Song Mingyue

Chapter 243
"Let's go into the water~"

"Dong Dong Dong~"

In the early morning, all the Liangshan soldiers were still asleep when they were awakened by a burst of shouts and drums that shook the earth. They were so startled that they ran out before they had time to get dressed.

On the top of the Liaoerwa cottage, fires soared into the sky, lighting up the dawn sky.

"Go and put out the fire, that's where the granary is!" someone cried.

Countless soldiers of Liangshan rushed towards the fire, but in front of the fire, they were still fifty or sixty steps away from the place where the fire started, and they were forced back by the billowing smoke and high temperature.

The lake wind fluttered, and the fire took advantage of the wind. The fire quickly formed a long fire dragon and swallowed it in all directions. It was as fast as thunder.

Everyone stared blankly at the burning fire, helpless.

"It's over, it's over, all the rations are gone..."

Some people cried bitterly and fell to their knees.

More people just stared blankly, their faces full of despair.

Now that the army of officials and soldiers is overwhelming, it is impossible to go out to grab food. With 4 people and [-] mouths, it is unrealistic to rely on fishing to fill their stomachs.

"Who the hell is guarding the grain depot? I chopped him up!" Ruan Xiaoer hissed.

No one answered his question.

Ruan Xiaowu at the side was furious, drew his saber out with a swipe, and shouted sharply, "Are you all deaf? Who guarded the grain depot last night?"

"The big boss got it!"

With a loud shout, everyone stepped aside one after another. Surrounded by Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, Hua Rong, Zhang Qing and others, Song Jiang slowly walked into the crowd and reached the front.

Song Jiang stared blankly at the burning fire, and couldn't help covering his face with his hands, knelt down on the ground slowly, and cried loudly: "Heaven destroys Liangshan, God, how unfair you are!"

He cried more and more sadly, and the people around him couldn't help comforting him. Suddenly he rushed forward and shouted loudly: "The enemy is at present, and the food and grass are gone. How can Liangshan continue? Just burn me to death!" "

While speaking, he had taken five or six steps towards the direction of the fire.

"Brother, absolutely not!"

Shocked, Guan Sheng and Hu Yanzhuo flew forward together, and forced Song Jiang back.

Song Jiang struggled desperately, but the two of them had great physical strength, let him struggle in every possible way, but it was of no avail after all, they even rolled their eyes and passed out.

The crowd was startled and panicked for a while, looking for water and pinching people. It took a long time for Song Jiang to change his mind, but he still looked delirious. In desperation, Guan Sheng had to send He picked it up and sent it to the bedroom to rest.

The crowd panicked for a while, and no one asked who was guarding the grain depot.

The fire burned for a full two or three hours. Fortunately, the area around the grain depot was bare, so the fire did not spread to other buildings. Only tens of thousands of shi of military rations and tens of thousands of rations were completely burned.

The entire island was shrouded in a layer of faint smoke, the smell of fireworks lingered for a long time, and white soot fluttered in the air, falling on everyone.

Song Jiang was lying in the bedroom, unconscious for a while, then awake for a while, until the afternoon to calm down.

Juyi hall.

All the generals gathered together.

With the support of the guards, Song Jiang walked into the hall with stilted steps, and slowly sat down on the big tiger-skin chair in the middle.

Everyone looked over in unison, Song Jiang coughed a few times, and cried again: "I am to blame for what happened today, and Wan Shi cannot escape the blame!"

Everyone said in unison: "Brother is serious."

Song Jiang wanted to say something, but coughed heavily again, unable to speak.

After a long time, he finally calmed down. Just as he was about to speak, he saw a person standing up and bowing forward: "Brother, don't worry, I have something to say, please listen carefully to me."

When everyone saw it, it was Li Jun, the dragon of the river.

A complicated look appeared in Song Jiang's eyes, and he said, "Please tell me."

Just listen to Li Jun said: "We have run out of food, and we are besieged by the officers and soldiers outside. We have nowhere to go. Why don't we be recruited and surrender to the officers and soldiers!"

"what?"

Song Jiang was instantly confused.

