The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

Zhao Gou knelt down and waited for a long time without seeing Ye Tianlong's reply. He glanced up secretly and found that the other person's expression kept changing, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

After waiting for several minutes, the other party finally replied. It seemed that the other party was trying to suppress his anger. He took a deep breath and said, "You don't need to worry about this matter. I have someone here." There is something more important that needs to be arranged for you to do!"

Zhao Gou couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard that the other party actually had more important things for him to do, thinking that the emperor of the Qinglong Empire was quite tolerant! Even the former prince dared to reuse him.

But soon, Zhao Gou was dumbfounded, because the task assigned to him was to sort out the many Taoist scriptures left by his father.

Speaking of Song Huizong Zhao Ji, his hobbies are indeed unique. In addition to all kinds of strange stones, he also likes to play football and study Taoist scriptures. I don’t know if he wants to find some practice methods from these Taoist scriptures. Let him practice to become an immortal and live forever.

The person who was originally responsible for sorting out these Taoist scriptures was a guy named Huang Shang. When he saw Zhao Gou, the guy who came to take over from him, he was still a little reluctant to leave this place! It seems that those Taoist scriptures are actually very interesting.

However, it is obvious that Ye Tianlong feels that it is a waste of talents to continue to sort out Taoist scriptures here. This 'important' job is best left to Zhao Jiumei, lest this guy has time to go out and act like a monster.

Shortly after sending Zhao Gou away, Ye Tianlong received a letter asking for help from Shi Wengong and learned that the main force of the Jin army was attacking Taiyuan City this time, with about 300,000 troops.

Ye Tianlong knew that the Jin army was powerful and could not be compared with the thieves of the Song Dynasty, so after learning the location of its main force, he immediately prepared to assemble troops and horses to fight against the main force of the Jin army.

In the end, Ye Tianlong only left a few thousand regular troops in other big cities, and 10,000 regular troops in Tokyo City. He himself led an army of 310,000 to support Shi Wengong.

When he led the army to the halfway point, Ye Tianlong got good news, that is, Song Jiang agreed to submit to the Qinglong Empire. And at this time, he had already led more than 20,000 troops from Liangshan to join him.

Speaking of which, when Ye Tianlong watched "Water Margin", he felt that Song Jiang was an official fan. He knew that the court was extremely corrupt and incompetent, but this guy still tried every means to recruit people and then become an official in the Song Dynasty. .

This may be an obsession caused when he was a minor official. After all, the treatment of officials and officials in the Song Dynasty was really different. Song Jiang should have been very envious of those with serious official status, so even if he later He turned into a bandit and became a bandit leader, but he still wanted to get an official job and live out his addiction to being an official.

Precisely because he knew the other party's preferences, the envoy Ye Tianlong sent to see Song Jiang followed the instructions of his emperor. As soon as they met, he showered Song Jiang with a lot of official positions and titles, hoping to destroy Song Jiang, an official fan. faint.

Facts have proved that this move is really effective. Song Jiang surrendered directly to the Qinglong Empire without any ability to resist, and he led more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command and dozens of Liangshan heroes to surrender.

Song Jiang is now a viscount of the Qinglong Empire, with the military rank of major general. His official position is Shandong magistrate and military commander. It can be said that Song Jiang was able to manage both the government and the army in this three-thirds of an acre of land in Shandong, and he was completely like a local emperor.

Song Jiang also saw from the official positions and rewards given to him by the Qinglong Empire that the other party was indeed sincere in recruiting him. Unlike the Song Dynasty in the original plot, he couldn't wait to send Song Jiang and his brothers everywhere after recruiting him. In the war, they were just serving as cannon fodder, hoping that both Song Jiang's men and the bandits and Liao soldiers everywhere would be harmed, or even better, die together. After fighting so many battles and almost all of Song Jiang's brothers were dead, he gave Song Jiang an official position. However, he was poisoned to death with poisonous wine before he was allowed to serve for a few days.

In comparison, the conditions given by Ye Tianlong were extremely generous. Song Jiang was not stupid, so he could naturally tell the difference between good and bad. Since the emperor of the Qinglong Empire was so sincere, he reciprocated the favor and directly led all his men to help in the battle.

Soon, the two armies met. Ye Tianlong rode up to Song Jiang and found that although Jiyu was indeed dark and short, his eyes were bright and his face had an aura of majesty. , at first glance, he is not a simple character.

While Ye Tianlong was sizing up the other person, Song Jiang, after confirming the identity of the person in front of him, quickly dismounted his horse and paid homage to His Majesty the Emperor.

In order to make Jishi Yu available to him, Ye Tianlong immediately dismounted and helped him up. Then he smiled and said to him: "I have heard about Jiu Yu Song Gongming's name for a long time. When I saw him today, it turned out to be true. It’s well-deserved!”

"Your Majesty has defeated the villain. Although the villain has a somewhat false reputation in the world, he is just a bandit and a bandit. Thanks to your Majesty's favor, I can have another chance to serve the country!" Facing Ye Tianlong! Song Jiang immediately responded humbly to the compliment.

