is true, but it doesn't work. There are other brothers behind him to help."
"Kill"
Li Kui shouted and rushed out without waiting for Jiao Ting to speak.
When Jiao Ting saw this, he had no choice but to rush out.
Naturally, all the Dough Soldiers followed closely behind.
Hao Siwen had already mobilized archers. Seeing that there was indeed an ambush, he waved his hand and said, "Fire the arrows."
At the command, the archers shot arrows towards the edge of the forest.
Upon seeing this, Xiang Chong and Li Gun hurriedly stepped forward to protect Li Kui and Jiao Ting. Fortunately, the arrows were not close together and the two of them played cards well, but all four leaders were unscathed.
The other team members were basically uninjured.
Hao Siwen was stunned when he saw that almost no one fell under the arrow.
Although thousands of arrows were shot together, and only a few arrows were distributed to each person, the momentum of thousands of arrows fired together was still very shocking, and it was still difficult to block all the arrows.
After two rounds of arrow rain, Li Kui and others suffered almost no casualties, but they were almost rushing to the front.
Seeing this, Hao Siwen quickly shouted: "The archers retreat, and the spearmen come forward."
Seventy-eight percent of the Northern Song Dynasty army consisted of archers, and the rest were spearmen to protect the archers and prevent cavalry from charging.
The front row of officers and soldiers quickly set up a gun array.
Li Kui saw that the officers and soldiers no longer fired arrows, and no longer cared about Xiang Chong who had just protected him, he rushed towards the officers and soldiers' camp.
Seeing Li Kui's ferocious face and stout figure, Hao Siwen couldn't help but laugh and said: "Everyone talks about how great the heroes of Liangshan are, but it turns out that he is just a picky villager like this. Shangguan Ji, you lead an army of 100 horses to attack the flanks of the Liangshan bandits. After breaking through, they will
Go around to the forest to prevent the Liangshan bandits from escaping into the forest again."
Upon hearing this, Shangguan Ji ordered a hundred soldiers and horses to surround the Tuanpai soldiers from the flanks.
When Jiao Ting saw the cavalry rushing towards him, he hurriedly shouted: "Tieniu, the officers and soldiers have cavalry. If we delay any longer, we may not be able to withdraw."
Li Kui, however, acted as if he hadn't heard anything and rushed towards the spearmen in front of him.
"kill"
When the spearmen in the front row saw Li Kui coming, they shouted, and they all raised their spears and stabbed Li Kui.
Li Kui saw four or five spears coming towards him, but he grinned, swiped the ax in his hand, cut off all the spears, and then continued to kill several spearmen.
Seeing Li Kui coming so fiercely, the spearmen in the front row quickly ducked and retreated to the back.
The spearmen in the second row stepped forward and stabbed Li Kui with several more spears.
Li Kui cut off the spears with his axe, and he had already reached the spearmen. He chopped down several of them with his axe, then rushed into the formation and started killing them wantonly.
Later, all the dough soldiers also took the opportunity to rush into the formation and fight.
Hao Siwen did not expect Li Kui to be so ferocious. Seeing that the sergeants could not stop Li Kui, he approached with his horse and stabbed Li Kui with one shot.
Li Kui was about to receive a reward and buy wine for his meritorious service. He was overjoyed when he saw the officers and soldiers approaching, and struck Hao Siwen with his steel spear with an axe. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)