A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 183 Gao Qiu leads the army to conquer Liangshan

Song Jiang looked up and saw a man looking at him in surprise.

He knew that he must be a friend in the world. Now he has no one to use and is in need of heroes to help him. He immediately stood up and left the table, cupping his fists and handing over his hands:

"Xiao Ke is Song Jiang. I haven't asked my brother for his name yet."

The man hurriedly bowed to the ground:
"The villain Shi Yong has met brother Gongming!"

Song Jiang hurriedly helped him up and invited him to sit at the table. Everyone at the table got to know each other. When everyone met, they were extremely affectionate and drank happily together.

After Shi Yong introduced himself, Song Jiang found out that this man was originally a hero from Daming Prefecture and made a living by gambling. Later, he killed someone after a disagreement, so he fled to Cangzhou to join Chai Daguan.

But Hebei now lacks official and military suppression, and many heroes regard it as a paradise.

Shi Yong met several other heroes on the road, so he simply found a hilltop nearby and built a stronghold. They ate meat in large pieces, drank wine in large bowls, divided gold with a large scale, and divided silver with a small scale. It was bigger than going to the firewood. I don't know how happy it is to live under someone else's roof in an official's house.

Because the stolen goods had to be sold, he was familiar with the people in Daming Mansion, so the job was left to him.

He finished his work today and took his minions to find a place to have a drink. He heard a conversation next door, and Song Jiang's name was mentioned in it.

This Shi Yong is also hanging out in the green forest now. How come he doesn't know Song Gongming's name and hurriedly comes up to see him.

After Song Jiang heard this, he tried to win over him and said:
"My dear brother, he just killed someone by mistake and is living in the woods. If you are interested now, you can join our army and become a brave captain first. You will get rid of your stigma. In the future, you will be rewarded for your meritorious service and you will also have a good background."

Shi Yong was immediately moved. Although life in this village was free and happy, in terms of enjoyment, how could it be as good as living in Daming Mansion?
Don't ask for a good background, as long as the charges are cleared, I have many friends in this famous mansion, won't the prosperous days come back?

Then he raised his glass and said:
"My brother has good intentions, how dare I disobey him?"

"It's just that I still have a few brothers on the mountain..."

Song Jiang didn't wait for him to finish and promised:

"If they are good men, they will all come together, and Song Jiang will walk down to greet them."

Shi Yong was overjoyed and immediately said:
"My brothers are all first-class good men, and all of them are brave enough to be invincible. Don't worry, brother."

At that moment, Shi Yong revealed the names of several heroes in the village. They were Tang Bin, Cao Hong, Zhang Xiang, Guo Xin, and He Ren. They were all prominent figures in the green forests of Hebei.

Song Jiang was even more happy, and kept urging him to drink. He said all his good words, and wanted Shi Yong to bring all the people in the village. Even the few hundred men, he was willing to accept them all.

Everyone had a feast and returned home exhausted.

On the second day, Shi Yong came to say goodbye and went back to the mountain.

Within a few days, he brought his five brothers here with him. Song Jiang personally welcomed him into the military camp and gave them the positions of general and deputy general.

The original military leaders were dissatisfied, but were defeated by Tang Bin single-handedly, and they all immediately became more honest.

Then Shi Yong said:
"I used to travel around the world and made a friend named Zou Yuan. Now my uncle and nephew are living there in Dengyun Mountain in Dengzhou."

"Now that I have benefited, I want to help them. I beg my brother to show mercy and accept them."

Although Song Jiang refused, he immediately asked Shi Yong to write a letter, and then went to Dai Zong to invite these two heroes.When Dai Zong left, he was alone, but when he came back, he was six.

It turned out that Uncle Zou Yuan also had a close friend, but he was the younger brother of Yuchi Sunli, who was under the command of Dengzhou soldiers and horses. The younger Yuchi Sunxin knew that Song Gongming was recruiting talented people here, so he took his mother-in-law, Sister-in-law Gu, and others The in-laws Tie Jing Zi Le and brothers Xie Zhen, a two-headed snake, and Jie Bao, a two-tailed scorpion, came to vote together.

