w. On the ninth day of the ninth month, climb the heights on Double Ninth day.

In the north corner of the Xishan Mountain Yinglie Peak, in front of a green tomb, a thick tombstone was hung with a long list of dry ears. Count it carefully, there were no more or less, exactly one hundred...

A line of Song font is engraved on the tombstone: The tomb of the little sister of Zhang.

Zhang Rong had been standing in front of the grave for a long time, motionless.

On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, there was one less person who could plant dogwood everywhere.

Zhang Rong's parents died early and his relatives were separated. Except for one sister, there was no relative or reason. Since his younger sister married far away, he had no worries, so he simply pulled people into the group, hidden in the big lake, and started eating the hob noodles.

Zhang Rong asked himself that he was not a good person and had never done many good things. If he was suppressed by the court or surrounded and killed by Jin soldiers on the battlefield, he would have the same fate and would be unreproached. But my little sister... how could that be.

A kind and weak woman, she is a kind-hearted person who will cry when she sees killing a live fish. I thought that although she was not rich and noble, she was also rich in family, had no worries about food and clothing, and lived a good life.

Never thought...

"Little sister! You can close your eyes. The elder brother fulfilled his promise. One hundred golden dog heads... Well, the heads are not convenient to carry, so use human ears to replace them. With these hundred evil slaves buried with you, you can go on the road with peace of mind.

.” Zhang Rong put on the incense and candles on the sacrifice, and said, "We brothers and sisters are lucky. If you meet the city lord before you die, you will not become a lonely ghost; your elder brother will also have more help from the city lord, so that you can

Avenge you for your shame, and in the future, you can kill more golden dogs and pay back your blood debts thousands of times. We brothers and sisters owe too much to the city lord... you can't pay it back. Let the elder brother and you

You can pay back one piece of it."

"If you really want to pay back this debt, then kill more Golden Dogs for me."

Zhang Rong turned around and saw Di Lie, the lord of Tianshu City, wearing a semi-wet field uniform. He also appeared behind him with some fatigue after training between his eyebrows, accompanied by four guards.

Zhang Rong immediately turned around and bowed: "Keep to the city lord."

Di Lie waved his hand and asked the four guards to go away. Then he went forward and solemnly took out an incense candle, lit it with a lighter, held the incense and bowed three times, and inserted it into the incense burner.

Zhang Rong was both frightened and moved: "What kind of virtue is the little sister? How can she be the city lord such a great gift..."

Di Lie said calmly: "The dead are the most important, not to mention that I am just a mere city lord, not a big shot, so what can I do if I can't take it?"

Zhang Rong said without hesitation: "My Tianshu City is the land of Lingshan Mountain where dragons and tigers are hidden. The city lord is now a flying dragon hidden in the abyss. Once the time comes, it will surely soar into the sky in the future, the sound will shake the world and dominate the world.

It’s no problem to be a vassal of the earth. How could he not be a big shot in such a powerful voice?”

Di Lie's eyes flashed, he stared at Zhang Rong's eyes and said, "You really look forward to the future of this city lord and Tianshu City?"

Zhang Rong replied strongly: "In this chaotic world, the world is in chaos, and we only want to be rich and powerful. Our Tianzhu Army, five thousand cavalry and infantry, are well-trained, well-equipped, sharp weapons, sufficient food and supplies, and have good combat power.

If you reach 100,000 Song or 30,000 Jin troops, you will not be able to sweep the world with these ten battalions of troops. However, you will have no difficulty in occupying one side and becoming the cause of the princes."

This is Di Lie's subordinate, and for the first time, it involves the future direction of Tianshu City.

Di Lie looked up and down at Zhang Rong and said in surprise: "Zhang Dalang, you speak so well... You are good at night school grades."

Zhang Rong's face turned slightly red: "This, I didn't say this, it was Zhang Zirui. However, when it comes to our hearts, we also think so. It's just that my mouth is clumsy, and no one says it well..."

"Zhang Jiao..." Di Lie nodded thoughtfully, "You said... 'You', how many brothers think so?"

Zhang Rong said: "We Liangshan brothers all think so. In addition, the Yang brothers, Yang Zaixing, He Yuanqing, Gao Liang, Fang Hong, Zuo Kai, A Shu... Almost all think so, even that gate

Although I don’t say it, I think so in my heart…”

"Okay!" Di Lie clapped his hands and praised, "It seems that the military generals have unified their ideas, and the administrative side also agrees most. Since this is the case, it would be a waste if we don't do a lot of things.

