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Chapter 922 "Dragon Snake Takes Land (Knot)"

"Chapter thief! Give back my brother's life!"

"Kill Zhang Thief! Brothers, follow me——!"

Amidst the roar, a group of "Song Army" headed towards the large tent of the Chinese Army.

Although the formation was messy, there were thousands of people, all of them had fierce faces, and the leader was the first rebel who was recruited, Xiangyang Guo Kang.

The Western Army was removed from the city of Bianliang, and the Secret Department of the Governor's Mansion thoughtfully passed on the news as soon as possible.

The Song army guarding the rear suddenly boiled.

The composition of this group of Song troops is very complicated, including the imperial guards from the Beijing camp who moved to the capital, the Xiang army originally stationed in the south, and the anti-bandit troops who were recruited from all walks of life.

As early as when they first arrived in the South, the Western Army died of illness due to unacceptable water and soil. Later, they quelled the turmoil in the Jiangnan area, attacked Jinghu, and fought fiercely with the Fangla Army. Up to now, there will be no [-] elites left.

So most of the dead before were forbidden soldiers and rebels.

Especially Rebels.

Zhang Dun searched for gold in the shit of the imperial army and the Xiang army, recruited elites to supplement the western army, then disrupted the bandit army, reorganized the various ministries, and appointed Guo Kang and others as the top ten military envoys, each leading the army.

As a result, in less than half a year, half of the top ten Jiedu envoys died, and their subordinates suffered heavy losses. They were all killed by Fang La's fierce generals, but they also killed many of the opponent's generals...

Song Jiang's judgment at that time can be described as hitting the nail on the head. If he is recruited by the court, he will not end well.

Use these recruited people to consume with the bandit army. Anyway, the dead and injured are all bandits, and the court doesn't feel bad at all.

Guo Kang and the others were not stupid. Seeing Jiedu envoys fall one after another, they were filled with shock and anger. However, due to the reorganization of various armies, their original subordinates were all transferred to other commanders, and there were many conflicts among them. It can be said that there is a mess, coupled with the suppression of the elite Western Army, even if you dare to be angry, you dare not speak.

until now.

The Western Army is gone.

Their remaining five Jiedushi became the strongest force in the Song Army.

What are you waiting for?
revenge!revenge!
However, when the thieves' troops rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army, what they saw were not panicked soldiers, but an elite team headed by two black men.

"Song Jiang!"

Guo Kang looked at the dark-faced and short man, and immediately thought of the experience of being captured in the first place. He shot an arrow, but was blocked by the shield. He became more and more angry, and said through gritted teeth: "I was just about to find you, but you still didn't come back!" Dare to send it to your door? Cut off your head, and together with old thief Zhang, pay homage to my brother's life!"

Song Jiang was majestic and majestic, and shouted loudly: "Guo Kang, you were captured by me in the past, and you were supposed to be executed on the spot. It was Zhang Gong who interceded, saying that you were a good citizen, and you were forced to make trouble under the heavy tax. But the circumstances are justifiable, you should take the crime and make meritorious service! Zhang Gong even gave you a scarlet robe and sealed your wife and son, have you forgotten these? Now you insult Zhang Gong, how ungrateful it is!"

Guo Kang spat on the ground: "It's so nice to say, that old thief is just using us to work for him!"

Song Jiang said coldly: "As a warrior, who doesn't take risks, who doesn't hold his head on his waist, you want to be in a high position, and you want to be safe. How can there be such a good thing in the world? It's really ridiculous!"

In terms of eloquence, even ten Guo Kangs are no match for Song Jiang alone. His face turned red, and he was about to strike directly: "I'll kill you!!"

Song Jiang ignored them, looked at the other bandits, and said in a loud voice: "Soldiers, you are already the imperial court's forbidden army. It is the imperial court that provides you with food and clothing, and houses your families. Don't listen to these ungrateful, doomed thieves. Agitation, they are also using you to work hard!"

"Now that the Yan army is about to go south, when we fight at this time, we must let the enemy gain in vain. The Yan army is strict in governing the army, and the rules are much stricter than the imperial court. How can you bear that kind of restraint?"

"Soldiers, don't do things that hurt your loved ones and make your enemies happy!"

Song Jiang's voice was loud and sincere, and his analysis made sense.

But it is a pity that some people can be reasonable, while others are unreasonable.

"Bah! We have been bullied miserably by those veterans during this period of time. What's the point if you don't do this and don't do that!"

"Kill!!"

There is no doubt that this group of bandits is the latter.

