Time flies, and Chao Yong’s first New Year in the Northern Song Dynasty has passed before he knows it. Compared with later generations, the New Year atmosphere in the Northern Song Dynasty is more intense. On New Year’s Eve, the mountains are decorated with lanterns and colorful lights, which is full of New Year flavor.
Nowadays, Liangshan can be said to have sufficient military supplies, and Chao Gai is not stingy. He rewards each person with three guan of money and takes ten days off to celebrate the new year.
As soon as the tenth day passed, Liangshan mobilized its horses and troops again to prepare for another attack by the officers and soldiers.
On this day, when Chao Yong was gathering his soldiers to start training, he saw Shi Qian, who had been down the mountain for many days, coming up. He came up to him and said, "What's going on? Have you figured out everything?"
Shi Qian cupped his fists and said: "We have basically figured it out. There are always more than a dozen groups in Luocao in Qingzhou, but the most powerful ones are Qingfeng Mountain, Taohua Mountain, and Baihu Mountain. Among them, the three leaders led by Qingfeng Mountain, Jinmaohu Yanshun,
Wang Ying, the short-footed tiger, and Zheng Tianshou, the white-faced man, both have some martial arts skills and have gathered five or six hundred men, so the thieves and soldiers cannot capture him. The two leaders of Taohuashan are the tiger general Li Zhong and the little overlord Zhou Tong.
There are three to four hundred minions, but the terrain of Taohua Mountain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so the government cannot capture them. The power of Baihu Mountain is not weaker than that of Taohua Mountain, but unfortunately it is not as terrain as Taohua Mountain, so the captured officers and soldiers were killed
They were wiped out. Huang Xin, the commander of the Qingzhou Army and Horses Command, even called himself Three Mountains for this reason, but he couldn't do anything about Qingfeng Mountain and Taohua Mountain."
When Chao Yong heard that there was no Erlong Mountain among the three evil mountains in Qingzhou, he couldn't help but wonder: "Where is the Erlong Mountain?"
Shi Qian said: "There is Erlong Mountain in Huazhou on the East and West Road of Beijing. The leaders are Lu Zhishen, the flower monk, and Yang Zhi, the green-faced beast who was previously robbed of his birth certificate by the village owner in Huangnigang. But both of them have thousands of things.
Husbands are not brave enough, so the officers and soldiers in Huazhou who are hunting thieves dare not provoke them."
Chao Yong nodded, saying it this way, it is more reasonable. Zhensanshan must have some merits before it can be called Zhensanshan. Otherwise, the three evil mountains are helpless. If you call it such a nickname, people will laugh at you.
It is impossible for Lu Zhishen to take a detour of hundreds of miles from Wutai Mountain to Tokyo to go to Qingzhou to get a pass at Taohua Mountain. Later, Lu Zhishen asked Sun Erniang on the cross slope of Mengzhou where he could stay in Erlong Mountain. Obviously Erlong Mountain is not far away from Mengzhou.
It would be too far, at least not thousands of miles away.
Yang Zhi went south from Huangnigang to Mount Erlong, but Qingzhou was in the northeast of Liangshan. Obviously, Mount Erlong that Yang Zhi went to was not in Qingzhou, but between Mengzhou and Jeju.
"What is the reputation of those Qingzhou Luocao strong men?"
"They have a notorious reputation. They usually only rob homes and homes, but also rob people's wives and daughters from time to time. Therefore, the people of Qingzhou hate and fear them. The little bully Zhou Tong is even more evil. He just forcibly married a citizen a few days ago.
If a woman is the wife of a stronghold, those who don’t know may think it’s the young master of the stronghold.”
Chao Yong nodded and said: "I heard before that Zhou Tong has ruined my reputation. We are not only going to kill corrupt officials and evil gentry in order to do justice for heaven, we are also targeting these green forest scum to prevent them from harming the people. Is there any news about Song Jiang?"
"According to your instructions, I sent someone to Cangzhou. After Song Jiang escaped from Yuncheng, he indeed hid in Chaida Guanren Village in Cangzhou for several months. But he left a few years ago, probably only in Chaida.
