Chao Gai broke down the tight military formation of hundreds of officers and soldiers responsible for interception with the strength of one person, and together with others, the officers and soldiers fled in a hurry, and captured a lot of shields, bows and arrows and other weapons, and the offensive and defensive capabilities were greatly strengthened, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief. But the crisis is actually unresolved.

Behind, more officers and soldiers from all over the distance and shouted to form a team to chase up, only a cursory glance can be known, the strength is afraid of no less than a thousand people, the first officers and soldiers to come under the command of the leading officer under the command of the same front row formed a huge shield wall to block the entire road, the back row is the pikemen, and then naturally the archers shoot wildly from a distance, forming a team to advance rapidly step by step.

The officers and soldiers pursued urgently, and the momentum was fierce and complete, while the Jiangzhou heroes and the department only cared about pulling their own people to escape, and the vast majority of the leaders of Erlong Mountain here, such as the pig iron Buddha Cui Daocheng, Feitian Yasha Qiu Xiaoyi, Hong Yanhong Jiaotou, kicked and killed the sheep Zhang Bao; In the original Snake Horn Ridge Thirteen Taibao, Fang Lang Gou Fugui, Zhenshan Gang Wang Domineering, Dong Xiao Lang Liu Shangren, Jade Face Langjun Gao Shiying; Ye Mao and Wang Shan, the former commanders of the Qingzhou Army; The father and son of the former Baihu Mountain Bandit King, as well as the folk heroes Ma Zhankui, Sang Zhonghe, Sui Daqiu, Wu Jun, etc., who were automatically recruited by Song Jiang when he led the team to join the officers and soldiers of Zibo Erzhou on the way to Erlongshan, rushed to the front, and were chasing the fleeing officers and soldiers and rushing away from the road, in fact, they were also desperately fleeing for their lives. Both of these people did not care about the danger of catching up from behind, and they did not look back, and they refused to risk leaving behind the broken back.

And Yang Shi, Liu Wuji, Li Ji, the fool Qiu Yilang and Wang Si also only cared about protecting Song Jiang, or pulling Song Jiang or protecting both sides of the car and struggling to escape.

The only leaders who were responsible for righteousness or understood the necessity and dared to block the pursuers were the red-haired ghost Liu Tang, the unicorn Jiao Qinhui, Xue Heng, Zhang Xuanzan, Liu Fu, and the five generals.

Liu Tang saw that the officers and soldiers were shooting their bows and arrows too quickly, and although the other four generals and the elite soldiers of Erlongshan behind the pad were eager to bravely stop the officers and soldiers from catching up quickly, they were so shot by the rain of arrows that they did not dare to show their heads.

The officers and soldiers couldn't help but laugh when they saw Liu Tang suddenly come out of his hiding place to avoid arrows like a gambler who had lost all his old money and fell into despair, and he was alone and desperate. Many bows and arrows were aimed at Liu Tang together, but many of them were killed by Liu Tang in an instant before they could be fired, and a few arrows were blocked or shot into the body but had no effect, the officers and soldiers were a little surprised, the front row of shield formations hurriedly strengthened the defense, and the back row of spearmen hurriedly stabbed Liu Tang from all directions with their guns.

Liu Tang roared again with red eyes, his majestic body flexibly dodged the first shot that came obliquely, swept and cut off several spears in front of him, shook his head and turned around and narrowly dodged the sharp shot that pierced the side neck, stepped forward by mistake, and slashed a huge shield with a fierce knife, and also killed the officers and soldiers holding the shield, opened the gap in the giant shield wall, raised his breath and rushed into the formation Crazy and swept wildly, cutting down the pikemen behind a shield array and a nearby shield player, expanding the gap and sweeping away a neutral place, He immediately turned around and rushed towards the leading officer who had almost stabbed him in the neck with a sneak attack just now.

The officer was taken aback when he saw Liu Tang pounce like a fierce tiger and a wolf, and exclaimed in his heart: "The Erlong Mountain Thief is so brave and fierce that he can make trouble for the Shandong government to be helpless." Seeing the ferocity between his thoughts, he was so frightened that he couldn't help but hurriedly retreat, but he was blocked by the dense array of officers and soldiers, where could he retreat, only in the blink of an eye in this panic, Liu Tang's knife arrived, and others were in the crowd, and the spear could not be used, so he had to hurriedly raise the gun to the horizontal frame, and the result was that the human gun was shattered.