They don't have the rationality to think about the overall situation at all. They only know that they have been aggrieved during this period of time. Now that the boulder on their heads has finally been removed, it doesn't matter what happens to him in the future, let's talk about it first!
Especially Guo Kang, with a groaning voice, actually rushed to the front line, surrounded by brave personal guards selected by him, and shouted fearlessly: "Song Jiang, watch me come to kill you!"

Song Jiang secretly sighed, knowing that a bloody conflict was no longer inevitable, he waved his hand: "Kill!"

"Brother Gongming, watch Tie Niu!"

Li Kui, who had been standing quietly behind him all this time, rushed out roaring after hearing the words.

But this time Song Jiang did not order him, but to protect the cronies behind Guo Kang.

The man suddenly jumped up, and with a swipe of the knife, he aimed at Guo Kang's back and chopped it down.

"what!!"

The Jiedu envoy didn't have time to react, he let out a scream, and rushed forward as blood shot out.

"Boss!"

This turn of events happened so suddenly that no one expected that Song Jiang would arrange an internal response beside Guo Kang early on. The eyes of the other four bandit army leaders who were appointed as Jiedu envoys were tearing apart. While shouting together, they subconsciously He alerted the guards around him.

At such a juncture, a black whirlwind blew out!
The red-eyed Li Kui held a pair of axes and swung out a wave of death. The light of the ax really hurt when touched, and crippled when touched. The broken limbs and arms turned into the background of his charge, and the rolled up red The flaming waves danced a blood-colored wave.

"kill!!"

Not only was this black whirlwind attacking head-on, but also ambushes appeared all around.

Song Jiang came from a humble background and came from behind. He failed to establish any prestige in the Western Army, but with his ability and skills, he gathered a considerable number of forbidden troops.

The short ones are top-notch. Compared with the bandit army, this group of imperial guards is definitely considered excellent. Now, under the leadership of Mu Hong, Deng Fei, Bao Xu, Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang, they surrounded them with gunpowder arrows, spewed and burned them, and left them behind. The poisonous smoke fireball explodes thick yellow smoke.

"Ah-ah-!!"

The thieves dispersed completely, and even panicked, trampling each other, howling incomparably.

"Ugh……"

Song Jiang watched, not feeling very happy, but sighed deeply.

Just as he said just now, the Yan army will only benefit from the internal strife in the Song army.

In the past, no matter what the Song army said, the numbers were still superior to the opponent. Once they lived in a dangerous place and deployed layers of defense lines in the Jianghuai River, no matter how elite the Yan army was, they would have to suffer extremely tragic casualties if they wanted to attack.

But now that the Western Army has been removed, the remaining Song Army is directly reduced to a mess, killing each other, and it is almost impossible to defend the Jianghuai line of defense.

"After dealing with this group of most disobedient thieves, I wonder if we can gather [-] soldiers?"

"The Yan Army recruited and surrendered a lot of Western troops. Manpower is needed to arrange the soldiers. This attack on Jianghuai has at most one army commander. If there are [-] soldiers, I still have a chance to defend..."

Song Jiang calculated silently.

After accepting Zhang Dun's teachings, he will not give up any hope even if he is in a desperate situation.

Just waiting for the war to subside quickly, a flame burst out in the barracks not far away.

Then thick black smoke spread quickly in sight, and screams came from all directions.

"It's not good...it's screaming!"

When the most worrying situation happened, Song Jiang suddenly changed color, and made a decisive decision: "Everyone, retreat quickly...Tie Niu is back!!"

Mu Hong and the others naturally knew how terrifying Ying Xiao was, and they immediately started to retreat regardless of the fact that there were still two Jiedu envoys standing guard.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!"

On the other hand, Li Kui's eyes were red, his feet were stepping on the bloody water, and he aimed at the two distraught Jiedu envoys.

But after all, this is not in the original book. In the city of Jiangzhou, the thieves are also the soldiers who cut down the common people. If they dare to follow Guo Kang and others to kill the coach, they all have a sense of bravery. Seeing the moment of life and death, they also rushed towards Li Kui .

"Shu! Swish! Swish..."

A series of bloody mouths opened on Li Kui's body, and both sides soon became blood men, but the Song army fell and fell, but Li Kui still charged bravely, cutting down the last two Jiedu envoys, including the personal guards, to the ground.

Because none of the injuries he suffered was fatal, this bloodthirsty man instinctively avoided the damage, and the direction was not blindly going deep, but turned around and came back to kill again.

If you cut like this, unless you are completely exhausted, you can really kill seven in and seven out of the group of enemies.

