Xianxia version of Water Margin

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"The villain's surname is Duan, and his double name is Jingzhu. When people see his red hair and yellow beard, they call him a golden retriever. Zu Guan is from Zhuozhou. He has only made a living by stealing horses in the north."

"This spring, the villain went to the north of Qianggan Ridge and stole a good horse. The horse was as white as snow. It didn't have a single hair on its body. It was ten feet long from head to tail and eight feet high from hoof to spine. That horse Tall and big, with extremely strong demonic power, it can run at full speed for an hour or two without getting tired, and can do anything up mountains and rivers. It is famous in the north and is called Zhaoye Jade Lion Horse. It is the mount of Prince Dajin and is placed at the foot of Gungan Ridge. , was stolen by villains and brought to Middle-earth.”

"On the rivers and lakes, the villain only heard about the name Shiyu, but had no way to see it. He wanted to bring this horse as a gift to the leader of the Song Dynasty as a sign of my intention to join. Unexpectedly, he came to Zengtou City in the southwest of Lingzhou and was picked up by the Zeng family. The five tigers took it away. The villain said that it was the mount of Fengshan Songjiang and Song Gongming. I didn’t want that guy to have any obscene words, so I didn’t dare to say it all. Quan can escape, so I came here to tell you.”

After listening to Duan Jingzhu's words, Song Jiang's eyes moved slightly, and then he said to the people around him: "This man's appearance is extraordinary. He looks like a hero at first sight. How about we come to the village to discuss it with him?"

Duan Jingzhu had burnt blond hair and a curly moustache, and he looked a bit unlike a Central Plains person. It was not unreasonable for Song Jiang to insist that he was well-groomed.

But just because Duan Jingzhu has an extraordinary appearance, is it a little too hasty to take Duan Jingzhu back to discuss Zengtou City to grab the "Song Jiang Mount"?

After all, Duan Jingzhu is completely one-sided now.

Is it possible that the five tigers of the Zeng family robbed Duan Jingzhu's Zhaoye Jade Lion Horse, and Duan Jingzhu was unhappy and unable to take revenge, so he deliberately said that he gave the Zhaoye Jade Lion Horse to Song Jiang, so that he could Borrowing Naitoushan's help to avenge himself?

Also, there are so many heroes who are more famous than Song Jiang in the world, not to mention those who are far away. In Shuibo Liangshan, which is not far from Naitou Mountain, there is Jiang Hongfei, the most famous hero in the world. How could Duan Jingzhu not be there? Have you heard Jiang Hongfei’s name, but only Song Jiang’s name?

In addition, Song Jiang is only the second leader of Naitou Mountain, not the top leader of Naitou Mountain. The key is because Song Jiang has always accomplished nothing, so that today Chao Gai and Song Jiang are actually about the same reputation. In fact, because Chao Gai is supporting Naitou Mountain The name of Toushan Village Master is actually a little bigger than Song Jiang's reputation in the world.

However, Duan Jingzhu said that he knew neither Jiang Hongfei nor Chao Gai, but only Song Jiang.

This makes no sense at all to a person who often travels around the world.

Could it be that Duan Jingzhu is really a big fan of Song Jiang?

OK.

If Duan Jingzhu is really a big fan of Song Jiang, this can barely be explained.

But the question is, why doesn't Song Jiang suspect Duan Jingzhu?

You must know that Duan Jingzhu is a thief. Such people have always been ashamed of heroes in the world. They have the lowest status in the world. They are synonymous with "cunning", "cunning" and "untrustworthy".

How could Song Jiang trust a thief's words that were full of loopholes?

Song Jiang is floating?

If it were Song Jiang who was in the successful period of his first two entrepreneurial ventures, this might still be possible.

Anyone can see that Song Jiang today is too mature to make such a mistake.

But Song Jiang, who would not make such a mistake, believed Duan Jingzhu's words, and even took the initiative to find a reason for Duan Jingzhu to look good and look like a good man, so he wanted to take Duan Jingzhu back to Naitou Mountain.

No matter how you look at it, there is something fishy about it.

However, Song Jiang, who is now rising again on his own, not only did not lose his prestige in front of his people because of the previous defeat, but instead made his prestige in front of his people even stronger than before.

