The Song Dynasty was better than Liangshan not only in artillery.
The previous war came suddenly, leaving the Song Dynasty unprepared, but this time the Song army came well prepared.
The Imperial City Division of the Great Song Dynasty was not for nothing!
While Song Jiang's army entered Shanzhou to prepare for war, various riots broke out in Liangshan.
This is also one of the important reasons why only a few generals such as Lin Chong, Shi Jin, and Lu Zhishen appeared in Shanzhou.
The states, capitals and counties that were originally peaceful suddenly experienced changes.
Those gentry families that had been wiped out suddenly had some descendants appear out of nowhere, and they had a lot of money in their hands. They recruited street gangsters that even Liangshan looked down upon, and then burned, killed and looted everywhere in the city.
However, because these states were essentially controlled by Liangshan, these changes were quickly suppressed by the Liangshan soldiers who arrived.
But it is easy to destroy, but difficult to deal with the consequences.
Chaos has occurred, and someone must deal with the subsequent events.
Moreover, those rats hiding in the dark also need people to track and catch them. In order to prevent similar riots from happening in various states and counties, it is best to have someone to guard each hub. Therefore, Liangshan’s fighting force in Shanzhou is Much weaker.
However, it was a blessing in disguise. Faced with the bombardment of thousands of cannons, all the Liangshan generals went to Shanzhou. I'm afraid they would just live and die together.
Unless Li Gui goes there personally to take charge.
But Li Gui didn't expect that Song Jiang would have so many cannons now.
According to the intelligence he had obtained before, when he was chasing Tian Hu, Wang Qing and others, he only had a hundred or so cannons.
Lin Chong also had more than a hundred cannons on his side, and coupled with the advantage of defending the city, there was no way he would not be able to resist.
If there is any real disagreement, all he needs to do is send a homing pigeon back, and he can naturally ride the horse spirit to rescue him.
But who would have thought that things in the world are unpredictable, and Lin Chong and the others would die so silently.
Song Jiang had experienced several disastrous defeats in the past and lost countless brothers. Now he learned from the painful experience and suppressed almost all the cards at once, fearing that he would underestimate Li Gui again, let him escape, or even turn defeat into victory.
On the other hand, Li Gui has no awe in his heart since his extraordinary achievements, and he has never even looked at Song Jiang, a loser. He doesn't even bother to kill him, and he despises him so much.
The other heroes on Liangshan Mountain have always looked down on the Song Army. They regarded the Song Army as a country chicken and a dog, thinking that they were vulnerable. Even the big turbans in the court were all drunkards who only knew how to be greedy. Corrupting people and not doing human things at all.
And with the deepening of control over the states under Liangshan's command, the lives of the people in these states and counties have become increasingly better.
No grain tax is collected, no labor is sent, commerce is developed, and there are no landlords to drink blood... The people on the street naturally become better and better, smile more and more, and their clothes become neater and tidier.
And this series of benefits slowly transferred the hearts of ordinary people from the Song Dynasty to Liangshan.
What has emerged is that Liangshan's reputation is getting better and better, more and more people believe in Liangshan's promises, and it is easier and easier to push forward the issuance of government orders. Even those hidden sour scholars are willing to come out and do things.
The heroes in Liangshan are all rough guys. They can't understand things that are too complicated, but they can still understand whether these things that can be seen with the naked eye are good or bad.
Even now, the heroes on Liangshan still don't understand what brother Li Gui did and why he did it. They just followed him because they believed in their brother.
But these tangible benefits made everyone in Liangshan increasingly believe that they were doing the right thing, and that the officials and turbans of the Song Dynasty who were ordered to be killed by Brother Li Gui were not good people.
This kind of contempt is a kind of overlooking from top to bottom, a kind of competition method with different evaluation standards, just like the overlooking of a scholar looking down on a martial artist.
Literary people look at military people, you don’t even know the words, you can’t even write poetry, you have never sung a name outside Donghua Gate, you don’t know how to govern the country and herdsmen, so I am more civilized than you, and I look down on you. you!
But now Liangshan is looking at the officials of the Song Dynasty. You always rob the people of their food, but we don’t collect grain taxes. You always take the people to work, and we don’t send them labor. When I was an official, the people lived better than when you were an official. Then I am better than you and I will look down on you!
And this contempt extended to Song Jiang.
I know you also have cannons. I know you defeated Brother Lin Chong last time with your numbers. I know you wiped out Tian Hu and Wang Qing, two bandits as famous as Liangshan, but I just look down on you!
Especially since Song Jiang had been beaten to pieces by Liangshan many times before, and finally abandoned his brothers who believed in him, and relied on Dai Zongshen's magic to escape his life, this made everyone in Liangshan look down on Song Jiang even more.
If you have the right to be full, you will suffer losses, but if you are modest, you will benefit.
The two sides have very different attitudes towards this war. One side is going all out to complete the battle, while the other side just treats it as an ordinary war. The final result is naturally like this.
Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen and others paid the price with their lives and sent an alarm to Liangshan.
This cost is not small, but in fact it does not have much effect.
Because even if Liangshan knew that Song Jiang's military strength was now strong and he had thousands of artillery pieces, there was no other way. Because Liangshan's production capacity was limited, it was already amazing to produce three or four hundred artillery pieces in such a short period of time, and it was impossible to change it out of thin air. Bring out more artillery.
Faced with such a crisis, Liangshan has only one way to deal with it, and that is - close the door and let Li Gui go!
But at this juncture, Liangshan suddenly received news from down the mountain. There seemed to be something wrong with Song Jiang's camp in Shanzhou. The gunpowder suddenly exploded for some unknown reason.
It is said that the explosion was so shocking that half of the military camp was blown away. The huge explosion sound spread throughout the night and could be heard clearly from miles away.
The fire burned for several hours, until dawn, and then gradually extinguished.
More officers and soldiers died in this big explosion than those who died in the battles in this year, and half of Song Jiang's generals died directly in this big explosion.
Because of this incident, Song Jiang was forced to evacuate Shanzhou with his officers and troops, and returned to Yingtian Mansion to withdraw all kinds of materials previously stored there, and at the same time apply for more support from the court.
At first Liangshan thought it was an accident. On the one hand, they changed the way the gunpowder was stored and stored it in multiple places. On the other hand, they enhanced the fire prevention awareness of the guards to prevent such a tragedy from happening on Liangshan.
Until this day, news came to the hotel at the foot of Liangshan Mountain that a hero named Shi Qian had come to seek refuge, claiming to be the culprit of the explosion in the Song Army camp.
(End of chapter)
