Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Ximen Qing said to Huang Wenbing: "Brother Huang, to be honest, when Professor Qin and I met in Qingzhou, the rebel Song Jiang was also in Qingzhou..."

Ximen Qing told Huang Wenbing how Song Jiang colluded with the Qingfengshan bandits, how he was discovered and captured by Qingfengzhai Zhizhai Liu Gao, how he was rescued by Qingfengshan bandits, and how Song Jiang killed Zhizhai Liu Gao in revenge.

Ximenqing told Huang Wenbing that Song Jiang had a vicious heart and a strong desire for revenge. He didn't stop killing Liu Gao in Zhizhai, and ordered the Qingfeng Mountain bandits to attack Qingfengzhai, intending to kill Liu Gao's family.Fortunately, Qingzhou military commander Qin Ming and military superintendent Huang Xin defeated the robbers, and Liu Gao's family was kept safe.

It can be inferred from this that after Song Jiang escaped danger this time, he would not let it go and just run away.He will definitely try to kill the Wuwei army and kill Huang Wenbing's family.

Huang Wenbing was dumbfounded when he heard this.Because he didn't know much about these bandits, Huang Wenbing didn't expect that these bandits would be so vicious that they dared to attack the city wall guarded by the government army for revenge.

There are five or seven thousand forbidden troops in Jiangzhou City, and they let those Liangshan heroes enter the land of no one, and they successfully robbed Song Jiang. the robber?

Although Huang Wenbing was resourceful and decisive, he didn't know military affairs, had never fought against real robbers, and didn't know their usual methods, so he felt helpless for a while.

Seeing Huang Wenbing standing there in a daze, Ximen Qing didn't bother him, just drinking and eating by himself, admiring the beautiful scenery by the river.

After all, Huang Wenbing is a thoughtful person. When he recovered from the momentary panic and saw Ximen Qing who looked calm, he suddenly came to his senses.

This Ximen official specially invited him to this Linjiang Tower, not just to tell him that Song Jiang escaped and was going to take revenge on him.Judging by the appearance of Ximen officials, there should be countermeasures against Song Jiang's gang of Liangshan bandits!

Huang Wenbing got up and bowed to Ximen Qing, and said: "My dear brother, Brother Yu knows that you are a great talent. I think my dear brother has a plan to defeat the thieves in Liangshan. I hope that my dear brother will not hesitate to teach me and save my family. Ten lives."

Ximen Qing returned a salute to Huang Wenbing, asked Huang Wenbing to sit down, and said to him: "Brother Huang, I won't hide it from you, I do have a plan to destroy thieves. Brother Huang, this time I am here to do nothing. In order to save your family, but also to borrow your strength to help me wipe out those Liangshan bandits."

After hearing this, Huang Wenbing asked, "What's wrong with Ximen Ximen and that Liangshan bandit?"

Ximen Qing said: "I've never met the Liangshan bandits, and I didn't have any festivals before. However, Yanggu County is close to Liangshanbo, and the village households in the management are often harassed and robbed by the bandits. It's miserable. The county magistrate is often worried about this matter. Brother, I am a close friend with the magistrate Xianggong, and I promised to help him guard against Liangshanbo robbers. Therefore, as long as there is a chance to weaken Liangshanbo robbers, brother, I am obliged."

Ximenqing confessed to Huang Wenbing his thoughts on destroying the Liangshan bandits in order to win Huang Wenbing's complete trust and let him cooperate with him.

Huang Wenbing is a quick-witted person, even if Ximen Qing wants to help him, he will inevitably guess whether Ximen Qing has other motives in his heart, and he will never believe that Ximen Qing is just seeing injustice and drawing his sword to help.

For this kind of smart person, it is difficult to completely deceive him. The best way is to tell him part of the truth in exchange for his trust.

Sure enough, when Huang Wenbing heard that Ximen Qing was helping the magistrate of Yanggu County deal with Liangshanbo bandits, he had common interests with him, and needed his own strength, he completely believed in Ximen Qing.Huang Wenbing saw that Ximen Qing was open-minded and didn't take this opportunity to help him through the difficulties to thank him, so he also admired Ximen Qing in his heart.

"I don't know what kind of power the virtuous brother needs to borrow from Brother Yu? As long as he can defeat the thieves, it doesn't matter, my virtuous brother!" Huang Wenbing also said frankly.

Ximen Qing smiled and said: "Brother Huang, brother, as long as you accompany me to find the military leader of the Wuwei Army and borrow a few hundred soldiers for my brother, I can guard the Wuwei Army and defeat those Liangshan bandits. At that time, the brother who broke the bandits Don’t bother, it’s all about Zhijun Xianggong and Brother Huang.”

