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Chapter 149: Civil Strife


Looking at Liang Shanjun outside the city, Zongze looked serious.

Liangshan's army marched very quickly.

When Zongze learned the news, Liangshan's army was almost reaching Glue City.

There was no time to plan in advance, no room for support, plus he had just used a trick to deceive the opponent two days ago.

Zongze was unaware that the opponent would be easily fooled again.

As a last resort, Zongze was forced to choose to defend the city.

Shi Jin led the army to march quickly, hoping to attack Jiaoshui City.

But Zongze was very cautious and sent many spies early to monitor.

Upon learning that Liangshan's army was attacking, he ordered the city gates to be closed.

Shi Jin arrived with his army and saw that the city gate was tightly closed.

He had no choice but to ask the rear troops to retreat ten miles and set up camp, while the rest of the troops rested on the spot.

At the same time, Wu Song was asked to lead his troops to call for formation in front of the city.

Wu Song rode his horse back and forth in front of the city gate, showing off his power and insulting him.

His men thought the weather was a bit hot, so they all took off their clothes and armor, sat naked on the ground, or stood making various unbearable gestures, and cursed Zongze angrily.

When Cao Fang and Wang Tian saw that the Liangshan army was so contemptuous of them and scolded Zongze, they both shouted angrily at Zongze: "The Liangshan thieves are bullying me, so I am willing to go out of the city and fight to the death with them."

When Zongze heard this, he shook his head and said with a smile: "Shi Jin underestimated me too much.

It's just a trick to lure the enemy.

Don't pay attention.

They will get tired after a while and will go back."

Seeing that no matter how he scolded the formation, Zongze just ignored it.

Shi Jin had no choice but to go out in person to try to recruit Zongze to surrender.

Shi Jin shouted: "Zongzhi County, if the emperor is immoral, why don't you obey the destiny and submit to me?"

Before Shi Jin could finish shouting, Zongze was already furious and cursed with a red face: "Shi Jin, my son, as a bandit, you are a danger to the imperial court.

Today, the Holy Spirit is very tolerant and will forgive your sins and make peace with you." .

I didn’t expect you to be so ambitious that you wanted to rebel and stand on your own.

Now you have the nerve to lie and claim to be destined by fate.

You are truly the most shameless person in the world.

How dare you claim to be loyal and unparalleled?”

Zongze is over fifty years old, but he is still full of vitality and energy.

The person's voice is loud when he curses, Zongze seized on the fact that Shi Jin was a bandit and scolded Shi Jin for being unfaithful and unjust and a traitor.

As long as Shi Jin does not establish a stable territory and dominate the country, his status as a bandit will not fade away.

Zongze's curse greatly boosted the morale of the Song soldiers.

The morale of Liangshan Army was slightly depressed.

Seeing Zongze's stubbornness, Shi Jin also knew that it was impossible to persuade him to surrender.

In this case, if you can't eliminate his mouth, you can directly eliminate him as a person.

Shi Jin drew out his sword and pointed it at the city wall, roaring angrily: "Since you, Zong Ze, are foolish and loyal and refuse to surrender, don't blame me, Shi Jin, for being ruthless.

The first to climb to the top of the city will be rewarded heavily, and those who retreat before the battle will be killed.

Attack. city" Although the artillery was mounted on wheels, it was inconvenient to move.

In order to march quickly, Shi Jin asked soldiers from the firearms battalion to come behind, guarding artillery and other siege weapons.

Now that there are no siege weapons, Liangshan's army can only cut down trees and make some simple ladders and bumping trees.

Following Shi Jin's order, war drums rumbled.

The soldiers of the Liangshan Army immediately launched an attack on Glue City carrying ladders, wooden blocks, and shields.

Seeing that the Liangshan bandits were attacking the city, Zongze roared and commanded his bows and arrows to start shooting wildly.

"Archers, shoot at those people and don't let them get close to the city gate."

The running Liangshan Army was the first to face the dense bursts of sharp arrows whizzing down from the sky.

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The Liangshan Army tried their best to dodge the arrows shot from the city while running.

From time to time, a Liangshan Army was hit by a stray shot from the Song Army and let out a scream.

But as long as they are not incapacitated, these wounded soldiers will insist on continuing to rush forward.

Shi Jin shouted hurriedly: "Archers are quick, please suppress the opponent's bows and arrows!"

Under the command of Pang Wanchun, the bow and arrow battalion hurriedly ran to a place not far from the city, set up arrows and drew their bows.

Soon the Liangshan army's arrow rain covered the city head, suppressing the Song army at the city head.

