Chapter 594: Cottage Hidden Dangers
After many days of heavy rain, the sky and earth become more refreshing and translucent, and the blue sky is reflected on the surface of the lake that rises two feet high, making the water color also become clear and clear, with a bit of the beauty of the landscape splashing ink. Especially when people stand on a high place and overlook, they can appreciate the beauty of the scenery of Liangshan Shuibo.
However, Song Jiang, who was standing in front of the cottage and constantly looking down, did not have the slightest intention of enjoying the beautiful scenery at this time, but was frowning and worried. Just because after the heavy rain stopped, they saw with their own eyes that a number of grain transport teams continued to come from the east, sending a large amount of grain into the official army camp below, which meant that his previous wishful thinking had completely failed, and it was impossible to retire the officers and troops with just one word.
Even at this time, the situation has been reversed, and he has to start worrying about how long the food in the cottage can last his brothers. Although there have always been sufficient reserves in the Liangshan village, at most two or three months of grain stocks have been prepared, but now the mountain has been surrounded by the official army for more than a month, and more than half of the grain has been consumed.
In fact, as early as after confirming that the food of the official army had been replenished, many brothers asked for war again, but they were still temporarily suppressed by Song Jiang. But at this time, after discovering that the official army had actually begun to hold the siege of the mountain and no longer took the initiative to attack, Song Jiang was a little shaken, perhaps taking the initiative to attack was their only hope of victory.
"Hey, those are...... Fishing boats? At this time, the muttering of a brother beside him made Song Jiang come back from his thoughts, and when he looked down, he saw that a large number of black pressure ships were entering the water pool downstream, and docked on the side close to the official army barracks.
He had just had such a thought, and many people around him had already laughed: "These officers and soldiers are thinking of being blind, and they want to attack my water village with such a small boat." Don't say that these ordinary fishing boats are the big ships of the imperial court sailors, as long as they enter my Liangshan Bo, don't think about coming out! ”
These words are not arrogant, but have real confidence. Liangshanbo was able to withstand years of suppression and suppression by the government and the imperial court, but it still stood tall, and their water village and the navy under their command were the key. The imperial court had also sent troops to attack the water village before, and the result was not only the loss of the soldiers, but also the big ships they spent a lot of money to build into it, and now it has become the ship of the Liangshan Water Army, so if the official army has the idea of the water village, it is no different from sending it to death.
"Brothers, don't be careless, that Sun Tu is a shrewd person, it is impossible for him to do such a foolish act, and he must have a deeper purpose in making this arrangement." Song Jiang didn't dare to be sloppy in the slightest, and immediately reminded solemnly. After thinking for a moment, he turned back and ordered: "Hurry up and send someone down the mountain to bring a message to the brothers in the water village, and ask them to strictly guard the village and not fight at will." ”
Seeing that Song Jiang said solemnly, those brothers didn't dare to slack off, and immediately someone was ordered to hurriedly go down to the gentle slope in the east to bring a message to the brothers in Shuizhai.
Liangshan is surrounded by water on three sides, and it is precisely because there is a water village that can be used as a barrier, so the mountain roads on these three sides are much smoother, and it is the easiest for people to go up and down the mountain to transmit news or something. It only took a short time for this order to reach the water village in the east and report to Li Jun, the leader of the water army here.
The three water villages all have leaders who are proficient in water warfare and water nature, the east is headed by Li Jun, assisted by Tong Wei and Tong Meng, the west village is dominated by the three heroes of the Ruan family, and the north is watched by Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun brothers. These are all heroes who have been begging for a living on the boat for many years, and they have mastered kung fu on the water, and among them, Li Jun is the most reliable, not only is his ability far superior to that of all his brothers, but he is also stable and clever enough, and he is the master of the water village recommended by everyone. So when Song Jiang gave this order, it was passed to him first.
After listening to the order, Li Jun deliberately went outside to look at the situation on the water from a distance, and then nodded and said: "Brother Gongming's concerns are not unreasonable, and I also feel that there must be another conspiracy for the officials and soldiers to put the ship in the open place." If you bring back the message, you will say that I will restrain my brother and prevent him from moving at will. I will also say hello to the brothers of the other two villages, anyway, unless the official army really attacks by boat, we will never leave the village easily. ”
That's what Li Jun said, and that's what he did. After the herald left, he quickly issued a strict order, and then sent people to send this decision to the other two water villages, so that Zhang Shun and the three Nguyen Thiong would guard the gate and not rush to attack.
