Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

After the five people discussed, they split up and acted on their own.

Xin Zan returned to the hall to ask Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao for help, and asked them to use their influence in Qingzhou City to bring hundreds of families outside the south gate, regardless of gender, age or age, to Qingzhou City before sunset.

Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao heard that they were helping Ximen Qing, and after fighting wits and courage with the robbers in Qingfeng Mountain tonight, they both readily agreed to organize manpower from inside and outside the house to help Xin Zan move the people.

After Qin Hui and his wife heard about this incident, they also joined Xin Zan's team to help him appease the hearts of hundreds of people outside the city.

After the efforts of Xin Zan and others, before the sun went down, there was only an empty house left outside the south gate of Qingzhou City.

Qingzhou City.

After confirming that the people living outside the south gate had been evacuated, Ximenqing closed the city gate, put on armor with Luan Tingyu, led horses, and led soldiers to lie in ambush inside the city gate. After eating and drinking, they waited for the breeze The mountain robbers came.

Ximen Qing had already informed Murong Yanda about Qin Ming's defeat and capture during the day.Murong Yanda was startled and angry, he wanted to flatten Qingfeng Mountain to take revenge, but his subordinates had no generals to use.He knew that Ximen Qing and his brothers were highly skilled in martial arts, especially that Luan Tingyu had the courage to be undeserved, so he asked Ximen Qing and others to help him wipe out the thieves in Qingfeng Mountain.

At this time, it was heard that bandits from Qingfeng Mountain came to attack Qingzhou at night, and Murong Yanda also came to watch the battle on the south gate tower.

Standing on the tower of the south gate of Qingzhou City to watch the battle with Murong Yanda were Zhao Mingcheng, Li Qingzhao and his wife, Qin Hui and Wang Ya.They all looked at Ximen Qing and the others from the tower with their own purposes.

Xin Zan was also fully clothed and came to Ximen Qing with a sharp sword in his hand.Although he has been busy for half a day, he is not willing to just sit on a tall building and watch the battle.

Ximen Qing whispered in his ear for a moment, and informed him of his arrangement.Xin Zan nodded, indicating that he understood.

After nightfall, a few miles away from the south gate of Qingzhou City, a group of red-turban robbers from Qingfeng Mountain was marching towards Qingzhou City.

In front of this group of robbers, a big man wearing armor, riding a tall horse, holding a mace, was shouting loudly, directing the robbers to advance rapidly.In the night, I saw the bearded man on the immediate face, and it was the "Thunderbolt" Qin Ming.

At the end of this bandit team, there are also two men on horseback. These two people are holding two shining simple knives. They are the "Jin Maohu" Yanshun and the "Dwarf Tiger" Wang Ying who are the masters on Qingfeng Mountain.

With the help of the cover of night, the bandit team led by Qin Ming, Yan Shun and Wang Ying arrived at the south gate of Qingzhou City after advancing several miles.

I saw some sparse guards on the city wall, the south gate of Qingzhou City was closed tightly, and a group of houses outside the south gate were connected together in the darkness.

Qin Ming turned his head to look at the "Jin Mao Tiger" Yan Shun and the "Dwarf Tiger" Wang Ying.The two nodded, and Qin Ming rushed forward, waving a mace and shouting "Kill!"

The bandits with red turbans lit their torches and followed behind Qin Ming towards Qingzhou City.

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Chapter 187 Song Jiang's Poisonous Scheme

"Kill! Hurry up!"

"Take the South Gate! Occupy Qingzhou City!"

"Come on brother! Go into the city to grab money, food, and women!"

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Under Qin Ming's command, the red-turban robbers rushed out of the night, lit torches, and rushed towards the gate of Qingzhou, which had not yet been closed.

"The thieves are coming! Close the door! Close the door!"

The few pawns guarding outside the south gate were so frightened that they dropped their weapons and rushed towards the rat inside the gate with their heads in their arms.

When Qin Ming rode his horse and rushed to within a stone's throw of the city wall, the south gate of Qingzhou City was closed, and the suspension bridge over the moat was pulled up.

On the city wall, some of the sparse defenders ran around the city wall yelling, and some hurriedly took up their bows and shot arrows down the city wall.There was a commotion on the city wall.

It's a pity that the soldiers in the city all used soft bows, and they were not accurate. None of the arrows shot in front of Qin Ming, and they fell into the moat one after another.

Seeing that the city gate was not captured, Qin Ming yelled in annoyance, turned around and led the red turban robbers to attack the houses outside the city, intending to plunder, burn and kill them to vent his anger.

Just at this time, fireworks soaring into the sky were set off in Qingzhou City, and there were faint bursts of laughter.

The "Jin Maohu" Yanshun and the "Dwarf Tiger" Wang Ying who were among the bandits looked at the fireworks in the city, and Yanshun cursed: "The people in Qingzhou City are really rich and rich, and they are still having fun after the Lantern Festival. One day our brothers will break this Qingzhou City, enter the city to kill and set fire, so that we can have a good time.”

Wang Ying immediately said: "Brother, please spare them. Let's first kill hundreds of households outside the city according to the payment of Brother Song Jiang, and burn this place to nothingness. There is no possibility for Director Qin to return to the city." !"

It turned out that after "Thunderbolt" Qin Ming was captured alive by the bandits in Qingfeng Mountain, Song Jiang and others took turns to persuade Qin Ming to join the group and fall into the grass.