Seeing that the Song army's arrow rain had weakened a lot, Shi Jin waved his sword and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Come on, take this opportunity to rush up to me."

"Set up a ladder and climb to the city" "Give me the courage to take down Glue County" Not long after, the charging Qingliang Mountain Army rushed to the bottom of the city and set up a ladder.

As soon as the ladder reached the city wall, Liang Shanjun held a shield in one hand and a sword in his mouth, climbing up quickly.

At the same time, dozens of wooden logs launched a fierce attack on the glue city gate.

The Liangshan Army's offensive was very fierce.

Zongze personally dressed up and came to the city to supervise the formation.

He carefully avoided the arrows and looked out from the parapet.

Even during the siege, the Liangshan Army's central army still maintained a severe formation.

The Tiger Guards and Huben are in charge, and the cavalry are wandering around, ready to attack at any time.

Seeing that the Liangshan Army's center was very tightly defended, Zongze could only give up his previous idea of ​​secretly opening the city gate and attacking the opponent's center.

Seeing the Liangshan army charging at the city wall fiercely, the Song soldiers could no longer resist.

The Liangshan bandits were about to attack the city, and the glue was about to fall and change hands.

Zongze could only use his last defensive method.

Zongze said harshly: "Cao Wei, pour down the prepared boiling oil."

Upon hearing this, Cao Fang hurriedly asked hundreds of young men to pour down the boiling oil boiled in dozens of large pots.

The boiling oil was poured down.

No matter how powerful and trained the man was, he couldn't withstand the boiling oil.

Seeing Zongze's ruthlessness, it was absolutely impossible to attack the city at this time.

Shi Jin had no choice but to order the money to be withdrawn.

Although the city was not captured, the boiling oil was not unlimited.

Shi Jin did not believe how long the glue could last without the boiling oil.

Seeing that the Liangshan bandits had retreated, Zongze hurriedly asked people to carry the wounded soldiers down.

At the same time, he ordered the city gate to be blocked directly with crossbars and gravel to prevent the enemy from breaking through the city gate.

At this time, Cao Fang, Wang Tian, ​​Chen Shi and other generals came over.

Chen Shi regretted defecting to the imperial court.

If he had known that the Liangshan bandits were so brave and could be beaten to death, he would not have defected to the Song Dynasty at this time and went against the Liangshan army.

Chen Shi couldn't hide the worry in his heart and asked anxiously: "Master Zong, these Liangshan bandits are very crazy.

My men have killed and injured nearly a hundred people today.

I'm afraid I won't be able to defend the Glue City, otherwise" Zongze interrupted Chen Shi and said very calmly: "Don't worry, the glue will be able to hold on.

I had expected that these thieves were going to attack the city, and had prepared thousands of barrels of oil.

Just with these rolling Oil, it can last for ten and a half months.

If the boiling oil is not enough, you can also use golden juice.

It is absolutely impossible for Liang Shanjun to break through the glue."

When Chen Shi heard that Zongze had prepared thousands of barrels of oil, he became confident in the defense, but he asked with a little worry: "As the saying goes, a lonely city cannot be defended.

Has your Excellency sent someone to send a message to ask for reinforcements?"

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"Don't worry, before closing the city gate, I have already sent three waves of people to send a message to Dengzhou, Qingzhou and Tokyo that reinforcements will come soon," Zongze shouted.

After hearing that the message had been sent, Chen Shi finally felt relieved.

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Qingzhou and Dengzhou are not far from Laizhou Glue City.

How can we get to the Glue City in ten days and a half?

After ten days and a half, there is still hope.

After Chen Shi, Cao Fang, Wang Tian and others heard Zongze's arrangements, they settled down and prepared for the upcoming arduous battle to defend the city, waiting for reinforcements from the court.

Zongze, who was calm in front of others, turned around with a sad look on his face after comforting his men.

Zongze never expected that the Liangshan Army would force out his last defensive measure with just one attack.

How can he have so many barrels of oil?

Even if all the cooking oil in the homes of the people in the city were searched, it would not be possible to collect this much.

Not to mention thousands of barrels, not even hundreds of barrels.

This Glue City is really not easy to defend.

When will the imperial court send reinforcements?

Zongze thought with a grimace When the Liangshan Army's attack on the city was in full swing, Yang Bichang, the head of the family, picked up a tea cup and said casually in the main hall of the Yang Mansion: "My Yang Mansion is a home of Shuli, how can I help the thieves attack the city?"

Xue Yong, a sick man, looked at Yang Bichang with a smile and said: "As far as I know, a year ago, your Sanlang had a conflict with the Li family of Mipu because of a singer.

