Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 326 Reversed (please subscribe!)
...

"What? It's not Erlongshan's men who attacked Daming Mansion, but Li Yan's men?"

After listening to the report of a chief general under Liang Zhongshu who managed to escape from the Daming Mansion, Cai Jing suddenly stood up!
The chief general was probably afraid that Cai Jing, who was over 70 years old, would not die, and said: "It was either Li Yan's men, or Li Yan himself. The young general saw it with his own eyes. Li Yan presided over the public trial, beheaded my uncle, and then ordered the search of my uncle. And Miss's home... That Li Yan was so vicious, he beheaded the uncle and searched the property of the uncle and the lady, not to mention, he even rewarded the lady to his bodyguard as a concubine, Li Yanna's bodyguard, Xiao Seeing this person, his pimple face is full of strange flesh, his exquisite eyes are protruding, and he is nicknamed "Living Yan Luo". ..."

Cai Jing was furious: "Zhuzi is deceiving people too much, I must refer to him for a book, and even rewarded my daughter to a low-level guard who is ugly than Xuanzan, but..."

Before he could say the word "evil", Cai Jing suddenly thought of Xuan Zan and Guan Sheng who used the strategy of besieging Wei and saving Zhao to attack Erlong Mountain. He was startled, and thought to himself: "It's broken, Guan Sheng and Xuan Zan are probably more ominous than good!"

At this moment, another person came to report: "Report to the Grand Master, Guan Sheng fell into the trick of the Erlong Mountain bandits, and was defeated. All 5000 troops were wiped out!"

This is also extremely bad news for Cai Jing. You know, this battle is what he advocates. How can he not be implicated if so many people have lost money and food?

Cai Jing waved everyone down.

He wants to be quiet.

After sitting down for a cup of tea, Cai Jing slapped the table hard, and then said bitterly: "If this enmity is not avenged, I will be the grand master of the court in vain!"

Cai Jingchu's intention was to send Guan Sheng to help Liang Zhongshu earn some merit, and he himself was honored and favored. Now, his son-in-law is dead, the woman has been rewarded, and the matter is hard to hide, so that he can go to court at the fifth watch of the next day. Come out, go straight to the jade steps, face Zhao Ji and say: "Today, Zhang Shan, the head of the Daming Mansion, reported..."

At this moment, someone yelled outside the door: "Urgent report!"

Zhao Ji frowned and said, "Who is making noise?"

After a while, a palace guard came in with a messenger from the Guangji Army, and reported: "Report to the officials, Tianhu, Hebei, started to build a palace in Fenyang, changed the name to Yuan, and called himself "King of Jin". The Prime Minister has set up generals, claiming to have 50 soldiers and horses, to dominate one side...Tian Hu is rebellious!"

Zhao Ji was furious when he heard this, and said: "Rebellious ministers and thieves, you should be punished!"

Coincidentally.

At this moment, someone outside shouted again: "Urgent report!"

Zhao Ji said with a sullen face, "Come in and answer!"

Soon another palace guard came in with a messenger from Tanyang, and reported: "Report to the officials, Wang Qing called himself 'King of Chu', and built a treasure hall, inner garden, and palace in Nanfeng City. Provincial bureaucrats, internal ministers and external generals, appointed Li Zhu as the prime minister of the military division, Fang Han as the privy secretary, Duan Er as the general of the national defense and command army, Duan Wu as the governor of the auxiliary national command army, Fan Quan as the palace commander, and Gong Duan as the Xuan Fu envoy, Gong Zheng is the envoy of transfer, Qiu Xiang is the envoy of the imperial battalion, falsely made the Duan family a concubine, and claims to have 80 troops... Wang Qing has turned against him."

"His!"

Everyone took a deep breath!
Tian Hu and Wang Qing turned against each other at the same time!

Zhao Ji stood up "teng", then walked back and forth, saying: "These two thieves are at odds with each other, how should we deal with it?"

Everyone looked at Tong Guan.

Tong Guan didn't shirk, and came out and said: "The only way to wipe out!"

