In the first month of the eighth year of Xuanhe's reign, a war was approaching in Yuncheng County.
At first glance, this small county town located on the edge of Boshui in Liangshan looks like a low-rise town with an outline of three miles and five miles. It is not eye-catching at all. But if you take a closer look, you can see that this city is actually very strong.
The solidity of Yuncheng was all due to Liangshanbo. Liangshanbo was not only a den of thieves, but also often flooded. This Liangshanbo was actually a depression that discharged floods from several surrounding rivers, including the Yellow River. Once a flood comes, other places may not flood, but the water in Liangshan Boli will definitely be full.
And how can Yuncheng, which is located right on the edge of Liangshan Boshui, be better? There is a high probability that you will get soaked in water!
Since Yuncheng is so easily soaked by water, why don't the gentry and common people in Yuncheng move? Of course it's because Yuncheng has the advantage of being close to the water by Liangshan Park!
There are fish, shrimps, waterways, and thieves in Liangshanbo... Yes, the bandits and water bandits in Liangshanbo are a great disaster to the passing merchants and ships, but to Yuncheng, they are all good people. Even this rabbit knows not to eat grass beside its nest, let alone the heroes in Liangshanbo?
After all, the job of a hero is highly competitive, intense, and somewhat dangerous. In many cases, you have to work day and night. So this Liangshanbo is a solid thief. For ordinary mountain bandits and water thieves, it takes more than ten years from entry to retirement...if they don't "die for personal reasons" during their work!
These retired mountain and water thieves usually choose Yuncheng as their retirement place.
Because Yuncheng County is right next to Liangshan Park, you can get into Liangshan Park as soon as you leave the city and go east or south... If officers and soldiers come to Yuncheng to capture the retired old thieves, they can escape immediately.
In addition, the Liangshan thieves are all water thieves. There are no tens of thousands of horse soldiers and infantry like in "Water Margin"... If there are really so many thieves, why not "kill Tokyo and seize the bird's seat"? What else can I recruit?
As for water thieves, gangshang and fishermen, they can transfer jobs to each other. The Ganshui thief had accumulated enough money and connections in the world, and he became a gangster as soon as he crossed the border. And if fishermen feel that fishing has no "money prospects" and damages the ecological balance, then join Liangshan to make quick money!
Of course, there are also those who have lost money and returned to Liangshan to start from scratch. There are also people who are not good at being thieves and cannot do business, so they have no choice but to go back and continue catching fish.
Therefore, it is very convenient for everyone to set up their home in Yuncheng County, which is close to Liangshanbo.
There are also some masters who directly rely on being thieves to get ahead, and they have changed from Liangshan heroes to Liangshan good officials, and have become ruthless people who understand both black and white. Most of this group of people no longer served as officials after they arrived in Square La. Instead, they resigned from their official positions and returned to Yuncheng to become gentry.
Among the more famous ones are Song Daguan, Yang Daguan, Lin Daguan, Hua Daguan, Wu Daguan, Chao Daguan, Wu Daguan and so on.
Of course, there are also serious gentry in Yuncheng County who have never been a bandit or a water thief for generations. For example, the Ximen family who moved from the neighboring Yanggu County is a clean and good family...their family's nature The business is to open a medicine shop, hang pots to help the world, and do some middleman work on the side, such as selling dirty things, collecting protection fees, collecting ransoms, and helping to get people from the government. Basically, it can be regarded as doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, so Yun People here in the city call the head of the Ximen family Ximen Dashanren!
The good people in Ximen and a group of good officials in Liangshan are all good people who love their hometown and are willing to benefit their hometown. They can't bear to see the people in their hometown being flooded all the time. Moreover, they all have a lot of property in Yuncheng. They are all hard-earned. How can they be flooded?
So they generously donated money and invited Zhang Wenyuan, the magistrate of Yuncheng County, to come out and take charge of the major work. They built a rammed earth embankment six miles long, more than one to three feet high and more than two feet wide, surrounding the county town of Yuncheng. It was called Zhanggong Embankment.
However, contrary to the expectations of the good people and officials, after the completion of the Zhanggong Embankment, which was designed to protect Yuncheng from floods, it did not encounter a single flood. Instead, it caused an unimaginable military disaster for Yuncheng.
Because Zhao Kai, Han Shizhong and others, who were preparing to go up to Liangshan to establish an anti-golden base, saw the terrain of Yuncheng County and the Zhanggong Embankment surrounding the city, and immediately realized that this was a good place to resist Jinla's hatred!
So Zhao Kai moved into Ximen's house at the warm invitation of Zhang Wenyuan, the magistrate of Yuncheng, retired officials such as Song Daguanren, Yang Daguanren, Lin Daguanren, and the head of the Ximen family, Mrs. Ximen Wu. A vacant mansion in Yuncheng County (originally owned by the widowed Sister Ximen).
However, he did not reveal his true identity to a group of high-ranking officials in Yuncheng County and the people of the Ximen family. Instead, he called himself Palace Commander Zhao Bupo - this name was thought up by Zhao Kai when he was at Sanshan Floating Bridge. Because he found that the people below him did not agree that he, an official, was truly on the front line of the fight against the Jin Dynasty (his current authority was not comparable to that of Zhao Kai, another man who reopened the Song Dynasty). In order to appease everyone, he had to give in a little.
So he asked "Gao Tiannv" (Guo Tiannv) to tattoo the five characters "Palace Commander Zhao Bupo" on a blank recognition flag. And of course he, the palace commander, does not mean the commander in front of the palace, but the inspection in front of the palace!
