Xianxia version of Water Margin

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Not long after Tang Long, Yan Qing, Shi Jin, and Deng Fei arrived in the capital, Aunt Gu and Sun Xin sent back news that Jiang Hongfei had not expected!

——Xu Ning was assassinated on Salmon Island a few months ago!

As for the reason?

It can only be said that the ordinary man is not guilty, but he is guilty of having a jade.

Gao Qiu also saw that the world was about to be in chaos.

As the "Minister of Defense" of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, Gao Qiu is likely to personally lead the troops on the battlefield.

On that battlefield, swords and guns have no eyesight, and arrows are ruthless. No matter if you are the "Minister of Defense" or not, if you are unlucky, a stray arrow can kill you.

There are too many such examples throughout the ages.

Later, Gao Qiu heard by chance that Xu Ning's ancestral golden armor with a goose feather circle was called Sai Tang Ni. It was made from the skin and fine gold of the ancient mythical beast Tang Ni, combined with many top-quality weapon refining materials. , has forty-nine restrictions, is invulnerable to swords, guns and arrows, is invulnerable to water, fire, wind and thunder, and is unparalleled in the world. It is light and stable when draped on the body. Even the attack of a top-notch Qi Refiner cannot break through its defense.

This is definitely a life-saving treasure on the battlefield.

Therefore, Gao Qiu sent people to Xu Ning to discuss purchasing his ancestral Yan Fei Circle Golden Armor.

Gao Qiu once heard someone say that this pair of wild goose feather armor is a treasure passed down by Xu Ning's ancestors for four generations. Many noble princes asked to see it, but Xu Ning refused to show it to others. This armor was his life. Prince Taiwei once offered Xu Ning 30,000 yuan, but Xu Ning was not willing to sell it to him.

——This is not only about money, but also the favor and face of a lieutenant.

Gao Qiu considered that although he was a favored and powerful Taiwei and was not comparable to Wang Taiwei, in the final analysis he was just a Taiwei, not much better than Wang Taiwei.

The key is that Xu Ning is Zhao Ji's favorite coach and he is the one who can see Zhao Ji.

Therefore, the people sent by Gao Qiu offered Xu Ning 100,000 yuan, and hinted to Xu Ning that as long as Xu Ning was willing to sell the golden armor with a feather ring, Gao Qiu owed Xu Ning a favor and wanted Xu Ning to part with him.

But Xu Ning really couldn't bear to wear the golden armor with golden feathers, so she declined.

Seeing that Xu Ning was so disrespectful, Gao Qiu was furious. He said sternly: "A little coach who is like a dog dares not to give me face. Xu Ning is looking for death!"

Xu Ning had a good friend named Chen Dian, who was an unsuccessful Yuhou under Gao Qiu. He knew that Xu Ning had a troubled cousin Tang Long. Later, when he and Xu Ning were drinking, he asked Tang Long and Xu Ning were drunk and did not keep their mouth shut. They casually told Chen Dian that Tang Long went to Liangshan and gained Jiang Hongfei's respect.

After hearing that Gao Qiu said that he wanted to deal with Xu Ning, Chen Dian took the initiative to find Gao Qiu and brought Xu Ning's cousin Tang Long to Liangshan. Liangshan told Gao Qiu about collusion.

At that time, not long after the Liangshan Army captured Daming Prefecture and Kaide Prefecture, Zhao Ji hated Jiang Hongfei and Shuibo Liangshan to death, and suffered from the fact that the Jin envoy in Bianliang City in Tokyo could not send troops to encircle Shuibo Liangshan with great fanfare, and he was feeling sulky.

In this case, Gao Qiu reported that Xu Ning had colluded with Shuibo Liangshan. Xu Ning's cousin was the leader of Shuibo Liangshan who was responsible for supervising the manufacture of weapons and armor. Their family might be providing soldiers and armors to Shuibo Liangshan. Where did Zhao Ji go? Can you not be angry?

Zhao Ji personally ordered: "Transfer Xu Ning to Kaifeng Mansion, and assign Yin Haosheng of Teng Mansion to conduct questioning. The investigation will reveal whether Xu Ning colluded with the Liangshan grass bandits and whether he provided soldiers and armor for the Liangshan grass bandits before execution."

After receiving the imperial edict, Xu Ning was imprisoned and sent to Kaifeng Mansion.