Liu Tang killed this officer, and immediately broke into the group of archers and slaughtered them, killing the archers who had no ability to resist and killed and injured more than a dozen people in the blink of an eye. The surrounding archers were terrified and desperately squeezed to retreat. When the other officers and soldiers saw Liu Tang so brave and terrifying, they couldn't help but retreat in fear.

However, the formation of an empty space around Liu Tang gave officers and soldiers with melee weapons a chance to attack. Under the command of another officer's fierce shouting, these officers and men glared at each other, gritted their teeth, raised their guns and knives, and fiercely surrounded them, stabbing and slashing indiscriminately. Liu Tang was not afraid, the fierce battle, the officers and soldiers were helpless for a while, but he was weak and soon fell into danger.

Seeing that Liu Tang was alone in danger of the enemy, the one-horned Jiao Qin Hui took advantage of the loose and chaotic rain of arrows to pounce and bravely came to help Liu Tang. Liu Tang's danger was greatly alleviated immediately. The two of them rushed to kill together, further twisting the army into a mess

Xue Heng, Zhang Xuanzan, and Liu Fu saw that Qin Hui rushed forward first, but they did not take the opportunity to rush up, but opened their bows to shoot the officers who were exposed after the shield array was dispersed.

These three people were originally officers and soldiers, and they knew too well the weaknesses of the Song army: the Song army, whether it was the forbidden army or the Western army, which was famous for its brave battles, no matter how superior the strength of the enemy was, how elite and loyal the soldiers were, and how smoothly the war went, as long as the leading officer died, it would quickly or even immediately fall into retreat, and if it was the leading general who died, it would flee in a rout regardless of it. The elite army is still like this, so there is no need to say that the Xiang army, the township soldiers, or the lack of soldiers who fought to the death for Song Duzhong.

The poor political status and living environment of the soldiers in the Song State caused the soldiers to be cold, even if the great red doctrine was poured into the minds of the soldiers, it was still useless, and almost no one, including the generals, was willing to fight to the death for the country.

For ordinary soldiers, being a soldier is just to make ends meet, or to be forcibly conscripted, who would be willing to fight desperately just for the little money issued by the state that died in battle, and it will inevitably be deducted from above, or even simply lose the clean pension on the grounds that the immediate family of the deceased cannot be found?

There is no hope, and surviving the battlefield is the only goal.

Fighting bravely is usually just a matter of fear of the military justice of the officers around you.

The people in the interior, especially the people in the capital, only have contempt, ridicule and indifference to the soldiers who defend the country and bloody wars, and they are not proud of the soldiers who are good at fighting, nor are they grateful for the blood and sacrifice of the soldiers, so the soldiers also treat the country with a pig and dog mentality in addition to inferiority, rather than a human mentality.

Well, I'm a soldier of the Song Army, and I admit that I'm a naturally lowly pig and dog, so what can you expect from non-human livestock to have any life-and-death loyalty to the human nation?

There is often a phenomenon in the foreign wars of the Song army, which obviously insists on holding on and the victory is in hand, but suddenly and inexplicably collapses and is defeated. The reason is that the officers are dead and wounded, the officers and men have lost their command, there is no one to supervise and supervise the battle, and the soldiers have no scruples of retreating or being deserters and will be executed by the officers on the spot. The famous general of the Western Army, Liu Fabu, was wiped out by 100,000 troops in World War I, and to put it bluntly, this is the internal reason.

The Western Xia army was different. The more the generals die, the more desperate the soldiers will be, and they will even fight like crazy to avenge the generals. This is also related to the military law of Western Xia. In contrast, the Song army was naturally unable to fundamentally reverse the passivity of the Song State, which was extremely rich in population, troops, money and food, and advanced technology, and was bullied to death by the little Western Xia.

Therefore, the actions of Xue Heng, Zhang Xuanzan, and Liu Fu were extremely smart and correct, and they did not have to take risks to fight, but they could most effectively restrain the officers and soldiers from chasing and killing. This is much more useful than the three of them desperately going up to join the melee. Although the three of them are brave, what role can the strength of just three people play in a big war?

Chao Gai turned his head and saw the effective scene of the invisible cooperation of the five generals.

He knew the courage and loyalty of the Liu Tang brothers, and at this time he also further understood the merits of Xue Heng, Zhang Xuanzan, and Liu Fusan's generals in the war and the precious side of taking risks and sacrifices in consideration of the overall situation.

He didn't know whether he should trust and rely on this person, or whether he should despise and watch out for this person.

