Now let’s talk about deputy pioneer Lu Junyi’s capture of Huzhou.
It is said that after Lu Junyi led his troops to recapture Xuanzhou, he immediately reported the victory and attacked Zhang. Zhang Zhaofeng heard the report and moved forward with Governor Liu and General Geng to take over the defense, reward the troops and comfort the troops, and protect the country and the people.
After the troops were rewarded and comforted, Lu Junyi, the deputy vanguard, said goodbye to Zhang Zhao and led his troops to leave Xuanzhou, heading towards Huzhou. On the way, the troops were divided into two groups. One group was led by Lu Junyi to capture Huzhou; the other group was led by Leopard Head Lin Chong to capture Dusong Pass.
Lu Junyi captured Huzhou without any danger, and after a hard battle, he won it in one fell swoop. Lin Chong, the leopard head, was blocked when he led his army to capture Dusong Pass.
After Lu Junyi heard the report, he brought more troops and horses and rushed to Dusong Pass to help Lin Chong.
Before coming to Dusongguan to help Lin Chong, Lu Junyi called Yan Qing. Lu Junyi said to Yan Qing: "Xiao Yi, Coach Lin's capture of Dusong Pass has been blocked. Now, I have led the generals to assist Coach Lin. You go to Song Xianfeng and report the battle situation here to Song Xianfeng, and wait for our army to take it. After descending from Dusong Pass, we rushed to the outside of Hangzhou City, met with the Song Pioneers, and united our forces to capture Hangzhou."
Yan Qing said: "According to the master's order, Xiao Yi will go to Song Pioneer to report the military situation. However, after Xiao Yi leaves, the master must be careful during the expedition to avoid Xiao Yi worrying about it."
Lu Junyi said: "I know your heart. Just go and I will be careful."
Yan Qing then bid farewell to Lu Junyi and went to Song Xianfeng Gongming's office to report the war situation. Lu Junyi also led his troops to Dusong Pass to help Lin Chong.
At this moment, Lin Chong was leading the generals to fight against Dusong Pass.
Dusong Pass is a natural and dangerous pass, with high mountains and ridges on both sides, and only a small path in the middle leading to the pass. As the saying goes, "One man can guard the pass, but ten thousand men cannot open it." It is really easy to defend but difficult to attack.
At that time, Lin Chong, the leopard leader, and Lu Junyi, the deputy vanguard, divided their forces to attack Dusong Ridge. After arriving at the foot of Dusong Ridge, they saw that this pass was dangerous. In order to ensure that Dusong Pass is not lost and does not endanger the city defense of Hangzhou, Fang La State has sent four generals, Li Tianyou, Zhang Jian, Zhang Tao, and Yao Yi, to Dusong Pass to assist Wu Sheng, Jiang Yin, and Wei Ting in guarding it. close.
Therefore, Lin Chong's attack on Dusong Pass was even more strenuous.
Lin Chong was a brave general in Shuibo Liangshan. There is a saying among the people that "Lin Chong is on horseback, Wu Song is on horseback", which shows his bravery.
Lin Chong was brave enough to lead his army to Dusong Pass and attack with all his strength. Jiang Yin and Li Tianyou saw the Song army attacking the key point, so they led their troops to stop it. During the strong attack, Lin Chong stabbed the southern guard Jiang Yin with a spear. Lin Chong defeated Lu Fang and succeeded in a sneak attack, stabbing Li Tianyou to death with a halberd.
The southern soldiers could not resist and retreated to close the door.
After passing the gate, Wu Sheng and others saw that Liangshan's troops and horses were strong and powerful, so they fired a burst of arrows at random. Although Lin Chong and other generals were blocked, they did not dare to come down the mountain to fight, so they just stood firm.
Lin Chong repeatedly attacked Dusong Pass but failed to break through.
After Lu Xianfeng Junyi captured Huzhou, he led his troops to assist Lin Chong and arrived at Dusong Pass. Seeing that the mountain road was steep, he sent Ou Peng, Deng Fei, Li Zhong and Zhou Tong up the mountain to explore the road. Ou Peng, Deng Fei, Li Zhong, and Zhou Tong received the order and sneaked to the pass, but were discovered by the general guarding the pass.
