"Brother, where should we fight next?"
Qin Ming looked at Sun Lei with excitement. Qingzhou had been captured, and now he could continue to the east and capture the entire Shandong.
"Don't go anywhere, just here, but you can't be idle, you have to go fight Dizhou and Jeju!"
Sun Lei looked at Qin Ming with a smile and said.
"Yes, brother!"
Qin Ming suddenly had a strange smile on his face, as if all men understood it, but he would never let it go if there was a fight.
"You! You didn't understand what I meant at all."
Sun Lei touched his forehead helplessly and said.
"I understand, brother, isn't he just attracted to that Li Qingzhao? Now it has been spread in the city. Brother, don't worry, you can kiss her and me in the city. I can just go and conquer the city!"
Qin Ming was extremely upright and said whatever he thought. Sun Lei's attentiveness to Li Qingzhao was seen by all the defenders in the city. Now it has spread throughout the city. It is exciting to think about the bandit leader and the married woman.
"Looking for a fight!"
Sun Lei was furious, he was not a bandit who robbed women from good families.
"Brother Qin Ming, you have misunderstood your brother!"
Xiao Jiasui said with a smile.
"What?"
Qin Ming's face was filled with questions.
"These are all my brother's intentions. Now everyone thinks that my brother was fascinated by beauty and fell into the gentle land in Qingzhou and couldn't extricate himself. This is what my brother wants everyone to know."
Xiao Jiasui said.
Qin Ming couldn't understand it at all at this time. What does this mean? Since you like it, just grab it back to the mountain. Is it possible that my brother doesn't like older people?
"The war in Hedong changed. Tian Hu was defeated by Zhongshi Dao. Tian Hu occupied Weisheng, Fenyang, Zhaode, Jinning, Gaizhou, a total of 56 counties in five states, and gathered an army of more than 500,000 . But this guy Tian Hu doesn’t understand anything at all, and he has already lost one state and eleven counties in less than two months.”
Sun Lei said.
"So quickly, the half-million-strong army was defeated so quickly!"
Qin Ming's expression changed drastically. As a military general, Qin Ming knew very well what an army of five hundred thousand was, and the current Forbidden Army of the Song Dynasty only had this number.
"Tian Hu is a guy who was born as an Orion. What do you expect him to do with a group of refugees wearing rags and holding hoes and poles? His opponent is a cultivator!"
Sun Lei looked at Qin Ming and said.
Nowadays, four bandits are on the rise in the world. The one with the richest family fortune is Fang La, followed by Sun Lei, then Wang Qing, and the last one is Tian Hu.
This is related to their respective preparations. Fang La has been preaching in Jiangnan for more than ten years and has been preparing for the rebellion for more than ten years. Whether it is arms or manpower, it is not bad.
Liangshan was prepared relatively late, but Sun Lei had won consecutive battles and supported the battle with war. Everything was ready, but the number of troops was a little behind.
Although Wang Qing was not well prepared, he had the support of local powerful people. Wang Qing was also from the military and knew a lot about the military, so he had some foundation.
Only Tian Hu, who came from a truly grassroots background and had no one to support him, relied entirely on the constant natural disasters in Hedong to encourage the refugees to rebel. Although the momentum was huge, his combat effectiveness was not impressive at all. Against a famous general like Shang Zhongshi Dao It was simply defeated in one blow.
"this……"
Qin Ming had nothing to say. If Tian Hu's 500,000 people were all refugees in rags with hoes and poles, they would really be no match for the elite Western Army. He had heard of the name of the Zhong Family Army.
Qin Ming used to look down on thieves and bandits, thinking that they were just a bunch of rabble, but since he went to Liangshan, he has become accustomed to the elites in Liangshan, and subconsciously thinks that the Jianghu and Shanzhai are all such elites.
"Brother, you are going to Hedong!"
Qin Ming looked at Sun Lei and suddenly felt a little uneasy about conquering cities and territories in Shandong.
"We formed an alliance at the beginning, but now Tian Hu's letter asking for help has come. It would be inappropriate for me not to go, brother."