Huang Wenbing heard this, in name, the Wuwei Army lent troops to Ximen Qing to destroy the thieves, but in reality, Ximen Qing helped the Wuwei Army to defend the city and defeat the thieves!And the one who benefited the most from this matter was his family.In any case, I should help Ximenqing borrow troops and let him fight the Liangshan bandits.

After figuring out these joints, Huang Wenbing readily agreed to help Ximen Qing borrow troops.He left Linjiang Tower with Ximenqing and went straight to Zhijun Yamen.

With Huang Wenbing's help, Ximenqing successfully persuaded Zhijun Xianggong, borrowed 200 sergeants from him, and borrowed more than [-] sets of armor and weapons, and armed all the township soldiers he brought to Jiangzhou, pretending to be soldiers. He looks like an officer.

That Wuwei Army soldier and horse Dujian Wang has a fiery temperament, and when he knew that the Liangshan bandits might come to attack the Wuwei Army, he couldn't help being furious.Wang Jin drew his knife and chopped off a corner of the table, and said to Mr. Zhijun that he would personally lead the troops to battle, and he must let the Liangshan bandits come and go.

Wang Zhi asked for a fight like this, of course Wuweijun Zhijun readily agreed, asking him to work together with Ximenqing to protect the environment and the people.

Huang Wenbing himself didn't want to be idle, he proposed that his family should pay for the food and money to reward the soldiers, so as to boost morale.Unexpectedly, this proposal was rejected by Ximen Qing.

Ximen Qing told Huang Wenbing, Wang Teng, and Zhijun Xianggong that there were many shrewd thieves among the bandits in Liangshan, and when they led troops to attack the Wuwei army, they would definitely send people into the city to find out the details.If you are working hard at this time with great fanfare, you are afraid that the spies will see the truth and startle the snake.If you want to work hard, you must win the victory before rewarding the soldiers.

Seeing that Ximen Qing's words were reasonable, everyone accepted his proposal, and stayed on hold for the time being, to show their defensive emptiness to the outside world.

A net was silently unfolded by the Army of Inaction...

Chapter 244 I Only Give One Surrender Quota

When Ximen Qing went south from Yanggu County to Jiangzhou, Jiang Zhong and Hong Zhen each brought dozens of elite men, totaling about 170 people.After arriving in Jiangzhou, Lu Xiaoyi and Shi Yong recruited another ten or twenty rogue desperadoes.Now there are close to 200 troops under his direct control.

After borrowing armor and weapons from Mr. Wuweijun Zhijun, Ximen Qing quietly armed them.

Knowing that Song Jiang and the others would gather their belongings to Mujiazhuang, and then come out to attack the Wuwei Army, Ximen Qing divided his troops into two teams.

A team of more than one hundred people led by Lu Xiaoyi and Shi Yong quietly lurked near Jieyang Town.After Song Jiang and others left Mujiazhuang and went to the Wuwei Army, they pretended to be an official army and raided Namujiazhuang, and took away all the property in the village.

The other elite team of more than a hundred people followed Ximenqing, Jiang Zhong, Jiao Ting, Hong Zhen and other heroes to set up an ambush here with the officers and soldiers, and deal a severe blow to the invading Liangshan bandits.

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On Mujiazhuang, Chao Gai, Song Jiang and others were also making preparations to attack the Wuwei Army.I saw Xue Yong came back after two days, and brought a black and thin man back to the village to meet Song Jiang.

Song Jiang and other leaders saw Xue Yong leading this man, and Song Jiang asked, "Brother, who is this strong man?"

Xue Yong replied: "This man's surname is Hou Mingjian, and his ancestors lived in Hongdu. He is a first-hand tailor, with flying needles and threads; he is also used to guns and sticks, and he once worshiped Xue Yong as his teacher. He is black and thin. Qingjie, so I called him 'Bibbon'. Seeing that Huang Wenbing's family lives in this military city of Wuwei, because I saw my younger brother, please stay here."

Song Jiang was overjoyed, so he taught his colleagues to sit down and discuss, asking about the news of Jiangzhou and the path of the Wuwei Army.

