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

Chapter 383 Suspicious Clouds
Han Shizhong led his troops into the depths of the cave, and saw an astonishing scene.

I saw dead bodies all over the ground, blood flowing into streams, a one-armed man in a purple robe with a ferocious expression, stabbing a woman with a sword.

The sword entered the chest, and the woman showed a relieved expression on her face, and then saw the man withdraw the sword and wanted to kill himself.

Han Shizhong cried out inwardly, this man is probably Fang La, how could he be allowed to die so easily?If you don't take the credit alive, you will be inferior!
He hastily shot with his hand crossbow, but the man was unguarded, the arrow of the crossbow hit the crook of his arm, and the sword fell to the ground with a sound of "Ahhh", he wanted to bend down to pick it up, but all the soldiers rushed forward and twisted and tied it up.

Han Shizhong looked at the Shenggong Emperor carefully. He was more than 30 years old, with a yellow and black complexion, thick eyebrows and big eyes, his eyes were like lightning, and three short beards fluttered under his chin. He looked like a general, without the majesty of an emperor.

Han Shizhong pondered: People often say that the mountain king and his generals in the green forest are brothers and sisters. They weigh and divide gold and silver, eat wine and meat in a big bowl, and they are considered equal. Looking at Fang La's appearance today, it should be regarded as equal. According to this statement.

He considered his words in his mind, and said kindly: "Fang La, don't be afraid, I didn't hurt your life today, and I didn't make it difficult for you. I just wronged you to go with me once, and the boss decides whether to live or die. "

Fang La glanced at Han Shizhong, raised her head and said, "Zhao Song dog slave, don't waste your tongue, am I a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death? It's just a knife sawing a cauldron, why should I be afraid!"

Han Shizhong smiled, and asked people to add a few more ropes, stuffing his mouth with rags, and then stepped forward to look at the corpses on the ground.

I saw these corpses ranging from old to young. The woman Fang La killed earlier was dressed luxuriously. He speculated that it was Fang La's Queen Shao. Good decision.

Han Shizhong looked at them one by one, determined his identity secretly, and finally came to Shao Yuxian's corpse. This is an important figure in Fang La's bandit army, even a dead body is worth a lot of money.

He saw the calm and relieved face of the Empress of the Holy Kingdom, and there was a smile on the corner of her mouth, and he couldn't help wondering, how could she be so peaceful?This is a little unreasonable, but I can't figure it out, it's just that people in the demon religion have been bewitched for a long time, and they regard death as home.

After seeing it, Han Shizhong searched the cave again, and then strictly ordered the soldiers to guard it, and he must not make any mistakes, and he was not allowed to beat and scold Fang La.

Then he rested for a while, and ordered the soldiers to escort Fang La on the road. The corpses were also wrapped in armor and let the soldiers carry them on their backs. These were all officials and large sums of money.

After finally getting out of the valley, returning to the right path, and not far away, an army broke out in the jungle. The leader immediately sat down was Xin Yongzong, the pioneer of Xihe Road, and behind him was Xin Xingzong, the commander of Xihe Road, leading the brigade of the Western Army Come here.

Xin Yongzong is the younger brother of Xin Xingzong, both sons of Xin Shuxian. Xin Shuxian is a veteran of the Western Army. He once served as the prefect of Huangzhou with Tong Guan.

The Xin family is relatively domineering in the Xihe area, because most of the generals who conquered Xihe Longyou were based in other military routes, not in this place, and have no intention of Xihe, so the Xin family took advantage of the situation and took Xihe as the base to take root here. Get up, belong to the rich.

The power of the Xin family gradually grew, and later when the Song army conquered Liao, Xin Xingzong was already the commander of the Song army's West Route Army, and was on an equal footing with Zhong Shidao, the commander of the East Route Army.

His brother Xin Qizong and his younger brother Xin Yongzong were the generals of the Shengjie Army. The Shengjie Army was an elite personal army created by Tong Guan, which shows Tong Guan's trust in the Xin brothers.

Even when Tong Guan went out to patrol the two rivers and negotiated with Jin Guo about taking the old place behind the mountain, Xin Xingzong, Xin Qizong, and Xin Yongzong were all in Taiyuan.

Xin Xingzong also followed Ma Kuo as an envoy in the winter of the seventh year of Xuanhe, and made a tour of the Kingdom of Jin.

To put it bluntly, the Xin family is Tong Guan's direct line.

