Water Margin people

Dengzhou.

The sound of gunfire in the dense fog woke up everyone in Terengganu.

"What is the situation, where is the sound coming from!"

Wang Shizhong, the magistrate of Dengzhou, ran out of the back hall in a hurry, his official uniform still not on.

"Master Zhifu, it's the sword fish village!"

A servant pointed in the direction of Daoyu Village and said.

"Sword Fish Village! What's going on here?"

Wang Shizhong looked in the direction of Daoyu Village and was puzzled. There were [-] sailors stationed there, and it was impossible for the sailors to go out to sea in the heavy fog these days. Why did they make such a big commotion at night?

"Assembly troops and horses quickly!"

Wang Shizhong roared, although the fog could not see what happened, but from the sound he knew something serious happened.

The drums of the civil war in Dengzhou Prefecture sounded, and teams of soldiers came out of the barracks. Even if the city was foggy, they could recognize the direction according to the houses and roads.

"Prefect Wang, what happened to Daoyu Village?"

Dengzhou Tongpan Zongze, wearing an official robe and wearing a sword, rode to the magistrate's yamen with a few guards. There was a long ringing at the knife fish village.

"Zong Tongpan, I don't know what happened, the knife fish village..."

Wang Shizhong pointed in the direction of Daoyu Village and was about to speak, but his face changed drastically immediately.

"Fire! Fire!"

Wang Shizhong said with a trembling voice, although it was covered by thick fog, the red flame had already dyed the white fog in the darkness red.

"How could it be? That's Sword Fish Village!"

Zong Ze couldn't believe what he saw.

"The magistrate, the judge, the judge, the soldiers and horses are assembled!"

Pan Shanyu, a trainee of the Dengzhou regiment, came with a dragon-patterned purple gold spear and led his troops on a red-maned horse.

"General Pan, quickly take someone to Daoyu Village to find out the situation!"

Seeing Pan Shanyu coming, Wang Shizhong immediately pointed in the direction of Daoyu Village and ordered.

"Let's go to Sword Fish Village!"

Pan Shanyu waved the dragon-patterned Zijin lance in his hand and left with his soldiers and horses.

"Master, the prefect, the situation is unclear now, the outside is shrouded in thick fog, and it is still night, it may be dangerous for the army to go out."

Sun Li, the governor of Dengzhou soldiers and horses, hurriedly clasped his fists to Wang Shizhong.

"What's the danger? There are only a few thieves around Dengzhou. The biggest ones are those in Dengyun Mountain. There are only eight or ninety people."

Wang Shizhong waved his hand and said that no one near Dengzhou could threaten the officers and soldiers. Pan Shanyu even brought a thousand soldiers this time. What's the danger?
Seeing that Wang Shizhong had said that, Sun Li didn't dare to say any more, so he backed away with his fists clasped.

"Sun Tijutsu, the situation is unclear now. If you lead people to patrol the city, there will be absolutely no chaos in Dengzhou Mansion!"

Zong Ze looked at Sun Li and said.

"Yes, judge the judge!"

Sun Li cupped his fists and led the people there.

"Zong Tongpan, let's go into the mansion, the result will be resolved after dawn, let's have a cup of tea first."

Wang Shizhong invited Zong Zedao.

"Wang Zhizhou, what's the matter?"

Zong Ze understood the meaning of Wang Shizhong's words. He had just been transferred from Laizhou Ye County Magistrate to Dengzhou General Judge not long ago, and he was not close to Wang Shizhong. It must be something to invite him to drink tea at this time.

Wang Shizhong smiled, but didn't speak, just pointed to the north with his finger.

Zong Ze nodded silently, understood what Wang Shizhong meant, and followed Wang Shizhong into the mansion.

The servant quickly brought up the fragrant tea.

"Zong Tongpan, you have been an official on Jingdong East Road for many years."

Wang Shizhong looked at Zong Ze and asked.

"Meng Shengen, Laizhou Glue and Laizhou Ye counties have each released a county magistrate."

Zong Ze replied directly.

"Laizhou and Dengzhou are adjacent, and they are both state capitals near the sea. Zong Tongpan should know something about the situation on the other side of the sea."