"Haha! Your Song Gongming's loyal heart can be seen from the banner of 'doing justice for heaven' that you put up. The foolish king of the Song Dynasty was blind and couldn't see that Song Gongming wanted to serve the country. I’m determined, I’m not blind, so I can’t let a talent like you wander around and waste time anymore!”

The group of heroes behind Song Jiang could not help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the emperor of the Qinglong Empire chatting happily. After all, they were afraid that the other party would dislike their eldest brother because of his background as a grass bandit. Now it seems that , His Majesty the Emperor seemed to value their eldest brother very much, and did not dislike his background as a grass bandit at all. In this way, their eldest brother should be able to be truly reused, instead of being used as cannon fodder for the imperial court and being consumed at will on the battlefield. Naturally, these people can follow their elder brother to get a good job in the court and enjoy their happiness.

Speaking of which, many people under Song Jiang were actually officers and soldiers of the imperial court before! So in fact, they are not very enthusiastic about being a bandit. What they want more is to be able to recruit people together with their eldest brother Song Jiang, continue to work in the imperial establishment, and eat the imperial food in peace.

For example, Xiao Li Guanghuarong and Thunderbolt Fire Qin Ming, the most powerful people under Song Jiang, are people who agree with the recruitment. Therefore, Song Jiang agreed to submit to the Qinglong Empire and did not encounter much obstacles in the cottage.

After Ye Tianlong finished talking with Song Jiang, he handed over many of the spare armors and weapons carried by the army to Song Jiang, so that he could arm his brothers. After all, this time they were going to deal with a powerful force. Golden soldiers! If these Liangshan heroes were allowed to fight against the Jin soldiers with their crude equipment, wouldn't they be forced to die?

And the Liangshan heroes who got those sophisticated equipment couldn't help but feel more at ease. After all, in the eyes of many of them, their lives were probably not worth this set of fine equipment! If the other party really wants them to die as cannon fodder on the battlefield, there is no need to give them such good equipment.

After the two armies joined together, it took only two days to arrive near Taiyuan City, where Ye Tianlong met Jin Bing for the first time.

This is a light cavalry of the Jin Army. It seems to be responsible for guarding the periphery of the army. There are about three hundred cavalry.

What happened to bump into them was a heavily armored cavalry force from the Qinglong Empire, with about 500 people, led by Tiger Fighting General Li Zhong.

It stands to reason that when a light cavalry unit encounters a heavy cavalry unit, and the number is smaller than the opponent's, the normal approach is to use the speed advantage to get rid of the opponent immediately. After all, it stands to reason that the combat power of the heavy cavalry must be greater than that of the opponent. They are stronger than the light cavalry. If they stay and fight head-on with the opponent, the light cavalry will really suffer.

But because these golden soldiers had been winning battles before, they were completely defeated from generals to small soldiers. After all, they had dared to attack an army of tens of thousands with just a few hundred! And he was actually able to win.

So this time when they discovered that the enemy only had 500 cavalry, the golden soldiers ignored them at all and charged directly towards the cavalry unit of the Qinglong Empire.

Tiger general Li Zhong was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but be overjoyed. He immediately led his cavalry to meet them, preparing to completely eat up this group of enemy cavalry who overestimated their capabilities.

As an old man who joined the Qinglong Empire relatively early, Tiger Fighting General Li Zhong's current strength is far different from what he used to be. At this time, his cultivation level has already reached the first level of innateness, which he just broke through a few days ago. , it is precisely because of the breakthrough in cultivation that Li Zhong's ambition also disappeared. This time, he was the vanguard, leading a cavalry unit of 500 people to explore the road ahead.

As a vanguard, it is indeed easy to encounter enemies. Not long after setting off today, we ran into such a group of arrogant enemies.

"Death!" Li Zhong roared, drew his bow and arrow, and shot a heavy armor-piercing arrow at the Jin army general who was leading the opposite.

After following Ye Tianlong through a lot of battles, Li Zhong's archery skills were already very good at this time. Even on a high-speed galloping horse, this arrow still hit the golden soldier accurately. General's chest. Then the armor-piercing heavy arrow that blessed Li Zhongxian's true energy easily tore through the iron armor on the chest of the Jin Army general and plunged into his chest. Finally, the arrow emerged from the back. The whole person was carried off the horse by the huge force carried by the arrow. He flew back several meters and fell heavily to the ground. Then he was hit by the horses of other Jin cavalry that followed closely. It was trampled into a pile of bloody flesh.

The Qinglong Empire cavalry brought by Li Zhong also mastered the art of mounted archery. At this time, they also fired arrows. Before the cavalry from both sides formally came into contact, fifty or sixty Jin cavalry were shot off their horses. After all, these are light cavalry, and most of their armor is leather armor, which cannot block the arrows shot by the sophisticated cavalry bows equipped by the Qinglong Empire cavalry.

However, facing such huge casualties, the Jin cavalry had no intention of retreating. Instead, another young general quickly took over the command, and also fired arrows while quickly rushing towards the Qinglong Empire cavalry on the opposite side.