Xin Yongzong's eyes were sharp, and he caught a glimpse of the Song soldiers approaching from the opposite side. The prisoner in the middle was a man whose description was very similar to the picture of Fang La issued by the army.

When he saw Xin Xingzong, he pointed forward with his hand and said, "Second brother, I don't know which army is coming here, it looks like they have caught Fang La."

Xin Xingzong sat on the horse, put his hand on the awning and leaned over to see that he looked like Fang La, but the soldier didn't know him, so he immediately drew his gun and shouted: "Sir of the third army, listen to the general's order. The licensed goods have arrived. Don't ask." Why, go grab it for me!"

All the soldiers were overjoyed, they waved their guns and knives one after another, and rushed forward to snatch Fang La.

When Han Shizhong saw soldiers coming to grab him, he straightened his horse and raised his sword and shouted, "Where are you from? You're so rude!"

How could Xin Xingzong's soldiers listen to him, and only went forward to chase him away. Han Shizhong was furious: "Where are you strong thieves? Could it be that the bandit army is pretending to rescue Fang La, the bandit chieftain?"

He put on a big hat for the opponent, then wielded the wind-throwing knife and wounded and repelled more than a dozen soldiers who were robbing people. Then he hurriedly ordered the soldiers of his troops to surround Fang La in the center, and personally blocked the front with the knife Come to the army.

Xin Xingzong saw it, and couldn't help scolding the soldiers in the headquarters for their incompetence: "They're all a bunch of idiots, they can't even do this well!"

After all, he directly ordered Xin Yongzong to fight Han Shizhong with a gun on his horse, and then the soldiers from both sides also came forward to fight.

Xin's army was powerful, with 6000 men, Han Shizhong's men were few, and after the loss in the cave, it was less than [-].

Han Shizhong was so angry that he couldn't help cursing: "You gang of dogs and robbers, who are you? How dare you intercept criminals under the blue sky and broad daylight? You are really deceiving people too much. I will fight with you!"

He was angry in his heart, and Popi's temperament came up, even if he couldn't win back the man, he still wanted to entangle him, brandishing the wind blowing knife and leading his troops, he rushed up.

At this time, Xin Xingzong rode forward, stopped the sword horizontally, and shouted sharply: "Who are you? How dare you be so arrogant and hurt people, don't you want to rebel?"

Han Shizhong was even more annoyed when he saw that the opposite party was unreasonable, and his ability to cover hats was not inferior to his own. He was not a subordinate of this army, so naturally he was not afraid of him, and shouted: "I am not a robber, why don't you dare to sign up? Why don't you hide it?" Like, are you afraid that I will complain to the Taiwei?"

Xin Yongzong looked at him and said coldly: "This is General Xin who is in command of Xihe Road. Where are you from a small school, you should retreat quickly. Don't know what is good or bad, and miss the important task of suppressing bandits!"

Han Shizhong's eyes rolled when he heard the words. He really didn't recognize Xin Xingzong. After all, the Western Army has 15 people. Generals like Xin Xingzong are all serving Feng Tongguan. It was General Wang Yuan's subordinate Han Shizhong who was ordered to hunt down Fang La. The villain went through all kinds of hardships and dangers, suffered life and death several times, and injured countless soldiers before he captured Fang La from the Gujian Grottoes and was about to release him to Marshal Liu. What about General Xin? Asking the subordinates to rush forward to capture prisoners and compete for merit? They also injured many of my soldiers, what is the reason for this?"

"Hmph, who am I? So I'm a nobody!" Seeing his eloquence, Xin Yongzong couldn't help but scowled angrily and said, "You daring idiot, talking nonsense, it's obvious that our Xihe Army captured him from the valley. Did you catch it? You are so upside down, you are not afraid of rotten tongue and being punished, you will treat us Xihe army as easy to provoke? My Xin family as easy to bully?"

Han Shizhong saw him confounding right and wrong and opening his mouth to fight his father, but he felt a headache, and argued, "You came from the north, why were you captured by Xihe soldiers? Even if your officials are higher than me, you shouldn't bully others with your power, bully the small with the big, and rob me A small side will be credited!"

Xin Yongzong scolded angrily when he heard the words: "Goutou, what kind of person are you, dare to contradict me?" As he said, he rode his horse and swung his gun to stab Han Shizhong. Xin Yongzong, the two of them exchanged swords and guns, fighting at the same place, the two soldiers shouted one after another, and started to fight again.