Therefore, when Song Jiang wanted to take Duan Jingzhu back to Naitou Mountain, although many people were puzzled, no one stopped Song Jiang. On the contrary, everyone praised Duan Jingzhu's appearance and thought that Duan Jingzhu should be a good man.

Returning to Naitou Mountain, Song Jiang taught Fan Rui, Xiang Chong, Li Gun and the leaders who were left behind on Naitou Mountain to meet each other. Duan Jingzhu also paid homage together.

To be honest, Chao Gai, who had such a strong vanity, was truly envious and even jealous when he saw Song Jiang's glory.

Chao Gai couldn't help but think: "When can I be so beautiful again?"

Over the years, Chao Gai has always wanted to be famous.

It's a pity that Chao Gai never got his wish.

Look at Song Jiang again.

Although there have been many ups and downs.

But it has to be said that Song Jiang has been in serious glory a few times, and even those few times were just short-lived.

In order to celebrate Song Jiang's triumphant victory, Song Qing played the hall drums and held a celebration banquet.

Song Jiang saw that many people and horses had been added to the stronghold, and heroes from all over came to see the wind, so he ordered the supervisors of Song and Qing Dynasties to build more houses and fences on all sides of the stronghold.

Afterwards, a group of leaders from Naitoushan served celebratory wine in the Juyi Hall.

However, anyone can see that the leaders on Naitou Mountain naturally divided into two waves.

Yibo was the original leader of Naitou Mountain, that is, the leader of Chao Gai's men. They were: Gongsun Sheng, Liu Tang, Gu Jian, Xiao Rang, Jin Dajian, Bai Sheng, Li Ying and Du Xing, a total of eight leaders.

These people only occupy a small corner.

The other wave of people are the leaders who came up the mountain, that is, the leaders of Song Jiang's men. They are: Qin Ming, Huang Xin, Yan Shun, Wang Ying, Zheng Tianshou, Kong Ming, Shi Yong, Dai Zong, Li Kui, Zhang Shun, and Mu Hong. , Mu Chun, Xue Yong, Song Qing, Wang Dingliu, Li Cheng, Wen Da, Cai Fu, Cai Qing, Zhu Tong, Lei Heng, Cui Daocheng, Qiu Xiaoyi, Wang Daoren, Jiang Zhong, Shi En, Kuang Jinlong, Shamo Hai, Deng Yun, Zhu Da Niang, Shi Wei, Yang Lie, Deng Tianbao, Wang Dashou, Zhao Fu, Zhao Gui, Wang Feibao, Qin Hui, Wan Qidanian, Zhang Daneng, Xu Pingsheng, Han Tongyin, Huo Wancheng, Wang Liang, Bai Varhan, Fan Rui, Xiang Chong, Li Gun, Duan Jingzhu, a total of forty-nine leaders.

The number of leaders on Song Jiang's side was a fraction more than that on Chao Gai's side.

After obtaining the small three thousand men and horses of Mangdang Mountain, Song Jiang had more men and horses than Chao Gai had.

Under such circumstances, it is a huge irony that Chao Gai is still sitting in the first place.

Chao Gai also felt that he was on pins and needles and very uncomfortable.

Let’s look at the atmosphere in Juyi Hall.

The leader of Chao Gai's men was deserted and silent.

But Song Jiang's leaders were lively, drinking, talking and boasting.

Perhaps affected by the lively atmosphere, Duan Jingzhu talked about the benefits of the Zhaoye Jade Lion Horse after drinking too much.

After hearing this, Song Jiang casually told Dai Zong: "Go to Zengtou City tomorrow to find out the whereabouts of the Zhaoye Jade Lion Horse. Go and come back quickly."

The next day, Dai Zong, who accepted the order, immediately went to Zengtou City to inquire about the whereabouts of the Zhaoye Jade Lion Horse.

Three or five days later, Dai Zongcai came back and said to the leaders:

There are more than 3,000 shops in this Zengtou market. There is a family called Zeng Family House. His father was originally from the Kingdom of Jin, named Elder Zeng. He gave birth to five children, named the Five Tigers of the Zeng Family. The eldest son was called Zeng Tu, the second was called Zeng Shen, the third was called Zeng Suo, the fourth was called Zeng Kui, and the fifth was called Zeng Sheng. There is also a teacher Shi Wengong and an assistant teacher Su Ding.