Qin Ming is in charge of the army and horses of a state, and he is highly valued by the court. He is not Hua Rong's kind of strange flower who longs to get rid of his status as an officer and join the underworld. How can he be willing to surrender his status and become a bandit?

Seeing that Qin Ming's persuasion was ineffective, Song Jiang planned a poisonous plan to cut off Qin Ming's retreat.

He first made a plan to keep Qin Ming on Qingfeng Mountain, and then asked Yanshun to choose a person who was somewhat similar to Qin Ming in body and appearance from the young people in Qingfeng Mountain, and asked him to put on Qin Ming's armor and ride Qin Ming. He took the mace and pretended to be "Thunderbolt" Qin Ming.Song Jiang asked this little guy to lead people to burn, kill and loot outside Qingzhou City, making the city people mistakenly think that Qin Ming did it, and Qin Ming's retreat to return to Qingzhou City was cut off.

Song Jiang believed that when Qin Ming had nowhere to go, if he led someone to bring him back to Qingfeng Mountain on the road, that fierce general Qin Ming would definitely join him.

Song Jiang's strategy is quite vicious.In order to get Qin Ming to join his gang, he planned to kill hundreds of families outside Qingzhou City, as well as Qin Ming's family in Qingzhou City.

In the eyes of Song Jiang, the big brother of the underworld, these innocent people are just pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered.As long as it is beneficial to me, Song Jiang, why not kill him?

Song Jiang looks loyal, filial, kind, and loyal, but in fact he is dark, cunning, and vicious in his heart.From the fact that he planned to carry out a massacre outside Qingzhou City, we can know what kind of demon Song Jiang is.

In normal times, Song Jiang used his corrupt money to help the down-and-out desperadoes from time to time, earning himself a good reputation of "timely rain" in the underworld, and took this as his golden signboard for walking the rivers and lakes.

It was only when Song Jiang's interests were involved that the black fellow tore off his disguise, revealing his cruel and vicious real side.

This guy is a fugitive murderer, and he also made friends with several bandit leaders in Qingfeng Mountain. As the official of the imperial court, shouldn't Liu Gao, the Zhizhai Zhizhai of Qingfeng Village, arrest him?

Compared with Huarong, the deputy Zhizhai who eats the emperor's food but colludes with the underworld, knows the law and breaks the law, and serves as the umbrella for murderers and fugitives, Liu Gao, the Zhizhai who is loyal to his duty and bravely fights against the underworld forces with the body of a weak scholar, is the real good official. !

Just because Liu Gao enforced the law impartially and offended Song Jiang, the big brother of the underworld, he was brutally killed by this man with his personal grievances.At that moment, it was the true manifestation of Song Jiang Cailang's nature.

In order to win over and force a court officer to join the gang, Song Jiang did not hesitate to sacrifice the innocent lives of hundreds of households and thousands of people.It is really shameless and ridiculous that such a vicious, vicious person who kills and sets fire as a meal, even later put up the sign of "doing justice for the sky" in an attempt to pretend to be a person who is loyal to the king and loves the people.

"Jinmaohu" Yanshun and "Dwarf-footed Tiger" Wang Ying commanded the young men dressed as Qin Ming and other robbers to enter the house outside the south gate of Qingzhou City.They wanted to kill Qin and Ming in an unjust way, making it difficult for him to return home and leave the country.

But the robbers walked around in the dark and broke into the houses, but they didn't see a single person.

"Golden-haired tiger" Yanshun and "dwarf-legged tiger" Wang Ying looked at each other in blank dismay, and when they were feeling suspicious, a few gangsters ran over with the notice that had been pulled off the wall.

"Jinmaohu" Yanshun used to be in the sheep and horse business, so he could read a few words.He took the notice, glanced at it with the torch, and said to Wang Ying: "Today is unlucky, there is a rich man in Qingzhou City celebrating his birthday, and he invited all the former neighbors outside the Nancheng city to watch the fireworks show. For the neighbors who went to the city, the rich man promised that everyone would distribute money and food. It seems that these people have all gone to Qingzhou City!"

Wang Ying looked at the bright fireworks over Qingzhou City, and said helplessly: "I didn't look at the almanac when I went out today, and let these cows and horses run away. It's really unlucky! Brother, it seems that I have to set a big fire and burn it down." This bird land was planted on Qin Ming."

Yan Shun nodded, and asked the person pretending to be Qin Ming to find a high place to stand, and made a gesture to direct the robbers under him to set fires everywhere.This posture allowed the guards on the Qingzhou city wall to see clearly, and let them know that Qin Ming was venting his anger and setting fire.

However, at this moment, the gate of the south gate of Qingzhou City was opened wide, and the suspension bridge was also lowered. Ximen Qing and the others rushed out with a brigade of officers and soldiers, shouting in unison: "Seize the traitor Qin Ming! Seize the traitor! Qin Ming! Don't let these bandits go!"

"Brother, the official army has come out!" "Dwarf Tiger" Wang Ying said to Yanshun.

"Jin Maohu" Yanshun saw a large group of officers and soldiers led by Ximen Qing and others, and said to Wang Ying: "There are many officers and soldiers, and this place is too close to the city. Fighting is not good for us. Quickly retreat!"

Yanshun and Wang Ying hurriedly directed the robbers to throw the torches into the house, and then ran away to the south.

Ximen Qing, Xin Zan and others led the troops all the way, shouting "Catch the traitor Qin Ming", followed the Qingfengshan bandits pretending to chase for a mile, and then returned to the city to fight the fire.