Time flies, and things in Qingzhou will soon end...
The Liangshan army broke through Qingzhou City, quietly intercepted and killed Murong Zhizhou who had escaped before breaking the city, and captured a lot of money.
Not to mention iron armor, leather armor, and conventional weapons such as swords, guns, and shields, a total of 300 divine arm bows alone were seized, as well as many spare parts.
All these ordnance supplies were taken over by the Logistics Department, and both Chao Gai and Song Jiang were very relieved.
As for the fact that a group of copycats in Qingzhou joined Liangshan, causing the rapid expansion of Liangshan's power, it did not arouse much interest from Chai Daguan.
Among the leaders of these cottages, only Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhineng were slightly noticed, and Wu Song was the same.
What Liangshan needs are former military officers who understand regular army training and combat. As for civilian martial arts masters, they are of little use to Liangshan.
Wu Song may have sharp fists and kicks and be a first-class being in the world, but so what?
The soldiers in the rear camp could assemble any number of men and horses into a formation and kill him until he was sweating profusely and exhausted.
Chai Daguan only showed up at the welcome reception and was too lazy to participate in the rest of the time.
Anyway, the leaders coming from Qingzhou this time will not enter the rear camp, so there is no need to waste their feelings.
But I heard that when Song Jiang surrendered to Hu Yanzhuo, he shouted that he would accept the recruitment and return to the rank of officers and soldiers in the imperial court.
It is estimated that after Hu Yanzhuo heard this, he found a step and agreed. Just surrendering to the enemy is not treason.
How could senior generals of the local Forbidden Army like Hu Yanzhuo not know the secrets in the officialdom?
Senior generals like them who had surrendered to the enemy could not expect to be reused even if they returned to the ranks of the army in the future.
If you are not exploited as cannon fodder, it will be a great honor to the court.
Only officials like Guan Sheng, Lei Heng and Zhu Dian who were from the lower levels of the yamen were able to rise to the top after being recruited.
In the first three days when the heroes of Qingzhou joined, they drank a lot of wine and ate large amounts of meat every day. They were very happy.
But by the fourth day, everything was back to normal.
Brothers Kong Ming and Kong Liang, who were accepted as disciples by Song Jiang, were a little dissatisfied and complained: "Master, isn't our Liangshan a green forest village? Why are there so many broken rules?"
Song Jiang was a little embarrassed, and the ancestor of Guo Daxia next to him said dissatisfied: "Officials have their say, if there are no rules, there will be no rule!"
Xiao Wenhou, who was next to him, followed up and said angrily: "Now the village has tens of thousands of horses at once, and its daily food consumption is tens of thousands of kilograms. How many days can it last if we don't plan carefully?"
Speaking of which, these two are considered rare talents with potential among the heroes of Liangshan.
When he first went up the mountain, his martial arts skills were only at the third-rate level, but he only relied on his height and unreliable martial arts to make a name for himself.
Otherwise, if he were really powerful, he wouldn't work so hard to sell medicines. Wouldn't it be faster to make money just by doing business without capital?
It’s just that I don’t have the skills and the courage to do it.
But by the time of the conquest of Fang La, the combat power of these two men had almost reached the first-class level. It can be seen that their strength has been improving since joining Liangshan.
It's obvious that these two are definitely motivated!
Chai Daguan had nothing to do and held lectures for leaders in the rear camp. Unlike other leaders of the front camp who could not lose their dignity, these two would go and attend whenever they had time.
Although most of what Chai Daguan said was related to logistics, they also listened and understood that fiddling with logistics is not that simple.
At least they know that the pressure on food and grass here in the village has always been relatively high.
According to Chai Daguan, the village occupies a large area, but most of it is land unsuitable for farming. The larger the population, the greater the demand from the outside world.
If you don't budget carefully, sooner or later something will happen due to food and baggage problems.
Even in front of the leaders of the battalion who listened to the lecture, Chai Daguan even assumed the identity of the general in charge of the army and made arrangements against Liangshan.
It only takes 30,000 to 50,000 officers and soldiers to guard the main road, and Liangshan can easily be blocked in a pool of water for 800 miles, unable to move out.
According to the statistics of the Logistics Department, the amount of food and grass supplies can only supply the brothers in the village for half a year at most. This is because the fishing mode has been activated, otherwise it can only supply a little over three months at most.
At that time, all the leaders of the rear camp who listened to the lecture were so shocked that they all personally came forward to deduce the situation on the sand table with Chai Daguan's men. In the end, without exception, they all rushed to the street.
Afterwards, including Guo Daxia's ancestors, Xiao Wenhou, and the leaders of the rear camp, they were very lucky that the generals of the imperial court and army could not be as ruthless as Chai Daguan, nor had such powerful commanding attainments, otherwise the grass on their graves would be gone.
He has grown taller.
Because of this, Guo Daxia's ancestors and Xiao Wenhou paid great attention to saving and saving food, which made Song Jiang's personal guards the laughing stock of the front camp.
Song Jiang didn't say much after knowing the reason, and he obviously acquiesced in the approach of the two guard commanders.
The arrival of Chai Daguan had a relatively large impact on Liangshan.
For example, when sending out troops, he has been greatly restrained. He is no longer as unscrupulous and reckless as in the original work, causing harm to half the city and killing all the officials at every turn.
