Many local fishermen and farmers who had been exploited by the government were forced to go to Liangshan to join Song Jiang's rebel army...

Every time Liangshan heroes attacked a state or county, they looted the gold and silver treasures from the officials and wealthy households in the city and took them for themselves;

The food that can be carried in the city will also be taken away, and when the remaining excess official food is inconvenient to take away, they will open warehouses to release food to relieve the poor, winning the support of the poor people...

Every time the "heroes" of Liangshan conquered a county town and opened warehouses to release grain, they would also recruit local young adults to join the rebel army. From then on, the Liangshan Rebel Army developed and expanded rapidly...

In fact, as early as more than two years ago on the second day of December in the first year of Xuanhe, Zhao Ji's original owner Song Huizong had already learned about the rebellion by Song Jiang and others along Jingdong East Road (Shan~dong).

However, the imperial court did not pay much attention to it at that time, and only ordered the execution supervisors on the east and west roads of Beijing to hunt down Song Jiang and other bandits...

Song Ting thought that the Song Jiang rebels could be easily eliminated, but the development of the situation was far beyond expectations.

Most of the officers and soldiers sent to annihilate Song Jiang's rebel army were local Xiang troops. They had not fought for a long time and lacked training, so their combat effectiveness was extremely poor.

Song Jiang and his thirty-six leaders were all strong and brave desperadoes; when they led their troops to fight against the government and the army, they always adopted flexible tactics...

Therefore, the Xiang army sent by the Song Dynasty did not suppress the Song Jiang uprising, but instead allowed it to win many battles with officers and soldiers, and its reputation spread far and wide...

After that, Song Jiang had to abandon the base area of ​​Liangshanbo in the face of the imperial court's increased troops to encircle and suppress him.

He led the rebel army to gallop forward, and while being pursued and intercepted by officers and soldiers several times larger than himself, he used flexible tactics to avoid the sharp edge of the encirclement and suppression army sent by the Song Dynasty, and fought in many places.

He specially selected the counties and prefectures where the Song army was weakly garrisoned to attack. He destroyed the prefectures and passed the prefectures. He successively attacked Qingzhou, Jeju, Puzhou, and Yunzhou.

After Song Jiang's rebels robbed the goods, they abandoned the city and fled...

In the second year of Xuanhe, Song Jiang led the rebel army and launched an offensive southward. Although the number of the rebel army was small, it was like a steel knife. The original owner of Zhao Ji's body, Song Huizong, was horrified and his expression changed after hearing the news...

However, Song Jiang led the rebel army and used flexible tactics to always avoid the main force of the Song army. Every one or two months, he would sneak attack and capture a state or county town with few troops and weak defense.

This shocked Song Huizong, the original owner of Zhao Ji's body, and gave him a headache...

However, after October of the second year of Xuanhe, the Song Jiang rebel army, which was often able to attack Songchi Prefecture and County, suddenly suffered heavy setbacks one after another.

For example, in late October of the second year of Xuanhe last year, Song Jiang led more than 5,000 rebels to prepare to attack Yizhou City, hoping to break the city and loot the property in the city.

Beforehand, Song Jiang sent out multiple scouts, and even asked his leader [Shenxing Taibao] Dai Zong to disguise himself as a commoner and sneak into Yizhou City to conduct reconnaissance...

The military information Song Jiang received was that there were few defenders in Yizhou City and the city was empty, making it easy to capture.

So, Song Jiang led more than 5,000 nominal troops and prepared to attack Yizhou City...

However, Song Jiang never expected that the soul of the Zhao Guan family today was no longer that of the corrupt, incompetent, and extremely mediocre original owner, Song Huizong Zhao Ji.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Half a month before Song Jiang's rebel army came to attack the city, Yizhou Zhizhou Jiang Yuan received the imperial edict.

Zhao Guan's family secretly ordered Jiang Yuan, the magistrate of Yizhou, to secretly mobilize ten thousand elite Xiang troops in Yizhou to garrison Yizhou City to prevent Song Jiang's rogue bandits from coming to attack the city...

