In the southeast of Yanggu County, the woods around Jingyanggang were blown by the night wind.

Wu Haogu, who wore the black lacquer near the water mountain character armor, looked at the forest in the dark, but what he thought of was a wild North China tiger with a tragic fate, the North China tiger had become extinct in later generations, and existed in a small number in North China in the Song Dynasty. However, Wu Haogu had never seen them, but he had seen a few of their skins in the market of Daxiangguo Temple!

I don't know if there are wild North China tigers in Jingyanggang in reality? If there is, will he be killed by Wu Song with three punches and two kicks? If you kill a tiger bone, you can't waste it, how good is it to make liquor for yourself and sell it for money?

Tiger bone wine, it will definitely sell for a good price......

While Wu Haogu was thinking nonsense, Ximen Qing was urging her 400 baoding (and 100 caretakers) to move forward quickly. These 400 people pose in a standard marching formation, with "capital" and "bao" as units. First of all, a "protect" sword and shield hand opened the way, and in the middle was a "capital" archer, Wu Haogu, Ximen Qing, Zhao Zhongge, Lin Chong and others, as well as Shi Guozhong, the county magistrate of the "knowing soldier", and Zhang Kegong, the county lieutenant, walked behind the archers. The one who fell at the end of the formation was another "protective" sword and shield hand.

In addition to Ximen Qing, the Ximen family also had sixteen children accompanying them, four of whom served as "Bao Chang" and "Du Tou" respectively, controlling the march of 400 Bao Ding. The other twelve men were divided into three groups, two of which walked on either side of the marching brigade as flankers, and one group of outposts, who walked ahead of the brigade.

The arrangement of this march is actually the most basic means of leading troops. But sometimes you can see the real ability of this basic skill!

Of course, Wu Haogu didn't understand, in addition to thinking about how to win over and support Shi Dazhi County along the way, he was thinking about the tiger. However, Zhao Zhongge, Lin Chong and Zhang Kegong are really soldiers, and when they saw the performance of the Ximen family Baoding's night march, they all secretly gave a thumbs up.

Night marches and night battles are very difficult! Especially when you go to the battlefield, you run a lot if you don't get it right! And it's also prone to confusion. Unless it is an elite who has really been trained for a long time and can be firmly grasped by the main general, it is not possible to take the night road and fight night field battles.

Lin Chong thought to himself: If it is replaced by the forbidden army of Kaifeng Mansion and goes to the battlefield at night, 350 out of 400 people will be left behind!

And the more than 400 people of Simon's family were in an orderly manner and did not show the slightest panic. Obviously, the Simon family has a very good grip on them.

If any of them dares to run away quietly, just wait to be killed!

Zhao Zhongge felt that the soldiers of the Ximen family were too poorly equipped, not to mention whether there were horses or not, even if they were equipped with armor, spears and a small number of divine arm crossbows (for armor breaking), which could greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the troops. It can almost reach the level of the elite clan soldiers of the Yan Sijia and the Pingzhou Zhang family (the Pingzhou Zhang family is very strong, surpassing the Yan Sijia).

If the Great Song Dynasty could train 50,000 such elite soldiers before the Liao State Rebellion, it would not be a problem to restore Yanyun.

Moreover, it is not difficult to train 50,000 such soldiers, only a few hundred grassroots military attaches who can firmly control 100 strong men, plus enough money and financial investment.

But the word "tooth soldier" came to Zhang Kegong's mind.

This soldier is not Bao Ding at all, it is completely the tooth soldier of the fifth generation of Tang Ji's envoys! In addition to the lack of armor, spears and crossbows, the hundreds of people in the Ximen family are clearly hundreds of tooth soldiers! It's just a local tyrant in Yunzhou, and he actually raised such elite soldiers...... This is clearly a different ambition!

There is no doubt that the Ximen family has different aspirations, but Zhang Kegong can't think of how to rectify them for a while. Because the Baoding of the Ximen family was legitimate, it was established according to the "Baojia Law" of the Great Song Dynasty. And their current performance does not violate the king's law, according to Wang Anshi's original intention of establishing the "Baojia Law", the Baoding of the Great Song Dynasty should be like Ximenzhuang Baoding.

The sound of horses' hooves interrupted Zhang Kegong's thoughts, and he looked up and saw a horse galloping towards him. With the torch in the hand of the Ximen family's Baoding, Zhang Kegong found that the person who came was wearing a black battle jacket and was a knight of the Ximen family.

The knight found Ximen Qing's horse, and saluted on horseback: "Report to the eldest sister, fifteen miles ahead is Fanjiazhuang, Fanjiazhuang is quiet around Fanjiazhuang, and there is no trace of Liangshan bandits' activities. ”

Of course there won't be, because Ximen Qing had already sent someone to inform him before he sent out the troops. The heroes of Liangshan must be on their way home at this time.

This time, they won big! broke a Zhuangzi on the territory of Ximen's family, which can be regarded as revenge for the defeat of Daze Township in Feng County. This year's toll can also be increased, and the life of the heroes can be a little more comfortable.

"Ming Fujun," Ximen Qing said to Shi Zhixian who was walking behind her on horseback, after listening to the report, "The Liangshan thief Kou really fled in despair, and we will be able to recover Anle Town and Fanjiazhuang tonight." ”

Anle Town is a small city near Fanjiazhuang, in disrepair, the city wall has collapsed in many places, it was originally the county seat of Yanggu County, and now it is a town and city, and it is contracted to an uncle of Ximenqing (he is a tax merchant).

