The leader of the garrison in Xucheng County was named Chen, named Chen Liuer, a native of Yuncheng County, Jizhou. Before the Jin soldiers occupied the two routes in the west of the Jing, he was the garrison of Yunzhou. When the Jin soldiers swept across the west of the Jing, he, like other generals, surrendered to the Jin Kingdom. His 1,000-box army was transformed into the Han army, and soon changed his flag and became the Qi army.

One thousand people are currently stationed in Xucheng County. The military camp is located near the North City Gate. Chen Liuer has no ambitions and his soldiers are also making a living. They were originally a wing army with relatively low combat effectiveness. Now they have no ideals and goals, and their combat effectiveness is even lower.

In the evening, Chen Liuer and five or six men came down to Rongji Restaurant.

Of course, Chen Liuer knew that Zhang Rong was the former general of Liangshan, and now he was a powerful man in the nearby five prefectures and six prefectures.

He can't afford to offend such a person, so everyone usually calls him brothers and brothers. Chen Liuer has a lot of benefits from Zhang Rong, so he naturally turns a blind eye to some of his illegal activities.

Zhang Rong set up a banquet in the backyard to invite Chen Liuer and his men to drink. Night had already fallen, and the room was brightly lit, and everyone was drinking.

At this time, Chen Liuer was already drunk under the table. Seeing that he had almost finished drinking, Zhang Rong winked at his subordinates. The two subordinates helped Chen Liuer down to sleep. He raised his glass and stood up and said, "There is a saying that has been held in my heart for a long time. If you don't vomit, you won't be happy!"

The five generals and officials were all red in their faces and their tongues became bigger, and they stuttered: "What Brother Zhang wants to say, just say it!"

"I'm thinking, you are all great men of Song Dynasty, how can you work hard for Liu Yu, the dog now?"

This sentence was very abrupt, which shocked the five generals and officials. They looked at each other with guilt on their faces. The head general said: "Everyone is a fellow villager in the country. Brother Zhang also knows us. He is old and young at home and wants to go to the Song Dynasty, but his family cannot be lost. He has been in the army for so many years and can only eat this bowl of rice. To be honest, we are also cowardly! He is complained at home and is pointed at by others outside. Who doesn't have any shame?"

Zhang Rong nodded, "Since that's the case, I'll show you a clear way!"

The five people quickly agreed, and then Zhang Rong said: "To be honest, His Highness the Regent of the Song Dynasty sent an old brother to me, hoping that I could contribute to the recovery of Jingdong and the Song Dynasty. Since the Song army is about to counterattack, I certainly agreed without hesitation.

I invited you to drink today. I wanted to cut you all by one, but I couldn't bear it when I think of so many friendships. Yang Er and Yang San were from Liangshan Army, so I advised him to follow me and I will protect you as the commander of the Song army in the future. It doesn't matter if I don't want to do it. You can let you go home, but if anyone betrays me behind my back, hum! I know your old feelings, just say that! I will even dig up the ancestral tomb."

The five of them were stunned. At this time, Yang Er and Yang San stood up first and said, "We are also old subordinates of the Liangshan Army. Since Brother Zhang is going to rekindle the matter, our brothers are willing to follow!"

"Okay!" Zhang Rong patted the two of them on the shoulders, "If I, Zhang Rong, will you be the one who can't do without you."

He looked at the other three, "Where are three, do you want to go home or do it with me?"

"Brother Zhang, what should Chen Liuer do?"

Zhang Rong said coldly: "If you want to do big things, you can't be merciful."

The three of them were so scared that they stood up and said, "We have been depressed for a long time, and I am willing to follow my elder brother!"

Zhang Rong laughed, "All good brothers! You each led your troops to the shore of Liangshanpo to meet me. As for your family, don't worry. I have sent someone to move them to the Strawshoe Island. There is my manor there, and I will take good care of them."

Several generals were shocked that their family was actually controlled by Zhang Rong.

Zhang Rong smiled faintly, "It is related to the lives of hundreds of people. I have to be more cautious. As long as everyone gets on the boat, they will be brothers in the future!"

The five of them had no choice but to bow together, "I would like to serve Brother Zhang!"

Zhang Rongbing was surrendered by a thousand robbers without bloodshed. He picked some old and weak, and obtained more than 800 strong men. Together with more than 600 of them, almost 1,500 of them.

Zhang Rong occupied Xucheng County, drove away all the officials in Yunzhou, and publicly killed Li Yao, who had a great public grievance, raised the anti-Jin Yi Banner, and put forward the slogan of "restore home and return to the Song Dynasty", which infected countless people. He was the first anti-Jin banner in Shandong. With one call, he responded to all the time, and for a while, the anti-Jin heroes from all over the world came to join the country. Within just a few days, nearly 20,000 young and strong people were recruited, and countless people were given money and food.

Five days later, Ruan Xiaoqi came to Xucheng County again. The county town was full of flags and his morale was high. When he heard that Ruan Xiaoqi was coming, Zhang Rong personally welcomed him.