In the imperial edict sent by Zhao Guan's family to Jiang Yuan, the magistrate of Yizhou, they also emphasized that the garrison of Yizhou City must pretend to have few soldiers and empty defense.

In this way, Song Jiang's bandits were lured to attack the city.

When Song Jiang's bandits attacked the city in force, the army in Yizhou City attacked with all their strength, striving to severely inflict heavy losses on Song Jiang's bandits...

When Jiang Yuan, the magistrate of Yizhou, received the imperial edict written by the emperor himself, he was shocked and flattered.

You have to know how lucky and honorable it is for those who were lucky enough to receive the imperial edict written by the Zhao Guan family in the Song Dynasty with so many magistrates?!

Although Jiang Yuan had doubts, he believed that the Song Jiang bandits were unlikely to travel long distances south to reach their territory in Yizhou, let alone attack the city of Yizhou, which was high and deep;

However, how could Jiang Yuan dare to resist the imperial edict?

Jiang Yuan still followed Zhao Guan's imperial edict and secretly mobilized the main force of the Xiang army in Yizhou, totaling more than 10,000 troops. They quietly entered Yizhou City in ten groups late at night so that the people in the city would not know about this military mobilization.

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Jiang Yuan, the magistrate of Yizhou, also followed the imperial edict of Zhao Guan's family and deliberately sent old and weak soldiers to guard several gates of Yizhou City, pretending that there were insufficient guards in Yizhou City and the city defense was empty...

On the tenth day after Jiang Yuan received the imperial edict from Zhao Guan's family, he had not heard any news that the bandits under Song Jiang's command had entered Yizhou.

He had doubts in his heart: The Zhao Guan family made a mistake in their judgment today! It is impossible for Song Jiang and other bandits to attack Yizhou City where I am stationed, right?!

However, on the eleventh day after Jiang Yuan received the imperial edict, he received a report from his subordinates, saying that a large group of about five to six thousand bandits had appeared in Yizhou and that some were heading towards Yizhou City.

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After Jiang Yuan, the magistrate of Yizhou, received this military information, he was greatly shocked. He knelt down and kowtowed in the direction of the capital, and paid homage to Zhao Guan's family from a distance. He was so moved that he burst into tears and praised from the bottom of his heart:

"My current son, the Zhao Guan family, is really a mastermind. He is worthy of being reincarnated as the eldest son of the Emperor of Heaven in Shenxiao Palace, the 'Emperor of Immortality'!"

"If Jiang Yuan, a humble minister, has not received the imperial edict from Zhao Guanjia and has not mobilized heavy troops to secretly garrison Yizhou City, he might wait until a group of bandits from Song Jiang come to attack the city.

The city of Yizhou where I am located is very easy to be breached by bandits. By that time, although Jiang Yuan, a humble minister, is determined to fight to the death, he has no power to save his life!

If the city of Yizhou is destroyed by the Liangshan bandits, the officials, merchants and people in the city will be in ruins!

However, things are different now.

Wei Chen has already obeyed Zhao Guan's imperial edict and has deployed heavy troops to secretly garrison Yizhou City. Just waiting for the Song Jiang group of bandits to attack the city, Wei Chen must lead the troops to attack and must wipe out the Song Jiang group of bandits in retaliation.

Emperor’s favor!”

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At midnight on the fifteenth day after Jiang Yuan received the imperial edict,

Several city gates in Yizhou were closed as before. On the surface, only a few dozen veterans and weak soldiers were guarding them, but there were more than 10,000 elite soldiers of the Yizhou Xiang Army hidden in the city.

Three miles outside the east gate of Yizhou City, Song Jiang led more than 5,000 rebels, including Ma Zailing, who had the title of "Mei". Under the cover of night, they quietly approached the east gate of Yizhou.

The leader of the rebel army, surrounded by people, was Song Jiang, nicknamed "Hu Baoyi".

