The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 376

A fire attack ambush did not come to an end until dusk.

Zhao Tun stood at the top of the city, his face was dark and difficult to see, his figure was like a gun, the rays of the setting sun shone over, reflecting his white robes, red like blood.

The air was filled with the unpleasant smell of burning things, as well as the smell of charred corpses. Even if the black smoke dissipated at this moment, it still made people feel dizzy and nauseated.

In the large area under the city, there is no longer any living people, water and fire are ruthless, and there is no luck. Human skills and the sharpness of swords and soldiers have never been able to compete with this kind of power born by nature.

There was no pity on Zhao Tun's face, nor any superfluous expressions. Fighting a war is not about treating guests to dinner. Compassion does not hold soldiers at this moment.

But his heart was still a little confused. After all, it was not a fight on the battlefield, but a trick to win the victory. The soldiers on the other side died here without even using a knife or a gun.

He sighed softly. Among the tens of thousands of people who entered the city, only three survived, two escaped, and one passed out at his feet.

Fang La and Fang Baihua ran away, and it was General Lu who was unconscious. At first, the soldier wanted to make up for it, but he suddenly remembered that Fang La had brought this person with him to the city, but not Fang Baihua. He didn't know who this person was, so he ordered Save his life.

Just now General Lu woke up once, opened his eyes and yelled at him, calling him the King of Qin. Zhao Tun saw him mad and stepped on him, making him continue to fall into a coma.

The next thing to do is to clean up the fire, search for the belongings of the dead thieves, and then bury the corpses. The thieves have money on them, and Fang La also wants to pay his subordinates, rewarding gold and silver. These thieves are fighting outside. on the body.

It took a whole night to finish the busy work. In the morning, Zhe Kecun and Du Po came back from outside the city. Du Po led the cavalry to harass and chase them down. It was a big victory, and there were tens of thousands of bandits killed.

Zhao Tang directly rewarded the Sixth Army, that is, distributed all the collected money without keeping any of it, the army couldn't help cheering, calling the Second King a thousand years old, even if he was tired all night, he was full of energy.

Zhao Tong went back to the magistrate's yamen to rest until noon, when someone came to report that Tong Guan had led the troops outside the city of Hangzhou.

Zhao Tong sent an order to Tong Guan to lead the army to the south and bring all the generals of the Western Army to meet him.

It didn't take long, when a soldier outside reported that Tong Guan had arrived, Zhao Tong nodded and called to come in.

After a short while, he heard hurried footsteps, and saw a tall and burly man outside the door wearing a golden helmet, a golden armor, and a red cloak. Walk in first.

Zhao Tang saw that it was Tong Guan, so he couldn't help squinting his eyes. Tong Guan was also in his sixties and almost seventy, but he was full of energy, his temples on both sides were bulging, and his face had few wrinkles. so old.

Especially those few beards are simply against the sky. Although there are only a few beards for eunuchs, they are unique in history.

Zhao Tong may not have been able to determine the level of Tong Guan's martial arts before, but as his own skills continue to increase, he can now vaguely speculate that Tong Guan is the master!
How good is a master who has practiced the sun-turning needle?How weird and difficult should a master-level day-turning needle be?
Can the six-way sky change resist it?I'm afraid it will take a master-level six-way sky transformation to fight against it, right?
Zhao Tuo is not yet a grand master yet, but he feels that it is not far away, and probably only needs an opportunity, and one step at the door, to step into this threshold.

The so-called masters of the rivers and lakes and green forests are less than two-handed, which means that in the rivers and lakes, those who float on the surface and hide from the world, the masters of the game market, the court or the army, there are still other masters.

At this moment, Zhao Tang thought of Mi Zhenting, what realm is this old man who has lived for nearly a hundred years old?Although it is said that the boxing is afraid of the young, but the stick is afraid of the old man, this Mi Zhenting has been playing with the stick all his life...

At this time, Tong Guan had already entered the door, followed by Han and Tibetan soldiers who controlled Liu Yanqing.

Behind them are Xin Xingzong and Yang Weizhong of Xihe soldiers, Liu Zhen of Jingyuan soldiers, Yang Keshi and Zhao Ming of Huanqing soldiers, Huang Di of Yanyan soldiers, Wang Huan and Ma Gongzhi of Qin Feng soldiers, Yi Jing of Hedong soldiers .

All of them are in armor, their robes are worn out, and their faces are covered with dust.

Everyone greeted the ceremony together, Zhao Tun sat down, served tea, and said: "Everyone has worked hard."

Tong Guan hastily stood up: "Your ministers have worked harder than the prince. The minister has received a report from the court that the prince broke through ten in Jiangning and made an incomparable feat. It is astonishing in the past and the present. In the past, few soldiers returned to Hangzhou. Now it is great." Defeating Fang La is simply the reincarnation of Marquis Wu, the reincarnation of the God of War, and the ministers and others all admire him, how dare he confess his hard work!"