When he went to Zengtou Market, he gathered five to seven thousand men and horses, set up a fence, and built more than fifty traps. He vowed that Zengtou City and our Fengshan Mountain were incompatible, and he would capture all the leaders of my village and make him a leader. Opponent.

In addition, there are 7,000 to 8,000 fine horses for sale in Zengtou Market.

The Zhaoye Jade Lion Horse is now Shi Wengong's mount.

What is even more detestable about that guy is that his Zeng family actually made up a few words and taught the children in the market to sing them, saying:

Shake the iron bell and all the gods and ghosts will be frightened. The iron cart is equipped with iron locks and spikes on the top and bottom. Sweep Naizi and Bazhaerfeng, wipe out Chao Gai and march to Tokyo. Capture timely rain alive, capture many wise stars alive. The Zeng family had five tigers, who were famous all over the world.

Seeing this, Chao Gai thought that Song Jiang was looking for excuses again and led his troops down the mountain to strengthen himself and make a name for himself at the same time.

envious!

envy!

Coupled with the unwillingness!

Chao Gai couldn't help but said: "How dare this beast be so rude! I have to go there myself. If I don't catch this guy, I swear I won't come back to the mountain!"

Song Jiang advised: "My elder brother is the master of the stronghold. Don't touch it lightly. My younger brother is willing to go."

Chao Gai said firmly: "My dear brother, I don't want to take away your credit for my brother's sake. You have gone down the mountain many times and fought hard. This time I will go for you. Next time if something happens, I will teach you."

Song Jiang tried hard to remonstrate, but Chao Gai refused to listen and had to go down the mountain.

Seeing this, Song Jiang could only say: "Shi Wengong's strength is not inferior to that of Lu Junyi. If brother insists on going down the mountain, he must lead more people, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve full success. In my opinion, it is better to teach Li Cheng, Wen Da, Qin Ming, Jiang Zhong, Cui Daocheng, Qiu Xiaoyi, Wang Daoren, Mu Hong, Yan Shun, Huang Xin, Fan Rui and other leaders went with their elder brother to attack Zengtou City."

Chao Gai also knew that Shi Wengong was powerful.

Not to mention Shi Wengong, even Su Ding is not easy to mess with.

It is indeed difficult to conquer Zengtou City with Chao Gai's troops alone.

And if Jiang Hongfei is asked for help again, all the benefits will be handed over to Shuibo Liangshan, which will not help Chao Gai's current situation at all.

How about using Song Jiang’s troops?

Chao Gai thought to himself: "Okay, I can just take this opportunity to win over one or two. If I successfully lead them to victory this time, maybe they will turn to me."

Therefore, Chao Gai simply brought along Gongsun Sheng, Liu Tang, Gu Jian, Bai Sheng, Li Ying, Zhang Shun, Xue Yong, Zhu Dian, and Lei Heng in addition to the leaders recommended to him by Song Jiang.

Total: Chao Gai brought twenty leaders and three to four thousand men under him.

The rest of the leaders and troops stayed with Song Jiang and Wu Yong in the mountain stronghold.

After Chao Gai finished reorganizing his army, he led the three troops down the mountain to conquer Zengtou City.

Song Jiang and Wu Yong led a group of leaders who stayed behind to pay farewell to Chao Gai.

While drinking, a gust of wind suddenly blew up and blew Chao Gai's newly made military flag from half of his waist.

When everyone saw it, they all turned pale.

Wu Yong admonished: "This is an ominous sign. How about my brother setting off to the army another day?"

Song Jiang also advised: "My brother has just gone out to the army, and the flag has been blown off by the wind, which is detrimental to the army. It's not too late if we stay for a few days and talk to that guy again."

Chao Gai didn't take it seriously and said: "What's so strange about the wind and clouds in the world? Now the arrow is on the string and has to be fired. Don't stop me, I will go through this!"

How could Song Jiang and Wu Yong tolerate their disagreement? Chao Gai, who was determined to give it a go, led his troops down the mountain and headed straight for Zengtou City...

The entire journey was silent.

Let us say that Chao Gai led three to four thousand men and twenty leaders to the vicinity of Zengtou City and entered the village gate on the opposite side.

The next day at dawn, Chao Gai led his army to go to war. They lined up in the wilderness of Pingchuan at the entrance of Zengtou City, beat drums and shouted.

