On July 16, under the order of the King of Heaven, Wang Peng of the Northern Heaven, several bandits of Mount Tai came outside Linzi City with their own letters of negotiation written by Zhang Zhai, and showed their identities outside the city.

There is no doubt that these Taishan bandits were immediately caught by the soldiers on duty in the Grand Tutor's Army, and the letters in their arms were also found.

Fortunately, these Taishan bandits were also clever and shouted, "I am the messengers who came to deliver the letter." The soldiers of the Grand Tutor Army did not kill them on the spot.

Within one stick of incense, these Taishan bandits and the letters they sent were taken to the general Xiahou Lu under Zhang Jing.

I have to say that after seeing these Taishan bandits, Xiahou Lu wanted to order them to behead them. After all, Linzi was attacked, and his Grand Tutor Army lost all his face. Who would have thought that even under the garrison of his Grand Tutor Army, Linzi City was still attacked by Taishan bandits? What's even more hateful is that they were succeeded by these thieves.

However, considering that Wang Hu, Wei Xiu and many other officials in Linzi City were in the hands of the bandits of Taishan at this moment, Xiahou Lu did not want to kill several pawns out of anger, which stimulated the damn thieves, endangered the lives of Wang Hu, Wei Xiu and others - after all, the depressed guys in front of him knew that they were dispensable pawns at a glance.

He lowered his head and looked at the so-called letter in his hand.

This so-called letter is actually a piece of cloth with words written on it. Xiahou Lu glanced at it and frowned deeply.

"Take them and follow me to see the general."

He put the letters sent by the bandits of Mount Tai into his arms, and he left a sentence, then walked out of the city gate tower and led a group of guards to the city.

A moment later, Xiahou Lu and his group arrived at the county magistrate's mansion.

Originally, Zhang Jing was not in charge of the county magistrate's office. Most of the time he was either in the lieutenant office or in the military camp of the Taishi Army in the north of the city. He would go back to the mansion that the Tian family temporarily lends to him, taking a shower and changing clothes, etc.

However, the damn Tai bandits captured the county magistrate's office, the officials and minor officials from the commander's office a few days ago, causing the two governments to fall into a state of paralysis, which forced Zhang Jing to take charge of the county magistrate's office himself.

The literate guards around him, such as Li Fu, were temporarily arrested by him to help him deal with the accumulated bureaucracy.

Although Zhang Jing is a general who has been leading troops all year round, he may not be good at handling matters of counties, but in fact, all the five tigers of the Chen family are both civil and military. Even Xue Ao, who seems to be the most reckless, is enough to serve as the county magistrate, let alone the "garrison generals" who are in charge of Zhang Jing and Han Qing. Their power actually covers the county magistrate and the chief magistrate. Of course, this power is far greater than that of ordinary county magistrates and chief magistrates.

For example, Zhang Jing, as the "General stationed in Jinan", often led his army to Jibei County and even Taishan County to assist in the suppression of the thieves. For them, there was no "cross-border" restriction. Although this authority granted by the emperor of Jin was partly due to the relationship between Chen Tai Shi, more importantly, the ability of the five Chenmen tigers was the respective abilities.

The five tigers of the Chen family are all talented generals who are capable of standing alone and taking charge of the other side.

Around the Si hour, when Zhang Jing was upset to handle government affairs in the front courtyard of the county magistrate's office, Xiahou Lu brought several guards to the house and clasped his fists to Zhang Jing and said, "General, the bandits of Taishan sent someone to send a letter."

Hearing this, Li Fu, the guards who were assisting Zhang Jing in the house to handle government affairs, raised their heads one after another.

"Take it to me."

"yes."

Nodding, Xiahou Lu took out the letter from his arms and handed it to Zhang Jing, who was sitting behind the table.

This so-called letter is actually a piece of cloth with words written on it. Zhang Jing took the cloth, spread it on the table, and took a closer look.

Just like when Xiahou Lu saw the content of the letter, Zhang Jing glanced at the words on the cloth and immediately frowned.

Seeing this, the guard Li Fu subconsciously walked towards Zhang Jing and asked, "General, what did the bandits of Taishan write in the letter?"

Zhang Jing breathed a sigh of relief and said thoughtfully: "The bandits of Taishan... intend to ask us to use money and food to redeem Wang Hu, Wei Xiu and Linzi officials..."