In the Southern Army, Li Tianyou had a younger brother named Li Tianrun. Because his brother was stabbed to death by Lu Fang's halberd, he was furious and wanted revenge. Suddenly he got revenge, saying that Liangshan people came to explore the road.
After Li Tianrun heard this, he was furious and thought, I was just about to seek revenge from you, but you came to seek your own death. I will avenge my brother! Immediately, Li Tianrun led more than 500 soldiers and rushed down the mountain. We are waiting for Ou Peng, Deng Fei, Li Zhong and Zhou Tong to go up to the pass to explore the way.
Li Tianrun rushed over first and shouted: "Hey! Liangshan bandits! Who asked you to wait to visit our mountain road?!" As he spoke, he had already rushed to the four of them.
Zhou Tong raised his head and said, "What's going on? My brother asked us to explore the road. What do you want?! Don't let us explore?"
As soon as Zhou Tinghua finished speaking, Nali Tianrun rushed forward and slashed with a rounded knife. When Zhou Tong hid in a hurry, the knife had already struck Zhou Tong's neck. There was only a "click" sound, and Zhou Tong's head flew to the ground and rolled into the weeds.
When Li Zhong, the general who fought against the tiger, saw this, he jumped up in fright. Just as he said "Ah!", he was also poked in the butt by the opponent's soldier. "Ahhhhh!" Tiger Fighter Li Zhong shouted, enduring the pain and ran away.
When Ou Peng and Deng Fei saw this, they panicked and ran away.
Li Tianrun shouted: "Chase!" Immediately, Li Tianrun led his soldiers to give chase.
After learning that Ou Peng, Deng Fei, Li Zhong, and Zhou Tong failed to explore the road, Zhou Tong was beheaded, and Li Zhong was shot in the buttocks, Lu Junyi urgently ordered Dong Ping to lead his troops to rescue. Dong Ping received the order and quickly led a thousand troops to rescue Ou Peng, Deng Fei, Li Zhong and others.
When Li Tianrun saw the Song army coming to rescue Ou Peng and others, he stopped chasing and retreated behind closed doors.
If Dong Ping's rescue was delayed, Ou Peng, Deng Fei, and Li Zhong would probably have lost their lives.
Dong Ping, the two-gun general who returned to the camp, asked Li Tianrun to withdraw and close the door because he went to the rescue and failed to fight. He was anxious and decided to go to the pass to fight. Seeing this, the other generals hurriedly advised Dong Ping: "General Dong, please be patient and wait for the deputy vanguard brother to figure out the situation and make his own arrangements. By then, it will not be too late to start fighting."
Dong Ping couldn't hear it, so he ignored the dissuasion of other generals, reined up his horse and came to the pass, pointed at the pass, cursed the traitor general, and shouted: "Listen, Southern barbarians, your Dong family grandfather is here, he has the ability." Come to Xiaguan to fight with your Grandpa Dong!"
The Confederate Army didn't care whether you were grandpa or not, and they didn't answer. They just shot them down with a sudden burst of artillery fire. Dong Ping saw it and hid in a hurry. Unexpectedly, his left arm was injured by the artillery fire. Dong Ping fled back to the stronghold in pain, bandaged a little, and felt even more angry. He wanted to fight with the guard of the pass again, but was stopped by Lu Junyi, the deputy pioneer who rushed to the pass.
Lu Junyi advised Dong Ping: "Brother Dong, please don't be impatient and go to heal your injuries. After your injuries are healed, it won't be too late to fight again."
Dong Ping went back to his account angrily.
That night, Dong Ping became more and more angry as he thought about it. Dong Ping secretly thought, thinking that I, Dong Ping, used to be the military supervisor of Dongping Prefecture. However, I was captured alive by my brother Gongming of the Song Dynasty. I was surrendered to Liangshan, but I also became the fifteenth leader in Liangshan and was named a horseman. The five tiger generals in the army often take the lead and have the reputation of Dong Yichang. Today, I was blocked in front of the small Dusong Pass and received a cannon shot from him, which injured my left arm. Wasn't this a slap in the face of Dong Ping? If I don't kill all these bandits guarding the gate, I won't be able to show my ability! I can't save the face I lost.
