What's the matter with the Kansai people and one from the Northern Wilderness? Don't say that the boss didn't give you a message when you joined the gang...Wuxiang Dongyilang died, didn't you hear it? The boss Wang is the genius

The first person below to oppose Wei!"

"Boss Zhou, people have to be reasonable. At that time, I joined the Deposed Dragon Gang because Zhang Longtou personally came to find him at that time, and the Putai Army was his handiwork. It was on the other side. It would not work if I didn't. But you know that Shijun did

Across from Dengzhou is Langya..."

"Okay." At this moment, Shi Zijiang suddenly spoke, interrupting the two of them, and looked down at Cheng Zhili condescendingly. "Now the first boss asked me, the second boss, to come personally to invite Boss Cheng. What did Boss Cheng say?"

Cheng Zhili immediately responded: "Of course I will take these five hundred cavalry to draw a clear line with the Putai Army, so that I can go with Master Shi Er and serve as a vanguard for the Zhishi Army."

Shi Zijiang nodded, but then shook his head.

The confidant surnamed Zhou understood and immediately said: "It can't be just like this, otherwise where would the dignity of the first and second masters be? Boss Cheng, you have to apologize for your previous rudeness."

"Of course, I have three hundred taels here..." Of course Cheng Dalang was prepared.

"Since thirty thousand people are here, let us stay in these villages in the north tonight!" Shi Zijiang suddenly spoke for the second time.

Cheng Zhili raised his head, startled for a moment, and glanced at the chaotic team behind him with no end in sight. His heart felt cold... You must know that these days, hundreds of thousands of Zhishi troops have passed by both sides of Jishui. Although there are few people on the north bank,

Although he had not actually passed through the manor that he regarded as his foundation, he was already suffering from harassment by a small group of troops.

So, how could he not know that as long as this army comes in, it will definitely destroy the place that is the foundation of his family, as Zhang Xingxin said?

At this thought, Cheng Zhili bowed to Shi Zijiang again and spoke sincerely: "Master Shi Er, I am willing to give up all the gold and silver in the family and will never keep it private. I just ask the second master to be a little noble and let my folks go... there are too many people."

Already."

Shi Zijiang sneered, thought about it, and seemed to be hesitant for a moment.

"Look what Boss Cheng said." Zhou's confidant also seemed impatient. "Why is your Zhuangzi so expensive? If you want to do big things, you should imitate other heroes, collect gold and silver, and burn down the house.

You should take the pigs and sheep with you! If you are not convinced, then use the method used to defeat Zhang Jinscale in Hebei and kill tens of thousands of us, or simply kill hundreds of thousands of our Zhishi army together, and then talk!"

Cheng Zhili lowered his head and said nothing, but maintained his posture of bowing to Shi Zijiang... To put it bluntly, he really thought about resisting, mobilizing the Putai Army, and taking advantage of the opponent's unpreparedness, to launch a surprise attack at night. However, if it really happened

In the fight here, tens of thousands of people were defeated. The distance between the lower reaches of Jishui and the lower reaches of the river is so narrow, and the family manor and the surrounding countryside may suffer even greater disasters.

Therefore, he still chose to surrender.

"Forget it." Sure enough, after appropriate pressure and humiliation from his confidants, Shi Zijiang spoke three times. "That's good. Just give some gold and silver appropriately. Where will you spend the gold and silver in this world? You just give it to me."

All the pigs, sheep, horses, cows, donkeys, chickens, and dogs from the nearby village were driven out...The cows, horses, and donkeys pulled the carts, the pigs, sheep, and chickens were used as meat, and the dogs served as sentries at night...This is the minimum."

Cheng Dalang raised his head in a daze.

"I will camp here tonight and bring the livestock and gold and silver early tomorrow morning... Let's not lie and hide it for ourselves." Seeing this, Shi Zijiang finally dismounted, but gave an ultimatum. "When the time comes,

We will send sentries in to take a look, and if we find that there are too many hidden, I will send troops to retrieve them ourselves."

After saying that, he actually turned around and ordered people to set up camp on the spot for the whole afternoon.

Cheng Zhili suddenly returned to the village, thought for a moment, made up his mind, and sent someone to call the leaders Zhou, Guo, and Lu who were at the ferry, together with Fang Yanshi, who had just arrived, to make the announcement.

"So, what Chief Cheng means is that you have to stay humble and hand over the six animals?" Zhou Xingfan was extremely surprised. "You want to go with them to attack Qi County?"

"People have to bow their heads under the eaves." Cheng Zhili looked slightly embarrassed.

At this time, even Guo Jingke couldn't stand it anymore: "Chief Cheng, Zhang Longtou wrote to you, saying that the rebels can't be restrained from crossing the border, and they asked you to move to Hebei as soon as possible and guard Pu Tai.

