In the west corner of Dongping Mansion, there are dense people everywhere who are carrying stones and soil to repair the city wall and re-erect the fence, and the smoke rises from the cooking in the moat, and there are men who distribute corn porridge and cooking cakes and come and go with the soldiers and the people. In addition to those soldiers who have taken off their clothes and armor and are just resting and recuperating, there are also vigilant garrison patrols inside and outside the city wall.

However, the vanguard of the rebel army led by Xiao Tang and those who got along with each other in the same place and were now fighting together against Jin, except for the Song Dynasty forbidden army, and a large number of other soldiers and horses dressed in disorderly clothes, laughing and scolding wantonly in the city, and their behavior was also full of fierce and banditry when they got along with each other.

And Xiao Tang, who then waved his army to arrive here, also personally met these group of thieves who were temporarily recruited for the Song Dynasty, and they were also the green forest thieves who crisscrossed Jingxi, Huainan, Henan, and Hebei: Yang Jin, a hornless cow.

Xiao Tang knew that even if the number of mountains and rivers and lakes he had gathered now could be called the number one force in the green forest, he had not yet commanded the world, and the direct sect would not dare to disobey. The Manichaean Fang La had already been encircled and destroyed by the imperial court, but now there are Zhong Xiang, Yang Mi and others in the Jiangnan region who are ready to mobilize the rest of the Manichaean army; Hedong Tianhu has already been ambushed, and Wang Qing, one of the four great cowards in the Water Margin, has not had time to make his mark in Bianjing and has been killed by Xiao Tang, but as long as the soil that breeds bandits and giants is not eradicated, even if there is no Fang La, Tian Hu, Wang Qing and others, there will still be a large number of unruly and reckless ruthless heroes who gather their lives and try to dominate one side happily.

I asked myself a little bit about the Water Margin complex, and Xiao Tang, who had been strictly restraining a group of people who gathered in the green forest after he began to plan a big plan in the green forest, and could not tolerate brutal harm to the people, also knew very well that there were often some other thieves who could represent the most rebellious and murderous side of the thieves in the green forest: no matter how powerful the foreign Tatars were, Lao Tzu would not obey the control of others, and he dared to play with those guys as if he had to annoy Lao Tzu when he had to; What kind of dog officials and corrupt officials who rely on official law to accumulate wealth and play tricks, since Lao Tzu is doing the act of rebellion, he still dares to kill your whole family; But where there are huge profits to be made, what kind of ordinary people, Lao Tzu kills people and sets fires, and there will be no ambiguity in the start!

And Yang Jin is undoubtedly a typical example of those giant thieves, when Xiao Tang first met with him, he saw that Yang Jin was more than half a head taller than him, and he was born with a face full of flesh, a strong and tall body, and he really looked like a bison with only a pair of horns missing. And Yang Jin, who met Xiao Tang for the first time, did not intend to cut the ceremony, but straightened his waist and looked down at the general with cold eyes, suddenly sneered, and said: "When I was messing around in the rivers and lakes, I always heard the birds say that Xiao Renxia was good, and the grass of his ancestors was so direct that I seemed to have a cocoon in my ears.

Xiao Renxia really wore a big turban, you eat a knight's salary and secretly do things in the green forest, not to mention the food, clothing and food of many colleagues, selling fame and reputation, relying on the name of chivalry and righteousness and provoking trouble and hurting the lives of many heroes in the green forest, it is said that you have rebelled against the court, ruined the morality of the rivers and lakes, but hit the sky again, and saved the emperor's old son's family, and took advantage of the Tartar chaos to become a meritorious minister. You are good at cultivation, I have to say that you really have some ability, but now that I, Yang Jin, have also recruited a lot of soldiers and horses, and I have made a name for myself in this world, I may not be inferior to you in the future! ”

As soon as they met, they had already burst out of sparks, and Yang Jin put on a domineering posture, which also taught Xiao Tang to probably figure out the temperament of this guy. Xiao Tang remembered that Zhai Jin, the fierce general of the Western Army, who was now under his command and also made a horse army, according to his original trajectory, was also when Yang Jin rebelled and brutalized the people of the Song people in Ruzhou, Luoyang and other places, but was killed by Yang Jin after falling into the trench after the horse was frightened. However, Yang Jin is provoking in person at the moment, and he can also see that this guy does not have the scheming of Song Jiang, Fang La, and even Tian Hu, Wang Qing and others, and although he can be rampant for a while, he can't do anything big after all.