Your Sanlang was so angry that he led someone to interrupt Li's family the next day.

Iagoro's legs.

Zongze took over the Li family's case and beat your Sanro twenty times and fined him three hundred taels of silver.

I don't know if this was the case. " Hearing Xue Yong mention this matter, Yang Bichang was so angry that he was speechless.

He felt anger rising in his heart.

His son broke someone's leg with someone and was fined 300 taels.

Yang Bichang would not hesitate.

But our Yang family is a family of poetry and calligraphy, and the most important thing is face.

That Zongze actually asked the government officials to beat my son with a wooden board in front of many people in the court hall.

His legs were beaten to pieces, causing him to become incontinent and faint from the pain.

This blatantly made our Yang family the laughing stock of the gentry in Laizhou, and made it impossible for the Yang family to raise their heads to meet people in Laizhou for a long time.

Not to mention that my Saburo has given up on himself since then and has completely crossed over.

Thinking of this, Yang Bichang gritted his teeth in hatred towards Zongze.

Although Yang Bichang hated Zongze, he cooperated with the bandits to capture the glue.

If found out, it would be a serious crime.

As the head of the Yang family, how could he easily agree to this matter?

Yang Bichang quickly regained his composure and said calmly: "The child made his own mistake, and he deserves to be punished."

"The Yang family is a family of poetry and calligraphy, and your cousin was a Jinshi in the first year of Chongning.

Logically speaking, the Yang family can reduce taxes, but Zongze ignored the court's intention to give preferential treatment to scribes and rigidly collected taxes according to the square field equalization tax law.

Taxes.

The Yang family has suffered a lot in recent years.

If Zongze continues to serve as the magistrate of Glue County, I am afraid that the Yang family will be unable to make ends meet sooner or later," Xue Yong shouted.

The Yang family has a big business and needs to take care of a lot.

Coupled with the daily interpersonal relationships, this costs a lot of money.

In addition, if you want to grow the Yang family, you have to accumulate money so that you can buy land for your ancestral property.

Now Zongze stubbornly wants Zongze to clear the land and verify the landowners in accordance with the square field equalization tax law, so that many of the Yang family's fields have to pay taxes, resulting in a huge loss.

Thinking about having to pay more land tax than in previous years, Yang Bichang felt heartbroken.

If I could save some money, how many acres of land could I buy?

Yang Bichang tugged at his face and shouted, "This is not just our Yang family.

Every family in Jiaoshui County needs to pay taxes on a per-field basis."

What Yang Bichang meant was that we were not the only ones in Jiaoshui County.

Why should we, the Yang family, do such a stupid thing?

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Xue Yong shouted: "According to what Mr.

Yang means, if there are enough benefits, the Yang family may not be willing to help, right?"

Yang Bichang picked up the tea bowl in his hand and said nothing.

Xue Yong thought for a moment and said, "Mr.

Yang, I wonder if you are interested in burning knives?"

Yang Bichang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he hurriedly said: "I have long heard that you in Liangshan have secret techniques that can make large quantities of spirits.

Could it be that you want to tell the Yang family about the technology of making spirits?"

Xue Yong asked: "If your Yang family had such a means of making money, would you easily teach others about it?"

Yang Bichang sneered and said: "Then it depends on whether the other party can provide enough benefits to the Yang family.

If the benefits are enough, it is not impossible to teach others.

I think one county is qualified enough."

Xue Yong pretended to sigh and said: "It seems that we only have great differences.

Mr.

Yang has disturbed Xue and wants to visit other people.

Sorry to bother you."

Xue Yong stood up and turned around to walk out the door, waiting until Xue Yong's hand touched the door handle.

Yang Bichang suddenly shouted: "Wait a minute" Xue Yong sneered, then quickly regained his smile and turned around and said, "Mr.

Yang, what else do you want?"

Yang Bichang made up his mind and said: "If, I mean if our Yang family can help you find some reliable manpower.

What can our Yang family get?"

Xue Yong quickly reacted and said: "Mr.

Yang means that your Yang family is responsible for providing manpower, but will not admit that these people are related to your Yang family.

Is that what you mean?"

Yang Bichang shook his head and shouted: "No, no, no, our Yang family did not provide any manpower.

We, the Yang family, only knew some people who were dissatisfied with Zongze.

You must know that Zongze's toughness and compliance with the Fangtian Equalization Tax Law offended many people.

Who knows which family these young men belong to?"

Xue Yong despised Yang Bichang in his heart.