On the school ground, Shi Xiu and Liu Tang were training soldiers. Almost half of the time they were wearing leather armor, holding long spears and fighting swords. Yunzhou had been in war for many years, and almost every household had some inventory. These were donated by the people, but there were many colors and they looked not uniform.

Ruan Xiaoqi smiled and said, "Brother, it's not easy to recruit 20,000 troops in just five days!"

Zhang Rong glared at him, "I need military armor now, you promised."

"Many of you soldiers have armor!"

"That's all the old goods left behind before. The things from more than ten years ago have rusted the knife."

Zhang Rong stared at him, "Don't say this nonsense, are you giving it to it or not?"

"Of course, I'm here to take you to get weapons. I need a ship."

"No problem, there are many fishing boats!"

Ruan Xiaoqi took out another pigeon letter and handed it to him and smiled: "You are too powerful, even the Marshal of the Capital was alarmed. This is his title of official, you can see it yourself!"

At this time, Shi Xiu and Liu Tang both came over. When Shi Xiu heard that there was a title of official, he hurriedly stepped forward. Liu Tang was a little more reserved and looked like he was indifferent, but his ears stood up. It was related to their future, so how could he not care?

On the Gexin, it was clearly designated Zhang Rong as General Dingyuan, the first-level commander, and Shixiu and Liu Tang as Chief of the Sixth-level Zhaowu Captain, and the second-level commander. As long as he made meritorious contributions to the anti-Gin Dynasty, he would be promoted and rewarded.

The three of them were overjoyed. It was just the beginning and they got higher vocational colleges. As long as they made meritorious service in the fight against Gion, there would definitely be no problem with upgrading to another level.

Especially Zhang Rong, his face was filled with smiles. Song Jiang was only in the fourth rank and was still a false position. They were both eighth and ninth rank deputy envoys, county magistrates, etc. Now Li Yanqing generously gave him a fifth rank commander, how could he not be moved?

Zhang Rong solemnly saluted the south, "I will definitely live up to the expectations of the Marshal of the Capital, fight against the Jin soldiers and recover my home!"

Ruan Xiaoqi smiled and said, "Send thirty fishing boats with me to Jinan Prefecture to move troops!"

Zhang Rong and the other two were stunned. How could they be in Jinan Prefecture?

At night, thirty large fishing boats were sailing rapidly along the Ji River toward the northeast. Zhang Rong personally led 300 subordinates to follow Ruan Xiaoqi to carry the soldiers.

At this time, Zhang Rong had already understood why the military armor was in Jinan Prefecture. It turned out that the ship transporting military armor only came from the sea and entered the Jishui River again. Because there were 5,000 troops in Jinan Prefecture, the ships did not dare to go too deep and could only stop in the area of ​​Boxing County, Qingzhou.

On the bow of the head of the ship, Ruan Xiaoqi slowly said to Zhang Rong: "The reason why Marshal Du values ​​you very much is because Liangshanpo is an extremely important strategic node. Once the Song Dynasty army appears on the Shandong Peninsula, Liu Yu will definitely send an army from Bianjing to support it. The logistics of food and grass will definitely go through water. Liangshanpo is the only way for the other party's logistics fleet, so the task of intercepting the logistics fleet of the puppet Qi army will be handed over to you."

Zhang Rong suddenly realized that the main force of the Song army was preparing to go north by sea. This was a surprise soldier, and he would definitely catch Liu Yu off guard.

He thought for a while and said, "If we just intercept food and grass, five or six hundred people would be enough. Why should we recruit a large army?"

Ruan Xiaoqi shook his head, "Marson Du is far-sighted and his vision lies in the overall situation of the world. His request must make sense. It is not that we can think of it, but we just obey the orders."

Zhang Rong nodded silently. For the first time, he felt a sense of awe for Li Yanqing.

Two days later, thirty fishing boats arrived in Boxing County, Qingzhou. There were no garrisons along the river area, and they were quite far from the county town, so even the yamen runners would not come. They saw two sea boats anchored alone on the north shore. Zhang Rong's eyes lit up. These two sea boats had at least 3,000 stones. It would be better if there was such a large ship in Liangshan Pond.

At this time, Ruan Xiaowu appeared at the stern of the boat and waved to them. The fishing boats approached the sea boat and removed the black tent. There was a special spreader on the sea boat. Above the spreader was a wheel. More than a dozen soldiers pulled the ropes and slowly lifted boxes and straw bags from the boat. The boxes were filled with armor and battle knives, and spears in the straw bags were spears.

After filling a fishing boat, he continued to load a second fishing boat. At this time, Ruan Xiaowu walked off the boat and smiled and said, "Old Zhang, your first battle may be about to begin. Jinan Prefecture has begun to mobilize troops from all over the country. The 500 garrisons from Qingzhou have rushed to Jinan this morning."

Zhang Rong also knew that the 5,000 garrisons in Jinan Prefecture were usually scattered in various states, and it took at least three or four days to gather, and one or two days to rectify, which was completely time.

He asked again: "How do we fight this battle?"

Ruan Xiaowu smiled, "Did you forget? How did our Liangshan Army fight the official army back then? This time it's the same."
Chapter completed!