Xiao Tang knew what this Yang Jin was about, so he sneered and replied to him in a deep voice: "Now the anti-Jin major matter is important, since it is a friendly army to resist foreign captives for the time being, but you are lucky not to have bumped into me before like Hedong Tianhu and other Kou leaders who are used to doing evil. You and I are competing to divide the high and low, and when it is just a matter of leveling the imperial court, it is also time to take it slowly. ”

Yang Jin saw that the ruthlessness in the pair of tricks was even stronger, and the group of bandit leaders behind him who were used to being fierce also laughed and scolded. And Lu Zhishen, Hua Rong, Yang Zhi and other brothers on Xiao Tang's side couldn't hold it back, and when they saw that they were about to make trouble, they suddenly heard someone say loudly: "What Xiao Renxia said is exactly, now it is appropriate to take into account the overall situation, although you heroes are fighting in the green forest, there are also many sincere people who analyze the liver and are full of blood." Since the Jin army invaded the south, everywhere, the righteous people rushed to be the first to uncover the rod and there are countless people, Xiao Renxia and Yang Leader gathered a group of heroes, neither want to sit back and watch the Jin Kou disaster in the Central Plains, must be a concerted effort, cooperate with each other, strong enemies on the side, if the two are only because of the strong and competitive and bitter hatred, how can they expel Hu Lu to appease the Central Plains? ”

As soon as the words fell, another soldier of the Song Army suddenly approached with a spirited old man, who was blocking the dispute between Xiao Tang and Yang Jin. Xiao Tang looked at the elder's face full of ravines and ravines left by the wind and frost, although his appearance was a little elegant, but his eyes were like electricity, and he was not angry and arrogant. What made Xiao Tang pay more attention was that Yang Jin, who was not deterred by his reputation in the green forest, but took the initiative to provoke, saw that the old man was in person, although his eyebrows were still hideous, he was also hinting that the thieves attached to him should not act rashly for the time being.

It was almost possible to conclude the identity of this famous anti-gold minister in front of him, Xiao Tang no longer looked at Yang Jin as coldly as when he was facing Yang Jin, but stepped forward and bowed and said: "It's Zong Rulin, the head of the Hebei Righteous Army, who is here?" The younger generation Xiao Tang has also heard that Zong Xianggong has served in Longyou, Glue, Zhaocheng, Ye County, and Dengzhou for more than 20 years, serving as an official, benefiting one party, and making outstanding political achievements. ”

Zong Ze stared at Xiao Tang for a moment, he was a famous minister who had exhausted the last bit of his life to turn the tide when the Northern Song Dynasty was falling, and he actually made a vigorous contribution to the country and the people and went down in history. Now that he can work with Xiao Shuai to fight the gold thief, isn't this a good fortune? ”

Zong Ze, who was not allowed to reuse the prestige and political achievements of the state government officials, and who was able to raise his arms and make the green forests and soldiers and horses in the Song Realm, and the civil volunteers at most, hundreds of thousands of people returned to the anti-Jin Dynasty, and made meritorious contributions to the imperial court......

When Xiao Tang got up to greet Zong Ze again, he also secretly said in his heart: And this old man of Zong has recruited thieves from Shaanxi, Jinghuai, and Lianghe to temporarily dispatch from the imperial court, and even a rebellious and ferocious thief like Yang Jin is willing to listen to his orders... Although I knew that he was a famous minister of the anti-Jin martyrs, this old man's way of dealing with people is very different from those Qingliu and fierce courtiers in the court, and his Taoism is far more sophisticated than I thought......