But it was precisely such a red-eyed gesture that made Song Jiang unable to let Li Kui go down: "Bring him back quickly!"

But this guy rushed too fast, even if he turned his head back, he was still far away from Mu Hong, Mu Chun, Bao Xu and Deng Fei. Only Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang and his wife saw each other and shouted: "Brother, let's go first, let's go!" Bring Iron Bull back!"

Song Jiang subconsciously nodded, but his heart skipped a beat, with a strong sense of unease: "Be careful!"

But it was too late to stop them at this time, Zhang Qing and his wife led dozens of elites, rushed into the crowd, and joined up in the direction of Li Kui.

"Tie Niu! Brother Gongming tells you to go!"

Zhang Qing took the lead, threw himself behind him, and roared loudly.

Li Kui has one advantage, no matter how hard he kills, he will not attack Song Jiang and others. He died under the blood-stained ax for no apparent reason.

But it was precisely this avoidance of danger that made Zhang Qing's body exposed under the cover of the shield.

"Whoosh!"

Before long, a crossbow shot at Zhang Qing's face at an extremely tricky angle, and pierced deeply into the eye socket.

This man who followed Song Jiang into the battle, and the man who survived a hundred battles showed astonishment, and fell down softly.

"If you can't kill Song Jiang...you can kill his subordinates...that's fine..."

The person who sent out the crossbow arrows was Guo Kang who fell to the ground. After being attacked, he fell to the ground and pretended to be dead. His curled up body was not trampled to death. Instead, he seized the opportunity and gave the final counterattack.

"what--!!"

Seeing her husband fall down, Erniang Sun uttered a shrill cry, threw herself at Guo Kang's side, and chopped off his head with one blow.

Even though Zhang Qing is so proficient in business, Zhang Qing's expression has dissipated. Sun Erniang hugged his body and said in a sobbing voice: "Didn't we agree at the beginning to open a small shop and recruit a few capable people, the business will be prosperous, and we will be happy... Why is it that I’m the only one left! Why is it that I’m the only one left!!”

The red light in Li Kui's eyes dissipated, and he rushed over, crying loudly: "It's all the fault of Tieniu! It's all the fault of Tieniu!"

Now is not the time to cry, Erniang Sun wiped away her tears, and put Fulang's body on her back. This time, she will never sell it to the government to receive a reward: "Let's go! Brother is still waiting for us!"

When they rushed out of the Song camp, there was already a sea of ​​flames inside, the soldiers scattered and fled in all directions, and countless soldiers fell in a pool of blood.

Song Jiang, who was standing on the hillside, was extremely uncomfortable witnessing this scene. When he saw the body on Sun Erniang's back, he couldn't help shaking his whole body, and tears welled up in his eyes:

"Brother Zhang Qing!! It hurts me too!!"

……

"Wang Yin, we are allies, and we are fighting against Beiyan's tyranny. Why did you break the alliance and attack my palace!"

When Song Ying was caught in flames, Meng Yue was also shouting loudly on the walls of the Shu Palace in Chengdu in Sichuan and Shu, his voice full of despair.

Wang Yin stood at the foot of the city, looked at the magnificent palace, and said coldly: "Beiyan's tyranny? You might as well look at the evil deeds that Bandit Yang did in the middle of Shu, and the palaces he built, and then talk about such nonsense!"

This palace was built when Yang Tianwang called himself "Xingshu King", and only three to four out of ten have been completed so far. It is extremely extravagant and magnificent.

It is not surprising that Sichuan and Shu are indeed rich.

In the mid-to-late Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, there was a folk proverb called "the prosperity of the world, Yang is the first", and another saying, "Yang Yiyi Yi Er".

This Yang is naturally Yangzhou, and Yi is Yizhou, that is, Chengdu.

In the early Tang Dynasty, these two places were not so critical. After the Anshi Rebellion, the economic status of the north declined, and the status of the Yangtze River Basin rose. Yangzhou and Chengdu became the most prosperous commercial cities in the country, and their status even surpassed Chang'an and Luoyang.

In the Song Dynasty, this trend did not change much. At most, the former Bianliang was put at the forefront, but now the wealth of Sichuan and Shu was used by Yang Tianwang for pleasure, and any kind of palace could be built.

Similarly, it is conceivable what life the people in the land of Sichuan and Shu lived, but Yang Tianwang, with his [-] soldiers and generals, reached a tacit agreement with wealthy merchants and gentry, and did whatever he wanted in the dangerous land, so he didn't care about the life and death of the people at the bottom. .

