Reborn in Liangshan: I built the strongest lineup

"boom!"

Lu Zhishen and Deng Yuanjue finally broke through the south gate!

Moreover, they were very skillful this time; they separated the top of the south gate from the city tower and then pushed it backward.

In this way, the fallen city gate formed a small slope, which not only pressed down the stones and other objects that Gao Lian had previously piled up at the entrance, but also suppressed half of the burning flames!

"Fire arrows!"

Upon seeing the city gate collapse, Gao Lian immediately opened fire with arrows!

In an instant, a dense rain of arrows shot towards the city gate!

However, because the city gate had been raised slightly after collapsing, creating a slight slope, Lu Zhishen and the others lay down on the spot and actually managed to avoid the first wave of arrows.

"Where are you shooting? Aim!"

Gao Lian was furious. These garrison soldiers were utterly useless. In the end, he would probably have to rely on his own flying soldiers.

"Report! Sir, the garrison at the west gate has come out to meet the enemy!"

Just as Gao Lian was about to continue commanding, his trusted confidant returned.

"what?!"

Upon hearing this, Gao Lian flew into a rage, "Who sent them?! Didn't I tell you that if Yu Zhi caused trouble, you were to take him down?"

"My lord, they've rebelled! They won't listen to me at all, and they even want to kill me!"

Gao Lian's confidant burst into tears.

"That bastard Yu Zhi! By the way, where's Wen Wenbao? How's it going on the city wall?"

Gao Lian noticed that he hadn't heard Wen Wenbao's voice for a while from the city tower, so he immediately sent someone up to check.

After his men went up, they came running back down in a panic not long after.

"My lord, my lord! Commander Wen! Commander Wen jumped off the city wall to meet the enemy! He's already dead!"

"what?"

Gao Lian was shocked. He only had these three men who could be considered his confidants. Now, two of them had died at the South Gate, and Yu Zhi had just left through the West Gate. He didn't know what would happen to him. What should he do?

"Go to the North Gate! Call those troublemakers over here!"

There was no other way. At this point, Gao Lian had no one left to use, so he could only try to call over the Western Army from the North Gate.

"Sir, those troublemakers..."

His trusted subordinate was in a dilemma. He had seen the group of troublemakers from the North Gate before; they all acted like big shots.

"Tell them that I am going to die for my country at the South Gate. If they don't come, then they should never come again!"

……

North Gate of Gaotang Prefecture.

Compared to the fierce battles at the South and West Gates, the North Gate is indeed relatively quiet right now.

Of course, the sounds of battle coming from the south and west gates could not be completely ignored from the north gate.

"Boss, should we go and provide support? It looks like there's a fierce battle going on between the South Gate and the West Gate."

One of the lieutenants asked their commander.

"No way, I'm not going to be Gao's dog."

The commander of the North Gate, with a blade of grass dangling from his mouth and speaking in a roguish manner, was none other than the scoundrel Han Wu, who had been sent over by Tong Guan after Gao Qiu demanded people from him!

Of course, he has a well-known name—Han Shizhong!

Han Shizhong was a skilled warrior in the Western Army, and he fought very bravely.

However, the Western Army was not a monolithic entity. The Zhong family, the Zhe family, and Tong Guan and others were all vying for people within the Western Army. Han Shizhong was unlucky and happened to be under Tong Guan's command.

Tong Guan hadn't been in the Western Army for very long, so his power base was unstable. All his trusted generals wanted credit, so people like Han Shizhong, who came from humble backgrounds, naturally had their credit suppressed.

In the previous battle of Yinzhou, Han Shizhong killed the Western Xia military supervisor and made great contributions to the great defeat of Western Xia. However, Tong Guan only promoted him by one rank because the authenticity of the promotion was unclear. This greatly displeased Han Shizhong, who even complained about it openly in the army.

Sure enough, he immediately became a troublemaker in the Western Army, and Tong Guan no longer needed him, directly sending him from the Western Army to Gaotang Prefecture.

"But boss, what if Gaotang Prefecture is captured..."

"So what if they took it? If you ask me, the Gao family deserved it!"

Han Shizhong spat out the grass stalk in his mouth. "What did that Yin Tianxi do? Don't you know?"

"If this were in the Western Army, under Lord Zhong, Yin Tianxi would have been beheaded several times over for what he did, wouldn't he?"

"But what about Gao Lian? He just ignored it all, letting Yin Tianxi cause trouble. Now look what happened, he's messed with someone he shouldn't have! He deserves it!"

"Boss, that's true, but we're still government troops, and the ones attacking the city are bandits..." The deputy general still wanted to persuade Han Shizhong.

"What are government troops? What are bandits?"

Han Shizhong countered with a question.

"When we were in the Western Army, fighting against the Western Xia people, what did the local people say about us? They all said we were upright and honorable men!"

"But during the time we've been here, when the people found out we were Gao Lian's men, did you see the disgust in their eyes? Did you see it?!"

Han Shizhong spoke with great emotion, pointing to himself:

"I, Han Shizhong, served in the Western Army, fighting against the Western Xia people. It is only right that I die in battle! That is called 'wrapping my body in a horse's hide'!"

"But what about now? Serving as Gao Lian's watchdog, fighting for a good-for-nothing playboy? I can't do that!"

"I am from the Western Army! Not the Gao Family Army!"

"Although Tong Guan downplayed my achievements, at least he let me fight the enemy. But Gao Lian, that bastard, wants me to fight the Song people? No way!"

Han Shizhong's domineering aura silenced his deputy, who then said no more.

Indeed, he was also frustrated. Since the commander knew what was going on, he didn't care anymore!

"By the way, boss, I've heard that the Liangshan army is quite something, acting on behalf of Heaven! Are you interested?"

"Who knows? Who knows if they're telling the truth or not? Maybe they're just saying nice things."

Although Han Shizhong agreed with Liangshan's slogans, he wanted to see for himself whether Liangshan was really like that.

"What if it's true?"

"Really? That's great..."

……

"Han Wu! Han Wu! The lord has ordered your troops to go and reinforce immediately!"

Gao Lian's confidant finally rode to the north city. He held up Gao Lian's waist token and ordered Han Shizhong to send troops.

However, the north gate tower was completely silent, and no one answered him.

"Han Wu! What are you doing? Come out and say something! If you don't speak, are you disobeying orders?!"

"Han Wu! Come out here! I know you're on the city wall! You have the guts not to support your comrades, but not the guts to come out?!"

"What's all this noise about! You've ruined my sweet dreams!"

Han Shizhong, picking his ear, appeared on the city wall.

"Po Han Wu..."

Gao Lian's confidant was about to say something.

"Shut up!"

Han Shizhong roared like a tiger, directly interrupting Gao Lian's confidant! At the same time, he threw something down from upstairs.

"Go back and tell your master that I'm not serving him anymore! This damn official position, let whoever wants it take it!"

With a clatter, the object fell to the ground. Gao Lian's confidant was furious when he saw it!

Because what Han Shizhong threw away was his waist token!

"You bastard, Han Wu..."

Shut up! My name is Han Shizhong!

Han Shizhong interrupted Gao Lian's confidant once again!

"I'm a soldier of the Western Army, not a dog of your Gao family! Give him back his broken token! I'm done!"