"What?"

When the guards in the room heard this, their expressions changed, as if they had been humiliated. They all angrily accused the bandits of Mount Tai arrogance. It was clearly the damn Mount Tai Wang Hu, Wei Xiu and a group of officials who had been kidnapped, but now they want to ask them to redeem them with money and food? What is this? Is it humiliating their general?!

Seeing that these people were too noisy, the guard chief Li Fu immediately stopped and said, "Quiet!... The general has his own decision!"

Hearing this, the guards stopped beating their bodies, but their faces were still filled with anger.

After a long time, Zhang Jing, who had thought for a long time, looked up and asked Xiahou Lu, "Xiahou, what do you think?"

"I can't say it." Xiahou Lu hugged his fists and said in a muffled voice: "The general thought that the bandits of Mount Tai are probably not trying to humiliate the general. They may have other intentions..."

"Um."

Zhang Jing nodded slightly.

The attack on Linzi City this time was completely his mistake. He did not expect that the bandits of Mount Tai, whom he regarded as a mob, had the courage to quietly emerge from another position on Mount Tai when he sent troops to conquer, and attacked the city while Linzi's troops were empty.

Logically speaking, shouldn’t the Northern Heavenly King Wang Peng drive troops to support the Eastern Heavenly King Zhu Wu?

Or...

『……The bandits of Mount Tai bandits from the East King Zhu Wu were originally meant to lead me away?…Is it a plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain?”

He blew out of his nose in a suffocating air.

But now it has come to this point, regret is useless. The most urgent task at the moment is to redeem Wang Hu as soon as possible, Wei Xiu and the officials and officials of Linzi. As for whether the Taishan bandits really had any intention of this move, he did not intend to make a judgment immediately - of course he already had a rough guess in his mind, but it would not be confirmed after seeing Wang Hu, Wei Xiu and others.

By the way, the condition for redeeming Wang Hu, Wei Xiu and others is 10,000 stones of grain. To be honest, considering the value of Wang Hu, Wei Xiu and other officials, this requirement is not too much, which shows the sincerity of the bandits of Mount Tai.

Of course, the more sincere you are, the more you can prove that there is something strange about this matter.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jing looked up and asked Xiahou Lu, "Xiahou, where are the Tai bandits who came to deliver the letter?"

Xiahou Lu hugged his fists, lowered his head and said, "The General has brought them, and is waiting outside at this moment... It looks like a few insignificant pawns."

"Have you guessed my idea? I'm worthy of being a general of the Grand Tutor Army..."

Zhang Jing looked at Xiahou Lu with praise for a few times, and nodded slightly, "Take them in."

"yes!"

A moment later, Xiahou Lu's guards brought the bandits into the house.

When Zhang Jing saw the depressed bandits of Taishan with panic on his face, he nodded in his heart and agreed with Xiahou Lu's comment just now, and secretly sneered at the bandits of Taishan: Just because he was afraid that he would kill the envoy, he actually sent such a few people to deliver the letter, and he was not afraid that these people would lose the letter.

While secretly laughing, he picked up the quick cloth on the table and asked the bandits of Taishan, "I am Zhang Jing. Wang Peng. I received the letter from King of Heaven. Zhang. When you go back and tell the King, you will be willing to hand over ten thousand stones of grain according to the King's will, and I, Linzi, will redeem the King of the King, redeem the King of the King, the King of the King, and the rest of the officials... and the others are extremely related."

When they learned that the general in front of them was Zhang Jing, one of the five tigers of the Chen Party, the bandits of Mount Tai were afraid to breathe. After listening to Zhang Jing's words, they nodded repeatedly.

Seeing this, Zhang Jing said again: "When you go back and tell the King of Heaven that in the morning, you will have a delivery between us and us, and the location is north of Boshan, on the Zishui River that he mentioned."

“Yes, yes.”

The bandits of Taishan nodded repeatedly, and with Zhang Jing's tacit approval, they turned around and left quickly.

Seeing the Taishan bandits running out of the party room as if they were fleeing, Zhang Jing ordered Xiahou Lu, "Xiahou, come and transport some grain from the adjacent counties such as Dong'anping to collect enough ten thousand stones..."

"yes!"

Xiahou Lu held his fists and took the order, but at the same time he did not forget to remind Zhang Jing: "Although there is not much food for ten thousand stones, it will also make the food storage in nearby counties more and more tense..."