As a result, half of the [-] soldiers died under the city of Xiangyang, and Yang Tianwang went north. Although Chuanshu didn't invent such a euphemistic word, Chuanshu really lost its king.

In fact, this heir did not have prestige to succeed him. He reluctantly succeeded the King of Shu under the recommendation of Meng Yue and other courtiers who had fled back. The situation was precarious.

Under such circumstances, when Wang Yin led the elite into Shu, Meng Yue welcomed him, not completely trusting him, but choosing the lesser of two evils. After all, outside Xiangyang City, Wang Yin worked hard to rescue the Shu army... …

But he never expected that the other party turned his face like a book and killed him directly in front of the palace.

Anyway, it was already seen by Tu Qiongdao, Shi Bao shouted: "Meng Yue, I know you are a friend from the same hometown as Yang Thief. His Royal Highness Yan Wang said that he only punishes the head and evil, and does not involve the three clans. If our army really enters the city, You must know what the soldiers are going to do!"

"King Yan...King Yan... Is there anyone in the world who doesn't vote for Yan?"

With a mournful face, Meng Yue huddled at the top of the city, and murmured: "The king handed over Shu to me, and I will not surrender even if I die."

Seeing that there was no response from the palace, Wang Yin was not in a hurry: "Welcome the Weiyuan army into Sichuan and Shu, how long can this mere palace city that has lost all hearts be defended!"

When the Weiyuan army led by Qin Ming appeared outside the palace of the king of Shu, the other Shu troops in the city completely collapsed.

Meng Yue, who still wanted to stick to it until the last moment, was directly killed, his body was thrown out, and the gate of the city was opened wide. The eldest son of King Yang Tian, ​​who inherited the throne of Shu King, walked out holding the surrender table.

After Qin Ming saluted to the north, he took the descending form instead of King Yan.

Since then.

After Jingxiang in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, it lives in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. In troubled times, Sichuan and Shu, which are the easiest to form a country within a country, officially belong to the territory of Yan.

……

Yanjing.

The Jiying Hall in the southeast of the palace became busy.

Tomorrow is the imperial examination, and it's time for the last round of imperial examination.

More than one hundred tables and desks were neatly arranged at the east and west ends of the main hall, and the center of the hall was empty for candidates to worship King Yan after entering.

This is a must to bow down, because the palace examination is actually an apprenticeship, and it is a disciple of the emperor, so a big ceremony must be made.

Although he has not ascended the throne yet, His Royal Highness King Yan, who is no different from the Son of Heaven in people's minds, will sit in the center of the hall. The greater the chance of attention.

So a group of servants filed in. The leader, Lan Congxi, took the list and compared the names and places of origin on the table, not daring to make any mistakes.

Compared with Lan Congxi's concentration, the other servants were a little absent-minded, and even whispered after making eye contact.

Because His Royal Highness King Yan has not yet returned to the palace.

Tomorrow is the imperial examination, can you make it in time?

"I heard that His Highness has already wiped out Fang La in the south during this Southern Expedition, and captured the rebels in Sichuan alive. The rebels will be escorted into Beijing soon!"

"What I heard is that Fang La was recruited, but the old court was destroyed?"

"It doesn't matter who is destroyed, who is demoted, the world is settled, it was all useless to worry before, if you can't keep up with the imperial examination, those Jinshi will have to cry, let's see who dares to say one more word..."

……

Lan Congxi listened with his ears pricked up. The servants in the palace like to chew their ears the most. When they get together, they have nothing to talk about. And he has a sensitive identity, and he dare not be careless until he is fully established. Inquire about the news, once there is a new situation, after confirming it, you must immediately report it to the princess, father, and mother.

After listening to it for a long time, Lan Congxi found the same thing, "Shut your mouths, if you break a taboo, both the king and the princess are good-tempered, but this old slave has to fulfill the duty of internal affairs." , to rectify the family law!"

The hall was suddenly silent, and all the servants worked obediently, until suddenly there was an excited shout from outside: "I'm back! Your Majesty is back!"

Lan Congxi, who was still calm just now, spread his legs and ran out.

When Li Yan, who was riding on the lion's back, entered the city gate, the whole city of Yanjing rejoiced, and the slight worry that shrouded the court disappeared, leaving only the shock and joy of the achievements of the Southern Expedition.

The heroes are tied...

King Yan returns to the palace!

……

[Dragon and Snake Rise to Land] is over, please look forward to the last volume of the Great Song Chapter [Jun Lin Tian Tian]

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