Zhao Tong waved his hands and smiled, then sighed and said, "Although this king has made some military exploits in Jiangning, he also made some mistakes. The gentry who were forced to flee to Jiangning by Fang La's bandit army, as well as the local gentry in Jiangning, were all mixed into the city. It was really a big mistake for the bandit army to kill me, and this king cannot absolve himself of the blame!"

Everyone was silent when they heard the words. Although the news was not reported to the army with the mansion, how could they not know about such a big event given their status?

But there is no way to say this. Except for Tong Guan, these people are all generals of the Western Army, but they are not the kind of lonely generals who have no roots. relation.

Jiangmen is a kind of aristocratic family. Although it is different from the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, it is somewhat similar in essence, so they dare not say it, dare not accept it, and dare not talk about it.

This is a major event, if one says something wrong, it may bring disaster to one's own family. None of these generals are stupid, knowing that they cannot get involved in this matter.

After a little silence, Tong Guan laughed dryly: "My lord is worrying too much, how can I blame my lord for this matter? He was killed by Fang La's bandit army. If my lord was not in Jiangning at that time, I'm afraid the whole city would be slaughtered by the bandit army." Well, the prince fought against ten with one, defeated hundreds of thousands of bandits, killed countless enemies, and saved Jiang Ning. How could there be any mistakes? It is clearly merit added to merit!"

Zhao Tong thought for a while, then smiled and said: "But it's also the same reason, not to mention that this king gave those dead people a grand burial, and found someone to ascend to heaven. During this period, he spent countless effort and exhausted his efforts, and he didn't expect Yan Yan You gentlemen are grateful for this, as long as you don’t blame me.”

Tong Guan said: "How can this be so, you are not ignorant people, how can you have such a contrary idea."

Zhao Tang picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, his face became sad, he looked at the people below, and said slowly: "The most sad thing for this king is that my father-in-law also died at the hands of the bandits."

All the generals, including Tong Guan, were taken aback, and they all looked at Zhao Tun. Tong Guan knew about Zhao Tun's family affairs, and he only married a county lord, who was the wife of the Zhang family. Now where does the father-in-law matter come from?

Zhao Tong said: "After the king entered Jiangning, the gentry came and went to the mansion to make friends. The king often had banquets and discussed poems and articles with everyone. During this time, he met Zhu Wuniang, the daughter of the great gentry in Shezhou. Wuniang is known as the most talented woman in Shezhou. Said that she fell in love with the king at first sight, and was very happy. The king also liked her talent, so he proposed marriage with Grandpa Zhu. ..."

Everyone changed their colors after hearing the words, but they didn't expect such things to happen. In this way, isn't King Qin also a victim of this chaos?
Zhao Tong said again: "It's fortunate that Wu Niang was studying in the Xuan Mansion that night, so she escaped the catastrophe, but the people in Zhu's family in the city are... well, they were all slaughtered by the bandits!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the words. It turned out that Zhu Xiuniang was not dead, which was a blessing in misfortune, but the whole family was killed by the bandits, which was really too tragic.

If there are no such things, Zhu's family should be the in-laws of the royal family, and they will be even richer in the future, but this kind of thing happened, and no one expected it. Accustomed to the fragility of human life, they couldn't help persuading together with emotion: "I also ask the prince to express his condolences."

Zhao Tang was not willing to listen to persuasion, he sighed and was sad for a while, and then said: "I only talked about family affairs, but did not talk about military affairs. This king hurts too much. I hope you will forgive me."

Everyone stood up together, clasped their fists and said: "My lord bows humbly, I dare not wait."

Zhao Tong shook his head and said, "Let's talk about business."

He then told the story of the bandit army entering the city yesterday, Fang La jumping out of the city and fleeing, tens of thousands of soldiers and several generals, including Wang Laofo, all died in the city.

Everyone in front was shocked when they heard the words. Although they learned from the soldiers at the city gate that Zhao Tun won the sniper attack on Fang La in Hangzhou, they didn't know that the result was so brilliant.

This is why Zhao Tun didn't say about cutting off Fang La's arm. If he did, Tong Guan and the others would be even more shocked.

But this kind of matter related to his own martial arts, naturally he can not talk about it, Zhao Tong said: "Now that Fang La has gone south and returned to Muzhou, he still has several states in the east of Zhejiang, and there is Lu Shinang on the side of Xianju. , How to deal with it next, do you have a good plan in your mind?"

Tong Guan thought about it and said: "I think it's better to strike while the iron is hot and chase them all the way. At this moment, the bandit chieftain is in a panic. If we don't take advantage of this opportunity to wipe it out, I'm afraid that the bandit chieftain will recruit troops and buy horses to make a comeback in the name of the demon sect. It's just... ..."

Zhao Tong said: "Tong Shumi's words are reasonable, but what?"

Tong Guan clasped his fists and bowed his head and said, "I'm ashamed. Although the siege of Suzhou has been lifted and the bandit chieftain Fang La led his troops to flee south, there are still bandits entrenched on Taihu Lake. They have not been wiped out. They are always worrying."

Zhao Tong wondered, "There is a water camp in Taihu Lake, where did the bandits come from?"