This is a skill.”

"That's right!" Zhang Rongxi said, "What are the city lords going to do? We are strong and powerful, even if we take down a few prefectures, we are still living in this small city. It's really aggrieved. I see that

Zhending City is good. Wanyan Agu hollowed out all the soldiers in the city. At present, Zhending is less than 5,000 troops, and most of them are miscellaneous soldiers. Their combat power is far less than that of Yinmatan, which was annihilated by our Tianzhu Army.

Enemy. Our entire army will be dispatched and we will definitely be able to fight with us... If it really doesn't work, it's okay to attack Luancheng! Yang Zhechong said that Luancheng is just a sieve, and it's all over the body, so we can only move

A camp can be easily held in your hands..."

"Now we can hold it in our hands casually, which means that in the future, the enemy will be able to easily make dumplings and pinch us in our hands..." Di Lie looked into the peaks in a distance and said in a deep voice.

, "The state capital must be taken, but not now. And you... I have a very important task to you..."

"The city lord please give me the order, and Dalang obeys the order."

Di Lie did not talk about the task first, but changed his subject and smiled and said, "I remember when you and I first met, you refused to join the gang. You only said that you had cut enough heads of a hundred golden dogs and took your brothers back to Liangshan.

...Now, do you still think so?"

Zhang Rong was embarrassed to smile: "At that time, I had poor eyesight. I didn't expect that the city lord could make such a big deal by punching and kicking alone... Don't mention the past, our Liangshan brothers are iron

I was still thinking about my leisure, so I sent Jia Hu or Meng Wei, two worthy brothers, to return to Liangshanpo and summon all the remaining brothers there. Although there were not many people,

But there are still many people in the world, all of whom are very popular. Especially the Zheng Wo-Zheng brothers who helped me guard the mountain village, they can be called heroes with both civil and military skills."

Di Lie's eyes were full of energy and he said word by word: "Great, the task I want to give you is to go back to Liangshan!"

"What? Go back to... Liangshan?" Zhang Rong almost thought that he had heard the wrong ear.

"That's right, go back to Liangshan!" Di Lie affirmed again. "And not only you, but also all the Liangshan brothers in the Tianzhu Army."

Zhang Rong was anxious and red in red: "Why is this?"

Di Lie smiled and said, "Don't misunderstand, it's not to drive you away, but to let you stand alone, become a new army, and open up a new front."

Zhang Rong could understand something: "A new army? A new front? Could it be that the city lord wants to..."

Di Lie smiled happily: "No, it's the navy!"

Tianshu City is in the middle of Taihang. There are only two channels, east and west. To the east, the Hebei Plain, and west, it is the Shanxi and Shaanxi Plateau. Although there are also many big rivers, due to the seasons, the hot summer drys out and the cold winter is frozen, and it has never been

The good place to build a navy army.

Zhang Rong, Jia Hu, Meng Wei, Yan Qilang and other Liangshan brothers were all dragons in the water, and they were all thrown into this village, which was a waste of elites. Di Lie's idea was to give Zhang Rong

The number of a water camp and sufficient materials and equipment allowed him to lead a group of backbones back to the old nest of Liangshan and to raise a navy army. Then...

Di Lie broke a thin branch and drew it on the ground: "This is Jingdong Road, located in the area of ​​Dongping Lake and Liangshan in the triangular areas of Jeju, Yunzhou and Yanggu. This is also the development of the naval army for you during this trip.

The base area. Then, from here, there is a canal to reach the Jingdong Waterway. You are a local, you should know, right?"

Zhang Rong nodded: "I know that this waterway flows through Bozhou, Dezhou, Dizhou, and finally goes to sea from Binzhou..."

"Yes! It's going to sea." Di Lie poked heavily with his branches in Binzhou. "After pulling up a navy army, Liangshan is the base and logistics supply area of ​​the navy, you will lead an elite fleet from this position.

Go to sea, then sail up along the coastline, first find a near-shore island as a transit station, and after gaining a foothold, come here-"

The branches in Di Lie's hand drew a circle in a depression along the coast, and then wrote three words next to it: Niguzhai.

If it were three months ago, Zhang Rong would not have recognized these terrain maps, even the three big words "Niguzhai" were not necessarily the same. I think it was true that Zhang Rong, who was a fisherman, had a lot of courage,

The mind is also flexible and even has a certain ability to fight, but it just doesn't have much culture. This is also the common point of many generals from the grass-roots background in the early Southern Song Dynasty. There is no problem with fighting, but it is just a little bit of knowledge, including some generals from the school.