Damn, I don’t know if my brain is flooded?
Although he clearly wants to be recruited by the imperial court, he often does stupid things that are unacceptable to the bureaucracy. Isn't this asking for death?
It is said that the heroes of Liangshan suffered heavy casualties when they conquered Fang La. In the end, because of the lack of troops, the court lost its fear and killed Song Jiang with a glass of poisonous wine.
Lu Junyi's death was even worse, far worse than the ten festivals in the Renzong era!
Based on what Song Jiang and other Liangshan heroes did, even if the emperor, Gao Qiu and others did not take action, the other bureaucrats would make them die inexplicably.
This time when Qingzhou was broken, there was no mass killing. They just killed Murong Zhizhou, the chief culprit, and then looted the treasury and the ordnance and grain storehouses.
As a result, all the heroes in Qingzhou had joined Liangshan for several days, but the news from Qingzhou was calm.
At this time, Song Jiang and Wu Yong couldn't help but admire Chai Daguan...
Obviously, the murder of Murong Zhizhou was suppressed by the local powerful faction in Qingzhou, or it was temporarily suppressed.
This is naturally great news for Liangshan!
The heroes of Qingzhou join Liangshan, and it seems that Liangshan's strength has expanded in a short time.
But in fact, due to the previous separate systems, Liangshan's internal military system was in chaos and needed enough time to adjust and rectify it.
If the imperial court immediately sends troops to encircle and suppress Murong Zhizhou, although Liangshan is not afraid, internal rectification will not be carried out at all, and the combat effectiveness cannot be expected to be much improved.
According to Chai Daguanren, the current fighting style of the Liangshan army is still the same as that of Jianghu. Without formal military training and rectification, it is just a copycat with a larger number of people.
The situation in Qingzhou is calm, and Liangshan can temporarily reorganize its troops with peace of mind, which can be used to make use of the newly recruited former military generals in the village.
Brothers Kong Ming and Kong Liang were so embarrassed by Guo Daxia's ancestors and Xiao Wenhou that they couldn't get angry in front of their master Song Jiang, but they had a fight in private, and they were beaten so hard that they didn't dare to go out for several days.
people.
For no other reason, Guo Daxia's ancestor and Xiao Wenhou were influenced by Chai Daguan's words and deeds, and specifically beat brothers Kong Ming and Kong Liang into pig heads, leaving a very deep psychological shadow.
When Song Jiang found out later, he really didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he couldn't say much.
It is said that after Lu Zhishen went to Liangshan, he was surprised to find that his brother Lin Chong, whom he met in Bianliang, was also there. He was overjoyed and drank with Lin Chong every day.
However, it was obvious that Lin Chong, apart from being equally happy on the first day and not getting drunk with Lu Zhishen, had no energy during the next few days of drinking and looked absent-minded.
"I said, brother, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so absent-minded? Could it be that you don't like drinking with your brothers?"
Lu Zhishen couldn't help but lose his temper and shouted directly.
Lin Chong waved his hands repeatedly, feeling embarrassed, but it was difficult to explain. He couldn't say that he missed his wife, right?
Because his ex-wife and ex-father-in-law are still alive, this man did not become the invisible man in the original work.
At least Lu Zhishen didn't notice anything wrong and was still willing to hang out with Lin Chong, instead of the relationship that gradually drifted apart in the original work.
It's just that there is a strange thing in the world of Water Margin, that is, heroes don't like to get married, as if being single means becoming stronger.
The red-haired ghost Liu Tang next to him was a reckless man. He couldn't help laughing when he saw this. He drank half a bowl of water and wine in one gulp and said with a smile: "Master Lin wants to go to the back to have a private meeting with the lady. How can he have the intention to follow her?"
Master drinking, eating meat and having fun?"
Lin Chong glared at the guy angrily, but did not refute, which was regarded as acquiescence.
Lu Zhishen's eyes widened and he shouted: "I don't think the Lin family's wife is also in Liangshan. Brother Lin, you are not very interesting. Why didn't you say something?"
Lin Chong smiled bitterly, Liu Tang shook his head and said: "Master, I don't know, but the back camp has made it clear that Coach Lin is not welcome to come there. They said that if the Zhang family doesn't completely let go of her dissatisfaction, Coach Lin will not be allowed to visit in the future!"
"Is there such a thing?"
Lu Zhishen said dissatisfied: "Isn't the rear camp the territory of Liangshan? How can we prevent Brother Lin from entering?"
"Master, I don't know that although the back camp is not a dragon pool, it is a tiger's den. Although Coach Lin's martial arts is very strong, he doesn't dare to make trouble there!"
The red-haired ghost Liu Tang rarely had a chance to gossip, so he said cheerfully: "The rules over there are very strict. A certain family is not used to it and is too lazy to go there. It's really hard on Coach Lin!"
After saying this, Lu Zhishen became interested and threw the wine bowl and the uneaten chunk of meat on the table. He casually wiped the grease on the handle and shouted: "Let's go, brother Lin, let's go to the back camp together."
Go and see, what kind of dragon pond and tiger den is there?"
He didn't realize that Lin Chong and Liu Tang looked at the food and wine that was almost half the table, and the corners of their mouths twitched and they lamented in their hearts.
All their cases this month were given away by Lu Zhishen...