He wanted to strengthen the Yang family, but he cherished his life and was greedy for small profits and forgot his righteousness.

No wonder the Yang family has been suppressed by other families in Glue.

If not for the short time, the intelligence department could only find out that the Yang family and Zongze had the greatest grievances, and Xue Yong might not have found the Yang family.

Xue Yong felt contempt in his heart, but he said: "How many manpower can your Yang family provide?"

Yang Bichang rolled his eyes and said, "Our Yang family only knows that there are nearly a hundred people who are dissatisfied with Zongze."

There are less than a hundred people, which is a bit small.

Xue Yong said: "Since the Yang family is only willing to provide a hundred people, we in Liangshan can only sell the Yang family 20,000 kilograms of spirits at a low price every year."

Yang Bichang asked: "What if our Yang family knew there were two hundred people?"

Xue Yong shouted decisively: "Fifty thousand, as long as your Yang family is willing to provide two hundred people, we can provide no less than fifty thousand spirits every year."

Fifty thousand jins, which is an income of 30,000 to 40,000 taels of silver a year.

If sold to the North, the profit might be even greater.

Yang Bichang shook his head and said: "One hundred thousand catties, it must be one hundred thousand catties, and our Yang family will take great risks."

Xue Yong cursed in his heart, you said yourself that those people have nothing to do with your Yang family, take the risk.

Even if we fail, it is impossible for us in Liangshan to inform Zongze, otherwise no one will dare to cooperate with us in Liangshan in the future.

Xue Yong said calmly: "If the Yang family is willing to support our Liangshan and join Liangshan, let alone one hundred thousand, two hundred thousand catties and thirty is not a problem.

How dare the Yang family?"

Yang Bichang was choked by Xue Yong.

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Just as he opened his mouth to agree, he swallowed his words and said, "Fifty thousand, just fifty thousand.

When can our Yang family get it?"

Xue Yong shouted: "Within ten days after the city is broken, someone will be sent to you.

When will the manpower be available?"

Yang Bichang shouted: "At midnight tonight, two hundred people who are very dissatisfied with Zongze will gather at Yongle Street.

Brother Xue can persuade them to follow you."

Xue Yong said: "I really hope I can see those hands tonight."

Yang Bichang said: "Don't worry, I promise it won't delay things."

The night was thick, and even at night, the Liangshan Army was determined to prevent the Song Army from being stable.

They lit torches and countless Liangshan Army began another round of siege.

The Liangshan Army had to fight at night, and the Song Army guarding the city had no way to stop.

All they could do was light countless torches at the top of the city and illuminate the surrounding area.

On the city wall, densely packed soldiers of the Liangshan Army were encroaching on the city, and teams of soldiers were waiting to be replenished at any time.

There is little boiling oil, so Zongze would not dare to use it unless absolutely necessary.

Arrows and gravel rained down from the city.

From time to time, soldiers from the Liangshan Army screamed and fell to death from the city.

In an instant, he was overwhelmed by the soldiers behind him.

Dong-dong-dong, dozens of huge and round-waisted soldiers were pushing and carrying the ramming wood and hitting the city gate.

Every time the ramming wood hit, the city gate and the city wall were shaking.

The Liangshan Army's offensive was very fierce.

Zongze was personally leading more than a hundred soldiers on the city wall, encouraging the soldiers and rushing to fill the gap at any time.

When Zongze was dealing with the Liangshan Army's siege at the top of the city, Xue Yong slipped out of his hiding place and cautiously ran to the streets of Yongle.

As expected, there were countless figures hiding under the shadows of the eaves.

Xue Yong ran over and shouted in a low voice: "Gu Xue Gu Qin" Soon a voice came from the black shadow, "Happy and peaceful" The codes were matched, and Xue Yong shouted: "Listen to my instructions, light fires everywhere, create chaos, and cooperate with our army to conquer the glue."

These people had obviously received instructions from Yang Bichang, and they all followed Xue Yong's instructions without saying a word.

On Yongle Street, Xue Yong led nearly two hundred Yangjiazhuang guests and lit fires all the way along the street.

The houses were burned down quickly, and they were burning with raging fire, which looked so dazzling in the dark night.

Xue Yong asked them to set fire, and shouted loudly after himself: "The glue has been captured, and the Liangshan Army has entered the city.

Everyone, run away."

"Zongze is dead, Zongze is killed, the glue is finished" "Zongze is going to set fire to the city and die together with the bandits.

Everyone, run away quickly."

The people who had to run out to put out the fire couldn't help but be frightened when they saw the whole city in chaos and many places on fire, and heard the rumors.