At the same time, Gao Qiu told Teng Fuyin about Zhao Ji's attitude, and asked Teng Fuyin to interrogate and find out the evidence that Xu Ning colluded with Shuibo Liangshan and provided Shuibo Liangshan with soldiers.

The emperor personally kept an eye on the case, how could Teng Fuyin dare to neglect it?

After being promoted to the court, Teng Fu Yin slapped the alarm and shouted: "Xu Ning, your irresponsible friend Chen Dian now accuses you of having an affair with the Liangshan grass bandits, purchasing ordnance for the Liangshan grass bandits, and causing your cousin Tang Long to be killed in the water." Bo Liangshan is the leader responsible for supervising the manufacture of weapons and armor, whether he is right or wrong is not based on actual recruitment!"

Xu Ning thought to himself: "What a beast, Chen Dian. You and I are like brothers, and you are here to harm me! If I can escape this disaster, I will never give up with you!"

Of course, Xu Ning did not admit Chen Dian's accusation. He only said that the two had conflicts and that Chen Dian harmed him. He also said that Tang Long returned to Yan'an and never went to Liangshan. Chen Dian's accusation was completely false.

Fu Gan said to Teng Fuyin: "How can you recruit such a naughty loser if you don't fight him!"

Tengfu Yin said: "That's right!" He shouted: "Get the batch and beat that guy!"

After hearing this, the yamen officer went up and knocked Xu Ning to the ground. He beat Xu Ning twice, causing Xu Ning's skin and flesh to burst open and blood to flow out.

Xu Ning is really a good man. Even if he was beaten like this, he still refused to fight. He only said: "Catching thieves requires stolen goods, and catching traitors requires both. If you say that I am having an affair in Shuibo Liangshan, bring me the evidence!"

After hearing this, Teng Mansion Yin was furious, called the jailer, and beat Xu Ning again, and hit him fifty times in a row, until Xu Ning was born and two Buddhas passed into nirvana, with his skin and flesh torn and blood dripping.

Xu Ning saw it. If he didn't do anything, he would definitely be beaten to death in court.

In fact, the moment he saw the official sent by Gao Qiu, Xu Ning knew that something had happened to his ancestral Yan Lingquan golden armor. Gao Qiu framed him because he refused to sell the armor. he.

At this moment, Xu Ning began to realize that one must not have any hobbies in life. For example, if he fell in love with this pair of wild goose feather armor and repeatedly rebelled against the powerful for it, even if there was no Gao Qiu, there would be others who would frame him for plotting against his armor. He, but he still can't see this, alas!

At first, Xu Ning was able to hold on even harder, but after being tortured, Xu Ning had no choice but to say: "The villain's cousin Tang Long did drop weeds on Liangshan in his lake, but this has nothing to do with the villain at all. I hope you'll treat me right." Make a clear decision."

Yin Ming of the Teng Mansion took action and shackled Xu Ning, a prisoner on death row, and ordered him to release the prisoner to the prison.

With Xu Ning's confession, Gao Qiu had won. He sent people to urge Teng Fuyin to continue interrogating Xu Ning.

Xu Ning's family brought food to Xu Ning's house, and he used money to buy and sue the superiors and subordinates. He spent a lot of money and silk in an attempt to avenge Xu Ning.

But Gao Qiu had already sent someone to say hello, and he would investigate anyone who dared to speak kindly to Xu Ning.

Back then, when Lin Chong entered the White Tiger Festival Hall by mistake, there was a man named Kong Mu who was on the case. His surname was Sun Mingding. He was the most upright person, very good-hearted, and liked considerate people, so everyone called him Sun Fo'er. He knew this because Gao Yanei fell in love with Lin Chong's wife, and Captain Gao deliberately framed Lin Chong, so he went to tell Teng Mansion Yin: "This incident has wronged Lin Chong. It is best for your husband to protect Lin Chong's life, so as not to end up with Captain Gao." Reputation as an accomplice.”

Tengfu Yin said: "He broke into the White Tiger Hall with a knife. Captain Gao condemned him and asked him, 'He entered the festival hall with a sharp knife in his hand and killed his own official.' How could he be so careful?"

Sun Ding said: "This Nanya Kaifeng Mansion does not belong to the imperial court, but to Gao Taiwei's family?"

Tengfu Yin said: "Nonsense!"

