Chapter 592 Consequences (1)
This heavy rain not only blocked the roads in the Gyeonggi area, but the situation on Jingdong Road was not much better, especially for the official army entrenched in front of Liangshanpo, it was a big challenge. The ever-filled lake surface made the army have to suspend its offensive and retreat to the high place behind first to avoid bigger problems.
The suspension of the attack by the government army caused Liangshanbo to get ready again. He stood on the top of the mountain and looked at the official army camp a few miles away. After finding that its morale was much lower than before, someone asked to fight again: "The King of Heaven, Brother Gongming, the military morale will inevitably be depressed when the government army suffered a long attack. In addition, there should be problems with their logistics supply. I think it's time for us to take the initiative to go down the mountain and kill them without leaving any armor!"
The person who said this was Deng Fei, who was known as the Fire Eyes. Although this man was not from an official army, he also had some insights in leading troops and fighting, and now he has a good status in the mountain village. His words have won the recognition of many brothers. Many people looked at Song Jiang with their hands ready to nod. Everyone wanted to order the troops and kill them down the mountain.
Although Liangshanpo has been guarding the Liangshanpo for the past few days and has not allowed the government troops to gain any advantage, the situation of being suppressed and beaten by the government troops is still difficult for many brothers to accept. They have never suffered such a big loss since they went up the mountain. Seeing that there was a problem with the government troops, they naturally wanted to avenge their previous shame.
In fact, not only some ordinary brothers, even Chao Gai was eager to try. At this time, he also looked at Song Jiang who was pondering and silently: "Brother Gongming, what do you think?"
Song Jiang frowned with embarrassment, and based on his ideas, he would continue to stick to it first. After all, they have been persisting for so long. If they go down the mountain because of this opportunity, it would be fine if they win, but what if they lose? Then, if they fail, the morale of the army in the village will be completely collapsed.
After all, the Liangshan brothers are not a real military system. They have always been good at fighting battles with the wind, but they may not be able to withstand an unexpected defeat. But he is not easy to say this, otherwise it will shake the morale of the army and make the brothers feel doubtful again.
Fortunately, Wu Yongzai was still there. He saw Song Jiang’s concerns at a glance, and then smiled and advised: “Brother, brothers, I know everyone is eager to extricate their anger, but in my opinion, it is not time to take revenge and vent. Although the official army was frustrated, it was not the only intention to be confused. I even suspected that they were deliberately showing weakness and wanted to lure our brothers down the mountain to fight them.
"Don't forget that the Yuannandu below has been destroyed by us and the suspension bridge is not something that can be accomplished in one or two days if we want to build it up. Once the government army discovers our actions, it will inevitably be wary of it. If we want to kill them, it will no longer exist. Moreover, we have been guarding for more than half a month, and it is not necessary to guard for a few more days. Maybe once the government army has cut off the food and grass, they will retreat in a hurry. It is more beneficial to go down the mountain to attack the enemy."
His analysis was very reasonable, which made Chao Gai nodded repeatedly. Then Song Jiang, Hu Yanzhuo and other steady people persuaded him again, and finally dissuaded this somewhat reckless decision, causing the mountain village to reach a consensus to continue to defend himself.
But two days later, a less satisfying situation occurred. As the rain gradually became lighter, Song Jiang and his team went out to check the situation of the official army below. At noon that day, when they looked at the military camp there again, they saw a large convoy slowly coming from the west.
Although the big trucks were covered with thick oil cloth and other objects, and the distance was not enough to see what was on it. But only by looking at the origin, and the cheering look of the official army after entering the military camp, everyone could quickly come up with the answer - that should be the food that had been judged before that the official army was in short supply!
The smoke rising in the military camp soon later verified this judgment, which made everyone on the mountain look very ugly, especially Song Jiang, whose original black face was even more like a pot, muttering in a low voice: "How could this be so? According to previous news, the court should have made a big fuss about this matter, but why did the food and grass be delivered after only a few days of delay?"
Of course, they would not know how much risk Sun Tu took for these foods, and once the truth was found, it would be enough for the court to decide it as a traitor.
However, after seeing the cheers and encouragement of the soldiers after the arrival of food, Sun Tu felt that his adventure was worth it. Moreover, he was confident that this action did not leave any consequences. Even if he would be reported to the court by the local government soon, without any evidence, the monarch and ministers in the court did not dare to impose such a crime on himself.
This is also the reason why Sun Tu will personally lead the army to this trip at the critical moment of confrontation with Liangshanbo. Even if the other generals are loyal to him, they will not dare to do things so extreme. After all, they are two thousand imperial guards and strong men. Under Sun Tu's order, these people have become unjust ghosts under the sword. Without some courage, they will not be able to make such a decision.