Xin Xingzong's face sank in the back, seeing that his younger brother and Han Shizhong didn't take advantage of fighting together. If Han Shizhong hadn't kept his hand, he would have been killed by the horse. If you dare to entangle Ben Dutong and let Fang La go, I will kill you!"

After all, he ordered his two lieutenants to go forward together to assist Xin Yongzong in besieging Han Shizhong.

Han Shizhong was so angry that his body trembled, and he scolded recklessly: "A traitor who has wronged the country, once Fang La ran away, it was because of your fighting for merit. I must reason with you in front of the Taiwei!" , with one against three, a big battle started.

"Han Shizhong, you don't know how to be flattering. My second brother wants to kill you, why should we do it! You can be chopped into meat with just a wink, and you can be shot into a hedgehog with a row of arrows. Take your troops and leave , we will not hold you accountable, if you walk slowly, you will inevitably be killed." Xin Xingzong kept saying sarcasm.

Han Shizhong thought to himself at this moment: The opponent has many people and is powerful, it is difficult to win, even if he entangles, he can't take advantage of it. If you don't suffer immediate losses, why not go back and sue General Wang, and go to the Taiwei with him to judge.

He wanted to gather his soldiers and went back to report the news first, but he saw that all his men were crooked and dejected, obviously they all knew that they couldn't compete with the brothers of the Xin family. Laugh out loud.

Xin Yongzong was full of enthusiasm at the moment, and shouted: "Sirs of the three armies, you must strictly guard the thief chieftain Fang La from front to back, from left to right, and you will all have rewards after you are sent to Tokyo..."

Just when Han Shizhong was discouraged and wanted to withdraw his troops and leave early, there was a sound from the northeast direction, and another sentry came.

There are quite a few soldiers and horses in this sentry, there can be five thousand people, but although the soldiers also wear Song Jia, they are slightly different from the Western Army. They are brighter and fresher, with little wear and tear.

The person at the head is just saving money. Seeing the two groups of people fighting, they all recognize each other. He wondered: "What are you doing here? Why are you still using knives and guns?"

Seeing that he was his old boss, Han Shizhong hurriedly used his loopholes to withdraw his knife and jumped out of the circle, stepping forward to complain.

Zhe Kecun understood after listening for a moment, then looked at Xin Xingzong.

When Xin Xingzong saw that the matter was exposed, if others could continue to argue, he would use the big to suppress the small, and said that Fang La was captured by himself and had nothing to do with Han Shizhong. After making up how to capture him, he didn't communicate with the soldiers below. At this moment, he could only say bitterly: "Without the cooperation of this general, how can you, a little general, be able to take down the bandit chieftain!"

Han Shizhong twitched his lips, seeing that Xin Xingzong's change of mouth and not daring to be greedy was not enough, so he stopped talking, and only looked at Zhe Kecun's words.

Zhe Kecun glanced at Fang La, who was bound tightly, and said with a smile: "This bandit chieftain Fang La led tens of thousands of soldiers to escape, how could he be captured easily? If it weren't for the concerted efforts of our three generals and officers, the pawns marched forward bravely and suffered countless casualties. Will it be caught? I don’t think there is any need to fight any more, the three of us will always catch it with all our heart, and just go back and repay the credit!”

The corners of Xin Xingzong's eyes twitched when he heard this, and he thought that it would be easy to pick the peaches, but he was also an empty-handed wolf, so he didn't say anything more at this moment.

Han Shizhong was helpless, Zhe Kecun didn't want to tear up his face with Xin Xingzong, and he didn't want to offend Zhe Kecun, after all, Zhe Kecun also kept his share of the credit, which is also good, it would be much better if he didn't lose all the great achievements, so he nodded.

Afterwards, the three groups of people with complex expressions carefully escorted Fang La down the mountain.

Besides, the Orion woman in the mountains who once guided Han Shizhong, heard people shouting horses not far away, as if they were fighting, so she went out to take a peek, but her complexion changed suddenly, her heart was shocked, and her body trembled suddenly .

It turned out that the Song Army who inquired about the dangerous place captured Shenggong Fang La. She couldn't help but secretly called "Ku Ye". Unexpectedly, it harmed the Holy Duke.

The woman was angry and annoyed. Her man originally joined the Ming Cult, but he died in battle in Suzhou, so he tied a white hemp rope around his waist at that time. Now she watched Fang La being taken away from a distance, and burst into tears... She yelled: "My God! I killed the Holy Duke!"

Then she was in a daze, her steps were disordered, she ran to the edge of the cliff, and jumped headfirst...