Xue Yong said: "Cai Jiuzhi's government now counts the officers and soldiers and civilians, and more than a hundred people have been killed or injured. I saw that today I sent someone to apply for the imperial court in the starry night. The gate of Jiangzhou City will be closed after noon. It is easy to enter and exit. The cross-examination was tight. It turned out that the elder brother's murder was not related to Cai Jiu's prefect. It was Huang Wenbing who called the prefect three times and five times to teach him to harm his elder brother. Now seeing that the execution ground was robbed, the city was in a panic, and Xiao Ye took precautions. Brother I went to the Wuwei Army to inquire again, and I ran into brother Hou Jian out for a meal, because I learned about Beixi."

Song Jiangdao: "How does Brother Hou know?"

Hou Jian said: "The villain only loves to learn guns and sticks since he was a child. He has been taught by Master Xue a lot, so he dare not forget his kindness. Recently, Huang Tong ordered the villain to come to Wuweijun's house to make clothes. When he was out for a meal, he met Master and mentioned My dear brother, tell me this story. If a villain wants to get acquainted with a dear friend, I will report to Beixi.... His brothers live in two separate places, and they only go in and out of one lane, and he is in the north gate. Home. Huang Wenbing lives close to the city, and Huang Wenye lives near the street."

Hou Jian didn't work as a good tailor, but went to join the bandits, and told Song Jiang and the leaders all the details of Huang Wenbing and Huang Wenye's family in the Wuwei Army.

Song Jiangdao: "Heaven taught me to take revenge, so I specially sent this person here. Even so, it's all up to the brothers."

Everyone responded in unison: "Go forward with death. I am about to drive out such corrupt and evil people, and avenge my brother, and I should use my death!"

Song Jiang said again: "I have a plan to go there now. I just hope that everyone will help and help."

All the leaders said in unison: "Just listen to brother's advice."

Song Jiangdao: "Mu Taigong has to deal with eighty or ninety fork bags, and also needs a hundred bundles of reeds, using five big boats. On the five big boats, Li Jun, Sanruan, Tongwei and people who know water are used. Escort the boat. This is the plan."

Mu Hongdao: "There are reeds, oil firewood, and cloth bags here, and everyone in my village can use water to sail boats. So I ask my brother to do it."

Song Jiangdao: "But I used the Hou family brothers to lure Xue Yong and Bai Sheng, and went to hide in Wuwei Army City first. In the next day at three o'clock and two o'clock, I only heard the bell-bellied pigeons outside the door, and taught Bai Sheng to go to the city. Counseling. First put a white silk belt, near Huang Wenbing's house, that is the place to go to the city. Then teach Song Wan and Du Qian to pretend to be beggars, go to the left side of the city gate to ambush, only see the fire as a sign, and start to kill Gate Sergeant."

Song Jiang's allocation has been decided, and Xue Yong, Bai Sheng and Hou Jian will go first.Then Song Wan and Du Qian pretended to be beggars, each with hidden knives and hidden weapons, and went too.

How did Song Jiang know that the five people he arranged for, Xue Yong, Bai Sheng, Hou Jian, Song Wan, and Du Qian, were mixed into the Wuwei Army to serve as internal support, but he just let them die.

Ximen Qing already knew that Hou Jian, the "Bibbon" was a rebellious man with a long head, and would betray Huang Wenbing and seek refuge with Song Jiang, so he kept monitoring Hou Jian's every move.

When Hou Jian left with Xue Yong, Ximenqing did not arrest him, but asked him to go to Mujiazhuang to tell Song Jiang about the situation of Wuwei Army.But when Hou Jian brought Xue Yong and Bai Sheng back to Wuwei Army again, Ximen Qing immediately captured the three of them alive.

These three martial arts are not strong, only Xue Yong is slightly better, but how can he be the opponent of Jiang Zhong, Jiao Ting and others?The three of them managed to hold on to two face-to-face encounters before they were all knocked to the ground and bound together.

Ximen Qing has now moved to Huang Wenbing's mansion to take command. Jiang Zhong and Jiao Ting escorted Hou Jian into Huang Wenbing's mansion and handed them over to Ximen Qing for interrogation.

When Huang Wenbing saw that Hou Jian, the tailor hired by his family, was indeed in the same gang as the Liangshan bandits, Huang Wenbing was really surprised and angry, so he swung a stick and beat Hou Jian severely.

The more Huang Wenbing thought about it, the more frightened he became, that there was actually a traitor from the Liangshan Bandits in his home!If it wasn't for Ximen officials this time, I'm afraid that my family will really be wiped out by those Liangshan robbers!

Ximen Qing looked at Hou Jian, Xue Yong and Bai Sheng who were kneeling in front of him, and asked them to explain Song Jiang's plan to attack the Wuwei Army.