And this is what is called "Love is not in charge of the army". As long as it is a method that helps achieve the final victory of the war, even if it will kill innocent people, it will be spared!
After handing over the food to Wei Dingguo and allowing the entire army to have a full meal, Sun Tu had no intention of rest. He immediately called Dong Ping, Qi Desheng and other generals to come and asked them about the situation of the war when he was not there. Although it took less than seven days for him to go, he was still in war and could not be careless.
After listening to Dong Ping's story, Sun Tu frowned again: "So, after a few days, the Liangshan bandits have not made any movement at all? We have all revealed flaws, and they have no intention of taking the opportunity to attack?"
"That's right, these bandits are very smart. Before, they deliberately showed some flaws, but they were unable to lead them down the mountain." Qi Desheng sighed with regret: "In this way, continuing to attack the mountain will be another protracted battle."
"Fortunately, we have sufficient military rations now, but we can afford it." Dong Ping looked at Sun Tu in admiration: "There is still a way for the Dushi Supervisor to hand over the food." He didn't know what means Sun Tu got the food this time, but he said that his Dushi Supervisor convinced the imperial officials.
Sun Tu didn't mean to explain this much. He just smiled faintly and asked Dong Ping and the others to go down to handle military affairs. Only Lin Chong and others, who knew Sun Tu's style of conduct, could see some deep meaning from their expressions. While there was no one else in the tent, Lin Chong asked carefully: "Master, aren't these foods voluntarily handed over to us by those officials?"
"Hmph, if they can cooperate like this, our Song Dynasty would not have ended up like this today." Sun Tu snorted softly: "A bunch of corpses who are bullying the weak and afraid of the strong, do you really think I dare not do anything to them?"
Just this sentence made Lin Chong's face change again. He had already vaguely guessed the outcome of those people, and his heart was also cold. After a while, he said again: "Dujian, aren't you afraid of the court's pursuit of this?"
"You don't have to worry about this. Even if the court has doubts, we will not blame us for those who have no evidence. And in this way, the court will have to prepare food for us, which is only good for us..." Sun Tu sneered. Now is the important time to suppress bandits, and the emperor will never cause trouble because of a little doubt. And he believes that once the matter spreads, some guys on both ends of the head and rat should know what choices to make next.
Of course, these things seem to be trivial matters at the moment. The most important thing now is to defeat Liangshan and pacify the bandits as soon as possible. As long as you do this, nothing is a problem and is enough to cover up all doubts. But once you fail in Liangshan, the result will be hard to say.
"It seems that ordinary methods cannot defeat Liangshan anymore, so you can only use that move!" After pondering, Sun Tu finally made the final decision. He just wanted to use this strategy but had to make sufficient preparations. It seems that he still needs to delay here for a while.
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While Sun Tu led his army to continue confronting the Liangshan bandits across the mountain, the tragedy that occurred in Wuqiu Town had already caused an uproar throughout Jingji Road.
The capital of the capital, the place where the imperial capital is always the place with the least crimes. But this time, such a large murder case occurred all at once, and a large number of imperial soldiers died, and a large amount of food disappeared. This is not something that only officials from the government and the route can deal with.
In just a few days, such a horrifying case had been reported to the court, which immediately caused an uproar in the court. When he learned that thousands of people from Li Su were all killed, even Cai Jing and Gao Qiu were used to being storms, he was shocked and could not come back to his senses for a long time.
"I'm really crazy and lawless!" Cai Jing, who had always been respected by officials for his steady and cunning, was rarely angry at this time, and his beard and cursed loudly with his beard and bearded.
Gao Qiu's face turned blue, but he didn't know whether he was angry or frightened. After a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "If I expected it was not bad, this must have been done by the brave Sun Tu leading his army. Only the soldiers and horses under his command had such ability to kill all of my thousands of imperial guards overnight!" When he spoke the last four words, his voice was obviously trembling.
Liang Shicheng then said, "Yes, Sun Tu is really meant to be punished. Grand Master, we can't spare him easily."
Cai Jing was slowly calming down when they were talking, then swept over the officials in front of him and asked slowly: "You said it was Sun Tu who led the people, but who has evidence?" Just this question left everyone speechless...
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It’s Monday again. I wonder if you have resumed work and school. Passers-by find that the surroundings are getting lively. I just hope that everyone can still be careful in this situation and don’t take it lightly...
In addition, did you think of some other things on Monday, such as pledges and so on...
Chapter completed!