That night, Dong Ping was so angry that he couldn't sleep well. He simply got up, went out of the tent, quietly came to Zhang Qing's residence, and made an agreement with Zhang Qing to wait until dawn, without telling Lu Xianfeng, without riding the horse. Go to the pass, kill the thieves and generals, and regain the lost face.
At dawn the next day, Dong Ping and Zhang Qing quietly left the camp and went up the pass on foot.
The guards at the gate discovered Dong Ping and Zhang Qing and hurriedly reported to Li Tianrun and Zhang Tao. After Li Tianrun and Zhang Tao heard the report, they came down from the pass and caught Dong Ping and Zhang Qing to fight.
Dong Ping fought against Li Tianrun, Zhang Qing fought against Zhang Tao.
Dong Ping wanted to capture Li Tianrun and robbed him on foot. Li Tianrun also sent a spear to meet Dong Ping, and fought with Dong Ping for ten rounds, with no outcome.
Dong Ping only wanted to fight, but his left arm, injured by the artillery fire, could no longer exert its strength. Nali Tianrun saw the flaw and stabbed Dong Ping's left arm with his gun. Dong Ping was in a difficult situation. He could only parry but had no strength to fight back.
Zhang Qing saw that Dong Ping was getting tired, and he knew it was not good. He left Zhang Tao and stabbed Li Tianrun with his gun. Seeing Zhang Qing's iron spear coming towards him, Li Tianrun hurriedly hid behind a pine tree.
Zhang Qing used too much force and the head of his spear was stuck in the pine tree. When he was about to pull it out, it was stuck firmly and he couldn't pull it off. Seeing the opportunity, Nali Tianrun ducked out from behind the pine tree, pointed his gun, and roared: "Puff", and heard another "puff", the gun was poking Zhang Qing's stomach, and Zhang Qing was shot. Qing fell to the ground.
Seeing that Li Tianrun had stabbed Zhang Qing down, Dong Ping hurriedly used his two spears to fight Li Tianrun. Unexpectedly, Zhang Tao rushed from behind. With a friendly look in his eyes, he suddenly swung his knife and slashed at Dong Ping's waist. Come. In an instant, the knife flashed with a white light, and with a click, the two spears cut Dong Ping in half at the waist.
Li Tianrun also rushed over and stabbed Zhang Qing who was lying on the ground. Zhang Qing was covered in bullet holes and he was bleeding and died.
In the Guangxia camp, when Lu Xianfeng Junyi learned that Dong Ping and Zhang Qing secretly left the camp to seize the pass, he realized that something was wrong. He was so anxious that he dropped his feet and hurriedly sent Suo Suochao, the sick man, to lead troops to rescue. When Suo Suochao from the sick gate arrived at the gate, Dong Ping and Zhang Qing had been killed. Nali Tianrun and Zhang Taozheng were humming "What a beautiful jasmine flower" and went to the gate happily.
Suo Chao was helpless and hurried back to the camp to report.
When Lu Xianfeng heard the news, he was furious and urged his troops to attack hard. It happened that Sun Xin and Mrs. Gu pretended to be refugees and sneaked into the pass, but the Chinese side started to get angry. The gate was in chaos. Lu Junyi took the opportunity to attack fiercely and finally reached the gate.
After Lu Junyi attacked the pass, he happened to meet Li Tianrun.
Enemies are extremely jealous when they meet. Lu Xianfeng rode his horse forward, pierced Li Tianrun's chest with a shot, picked up Li Tianrun, and swung Li Tianrun's body hard into the ditch next to the pass.
Zhang Tao and others saw that the situation was not good and took advantage of the chaos to escape.
Lu Junyi then joined forces with Lin Chong, passed Dusong Pass, and quickly rushed to Hangzhou to help Hangzhou to join Gongming, the pioneer of Song Dynasty.
On Song Jiang's side, the battle with Fang Tianding was reaching a stalemate.
In the past few days, several battles failed to break through Hangzhou, but they lost several generals. In the vanguard tent, Song Jiang sighed.
Since marching south to conquer Fang La, Xiaoxuan Feng Chai Jin has been following Song Jiang. He has witnessed the cruelty of the war and secretly thought in his heart that Fang Tianding is Fang La's eldest son. He has many strong generals under his command. He fights head-on and suffers heavy losses. Speaking of others, even if I go up there, I will probably die.