, the autumn harvest has just begun, and I don’t want to leave, let’s look again; a month ago, Li Longtou also asked the leader of the house to send a message, asking you to cross the river early, let Wang Hou and others, march to Douzigang, and then wait for Li Longtou and others to attack at any time

Cross the river and come back to respond, but you are still unwilling to move; now that you are going to obey them, wouldn't it mean that our leaders and many ships will be wasted here with you in vain?"

Cheng Zhili finally knew that he was in the wrong, so he could only explain in a low voice: "These are my faults. I have no vision and determination, but this is the way it is at this time... As soon as I left, Zhuangzi began to move, and there was still some gold and silver in the village. , I will never let the brothers in the navy suffer in vain!"

"Is this a matter of gold and silver?" Lu Dayue, the eldest of the Lu brothers, couldn't hold it back. "It's a matter of merit! If at the beginning, we could still care about gold and silver, but we won all three counties above. If our brothers, Xiao Guo, Mr. Zhou and the others follow the two leaders, they will now be the chiefs of one county and one city! Mr. Zhou may even be able to become a big leader!"

Cheng Dalang became more and more embarrassed and wanted to speak again.

"Leader Cheng is the chief, the leader of the Putai Army identified by Zhang Longtou and Li Siye. If we really want to do something, we can't say anything..." At this moment, Fang, who had been silent since his return in early October, Yanshi suddenly spoke, but his tone was unexpectedly calm, and the meaning was unexpectedly serious. "It's just Chief Cheng, you are the leader of the Deposed Dragon Gang after all. This time you followed Chishiro's Chishi Army to fight against Qi County. What's the point? What? When did the Deposed Dragon Gang become the pawns of the Zhishi Army?"

"What nonsense!" Cheng Dalang tried his best to answer. "Of course I am the leader of the Deposed Dragon Gang. I just pretended to protect Xiangzi. How could I really work for them? Don't forget, I went to fight against the Dengzhou Gang before. Yes... What's the difference between this time and the last time? I think even the two leaders and the chief will be considerate of me, Lao Cheng. I also ask all the leaders to be considerate as much as possible."

At this point, everyone didn't know what else to say and could only look at each other in confusion.

In this way, in the end, the plan of Cheng Dalang, the only big leader and person involved, was followed. The six livestock were driven out, half were put on the boat, and transported overnight, and the other half were sent to the front of the army. The eight hundred cavalry were also divided into two. Three hundred crossed the river, and five hundred cavalry also followed Cheng Dalang to the Zhishi Army... Sure enough, when Master Shi Er saw the number of six livestock, he did not actually send troops to count them, but directly took Cheng Dalang forward to chase Wang Hou. Already.

As soon as Zhi Shijun left, the old governor of Cheng Dalang's family urged the Cheng family's own Zhuangzi and the closest manor to move to Hebei. However, the effect was still not good, but there was nothing they could do.

"Cheng Dalang is a man of great ability. At that time, I only thought that his martial arts, military formations, and handling of affairs were better than Shan Dalang, Xu Dalang, and Wang Wulang. But now it seems that he is a little confused about the fundamentals. Sooner or later, he will have to fight on the big festival. You will suffer a big loss." Zhou Xingfan, who was vaguely the leader of this assembled naval force, stood on the boat and looked at the farther and farther bank of the river, but he couldn't hold back his breath.

"How can people understand some joints without experiencing some things? Moreover, he led the Pu Tai Army alone in the lower reaches and was too independent." Unexpectedly, it was Guo Jingke who took the initiative to persuade.

Zhou Xingfan glanced at the other party and said nothing... He knew that Guo Jingke was probably speaking from the bottom of his heart, but this did not prevent this person from accepting Cheng Dalang's gift last night and keeping dozens of taels of gold and hundreds of taels of silver in his private pocket. In comparison, let alone myself and Fang Yanshi, even the Lu brothers knew how to give half of it to the navy brothers who had worked hard for a long time.

It can only be said that if people don’t experience certain things, they really don’t understand certain joints.

Even after some things have gone through, isn’t there still a saying that states can easily be changed but nature cannot be changed?

"It's good that Cheng Dalang is here. He is my brother. These five hundred cavalry are also the best. I will talk to some of them in a few days. I will definitely give you the third and fourth masters... But is there anything else?"

One day later, at night, when Cheng Dalang's hometown was still trying to mobilize for relocation, on a low mountain in Changshan County, Qi County, the short and stocky Zhishilang Wanghou squinted at the visitor, and he was extremely satisfied.

.

This is because the well-known Cheng Dalang in front of him changed his lukewarm attitude in Dengzhou and became respectful when he came up. Not only did he speak humble words, but he also kept praising Chishiro for initiating the righteousness of the rebel army. Naturally, he was

The leader of the rebel army in the world even proposed that since there is currently a shortage of boats to cross the river, otherwise after Qi County is defeated, he will lead the way across the river and try to get as many of the Putai troops as possible to serve the family of Prince Chishiro.