Sun Lei shook his head helplessly. Tian Hu was really flexible and flexible, and the dignified "King of Jin" actually sent a letter to Liangshanbo asking for help in a low voice.
Everything has advantages and disadvantages. Inciting Fang La, Tian Hu, and Wang Qing to rebel together helped Liang Shanbo share the pressure of expansion. Otherwise, Liang Shanbo would seize cities and territories in Shandong, and the imperial court would use all its strength to encircle and suppress it. No matter how prepared Sun Lei was, he would not dare to say Foolproof.
But not all allies are reliable, Fang La is pretty decent, Wang Qing is a bit unpredictable, and Tian Hu is a bit too crotch-y.
"Brother, isn't it too dangerous to go to Hedong from here?"
Although Qin Ming was reckless, he was still the commander-in-chief of Qingzhou's troops. He still knew how to lead troops. From Shandong to Hedong, there was the entire Hebei in between. How could he provide support?
"I'm going to prepare 10,000 elite troops this time, no problem."
Sun Lei shook his head and said, since the last battle with the Liao soldiers in Cangzhou, Sun Lei has also learned a little about Hebei's soldiers and horses. The Hebei frontier army has not practiced for a long time. The soldiers do not know how to fight and are lazy. They are more like bastards than soldiers. .
There are two reasons for this result. First, after the Chanyuan Alliance, there was no large-scale war between Song and Liao. The border troops had been lax for a long time. In recent years, the Liao army's attention has been on the Jurchens, and the border troops Without the pressure, the army is even more corrupted.
Second, corrupt officials were rampant in the imperial court. The emperor only cared about enjoying himself and ignored political affairs. Most of the border army generals were the nephews and disciples of high-ranking officials in the court. When they came to the frontier army, they lived a gilded life, and their military pay, food, grass, and ordnance were deducted. It was so bad that when the border troops got into the hands, they would be exploited by the superior officials. They had no food, no pay, and no weapons. This made the lower-level border troops complain that they were willing to contribute no matter how hard they were.
This kind of Hebei made Sun Lei very relieved. If the imperial court sent troops to intercept him, he would go directly from Hebei to Cangzhou without any hindrance.
"During this period, you can attack the surrounding state capitals. If you have nothing to do, send something to Li Qingzhao in my name. It won't take long. You won't have to wait until I show up in Hedong."
Sun Lei looked at Qin Ming and said, "Thunderbolt Fire Qin Ming, General Manager Qin is known to everyone in Qingzhou, so he should be able to build up the momentum. Anyway, everyone in Qingzhou now feels that they have been stunned by Li Qingzhao."
"Brother, when are you leaving?"
Huang Xin looked at Sun Lei and asked.
"We'll leave tonight. I'll leave you and Qin Ming here. We can attack the state capital with loud thunder and light rain. You are mainly here to provide cover."
Sun Lei looked at Huang Xin and said, Huang Xin is a smart man. Although he is not good at martial arts, he has a good mind and knows how to assess the situation. The person who survived in Liangshan in the Water Margin was not just lucky.
"Yes, brother!"
Huang Xin raised his fists and saluted Sun Lei.
That night, Sun Lei left quietly with Xiao Jiasui, Tang Bin, Hua Rong, Zhang Qing, Shi Xiu, Hao Siwen and others. The entire Qingzhou Mansion was not the same as before.
"Is this trapping me in Qingzhou?"
Qin Ming was sitting on the official chair in the lobby of the prefect's Yamen, and he seemed to have missed the battle again.
"Benefactor, we are covering for our brother!"
Huang Xin persuaded them that their task was not light. On the one hand, they had to pretend that Sun Lei was still there, and on the other hand, they had to attack the surrounding state capitals to attract attention.
"I'll go to the state capital, and you'll be the prefect here. By the way, remember to give a gift to Li Qingzhao, as my brother ordered."
Qin Ming didn't want to take care of those complicated matters and directly pushed everything to Huang Xin.
(End of chapter)