You must know that Li Jun, Zhang Shun, the Ruan brothers and others were firmly opposed to accepting recruitment yesterday, but today Li Jun offered to accept recruitment.

Song Jiang's face was cloudy and uncertain, and he glanced to the left and right, and then asked slowly: "What do you guys think?"

Guan Sheng opened his mouth and was about to say something when he heard a voice coming from the right: "Brother Li's words are very true, the only way out now is to recruit security, please be careful!"

This time, Song Jiang was even more shocked, because the first to express their views were all yesterday's anti-Zhao'an faction, including Zhang Shun, Zhang Heng, Tong Wei, and the three Ruan brothers.

Song Jiang turned around and asked Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo and others: "What do you think?"

Although Guan Sheng was also full of shock, seeing Song Jiang's question, he could only sigh slightly, and replied: "The only plan now is to be recruited..."

Immediately afterwards, Hu Yanzhuo, Hua Rong, Zhang Qing, Shi Xiu, Hu Sanniang and others also followed suit.

Song Jiang nodded and said, "If that's the case, then you should be recruited by Lord Jing'an..."

hula la~
Several people in the seat suddenly got up together. It was Li Jun, Tong Wei, Zhang Heng, Zhang Shun and the Ruan brothers who were the generals of the Anti-Zhao'an faction. They strode up to Song Jiang. He bowed his hands to the other generals around him.

Zhang Shunlang said in a loud voice: "Brothers, the mountains are high and the rivers are long, the rivers and lakes are far away, and the official career is dangerous, people's hearts are not old, I hope you will cherish it, I will wait for it!"

Immediately afterwards, the rest of the people also said in unison: "Brothers, take care of yourself!"

Song Jiang and all the generals were shocked, they stood up together and asked in a voiceless voice, "What do you mean by this?"

Zhang Shun and the others said in unison: "I was originally a grassroots, I am used to idleness, and I can't abide by the various rules of the officialdom, so please don't pass by, I wish you all brothers a bright future and a smooth career!"

Song Jiang's expression changed drastically: "You..."

Before they finished speaking, Zhang Shun and the others knelt down in unison, kowtowed respectfully three times to Song Jiang, then kowtowed three times to each general on the left and right, and then stood up together without looking back. left the Juyi hall.

Everyone looks at me, I look at you, at a loss.

It's just that Song Jiang's dark face blushed slightly, and no one noticed.

After a while, a soldier came to report: "The leaders took their luggage and left in a small boat."

At this time, someone stood up again, but it was Du Xing, Li Zhong, Zhou Tong, Bai Sheng, Du Qian, Song Wan and other generals, about 30 people, all bid farewell to Song Jiang.

Everyone also imitated Zhang Shun and others, kowtowed three times to Song Jiang and the rest of the generals, and then dispersed.

In the end, in the entire hall, only Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, Zhang Qing, Hua Rong, Chai Jin, Hu Sanniang, Shi Xiu, Xiao Rang, Jin Dajian, An Daoquan, Song Qing and others were left, less than 20 people.

Song Jiang was stunned for a while, with a dull expression on his face. After a long time, he slowly got up and said, "I'm sorry, everyone, to deal with the matter of the cottage, I'll write a letter to Duke Jing'an."

……

On the north bank of Liang Shanshuibo, Zhao Hao and Zhong Shidao led the soldiers to greet the Liangshan Army to recruit soldiers.

Cuckoo!
Suddenly there was a huge bird song on the calm lake, and there were dense numbers of white cranes flying over from the east.It seemed to be greatly frightened, and the whole lake was filled with the sound of cooing birds, and the scene was extremely shocking.

Following the direction of the flock of birds.A dark cloud covering the sky and the sun rose up in the east where the water and the sky meet, and it grew bigger and bigger.When you look carefully, you can see that a large group of ships is rushing.

Liang Shanjun!
Everyone's expression tightened, and the crossbowmen stretched out their hands to tighten the feather arrows in the quiver, and the faces of the middle-class generals of the plantation division also had a nervous look on their faces.