This town was not occupied by the Liangshan bandits, and they didn't even touch it, it was the territory of the Ximen family, if they touched Anle Town, Ximen Qing would have to deduct money...... However, Ximen Qing still proposed to "recover Anle Town", which is of course to falsely report his military exploits.

Fanjiazhuang is just a "farm", with a total of "one household" people, which sounds too small. No matter how small Anle Town is, it is also a city, and there are dozens of residents in it, and the credit for its recovery is relatively large.

"Good!" Shi Dazhi County touched his white beard and nodded with satisfaction, "Ximen Niang, then hurry up and enter the army, don't let the heroes of Liangshan get away." ”

"Order!"

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"Patriarch, patriarch...... Liang, the Liangshan thieves are back! ”

Fanjiazhuang, next to the monument of "Abandoning Wu Congwen", Fan Kaishan, the patriarch of the Fan family, was standing stunned with the support of his son, watching the rest of the clansmen with tears in their eyes cleaning up their homes that had been ravaged by the heroes of Liangshan.

The heroes of Liangshan in reality are not as brutal as in "Water Margin", they slaughter people at every turn, and they have to eat personal flesh or something, all of which are vicious slanders, but there are still things like robbing people's property and ** women. Isn't that what a thief is for? Therefore, Fanjiazhuang has indeed suffered a great disaster in less than a day! Most of the property and two or three hundred horses (heads) of various livestock that had been accumulated over the years were looted. The grain in the granary was gone, and many young women were forcibly holding hands, and some children were taken captive......

But the Liangshan thieves are always gone!

Now the question is how to deal with the aftermath, Fan Kaishan pondered that he had to cover up the news of Fan Zhijin and others "from thieves" no matter what.

As long as this matter can be covered, the Fan family's Yimen will still be able to exist, and the loss this time is not very bottom......

In addition, Fan Kaishan also thought about the problem of who was behind the scenes. He didn't believe that the heroes of Liangshan would make trouble as big as Fan Jiaxian for no reason.

Isn't this Yanggu County the territory of the Ximen family? How dare they?

While he was pondering, Fan Kaishan suddenly heard a terrifying news: Liangshan thief Kou is back!

"You, what do you say?" Fan Kaishan gasped.

A Fan family member said: "Liangshan thieves are here!" You can see the torches, Chief, run! ”

"Run?" Fan Kaishan gritted his teeth, "Long sword!" Where is the Black Cloud Sword? ”

Hearing that his father was looking for a long sword, Fan Shisanxiu was startled, and hurriedly persuaded his father: "Daddy, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood, don't think about it!" ”

Old man Fan glared at his son, "you!" Who wouldn't want to open it? is still a father or a court official from the ninth grade! If your son does not become a jinshi for a day, he will not be able to see his ancestors and ancestors for a day as a father! Otherwise, what about you, your mother, and such a large family? ”

A sesame official from Jiupin has 144 taels a year, even if he doesn't have the position of the patriarch of Yimen, with this income, Fan Kaishan's small family can be maintained.

If he dies, what will happen to the family?

"Then you want a sword......

"That's what the ancestors left behind!" Old man Fan said, "You have to bring it everywhere!" ”

"Oh." Fan Shisanxiu breathed a sigh of relief, and then took out a black cloud long sword hidden behind the "Abandoning Wu Congwen" monument.

Fan Kaishan looked at the very well-preserved long sword left by his ancestors, and couldn't help but sigh. This is the weapon of the Black Cloud Long Sword Capital that shocked Huainan in the past! I think that the ancestor of the Fan family wore heavy armor, wielded a long sword, and let me come and go among the ten thousand armies, how majestic was it? The group of thieves on Liangshan want to meet their ancestors, and they don't run away from the wind?

"Let's go!" Fan Kaishan sighed, "Son, if you have two sons, let one of them learn to use this black cloud long sword!" ”

Fan Shisan was stunned, "Daddy, you said you want my son to learn martial arts?" ”

"Yes!" Fan Kaishan nodded, "My Fan family, someone must pick up this Black Cloud Long Sword!" ”

……

"Don't cry, don't cry......"

At the same moment, Fan Zhijin was crying with his mother, crying so much that Song Jiang was a little annoyed, "It's just going to Liangshan to join the gang, and it's not going to Dao Mountain and going down to the sea of fire, why are you crying?" ”

Hearing that Shangliangshan joined the gang, Fan Zhijin cried even more fiercely, he was bent on Jinshi, and now he was actually caught in Liangshan to join the gang!

"Don't cry," Song Jiang seemed to be afraid of him, shook his head and said, "You will live in Liangshan for a while, and when my Liangshan and the heroes of all parties have held a celebration party, how about letting you go down the mountain?" ”

The so-called celebration party is actually to discuss the toll this autumn with people from all walks of life. Song Jiang wanted to take Fan Daxiucai out for an exhibition to show the majesty of Liangshan and raise the price.

After that, Fan Daxiucai was useless, and it was estimated that Ximen Qing would not pay for his living expenses in Liangshan, so he naturally drove down the mountain and left him to fend for himself.

And Song Jiang's words actually made Fan Zhijin see hope!

As long as you can go down the mountain, you can always say it clearly...... He was arrested in Liangshan, not to join the gang!