Wang Shizhong looked at Zong Ze and continued to ask.

"Wang Zhizhou has something to say."

Zong Ze directly said that the situation outside the city is unknown, and he has no time to play charades with Wang Shizhong.

"Does Zong Tong know anything about the north?"

Wang Shizhong pointed to the north and said.

"Are the Khitans of the Liao Kingdom?"

Zong Ze asked with a frown.

"No, it's not the Khitans of the Liao Kingdom, but the Jurchens!"

Master Wang said mysteriously.

"Jurchen? I have also heard that in the early years before the Bohai Kingdom was destroyed by the Liao Kingdom, there were Jurchens who crossed the sea from Suzhou (now Jinzhou, Dalian, Liaoning) to exchange some cloth, tea and ironware. Never appeared again."

Zong Ze opened his mouth and said, he released two county magistrates in Laizhou, and he knew a lot of things after serving in office for 8 years.

"That's right, but now the Liao Kingdom is weak, and the Jurchen is rising. The Jurchen defeated the Liao Kingdom several times ago, and now it has established a country in Huining Prefecture, with the title of Jin! The Liao Kingdom has retreated to the Zhongjing Road and Shangjing Road, and most of the Tokyo Road has fallen. into the hands of the Jurchen."

Master Wang said.

"That is to say, most of the state capitals of Tokyo Province in Liao Kingdom are controlled by the Jurchens?"

Zongze's expression changed drastically. This was explosive news. The invincible Khitans were actually defeated, and they even lost Tokyo Dao.

The Liao State divided the territory into five capitals, Tokyo Road is the entire Liaodong; Shangjing Road is the entire Mongolian grassland; Xijing Road is east of Hetao, west of Yanshan Mountain, north of Taihang, and south of Mongolia; Cloud sixteen states.

"Yes, this news is absolutely accurate. Before the fog, a group of exiles from Suzhou, Liaodong, arrived near Dengzhou, and they are now being held in a dungeon. Is Zong Tongpan interested in interrogating them together?"

Wang Shizhong looked at Zongze and asked, although he has a higher official position than Zongze, but his experience as an official is not as good as Zongze's. The exiles from the Liao Kingdom are of great importance, so he must be more cautious.

"Listen to Wang Zhizhou!"

Zong Ze Zhengse said that the news of the exiles from the Liao Kingdom is of great importance. Some exiles prove that there is a big problem in the Liao Kingdom, and the Song Dynasty, which borders the Liao Kingdom, must also be more vigilant.

The two soon came to the dungeon. In a relatively clean cell, three people were lying on a bed of hay. One of them was actually a monk. It was Gao Yaoshi, Cao Xiaocai, and monk Lang Rong who were exiled in Suzhou, Liaodong.

"Wang Zhizhou, we didn't intend to break into the territory of Song Dynasty, please let me go!"

When the three of them saw Wang Shizhong coming, they immediately got up and bowed down. The three of them took more than [-] family members on two large boats. They wanted to go to Korea, but because they didn't understand hydrology, they were taken by the current to the vicinity of Dengzhou. He was captured by the Dengzhou Navy.

"Let me ask you three, what is the current situation in Liaodong?"

Zong Ze looked at the three of them and asked.

"Reporting to my lord, Liaodong is now dominated by the Jurchens. Since the Jurchens raised their troops last year, it has been more than a year now, and they have taken down Huining Mansion and Huanglong Mansion. A few months ago, they also defeated the 70 troops of Emperor Daliao. Now Go south to capture Pennsylvania and Xianzhou, and even begin to attack Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo!"

"The Jurchens are truly uncivilized barbarians. They burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. I was worried that the Liaoyang Mansion would not be able to stop the Jurchens, so I took a boat and wanted to go to Korea, but I didn't want to break into the territory of the Song Dynasty!"

Gao Yaoshi quickly replied that the Jurchens were originally a tribe between the white mountains and the black waters, and the cruel environment made them behave in an extremely brutal manner, with no etiquette or morality at all. They are really worried that they are trapped in purgatory on earth, so they want to go into exile overseas to find a way out.

Pan Shanyu, a reader-created character