Seeing that Gao Kan was serious, the man finally panicked and shouted quickly.
"I am the son of Li Hun, the transfer envoy of Zhending Mansion, and Li Yan, the general manager of the palace, is my uncle. If you dare to kill me, you will die without a burial place!"
Upon hearing this, Gao Kan's face changed.
The purpose of asking Yang Zhi to drag him down and behead him was to scare him into answering honestly.
Unexpectedly, there was an unexpected gain.
Speaking of this Li Yan, he was a famous figure in the official family of Zhao Song. He was one of the "six thieves" and his methods were ruthless.
But this thief can't stay alive for long.
According to Song history, in a month or two, when the Jin army retreats, Emperor Qinzong will issue an edict to depose Li Yan.
In the first year of Jingkang, he was sentenced to death again.
In other words, Li Yan only has two or three months to live at most.
However, what Gao Kan cares about is not the life or death of this thief, but a point in the outbreak of the Shuibo Liangshan Uprising, when Li Yan placed Liangshan under the public ownership of Xicheng.
All people who enter the lake must pay heavy taxes to make a living, so that the people of Liangshan, who are 800 miles away from the lake, have no way to make a living.
Song Jiang took this opportunity to raise the banner of "doing justice for heaven" and united with Liangshan and outside to rise up.
But in the official history, these should all have happened in the first year of Xuanhe. Now due to the high road, the timeline has changed a lot. Li Yan is about to die, and Song Gongming has just entered Liangshan.
I just don’t know if Li Yan can complete his historical mission before he dies.
Gao Kan didn't say anything while he was calculating in his heart. In the eyes of the son of Li Hun, the transfer envoy of Zhending Mansion, he became a witness that he was afraid of his reputation, and he immediately became arrogant again.
"Things like dogs don't care about their status. Since they know how powerful I am, why don't you quickly untie me and kowtow to apologize?"
As soon as he heard this, Gao Kan came back to his senses and said with a half-smile, "It turns out to be Mr. Li. The flood has really washed away the Dragon King Temple. I wonder if everything will be fine for you sir?"
"The gold thief invaded Zhending Mansion. Is everything okay, sir?"
"Huh, that's what you can ask?" With a cold snort, Mr. Li said arrogantly and contemptuously.
"Yes, yes, the transshipment envoy has been in Zhending Mansion for many years, and all the canal and canal roads are under your control. I must have earned a lot of money, right?" Gao Kan asked with a smile.
"Dog slave, what do you mean?" Mr. Li narrowed his eyes and said coldly.
Gao Kan rubbed his hands and continued to smile: "I wonder how much money the transshipment envoy would be willing to give if he knew that the young master was in trouble?"
"How dare you!" Mr. Li was immediately shocked when he heard this and said angrily.
At this time, Gao Kan's face completely darkened, and he said in a cold voice: "How dare you threaten me, the rebellious ministers and traitors? Not to mention Li Hun, the canal transport envoy of Zhending Mansion, even Li Yan's old dog, my son will bark sooner or later. His head is in a different place.”
"You, you, you..." Mr. Li was so shocked that he was speechless.
Gao Kanzhi waved his hand and said to Yang Zhi: "Drag him down and keep him under good supervision. When he enters the Zhending Mansion in the future, let him see with his own eyes how his father, the Transshipment Envoy, was executed."
"Yes!" Yang Zhi clasped his fists and accepted the order. Without saying a word, he dragged the person down.
Now that he has figured out the origin of the hidden person, Gaokan no longer needs to worry about it. He can only take care of the person and deal with it in the future. The most important thing at the moment is the matter of Donglin Village.
Calculating the time, Lin Chong and the others should have arrived.
I just don't know if He Zhiyuan can persuade Sun Cheng to abandon the dark side and open the gate of the village.
After sighing for a while, although the two villages are adjacent to each other, they are still twenty or thirty miles away from each other. There will definitely be no news tonight, and we will have to wait until dawn.
When I was tired from the high road, I entrusted everything to myself so that I could have a good rest.