Song Jiang is more than six feet tall, with a dark complexion, a broad forehead and a flat forehead, eyes like red phoenixes, dotted eyes, eyebrows like lying silkworms, square lips and a straight mouth, a light mustache, and plump flesh.

When Song Jiang was sitting still, he looked like a tiger.

When Song Jiang walks around, he looks like a wolf.

It was night, Song Jiang was riding the famous horse "Zhaoye Jade Lion".

This horse was snatched by his men and presented to him as a leader.

The whole body of the 'Zhaoye Jade Lion' is as white as snow, without a single hair, as if the bright moonlight shines on the white jade lion.

This horse is more than one foot long from head to tail, and its height from hoof to ridge is more than eight feet.

The 'Zhaoye Jade Lion' horse is native to the Western Regions and can travel thousands of miles in one day. It is the best among horses.

It's night, Song Jiang is wearing a red cloak, he is majestic, has a beautiful mind, and is majestic.

He rode on the "Zhaoye Jade Lion", holding a sharp simple knife, and led his men quietly to a mile outside the east city of Yizhou.

Song Jiang used the moonlight to look at the East City of Yizhou in front of him. He saw only sparse lanterns on the city and few guards moving around.

Song Jiang concluded that there would not be too many guards on the east city.

Song Jiang was full of confidence and extremely excited. He said to Dai Zong, the 'divine Taibao' who was walking in front of him to guide the way:

"Sure enough, as the military intelligence obtained from the public reconnaissance in the city shows, the Yizhou city has few guards and the city's defenses are empty.

Brothers and I, after we capture Yizhou City, we can divide the gold and silver on large scales and eat wine and meat in large bowls!

My Liangshan brothers, we can rest here for a few days to relieve our fatigue from the long journey south!

This is Dai Zongxian's meritorious service in reconnaissance. He should be remembered as his first meritorious service, and he can get an extra pound of gold and silver!"

Dai Zong, the tall and lean Taibao Shenxing Taibao, was delighted when he heard this, but he pretended to postpone:

"I am born with good legs and feet. I am good at walking and have no other special skills. Fortunately, my brother Gongming trusts me and entrusts me with the important task of letting me sneak into the city to spy on the military situation.

How dare I share an extra pound of gold and silver and let my brothers gossip?!"

In front of Song Jiang's war horse, Li Kui, holding two Banye black whirlwinds, looks as thick as a black bear and as thick as an iron bull.

After Li Kui heard Dai Zong's self-effacing words, his thick red and yellow eyebrows stood up, his big red eyes widened, and he said with a loud voice:

"Brother Dai Zong, don't postpone your credit. Brother Gongming has already spoken. I don't think any birdman dares to disobey?

Just ask me, Li Kui, about the pair of axes in his hands!

If the city of Yizhou is captured and Dai Zong's reconnaissance is successful, he should get an extra pound of gold and silver.

Not only that, I also want to serve three more bowls of good wine to my brother Gongming and Dai Zong!"

"Hahaha!" While Song Jiang laughed, he had already raised the sword in his palm, and the tip of the sword pointed in the direction of Yizhou's east city gate...

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Around Song Jiang's war horse, Zhiduoxing Wu Xuexue and Jade Unicorn Lu Junyi, who were also riding horses, knew that Song Jiang was preparing to order all the rebels to attack, and went to attack the city.

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Wu Xuexue, who has delicate features, white face and long beard, looks like a scholar, but he dissuades him in a low voice:

"Although we came at night and were so close to this city, why haven't the guards on the city discovered us yet?

Chief, be careful of the officers and soldiers being deceived!"

Lu Junyi, the nine-foot tall jade unicorn, also nodded in agreement and said:

"The words of the military advisor are very reasonable! The leader should be careful and not attack with the whole army!"

While Song Jiang was thinking about it, Li Kui jumped out so angry that he was as angry as an iron brush and as ferocious as a Suan Ni. He held two big banyans and shouted:

"I'm still afraid that the few dog officers and bird soldiers in this city won't be able to succeed?!
To be continued...