Chapter 357: Tian Hu attacks

Gao Qiu is sleeping soundly.

Yesterday, he was angry with Ximen Qing, which made him go to bed until early in the morning last night. At this time, in his dream, he dreamed of the scene of the five women in Lian Yu when he was young. The scene made Gao Qiu proud and couldn't help laughing.

Just at the critical moment of charge, a shout suddenly came from outside the tent: "Sir, sir, it's not good, something big happened!"

Bang...

Gao Qiu was stunned and then woke up.

Looking at the tent above his head, Gao Qiu glanced around and found that there were no beauties everywhere. Suddenly, Gao Qiu was angry and cursed directly: "Damn it, I actually disturbed my official's dream and asked for death. I opened my mouth fifty, and then I got in!"

"Ah? Yes, yes!" The soldier outside the door looked bitter and then opened his mouth. He beat him fifty times before he rolled in. Then he knelt under Gao Qiu's bed and said, "Sir, Liangshan Commander Ximen Qing led a 100,000 army to surround our army camp, and was ready to attack at any time!"

"What?" Gao Qiu jumped up and shouted in surprise.

Then he hurriedly put on his clothes and then left the camp. He saw that there were Liangshan soldiers standing in rows, like benchmarks, and the weapons in his hands were even more shining with cold light, which made Gao Qiu feel extremely dazzling.

At this time, Ximen Qing was riding on the tall snow lion and white dragon horse in military uniform. Surrounded by Guan Sheng, Lin Chong and other leaders, he was parked in front of the camp gate. He looked at Gao Qiu coldly, and without taking a glance, he asked Gao Qiu to fight a cold war.

Gao Qiu swallowed.

The Liangshan army was ready for battle, but one side was unprepared. If the fight began, his life would be impossible to escape.

Thinking of this, Gao Qiu quickly stepped forward to Ximen Qing’s horse and shouted, “Ximen Qing, what do you want to do to lead troops to surround the army’s barracks? Do you still want to rebel? Have you forgotten the kindness of Your Majesty to you, and you want to do a great deed? Ximen Qing, if you do something random, the 30,000 troops behind me are not vegetarians. Even if they die, they will defend the dignity of the Song Dynasty!”

Ximen Qing snorted coldly, then looked at the many generals behind Gao Qiu, and then asked: "You are all good men of the Song Dynasty. We will defend our country for me. Let me ask you, what should you do if someone dares to collude with the enemy and treason the country?"

Many generals looked at each other, wondering what Ximen Qing meant. But someone still replied: "Of course you will kill me! I dare to collude with the enemy and sell my country, no matter who he is, let's kill me!"

"That's right, let's kill it!"

Everyone shouted.

Ximen Qing nodded and said, "Okay! This is your answer, you must remember!"

As he said that, Ximen Qing got off the horse, then glared at Gao Qiu and said, "Master Gao, can't you think of the purpose of my coming here yet?"

Gao Qiu's heart burst, frowned secretly, thinking in his heart, "Teacher the enemy and treason?" Does Ximen Qing know about the deal between me and Chu Jian, so he came here to make things difficult for me? This is impossible! How could he know? And even if he knows, he can't do anything to me! He has no evidence!

Thinking of this, Gao Qiu felt relieved and said forcefully: "You are here for the purpose? Humph, you are here with a large army and are fully armed. I think you must be rebelling. Dear generals, quickly assemble the army and eliminate the Liangshan bandits for me!"

As soon as the order was issued, the generals behind him hesitated.

They were Gao Qiu's soldiers. They should follow Gao Qiu's orders and do whatever they said. However, they also admired Ximen Qing and did not want to be enemies with Liangshan. And they also knew that if they fought with Liangshan, they would definitely lose. What's more, they didn't want to fight in the nest and have the ability. Let's go north to kill the Liao thieves! What's the ability for them to beat their own people?

Just as many generals were hesitating, Ximen Qing spoke: "The purpose of my coming here is naturally not to rebel, but to capture the sinner who cheated on the enemy and treason! Gao Qiu, you have an affair with the Liao Kingdom and are preparing to murder our Liangshan army and put my Song Dynasty in danger. How can I spare you today? Ah!"

Ximen Qing shouted loudly, and Gao Qiu was so scared that he retreated backwards.

Gao Qiu shouted sternly: "You speak nonsense, but you dare to wrongly accuse me of my official!"

Ximen Qing laughed coldly and said, "I wronged you? Humph, I have evidence here, physical evidence, how dare you deny it?"

As he said that, Ximen Qing waved his hand and asked someone to bring Chu Jian's secret envoy and took out the prepared secret letter.

Ximen Qing took out a secret letter and handed it to Zhang Tongzhi, and then asked him to pass it on.

After many generals browsing the secret letters, they glared at Gao Qiu, hoping to bite Gao Qiu to death with his eyes.

Among them, General Zhang handed the letter to Gao Qiu and said in a deep voice: "Master Taiwei, his subordinates and 30,000 brothers, are you waiting for a reply! What is said in this letter is true or false!"