When Song Jiang saw so many brothers coming to surrender, he was immediately overjoyed and placed them all in the army.

In these days, the brother who was lucky enough to escape alive in Dongping Mansion came to Daming Mansion to meet up, which immediately made Song Jiang even more happy.

But after waiting for more than a month, he only saw three people, Li Kui, Zhu Dian and Hua Rong, coming over. The rest of the brothers were nowhere to be seen, most of them were in Dongping Mansion.

These days, Song Jiang has been thinking about how to defeat Li Gui.

That fierce figure of Li Gui has become his nightmare. He has asked Jiutian Xuannu for advice countless times, but has never received a response, so he can only think of his own ideas.

The formation in the book that day may still be usable, but this formation is dead. If Li Gui doesn't come to attack Daming Mansion, it won't be used.

He thought about it and recalled Wu Yong's words before his death. He felt that it was the power of the artillery that could get rid of the devil, so he reported to Liang Taishu and requested the formation of an artillery army.

Liang Zhongshu happily agreed, and allocated some silver to send craftsmen to Song Jiang.

As a result, when the craftsmen arrived, Song Jiang discovered that all these people made were stone cannons and could not make artillery.

Their stone cannon could fly only one or two miles before exhaustion, and its accuracy was still far behind Ling Zhen's artillery, which could fly fourteen to fifteen miles and still hit accurately. Yes.

But only Ling Zhen can do this cannon. Now that Ling Zhen is trapped in Dongping Mansion, he is probably dead. What should we do?

He went to Liang Zhongshu for help, and Liang Zhongshu said:
"Since this Ling Zhen is the assistant gunner of Jia Zhanku, the cannon must have been made by the palace craftsmen. There should be traces of it. I will wait for the craftsman to come here when I go to Tokyo."

The court officials in Tokyo didn't think much of Ling Zhen. When they saw Liang Zhongshu's writing, they directly approved it and transferred most of the craftsmen who had participated in Ling Zhen's cannon casting.

After Song Jiang got these craftsmen, he immediately organized people to study how to cast such military weapons.

On the Tokyo side, upon the recommendation of Taiwei Gao Qiu, the imperial court appointed Hu Yanzhuo, the commander of the capital of Runing Prefecture, as the main general, Chenzhou regiment training envoy Han Tao as the vanguard, and Yingzhou regiment training envoy Peng Wei as the deputy vanguard to lead a large army. Conquest.

Before the army could set out, they received news that Liangshan had attacked in all directions and had conquered Jeju and Shanzhou.

The imperial court was shocked and hurriedly increased the danger of the Liangshan bandits. They chose Liu Yanqing, a veteran of the Western Army, as their commander and doubled their number of soldiers and horses.

Unexpectedly, after gathering the people together, they got news that the Liangshan bandits had already attacked Xuzhou, Puzhou, and Guangji. Even the bandits from Yizhou responded and captured Yizhou and Qingzhou.

Now the problem is serious. Further west for Guangji Army is Xingren Prefecture. After Xingren Prefecture, it is the boundary of Gyeonggi Road, and Tokyo Bianliang is right in front of us.

Everyone in the court immediately became ants on the hot pot, and the scale of the expedition continued to increase. Taiwei Gao Qiu personally led the troops and prepared all the troops to follow him.

Because the Liangshan bandits marched very fast, they no longer gathered the generals in Tokyo, but set out on their own to meet at Yingtianfu in Nanjing to protect the capital of Tokyo.

As for places like Qingzhou and Yizhou, let’s ignore them for now. Let’s defend the capital first!
　During the Northern Song Dynasty, Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing was located in the Shangqiu area of ​​Henan Province. The Nanjing here means "the Kyoto of the South" and is not the same place as the current Nanjing.The current Nanjing was called "Jiangning Mansion" in the Northern Song Dynasty.

　　
　
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