Sun Dingdao said: "Who doesn't know that Captain Gao is in power and relies on his powerful power, and he does all kinds of evil in his house, but if someone makes a minor offense, he will be sent to Kaifeng Mansion to kill him or cut him in pieces, but it is not from his house." Government?"

Tengfu Yin pondered for a while and asked: "According to what you said, how could Lin Chong's affairs be convenient for him to execute the dismissal?"

Sun Ding said: "Looking at Lin Chong's words, he is a sinless person. It's just that he was not taken away from the two places. Now he confesses that he has a sharp knife hanging from his waist and mistakenly entered the festival hall." Junzhou.”

Teng Fuyin felt that what Sun Ding said made sense, so he went to Gao Qiu and repeated Lin Chong's words.

Gao Qiu was short-sighted and was in trouble with Tengfu Yin, so he had no choice but to agree.

Later, when Teng Fuyin came back and was promoted to the imperial court, he asked Lin Chong to remove the long shackles, break the twenty-ridge staff, and asked a writer to prick his cheek. He measured the distance and distance of the place and found out whether it should be equipped with Cangzhou prison city.

And the matter is not over yet.

Soon after, Gao Qiu learned that Sun Ding was the one who ruined his affairs. He found an opportunity and assassinated Sun Ding to Salmon Island.

After killing the chicken to scare the monkey, no one in Kaifeng Mansion dared to confront Gao Qiu.

Therefore, after Gao Qiu sent someone to say hello, no matter how much money Xu Ning's family spent on taking care of it, it would just sink into the sea and be of no use at all.

Later, Xu Ning couldn't stand it any longer, so she could only take advantage of Madam Xu's visit to the prison and said to Madam Xu: "Teach Xu An to send my family's ancestral golden goose feather circle armor to the residence of Taiwei Gao. My life."

Madam Xu went home and did as she was told.

Gao Qiu, who got the Yanling Circle Golden Armor, originally wanted to stop putting Xu Ning to death.

But Chen Dian reminded Gao Qiu: "Have you forgotten Lin Chong?"

After being reminded by Chen Dian, Gao Qiu thought of Lin Chong's example. After he returned to the mountain, he opposed him everywhere and even shouted that he would attack the capital and kill him.

Therefore, Gao Qiu sent officials to hint to Teng Fu Yin that Zhao Ji was angry that Xu Ning had secretly crossed the river to Liangshan and must be sentenced severely.

Magistrate Teng removed the shackles, read the petition, sentenced Xu Ning to a forty-ridged cane, and ordered two officials to send Xu Ning to Salmon Island...

After Jiang Hongfei learned about this, he ordered Tang Long and others to take all Xu Ning's family members to Shuibo Liangshan, and ordered Shi Qian to lead the secret special battalion to go to Gao Qiu's house to encircle Xu Ning's wild goose feathers in gold. A took it. In order to facilitate Shi Qian, Jiang Hongfei lent his Qiankun bag to Shi Qian for use, and sent someone to get rid of the villain Chen Dian to complete this favor.

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"History of the Song Dynasty·Criminal Law Chronicles" says: "Sinners who borrowed money from the dead were often assigned to Salmon Island in the past, and those who were more likely to die were more likely to die."

The simple four words "Those who are most likely to die" give people endless imagination about the horror of Salmon Island. In other words, once they are "stabbed on Salmon Island", it basically means death.

During the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, Wang Yuanju, the transshipment envoy of Jingdong Road, wrote a letter to discuss the disadvantages of assassinating Salmon Island. Wang Yuanju said that the imperial court sent 300 prisoners to Salmon Island in one year, and 3,000 in ten years. But now there are only 180 prisoners left, and the rest are dead.

It can be seen from this how high the mortality rate is for the prisoners who were "imprisoned on Salmon Island", and the remaining 180 people are very likely to be prisoners who were recently imprisoned on Salmon Island.

In other words, going to Salmon Island is not a narrow escape, but almost no chance of death.

According to the news sent back by Tang Long and others, Xu Ning has been traveling to Salmon Island for more than three months. Excluding the time on the road, Xu Ning has probably stayed on Salmon Island for more than two months.

After such a long time, Xu Ning is not only dead, but may die at any time.

So this matter should be done sooner rather than later.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei handed over all the management and development of Shuibo Liangshan to Wang Lun, and handed over the command of troops to fight against the Song army to Xu Guanzhong, who personally led the Guards, Beiwei, and Tabai troops to defeat the enemy. Army and Ma Eighth Army went to Dengzhou.