Of course, the most important point is that Cheng Dalang took the initiative to express his willingness to be a pioneer and lead his troops to take the lead in advancing westward.

"Actually, there is one more thing."

Seeing Wang Hou's unexpected coaxing, Cheng Dalang thought for a moment, clasped his hands in front of him and said, "Before coming, I donated all the tens of thousands of chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, dogs, horses and donkeys from the nearby village..."

But my subordinates think that other baggage is just a waste, these animals are easy to move, so they should be placed in the central army, so that they can be easily accessed."

Wang Hou thought for a while and immediately went to see Shi Zijiang: "Cheng Dalang is right. Second Master, you go back and send all the livestock here early tomorrow morning..."

Shi Zijiang hesitated to speak, but could only respond.

After all, this rebel army is called Chise Army, and the leader in front of him is nicknamed Chisero.

However, this did not affect the second master's return to the north bank of Jishui that night. After returning to his base camp, he immediately cursed in the tent:

"Wang Blacksmith! Wang Lanqiang! After studying for several years, I can't even do copying or clerking. I can only be a jailer. The jailer can't do it. I can only be a blacksmith. I can't even be a blacksmith. I can't hit the head of a spear. It's not me.

If you helped him cover it up, he would have died in prison a long time ago, how can he transform into Chishirou?!"

I scolded him a lot, but I couldn't do anything.

On the second day, he finally let his confidant leader drive all the livestock to the other side... Of course, during this period, he would inevitably slaughter chickens and geese, and forcibly hitch mules and horses to the carts, but after the Langya-Dengzhou-Qijun team searched

, or a full 60,000 to 70,000 heads of various livestock were sent to the Chinese army on the other side.

By the evening of that day, Zhishi's army had passed Changshan County, where the rebel army had penetrated most deeply into Qi County, and headed for Zhangqiu.

Early the next morning, the army continued to move forward, with Cheng Zhili leading his headquarters as the vanguard. In the afternoon, before he saw Zhangqiu County, he became inexplicably vigilant... Without him, he always felt that the further he went, the more the terrain would become.

It looks more like a natural narrow alley between mountains and rivers, which is the so-called dead place in the art of war.

Of course, this is just a warning, because since the summer, the rebel army has been surging in the past six months and has gradually conquered the prefectures and counties. The officers and soldiers from all walks of life are not invincible, but they are really not many.

However, after repeatedly wandering around, Cheng Zhili, who had always been cautious, decided to be cautious. Therefore, four or five miles away from Zhangqiu City, where the city wall could almost be seen with the naked eye, Cheng Dalang temporarily stopped his troops next to Jishui and stopped on the spot.

Rested.

Moreover, he did not leave for a long time.

The reason Cheng Dalang was careful at this time was actually very simple. No matter how long he delayed, he could at least avoid the siege, right?

However, an hour later, Cheng Dalang suddenly welcomed a strange old friend.

"Xiao Jia, why are you here?" Because the smoke and dust of the Zhishi Army Brigade could be seen in the distance behind him, Cheng Dalang was forced to stand up and began to put on his armor helplessly. Cheng Dalang was quite surprised.

"I know you are here, Boss Cheng, and I want to do great things with you." A young and capable warrior stood in front of Cheng Dalang, but it was Jia Runshi, the local tycoon in Licheng, Qi County and the son of the county thief Cao Jiawugen.

The county has always been famous. "Boss Cheng, will you accept me?"

Cheng Dalang thought for a while, then just held his helmet and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Jia, does your father have anything to say?"

Jia Runshi was silent for a moment: "My father said, if you don't ask this question, I will take you forward to the foot of Zhangqiu City. If you ask this question, I will take you to throw away Jiawei and Fumadu."

Jishui's escape...is not in vain for the friendship between our two families."

Cheng Dalang was startled for a moment, and suddenly put on his helmet. At the same time, he did not forget to call one of his confidants: "Go back and tell Chishiro, saying that the sentry horse outside Zhangqiu City is too tough and a bit irritating, so he should be careful behind him...

After finishing the letter, don’t come back, just find a way to escape... As for the rest of you, speed up your armor, mount your horse with me, and prepare for battle."

This time, it was Jia Runshi's turn to be stunned.

However, even as cunning as Cheng Dalang was, he still made a mistake. As soon as he finished speaking, his messengers had not yet set off. Suddenly, in the mountains to the rear, they remembered the sound of intensive war drums.

Next, there are the mountains to the south and Zhangqiu City directly in front, and finally the Jishui River.

"I know that when two armies are fighting, how can you entrust your life to others?" Cheng Dalang, who was fully clothed, got on his horse, but then glanced at Jia Runshi, who was still in a daze. "Xiao Jia, you still dare to do something big with me.

If you dare, follow me and fight for your way out! If you don’t dare, get out!"

Jia Runshi turned over and got on the horse he came on.
Chapter completed!