At the sound of cannon fire in Zengtou City, a large group of people came out, with seven big men lined up: in the middle was the capital teacher Shi Wengong, at the top was the assistant teacher Su Ding, at the bottom was Zeng Tu, the eldest son of Zeng, and on the left were Zeng Shen and Zeng Kui , Zeng Sheng and Zeng Suo on the right are both wearing full body robes.

The teacher Shi Wengong bent his bow and inserted an arrow, sat down to shine on the jade lion and horse at night, and held a square-shaped halberd in his hand.

After the three-tone drumming, I saw several trap cars rolled out of the Zeng family's formation and placed in front of the formation.

Zeng Tu pointed at the military formation at Naitou Mountain and cursed: "Naitou Mountain grass bandits, have you seen me trapped in a car? If I kill you, you are not considered a hero. I will capture all of you alive, load them into trapped cars, and take you to Tokyo. The corpses were broken into thousands of pieces! If you accept the surrender as soon as possible, there will be discussions on this matter."

Chao Gai was furious after hearing this. He drew his gun and went straight to Zeng Tu.

The generals were afraid that Chao Gai would make a mistake, so they killed him with one shot, and the two armies fought in a melee.

The Zeng family's troops fought and retreated step by step into the village.

Zhu Dian and Zhu Dian closely guarded Chao Gai and prevented Chao Gai from losing anything.

When Gongsun Sheng saw that people from Zengtou City were leading people from Naitoushan into the village, he was afraid that there would be an ambush in the village, so he hurriedly offered money to withdraw his troops.

After the war, a count showed that both sides lost some troops.

The first battle was a draw.

Chao Gai returned to the stronghold and was very upset about not being able to win!

All the generals advised: "Brother, please take it easy, don't be depressed, it will hurt your body. Usually, when my brother Song Gongming goes to war, he often loses. And today in the melee, each lost some troops and horses, and he has never lost Zeng Toushi, so there is no need to be upset." ?”

Everyone didn't mention Song Jiang, Chao Gai wasn't that angry yet.

Chao Gai personally led his troops out just to prove to the people of Naitoushan that he was stronger than Song Jiang.

As a result, Chao Gai fought so hard, but he only achieved a mediocre result.

This made Chao Gai depressed.

In the next three days, Chao Gai would take people to fight every day, but Zengtou City had a no-war sign, which made Chao Gai very anxious.

On the fourth day, suddenly two monks asked to see Chao Gai.

Chao Gai asked people to lead the two monks to the Chinese army's tent.

The two monks knelt down and explained their purpose: "The young monk is the supervisor of the Fahua Temple in the east of Zengtou City. The five tigers of the Zeng family often come to this temple to perform rituals and ask for gold, silver, wealth, and silk. They do anything. The young monk knows his whereabouts. , I came here specifically to ask the king to rob the stronghold and eliminate harm to this place."

Chao Gai was very happy to see them and invited the two monks to sit down and treat them with wine.

Gongsun Sheng remonstrated: "Brother, don't listen to me. I'm afraid there is fraud."

The monk said: "Monks don't tell lies. I have heard for a long time that King Chao practiced benevolence and righteousness and did not disturb the people wherever he went. So I came here to pay my respects. Why do you believe me?"

Chao Gai said: "Brother, please stop being suspicious and miss a big deal. I will go out on my own tonight and defeat his village soldiers."

"Brother, please don't go. I'll divide half of our troops to rob the stronghold, and my brother will take care of us outside."

Chao Gai didn't listen and just said: "If I don't go, who is willing to move forward?"

Make dinner that night. He picked up a bell on his horse and received the rank of sergeant. He walked quickly in the dark night and quietly followed the two monks to the Fahua Temple, preparing to wait until late at night to rob the camp.

At ten minutes after midnight, two monks took Chao Gai and his party to Zengtou City.

After walking less than five miles, two monks disappeared from the shadows.

How could Chao Gai and others not know that they had fallen into a trap?

Chao Gai quickly led his army back the same way.

After walking less than a hundred steps, I saw golden drums beating in unison, shouts shaking the ground, and torches everywhere.

Chao Gai and the generals hurriedly led the army to seize the road and leave!

After turning two corners, a group of soldiers and horses were knocked out, and arrows were fired at them.

Unexpectedly, an arrow shot towards Chao Gai's face...

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