In this regard, the Zhang family brothers, who have always looked forward to Song Jiang, naturally have no objections, but when the words reached the Ruan Sanxiong in the western village, the three of them reacted a little differently. Xiao Er and Xiao Wu didn't react much, but the youngest and most short-tempered Living Yan Luo Ruan Xiaoqi glared: "A few brothers are too ambitious for others to do this, and they will destroy my Liangshan Bo's prestige!" I've seen it before, those boats that enter the lake are fishing boats, and we can wipe them out with just one raid, so why bother guarding them? ”
"Leader Ruan, this is what the Lord of Song Zhai and Leader Li meant......" The messenger emphasized in a low voice, but Ruan Xiaoqi was greatly dissatisfied, and slapped the table and said: "What, do you want to use them to suppress me?" I can tell you, I only think that Chao Tianwang is the lord of the cottage......"
"Little Seven...... No nonsense! Seeing that his brother was about to say something that shouldn't be said again, Ruan Xiaoer hurriedly scolded: "My brothers in Liangshan are one and the same, and the Heavenly King and Brother Gongming are naturally also of one mind!" ”
"Hmph, it's hard to say whether the king of heaven and Brother Gongming are single-minded, but it's true that our western water village was raised by the stepmother. It's been almost half a month, we haven't even seen some wine, and now we have to stay in the village, making people kick their noses in the face, this day is not passing! Ruan Xiaowu suddenly laughed and complained.
This made Ruan Xiaoer not know what to say. In fact, he was also angry in his heart, especially very dissatisfied and hostile to Song Jiang. In his mind, this Liangshan cottage was brought down by King Chao and his brothers, and even Song Jiang almost died in Jiangzhou, but King Chao took the big guy to rob the law field and rescued it. But what has he done since he arrived at the cottage?
Although the cottage is indeed much stronger than before, but the prestige of King Chao is declining, and now Liang Shanbo is mentioned outside the mountain, only he calls Baoyi Song Jiang, but few people mention the name of King Chao anymore. Even many brothers in the village only listened to his Song Jiang's orders, ignoring Chao Tianwang's orders! What is this? Lure the wolf into the house?
Anyway, the three brothers of the Ruan family are very dissatisfied with the current situation, and at the same time, because of their dissatisfaction with Song Jiang, they also have a certain degree of hostility towards Li Jun and others, and they always feel that the water village where they are located has been mistreated, and all kinds of logistics and food have also been maliciously detained.
"The leader of Ruan didn't know, in fact, the village had not drunk for many days, and now that it was wartime, King Chao Tianwang and the lord of Song Village had issued strict orders, in order to avoid drinking and making mistakes, so ......" The messenger could only explain hard.
"Okay, needless to say, don't you just let us guard in the stockade? We obey the order. Ruan Xiaoer waved his hand impatiently, with the intention of sending people away.
Seeing that he had given the order to expel the guest, the man did not dare to linger any longer, so he saluted again and hurried away.
After he left, the three brothers looked at each other a few more times, and Ruan Xiaoqi couldn't help but say, "Second brother, fifth brother, are we just guarding it?" How many days have we been guarding this, and it was difficult for us to send troops because the officers and troops were on the shore before, but now that everyone is in the water, can't we still attack it? If I hold it like this, I'm going to get sick! ”
Ruan Xiaoer is more stable and calm than his brother in the end, even if he is not angry in his heart, he can only be appeased at this time: "Since the order from the mountain has come down, it means that the Heavenly King also approves of it, so let's bear with it again." Don't be afraid that there will be no battle to fight, since the officers and soldiers have already requisitioned ships and launched the water, it means that they will soon launch an attack from the waterway. As long as they come to attack, that's when we show our skills. ”
"What the second brother said is that when the time comes, it will depend on our brothers' means!" Ruan Xiaowu also followed: "Then Li Jun, Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun brothers, they are not from Liangshanbo, and they are still weaker than our brothers." When the time comes, let's let him see what a dragon in the water is! ”
"That's right!" Ruan Xiaoer laughed, and looked at the large and small fishing boats twenty miles away from a distance, hoping that they would come over as soon as possible.
"It's a pity that there is no wine in the village, otherwise drinking wine and killing people is really happy!" Ruan Xiaowu licked his dry lips again and said, but this remark once again provoked a sigh from the other two brothers, they are both good drinkers, and they haven't drunk a drop of wine for half a month, which is really uncomfortable.
"Hey, I don't know what happened to the hotel over there in Zhu Gui, I heard that he didn't have time to retreat up the mountain before the arrival of the official army. The wine in the hotel is cheap for those officers and soldiers, which is really infuriating. Ruan Xiaoqi also said helplessly.
Unconsciously, the topic of the three brothers shifted from the official army to the wine......
And on the night two days after they talked about the Zhugui Hotel, a small boat suddenly came to the water village downstream, and standing firmly on the bow of the boat, it was a tall and thin man with a trace of worry between his eyebrows.
Of course, the people in the village did not realize when they put Zhu Gui's boat into the gate of the village, and on the surface of the lake a few miles ahead, there were already twenty or thirty small boats floating there quietly, completely blending in with the night.
Sun Tu's real killer moves are here!