Gao Qiu received the letter and saw it, and almost fainted.

This handwriting is correct for me, this seal is correct for me, and the content of this letter is correct for me. However, this letter was not written by him! This is really a god!

Gao Qiu was so angry that he tore the letter to pieces. Then he pointed at the generals around him and shouted: "This is fake. This is Ximen Qing wronged me! This is the reply I have given you! Why? Do you still want to rebel, right? I am your commander! Now that Ximen Qing has surrounded us, you should rise up and fight! I am the Grand Marshal, the Grand Marshal of the Privy Council. Have you not even listened to the orders of my officer?"

Gao Qiu was furious.

Ximen Qing shouted: "Gao Qiu, do you think that if you tore up one of the secret letters, you can cover up the evidence of your co-worker? I have three more letters here! And these people are from Liao, and they have confessed that Chu Jian sent you to give you a gift! Do you still want to argue?"

Then, Ximen Qing looked at the many generals and shouted: "I don't care who you listen to the orders. I only know that Gao Qiu colluded with the enemy and the evidence is conclusive. He must be escorted back to Beijing and handed over to His Majesty! If you generals dare to obstruct me from taking action, they will not be able to fight with my Liangshan army. Humph, don't blame me for being rude then! My 100,000 army has surrounded the entire military camp. You must be clear, don't waste the lives of your soldiers! And Gao Qiu, if you are wronged, why don't you dare to return to Beijing for trial?"

"Who said I dare not?" Gao Qiu shouted sternly. He thought to himself, as long as I return to Beijing, His Majesty will definitely believe him and he will definitely not be guilty! Humph, Ximen Qing, you want to plot against me, but there is no door.

When Ximen Qing heard Gao Qiu say this, he smiled in his heart.

Gao Qiu can't die yet. If he dies, he is provoking Zhao Yunzhen and causing unnecessary trouble. That's why Ximen Qing framed Gao Qiu instead of killing him directly.

Gao Qiu is here, so he will certainly obstruct Ximen Qing’s plan and cannot kill him, so he can only send him back to Beijing!

This is Ximen Qing’s plan, and Gao Qiu has already been put into the trap at this time.

At this moment, Gao Qiu suddenly said, "I dare to go back to Beijing, but why should I go back? If I go back, wouldn't it mean that I am a collusioner? How can that official face be? Ximen Qing, just a few letters, you can't prove that I am guilty, so I won't leave here!"

Ximen Qing frowned immediately, thinking in his heart that Gao Qiu was not stupid either.

Then, Ximen Qing said, "Evidence? These secret letters are enough for evidence! But in order to give up and to prove that you are innocent, do you dare to ask me to search your tent?"

"Search my tent?" Gao Qiu was stunned.

There was nothing good in his tent, but there were only five boxes of gold, silver and jewelry. The gold, silver and jewelry were naturally bribes given to him by the Liao people "Shi Xiu".

Ximen Qing sneered, "Why don't you dare? Are you guilty and dare not let me search? Gao Qiu, you keep saying that the time of this secret letter is fake, then the gold, silver and jewelry mentioned in the letter must be gone! Please let us go to your tent to see. If there is really not, I will immediately lead the troops to retreat, and apologize like you! But if there is, hum, Gao Qiu, I see how you are quibbling!"

Last night, Ximen Qing searched Gao Qiu's tent to ensure that the gold, silver and jewelry were there, so he dared to say so firmly.

Gao Qiu hesitated.

At this time, Zhao Anfu rushed over.

"Oh, it's all a family, why are you so nervous? Look, you even take out swords and guns! If this hurts too many people, it will hurt flowers and plants, and it will also destroy the natural environment!" Zhao Anfu said quickly, trying to ease the tense atmosphere.

Seeing Zhao Anfu, Gao Qiu jumped and then hurriedly said, "Mr. Zhao, you are here, you have to judge. Ximen Qing is too unreasonable. He dares to frame me and even sends troops to surround the camp. This is simply an attempt to rebel. Do you want to tell me? In the future, I will ask you to write a letter to His Majesty with me, and I must punish him for a serious crime!"

Zhao Anfu cursed in his heart, "You grandma, you are accused of your enemies, and you still don't admit it. You want me to offend others with you! Can you offend Ximen Qing? He can create such a big career at the age of seventeen, which is better than you, a person who relies on Cuju! I haven't lived enough yet, so I don't want to offend him!"

After cursing secretly, Zhao Anfu hurriedly took Gao Qiu's hand and walked to the side, then smiled at Ximen Qing, and then whispered to Gao Qiu: "Master Taiwei, in the early morning, Commander Ximen found it with a secret letter! I said at that time that the Taiwei is a first-class loyal minister of the Song Dynasty, how could he collude with the enemy? But the evidence is conclusive, which is a great disadvantage to you. And didn't Commander Ximen just say it? He also needs to search your camp. If you really find something, it would be even more certain. Right! At that time, the Taiwei will lose trust from many generals. Who would listen to the 30,000 troops at that time? I think that situation is not something that the lord wants to see!"

Gao Qiu nodded and deeply agreed.