Zhao Ji said: "What you said is exactly what I want. If this arrogant thief is not suppressed, everyone will follow suit. Our Great Song Dynasty is in danger!"

Tong Guandao: "Not long ago, the Liao Kingdom sent an envoy to designate the Jin Lord as the emperor of the Donghuai Kingdom, and the Jin Kingdom sent an envoy back to the Liao Kingdom. On the grounds that the envoy of the Liao Kingdom was not up to date, he ordered all the troops to station across the river. The Liao Kingdom is currently unable to take care of itself. , dare not invade our border, and Xixia was defeated by me, so there is nothing to worry about, if the officials want to wipe out the two thieves Tian Hu and Wang Qing in the west, the Western Army can send out [-] brave soldiers to relieve the officials' worries!"

Some people may be wondering, how did Tong Guan become so active in the past?

In fact, Tong Guan has no choice but to do so!
Tong Guan told Zhao Ji that he had defeated Xixia, but it was actually the opposite.

Famous generals in the Northern Song Dynasty, there is a saying that "Famous generals must be led by the law".

Liu Fa became famous in the midst of crisis. He fought frontier fortresses for a long time and became famous in the Song and Xia Wars. make.

Liu Fa's reputation at this time was actually even greater than that of Zhong Shidao and Zhong Shizhong's brothers (that is, the old Zhong Jinglue and Xiaozhong Jinglue mentioned in the Water Margin).

(The reason why Liu Fa's name was not as good as Zhong Shi Dao and Zhong Shi Zhong was that Liu Fa's son Liu Zhengyan, together with Miao Fu, the general who guarded Zhao Gou, launched the "Miao Liu Mutiny" and killed Zhao Gou's favorite in the name of Qing Dynasty. Power ministers and eunuchs also forced Zhao Gou to abdicate the throne to his son Zhao Yang. As a result, Zhao Gou was unable to raise the throne after that, even being a man, and Zhao Gou was killed so that Zhao Gou had no heir to succeed him to the throne.)
Not long ago, Tong Guan ordered Liu Fa, who had served as Xihe's economic envoy, to lead his troops to attack Tong'an City in Xixia (the north of Huzhu County in Qinghai Province, formerly known as Cutniu City, and was renamed Tong'an City after Song General He Guan sent troops from Xining to attack it at night. Anseong).

Liu Fa believed that although the Xixia army had been severely injured by the Song army, its vitality was not damaged, and the number of victories was small if it rushed to send troops, so he did not want to take the risk of entering the army.

However, he was coerced by the overjoyed Tong Guan to fight.

As a result, Liu Fa was besieged by heavy Xixia troops. After fighting hard, he fell off a cliff on the way out of the siege, broke his feet and was seriously injured, and was killed by the Xixia army.

In that battle, the Song Army suffered a disastrous defeat, losing hundreds of thousands of troops, and the mighty Western Army was seriously injured.

After the war, Tong Guan blamed Liu Fa for the defeat, and then launched a small counterattack. Then Tong Guan downplayed the defeat, and only reported his "great victory" to Zhao Ji, successfully resolving the crisis.

But Tong Guan's actions can deceive the stupid Zhao Ji, but they can't deceive the discerning people.

Therefore, Tong Guan needed a brilliant victory to silence others.

Zhao Ji, who had great confidence in the Western Army, breathed a sigh of relief when Tong Guan said that he could mobilize one hundred thousand Western troops, and said, "Then these two thieves will be handed over to Qing to exterminate them."

Tong Guandao: "It's a duty... It's just that this battle is of great importance. In any case, we must make up the military expenses owed before the expedition, otherwise the morale will inevitably be insufficient."

This time, Tong Guan didn't use this as an excuse to shirk, but the Western Army, which had experienced the defeat of Tong'an City, really needed a full amount of troops to boost morale. With more than [-] empty slots, he will definitely make a lot of money this time.

Hearing Tong Guan asking for money, Zhao Ji's face immediately collapsed, and he thought: "Why do you want money again, I don't have the money to build the garden, how can I have this money!"

……

(End of this chapter)