Gradually, the boat was getting closer and closer, and it could be seen that there were white flags flying on the large boats. Everyone was a little relieved, but they still did not let down their vigilance.

Zhao Hao clicked a clairvoyance talisman, looked up, and saw Song Jiang on the deck of the first big ship, hurriedly inquired about this guy's attributes, and found that his favorability for him had reached 80, and his loyalty had reached 75. Finally relieved.

He searched for Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo and others one by one, and found that their favorability and loyalty towards him were above 70, and he was completely relieved.

He slightly waved his hand towards the Zhongshi Zhong, signaling to release the alert, and then led Lu Junyi, Wu Yong and others to welcome them to the ferry in person.

Finally, the hundreds of warships approached the shore gradually. Song Jiang and others on the warships couldn't help being excited when they saw Zhao Hao leading Wu Yong and Lu Junyi to the pier to greet them in person.

The leading ship docked first, and Song Jiang led Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo and others hurriedly boarded the ship's side, went ashore, greeted Zhao Hao who came to greet him, bowed his head and said: "Criminal Song Jiang, I pay my respects to Mr. Jing'an!" !"

Zhao Hao laughed loudly, and hurried forward to help everyone up one by one.

……

In less than a month, Zhao Hao had pacified the Liangshan bandits, presented Zhao Ji, and arranged and dealt with the generals of the Liangshan Army who had surrendered.

The [-] soldiers and horses who surrendered and the more than [-] soldiers and horses who were captured, except for the selected [-] fierce soldiers and hatchback soldiers and horses, were merged into the imperial army of the capital, and the rest were all handed over to the army, distributed money and food, and were dismissed on the spot.

Song Jiang, the former leader of the Liangshan Army, abandoned the darkness and turned to the Ming, and returned to the imperial court. After being approved by the imperial court, he worshiped Yi Weilang, a seventh-rank official, and was in charge of Wuyang Bingdu Supervisor, commanding the Wuyang City Guard Army.

This position, for Song Jiang, who was once a humble official, is already a great grace, and it can be regarded as an explanation to the generals of Liangshan.It's just that Zhao Hao knows that someone like Song Jiang who has a dark background and is not a scholar-bureaucrat will only stay in this position for the rest of his life, and he can't even think about making a comeback.Although he commanded the Wuyangxiang Army, he parachuted there and had no foundation, so it was absolutely impossible for him to rebel.

Anyway, Song Jiang is the leader of the rebellion, and his character is not good. Zhao Hao didn't kill him to win people's hearts, and it is impossible to reuse him.

The rest of the generals, such as Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, Suo Chao, Xu Ning, Dong Ping, and Yang Zhi, who were originally generals of the army, were all incorporated under the command of the seed division.

Zhang Qing and Hua Rong were originally generals of the army, but because of their special abilities, Zhao Hao was reluctant to let them be among the masters, so he stayed by his side and worshiped Zhong Yilang, a ninth-rank official, in charge of the army. The officer in charge of Jin Yiwei is actually used as a personal bodyguard.

With such a think tank like Wu Yong, Zhao Hao was naturally even more reluctant to hand it over to others, so he hired Wen Linlang from the ninth rank, who was in charge of the Jinyi Guard's courier officer, and actually performed the work of the staff.

For those generals who were not originally from the army, Zhao Hao unceremoniously merged into Jinyiwei.After all, these people originally had a strong atmosphere in the world, and they were not used to too much restraint for a while. If they went to the army, they would inevitably be excluded. Jin Yiwei was just right for them, so everyone was willing.

Newly added Jinyiwei Qingfeng Battalion, Lin Chong and Li Ying are the principal and deputy commanders; newly added Galewind Battalion Shi Jin and Sun Li are the principal and deputy commanders; newly added Golden Snake Battalion Lu Junyi and Yan Qing are the principal and deputy commanders; Shi Xiu is Wu Song's deputy, Hu Sanniang As Fang Baihua's deputy, Dai Zong is the deputy of Daoist Qingmu.

The rest of the generals were all included in Jinyiwei, each with their own arrangements.

PS: Today's second update is estimated to be too late before 12 o'clock, let's make up for the third update tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)