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Chapter 353 Plotting Zengtou City

It is said that Chai Jin lived in Liangshan for more than half a month, and he looked around all over the place. Finally, he couldn't bear the loneliness, so he offered to leave. Mu Xu tried to persuade him to stay, but Chai Jin was determined, so Mu Xu had to take someone to send him out of Liangshan Park for thirty years. Only then did I bid farewell to him.

The next day, accompanied by Xu Guanzhong, Zhu Wu, and Lin Chong, Mu Xu checked the training situation of the Ma Jun.After only watching for a moment, Mu Xu couldn't help frowning, and said in displeasure,

"After training for so long, how can you still be so unfamiliar with riding skills? If you really go to the battlefield, wouldn't you be delivering food to the enemy?"

Lin Chong clasped his fists and explained, "Brother, it's because the younger brother didn't train hard. It's really a last resort. There are only more than a thousand horses in the cottage. If you exercise too much, you may damage your horsepower."

Mu Xu was taken aback when he heard the words, and then patted his forehead. He forgot that this was in the Song Dynasty. Because war horses were too scarce, horses were much more valuable than soldiers.

"I'm blaming me for this matter. I should have made it clear to the coach. From tomorrow onwards, the normal training will begin immediately. Don't be too distressed about the horses. What I want is an elite cavalry, not a show!"

"Yes, Lin Chong takes orders!"

Mu Xu nodded, then rolled his eyes and asked a few people, "Who of you have heard of Zengtou City?"

Only Zhu Wu answered, "The village master is talking about Zengtou City in Lingzhou?"

Mu Xu replied, "That's right, that's where it is. As far as I know, the land was not called this at first. It was changed to Zengtou City because the Zeng family occupied the village. Zeng Nong, the owner of the Zeng family, was over five years old. Xun, originally a Jurchen, came to the Central Plains to do some ginseng and horse trading when he was young, and accumulated tens of thousands of wealth.

Because of his physical strength and being a foreigner, the government did not dare to offend him, so Zengtou became more and more powerful.The most important thing is that his family has four or five thousand horses. "

Seeing that Mu Xu has reached this point, if the three of them still don't understand what he wants to do, they will be fools.So Xu Guanzhong asked, "What is the name of the teacher?"

Mu Xu replied, "If you are not of my race, their hearts must be different. Since the Zeng family entered China, they should behave honestly with their tails between their legs, but his family is good, and dare to bully our Han people. Moreover, in the future, the Jin people will go south. His family must be internally responding, and it can’t be said that they are doing spies now, so they must act first.”

The three of them knew in their hearts that no matter how high-sounding the reasons Mu Xu said, they couldn't cover up the fact that they had a crush on other people's war horses.Of course, they wouldn't be so ignorant, let's put this on the surface.

Several people discussed how to attack Nazengtou City.During this period, Zhu Wu said, "Zengtou City is only three or five days away from Liangshanbo, which is fine, but I heard that there are [-] to [-] horses there, and the five sons of the Zeng family are all extremely brave.

In addition, the Zeng family also hired three heroes as instructors, namely Shi Wengong, Su Ding, and Na Yu Baosi. These three people are not idle people, especially Shi Wengong, who is even more inappropriate. brave! "

When Mu Xu saw that Zhu Wu mentioned Shi Wengong, Lin Chong's expression changed, and he immediately remembered Shi Wengong's mentorship, and asked, "Master, do you have friendship with Shi Wengong?"

Lin Chong smiled wryly and said, "Where did the friendship come from? That guy came from the same school as me, but he was extremely greedy for money, which made my teacher displeased, so he was expelled from the school."

Holding the feather fan, Xu Guanzhong asked, "Maybe I bought him with money?"

Lin Chong shook his head, "Although I don't despise him as a human being, I have to say that Shi Wengong is very honest. He always takes people's money and eliminates disasters with others, and he can be regarded as having a beginning and an end."

Several people pondered for a long time, and realized that to take down Zengtou City, they still need to attack with troops.

Before they could discuss the reason, Shi Qian, who was in charge of the scout battalion, came in a hurry and sent an urgent military situation.Mu Xu took it over and saw that it was reported by the spies of the Jizhou Prefecture. The Jezhou Prefecture had sent [-] troops, led by the regimental training envoy Huang An and Sandu's arrest envoy He Tao, and they were now heading to Yuncheng County.