Ordinarily, to attack Salmon Island, there is no need to use an army of more than 10,000 to 20,000 people, let alone Jiang Hongfei himself.

But Jiang Hongfei considered that the only navy that the Zhao and Song Dynasty could use at this stage was the Dengzhou navy, that is, the Ping navy and the Cheng navy.

The Zhao and Song dynasties were always concerned about bringing water to Liangshan, so they first sent Guan Sheng and then Hu Yanzhuo.

Under this situation, the Zhao and Song Dynasty would have to transfer its only naval force, the Dengzhou Navy, sooner or later. After all, without the navy, it would be impossible to attack Shuibo Liangshan, which was protected by eight hundred miles of water.

Therefore, although the Dengzhou navy is not very strong, it is indeed one of the few threats to Shuibo Liangshan.

Just in time to rescue Xu Ning, Jiang Hongfei discussed with several military advisors and decided to take a preemptive strike and eliminate the Dengzhou navy first.

It was precisely because of this plan that Jiang Hongfei went to Dengzhou himself and brought enough troops to crush the Dengzhou army.

There are three ways to go from Shuibo Liangshan to Dengzhou.

The first is to take the waterway, first enter the sea from Beiqing River, and then take the sea route to Salmon Island. The advantage of this is that you can avoid the officers and soldiers along the way. The disadvantage is that river boats cannot enter the sea, and you have to change to sea boats in Qingzhou.

The second option is to take the overland route, but there are many state capitals in between. If a small army of 20,000 swaggers through the city, it will inevitably alert the enemy.

The third way is to take the water route to Qingzhou first, and then change to the land route from Qingzhou. This is the fastest, and not only can you save some time, but you can also bypass several state capitals.

If Qingzhou was not in the hands of Shuibo Liangshan, Jiang Hongfei would probably take the third path.

But Qingzhou, especially the Qingbei area near the sea, has long been completely under the control of Shuibo Liangshan.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei chose a mixture of the first and third roads.

After everything was settled, a small army of 20,000 men, 500 men and one ship, totaling less than 400 large ships, arrived at Qingzhou Port from Beiqing River in a mighty manner.

After arriving in Qingzhou, Jiang Hongfei sent Bei Wei's army to defeat the navy. To be on the safe side, Jiang Hongfei sent Sun Jing to go with the Bei Wei army; ; In addition, the Po Enemy Army is responsible for supporting the Beiwei Army, and the Ma Ba Army is responsible for supporting the Tabai Army.

Unwilling to do so, Sun Li took the initiative to ask Jiang Hongfei to let him and the Eighth Army attack the Chengdu Navy. The reason was that he was more familiar with the roads to Dengzhou and the Chengdu Navy, so as not to delay the major event of Shuibo Liangshan due to unfamiliar roads and other trivial matters. , Jiao Chengjun fled to the sea and became a serious problem in Shuibo Liangshan.

The reason why Jiang Hongfei brought Sun Li and Ma Bajun here was because Sun Li was familiar with everything about Dengzhou.

Moreover, what Sun Li said made sense.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei temporarily switched the tasks of Ma Bajun and Tabai Army, and asked Sun Li to find some guides for Beiwei Army.

The main attack mission was gone, only support was left, which made Lu Junyi look at Sun Li unfavorably.

But Sun Li was not afraid at all.

Sun Lixin said: "To lead an army in a war, it is not about the individual's strength, but the ability to lead the troops. Don't think that just because you are strong and the troops you command are elite, you can be stronger than me. We are all familiar with the strong and the weak. You can see the real skill under your hands!”

In fact, Sun Li was not the only one who had such thoughts.

Nowadays, due to Jiang Hongfei's implementation of the strategy of "building walls high, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king", the situation of Liangshan in Shuibo is not obvious to the outside, but it is known that the heroes of Liangshan who have accumulated great strength in Liangshan in Shuibo are now They all worked hard to make meritorious deeds.

After all, in the eyes of the heroes of Liangshan, if Liangshan enters the water bank, he can seize the world, and if it returns, he can establish a small country. Both the left and right can become the founding heroes. Who doesn't want to go one step further?

After sending away the four cavalry armies that attacked the Dengzhou Navy, Jiang Hongfei led the personal guards to board the sea ship that Xiao Jiasui had prepared long ago, and personally went to Salmon Island to rescue people...

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