Of course, the banner of Lieutenant Gao still needs to be carried. Taiwei Gao and Taiwei Zhao both recognize the flag and raise it together!
While raising two flags to recognize the captain, Zhao Kai also sent Han Shizhong out to fight against the gold thieves' ambush.
This Han Shizhong's ability is really amazing. At the junction of Yuncheng and Fan County in Puzhou, he used 2,000 cavalry to defeat the gold thieves' new deputy vanguard Yelv Ma Wu and defeated 2,000 Khitan cavalry led by Ma Wu. More than 200 people were beheaded (more than 300 were killed and more than 200 were beheaded), and 155 Khitan horses were captured.
Although this is only a small victory, it is still quite useful in improving the morale of the troops and stabilizing the hearts of the people in Yuncheng - the morale of the more than 10,000 cavalrymen Zhao Kai brought from Sanshan Floating Bridge is very high, but He Li came from around Liangshanbo However, the morale of the officials and thousands of soldiers, rebels, and civilians brought over from the state capital was not very high.
So today, the seventeenth day of the first lunar month of the eighth year of Xuanhe, Zhao Kai held a celebration banquet in Yuncheng County.
Except for a small number of hard-line detectives on duty and soldiers on duty on the city wall and Zhanggong Embankment, all the officers and soldiers who followed Zhao Kai to Yuncheng were given food and wine, and had a good meal in their respective barracks.
The generals in the army, as well as officials from the surrounding prefectures in Liangshanbo, as well as local officials and retired officials in Yuncheng, as well as Ximen Wu, the head of the Ximen family who was responsible for entertaining Zhao Kai, were all invited. Zhao Kai attended the banquet in Zhe's mansion.
The main table of the banquet was placed in the lobby of the house. The Ximen family had obviously invested a lot of money. Sister Ximen, a young widow who was only 23 or 24 years old this year, personally showed up and commanded dozens of servants and maids to serve in the west. Good wine and food were served like water, and all the girls from the only brothel in Yuncheng County were even invited to accompany him.
Of course, Zhao Kai is a gentleman, so he doesn't have the company of these brothel girls. He actually thought that Sister Ximen was quite attractive. Like Guo Tiannu, she was both young and mature, but she was not the same type. She was a round and round beauty, and she was naturally charming, and her every smile and every frown was so charming. And judging from the neatness with which she dispatched the dozens of servants and maids, and the lively chatter and laughter she had with those Liangshan officials, this woman was not simple at all!
Just as she was thinking of this, Sister Ximen seemed to feel something, and suddenly she gave Zhao Kai a wink and shocked him... The shock actually made Zhao Kai's cheeks turn red, and he quickly turned his attention to the group of Liangshan masters. The officials sat at the square table.
Zhao Kai is still very interested in this group of people... He originally thought that the Liangshan heroes in "Water Margin" were completely fictional, but he didn't expect to see some of them in Yuncheng County now. .
However, their current situation and relationship with each other seems to be different from that in "Water Margin".
For example, that dark official from Songjiang and Song Dynasties had the official status of Chengjielang and was called brother to Zhang Wenyuan, the magistrate of Yuncheng. What a close relationship!
And I don’t know if Zhang Wenyuan had sex with Song Jiang’s concubine? But even if I fall asleep, it’s not a big deal. Because this piece of Wenyuan is No. 1 in Zhao Kai’s memory. He was a Jinshi in the same year as Zhao Kai!
There is also a Wu Daguan named Wu Song, who looks very familiar to Sister Ximen. They are brothers and sisters...I wonder if Sister Ximen’s father is named Ximen Qing?
He shouldn't have been killed by Wu Song, right? The revenge for killing my father is irreconcilable... Well, I'll call Sister Ximen to the house later and ask her questions!
In addition, there is also Chao Gai, a high-ranking official of Chao Dynasty, who actually survived to be recruited and became a military attaché at the level of a minor envoy. Now he is also serving as a gang merchant.
While Zhao Kai was looking at the prototypes of these Water Margin characters, a prolonged "report" sound suddenly came from outside the lobby. Then I saw Gao Arhat striding in from the outside, and when he came to Zhao Kai's side, he whispered: "Commander of the palace, the knights are here to report that a large group of gold thieves are coming to us. I am afraid there are twenty to thirty thousand in number!"
"Twenty to thirty thousand... here to find a place!" Zhao Kai coughed heavily as he spoke, and the entire lobby fell silent instantly.
Zhao Kai glanced around the lobby with burning eyes, and finally landed on a group of Liangshan officials - these people are all Liangshanbo's local gangsters! Although they have rectified their evil ways on the surface, but none of them have ten or eight pirate ships? As long as they are willing to help fight the gold thieves, Han Shizhong will be able to dominate Liangshan Boli from now on!
Thinking of this, Zhao Kai broke the silence: "I heard people say that Liangshan produces heroes. Among the gentlemen here today, there should be many Liangshan heroes, right? Now the army of gold thieves has come to Liangshan. They are Those who came to Liangshanbo to burn, kill and loot... Yuncheng, where you live, is their primary target! What should you do, heroes?"
When the heroes heard this, they all showed expressions of indignation.
Song Jiang, the leader of the heroes, was the first to speak: "Lieutenant, we are all military attachés of the imperial court. We are not afraid of gold thieves... just lead us to fight with the gold thieves!"