This emotion stems from one thing.

Last year, the pirates made a big fuss in the Song Kingdom, the Cangzhao family also suffered during the period, Zhao Zhuang, which had never been broken by the Liao army, was broken and looted by the Liao army this time, and the population of Zhaozhuang suffered heavy losses to the point that it is said that only a few people remained, and the brave and loyal Zhuang Ding warriors were almost dead, and the wealth of the members of the Cangzhao family from the owner to the grandchildren was also swept away, and Zhao Zhuang almost became a white land. What's even worse is that Zhao Zhuang is bankrupt but owes a huge amount of foreign debts outside, and the creditors are anxious to come to the door, and it is far from enough for the Zhao family to lose all the ancestral property of their hometown, and even Zhao Yue's unique Liangshan wealth has to be compensated, which is not enough.

The Cangzhao family, which is extremely rich and prosperous and benefits the whole world, has fallen to the point of needing help. And Chao Gai is the most affectionate and righteous. He owes Zhao Yue great kindness, and also feels that he owes Wen Chenghou love, Cangzhao is now in danger, he urgently needs help, and he urgently needs people to send charcoal in the snow, he feels that it is time to repay the kindness with all his might.

If Zhao Yue hadn't helped him take refuge in Erlong Mountain, he and the seven members of the Shengchengang would have nowhere to escape, and they would definitely die. This is already a blessing of life.

Chao Gai also thanked him with a lot of gold back then, but Liang Shan received it but returned the copper coins at the same time, which is equivalent to Erlongshan exchanging from Liangshan for good money with jewelry that could not be sold and gold and silver that could not be purchased in large quantities due to the identity of robbers. Not only that, but there are many changes.

You must know that at that time, money was expensive and silver was cheap, and the Great Song Dynasty had always lacked copper and developed commerce, that is, the money that needed to be circulated was extremely tight, (gold and silver were not money), in order to make up for the shortage of money, Cai Jing even formulated the so-called big money of one when five and one was ten, but it did not change the embarrassing situation of the shortage of money, and it did not help, but it made the people suffer. Because the rich have the ability to secretly use copper to forge a lot of money, and turn the original penny into a big money of five or ten cents, which is used to buy the products of the people, but sell the goods without collecting a lot of money, the people pay taxes, and the government often does not collect a lot of money, which is equivalent to plundering the fruits of the people's hard work in disguise. This is like the state does not allow good people to carry knives and guns, but it is unable to prevent bad people from committing crimes with knives and guns, and as a result, good people can only be killed by bad people, and the state does not even allow good people to use means to resist crime. Or it is like the law cannot prohibit the rich from driving and parking in violation of regulations, and the law-abiding person inadvertently scrapes and hits the car of the violator, but is guilty and has to pay for the bankruptcy. This is all a seemingly fair law-making, but in fact it is a disguised protection of the injustice of those who have the power to use money to endanger others, or a disguised hatred of conniving at criminals to commit bold crimes.

With the prosperity of foreign trade and mining in the Great Song Dynasty, there was no shortage of silver, and at that time in the Central Plains, the consistent money was only 700 yuan, and one or two silver was equal to the consistent, that is, it could only be exchanged for 700 yuan. But Liangshan has always returned to Erlongshan for 1,000 yuan at the official price.

Then Zhao Yue had more feedback, not only for Erlongshan to do the entrepreneurial foundation and long-term survival and development plan, this is already a priceless gift of wisdom, Erlongshan can not fight with the government to fight any big battles without breaking into a big name in the case of attracting people to grow rapidly, that's it, and Liangshan also has substantial help, such as raising a wide variety of excellent war horses necessary for the Song Kingdom to have a wide variety of excellent pastures, such as fast meat breeding sheep, breeding pigs.

Erlongshan can quickly form a huge livestock breeding resources, and can now have tens of thousands of soldiers and so many mouths to eat meat and soup from time to time, and there are so many pigs and sheep to eat, which mainly depends on Liangshan's secret batch by batch to help finally form a scale. Otherwise, with the situation that Qingzhou was full of Kou Lin at that time, the local disaster had already been ruined, and Erlongshan could grab how many livestock from the people to raise by robbing it alone? It's not enough to grab enough to eat.

The prosperity of Erlong Mountain and the long-term siege of the officers and soldiers stemmed from Chao Gai's own efforts, but they relied more on Zhao Yue's help. This man owes a great favor.

。 Nine Heavenly God Emperors