Outside Jianmen Ridge, Zhao Kai had returned to the tent at this time, his face was pale, his legs couldn't be controlled, even if he got off his horse, he had to be supported by his relatives, and then put on the tent again.

Sitting on the chair, my thighs are still warping, I don't know when it will be better, I urgently ordered someone to make tea to calm the shock, and it took a long time for my mind to calm down.

But at this moment, the curtain suddenly opened "shuala", and a loud laugh came in from the outside: "When did the third brother come, why don't you continue to sit in Hongzhou?"

Hearing his voice, Zhao Kai knew who he was, and said with a sneer, "I didn't see my second brother during the war, the second brother came only after the battle was over!"

It was Zhao Tun who came in, he calculated the time in Hangzhou, so he came with his guards, checked after he arrived, and went straight to Zhao Kai's tent.

Zhao Tang was not annoyed when he heard the words, instead he said: "What the third brother said is very true, you can't see it during the battle, and you don't come until the battle is over."

Zhao Kai heard the words and knew he was mocking himself, he snorted and turned his face away, not looking at Zhao Tun.

Zhao Tang took the tea bowl by himself, poured the freshly brewed Xiaolongtuan, drank it all up in a short while, and said: "I forgot to bring tea when I left Beijing. The Xianglin and Baoyun of Longjing are bland, and tasteless to drink. Sangeer There are remaining dragon balls to bring me a few cakes."

Zhao Kai was so angry that his teeth itched, but he couldn't help it, he said: "Second Brother, let someone fetch it, why bother me with such trivial matters."

At this moment, there was a loud noise from outside, it seemed that countless soldiers had returned, listening to the cheers and chirping, with infinite joy.

The two were puzzled, Tong Guan lifted the curtain and came in and said, "You two kings, it's a happy event, Fang La has been caught!"

Zhao Kai was overjoyed immediately: "Where is the arrest? Clerk Tong quickly take me to see!"

Tong Guan was also excited at this time, not only did Fang La catch him, almost most of the famous bandit generals were either captured or killed, and only those who were not helping were escaped.

Moreover, in this battle, a lot of gold and silver treasures were found in the caves, and even a lot of them were scraped off from the bandits. Previously, Suzhou had been so clear and dry, but the harvest now is not in vain.

Tong Guanyin and the two said as they walked: "Tell the two great kings that the false empress Shao Yuxian, the false prince Fang Shu, Fang Hao, the false prime minister Fang Fei, the grand master Chen Kuotong and others all obeyed the law!"

Zhao Tong asked curiously, "Only Fang La has to live?"

Tong Guandao: "According to the arresting officer, Fang La was beheading and killing these relatives at that time, and then wanted to commit suicide in fear of crime, but was shot down by the officer's crossbow arrow, so he survived."

Zhao Tun nodded. Fang La is a man with a strong temper, but he can do this kind of thing. He asked again: "How about Fang Baihua?"

Tong Guan hesitated and said: "I haven't seen this girl...Maybe she took advantage of the chaos and escaped? I will ask you carefully when I turn around."

Zhao Tong rubbed his chin, thoughtfully.

After a while, they came to a large tent with three floors inside and three floors outside, and the soldiers rushed to salute. After entering, they saw a person tied to the central pillar of the tent. Who is Fang La!
Fang La was surrounded by more than a dozen people, most of them were in the armor of generals, and they were the commanders or generals of the Jilu army this time.

There was only one of them, with shabby armor, standing behind the others with a look of resentment.

Zhao Tang looked at him, he looked like a hero, with tiger eyes and a square face, tall and straight, but the position he was standing in was incompatible with those generals.

When everyone saw the salute, Tong Guanrang explained the process of capture in detail, Zhe Kecun and Xin Xingzong dragged the general forward, saying that the three parties jointly arrested him, and let the general explain.

The general looked at the two great kings and the privy envoy Tong Guan respectfully, and first stated the origin of his name.

Zhao Tang looked at him again after hearing the words, and knew that it was tricky, Han Shizhong must have caught him, and the other two were just fighting for credit, but if there was nothing left to save, Xin Xingzong would monopolize the credit, and it would take a long time in the future to turn over and fold. But Kecun helped Han Shizhong.

Han Shizhong mentioned earlier that he brought Zhe Kecun and Xin Xingzong inside, but he didn't dare to lie when he was arrested. He killed Fang La with a sword and wanted to kill himself. He explained in detail.

After speaking, there was silence.