Then Gao Qiu asked, "Mr. Zhao, I have always had a good relationship with you. Do you have any ideas?"

Zhao Anfu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This camp cannot be searched, but how can commander Ximen give up? This requires Gao to make his own decision! However, Xiaguan has some words here, I don't know whether to say them!"

Gao Qiu said, "You said!"

Zhao Anfu said, "Master Taiwei, Ximen Qing is a man who is very protective of his shortcomings. He does not allow anything that may hurt the Liangshan army! Now he thinks that you are cooperating with the enemy to deal with Liangshan, so he is targeting you so. So I think, it is better to go back to Beijing according to Ximen Qing's words. Your Majesty will definitely make sense of the matter! This is not a show of weakness, but a roundabout strategy. After returning to Beijing and proving your innocence, the people in the world will believe that Taiwei is a honest and loyal minister!"

Gao Qiu thought for a moment, nodded, and for the sake of the current plan, there was only this way. As for what he promised Chu Jian, he could only leave it alone. Anyway, the gold and silver were collected and he could not return it, so he did not lose money at all. I want to deal with Ximen Qing, so I will talk about it later, but it is not without a chance!

Gao Qiu said: "Mr. Zhao said very well, then I will lead the army back to Beijing now!"

Zhao Anfu hurriedly said, "Master Taiwei, I think I'd better accompany you. As for the 30,000 troops, I can still stay here and take care of them. Otherwise, the people in the world will say how you come and go, and you will say that you have no achievements!"

Gao Qiu nodded and said depressedly: "Since that's the case, then okay!"

Immediately, Zhao Anfu and Gao Qiu returned to Ximen Qing.

Zhao Anfu said, "Commander, I have discussed with the Grand Marshal. I will accompany the Grand Marshal back to the capital to meet the saint. Your Majesty will determine what you said about the enemy. Whether the Grand Marshal is innocent, Your Majesty will definitely tell the people of the world. This is OK!"

Ximen Qing narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Zhao An deeply and said, "Okay, I believe that Your Majesty will definitely make the right and wrong!"

Then Zhao Anfu said, "Since you have decided that, then the 30,000 troops will be taken care of by the commander, and the Tanzhou will be bothered by the commander and guard!"

Ximen Qing smiled and said, "Leave it to me!"

After saying that, he nodded to Wu Yong, and Wu Yong withdrew the 100,000 army.

Afterwards, Zhao Anfu and Gao Qiu didn't stay long. After packing up some things, the two of them rushed to Tokyo with a thousand guards, five boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, three secret letters and Chu Jian's secret envoy.

After driving Gao Qiu away, Ximen Qing and Wu Yong both breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately, Ximen Qing integrated the 30,000 troops left by Gao Qiu.

Ximen Qing found Zhu Tong and Lei Heng and asked the two to form a "assault" infantry battalion of 10,000 people.

As for the others, they were added to other infantry battalions, increasing the infantry battalions from 7,000 to 10,000.

In addition, the soldiers collected these days also added to the cavalry battalion, which also increased the number of cavalry battalion from 8,000 to 10,000.

At this point, Liangshan has 10,000 leopard camps, 10,000 feather camps, 10,000 Fiery camps, 10,000 eagle camps, 10,000 Qinglong Dao camps, 10,000 hook sickle gun camps, 10,000 chain iron horse camps. 10,000 bear camps, 10,000 elephant camps, 10,000 wolf camps, 10,000 leopard camps, 10,000 shield camps, 10,000 sting camps, and 10,000 assault camps.

In addition to the navy, the dead soldiers, scouts, etc., there were a total of 170,000 troops in Liangshan at this time! Moreover, the people in Tanzhou, Jizhou and Shandong were constantly joining the Liangshan team.

In the following days, the army of Liangshan fell into crazy training.

Ximen Qing discussed the world situation with Wu Yong, Tao Qian and Song Jiang. The contact stations formed by Yue Fei were almost working. Every day, news from all over the Song Dynasty was continuously transmitted, so that Ximen Qing and others could understand it.

In this flash, more than half a month passed.

The weather was still so hot, so Ximen Qing still wrote to the emperor on the grounds of heat and could not send troops. Huizong was dealing with Gao Qiu's crime of colluding with the enemy, so he did not pay much attention to the situation on Ximen Qing's side.

It should be said that Gao Qiu's crime of colluding with the enemy was not valid, and the emperor had already told the world that he was innocent. Ximen Qing had expected this result, so he was not surprised at all. Anyway, after this incident, Gao Qiu could not come to Jizhou, and Ximen Qing's goal was also achieved.

But at this time the situation in the Song Dynasty became clearer.

Zhao Yunti is worthy of being a powerful character. He led an army of 400,000 to successfully suppress the rioters of Wu Yi and killed the rioters of Wu Yi. His head was hung high on the city wall for ten days and ten nights.

Afterwards, Zhao Yunzhen continued to send troops and pointed the finger at Wang Qi.

Compared to the meaning of Wu, Wang Qi's power is extremely poor.
To be continued...