The generals are no exception, they are all real "warriors".

However, Zhang Rong was lucky, or a little unlucky. Since entering the Tianshu City Teaching Camp, he was forced to study. After finishing the teaching camp, he became the commander of the first battalion, but no matter how busy he was, he studied for one hour every night school every day.

The content of learning is no longer limited to reading books and recognizing words, but also includes drafting military orders, interpreting secret languages, military chess performances, mountains, geography, etc. Of course, the contents of these courses are not competent, and basically

Di Lie, Chen Gui, Zhang Jiao, Guan Zhongyong, Ling Yuan and others were appointed as instructors.

It is precisely thanks to the three months of intensive learning that Zhang Rong has gone from an illiterate and rough man to a famous general who can write and calculate and has a certain potential for military literacy. That's right, with the military that Zhang Rong currently has

The quality can be comparable to some so-called famous generals at that time. This is also the reason why Di Lie released him and was the only one.

Therefore, when Zhang Rong saw the Nigu Village painted by Di Lie, he immediately understood what this place was.

That's right, this is the later Tanggukou, Tianjin. However, in the early twelfth century, this was still the eastern dividing line between the Song and Liao countries. Cangzhou of the Song Kingdom was opposite to Hejin Prefecture of the Liao Kingdom.

Because of its location on the border, the State of Song built a large number of military camps on the side of this coastline. Just the names are Nigu Village, Shuanggang Village, Xiaonan River Village, Langcheng Village, and Dangcheng.

Many military camps such as Duliu East Village, Duliu North Village, etc. are separated by several miles and distributed along the rivers and seas. Of course, by the end of Jingkang, most of these military camps were empty, leaving only broken walls and broken walls.

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Zhang Rong also broke a branch and moved southwest from the north of the Yellow River in Nigu Village, and said while drawing: "From Cangzhou to Hejian, here...Fucheng Beiwang Town, turn to the west, enter

Hutuo River. Then go westward, and only more than 200 miles away, you can walk from Zhending City to Jingxing..."

Di Lie smiled and patted Zhang Rong's shoulder: "It seems that you haven't learned anything in vain in the past three months! What I want you to do is to lay a nail in this Niguzhai area. There are three tasks for you

.One is to trade with maritime merchants, mainly to buy a large amount of sulfur and sulphur. Although these things are lacking in the mountains, there are some in the island countries overseas. Second, salt fishing, you are the one who wants food in the world, so you should

Know the principle of relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the sea to eat the sea. In addition, we need a lot of salt. The binolon of salt and iron is not only a huge profit, but also the foundation of self-improvement. We are not short of iron now. Salt is enough, but sooner or later

It will be used up. It is imperative to open up the salt field. Third, it is to cast a wedge on the back of the Jin army, or a hidden thunder. Once the time comes, it will use unexpected and wonderful uses."

Zhang Rong was so excited that he was able to do his old job, and he was still a self-departed army and was the only one. It was so exciting to think about it that he couldn't start immediately. However, Zhang Rong was once the leader of Liangshan Shui Village.

Not completely overwhelmed by enthusiasm, he immediately asked a key question: "How many supplies and manpower will we get when we go to Liangshan?"

Di Lie couldn't help laughing: "What a Zhang Dalang, I'm not wrong with you. I really have the ability to be on the side. Don't worry, in terms of materials, money and food, I will give you the feed base of the two infantry battalions. In addition, in addition to you

Nineteen Liangshan brothers will draw another city of troops and all muskets and light armor equipment. As your early strength to open up the situation, I will send you a staff officer as a contact person between the two armies. What do you think?"

"All musketeers! OK! I will have the confidence. If I didn't say anything, I can make a military order to occupy Nigu Village by the end of the year." Zhang Rong knew that it would definitely not be short of supplies, so he didn't care about it.

But getting a musket is an unexpected surprise. You know, there are only three muskets in Tianshu City at the moment, and it was given one-third of him at once. Why didn’t he be overjoyed?

Of course, he also knew that Di Lie had no choice but to give him all the muskets. When fighting on the water, crossbows and other things were not good. The bow strings were the most influential and foggy, otherwise they would be as soft as noodles.

, It's useless. Long swords, big axes, contradictions, etc., the weight is dead and the length is not convenient for display on the boat. Therefore, the only weapons and equipment that can be used are muskets, thunder bullets and hand knifes. This is
To be continued...