Tong Guan said: "Do you two kings have any questions?"

Zhao Kai has nothing to ask, as long as he catches him, he doesn't want to worry about anything else.

Zhao Tong thought for a while, looked at Han Shizhong and said, "General Han, this king asks you."

Han Shizhong didn't dare to say that he was only a partial general, and he was really not worthy of the title of general. The soldiers below called him this just as a compliment, so he immediately pleaded guilty.

Zhao Tong smiled: "When you blocked Fang La from committing suicide with a hand crossbow, did the bandit chief ever dodge it?"

Han Shizhong remembered clearly, and hurriedly said: "Back to the second king, there is no dodge, just one arrow hits the elbow, the bandit chief's sword falls to the ground, and he is captured without a fight!"

Zhao Tong raised his eyebrows, Fang La is a master, what does a master represent?It represents the existence of the first school in martial arts, and it means that one can create advanced martial arts by oneself without inheriting what the predecessors have learned.

Grandmasters can fight bloody battles without being injured, not to mention that it took a long time to cultivate with only one broken arm. Even when the arm was broken for the first time, wouldn't Fang La still slide away from the high wall of Hangzhou just by flying grabs?And Fang Baihua is on her back!
Even if his potential was exhausted and he was seriously injured later, but in his capacity, with a master like Chen Kuutong by his side, how could he not use elixir and heal his injuries?
Why is it that Han Shizhong didn't know how to dodge when he shot with a crossbow?

Fang La saw that he couldn't get away, so he killed his wife and children, and then he must seek death, because he knew that falling into the hands of the Song army would be various tortures, and he would inevitably die in the end!
So he had to commit suicide, and any actions that prevented him from committing suicide would be resisted with all his might.

It is impossible for him not to hit the crossbow, although the crossbow is fast, but he is a master, even if he is injured and cannot stop the crossbow, it is impossible for him to not even block it!

Unless...he didn't react at all!His martial arts are simply not enough to reflect the shooting speed of the crossbow arrows!

But as a master, this is simply impossible!
Whether you can block it or not is two different things.

According to Han Shizhong, Fang La didn't do anything, it's impossible!

Isn't he a master?Not a master... Could it be Fang La? !
Zhao Tong was immediately taken aback by this conjecture. How could it not be Fang La?Attacking Bangyuan all the way, chasing him in the mountains, and Chen Kuutong also died there. Han Shizhong said that it took five or six rounds of crossbow arrows to hit him.

There are also Shao Yuxian, Fang Shu, Fang Fei and others. After these corpses were brought back, they were all identified, and none of them were wrong!
None of these are bad, so how could Fang La be bad?He had dealt with Fang La several times, and he was familiar with Fang La's appearance, so he stepped forward to watch carefully.

Just look at the person tied to the pillar is Fang La, and the wound on the broken arm was broken from that position in Hangzhou City that day, there is no mistake!

Zhao Tang stared at Fang La with a cloudy expression. Everyone in the tent didn't know what he meant, so they all held their breath and didn't dare to speak, just watched.

Zhao Tang thought of Fang Baihua, where did Fang Baihua go?There are also female soldiers, it seems that not so many female soldiers died?
He said, "Does Master Fang still recognize me?"

Zhe Kecun next to him stepped forward and took out the rag from Fang La's mouth. Fang La stared at Zhao Tun and said angrily, "Bird King Zhao Tun, how could I not recognize you!"

Zhao Tong squinted his eyes, and his voice was similar. He had heard Fang La speak, although it was very rare, but he felt that there was nothing wrong with it, and this Fang La recognized him!

Zhao Tang walked around the pillar several times, but still didn't notice anything wrong from the outside, and suddenly asked, "When Master Fang went to the Lantern Festival in Tokyo that year, why did he hide his martial arts?"

As soon as he said this, Fang La's eyes were slightly dazed, but it was only for a short moment, and he snorted coldly: "I'm happy to hide it, what do you do with you, the king of birds? If you want to kill or cut, it's up to you!"

Zhao Tun showed a smile, looked at him for a while, then turned and walked out of the tent.

Behind Tong Guan and Zhao Kai hurriedly followed, Tong Guan saw some clues and said in a low voice: "My lord, what's wrong?"

Zhao Kai also frowned and said: "Second brother, don't play tricks, although I have never seen this thief chief, but his behavior does not look like a fake!"

Zhao Tun paused, shook his head and said, "It's hard to distinguish here, let's talk about it when we go back..."

(End of this chapter)