Seeing that only [-] people had come, Mu Xu, who knew the combat effectiveness of the Song Army, smiled coldly and circulated the military report to several people.After everyone had seen it, he said to Xu Guanzhong, "I said before that the military division is fully responsible for this matter. I don't know how to deal with it?"

Xu Guanzhong said with a smile, "Where do we need any sophisticated strategies? Liangshan has [-] miles of water as a screen, and the government and army can't block all the waterways. When they go deep into the densely covered waterways, they only need to be dragged by the navy for an hour or three quarters before dispatching A strange army landed elsewhere and attacked their camp from the rear, and the enemy was defeated."

Several people laughed, Mu Xu pondered for a while, and found that Xu Guanzhong was right.In the original text, the Jeju government sent Huang An and He Tao to lead a thousand people to pursue Chao Gai's group. As a result, the three Ruan brothers led dozens of villagers and killed the entire army.There's no reason that it can be done in that situation, but it can't be done now, after all, it's also led by those two idiots this time.

"Okay, then wait for the good news from the military advisor!" Mu Xu replied casually, without the slightest intention of meddling.After saying hello to a few people, he took Shi Qian and walked away.

After more than half a month, the [-] soldiers and horses from Jeju Prefecture have arrived at the outskirts of Yuncheng County, and have been stationed on the southeast bank of Shuibo for more than six or seven days.During this period, not to mention the confrontation with Liang Shan's group, he didn't even see a single thief.

As food and grass dwindled day by day, the Governor of Jeju issued a message from time to time to urge Huang An and He Tao to be like ants on a hot pot, and they had to deal with the county magistrate of Yuncheng to send people to complain from time to time. , making the two heads extremely large.

After waiting for another two days, Huang An finally couldn't hold back his temper, so he summoned He Tao to discuss with him about entering the army.Since He Tao lost a pair of ears, he is much more cautious. When he heard that Huang An was going to take the initiative to attack, he quickly stopped him.

"Your Excellency, absolutely not, our tens of thousands of horses are all infantry, and they don't know water skills at all. And the Liangshan Pods are densely covered with water networks, and the thieves have been entrenched here for a long time. If anyone doesn't notice, it will be regrettable. gone."

Huang An paced back and forth in the tent, and said irritably, "How can I not know what you said, but the governor is very urgent. Besides, the food and grass we brought can only last for another ten days. Is it so gray?" Won't you go back?

If this campaign fails, the two of us will inevitably be dispatched to Salmonella Island.Instead of sitting and waiting to die, why not give it a go, maybe those thieves would have run away in fright when they saw our army coming. "

Thinking of the horror of Salmon Island, He Tao couldn't help shivering, but finally agreed.Immediately, the two split up, Huang An assembled the army to prepare for the war, while He Tao went to the nearby villages to collect ships.

After exhausting his efforts, He Tao finally obtained more than [-] fishing boats and recruited several fishermen as guides.On the day of the march, the two swore an oath before the battle, and left He Tao to guard the camp. Huang An boarded a boat with nearly [-] people and sailed towards the center of the water.

After traveling seven or eight miles on the waterway, turning over a dozen forks, seeing the boat gradually sailing into a reed marsh, Huang An finally noticed something was wrong when he looked at the reeds that were as tall as a person around him.He suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, summoned the guides, and pretended to be dignified,

"How do you lead the way, how can you bring the boat into the reeds, if the enemy uses fire to attack, we will be safe and secure?"

Who would have thought that upon hearing this, the fishermen burst out laughing, and one of them, a man with a ferocious appearance, shouted, "You dog officer only found out now, isn't it too late?"

Huang An was shocked when he heard the words, and asked sharply, "Who are you?"

The man replied, "Grandpa doesn't change his name when he's going, and he doesn't change his surname when he's sitting down. That's true for Ruan Xiaoqi, the leader of the Liangshanbo water army!"

"Fire arrows with me and catch a living!" Huang An hurriedly ordered around, but there was no time, Ruan Xiaoqi jumped into the water with the person just as he finished speaking, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Huang An stood at the bow of the boat and was looking for signs underwater when he heard his subordinates shout, "My lord, look!" There are dozens of small boats, each of which is full of hay.

Before Huang An gave the order to retreat, accompanied by a loud arrow into the sky, the small boats ignited raging flames and were pushed from the water to attack Huang An's troops.

(End of this chapter)