"I know."

Zhang Jing frowned slightly and nodded, then leaned on the chair and let out a long sigh.

Two days later, on July 18, Zhang Jing personally led three thousand troops of Taishi, escorting a full 10,000 stones of grain, and slowly arrived at the north side of Boshan, the Taishan Mountains, and slowly advanced along the Zibo River towards its upstream direction.

Soon, a small group of Taishan bandits showed up and negotiated with Zhang Jing from afar. This person was the little king of the Northern Heavenly King Wang Peng, Zhong Ju.

I saw Zhong Qi shouting far away to the Grand Tutor who was carrying food and grass: "I am Zhong Qi, the little king under the throne of the North Heavenly Throne of the Mount Tai Yishi. I wonder who is the commander of the Jin army opposite?"

Hearing this shout, Zhang Jing did not deliberately hide his identity and shouted back: "The leader is Zhang Jing!"

"Zhang Jing?"

"Zhang Dahu?"

When he heard Zhang Jing’s reply, not to mention the hundreds of Taishan bandits under Zhong Gui’s men all showed horror, even Zhong Gui’s face changed slightly.

No wonder, Chenmen Wuhu has this kind of deterrent power.

After calming down, Zhong Qing hugged Zhang Jing from afar, greeted him with a dry smile: "It turned out to be General Zhang Jing. I'm down Zhong Qing. I have heard of the general's reputation for a long time..."

Zhang Jing was too lazy to talk nonsense with a bandit, let alone a little thief who he had never heard of before. If it were Wang Peng, the King of Northern Heaven, he might have had a little interest in talking to him.

He interrupted impatiently, "Don't talk nonsense! I have brought ten thousand stones of food, where is Wang Peng? Quickly release Wang County Magistrate, Wei County Magistrate and others..."

Although Zhong Qi was a little angry and looked down upon him, he knew it himself and did not dare to scold the Five Tigers. Instead, he laughed and shouted with a smile: "Please report to the King of Heaven after this time, Zhong immediately reported to him."

After saying that, under Zhang Jing's unhappy gaze, he turned around and left with half of his subordinates, leaving only his other half on standby, as if he was monitoring the three thousand Grand Tutors.

Soon, the King of Northern Heaven Wang Peng came slowly with thousands of Taishan bandits, including Wang Huo, Wei Xiu and other Linzi officials. These officials as hostages were tied with ropes and had cloth stuffed in their mouths. They appeared together under the push and urging of Taishan bandits.

"Haha, I didn't expect General Zhang to come in person."

About a hundred feet away from the Grand Tutor Army, the King of Northern Heaven Wang Peng stopped and greeted Zhang Jing from afar: "Wang Peng is here!"

"Is this person the so-called Northern King Wang Peng, who is the bandit of Mount Tai?"

Zhang Jing narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Wang Peng in the distance, shouting in a loud voice: "King Peng, as you and me, don't do this hypocritical politeness, hurry up and deliver today."

"Hahaha."

Wang Peng did not think of it at all, and smiled and shouted, "I heard that General Zhang is a straightforward person for a long time. When I saw him today, it was true."

"Stop talking nonsense!...How to deliver?" Zhang Jing shouted impatiently.

Seeing this, Wang Peng raised his eyebrows and shouted loudly: "Please ask General Zhang to order the soldiers of your army to retreat several miles later. When my brothers under him count the amount of food delivered, they will confirm that it is correct. When transporting it up the mountain, Wang will release Wang County Magistrate and Wei County Magistrate. How good is that?"

Zhang Jing was too lazy to care about the bandit leader on the opposite side, and waved his hand to order: "The whole army retreated three miles!"

Hearing this, the escort Li Fu, the chief guard, said in a low voice, and persuaded: "General, what if Wang Peng moves away the food but doesn't release the county magistrate Wang?"

“…”

Zhang Jing looked at the group of people opposite Wang Peng, shook his head slightly and said, "No, no, the opposite one won't."

He did not doubt that Wang Peng on the other side would cheat, because he suspected that the other party's deeper purpose - a deeper purpose, was not just to defraud ten thousand stones of food from him.

What is the significance of this kind of one-time fraud?

What benefits will be for those Taishan bandits locked up with Wang Hu, Wei Xiu and other officials in Linzi City?
To be continued...