Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 348

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After Su Ding Bangle and they tricked them into opening the gate of Zengtou City, Zengtou City, which was already on the verge of collapse, collapsed in an instant.

Zeng Nong, Elder Zeng, wanted to surrender, but was shot to death by an arrow flying from nowhere.

The Liangshan army captured Zengtou City, which was entrenched in a dangerous place, with less than a hundred casualties.

By dawn, Zengtou City was completely under the control of the Liangshan army.

After the war, there was an inventory of more than 80 shi of grain and more than 200 million guan coins in Zengtou City.

Forget about these, this amount of money and food is the icing on the cake for Li Yan now.

The point is that there are more than 4000 good horses in Zengtou City, and this is not counting the more than 3000 horses that Shi Wengong rode - there are only more than 800 horses left after the war, and the others either died or were seriously injured Can't be cured, or lost.

Getting another [-] good horses all at once was not a small gain even for Li Yan.

You know, when Li Yan took down the Daming Mansion, he only got more than 3000 horses (excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, those who can go to the battlefield are less than [-]).

Later, Shi Wengong explained to Li Yan why Zengtou had so many good horses.

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This Zeng Nong, when he was young, came to the Central Plains to do some ginseng trading, and accumulated tens of thousands of wealth, and then dominated the village and changed his name to Zengtou City.

Because the Song Dynasty was short of horses, and Zeng Nong was able to get good horses from Beidi, Zeng Nong began to switch to the horse business, and Zengtou City became a famous horse market in the Song Dynasty.

Zeng Nong was a foreigner, and he was engaged in the horse business that the court liked to see, so that the government did not dare to offend. Therefore, Zengtou City became more and more powerful, and began to supply horses to the court in recent years.

However, in the past two years, Zhao Ji and others had lost so much that the imperial court had no money to buy horses in Zengtou City, which led to Zengtou City hoarding so many good horses, which made Li Yan cheaper.

Including the horses obtained from Daming Mansion and Zengtou City, Li Yan already has nearly [-] horses, of which more than [-] are good horses that can go to the battlefield.

Moreover, the Liangshan army had already started raising horses by itself, so even if the Liangshan army did not capture them in the future, there would be more and more horses.

Li Yan is in a good mood!

In this mood, Li Yan received Shi Wengong, Su Ding and others who surrendered.

Shi Wengong was able to defeat Qin Ming in more than twenty rounds, even if his martial arts were not as good as Lu Junyi's, it would not be much worse.

Moreover, what is rare is that Shi Wengong is brave and resourceful, not a brave man.

In addition, Shi Wengong's character is actually not bad, much better than Hu Yanzhuo, Guan Sheng and the others who surrendered after a defeat.

As for Shi Wengong, who once served the Jurchens.

In fact, from this period of time, it is nothing.

After all, the Jurchens and the Song people have no enmity yet, and the two sides are now uniting against the Liao Dynasty, which can be regarded as quasi-allies.

And Shi Wengong must have wronged himself and became a teacher in Zengtou City because he had no other way to get ahead. Otherwise, with his ability, how could he be interested in the position of a teacher?
Therefore, in Li Yan's view, it is not a big deal or a stain that Shi Wengong once served the Jurchens.

Not to mention Shi Wengong, even Su Ding and Li Yan didn't look at it with colored glasses.

Li Yan's current status and structure are greatly different from those of the past. In terms of employing people, he will naturally be more relaxed and more generous than before. Don't charge them?
If that's the case, then Li Yan will inevitably have countless more enemies, and the road to hegemony will inevitably be extremely bumpy.

Of course, Li Yan also knows who should focus on using it, who should cultivate and use it, and who should use it temporarily or discard it.

Li Yan encouraged Shi Wengong, Su Ding and others, and promised not to treat them badly.

As for the remaining troops in Zengtou City, they were recruited one by one by Sun Ge, Yu Peng and others on the principle of voluntary participation.

In addition, Liang Shanjun also recruited a group of horse breeders with high salaries—there are many good horse breeders in Zengtou City. This is the talent Liang Shanbo needs.

However, after all, there was a battle just now, and nearly 2000 people were killed or injured in Zengtou City, and there must be hatred among them.

Therefore, Li Yan only asked people to be recruited with high salaries, and did not force them.

In addition, all those recruited in Zengtou City must go through the political review of the Liangshan Political Department, and they must be cautious in their appointment and promotion.

In fact, Li Yan just explained these things briefly, and the specific matters were handled by special personnel. What Li Yan did personally was to recruit Shi Wengong, Su Ding and others.

At dawn, Li Yan took his personal guards, Shi Wengong, and Li Ying and others who came to help the battle to the Dazhai of Erlong Mountain to see Chao Gai's injuries.

Seeing that Shi Wengong dared to come to their Dazhai, Liu Tang's eyes turned red instantly, and he rushed up to fight Shi Wengong!
Li Yan said: "Stop."

Liu Tang hesitated for a moment, then slowly put down the beam knife in his hand, and said, "I beg the governor to avenge brother Chao Gai for killing Shi Wengong!"

Li Yan didn't even think about it, and said: "Shi Wengong is now my subordinate, anyone who wants to kill him will be my enemy."

Li Yan's words warmed Shi Wengong's heart, and he said: "The governor really protects his weaknesses as rumored!"

Liu Tang said anxiously: "But he shot Brother Chao Gai with a medicine arrow, making Brother Chao Gai's life and death uncertain!"

Li Yan said: "I asked, he didn't shoot the arrow."

Liu Tang said: "Why didn't he shoot it, the arrow still has his name on it!"

Shi Wengong took down the quiver on his back, handed it to Liu Tang, and said, "This is my arrow. Check if there is medicine in it, and there is a word in it... I practice shooting hundreds of arrows every day." , consume countless arrows, how can I have time to engrave letters on the arrows?"

Liu Tang said: "Who knows if this pot of arrows is yours?"

Shi Wengong said: "I use a [-]-jin hard bow. In order to let it exert its greatest power, all my arrows are specially made, and they are two inches longer than ordinary arrows. Anyone who knows me can testify to me. In addition, I have never used tipped arrows, and anyone who is familiar with me can attest to this."

Bai Sheng compared the medicinal arrow with Shi Wengong's, and it was almost two inches shorter.

Shi Wengong said again: "Let's talk big again, we still need arrows to deal with you? If it wasn't for the governor who saved your lives, you would already be my prisoners."

Although Shi Wengong's words were somewhat arrogant, they were not aimless. If Li Yan hadn't besieged Wei to rescue Zhao, the people in Erlong Mountain would have been able to drink a pot last night, and maybe Shi Wengong and others would have caught a few of them.

Although it has not been confirmed yet, the people in Erlong Mountain have vaguely believed that this arrow was not shot by Shi Wengong, and Zhi Han Liu Tang even asked bluntly: "If it was not shot by Shi Wengong, then who shot this arrow? "

At this moment, a weak voice suddenly sounded: "You don't need to ask, I know who shot this arrow!"

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(End of this chapter)