The officials know about it, but the people I sent couldn’t find out.”
Chao Yong smiled and said: "He must have gone to Qingzhou. Well, tonight you come to my place to get money, and give five guan to each of the brothers who are working on this matter."
Shi Qian said hurriedly: "We are just gathering information for the village, how dare we ask the young village master for reward."
Chao Yong smiled and said: "This is my private matter. It's best not to let everyone in the village know, especially if they ask about Song Jiang. The money will be used to treat my brothers to a bar."
Although Shi Qian was a little confused, after seeing Chao Yong's serious instructions, he hurriedly said: "Don't worry, young village master, I will make them keep their mouths shut when I go back."
Chao Yong patted Shi Qian on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I brought you up the mountain. You are different from others. You just call me Brother Yong. If you do your intelligence work well, Shi Qian's name will become famous all over the world sooner or later."
When Shi Qian heard this, he immediately said excitedly: "Brother Yong, don't worry, from now on, Shi Qian will be Brother Yong's eyes and ears."
In Shi Qian's view, Chao Yong's words are now true, and they all come true. As long as he, the former Liang Shang gentleman, can be famous all over the world, it is worth selling his life to Brother Yong.
When Chao Yong was having dinner with Chao Gai that night, he said: "Dad, I heard that there is a bandit Zhou Tong in Qingzhou who takes my name, forcibly marries women of the people, and does all kinds of evil. I want to go to Qingzhou and kill this man.
Do justice for heaven."
When Chao Gai heard this, he couldn't help but put the bowls and chopsticks on the table, and said angrily: "I have long heard that Qingzhou Green Forest was robbing houses and endangering the people. I didn't expect someone to dare to ruin the reputation of our Chao family. I will invite all the leaders to gather tomorrow.
The leader led the troops to eradicate these green forest scum."
Chao Yong said hurriedly: "Liangshan and Qingzhou are hundreds of miles apart. If we send a large army of soldiers and horses there, I'm afraid the imperial court will be alarmed. There are also forbidden troops stationed in Qingzhou. I'm afraid that when our Liangshan troops arrive in Qingzhou, they will have to fight the Qingzhou forbidden troops first."
Why don't I go there with a hundred of my own soldiers? My soldiers are all elites from the village and have been trained for a long time. They should be able to defeat the Qingzhou grass bandits."
Chao Gai nodded and said: "Your one hundred soldiers have a good foundation and have spent a lot of money and food to support them. It's time to go to the battlefield and have a look. If they don't go to Qingzhou, they will be local snakes. You must be careful in everything and don't be reckless.
Otherwise, you will be trapped in Qingzhou and make people laugh. However, none of your soldiers can take charge alone, so please invite another leader to go with you to make sure everything is safe."
Hearing this, Hu Sanniang put down her bowls and chopsticks and said with a smile, "Father, how about I go with him?"
Chao Gai shook his head and said: "No, it's a bit dangerous to go here. Yong'er is trapped in Qingzhou alone. With my reputation in Liangshan, they don't dare to embarrass Yong'er too much. If your daughter's family is trapped, I'm afraid there will be others.
Branches."
Mrs. He saw her husband and son discussing important matters. Although she was worried that her son was in danger, she did not say anything. However, when Hu Sanniang interrupted, she couldn't help but said: "Your father-in-law is right. Besides, you have been married for two months, and you may be pregnant.
Then stop wielding swords and guns."
When Hu Sanniang heard that she was pregnant, she couldn't help but blush, and said quickly: "My mother taught me a lesson, and Sanniang has remembered it."
Although Chao Yong was a little dissatisfied with his mother's teachings, he couldn't refute it. He could only touch Sanniang's hand under the table and said: "Teacher Lin has a steady temperament, so I asked him to go with me. What do you think, dad?"
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Chao Gai nodded and said: "I feel relieved that Coach Lin will go with you. If you win, you will not kill indiscriminately, just kill the culprit. Although I, Liangshan, am now doing justice for heaven, I was still considered half of the green forest before."
You middlemen, please don’t let people think that after I, the Chao family, gained power, we would kill our comrades indiscriminately.”
"Dad, don't worry, the child knows."
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