After thinking about it, Chai Jin said to Song Jiang: "Brother Gongming, since Chai was saved by his brother Gaotangzhou, he has always been cared for and loved by his brother, and he has been enjoying the glory. It is because of his fate that he has had little merit and has never repaid his kindness. Now I wish to do so." Go deep into Fangla's den of thieves, work as a spy, maybe get some meritorious service, serve the court, and be proud of your brother, I don't know what your respect is?"
Song Jiang was overjoyed when he heard this, and said hurriedly: "If the high officials are willing to go, go straight to the thieves' nest, and learn about the twists and turns of the mountains and rivers inside, they can march into the army, capture the thieves' leader Fang La alive, and bring them to the capital. We can show our small merits and share the wealth. I'm afraid. The road is dangerous and the journey is hard, will my dear brother be able to go there?"
Chai Jin said: "Brother Gongming, Chai is willing to risk his life and go, why not? It's best to have Yan Qing as his companion. Brother Gongming, Xiao Yi, knows how to talk in different places, he is very well-behaved, and he also sees opportunities." And made.”
Song Jiang said: "Indeed! Among our Liangshan brothers, the most well-behaved one is brother Xiao Yi."
The two people were discussing, and a report came from outside the tent: "For the report to Xianfeng, Yan Xiaoyi, under Lu Xianfeng's account, came from Muzhou to report Lu Xianfeng's battle situation."
Song Jiang was overjoyed after hearing this. He turned to Chai Jin and said, "Look, it's God's will! We two brothers were talking about Xiao B, and Xiao B arrived. Good omen! Good omen! It seems that my brother's trip will definitely come true. Great work!"
Chai Jin was also overjoyed.
Song Jiang urgently ordered: "Quickly tell Yan Xiaoyi to enter the account!"
Yan Qing came into the tent, paid homage to Song Jiang and Chai Jin, and reported the situation to Lu Xianfeng.
After listening to this, Song Jiang stopped talking about Lu Xianfeng's military affairs, but said to Yan Qing: "Brother Xiao Yi, Que Cai, Grand Officer Chai told me that I want to go with you to work as a spy in Fangla's den of thieves. Do you dare to go?"
Yan Qing heard this and said, "How dare you not obey Brother Pioneer's request? If Xiao Yi is willing to go, Xiao Yi will accompany Brother Chai Daguanren and just go there."
Chai Jin was overjoyed and said: "Brother Xiao Yi, I pretend to be a scholar in white, and you pretend to be a servant. One master and one servant, carrying harp, sword and books on their backs, and no one will be suspicious. The two of us went straight to the beach to look for the boat. The envoy passed through Yuezhou and took a small road to Zhuji County, where he passed through the mountain road and was not far from Qingxi."
Yan Qing heard this and said, "That's great. I'll go with the high official."
The two then left Song Jiang, left the tent, and returned to Chai Jin's residence. They made some preparations, packed up their instruments, swords, and books. When others were charging into battle and fighting Zhengtian, they left the military camp outside Hangzhou and threw themselves into the lake. , found a boat, drifted across the lake, and went to Fang La Qingxi Da Nei to work as a spy.
At this time, the armies of Song Jiang and Lu Junyi joined forces to attack the city of Hangzhou. During the melee, Shi Bao hit Suo Chao on the face with a hammer, knocking Suo Chao off his horse. Poor Suo Chao, the vanguard, was left in mourning. When Deng Fei rushed to rescue him, Shi Bao slashed him in half with a knife.
When Lu Junyi arrived with Lin Chong and other generals, Shi Bao learned that the Song Army's reinforcements had arrived and hurriedly retreated to the city.
General Lu Junyi and Liu Tang saw the Confederate army withdrawing into the city and wanted to take the lead, so he grabbed a horse and a knife and shouted: "Don't close the door, your Grandpa Liu is here!" Liu Tang ran too fast , following the tail of the Confederate army, rushed directly to the gate downstairs of the city gate, and were blocked in the city gate by the gate falling from above.
Dozens of soldiers poured out from both sides of the city gate. A burst of gunfire turned Liu Tang into a hornet's nest.