They were in a panic for a moment, not knowing what to do.

When they saw some people running towards the city gate, they also ran towards the city gate.

Zongze, who was commanding the Song army to resist the Liangshan army's attack on the city, heard noises coming from the city and turned around to see fireworks everywhere in the city.

Countless people poured out of their homes.

Some people were hurriedly putting out the fire, but more people were desperately running towards the city gate, trying to escape from the city.

They were supposed to resist the Liangshan Army, but there were not enough soldiers to defend the city.

Now there are internal forces in the city who are inciting chaos, and the people are also adding to the chaos.

Zongze knows that he must put down the civil chaos as soon as possible, otherwise he will not be able to hold on.

Zongze shouted: "Cao Fang, you first lead the troops to destroy the rebels in the city, and you must put down the rebellion as soon as possible."

Cao Fang shouted: "Yes, my lord and brothers, follow me quickly" Cao Fang personally led 300 Song soldiers down the city, and happened to see Xue Yong leading his men towards the city gate.

Once someone opens the city gate, Jiaoshui County will never be able to defend it.

Cao Fang shouted loudly: "Kill, we must not let them open the city gate."

When Xue Yong saw it, he shouted loudly: "Everyone, kill me.

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As long as the city is conquered, you will all be rewarded."

For a time, the street behind the city gate turned into a life-for-life fight.

Xue Yong was nicknamed "Sick Big Chong" because his family was in decline, he was living in the world, and he was unable to make contributions.

He was like a tiger that was sick and unable to show its power, so he was called "Sick Big Chong".

Now that Xue Yong is under Shi Jin's seat, it is the time for him to display his talents.

Xue Yong now is not a sick insect, but a tiger that has emerged from the gate.

He thrust his gun into the Song army, raised his hand and killed several Song soldiers with a few spears.

The spear in Xue Yong's hand kept stabbing the Song soldiers who were blocking them.

Each gun flower can give Song Bing a bloody hole, and every life is taken away in the blood flower.

Will be a soldier's courage Seeing Xue Yong's bravery, the guests of the Yang family who were following him were also excited and rushed towards the Song army one by one, howling like ghosts and wolves.

Cao Fang knew that he could no longer let his opponent show off his heroism, so he raised his sword and struck Xue Yong.

Seeing Cao Fang coming towards him, Xue Yong rushed forward without fear, breaking the air with his gun and striking directly at the enemy's head.

One inch longer and one inch stronger Before Cao Fang's sword fell, Xue Yong's iron spear was already in front of him.

Cao Fang had no choice but to put away his sword to resist.

The guns and knives collided, making a sound and fire flying everywhere.

"clang" Cao Fang had been seriously injured by Sun Li a few days ago, but now in this exchange, Cao Fang immediately took two or three steps back before stopping his retreat, with a trace of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.

Seeing that Cao Fang was no match for him, Xue Yong showed no mercy and kept attacking Cao Fang's vital positions with the iron gun in his hand.

Cao Fang was trying his best, but with his weak strength and the fact that his old injuries were not completely healed, he was unable to resist Xue Yong and was defeated steadily.

Cao Fang was not able to resist in time, and Xue Yong's shot hit Cao Fang's shoulder, causing him to drip with blood.

Seeing that the county captain was injured, Song Bing quickly protected him and fled into the city.

Seeing Cao Fang escape, Xue Yong had no time to pay attention to Cao Fang at this time.

Xue Yong killed the Song army and dispersed it.

He quickly ordered his men to rush in and quickly remove the sand and stones from the city gate and open the city gate.

Xue Yong was anxious and kept urging the Yang family's dealers to move faster.

Zongze, who was supervising the battlefield in the city, heard a lot of noise coming from the city and was about to send someone to ask what happened.

A Song soldier ran over in a panic and shouted: "Your Majesty, the rebels in the city have defeated General Cao and are opening the city gate to let the Liangshan army in."

What Zongze was shocked and shouted hurriedly: "Quick, pour down the boiling oil.

We must not let them open the city gate."

Zongze knew that without the city wall, it would be impossible to defend this glue city.

This rebel must not be allowed to open the city gate.

At this time, Zongze didn't care about the lack of boiling oil.

He hurriedly asked his men to push all the boiling oil to the inner city and pour it down.

Xue Yong called to the guests of the Yang family to quickly move away the wooden and hard stones blocking the city gate.

Hearing the sound coming from the top of the city, he looked up and saw the white steaming oil falling on his head.

When he saw the white steam coming from the dripping oil, Xue Yong was so frightened that he lost his soul.

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