Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 208 If you want to learn well, sleep with the master first (please subscribe!)

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Li Chenggang.

A port that no longer exists due to various reasons in later generations.

But in this era, it was a hub of water and land transportation, and also a city where merchants gathered, and Koryo's foreign trade started from this.

The Koryo Wang family, that is, the family of Wang Jian who founded Koryo, is the Licheng Hong Kong family.

Wang Jian's grandparents originally started as giant merchants relying on trade, and then gradually grew into a powerful tycoon in Kaesong. Later, his father Wang Long took control of Kaesong and used it as a stronghold, and brought him to belong to the descendants of Gong.

Since then, Wang Jian has become a capable general of Gong Yi.

A few years later, the officers of Gong Yi's subordinates rebelled, and Wang Jian's confidants, Hong Ru, Pei Xuanqing, Shen Chongqian and Park Zhiqian, drove out Gong Yi and supported Wang Jian as king (Gong Yi was killed on the way to escape).

Wang Jianding's country name was Goryeo, and his year name was Tianshou.

So far, the situation of the three countries behind the peninsula has formally formed.

Later, after more than ten years of war, Wang Jian successively destroyed Baekje and Silla, and unified the peninsula.

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suddenly!
The defenders of Licheng Port discovered that a fleet was coming from afar!
Looking closely, it seems that it is a small part of the huge fleet that went to recover Tamna County.

The fleet moved from far to near, and soon approached Licheng Port.

The defenders did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly asked the inspectors to come forward in small boats to inquire.

After a while, the small boat drew close to the big boat, and the big boat lowered the ropes to allow the inspectors to board as usual.

After the inspection official boarded the ship, he looked around and felt relieved. This was undoubtedly a Korean ship, and he also saw a few familiar faces on board.

However, what should be asked, the inspecting officials have to ask, "General, have you recovered Tamna County?"

The general who answered said with a smile: "How can I send [-] troops from Dagoryeo to recover the small Tamna County? But the Song army was also tenacious, and they held on for five or six days. Baosheng made a surprise attack on the island city from Lishui, forcing the Song army to return to defense. The commander-in-chief took the opportunity to lead us to land and enter the island city. The city we built, we are here to offer prisoners and repay the victory this time!"

After hearing this, the inspector official was very excited and said, "Veteran Wu really deserves to be a general who has fought against the mighty Jurchen for six years!"

But even though his blood was boiling, the conscientious inspector still asked, "How many of you have returned?"

The general said: "Seven leaders, two leaders are brave, and five leaders guarantee victory."

The inspector asked, "Why are there so many people?"

The general said: "The main duty of our left and right guards is to defend Kaijing. Fighting the war is only a secondary task. Now that the battle is over, it is natural to come back and continue to guard Kaijing... Not only our left and right guards, but Xingwei Wei will also be there soon. will withdraw."

The checking officials felt reasonable after hearing the words, so they stopped asking about this matter.

Suddenly seeing a general nine feet long and eight girth on a ship not far away, the inspector was stunned and asked, "When did Korea have such a magnificent general?"

The general said: "That is General Sun. He has made great achievements in this battle, and he will be promoted to a general in a short time."

The inspector took another look at the handsome General Sun, then looked back at the general in front of him and asked, "Have you asked for advice yet?"

The general smiled and said: "My surname is Cao, my name is Zhengsheng, and I am a Zhonglang general with the three leaders of the left and right guards and Baosheng."

That's right.

This general Cao Zhengsheng is Cao Zheng who collected food with Chief Su a year ago.

Under the protection of Cao Zheng, Chief Su purchased more than 100 million shi of grain for Shuibo Liangshan.

Later, there was a severe drought, and the price of food rose all the way, and it has doubled until now.

But even so, Li Yan still asked Chief Su to collect grain for Shuibo Liangshan, regardless of the grain price, and did not set an upper limit.

However, although Li Yan provided generous conditions, in the general environment of food shortages, the food that Chief Su could receive was still very limited - at most 30 million shi a month.

Under such circumstances, if Cao Zheng was still allowed to protect Chief Su, it would be a bit overkill.

Therefore, Li Yan picked two small heads to replace Cao Zheng.

It just so happened that Sun An, the dragon slayer, came to join Li Yan because of Qiao Daoqing's relationship, and Li Yan took both of them to Jeju Island to participate in this battle.

Cao Zheng is very motivated and willing to use his brain. He decided long ago that Jeju Island was regarded as the rear of Yangsan, and Liangshan had to deal with Goryeo. Therefore, while protecting Chief Su, he studied Goryeo hard.

Knowing that Cao Zheng was struggling to learn the Korean language, Li Yan waved his hand and assigned Cao Zheng a Korean who could understand Chinese as a teacher, and rewarded Cao Zheng with two Korean women as concubines. If you want to learn it well, you should sleep with the master first. With Li Yan's strong support, Cao Zheng's Korean language has reached the point where even Korean people can't tell it apart.

Because Cao Zheng had this specialty, this time Li Yan recruited [-] infantry from the captive Goryeo slaves, and let Cao Zheng command [-], and the other [-] were commanded by Deng Yuanjue, Yuan Lang, and Sun An.

In order to control the four thousand slave soldiers, and to make the four thousand slave soldiers have combat power, Li Yan drew 100 people from his personal guards and distributed them to the four of Cao Zheng, and gave the four of Cao Zheng a thousand Liangshan reserve soldiers. Let them use these 100 people as the skeleton, and lead these [-] slaves and servants to form a joint Jiefangxiang (Cao Zheng is temporarily in charge of the capital, and Sun An is temporarily in charge of the deputy capital)——Currently governing the Fourth Army of Liangshanbu (Cao Zheng as the commander, Deng Yuanjue as the deputy commander), and the Liangshanbu Fifth Army (Sun An as the commander and Yuan Lang as the deputy commander).

The more than 5000 infantry troops who raided Licheng Port this time were Jiefangxiang.

The inspector said: "Disrespect, disrespect... I wonder what you have captured this time, General?"

Cao Zhengxin said: "I said, why don't you leave after asking, because I want to ask for some favors."

Cao Zheng smiled and said, "Wait for me."

Cao Zheng didn't dare to order others to do this, for fear that others would show his feet accidentally, so he went to the side and fetched a pair of beautiful teacups, and then gave them to the inspectors, saying: "This is the cup I bought from a big family. If it is captured, I will give it to you, let’s make friends.”

This kind of gift should not be given too heavy, as it will easily arouse suspicion. A pair of teacups that are beautiful but not worth too much money are just right.

Although the inspectors are civil servants, their grades are too low, and they don't dare to blackmail a fifth-rank Zhonglang general too much, especially Zhonglang generals who have returned from victory, so he is already very content with getting a pair of beautiful cups So, after communicating his name with Cao Zheng, he got off Cao Zheng's boat, and then sailed back to report.

Soon, someone on the pier raised a flag to indicate that the fleet could enter the port.

Things went surprisingly well.

Not long after, Liangshan Step Fourth Army and Step Fifth Army disembarked smoothly. Cao Zhengying, who was the first to disembark, left the pier at the first time to go to the main road leading to Licheng City...

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(End of this chapter)