It wasn't until the morning of the next day that Yang Zhi came to report, and he got up, washing himself and listening to what he said.
"Instructor Lin sent someone to deliver a message. He Zhiyuan persuaded Sun Cheng to abandon the dark side and surrender to the bright side. He opened a stronghold to accept the surrender. The former army sneaked into the Donglin stronghold, but they asked the hidden stakes in the stronghold to find clues and send out a signal."
Hearing this, Gao Kan raised his eyebrows: "How is the battle going?"
"Commander Lin saw that the situation was not right, so he led his men and horses, and together with Sun Cheng's men and horses from the eastern mountain stronghold, they rushed straight to kill the military camp in the stronghold. However, the military camp was well defended, and the front army could not capture it after charging for an hour, so they had to besiege it first. .”
Yang Zhi continued with a sullen face: "After General Cao led most of the troops into the stronghold and controlled the troops inside and outside the stronghold, he joined forces to attack Juntun. It took a lot of effort. Finally, before dawn today, General Tun Take it.”
"At present, Donglin Mountain Stronghold is under the control of the army, and more than 2,000 soldiers and horses have been captured."
Hearing this, Gao Kan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the big stone in his heart also fell.
There were originally more than 3,000 men and horses in Donglin Mountain Stronghold, but after the battle, only more than 2,000 soldiers were surrendered. In other words, a thousand men were lost in the battle of the military camp.
Cao Qi and Lin Chong's men and horses attacked forcefully, and they must have suffered a lot of losses, at least not much less than the losses of Donglin Shanzhai's men and horses.
Counting all together, this trip was probably about 2,000 more soldiers and horses who died for no reason.
It would be false to say that he wasn't heartbroken, but Gao Kan also knew that such a thing was inevitable.
In war, people always die.
At least in calculation, the actual loss in taking Donglin Mountain Stronghold is not much. If we carry out a full-scale attack, I am afraid that I will lose 20 to 30% of the troops on hand.
After changing his mind, Gao Kan said: "Just take it, and send someone to order Coach Lin and General Cao to strictly guard the mountain stronghold. If necessary, they will deal with it according to the Xilin Mountain Stronghold."
"In addition, I sent an order to leave five hundred men and horses in the stronghold to garrison. The rest will be organized and sent out to meet up with the stronghold in the east."
"Yes!" Yang Zhi clasped his fists and accepted the order, raising his eyebrows again, "Sir, the army has been sent out and they are going to the eastern stronghold together. What should we do with the surrendered soldiers in the stronghold?"
"Distribute simple equipment and send it out with the army. Place it in the middle position and ask the army in front and behind to observe secretly. If anyone dares to escape privately, he will be treated as a deserter before the battle and be beheaded immediately." Gaokan said coldly.
"Yes, my subordinates take orders!"
Yang Zhi received the order and immediately went to make arrangements.
There are still more than 6,000 troops in the stronghold, plus the 2,000 surrendered soldiers from the west side of the stronghold, the total is more than 8,000. It is not an easy task to send out such a large army.
Even if the journey is only ten to twenty miles, you still need to prepare in advance for the placement during the march.
Gaokan was ready to go, and when they came out of the inner stronghold, Yang Zhi had already ordered all the troops to clean up in the square of the outer stronghold. When he came, most of the troops had arrived.
The remaining ones that have not arrived are, on the one hand, to transport the ordnance and food and grass lightly, and on the other hand, they have to distribute ordnance to the two thousand surrendered soldiers.
After procrastinating for nearly an hour, it was not until near noon that the army issued a response and was ready.
Yang Zhi reported to Gaokan, and after receiving Gaokan's military order, he ordered the entire army to set off. After exiting the gate of Xilinshanzhai, they went straight to the direction of Donglinshanzhai.
With this step, they were one step closer to setting out two strongholds, capturing Lingshou, and then attacking Zhending Mansion.
After Zhending Mansion called the Jin army to the city, they opened the city and surrendered without much resistance. Most of the soldiers and horses in the city were preserved, at least there were more than 20,000 troops. If they wanted to attack the city, it would be a tough battle.