Tong Guandao: "My lord doesn't know something. After Fang La's incident, there was Shi Sheng, a big bandit from Suzhou, who called himself Taihu Xia, and led the people of the Demon Sect to respond. He killed all the soldiers of the Taihu Water Battalion, occupied the Taihu Lake, and cooperated with Fang La. , now that Fang La is leaving, but that Shi Sheng did not follow, he is still in Taihu Lake, waiting for Fang La to call again so that he can respond, and at the same time, he is also eyeing Suzhou."

"Are all the soldiers from the Taihu Water Battalion dead?" Zhao Tang pondered for a moment, these Taihu soldiers are not good things.

Ordinarily, the army of the Forbidden Army in the local area is at most cowardly and incompetent, bullying the people every day, but these Taihu soldiers are all prostitutes, slaves to tigers, and all kinds of evil.

The reason is naturally that the Taihu Lake Water Camp is the direct descendant of Zhu Xi. Zhu Xi proposed Jiangnan Yingfeng Bureau. At the beginning, the main purpose was to salvage and find Taihu Lake stones, and they had to go to the rivers and waterways, so the Taihu Lake Water Camp was assigned to the Yingfeng Bureau. Under the name, it is used under the command of Zhu Xi.

Probably many bad things have been ordered by Zhu Mian, and the Taihu Water Camp will go to handle them. Later, the Taihu Water Camp gradually became famous and powerful, and no one dared to provoke them, so they began to do some ugly things in private. Anyway, half of the benefits were shared with Zhu Mian Zhu Xi just turned a blind eye and closed his eyes, not knowing what to do.

As for what bad things he did under Zhu Xi's order, and what crimes he did in his own family, Zhao Tun didn't want to think about it. In short, these people died as soon as they died, and they all deserved to die.

"Yes, my lord, Shi Sheng led the Demon Cult to kill all of them. There were thousands of people, not one left!" Tong Guan looked heartbroken.

Looking at Tong Guan's expression, Zhao Tun wanted to laugh. Tong Guan and Zhu Xi had a good relationship. Butt from top to bottom, the filth between the two goes without saying.

Zhao Tong nodded and said, "Then let Shi Sheng run rampant on Taihu Lake?"

Tong Guandao: "That's not true. Zhu Ruli, the Erlang of Zhu's family, led the defense at the bank of Taihu Lake. He also fought several times, but he didn't benefit. He just tried his best. Before I left, I left him three thousand soldiers. I don't know if I can hold on. live."

Zhao Tong wondered: "Didn't the officials dismiss Zhu Xi from his post, how could his son still lead the army?"

Tong Guan hurriedly said: "My lord, there is really no one to use. This side is going to chase Fang La, and the generals of Suzhou City over there are as timid as mice, incompetent and cowardly, so they can't take it seriously. This Zhu family Erlang is proficient in martial arts and bold Careful, so I sent him there, but it was a little against the rules, and I asked the prince to forgive me."

Zhao Tong said with a smile: "There is no excuse for this. In extreme times, extreme means should be used. However, Zhu Erlang is so capable. Didn't Privy Tong think of accepting him as a disciple? I remember that Privy Tong has been looking for successors! "

Tong Guan heard the words and laughed: "Your Majesty is joking. Then Zhu Yu had two sons and a daughter. The eldest son was assassinated and died in a boat on Taihu Lake some time ago, and only the second son was left waiting to pass on the family line. Unstoppable incense in his house?"

Zhao Tun laughed loudly, and said: "Private Tong must hurry up, this Jiangnan is a land of outstanding talents, why don't you hurry up and find a disciple? I know that Mi Neijian even has great disciples and grandchildren, you are the ultimate Martial arts, few enemies in the world, don't break Li Xuanshi's inheritance."

Tong Guan got angry when he heard Mi Zhenting, and said to his heart that you really can't open any pot, but he heard that the other party even has great-disciples and grandchildren, so he couldn't help feeling more depressed, and sighed: "My lord, it's the minister who asked his disciples It's too high, even if you can't find someone you like in Jiangnan this time, you will hurry up to find someone after you return to Beijing, and you will never lose your godfather's mantle."

Zhao Tang thought for a moment and suddenly said: "Since the Taihu hero Shi Sheng is fierce, you may not be stable if you only leave 3000 people for Zhu Erlang, and then you have to go south, so you can't have too many worries. I think it's better to send three more people." Thousands of soldiers and horses, let that side stand firm, and wait for Fang La to be wiped out at this end, and then go back and do a cleanup."

Hearing this, Tong Guan was overjoyed. He originally wanted to keep more soldiers for Zhu Ruli. Although Zhu Yu was dismissed now, he knew the Emperor Dao.

So he left three thousand soldiers for Zhu Ruli, but he didn't dare to give more. After all, the Zhu family is indeed dead now, and although nothing major will happen, they must avoid chaos. Now that Zhao Tian has spoken, he naturally has the courage to continue sending troops , could not help saying: "My lord, then I will send 3000 people back to Taihu Lake in a while."

Zhao Tun nodded, talked about going south again, and then left.

Then he stretched, thought for a while, and went straight to the guest room at the back of the mansion.

(End of this chapter)